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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-15
TIE ONLY ONE ~ THE BUSINESS.
HE INVENTED THE PLAN AND FINDS 1T PROFIT
ARIF-Ulw IT WORKS.

ABLE-HDw IT WORKS.
vbo, , railroad tourney runs into several hours
one feels like killing time in some way' ana since
there il such an outcry about the vibration o trains
running A readers eyes. one frequently gets up
conversation with his seat companion II he Is an ap
rr,,chahle one In this way odd experiences may
be encountered, through cergymcn, lawyers. actors
mechanics and Others. 4 traveller was recently en-
t,rtnincd by a tall. sparcbullt. grizzly haired man.
whose age might have been sixty years, Or he mIght
have been a robust octOgcnarian. His appearance
was no guide to "A surmi,c. for his tan coloed SKIN
was a. corrugated as the bark of per'lmmon tree
and he had those usually inallble marks oil ohSeV-
ity long bushy eyebrows and firm, thin, straight
lips.
The talk had turned upon professions when he SAID
perhaps with pride in his originality or with an hon
.t desire to interest his companion Now you can't
guess rhe kind Of thing I've folcrcd for good WHILE
lie seemed such combination Of sailor, farmer
catleman and old soldier suspiciously Favored with
high grade of tramp that it would not do to hazard "a
lIe said: - don't know what to call my pro
sson, although | invented it myself. I've used up
most of the material East and now I'm going cross
the country mcbbo to work 1t over; mebDc not.
I've done pretty well as it IS. You've seen for ten
years or what number OF ccntcnaraIS have been
Well i've made il my business to hunt up some such
~" idch what a raft of visitors run 10 see Il live
hundred wear old. Lots want to The curiosity OF "A
sprrits or tobacco-Or else done both when he could
get 'cm. Men who have passed seventy are pretty
tlcuy rs visitor, they want to kinder size up their
chances.
Well You sec. most every visitor or company
WIN .,.s will leave "A nice gill for the old chap-n6nrv
clothes. nannels and nick nacks-whlch In good va
ca ION season makes mp nice little purse. You can
understand, Of course, there's good deal Of wear and
tear ON an old fellow VINO has Ia see 80 mach com
nauv lie ha, To have long mans durlng tbc dnv
and II disturbed in these IL soon breaks him up. Now
we've got to where come IN: go 10 the grandson
or whoever the venerable makes his home with. and Il
hstf MT nf
10 pan out stake. maze bargain.
/ agree To- take 20 per cent Of the money donations
and "A thrd Of the odds and ends for posing for tho
old man nlc he rests sleeps has been samplng
some Of the sperits How do | manage it ON, it's
easy. keep the room kinder shady, get few points
about the old man, ife and you tell the visitors
most anything reasonable. even II you make IL up
only keep your dates and names right and have some
idea of what you've told before lon get oil here,
N0ui Well II yOu In the harness don I
CiNo mo aWly-roohhv 10
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-15

80 applcant for the for nearly twenty seco"u' anu
theu ,h,t cat is occupied. and If you would put on
- spectaees YOU would that it Is"
'. The old gentleman Strengthened up and LOOKING the
other full in the face, said pleasantly o"' '''" 'e
COR .sosc sitting around TO hear
" well have often heard that the feet OF some people
~ such important parts Of their anatomies' ana over
oced their brains such an extent that IL was nee
ossary TO have special resting place Tor 'n' p"' mas
- hoon my, misfortune meet OF the blpds bfore
nc 49,. no woman blushed violently and looked con-
,d as did also the young man. She arose without
To- = word TO him and walked rapidly away the young
~ sneaknrly following her, while Drosd smile went
around and the former occupant" oil the seats look 'heF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-15
EGLY. RrT MIGHTY ESEFEL.
Ieviston ME, Journ,I

From The Lewiston IMcJ JOufllII.
sculpin Is not usually considered very valuable
fish. but recently performed great service for
Maine schooner. Tie Foam Of Lubec, while
coming out Of harbO at the Magdacn Islands struck
on the bar and sprung a leak. she made for the
nearest port, when it found that her shoe and
part Of her false keel gone, and there was
hole in the cardboard into which the suction had drawn
large scuipn tail first Had II not been for this
fish the vessel and cargo would have been lost.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-15
A PROMPT RESPONSE.

