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The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
PERSONAL.

DR.. r. W. Kent OF sonoma is at the Grand.
Preston R. Davis of Santa Rosa is at the Russ.
Frank A. Cressey, a Modesto lawyer, is in the
City.
Ed. Ryan of Sacramento is quartered at the
Grand.
R. R. Prince, Fresno attorney, is registered
at the Grand.
N. L. Cardan, Consul-General to Mexico, is at
the Palace Hotel.
A. W. Simpson, q merchant from Stockton, Is
at the Occidental.
Ex-senator G. S. Berry of Lindsay is staying
at the Lick House.
T. L. Reed OF ReedleY is down from the noun
tains, and is at the Grand.
Charles Rule, a rsncher and dairyman of
Duncan Mills, is at the Grand.
n. s. Muller of the Hotel San Marcos, Santa
Barbara, Is housed at the Palace
W.R. A. Roumaine, an officer of the United
States steamer Monterey, is at the Palace.
George W. Sill, wealthy cattleman of the
Pajaro Valley, was in the City yesterday
r. q. Beemer of the State Board of Equaliza-
ton arrived at the Lick House last night.
Commander Rusinger of the United States
steamer Monterey is guest at the Palace.
j. +. Moody, banker of Truckee, has dropped
into town for few days, and is at the Lick.
P. A. Buell., the Stockton lumberman, is at
the Grand. He will spend few days in town.
Mrs. Van Colt, one of the leading temper.
anee advocates of the State, is at the Occi-
dental Hotel.
Thomas Carroll, Tacoma attorney, and a
Democratic candidate for Congress at the last
election, has taken rooms at the Grand Hotel
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
THE OIL SITUATION.

For some reason which has not been
fully explained the Standard Oil Com
pany has not secured the output of the Los
Angeles oil wells, and contract has been
entered into whereby the oil will be
shipped by sea to San Francisco aud used
as manufacturing fuel There is already a
demand in this City for 1000 barrels day
and the prospects are that it will soon be
increased to 5000 barrels. The laying of a
pipe line from Los Angeles to the coast has
been deferred.
1t is disappointing to read that the Los
Angeles Oil Exchange, which controls the
output, is glad to have the Standard Oil
Company in the field, although it must
enter on the same footing as others. It
might be unreasonable to expect the ex-
change to look any further than the mat
ter of disposing of its product on the most
| advantageous terms, but as in other mat
ters the business sense of Los Angeles has
been SO wise and ar-seeing it is difficult to
understand why the Standard should be
considered in the case at all except as a
menace to the industry and to the de-
velopment of California.
The situation as it is generally believed
to be is this: Under special arrangements
with the Southern Pacific Company the
Standards best interest lies in suppress
ing any tendency to develop the oil indus
try of California. So long as this can be
done the Southern Pacific will receive
large revenue from the transcontinental
hauling OF Standard oil and the Standard
Oil Company will continue to enjoy
monopoly of the oil consumption of the
State. OF course the double factor of an
oil monopoly and the heavy cost of trans
continental shipment will always make oil
an expensive commodity and as fuel is
scarce and costly in California there will
continue TO be heavy burden on the cost
of manufacturing and lasting difficulty
in competing with Eastern manufacture
This burden can be removed only by
keeping the Standard Oil Company from
securing control of the California output
Its favorite method of working is to secure
control of the wells and close them. Fail
ing in that its next best plan would be to
secure the output and hold it as a monop-
oily along with its Eastern product and at
the same price. 1t would be just as bad
for this company to secure the wells or
control their output as it would be not 10
have any wells or oil at all; and we all
know what blessing abundant fuel oil
would bring the State.
These considerations lead to the con-
.clusion that the Los Angeles Exchange
will find its best interests to lie in the ex-
/ clusion of the Standard Oil Company
altogether. 1t should reflect that the en-
couragemenU of the oil industry would
lead to such stimulation of industries as
California has never experienced in the
past. The chances are very strong that if
| the Exchange proceed wisely it could make
more by keeping ont the Standard Oil Com
pany than by letting it in.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
OUR NUMBERING INTERESTS.
B.-F. cobD in Northwestern Lumberman.

