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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08
ORATOR HoLBRooK BL1NN.
A FOURTH OF JULY SPEECH THAT PLEASED THE


FOURTH OF JULY SPEECH THAT PLEASED THE
ALAsKANs.
The Alaska Searchlight, in its current issue,
deVotes considerable space to description of
the Fourth of July celebration which took
place in the town of Juneau on July 4. Mrs.
Louis Auzerais' company Of actors being in
the city on that date, Holbrook Bltnn, as one
of the star members of the company of visitors,
was called upon to deliver the grafton in honor
of Independence day. In the course of his re-
marks Mr.. Blinn observed modestly that he
wished his part of the exercises had been
smaller one, as he feared he might not be able
to do the subject justice. The speaker referred
in eloquent terms to the war of 1776 and those
Immediately following and to the original
Puritan colonists of America, who, fleeing from
the moral slavery of the old country, estab-
lished for themselves a new and tree order Of
things.
Mr.. Blinn continued: "With the birth--even
with the conception-of the United States of
America a broad, liberal principle came. The
policy of amicable relation to sister nations. of
defense without offense, of reciprocity later,
of maritime alliance in the future, the Monroe
doctrine of protection to our neighboring,
struggling republics (Which policy America
has recently, during the Bluefelds trouble,
trembled over fearing that the stamina which
prompted 1t was dead) the stern principles of
finance inaugurated by the pioneer Secretary
of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton"
In conclusion Mr.. Blinn said: "Most of all
must we rejoice to-day in the fact that in so
short time our relations with all nations,
even our former combatants, have become so
warm. No nation is more secure, fearless in
an unarmed strength, rich in charity toward
the nations OF the earth than we are and let
us in our hearts hope to bring about, and let
our deeds tend to perfect this sweet alliance,
so that the Nation will go on and on building
and learning, and in this way show to the
shades of those early mighty ones that their
deeds were wise, their works well done, and
that the union of the States of America is
more glorious success than they ever pictured
in their dreams. Then our chlldren's children
and all those to come in the course of time
need never regret, but may ever rejoice in and
honor with richer and warmer welcome each
return of the Fourth of July"
Speaking of Mr.. Blinn's Grafton the Alaska
Mining Record says: "He delivered such an
Grafton as would do justice upon any platform
in our Union" The Alaska News, in an edi-
toriel, calls his speech ga mastery effort,
clean-cut ana free from the platitudes of she
spread-eagle stump speaker"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08
GOLD BONDS IN OHIO.

A new and important point in the con-
troversy over the silver question has been
raised in the East by the decision of Chief
Justice Minshall of the Supreme Court of
Ohio affirming it to be unlawful for a
municipal corporation to contract that its
debts shall be paid exclusively in gold.
The statement of facts in the case is thus
given by the Chicago Inter Ocean:
The trustees of the sinking fund of the city
of Cincinnati are anxious to refund a 4 per
cent Understanding debt of So, OOO, 600 A
syndicate of capitalists are ready to furnish
money for the refunding on basis of 1865 per
cent, provided that the new bonds shall be
made payable, principal and interest, in gold.
The trustees are about to accept the offer of
the syndicate when certain citizens pray for
an injunction in restraint of obligation to pay
in gold only. The Common Pleas Court rules
that the trustees are empowered to enter into
such obligation; the plaintiffs appeal to the
Circuit Court and the decree in Common Pleas
is overruled. The trustees now appeal to the
Supreme Court, and by it the ruling of the
Circuit Court is sustained. Thus, in SO far as
the highest court of Ohio can determine, it is
made unlawful for public body to diserim-
mate between silver and gold.
AS the decree was issued in vacation time
the argument upon which the deci-
sion was based has not been made public,
and it is not clear, therefore, upon what
ground it rests. 1t has, however, created
considerable discussion in the East and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08
A FORLORN HOPE.

