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BEWARE OF FIRES.

san Francisco should learn a lesson from
the accounts of the fire at Louisville, Ky,
on Monday, in which several lives were
lost, and number of persons injured. a
car Of crude oil arrived at the refinery of
the Standard Oil Company, and wOrkmen
uncovered the car to run the oil into another
tank. The report says that when the cover
was removed "a dull puff ensued as the
vapor escaped, and settled down on the
ground. being heavier than the surrounding
air" The wind drove this gas before it
until it reached 4 shed in which there was
a FIRE, when it instantly exploded, blew the
tank TO pieces. and scattered the burning
oil all over the adjacent buildings. The
result was a general conhagration with the
fatal results above mentioned.
Whether precisely such an accident might
occur here depends on the distance of our
oil redneries from eombustible buildings.
But it happens every day that tanks or
barrels or other vessels containing oil are
opened either in this city or in the neigh
bOrhood, and the vapOr of the oil must
escape as it did at Louisville Servants and
housekeepers quite frequently light their
fires by pouring kerosene on their kindling
wood more OF less of the inflammable gas
must escape during the process. That it
does not always explode, set houses on fire,
and burn their inmates to death, is q purely
providential accident 1t might do so. 1t
is not prudence in those who handle the oil
which prevents such accidents.
Kerosene oil has become such a necessary
of life that il would be impossible to pre-
vent its use by law. But it is a fearfully
dangerous article to tamper with. 1t throws
a. e - 81
which explodes like gunpowder and gene
rates flame which cannot be extinguished
by water. There are mining camps in the
mountains where the miners light their
fires by exploding a charge Of gunpowder,
greatly to the alarm of the tenderfoot who
witnesses the process. But this method
involves no greater danger to life than the
operation of the expeditions cook who
empties kerosene can to boil a kettle.
These are the days when il behooves
every one to look out for fire. When the
sun sets day after tomorrow the small boy
will bring out his little instrument known
as a package of fre-crackers, and for
twenty-four hours will make day and night
hideOus with sound and sparks. His per-
formance will be contrary to law. But he
is law unto himself, and househOlders
whose homes are a Undertook must pro-
tect themselves as best they may. People
who have no houses to burn or no concern
for anything will deem it harsh to cut off
the frOlicsome urchins from their sport.
In some minds there appears to be an
occult connection between fireworks and
patriotism, and it seems to be believed that
love of country is best demonstrated by the
explosion Of crackers. We do not feel
called upon at this iuncture to discuss these
propositions. But it does seem that if we
cannot keep holiday without endangering
our neghbors' dwellings we ought at least
to guard in every possible way against the
dangers which surround US on these Occas-
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PRESIDENTIAL GOSSIP.

Washington paper is trying to attract
national attention by assuming to know
something about President Harrison's pur-
pose in regard to a second term. A Phila-
delphia paper contradicts the alleged facts
stated in the Washington paper, thus
leaving the matter in the public mind
about where the Washington paper found
it. In a general sense there is only one
fact probable in respect to second term.
Every President will get second term if
he can. The record of Presidents in this
respect has never been broken. Those who
did not strive for a second term clearly saw
that they had no chance. Conspicuous
among these is ex-President Rutherford &.
Hayes. In fact Mr.. Hayes stands almost
alone in his willing retirement from the
Presidential chair. Since the time OF John
Quincy Adams every President has made an
effort for a denomination except Mr.. Hayes.
No one doubts that Mr.. Hayes would have
been in the long and honorable list of sec
ond termers if he could have controlled
nominations and elections. 1t is not worth
while for President HarrisOn's personal
friends to declare that he is out of the race.
He will be out of it only if he sees there is
no chance to get in. A man who has not
had any Presidential term wants one; and
a man who has one wants second with
a keener craving than he experienced for
the first. Mr.. Cleveland is an example of
the force of a second-term aspiration. He did
things in striving to secure a second cleo
ton that he probably would not have done
for a first term. There is good deal of
human nature in this determination to have
a second term if possible. If man is
dropped by his party at the expiration of one
term he goes down to posterity as a failure.
If the man in possession cannot keep pos
session it is presumed to be because he has
not given ordinary satisfaction. Mr.. Harri-
sons position is somewhat exceptional. He
got the nomination in 1888 because Mr..
Blaine did not want it, Mr. Blaine NAV be re-
leved in 1892 from the obligations that held
him back in 1883. In other words he may
want the nomination. There is some rea-
son to believe that he does. There is also
reason to believe that the Republican party
will want all the advantage that may arise
from the nomination OF its most popular
candidate.
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WAS IT wHITEwAsHg

