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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
CHEAP cody LAB0RER R J,
The Commissioners Will Re-
sumo Their investigation
To-Day.
Determined to Warn the Federal
Government of the Danger From
the Orient.

The persistent efforts of Labor Comnls-
sioner E.. L. Fitzgerald and United States
immigration Commissioner Stradley to
get at the bottom facts of the cody labor
contract matters are receiving the indorse-
ments of all who have the interests OF the
State and the interests OF the white labor
ers at heart number of people called
at the offices of these officials yesterday
and encouraged them to go ahead with the
investigation, which, in fact, was only be-
gun in Pleasanton on Tuesday.
The state of affairs in Alameda County
is believed to be about the same as in all
of the fruit, beet and hop-raising sections
of the State, that is, japanese and Chinese
coolies, by their bosses, hold and control
all of that class of labor in California. No
white man has any chance to compete
with the Asiatics, because the latter have
systems of agreements and contracts that
would mean starvation to white man.
The Commissioners, on beginning their
investigation. thought that the cody labor
evil might be crippled by securing evidence
that the United States contract labor laws
had been violated and furnishing the
Offenders. 1t is doubtful if they succeed in
getting such a hold upon any one for the
greatest precautions have been taken by
the contractors to avoid laying themselves
liable to the law by documentary evidence
OF any kind. Yet as fact the law has
been broken by the labor contractors Civ
ing their friends in Japan to understand
that all Japs sent to this State would be
provided with work. This promise is
binding, and as a result there are no idle
Japanese coolies among the 5000 now in
the State. Japan seems to have sent her
worst element to this State, for a large
mum Der of those here are given to excess
sive drinking and brawling.
For all these disqualitications as laborers
work is provided for all, and in cases
where unruly Japs are too obnoxious they
are shifted from one place to another so as
not to attract too much public attention
to any one gang.
The commissioners Yesterday had their
deputies subpoena several business men
who will be required to tell the circum-
stances under which they obtained their
Japanese help. Among these are Z. r.
Lilienthal of the Pleasanton Hop Com
pany, J. A. Folger, the tea merchant on
California street, A. Schilling, Brandon
stein, and Macondray, all tea merchants on
Market street, who employ Japs in their
stores. Two Japanese boarding house
keepers who are suspected OF possessing
considerable knowledge of Importance will
also be examined.
United States Inspector Geffney, inter-
prefer for the immigration Commissioner,
will have his knowledge placed on record.
He has been of great service to this Gov
eminent. So great. in fact, that three
times japanese have tried to take his life.
Once he was shot at and twice he was
poisoned because he gave the Federal au-
thorities information detrimental to the
cody labor contractors.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Lord Charles Fitzgerald, brother of the
Duke of Lefnster, lives in small cottage on
Simpson street. East Melbourne. He is married
to sister of the actress, Athena Claudius.
DR.. A. Conan Doyle is living at Davos Platz,
Switzerland. He declined tempting offer for
another lecture tour in this country, his prin-
cipal reason being that American railway cars
were so unendurably hot.
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir pre-
sumptive to the Austrian throne, who recently
returned from trip around the world, has
given his diary to the public at the request OF
many OF his subjects. The first volume ap-
peared few days ago.
Monday, May 20, was the fiftieth anniversary
of the departure of Sir John Franklin and his
gallant comrades from England to find the
north pole. 1t was observed at Greenwich by
a ceremonial in which the few survivors of vari-
Gus search expeditions took part.
When Rev. DR.. Henry NJ. Field, the religious
editor, was college boy he was known among
his associates as "Parvus Ager'' Qittle Field
from the fact that he was the youngest of the
family of famous brothers. DR.. Field hss been
for forty years the editor of the New York
Evangelist.
DR.. william Thornton, who has just died in
Boston, was widely known as student of phi
losophy, and he was the author of several med
ical works of value. He was the friend and
co-worker of the late Professor Kingdom Cliff
ford of England, who was regarded by many as
the greatest intellect since Sir Isaac Newton.
The coal-black negro who recently had con-
ferred on him the Victoria Cross was the first
OF his race to receive this honor. The man is q
corporal in one OF the West Indian regiments,
which has been doing such splendid service on
the West Coast of Africa. He saved the life OF
his commanding officer by throwing himself in
front OF the latter and receiving in his own
body the bullets that would have otherwise
found Judgment in that of his captain.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
PERSONAL.

