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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
SCALPING is STOPPED.
Railway Ticket Agents Sign an Agree
ment Binding Themselves to Main
tain Tariff Rates.

The local railway ticket agents held a
meeting yesterday in the Palace Hotel, and
with few exceptions signed an agreement
binding themselves to maintain passenger
rates on transcontinental tickets. G. H.
Speers, assistant general passenger agent
of the Santa Fe Company, occupied the
chair, and F. f. Connors was secretary.
Four companies were not represented at
the meeting. They were the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western John Fugazi,
AGENT, the Denver and Rio Grande, Union
Pacific and Canadian Pacific. Agent Sne-
daker of the Rio Grande Western at
tended and signed the agreement, though
he did not participate in the preliminary
meetings, and it was thought that he
would remain out of the animation. As
he came into the fold the Denver and Rio
Grande will follow, because the two lines
act in harmony. The Delaware line is
friendly disposed and will sign the agree
ment, but there the matter ends. Agent
Stems of the Canadian Pacific refuses to
sign until D. w. Hitch cock of the Union
Pacific unites with the majority, but as
Hitchcock is firm in his refusal to Join the
association it is highly probable that two
important companies will continue I'M
trammeled by an agreement on rates.
The agreement is a very comprehensive
ger business and leaving no loophole for
escape of agents who break the rules 1t
states that the object of the association
known as the ''San Francisco and Oakland
Passenger Agreement, is to conduct the
passenger traffic for which the several
lines represented IN the association COM
pete at rates and commissions from time
to time agreed upon, and to take no indi-
vidual action relative to any alleged dis
turbance in rates or commissions without
first bringing the matter to the attention
of the association and securing action
thereon by it. Also to cooperate in secur-
ing the limiting or discontinuing the sale
of tickets reading via circuitous and I'M
natural routes, which have the effect of
promptly scalping and reducing rates be-
tween points reached by direct routes.
The secretary is given power to call meet
ings for investigation within three days
after notice of charge has been served
upon the offending agent. Members shall
be fined 81 for failing to attend meetings.
Street commissions are abolished. Adj
vertising which may have the effect of
reducing tariff rates is prohibited. Agents
cannot buy secondhand or 'scalped''
tickets nor deal with brokers. For every
violation of the agreement a fine of $25
will be imposed, and if an agent refuses TO
pay the fine it will be deducted from the
deposit of 500 which each member has to
place in the treasury as a pledge of good
faith. The agents also agree that If tickets
are bought in their offices by way of test
the money paid shall be returned on pre-
sentation of the tickets by the secretary.
Permanent organization will be effected
in few DAYS.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

three thousand millions of dollars of our
securities coming home for US to take.
There can be but one standard of value.
A dollar must be worth 100 cents anywhere
in the United States and 100 cents any
where in the world"
1t is not pleasant to say of distinguished
and eminent men that their words are
silly, and yet it would be difficult to find
any other epithet that would SO fifty de-
scribe these utterances. The statement Of
Mr.. Eckels that the bimetallists demand
that the United States shall go upon a
single silver standard is false. 1t is true
they do not seek an international agree
ment to make every dollar in silver
equal in value to every dollar in gold.
They would be foolish to do SO. The dollar
is an American coin, and no international
agreement can affect it one way or the
other, unless we chose to surrender our
financial independence. Moreover, to seek
to make silver dollar equal to a gold dol
lar in value by legislation would be simply
to maintain the system OF the gold stand
ard which we have now, and against which
the bimetallists are protesting.
If it were possible to carry absurdity
further than Mr.. Eckels, Mr.. Depew would
have done it. The talk about 50-cent
dollar is a contradiction of terms. Every
dollar contains 100 cents. Nor does the
fact that we owe Europe something over
four billions of dollars, as Mr.. Depew esti-
mates, constitute convincing argument
why we should not act independently of
Europe, if we feel like doing so. We did
not ask permission of Europe to demone-
tie silver, and why should we ask per-
mission TO remonetize it2
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
PERSONAL.

