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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

As the Result Of Protest by Leading Min
listers Mayor Pagan Decided to Prevent
the Ingersoil Lecture, but Yielded 60 the
CitY Attornnv,s OninInn.
The morning call., 1895-02-14
A PROGRESSIVE POLICY.

The revival of civic patriotism in San
Francisco, so abundantly manifest in the
subscriptions to the competing road, and
so evident in the changed and cheerful
tone of public opinion, affords reason for
believing that the people are now prepared
to undertake long-needed municipal i'm
provements and will give cordial support
to the city authorities in carrying them
out.
The change of public sentiment in re-
gard to these matters has come none too
early. There are many things to be done
in San Francisco that should have been
done long ago. The evil effects of silurian
parsimony on one side and a wasteful in
efficiency in the city government on the
other are everywhere visible. The streets,
sidewalks, sewers, parks and public. build
ings exhibit our shortcomings to every
casual visitor; but only the citizen knows
how great those shortcomings are and how
inadequate to the needs of the community
are all those things which are dependent
upon the municipal government.
The election of a Mayor by a majority
which attests that he has the support of
the people without regard to party and
the presence in office of Board of Super
visors in whom the people have confidence,
afford a good occasion for beginning a
progressive policy of municipal improve
ment. In this respect the reviving spirit
of civic patriotism is most timely and
fortunate. Everything conduces to prog
ress and every intelligent citizen favors it.
We look therefore to the city government
to enter at once upon the work of improve
ment.. Let us have no longer that condi-
ton of streets and sewers that is disgrace
to the city and a danger to public health.
If there is no other way to raise the money
required for the needed improvements,
the city should borrow S5,000,000 for the
work Such loan could be made at a
very low rate of interest at this time and
the improved streets would well be worth
double what they would cost.
The morning call., 1895-02-14

and from her no ship in existence could es-
cape"
He may well say so. At moderate computa-
ton she could, from one broadside, fire 400
aimed shell every minute; if in the midst OF a
hostile fleet, every moment dozen shells
would be discharged, while TO this must be
added some ninety bullets from the Maxims!
With liberal discount for leisurely firing this
means that if this ship-H. NJ. s. "Porcupine"
let us call her-steamed for only FIVE minutes
between two hostile vessels, each of the two
enemy would in that period receive from ten
to twelve thousand shots of one sort and
another. This is what quick firing guns have
brought us to, and the building of the Porcu-
pine would mean an era of enormous and
swift ironclads. Neither torpedo-boat nor
cruiser could live within range OF her guns;
our much Wanted Royal Sovereign class
would make but a poor show before her; IN
deed, our Dreadnaught Thunderer, ana
Devastation are probably the only ships In
existence that could stand ten minutes of her
fire. There is a bright side to the picture, in
that such vessels would be little able to destroy
ships like themselves; the six inches OF steel
would keep out the vast majority OF prolecules
We are likely to hear good deal OF this pro-
jected ironcad in the course of the next Jew
months indeed, she may be laid down IN
modified form before any great time has elapsed
The great difficulties in connection with such
q vessel are TO accommodate the thousand
men or more necessary for the crew, and to OBJ
tain sufficient distribution of armament. The
only way out of these two problems is to make
her vessel of three or more gun decks, but for
the matter of that the whole tendency OF mod
ern warship construction has been IN that.di-
rection. The desire for what is known as strong
end-on fire, the recognition OF the advantages
accruing to guns placed at good height above
the water level, and the increased sea-keeping
qualities are but some of the factors In the
case.
In conclusion, may remark that we have in
the ships of the Agincourt closs-old lronclads,
originally intended to carry fifty guns apiece
vessels that could. without great expense, be
turned into experimental vessels OF the type
suggested by Mr. Cloves. One thing is certain,
the power that first has such vessels will, in
great measure, command at sea.
The morning call., 1895-02-14
THE REILLY BILL AGAIN.

