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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13
PERSONAL.

Yates Stirling Jr. of the navy is at the occi-
dental.
DR.. 2. t. Magill Of San Luis Obispo is staying
st the Grand.
}. F. Coope, aleading wineman OF Santa Cruz,
is at the California.
Dr. Elmer E. Stone and family of Marysville
are at the California.
Colonel and Mrs. George F. Hooper of sonoma
are at the Occidental.
A. N. Butts. a big mining man of Salt Lake,
registered at the Occidental yesterday.
J.J. Egan, a big dry goods merchant of Homo
lulu, and Mrs. Egan are at the Occidental.
w. E. Hadley, proprietor of the Horton
House in San Diego, is guest at the Grand.
F. L. Coombs, ex-Minister to Japan and q
prominent attorney of Napa, is at the Grand.
C. V. Sale, a leading tea merchant of Yoko-
hama, and Mrs. Sale are guests at the Ocei-
dental.
Charles Erickson, a contractor on the coast
line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, is at the
Grand.
C. w. Waldron, editor of the Santa Cruz
Sentinel, and Mrs. waldron are at the ocei-
dental.
Superior Judge J. Wade Mcdonald of San
Diego was one OF yesterdays arrivals at the
Grand.
Henry Heyman has returned from summer
vacation of six weeks in Sonoma and Lake
Counties.
P. A Buell., a leading lumber-dealer and con-
tractor of Stockton, registered at the Grand
yesterday.
Frank ]. Brandon, secretary of the State
Senate, came up from San Jose yesterday, and
is at the Grand.
S. S. Gannett of the United States Geological
Survey, from Washington, registered at the
Occidental yesterday.
d. B. Lyman, superintendent of the CONSOLE
dated Virginia mines, arrived from the Com
stock yesterday, and is staying at the Palace.
Walter R. Dinmore, the soap manufacturer,
is about to leave with his family for Los
Angeles, where he is starting another soap
factory.
William C. Carl, organist of the First Presby-
terrain Church of New York, arrived here yes
terday for months visit to this State, and is
staying at the Occidental.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13
A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT,
Judge Conlan Lays Down the
Law as to Open-Air
Meetings.
The Case Against President Burns
Of the Cigar Makers Union
Dismissed.

T. F. Burns, president of the Cigar
makers Union and of the Union Label
League, appeared in Judge Conlan's
court yesterday morning to answer the
charge of obstructing the street.
1t was evident from the large attendance
in court that the case had excited consid-
cradle interest in the community.
President Burns was arrested by Police
man T. L. Ryan at Third and Market
streets on Saturday night while addressing
an open-air meeting. The only evidence
offered was that of the arresting officer,
who testified to crowd having gathered
on the sidewalk and street to listen to
President Burns address.
Prosecuting Attorney Mogan claimed
that case had been made out and asked
for conviction.
81 disagree with you," said the Judge
1.-THE defendant was simply advocating
the purchase of homemade goods and
calling attention to the new blue label
adopted by the league. He was not
making speech that might incite to riot,
but on the contrary was advocating a
is the constitutional right of every Ameri-
can citizen, and the defendant, in nv
opinion, did not come within the purview
of the law although crowd gathered TO
hear him.
HE had as much right to address an
open-air meeting on these subjects as the
Salvation Army and other organizations
who address open-air meetings every
Sunday and sometimes on other DAYS
along the water front and in other parts OF
the City. The case is dismissed"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.

