The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-05

up there he keeps it, and you don't lose a
whole day waiting for him. Where in the
deuce is that fellow anyhow"
Mr.. Mcdonald opened his watch and closed
it with snap, after which he continued:
when man promises to do anything he
ought to do the best he can. l lived in Ken
tucky once, where a mans word is as good as
his bond, and"
"Then you are probably a good judge of
w" put in a bystander.
''Am 70" asked the former Kentuckyian
"Well, should say so, and good judge of
beautiful women too We raise 'em in Ken
lucky, you know. There's another great sec
ton OF the United States. 1 was born there
and"
Probably knew Breckenridge" suggested
some one.
ayes, 1 did and though he didn't do just
what a thoroughbred Kentucky gentleman
would have done, he is fairly good spoat, and
I've got whole lot of sympathy for him. How
ever, that's nothing to do with wasting day
in San Francisco. You folks break more en-
gagements here than in any other town in the
United States. Yes, two to one; and you are
too slow to get out of the fog"
Mr.. Mcdonald was one of Californias Com
missioners to the Worlds Fair. He got in
hurry trying to run away from the midway
and has not got over it yet.
There was small brown-faced man sitting
in the writing room of the Occidental yester-
day looking refectively at half dozen letters
before him, all OF which bore the postmark of
the City OF Mexico. The gentleman was Mr..
Milton Caldwell, known from Guatemala down
and around to Vera Cruz as man looking for
onyx mines equal to those near EsperanZa.
Mr.. Caldwell has spent years on the Mexican
railways, and knows the Interoceanic Railway
from the City of Mexico to Johutla in the
'ttierra caliente"
fThere seems" said he, "to be considerable
blame being laid upon John Naufer, the en-
g1neer of the Amecuameca-bound train that
was wrecked the other day. Now knew the
man, whose name is not Naufer, but Knauf,
when he was a fireman on the New York Cen
trail and Hudson River Railway, long before he
went to Mexico, and do not believe it possible
that the accident was due to his reckIessness.
There never was a railway accident yet in Mex
leo where the blame was not laid upon the en-
g1neer, II he was an American as most of them
are. All Mexicans of the average class hate
Americans, and have known American pas
senger engineers to be shunted into Belem
prison without chance to communicate with
any friends, when all the people on the train
knew that the native engineer on a freight
train preceding the passenger was RESPONSE
BILE.
"Knauf has been running on the Inter
oceanic road since its early days. and whether
blameless or not would be blamed If running
the train, the wrecking of which caused so
many deaths. The snubbing received by the
United States the other day when Secretary
Gresham was too anxious to arbitrate between
Mexico and Guatemala shows the spirit of that
country toward us, and it is this same spirit
that puts the blame on the American en-
gineer."
M. M. Foote, who has returned from Sacra-
mento, said, during general converse
ton in the Occidental Hotel yesterday,
that he had labored assiduously be-
fore the Legislature in the cause of the
insane and as president of the California
Society for the prevention of illegal incarcera-
ton OF the alleged insane had surely been sue
cessful in soaring at least dozen proprietors
OF such institutions as they were after. He
| further said that he had many times appeared
in bad light before the people, but when it
was thoroughly understood that there were q
dozen or more institutions in the State where
no record is kept of any incarceration, treat
ment or discharge of the alleged insane it
would be shown that he was laboring in a
right direction and that the bill introduced by
Mr.. Boothby last Wednesday to regulate the
conduct and management of asylums and hos
| pitfalls for the insane and to prevent the incar-
SNt"'AN1A eAhS'Cii VI ouhO PSlooho Va VI pcLsOUS
who are not so far disordered in mind as to en-
danger health, person or property was one OF
| the greatest Importance with every one who
has mind inclined to justice. An effort will
be made to close every institution in the State
where people are incareerated without due
process of law.
Every orange-grower in California ought to
make money this year," remarked NJ. V. New
lin, president of the Continental Fruit Export
ing Company of Los Angeles, at the Palace
last night. Everything in the way of oranges
| is being shipped East and prices are higher
than for several years past. The freezeout in
Florida has given q great impetus to fruit-ship-