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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-12
PERSONAL,

James Feeley, mining man at Red Bluff, is
at the Lick.
Carl E. Lindsay, an attorney of Santa Cruz, is
at the Grand.
w. Billiard of the Shanghai Bank is guest
at the Palace.
j.. D. Fraser, mining man of Happy Camp,
is at the Russ.
j. J. Rodriguez, Los Angeles capitalist, is a
guest at the Russ.
I. H. Redington, capitalist of Paso Robes,
is stopping at the Russ
C.P Renden, an attorney of stockton, is
stopping at the Grand.
Frank Gould, member of the Chicago Board
of Trade, is at the Palace.
Ed. Ryan ana DR.. E. s. Bogert of the navy
are registered at the Palace.
DIR. and Mrs. Crooks of Santa Barbara regis
tered at the Palace yesterday
Felix G. Head of the Petaluma Courier
registered at the Lick yesterday.
W.T.. Taylor, manager of the Hearst ranch at
San Simeon, is guest at the Occidental.
v. Courtois, a vineyardist of Santa Rosa, was
among yesterdays arrivals at the Grand.
A. T. Wells, merchant OF willets arrived in
town yesterday and is registered at the Russ.
B. C. Holly, horseman of Vallejo, came
down yesterday and is stopping at the Grand.
W. H. Clary, a mining man of Stockton, and
his wife and daughters are stopping at the
Lick.
James A. Louttit, prominent attorney OF
Stockton, and Mrs. Louttit registered yesterday
at the Lick.
J. D. Stephens, banker of Woodland and one
of the proprietors of Highland Springs, is q
guest at the Grand.
Eugene Ysaye, the violinist who is stopping
at the Baldwin, was serenaded yesterday after
noon by the Baldwin Theater Orchestra.
Samuel T. Black, State Superintendent OF
Public Instruction, came down from Sacra'
| mento yesterday and is stopping at the Lick.
Colonel d. B. Fairbanks, banker OF Peta.
luna and commander of the Fifth Regiment
came down yesterday and registered at the
Lick
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MARK rwA1N,s FIRST LECTURE.

