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p PROPOSALS
To Clean Brick Sewers.

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Francisco, october 81, 1898.
In accordance with Resolution No. 1886 Third
Series) OF the Board of Supervisors bids will be
received in open session of the board on MON
DAY AFTERNOON November &, 1898, from to
2:30 o'clock. to clean the brick sewers within the
district bounded by Fourteenth, Eighteenth. Mis-
sion and New Channel streets, including the sew
ers in SAID streets.
The silt taken from the sewers to be removed
from the streets, the estimated quantity of said
silt being about 1000 cubic yards
NoTICE.-Bidders will. state price per cubic
yard for which the above work will be done In
conformity with Section No. 3245 of the Political
Code. the silt removed to be measured in the
vehicle OF transportation and to be the properly
OF the contractor. 49,
The party to whom the contract is awarded VIII
be required. prior to or at the time OF the e1ecu-
ton of the contract, to pay the cost OF
this and former notice OF october ~, 1851 IN
three daily newspapers. .,,,,
In order preserve uniformity ana TO IacilIato
the award the board has resolved TO receive no
bids unless made upon blank forms prepared OY
the commi,tee and certified check for the sum
of $500 deposited by the bidder with ana made
payable TO the clerk OF the board. conditioned IL
the proposal be accepted and the contract award
ed and if the bidder snail fail or neglect 10 exc
cute a written agreement and give the required
pond within six days after, the sum snail De paid
in TO the city and county treasury oy said clerk as
Iionidated damages for failure and neglect.
;I,nks furnished by the clerk.
The hoard reserves the right to reject all bids
the public good SC require.
oc3i st JNO. a. hoooGLh, Olerk-
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ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS.

The hazy ideas of gold advocates ir re-
spect to bimetallism are well expressed in
the following from the Philadelphia Rec
ord:
An essential condition OF blmetallIsm is that
all paper currency shall be redeemed In gold
and silver at the option of the holder II the
public or private debtor should have the option
of paying in silver the currency would no
longer have the value Of gold. The gold basis
for the currency would have ceased 10 exist.
An essential condition of bimetallSm is
that there shall be no gold basis. The
monetary basis will be gold and silver
coins of legal weight and standard fine
ness. The holder of note under bimet-
allism will not have the option of the kind
of money in which his security shall be
paid. If he had, the kind that might be
dearer at the time would be required, and
the effect of this requirement would be to
increase the difference between the COM
mercial value of the two metals. Under
bmetallism the debtor has the option. He
selects 10 pay in the kind of money cheaper
at the time, and thereby tends to restore
the parity of the metals. The increase of
use will naturally increase the demand
and thereby the market price. Along in
the ffties and sixties, when silver was
dearer on the established ratio the holder
of a bank note could not demand silver.
When specie was paid at all it was In gold
or lightweight silver. Both gold snd silver
were legal tenders, cut the cheaper was
paid. The country did not fall TO the
single standard Of gold because silver was
at premium. The coin of both metals
was the money basis. but the cheaper was
the money in common use.
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NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE.

A New York paper in vehement protest
against the election of Judge Maynard ex-
horts the voters to keep the bench
clean" The advice would be good in the
proper place, but at present a more prac-
tical suggestion would be to make the
bench clean. Judge Maynard was appointed
to seat on the bench and is now a can-
didate to succeed himself. Judge May
nard may or may not be the most unfit
man now on the bench in New York. The
difference between man who does his
party a service al the expense of his hon.
esty and man that accepts public office
with an understanding that he will serve
private interests when they conflict with
public interests is not worth considera-
ton. Either is unfit for a judicial position.
And yet decisions are often given which
bear on their face evidence of the fact
that they were rendered at the order Of
one of the parties to the suit.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The Crown Princess of Greece. sister Of
the Emperor of Germany, has been a suf-
ferer recently from Inflammation of the
lungs.
Prince Komatu. near relative of the
imperial family of japan. with his wife, is
about to begin journey TO Europe to pay
his respects to the various crowned head s
there. In all probability he will also visit
this country.
Professor Anton Won Werner has been
honored again by the Emperor of Ger
many. His term of office as director of
the Academcal High School for the Fine
Arts came 10 and end on September 80
but the Emperor, not wishing 10 lose the
services of the famous artist. extended the
term another five years. The professor
has been at the head of the ins stitution
since 1879.
The Car made himself very popular
during his stay In Copenhagen by wander
ing around plainly dressed and in demo-
cratic fashion, accompanied only by the
royal princesses. 1t was his custom to
enter any shop or restaurant that struck
his fancy and bis large purchases of jew
elry and confectionery won The hearts of
the shopkeepers.
Asger Hamerik, the director of the Pea
body Conservatory of Music in Baltimore,
says that some years ago, while passing an
evening with GOunod at his country place
at ST. Cloud. the great composer said he
did not believe the Parisians would have
received Faust" at all. with its German
legend. had it OF been for The march, the
familiar soldiers chorus, which he char
acterzed as trash.
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ALL HIS OWN WAY.
A Lumberman's Advantage Over the
Northern Pacific.

