davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
HAVE COME TO STAY.

Tue Sacramento Record Union in dis
cussing the freight rate war says:
Some merchants at San francisco started
competing line for the purpose of reducing
rates, They got all the reduction they antici-
p ated, ana much more than they bargained for.
And now comes their chief representative to
say that they will be glad when the present
condition is passed; that 1t is not in the nature
of things that this competition should last and
that as transporters they will be glad to see the
figures of transportation raised TO paying rates.
Our Sacramento contemporary will
hardly assume that the fact that the mer-
chants of San Francisco have got all the
reduction they anticipated. aud more than
they bargained for, does even tend to
prove that degree of reduction was not
needed. The merchants of this city have
not asked for freight rates below the cost
of service with reasonable profit. They
started competing line to force such re-
auctions. understanding quite well that
their movement would inspire an effort on
the part of the monopoly to freeze them
out. The merchants line is now probably
losing little money. But the merchants
are profiting by their loss. The compen-
sation for the slight losses the North
American Navigation Company's line sns-
tains is found in the lower freight rates.
1t is probable that the present rates are too
low; that is. lower than the service war
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
SOCIETY AND IT'S CRITICS.

San Francisco society may not be all
the friends and well-wishers of the State
would like ir to be. A portion of the
people whose wealth enables them to ex-
ercise the functions of social leaders began
al the foot of the ladder and have worked
their way up. The elrcums lance that
they devoted the greater part of their time
in their early years to money-maklng
pursuits may not be urged against their
general work, but may be considered
reason why they have not acquired the
accomplishments which would grace their
present social position. But it is much to
be regretted that there are people in the
eddies of the social swim who make the
social shortcomings of people who have
passed within the gates the subject of
caricature. The effect of this habit is the
opposite of what those addicted to it
should naturally desire. Certainly no man
engaged in an enterprise which requires
for success a well-grounded social element
helps his prospects by driving rich people
away. A weekly journal. devoted mainly
TO society events, seriously asks the ques-
ton if the Eastern movement. which all
not engaged in it so much regret, has not
been aided greatly by caustic and often un-
any weiI-informed man, who has neither
pretension nor desire to be sin the swim, :"
will review his acquaintance who are, he
will pronounce them. as a rule, very
charming people. Personally, they are not
ignorant, nor vulgar, nor immoral, nor i'll
bred. In respect to the latter quality, of
course the term used is relative. The man
or won All of perfect breeding is rare.
But relatively our society people. and our
people who compose those delightful
circles below the so-called Four Hundred.
compare favorably with similar classes in
the East. Here or there the finest breeding
is not found where it would naturally be
looked for. The Four Hundred are admit
tedly not above the thousands in the next
rank, except perhaps in wealth. The pro-
fessional critic can always find something
to find fault with. If there was no one else
TO criticize. he would easily prove that he
himself was subject to all the frivolities in
conduct and manner that he points out TO
others. But it is easier to point out de-
fecis than to find circle of society not
subject to the same criticism. 1t is there
fore unjust and impolite to paint our own
society as conspicuous in shortcomings
which are common to all, varying only in
degree.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
NORTHERN TRADE MOVEMENT.

The Portland Euening Telegram takes a
sensible view of the much-talked-of San
Francisco movement to secure as much OF
the northern trade as possible:
Portland. therefore, has this to remember:
that while she has steadily held her own with
San Francisco and even crowded her out of
much territory, there is here danger of flank
or strategic movement which will allow the
latter TO regain much lost ground. Whereas
the Willamette Valley belongs in one sense to
Portland. there is no such thing as absolute
possession recognized in trade competition. As
business goes In this age there is no question
of right as to whe her Portland or San Fran
cisco can supply that section. 1t Is simply a
case of where the best man wins. Portland has
an immense wholesale trade, and many bril-
liant men at its head. but they must be cup
and doing' if they would hold the field.
The Telegram recognizes the right of
San Francisco to get all the trade it can
command, whether its own city or some
other suffers thereby. But in this case it
is not Portland that the northern trade
movement is directed against; it is certain
so-called Eastern cities which have been
enabled by low freight rates to reach ter
ritOry that San Francisco once occupied.
The products of the Willamette Valley go
East since their route to San Fran cisco
was blocked by high freight rates. Find
ing a market for their wool and other
products in the East the people of the val
ley naturally bought such goods as they
needed at the same source. The low
freight rates which turned wool East in
stead of south to San Francisco served
equally we'll to draw goods from the East.
Portland did not get the trade San Fran
cisco lost Consequently when San Fran
cisco reaches out to revive her lost trade
Portland is not so much her competitor as
the cities that wrested the trade away.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
THE PROPOSED RATIO OF 20 TO 1.

