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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
HIGH COMPLIMENT.
San Francisco News Letter.

oun fTufctScO NctOS LettcT.
There is probably no man in the journal
lstic field who has keener perception of
the advantages to be derived from COM
plete and reliable news service than
Charles NJ. Shortridge, editor and propri-
etor of the San Francisco MORNING CALL.
In his ambition to grasp every department
of the news service of the world he lately
formed an alliance with the United Press
Association of New York, which is the
successor Of the original Associated Press,
by which he is enabled to furnish the read
ers of THE CALL, as well as of the San Jose
Mercury, of which he is also proprietor,
with the extensive and complete news SER
vice of this powerful organization. The
United Press Association was formed by
Times and Journal OF Commerce, together
with all the leading newspapers
of New England, the South and
West, in order to secure more
perfect system of gathering the news,
and it became so powerful and so
much more perfect than other organize
tons that it absorbed them ALL including
the Associated Press Association. THE
CALL has now at its service all the vast
news of this association, whose arms reach
to every point of the civilized world. In
this enterprise Mr. Shortridge is prepared
to furnish the readers of THE CALL with
every item of news worth reading, and has
added an interest to the columns of his
journals that has been appreciated by the
people everywhere. 1t is as much of
service to the interior press as to those who
look for news in the columns of the metro
politan dailies, being both fresh and reli-
able. In this exhibition of enterprise Mr..
Sho:tridge has only manifested a natural
ambition to be in the front rank of jour-
business he reaches every locality in the
United States where members of the asso-
citation may be found. The readers of THE
CALL, which is now one of the greatest
newspapers In the United States, can be
satisfied of the fact that they have mir
ror that reflects the events of the world in
this great arm of news cleaning, which
has no equal and no rival.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
OUR COMMERCIAL NEWS.

With the advent of the new telegraphic
service The CALL is enabled to lay before
its readers market reports which, for COM
pleteness and fidelity to the daily mercan-
tile transactions of the world, are unsur-
passed. Realizing the Importance of cor
rect and comprehensive commercial news
The United Press spares no pains to secure
the very best for its patrons.
Everybody in trade is interested in these
mercantile quotations from the East and
Europe. The wholesaler, who deals in
provisions, oils. butter, eggs and general
produce; the grain operator and specula-
tor, the financier who transacts large
business in stocks and bonds, the farmer,
the gentleman of leisure who lives on his
income from Wall-street securities, and
the miner and mine-owner who need daily
quotations germane to the precious
metals-au are to great degree depend
ent on the quotations from the principal
centers given by the daily press. That
THE CALL gives an unsurpassed list of
these Eastern and foreign quotations may
be seen at a glance. We invite careful
news to-day, and for that matter, every
day. Not an item of interest to the great
mercantile public will be found wanting.
Weget the most copious grain, provision,
livestock and miscellaneous market quota
tions from Chicago; from Wall street We
receive carefully written reviews of each
days operation on Change and among
the bankers, prepared by selected men;
our information regarding railroads and
the fluctuations in their bonds and shares
is full, fresh and up to date. Nor does our
new service limit itself to the United
States. We get the very latest grain and
financial quotations from London, Paris,
Berlin, Frankfort and the other European
money centers. In short, all that is de-
manded of the progressive modern news
paper in the way of correct and Ineligible
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
RAILWAY IMPROVEMENTS.

