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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
A GOOD INVESTMENT.

The incorporation of the San Francisco
and San Joaquin Railroad puts the enter
prise into position where it can appeal
for support, not to millionaires only, but
the citizen of ordinary means. 1t is to be
railroad for the people and should be
supported by the people. If Mr.. Spreckels
had private purpose in view he could
have built the road out of his own pocket
In limiting his subscription to half mil
lion and that of his two sons to 100000
each he gave an opportunity for others to
join in the work and share in the profits.
and the number of men of means.and en-
terprise who have joined him and sub
scribed literally shows how the oppor-
tunity is appreciated by men of business
experience and sagacity.
Since it is the evident intention of the
promoters to make this road of the peo-
pie, as well as for the people, every citizen
who can afford to do so should subscribe to
it. The money invested in the enterprise
will not be lost 1t will be zealously
guarded by the board of trust, and the
interest of the smallest subscriber will be
looked after as carefully as that of the
| largest The road itself is to be built on
business principles and operated on bust
ness principles. Money invested in the
stock will be the same as that invested in
any other legitimate enterprise conducted
with fairness and impartiality. Neither
Mr.. Spreckels nor those associated with
him will attempt TO divert the earnings of
the corporation from the pockets of the
stockholders There will be no money ex-
pended to bride voters nor legislators.
There will be no corporation within the
corporation to make fortunes for a few
individuals out of material furnished or
construction done. The character of the
men who constitute the board of directors
is guarantee OF fair-dealing, and the in
vestment is, therefore, one which can be
honestly recommended to the general
public.
The great heart of the people should be
with this enterprise, which appeals at once
to the business and the bosoms of men.
Material advancement for the State is its
object, and because of this it is animated
by a patriotic impulse. 1t means the
emancipation of our people from some
thing more than high freight rates. 1t
will break down that monopoly of railway
transportation that has affected politics as
injuriously as trade. 1t will in fact take
the railroad out of politics and rid us of
the necessity OF maintaining a costly Rail-
road Commission by regulating freights
and fares by the business processes of legit-
innate competition. In short, the road is
going to be a benefit to the whole State
and an advantage to every class of people,
and all progressive and patriotic citizens,
in proportion to their means, should sub
scribe to the stock and hasten the day
when the road will be completed and it's
benefits realized.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
THE WEATHER AGAIN.

Talk of the climate or of the weather
under ordinary circumstances comes to the
Californian like twice-told tales, or like
what Falstaff called "damnable iteration. 4"
AT this time, however, California has a
good reason for reverting to the subject.
We occupy unique position this winter
in regard to the weather. Hitherto we
have had some rivals in the world as a
place OF resort for tourists during the
colder months, but this season we have
had none. Literally the whole world ex-
cept the Pacific Coast seems to have been
frozen up. And the subject of California
weather, so far from being an exhausted
one, has taken on a new interest for SCI
entists, inyalids and pleasure-seekers.
The cold waves generated on the bleak
northern plains east of the Rocky Noun
tains have swept southwark this season, as
well as eastward, in successive blasts, and
not only have Louisiana and Florida felt
the freezing effect of the billiards, but
even the West Indies did not escape, and
an unprecedented frost blighted the pine
apple groves of the Bermudas. The winter
resorts OF Europe have Jared as badly as
those OF our Atlantic coast. Snowstorms
have occurred at Nice, hailstorms have
injured the olives of Southern Italy, it has
been as cold at times in the south OF Eng
land as in the Orkney Islands, the Mediter-
ranean coast has been chilled by heavy
frosts, and there is hardly at European
country from Russia to Southern Spain
which has not suffered from unusually
severe winter weather
Under these circumstances it is certainly
worth while for US to talk about our
weather and keep on talking about it,
until the intelligent part of mankind is
made to understand that our climate never
undergoes such mercurial alterations as
afiict other lands. 1t is the more impor-
tant to do this, because many people be-
iieve that billiards have been raging here
as well as elsewhere. Even SO well-posted
a journal as the Chicago Inter Ocean re-
Gently informed its readers in an editorial
that the billiards "are no respecters of
sections, they have swept down the Pacific
coast and blighted the orange groves of
California and Arizona
OF course, q snowstorn in the Sierras OF
California is always described in the East
as snowstorm in the orange grovea.
Therefore, we must perforce keep on talk
ing about the weather every now and then
IN order that the true glory of our climate
may be known. We have had no biz
yards. The fate of Florida, the Bermudas
and the Riviera has not been ours. Here
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
STOP THE PAY.