1t was in the year 1866 in the then marvellous
Citv of San Francisco that Mark Twain gave
his first lecture. He had just returned from
the Sandwich Islands, ana was quite favorably
known on account of the bright descriptive
and humorous letters he had sent from tnere
to the various newspapers.
Mark was modest, curly-headeo young man
in those DAYS, with the "Titian" colored hair,
and shrewd yankee" expression ABOUT MS
blue eyes.
HI would not then have called the great ana
only O'Rell ga thing!' Oh! no, indeedl ne
would thus have discoursed, with smiling
mouth and dropping eyes:
81 beg your pardon, Mr.. O'Rell, but you have
uttered calumnies that are not backed by bed
rock facts, so, if IL is not too great blow to
your veracity, shall be compelled to say you
are mistaken"
But the "Mark Twain" OF those days and the
MARK Twain" of to-day are different men.
Then he had not gone with ''The Innocents
Abroad and on his return written them up
In such manner that it was an evenly
balanced opinion in the public mind whether
he was bold, bad man, or the greatest humor-
list OF the century. To-day we accept him as
the latter.
On the afternoon of his first lecture he called
on me with the Count or another newspaper
friend My habitation was not splendid and
cannot just recall to mind whether was then
little nobody in the eyes of the Coolest in
habitant' or had budded into somebody that
all the papers were talking about Well at
least the gentle Mark wanted an introdu etion
for he wished me to attend his lecture. He
was bashful in those days and timidly rendered
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me two tickets, saying with his peculiar drawl:
''Dont laugh at me, please" Imagine
funny man not wanting to be laughed at. But
I do not think he considered his lecture funny;
it was serious business with him.
Well, / went to the lecture. 1t was in the
old theater opposite what is now the Stock
Exchange, and it was crowded to the doors.
Mark was greeted with uproarious applause,
for every one came to laugh, and laugh they
would whether or no.
The lecture was good-what we heard of it
and what was not heard was applauded and
laughed at just the same, for it must be funny,
as Mark was considered prominently funny
man.
After great burst of enthusiasm one behind
me said: 81 didn't just catch that" ''Neither
did l." was the answer; yet they both laughed
till the tears came, for the mirth was con-
| tagious.
| Then Mark had way of filling up the ap-
| plause by dueking his head out of sight be-
! hind his leetern, and as the audience thought
| the gentle hero had bottle there-not water
| at every "duck" the merriment beca ne furi-
Gus, for no one believed he wore "white
! ribbon" and they looked from those repeated
assaults on the bottle for some fun that was
not down on the programme. But could not
swear that he did anything but sip a harmless
lemonade.
There was one descriptive bit on the eruption
of "K:lauea" that was gem of word-painting
and won genuine and warm applause.
Well, the lecture was a success, but at its
conclusion the gentle Mark did not retire
from the public gaze, but stood bowling to the
different ones he knew In the audience and
shaking hands with those in the private box,
and that is the last saw of him, still shaking
hands, till saw him on Broadway, New York
Then it seemed such short time after that he
suddenly became the great Mark Twain, the
favor1te writer and the millionaire publisher.
In his beautiful home he is a bright and
shining light and an encouragement to all am
bilious young travellers and writer's the whole
world over. ALICE KINGsBURY COOLEY
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able to know that here in California we
have so generous opportunities for in
dulging them. If we want to employ our
time in "killing" trout, we can find the
finest trout streams in the world. Not
withstanding DIR. Jordan's scientific
treatises on steelheads land some intelli-
gent sportsmen might be able to find fault
with his conclusions), the fact remains
that the past efforts of the State tlsh
hatcheries, backed by the laws preventing
the pollution of streams with sawdust and
other destructive kinds of industrial debris,
have made many of the California streams
ideal resorts for fishermen. There is prob
ably not another State in the Union where
SO much skill and money are invested in
this delightful sport. Besides the in
Vulnerable and easily accessible streams OF
the Coast Range we have the Kern and
Kings rivers of the Sierra, and in the north
the greatest of all-the McCloud River
where the fat and lazy dolly warden and
the "gamey'' rainbow trout are equally en-
ticing.
In addition to these we have the lakes
for summer trout-tishing-Tahoe, Weber,
Bonner, Clear Lake and many others; and,
besides all this, is the totally different and
equally wholesome sport OF. sea-fishing,
which would require long chapter by it
self to discuss.
If we desire to be real sports of the dar-
ing sort we can go to the mountains OF
Trinity and hunt big game. Deer we may
find at almost any place reasonably remote
from settlement, the Gabilan Range south
of Monterey being fayorite place for this
species of killing. But if we want hair
raising experiences they may be found in
the Scott and Trinity ranges in the north
ern end of the State. 1t is true that no
great courage is needed to take cinnamon
bear though even this wild brute is an
ugly customer in a fight for life; but there
is a chance thereabout, and also in the re-
moter mountain gorges of Kern and the
contiguous counties, of finding a grizzly,
that most terrible of man-haters. 1t is not
a very valorous exploit to land jaguar "a
species of large cat, which we often dignity
with the name of California lion), but it is
only he who bags grizzly that knows
what real sport in California is, and who is
entitled to yellow JACKET and peacock
feather in the diplomacy of sportsman
ship,
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large number of Americans are likely to
think of emigrating to Jupiter, but not
few of them are in other directions fully as
credulous as the peasants who surrendered
their earthly homes in the hope of better
one in the big planet.
Without considering the worst forms OF
credulity exhibited in the United States by
the followers of so-called Messiahs who
spring up here and there over the country,
and without counting the dupes OF those
who pretend to hear voices from the world
beyond, but taking note only of those who
expect some sweet life of sinless ease ana
undisturbed comfort to be brought about
by a change of law or a reorganization OF
society, we have certainly a good many
credulous seekers after Jupiter among us.
Many self-deluded fanatic finds encour-
agement in his folly, and many clever
rascal finds profit in his knavery by ap-
pealing to the credulity of men who IN
that particular are easy victims, but VINO
in other respects are quite intelligent and
sane. 1t is not always the most ignorant
who are the most easily deceived. The in
diligence of hope, like every other indul-
gence, may be carried to excess, and when
it has been permitted to dominate the IN
tellect, whoever appeals to it with per-
suasive promise nearly always finds ready
acceptance of any tale however wild or lm-
probable. Associations and organizations
innumerable, and sometimes even consld-
cradle political parties, expend time and
energy and money in the attempt to reach
some fancied Jupiter of reform. Business
as well as politics has its victims. Re-
ported gold discoveries take men by thou
sands to the desolations of the desert, and
other thousands rush with frantic eager
ness to the cities of boom. 1t is so all
round the world, and if credulity is to be
saved from becoming the dupe OF the
fanatic or the knave, Russia is not the only
land where there should be laws against
spreading false reports about Jupiter.
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GOING TO JUPITER.