The July edition of the Engineering
Magazine was designed to be railroad
number" and is given almost exclusively
to articles On railway subjects written by
men who are established authorities on
the matters which they discuss. While
all the papers are instructive, that which
probably will be found most interesting to
the general public is a 'review of railroad
invention" by c. P. Mackie-a paper that
not only gives US record of past improve
ments, but suggests the lines along which
future developments in railway construc-
ton are likely to take place.
Mr.. Mackie says the lines on which our
inventors have to do their future work
would seem to be far more clearly defined
than ever before. There is no engineering
should not be maintained on fast trains.
The chief obstacle lies in the ponderous
and wasteful mechanisms needed to gener-
ate the requisite amount of steam under
even the best present methods. The reme-
dy will be found when electrical energy
can be generated in a simpler and less ex-
pensive manner than at present, and signs
are not wanting that this invention will be
forthcoming before long.
1t is not in the engine only that we
have an excess of weight in modern rail-
way appliances, for the cars and coaches
are also much heavier than they should
be. This branch of the subject is referred
to by Julien A. Hall in an article on "The
Causes Of Railway Accidents" in which
he says: "When we see crashing past US
that enormous mass of iron and wood
called the 'vestibule train, we are prone
to wonder at the wide difference between
the construction of this train and that of a
bicycle. A 211a-pound Safety will carry
150-pound man at nearly the same rate Of
speed as the train but for every 150-pound
man the train must carry a dead weight
of between 5000 and 1000 pounds. Now,
as the bicycle is a practical machine, the
train must be unnecessarily heavy; and,
if there is such a discrepancy in one i'm
portant point, may not an equal discrep-
ancy exist in other important points?"
To have railway service of fast trains
equal to 100 miles an hour, it will not be
sufficient, however to tighten the weight
of the engines and the trains. There must
be better roadbed and safer equipment
generally. American engineering could
overcome these difficulties, if the chance
were given, but unfortunately bad fnan-
cial condition among railways bars the
way. Most of our roads are over-capital-
lied and the earnings have to be used in
paying interest on heavy bonded indebt-
edness and dividends on excessive issues of
stock. A strong railway built on business
principles will be needed to accomplish
the great results that are now so near at
hand. This fact is of particular interest to
Californians. We are about to build road
down the San Joaquin Valley on strictly
business basis and through that road Cali
fornia may have the glory of leading the
world in train service of 100 miles an
hour.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
THE OCTOPUS AND THE PARK.

The publication in THE CALL yesterday
of the promise of Superintendent McLaren
that he would have the tracks of the
Southern Pacific Railroad removed from
the park was source of no little satisfac-
ton to the public. When the company
asked permission to lay its tracks into the
park to aid in the work of the Midwinter
Fair there were not a few men who pre-
dicted that if the permission were granted
the people would have hard fight to get
the railroad to loose its grip on that
pleasure ground. These men were wise in
their generation. The fair has been over
long time. but the railroad tracks are still
there, and it remains to be seen whether
the Superintendent will be able to keep his
promise and have them removed.
There has been bad management and
gross neglect, if not something worse, in
the whole business of winding up the Mid
winter Fair, removing the debris and rub
bish and restoring that portion of the park
to proper condition. The debris that
still encumbers the site of the exposition is
a monument of disgrace to somebody, but
the presence of the railways in the park
long after the right to be there has ex-
pired is something worse. 1t menaces the
future as much as it disgraces the present.
The Southern Pacific needs good deal of
watching at all times, and therefore Mr..
McLaren will win golden opinions from
the people if he succeeds in keeping his
promise and forcing the octopus to remove
its tentacles from this piece of the peoples
property
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
THE PICTURESQUE DUNES.

Amedee Joullin is an accomplished art
list, and so when he announces that he has
found in the sand dunes of the San Fran
cisco peninsula one of the most interesting
studies to which a painter can give atten-
ton he gives hint to all students of art
His brush furnishes proof of his art, for he
has painted these wonderful dunes in some
of their endless phases.
1t did not require the declaration of
even so accomplished painter as he to in
form some of us that these sand dunes are
among the most picturesque of ali the
unique charms which constitute the i'm
mediate environment of the City; and a
realization of the necessity for their disap-
pearance before many years have passed
makes them all the more precious and all
the more worthy of enjoyment while we
have them. Already the encroachment of
streets and houses has left only compare
lively small stretch of bleak sand on the
northern side of the park, but on the
southern side the bare dunes stretch away
in yellowish gray pillows for more than
mile, and roll from the base OF steep
Mount Olympus TO the ocean beach. It is
not these dreary stretches of which Mr..
Joullin has been talking, but those broken
here and there with brush. On the north
ern side of the park this particularly beau
tiful combination, cut lopgitudinally by
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
PERSONAL.

