The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-19


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TUESDAY. MARCH 10, 1895
To-day we welcome the manufacturers.
1t is easier to ridicule society than enter
it.
The cold snap was no frost for fruit
prices.
1t is sometimes fatal to mistake masked
robber for joker.
The rain dropped in at the right time TO
find good welcome.
With a terminus assured in this city the
peoples railroad is on velvet.
The fair bicyclist who skins the plain
is not necessarily milkmaid.
Governor Budd should see to it that his
veto mill is in good working order.
The Harbor Commissioners are all right,
and the competing road won't get left.
Even the stilled heart of the Monterey
and Fresno Railroad has begun TO beat
again.
When the railroad gets out of politics it
will leave good opening for statesmen to
get in.
The silurian considers he has the State
in pawn and is waiting for progressive men
to redeem il.
The fashion of ridiculing San Francisco
society has got to be chestnut and ought
to be roasted.
Every argument is on the side of street
improvement, and the only thing against
it is stupidity.
San Francisco seems really to be glad
over the recent discovery that she has been
here all the time.
Everybody will listen to the manufac-
turers this week in the expectation of
words Of good cheer.
The best thing Spain can do with Cuba
is to put it on the bargain counter the first
day that Uncle Sam goes shopping.
The first cargo of rails for the competing
road will soon be on the way, and in
short time after that they will be on the
road.
The only defect in the Mark Twain and
Max O'Rell circus is the difficulty of de-
Gliding which is the clown and which is the
trick mule.
Since the Merchants Association has
shown how the streets can be kept clean,
it is about time for the City officials to
profit by the lesson.
The Manufacturers Convention has an
important subject before it, and unless it
puts the best foot foremost it may have the
bad luck to put its foot in it.
st. Louis felt so desperate over the clos
ing Of her saloons last Sunday that her
people all went out into the parks and
fields and drank in the pure, fresh air.
1t is a sad thing for Fresno that lust as
she is blooming out as a live town she
should be afflicted with a trial that calls
the attention of the world to her fossil in
dustry.
The glowing reports from Los Angeles,
Santa Barbara and Santa Rosa of prepare
tons for the floral festivals, shou@ stimu-
late other sections of the State to equal
enterprises.
Cobblestones would be excellent material
with which to build headstones for those
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who neglect the only remedy that will re-
ieve their pain.
With a Cuban revolt, controversy with
the United States, riot in Madrid and a
Cabinet crisis all on her hands at once,
Spain evidently feels that the world is a
bull-ring and everything is coming her
way.
The rashness of Spanish officers in firing
on American ships leads to the conclusion
that the Cuban revolt is more serious than
the Government will admit, for the officials
would not be so brash if they were not I'M
easy.
On one day we are told Rosebery is sick
because he is weary of Parliament, and on
the next that he is weary of Parliament
because he is sick, but in spite of all he
keeps right along as if he were neither sick
nor weary.
Henry NJ. Loud, a millionaire Detroiter.
is planting 600 acres in deciduous fruits
near Pomona, and thereby setting an ex-
ample of good business sense that should
make every silurian in San Francisco fall
and crack his occiput on a cobblestone.
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the competing road in the different coun-
ties to be traversed ought to show definite
results by the close of this week and assure
the construction not only of the main
route, but of one or more profitable branch
ines. "a
A Sheriff in British Columbia, who had
seized a newspaper for debt, took advantage
of the occasion to issue an extra denouncing
the editor, and it would seem that the
only recourse left the edit.r is to sue the
Sheriff for criminal libel and make him
arrest himself.