The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-04

Pacific States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander
building Rose and Duane streets, New York City.
WEDNESDAY. ............s SEPTEMBER 4, 1898
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Sacramento receives the State.
Money to move the crops is coming
West.
Texas is not as woolly as she was; she
has stopped a prize-fght.
The latest report from Tom Reed says he
has new bicycle suit, but still lacks the
bicycle face.
Remember there is a good opening for
pleasant evening at the doorway of the
Mechanics Pavilion.
Cleveland may not be a candidate for a
third term, but be is encouraging his office
holders to coax him into it.
The order against "pernicious activity"
is to be permitted to fall into ''innocuous
desuetude," and Grover is still in the ring.
in which the Spaniards won great victory,
that will stand until we hear from the
Cubans.
Paris is now entertaining her visitors
with grand garter show. 1t is to be
noted, however, that the carriers are ex-
hibited, not exposed.
Another trainload of California fruit
goes forward to England, and another step
is taken toward captivating London and
capturing the market.
The railroad has its experts and its law
yers before the Railroad Commission, but
the interests Of the people are defended
only through the press.
The number of accidents which have be-
fallen the Defender have led some super
stitious sports in New York to believe she
is under hoodoo spell.
Holding the State Fair and at the same
time preparing for the Native Sons puts
big strain on Sacramento, but the energy
and the hospitality of the people are equal
to it.
The energy of Stockton in working for
the Valley road is to be duplicated at
Fresno, and the good work not only goes
on all along the line, but the line goes on
as well.
1t is significant of the rapidity with
which American athletes are developing
that there is scarcely an athletic meeting
in these days that does not break a record
of some kind.
Now that Kaiser William has officially
recognized Bismarck work in establishing
the unity of Germany the world will be
more willing to recognize his own fitness
to celebrate it.
So long as Europe continues to absorb
gold and this country continues to export
it we shall be confronted by the question,
Shall we issue more bonds or shall we re-
monetize silver?
In nominating a free-silver man on a
gold platform the Kentucky Democrats
thought they were cute, but they now find
they cannot swallow the one without being
choked by the other.
The reports of prostrations from heat
during the Knights Templar conciave at
Boston are additional arguments why the
National conventions next summer should
be held at San Francisco.
The Sultan's agreement to reform the
Government of Armenia, provided all the
great powers of Europe will unite, is
probably founded on the belief that in a
multitude of counsel there is never any
action.
Mississippi has tried the plan of putting
her convicts to work on 10, 000-acre plan
tation, and as the managers have turned
over about $50, 900 as the net profits of the
first years work the people believe they
have solved a problem.
Baltimore receives from each fare on the
street railways half a cent for the park
fund, and this year the amount will be
about $225,000. A similar fund would
come in very handy for San Francisco if
the Supervisors would let it.
1t is always the unexpected that hap
pens. Everybody thought that electric
apparatus would be the principal feature
of the display at Atlanta, but it is now
said to be evident that the biggest single
show in the exposition will be that OF
bicycles.
The British labor congress at Cardiff will
be watched with marked attention this
week, as it is expected to be the scene of
straight fight between the socialists and
conservative element of British working
men, and the result will have considerable
influence on the course of politics.
The Boston Herald is a very good Herald,
but in asserting that mo other great city
in the United States has such manifold |
charms as Boston, and that "the summer
climate on the whole is the best with which |
any great city in the United States is |
favored" it showed dangerous tendency |
to trite with the truth and San Francisco. |
According TO the Buffalo Commercial |
there was a good deal of confusion in Bos- |
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