The New York Tribune. stanch gold
paper, condemns tie proposition to estab-
ish new ratio between gold and silver.
One objection is that if the new and
heavier dollar goes freely into circulation
''all the silver in the world would come to
this market to get so cents for quantity
worth GA cents elsewhere" This objec-
ton does not seem we'll grounded. The
fact of CO image would not add cent to the
value of a quantity of silver bullion out of
the United States. A 412h-gran silver
dollar is only worth dollar in the United
States, and here only because the Govern
ment receives it at its face value. The
proposition to coin silver in a ratio of 20 to
instead Of 16 TO / was made in the nature
of a compromise. 1t was an admission
that there might be something In the as
sumption that silver was being produced
now at less cost in relation to gold than
when the 16 to / ratio was established.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.

Editor Gail win you kindly inform
reader OF your paper whether there are Two
laws governing til street work OF this city aua
county of San Francisco l notice at the present
time that Van Ness avenue. the finest and broad
est residence street in the Western Addition, is
being remacadamized for several blocks north
of Hayes street, and while this Is being doue in
the heart of the city property-ow a mile
further west are refused the privilege by the
street Committee OF the Board of Supervisors
of liking up the crossings and streets in front
OF their property. In some eases this could be
done satisfactorily at an expense of from $40
10 $50, but they are refused such permission
aud are forced TO an unjusti6ed expense under
the circumstances of about $1,000 for a cross
Ing and $4,000 ana upward for a street block for
bitumluous pavement
There is some hing suggestive in this forcing
Ditumen which may cause people to think thaI
we are on the eve Of another raid by The
biiumnous ring, and that 1t is receiving aud
enjoying the counteHance and SUPPORT of the
Street Committee OF The Board of SUPERVISORS
In whose interest IS this done il not in the
interest OF JobOery, for In what more can the
city be interested than in having GOOD, solid
ana pasSable roadways, without danger or
team? But that does not seem TO satisfy our
generous officials bent on squanderng other
peoples money. They seem TO have no COM
junction TO improve the taxpayer out OF his or
her possessions.
improvements of this kind should be only
inaue Where necessary ana not for tnr gratltca-
cial, particularly in unimproyed neghbor.
moods with lew or no houses ana consequently
no water, gas or sewer connections. 1t Is not
ASKING 100 much OF the Street Committee TO
take Official notice OF the proposed street rail-
roads. saltwater pires, electric condnits. etc,
Tor which the streets will have TO be- torn up
again, before ordering street work TO be done.
AS long as properIy-owners can be found will
ing 10 Keep the street in front of their property
III repair at their own expense and without the
city accepting the same the city Is benefited to
That extent. The city has already and VIII soon
have more work oh hand on its accepted
streets than i can well attend TO-. A little fore
Thought would. therefore, be desirable
quality or qualification in our Supervisors.
When these mirs OF accepted streets with
poor work done on them will be GU; of repair
prorerty-owners Will ask IN vain for the CITY 10
repair them. Then the cry will be that There
are no funds ou hand. or you Will be made To
pay taxes out OF proportion To the Income from
The property. That is what we are drffIing tn
AN OBSERVER.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
A FAMOUS PICTURE.

