The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-06

case in most anything. That's one reason
like the CALL 1t is frank to admit that San
Francisco, with all her faults, has some good
points, and some very good ones at that. That
is novelty in San Francisco journalism.
ut is senseless to complain of everything in
the city limits, and the man who can find time
to admit that there is occasional redeeming
trait is a good citizen because he is not pes
Slmlst Whenever anything is done well the
CALL admits it and never makes any bones
about it. That is the right policy and one
which will in the end win for the journal a
magnificent following among the progressive
citizens. The cleanup suggested by that paper
Will do the city good; and when the new road
Is built the people of progress will see the
State rising out of her tolls and shaking off her
chains"
The ex-Mayor recovered himself here and re-
marked that he was getting in a little deep
and drifting off the line. s'But," he concluded
what said about not wanting to be Mayor of
San Francisco again goes. Once is not often
but it is enough. 1t is all that one man can
stand
'"The Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans this
year was probably grand success, but doubt
If it created more excitement than did the
recent phenomenal snowStorm in that CITY,"
said b. l.. Elliott, an Eastern oyster-grower, at
the Occidental yesterday. 81 was in the city
at the time, and the antics of lot of school
children when the first snow of the season puts
in its appearance in the East, was no COM
parison to the unbounded hilarity of the
Crescent City people. The snowfall occurred
during the night, and the next day was uni
yersally observed as holiday. The public
buildings were closed as were also about all
the wholesale and retail business houses. The
snowfall amounted to about nine inches in
depth, but it was sufficient to block traffic in
city totally unprepared for such an emergency
At first sleighs were few in number but the
fertile minds of those bent upon having sport
soon improvised structures for the occasion
They were made in every conceivable size and
shape, one man appearing in the street behind
fast trotter attached to dry-goods box
mounted upon two pieces of gas pipe. The
whole city was alive with the sport, and the
first night all the theaters were closed 1t will
be many years before the residents of New
Orleans will forget the winter of 1s94-95."
Talk about there being no longer any money
in raising oranges" said r. A Arnold of Los
Angeles in the Grand yesterday, "why, the
proposition is ridiculous l know of one man
who will this year make small fortune from
a forty-acre tract He is L. E. Waite of High
lands who owns a magnificent grove of Wash
lngton navels, the trees being seven years old.
Only the two outside rows had been picked
yielded 500 boxes, or an average of six boxes
to the tree. AS there are 100 trees to the acre
1t will be seen that this average would show
yield OF 600 boxes to that amount of ground
which at present prices would bring the owner
in revenue of about $3.50 an acre. am re-
hably informed that this is not an isolated
case, but that there many other groves
which viii show UP equally as we'll"
'The people of Phoenix, Arizona, are getting
ready to give the biggest blowout ever at
tempted in the West" said G. NJ. Holton of
that city at the Palace yesterday. "Last week
the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix road was
completed to that city and there is wonder
full show of activity in commercial affairs in
consequence. Three years have been consumed
in building the line from Ash Fork, on the
Atlantic and Pacific road, to Phoenix, via Pres
colt. Now that lumber can be secured at a
nominal cost builders say that hundreds of
new structures will go up in Phoenix within
the next year or two
s.This thing of receiving letters of coincidence
is getting to be rather tiresome to me-" said
Warden Hale of San Quentin at the Palace yes
terday "Since the recent trouble at Folsom
number of my friends have got the idea into
their heads that San Quentin was where the
attempted escape occurred, and as q conse-
quence it has consumed good deal of my time
in replying to sympathetic letters from my
friends and assuring them that the record of
San Quentin in never having lost prisoner
under my management is as yet unbroken.'
There were many callers at the Occidental
Hotel yesterday to bid Mr.. and Mrs. Sands w.
Forman and daughter good-by prior to their
departure for China. The family took passage
on the Gaelic, and Mr.. Forman said just prior
to leaving that they would probably be absent
three or four months. Captain Healey took
large party of guests aboard the revenue cutter
Bear and accompanied the outgoing steamer
down the bay quite distance to give the de-
parting couple hearty godspeed on their
journey.
A Pioneers Body Cremated.
The body of Charles Cole Knox, the pioneer