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The morning call., 1893-05-25
THE FISH COMMISSION.

The work of the United States Fish
Commission is too well known aud so OBJ
ylously beneficial that it requires no de-
Tense and fiourishes without the assistance
OF cOmmendation. The commission keeps
our lakes, rivers and es uaries stocked with
food fishes by the distribution of ova and
fry. and the gain 20 our food supply is
enormous at a very mod crate cost. This
is field of science practically applied for
which there is no grudgiDg of expenditure,
the compensatory return being evident be-
yond cayil. In this department the United
States is much in advance of other coun-
tries, which mostly leave such work in the
hands of private organizations In 1892
the number of eggs, fry and yearing fish
supplied for distribution came to the stu
pendous total OF 306. $50. .432. Shad obtained
the largest share of attention, and repays
1t by its good qualities. of which we have
Tor some years had proof in San Francisco
waters. The commission disposed of
100000 young shad and 100000 eggs.
Another sea fish, but not auadromuus, the
cod, was distributed along the New Eng
land coast to the extent of 53, 10000 fry.
Salmon was considered to q much less
extent, only 100000 eggs being distrib-
uted together with 1.717, 900 fry and 442, ,000
yearllrgs. The commission does not dis
dain any species, fresh-water or oceanic,
suitable for the table. Trout Justly claim
a good deal of care. II for little more than
the delight of the angler it is species TO
be encouraged, but in reality no finny deli
eacy is more t0oths0me. Perch. pike, fat
fish. whitefsh and lobster are gathered
within the Matching stations of the COM
mission, and every year the different
States and Territories enjoy some share
of the benefits OF wisely directed piscicult-
ure. In one respect the commission de-
serves support. Its labors should not be
thwarted by pernicious fishing in the
rivers. lakes and bays of the country.
Especially should the destruc tion of I'M
mature fish be nreYented.
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GOVERNMENT DEBTS.

The fnanc cial writer of the New York
Sun argues that the Government can lave
no object to gain through the appreciation
of gold for the reason that the Government
is in the debtor class. The National
Government owes a round thousand
millions. and there are State, city and
county debts amounting in 1890 to 81, 1885,
2l0,4 These several governments, it is
commended. will have to pay more money
If the gold standard prevails than if the
remon etization of silver should be effected
The Sun writer has doubtless observed in
the course OF his long experience that
governments and government agents are
not Identical. 1t may not be to the in
terest of governments to establish the
single gold standard and yet 1t may be for
the interest OF Government agents so to
act. When the Bland act was passed in
1873 the National Government owed much
more than twice as much as it owes at
present. So far from thinking it to the in
terest of the Government to establish the
gold standard Congress passed an act
authorizing the coinage of silver dollars,
and making such dollars a full legal ten
der. But the Government agents would
not have it. so the treasury paid interest
The morning call., 1893-05-25
RAPID TRANSIT IN NEW YORK