Rochegrosse's famous painting. "Tne
Fall of Babylon" Is now on exhibition in
New York, before its transfer to the
Worlds Fair. 1t is work of art which
divided European attention with Mum
kaczy's Christ Before Plate" The
figures are life-siZe, and executed by a
master who does not fear comparison with
Contine. Vereschagin or Gerome. The
beholder is actually carried back TO the
age when Babylon was the center of civili-
cation. and when the sovereign of Mes
potamia anticipated the Greeks in the
worship of beauty. After contemplating
this canvas the spectator can understand
the purposes of the monarchs whom we
call Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar.
The Fall of Babylon" summarizes the
history of those oriental empires which
were founded on force, and maintained for
the cultivation Of sensual enjoyment.
Their cardinal vice was subordinatlng
everything-virtue, justice. honor. policy
to gratihcation of the sense s. When the
monarch was not plunged into loathsome
debauchery he was feeding his instincts
with hideous cruelty. He sprang from
the arms of Lesbia to feast his eyes on
being impaled. Here and there mon
arch arose who cherished principles of
craftsmanship. But these were few and
far between; for most of the kings of that
day and that part of the world the aim
and end of conquest and power were to
gIut the animal instincts. This is made
plain enough by the engravings of the
tablets which have been dug out of the
ruins of Babylon; Rochegrosse condenses
the tale into a single canvas. The spirit
of the theology of the nations of Western
Asia was embodied in worship of the
senses; in the Fall of Babylon" the close
observer perceives that the debauched
jewellers do not suspect that they are
blameworthy. but on the contrary, believe
that they are doing work which is CRATE.
full to their god.
1t was impossible for NJ. Rochegrosse to
achieve his effects without departing from
the notion which is the fundamental doc-
trine of his school. To make his beauti-
full female forms attractive to the modern
eye he had to paint them white, whereas
in the harems of these oriental poten-
tates ladies of color must largely have
predominated. They probably contained
few Greeks, with forms which Phidas
afterw ard copied, and compilations in
which red and white were duly blent; but
these must have been outnumbered by
women of swarthy hue and even darker
shades. 1t is sad to reflect that neither
the divine Cleopatra nor the Queen of
Sheba would have been allowed to occupy
seats at the dinner table of any we'll
kent hotel at New Orleans
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30

in couple of days. The halibut is a
heavy, meaty fish. not greatly inferior to
turbot, for which it is often substituted in
restaurants. 1t no doubt is very plentiful
in the north, and the question for FISH
dealers is how to get supplies delivered
in the States which lie west of the Missis-
sippi. The railroads are not to be stirred
by philanthropic representations about
thousands of tons of food gong to waste
for which the ichthyophagc are pining,
but they may discover a way by which
this traffic can be accommodated. Green
fruit can be sent East and fresh fish well
packed in ice should also bear long jour
ney and pay fair percentage to all who
handle ii.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Mrs. A. d. T. Whitney, the novelist, is a
sister of George Francis Train.
Mrs. George Gould's pet charity is the
Sunbeam kindergarten Society. of which
she is president.
The Academy of Science at Munich has
received its first woman member, the
Princess Theresa of Bavaria.
Mrs. Albert Sturdevant has been unani-
mously chosen for city welgher by the
Councilmen of Danbury, Conn.
Mrs. Alice LIE Plongeon, who is at presen
residing in Brooklyn, is the only woman
who has lived among the deserted old
cities in the forests of Yucatan,
The Dowager Queen Maria PA of Portu-
gal. who Is sister Of the King of Italy, is
great SportswoInan, and one of the best
lady shots in Europe. She is also fin
ished musician, good artist and an ex-
Quisite needle woman.
The Duchess of Edinburgh speaks and
writes five languages-English, Russian,
German. French and Italian.
Senator George G. Vest of Missouri is a
small man. with full, round body, and a
face that reminds one of the jack of
clubs.
ID. w. Hughes of Mexico. No.. possesses
one OF the few patents issued by the Con-
federate Government. 1t was for breech
plug for cannon.
William +. Sn0dgrass. chief boatswain's
mate OF the United States cruiser San
Francisco, who trained the crews that car
ried off the international honors at the
Hampton roads bnatraces, is native of
the Quaker city. and entered the navy as
an apprentice in 1866, when only Is years
of age.
One of the women in Washington dis
tlnsuished for intellectual gifts is Mrs.
Newcomb McGee, daughter of the noted
astronomer, who has the honor of being
the second woman elected fellow of the
American Association for the Advance
ment OF Science, aud also member of the
Archaeological Society.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
One Chapter of the Mystery.