G. A. Puerschel of Visalia is at the Occidenta tai.
J. McPike, a leading citizen of Napa, is at the
Baldwin.
T. j. Sherwood of the Marysville Appeal is at
the Grand.
DR.. George H. Jackson of Woodland is stay.
ing at the Grand.
DR.. and Mrs. J. w. Robertson of Livermore
are at the Palace.
W.T.. Knox, q lumber merchant of Sacra-
mento, is stopping at the Grand
D. L. Roscoe of the United States Coast Survey
steamer Macarthur is ct the Baldwin.
NJ H. Alexander, one of the prominent at
torneys of Cincinnati, Ohio. is registered at the
Palace.
]. Lounsperg of the big grocery firm of Aeker,
Merrill & Co., New York, is registered at the
Palace.
Ell Jones of the Pittsfeld Iron Works of
Pittsfeld, Mass, registered at the Palace yes
terday
Sheriff w. C. Conroy of Placer County came
down from Auburn yesterday and is stopping
at the Russ.
G.B. Edwards, vice president of the Germania
Fire Insurance Company of New York, is stop
ping at the Palace.
T. NJ. Brown, who has been Sheriff of Hum
boldt County for many years, is in town and
staying at the Russ.
Edward Walden Jr., q vineyardist of Geyser-
vile, and Mrs. Walden were among yesterdays
arrivals at the Occidental.
James E. Mills, mine-owner of Plumas
County, and Mrs. Mills, have come down from
Quincy and are registered at the Occidental.
H. R. Gray, vice-president of the Hanover
Fire Insurance Company of Chicago, and Mrs.
Gray, arrived in the City yesterday and are
registered at the Palace.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
MANUAL TRAINING.
Additions Which Will Be Made in the
Course of the Commercial
High School.

When the graduates from the grammar
schools of the City or at least those of
them who decide to continue on through
the Commercial High School take up the
course in that institution they will find an
interesting curriculum prepared for them.
The course of study for both boys and
girls has been extended and made much
more interesting and many of the features
winch made the Polytechnic High School
SO popular have been incorporated in the
commercial school
prominent among the additions will be
course III manual training for boys. Al
ready the mechanical department has been
ntted up and the engine is ready to start
the lathes and planes at any time but they
viii De made to wait for the new corners
from the grammar schools, who will begin
with the July term. There is also fully
EQUIPPED olacksmith-shopa all ready for the
boys and a carpenter-shop, with tools
enough lot any one who wants to learn to
use mem inns latter department has
been used in perfunctory sort of a wav
! Tor two months, but it will start up as an
established feature of the course with the
| beginning of the new school wear.
For the girls course in cIay-modeling,
sewing, cooking, wood-carving and posi-.
Oily the rudiments OF housekeeping and Of
| caring for the sick will be provided. Some
of this course, too, has lately been intro
duced, for the principal of the school has
fitted up room for clay modelling and for
wood-carving,. but, as with the boys
course, the different branches will not he
fully established until the pupils now in
the eighth grades OF the grammar schools
are admitted.
The instructor in the course of mechan-
les will be Frank Gardenir, who served in
the same capacity in the Cogswen School.
The other instructors have not as yet been
selected, however. When the added at
fractions of the Commercial High School
are known among the graduates it is ex-
pected that the list OF applicants will be
greatly increased.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
A PROGRESSIVE PAPER.