DR.. W. p. 1nglish of vacavil1e is at the Grand.
L. Rosenthal, a merchant OF Stockton, regis
tered yesterday at the Grand.
8. ii. Lashells, feal-estate dealer OF Biggs,
registered yesterday at the Grand.
Frank j. Brandon of San Jose, secretary OF
the State Senate, is guest at the Grand.
j. Cooke Caldwell, an attorney of Bakersfield,
was one OF yesterdays arrivals at the Grand.
John 7. Mccall, who lately sold his mines at
Grey Eagle Bar, in Placer County, to San Fran
cisco capitalists, is at the Baldwin.
Rev. Joseph Cook of Boston, the noted re-
hgious lecturer, registered at the Palace yes
terday. He is on his way around the world on
featuring tour and will sail for Honolulu by
the next steamer.
A. E. Welby, the general superintendent of
the Rio Grande Western arrived from Salt Lake
Yesterday in his private car He came to visit
his wife, who is staying in this city for short
time, and will remain only few days.
Wiley ]. Tnnin, who was Surveyor of the Port
during Cleveland's first administrations, and
Secretary OF State while Stoneman was Cover
nor, came in from Fresno, where he is lead
ing attorney, yesterday, and is staying at the
Grand
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
THE SPRINGFIELD CONVENTION

In calling the Illinois Democratic Con-
vention to order on Wednesday, Chairman
Hinrichsen stated the convention had been
called for two reasons. First, to forestall
the action of the National silver party.
which might otherwise carry away from
the party ranks a good many Democrats,
and second, to open up the discussion Of
the money question long enough before
the meeting of the National Democratic
Convention in 1896 for the party to arrive
at basis of agreement on the issue, and
thus avoid the discord that now threatens
to hopelessly divide it during the Presi-
Dental campaign.
No one who has paid the slightest atten-
ton to the condition of the Democratic
party can doubt that these reasons are
sufficient justification for the convention.
That party which once with some show of
reason called itself conservative party
has in later years been following the
leadership of men who take extreme views
of every issue. The rank and file of the
party has, of course, felt the influence of
this leadership, and as consequence the
majority have also become extremists.
Not few of them are inclined to go over
10 the lopuiiStS VI 70 the proposed silver
party, while others are ready to follow
Cleveland and Carlisle into the camp of
the extreme gold-standard men and oppose
bimetallism under any possible terms and
conditions.
With the party in this discordant state
it was certainly an act of political wisdom
to try to harmonic it. The proceedings
of the convention, however, were by no
means calculated to effect the object de.
sired. From first to last there seems to
have been no word spoken for harmony OF
any suggestion of plan by which the fac
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
GOOD FOR MINERS.

The announcement of Irwin G. Stump,
published in the CALL yesterday, that a
company is soon to be formed in New
\ ork to exploit American mines in ways
similar to those employed by a London
syndicate in developing the mining wealth
OF South Africa, opens another vista OF
coming prosperity to the State. There are
good reasons for believing that California
is still the richest field for gold mining on
earth, and now that sufficient capital to
undertake the work of development is
about to be provided, it would seem to be
fairly certain that this industry of the
State will once more become one of the
most profitable within its borders and by
its yield advance the prosperity OF all the
others.
Under the operations of the proposed
company, as outlined by Mr. Stump, any
mine-owner, upon the payment of small
fee, can have his mine examined by an ex-
pert of the company. If the experts re-
port is satisfactory, the company will either
buy and develop the property for itself OF
will endeavor to sell it, charging a COM
mission. Or, if the mine-owner wants
enough money to put up mill, the COM
pany will do that and take share of the
returns. Or the company will take prop
erty, with view of opening it up to see
what it contains. If it is not satisfactory
aftera certain amount of work has been
done, it will be dropped and the loss ac-
cepted. 1t will be the aim, also, of the
company to list the stock of mines on
the exchange and offer it for sale to the
public.
With company having ample capital
ready to undertake work of this kind, the
mining industry ought certainly to expe-
rience marked and rapid advance. 1t is
only because abundant capital and the
highest mechanical appliances have been
employed in the work of development that
the mines of South Africa have been made
profitable. When the mines of California
have been exploited to an equal depth and
with an equal thoroughness, the results
will, in all probability, surpass those which
have so pr ofusely repaid the enterprise of
the London syndicate. Up to this time
we have hardly done more than scratch
the surface of our ore-ribbed mountains,
and therefore the highest expectations of
what will result from a more exhaustive
system of mining are hardly likely to
prove too sanguine.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
THE COLIMA DISASTER.

