The morning call., 1893-04-07

but if The power given in the Penal Code
can be rendered applicable there should be
no difficulty in Issuing an order of transfer.
Judge CARRIER is in some doubt about the
legality OF an order, but there can be no
question about the urgency Of the situation
The museum collections at Woodward s
Gardens are under the hammer and are
now being dispersed at very trifilng prices.
Few people have anyuse for cases of stuffed
binds or curiosities Of aboriginal handicrafI,
and dime museum proprietors are not
numerous. This explains the apparent
sacrifice Of many OF the specimens, which
must have cost treble or more the sums now
0btaiDable. The gardens have outlived
their usefulness, and in few years they
will only he a memory among old inhab:-
tantS. 1t is q pity that some place of out
door resort is not accessible in the populous
parts of San Francisco. Woodward's met
that want TO a considerable extent in its
palmy days, as it neither had q rival then
nor when it fell off in attractiveness. Many
of The familiar objects OF the museum will
hereafter be seen at Sutro Heights.
If there be enterprise and capital the
profits of the railway engineer in California
are not blocked by an unwilling public
The constructors of an electric line in any
direction are welcomed as benefactors, and
the only growing heard is that there are
not more such undertakings 1t appears
to be otherwise with the unfortunate pro-
m0ters of an electric railway between
Chaplain and Paddington, in London. Il is
an underground line and permission has
been twice refused by Parliament. On the
first occasion the artists colony objected to
disturbance of their repose. An air of
business in their neighborhood would bring
discords to music and pangs OF suffering To
the imaginative painter. Art triumphed.
The company has had another setback. this
time from science. Half dozen dlstn-
guished men, such as Lord Kelvin, Norman
L0ekyer, AyrtoD, Rueker and Boys, have
declared that an electric railway half
hundred yards off would make scientific OBJ
seryations worthless. South Kensington
has its scientific value preserved and the
railroad cannot be made.
In moving the second reading of his home
rule bill Mr.. Gladstone has not lost the
opportunity of further exposition in his
orderly. luminous manner. AS a rule q
movers speech on the second reading
is not lengthy, but this is IA measure of
transcendent Importance and the Premier
Is mailing use of his opportunity TO convince
the country if not his opponents in Parlia-
lament He has also the right of reply,
but that opportunity will not come much
under fortnight ahead. The debate is
certain to be one of the most acrimonious
and impassioned known in Parliamentary
history, and it will be fortunate If not a
few supplementary episodes occur to en-
phasZe the collisions of parties. From the
turn matters have taken there appears not
to be the slightest doubt that the second
reading Will be carried. There are also
many sanguine-among them Il. p. O'Con-
nor - that the bill Will become law
this session. The carrying of the second
reading does, however, ensure eventually
the passage of some such message.
Ever since the Southern Pacific has ceased
to move the world of commerce in its own
way. the number of rumors about chaos at
the Isthmus OF Panama. or in the affairs OF
the Nicaragua canal, or those of the Traffic
Association and the North American Nayiga-
ton Company, have been legion. Corrections
are promptly supplied, but these rumors
have the subtlety OF wave propagation, and
they arise again to sink down again. Mr..
Warner Miller. president of the Nicaragua
Canal Company. has glbbeted a story about
trouble brewing between the company and
the Nicaragua Government. There is not
particle of truth in the rumOr. and In de-
nouncing il he is supported by the Nicaragua
Minister. The construction of this great
highway will not be stopped by idle inYen-
tions, not really mischevous, as they are
intended, but annoying.