The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-31

compressed, huddled-toa ether and stjfled
Chinatown should escape swathes of choi-
era dead, should the scourge visit San
Francisco IN earnest IL is equally hope-
less 10 expect that it should spare such
a cesspool of infection as the old City Hall.
The sooner the TRUSTEES are set 10 work
on the old City Hall the better even for the
personal prospects OF the conSiderate Int
noseless gentlemen in charge. Mongolians
have set an example. VIII the city authori-
ties take il mp? WIN they act effectIyely2
Or will they dawdle and furnish hereafter
learned reports proving that failure should
have been success
If there is any cholera along Geary street
the chance is tolerably good that it Will be
well disseminated; the relaying OF the rail-
road cable tracks has made it possible in
remarkable perfection. The whole street.
from Lone Mountain to Market is thick
with dust an inch thick, save where the
company has wedged in and solidifed its
own pavement between the pairs Of rails.
The street was more or less all torn mp, but
the relaying OF the city portion is beauti-
ful example OF scandal0us imperfection.
Every breeze skins cloud Of dust off the
super fetal and unworkmanly placed blocks.
The winds viii eventually carry all the
dust into the bay and the blocks will lie in
irregular IooseneSS upon the sand. With
the wind and the dust, and the ignoring OF
does arrive, may remind people that the
virtues Of negligence are transient.
1t is most edfy.ng spectacle for poor
people in democratic country to behold
the railroads of State like California ac-
| tually harassed to ray their local taxes. and
Offering resistance to the payment by every
device known to the art OF demurrers. the
| babblement of twaddle about the meaning
| binding a CouIt by fudge. Taxes are under
! litigation which were due in 1887. They are
| unpaid. whitley ever be paid? The rail-
/ road principles that they never should be
| paid. The railroads would like TO assess in
| damages the IudaciOuS persons who pro
! pose or dream that they owe anything TO
| State they d'fy and Cypress. Taxes, in.
/ deedl base 5 the slave who paysY' But
! the Southern Pacific is more Of a master
| Lnan slave, t least. for the time being.
| The people arr slaves.
! The Harbor Commissioners ore about 10
! Yield on this matter ii J0ants toll. Under
| the system as 1t has existed the transpo,t,.
I ton companies have virtually robbed their
customers by charging cents on every
| package, and Jumping the whole together
/ when ihey came to square accounts nv the
| ton with the HarbOr Commissioners. Such
| system or fieecling could only have arisen
\ ~ magnificent California under the Guidance
OF the States friend. the Southern Pacific
| Company. by altering the method the
HarOor Commissioners clear themselves Of
| completely In what is really lndefensi bile
| eXtortion, and the transportation companies
| viii have 10 charge squarely what is owing
Tor harbor front foliage. Their robbery
! must go"
Lieutenant Totten has made his will
and it is in favor of his wife. He has pre-
/ dicted so much about what is to happen to
/ the earth, the universe and anything else
| there Is left. that IL is astounding he should
have wasted the practical utilities Of pro-
/ found mind on parchment testament
/ The lieutenant predicts that he will soon
soar away somewhere as mysterious dis
I appearance" Meanwhile, his wife, in
whose favor the Will is made. will probably
be materially residential In the lieutenant's
nelghborhood.
There is just a little trouble ahead for
Venezuela which may teach that country
that il has foreign relations as well as civil
discussions. 1T Will have to apologize to
the United States for breach of interna-
| uonal prOprletieS. or course, when the de-
mand is made, fortified by an adequate
naval demonstration, Venezuela will eat
humble pie and promise to be respectful in
The future. 1t is we'll to remind the SOUTH
ern countries that they have responsibilities
outside their own fighting lines.
Gold washing on the Feather River, Just q
little above OroVille, might almost prompt
the pioneers to renew their youth in a pic
mic visit to the scene. The experiences OF
those faraway days are not erased from
the tablets of the mind, aud the new efforts
must be 10 them a surprise as most of the
gold Was supposed 70 have been cleaned I'D
by former tolls. Fruit culture is now the
true golden harvest of California. but there
Is no objection 10 raking IN flake gold in the
ancient manner If sufficient Of 1t can be
found