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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24
A GOLDEN EXPOSITION.

The San Jose Gazette has suggested an
enterprise and asked question which well
deserves the consideration of the men of
light and leading in San Francisco. 1t
says:
Most great expositions like those at Phila-
delphia and Chicago were commemorative of
some centennial or other great anniversary in
history, and date is approaching that will be
the fiftieth anniversary of the event that had
more to do with the settlement and develop
ment OF the West than any and all other cir
cumstanees combined. The discovery of gold
put many States into the Union twenty or
thirty years before there would otherwise have
been any possibility of any such development.
Why should not the half century anniversary
OF so tremendous an event be celebrated by d
grand international fete?
The suggestion is so good that it conveys
in itself the answer to the question that
follows it. There is no reason why we
should not hold an exposition to celebrate
the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery OF
gold, and many reasons why we should.
The fiftieth anniversary will occur in Feb
ruary, 1899. That is a little more than a
year before the opening of the great expo
sition in Paris, and if the proposed plan
were carried out our exposition would form
a fitting prelude for the great event that is
to mark the close of the century. We have
tried Midwinter Fair following World 5
Exposition, and it might be found even
more profitable to precede one.
There can be no question as to the fitness
of the occasion or the place for such fair.
The discovery of gold in California exerted
an influence for good throughout the civ
ilized world. 1t virtually amounted to a
revolution in trade, industry and COM
merce, and gave larger freedom to enter
prise than had ever been known before. In
the United States these industrial effects
were united to political results hardly less
important. The discovery of gold gave an
enormous impetus to Western develop
ment and did much to provide the nation
with the means to preserve its existence
during the Civil War. An event so i'm
portant in itself, and having such far-reach-
ing consequences, undoubtedly deserves to
be celebrated as one of the notable epochs
of the century, and since the tiftieth is con
ventionally regarded as the golden ami
versary, what more fitting occasion could
there be for celebrating the discovery Of
/ gold?
/ OF course, such an exposition should not
/ be undertaken by San Francisco alone, mol
even by California. 1t should be interna
tional in its scope and have national in
! dorsement and appropriation to support it.
! There are four years in which to prepare fol
| it, and in that period there is time enough
! to educate the national mind on the sub
! iect and make it truly great exposition
! The matter, therefore, is worth while en-
gaging the energies of the Chamber OF
! Commerce, the Board of Trade and other
bodies of the kind. Let US start the move.
ment then and have golden exposition
on the golden anniversary of the discovery
! OF cold
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24
WANT THEIR CLAIMS PAID.
CREDITORS OF THE CITY AND
COUNTY WHO ARE GROW
ING ANXIOUS.
IHE SUPERVISORS ARE ASKED TO
DISAPPROvE THE CHARTER
ELECTION.

The associated creditors of the city and
county have addressed a communication
to the Mayor and Board of Supervisors, in
which they state that the Mayor and board
are vested with the power to liquidate the
claims of the creditors they represent and
ask that some provision for the pavrnent
be made at the earliest opportunitv' The
communication then goes on to say:
1t is proposed to hold an election. which will
cost the city and county of San Francisco NOT
less than 100000. We have seen n stated
that the expense will not exceed $40. 900 The
fees of the election officers alone will amount
TO nearly $40 600 to say nothing of setting mn
the booths in polling places, the expense 81
advertising and various other incidental ex-
penses; but the amount OF the expense in
CURED is not so much the question as the in
curing of any Indebtedness al all for any pur-
pose that was not provided for in the tax levy
for 1S94-95, when there are bills outstanding
against the city and county Tor actual neces-
saries bills long overdue, demands for clerk
hire in the City Hail. bills for the books in
which public records are kept, bills for furni-
ture in use by city officials, bills for necessares
of life supplied to inmates OF public institu-
tions-bills for every conceivable thing the city
may require.
in the luxury of an election at cost of $780,
600 while its creditors are clamoring for set
Element of their accounts long since overdue,
aggregating now approximately $500, 600?
We take the view that you are in complete
control of this matter, by reason OF the TACT
that the Board of Supervisors will be expected
to provide for the payment of the expenses of
this election We do not oppose the election
per Sc. We do not feel that we are called upon
to express an opinion in favor OF 1t. We are
creditors. We have sold goods TO the city at
small profit. Our drafts on the City Treasury
are returned TO us stamped no funds" In the
face of this reputation the city proposes to
spend 100000 for election. We submit
this is gross injustice to her creditors, and
that the very act of permitting this election,
involving the expenditure OF so large sum OF
money, is one of questionable good faith with
creditors, not only those who hold accounts
for back years, but with those who are supply
ing the city with goods, wares and merchan-
disc at the present time and period.
The communication, which is signed by
Joseph LIE Count, chairman of the assoCia-
/ ton, closes by asking the Mayor and SUI
pervisors to disapprove the expenditure,
to refuse their sanction to any further pro-
ceedings in the matter of the election, and
to avoid, as far as possible, any and all
extraordinary expenses until the claims
are paid
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24