We note with some degree of pleasure tnat
the CALL will construct new publication
house. to be located at the corner OF 1nlIu aiu
Market streets, in San Francisco. IL Will WIZ
out doubt be constructed after the nouoi -
such buildings as were erected by the Tribune
Herald and Times in New YORK, closely III
lowed by the San Francisco Chronicle. we
rejoice in this evidence OF the permanently VI
the Call as one of the great leading Journals VI
San Francisco, because its advent as the leau-
ing metropolitan journal OF the coas1 no'
already been fruitful OF some SANITARY NO i
Notably among these is the new policy OF the
San Francisco press concerning the grow -
the interior. Until the CALL estaplisheu tuo
precedent of writing up gratultously Inc NJ
fractions offered by the various interior
the San Francisco press did nothing III enAs
relation without ample pay. We have personal
cognizance of an instance where San fran-
cisco journal charged town in the sacramento
Valley $500 per page to describe lts locAIioi,
surroundings and commercial advantages, ~
is the testimony of the people OF the Fliiase
that they never heard from the puoncatlon;
that it did not induce single inquiry cohcefn-
ing their locality.
The instinct for growth Is SO STRONG III ne"
communities that q vast amount OF money Is
always obtainable for the purposes of inducing
immigration. Eastern publications have
reaped rich harvest out of this disposition.
The New York Sun sent an agent TO CanlorIlla
instructed to give the State general WrIIe-up
for $I5O0O0. After a diligent canvass ne
found it impracticable to secure a consensus
of action concerning the State. 1t did succeed
in securing write-ups of few localities. The
metropolitan press, both daily and weekly
have for the past twenty years found the write
up industry prolific source of profit. The
new management of the CALL placed its col
ums at the disposal of enterprising localities IN
the State free, and for the first time, therefore,
in the history of journalism in this State the
metropolitan press has manifested laudable
disposition to promote the growth and pros
perity of the territory supporting the City In
which these publications are published
AS the originator of this liberal policy, the
CALL deserves well at the hands of the people
of the Pacific Coast Sacramento Record
UTninn
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Signor Demetrio Alata, telegraph operator
in Milan, claims to have invented a method of
transmitting musical notation by wire.
Saint-Saens has been making an extensive
tour of the far East and 1t is likely that he will
give the world some Orientalized music in the
near future.
General Trochu, the military governor of
Paris during the siege of that city in 1871, is
reported to be very feebte and near his end. He
is living in retirement at Tours.
NJ. Jules Verne, though in his 10th year,
works for five or six hours day. He Is now
engaged upon story for 1897, but he has FIVE
manuscripts ready for the printers.
Mrs. Castellane's income is paltry $500, 900
year, and on this miserable pittance she and
her husband must subsist Or go to the poor
house. Everybody in this world has troubles.
The King of Italy is credited with dispensing
more charity than any other of the crowned
heads of Europe. And he has probably larger
percentage of subjects who need charitable aid.
There are at present no less than fifty-eight
persons awaiting trial at Berlin on charges Of
lese majestic, their crime consisting in having
dared to criticize unfavorably the Kaiser's
Hymn to Aegir."
King Humbert has laid the cornerstone OF
monument to Garibaldi on the Janiculum at
Rome, which it is hoped will be ready for the
29th of September, the twenty-fifth anntver-
sary of the recovery of Rome to Italy.
Prince Butcher Won Wahlstatt, the heir OF old
Marshal "Vorwaerts," is to marry Princess
Wanda Radziwill, cousin of the Count de
Castellane, who married Miss Gould, and dis
tant cousin of Emperor William.
Rudyard Kipling's father. John Lockwood
Kipling, proposed to his mother, Alice Macdon-
aid, on the shore of Rudyard Lake, England,
and was accepted. The author was named
Rudyard In honor OF that romantic episode.
Muskogee, Venita and Tahlequah are all
striving for the honor of furnishing place OF
residence TO ex-Congressman Springer, Judge
of the new United States Court in Indian Terri
tory, on the theory that the successful town
viii become the metropolis of the district.
There are private reports that Huxley is
dangerously i'll and not likely to recover. His
health was poor during all the winter, and des-
pite the mildness of Eastbourne he seems not
to have escaped the bronchial malaaies which,
upon the heels OF a long frost, have well-nigh
devastated England.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
EXPOSED BAD MEAT FOR SALE.
Chinese Merchants Violate the Board
of Health Laws.


