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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-13
THE BIRTH OF TASTE.

1t is not surprising that Californians are
giving evidence of the effect their environ
ment of natural beauties might have been
expected to produce. Not until this year.
however, has this movement found an ex-
tensive development. Santa Barbara had
already given its beautiful flower festivals
as an evidence of a refined taste in under
standing that an abundance of handsome
flowers presented splendid opportunity
for artistic effects in spectacular demon
stration, and not only has its example
been followed in other parts of the State,
but the idea has been rapidly expand ed,
and now Santa Cruz adds the last touch
with its gorgeous water carnival, the most
brilliant and artistic spectacle ever seen in
the West.
In other directions the growth of taste is
seen. The organization of league to pur-
chase the work of local painters of merit is
one of them. Equally gratifying is the
great advancement of taste in the archi-
lecture of homes. Long before either of
these had taken firm ground interior deco
ration had been carried to a very high
point, followed quickly by demand for
artistic furniture. For some time the in
teriors of San Francisco houses have been
far more attractive than their exteriors.
In every city and town of the State ex.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-13
Music and
Musicians.

Emily Crawford, the Partisan correspondent,
speaks enthusiastically of the Australian
voices in Mime. Marchesis school. 1.-The pro-
tessor," she says, 'swho taught Krauss, Nevada
and Melba can now Gull voices for her concerts
from every quarter of the globe. America
seldom furnishes anything but light sopranos.
They are high, clear, tuneful, not wanting IN
sweetness, but often what the French call voix
blanches. They are voices, perhaps to ad-
mire, but not TO fall in love with. Do they in
dictate unloving natu res? Warmer voices come
from Australia, the competition from when
quarter of the globe existing queens OF song
must be prepared for. Melba. need hardly
say, is an Australian. heard at the last Mar
chest concerto very fine contralto singer, ana
was told that she was a Miss Crossley from
Melbourne. She was engaged to sing few
days later before the Duke and Duchess OF
York. rich, rare, strong and expressive
voice it was, and very well managed"
Immediately after appearing in Paris MISS
Crossley went to London and made her debut
at Queens Hall, with another Marchesi grad
uate, Miss Laura Burnham of Boston, a high
light soprano. Both girls made an immediate
success in London, Miss Burnham surprising
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clamped to the two rear forks, and the spoon
is attached to the spring steel, SO that when
the pressure is released it Immediately comes
back to its normal position, disengaging from
the tire. The upright rod is in two parts, SO
that it max be heightened or shortened to
correspond with the height of the saddle when
raised or lowered. The spoon and spring are
enameled in black, and the upper part of the
brake is nickeled. The point is made that the
brake works directly on the rear or power
wheel; also that with both hands on the
handles and both feet on the pedals the rider
can regulate the brake at pleasure by moving
q little further back on the saddle than usual.
1t is explained that in case of a collision being
inevitable the rider can throw the entire
weight of the body on the brake and stop in
stantly, but that header is avoided by the
weight being so far back.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-13
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 49, 1895

cept San Francisco the value of flowers as
an exterior decoration is fully understood
and the art assiduously cultivated. The
almost total lack in this City of refined
taste in this regard is as inexplicable as
deplorable, and the lack is made all the
more poignant by the Indifference shown
by the wealthiest residents. whose dreary
acres of bluegrass lawn are the only
evidence they know how to give of the
floral possibilities of the climate.
But their successors, who possibly will
have enjoyed the benefits of q higher edu-
cation. will correct this fault in time and
show US gardens which at least approx
mate in beauty those observed in Eastern
cities where extreme cold makes gardening
a task.
All the advances in taste which we do
observe are SO DANGEROUSLY urged by the
natural conditions of the State itself that
it requires extraordinary denseness to re-
sist their influence.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-13
HOWARD CHURCH TO MOVE,
A Pioneer Institution Turns Toward
the Western Addition