If there is no way to induce the Leeis-
lature, through a sense of duty and de-
cency, to dismiss the gang OF idle hangers
on that has become scandal to the State
and an offense to every taxpayer, there
ought at least to be way to check the
plundering by stopping the pay that has
been voted to the gang.
1t is, OF course, matter for the courts
to decide whether the pay can be stopped,
and it should be brought to them for adj
Indication. The salaries of these men
should not be audited The Treasurer
should not pay them. If necessary the
Governor should interpose his veto. Some
action must be taken 10 test the question
of the power of reckless legislators to
squander the money paid into the State
treasury for State purposes by hard work
ing people, in order to pay election bar
gains or crafty the henchmen of discarded
bosses.
The people are in earnest in this matter;
the Republican party is in earnest. If the
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
THE WEEKLY GALL.
stopit.

There has long been a demand upon the
Paclhc Coast Tor great weekly newspaper;
one that would dare to commend the right
ana condemn the wrong; one that would
completely and satisfactorily cover the
held; one with policy broad enough to
include the earnest advocacy of every
legitimate undertaking, the upbuilding of
every industry, and the development of
every resource without regard to sects,
sections or silurians.
Such paper the WEEKLY CALL shall be;
and some OF the improvements recently
MADE with this In view are presented In
the issue OF to-day. Satisfied with success
already achieved and confident that the
public will uphold and patronize such a
paper, we submit it to the Judgment of the
people.
one OF the features to which we desire to
call particular attention is the resume of
events in various Pacific Coast localities
under the head of Coast Review Hereto
fore only such events were chronicled in
the metropolitan papers as were deemed
OF suhclent Importance to be sent by tele-
graph. The public has been informed of
murders, elopements, priZe-tights and other
crimes, but the short and simple annals of
the day have been, as far as the great in
terror is concerned, entirely neglected.
The WEEKLY CALL intends to cover the
latter as well as the former field, and
readers of all classes will find in this de-
partment news of more than passing i'm
portance.
The mining interest, which has been so
long neglected, is given the attention
which its Importance deserves. Agricul-
tural and horticultural interests also re-
celve careful consideration.
The Fraternal World is photographed
for the benefit of members OF secret So
cleties, the housewife may find hints and
helps in the Household Department, and
in other portions Of the paper will be found
articles embodying the principal events of
the day the world around. In fact, the
WEEKLY CALL is clean, bright, compre-
hensive and progressive paper and full of
news.
We have gone out of the coupon bust
ness and we offer no town lots, red heifers
books, bicycles or doll buggies. In place
OF these fakes we give the news of the day
and full information concerning the great
industries of the State. The WEEKLY
CALL, therefore, appeals only to the intel
Hgence and patriotism of the people, and
seeks no support on any other basis. The
subscription price is 81 so a wear,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

At Seance-"Do you think that was your
friend who appeared?"
swell, I'm not sure, but If it was know she
must be very unhappy"
"Mercy, why?"
"Her sleeves were not more than half as large
as those she wore here.
Ambulance surgeon reporting in
that last call. Fellow was insensible from
drink. Brought him to with ammonia and
come back.
House surgeon-But you've got case in the
wagon there
Ambulance surgeon (carelessly)-oh, that's a
teller we run over coming baek!-Puck.
Old Mr.. Goodfellow-Little boy, can you tell
me the way to the ferry?
Gamin-Yassir; JUS follow the street along
where you hear the teamsters usin' the wust
angwidge.-Harper's Bazaar.
Pipkin-It was very kind of you to give me
that Jonah tip on the races yesterday.
Potts-I thought it would surely win, and
meant to do you good turn.
Plpk1n-You succeeded. 1 gave it to fellow
wanted to get even with.-Frank Leslie's.
81 don't see, mum, why your other cook went
away so quickP'
any husband found fault with pudding he
thought had made and the cook overheard
m."-Truth.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
ELECTED THEIR OFFICERS.
The Fire Underwriters Meeting Come,
to a Close.

