The San Francisco call., 1895-05-18

the hotel no man of any prominence can es-
cape us, and few of them want to. We have
all the luxury NECESSARY to make 1t pleasant
for our visitors and the result is they are glad
to return and think well of US when away"
$50 you don't believe in long speechesT'
'sWe don't allow it. No one is permitted to
harangue there. If such a thing should be at
tempted it would lead to stampede. And 1t
ought to. Who wants to go into his club, even
if he is built on political lines, and listen to
long complaint about the tariff or some other
equally weighty issue? Nobodyr'
''Do you not find it difficult at times to pull
down the windy members?''
tNever have the slightest trouble. Every
one is congenial. 1t is the most cosmopolitan
club in the world. One can always find some
person who is in sympathy with him and who
is willing to go off in quiet corner and talk
the matter over without display. When the
visitor from the outside precincts drops in he
finds congenial companions, and he can get
posted on any political issue before the people,
quietly, of course. No hurrah-just plain,
fiat-footed information, such as any intelligent
man would desire. Come in some afternoon.
Make yourself at home. See how we conduct
our club.
ooh, yes, our aim is good government, and
any one who will assist the Republican party
to the position it alone is able to hold will be
klfou Tic klIQ6hL TtCcpIlOu.
"Another thing" said the General, winking
a sly CLUB wink, 1--WE make the most insinuating
punch ever brewed on the Pacific Coast or else
where. When an associate member drifts in
from the districts and gets just one glass of our
brew, he sends for his family and takes up
residence in the city. There is no getting away
from its quality
"I think there is not the least doubt of our
raising the $45, 900 necessary for the proposed
narrow-gauge railway from our city to Peta-
luma," said Colonel Mark L. Mcdonald of
Santa Rosa yesterday afternoon.
''They want us to take $45 900 and Petaluma
$25, 600 of the $11O, 900 on fifteen years mort
gage bonds, and 1 feel certain there is enough
enterprise behind our capital to insure the
purchase of those bonds without delay, provid-
ing Petaluma does the right thing. John Nc
Near is the leading spirit in the movement at
the Petaluma end of the line, and he is an in
defatigable worker. He has dredged canal
leading to Petaluma Creek at an expense of
900, and his large interests there are such
as to guarantee his heartiest cooperation in
the enterprise. But this road means more to
Santa Rosa, perhaps, than to Petaluma. The
latter town already has the advantage of water
competition in transportation; but the mer-
chants and manufacturers at the county seat,
only sixteen miles farther from San Francisco
are at the mercy of the railway COM
pany. Our freight rates to San Fran
cisco are nearly twice those from Peta-
luna, despite the fact that we have compet-
ing road in the Southern Pacific branch from
Vallejo. We are bound to build the line and
think it is alsoin the cards to soon have road
built straight through to Eureka, Humboldt
County"
J. B. Crowley, an agent of the Treasury De-
partment, who is on his way to the Seal Islands
in Alaska to keep watch on the summers
catch, does not think that all that has been at
tempted by International arbitration will eff
feet much toward preventing the rapid decrease
of the seal herds.
81 have seen statement in the papers to-day
that Great Britain has issued an order that all
their vessels going into the Bering Sea may
carry firearms" said Mr.. Crowley. ''If so, they
cannot be very anxious to protect the seals.
hate to believe that Great Britain has taken
that course, but If she has she is not acting in
good faith. You can understand that when
any OF these sealing vessels are in the midst of
herd of seals the average sealer will not hesi-
tate to use firearms if there is no Government
vessel within sight and hearing
.There might just as well be no restriction
whatever in the use of firearms. However
there have been other methods of catching
seals devised SO that think they will catch
nearly as many without firearms as with them
The only remedy would be further interna-
tional agreements to prevent the deep-sea seal
ing. The large decrease in the number of the
seals now going on is due entirely to the deep
sea fishing. At the present rate the herds will
be almost destroyed in few years.
General William B. Bate, United States Sena-
tor from Tennessee, who has lately been visit
ing this city, went up to Yosemite several years
ago, and Reel Terry tells a story in connection
with the trip.
Senator Bate is man of unquestioned nerve
and yalor," said Terry. "He was a major
general In the Confederate army during the
war and noted for his personal courage. but il
was almost impossible for him to go into the
valley. On the trails along the precipices he
had to sit down and wanted to give 1t all up
and go back. But then he can take satisfaction
in knowing that other brave men are filed
with terror at much less dangerous sights.
There Is Lord Roberts, the most distinguished
soldier in the British army. who cannot bear
the sight Of q cat. Do you know, would like