The arrival of the steamer San Juan
with the survivors of the Inflated Colima
viii revive public interest in the disaster
and strengthen the desire to investigate
fully the causes which led to it. This de-
sire will be largely gratifed by interviews
with the survivors which we publish this
morning, but it is possible that salts
factory decision cannot be reached until
an official investigation is made and the
testimony of all the witnesses is compared
and tested under q thorough examination.
1t seems to be the general opinion that
the loss Of the steamer was due mainly to
the overload of lumber on the upper deck.
On this point the statements of the sur
vivors made yesterday are in accord with
the dispatches received at the time of the
wreck. 1t remains to be determined, how
ever, whether the overlooking was one of
those errors of judgment that occur
despite the utmost care, or whether it was
the result of cuipable Indifference to the
safety of passengers and reckless dis
regard of the conditions under which the
voyage was to be made. Men of good
Judgment will not hastily condemn the
steamship company, but there certainly
seems evidence of bad management some
where in the loading of the ship, and now
that to all, except the relatives and the
near friends of those who persisted, the
first shock of the tragedy is over. it is to
the determination of that problem that
public interest viii be mainly directed.
Strangely enough it appears that under
our laws, whether the Colima was care
lessly loaded or not, no damages can be re-
covered from the company by the sufferers.
The liability of ship-owner for any loss
is limited TO the value of the ship and any
collected freights, provided the loss, though
caused by negligence, was not done or
suffered with the knowledge of the owner.
In the present case this practically
amounts to depriving the victims of the
disaster of any possible redress, for their
claims would lie only against the Colima.
and she is at the bottom of the sea, and is
worth nothing
We publish in another column an inter
view with the eminent admiralty lawyer,
Charles Page, in which all the material
points of law applying to the case are
terseIy presented. A careful reading Of
his opinion viii make it evident that some
change is needed in the maritime statutes
IN THIS respect. Navigation is nOb The
hazardous thing that it was when our laws
Justly exempted ship-owner from re
sponsibility for perils of the deep. At the
present time, with our comprehensive
| knowledge of the sea and its coasts
| our improved methods of navigation
and superior construction of ships, there
is no reason why the owner of steam
vessel should not be as responsible fo1
damage done by negligence as the owne
of railroad. If the Colima disaster lead
to an agitation which brings about a revi
| sion of the law on this important subject
her loss, which has been so heavy in prop
erty and in precious lives, may result il
making ship-owners more careful ant
ocean voyages safer for all who trave
hereafter.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
FOR HOM0GENEITY.