The Fire Underwriters Meeting Comes
to Close.
Two important papers were read at
the second days session of the Fire
Underwriters Association. "The losses in
large cities formed the topic of Herbert
Folger's address, in which he illustrated
the difference between the building laws
here and in the East and Europe to the
disadvantage of San Francisco. No build
ing in London, he said, contains so many
cubic feet between brick walls as in the
Flood building. Buildings of vast proper
tions have been erected in San Francisco
but many of them are without Prevails
that could be relied on in case of fire to
save portion of the structure
f. G. Argal read paper on the "Theory
of Lines, and the "Knapsack, yearly
publication issued at the meetings, was
read by George F. Grant and Ed Niles.
The bright and witty paper created many
a laugh that made the underwriters feel
better after their labors.
The, following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: V. Carus Drift
field, president; Herbert Folger. vice
president; Louis Weinmann, secretary and
treasurer; executive committee r. w.
Osborn, j. D. Fogarty, Frank J. Devlin.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
Personal.

Attorney A. L. Hart OF Sacramento is at the
Grand.
J. w. Conant, mining man of Redding is at
the Russ.
Judge George w. Nicol of Sonora is a guest at
the Occidental.
Ex-Judge ]. F. Rooney of Sonora is registered
at the Occidental.
A. C. Mclean, a railroad contractor of Mon
terey, is at the Lick.
James Topley, Vallejo merchant, was at
the Grand yesterday
George A. Nourse, an attorney of Fresno, is
registered at the Lick.
j. R. Miller, a banker of Healdsburg, is a
guest at the California.
E. D. Ham, Superior Judge OF Napa County,
is registered at the Grand.
The Rev. ]. D. Mcdonald of Sacramento is
registered at the California.
o. ]. Slough, an extensive real estate oper-
ator of San Diego, is at the Palace.
Louis Gundelfnger banker of Fresno, ar
rived in this city yesterday He is at the Lick
A. W. Simpson, large lumber-dealer of
Stockton, registered st the Occidental yester-
day.
DR.. A. E. Osborn, superintendent of the
Home for Predetermined at Glen Ellen, is in
the city.
L. F. Warner Jr., prominent mining man
OF the Caribou district British Columbia, is in
the city.
W. E. Robinson, manager of the Southern
California Improvement Company, is regis
tered at the Palace.
s. ii. Babcock, general passenger agent of the
Rio Grande Western Railroad at Salt Lake, is
guest of the Palace
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
OUR VIEW OF NEWS.