Two Board of Health Market Inspectors,
Captain Hanson and William Weiss, re-
ceived information yesterday which caused
them to turn their steps in the direction
of Chinatown. At the corner of Washing
ton street and Fish alley they found, at
the store owned by Tuck Hing & Co.,
seventeen immature calves which are for
hidden to be exposed for sale. Going fur
Their to the storesof Lee Hop & Co., at 1909
Dupont street, they found another con-
sisnment of eighteen in the possession of
that firm. In the latter case the prohibited
meat was found piled up in q back room.
The two inspectors procured an express
wagon and the meat was sent to the dead
horse factory.
The maximum penalty for exposing such
meat for sale is six months imprisonment
or $500 fine 1t is stated, however, that
the laws regarding such cases are in very
weak condition, showing many loopholes
through which the willy Celestial may
make his escape.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
REAL ESTATE
FOR SALE BY
TlOS. MagGG { Sons,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
And Publishers "Real Estate Circular"
REMOVED TO
4 Montgomery Street,
UN0Y TRUST BUlLDTG, CORNER MARKET.
VERY FINE INVESTMENTS.

Rents $780, make offer of $22, 900; solid 4-story,
building, stores below: Fourth ST., mr.. Folsom,S
NV. cor. California st. beyond Laguna: 53xsO
and 2-story and planked basement houses in
finest order; $500 just spent them; rents 81 2O
price ST. 800; always rented.
Ellis-st. corner; rents 1914 so; $4,000: 90x125;
streets in good order.
Corner on Howard St, mr.. Sd; rents for s1S5;
stores and flats; $4,000.
Post ST., bet. Powell and Mason; large lot and
buildings; $4,000.
Post St. mr.. Taylor; 2sxss % to rear street; old
and win pay well: $4,000.
$50 feet from Market ST.: Drumm ST., cor Com
mercial 59:9xbO; So, 800; very low: or with con-
meeting 70 feet on Clay and 3 fronts, SS5, 600
$32,150; rents $3.50; ne. cor. on Pine ST.. Gov
cred with good buildings
WESTERN ADDITION RESTDENCEs
AND LOTS.
Elegant residence; fine view Of bar. n. side
Washington ST., near Central ave.: 80 feet front;
fine 2-sory and attic home; 13 roomss2 baths and
all modern convenienceS; house finished in hard
wood; $12, 500.
Only $1,000 cash, balance easy payments; new
residences now being finished with all conveniences;
w. side Buchanan, bet. Vallejo and Green; fine
view of bay; s725o each.
very cheap; elegant residence and northwest
corner; Eddy and Cough; 1877 :6x120 to rear
street. faces Jefferson square; very fine residence,
In first-cass order; $45, 600
Make offer-vaIieio and octavia; corner; 25x
1926 and very comfortable residence OF rooms
and every convenience: fine view; $1O,5OO
Pierce ST.; fine nearly new houses and lot:
37:6xl05: bet. Golden Gate ave. and Turk; will be
sold cheap.
WESTERN ADDITION LOTS,
Broadway, near octavia; lot 34:sx127:s; only
$4,000. '
NV. cor. Pacific ave. and Broderick st.
25x121:o; very slightly lot, with view of bay;
Pine and Buchanan, NV. corner, 55xS1 81; both
streets severed and Pine st. bituminized: $4,000
Make oher; Grove and Lyon corner; 37:6xlOO:
S4IaO; desirable for residence or business
Devisadero ST.. mr. w ashington; $500 for 25xl 10:
street paved; fine neighborhood
Geary ST.. north side, mr. Cook. west of Central
ave-; 3 lots, 251l00; only $1,000 each.
LOIS Zoxl37:6; $3.50: or any size front at same
rate Union ST., bet Devisadero and Broderick;
street severed; cable-cars pass.
Octavia ST., west side, Hilbert; 25xS5 $1175.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

thought that as result of Mr.. Fuller's
visit East and the significant fact that Mr..
Tilford of the Standard Oil Company is IN
this city at present, and that the Fuller
people are referring customers for oil in
bulk to the Standard Oil Company for
prices, sale probably has been effected.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
His Thumb Crushed.

Frederick Marsh, a pressman employed in
the pressroom of the Pacific Paper and Box
Company on Mission street, had the thumb of
his lett hand crushed in the press yesterday.
He was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where
DR.. Deane amputated the thumb.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

After we have learned how proftably to
extract the gold that so richly impregnates
the black sand of the Pacific Ocean beach,
the next task will be to extract the gold
which exists so abundantly in the water of
the ocean itself.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
A Journalist remembered.