The attempt to reSurrect the Reilly bill
after the emphatic vote of the other day
ought to result in failure. The PROPOSE
tion-as to which the companies have not
yet positively and officially committed
themselves-is that the Union and Central
Pacific corporations shall pay the prin-
cipal of the subsidy bonds on the condi-
ton that the Government RENTS the in
terest. In the case of the Central Pacific
the principal sum is something over
$27, 100000 the principal and interest
added together will amount, on the ma
turity of the bonds, to something like
$50, 100000. Mr.. Huntington offer is thus
to pay 40 cents on the dollar for full re-
lease. And the question is What claim
have the ulti-millionaires of the Central
Pacific to such an exercise of generous
forbearance on the part of the Government?
There are cases IN which it is sound
policy to compromise debt. Where the
debtor is poor but honest, and cannot pay
where he surrenders what he has without
cavil or litigation; where his use of his
creditors money has been judicious, con-
siderate and inspired by an unselfish de-
sire for the creditors benefit. In such
cases it is often better policy to take what
he offers rather than protract a contro-
versy of which the issue must be uncer-
tain But where there are grave doubts
whether the debtor ever gave thought to
the debt he was mourning, and used his
position merely to aggrandize himself;
where his use of the money does not seem
to have been guided by an enlightened
concern for the creditors benefit; where it
is at least doubtful whether he is making
the best offer he can, it would seem very
poor policy indeed to close with his offer
at least without further consideration.
The proposition gives the Government
nothing but what it can have at any time.
The subsidized line of the Central Pacific
is certainly worth $27 100000 over and
above the first mortgage. The Govern
ment can get that out of it by foreclosing
its mortgage. 1t would gain nothing by
accepting Reilly's new offer. Why hasten
| to Jump at it?
If Mr. Huntington offers $27, ,O0O,0 600 for a
release of the Government claim he is
ready to pay more. Let us wait for his
next bid.
Under any circumstances no bill should
| be passed which does not instruct the ad-
ministration to proceed against the private
estates of the owners of the roads to re-
cover whatever balance may be due the
Government. The Republican party should
take firm stand on this question, and we
urge the Republican National Committee
to make the Importance of the issue known
to every member of the party in Congress.
1t is subject too grave for compromise.
The interests of the Pacific Coast are the
same with those of the rest of the Union in
upholding the law. The debt must be paid
in full and every attempt to evade it must
j he heafpn
The morning call., 1895-02-14

this year the sum demanded is $3.50, GOO.
The appropriation for aged indigents in
creases regularly in a corresponding ratio.
The State is of course bound to care for
orphans, half-orphans, foundlings and aged
indigents whose relatives are unable or un-
willing to support them. But some discre-
ton ought to be exercised in the matter.
Charity ought not to cloak organized raids
on the treasury, planned with purpose OF
getting all the traffic will bear, and with a
secret purpose of relieving county or town
taxpayers of their natural burdens. 1t has
been said that the organized charities of
California are a model for other States to
follow. That is probably true, and it is a
matter of just felicitation. But the pride with
which we contemplate our large-handed
provision for those who cannot provide for
themselves is sometimes tempered by an
apprehension that we are letting our gen.
erosity run away with our due concern for
those who have to bear the burden not only
of supporting themselves and their depend
euts, but of contributing to support others
who are less fortunate. Yet both classes
are entitled to be considered.
The morning call., 1895-02-14
UP TO DATE IDEAS.