Every newspaper purports to publish the
news. There is a wide difference of opin-
ion, however, among editors as to what
constitutes the news. There are some who
consider every act of vice or folly as news,
but regard all evidences of business or en-
terprise as advertising matter. They de-
mand payment for every line given to an
industry or to an undertaking for the de-
velopment of our natural resources. Some
journals of this kind even send agents and
artists around from county to county
soliciting progressive men to advertise
what they are doing, and so far as possible
thwart the efforts of every man who re-
fuses the advertising.
The existence of that kind of journalism
compels US to emphasize the fact that our
idea of news is broad enough to compre-
bend everything that is of interest to in
telligent business men. Our policy is to
publish the progress of industry as well as
anything else, and to give the preference
to industrial news, partly because it is
more interesting to the better class of
readers and partly because it aids in de-
veloping the resources of the State and
tends to the profit of labor and capital
alike. Evidence of our method of pursu-
ing this policy is afforded in the publica-
ton of the railway timetables, not as ad-
vertising matter, but as information OF
value to the public which the people have
right to expect from newspaper Of
course, purely private business will not be
recorded by US, but all great industries or
enterprises which from their nature or ex-
tent are quasi-public will be written up by
the CALL without expectation of pay or
favor.
great work lies before the people of
California in the development of their
varied industries, and everything that con-
Germs the progress of these may well be ac-
counted as news of Importance. The dairy
industry for example, in the large estab-
lishment to be located in Kern County, as
recently written up in the CALL, shows
what kind of news can be gathered up in
these departments from time to time.
Similar enterprises and undertakings are
to be found in all our large industries, and
in not few of the minor ones of the State.
Over all these we intend to keep watch.
The growers of vineyards and orchards,
the delivers in the mines, farmers in the
grain fields, lumbermen in the forests, cat
tlemen on the plains and sheepmen on
the hills, the far-reaching merchant whose
ships bear his trade to the remotest seas.
the humble market-gardener, whose for
tune is in his crop Of berries or potatoes,
the chicken fancier whose pleasure and
profit are united in the range of his chicken
ranch-all these the CALL will serve as
faithfully as it serves the statesman, the
diplomatist, the preacher and the leader
of society.
Our policy is to record the industry of
California as well as her politics, her social
events and her sensations. We record it
moreover as news. We are not in the trade
OF ieg-pulling for advertising. We are pub
fishing a newspaper for the city, for the
State and for the people; and we propose
to make it all that a modern newspaper
ought to be.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Even men of affairs are gifted with modesty
sometimes None are more so than ]. A. Fill
more OF the Southern Pacific Company, as
everybody who frequents the Occidental Hotel
lobby well knows.
al really would not care to talk about my
early life," he said to CALL reporter at his
office yesterday afternoon. ''You know it is
embarrassing to go into the trivial details that
permit men to go up the ladder step by step,
and as Tor myself-well, just let the matter
drop"
$50 you do not care to say when you first
found yourself adapted to the railroad bust
ness?"
whats that?" responded the general SUI
perintendent, and after little twitching of
his mustache, during which time he seemed to
catch the drift OF the inquiry, he continued:
AZ was brought up on farm, If that's what
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22

Republican Acknowledgement and the
Republican Treasurer either refuse or are
legally unable TO take any steps to save the
treasury from legislative grand larceny,
then the rank and file of the Republican
party will join with the rest of the people
IN approving, commencing, applaudlng
and honoring Governor Budd if he should
refuse to sign any bill approprlatlng
money to pay these useless expenses. 1t
is conceded that this evil must be stopped.
Now, then, the people look to their
servants in the State government to
stop it.
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ton at any moment and without warning. 1t
should also provide for q thorough auditing
and examination of their accounts whenever
the auditing Office is moved to make it.|StocK-
ton Independent.
1t is certainly remarkable how ready the SUD
seribers to the new railroad stock are with their
first payments. The spectacle OF fifty people IN
line waiting to pay on voluntary subscriptions
to build railroad is seldom seen, we appre-
hend.-Alamede Argus.
Let us all stop grumbling and put our shoui-
ders to the wheel and push for Improvements
Push for business; push everything worthy en-
terprise; wake up and take your money from
hidden stoeking-legs and invest it.-Oakland
Times.
In these days when any one does wrong he
tries to excuse himself on the ground of his
having been hypnotized. Hypnotism does not
seem to incline one to do anything good
Santa Barbara Press.
If one stops to think OF what 3 new railroad
would do for Oakland it would appear that it
ought not to take twenty-four hours to raise
the first $250,0O0 OF the local subscription
Oakland Enquirer.
Railroads are the arteries and wagon roads
the veins of commerce. No country can -four
lsh while either veins or arteries are clogged.-
Stockton Independent.
The Japs are philosophers They take things
as they find them-ships, forts and everything
else.-Ontario Record.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.