Many a man coming here from the East mis-
calculates the chances of making fortune.
He sees the wonderful forests the beautiful
locations for mill sites; he knows what white
pine is selling for in the East, he knows what
lumber can be made for, he figures the freight
and counts the profit which in his calculations
sometimes rolls uD into the hundreds and
thousands very fast. Figures cannot lie, he
says, and in his calculating he is seconded by
the real-estate man, who is trying TO sell him
the timber land, and perhaps get chance
from him to plat town and sell house lots
from the same tract.
OF course figures do not lie, but il you dom
get all the figures in you don't get the wnoie
what you have already CLEANED. There is
plenty of lumber here to take the place OF
white pine; but the people East believe IN
white pine, and it is and will be for many
years their first choice, without regard as 10
whether it is best or not Great mistakes have
Coast lumber into the Eastern market in the
fact that little consideration has been given
the wishes of the Eastern buyers in regard to
how they wanted the stock worked.
The people, with few exceptions, who have
been getting out lumber for the Eastern mar
ket know little or nothing about the condi-
tions of things East or the requirements OF
the Eastern dealers. This has had the effect to
give decided setback 10 the business. This
is not the worst of 1t; the bad work is still 60
ing on, and cheap dealers and cheap m1llmen
are sending out cheap price-lists and cheap
statesmen, who have not the first idea OF how
an order should be filed. This state of affairs
has made the Eastern dealer tired and susDi-
cious, and unless he has happened TO get hold
of responsible millman or dealer from this
Der drop until such time as he is not obliged to
force demand for it.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
DEMOCRATIC GROWING.

The Examiner. of yesterday afforded 8
proof that along with the revival of Re
publican prosperity we are to have also a
revival of Democratic Growing. The old
rooster it seems is still something of a
bird Indianapolis has elected Demo-
cratic Mavor, and over this fact the E1d0,-
iner rooster not only crows but "chortles
in his Joy" and essays to convince the
world that Democratic daybreak Is about
to appear.
1t must be conceded that Democracy has
something to crow over and sufficient
cause for making use of the opportunity.
The treasury officials succeeded in figuring
out surplus in the revenues for Septem-
Der, and now one city in the Union
has shown Democratic majority. To
have q small surplus one month in twelve
is not much, nor is it much to have carried
single city election, but these things are
something. True, the surplus of Septem-
ber counts but as trifie in comparison
with the huge increase of the National
debt rolled up in the last three years; true,
the carrying of town of the size of In
dianapolis is insignificant in comparison
with the recent sweeping Republican VIC
tories in the States and in the Nation.
Still they are something. They would
afford but small nourishment for healthy
bird, but for a sick rooster two crumbs
will do.
Nor is Democracy without good reasons
for making the most it can of these two
crumbs. 1t has been long since it found
anything at all to crow over. The expect
ed four years of clover have been thus far
two years and half of famine, and the
prospect ahead for the party is even
drearier than the past. During these
disastrous years Democracy has had at
least Government patronage TO live on,
but after the next election that will van
ish. Before the Democrats there is moth
ing but wind and faction fights. Is it any
wonder, therefore, that it accepts the two
crumbs that have fallen to it not only with
thankfulness but with exultant growing?
There is nothing in all this TO alarm
even the most timid. The existing i'm
provement in trade and industry, due to
the restoration of public confidence by the
great Republican victories which broke
the power of the free-traders and put an
end TO any further weakening of the pro-
tective system, will be increased before
the fall closes in the strengthening OF that
well-plaeed confidence by the successes
the Republican party is sure to gain in the
State elections. The recent vote in Con-
necticut shows the tidal wave of last year
to be still at food height. Nearly every
town in the State went Republican, al
though many of them have been Demo-
cratic in former elections. Against this
showing the Indianapolis vote IS as insig-
nifcant as the September surplus, and
would not have been noted had not the
Democratic organs made it the occasion
for tbs first crow in three years.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
a TRIBUTE TO CLAUS sPREcKELs.


