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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-21
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.

The New York Tribune suggests San Francisco
tor the place of the National Convention. The
Tribune is without doubt the leading Republi-
can organ of the Nation, and it may have a
great big pull. Let US add our chirp to the
Tribune's roar. Give San Francisco the Repub-
liean National Convention.-Woodla Repor-
ter.
An effort is being made to hold one or both of
the conventions of the two great parties in San
Francisco. The extreme gold men wish to hold
the Republican convention in some city on the
Atlantic Coast and the West is now pitted
against the East in the struggle for the selection
of the place of holding the convention. The
Pacific Coast would afford opportunities to
those who attend q convention in our metropo-
lis for, studying the great questions which con-
front our people.-Solano Republican.
Every citizen of this great State should aid
the Republican council of California in its
efforts to secure the holding of the National
Republican Convention at San Francisco next
year. The good that would accrue to the
whole Pacific Coast were the convention held
in San Francisco would be so great that politi-
cal affiliations would be forgotten and the peo-
pie of the Pacific States should all unite in
well-directed efforts to secure it. If the Repub-
liean convention cannot be had the Democratic
convention will be just as welcome and will
do just as much good. Our feelings are hog
gish in this matter, for we would like to see
both conventions held in the metropolis of the
Pacific. With the possible exception of New
York or Chicago, San Francisco can offer &C.
commodatisns second to none in the country,
and climate-at the time when the eonven-
tons will he held-simply perfect. Let the
leaders and the rank and file of the two great
parties unite on this question, taking no rest
until the object in view has been accom-
plished.-National City Record.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-21
A sTUPENDoUs SCHEME.

The plan of campaign adopted by the pro-
motion committee of the Half-million Club
is the most comprehensive and ambitious
scheme within the lines ever devised for
the advancement of the State. It's leading
provisions are that cooperating bodies be
established all over the State and that the
sympathy and support of county and city
governing boards be enlisted; that per-
manent Eastern headquarters be estab-
lished at Chicago with an exhibit of Cali
fornia products and a lecturer to instruct
concerning the resources and attractions
of the State; that travelling lecturers with
illustrated stereopticon lectures be sent
through the Eastern States; that market
for California products in the East be
created by missionary work among dealers |;
that carnival season" be permanently
established in California, the time to be so
parceled out among the various cities as
to maintain a continuous series of testl-
walls, and that Eastern interest in them be
promoted by eniisting the clubs, by organ
izing excursions and by various other
methods; that systematic organization of
excursion clubs be undertaken, whose OBJ
iect shall be to practice mountain climb
ing in California in bodies and make visits
to the numerous natural wonders in which
the State abounds; that the superior ex-
cellencies of our summer climate be made
known, and that all persons induced to
visit the State shall have special personal
attention from representatives of the Half
million Club, shall be guaranteed low
rates at hotels and shall be made COM
Portable in all ways.
This is very large scheme and great
deal of money will be required to put it in
operation. 1t will be observed that the
plan does not seem to contemplate the
bringing of settlers to the State, though it
may be surmised that settlement will fol-
low the education which under this plan
the visitors will acquire. The plan in its
present form is practically identical with
the work which the overland railroads
centering in California have been pursuing
Tor so many years at so heavy expense and
with so meager results except in Southern
California, and certainly these companies
should contribute generously to the ex-
penses of an undertaking which will bring
them so much business.
No great work can be done in day and
hence the Half-million Club displays its
wisdom in combining its Eastern under
taking to the spreading of information
concerning the picturesque attractions of
California. The elaborate development of
its plans to this end shows its earnestness
and understanding. The deeper and
broader work of showing California to be a
place for a home in which this ordinary
seventies of life are reduced to a minimum
in all the complex and various ways which
human desire can suggest will easily fol-
low that of intelligently showing strangers
what California is.
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OPINIONS OF EDITORS.

