The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-10

Remember, it will benefit your business
to pledge it to the competing road.
1t is not at all paradoxical that on May
1, which is Labor day, we ought to rest
Flies are having weary time trying to
find a resting place on the Half-million
Club.
1t appears that old Miss Democracy will
make the next Presidential race in divided
skirts.
1t is conceded that in these days the
CALL is for progressive men all over the
State.
The San Joaquin Valley is loading the
cars OF the peoples road with pledges of
freight.
The Mayors veto of the bituminous rock
ordinance reached the right spot in the
right way.
Now that the ball of progress has been
fairly started it will be easy to keep it roll
ing if all join in.
There was a rumor current yesterday
that Coils Huntington has got lost in the
shuttle somewhere.
The proposed boulevard can hardly be
called a competing road but it will get
there just the same.
Whoever subscribes to the San Joaquin
road or pledges his business to it, comes to
the front in good shape.
If you neglect to look for California
products when you go shopping you will
overlook your own interests.
Daggett and Pepper are the bright par
ticular stars who are now doing the split
act in the Democratic ballet.
How helpless the giant CULVER was
when the Lilliputians bound him to the
earth with ten thousand small threads.
Mayor Sutro was wise to reflect that any
Encouragement of smooth bituminous
pavements would be an encouragement of
cobblestones.
AS this is Holy Week, it might be profit
able to reflect that industry as well as piety
is essential to the development of high
moral character.
Perhaps Cleveland would rather let the
country go without an adequate revenue
than to spoil his holidays by an extra ses-
sion of Congress.
AS San Francisco finds it so hard to
digest the cobblestones which she swal-
lowed so many years ago. she might try
bituminous rock as an emetic.
San Francisco has secured the admira-
ton of Los Angeles by adopting the policy
which has made that city one of the hand
soonest and most prosperous in the country.
1t did not need the Valley road project
to discover to US the presence of silurians,
for the cobblestones in the streets of San
Francisco have been proclaiming the fact
for years.
The first man who drove a pick into the
ground at Stockton for the Valley road
was a poor laborer, and the only recon-
pense that he desired was the honor of
striking the first manual blow at monopoly
Many Eastern cities are announcing
themselves as candidates for the honor of
entertaining the next Republican National
Convention, and every one of them regards
San Francisco as the most dangerous of
rivals.
The Santa Rosa girls who are being
voted for to see which shall serve as Queen
of the Carnival are all so pretty that the
roses thereabout are beginning to wonder
if they have any right to their vaunted
boast of beauty.
EsThe climate of Canada has already
proved agreeable to Mr.. Buckley on one
occasion, and now that another Grand
Jury is in session it is consoling to reflect
on the beauties of the panorama revealed
by the Heights of Abraham.
The proposal to enlarge the use Of the
Public Library by allowing free access to
reference books is a good one, and if the
management is not able to carry it out in
the present quarters it will be high time to
begin an agitation for a suitable library
building.
1t needed only the CALLS suggestion TO
induce the enterprising residents of Visalia
to secure pledges from shippers to patron
ize the peoples road. This recalls the fact
that this charming city of the forested
plains was named for a Mr.. Wise, and that
when his namesake gets a vise-like grip on
this railroad proposition it will hold on
till it hears the thunder of the peoples
train.
It is another evidence of improving bust
ness that the Journal Of Commerce has in
creased in size and now appears larger
and completer paper than ever. This in
crease in size should be accompanied by an
even greater increase in public support, for
the Journal has been identified with the
business interests of the City and the State
for more than quarter of century and
certainly deserves to share in the coming
prosperity.
The Visalia Times expresses grateful sur
prise that the CALLS writers know what
they are talking about, and cites our treat
ment of Visalia's proposition to the peo-
pies road project as evidence of the fact
The Times viii not be the only one of our
interior exchanges to discover that the
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