Senator Fassett of Massachusetts has
been more fortunate under investigation
than his brother in New York. The Mas
sachusetts branch of the Fassett family has
been exonerated by the Senate Investigat-
ing Committee, which, however, finds that
the thing which Senator Fassett was
charged with doing was done. The dis
patch does not state whether the commit
tee saw nothing wrong in these things or
failed to connect Senator Fassett with their
performance. The House committee is re-
ported as liuding that the West End Com
pany did maintain a large lobby; that it
did give dinners to members, furnish carri-
ages and pay hotel bills. Whether its lobby
placed money in the hands of members is
not clear. 1t does not seem to US to make
much difference whether coin was accepted
or not. The things that we're done were
done to influence votes. The only fact of
Importance that remains to be developed is
whether members were high-priGed or low
priced; whether they were Influenced by
dinners, drives, wine and cigars, or whether
their integrity could only be shaken by solid
hos
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SILVER MEN DEsPoNDENT.

Senator Stewart is inclined to the belief
that there will be no silver legislation this
session of Congress. The principal reason
for this opinion is that the Conference
Committee, composed of three members of
each House. is not friendly to silver. The
Vice President appointed Sherman as
Chairman of the Senate conferrees in
place of Jones, who had charge of the bill,
This reason is entitled to considera-
ton, but behind it is the weightier rea-
son that silver legislation is political
necessity. The country will be disap-
pointed if all this talk in Congress amounts
to nothing. The Republicans, having a
majority in both Houses, are responsible
for non-legislation as well as for legisla-
ton, and there is no seeming occasion for
that party to add to the existing difficulty
of electing a majority Of the next House.
The differences which separate The Senate
and the House are not great. The only
point upon which agreement is not easy is
that the Senate does not regard bill which
permits the silver purchased by the Gov
eminent to be sold as bullion the next day
as an improvement upon our present silver
law. In this we think the Senate right
II may be better to preserve a law which
requires the purchase Of S2,0G0,0O0 worth of
silver each month and coin the same than
to enact one which requires the purchase OF
twice that amount with the privilege Of
selling bullion when the person holding the
bills issued in payment therefor may pre-
sent them. With the silver redemption
clause retained in the House bill it has
little or no value as measure to increase
the use of silver. 1t will be dangerous to
go before the country on a failure TO agree
upon so important measure. While DEM
ocrats in each House may have contributed
to the differences between the two Houses
the fact that both are Republican will
fasten the responsibility ON that party.
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FOR MURDER.
The Golden Gate Club Men Are
Held for Trial.