The statement of Senator Hill that eff
Democrats intend to continue in business
in New York State we must nominate a
Western man for President" is only an
other of the many evidences that the fac
tions of the party in that State are hope
Iessly divided and that neither Whitney
nor any one else who has had any part in
the local fights for or against Tammany
can unite the party sufficiently to poll its
full vote in the Presidential election.
When the situation is studied from the
standpoint of New York it seems clear
enough that the Senator is right in urging
his party to look to the West for candi-
date, but when the standpoint is trans
ferred to the West and the search for a
candidate begins it is seen that the situa-
ton there is about the same as in New
York. Hill was not happy in selecting
William Z. Morrison as the coming leader.
Morrison has been leader in the party
faction fights of Illinois and any attempt
to advance him would as surely divide the
party in the West as the advancement of
Hill himself would divide it in the East.
The nomination of Morrison would be
the triumph of the extreme free-trade
therefore be of advantage to the country in
giving to the people chance to crush out
that faction in our politics by the defeat
of one of its foremost leaders, it is not at
all likely that such chance will be given.
The free-traders are in fact discredited at
the present time even in their own party,
and to put Morrison forward would be
simply to provoke a split in the party
ranks and encourage desertion.
The fortunes of the Democratic party
are indeed desperate. Not even in the
South does it present an unbroken front
on a single issue of Importance before the
country. tbs in fact doubtful if Hill him
self was really seeking to promote. har-
mony in the party when he suggested Nor
rison's name for the Presidency. 1t is
more than likely that he was inspired
mainly by desire to head off the move
ment in the party toward Whitney. The
Cleveland faction has been steadily build
ing up a sentiment in the gold wing of the
party favorable to Whitney, and it be-
hooves the Tammany leaders to start a
counter movement if they would retain
any prestige in the party ranks. If Hill
had in view the object of causing diver
sion from the administration candidate
when he put forward the name of Morri-
son it may prove to have been wise move,
but if he had any real desire to promote
the success of his party it can hardly be
accounted wise. To nominate one of the
rankest free-traders in the country at
time when free trade is utterly discredited
with the people by the disastrous expert
ence of the last two years would be for
lorn hope indeed. In fact the party might
Just as we'll commit suicide at once.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08
PERSONAL.

DIR. George ]. Lucas of oroville is at the
Grand.
F. G. Menefee, an attorney of Santa Cruz, Is
at the Lick.
G. R. seidell, a merchant from Stony Ford is
| at the Russ.
NJ Dinkelspiel, a merchant of Suisun, is stay.
ing at the Grand.
II. Prime, lumberman of Monterey, is stay
| ing at the Grand.
| R. C. Terry, vineyardist of CLAYTON, is a
| guest at the Lick
| III. Hagerty, q merchant of Sacramento, is
staying at the Russ
| Judge j. E. PreWett of Auburn registered at
| the Grand yesterday.
J. Burchell, a merchant of Gilroy, registered
| yesterday at the Russ.
Thomas Quinn, Sheriff OF Storey County,
Nevada Is at the Russ.
Joseph Ball, large landowner from the Big
Trees, is guest at the Russ.
JIM. C. Jasper, big hop-grower OF Wheat
land, is a guest at the Grand
A. Mcdonald, a mining man OF Shasta
County, is staying at the Lick.
DIR. J. W. Jesse of Santa Rosa was one OF yes
terday's arrivals at the Grand.
Fred Cox, capitalist and politician OF Sacra'
mento, is guest at the Grand.
Mountain, is at the Occidental.
NJ S. Sayre, an attorney of Lakeport, was one
of yesterdays arrivals at the Lick.
d.. Holden, bridge contractor of Wood
land, registered at the Lick yesterday.
Frank H. Buck, big fruit-grower of Vaca-
vile, and his family are at the Palace.
E. Cumenge, a mining engineer representing
French capital, is guest at the Palace.
F. G. Yancy merchant of Newman, came
into town yesterday and put up at the Lick.
DR.. N. Sposoti, a pioneer physician of Stock
ton, came down yesterday and put up at the
Grand.
H. c. Bragdon, a leading merchant of Salt
Lake and Mrs. Bragdon, are guests at the Cali
fornia.
Hon. Goth HAST of Virginia City is in the
City visiting some of his old Comstock ac-
quaintances
Richard White of the Sulphur Banks Quick
silver Mining Company of Lake County is
staying at the Lick. =
WIN. Pierce foreman of the Hale & Norcross
mine, has arrived with his family from the
Comstock and is at the Russ.
w. ]. Coombs, Government director of the
Union Pacific Railway, went to the Yosemite
Valley yesterday with his family.
Ed. Leake State Commissioner of Public
Works, and Engineers ]. r. Price and NJ. II.
Nurse are in the City. They have just COM
pleted an examination of Petaluma Creek
channel. To-day they will leave the City for
Sacramento and next week resume work in the
San Joaquin Valley.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08
CONCERNING CONTOURS.