New York elamors for rapid transit and
is almost as far from the goal as when the
commission which was created to deal with
the subject was appointed All is still dis
sension and lrresolution. with some plans
laid ASIDE and no sign of putting others
into practice. The needs of the city in
better service are indisputable, but be-
tween Tammany and the powerful Man
haitian company. or by com bination of
the two, matters are so manipulated as to
paralyze action. Presumably the Maphat-
tan company will not forego the advant-
ages it possesses in its elevated but disfgur-
ing lines from the Battery to the Harlem
River. An extension of this system does
not meet the wants of great and rapidly
advancing metropolitan city, now so much
built up that its population must overflow
for residential if not for business purposes.
The Tribune fears, however, that this is
all that will result. Wall-street operators
and Tammany bosses are so arranging
things that concessions will hand over all
available routes TO The tender consdera-
ton of the Manhattan company, and the
city will have neither satisfactory tinan-
cial return nor its desires fulfilled in ac-
comm0dation. The commission cOgitated
plans for a couple of years and then pro-
pounded one which the capitalists would
not indorse. Now it has ceased to be
heroic in projects and a temporizing snlu-
tion is being sought in an accelerated
service on the elevated lines. The Tribune
contends that the commission should re-
quIre "the elevated company to choose be-
tween an immediate carrying out of the
published plans, with per cent payment
to the city on its annual receipts, or pub
lie letting of such another contract as will
secure the same ends" It does seem out
rageous that metropolitan city should be
handed over for all time to a single com
pany on any terms, but If nothing better
can be done the public rights should be
safeguarded on, three points: the service
should be made adequate; the fares should
be moderate and lowered from time to
time, and the community should have some
share of the profits in return for valua Bile
privileges. New York cannot expand its
area on Manhattan Island, but it is ex-
panding skyward prodigiously. 1t will
soon outstrp Chicago in the number of its
tall buildings, and ground is SO precious
that lofty structures will become the rule
in the downtown business center A CON-
pany which has a practical monopoly of
ansportationtwentyo or thirty years hence
can we'll afford to pay we'll for its privi-
leges. and all such payments should inure
to the public benefit
The morning call., 1893-05-25
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Mrs. William Walter Phelps has crossed
the Atlantic Ocean sixty-fve times.
General Buffers son Paul is to put the
old Yacht America into commission tnls
summer.
Nearly every day flowers and fruit are
sent by Mrs. John Rockefeller to st. Luke's 5
Hospital, across the way from her house
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt uses altar OF
roses which is said to cost $50 per ounce.
Mr.. Gladstone has liking for white
flowers. and he always wears Duttonhole
of white rosebuds at those weddings which
he hon0rs with his presence.
President Cleveland never wears gloves,
no matter how cold the weather may be,
and even when the Thermometer bovers
around zero he does not seem to feel un-
comfortable.
Sir William Fraser has written volume
of personal recollections, which contains
anecdotes of Thackeray, LyttOn, D0re.
Napoleon Ill, Cruikshank. Beaconsfield
and Welin gton.
The widow of General Grant has been
dissuaded by her family from carrying out
her intention to purchase the house in
Washington where the Blaine family expe-
rlenced so much sorrow.
Colonel Amos A. Parker. who recently
died in Keene. n. H., at the age of over 101
years. is said to have been undoubtedly the
oldest college graduate in the United States.
He took his diploma from the University
of Vermont in 1913.
The German Empress has sent to Father
Cza LuzZi, librarian at the Vatican. through
Herr Won BulOw. the PruSsan Minister to
the Vatican, ring containing twenty-fOur
diamonds and the imperial initials in bril-
liants and rubieS.
The Queen, when on her continental
journey, is always accompanied by George
Greenham, one of the most respected mem
Der of the Scotland Yard staff, whose duty
it is to shadow and safeguard her Majesty
upon all occasions.
General Schuyler Hamilton, grandson of
the first Secretary of the Treasury. is liv-
ing in New York at the age of 49, He
served through three wars, was shot sew
eral times, had his lungs pierced with a
Mexican lance. and yet is mentally and
physically sound.
Isaac Mcclellan of Greenport L. l., well
known to an earlier generation as the
poet-sportsma will celebrate his eighty
seventh birthday on the 21st inst. Mr..
Mcclellan was a cassmate of Sargent S.
Prentiss at Bowdoin. and the friend #
Hawthorne, Longfellow, Holmes and n. P.
Willis many years ago.
Mrs. Maria NJ. Cooper, widow of William
NJ. Cooper who has just died in Phila-
delphia at the age Of SO, was an honorary
member of the Grand Army. With her
husband she founded the Cooper shop
volunteer refreshment saloon at Washing
ton-avenue wharf in Philadelphia. at
which the soldier-bOys were cared for.
The morning call., 1893-05-25
FROM A PLAIN BUSINESS MAN.

dispatch from Council Bluffs in
Wednesdays CALL contains an outline of
plain business mans plan to settle the
silver question. The plan is to repeal the
Sherman act requiring the purchase of
silver bullion and the substitution of silver
coin for gold coin and bank notes under
the amount of So. He would also limit the
legal tender quality of silver to sums OF
500 and less. He is under the impression
that the tax on national bank notes should
be removed and the banks allowed to issue
notes up to the full amount of their bonds
on deposit. There is no reason which this
plain business mans plan should not be
accepted in Wall street and in Lombard
The morning call., 1893-05-25
FROM SAN FRANCISCO SOUTH.