Frank. la Rue, Bernard Meyers, j. j.
Jamison, Joseph Bowers. John Jewell and
Timothy McGrath, charged with murder,
were held yesterday by Police Judge Rix
for trial in the Superior Court, La Rue in
bonds of $685. 900, the others of SIS, 900 each.
They will have to answer for the killing
of Harry Mcbride in the Golden Gate
Athletic Club during contest with La
Rue. No defense was offered but separate
trials will be demanded in the Superior
Court by the defendants.
Jamison and Liddle secured their release
on bonds, but the others went to the County
Jail in a coupe furnished by Frank Jones,
proprietor of the club.
In his comment on the evidence given at
the preliminary examination Judge Xix
said that the killing of Mcbride was uI-
fortunate and deeply to be regretted. The
Golden Gate Club as club knew nothing
of the affair beforehand. Two men were
permitted to come in by Jamis0n; whether
to settle grudge or to fight for prize is
questionable. The defendants are charged
with murder.
There is a State law against prize-figh
ing. There is great difference between
boXing-match ard a fight to finish. From
the testimony in this case two men stood up
and fought, urged by the bystanders, until
one contestant was unable to m0ve-that is,
to finish. They were two poor. weak,
unscientific men. The defense have proved
that Mcbride was weak and suffering with
Bright's disease and other ailments. In
the beginning of the fight his nose was
broken and the blood flowed into his lungs.
He fought until he was exhaused and then
fell to the floor, dying in short time with
out gaining consciousness.
The fight was the most brutal and dis
graceful affair which had ever taken place
in this city. He concluded by stating hs
would do all he could to support Chief of
fighting in the city. There should certainly
be restriction placed on such disgraceful
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-02
San FRANC1sco,s RIVAL.

1t appears that we have a rival in popu-
lation, to wit, the beautiful city on the
bank of the Ohio, known to the frivolous
as Porkopolis, and to the world at large as
Cincinnati. Cincinnati was founded just
twelve years after Junipero Sierra estab-
lished the Mission Dolores in what is now
the city of San Francisco. 1t was settled,
we are told, by emigrants from Jersey City,
most of whom had served in the Revolu-
tionary army; they desired to perpetuate
the Society of the Cincinnati, to which
many of them belonged, and gave its name
to theif new home. At the beginning OF
the century it contained $50 people-many
more than then inhabited the inhOSpitable
beach of Yerba Buena. But in 1850, when
San Francisco's population numbered some
"a, 600, chiefly gOld-seekers, Cincinnati
counted $4,000 inhabitants, with some
pretty solid men among them, who were
banking on the agricultural resources OF
the fertile State of Ohio. In 1860, CIncln-
natl kept its lead with $4,000 people, as
against $1,000 in San Francisco. In the
ensuing decade. the city by the Golden
Gate began to forge ahead; in 1870, it
claimed a population of 10000, against
2l6,OOO in Cincinnati. The distance be-
tween the two cities was further reduced
in the next decade; in 1880, Cincinnati
contained 255.000 souls, as against $4,000
in San Francisco. The census of this year
allots $4,000 to Cincinnati, and. according
to common report. 100000 to this city. II
that is the case, the city on the Ohio still
maintains tine eighth place among Ameri-
can cities, while the Pacific metropolis IS
only ninth.
Whether the two cities will change places
in the census of 1900 depends upon variety
Of factors. To several of these reference
has frequently been made of late in this
column. 1t is probably true that the natu-
raj increase is greater here than in Cincin-
natl. Men live longer here and families
are larger. But Cincinnati mas the advan-
tage of being mach nearer the landing
place of foreign immigrants than San Fran
cisco. 1t is a comparatively short journey
from the port of New York to Cincinnati,
and the trip is inexpensive. San Francisco
is further from New York than New York
is from Liverpool or Hamburg, and the
overland journey costs three times as much
as steerage passage across the Atlantic.
A comparatively small fraction of the for
eign immigration dribbles westward as far
as this Coast. On the other hand, there is
no domestic migration from New England,
New York or other States to the country
which surrounds Cincinnati, while there
is a considerable movement of population
from the Eastern States to this Coast. As
the capabilities of this State are better I'M
derstood, that movement is likely to assume
larger proportions. If IL does the census of
1900 will show that San Francisco is the
eighth city in the Union. Should it take
the shape of copious exodus from the
WORKOUT fields of the East, San Francisco
may, ten years from now, contend for SUI
premacy with Boston, Baltimore and st.
I.puiS
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-02
ALIEN ,LANDLoRDIsM.