The closing exercises of the public
schools, now proceeding, draw the atten-
ton to one exceedingly important result
which these schools are accomplishing-the
creation of a civic solidarity among the
young. In a community like San Fran
cisco, which is singularly cosmopolitan, it
is most interesting and instructive to OBJ
serve that all the strange, alien and natu-
rally unsympathetic elements of the City
are brought into harmony by the schools
and steadily led into the broad highway of
a uniform American citizenship. And
this is not all that the schools are accom-
plishing in this direction. Above all things
else they are democratic; and even though
the lives of the pupils widely separated by
social conditions may never again unite,
they can never widely diverge, and must
run parallel, each has learned something
of his strangely different fellows, and such
knowledge as this is wisdom and tends to a
strengthening of the common civic bond
which the schools have laid upon all alike.
Ali this, of course, is totally distinct
from the purely educational feature which
the schools represent. 1t is true that the
training and development OF the mind and
the storing of it with some kinds of knowl-
edge that may be useful in after life are
the main considerations of the system !;
and while these are certainly good, per
haps the incidental feature of civic homo
geneity is even more important.
This being evident, it is clear that the
schools themselves, being the very foun-
tain from which citizenship is drawn,
should represent citizenship in its highest
form Children are wonderfully sharp.
They take to the republican idea OF gov
eminent with all the zest that so natural
conception of government inspires. 1t
is important, therefore, that the public
school system shall represent only the
purest and most wholesome idea of repub-
lican sovereignty, and that those directly
charged with the responsibility OF incul-
eating ideas of American citizenship
should be themselves the highest type that
can represent the idea. Between the neces.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

powerless in the matter because we have
no laboratory. We also want micro
scope and number Of other instruments.
Our Morgue is the poorest equipped of any
institution of similar kind in the United
States"
'Well, well" said the Mayor, "that is
too bad You certainly should have the
appliances you mention, but there is a
good time coming and the City will soon
be in funds and l will bear your request in
mind"
Tomorrow his Honor will consult with
the Board of Supervisors on the best
course to pursue in regard to the removal
of the police from the old City Hall.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
MAYOR sUTRO WILL ACT,
He Inspected the Old City Hall Thor
oughly and Visited Coroner Hawkins
at the Morgue.

Mayor Sutro paid a visit to the old City
Hall and the Morgue yesterday. He
wanted to see what progress was being
made in the pulling down of the building
and also to gain some knowledge as to
what was to be done in the event of the
quarters on California street not being
ready when wanted. Sergeant Esola
showed him around the structure and the
Mayor came to the conclusion that the
sooner it is vacated the better.
"Tne new quarters will be ready in few
days and then the police and the keepers
can be moved away from here, and the
sooner the better" said the Mayor.
81 beg your pardon, Mr.. Mayor" said
Sergeant Esola, 'bnt it will be at least a
month before the new quarters are ready
for the men,"
In the meantime all the windows have
been removed and a good gale of wind will
take the roof off the old rookery and
perhaps save Jake Kauer's workmen the
trouble of pulling the walls down.
As the Mayor was leaving the Jail he ran
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

sity for discipline which shall insure the
efficient working OF complicated machine
ana that form OF repression and terroriz-
ing which makes teacher appear helpless.
ridiculous and devoid of individual char
acter, there is generous interval for the
exercise OF patriotism on the part OF the
school authorities. and for the giving OF
proof that the schools are probably the
most important of all the things which
constitute the substructure of our people
and their government.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

their voyage across the channel at 8 o'clock on
Sunday morning. Perfect weather favored the
adventure, and the boat reached Calais Harbor
safely at quarter past 5. The "securitas,"
as Mr.. Ruck's new boat is called, is twenty -four
feet long, and is built on gig lines, with deck
fore and aft. She has two cylinders, one on
each paddle-boy, and these help her buoyaney.
She is fitted with tandem cycle fittings, and
with her patent eccentric paddles will, 1t is
said, attain a speed Of over seven miles an
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

UP against Coroner Hawkins. "When is
the City going to supply the Morgue with
proper appliances?" asked the doctor.
"What is required?' in turn asked the
Mayor.
"Well, here is case in point. A man is
night and an analysis of the stomach has
to be made. We have no chemical appli-
ances here and in consequence we have to
send out to get the work done. No part of
the body should leave the Morgue until a
decision has been arrived at, but / am
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