When California begins to produce q large
part of the 100 tons of sugar imported yearly
into the country we shall attain another era of
prosperity, less glitte-ing and profuse, perhaps,
than that of the mining days, but more gem
eral and enduring. Don't begin to believe
that this State has seen its best days. Its most
successful cycle has not yet been entered upon
There is only one California. always unique in
productions and homelike Observation-Disclosures.
son News.
We learn from THE CALL OF the purchase by
the Spreckelses of extensive real estate holdings
on Market street, San Francisco. This, 1T would
seem, is an indication of an abiding faith in
the future OF that City by men who are in q
position to see further than the general run
They are getting in now on the ground floor
There are many capitalists in San Francisco
who Will follow suit as soon as this fact be-
comes little more apparent.-Alameda Argus.
Those who represent Stockton as on the top
crest of q boom wave must have overlooked
the fact that the new railroad companies have
announced that they want 20 give the bulk of
the work in and around Stockton to the resi-
dents thereof and the repeated assertions OF
the local papers that the supply of labor here
is ample for all the work that will be done
within the limits OF the county.-Stockton In
dependent.
One.of the most interesting things in present
politics is the emphasis which Democratic
newspapers all place upon the word "only" in
speaking of the tariff deficit of $44, 10000 or
so. 1t looks as If all the able Democratic Or
gans had really expected the treasury to be
bankrupt under the supervision of their party,
and were surprised because it wasn't--Arizona
Republican.
n,.I, t. 4
people what time to go to sleep. The people of
some cities do not require any notifications of
this kind, but it would require something
louder than curfew bell to awaken them
Tacoma Union.
The San Francisco Normal School will have
an efficient principal in the person of James G..
Kennedy, formerly of this city. He is one Of
the brainiest and most energetic educators in
California.-San Jose Mercury.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-21
THE PROPOSED OONOOURsE.

The plans suggested by the Park Com
missioners for the music concourse at
Golden Gate Park make a splendid and
alluring picture. Nothing like them in
magnitude and elegance of design can be
found elsewhere in the New World, and a
very remarkable feature of them is the evil
dent meagerness of the expense compared
with the spectacular results to be secured.
The wind which sweeps through the
park has been the great difficulty which
the Commissioners have encountered. The
plans which they have suggested by no
means convince us that this draw back will
be overcome. Wind is not only damaging
in many ways to the effectiveness of music,
impairing the general effect by its Irregu-
larity and unequally affecting the tone and
quality of the various instruments, but in
duces a physical discomfort that the finest
music cannot make one forget. One may
enjoy horserace, game of baseball, or
any other exciting sport, in disagreeable
weather, but music requires perfect phys
zeal comfort.
No one has forgotten the extreme dis
comfort which often attended the concerts
given at this spot during the Midwinter
Fair, nor how quickly piercing wind
would empty the seats. And those were
famous bands.
The plans suggested by the Park Com
missioners contemplate a peristyle backed
by trees as a windbreak. This will not
serve the purpose. The architect of the
aviary in the park has given an idea in the
plans of the structure by which it will be
possible to secure comfort at the concourse
that is, a high western wall of glass,
reaching overhead and along the sides for
a certain distance. AS some of the seats
are 10 be over 700 feet from the band it is
useless to contemplate any arrangement
which neither excludes the wind nor pro-
vides for rejecting the sound. Such a
construction as the aviary suggests would
serve both these purposes. Mr.. Sweeney,
who gave to the park the handsome
structure GROWING Strawberry Hill, hit
this idea in a most artistic form.
The amphitheatral arrangement is the
grand central idea, protection against the
wind being a mere detail, to be worked
out hereafter. For not alone may concerts
be given there, but movable seats and a
floor unobsuucted by trees will offer q
Splenulu opportunity lor many Wnole-
some sports, including bicycle-riding, ex-
hibitions of Workmanship, ball games OF
every kind and all the innumerable
athletic sports. The total absence of ex-
tremes of heat and cold will make these
possible and pleasant at all times of the
year, particularly with the partial shelter
which we have suggested. In short, the
inducements to utilize these many advan-
tages for reproducing the Olympiads on
the plain of Ellis are irresistible, and out OF
their adoption would grow fame which
would draw hither athletes and spectators
from every corner of the world.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-21
PERSONAL.