Few of the present residents of the City
have heard the old history of the plan
upon which the streets as they exist were
laid out, but in view of the activity re-
Gently developed in extending streets
through unsettled billy regions it may be
we'll to recall it and make some suggestions
for the future.
According to this old account two con-
fiicting parties in the municipal govern
ment oontended each for its own plan in
projecting the streets. One, the Philadel-
phia party, demanded the rigid rectangu-
lar system distinctively characteristic of
their city, and the other, the New York
party, saw in the billy confguration of
the peninsula superb opportunity for
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.

There is no question but what the patron
1zing of home products would be increased by
systematic advertising. More people would
buy home products if they knew where they
could be procured and at what cost. The
newspapers have been OF great assistance in
increasing the trade in home products, yet few
manufacturers advertise their wares or prop
erly assist the movement, which is of more
direct profit to them than to those who have
inaugurated and pushed the home product
idea so successfully Tacoma (Wash.) Union.
If the people of California would organize
themselves into Common-sense Association
there would be no need of the Manufacturers
and Producers Association. 1t is not only the
consumers that should join the suggested as
ISOLATION, but the manufacturers should be
leading members. Sell as good articles at Is
low a price, and California merchants will
naturally buy their supplies here. Then the
consumers would have to use home products
whether they wished or not.-Mariposa Gazette.
1t is better for the country to have white
men and women working for Cinnamon at
going wages than to have Cinnamon working
for white men, In the first instance the wages
remain here, while in the other event they go,
in great measure, to the Flowery Kingdom
Marysville Appeal.
The National debt increased $38, 435, 1888
during the month of July. This in the face of
reduction of STAT 900 in the pension-ron
speaks well for Democratic administration.
What legacy we are laying up for our chill
dren.-Salt Lake Star.
From 1866 to 1898, inclusive, protective
tariff gave an average yearly surplus of $685.
100000. Since then the Democratic tariff has
given deficiency of $56 ,314, 155 year.-San
Jose Mercury.
Some people are kickers because they do not
have enough originality to build up. 1t takes
brains to build beautiful house, but fool
can tear it down.-Lemoore Leader.
Don't stop harvesting 10 talk politics, though
both are important. Harvesting depends on
the season, and politics we have always with
us.-Hanford Democrat,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08

picturesque effects by establishing a sys-
ing the contours and ascending the steep
elevations by easy grades. The cast-iron
plan of Philadelphia prevailed, and it was
this that afterward made the cable system
possible.
The cable has served most useful pur-
pose in the development of the City, but
it is rapidly becoming obsolete and will
soon be seen only on grades too steep for
electric lines. When it comes to that the
development of the trolley points to the
time when by one device or another 1t may
be made to supplant the cable on any
grade.
All this opens up an exceedingly inter-
esting question. This is, should we here
after make straight streets in the billy re-
gions of the City which at present are I'M
developed, or should we again raise the
question of contours and winding ways
The hardships, to say nothing else, of the
rectangular system are already being felt
in the Potrero, where owners of unsettled
and therefore unproductiye property are
assessed heavily for the expense of cutting
through the hills. This is only the begin
ming of their hardships. The cutting leaves
their lots on high banks, which have to be
cut down to the grade of the street. In adj
dition to this the refractory rock of which
the hills are constituted has to be chiseled
into channels for sewer and other pipe SER
vice.
The trolley takes to curves much more
kindly than does the cable, and so far as
+ &c ha of q n
necessary. If easy grades are established
by following contours all vehicles drawn
by horses can use them. Hence the neces-
sity for the cutting down of eminences
does not seem to exist.
If it be argued, however, that such pro-
cedure has its good reasons, it cannot be
denied that the preservation of the hills
may possess an advantage. 1t thus be-
comes a matter Of weighing one considera-
ton against the other. In this process it
IS proper to take into account the enor-
nous expense of cutting and the severe
hardships which accompany it.
1t happens that no other city of conse-
quence in America has a billy topography,
| and that no other in the world has so pc
culiar and attractive topography as San
Francisco. From the lofty eminences
which abound in the City the most won
derful views are to be had. The finest,
most picturesque and most travelled drives
on the peninsula are the winding roads,
like Mcdowell avenue and the Corbett
road, which follow the contours of the
| hills on easy grades. More than that, the
tendency of home-makers among the we'll
TODD is to seek as high eminences as they
can find which are convenient to streetcar
lines. Further, winding road has charms
and graces impossible to a rectangular
system of streets.
These are merely suggestions, to be con-
sidered in the extension of streets through
the billy regions of the City. San Fran
cisco will have lost much of its glory when
its noble hills are cut down.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08
AN IMPLA0ABLE MONOPOLY.