1t is reported that an unscrupulous ras-
cal was recently tried and convicted at
Saratof, Russia, for having induced num-
Der of peasants to deliver to him all their
worldly possessions with view to emil
grating under his guidance to the planet
of Jupiter. He had told them in that
planet they would find land in abundance,
fruits growing without requiring work and
social system in which every man was
equal in wealth and happiness. A curious
illustration of the technicalities of Russian
law is afforded in further statement of
the report that the only way in which the
courts could find legal process for pun
ishing the swindler was to have him in
dicted for spreading false reports about
Jupiter"
This story would seem to give evidence
of degree of credulity among the peasants
of Russia far beyond anything possible in
our enlightened land. 1t is by no means
certain, however, that this is true. Gre
dulity has many phases, and they are not
always consistent with one another. No
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THE SAN JOSE ROSE FAIR.

Because there has been no comment in
our editorial columns upon the floral fair
in that city, the San Jose Herald lifts up its
voice complaining that in the multitude OF
fetes, fiestas, carnivals, tournaments, festi-
walls and fairs in other parts of the State,
the CALL, in the metropolitan whirl of
things, has forgotten San Jose, or been
neglectful of the just claims of her floral
glories upon the attention of the State.
If we had offended in this way, then in
deed would the offense have been grievous.
The CALL, however, has neither forgotten
San Jose nor been neglectful OF its roses.
1t would indeed have been strange if we
had poured forth the full measure of our
jewel-colored words, our song-sweet
phrases, our raptures and rhythms of rhet-
oric and praise upon the festivals OF Santa
Barbara, of Los Angeles, of Santa Rosa, OF
Oakland, and forgotten or neglected the
rose fair of the Garden City of the sun
clear valley of flowers.
1t would be an invidious task for us to
decide what valley in California produces
the finest flowers and what city is best
fitted by every aspect of nature and every
form of architectural adornment to show to
the world the finest and most delightful of
spring-time festivals, but the San Jose
people can make safe guess at it. Her
floral fairs this year and IN years past have
not taken the wide scope of those in the
places now known as the "fiesta cities, "
but whenever she chooses to spread festi-
val all over the town and extend it to a
spring-day fYolic amid the romantic can
yons and bowery wildernesses of Alum
Rock Park, there will be no lack of chorus
of admiration in metropolitan journals,
not only on this coast, but even of the
remote East.
The possibilities of San Jose and Santa
Clara Valley are great in every direction.
Manufactures for the preserving of fine
fruits may make it great industrial
center, the opening of the channel at AL
viso may make San Jose practically sea-
port, and this, in connection with the
completion of the coast road and the con.
struction of the line TO the San Joaquin
will give it transportation advantages thai
may make it a city of great commercial i'm
portance. These are the possibilities o.
business, but there are also possibilitie:
for a great development in the line O.
pleasure The proximity to San Fran
cisco and Oakland, the exquisite salubrity
of the climate, the unriyaled roads, the de
lightful society, and the thousand hospit
able homes-all these give to that city ant
county the opportunity of becoming the
great esthetic pleasure ground of Cali
fornia, the scene of our finest revels ant
our most gorgeous festivals.
Certainly the CALL has not overlooked
| the rose fair of San Jose. 1t was beautiful
and delightful, but it was only sugges
ton of what the rose festivals of San Jos
ought to be, and will be noted mainly as {
promise of greater things to come.
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SOME COUNTRY SPORTS.