From The Chicago Tribune. .,.
Angry Caller (at new spaper offce-Say van van an
l,ttre adj | gave YOU two days ago" Wahteu., %"
electric battery In good working ofer-taken o VA
Advertising Clerl-What is the matter Doh' W.
Angry Caller-Location be dashed The blanca a. ~
overdd the business. NV house Wa su"' "
lightning last plgltI
The morning call., 1890-12-21
q" PAPER MONEY"

The Chronicle does not take in good part
the suggestion that writers on finance should
distinguish between real money and cur
rency. THE CALL has not asserted that
paper currency cannot be made money.
we only assert that it is not Every dollar
of paper currency in the United States,
whether in the form of bank bill, check or
draft, is a promise to pay money. Banks
honor checks and drafts with bank notes,
bat these notes are promises to pay money
They are simply the paper representatives
Of money. Government legal-tender notes,
known as greenbacks, are promise to pay
-goh OF silver coin. The Secretary of the
Treasury keeps 500. 900 in gold on hand
10 redeem such promises with. The $780,
100000 in the treasury is money, but the
green backs in circulation are currency. Yet
there may be such thing as paper money.
There is class of currency which, fortu-
nately, does not exist in this country, known
rs '' fat money" This kind of currency.
instead of being promise to pay money is,
so far as the dictum of Government can
make it. is money. 1t is not redeemable in
anything; it is not promise to pay any
thing; it has no intrinsic value; but so long
as 1t will pay Government dues it may have
a commercial value. But currency based
upon coin is deemed much the safer of the
two. The proposition to Issue fiat money
has never been seriously considered in this
country. The Confederate notes were a
promise to pay. Those which took on some
what the character Of fat money were the
issue based upon the condition of the indie
dependence Of the COnfederacy. Such notes
ne yer became due.
The morning call., 1890-12-21
GETTING DOWN TO FACTS.

The Examiner has finally abandoned It's
position that dear coal is caused by the duty
of rs cents ton on foreign coal. Il admits
that the duty has little to do with the price,
but contends that under free trade so many
vessels would come to this port that coal
would be brought as ballast or at low
freight charge Under these changed con-
ditions the question is whether California
can afford to sacrifice the degree of protec-
ton its products now enjoy for compare
lively cheap coal. So long as the nearest
foreign sources are 700 miles away we can
not have really cheap coal until mines are
opened on this Coast. The high price of
coal certainly stands in the way of the sue
cessful prosecution of many branches of
manufacture; but other elements of cost
would have to be reduced to enable US to
compete with Europe if our protective sys-
TEN should be abandoned Ii coal were as
cheap in this city as in Pittsburg we could
not pay present rate of wages and compete
in the m anufacture of light goods with the
cheap labor of Europe. 1t is true that ships
do not now come here in any considerable
number except with the expectation of a
wheat cargo. Ii there was no tariff they
would come with manufactured goods
which are nov made either here or in the
East. But 1t is not clear how coal freights
would be reduced by giving vessels which
come here for wheat more profitable freight
than coal to carry. or course, the real
solution of the coal problem lies in the de-
velopment Uf a sufficient supply on this
Coast. Coal brought from En- land or Aus
tralia will always be dear, whether it pays
duty or mot
The morning call., 1890-12-21
WHAT WILL you DO ABOUT 1T.
The Buckley evening organ asks the fol

The Buckley evening organ asks the fol-
lowing question:
Does the Grand Jury know what IL is doing
when II condemns the purchase of Shag Rock
Does it know anything about what led up 10 that
purchase? The chances are 1t knows nothing
whatever about it.
The members of the Grand Jury have
done much good in exposing some of the
frauds by which the taxpayers of San
Francisco have been swindled out of vast
sums of money. These men probably know
quite well that the Shay Rock purchase put
money in the pockets of individuals for
something of little or no value. This was
the cause of the purchase. The Grand Jury.
which has Just closed its labors, has set an
example in exposing wrong-doing, which
THE CALL hopes is but the beginning of
the end of the outrageS which have been so
long patiently borne by the community.
Nearly every person of intelligence in San
Francisco believes that between the supine-
ness of officials whose duty it should have
been to prosecute offenses against the public
and the manipulations of grand and petty
jurors it was nearly impossible to pun
ish any of the offenses by which the
people were robbed. The guilty parties
only shrugged their shoulders at the idea of
punishment being meted out to them.
This must have been the way in which the
Supervisors have regarded their own trans
actions for some time past The idea of i'm
punity in our opinion is what emboldens
the managers of the Report to attack the
members of the Grand Jury for simply
doing their duty. THE CALL believes, as
has been suggested, that the time will come
when robberies of the people through a
Board of Supervisors can be stoDped
The morning call., 1890-12-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