We call the attention of the State Rail-
road Commission to the fact that the
official bulletin of the American Phar-
maceutical Association in announcing the
arrangements made for the forty-third an
nual meeting OF the association, which is
to be opened in Denver on the 14th of this
month, says:
eve shall then have half rates from prac-
tically every point in the United States
and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains.
1t is with regret that the committee an
nounce their utter failure to get any con-
cessions for our brethren on the Pacific
Coast. The people OF that section are
bound hand and foot by the most brutal
and implacable monopoly that ever cursed
our common country"
It is not to the grievance of the Phar-
maceutical Association that we call the at
tention of the commission. That would
be useless The commission having no
authority to regulate interstate rates is, of
course, powerless to redress this particular
wrong. We desire, however, that the COM
mission should take notice of the fact that
this bulletin, asserting that California is
bound hand and foot by the most i'm
placable monopoly that ever cursed our
common country" is circulated far and
wide throughout the United States and
Canada, and will be very potent in form
ing the Judgment of people concerning the
industrial and commercial conditions of
the State.
The Railroad Commission will readily
understand that it is greatly to the disad-
To- Of ha Cfota 10 hay mi
in the East concerning California founded
on such statements as that contained IN
the bulletin. Men of capital and energy,
with sufficient intelligence to employ them
wisely, will not seek to establish business
in territory where the people are ''bound
hand and foot by an implacable monop-
oily" That opinion of California must be
dissipated, and it requires very little con-
sideration to see that only the Railroad
Commission can effectually dissipate it.
All forms of declamatory contradiction or
denunciation of the bulletin will be vain,
for the world knows the statement is true !;
but the Railroad Commission can take
action that will refute it at once by liberat-
ing the people from the grasp of monopoly.
The majority of the commission has on
record most solemn pledge made to the
people that they would do justice to the
industries and the commerce of the State
by making an average reduction of % per
cent in the freight rates of the Southern
Pacific Railroad. For seven months they
have been in Office, and for seven months
they have done nothing. They have drawn
their salaries, but the shippers of the State
have drawn no profit from their services
There is now made upon them the point
blank demand that they keep their pledges
and get to work. The people of California
are tired of being pointed out as a COM
munity bound hand and foot by an i'm
placable monopoly" and have a right to
look to their well-paid Commissioners for
relief
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08

u
nSGESr6
FROM THE LOWEST LEVEL, "
A STORY OF MINING LIFE IN
CALIFORNIA.
BY J. H. WYrHE JR.

THE CALL has secured the right to pub
fish this charming story in serial form, and
the first chapter will appear next Saturday.
tons in the Sunday edition of THE CALL,
but the author has conscientious scruples
against having any of his productions pub.
lished in the Sunday edition OF any paper,
and in Difference to his convictions THE
CALL has agreed to print this story in the
Saturday issues only, beginning next Sat.l
urday.
The CALL devotes great deal ofattention
to excellent articles On Western Themes by
EiWestern men and Western women.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

'Let me think" soliloquized s. N. Rucker'
ex-Mayor of San Jose, while talking to some
friends in the Palace grill-room last night. Il
just had good story on the end OF my tongue
when that waiter asked me if l wanted ten
derloin rare or medium. oh, yes, here IL is.
was up in Nevada about ten years ago ana
stopped over at Carson. 1t was during the
legislative session and there was an Enghsh
tourist by the name of Osborn stopping at the
Arlington Hotel. He formed an acquaintance
with our party and spent great deal OF MS
spare time explaining to US that he was great
traveller and dead-game sport. He dehghteo
in telling how far he would go to see prize
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08
Fouts Translating Power Wheel.