Northern Pacific.
A case of peculiar interest to people
having to do with railroads, railroad or
Government land and lumber. was argued
yesterday before the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals. 1t was the controversy
between the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company, appellant. and John 0. Hussey,
respondent, appealed from the United
States Circui. Court for the District of
Montana.
In 1891 Hussey applied to the Govern
ment for permission to cut timber, under
the act approved March 8 of that year,
within the place limits of the Northern
Pacific land grant, but his application was
rejected for the reason that, as the land
was unsurveyed, IL would be impossible to
distinguish the Government sections from
the railroad sections. However. Hussey
went right ahead and cut $4,000 feet of
saw-log tim ber, and was still cutting. when
the railroad company brought suit to en-
join him.
The defendant took the position that the
railroad company was not entitled to re-
lief for the reason that it was unable to
show that the land upon which the timber
had been cut belonged to il, no survey
having been made. Accordingly. the
court below sustained Hussey's demurrer,
and the railroad company appealed.
Hussey'S position is a novel one. Under
the holding of the court below he could q OF
be stopped from cutting all the timber he
wanted. and yet if the Government were
to proceed against him for trespass it is
doubtful it it would be any more success
ful than the railroad company. for Hussey
could set up the same plea, to wit: The
land being unsurveyed, how could the
Government prove that it was Government
land and not railroad land? And since
the Government and the railroad company
don't combine and proceed against Hussey
jointly he seems to have it about all his
OWN WAY
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The decision of Judge Ogden not to hi ear

The decision of Judge Ogden not to hear
The Webb divorce case in camera but to
permit representatives of the press TO be
present is in the right. direction. There
may be o end of abuses through litigation
with closed doors. 1t is not enough that
attorneys should agree. with the consent of
parties. The public have an interest in
every case taken into court inasmuch as
law and its administration are for the ben
eft of the commonwealth, which defrays
the expenses and gives shape TO the enact
ments. The line cannot be drawn in ad-
vance as to what is proper to 60 forth 20
the public. That should be left to the right
Judgment and sense OF deceDcy of the press
and in the main it is privilege not abused.
In the case in question it is no bar to pub
lIcity that the parties are rich. If they
will wash dirty linen in public let them
have the same ordeal of shame that the
poor necessarily encounter. Above every
thing the law should be no respecter of per-
sons.
Mrs. Grant and her family have come to
California for the winter, not because they
fear the rigors of extreme cold in the East
but because our climate is very delightful.
1t is delightful, as Californians know, all
the year round and not merely in the win
ter months. Even the heats of the interior
can be borne because they are dry, unlike
the sweltering. moisture-laden heats of
the East which are frightfully oppressive
night and dav. Mrs. Grants Endorsement
of California should assist in turning the
stream of wintering visitors hitherward.
1t is almost as easy to reach California as
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that 1t burned the soles of the sailors
boots. Through every crack thin wreaths
of smoke poured out. On Monday holes
were bored in the floor of the cabin large
enough to admit the nozzle of hose, and
through these sailors, with their arms
swathed in wet blankets and their faces
covered by moistened cloths. poured un-
ceasing streams on the burning mass be-
low.
On that Monday evening the captain had
made up his mind to steer for Newfound-
land when he was told that the sailors were
gaining on the flames. He waited till the
morning. Early on Tuesday First Officer
Mesterman at the bead of gang OF sailors
descended the main hatch. broke down
bulwark and charged the fire with hall
dozen large streams of water. 1t was vic
tory. AS fast as man fell sutTocated by
the smoke his place was taken by another,
and the day was still young when nothing
was left of the conflagration which had
nearly been so fatal but pile OF charred
and smoking embers, which were speed
lily thrown overheard. The Gellert arrived
at New Y York few days later than usual,
but without having lost life.
The history of naval adventure contains
few such thrilling episodes. Ii Captain
Kaempff had not been as cool and skllltui
as he was and if his crew had not been as
well disciplined and intrepid we might
now have had to record frighttul disas-
ter. The theory of spontaneous combus-
tiOn may not command universal assent.
but if the fire had continued to gain head
way for another day it would probably
have proved fatal, and it would not have
mattered much to the victims how 1t
nriuin afad
The morning call., 1893-11-04
WANT AN ELEVATOR.
City Hall Commissioners Requested
to Provide Accommodations.

