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The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
A DESERVED REBUKB.

One of the most remarkable speeches
ever made by public officer was delivered
by Mayor Swift of Chicago at banquet
the other evening given by the CONNER
cIal Club of that city. 1t was in response
to a speech made by the president of the
Civic Federation. The significant feature
of the affair was that the Mayor was
speaking directly to the citizens whom he
so mercilessly lashed.
He said that within the last sixty days
he had vetoed half dozen ordinances
awarding valuable franchises for street
railways to representative men of the city,
and plainly hinted that he had done so
because they had been acted on favorably
by the Common Council under the in
f1uence of bribery. Then he launched this
terrible broadside at his hearers:
II tell you these questions come home.
Talk about anarchy! Talk about breeding
the spirit of communism! Who does it
more than the representative citizens of
Chicago? Your high toned business men,
your prominent citizens of Chicago, are
the men who knock at the door of the
Council and ask for illegal franchises. 1t
is not the common people. Who bribes
TIC SOUlmOu SOQHCllI III lS IlOt iutll III
the common walks of life. They are men
in your own walks of lie, sitting at your
firesides. \ 1t is your representa-
tive citizens, your capitalists, your bus-
ness men. Who is responsible for
the condition of affairs in the city of Chi
cago? Your representative business men.
If your Assessor grows rich while in office
with whom does he divide? Not with the
common people. He divides with the man
who tempts him to make a low assess
ment; not with the man who has the hum
Bile little house, but the capitalist and the
business man."
Every intelligent citizen may judge for
himself how applicable such remarks as
these might be to the condition of affairs
in San Francisco. One has only to ask who
receive valuable street-railway franchises
without any adequate payment for the
privileges, why it is that the majority of
our Board of Supervisors are commonly
regarded as the tools of unscrupulous rich
men, why many of our municipal officers
grow wealthy and why corrupt political
bosses can control the politics of the City
and become enormously rich in the pursuit
OF their trade.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
CAPE HORN REMAINS.