The Nisalia Times is trying to convince
itself that a railroad from Fresno to Los
Angeles will serve the San Joaquin Valley
as well as a railroad from Stockton to Ba-
kersfeld. Los Angeles. our Visslia con-
temporary says, is nearly 400 miles nearer
the East than San Francisco, and already
has competitive transcOntinental lines CEN
tering there. 1t is true that the Southern
Pacific Company and the Santa Fe Com
pauy have branch lines to Los Angeles.
1t IS also true that these two transeont-
mental railroad companies have until quite
recently combined TO maintain rates to all
points in California, and that this cnmbi-
nation was only broken by the North
American Navigation Company and The
clipper ship lines The charges under the
combination were so high that San Fran
cisco merchants had adopted the expedient
OF shipping goods from Atlantic ports to
Europe. thence to San Francisco, to get
themselves out of the clutches of the trans
continental association. That association
has now gone 10 pieces. For a time there
may be competition between each and all
OF the transcontlnental companies. But
these differences may be headed off at any
moment. and when they are the southern
counties Will be at the mercy of the COM
bination. But railroad f1om Stockton 10
Bakersfield will be practical com bination
of the North American Navigation Conn
pany's line of steamers to the southern
part of the San Joaquin Valley. If the
stockholders of the navigation company
and Of the Stockton and Bakersfield COM
pany are not in all instances identical the
two enterprises are actuated by an identi-
cal purpose. The railroad will serve to
distribute through the San Joaquin Valley
the merchandise brought to San Francisco
by the navigation company's steamers.
This city will in return be the largest Pa
cihc Coast consumer of the products of
the valley, and the railroad will serve the
valley as cheaply as it will serve this city.
Probably at some future day. when the
Southern Pacific Company has ceased to
have exclusive contrOlover whatever port
may be constructed for the southern coun-
ties, Los Angeles may become a distrib-
nting point tor goods brought by the
North American Navigation Company
Panama line. When that time Genes, if
ever. a railroad from Fresno TO Los
Angeles will serve Los Angeles somewhat
as the Stockton and Bakersfield will serve
San Francisco
The morning call., 1893-05-25
THE NEW ATLANTIC STEAMERS.

1t seems that the intercourse between
New York anu Great Britain is growing 50
rapidly that the capital invested In steam
ers to ply between the Atlantic metropolis
of the United States and the port OF Liy-
erpool Is increasing with giant strides. II
was only the other day that the owners of
the City of Paris and the City of New
York were permitted to register them un-
der the American flag on the condition
that two equally large and swift ships
should be built in American shipyards.
But 1t is becoming evident that by the
time the new American greyhounds are
launched they will be obsolete types. The
Campana has reduced the transatlantic
voyage TO five and a half days, and the
Paris and New York, which were the
champions year or two since, have nov
fallen into the second class. To beat the
Campana the White Star builders are
placing on the stocks a ship 800 feet long,
or 12O ieet longer than the Great Eastern.
She is expected to cross the ocean in four
and half days. or to steam at the sus-
tained speed Of twenty eight knots an
hour.
The cost of these ships is enormous and
their CONSUMPTION of coal is unprece-
dented. The Csmpania is understood to
have cost S2,000,000, or four times as much
as the best ships Of fifteen years ago; the
new White Star snip is expected to cost
S3.0OO.OOO. She will probably consume
twice as much fuel as the Furst Bismarck,
and 1t will take a man-of-war's crew to
handle her. At the present rate of prog
ress In naval architecture she will cease to
be the crack ship of her line in about five
years. Thus her owners must reckon on
earning what she cost-over and above
working expenses--in about that period of
time. This implies an expected movement
OF travel and traffic which is without par
allel In commercial history.
The morning call., 1893-05-25

come civilized and are cqltivating the
soil. The inference was that those who
have stepped up in character are aDie TO
look out for themselves .nS some M cesrokees
in New York They have gone tnere 10 10
nesOse an issue Of bands sns 10 lhss ths GoS soa
ernment for SIS. 500, 1856. and of this have
been paid $685. 1856 Tne remainder and Is tho 5e
be paid in five installments; anu anu. 'no no.
Cherokees want the money at once on
bonds bearing per cent interest lnd0rseo
by the Government. Unless they 1ali INTO
the hands of Wall-street sharks or
LAWYERS. who fatten on contingent 1ees,
there is no reason why the bonds shouio
not be placed well.
A ship has left the port of San Fran
cisco with a cask of wine on board ad-
dressed as gift to the Lord Mayor OF
Swansea" His Worship will forgive the
addition of Lord" to his title If the VINE
is good. There are three civic dignltarles
who claim the right to be lordea-the
chief magistrates of London. YORK ana
Dublin--and two of them at least insist
upon being very superior.
The morning call., 1893-05-25
THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH.