A communication was received by Sec
retary Mccarthy of the City Hall Com
mission yesterday, in which 1t is petitioned
ION behalf of all women and delicate and
weak people" that an elevator be placed
in that portion of the building where the
Free Library Is situated.
There is no way to reach the library
rooms except through a narrow spiral
stairway off the McAllister-street side.
The writer of the communication, VINO is
Mrs. Cordelia S. Kirkland. says that she
counted the steps to be climbed in reach
ing the ladies' readlng-rOom, and that
tney number ninety-one steps. The exer-
tion required to climb these three stories
of spiral stairs is greatly fatiguing even
to healthy persons. The trustees of the
library can solve the matter. if no elevator
is built. by having a public entrance to
the library from the entrance on the sec
ond floor in the City Hall, which has thus
far been kept closed, to the great incon-
venience of the patrons of the library.
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amendment. The resolution of 1892 was
rushed through in night session by
majority of 2l2. The fact that it passed is
admitted, but 1t is contended that as
platforms are always construed literally
Congress may rot consider itself bound to
a literal fulfllMent of a platform which
departs from the principles laid down in
previous platforms.
The morning call., 1893-11-04
The. overland Flyer.

The Union Pacific is the only line running lew
Pullman double drawing-room sleepers and din
Ing cars, San Francisco to Chicago, without
change, in three and one-half days. All tickets
good via Salt Lake City and Denver.
Select tourist excursions every Tuesday and
Thursday in charge of managers.
Steamship tickets on sale to and from all points
in Europe.
For sleeping-car accomm odations and tickets
call on d. w. Hitchcock. general agent, Mont
gomery street, San Francisco: +. r. Ellsworth.
agent. 61S Broadway, Oakland. CAL; or g. f. Herr,
229 South Spring street. Los Angeles, Cal.
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n-vISIToRS TO THE WORLDS FAIR will
dnd THE CALL on sale the newsstands in the fol
Briggs House, Clifton House, Commercial House,
Gault House. Grand Pacific Hotel. Sherman House,
leland House. Northern Hotel. Richelieu Hotel.
fremont House, Virginia Hotel and Wellington
Hotel.
AT WASHINGTON. D. C.-The willard, Airing
ton, Ebbitt and Shoreham Hotels.
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suBsCRRTION RATES:

DAIIy CALL dncluding Sundays. s6 per year by
mail postpaid; Is cents per week or So cents per
calendar month, through carriers. DAILY GALL
81 30 per year. postpaid. SUNDAY CALL and
WEEKLY CALL, $3.50 per year, postpaid. WEEALf
CALL 81 per year, postpaid.
The CALL cannot return rejected manuscripts,
pof will the editor enter into correspondence re-
them
The morning call., 1893-11-04
puRLICArIoN OFFICE.

525 Montgomery street, near Clay. open until II
o'clock P. NJ BRANCH OFFICES: TO Market
street, Rearny. open until IL o'clock midnight;
339 Hayes street. open until 80 o'clock; 603 Larkn
street, open until $500 clock SW. Sixteenth
and Mss streets, onen until o'clock; 25lS
Mission street. open until O'Clock; and 116 Ninth
street, open until 8 so o'clock.
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CAL. glace fruits, soc h. Townsend's. =

LANGLEY's san Francisco Directory for 1894
commenced It's canvass on Monday, October
80, and every authorized canvasser will here
after wear a badge of red ribbon with the
words, "Canvasser Langley's 1894 San Fran
cisco Directory" 1t has been found necessary
10 adopt this plan In order TO protect the public
from lmpOStOrs.
The morning call., 1893-11-04
Phillips Rock Island Excursions

Leave San Francisco every Wednesday and Sarur
day via RIO GRANDE AND Rock ISLAND RVS
Through tourist sleeping cars to Chicago and Bos-
ton. Manager and porter accompany these excur.
sions through to Boston. For tickets, seeping-car
accommodations and further Information address
CLINTON JONES, General Agent Rock Island Ry.,
90 Montgomery street. San Francisco.
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TOWNSHIPS famous broken candy, 2 lbs25c
Northern Pacific Railroad.