The first pinching effect of the combina-
ton between the Pacific Mail and the Pan
ANA railway has been felt in San Francisco
in the form of the inability of the Column
bian steamers to take all the freight waiting
at New York for shipment to San Fran
cisco. 1t is significant fact that when
the deal was made between Mr.. Hunting
ton and the Panama people the latter made
no provision to fill the vacancy caused by
the withdrawal of the Pacific Mail steam
ers from the Atlantic side of the isthmus.
Numerous steamers were available for this
purpose, including the idle ships of the
Pacific Mali ITSELF Yet the Panama rail-
way, knowing that its three Columbia
steamships could not possibly handle the
freight from New York and that glut and
great inconvenience would ensue, made no
provision whatever to meet the contin-
gency.
The result is that our merchants are
caught in pinch and cannot possibly SUBJ
nit to the delay Of providing means for
having their goods forwarded in clipper
ships round Cape Horn. Their only re-
course is the Sunset route of the Southern
Pacific Company and the assurance that
no immediate steps will be taken to raise
rates will bring small comfort in view of a
knowledge that the power to raise them
has been created. A reasonable deduction
from the assurance that raise will not be
made at once may be intended to prevent
a rea ctionary movement in the shape of a
line of clipper ships round the Horn.
We shall have to come to this sooner or
later, and the sooner the better. Expert
ence has shown, however, that in all the
attempts which our shippers have made to
secure an approach to independence they
lacked the necessary staying quality. 1t
is altogether unlikely that Mr.. Hunting
ton would have taken his recent daring
course for securing complete control OF our
traffic had he imagined that there was
anything to fear from the fighting and
staying qualities of our people. He is per-
fectly familiar with the brave efforts which
have been made and speedily abandoned
i'll the past, and he made his arrangements
accordingly.
But the ocean in fact remains and can
never be monopolized. A very large pro-
portion of the freight received and sent
out by California can easily bear the time
consumed and the climatic conditions en-
countered in utilizing Cape Horn for our
traffic. Clipper-ships and even steam
ships for the Cape Horn route would be
glad to make a ten-year contract, and
could be secured in abundant mum bers
The time was never more urgent than the
present for taking advantage of the superb
facilities with which nature has so bounti-
fully supplied US and which we persistently
ignore.
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snow in going 200 feet. One can take dizzy
ride on it, and no doubt tens OF thousands will
this winter
"The big palace will not be opened for a few
days yet. However, there are twenty-five or
thirty sprayers on hand at Truckee and It
won't take long to spray the building and
freeze it all over.
''There has not been a great deal of snow
there this winter There is only about two
feet of it now. The weather has been warm
and this has kept us back.
considerable of novelty will be presented
when the big structure is completed and
lighted brilliantly with electricity. / think
Truckee will be well worth visiting
Mr.. Moody has brought his family down with
him and will remain several days.
Some graduates of the university were talk
ing yesterday about the offer of the students
to take off their coats and go to work on the
university grounds. "That offer means good
deal more than the money the labor will rep
resent" said Frank II. Powers. sit will tend
to dignity labor in the minds Of the men there,
as Reinstein said at the banquet last night,
and think that 1t may lead to solving the
problem of raising means to go through col
lege to many a poor student. There has al
ways been large proportion of the students
at the university who were working their own
way through to degrees. Enough cannot very
well be made during vacations, and there are
not many ways of earning money in Berkeley.
The printing office, ever since it was founded
by DR.. Merritt, in Gilman's day, has been q
boon to many poor student. To it many of
them owe their degrees.
zone of the present regents' paid his way
through college by setting type on the college
papers and found time enough for his studies
to carry off honors. However, there is not
work enough there or in the other places in
which students may be employed for all. l
hope that after the students have done their
weeks work in the grounds the Board OF
Regents will provide that students who wish
may be employed as workmen on the grounds.
This plan was tried in the seventies just after
the university was moved out to Berkeley and
met with some success. Lots of the old boys
who now fill responsible positions joined the
pick and shower brigade and earned their 20
cents en- hour. l don't remember whyit was
given up, but hope that the plan will be tried
again. Any one who knows the sort of men
who go to Berk eley and the spirit that ami
mates them will know that no student will
lose any of the respect of his fellows
by doing honest manual labor in SO good q
cause"
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
PERSONAL.

E. c. Culp of Chicago is here.
NJ. Gillian of Seattle is at the Occidental
Senator ]. M. Gleaves of Redding is visiting
the City.
c. A. Wilcox of the United States army is at
the California.
L. A. Hughes. business man OF Santa Fe,
n. Mex, is in town.
George T. Rives, mining man OF Inyo
County, arrived here yesterday
Judge r. McGarvey of Mendocino County
was among yesterdays arrivals.
Professor Charles H. Keyes of the Throop
Institute, Pasadena, is at the Grand.
Robert NJ Clarke of Carson, ex-Attorney-
General OF Montana is at the Palace.
Among the recent arrivals here are j. w.
Warburton and Miss Warburton of Chile.
President Gurnsey OF the Redondo Beach
Railroad, who lives in Los Angeles, is in the
City.
superior Judge W. NJ. Coniey of MADEIRA
County arrived here yesterday and is at the
Lick.
John T. Gaffey of Los Angeles, formerly a
member of the State Board of Equalization, is
at the Palace.
T. H. Strobridge, owner OF the Strobridge
block in Portland and one of the old residents
in that city, is at the Lick.
Thomas Nunan, member of THE CALLS
staff of writer's, yesterday returned from
visit to the Eastern States.
Barton Hill, so well known in past years to
San Francisco theater goers, will be with Marie
Wainwright's company in this City.
If all SHOWS were as far from being frosts as
Ross Snow, there would be tropical weather In
Northern Alaska at this moment.-San Fran
cisco Music and Drama
Miss Effie Murray and Miss Kate L. Osborne,
missionaries on their way to Japan, are at the
Occidental. They will sail for their field OF
labor to-day on the China.
lord and Lady Sholto Douglas" have organ
lied theatrical company of their own and
will play in the interior towns of the State
wherever they can obtain engagements.
G Wharton James of Pasadena, editor of the
Southern California Illustrated, monthly
magazine in which Professor 7. c. Lowe OF
Mount Echo is interested, is at the Grand, He
is here on a business trip.
Edward Ware Barrett one of the proprietors
of the Atlanta Constitution, and wife arrived
in town yesterday and are stopping at the
Palace They will make tour of sightseeing
in California before returning.
George W. Riddle. postmaster and general
goods dealer at Riddle, Or on the California
and Oregon Railroad in the Rogue River Val
ley, is at the Lick. Mr.. Riddle was formerly q
member of the Oregon Legislature, and has
long had material influence in the politics of
his State. 1t was for his father, who with his
family settled there in very early times, that
the station was named. For years after this
settlement cattle roamed wild in the adjoining
mountains, so that when they wanted beef,
forays were made on the fattened bands
secreted high in the pines and frs. "It took
skilled hunters to get them," said Mr.. Riddle,
''and it was no easy task either to get the meat
down to the Valley
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