The mystery surrounding the gray
whskered man wearing a white straw hat
who chatted with the late David r.
Brown for over half an hour at the HarheT
View baths has been cleared up. His
name is j. G. Gilchrist, of Kelly & Co..
$40 Sacramento street. He was an old
friend of the deceased, and during the
time they were together last Tuesday he
says that Brown was as happy as he ever
saw him. Gilchrist went out of town last
Wednesday morning and returned yesIer-
day, which accounted for his apparent
silence There are no further develop
ments regarding the theory Of suicide or
otherwise, and it is not probab BILE that any
thing will be brought to light till the in
quest is held on Thursday morning.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
SENDING FISH EAST.

a beginning is about to be made in send
ing crawfish East from the Santa Barbara
channel. Two companies are to test the
demand for this crustaceaD, which is al
most as delicate in flavor and is quite as
wholesome food as the more costly lobster
of the st. Lawrence region, and upon their
success will depend other ventures. At
first glance the prospect is encouraging,
for any fish supply which can reach the
Interior States in fresh condition at mod
crate price.
The companies which propose to open
business with the East intend to make
Chicago the headquarters of distribution.
From that point every city of any conse-
qnence in the whole Union may be reached
on the easiest terms railways can be
brought to concede. This year Chicago
itself will absorb inordinate quantities of
all kinds of fish. The immense distance
by rail and that awful struggle of rates
which every commodity shipped from
this coast has to encounter stand in the
way of too roseate calculations. LIZ sent
alive TO the Western cities, the refrigerator
cars are fOrbidding item of cost, but IN
less the trade is encouraged by concessions
there will be little of it, and perhaps none
after II brief experience. If any canning
is attempted it may be put in touch with a
market by the sea route. At present the
Pacific supply of crayfish is adequate for
heavy and constant supplies, save during
two or three months. The fisherman has
few of the perils TO face which are OF
frequent occurrence in the north Atlantic,
and so the industry may be prosecuted un-
remittingy.
1t is sincerely to be hoped that an OPEN
ing will be found for more OF the food sup
ply which the Pacific yields in such abund-
ance. We send very little East but canned
salmon. a schooner arrived the other day
in Puget Sound with 200 tons of halibut
| on board. captured on the northern banks
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
Durln a Collector Phelps term of Office a

Durin q Collector Phelps term of Office a
considerable amount of opium in process
of being smuggled was seized. The total
in four years was 9141 pounds. of the value
OF $40, 1886. OF opium imported the guam
tity was $50. 4S3 pounds, valued at So, $751;
COG. How much opium succeeded in elud-
ing the customs inspectors is purely a
matter of conjecture, but no doubt it was
sufficient to compensate for losses. Col
lector Phelps is Of opinion that opium
should he prohibited altogether. In one
OF the British settlements in Asia, where
opium is imported from India, to the
benefit of the latter, compromise is to be
tried. Old seasoned smokers and mastica-
tors of the soporific drug are to be INDUCED
to the extent of a minimum quantity
weighed out to them. and nobody else is to
get an ounce. Some opium there must al
ways be in every country, for its uses in
medicine are potent.
The traffic by the North American steam
ers via Panama is clearing the Transports
ton problem from cobwebs. Freight can
be brought from New York to San Fran
cisco by sea at as low rate as that at
which it can be moved from New York to
Kansas City, aud freight from Europe via
the isthmus costs no more than from Eu-
rope 20 Chicago. This is sufficient if il
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
Without a Peer.
Pacific Town Talk.

Without a flourish of trumpets and
sensational proelamations THE MORNING
CALL, in its usual unassuming, business
like manner, appears in q new, attractive
and convenient form. and it is now with
out peer west of Chicago in the daily
journalistic field. Always reliable, with
the renewal of the vigor displayed in
former years, THE CALL will to the
people in the future be an acceptable
rival for the supremacy which has been
contested for by two personal organs in
which the public has very little if any
confidence,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
At the Head of the DaiIies.

