The morning call., 1891-08-23


No opinion will be given in this column regard |
Ing the reliability or character OF any person or
firms in this city or elsewhere.
Questions, answers 10 which are In the nature |
Of an advertisement, will not be answered
Every inquiry must have the true and full |
name of the sender. well as the correct resi- |
dence. Any inquiry that has not tho cor |
name and mad ress of the sender will |
be treated as IL it was not signed. and the |
writer need not expect All answer.
ALEXANDER HAMILToN-J. P. A. City. |
With Libraries so numerous in this city and |
as accessible the city correspondent is pre-
sumptuous to ask the Q. c. to "tell him |
something" of Alexander hamilton. Much |
can be said of him, conspicuous as he was in |
the early history of this country as states |
man, a soldier and financier. and every !
child probably knows that he accepted |
Aaron Burr's challenge to duel. met him !
on July II, 1904, on the bank of the Hudson |
at Weehawken and fell MORALLY wounded |
at the first fire. his tragic fate calling forth a |
universal burst of grief and driving Burr |
into exile an outcast and a cOnspirator. |
Hamilton was born in the Island of Nevis, |
West Indies, on January II, 1857, but a |
curious mystery and uncertainty overhang |
his birth and parentage and even the ac |
counts of his son and biographer vary with |
and contradict eacn other he was WASH |
ington'S aid during the Revolution; |
member of the Continental Congress |
from 1872 TO 1888; of the Convention of |
1899 to 1875 and did the work that lies at the |
foundation of the American system of ad- |
minlstratiOn, gave life and meaning to the |
Constitution, and by his policy developed two |
great political parties. Togiye in any detail |
an account of what he did would be little |
less than to write the history of the repub-
lie during these eYentful years. In 1898, |
when Washington was appointed Lieuten- |
ant-General, the actual command of the |
army fell to Hamilton. His perspicuity and |
power of thought were remarkable, and while |
IN his own day one OF the most abused as |
we'll as one of the most lauded of men, the |
correctness OF his Judgment has been again |
ard again INDICATED by events. Having |
withdrawn from the Cabinet in January,
1895, he resumed the practice of law and |
soon stood at the head of the New Y ork bar. |
Washington consulted him constantly, al |
most as much as If he had continued in the |
Cabinet. His skill as a financier has been |
characterized by Webster in these words: |
" de snlote the rock of the national resources |
and abundant streams of revenue guShed |
forth He touched the dead corpse of public |
credit and 1t sprang upon its feet"
LOUISIANA. P. A, City. The Span
iards naVigated the Gulf of Mexico for two |
centuries without becoming aware that one |
Of the largest rivers in the world falls into |
it. After their establishment in Canada |
the French explored the Mississippi to the |
sea in 1852, but made no settlement near |
its mouth until 1899. The city of New Or |
leans was founded in 171S, about which |
time, also. the colony began to assume im- |
portance. The French remained in possess |
sion of Louisiana until 1872, when they |
coded it to Spain, but from neglect and not |
outstanding the great natural resources. |
little improvement was effected under the |
new rule. and ii was never popular. In |
1890 BOnaparte, then First Consul, succeeded |
in inducing the Spanish Government to |
retrOcede Louisiana to France. 1t was then
held for time, but only nominally, as |
French colony, and only long enough to en-
able Bonaparte to complete sale of it to |
the United States in 1903.
ELECTRIC CARS IN GERMANY-H. C. B., |
City. The first electric railway was con-
structed by the firm of Semens & Halske
of Berlin, at the exhibition in that city in |
1879. The line was of two-foot gauge and !
200 feet long The great success of this |
experimental line led these constructors to |
build for actual traffic, soon afterward, the |
Lichterfede line, near Berlin. Its gauge is |
three feet and the length about one mile and |
half, and it has been in operation since |
May, 1881. Another line of about the same |
length has also been built between Char |
lottenburg and Spandauer Book and a |
shorter one, something less than half mile |
in length. was in operation in 1883, at the |
Zankerode c0lliery III SaXony.
On THE LEFT, OF CoURsE-W. J. W.,
City. AS matter of nicely, there is diff |
ference between the right and the left In
walking with man whom you wish to |
offer gentle evidence of personal regard. |
You should walk on his left, as courIesies
ar e with greater facility offered to the right |
and you will thereby leave his right free.
In military etiquette it is the rule that you
must when called on accompany superior
on his lett until You are dismissed, when
you will naturally fall in three steps be-
hind If you are to continue with your SUI
periOr.
INTENT AND Nor TME-P. A, City. An
American citizen, native bern or natural
lied, is entitled to the protection of the
United States Government wherever he NAV
be and however long lie may have been
away FROM that country. No arbitrary rule
can be fixed of the limit aud duration of the
time during which such protection Will be
afforded or denied. In the case of an indi-
| yidual going to reside abroad, his intent
when adopting such foreign residence and
| continuing it is tie thing to be considered
| rather than the time Of such absence and
residence abroad.
THE IRISH BRIGADE"-A. W. B., City.
In further confederation OF the Q. C.'s state
ment that the Twenty-third Illinois Vol
unteer Regiment was known as the Irish
Brigade" you are referred TO the al ticle in
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" on
The Siege of Lexington, Mo-" reprint
from newspaper reports OF lecture by
Colonel James A. Mullgan, who com.
manded that regiment.
CHURCH CENsUs-H. B., City. 1t was
principally for the purpose of enumeration
that .' enumerators," so called, made a
house-to-hOuse canvass for the census Ey-
perts were appointed on special works on
the census and the church statistics were in
the hands OF DIR. Henry K Carroll of the
New York Independent. He gathered the
figures from the heads of churches and his
| reports OF governing ecclesiastical bodies.
WAGNER FEsTIvAL-A. E., City. The
Wagner Musical Festival is yearly insti-
tuition which, since the death of Richard
Wagner, has been directed by his widow.
who, at the recent festival, also superin-
tended all the rehearsals. The festival con-
tinue5 about one month, beginning about
the 10Th of July.
NEW ToRK's FIRST STREET-CAR LINE
81. III. N, City. The first street-car line in
New York City was the Third avenue Rail-
road Company, Incorporated in 1853, and of
which, In 1870, 1t was said that 1.-The rate of
fare on this road for eight miles is but 6
cents. which is The lowest for so great a dis
lance in the world
DELANo-E. L., City. D Delano Is 90
miles from Bakersfield, in Kern County.
~ The main ditch Of the Kern and Tulare
Irrigation District passes Delano five miles
to the eastward, running from southeast to
northwest, with fall of II feet to the mile.
81 The Kern River is the abundant source
of supply Of the water
CHURCH TAxATIoN-H. B., City. TIE
taxation or exemption of church property is
matter for State regulation. In California
such property is not exempt; but whether
such exemption is just or unjust is not a
subject for argument in the O. c.. whose |
province is to deal with facts.
DECIDE FIRST THE RACE. D., City.
A and b having wagered that they could
outrun each other and the race resulting in