money. 1t should have been reflected
that the rule was made only because
financial panic was threatened. Undoubt-
edly the country banks took the same pre-
caution with their private customers that
the City banks took with their country
correspondents. 1t was one of those meas
ures which the presence of danger renders
necessary.
:, The fact seems 10 have been overlooked
that the public security guaranteed by the
Bank Commissioners recent order is a
matter of the greatest Importance. That
no defalcations have resulted recently
from the non-existence of such an order is
no argument against its wisdom. The
danger of defalcations was one of the
smallest of the evils which the old system
permitted. The banks, by making profit
on the handling of public funds were be-
coming a power in local politics which it
was unwise to foster, and the suspicion
was growing that divisions of these profits
with the officers depositing them were be-
coming prevalent.
If the interior has grievance against
the City banks on the score of their illiber-
ality toward the country that is a separate
matter, and does not belong to this issue.
The subject has been very fully discussed
by THE CALL in the recent past. and need
not be entered into at length now. 1t
ought to be sufficient for the country to
realize that City property values and in
comes are more stable, borrowers possess
a higher appreciation of the value of
promptness in meeting Obligations, and
proceedings in law to recover loans when
such process becomes necessary are
simpler and less expensive than in the
country.
The sum of it all is that when the conn
try shall have made it as attractive to cap
italists to lend money in the interior as are
the conditions in the City there will be no
lack of City capital to assist in developing
the resources of the State.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.


The Duke of York's stamp album, which,
oddly enough, he has recently disposed of, was
one of the most interesting in Europe
Professor Oliver Tracy of Pratt Institute has
invented a new American soup from an old
Chinese recipe, which is meeting with high
favor
Miss Mary Huntley, the poet, is niece of the
late Lydia Sigourney, known to literary fame.
Miss Huntley is native of Georgia, but re-
ceived her education abroad.
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal has picked out as
candidate for Mayor man who sat down sud-
denly on the ley sidewalk, distributed his
packages widely and did not swear.
Pauline Lucca, the opera singer, who has
dropped out of public notice since her retire
ment from the stage seven years ago, lives in
Vienna and is as handsome and graceful as
ever.
The Emperor of Austria smokes so-called
"Virginia cigars" which, being manufactured
of the rankest tobacco at Trieste, have straws
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

John F. Moody, the pioneer of Truckee, who
has long been engaged in cutting and packing
ice and manufacturing lumber from the great
trees of the S;erras, is at the Lick
Mr.. Moody says the great ice palace is now
COMP pieted and ready to freeze-in fact, the
freezing has been commenced already.
awe expect good many people to visit
Truckee and see the palace" said Mr.. Moody.
ut is 700 feet around it-that Is, the skating
capacity is that much.
''Then there is very nice toboggan slide out
side 1T. 1t is nine feet wide while on each
side of it is walk twelve feet wide
1.-THE slide is fifty feet high and drops to the
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

est man in Indiana, If not in the United States.
He weighs $50 pounds is now but 46 years of
age and has been adding steadily in weight
for the last quarter of century. He is 5 feet
10 inches hign and still growing. His waist
measurement is rs inches, chest, under arms,
SO inches. and arm 25 inches. He is in ex-
cellent health. but finds locomotion rather
difficult, although he rides about the city in
a specially constructed conveyance. He is the
father of'two bright and interesting children
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