So long as there shall prevail the savage
instinct to kill which remains as remin-
iscence of uncountable wars and of the
necessities of our ancient progenitors to
kill animals for food, so long will the
pleasures of the rod and gun allure us. 1t
is true that in these recent years we have
special agents, whom we term butchers
and pothunters, to do the necessary kill
ing that brings us food. Still we have not
delegated to these agents our ancient in
herited desire to kill; and that we are all
the more wanton in killing for the mere
love of killing is no argument either
against the fact or in favor of any assump-
ton that evolution is lifting US above the
instinct.
For that matter we can easily imagine
that when the present movement against
the use of fish, flesh and foNl shall have
prevailed because of the cruelty of the
practice science will have advanced so far
that it will be deemed equally cruel to take
the life of vegetable, which, possibly, in
the more enlightened days ahead of us
may be regarded as enjoying as great a
right to life as an oyster or COW. In
that event we shall be driven to extract
our sustenance from the sunshine and air,
and may enjoy that occupation until we
are assured that even this may be canni-
balism. By that time, however, we shall
have learned to live without eating at all
unless, indeed, we should sooner learn
that all life thrives on death alone and
that there is no continuance of life with
out its destruction.
While we remain under the thralldOm of
our present savage instincts it is comfort
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SAN FRANCISCO IN SUMMER.

While so much has been written about
San Francisco as a winter resort, and
while so many admiring and delighted
visitors from other lands have spread the
fame of our pleasant winter climate over
all the world no sufficient attention has
been given to the advantage of the City as
place of summer residence, and to the
attractions it offers for pleasure-seekers
during the holiday months.
Nature has been bountiful to San Fran
cisco in many ways, but in none has she
| been more propitious than in the arrange
| ment of the climate. When the sun goes
southwark in the winter, and the days are
short, nature withdraws her winds and
leaves the City in the full enjoyment of
every ray of the warmth the sun dispenses;
but when the summer comes and the days
are long, and the sun is hot at noon, then
kind nature sends to the City the strong
trade winds fresh from the ocean to
| temper the heat, to revive the languid at
mosphere and to give vigor and vitality to
everything. From the bracing salt winds
of the sea men breathe in strength and
| animation with every breath, and find in
it a sense of recreation equal to that de-
rived from holiday.
While the summer climate is thus de-
lightful, the City affords a thousand
means of enjoying the healthy vigor which
it gives to the body and the mind. Out
side the attractions usual to cities, such as
theaters, baths, parks, music, art, good
company and the never-ceasing variety of
life upon the streets, there can be found in
San Francisco many of the best enjoy
ments of the most renowned country or
seaside resorts. All along the northern,
western and southern portions of the City
are hills from which views may be had of
scenes as adversely picturesque as any
that nature affords. To one who is fond
of walking and to whom the beauty and
the variety of nature are delights, San
Francisco is a true wonderland of charms,
where every hilltop reveals a new attrac-
ton and every attraction repays the
climb.
The summer aspects of beauty and
pleasure in the City should be more often
commented on and more widely known.
San Francisco should be made the great
holiday resort of people from all parts of
the interior of the State. No other place
can offer hotel accommodations equal to
ours, none has such excellent baths, such
stately park, such diversity of enjoy
ment, or such bracing climate. Our peo-
pie have of late accepted the hospitality of
the festal cities in various parts of the
State. and it is now time for us to return
the compliment and invite our friends of
the interior to make their summer holt
DAYS with us
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SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