D. J. Flanagan, the Eureka millman, is at
the Grand.
J.G Mccarthy, State Printer of Nevada, is at
the Palace.
]. C. Schultz. a merchant of Louisville. KY,
is at the Palace
T. D. Nicol, an attorney from Stockto n, is
housed at the Palace.
J. NJ. Marsh. Nevada City's lumber merchant,
is at the Palace Hotel.
D. T. Warner, financial man of Chicago, Is
in town at the Palace Hotel.
w. T. George, a Sacramento attorney, is in
the City, at the Grand Hotel.
Mrs. R. A. Graham, wife of the Portland rail-
road contractor, is guest at the Palace.
Frank J. steinmetE, druggist, is down from
Carson, New, laying in a stock OF drugs.
R. J. Bentley, fruit-packer of Sacramento,
has dropped in to feel the market pulse, and
is at the Palace.
Colonel Nathaniel Dow, the cattle king Of
Moscow, S. OAK, is at the Palace Hotel. He
reports the price of beef to be improving.
r. M. Greene, mining man from Oroville, is
at the Grand Hotel. He reports a little bright
ening up in mining matters in the country.
Hancock Banning, the owner of Santa Cata-
lima Island and proprietor of the Hotel Me-
tropolis, is taking his vacation IN the.City. He
is at the Palace.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich has waxed mustache
and fastidious manner and looks younger
than his years, which are nearly nine and fifty
says Vanity. He dresses severely and is alto
gether an uncommon-looking high-shouldered
man. He has quite pretty wit and is q past
master in the art of hospitality. 1t is now one
year short of forty since he wrote ''Baby Bell"
He was then clerk in New York business
house, for the death of his father had compelled
him to leave college. Its success was such that
he promptly Tilted commerce for literature
Nowadays he writes only when in the mood,
which is seldom, but his work more than
atones in quality for what it lacks in quantity.
Both Yale and Harvard have lately conferred
degrees upon him, but he has never quite re-
covered the shock he sustained on learning
that Charles Egbert Craddock was woman.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-21
BRITISH POLITICS.

From the results of the British elections
it would seem the Torres have good reason
for the exultant boast that they are "in
for six years." The majority will be large
enough to enable the Ministry to act with
out conciliating factions, and if the leaders
show any tact and force they ought easily
to maintain themselves for that number of
years. In fact, if long-established custom
and public opinion did not forbid the To-
ries might hold this Parliament together
for the full term Of seven years before they
gave their opponents a chance to appeal to
the country.
Political prestige, however, is dependent
upon something more than majorities. 1t
requires very strong and popular Pre-
mier to hold Office for six years in Great
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Britain, no matter how strong q majority
he may have mad to start with. Salisbury
is not likely to prove leader of that kind.
He is not a man who wins the sympathies
OF his followers, nor indeed does he appeal
to them. As an orator he has been noted
mainly for his logic and his sarcasm, and
as statesman his devotion has been to
the maintenance of the empire and the
prestige of his aristocratic order. He IS
not IN harmony with the Worldwide
movement so manifest among the British
people for the advancsmento of the working
classes, and being out of sympathy with
the dominant ideas OF the time can hardly
be expected to hold any long continued
leadership in the Office of Prime Minister.
a marked defect in his character as
leader of people who are becoming so es-
sentlally democratic as the English is his
tendency to rely on the aristocracy more
than on the masses. Indeed, it is charged
against him that he relies on his own
family more than on the aristocracy at
large. His newly formed Ministry is full
of his kinfolks. The London Chronicle
says: "The four most important posts IN
the Government-its supreme direction,
the control of foreign affairs, the leader
ship of the House of Commons and the
working chiefship of Irish affairs-are held
by mbers of his family, while an under
secretaryship is held by his sen-in-law. A
mere audacious piece ef nepetism was
never perpetrated."
1t remains to be seen whether such q
man can hold his majority together for
six years. Great Britain is but small
country, and Parliament is very close to
the constituencies. Public opinion makes
itself felt in the Commons much more
promptly and forcibly than in any other
legislative body among the great nations
of the world, and as Salisbury will have to
reckon with that opinion at every session
of Parliament the chances are that his
Ministry will break down long before the
close of the six years that his followers so
exultantly count on.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-21
MRS. rERRY,s ESTATE.
MORGAN HILL MAKES A sUCCINCr STATEMENT OF
ITS CONDITION.