What bitter experience has that OF Queen
Natalie OF Servia been! or the recent attacks
upon her good name II is said: "Calumny never
performed baser task. nor selected a fairer
mark. She has been abominalIy, scandalously
and beartiessly treated; not, however, by her
own people. the ServIans, but through the
consumpiate hnesse and diplomatic diabIerie OF
Prince Bismarck ana the Austrian statesmen
who have their satellites scattered over all the
eastern municipalities and Balkan provinces"
One Of The hardships Natalie experiences is the
separation from her sou, little King Alexander,
who Is debarred from seeing his mother except
on rare occasions, notwithstanding the fact that
she resides near his palace gates; ana only the
other day ex-KiDg Milan persuaded The boy TO
write his mother q letter threatening 10 break
OH all relations with her II she persisted 10 sub
mltting TO the national Lawmakers the disputed
question OF the legality OF the divorce secured
through improper methods by Milan. Her reply
to this base mfssive is one long to be remem-
bered. II would give much," she writes, 'f
you had not written that letter, my boy; but, as
know who made you write it, excuse you,
For twelve years taught you TO love your
father and 10 honor him, and concealed the
misery Of my life from you. Had King Milan
seen The situation clearly. lie would have done
as much for Inc. This must show you how DIFF
ferent are your parents characters. IL appeal
The morning call., 1890-12-21
COAL COMBINATIONS.

Much has been said recently in respect to
the price of coal in this market. All adm it
that it is entirely too high, but the question
arises, W hat can be done to overcome the
evil? We are a long distance from the
Eastern and English coal sources of supply
We have coal in Washington, and there is
coal in the Humboldt Valley, which the
Central Pacific Railroad Company make us
of. Coal from Europe only comes in vessels
which take back cargoes of wheat, hence
the supply from that source cannot be equa
TO the demand. As for the coal mines in
Pennsylvania, they are in the hands of syn
dicates. Our coal mines in Washington are
in a similar condition. They are owned by
combinations in much the same way as the
breweries in San Francisco are owned; and
are run for the benefit of speculators-not
for the people generally. The United
States at this time are, to certain extent,
in the hands of syndicates. Our specula-
tive classes have copied after the schemes
which exist in England, by which few per-
sons are enriched at the expense Of the null
titude. 1t is possible when the people OBJ
tain control of legislative bodies, and man.
age the law-making power, they will be
able to put down syndicates and monopolies
generally
The morning call., 1890-12-21
THROUGH THE LIVER.
Wong Lee Shot Down by a
Chinese Assassin.

Wong Lee was shot through the body last
evening on Waverly place by an assassin,
who approached him from behind. The
scene of the shooting was near Clay street.
The bullet entered near the middle of the
back and about two inches to the right of
the spine Two shots were fired and it is
thought that the first one took effect.
As soon as the man fell TO the sidewalk
police whistles were blown by nearly all
the Chinese On the street. Sergeant Price
and posse had the Chinaman removed to the
City Receiving Hospital, where his wound
was dressed by Police Surgeon Williams.
While Wong WAS being attended to couple
of Chinese friends We're admitted. They
spoke To him and then returned to China
town.
Soon the police gained the information
that the would murderer was in the
house at the northeast corner of Stockton
and Washington streets. Sergeant Price
went there and arrested Chinese. whose
name was given as Chevy Fook. When he
was booked at the City Prison on charge
of assault to murder he gave the name of
he belongs. conducting a shoe factory at 429
Pacific street.
He was admitted into the presence of
Wong Lee, who identified him as Chevy
Fook, and said that he was the man who
shot him. Lee stated further that he had a
row with Fook about four weeks ago about
woman named Lin Moy.
This story is denied by Fook, who says
that he can prove that at the time of the
shooting he was paying off his men at the
shoe factory on Pacific street Wong Lee
worked III Ning-nachine shop on Sacra-
meDto street. The bullet which passed
through his liver 10 extremely dangerous.
The morning call., 1890-12-21
A FAIR OF THEIR OWN.