n flOneer institution Turns Toward
the Western Addition.
The Howard Presbyterian Society has
asked leave of the Superior Court to sell
its property on Mission street, near Third.
on which its church stands, and purchase
lot in another locality. 1t asks leave to
mortgage the lot at present in its possess
sion for second $40, 600, in order to make
the desired purchase.
The society is an ancient one, having
been incorporated in September. 1850.
1t now intends to move into the Western
Addition, to the corner of Oak and Baker
streets. The petition says:
In the course of events and the development
and extension of the City and its interests,
your petitioners can best meet the needs and
conditions OF its population by this action. At
the time OF Incorporation of this society, the in
vironments were different from what they ex-
list to-day and the religious necessities and
exigencies have been met through the in
huence OF this corporation. Your petitioners
have zealously watched and guarded the well
fare of the Howard Presbyterian Society and
now are convinced and persuaded that they
must respond to new requirements and needs
and that the territory which it is the desire of
this society to occupy offers fattering induce
ments and results to the ends and aims for
which this corporation was created.
Judge Hebbard will hear the petition on
Monday next.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-13
THE NATIVE DAUGHTERS.

While Santa Cruz is rejoicing in her
water carnival and delighting in pleasures
that suggest a revival of old Venice, Grass
Valley feels the stimulus of the Grand
Parlor of Native Daughters, and in the
beauty of the strong young womanhood
gathered there beholds at once a symbol
and proof of the glory of California. 1t
is not necessary for the Native Daughters
to wear Venetian robes to make festival
nor to wear crowns in order to reign as
queens over joyous hearts. While, there
fore, Santa Cruz is rich with splendid
pageants and glad with thousand joyous
sights and sounds, Grass Valley has moth
ing to envy her, and in the fair beauty of
the Grand Parlor will not lament the alb
sence of the ceremonial glories of the
water carnival.
It is pleasing to learn from the reports
read at the business meeting that the
Grand Parlor is in fiourishing condition
as regards both membership and finances.
The order now includes 2174 members, and
its finances have enabled it during the
past year to extend many benefits to the
sick. Thus the order grows in vigor and
usefulness, and, like the California woman
herself, is both strong and helpful. There
can be no doubt that in the past it has
rendered great service, not only to the
members, but to society at large, and from
the record of these past accomplishments
good auguries can be drawn of greater
benefits yet to be gained through the ever
widening influence of its noble and loyal
membership.
Grass Valley has shown itself in every
way worthy of entertaining the company
which the Grand Parlor has brought to it.
The Native Daughters and their friends
have found there welcome as substantial
as the mountains and as genial as the eli
mate. All factors of the reception have
tended to confirm the good opinion which
the visitors and their hosts had of one an
other at the start. No locality better rep
resents the spirit of California than Grass
Valley, and looking at it, therefore, as an
epitome of the whole State, we may safely
say it has afforded the Native Daughters
reason to be as proud OF California as Cali
fornia is of them.
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PERSONAL.
L. Kicks of Eureka is in town.

HI. Kicks of Eureka is in town.
g. L. Turner of Los Gatos is in the City.
JILL. Tuck is down from the Golconda
mines.
Alb. Mckee, merchant of stockton, is a
guest at the Lick.
George NJ. Matheson, a Stockton manufac-
turer, is at the Grand.
V. s. McClatchy, of the Sacramento Bee, is a
guest at the California.
W. Hughes, of the United States Navy, is
registered at the Palace.
J. w. Hueston, merchant Of Portland, Or,
is registered at the Grand.
H L. Borgwardt Jr., Sheriff of Kern County, is
staying at the Russ House.
Harry Postlethwaite, mining man from San
Jose, is staying at the Lick.
Sheriff T. M. Brown of Humboldt County Is
staying at the Russ House.
Frank L. Coombs, lawyer and politician from
Napa, is a guest at the Grand.
Professor and Mrs. Driver are down from San
Jose and are staying at the Palace.
T. L. Arnold, a member of the State Board of
Equalization, is registered at the Lick.
NJ. v. Brown, wealthy fruit-buyer and COM
mission man of Los Angeles, is registered at
the Grand.
L. A. Richards of Grayson Assemblyman
from the Fifty-seventh District and noted
horseman, is in the City.
Byron Waters, claim agent for the Southern
Pacific, has returned from long sojourn in
the south and is registered st the Occidental.
Miss Marjorie Forbes, the gifted young
Australian soprano who arrived by the steamer
Monowai, has left for the East. She will fill an
opera engagement in New York.
Robert B. Marshall, ". T. Turner and R. u
Good are at the Occidental. They are men,
bers of the United States Geological Survey,
and Mr.. Good is chief Of this division.
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best features of Santa Cruz as a place OF
pleasure resort and general festivity. The
homes and hotels are planned in hospita-
BILE proportions. The city may be thronged
but it is never crowded.
All reports agree that the carnival is one
OF the brightest and gayest entertainments
ever provided in an American city for the
delight pleasure-seekers It is sufficiently
olfferent from the floral fetes of other cities
to be as distinct from them as the carnival
at venice Is from that in other Italian cities,
and hike the famed Venetian festivals
therefore is sure to hold favorite and UNI
rlvaled place in public estimation. It has
been no slight work to arrange fete of
this kind and the people of Santa Cruz
well deserve all the praise it brings them.
The number of visitors already present is
large, and now that it is known there are
abundant rooms for more, we may be sure
the closing days will be brighter, gayer and
lvelier than those that preceded them.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-13
A SUMMER STORY,