perform for the benefit of the widows of some
defunct members OF a workingmen's club. 1t
seems we were the only ones, except amateurs,
who went and the audience had almost given
us up for it nearly IL o'clock before we
could get down there after our Alhambra per-
torrance.
You know what low part OF the town
Whitechapel is. We drove through SO many
squalid streets and miserable alleys that
began to feel nervous at being out in that
neighborhood so late. AT last we stopped before
a low, dirty doorway, where man, presumably
the manager, was waiting for US.
''Will yer ave drop o. rum afore yer go on"
he said, in a hoarse voice. to Mr.. Titus, and
showed big wicker-covered bottle.
When we had both declined this hospitality
the man said we had better go up, as they had
been waiting half an hour for US, and he led
the way up three flights of narrow winding
stairs
At the top we almost stumbled onto the
strangest stage l ever saw. 1t was like a
marionette's theater, so small that the piano
almost filled it. There were no border-hghts
and very few footlights, but one knew the
house was full by the buzzing.
The audience was com posed OF costermongers
and fower-girls and the like, and how grateful
they were to us for coming down to White
chapel to perform for them!
deafening roar was our greeting, and it
was followed by storm OF fowers-saved from
those they had been peddling for a living dur
ing the day. Their roses and their liacs were
not wired mathematically together, like those
that come from the florists in Piccadilly They
were all loose, and the people threw them at
us as literally as if they had been shoveling
out coal.
In few moments the stage was so heaped
up with the fragrant blossoms that was afraid
to move for fear of slipping so 1 stood still and
sang "Come Into the Garden; Maude," and
''My Pretty Jane"
Perhaps you think those songs were too
sentimental for costermongers and flower girls?
Not bit OF it. Those people reveled in senti-
ment and evidently knew and loved the old
ballads.
Again and again they roared themselves
hoarse and nearly stamped the theater down
when l stopped singing. Some of the remarks
could hear were full OF quaint kindness too.
:" ATTY, take yer topper orr take it OFF when
the lady's singin," heard one girl in the front
1 ow say to her escort, and AIRY obeyed meekl v.
When they had not any flowers left thought
some OF the audience would throw their toppers
at me- they seemed so anxious to give some
thing more.
We got away at last, followed down the mar
row stairs and out into the alley by the sounds
of their shouting, whistling and stamping.
That was the only time l ever sang for a
really 'slum" audience, and it was the kindest,
b1ggest-hearted audience l ever met.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24
A SENSIBLE WOMAN'S CLUB.