In all ages man mas had q Rankerlng after
the three-decker; Noah's ark itself, we are
nowadays told, was built something on the
three-decker plan. This. however, is more or
less surmise; but to come to later times we
know that no sooner was the galley evolved
from the primitive coracle, than its decks In
creased In number: and the trireme, with It's
three banks of oars, is the typical old-tlme
hghtlng-shlp, writes naval expert In the
London Sketch. When guns were invented
they were perforce, carried at first In one
decked vessels, but soon the three-decked ship
came in again, and most of the luster OF the
old-time sea-ights is rightly or wrongly asso-
ciated with three-deckers. When steam came
in the one-decked steamer had brief rule, but
it has left no mark on history. All we ever
knew OF the steam wooden walls is about the
three-deekers of the latter period. Then,
less than forty years ago, came the lron-
clad, and men fondly announced that the three
decker had gone forever. They are likely to be
shown false prophets. The Italian ironclad
Sardegna can put in half claim to be three
decker, but Laird Cloves, in recent article on
the utilization of the quick-fring guns, sug-
gested 1O1-gun ship, that pans out to nothing
more or less than the good old three-decker
brought up to modern requirements. Mr..
Cloves contents himself with giving general de-
tails, such as speed, % knots; tonnage, IL, 900:
guns, l6 6-inch quick-fring; 20 4.7-inch quick
firing; 20 12-pounder quick firing; 20 and 3
pounder ditto; % improved Maxim guns. The
ship would be completely covered with six
inches OF steel armor, and Mr.. Cloves says "no
ship in existence could stand up against her,
The morning call., 1895-02-14
THE FLOWER DEALERS.

The Florists and Flower-growers' Asso-
citation of California is applying to the
Board of Supervisors to raise the cost of
licenses issued to street peddlers of flowers.
The dealers who have stores complain of
the competition of dealers who sell their
goods on the pavements, and they de-
mand that the licenses of street venders
be raised high enough to crush them and
drive them out of the business. The
Supervisors may perhaps regard this as a
selfish way of looking at the question. If
they should happen to ask the members
of the Florists and Flower-growers' Asso-
citation where the interests of the public
lie in the matter it might puzzle them to
answer.
There is no mystery about the street
selling of flowers. They are usually goods
which were not sold on the day they
arrived from the conservatory and which
have lost their early freshness. Among
the hueksters who crowd round the Lotta
fountain several are actually in the
employ of the leading florists and sell their
employers wares on a salary. Others
operate on their own account, buying
from the florists flowers which are one or
two days old and which must be disposed
of at some price or another to avoid a
total loss. Several Italian boys who are
sharp and quick -witted make a nice living
in this way by peddling violets and
chrysanthemums. Now and then they
are caught by rainstorm just when they
have stocked UP, and then they realize a
loss which absorbs the profits of several
The morning call., 1895-02-14
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

"The people of Seattle are discussing propo-
sition which, if carried out, will go a long way
toward solving the hard-times problem which
confronts the people OF the State OF Washing
ton," said F. E. Wilson at the Palace yesterday.
"They have started movement for the organi-
zation of a cooperative coal company, the
object being to open up the Renton mines,
which, understand, have been closed for sew
eral years. These mines, it is claimed, can be
operated on an economical plan and made to
pay fairly well. The plan of the present com
pany is to issue 1000 shares of stock, valued at
500 per share, payable in monthly INSTALL
ments of $40 EACH or in full, as the subscriber
may desire. The principal feature of the un-
dertaking is the assurance of employment to
shareholders and steady work for the worthy.
The gentlemen who are at the head Of the
movement claim that it will pay full days
wages and that the time of labor will be limited
to eight hours per day."
Dr. J. ]. Morrill, of Milwaukee, who was at the
Occidental yesterday, gave an interesting ac-
count of the late smallpox riots in that city,
participated in exclusively by foreigners.
''The idea of vaccination possesses an mex
pressible horror to the minds of the element in
our population which caused the recent
troubles" said he. at was remarkable to dis
cover the resources they would adopt in order
to evade the vigilance of the physicians when
the disease made itself manifest in family In
one instance child which had died with the
disease remained unburied for two days in
house where five other children and the parents
were constantly exposed to it. The idea pre-
vailed among these people that vaccination
was in reality worse than the smallpox, and it
was in most instances impossible to eradicate
this belief from their minds. Even thePriests
who usually have great influence over them,
found their efforts unavailing when they at
tempted to induce the Poloeks to comply with
the law
f'The farmers of Colorado were the first to dis
cover the true solution of the cheap wheat
problem" said H. e. Hatch, Denver cattle
man, at the Russ yesterday. 'Their plan has
passed the experimental stage and has been
demonstrated success. The low prices which
have characterized the wheat market there for
q long time past compelled the farmers to hold
over large quantities of the grain. Finally
they began feeding it to their hogs, and in that
district along the line of the Arkansas River
this plan is generally followed now. The price
of pork while it is, of course subject to certain
variations, seldom If ever reaches so low
mark that it becomes improbable to raise the
meat. Wheat is good fattening food, and by
putting it into the shape of pork the growers
receive fine price for it, hear the plan is
also in successful operation in Washington
where am told there are rs 900 hogs in one
county being fattened in this way"
The morning call., 1895-02-14