MORGAN HILL MAKES sUCCINCr STATEMENT VI
| ITS CONDITION.
| Having returned to the State after an ao-
sence of several months, / have for tne nrs'
| time seen some of the articles puollsned III 'ie
San Francisco press last spring in regard 10
Mrs. Terry,s estate, and as 1 consider that the
| impression conveyed by said articles did an IN
| justice to me, I wish to say:
That Mrs Terry in her misfortunes mas not
been deserted or left to public charity by those
| on whom she has rightful claim Wheh ner
illness overlook her was in Europe, ana MRS.
Terry had been an inmate OF the stockton Asy-
| lum fully two months before l knew OF the
| fact. at once wrote to the Superintendent at
| Stockton that it was my wish that he should
| snare no expense to make her life comfortable
until returned. 1 also wrote to my friend,
| Thomas II. Williams to advance any moneys
needed for her care and to Hale d Co. to notl-
fy the matron at the asylum that she had an
open account with them for the purpose OF
supplying Mrs. Terry with whatever wearing
apparel she needed.
When l returned to the State few months
later visited Mrs. Terry, and seeing her con-
dftion and taking the advice of the physician
then in charge decided it best to let her re-
main in that institution for the time being.
Mrs. Terry is still there, and with little hope
that she will ever leave it alive.
/ know nothing about the management OF
her estate only that she mas received TON saiu
estate the sum of $50 sent by Mr.. Ashe, and
5000 sent by the lessee of her house at Fresno,
these being the sum total she has received
from her estate since she was sent to Stockton
in March, 1892, the balance going to pay cost
of administration and some or her debts
When was in California last November
wrote to the authorities at Stockton for her ac-
count, and on its receipt sent them check TO
settle the bill. I also made arrangements with
Mr.. Williams to take care of her, and wrote
note to Judge Levy asking him to appoint Mr..
Williams her guardian, as Mr.. Ashe was absent
from the State most of his time.
These are the facts in the case, and those feel
ing any interest in Mrs. Terry are assured that
she will not be allowed to wantfor anything as
long as have the means to take care of her.
MORGAN HILL
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ADVICE TO MANUFACTURERS.

We would advise the manufacturers and pro-
ducers to do little advertising in the State
papers-make known their wares so that the
public May know what is produced and mann.
featured here. The Eastern manufacturers do
not ask for free advertising, but use the Pacific
Coast papers freely. The fact is that not one
person in thousand knows what is really man.
ufactured in the State be cause the manufac.
turers do not use the papers.-Santa Cruz Surf
The newspaper proprietors of California are
solicited to become active members of the Man.
ufacturers' and Producers Association. thew to
be absolved from yearly dues That is right.
Every one OF them will contribute largely to
the success of the association by advocacy OF
its purpose. 1t should be the duty of the as.
ISOLATION to advocate the more general adver-
Using of the products of the State. Printers
ink is great factor of success-Gilrey Gazette.
1t is going to be useless to expect any great
enthusiasm in working up patronage for coast
industries by the interior press when by so do
ing the publishers of newspapers are threat
ened with the loss of Eastern advertising with
out prospect of getting advertisements from
coast manufacturers in return.-Fresno Elk.
positor.
The Manufacturers and Producers Associa-
tion should find some line of work for the
convicts in the California prisons which would
least interfere with home industries. There is
no reason why hundreds of convicts should be
a burden to taxpayers while the latter are buy
ing the products of Eastern prisons.-San Jose
News.
The Tmes-Index believes thoroughly in the
idea of patronizing California manufactures
but what are they7-San Bernardino Times
Index.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-21

ANTE-BELLUM AMERICANS.

