New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-26
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
THE HAWAIIAN DISGRACE-SUIT AGAINST
CLAUS Observation-Disclosures OF
W. r. COLEMAN.
TRY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l

San Francisco Nov. 25-San Francisco people
are growing weary Of repeated disappointments
from Honolulu. Every steamer is watched for
with the greatest eagcrness and boarded by
alert reporters. only to bring the same old
story Of delay Willis does not seem TO be any
more energetic than Blount, and to those who
came upon the steamer this week it looked as
though he did not dare 70 take any decisive STEP
Those who know President Dole declare that
he will not recognize Wis's authority to order
the removal of the Provisional Government. nor
will he be caught mapping by the Royalists. IL
he holds the fort. can Willis order American
marines to fire upon these men. all OF American
blood, who have given to Hawaii the Only
honest, economical government it has mad IN
fifty years? This Is the hard position IN wh1ch
Hawaiians who now here say that Wits
finds himself, and it is to seek counsel OF CieVe-
land and Gresham that he has now begun the
policy of waiting
An offshoot of the Hawaiian affair is the suit
brouch. by Claus Spreckelss youngest son 10
recover g. 100000. which he charges that ms
father and his two brothers have swindled MN
ont of By manipulating the bonds and stocks OF
the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company.
Ills complaint let's in flood Of light on the
methods by which the Hawaiian sugar k";
has three times broken the price of the Sugar
one OF these occasions THE Chronicle exposed
the iniouitous DEAL and result one OF
SnreckeIs's sons shot Editor De Young and mar
rowly missed killing him. Young Spreckels
asserts that his father has made fictitious loans
TO the company and has expended undue sums
in Hawaii in order to bring the company into
his power Now, it is alleged, he proposes 10
freeze out all the small stockholders by the fore
closure Of Il fraudulent mortgage which Ciaus
himself holds under the name OF a dummy.
There is little prospect that the young man VIII
get what he claims. old Clau, seld'm ar
ranges a deal which the people who are squeezed
can prevent. All they can do is to show how
much the process hurts Them
The remarkable way in which fh@ Pacino
Mail steamship City of Sew-York Sds withstood
wind and wave n the rocks near the Golden
Gate is accepted W shipping men here as the
best vindicatiol: C: her builder which could
be afforded. Old John Roach built her at his
Chester yarI. and guaranteed her for twenty
years 1t will be two years before this period
is ended. and tn. way she has endured thufnp-
ing on thu rocks of Point Bonita is the best
proof of her stanchness Whether she is fioated
or not, her wonderful endurance has recalled TO
many the unjust war made upon M. Roach by
Secretary Whitney and the Democrats t press
Roach, but they have not hurt his reputation
as one of the best of American shipbuilders.
Mrs Sarah b. Coopers fourteenth report OF
the Golden Gate kindergarten Association, just
issued shows that two new schools have been
added during the year. making thirty-seven in
all, with $500 pupils. a feature OF the attend
ance has been the large number OF children
from three to four years old. Mrs. Cooper spen.
three months this year in the East. but 1ound
no better free kindergartens than in this city.
The value of the training given in these schools
Is testified TO by public school teachers ana
police officials. Much of the success OF the work
has been due to generous contributions from
former Californians and those interested in
this pioneer kindergarten enterprise which Is
the parent of 16T kindergartens throughout the
country AS the association spends 81 500 a
month Il Is in need of funds. All contributors
may rest assured that every dollar given goes
directly to the children
The funeral of William T. Coleman was simple
and unpretentious, but 1t called out large
number of prominent men, who paid their last
tribute to the great Vigilance Committee leader,
who not only saved the city in its early days
from mob rule but in recent years rescued II
from Denis Kearneys Sand Lot vandals. 1t is
to be hoped that some competent hand may be
found to write Mr. Coleman's life and to rescue
from oblivion the large mass or original ma
terial bearing on the Vigilance Committee which
he had preserved. His own story OF the acts
of the big committee Of 1856. which he con-
trolled is as interesting as romance and be-
sides this he possessed all the original books
and papers of the committee Of which he was
the dominating power
The failure of S. p. Greenberg. who bought
could not pay for them. has added another to
the long record of recent dishOnorable collapses
of business houses. Greenberg settled with his
creditors at So cents on the dollar because he
was threatened with arrest. What makes the
matter a disgrace to California is that the law
permits local creditors to absorb all the bank
rupt firms property by attachments and So by
keeping it out of insolvency, rob the Eastern
and foreign creditors
The friends of Clarence Greathouse, once
well.known lawyer of this city, and recently
Consul-General to Japan, were surprised this
week to learn that he had been named Postmas-
ter-General Of Corea. AS the office carries with
It high honor and little work, it will suit Great
house. who Is Kentuckian and personal
friend and old associate of Henry Watterson.
The first good rain Of the season began yester-
day. 1t extended from British Columbia to
MERGED, In the San Joaquin Valley, and In Cali
forna 1t was welcome as the continued dry
weather was beginning to affect the farmers.
The rainfall for the storm Is about an inch and
q half.
vessel sailed for Havre, France this week.
carrying the first full cargo of tallsw which was
probably ever shipped from this port. The
cargo was worth about $4,000.