G.S Fouts has constructed wheel for the
transmission of power, that's the most wonder.
full of recent inventions.
1t is utilized to save power in elevating sand,
quartz and water. AT least rs per cent Of ex-
pense and 100 per cent of power previously
wasted by inferior machinery is now saved.
1t can be adjusted to any angle desired, from
square to any degree of turn for mill use. One
wheel will run three or four elevators in differ
ent directions, as sawdust, shingle and slab
carriers.
Mr.. Fouts offers 800 to any one throwing
the cable from the driving-wheel.
Mining men and capitalists should see the
machine at 800 Folsom street 10 to II A. NJ.
and 80 to P. NJ.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08
SENSIBLE RAILROAD ORDER.

superintendent Bertolet of the main line
division of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
road, says the New York Fourth Estate, has
issued an order that hereafter the news agents
on trains, instead of first endeavoring to sell
magazines, society novels, fruit. chewing gum,
ETC., must take the daily newspapers through
the cars before offering the passengers any
thing else. The superintendent charges that
the last thing that passengers have had q
chance of purchasing.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08
A PAPER THAT Is READ,

Not the number of papers disposed of, but
the number bought ana read, is the thing that
concerns the advertiser. Guessing-contest
coupons and cyclopedia checks may initiate by
thousands the temporary sale of newspaper,
but the advertiser who pays increased rates
therefor is to speak plainly, a victim of bunko.
The waste-basket is always gamer and the
man who wins the prize, perhaps. but in no
dom.
THE CALL has no snap coupons, guessing con-
tests, encyclopedias checks nor any of the nickel
in-the-slot devices to sell extra papers for out
side purposes. All the papers issued from this
office are TO bona-fide subscribers W no read.
THE CALL is a great paper. 1t is fretclass ed
yertising medium.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08
CALIFoRN1ANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Aug. 7.-Arri walls to-day
were: San Francisco-W. II. Hail. Murray Hill;
T. H. Ryan, Imperial; Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Stone,
Miss Stone, st. James; g. Abramson, Broadway
Central; ]. Cissely and G. ]. Clark, Cosmopoli-
geles-J A Farnsworth, Marlborough. San
Dfego-T. r. BurnhaIn, Westminster.
SALT LAKE, UTAH, Aug. AT the Knuts-
ford: George E. Howe, Vernon Waldron and
F. NJ Avery, of San Francisco. At the Walker!
E. R. Berg, A. A. KAN of San Francisco; c.. J.
Mcbride, Lincoln and j. Milton of Wheatland.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08

the publication of the full text of the deci-
sion. which will take place in September,
is awaited with interest,". While it is not
likely to have any effect in California, the
argument may apply to many Eastern
States, and if so the bimetallists viii be
much encouraged in their contest against
the money power, which has been so ag-
gressiye in its fight to have all public debts
payable solely in gold
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08

The Durrant case has discovered an ex-
traordinary prevalence of deafness in the
community.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08

The Hawaiian President is said to be
writing book entitled "Whiskery Tales
of the Dolorous Isles"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08

In selecting its name the Half-million
Club did not count on stupidity to judge
its purposes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-08
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PROMINENT
PEOPLE.

The King of Greece is highly accomplished,
speaking twelve languages.
Harry Wright now chief of the National
League umpires, is thinking about writing q
book of "reminiscences of baseball.
The Mexican President, Porfrio Diaz, goes
duck hunting once year, but apart from this
brief annual outing he has not left the City of
Hexico for seven years.
The work of the Spanish dramatist, Jose
Echegary, has begun to attract attention out
side OF his own land. Two of his plays have
been translated into English, Mariana" and
- The Son of Don Juan.,'