DR.. Rohm of Redding, is at the Russ House.
WD. Grady, an attorney of Fresno, is at the
Grand.
Ok Hilton, United States navy, is at the
Baldwin.
Hon. A. F. Jones of Oroville is stopping at
the Palace.
F.. D. Nicol, the attorney, of Stockton, is at
the Lick House.
H. B. stabler, fruit grower of Yuba County,
is at the Lick House.
T. L. Hackett, distiller of Louisville, KY, is
guest at the Palace.
D. B. Willis of the Record. Union, Sacramento,
is staying at the Russ.
F. W. Welmans of Newman, CAL, is regis
tered at the Lick House.
II. Harris, editor of the Fowler Ensign, is
registered at the Russ House.
Ex-Sherftf w. Kay of Fresno arrived in town
yesterday and is at the Grand.
F. ID. Fraser, mining man from Fort Jones,
is in!the City and is stopping at the Russ House.
L. f. Breunner of Sacramento is at the Grand.
C. r. Downs, mine.owner from Suffer Creek,
registered at the Occidental last evening.
NJ. f. Atwood, one of the proprietors of the
and Fifty-ninth street, New York City, arrived
from the East yesterday and is at the Palace.
Charles H. Babbitt, a well-known newspaper
man of Washington, D. c., is at the Palace. He
is making tour of the coast, and is accom-
panied by his wife, who is contributor to the
Ladies' Home Journal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
A HOLIDAY REFORM.

Now that the celebration of the Fourth
of July is over voices of criticism are heard
pointing out the defects and demanding
better things. These criticisms are not
directed to any particular celebration, nor
do they deal with any minor detail of ar
rangement or execution either in this City
or elsewhere. They are aimed at the pre-
vailing methods of celebration as a whole,
and the entire system to which we have
been accustomed to as right and proper is
condemned.
There is ample justification for the crit
cism. A celebration which consists of I'M
limited firecrackers, a struggling process
sion, some casual oratory and uninspired
poetry is not attractive to the average
citizen. The noise of the day repels more
than the procession attracts and not a few
people regularly leave the City or seclude
themselves as much as possible in their
homes to escape what was intended to be a
pageant to attract them, please them and
awaken patriotic impulses.
In the Eastern States the day is untitled
for any elaborate celebration in the open
air by reason of the excessive heat that
generally prevails there in July. but in
California there is no reason why we could
not make festival that would be enjoya-
bic in some of its phases to all classes of
people. There is no reason why the great
day should be given wholly to noise and
made more like an outbreak of pandemo-
mum than an outburst of National patri-
otism. We might have a short procession
which would not occupy the observer more
than half an hour, but full of beauty and
historic meaning; we might have athletic
games that would exhibit the strength of
young manhood in various forms of con-
test; we might have music in halls and in
the open air; the theaters might make the
evening notable by specially prepared
plays and brilliant scenic effects, and for
the general multitude the present custom
of fireworks in the evening could be re-
tanned.
There are great possibilities in the way
of Fourth of July entertainments in eli
mate like that of California, and men and
women of taste and talent in the manage
ment of such matters might render the
State service by directing their thoughts
and energies to the accomplishment of
some of them. California holds a unique
place in the Union in many respects, and
it would add great deal to her prestige if
she distinguished herself further by really
magnificent and joyous celebrations of In
dependence day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

its press capacity and added to it's columns
The United Press dispatches, said to be
the most comprehensive news-gathering
service in the country. The scope
and completeness of its service may
be cleaned from the fact that it is
backed by the "Big Four'-the Her
aid, Times, Tribune and Sun of New
York-and all the leading papers OF New
England This service, added to its al
ready perfect coast service, will make
THE CALL the equal of any of the great
morning dailles of the East and the su-
perior of any paper on the Pacific Coast.
But it is not alone in its news service that
THE CALL is great; it's editorial columns
give evidence of ability candor and indie
pendence, relying upon reason and argu-
ment to enforce the views and aims of its
management, without relying upon mere
dogmatic assertion. While the Pacific
Coast has many wide-awake and inffuen-
tial newspapers, THE CALL to-day, in our
opinion, heads them all as the newspaper
of the Pacific Coast.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
GRATEFUL FOR ASSISTANCE.
Hedtdsburg Enterprise.