The southern California boomer is given to
talking much OF his faith in the city where he
lives, but it is faith born of hazy, indefinite
idea that some day capitalists will select his
town for dumping ground for their surplus
millions, and make every one, including him
self, wealthy for all time. His faith, however
does not induce him to make move for him.
self. These men are simply parasites. They
are numerous all over Southern California and
San Diego, unfortunately, has her full share Of
them.-San Diego Union
Let the matrons of America treat the girl
who cooks as the girl who earns her living
otherwise and the domestic help" problem
will be speedily and satisfactorily solved, but
not until then. The mental position OF the do
nestle servant in the social status is a survival
OF blood-worshiping royalty of the old world
and it will require some generations of social
evolution to wash out the dirty stain, but
whether in counting-house or kitchen lady
is a lady for a. that.
We have had smokeless powder. Now we
have noiseless powder. If some one will only
invent harmless powder and make it fashion
able war will become very agreeable pastime
But the way improvements have been going
lately the indications are that the first time
two great nations try conclusions at arms the
vanquished will only be very little worse of
than the victor.-Seattle (Wash.) Times.
The spirit of progress has begun to crop Out
among the people of Traver and vicinity. The
establishment of a creamery here is meeting
with universal approval. Hang on to it
"brethering"; we are truly "the frog in the
churn," and if we just keep on kicking we may
get butter enough to float us.-Traver Advo
cate.
1t appears that the cost of collecting the un
constitutional income tax was $SS, 7S9. Tina
is the price the country must pay for one ex
ample of Democratic folly.-Astorian, Oregon
Of course every county will cheerfully stand
a raise in its assessment to help out the South
ern Pacific Company.-San Jose Mercury.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13
A JUST COMPLAINT.

In his charmingly written contribution
to last Sundays CALL Charles Warren
Stoddard makes this complaint of San
Francisco: 'Your City lacks color; was
half paralyzed when l discovered the fact,
for had quite forgotten it. You are
always damp or dusty gray. with occa-
sional touches of dull brown. There is not
one bit of color in all your peninsula out
side of your splendid park" The charge
is eminently right, and had the gifted poet
elaborated it he might have made some
interesting disclosures of the prevalent
lack of taste hereabout.
He evidently means primarily that our
houses are painted in that dull gray which
is as monotonous and dreary as the in
terminable miles of bay windows. The
excellent wisdom and taste which governed
the designing of the Chronicle building was
the cruelest of rebukes to the bay-win-
dowed and gray ugliness of its vis-a-vis,
the Palace Hotel. Then came the Califor-
MIA Hotel and thenthe Croker and Mills
buildings, all in new and pleasing colors
and attractive designs.
1t is in the residence districts, especially
the more pretentious ones, that dreariness
and ugliness flourish most aggressiyely.
Mob Hill is picture of profound and in
consolidate misery, relieved only by the
somber red dignity of the Flood house. the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13
FINISH THE LOTTERY.

The assurance given by Police Chief
Crowley that practically all the male ped
dlers of lottery tickets have been driven
out of the business and a crusade is next
to be made on the women pcddlers is most
encouraging. There is no surprise in the
information given by him that the num-
Der OF these women has increased since the
men were suppressed, but it is agreeable to
learn that the lottery evil, nevertheless, has
greatly abated.
After the women peddlers have been
suppressed, what will be done with the
leading newspapers of the City which pub
lish the lottery advertisements every
month? Appeals have been made to their
sense of dignity and right by Chief Crow
ley, by leading clergymen, by the better
element of the weekly press and by THE
CALL. Thus far these pleadings have not
been needed. The criminal courts cannot
reach the case, as an inadvertence in the
anti-lottery law has been construed to
mean that it is not unlawful to publish
advertisements after the drawing. Posi-
bly, fuller test would raise the principle
that the operations of a lottery company
do not close with the drawing, that draw
Ing Is merely one OF q series Oh AUS dllu
that the business and therefore the offense
are continuous. In the absence Of any
such test it is clear that the next Legisla-
ture should enact a law that does not per-
NIT of margin within which evil may be
done in the absence of express words to
prohibit it.
1t is unnecessary for THE CALL to say
that in thus assailing its contemporaries it
has no desire to obscure their worth and
efficiency displayed so generously in other
ways. Nothing is more disagreeable than
the duty of attacking thing that has so
much good and in comparison so little
evil. And we say now that THE CALL is
proud of California and of San Francisco.
1t cannot complacently observe the people
injured by an agency so powerful, so pro-
ductive of both individual and community
harm, and so indicative of that loose NOR
atty which some of the people of other
States charge to our City. With press
generally so watehful of the public inter
ests, so quick to expose official rascality
and so eager to promote the material de-
velopment of our community, it can be
regarded only as an exceedingly great pity
that this disgraceful and damaging pro-
motion of lotteries should remain to stain
the record
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13
THE LONDON EXPERIMENT.