The popularity of the club system among
San Francisco ladies might be turned to
good account if they established an insti-
tuition on the model of the 'Women's
Clubs clearinghouse" of Chicago. This
is a building containing twenty-four
rooms, which have been furnished by the
various ladies clubs in that city. In these
rooms homeless and shelterless women re-
ceive nights lodging and breakfast for
Is cents, or two hours work. No woman
can remain more than two weeks, the idea
being to house women while they are look
ing for work. Sixteen women's clubs are
interested in the work, and members alter
nate with each other in providing work for
the inmates of the clearinghouse and sell
ing it, the intention being to make the in
stitution as nearly self-supporting as posi-
BILE.
Some such enterprise was started or sug
gested in this city year ago, but 1t is be-
Geved that it is no longer in existence. 1t
ought to be revived. The army of the I'M
employed on whose behalf aid has been
sought includes many women in its ranks;
some of these are doubtless strangers from
the interior or from the East looking for
work-the very class which woman's
lodging house should benefit. If the Cen
fury Club, the Sorosis, and the other clubs
which San Franciseo's ladies have estab-
lished were properly approached they could
raise money enough to found and carry on
such an institution.
If they do so, ladies will do well to re-
member that charity must be just as well
as benevolent. The Chicago ladies are
going round seeking to make contracts
with clothiers for the manufacture
by the objects of their bounty of
ready-made clothing. They do not reflect
that this is taking bread out of Peters
mouth to put it into Paul's. The ready
made clothing trade in this city relies
chiefly on the East for its supplies, but still
it furnishes a great deal of work for domes-
tic seamstresses and tailors. If the dealers
give their orders to woman's club lodging
house. they will take them from those
who execute them now. The operation
will simply be transfer of work from sew
ing women who have houses and families
here to transient visitors whose claim is
their neediness.
The problem is difficult one to solve
In the case of men it is proposed to solve it
by setting the unemployed to work at road
making, an employment which the mem
bers of the unions do not covet. The plan
is certainly worth trying. Good roads
always pay. They furnish the communi-
ties through which they run with the
means to defray the cost of their construc-
ton. But women cannot be set to work
with pick and shovel at road-making
There is chance here for women to dem
onstrate their fitness to grapple with pub
lie questions by devising plan for the en-
ployment of women which shall not
encroach upon the living of other women
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24
PERSONAL INFLUENCE.

| One OF the most noted factors in society,
and indeed one of the most potent forces
| in history, is the power known to US
vaguely under the name of personal influ-
ence. 1t is an emanation from the indi-
yidual felt in a wide circle around him, but
not due directly either to his words or his
actions. 1t would seem indeed that the
/ individual is not always conscious of ex-
erting it, and that it does not depend upon
the will so much as upon the character of
the man from whom it emanates.
We have celebrated this month the ami
versaries of the birthdays of two men in
whom this power of personal influence was
so great that it was felt not only by all who
came into contact with them, but by the
whole generation of those among whom
they lived, moved and had their being.
Washington and Lincoln were great not
only because of what they said, but be-
cause of what they were. The influence
which each exerted in strengthening the
viii and confirming the faith of those
around him, was undoubtedly even more
effective in producing the great results he
accomplished than his intellectual ability,
his resources or his energy. 1t was not
Washington's generalship, but his personal
influence that upheld the constancy of his
ragged continentals during that desperate
winter at Valley Forge, and it was also
the influence of Lincoln which held the
great heart of the common people firm dur
ing the dark days of the long war that
freed the slave and kept the Union whole.
1t is fortunate thing that the element
of personal influence is not dependent
upon great men nor is confined to great
crises IN the history of nations. 1t is found
everywhere in social life, and forms one of
the strongest bonds that hold society to-
gether. Whosoever possesses it is q leader
to some extent. Around him or her rallies
a group of people whose energies are ex-
erted in whatever direction the influence
impels. Through these people is accom-
plished almost everythingthat gets accom-
plished at all. History does not know
them. The community in which they live
does not always recognize its debt to them.
Nevertheless they are continually making
| life better and happier for US all and for
those who come after us.
They are the people who succeed; the
people who make friends; the people
whom business men are glad to follow and
/ to whom capitalists willingly lend money
to aid in every enterprise. Wherever such
men exist there is progress, for even those
who are opposed to them or are jealous OF
them, cannot resist the force that emanates
from their magnetic vitality and are COM
PEELED TO follow them as the "tide follows
the moon with fluid steps all round the
world"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24
BEFORE A "sLUM" AUDIENCE.