The executive branch of the American
Government has disposed rot only OF the
legislative branch, but of the judicial
branch. Congress enacted law to take
effect May 8, 1898; the executive branch
declared the law imperative. The judi
cial department a few days later declared
that Congress in the enactment OF the law
had not exceeded its power, but still the
law remains imperative. In anticipation
of some such condition as this, the con-
stitution provides that the head OF 'the
executive branch may be impeached by
the House and tried by the Senate 1or
failure to perform the duties OF MS ONCE
While no one expects the present Con-
gress to move in this direction. 1t can
hardly allow the contemptuous re1usai
of President Cleveland to enforce the Chl-
nese registration act to pass unrebuked.
The morning call., 1893-05-25

THE FEDERAL CAPITOL,

It'll proposed to celebrate appropriately
the centennial of the laying of the corner
stone of the capitol at Washington. The
anniversary comes round on September IS.
A hundred years ago Washington not only
lad the cornerstone of what has now be-
come noble national building of grand
exterior on commanding site, but as
sisted In planning the city itself oD far
seeing scale of magnificeGce as to streets.
The capitol is conspicuous among the pub
Tic buildings of the world. although modif-
cations and additions have had TO be de-
ylsed, and the city is in many features
worthy OF its rank as the national capital.
From being city of bewldering distances,
attractive on the map, but requiring the
assistance of a land surveyor for practical
The morning call., 1893-05-25
/" RAILROADS AND MANUFAC.
TURES.''

Under this caption the Chino Vdlley
Champion has the following:
When California's surplus raw productions
are manufactured by her thousands OF now
idle men and women; when our stores Of all
kinds are supplied with goods of California
manufacture instead OF Eastern or foreign
manufacture, thereby saving freight partly one
way aud partly both ways; and when, thereby
thousands who are now eking out an existence
from crowded agricultural or other fields Of
labor obtain steady employment with the man
ufacturing industries, then Will California In
all It's parts approach the prosperity that is due
her.
One of the riddles of the day is the i'm
portatiOn into California of goods of
which we produce the raw material. Cali
fornia sends wool East and buys every
yard of woolen cloth which her people
wear. She sends hides East and imports
the greater part of her boots and shoes
The State has the money, the skill and
the labor. but the factories do not spring
up as one would expect. 1t has been
shown that the policy of the transporta-
tion companies has been adverse to local
manufactures. 1t costs the San Francisco
manufacturer in some eases more to
reach bis customers than it costs the East
ern manufacturer. This condition Will
not. however, long prevail. There will
soon be facilities Of reaching interior
points which will enable manufacturers
to serve them at the lowest possible cost
Meantime idle capital and idle labor
should try to come to better understand
ing. There is money in almost any branch
Of manufactures of which we furnish at
once the consumer and the raw material if
capital and labor can agree upon the terms
of division. Among the sources OF in
creased prosperity 10 our State that of
manufacturing is only second in import
ance TO tie regulation of transportation
The morning call., 1893-05-25

street The gold men have no objection to
the circulation of silver as token money.
What they object TO is the use Of it in pay
ment of bonds and other forms of in
debtedness. Under an act limiting the
legal tender functions of silver to 500
there would be no trouble about gettin e
gold for large amounts. The SIS legal
tender might be payable in silver, but the
$500 bond would be payable in gold. We
do not think, on the whole, that the plain
business man has solved the riddle. He
may consider him self good bimetallsi,
but he will persuade no one else that he is.
His voice sounds much like the familiar
croak from Wall street. predicting awful
consequences to result from the remoneti-
cation of silver
The morning call., 1893-05-25
JUSTICE BREWER.

The American people are beginning to
wonder how Justice Brewer gained his po-
sltion on the Supreme bench. Some time
before the court convened to test the
constitutionality of the Chinese registra-
ton act Justice Brewer declared against 1t.
Still, he had what, in popular phrase.
would be termed the gall to sit as a
member of the court in the hearing of the
case and cast one of the three negative
votes. Now, when the dictum OF the
court is being disregarded, Brewer de-
nounces the act which five of eight JUS
tices had indorsed as blot upon American
history. Mr.. Brewer has peculiar IDEAS as
to what constitutes a blot upon American
history. In small way he seems to be
somewhat of blot himself
The morning call., 1893-05-25
ARE GRADUATES NOW.
The Eight Grades of the Clement
Grammar School Entertain.


