The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-10

brethren. The committee have funds to
meet the emergency for the moment, but
unless the public come 10 the rescue gen.
erousy the treasury will soon be eX-
hausted. The effect of collections from
the masses must be tried. In all work
shops aud factories, in all stores and
small places of employment, little sums
fr ON individuals should be welcomed, and
and. on the principle of the snowball,
rolled into considerable aggregates.
Nickels and dimes are not to be despised
during such an emergency.
Old residents believe that the frosts this
year have actually done more damage in
the gardens than ever they have been
known TO do in former winters. Wilted
vegetation is familiar sight in situations
even the most sheltered, and in many cases
the plants will not recover. The nastur-
tium, which is ono of the most vigorous
climbers and apt to overrun a garden, has
been bighted so badly in many places
that 1t will scarcely revive. HeliOtrope
was hOurishiDg in huge clumps studded
with bloom when the hard weather came,
and now it is sbrveled up in q brown de-
cay beyond resuScitatiOn. The geranium
has only suffered slight damage, and mar
queries have weathered the storm vigOr-
ously. but all the delicate plants have been
nipped, and gardeners may anticipate an
unusual run of employment when genial
weather returns. The climate of CalifOT-
MIA is so free from frost that a slight visi-
tation Is regarded with surprise.
1t has been sugseste that road should
be constructed 10 Bakers Beach by WIDEN
ing and extending one of the avenues.
This is an Improvement very desirable.
Bakers Beach might be made into an ex-
cellent bathing place. The sands are firm
and level, the sea is frequently Quiescent
enough for swimmers and the water is
much purer than can anywhere be had In
side the bay. & road TO the beach would
give access TO part of the Preside reser-
walton not much visited, and extensions to
the Cliff House and also east 70 Fort
Point and round il would soon follow.
The pleasure of walking or driving in that
vicinity is extreme on fine days. The Pre-
sidio reservation is, indeed, preferred by
many TO the park on account OF its wild
aspect and the magnificent views ocean
ward.
Vice-President Stubs of the Southern
Pacific assures the merchants OF San Fran
cisco that they have only been wasting
their money in subscribing funds to main
tain the North American Navigation
Company. The steamers thus placed on
the route would, be AYERS. have been fur
nished by the Panama Railroad Company
in its own interest had not the merchants
obviously saved them the trouble. This
is candid criticism from peculiar friend
OF the truest and purest interests of trans
DOrtation. Nevertheless il is exceedingly
probable that Mr.. Stubs AMI the South
ern Pacific would Infinitely have preferred
to see ocean transportation not given a
single thought to by our merchants. They
xotriI oil laff tn 10
in the good will of the monopoly, which
exercises such tender regard for the best
interests of the community. Mr.. Stubs
does admit that the steamers have saved
the merchants and their customers a mil
lion in freights. He demurs at allowing
a gain of twenty millions. But even the
twentieth part is some advantage.
The fire at Chicago is peculiarly unfor-
tunate. 1t will almost seem 10 identify
The city in the foreign mind as subject to
CONGREGATIONS in an exceptional degree.
The great disaster of years ago produced a
deep impression, for it was by far the
severest sweep made by fire in any city
since some Of the occurrences in Europe
centuries ago, Beautiful and stately as
they were, the buildings in the fair
grounds only too readily lent themselves
to a con flsgration, ana this has come in a
way likely to be talked about abroad,
owing TO the fact that many of the foreign
exhibitors have incurred serious losses.
1t is OF so much the money value as the
destruction of the fabrics and wares. Hap
PLY the pictures, some Of which are price
less in the artistic sense. had all been re-
moved. San Francisco probably will be
deprived of the pleasure of seeing num-
Der of The exhibits, which it was the inten-
tioD to forward. As TO the buildings, they
were all doomed to be torn down, and the
bonfire is only an anticipation Of the
finish. Perhaps some decorative use would
have been found for the statuaTy. but that
too has tumbed in to the flames.
The Italians are reported to have slain
some 1000 dervisnes in the wild part of
Africa, which they are bent upon coloniz-
ing. but which they will never succeed in
bringing under control. The inha btants
of this northeastern shoulder of Africa
are among the most lntractable, fanatical
and inhospita BILE that the traveller en-
counters, and their land is not flowing
with milk and honey, but affords bare
and miserable sustenance for its sparse IT,
habtants. The English had hard work in
the Soudan to no purpose, and the Italians
will have still harder work In vain in the
region which they desire TO conquer
Italy, unfortunately. has no resources 10
squauder on these enterprises, which in
Volve more expenditure than revenue. But
for the fashion aud pride of seeking to be
a great power she would have kept out Of
the ENHANCEMENT. and now it is too late to
retreat with so-called honor. The slaugh-
ter of fanatics is poor work for any Euro
pean country.
Viscount Deerhursi, heir to the earldom
of Coventry, is to wed Miss Virginia
Bonynge, daughter of Charles W. BonyDge
of California. He was born in 1865. The
family name Is Coventry, and the peer
age dates from 1897. 1t was into this
family several generations ago that one
of the beautiful Miss Cummings was mar
ried. These famous beauties were the
daughters of a Dublin actress, and both
had the happiness to enter the peer
age, and in high rank too. One of them
became Duchess of Hamilton, and the
Argyll and Derby families also owe some
thing in recuperation to what may have
been considered by society at the time as
undignified alliances. The ominous phrase
going tn Coventry" will surely be re-
in, inc a.;