cigar. Smoking has its benefcent aspects, and
billiards may be wholesome and recreative ex-
ercise at three miles an hour as well as per-
fectly legitimate form of manual skill and a
less legitimate form of making and losing
money, but the arts touch the springs of a
mans higher nature and are subtly capable of
recreating and purifying his emotional life,
Of all the arts, music clings most closely about
the emotions, and rightly employed and prop
erly understood is one of the greatest means of
wholesome exhileration-a great burden-lifter,
great consoler, and a sweet and inexpensive
means of restoring his energies and renovating
his oyertaxed faculties for the active and
somewhat deadening routine of business life.
The present effort that is being made to re-
tain man of Mr.. Scheers intelligence and
ability is worthy of all praise. He has it in his
power to educate the masses musically as
Monsieur Julian did, and after him Mr.. Mellon
in cur country.
TIE stiffer and sublimer forms of the art
must be introduced in homeopathic doses and
by degrees the Judgment of the people at large
would be won by great and good art and
weaned from what is merely mean and trivial.
The incessant demands that have been made
upon me since my arrival in San Francisco to
express my opinion in season and out of season
upon every conceivable subject and my desire
to crafty to the best of my limited powers
what seem TO be the wishes OF my friends,
among whom l may include the editors of the
press, must be my excuse for any apparent
hastiness in judgment. 1 generally said what
1 thought. Sometimes l may have been right
and sometimes l may have been wrong-honi
soft qui NAL pense.
/ leave San Francisco with one almost over
powering feeling of having been rated above
my merits, whatever they may be. But, in so
far as this treatment has been prompted by the
kindest and most spontaneous feeling, can
have nothing to offer in return but my hearth
est thanks, and beg to assure all my friends
that l shall carry away with me the pleasantest
recollections and the liveliest appreciation OF
the great and enterprising qualities of the peo-
pie who have built up this new world and ac-
complished such phenomenal results in such
an incredibly short space of time.
1 believe there will come a time when San
Francisco will not only attract more fully the
highest musical talent to the Pacific Coast but
will be herself a great musical emporium for
the supply of great vocalists to the Western
world. 1t may be that something like ma
tional school of American music-a thing as
non-existent in America as it is in England
will emerge from the Pacific and not the Allan
tic Coast.
The morning call., 1895-02-14
POSSIBLE INFLUENCES OF MUSIC
IN SAN FRANCISCO.
BY THE REV. H. R. HAwEIs.

1t is great mistake to suppose tn at under
rate the musical merits of San Francisco My
impression at first was that there was some
lukewarmness in supporting high-class music,
but on further acquaintance with the resources
of the town, and especially OF the work OF
Mr.. Scheel l became quite convinced that
there is e. very strong party deeply impressed
with the value of good musical performances.
In most great capitals, especially mercantile
capitals, lighter forms OF entertainment will
necessarily predominate. All one can look for
is the recognition and practical support OF art
in its higher forms. Mr.. Irvings reception in
San Francisco proves that the best klnc oil
dramatic art will collect the dollars, and the
attendance on Sadie Martinot's unique per-
formances shows that San Franciscans have the
keenest appreciation of the most delicate and
subtle forms of humor.
One thing has particularly struck me, and
that is the beauty OF the California voices. 1t
is a matter of public notoriety that San Fran
cisco has supplied the finest OF our modern
sopranos.
Let me again express my conviction that the
more strain there is put upon the business men
The morning call., 1895-02-14
THE NEXT ENTERPRISE.