1t is interesting and instructive to see
how perfectly newspaper images the
character of its manager and how soon the
people detect it. 1t is traced in every line
and the ensemble of the paper is perfect
photograph of the man. 1t is a mistake to
say that newspaper has no personality
and that what it says would have the same
effect no matter by whom it is said.
We have been led to these thoughts by
the course of THE CALL, whose progress
we have watched with interest and solicit
tude since Mr.. Shortridge became its pro-
prietor. " had reason to expect sturdy
honest, fearless paper from that gentle
though we had some misgivings as to its
success financially, as 1T was serious
question whether really clean paper
could succeed in San Francisco.
THE CALL has undergone metamorpho-
sis since Mr.. Shortridge became its propri-
etor. From local paper without infiu-
ence, because without positive convictions
or moral stamina, 1t has become a metro.
politan journal of high order and great
influence. Mr.. Shortridge has made many
reforms and innovations in Pacific Coast
journalism, which no one but a strong,
bold man would have attempted. They
meet the appreciation of the people,
who will support it so long as these
features are maintained. 1t has purged
its columns of offensive and demon
alizing advertisements, such as the
results of lottery drawings, premium
swinders, gift books, etc. 1t has made
valuable arrangements for acquiring news
foreign and domestic. 1t is now mem
Der of The United Press-nicknamed the
"Big Four" of New York, composed of the
Sun, Tribune, Times and Herald. This
gives THE CALL news service superior to
that of any paper on the coast.
Pacific Coast news is also leading feat
ure of that paper. This was shown during
the preparation for our late fiesta. THE
CALL was the first paper to come to our
assistance, and we feel particularly CRATE
full to it therefor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

Point Lobos avenue, occupies nearly all OF
the region between the Marine Hospital
and Sutro Heights.
Where the dunes are sufficiently covered
with a brush to make a soil, small annual
plants present dazzling show of bloom in
the spring. The glorious yellow poppy,
whose shades contain all the hues of our
gold, oranges and yellow sunshine, is
mingled with dainty buttercups, blue
bells, wild strawberries and score of
others. These are guarded by a chaparral
composed of an exceedingly diminutive
scrub oak, both blue and yellow lupins
and highly fragrant sage. The holding
of the sand by this vegetation has per-
mitted the erosive effect of the rains with
the result that here and there are canyons
hundred feet deep, and the slopes are IN
habited by quail, rabbits and singing
birds. 1t is impossible to indulge in finer
pleasure than lazy holiday and stout
luncheon in these perfectly secluded, wild
and lonely places almost in the heart of a
great city. The park, with all its beauties,
lacks some of the finer charms which these
deserted dunes extend.
The great barren stretch south of the
park has wholly different charm. In the
wide areas where there is no vegetation
the leveling force of the wind makes a
slightly rolling plain of yellowish gray
sand, the whole surface of which is
wrinkled with large and small sand waves
that represent in fixed form the unstable
features of the ocean surface. There are
not many who have the hardihood and
love of nature to brave a tramp through
these yielding wastes, and yet the ex-
perience is novel and wholesome, and
to lover of good things in nature it re-
veals most exquisite charms. TO stand in
the midst of this waste, which from
all the immediate surroundings might be
taken for the heart of the Sahara, and look
eastward to the wooded high mountains
which intervene between US and the roar
ing City on the bay, and then to turn
westward and behold the vast stretch of
green ocean, fringed at the beach with
constant line of white surf, is to enjoy one
of the rarest spectacles that California can
produce. In a few years the roaring,
grinding, grooming City will have scaled
the mountains and poured down upon
these picturesque dunes, and then all
their wild and savage beauty will be gone.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
OF GREATER OR LESS NOTE.

