The morning call., 1893-07-11

relation to the estimated cost of the City
Hall compared to its actual cost. the tall
tower will cost at least $1,600.000. But If
we assume that it may be constructed for
100000, it does not follow that it should
be done. A tower $50 feet in height shoot
ing up from the low building would serve
as conspicuous advertisement of lack
of perception of the beauty of proportion
In architecture. Long before 1t Is COM
pleted the public will be so ashamed of it
that care would be taken that visitors
should only see it from distance.
We have the renown Of being the great
est handshaking nation on earth. 1t Is
painful to be popular. The phalanges
crack under the pressure of cordiality, and
friendship has the test Of ordeal. An ex-
PLANTATION is offered that the Presidents
illness is due to too much handshRking.
lie Is besieged from morning until night
and If his ears do not ache his hit hand
must No monarch has to run this gaunt-
let of accessi bility to the multi ude. The
principle is admissible, but Their might be
less OF it. That handsnaklng is national.
Characteristic is seen IN purely business
transaction like that of starting a new
ferry. President Davie, Secretary Bassett
and Captain Ebert may soon need a body
guard If they travel to and fro by the
Rosalle. They are besleged on the wharf
with handsha kers. and what Is left of
muscular Ontractllity must be well nigh
exhausted by the fluctuations of pasSen-
gers on the trip. In these demonstrations
there is a good deal Of pent-up wrath at
the Southern Pacitic's policy. AS long as
there are 600 passengers on the Rosalie per
trip. as was the case on Sunday. the Off
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dom cheerfully.
1t is seldom Central American Presi-
dent on his travels speaks amiably OF those
who are left III possession of the Govern
ment, and 1t is pleasant to find that Cen
eral Roberto Sacasa of Nicaragua is not a
grumb bier at the hardness Of fate and the
ingratitude of republics. He considers
himself still the de jure Constitutional
President, and refers to the acting Presi-
dent. Senior Machado. as his very good
friend. This capacity to appreciate the
good there is IN others augurs we'll for the
little State which some of these days Will
have an Importance in American eyes far
transcending that OF other countries
affected by the Monroe declaration OF
principles. The canal is naturally re-
garded by General Sacasa as beyond con-
troverSy great Work for the worlds COM
MERGE which the United States must push
forward and control. 1t is much more
than an engineering question. but in the
engineering sense 1t Is OF FAR more conse-
quence than any other affecting the United
States as a whole. Ii Niagara were har-
messed and every horsepower OF the cleo
trio dynamos distributed, it would not do
as much service ~ trade as Will this water
way.
The wish is father to the thought in the
rumOrs that Hun tingtOn has come to terms
once more with the Panama Railroad Com
pany by which he will again rule the roOst
in lsthmuS traffic AS it happens copy
of the agreement between the Pacific Mail
and the Panama Railroad Company is in
this city. 1t provides that there shall be
no interference with existing conditions on
the iSthmus, and en- it provides for the
employment of the Pacific Mail steamers
on the Atlantic side by the Pansma Com,
pany. That is all. The rights of the
North American Navigation Company
remain unlmpaired. Mr.. Huntington
would no doubt like to own the lsthmus
route. but he is powerless. Stories of this
character are Judged for the sinister pur-
pose of weakening the project for rail
road from Stockton to Bakersfield. Any
thing to beat that is the policy of the
Fourth and Townsend schemers.
AS good pot of English money was lost
by the Australian bank failures, investors
are pinchcd to keep up their luxuries.
There is quite thinning of the carriages
in the evening seen in Hyde Park, and
gentlemen are not fastidous about the
cigars they pay for. People who were
above" buses now patrOnize them and
take renny worth of locomOtion cheer
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ride, and the driver wanted to keep the
penny as souvenir. But Mr.. Morley is
not in straits as long as hcis in the Cabinet.
Inquiries are evidently necessary to de-
termine what an official map of San Fran
cisco can be provided for. The difference
between the estimate OF Surveyor Fitz-
hugh and that of the professional map
maker whom Supervisor Denman has in
his mind is no less than $500. The one
wants $4,000 and the other is willing to
make all the surveys, make the map and
do all the work for $500. PERHAPS the
profits come in from some publishing
scheme. The city should insist on getting
good and accurate map, and it would be
desirable to show precisely what streets
are graded and graded and paved; what
blocks are built upon or partly built upon.
and those that are unimproyed. A map
may W q tuluB Va UcOuLy, UuG q VCly pOOIs
guide.
The money that police insure of a stu
dents ball has cost the city of Paris must
run into few million francs. Loss of
property by wrecking and window-smash-
ing is considerable, but that must be
rifle compared with the loss Of trade in
large central district and the expense of
bringing troops to Paris and preparing for
revolution. During three or four DAYS
Paris has been paralyZed. The effect on
visitors also is disastrous. Is a capital gay
when it is insecure ? How the authorities
must be chagrined at such storm being
famed into fury by few students models.
When the ladies entrance" is abol-
ished there will still be devices to obtain
refreshment by those who must take
stimuants. One very crafty method was
lately detected in London. A lady in Rot
ten Row, the fashiona BILE resort of upper
tendon. dropped gilt-edged handsomely
bound volume. 1t was lettereN Book of
Common Prayer" A bvstander picked it
up and was amazsd to find the contents to
be old cognac.