The first shipment of fresh fruit from
California to London, made a few weeks
ago, produced so surprisingly handsome
returns that a second shipment was
speedily prepared and dispatched. The
pertinent is both encouraging and dis
heartening. There was the same eager
ness TO buy the fruit as before. but the
haste and carelessness of selecting, pack
ing and shipping to New York caused the
ruin of large part of the consignment and
leaves the grower without profit.
And yet, if he will regard the matter
wisely, he has received an exceedingly
good profit. This is twofold-first, he is
now absolutely convinced that there is an
eager demand in London for California
fresh fruits, and second, that he cannot
hope to supply this demand without TAX
ing reasonable precautions in the method.
This method is merely matter of detail,
which had already been mastered and was
then neglected in the haste to secure more
of the benefits that had been discovered.
No more mistakes of this kind will be
made in the future. The failure of this
second enterprise seems to indicate that
individual packers and growers cannot be
depended on to understand the great value
of maintaining the general reputation of
our fruits in the London market, that the
English people are far more discriminating
and far less easily imposed upon than
Americans, and that when once they dis
cover good thing they are as eager to
secure it as they are quick to drop bad
thing or detect fraud.
These facts suggest some general super
vising agency, charged with the RESPONSE
bility OF seeing that proper fruits properly
packed and shipped shall be sent out here
after, and that if necessary they be accom-
panied all the way to London to see that
they have proper treatment on the way,
with possibly an overhauling at New York
and stoppage there of all fruits not
deemed to be in perfect condition for the
transatlantic trip.
The sharp desire of Londoners to buy this
fruit is the most encouraging thing that
has ever arisen to affect the fruit industry
OF California. We have had to fight for a
market in the Eastern States, solely be-
cause Americans are not as sure in discern
ing the superiority of our fruits as are the
English. This is in face of the fact that
London is closer than New York to all
those Old World areas that produce the
fruits whichC California raises and that hence
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13

clean Wilderness of the wooden shanty
known as the ''Colton mansion" and now
owned by G. P. Huntington, and the fault
lessly beautiful architecture of the Hop
kins house, obscured as much as possible
under paint coat of leaden gray. A few,
a very few, tasteful houses may be found
in the Western Addition, principal among
them being Henry Urocker's exquisite red
tiled roof house at the corner of Washing
ton and Laguna streets. the Whittier red
sandstone house at the corner of Jackson
and Laguna streets and the splendid sand
stone house which Claus Spreckels is erect
ing on the one thoroughfare, Van Ness
avenue, that should have none but houses
as handsome, tasteful, elegant and rich
in color as this. What the final color
of the well-designed Whittell house,
at the corner of California and Jones
streets, is to be it has not been given to
earthly beings to know: it has already in
succession exhausted al the neutral tints
of the spectrum.
The superstition explaining the prevail
ing colors of San Francisco had its birth in
the gray sands which forty years ago en-
ioyed glad freedom on the wings of the
wind. 1t is nothing to the point that these
sands were buried under pavements and
houses years ago and their aspirations
stilled forever. The superstition was
born, and it bowls as an individual BAN
shee under the caves of all the houses in
town. 1t was the issue of mean and
senseless economy-if the gray sand should
alight on gray house it would be in
visible.
But bad taste in the use of house paint is
not the only fault. Equally as grave
reproach is the neglect of color effects
which the cultivation of flowers might
produce. Almost the entire space of the
wide grounds which surround so many of
the finer places is given over to grass when
a rampant show of flowers might be made
every day in the year. Even the Chinese
have more refined taste than that. A
stroll through Chinatown will discover on
every hand flower boxes and pots crowd
ing windows and verandas, and even illu-
minating the skyline of the houses.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13
GOLD AND THE TARIFF.