The investment of foreign capital in in
dustrial enterprises and the investment of
foreign capital in land are two quite differ
ent things. The land we always have, and
if it is not cultivated this year it will be
when there is a demand for its products
But factories built in this country with for
eign capital do work that would otherwise
be done abroad. Land also is pretty GER
tain to Increase in value as population in
creases in plumbers, while factories may de-
crease in value through excessive c0mpe-
tition. 1t is bad enough to have our ship
plants, breweries, four-mills and like in
dustries in foreign hands without handing
over our land to people whose general in
terests are opposed to ours. A bill is now
before the House. with a favorable recon-
mendation from the Judiciary Committee,
which prohibits aliens from acquiring any
greater estate in land in this country than
a five years leasehold, and requiring aliens
who already possess land to become citizens
by naturalization or part with their hold
iDgs within ten years. The necessity of
some such measure is becoming every wear
more and more apparent. The report which
accompanies the bill, says that 81 200. 900
acres of land in the United States are now
owned by titled aliens whoy of course, do
not propose to become citizens. Foreign
capitalists not titled and some Of whom
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DECREASE IN VALUATIONS.

The fact that the assessment roll is less
this year than last does not imply depre-
citation in the values of property. There
was a good deal of complaint last year of
overvaluations, and where such complaints
were we'll founded assessments this year
have been reduced. AS matters now stand,
the assessment roll of a city does not afford
a very accurate idea of the wealth Of the
city. In some States real property is as
sessed at its full value, while in other States
the law permits assessments at one-half or
less of the true value. In this State we are
supposed to assess at the true value, that is.
at the price piece of property would sell
at if forced upon the market. While there
may be occasional instances of overyalua-
ton, the aim is to keep within figure that
can be realized under ordinary circum-
stances. The personal-property roll shows
slight increase, but not enough to over
come the decrease in the real-estate roll.
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WILL MEET TODAY.

The Conference Committee on the Silver
Bill will meet this morning. The absent
members have promised to be in attendance
and there is present probability that the
vexed question will soon be settled. Exon
gresham White of Brooklyn, n. Y, has gath
cred from interviews with silver men in all
parts OF the West information which war
rants the conclusion that bill requiring
the purchase of 81, 10000 Of silver a month,
providing the bullion is payable in Treas
ury notes redeemable il lawful money and
full legal tender for all debts, would be
satisfactory. While he has found many
advocates of free silver coinage, the pros
poets Of an appreciation in the market value
of silver reconeiles them to delay until such
time as the two metals recover their former
relations to each other. There will be no
disappointment on the Coast over result
which is considered certain to cause a
steady advance in the price of silver.
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SUPERVISORS MEETING.
An Appropriation of $4,000 for the Cele.
bration OF the Fourth of july.

An Appropriation of $4,000 for the Cele-
bration OF the Fourth of July.
The Board Of Supervisors held a special
meeting yesterday morning. Supervisor
Boyd presided in the absence of Mayor
Pond. The main part of the business was
unimpOrtant. consisting of few resolu-
tons in regard to street work.
One resolution was adopted directing the
Superintendent OF Streets to remove the OBJ
structions on Hampshire street, between
FL Dorado and Sixteenth; and another di-
recting him to ascertain and report the cost
of substituting perforated man-holes for
those now in use, according to the recon-
mendatiOn of the Board of Health.
The Superintendent of Streets was also
authorized to construct temporary road
way on Seventh avenue, between J and l.
streets, for the accommodation of the pub
lie, at a cost not to exceed $3.50.
y resolution was passed TO print appro-
priating $1,000 for the Fourth Of July cele-
bration, a warrant to be drawn in favor of
the Committee on Celebration appointed by
hn hoard
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-02

may become citizens hold about 100000, 900
acres under mortgage. One British subject
owns $4,000 acres in Illinois on which be
draws 100000 year in rents. These cases
are isolated only in their magnitude. Land
in smaller tracts in almost every State in
the Union is held by aliens who do not con-
template becoming residents, much less citi-
zens. Whatever may be said of the part of
the bill which makes citizenship condition
of holding land already acquired, there will
be a general agreement that the further
purchase of land by aliens should be pro-
!,
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FRATERNAL NOTES.
a California Appeal Case Reversed