The San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley
Railroad would have been dream had il not
been for Claus Spreckels. Now it is an assured
faet. His capital and energy gave 1t life and
being. The building he is erecting for THE
CALL is to be the finest in the City. if not in the
United States. The building erected by his
daughter on Market street is an ornament TO
this City as it would be 10 any city. The i'm
proVements contemplated on the purchases
lately made by him on Market street are said
to be on a like scale of magnifcence, while his
private brownstone residence on the corner OF
Van Ness avenue and Clay street, now nearing
completion, will be one OF the features of the
City. 1t is modest in Its proportions but ele-
CANT in design. make no estimate of it's cost,
but do not think q million would be out OF
the way.
met Mr.. Spreckels once on business The
late Senator Sargent gave me letter of intro
ductlon. 1 did not get what I wanted, but
made the mistake of my life in refusing what
was offered. That was in 1881, but he never
seemed to forget my face or name when he
met me in the street. I shall never forget one
remark he made We were conversing on poll
tics. said thought politics had tendency
to unfit man for any other occupation. "Mr.
Mead" he said, 'fa man who does not take an
interest IN politics is not a good citizen. 1t
makes no difference to what party he belongs !;
he must do his best to have that party repre-
sented by honest, capable men. To do this he
must, as said before, take an interest in poll
tics" Fourteen years have passed and have
not forgotten the words. To conclude on this
subject Mr. spreckels deserves, as he receives,
the praise OF all good citizens for his lavish yet
Weil-dfrected expenditure of money in time
OF such great need. Would that his example
were followed by others..-Waiter Mead in Ne
udda City Transcript.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
a TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT D1Az.

No thorough student of Mexican history
OF the last fifty years can doubt, says the
Mexican Herald, that without General Diaz,
this country would not occupy the place
among nations that she does to-day.
Mexico has produced other great men, but
certainly none like Diaz, who seems so emf
nentiy fitted for every occasion in this coun-
try's life.
AS great soldier he has made his mark on
Mexican history, butit is as q man combining
all the qualities of a military genius with
those OF 8 consummate ruler that the name of
Porfirio Diaz viii be spoken of with esteem and
respect, one hundred years hence.
Posterity will Judge the man rightly and he
will be ranked among the other great men of
this century, men who combined simila quail
tiles. All the honors that grateful country
can shower on worthy citizen Mexico has
heaped on DiaE. Not only does he occupy the
highest position in the nations gttt-the chief
magistracy of the land, but he bears upon his
gallant breast the insignia OF honor bestowed
by grateful country. for whose protection he
has so often shed his blood.
Foreign Governments have been also quick
to see the mans Unborn genius and greatness
and General Disz probably wears more foreign
orders OF merit than any living American.
The foreign residents of Mexico should be
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11

Club, "who did one of the best things ever
saw done in court of law. 1t was back in
Nevada in early days, when he was inclined TO
do little more work than he does now and
when mines were being sought for by every
body. He lived out in the eastern part of the
State, and being an educated man, he was very
frequently utilized by the miners in the settle
ment of disputes and the adjustment of knotty
questions. On one occasion a stranger stole
some mining implements from one of Wen
bans friends and the case was taken into the
Justice court, the defendant demanding jury
trial. Wenban told the plaintiff that he would
appear for him and see that the affair was
settled in the most approved Western style.
"When court convened Wenban was on hand
to appear for his client The defendant took
the stand and made a tatement touching upon
the case, and when he had finished the Judge
said, 'Cross-examine.'
"The self-made attorney looked steadily into
the eye of the accused man and blurted out in
loud voice, What did you ever do for liv-
ing besides steal:.'
Nothing answered the defendant.
Gentlemen of the jury resumed Mr.. Wen
ban, listen to the evidence of the accused. /
rest the case on the testimony right here
1.-THE Judge was furious, but the jury brought
in verdict OF guilty. 1t was the first and last
case Wenban ever took, and he certainly
'tI am travelling through America" said
Min Young Chan, a gentleman from Korea,
''for the purpose of educating myself in the
English language and American customs
About six months ago landed at this port
from my country, and since then have visited
Chicago, New York, Washington, Philadelphia
and several other big cities in the United
States. must say that 1 like the general ap-
pearsnce OF things here very much, and !
return TO Korea very much enlightened by my
trip.
"While in Washington visited the Korean
legation and then 1 Investigated the Chino
japanese war. Ilearned that although Korea
was right in the thick of the wrangle she went
right along about her business, saying little or
nothing, and letting China and Japan fight it
out as best they saw fit.
"No, it is not true that have any royal con-
nections at home. I am merely citizen Of the
country, and am sufficiently well off to travel
and learn something. which l consider is every
mans duty to do who is able. When the City
of Peking sails for China on her next trip
will return, touching Japan for the purpose Of
seeing the results of the war, and have no
doubt will find that it has done some good"
Mr.. Min Young Chan speaks very good
English and greatly resembles q Japanese in
looks. He had many visitors at the Occidental
yesterday, and took in the park. the Cliff House
and other points OF interest with a small party
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK.