cannot remember my first audience, for 1
was only months old when they took me on
as the baby in one of Charles Keene's pro-
ductions in Australia. do remember toddling
about behind the scenes a few months later and
stumbling over Keene in q doorway. My
fingers were hurt and 1 cried. AS peace-offer-
ing Keene gave me halfguinea-the first gold
piece | ever earned.
If | recall my early souvenirs, though they
bring back long succession of audiences in
different countries and under all sorts of con-
dltions. Some of them were charming and
others did not feel drawn to- for however the
spectators may criticize actresses we are
just as critical of our audiences, if they only
knew it. That is we can feel at once whether
they sympathize with what we are trying to ex-
press or not.
The strangeSt audience I ever appeared
before was in London few years ago Mr..
Titus and were playing at the Alhambra and
along with number OF other professionals we
received invitations to go to Whitechapel and
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24

The dreary dizziness of the debates in the
House on the money question was broken
the other day by two flashes of con-
gresslonal wit. John D. Warner of New
York, said that some of the champions of
free silver were so set in their ways that on
going to heaven they would refuse to &C
cept golden harp and would stay indoors
rather than walk the golden streets of the
New Jerusalem; whereupon Swanson of
Virginia said the gentleman from New
York II the angel Gabriel on the day of
Judgment does not blow with a golden
trumpet, will refuse to rise on account of
"a want of confidence in the call and
trumpet
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24

for all her interests now lie in the direction
OF complete harmony with the interior,
and her advantage comedies with that of
stockton. The projected competing road
VIII soon bring the two cities into an even
closer relationship, and there is every
reason to believe that Mr. Colnon, who is
a man OF sagacity and integrity, will have
no other ambition on the board than to
lookiafter the broad interests of the City
and State, make good record for himself
and justify the confidence of the Governor
in appointing him.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24
Left With the Police.

The Chief of Police has filed with the Board
ofSupervisors the lists of unclaimed articles
taken from prisoners during the year ending
December 81 last. The goods consist
of almost everything, from pocket-knives,
of which there are IA dozen, TO rolls of carpet
and gunny-sacks full OF quart bottles of Chi
nese gin. After being advertised for four con-
secutive weeks the entire collection will be
sold, under the direction of the City Treasurer,
and the proceeds turned into the police relief
and pension fund.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Parker-Is there any life at all in your office
boy2
Barker-Any life? He's only resting for a
squirt. Wait ten minutes and you'll see him
close the office.-Puck.
"Tve been TO Boston," said Howard Vain
wright; 81 lectured there"
'Glad to hear it,, said Rob Levoy; "I hate
Boston."-New York Sun.
Risky-"Susan," said Farmer Punkin of Kan
sas, yell have ter take the lid off'n them two
jackrabbits or they'll bile too much"
"l'm most skeart to- answered his wife.
''There amt nothing to be skeared OIL
81 don't know bout that. The Legislatures
made that anti-gamblin' law so strict tibet
they'd hev the police down on US eff they knew
we was openin' pot with a pair O. jacks."-
Washington Star.
"What would you think" asked the inquisi-
tive young person, ''what would you think if
Bob Ingersoll were to get religion and die con-
verted?"
"What would Think" echoed Deacon Pod
berry, with much warmth. 81 would think it
was darn swindle, that's what I'd think?'-
indianapolis Journal
"Man wants but little here below9' the earnest
parson cried.
But he soon deplored his iniudicous prate
For the worshpers his lesson to their hearts at
applied,
And dropped nothing else but pennies on the
plate. New York Herald.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24
BUILDING UP THE CITY.