The men of this generation, who are
familiar with the triumphs of American
youth in all sorts of athletic sports, will be
lished third volume of Rhodes History OF
the United States that in the decade before
the war the Americans were regarded as a
physically degenerate people, presenting a
pitiful contrast to the freshness and vigor
of their European kinsmen.
The belief in this degeneracy did not
exist in European minds only. It was
shared by many observant and patriotic
Americans. Mr.. Rhodes quotes many au-
thorities on the subject. Holmes wrote
81 am satisfied that such set of black
coated, stiff-jointed, soft-muscled, paste
complexioned youth as we can boast in
our Atlantic cities never before sprang
from loins of Anglo-Saxon lineage"
George William Curtis spoke of the typical
American as 'lantern-jawed, lean, sickly
and serious of aspect" Emerson referred
to 1.-The invalid habits of this country
and when in England he wrote home:
when l see my muscular neighbors day
by day, / say, Had been born in England
with but one chip of English oak in my
willowy constitutional" The women OF the
time were reported to be as bad as the men,
and as people we were regarded as about
the weakest, most nervous and least yigor-
Gus of the Caucasian race.
The opinion prevailed at the time that
the invalid condition of the people was
due to defect in the climate, but the re-
cent development of American manhood
OBJ fhof olipn OF 70 fro, hoi,, n
adverse to human vigor, is really advan-
tageous to it. The men and women of the
ante-war period were invalids simply be-
cause their habits were bad. The food was
ill-cooked, the people ate too fast and they
took no exercise. The best families pre-
pared their food with frying-pan, and
even so wise man as Emerson ALWAYS had
pie at breakfast.
No healthy exercise was taken at any
time. When the men had finished work
they loafed, chewed tobacco and told
stories for amusement. eve have few
good boatmen," wrote Holmes in 1858,
mo good horsemen that l hear of, and as
for any great athletic feat performed by q
gentleman in these ATTITUDES, society would
drop man who should run round the
Common in five minutes" Athletics, in
fact, were not feature, even of college
life, and among society people they were
regarded as undignified and coarse.
The American OF that generation, as Mr..
Rhodes points out, was not, however, SO
weak as he appeared. The success with
which he bore the hardships of the war
proved that he had the stamina of a
mighty manhood within him. Something
however, was needed to bring it out, and
that something was derived from English
society and French cooks. Since athletic
sports have become fashionable and
French dinners have taken the place of
Puritan meals, we have become different
people. At the. present time such de-
scriptions of Americans as were written by
Emerson, Holmes and Curtis would hardly
be applicable even to the class whom we
call dudes"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-21
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

George w. Baker, the attorney, has just re-
turned from Nevada, where he has been look
ing up the silver interests of the Sagebrush
State.
81 went over to Carson for few days and had
talk with Sam Davis, who has had more
schemes in his lifetime than any other man
living. You know how he breaks out with
some wild proposition about ouce month.
Really, did you ever know Sam TO make dollar
that somebody else didn't get it away from
him?"
"Never saw Sam in my life when he wasn't
negotiating with some attorney to get the law
on some one who had jobbed him." replied the
gentleman addressed
"Well, now, hold on,' resumed the lawyer,
'iust wait minute. Sam has made a ten
stroke. I'll explain his latest scheme, and it
looks like good one. He outlined the whole
plan to me in the Appeal Office the other day,
and, from what can see in it, it is one OF the
biggest schemes ever heard of.
"He has got Teller, Stewart, Jones, Clark and
other wealthy leaders in the silver party to put
up 100000 for the purpose of showing the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-21
PLEAsANTRIEs OF THE HOUR.

"Many happy returns of the dayp says the
bashful Jones to fair bride on the occasion OF
her third marriage.-London Punch.
"hfiss Kedick is taking the first course in the
Female College OF Journalism. 1t will last
three months"
"What is the scope of the first course7"
Learning to sharpen a lead pencil. Puck.
Doctor-Madam, much regret to say that
your husband has appendicitis.
Wife-Now I know where all my raisins have
gone.-N6w York Truth.
Wife-It's the little things that worry.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY when there are six OF
them.--Detroit Free Press.
0utsider-I hear Jones is a mighty useful
man in your club.
Clubman-Yes; he often helps make up q
Observation-Disclosures
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dishonest officials can all be punished.
Enough has been done during the past
week to show that the moral forces of the
people are in earnest at last, and every
good citizen can find in that fact good rea-
son for qualification to-day.