The report that in appointing Olney to
the State Department Cleveland intends to
Americanize his foreign policy must be
taken with as much allowance as the re-
ports of his success in trout fishing. From
time immemoriaI the beginning of sum-
mer has been known as the silly season. It
is the time when the world shifts itself from
a business basis to hammock and firta-
tons become so common that men are pre-
pared to flirt even with politics. In such
a season we may expect anything. Rumors
are as rife as insects, and political specu-
iators in the easy swing of the worlds
sweet hammock may be excused If, when
hearing some droning noise in the picnic
air they should be too calmly lazy to seek
to determine whether it be the buzzing of
a Presidential bee or the careless hum
ming of June bug.
1t is ponderous idea that is suggested
by the rumor. A conception of Cleveland
and Olney constructing vigorous foreign
policy as platform for the fat man to
stand on as candidate for a third term is
something the imagination cannot sus-
tain. Vigor of design comes not from
oleaginous tissue but from brains, and
Americanism is not the result of bean
diet, but warm-hearted sympathy with
the aspirations of the people. What then
are we to expect from Cleveland and
Olney? Are these already semi-fossilized
functionaries to be born again and born
different2 Such ideas do not belong to the
domain Of probabilities. AS Shakespeare
said, they are beyond beyond They are
out of reach of reason and can be enter
tanned only by men who are willing to
grant the hospitality of the mind to every
tramp report that strays about the world.
1t is to be regretted that the man who
started the rumor did not give us an out
line of the proposed policy. The idea,
which is too leaden ana heavy for consid-
Grafton in its compact form, if it had been
beaten out thin might have afforded a
holiday amusement. There is certainly
room enough in the present international
situation for Grover to make wide spread
if he wishes. It'll true he has compromised
himself beyond redemption in Boring Sea,
Hawaii, Venezuela, Cuba and Central
America, but there are chances for him in
Armenia and Madagascar, and possibilities
in Korea. Interference in these places
would get him into the very thick of
diplomacy, and the combination of Cleve-
landism and Olneyism there would make
all Europe gasp and stare, as well as cause
novel sensation at home
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-13
BUSINESS POINTERS FOR LIVE
PEOPLE.