1tottiSter Free Lance.
The CALL deserves credit for its efforts to
have the next Republican National Conven-
ton held at San Francisco The CALL is setting
the pace in lively fashion for the rest of the
metropolitan dailies Instead of holding San
francisco up to ridicule, it is endeavoring to
build it up.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24

impede the fight of the Monaghan infantry.
If the men wore trousers they woulo DC tpie "
get out of range little quicker.-o'ocA'oii
Mail.
Los Angeles has been metamorphlzed oy the
turn in the valley road enterprise le"
weeks ago it was imperious toward san fla ran
cisco, but now it is suppliant. ms snow" w
what giant San Francisco can De witch ~ ~
wills.-Stockton Independent.
If this great San Joaquin Valley produced
fewer Populists and more poultry, times Wouiu
not be so hard with us nor the volume OF clrcu-
lating medium so inadequate for the needs Oh
the people.-Tulare Register.
A man that depends on misrepresentation to
do business sooner or later gets to the END or
his string and it don't stretch worth cent
when he gets there.-Phenix Herald.
San Francisco has an eye open to the advan-
tage OF extending the San Joaquin road to salt
Lake City, Utah. We had better "get move
on."-Los Angeles Express
From the present outlook there will be little
mourning, even among the Democrats, when
the present Congress expires by limitation
Eureka Standard
Slowly but surely the power of the Democrats
has slipped away from them in the Senate
Santa Barbara Press.
The income tax is making rich people feel
poorer than anybody nowadays.-Woodland
Democrat.
letter of coincidence from Cleveland TO
Lfliuokalani is in order.-Nevada Tribune.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24

For coloring iron and steel a dead black
OF superior appearance and permanency the
right article has long been sought, and, to
meet this want, NJ. Manure now proposes a
fluid, of which the following is the formula:
One part bismuth chloride, two parts mer-
curry bichloride, one part copper chloride,
six parts hydrochloric acid, five parts alco-
hol, and fifty parts water, these being, of
course, well mixed
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24
PROTECTION FROM FIRE.
SausaIito VIII Soon Have "a Departme emit
and Apparatus.

Efforts that promise to be successful are
being made to establish and equip a fire
department at Sausalito. The trustees
and the water company are preparing to
place hydrants along the entire water front
and on some of the hills above. The natu-
raj force of the water from above is about
100 pounds at tide level. The hose will be
one and a half inches in diameter.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24

You and yours may be the victim of diphtherfa
unless you provide yourself with a weapon of de-
Tense Hoods Sarsaparilla will build you up and
prevent the attack.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24

He who most enjoys the peace of to-day
will be best fitted for the fight of tomorrow.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24

THE fashionable ladies corrective tonic is DIR.
Seigert's Angostura Bitters, the renowned South
American tonic.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24

The coming man must hurry up or the
new woman viii head him off.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24

The average American has leisure for
everything except leisure.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

The plan for opening the rich placers of the
Sierras without obstructing the waterways OF
the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys is be-
lieved by eminent engineers to be feasible, and
the promotion of an enterprise that would
result so advantageously to the entire State
cannot be too earnestly desired The millions
of gold that is locked up in the gravel-beds
once unearthed would bring prosperity to
every section. But the Sierra gold is not the
only, nor indeed the greatest, wealth that
awaits our utilization. Every mountainsde
every canyon and winding gulch from the
summit line of the Sierras on the east to the
western foot of the Coast Range is a mine
whose riches each winter rain brings to our
very doors, but to whose presence we fatuously
continue to be blind.-Placer Republican.
1t has been suspected that the railroad com
pany would try to get repeal of the section of
the code under which it has been so badly
worsted by DR.. Robinson, and now it is at it,
The proposed amendment would practically
give railroads power to deny stop-over privi-
leges, by allowing them to sell all their tickets
as communication or excursion tickets (having
another set of tickets printed, but not Sold
The law should stand as it is, and the railroad
should obeyit.-oakland Enquirer.
While California is discussing the subject OF
good roads and how to get them the East is
busying itself with the introduction of electric
and motor roads on the public highways.
There is no reason why the two problems can
not be solved at the same time. One is as i'm
portant as the other. Wagon transportation
has been superseded by railroad transportation
Tor long distances; what is now needed is
electric or motor transportation for short dis
tances.-San Jose Mercury
In China the men wear skirts and the women
trousers. When 1t comes to fighting the bat
ties OF their country those skirts do not seem to