In order that San Francisco may have
her rightful prestige in the Union she
should take her place among what we may
call national convention cities-that is, she
should be one OF those centers in which the
great political forces of the country are
periodically gathered up to shape the plat
forms of parties and nominate candidates
for the Presidency.
There are some disadvantages in the To-
cation of the city on the extreme western
edge of the continent which will at first
thought seem to render San Francisco un-
fitted for the assembling OF such conven-
tions These disadvantages, however, are
more than counterbalanced by the advan-
tages. The climate in the summer months
is an important factor in the comfort
of crowded assemblies, and on that score
San Francisco is so far superior to any
other large city in the Union that COM
parison is out of the question. In the
matter of hotel accommodation also this
city is equal to the foremost. Certainly
no city in the world has a better hotel
than the Palace, which is famed all round
the globe, not only for its size and mag
nifcence, but also for its appointments
and management: and that hotel does not
stand alone, but is only chief among
many hardly inferior to it. We have also
a Pavilion ranking among the best build
ings of its kind, capable of easily accom-
modating the largest convention, which
would afford every convenience both for
delegates and spectators.
This being the case, THE CALL is in favor
of making a vigorous effort to secure the
holding the Republican National Conven-
ton in this city in July, 1896. We should
be glad to have the Union League and
other Republican clubs of the city under
take the work. We are aware that it will
cost money, and in order to defray the ex-
pense, THE CALL promises to bear due
share of the expenditures for the prelimi-
nary canvass and arrangements; and in
addition to that, if the Republican National
Committee calls the convention in San
Francisco THE CALL will contribute $1,000
toward paying the cost for preparing for it.
We believe that the convention can be
brought here if the right arguments are
used and the work begins in time. We
therefore favor beginning it right now.
Let the Union League Club appoint com
mittee and begin.
The morning call., 1895-02-14

days. But they work hard, and. no one
who believes in the adage OF ''live and let
live" grudges them their poor little nickels
and dimes except the members of the
Florists Association.
1t might be fine thing for the florists
who keep stores to drive the petty retail
trade off the streets. But that would GER
tainly take away from Market street one
of its characteristic features. Few sights
III this city strike the winter traveller more
forcibiy than the display of bright and
apparently fresh flowers which the juno
ton OF Kearny and Market exhibits IN
the holidays. The wanderer has come
from lands OF snow and finds himself In a
land OF sunshine. He has left part OF
the country where the soil of gardens is
frozen hard, and there is not leaf on a
fiower-bush-a region where flowers raised
In .conservatories are only for the very
rich. Here he buys bunch of violets or
roses for bit or couple of bits, or for
dime adorns the lapel of his coat with
chrysanthemum as big as dessert-plate.
The morning call., 1895-02-14
ILL REGULATED BENEV0LENOE.

The investigation which has been con-
Quoted by committees from the Senate and
Assembly into the benevolent institutions
which receive aid from the State has led
to some curious disclosures. Any benevo-
lentinstitution caring for orphans or those
who are incapable of self-support can obtain
aid from the State by showing that it has
$3.50, 900 in property, and ten persons whom
it supports. Those counties which desire
to throw the burden of their INDECENT and
helpless population on the State found
such an institution. get ten inmates, and
then apply to the Legislature for an appro-
priation.
Furthermore, the law says that the State
shall not be asked to vote money in aid
of paupers or orphans where either the
county or relatives of the person who is
dependent is paying 500 a year for his
support. To evade this provision of the
law the counties and the relatives, with
the connivance of the officers of the insti-
tuition, contribute something less than
$100-say $50 or $95-and then they go to
Sacramento and demand their full share
of the appropriation for benevolent pur-
poses.
How the thing works in practice the
facts show. Six new institutions were
founded last year for the support of per-
sons who from various causes are depend
ents; they are now all applicants for State
bounty, and the regularity with which
their demands swell in volume every two
years is really remarkable. In 1881, the
State allowed $4,000 for the support of or
phans md half-orphans. In 1898, the
amount voted for two years was 5000, 600;