The rates are much lower via Portland, Ia
coma and Northern Pacific Railroad. TO st.
Paul. Chicago and all Eastern points than Via
any other route. T. X. StaIeler, general agent
639 Market street, San Francisco.
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THE DAILY MORNING CALL

FOR SALE AT
New wYork..BRENTANO BROS. 5 Union Square
Chicago o...... W. B. SIZER, 1S9 State street
New Orleans. .GALL0T &JOUBERT, ,115H Common
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NOTICE I

Any Of our patrons aoho fail to find THE
MORNING CALL for sale by trGinboys
,oiu confer fauor By notifying this office
ef the fact, naming the date and train.
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THE strongest reason why you should take
Hoods Sarsaparilla if your blood is impure is
found In the fact that it has effected many remark
able cures OF blood disorders.
The morning call., 1893-11-04

ANGosTURA Bltters, says long time sufferer from
Indigestion, thoroughly cured me. Sole manufac-
turers. DR.. j. 6. b. Segert Sons.
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King Humbert of Italy is one of the best
riders among European monarchs. He
loves to Destride young and unframed
horses.
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CHIEFLY from neglect We grow prematurely
gray and bald. Get back your youthful hair and
good looks with p ARKER's HAIR BALsAM.
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Gospel Temperance.

Tomorrow afternoon at o'clock j. M.
Glass, a prominent temperance speaker,
will address the service, for youEg men
onlv, ar the Christian Association Hall.
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WEATHER. PREDICTIONS.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
WEATHER BUREAU,
SAN FRANCISCO, November {, 1898.
Ondcial Forecast for Twenty-fOur Hours
Ending Midnight Saturday.
San Francisco and vicinity - Fair weather;
nearly stationary temperature Saturday; south to
west winds. JAMES j. GRAY.
Acting Local Forecast Official
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THE EASTERN OFFICE OF THE CALL.
so Potter building, New York City, is provided with
files of California papers. Visitors welcome Ad-
vertising rates and sample copies furnished.
f. X. MISCH, Manager.
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AUCTION SALES TO-DAY.

oRocEBIEs.-By NJ. j. Simmons, Ht 72z Har-
TiGon St. at IL O'Clock.
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THE MORNING CALL

Has a larger Circulation than any
other newspaper published in San
The morning call., 1893-11-04

CREAM mixed candles, Csc fb. Townsend's. i.
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EXTRAORDINARY CLOAK OFFERING!

Special attention invited to the Extraordinary Bargains i'm
Ladies' and Chdrens Outer Garments advertised to-days
Sc Examiner
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-25
Foreign News.

DUBLIN, April 25.-The Most Rev.
Hugh Conway, D. D., Roman Catholic
Bishop of Killala, died to-day. He was
consecrated Feb. 4, 1872.
BOMBAY, April 25.-Dr. Haikine, the
bacteriologist, who recently came to
India to mako experiments in the pre-
vention of cholera by the incubation
of cholera virus, has inoculated 400 per-
sons at Agra, and no evil results re-
ported.
LONDON, April 25.-The Marquis OF
Salisbury and other liberal unionists
are discussing the plan of procedure by
which the opposition is to be guided in
antagonizing the Irish home rule bill
throughout the committee stages of the
measure.
RoME, April 25.-The Kaiser has con-
ferred the Prussian Order of the Black
Eagle on Cardinal Rampola. the Papal
Secretary of State. Cardinal Rampola's
condition is rather worse and he is not
receiving any visitors. The Pope has
given an audience to Herr Won Mar
schall Biebestein, who is in Rome in the
suite of the German Emperor.
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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
The Naval Review.

saNEw YORK, Apl. 25.-The old Span
ish caravels were objects of wonder, as
they swung at anchor in the lower bay
this morning, to all persons who saw
them. The caravels were towed into
port at about 10 o'clock last night.
They passed into the Hudson river at
II o'clock this morning, having been
saluted from the different forts in the
harbor as they passed in. The Dol
phin, with Secretary Herbert on board,
steamed by the caraveis as they enter
the river, and saluted as she passed.
The caravels were taken up the river
to q point about opposite west Goth
street, where they were anchored.
NEW YORK, April 25.-Cannon boom
ed a welcome to the crack fighting
ships of the world as they steamed uI
the lower bay to-day and swung into
the anchorage just below the narrows
All the merchantmen in the harbol
raised their colors in their honor and
The enthusiasm everywhere was in
tense. The journey of the squadron
from Hampton Roads to their anchor
age in the lower bay was made Oh
schedule time.
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Burning of an Armory.