NJ. HOLMAN OF the California Demokrat Of
this City has been the secretary of the German
Press Club, and so well has ne performed the
duties imposed upon him that at the meeting
OF the club, held a few days since, the club
presented him with a handsome ieweed
1ocket. Mr.. HOLMAN is an energetic news
paper man, deserving of the compliment paid
him
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Now that there is prospect of Bohemia
securing a permanent jinks ground in
Redwood Canyon, on the Throckmorton
ranch, it is sincerely hoped that when the
Bohemian owl is placed under the mystic
spell of this wonderful forest it may ac-
quire sufficient courage to open its other
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

The strong efforts and persistent work
required to bring the next Republican Ma
tional Convention to San Francisco afford a
good opportunity for all sections of the
State to practice working together.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

To Comptroller Eckels' mind the only
Hsound" money is that which has the ring
of gold.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

As the Cuban insurgents have gained a
victory it is in order to speak of them as
reyoIutionists.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Uncle Philander (standing before chewing
gum slot machine)-This here things cheat.
/ put my penny in all right, pushed the little
bizness an tibet piece of gum come down inter
sight, but here I've been wstchin an waitin'
half an hour an the gol darn jigger hasn't
begun to chew it yetl-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
DIR. Lexington Pillorfed

WINE-DRINKING people are healthy. M. & <.
wines, Sc glass. Mohns & Kaltenbach. 20 Mkt
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

The remote origin of the great beds of
placer gold that may be traced so far down
the Pacific Coast may always remain a
mystery, but the recent great discoveries
of gold in place in the Yukon region of
Alaska and our knowledge of the existence
of glaciers which, in past years, crept far
southwark from the frozen north, may
serve to indicate that Alasks is the goose
that laid the train of golden eggs all the
way down the Pacific, and that the gentle
creature has kept her finest eggs in the
original nest.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

1t is too late in the year for the great
strike of coal-miners to induce frost.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

THE wonderful cures Of scrofula, salt rheum and
other dreadful diseases OF the blood prove the great
curative, blood-purfying powers OF Hoods sarsapa-
rilla. Its effect is often magical.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

The man who wishes to own the earth is
never willing to assist in improving it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

The latest British project for making
money in Egypt is to construct works at
the cataracts of the Nile to generate power
and transmit it electrically to mills ada
cent to the Egyptian eotton-felds.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

The relations between bicycle-owners and
those customs collectors who think that
owners of the machines ought to pay a
duty when bringing them into the United
States are so cool that the ocean itself is
likely to solve the problem at any time
by freezing and thus presenting bicycle
highway.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

In flooding the country around Peking to
prevent the possible advance of the jap
anese, the Chinese have given literal full
fillment to the expectation that they would
take water.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Eastern papers exult in baseball and
open streetcars, but still complain that the
strawberry is haggard and sour.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

BY James H. Barry in this weeks Star. The
paper literally teens with roasts of rogues.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

If nature abhors a vacuum the mind OF a
silurian must be regarded as unnatural.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Lower freight rates on fruit are among
the brightest prospects of the season.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

ADD 20 drops of DIR. siegerts Angostura Bitters
to every glass of impure water you drink.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

The accidental dropping of fare into
the Slated floor of streetcar constitutes
the legal payment of the fare.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

SLEEPLEssNEss Indigestion and Pain are hor-
rors that PARKER's GINGER TONIC will abate.
HINDERCoRNs, the best cure for corns, Is cents.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

In the presence of the war which is
raging at Berkeley the little affairs in the
Orient, Nicaragua and Cuba assume the
pallor of freely in the presence of the sun.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

The recent frequent killing of desper-
ADDE'S will probably serve as a check to
dime-novels and sensational newspapers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Remember that this is the day to leave
orders for the Sunday CALL.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

The total cordage required for first
rate man of war weighs about eighty tons,
and exceeds SIS, 900 in value.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Festivals of flowers never fail to yield
good fruit of some kind.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Japan may yield to Russia now, but she
will see her later.