She had studied French-Have you any bon.
vivant this morning?
Butcher-Boned what, mum?
"Bon-vivant. Why, that's French for good
Hverp'-life.
Colonel Clay of Lexington-what's that
curious hole in the ground over yonder?
They're digging WELL"
"Ah, yes. For water, l suppose. What queer
things one sees when away from home."-New
York Recorder.
Neighbor-How did your daughters m arriage
with that count turn out?
Mrs. Brickrow-Her last letter states that he
has spent all her money and she is taking in
washing: but then, presume she washes only
for the nobility.-Tid Bits.
Cholly-say, Fweddy,I had an awful scare
lawst night.
Fweddy-Deed, deah boyI What was it?
Choilie-By mistake I mistook q cuff faw q
collaw, and, doneherknow, 1t was SO widicu.
lousy low.-Buffalo Times
s'They say" said Mr.. Jones, "that the
Chinese Emperor gets up at 4 o'clock every
morning."
Gin that case," said Mrs. Jones, sternly, s'it
is pretty safe to conclude that he's not in the
habit of coming home at 2, hanging his shoes
bureau-drawer. Not much !"-New York Re
corder.
"Mr. Tmmins," said the old-fashioned girl
81 hope you're not an admirer of the new
woman"
''Oh, but I am" confesses Timmins. "She i.
good for at least three Jokes and a poem every
week. Journal.
-"Why do you and Bobby quarrel SO much?
hope my Willie is not selfish little boy"
"No, mamma, I'm not selfish, but Bobby is
He always wants to play the games l dom
want to."-Harper's Bazaar.
Blobbs-How is 1t you are never troubled
with tramps? You don't keep dog, do you
slobbs-No, but my wife bakes her own cake
and they have tunbled to it.-Philadelphi,
Record.
Daughter-Frank said something to me las
night.
| Mother-I hope it was apropos.
Daughter-It was more, mamma. 1t wa
apropos al-Detroit Free Press.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
Making q total OF

The board, after considering the various
items, recommended the allowance of the
same to the Board of Supervisors.
Malachi Norton of engine 25 was fined
ten days pay for neglect OF duty. Thomas
Shiels, hoseman of engine 3, John Fennell,
driver of engine 4, and Eugene Mccormick,
hoseman of engine "a, were each fined
twenty days pay for acts and conduct in
furious to the welfare and good name of
the department. George Long, foreman of
engine 10, was charged with having failed
to respond to six alarms of fire during the
month Of May, and was dismissed from the
department.
The following appointments were made /:
T. J. Harrington, truckman of truck s.:
Joseph P. Franks, hoseman of engine II,
and Peter McCabe,, hoseman of engine %.
Plans for the erection of four new en-
gine-houses and department stable were
approved, and the board ordered them for
warded to the Board of Supervisors for
ADOPTION
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
RepimentaI Benefit.

An entertainment will be given this evening
by the First Infantry Regiment, N. G. c., at the
Mechanics Pavilion, to aid julius A. Hult,
who lost his right arm during the strike at
Sacramento last summer. The programme en-
braces regimental review by Major-General
band music, presentation of Tobin trophy and
dancing.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

a recent report of the Departmental
Committee on Prisons, in England. con-
tanned recommendation that the age of
admission to reformatories be raised from
Is to Is, and of detention to 81.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
uP-To-DArE IDEAS.

correspondent sends sketch relating to
the recent crossing of the English Channel on
tandem cycle boat by Mr.. John Ruck, of
Chislehurst, Kent, accompanied by Mr.. R. L.
wicker OF st. Bartholomew Hospital, London.
MI. Ruek and his companion put into Margate
Harbor on Saturday afternoon, having made
the journey thither on the new boat from Wool
wich, says the London Graphic.
The same afternoon they started for Dover,
arriving there in the evening and starting on
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

The New Woman would convince US tina
there is no bifurcation of intellectual habili
ments.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

"Mrs. Wins1ow's Soothing Syrup
Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth.
ers for their children while Teething with perfec.
1t soothes the child softens the gums al
lays Pain, cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels
and is the best remedy for Darrhoeas, whether
arising from teething other causes For sale BY
Druggists in every part OF the world. Be sure and
ask for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Csc a
bottle.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

There is nothing profane about the dam
ming which the people of Santa Cruz ar.
doing.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

Since Wall street has become bull mar
ket the people are more willing to bea
with it.