The Rev. Wolcott Calkins has resigned the
passionate of the Elliot Church, at Newton,
Mass, on the ground that having for thirty
seven years preached to wealthy congrega-
tons it is his desire now to minister to the
poor and needy.
Charles Anderson of Montreal, ex-member of
the Canadian Parliament, has been proven to
be the lawful heir of the late Earl of Stirling
The estate is now in Chancery. 1t includes the
famous Stirling Castle, and is very valuable.
Ex-Governor Hoard of Wisconsin is proud of
the distinction he enjoys, that of being the best
dairyman in the Northwest. He will notwaste
feed on a cow that will not earn $50 year
with butter at 20 cents pound
Mrs. Joseph Bradley Reed, the chairman of
the New York City Woman's Board for the
Atlanta Exposition, is a beautiful little South
ern woman, who was at one time famous
belle in New Orleans.
NJ. Francois de Montholon, the handles land
scape painter, received the Raigecourt-Goyon
prize of 1000 francs at the Champs Elysees
salon. He paints with artificial jointed hands
of wood.
The Mikado of Japan has no mere foricul-
tural little country to reign over. He is the
sovereign of As, OOO,O 900 people, who live in
$4,000 towns and villages.
Mayor Strong is a tobacco-chewer, butinstead
Of plug or fine cut he uses fine Havana cigars,
which he cuts into small chunks, each one con-
tanning chew.
Walter Wellman is authority for the story
that the President knelt and wept at Gresham's
bier,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
NEW UNITED PRESS SERVICE.
Sacramento Sunday Leader.


The San Francisco CALL, the San Jose
Daily Mercury and the Record-Union of
this city have discontinued the service of
the Chicago Associated Press and have be-
come patrons of The United Press. This
is the same company which furnishes the
Leader with its splendid Geographic service.
The prime center and fountain-head of The
United Press is in New York City, and the
main sponsors of the organization are
those great papers, the New York Sun,
Herald, Tribune and Times, together with
other powerful journals of that city.
All the manifold resources of these great
newspapers, as we'll as those of New Eng
land and the South, are open to those
aforementioned wide awake California
journals. There is not a reader of news
papers in the country, who will fail to
comprehend what this means. Every one
will see at glance that it gives to them
advantages in news gathering not now en-
joyed by other papers on the Pacific Coast.
The United Press is acknowledged to be
the most efficient news-gathering associa-
ton in the world. Negotiations with other
Pacific Coast papers are in progress, and
further accessions to the ranks of The
United Press are expected in the near
future.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
ALL THE NEWS,

The excellence of the news service which
The CALL receives from The United Press
has been the subject of many compliment
tary notices from the press of the interior
as well as of congratulations from our
readers. This is not to be wondered at.
The United Press is by long odds superior
to any other news-gather1ng agency in the
world, and as THE CALL has the full benefit
of all the reports collected by its repre-
sentatives. it is but natural that the service
should be hailed with satisfaction by all to
whom THE CALL carries the news of the
day.
The publication of The United Press dis
patches in THE CALL gives it distinct
place in the field of morning journalism in
this City. No other morning paper re-
ceiyes the news from this unrivaled source,
and as consequence while the dispatches
of the other papers are mainly duplicates
of one another, those of THE CALL are
wholly distinct. No matter which of the
other papers therefore man may read be
must also read The CALL to get all the
news. Our dispatches, in fact, give San
Francisco the benefit of double news ser
vice. and our alliance with The United
Press is therefore great advantage to the
City.
1t will be noted that while giving full re-
ports through The United Press of the news
from all parts of the Union and of the
world, THE CALL still makes Pacific Coast
events the leading feature of its news col
umns. That is The Calls speciality. 1t
has been SO ever since the new manage
ment took charge and will continue to be
so to the end. The world is our field and
THE CALL speaks for all, but its most ear
nest aim is to be everywhere recognized
and felt as the champion of Pacific Coast
interests and Pacific Coast men.