California Appeal Case Reversed by
Supreme Lodge, A. o. U. w.
Magnolia Lodge, No. %, |. o. o. F., in
stalled its officers last evening.
Memorial Lodge. No. ia, A. o. U. W.,
will install its officers next Monday evening,
after which banquet will be partaken of.
Cosmopolitan Lodge No. 1874, |. o. o. f.,
will install its officers elect this evening.
South San Francisco Lodge. No. IS.
Knights of Pythas, at its regular conven-
ton last evening installed its officers.
Golden Gate, No. 30, Pacific, No. 1876, and
Oriental. No. IA. lodges of f. and A. NJ,
held stated meetings last evening.
The chiefs of ManZanita Tribe, No. 4, In
raised up this evening, after which a
social entertainment will be given.
New subordnates of the |. o. o. f. will
be instituted at Electric, Los Angeles
10th and 18th inst respectively, and new
Rebekah Degree lodges are forming at Sac
ramento and MADEIRA.
At the recent session of the Supreme
Lodge, A. o. U. W.. held at Boston, Mass.
the appeal case of E. Lichau VS.. Triumph
Lodge, No $50, was decided in favor of the
appellant, thus reversing the decision of
the Grand Lodge of California, rewarding
the sums and ordering Triumph Lodge to
pay l.chau his sick benefits in accordance
WITH MS calm presented TO the lodge. Inc
committee, in its decision, say: "We are
unable to agree with this construction of
the bylaws, that if any member entitled to
the sick benefit provisions of his lodge shall
fail to pay his dues or assessments, or
either. for the period of three months or
more, such arrearageS for such period of
three months debar the brother from the
sick benefit laws, and believe that before
brother can be deprived of sick bene fits
under the bylaws he must be in arrears
for both dues and assessments, "a Is plainly
stated in the bylaws" The sum of $3.50
was appropriated for the compensation of
services of 4 committee to prepare a new
ritual and $3.50 additional when said ritual
is adopted by the Supreme Lodge. Lodges
i'll British Columbia now under the juri sdic-
ton of Oregon, Wash, were granite per-
mission to change to the jurisdic ton of
Ontario. Canada. The maximum rate of
assessments for California was increased to
twenty-eight and that of Ohio, for both
districts reduced to tWenty-four
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WEATHER PREDICTIONS.
SIGNAL SERVICE. U. S. ARMY
DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC,
En..-,.rL,n JtIx- rgOn ~ 1

SIGNAL SERVICE, U. s. ARMY
DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC,
SAN FRANCISCO, July /, lS90-5 p. M
Synopsis for the Fast Twenty-four Hours.
The barometer is highest on the northern coast OF
California and lowest in Western Arizona; the tenn
perature has risen slightly in Nevada Central Cali
fornia, Western oregon and Washington; elsewhere
has fallen slightly; the weather has been fair, ex-
cept local rains in Northern Nevada.
Forecast Till +. NJ, wednesday.
For Northern Callfornia-Fair weather; south
westerly winds; stationary temperature the
coast and in the southern portion; slightly cooler
elsewhere
For Southern Caliornia-Fair weather; south TO
west winds stationary temperature.
For Oregon-FaIr IN the western portion; light
rains in the eastern; wind shifting to southeriy;
cooler.
For Washington-Light rain on the coast; fair in
the Interior; wind shifting to southery; slightly
cooler.
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A Military Burial.

Lieutenant Henry G. Ellsworth at Mare
Island was buried last Monday at the ISL
and. The marines, sailors, soldiers, officers
and also many citizens from Vallejo at
tended the services and escorted the re-
mains to the grave. Many beautiful floral
emblems were laid upon the coffin.
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AUCTION SALES TO-DAY.

FUBNGTuRE.-By Geo. F. Lamson, at $40 Howard
St, at IL O'Clock.
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