FOR men whose natures have been expanded
by social pleasures Argonaut whisky is made,
and it is by these that Argonaut is used. 1t is
a agentleman's drink the conscientious product
OF distillers who know that in order to main-
tain high reputation for particular article
they cannot afford to turn out any but pure,
Wholesome and beneficial whisky. The fact
that physicians prescribe it is sufficient to in
dicate its quality. E. Martin d Co., All Mar
ket street.
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and lives retired life, attempting to avoid
all notoriety. In the heated season he lives
altogether In the cellar of his residence
Walkers physical anti-type is Jesse Allen, his
neghbor. Tne latter is 10 years old and pos
sesses body OF fair size. His legs, however,
are only IL inches in length. He is 3 feet
3 inches tall and weighs rs pounds. Jesse is
and as averse to outside notoriety as Mr.
Walker.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
CAL1roRN1ANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Dec. 3O.-samuel Rosen.
baum arrived on the steamship Saale from
Bremen. Among other arrivals are: J. NJ
Brazell, A. L. Reed, Imperial w. A. Dundas
Westminster; NJ. T. Jones, Mrs. Jones, St
James; A. D. Martin, w. S. Martin, Holland
j. Sylvester Broadway Central; w. S. Watson
New Amsterdam; Miss Clyde, Holland.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

running through them TO make them draw,
and are SO green that they have to be held in a
flame several minutes to light.
IISome one with taste for figures has noticed
the fact that Miss Braddon, the novelist, has,
in the thirty-three years since she began to
write, produced just sixty romances. Each OF
them is in three volumes, making $50 In all.
She has, therefore, made copy enough for six
printed pages on each day OF all these years.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
Good Monroe Doctrine.

GOOU 1IOnrOe OOCCrIues
Tacoma Ledger.
Having been brought face to face with the
possibility of zeal war with England, the
American people will be able to perceive more
clearly the advantages of the Nicaragua canal
and the necessity of keeping it under our own
control we could successfully defend both
coasts with half the ships England would re-
quire to successfully attack US. With it under
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
CHICAGO LIMITED.
VIA SANTA FE ROUTE.

new train throughout begins October %.
Pullman's finest sleeping-cars, vestbule reclining
chair cars and dining-cars Los Angeles to Chi
cago via Kansas City, without change. Annex
cars on sharp connection for Denver and st.
Louis Twenty-seven hours quicker than ths
quickest competing train The Santa Fe has been
put in fine physical condition and is now the best
transcontinental railway.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
IN AN INDIANA TOWN.

Ligonier, Ind, has claims to a unique dis
tinction by reason of the fact that within her
borders live the largest and smallest men,
from physical standpoint, in all hoosierdom,
says the Chicago TimesHerald George Wash
ington Walker is without question the heavi-
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

THINK of the thousands of sufferers who on ac-
count of impure blood have endured hours OF pain
and spent much money for different medicines, who
after taking Hoods Sarsaparilla have been cured.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

"why do you so often invite that old gossip,
Mrs. Brown?"
ooh, she always knows so many interesting
things to tell that everyone forgets to eat, and
almost all the cake is left" t."-Fliegende
Blaetter.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

THE JAPANEsE-Reader, City. The only indi-
viduals specially named as ineligible to
citizenship in the United States are Indians
not taxed and Chinese, and as Japanese are
why they should not apply "tor first and
second papers Of naturalization"
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

draw back, to stand still, or to go forward
The States of Oregon and Washington are the
result of standing still. If President Polk had
had "the sand" we could have owned all the
land between us and Alaska. He was brave
when he announced '54-4O or fight" but fell
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

$50 it's your birthday to-day, Jack. What
would you like?"
Cpd like to see baby spanked. ."-London
Pick-Me-Up
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

SPECIAL three days sale, Monday, Tuesdsy,
Wednesday only, 2-lb. baskets CAL glace fruits,
our own make. 75c, reg. price 81; cream mixed
candies15c b. reg. 25c lb. Townsend's, 627 Pal.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