The San Francisco CALL now comes to
us fresh from its Hoe perfpcting presses.
1t has been changed in makeup from an
eight-column eight-page paper TO one of
seven columns and twelve pages. AS a
news-gatherer THE CALL has long stood
at the head of the coast dailies. We al
ways consider it reliable, and never fail to
scan its pages closely We rejoice in the
evidence of its prosperity.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
Fair in the Lead.
CoIusa Herald.

The San Francisco CALL, the best paper
on the coast, is new in press, new in form
and great in shape. Without sensational
ism. she gives all the news and with wis
dom she uttereh her voice in the street
and at many firesldes, and no home need
fear association with her. May length of
DAYS be IN her right hand and in her left
riches and honor is the wish OF the Herald.
The prosperity of THE CALL seems to be
at its food. Let all would-be competitors
stand from under.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30

rants. If the Southern Pacific should raise
rates to paying basis the North American
Company would doubtless follow. But the
North American Company does not pro-
pose to retire from the competition they
have inaugurated on the strength of fair
promises. not even the promise of new
management for the Southern Pacific.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
Ahead of Its Competitors.

WatsonYille Pajaronian.
The San Francisco CALL has made it's
appearance in a new form. and is printed
by one Of the newest and best presses yet
made in this country. THE CALL is the
oldest of the city morning dailies, and in
amount of telegraphic and reliable local
news is way anead of its competitors. In
its new form it is one of the handsomest
papers of the State. The CALL fills. a
fixed and popular place in the journalism
of this coast, and is not affected by the
jealous efforts of rivals to belittle its ILL.,
tiuence.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
pnRIICATIoN OFFICE

5o5 Montgomery street, near Clay, open until IL
o'clock P. NJ. BRANCH OFFICES: no Market
street near Kearny open until u o'clock midnight;
$3.50 Hayes street open until 80 o'clock COS Larkin
street. open until :3Oocock SW. corner sixteenth
and Miss on streets, oren until O'Clock; 25lo
Mission street open until ocloek; and ll6 Ninth
street, open until so O'clock.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
In the Front Rank.
GeorgetoWn Gazette.

THE CALL has always been leading
and reliable journal-ever devoted to the
best Interests of the great industrial army.
Now. with its improved facilities, THE
CALL occupies the first rank in American
journalism. Its strength lies in the patron
age it receives from the best class of
American citizens.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
Able, Clean and Influential.

The San Francisco CALL has put in a
new ouadruple periecting press and now
appears as twelve-page paper. The
CALL has always been an able. clean and
Influential paper, and has done good SER
vice for the interests of the State and San
Francisco. Under its improved conditions
its sphere of usefulness and influence Will
be greatly Midened.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30

u-vIsIToRs TO THE WORLDS FAIR will
find THE sale at the newsstands in the fol-
lowing hotels: Palmer House, Auditorium Hotel,
Briggs House. Clifton House, Commercial House,
Gault House. Grand Pacific Hotel. Sherman House,
Leland House, Northern Hotel, Richeieu Hotel.
fremont House, Virginia Hotel and Wellington
Hotel.
AT WASHINGTON. D. C.-The Willard, Airing
ton. Ehbitt and Shoreham Hotels.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
1t Is Ne Plus Ultra.
Ukiah Renublican.Press.


The popularity of THE MORNING CALL
is evinced by the fact that this reliable
newspaper found it necessary this month
to add to its machinery department print
ing press capable of printing and folding
1000 papers every minute. The makeup
of The CALL is now ne plus ultra.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-30
San Francisco, May 27, 1885 aN OBSERVER.

ire rhododendron was recently voted
to the dignity of being the State f1ower NJ
Washington State. and patriotjc resident
OF the town are filing their gardens with
the bushes. The wild flower grows lnxn-
riantly in many parts of the State. but
there is belief that it will not survive
transp planting. The experiment is now ex.
tensively made and results are anxiously
looked for.