The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-14
THE SUMMER MONTHS.

miss it. Orders given TO the carrier or left at
Business Office, no Market street, will receive
prompt attention.
Once more for the streets.
We must attend to our ways.
The orchards are booming now.
Every street downtown calls for improve
ment.
The Eastern strike is hitting industry
very hard.
Whenever Cleveland has lucid interval,
he goes fishing.
When acetylene comes in, gas will be
the light that fails
In San Francisco every prospect pleases
and only the streets are vile.
There is "good time coming" for every
one who coaxes it intelligently.
Suspicion without wisdom is an orange
tree whose only fruit is thorns.
In the lull of National politics let US at
tend to municipal development.
By and by California artists will not
have to go abroad to be honored.
There is cheating in all trades except
those in which there are no fools.
The man with most wheels in his head is
least apt to have balance-wheel.
So far as streets and highways are con-
cerned the bicycle is the wheel horse of re-
form.
The boom of Lodi's progress gun is re-
sounding throughout the San Joaquin
Valley.
If you wait on the world it will bring you |
nothing, but if you go for it, it will treat |
you we'll.
1t does not matter if there is job in the |
work of street improvement so long as it |
is good job.
We are pleased to see the Examiner join
ing earnestly and effectually in the fight |
for good streets.
keep your cyclone cellars in order" is
standing paragraph in Nebraska and Kan
sas papers just now.
The best community is that in which the
largest proportion of the people work to-
gether for the general good.
If the people of the northern region of
the Mississippi Valley have lost their fruit |
California will supply them with better.
Frost in the Mississippi Valley and hot
spell in California is the kind of variety
show the May weather is giving US.
This is very good week for those in au-
thority to settle the controversy over the
lease of the China Basin and settle itright.
The prevalence OF footpads hereabout
suggests a renewal of the agitation con-
corning the efficacy of the whipping-post.
Science continues to do more for US than
politics and the inventor brings in new
order of things while the reformer is talk
ing.
The Healdsburg fete opens Thursday,
and the roses and girls are all remaining
IN the bud, to blossom forth the more COR
geously for the waiting.
Ii the Mission does not quit advancing
so rapidly the Western Addition will begin
to wonder if its streets and streetcar ser
vice need special attention.
1t is growing more and more probable
that the defeat of China may prove as COM
plete victory for Ii Hung Chang and re-
form as it was for the Mikado and Japan.
Now that gambling in its worst forms is
to be abolished at Monte Carlo, some
American tourists will not have SO strong
an inducement to spend their money
abroad.
The welcome shown to the Valley road
directors in the San Joaquin Valley shows
that the enthusiasm of the whole valley is
based on an understanding and not pass
ing whim.
If the footpad industry is not soon sup
pressed the crop of husbands who explain
to their wives, on arriving home late and
disheveled, how they lost their money will
be alarmingly increased.
1t is an undisputed truth that whoever
improves his private property improves
the City, and it is none the less true that
every improvement of the City is an i'm
provement for private property.
The smallest disagreement among those
who have the power and opportunity to do
something for the advancement of the
State, is step backward to the days when
grumbling took the place of enterprise.
Although DR.. Momerie had to be in
structed concerning the meaning of the
phrase "a jay town" as it has been applied
to San Francisco, he has said sufficient to
make us believe that our longest toe is not
behind.
Again the civilized world is shocked be-
cause very rich young man at Los
Angeles has fallen in love with variety
actress merely because she is pretty and
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