The functions of TIE CALLS query edi-
tor-and his functions are to be dis
tinguished from the uncanny wisdom
which inspires him-seem not to be fully
understood IN all quarters, fact of which
the following naive letter, evidently writ
ten by pupil of the public schools, gives
evidence:
"To the Editor of the San Francisco Call
SIR: viii you please give me few points
before Sunday regarding this: am on the
negative side OF q debate, which is, Re
solued, That the United States Government
should build and control the Nicaragua
| canal There does not Beem to be any
thing on the negative side. VIII you
please give me q few points ?''
a correspondent of wider experience
would have reflected that as The CALL is
in favor OF the proposition here stated it
could not go into the business of present
ing arguments against its own position
and the manifest best interest of the
country. That awful parsonage, the
query editor, aware of this fact, is made
TO feel that such a request as this places
upon him the unspeakable humiliation of
confessing Limitation upon his powers.
The trouble in this case seems to be that
the pupil has not been made fully to un-
derstand the purpose of school debates.
This is to compel investigation and
| thought and to sharpen the intellectual
combative faculty. In this capacity
the debater becomes an advocate in
stead of a judge, and his argument is
more special plea than an adjudication.
His position is very different from that
OF newspaper editor arraying the facts
connected with a grave subject and ex-
pressing his opinion concerning them.
The Government construction and con-
troll of the Nicaragua canal is a serious
question of public policy and bears par
ticularly vital relation to the welfare of
California. This does not mean to say
that it is not also important to the country
at large. The arguments which might be
advanced against it would be specious and
fallacious, but that perhaps would make
the discipline of arraying them none the
less valuable to pupil as mental drill. Ii
there is room for doubt on any phase OF
this case it must be found in the action of
the teacher who deems ii wise to require
pupils to debate undesirable questions
concerning the public welfare instead OF
exacting essays and theses all on the right
side and offering prize for the best. 1t
would be interesting to know to what ex-
tent the practice which this communica-
ton diseloses is prevalent in the schools
of San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
JOAQUIN MILLER.
WILLIAM GREER HARRISON TELLS OF THE KIwI
AND THE WEKA.


WILLIAM GREER HARRISON TELLS OF THE K1wr
AND THE WEKA.
To the Editor of the San Francisco CAL - SIR
There is bird native to New Zealand called
the kiwi. 1t is very peculiar inmate of the
forest, preferring always to be alone. Yet by
curious provision of nature it is not permit
ted to enjoy the exercise of its own desires
Wherever the kiwi makes its hermitage always
in the neighborhood is heard the voice of the
weka, singing the praises OF its hero, the kiwi
The weka-a kind of swamp fowls very un-
important bird, but its loyalty TO its lord gives
1t something OF pathetic prominence and in
sures its existence.
Like the kiwi Joaquin Miller hides from the
garish light of day-hides from the per.istently
1nquisitiye and lives in 8 world born of his
own dreams. We-the wekas OF the world-do
not Ike the silence OF our friend. His voice,
heard years ago in the courtly halls of older
lands, heard on our own swelling seas and
mountain tops, singing the eternal truth in
new numbers, singing the thoughts OF God and
the hopes OF man, is heard only In these days
as an echo OF an old but dearly loved song.
He dwells upon the mountain tops and
sings to things invisible. Can we not coax
him back into our neither world? We want to
hear him laundering or pleading, denouncing
or praying; for God gave him what he has
withheld from most of us--that touch of the
divine which we call genius; that something
indefnable but omnlpotent to which we bend
| the knee and yield our loves
The world has few poets-indeed, the un-
| thinking world seems TO wish the number less i;
but all the world is not thoughtless, and all
the thinkers rejoice with gratitude that
Joaquin Miller still lives though they regret
his abstraction as q personal loss 10 them-
selves.
wake him to the old passion, stir him as by
1re, and you Will hear his voice again in liv-
ing, burning words
WTTJIAM GREER HARRISON
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
A GRACEFUL AMERICAN TRIBUTE TO
SPAIN's DEAD ADMIRAL.