The Amargoza CLOS Angeles County, irriga-
ton district will hold an election, pursuant to
the call of the board of director. of that dis
trict, on Monday, July /, for the purpose of
submitting to the electors the proposition of
bonding the district in the amount of $40, 900,
and bear interest at per cent. The election
viii be in conformity with the Wright act and
acts amendatory thereto.
The Board of Supervisors of Santa Cruz
County advertise that up to and including
Monday, July %, at 10 A. NJ, they will receive
bids, to be opened at that time, for the erection
of courthouse building on the courthouse lot
on Cooper street and Pacific avenue in the city
OF Santa Cruz. The plans and specifications
were drawn by Architect N. A. Comstock, and
are on file with County Clerk Edward Martin
at Santa Cruz.
The city of Portland, Or, will receive sealed
proposals until Tuesday. June 1S, at P NJ, for
the whole or any part of 5000, 900 of the water
bonds OF that city, in denominations of $1,000
each, dated July l, 1893, payable thirty years
from date, and bearing per cent interest,
payable on the first days OF January and July
OF each year. Frank T. Dodge is clerk of the
City Water Committee of Portland.
Until July 1 the City Council of San Diego
u
Notwithstanding system for that city The
water works are to be paid for by the city in 5
per cent 4O-year bonds. The plans and specifi-
cations for the work were prepared by E. M.
Capps and Thomas M. Shaw, civil engineers,
and are On file with City Clerk George D. Gold
man OF San Diego.
The Board of Trustees Of the city of MERGED
have advertised that on June 20 they will open
DIGS Tor franchise to construct, lay down,
operate and maintain an electric telephone
ana telegraph plant and system, with all the
necessary appliances in the public streets of
MERGED, for period of twenty-five years, the
franchise to be granted to the highest bidder.
Inc city OF Marysville will hold special
election on Tuesday, June ID, when the propo-
sition to incur municipal debt of $40, 900 for
the purpose of acquiring, constructing and
completing drainage system for the city will
be submitted to the qualified electors
The toard of directors of the Selma Fresno
County irrigation district have called q spe-
clal election, to be held on June %, for the
purpose of raising the sum of $500, to be APP
plled to the liquidation of the outstanding in
debtedness of the district.
sealed bids for the purchase of $500 school
ponds OF 5000 each, bearing per cent inter-
est, issued by Lugo school district Los Angeles
County, will be received until June 20 at 2
p. NJ. by the Board of Supervisors of Los An
geles County.
Monte Vista school district, Los Angeles
county, viii on June Il hold an election for
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-13
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Mr.. Bikeleigh (taking his first lesson on the
wheel)-Am to keep on riding until you tell
me to stop?
Instructor-Yes; keep on as long as you can.
When you can't, get up and start again.-New
York World.
ssThis old fellow" said the teamster, fondly
pAtting his horse on the neck, "has been haul
ing for the city for twenty-five years."
s'Got pull, suppose" sneered the mug
wump Observation-Disclosures Journal.
He fwho has just been refused)-Of course I
know am not worthy of you.
She (who edits PRECIPITATION me. Your
rejection does not necessarily imply that you
are lacking in merit.-Truth.
Brooklyn Magistrate-The evidence shows
conclustyely, madam, that you threw stone
at streetcar.
Wife OF Striker-No, 1t doesn't, your Honor
It only shows that hit the streetear-Hudson
Register.
at seems funny" says the Manayunk Phi
losopher, "that boy can go to Sunday-school
alone, but 1t usually takes father and mother,
a grandmother and couple of aunts to take
him to the circus. "-Philadelphia Record.
Catterson-pve been hanging pictures all the
morning.
Hatterson-Didn't It make you tired to hold
your hands above your head?
Catterson-No; I've just been on a railroad
trip through Texas.-Judge.
Miss Zalby-I went into place the other day
and ordered icecream, and just think of it,
there were two flies in it,
Miss Lazjin-What did you do about it,
Miss Zalby-I ordered another plate.
Miss Lazjin-Dear mel How fond you are of
f1ies.-Roxbury Gazette.
Hiram" said Mrs. Huskins, 1--WE see heap
bout the Mosquito Coast in the papers nova
days"
"Wel," was the reply, 'tPm glad of it. had
no cause ter regret emigratin' from there, but
I'm allus glad to see New Jersey comm to the
front."-Washington Star.
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in ''Hamlet," LA Navarraise" and the ''Damna-
Il Eor,

in Hamlet, 'La Navarraise'' and the 'Damna-
ton of Faust"
1t is stated that the veteran conductor and
composer, Dr. Carl Reinecke, will soon lay
down his baton and retire from active musical
service in Leipsic, where for years he has con-
Quoted the Gewandhaus concerts.
Rafael Joseffy, the pianist, has renowned his
allegiance to the Emperor of Austria as pre-
nmlnary TO becoming citizen of the United
states. Joseffy lives in North Tarrytown, N. Y.
Paderewski has nearly finished his opera and
the WORK viii probably be first produced in
Lonoon under the auspices of Sir Augustus
Harris
newspaper in Paris, that was hard up for a
sensation, recently invented the news that Miss
Sibyl Sanderson had committed suicide.
Lady Halle, the famous violinist will, it is
said. give concerts in the United States next
season.
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UP TO DATE IDEAS.