From all reports Mr.. Cleveland is hav-
ing as bad time with the syndicate that
was to have prevented gold exports as he
had with the Congress that was to have
passed revenue tariff bill. The syndicate
agreed to maintain the treasury reserve up
to October 1, and will probably do So
Meantime, however, the gold exports con-
tinue, and when October comes the admin
istration will have to issue another loan in
order to carry on the Government and pre-
serve the credit of the Nation. The syndi-
cate instead of saving the administration
viii have given it only temporary relief
and we may expect another Cleveland
letter on the subject of "perfidy and dis
honor"
If Cleveland had any regard for the pub
lie welfare or any pride of National patriot
ism he would not have permitted a syndi-
cate of money-lenders to assume to itself
the credit of protecting the treasury of the
Nation. He would have convened an extra
session of Congress and called upon the
representatives of the people to provide
the money needed for the Government.
There are many reasons why he should
have done so. There is need of a better
revenue as well as of a stronger reserve of
gold. The tariff as well as the condition
of the treasury needs looking after, and in
fact if wiser tariff were adopted the
difficulties of the treasury would in all
p probability soon pass away.
The official report of exports and i'm
ports for the fiscal year just closed shows
that whereas in 1898 our exports exceeded
imports by $4,000, 0O0 the excess was only
about SIS, 600 for the past year. Our
exports have fallen off about $S4. 1000, 900
and our imports increased about the same
amount. Moreover, the net exports of
gold rose from 81 SIS, 942 in 1893 to 0,9S4,-
449 for the year just closed. The increase
in the export of gold is the natural result
of the increase of imports of goods. The
deficit in the gold reserve is largely the re-
suit of the deficit tariff, and together they
make up the salient features of what has
been Justly and wittily called the "last
fasco year."
Mr.. Cleveland has met the accommodating
difficulties of his situation by resorting to
Wall street and running the country into
debt to get money to tide his admins
tration along from month to month. He
has not even had the decency to raise the
money by popular loan disposed of on
fair terms in an open market, but secretly
borrowed money from syndicate of bank
ers by selling to them United States bonds
for 104% which were sold Immediately
afterward for 1201I. And yet there are
people high in rank in the Democratic
party who talk OF running this man for
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13

IN London we come into competition with
a inner class OF fruits than we find in New
York. And yet apparently London finds
our fruits superior to those which Europe
and Asia Minor can produce, and is anxious
to procure them even though it must get
them older from the tree, pay enormous
transportation charges, and price, leav-
ing these matters aside, greater than that
which the European product commands.
London is SO vast a city and is SO closely
compacted in among thousands of other
cities and towns that the slightest foothold
there should be chung to with the utmost
tenaeity. Every advance made with our
fruit in Great Britain not only brings its
own benefits, but will have strong in
huence on the prices which we secure at
Chicago and New York There is abund-
ant reason for feeling encouraged over the
London discovery, and the highest duty of
our growers now is to make the most of it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13
COLONEL HUNTER GOES EAST.
The Retiring Officer Leaves a Patriotic
Record in San Francisco.

