The morning call., 1893-04-14

Mr.. Franklin w. Smith Of Florida is an
enthusiast who has much hope of seeing the
great buildings of the world with statuary.
columns. triumphal arches and bridges
erected imtatively in concrete or other ma
terial on American soil. No doubt this
gigantic Undertaking could be consummated.
and possibly at the cost of ten million dol
lars. II we cannot have the palace of the
Alhambra carried bodily away from Spain,
or the ParthenOn ruins set up on American
soil, lie thinks the nation would be edited
and made to feel the greatnes and the
character Of the past by counterfeit present
meHts. Substantial models are better than
pictorial delineations, and hundred acres
covered with these mimicry creations
would be far more impressive than q library
of drawings. The question Is whether the
pu bile can be enihused enough to grant the
money. No other country has yet thought
of this method OF revivifying the dim and
dusty past. Washington is to have the
honor of this collection. 1t would never do
to set it up in the Western cyclone region, or
some day it might go hopping north until it
fOundered in the great lakes.
q. A. Greene, general manager and vice.
president of the Monterey and Fresno Rail-
road Company, vehemently denies that his
project is in any way connected with the
Southern Pacific. He offers to make three
ments depreciating the road connot be sus-
tained by proof as the project is on quits
an independent footing. The best form OF
contradiction TO sinister and malicious re-
ports Is, however, progress with track
laying. 1t Is an Indication that start will
soon be made that according to Fresno
telegram, the bonds OF the railway have been
placed In New York. The road ought to
pay on its merits.
According to reports, which do not ap-
pear to be idle, the Chinese Six Companies
are not In the business of resistance to the
Geary act merely for their health or for
principle. They have a very solid interest
in getting Mongoians past the immigration
barrier, as out of each man they make from
So to $40 a month, or about $500 on the
average, according to the number Of years
he continues in the country. This explains
the hostility of the crafty six to photograph
registration. Too clear Identity would de-
feat the tricks of persouation and fraudulent
ceriiication, On the principle that any
live Chinaman is Adms5ib II lie has O
dead mans certificate the stream OF fmmi-
grafton is kept flowing. 1t also explains
the profits which accrue from smuggling.
The abolition of the photograph as security
destroys what would have proved an excel
lent and reliable tell-tale upon imposition,
and the Chinese must laugh in his sleeve
at the simplicity Of his Melican friend.
The Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
to Animals should have been on hand
when the bear and lion were killed at
Woodward's. These battered old animals
were purchased cheap for the sake OF their
skins and the miserable sport of killing
them behind the bars of their dens. The
ardent sportsmen went to the fray with
rifles of small caliber, and they seem to
have been wild in their shooting. At first
the bear apparently thought some one was
insulting him with peanuts, but he found
they were rather painful. The poor brute
slowly bed 10 death. So did the lion. 1t
was peppered so much with lead that the
skin must resembl n sieve. LtOH-hunters
in the Atlas Mountains or Mashonaland are
accus stoned to bringing down the king OF
the forest with one well-aimed shot, but
the clumsy marksmen whO showed their
skill at Wood wards would in the open
have been well clawed to the bone before
they could give second bullet Its billet.
A dose OF arsenic would have Improved the
condition OF the skins.
A movement is on foot In New York to
secure the destruction of derelicts in the
Atlantic. Regular accounts are kept Of the
movements of these abandoned craft, and
charts are also published. There are aetu-
ally scores of them drifting up and down
in the track of vessels, and some Of them
have performed long voyages. Warships
could make fair use Of torpedoes in sinking
these dangers TO navigation. With tTifling
exception there has been little but dummy
use Of the Whitehead or any other form of
torpedo, and the sinking of derelicts would
be a warlike game in which all nations could
participate without giving otfense.
We live and learn. According to tele-
gram from Cleveland, Ohio, a Chinaman
has been discharged by a United States
Commissioner on the ground that as the.
State could not prove what constitutes a
|. Chinaman there could be no infringement
Of the immigration laws. The text OF any
such decision would be profound reading
for lawyers. II assuredly is difficult TO tell
| what particular person ChinamRu is with
| out his photograph for reference on any
affidavit he produces.
THE flowers that bloom in the spring.
are proiusely abundant at Santa Barbara,
aud also in other parts of California. but In
| parts of the West they are still struggling
| through the seventies of an awful winter
| aud on the Atlantic seaboRrd The temper
ature has been anything but genial. At
| one point in North Dakota eleven degrees
| of frost were registered on Wednesday
! night 1t is not unusual East TO have
| moderate fall of snow in the last days of
| April or beginning of May. But all the ex-
| tremes OF weather may be borne cheerfully
compared with the terrors of a cyclone
| such as has been experienced in Kansas and
| Missouri. The havoc produced by one of
| these storms is twenty-fold greater than all
| the earthquakes that have agitated the
| Pacific Coast reckoned together, The genu-
iue terror felt for a hurricane is seen in the
| construction of refuua CellarH.