device by which the weight of the rider OF
bicycle is made to automatically act as
brake is recent invention. 1t is called the
saddle brake. 1t is light in weight and strong.
1t is clamped securely to the saddle springs
underneath the saddle, and fits equally WELL
it is said, two round springs, one fat spring
and one square spring, or, in fact, any kind OF
a spring, says the New York Sun. It is also
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-13
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

writer in a Boston daily defends the in
creasing size of the Sunday newspapers in an
original manner. No one. he remarks, OBJ
1ecf to the increasing size of a city directory,
dictionary or bill of fare, regarding these
things rather as an indication Of progress than
otherwise. He regards the tendency Of the
Sunday newspaper in the same light. Possibly
the excellence and popularity of the Sunday
newspaper is largely due to the great number
of advertisements it contains.-New York
Printers Ink.
The great principles that will animate the
Republican party henceforth will be bimetal-
lism and protection. They go together and
constitute the "cloud of smoke by day and the
pillar of fire by night" that will lead this coun-
try out of the wilderness of financial despond
and political incompetency that now over
whelms it.-Phoenix (Arizona) Herald.
oregon will soon pay all the annual interest
land later the principally she owes in the East
in prunes and other fruit. Intensified farming
and fruit-growing will make us independent
and prosperous. Let the work of dividing the
large farms and the development of the small
ones proceed.-Salem Statesman.
The goldbug press says that free silver is the
policy of men who wish to pay their debts
in cheaper money than they promised to pay.
But what motive is it that prompts those men
who favor free silver and have no debts to pay,
are not mine owners and are well to do.-Vir-
ginia (Nev.) Enterprise.
Banks may fail, cashiers may abscond, but no
cashier ever absconded with a block OF city real
estate in his grip, and no man with his money
invested in good property ever awoke in the
morning to find that his little saving had van
ished during the night.-Berkeley Dispatch
AS long as Alameda will not undertake q
local celebration of the Fourth of July there is
no urgent reason against cooperating with
San Francisco in the observance of the day,
but on the contrary, very good reasons why
she should co-operate.-Alameda Telegram.
1t will be well-deserved compliment to Cal
ifornia, both as q political factor and desir-
able section of the country for summer gath
ering if San Francisco is selected as the city in
which to hold the next Republican National
Convention.-San Diego Union.
The man who has been all his life high
stopper, who has from his high pedestal looked
down upon his neighbours frugality and called
it parsimony is fourishing in bankruptcy
courts nowadays. He is bound to fly high
Woodland Mail.
When we have an honest administration
there will be no trouble about the honesty of
the silver dollar.-Albuquerque IN. NJ Citizen.
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ROOM In SANTA CRUZ.

According to dispatch from General
Manager Charles B. Tidball there are
plenty ofrooms disengaged as yet in Santa
Cruz. Visitors to the carnival, therefore,
may be sure of comfortable and commo-
dious lodgings in which to rest after the
gayeties of the day and evening. This
abundance of accommodation is one Of the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-13

Crooked contractors 'view with alarm
the encroachments of the Merchants Asso-
citation.
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The Civic Federation not only puts in
some good ticks itself but causes others to
do so.
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When Market street gets its new dress
some will be tempted to call it Boul' Mar
quette.
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the purpose of bonding the district for $500,
that sum to be used in building and furnishing
q schoolhouse.
The citizens of Anaconda, Mont, will on
June "a vote on the proposition to bond the
city for 1874 900 for the purchase of site and
the construction thereon OF City Hall.
santa Monica, CAL. will on June Is vote on
the question of issuing school bonds in the
amount of $4,000, of the denomination of $500
each, bearing per cent interest
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-13

There would be truly good times this fall
if we could write Kentucky up as Repub-
lican State.
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The silver dollar is not much of buzz
saw, but it managed to split Democracy
Just the same.
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1t breaks the hearts of King Cobble and
his retinue of silurians to learn that Mar
ket street is to be paved.