Proud parents and congratulatory friends
more than filled the assembly-room of the
Clement Grammar School yesterday after
noon. They came to hear the closing ex-
ercises of the eight-zrade class, of which
Miss Earle and Miss Kelly were the
teachers.
The walls were covered with the draw
IngS in chalk by the boys and girls, many
of which evinced much talent in the young
artists.
The feature of the afternoons entertain
ment was the performance of the school
orchestra OF seven pieces. The youthful
director. Adolph Harshal, had his musi-
clans in splendid training.
Miss Nellie Chase acted as accompanist.
A short debate on the silver question
showed that oung America was capable
OF forming decided opinions on the most
abstyuse subjects. The youthful statesmen
were awarded for their efforts with liberal
applause.
The programme was as follows: Over
ture, "Traviata," Clement Orchestra salu-
tatory. Marion A. Riding; song, class; es-
say. Frances Sullivan; Spanish song,
Maria Galan; declaration, c. Walcott Dur
brow; song. class; selection, Clement
orchestra; debate. 'Resolved, that the
United States should adopt double
money Standard" affirmative, Elias NJ.
Hecht and A. J. Crocker, negative. T. p.
Bishop and Jesse Coleman; piano solo,
India Willis Scott; essay, Walter Scott
violin solo, AIbert Nelson distribution of
medals and diplomas; parting song, class {;
America" class.
The graduates were: Lewis Andre,
Carrie Barris, George II. Boskowitz, AL
bert Brandt. James Brier, Alice Cohen,
Eva Cohen, Julia Charmack. John Jay
Cullen, Roger Chevalier, Simon Davis,
Clara Belle Douglass, Edmund Finn,
Louis Nj. Frank, Joseph Fogerty, Maria
Galan, Julia HAYES. Adolph Harshall, May
Heath. irene Heslep. William G. Hotf-
man. George Howard, Robert A. Hunter,
Maggie M. King, George ID. Herman,
Fred Lamcke, Edwin Lean, Sophie
Leipsic. Fannie Lord, Irene Love,
Josie Macdonald, William F. Marshall,
Ada Mannheim. II. Clay Miller. Sophie
Miller. Harry Moffatt. Frances McNally,
Frank M. O'BrieD, Mamie O'Loughlin,
Eugene Owen. Lottie Z. Parks, Vincent
Polastri William Proll, Nellie Richard son,
India Willis Scott, Walter Scott, frankie
c. Sullivan, Flossie Sherwood. Geneveve
Voy. Percy G. Windham. Alice Weiner,
Fleet S. Wilbert. Meta M. Zalnsky.
onoraries-HurbertA A. Antilles, Thomas
P. Bishop, Arthur j. Crocker, Jessie Col
man. Nellie Chase, c. Wolcott Durbrow,
Henry NJ. Goldsmith, Elias M. Hecht,
Harry T. Hopper, Ethel johnson, Frances
McMenomy, James A. Morgan, Marion A.
Riding, Frederick Runyon. Louise Sattler,
Ernestne Wollenb berg, Walter Pritchard.
The morning call., 1893-05-25

presentations, Washington has become
handsome. and gives promise OF being
mole beautiful in its amenities when com
pleted than any other American city. Inc
capitol was not occupied by Congress until
eight years after the ceremony at whlcn
President Washington presided. From
1900 to the present year what slrring
events in the nations history have occurred
beneath the dome from which has always
waved the flag of the Union.
The morning call., 1893-05-25
d. B. Weir Buried.

d. b. Weir, the well-known writer on
horticultural matters, was buried yester-
day from an undertaker's parlor. Mr..
Weir, who had many friends in the city.
came here rom Illinois several years ago.
He was always prominent factor In
meetings of the fruit-growers. He had
been the horticultural editor of weekly
journal called the Orchard and Farm for
the last few years.
The deceased was IS years of age, and
has one son residing here and another in
the East.
The morning call., 1893-05-25

and principal in gold, thereby greatly ad-
vancing the market value of bonds. Ulti-
mately the Government paid premiums
amounting to about 25 per cent of the full
value of bonds to call them in before
maturity. The Government did not profit
by these transactions, but the bondhoIders
who controlled the Government agents did
The morning call., 1893-05-25

prvISITORs TO TIE WORLDS FAIR viii
find The CALL on sale at the newsstands in the fol
lowing hotels: Palmer House, Auditorium Hotel
Briggs House. Clifton House, commercial House
Gault House Grand rae fic Hotel. Sherman House
Leland House, Northern Hotel Rieheieu Hotel
fremont House, Virginia Hotel and Wellington
Hotel.
AT WASHINGTON. D. C-The Willard, Airing
ton Ebbitt ami Shoreham Hotels.
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.rCrInN SALES TODAY.

FURNITURE.-By F. S. Spear q Co., at E. cor.
Sutter and Van Ness avenue. at 10 30 O'CLOCK
FURNITURE.-By Geo. +. Lamson. at TIA
Geary ST, 1T II clock.
IrpNlruRE.-By NJ. j. Simmons, at 1857 Mar
keI St. 81 10 O clock.
FURNI1 uRE-By 5. Basch. at 3l9-S21 sutter ST.
at 10 O'Clock.
REAL EsrArE-By Won Rhein & Co.. at 513
California ST., at - O'Clock.