The Woman's National Industrial League
of America propose to have a Worlds Fair
OF their own. The League, it seems, took
considerable trouble to induce Congress to
authorize the appointment of women in the
Board OF Managers. and they now find that
In the appointment of Lady Managers the
League has been ignored. In place of in
dustrial women are ladies' Of national repu
tation who are not in any way associated
with industrial pursuits. The President of
the League, Mrs. Charlotte Smith, has issued
an address TO Congress and to the people of
the United States, of which the following is
the pith:
AS the Chicago Fair has her BOARD OF Lady
Managers" who are 10 represent the "ladies' OF
the United States. IL is but just and proper to
the industrial women, the wealth. producing
women Of this country, that women's indus
tfiai International fair be held In 1892, which
VIII truly represent the wage-women. To fur
ther this mass-meeting will be called in New
YORK City on or about January 25, 1891, to take
action whether permanent exhibition or inter-
national Industrial fair shall be held I'm New
YORK City or Washington
The morning call., 1890-12-21

to the Skuptchina, / merely make OF my
good right. II You fulfil your threat you will
lose The respect OF your people and OF the whole
civilized world. Kings are expected to have
hearts, as we'll as other people. The nation will
say HE has no be art for his mother; he will
have no heart for u.s." The effect of many
he artacne can be read between those lines
That little neghborly cooperation on the
part of Canada, instead OF the spieful disposition
manifested in the sealing and fishing contro-
veisles would help materially in excluding the
Chinese in accordance with the provisions of the
Exclusion Act there is no doubt. Australia's
appeal for relief and co operation met with a
ready response from the Hong Kong authorities,
the Legislative Council, according to late al.
vices, having under consideration bill TO amend
the Chinese emigration ordinance. the object be-
ing to punish stowaways and the people who as
sisted or aided them. There is a heavy penalty
imposed by Australia upon ships which bring
Cinnamon in excess OF a certain number, and In
a recent case it was ascertatned that certain
officers OF ship, with the connlyance OF parties
at Hong Kong had taken down some stowaways.
TO punish the chief offenders, those who aided
and allotted the stowaways, it was proposed to
make the maximum penalty $500, with the
alternative OF six months hard labor. Judging
from late disclosures. Canada and those engaged
In smuggling Celestlals across The border are en-
joying The pecuniary benefit OF the head.tax and
OtDer exactlOnS leVIeu upon Tie many
eyed heather intent upon surreptitiOu.ly enjoy
ing the benefits of The home market so jealousy
guarded by our protective policy. the contract
labor law and the Exclusion Act.
Ii is now reported that Prince William of Mas
sau, heir 10 the throne OF Luxembourg, and the
richest among European princes after The Care
witch, will be betrothed to Emperor Williams
sister, Princess Marguerite, who is In her nine
teenth year. 1t WAS but lately intimated that
the Prince would probably marry the young
Queen of Holland, thereby reuniting the King
dom and Grand Duchy. which became separated
on the death of King William III. The mar
riage OF Prince William OF Nassau into the Ger
man imperial family would be step to The ulli-
mate absorption of the Duchy.
Once in awhile the transportation facilities OF
various sections OF the country are taxed to the
utmost. Just now car famine is reported in
Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington and
Northern Idaho, where grain lies piled up In
huge banks awaiting transportation; and In
Pennsylvania. where thousands of coke-Oveus
have been compelled 10 close down owing TO the
insufficient supply of ears. The WHEAT blockade
is pronounced the greatest ever known in this
country.
The fight OF the Prussan aristocracy for the
maintenance of feudal privileges which the
Communal BIZ proposes to abolish mas become
more intensified, but sooner or later the So
called "backbo of the monarchy" Will be made
TO realize that concessions Will have to be made
The morning call., 1890-12-21
RECEIVING DEPOsITS.

Investigations growing out of the failure of
S. a. Kean & Co.. in Chicago, show that Dir.
kean had been trying to get more capital in his
bank for more than year. One of his part
ners drew out in 1889, and Kean tried to
get some other man with money to take his
place. But these propositions were taken
by the parties TO whom they were made
to the withdrawing partner. whose advice
was of such character that Kean's offers
were not accepted. Meantime Mr.. Kean
went on getting deposits from whom he
could. Within the present month he had re-
ceived three deposits from the Treasurer of
the Women's Christian Temperance Union
knowing at the time that his bank was in
solvent There ought to be a way to get
hold of this kind of bankers. They are in
moral sense no better than confidence men.
The fact That swindle is perpetrated under
the cover Of legitimate business does not
make it less a swindle.
The morning call., 1890-12-21
SiZtGGl-PagG Edition.
ATTACKS UPON rHE GRAND JURY.