CHICAGO, April 25.-The First regi,
ment armory was totally destroyed by
fire at an early hour this morning. Be-
fore the department could get to work,
the fire had eaten its way to the maya
zine and it was soon eveident that the
structure was doomed. Finally the
main magazine seemed to have been
reached when a terrific explosion oc-
cured, and the north wall was blown
out. 1t is known that two men lost
their lives in the flames. The loss is
estimated at Sl50,00O.
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The Great Plague.

From the great beginning of the NOR
talitv of 1915 to the early years of the
fifteenth century the chroniclers regis
ter 10 less than six such epidemics,
though some were of comparatively
minor deadliness. By consulting the
books of death preserved in the archives
of the Grascia, it is possible to ascer-
tain that from the 1st of May to the 18th
of September, 400, there occurred no
fewer than 10,90s deaths, of which the
greater part were children,
OF the plague Of 134S, besides the
classical and SPLENDID description of
Roccaccio. we can discover vivid and
sad records amid the family chronicles
in the diaries and memoranda of the
day. 1t must have been despairing and
aWe-inspiring sight. Giovanni Morel-
Ii tells us how in one hour friend or
neighbor was laughing and joking, and
the next he was dead. People fell
down dead in the streets and at their
benches; fell down dead when alone,
without the help or comfort of a hui
man being,
MANY went mad and threw them
selves into the wells or the Arno, or
from out their windows, driven to this
by great sorrow, or panic, or fear.
MANY and many died unseen, many
were buried before the breath had left
their bodies. One might see the cross
bearing priests who had gone to fetch
a corpse take up two or three on their
way TO the church. It is calculated
that in Florence alone two-thirds of the
population died-thatis. $4,000 persons.
Of the epidemic of 14QQ detailed de;
scription is given in q letter ofseF
Lapo AIazzei: "Here shops are hard
" open any more the masters are not
at their desks; the police, the Justice,
is without superiors. No one weeps
for the dead" 1t was an awful vista
ton: children died, friends, neighbors
and relations fell victims there was
no longer any means of recording even
the names Of the dead.-Blackacood's
Magazine.
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TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL %, 1898
THE LATEST reliable advices from

THE LATEST reliable advices from
Honolulu are to the effect that the
nsurping provisional government there
is rapidly approaching an ignoble end,
and that the Queen is coming to
her own again that her loyal sub
jects are receiving large accessions from
the white population, and that the
usurpers are chiefly adventures who are
willing to sell out to the highest bidder.
Mr.. Nordhoh, writing from there to the
New York Herald, says the usurpers,
aware of the feeling of the natives
against them, "were uneasy at the pos
sible results of Colonel Blount's with
drawal of troops, as unhappy as the
southern carpet baggers when General
Grant refused troops or when Mr..
HAYES withdrew them entirely" This
country should not only hasten the de-
parture of Minister Stevens from Ha-
wall. but that of Envoy Blount also,
and allow the people of that country to
do as they please with their own affairs,
and with those foreigners who have
conspired to revolutionize their govern
mont
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The Columbus Monument.

CHICAGO, April 25.-The bronze
monument to Christopher Columbus,
erected by the Worlds Columbian EX-
position on the lake front at the foot
of Congress street, was unveiled at 3
o'clock this afternoon with appropriate
ceremonies. The height of the statue
is twenty feet. Its pedestal of Maine
granite is 80 feet, making a total altitude
of so feet. The figure has had the ap-
prevail of many artists and critics and
is said to be the largest bronze statue
in the United States. The mon
ument cost $4,000 and will revert to
the city of Chicago at the close ofthe
fair. 1t was unveiled to-day by the
little daughter OF Ferd NJ. Peck.
Mayor Harrison and Others speaking.