Get your work off your hands to- day, so
that you can take good hold of the cele.
bration tomorrow.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

The Solid Eight still blocks the way of
reform, but not so solidly as it did when
the year was young.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

SPECIAL informa ton daily to manufacturers
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), $40 Montgomery =
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

EscoRTING ALApY-J. H. H., City. In escort
ing lady along the streets of city gentle
man should always be on the side nearest to
the curbstone.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

1t will be remembered as the year that
started the competing road.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
CURRENT HuMoR.

she-I wonder what makes those silver Sena
tors talk so much?
He-Possibly they have heard that silence is
golden.-Life.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
A GIRLS FRoCK.

smart frock for little girls is of d arK green
and black boucle cloth. with bodice of Camp
bell tartan SILK. over which the boucle mate
rial forms a cut out waist effect. The back,
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

DURRANT-"Belmont," Belmont, Nye County,
New. Theodore Durrant pronounces his name
as written-Dur-rant-th accent on the first
syllable, and not as If written with only one r.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
Rarrv,s ..staro s Cents.

Beginning with the new year The Star will
be cents per copy. Liveliest weekly journal
on the coast. The peoples greatest champion :
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

Why shouldn't there be a humanity
doctrine to apply to Armenia as well as an
American doctrine for Venezuela?
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

We have sown much good seed during
the last twelve months, and next year we
can count on gathering the fruit.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

Albert Lariviere a Detroit newsboy. has just
been made page in the House OF Representa-
tiyeS.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

No Christmas and New Years table should be
without bottle of DR.. Siegerts Angostura Bitters,
the world renowned appetizer of exquisite flavor.
Beware of oounterfeits
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

When fake makes pi OF a newspaper
story, it is pudding for nobody.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

If there has been much foolish talk dur
ing the last twelve months, there has also
been a good deal of wise action.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

One reason why modesty has no show in
the world is that coming man can never
be a retiring man.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

1t may suit Democratic papers to talk o
Eastern Republicans and Western Repub
licans, but really there are none bu
National Republicans
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
THE CLIMATE Is O. 4.
San Francisco Music and Drama.

San francisco Music and Drama.
at don't cut no hay, ice or cake. Here am,
once more. l meet the same old faces on Bush
and Kearny streets that met on my first visit
years and years ago. guess the climate is all
right" remarked Jacques Kruger.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

This has been SO much of carnival
year, it ought to be given a send-off with
festal watchnight.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

The various bimetallic leagues of the
country have learned wisdom at last, and
begun to combine.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

The Venezuelan furry gave Bayard g
chance to half way redeem himself, but ht
seems to have lost it in the shuttle
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

This has been great year for the Mon
roe doctrine and bond issues.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

The year will die with US in signing
zephyrs, but in the East it will depart with
blizzard blowout.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
GIRLS OF THE PERIOD,

You must wake and call me early,
Cali me early, mother, do,
For to-morrow'll be the happiest day
Since 1892.
The maddest, merriest days, mother,
Will follow the old years close,
And my heart leaps, like leap-year chance,
Or ghost of chance, to propose.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

During the year we solved some prob
lens and found out the means of solving
others.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

1t appears that even England is becom-
ing afraid of japanese industry, and is
giving the free-trade dogma reconsidera-
tion
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

"BRowN's BRONCHIAL. TRocHEs" are simple
and convenient remedy for Bronchial Affections
and Coughs Carry them in your pocket. Sold
only in boxes.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
War would Mean a New Map.

Santa Cruz Record.
If we have war with England we shall need
new maps. After the war is over map of the
United states will comprise hemisphere,
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

We may ship cotton to Japan through
San Francisco, but we ought not to bring
back the cloth.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

Evidently the Sacramento postmaster
ship is not a sour grape, for it is reported a
Fox may get it.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

There have been some hard days for the
Solid Eight, but there are worse to come.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

Congress has got ahead Of Cleveland this
time and he can't make call on it to-
morrow.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31

The Senate never takes time by the fore
lock, but it takes plenty of it Just the same.