We learn by correspondent in Havana that
the New YORK Herald has achieved great popu-
larity in that city by its very graceful tribute
to the memory OF the late Admiral Delgado
Parejo, who lost his life by the sinking of the
cruiser Bsrcaiztegui.
Said correspondent, speaking OF the funeral
cortege. says: "Among many marine trophies
carefully draped by two large iags-the Ameri-
can ana Spanish-was to be seen magnificent
porcelain crown, adorned with immortelies,
bearing in its center, in English and Spanish,
the words, seThe New York Herald-Friendly
Nations, Like United Families. Mourn Each
Others Sorrows. To the People OF Cuba and
the Brave Soldiers of Spain.-The New York
Herald"
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
cAL1FoRN1ANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct lo.-californiaus at
hotels to-day: San Franciseo-Mrs H. P. Cristy.
Miss Cristy, C. Dryden, H. Davenport, Mrs.
Black, Hoffman; II. W. Brant, Mrs. Bibby, st.
Denis; C. n. Comstock, A Rohart, Hotel AL
bert; E. ]. Coleman, Brunswick; h. Hegue-
man, Savoy. Los Angeles. H. Bissell, F. w.
King, Holland.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
New YORK Mail and Express.

The recognition and observance of the Sab
bath cannot be relegated by the State as q
question for determination TO the local author
tiles or to the citizens of communities. The
State is essentially under such high moral
as well as civil obligation of guardianship over
those questions and institutions affecting the
moral and social conditions of the entire
people under its jurisdiction as necessarily in
hibits it from delegating its constitutional
functions relative to such questions and insti-
tutions to separate communities or localities.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11

ever grateful to him. Under his government
they have found security and his rule has
opened up to them avenues of successful trade
that, a brief decade ago, they never would have
dreamed of. The future of Mexico's greatness
is only now question Of time, and when she
attains, as she must, a pinnacle of greatness
among the nations of the earth, she must
always remember that the very cornerstone of
her might and proud pre-eminence she owes to
General Porfirio Diaz.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
BURNING MONEY IN NEW YoRK
Alameda Argus.

The discussion anent Mr.. Hearst's purchase
of new York newspaper all ends up with an
opinion as 10 whether he will make 1t pay. AS
q matter of fact, it doesn't matter much
whether it pays or not. The Hearsts have
money TO burn, and it might IS well be incin-
Grated in q newspaper enterprise as in any
other manner. In fact that is less harmful
than many other ways there are of getting rid
of wealth.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
THE NEW YORK SUNDAY LAW.
New York SUI

1t is beyond question that in the rural dis
tricts proposition to allow the saloons and
hotels to keep open on certain hours on Sun
day would be voted down by large majority !;
and yet the same people who would vote and
declaim against any change in the present law
treat it as dead letter and stamp as crank
the man who attempts to enforce it. We have
no doubt that in Mr.. Warner Miller's own town
of Herkimer beer and liquor are sold at the
hotels and saloons on Sundays with practical
freedom, and that Mr.. Miller and the Republi-
cans in Herkimer have never tried to stop it.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11

monopoly controlled by Addicks of Delaware,
Williams went to his assistance. The City
Council, having the money of the corporation
in its pockets, declined to vote the money
needed to prosecute an investigation before
the Legislature. The members thought they
would thus smother the inquiry. But Williams
volunteered his services and devoted two or
three weeks OF his time to the work laid out by
tae Mayor The result was reduction of the
cost of gas to the consumers and the squeezing
of several millions of dollars worth of water
out ofthe stock and bonds of the company.
The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11

To the Editor Of the San Frdncisco Cdlt-DEAR
SIR: few days since you published an ac-
count, with illustrative cut, OF q spiral railway
now building at Brighton. Eng, as something
new Ny design for the central building, for
our recent Midwintsr Fair, shows that the
Brighton building either originated with me,
or is an extraordinary instance of two minds
arriving at the same conclusions from widely
oinerent premises. Yours, truly,
ALEXANDER F. oAKEY
San Francisco, October 8, 1898.