The public unquestionably have been in
terested in the exposures made by the Grand
Jury which filed its report on Wednesday
last, and have regarded it as an attempt to
put an end to the frauds which have cost
the inhabitants of San Francisco so dearly
in the form of taxes. 1t seems, however,
that one newspaper, the owners of which
have heretofore so braZenly supported the
frauds Of the nine Supervisors, is not
pleased with the report. Why? Not be-
cause its contents were not truthful and
called for in the interest Of honest govern
ment but rather because it was likely to
cause change in public affairs for the
better.
THE CALL thinks perhaps it may be well
to make an extract or two from the columns
of the paper 20 which reference is made-a
paper, by the way, Of which the Buckley
crowd ought to be pleased, but from which,
perhaps, taxpayers may learn a lesson.
The Report, for that is the name of the
paper which admires Buckley and The nine
Supervisors, publishes the following:
lie County Grand Jury, winch filed It's final
report last Wednesday afternoon, will go on rec
ord as not only the most ignorant and generally
incompetent Grand Jury San Fra nelsco has ever
had, but as he most cowardlY Also II Is shame
Hui lb"t II ebcuiu Hdfo UceH as IEnoIdht ds It's
own report shows IL 10 lie OF municipal affairs
and history, ana even mere shameful that cItI-
zens Of position should consider 81 wasn't
there" or " knew nothing about IT," or Z" l left
IL 10 So-and-So 10 do and thought it would be all
right" sufficient excuse for neglecting public
duty they had sworn TO perform.
But the GROWING disgrace OF all is that these
jurymen should make a whoi sale aud bitter at
tack upon The reputation Of fellow citizens with
out daring TO indict any of them.
The public may and doubtless will think
there should be indictm ents. but possibly
that jury did all it could. We have known
Grand Juries where some of the members
were STUPID, or worse than stupid, and who
put every possible impeachment in the way of
investigations of frauds. Half dozen jury
men of this description in panel may even
save bad men from obtaining their deserts.
The morning call., 1890-12-21
a BUNCH OF vEToEs.

Mayor Pond has returned to the Board Of
Supervisors five orders or resolutions with
messages informing the board why he could
not attach his signature to them. One of
these is the resolution ordering the purchase
Of Shag Rock, and another one ordering a
contract for printing to be awarded TO the
Daily Report. The veto messages will not
be read until Tuesday evening, but their
purport seems to be well known. Shag
Rock is pronounced unfit for the purpose
Tor which the board desired to purchase it,
and the printing contract is objected to on
the ground that it is unjust to compel people
to pay the private rates Of the contractor for
the sake of getting some of the work of the
board done for nothing. With the prospect
that the incoming board will disregard the
contract if the solid nine persist in award
ing it. the chances of getting nine to sustain
the iniqulty are not COOL
The morning call., 1890-12-21
SECRET or ADVERTISING.
Telling How sPrurnsuent Rps,ra.. mr.

Telling How sPruminent Businsss Men
Became Wealthy.
Advertising IS nov regarded BY all promi-
nent business mem as a distinct art. To
prepare the matter which is to appear. in
an artistic manner, 30 that it will attract at
tention and be read, is not only branch OF
business separate and apart from others.
but it is something that requires natura, tact
and acquired taent. The late A. T. Stewart
who. as a practical merchant, had few. If
any, equals ard no superior, once said that
man who understood the art of advertising
could do more with one thousand dollars
than another man who did lot understand
the art could do with one hundred Thousand
dollars. Robert Bonner of the New York
Ledger, says: Il commenced the pnblica-
ton of my paper with capital of $50. COO.
and l spent the first year in judicious adyer-
Using S250,0OO. every dollar of which came
to me as the result of my advertisements"
The readers OF THE CALL must have
noticed the artistic and attractive advertise
ments that appear in its columns, and none
of them have been better calculated to at
tract public attention than those of Raphael.
whose handsome store, well stocked with
everything requisite for gentleman's ward
robe, is at 4333- 5-437 Montgomery street,
corner OF Sacramento. The entire arrange
ment OF his advertisements is the work of
j. w. Raphael, and shows that, while an
artist in clothing, he is also an artist in the
art of advertising.