GeQeral McCook said the other day, in the
courSsof an address at meeting of the Indian
Rights Association, at Denver, that in his forty
years experience with the Indians he had
always found white man at the bottom of
every difficulty. He said that his decisions in
cases of trouble between whites and Indians
had always been in favor of the Indians.
Old men have prominent place in the coun-
ellis of Russia. The senior member of the Rus
sian Ministerial Cabinet is Count Delganof.
Minister of Public Instruction, aged II. Then
follow P. S. Vannoysky, 70; r. G. Dunge, 70;
K. P Pabiedonostzeff, 70; T. G. Phillipoff, 81,
etc. Among the under secretaries are: n. j.
Stoyanoski, rs, and NJ. \. Ostrovski, 90.
When the present Gear of Russia examined his
late fathers papers to decide which were to be
kept in the family archives and which in those
OF state, he found complete plan of Franco
Russian alliance, with which lay some letters
and notes referring to it, in the late Cars own
hand. The young Gear locked these papers up
in his own bureau.
Hagenbeek is about to give London an exhi-
bition of life in Africa. He is importing a COM
plete Somali village, comprising eighty native
hunters, with their huts and household appli-
ances; twenty-five African hunting horses
twenty-five racing dromedaries, and specimens
OF all the wild and tame animals of British
East Africa.
Count Tolstoi has another book, called
priceless Wealth and the Trouble Attached to
It."
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
Bv the death of Frederick ,,onolass +b.

By the death of Frederick Douglass the
country loses the most eminent and repre-.
sentative negro of the slave period, and
though the now emancipated race will
doubtless furnish many orators of an equal
or even greater ability, none is likely to
hold the unique place of Douglass in popu-
lar esteem, to achieve so much for his race
or to be more honorably remembered; and
it is pleasing to add that no negro in the
future will ever have to confront such OBJ
stacles and dare such dangers in making
his way to eminence and fortune.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22

An astonishing phenomenon was LIE
Petit Beauchasteau, who was presented to
Louis XIV at the age of Z, to Queen Chris
tina OF Sweden, to the King of Spain, and
10 oliver Cromwell, Improvising the most
exquisite verses to each in the language OF
the country.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22

We never demand advertising rates for
news or information that is interesting to
the public.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22

According to Lord Kelvin's theory all
substances ale composed OF atoms, and
atoms themselves are nothing but vortex
rings"-that is to say, mere whirls in the
finer than matter that it is as near as the
scientific imagination can get to nothing.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22

is the place where roses blow and lilies
bloom, and where the genial sunshine in
February is enticing enough to suggest
picnics and strawberries.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
"NIrs. Winslow,s soothing syrupn

Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth
ers for their children while Teethng with perfect
success 1t soothes the child softens the gums al
lays Pain, cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels
and Is the best remedy for Diarrheas whether
arising from teething or other causes. For sale by
Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and
ask Tor Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25c a
hottie.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
A LECTURE by General o. o. Howard.

Maior-General o. o. Howard will arrive in
this city early in March, and is booked for
lecture in the new auditorium of the Young
Mems Christian Association. Mason and Ellis
streets, on Friday evening, March s. The gen
erals subject will be Grant at ChattanooSs ),
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22

PINK gums and mouth and dazzling teeth
And breath of balm and lips OF rose
Are found not in this world beneath
With young or old, save only those
Who ever wisely, while they may,
Use SoZoDoNT by night and day.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22
SPIRIT OF TIE PRESS,

Spasmodic examinations of public institu-
tons only when the Legislature is in session
do very little good. Provision should be made
to have them liable to visitation and inspec-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22

SUFFERERS from catarrh should seek the relief
which thousands have found in Hoods Sarsaparilla
IL pnres the BLOOD removes the cause, thus effect
ing cure after other medicines fail.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22

If Senator Chandler is correct Cleveland
will have the next Congress not on his
hands, but on his neck.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22

JAMES L. WOLFE, ARCHITECT, Flood building,
desiring to reach unknown owners without per-
sonal solicitation invites call or interview
from those intending to build either brick or
frame. Special advantages pledged
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22

Perhaps if George Washington could see
the kind of Government we have at Wash
ington, he would wonder why we are so
grateful to him for starting it.