. L
Record in San Francisco.
BY order of the War Department Lieu
nant-Colonel Edward Hunter. deputy
judge advocate United States army. on
duty at General Forsyth's headquarters in
this City, has been ordered to report to the
Department of Dakota, General Brooke
commanding, at st. Paul, Mimi. His sue
cessor here will be Major Stephen w.
Groesbeck, judge advocate, relieved from
duty at headquarters in Chicago.
Colonel Hunter has been on duty on the
coast almost without interruption since
1868, and he leaves San Francisco with
great regret, In which his brother officers
join. During his official residence in this
City Colonel Hunter has exhibited lofty
patriotism. He became greatly interested
in the subject of inspiring in the pupils of
our public schools love of country, and
it was partly through his efforts that OBJ
ject lessons in patriotism are now being
taught them. At different times he has
made spirited addresses in those institu-
tons with view to arousing in the
scholars reverence for the glorious deeds
done In revolutionary times that were
stamped by the seal of patriotic blood.
Last year he presented the stars and
stripes to the Protestant Orphans Asylum,
In order that its glories might daily be I'M
folded to their view, so as to daily inculcate
among the inmates a love for the land
whose institutions are their only parents.
For years he has been an active member of
the California Society Sons Of American
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13

Revolution, and is now its president This
society, in connection with similar ones IN
other States in the Union, has among It's
members many of National reputation and
great ability, who have achieved nlgh ois,
Emotion in social political and financial
circles.
At the last celebration of our natal day
Colonel Hunter cheerfully resigned himself
to the task OF helping to make the parade
an imposing one. As chief OF staff to the
Grand marshal, he patiently gave his time
md experience toward organizing the
various divisions; labor that was by no
means easy, but in the success OF which
Colonel Hunters patriotic spirit felt well
rewarded. 49,.
Major Groespeck, who relieves MN, has las
won his way in rank through a faithful
service to his country, which began IN
1861. and among his associates he IS held
in high esteem as popular officer and ac-
complished gentleman
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ROAD
Contract for Grading the Second section
Awarded. to Grant
Bros.

The executive committee OF the board OF
directors of the San Francisco and San
JOAQUIN Valley Railroad opened bids yes
terdav for material for all piling and trestle
work on the new road between the eastern
line of the CITY of Stockton and the Stanis-
1ars R;var There were a number of bids,
Int what the board will DO will not be de-
te a until this afternoon, when the
regular meeting is held. The proposals
are for 20 200 lineal feet OF piling and
s75. 600 feet of lumber, besides the iron
necessary. =,
The contract when let will require that
the work shall be commenced within
days. e..,-.
The contract for grading from Stockton
to the Stanisaus River has been awarded
to Grant Brothers, and the papers VIII De
signed within the next two days.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13
EASTERN EDITORS.
How to Note Iowa Editors.


great many mistakes are made by editors
through giving wrong credits to the articles re-
printed from other papers. The mistakes usually
occur through the articles being clipped, when
looking over the exchanges and relying upon
the memory for the credit when the time ar
rives to paste the articles preparatory to
placing them in the copybox. The Register
has adopted a new plan of noting the name of
the editor on the side of the article, when the
editor has known personality. For instance,
instead of writing Montezuma Republican we
write "Jarnagin," on the side of the copy !;
winfield" is written for the Oskaloosa Herald,
"Murph" for the Vinton Eagle, "Coin" for the
Fort Dodge Messenger, "Hunger" for the Car
roll Herald, "Shenbaw'' for the Corning Union,
"Mulct' for the Marshalitown Republican,
"Subsquirt" for the Charlton Democrat, and so
on down through the long list of friendly edi-
tors of favorite papers who will now for the
first time know how they are SO generally
rightly credited in The Register.-Iowa State
Register.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13
Third Term Talk.

If no man may have three terms in the chair
OF the chief magistrate of the republic there
can be no higher distinction for President
than to be thought of in such relation. A
good many highly distinguished statesmen
have felt they had reaped glory enough when
they heard themselves even mentioned for one
term, fattering their aspiring souls that they
could catch, with prophetic ears, the boast of
generations unborn that once their great pro-
genitor was proposed for President of the
United States. Moreover, when Roscoe Conk-
hing was advocating General Grants cause at
Chicago he declared that the principal oppo-
sition to q third term came from men who
were anxious 10 get first term.-Boston Globe.