The people of Vallejo are turning their atten-
ton to local matters with commendable earn
estness. The people are far more interested in
local enterprises than in the transactions going
on in New York or st. Petersburg. Push for
Vallejo and improvements, industries and
progression. Now is the time for everybody to
Join hands with the Chronicle for grand push
for everything that will benefit the city and
the county. The Chronicle can't accomplish
the good work alone. Keep your shoulders to
the wheel.-Vallejo Chronicle.
The holding of one or both of tke national
conventions in San Francisco next year would
undoubtedly be OF great benefit to the entire
coast. These conventions are composed of the
leading men of their party, and these men
would visit other places on the coast on their
way home, and many would return East via
Portland. Upon their arrival home they would
disseminate much valuable knowledge OF the
coast.-Portland Sun.
The wave of progress has struck Plumas a:
well as the rest of Northern California. With
all her resources of mines, timber and dairy
ing she is destined to grow and prosper, and
we rejoice with our Quincy contemporaries
that better times are coming for our nefghbor.
Quincy has suffered much unjustly, and she
may well feel that her most permanent pros
perity is yet to come.-Oroville Mercury.
Celebrating the coming of new railroads into
Pasadena is becoming little monotonous, but
the Southern Pacific will find our citizens
equal to one more jubilation. Bring on the
road.-Pasadena Star.
When Tacoma wants a creamery she gets In
and gets it. That is the way Salem will have
to do. We must fly with our own wings
Salem orr Statesman.
San Bernardino is still trying to get the
creamery. The people over there know on
which side their bread is Observation-Disclosures
Facts.
New issues demand new men. Beware the
old politician who has trained himself W uupe
the people.-Los Angeles Record
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

"Whewr' almost shouted AL Gerberding yes
terday morning as he walked into the Palace
"Hotl hot!l hot!N Whew-w-w'
Chow does it strike you, Al?"
"Well 1 have lived here forty years. Was
born here, and, what is quite unusual, have
never moved from the house where I-whew-
made my first appearance. During all that
time never saw it quite SO warm. There is
always some other fellow who remembers q
hotter day, but I'm nearly pioneer myself
Whewl" Mr.. Gerberding mopped his high,
dark forehead and continued:
"Pll bet William Berg doesn't do any travel
ing to-day. You know Berg, the great German
traveller, of course
mo"
"Why, he walks from the corner OF Leides-
dorff and California streets to the Stock Ex-
change some days as much as ten times. Very
often he walks back. He has been known to
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SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

''Isn't this the house where the ghost is
heard every night walking with clanking
chains?'
YES"
do you ever hear it?"
Heavens, no; we have baby."-Chicago
Times Herald.
Heavens, Marial Was that photograph open
during cat fight?"
"No. I turned it on last night when you
were sleeping. Perhaps you will believe now
that you snore."-Life
On the Japanese warship. First officer
There's cruiser reported little ahead. Sec
ond officer-Chinese? First officer - No, sir.
She's headed this way.-Sing Sing Courier.
Student-Several of my friends are coming to
dine here, SO l want a big table. Mine Host
Just look at this one, sir. Fifteen persons
could sleep quite comfortably under it. =
Fliegende Blaetter.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Pope Leo Kills hands are nearly useless ana
cause him much suffering. When he writes ne
must hold his right wrist with his lett hand,
and what he writes is almost illeglble. This
is not due to age, but to an attack OF ague
twenty-five years ago, when he was Bishop OF
Perugia.
Albert George Sandman has been elected to
the responsible position of governor OF the
Bank OF England. He had previously been a
director of the bank for many years, and also
director in many financial institutions and in
surance companies.
DR.. A. Conan Doyle is living at the BeIvidere
Hotel, Davos Platz, Switzerland. He declined
a tempting offer for another season here, his
principal reason being that American railway
cars are so unendurably hot.
The last miller of Dee is dead, but the Chester
Town Council has voted to buy and preserve
the mills in order to control the flow OF the
stream. The original grant of the mills was
made by King Edward VI.
Robert Halstead, son of Murat Halstead
has been appointed managing editor OF the
Fourth Estate, Mr.. Brmingham's lively "news-
paper for newspaper men," in place of F. H.
Lancaster, resigned.
Major Pond says his offer of $4,000 night
for Mark Twain, which has been standing for
five years still holds good. Twain has more
calls to lecture than any other American citizen.
Rev. Dr. William Gregg, professor in Knox
College. Toronto, since 1872, and well-known
leader in the Presbyterian church, has re-
signed the professorship on account of old age
Robert Lebaudy has subscribed 1000 francs
toward the prizes for the Bordeaux-Paris and
back horseless carriage race, which will take
place on June IL and following days.
W. r. Smith, superintendent OF the Botanic
Gardens in Washington, has held the place fol
forty-three years.