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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14
F" THE SUNDAY CALL"

Conspicuous among the literary features
of THE SUNDAY CALL tomorrow will be q
careful review of the services of Colonel
Mendell, by Taliesin Evans. Colonel Men
dell has been forty-two years in active
service, largely in this State, and the re-
view of his work is practically history of
the principal achievements of Government
engineering, in the creation of coast
defenses and harbor improvements on
this coast. II is subject of more
than ordinary interest to every Cali
fornian, and should be read not only
as memorial of the life of an eminent
officer of the Government, but as a record
of some of the most important work done
for the welfare of the State.
Another article of historic value and
local interest will be found in "Some
Early Political History" by Winfield J.
Davis OF Sacramento, who has long been
student of State politics, being in all prob
ability the best equipped writer on such
subjects now living, and whose private
library is stored with valuable data relat.
ing to early political events.
All lovers of natural history and all who
wish to be informed upon California birds
Will HHQ UeISNJ as we'll as INSTRUCTION IN
the series of papers on BIRD Life in Cali
fornia" by Charles A. Keller, one of which
will form an entertaining feature of the
paper tomorrow. The subject has never
before been fully treated, and Mr.. Keller
is well qualified to do it justice.
Joaquin Miller continues his poetic
articles on the Hawaiian Islands, and to-
morrow gives an account of the lepers.
W. G. Morrow contributes the leading
story, "The Capitulation of Montana Bill;
Robert Stevenson concludes his able
papers on 'Kinetic Stability; Alice Morse
McComas furnishes History of Old and
New Fashions; and the regular depart
ments of THE SUNDAY CALL-"The Drama"
"Books and Bookmakers," Fashions"
"Childhood's Realm and RANDOM
Notes"-will be found as usual full of in
terest.
THE CALL can usually be had wherever
newspapers are sold but to make sure of
the Sunday paper it Will be best to leave
orders to-day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.

1t is refreshing to observe that the peo-
pie of San Francisco are cherishing no
alarm whatever by reason of cholera in
Honolulu and Yokohama. We may be
sure that the steamship companies plying
between San Francisco and those ports
will take no chances in hopelessly tying
themselves up in quarantine by indulging
In any carelessness, and that IN simple
self preservation they will sedulously
avoid all risks of bringing cholera to
this port. In addition to this check we
have rigid quarantine laws and ample ma
chinery for their diligent application.
But a far greater protection than any
which human efficiency can devise is our
climate itself, whose benefcent character
istics are made perfectly operative by the
topography of the City. This Is very re-
markable combination of circumstances,
and they have no parallel in the world.
There is still another element of safety in
the rivers. AS watercourses are the great
conveyers of such diseases, and as the riv-
ers of California afford protection rather
than offer a menace, the whole State is
peculiarly fortunate. These rivers rise in
the remote unsettled mountains, where
infectious diseases cannot originate. The
streams do not furnish a supply for do
nestle use, and empty into salt water be-
fore reaching the more densely populated
part of the State. Hence they must be
wholly eliminated from all estimates of
danger.
This brings US back to the peculiar
climate and topography of the City. The
steep gradients insure perfect drainage
and the constant winds, always from the
ocean and never from any part of the land
which might happen to be afflicted, act as
a purifier instead of menace. They are
ocean winds, heavily charged with ozone,
and are essentially curative.
We need look no further than the history
of San Francisco and the State at large
with regard to dangerous epidemics for a
confirmation of that which reason sug-
gests. 1t has been more than forty years
since cholera visited the State, and then it
was confined to the squalid sections of one
or two interior towns, having gained no
foothold in San Francisco whatever. In
those days, in the places where it did &C.
cur, there were no such things as sewers
and no care was taken in the kind of water
used. Cholera would be as Impossible in
those localities now it has always been in
San Francisco. This is a wonderful record
in view of the fact that San Francisco is
the gateway between the United States and
the regions of the Orient which are always
more or less afflicted with cholera.
1t is clear understanding of all these
matters that explains the lack of alarm
among San Franciscans whenever cholera
appears in a virulent form in the Orient or
the islands of the Pacific. 1t would be a
blessed thing for the whole country if other
cities could low LILO i'm ,1rit.r
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14
THE DAIRY INTEREST.

The convention OF dairymen which
closed last evening has served to call
closer attention to the importance of the
dairy interest in California. If the con-
vention had done nothing more than
demonstrate that in this industry the
greatest success has been the result of in
teliigent cooperation, the introduction OF
the most improved methods and energetic
efforts to extend the market for dairy
products, it would have performed most
valuable service to the State. The devel-
opment of this industry within the last
three years has been remarkable, and still
the indications are that it is only in its
infancy.
The spirit of the men engaged in it may
be best understood from glance at this
resolution, which they passed Thursday
in convention: Resolved, That the di-
rectors of this association be requested to
formulate inquiries concerning the oppor-
tunity to extend the trade in California
dairy products in the countries bordering
on the Pacific Ocean, and forward the
same to the Secretary of Agriculture, with
the request that he commend them to the
Department of State for transmission to
the consular representatives of the United
States in foreign ports"
This means that the dairymen of Cali
fornIa see in our Government representa-
lives in foreign countries a machinery
which may be turned to valuable account
in pushing the interests of one California
industry. This is so eminently wise and
legitimate that it is remarkable it has not
been done more extensively by the pro-
motors of other California industries.
The Consuls are in the best possible posi-
ton to understand the needs and desires
of the people among whom they are sta
toned and to use their influence in max
ing American products popular in foreign
countries. eF
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14
NOT ALL A MISFORTUNE.

Although the rain has, no doubt, worked
losses in many individual cases, the sud-
den and sharp clearing of the skies, to-
gether with a lively breeze, will bring these
losses far below the estimates made on
Thursday. A large proportion of the fruit
on drying-trays will have suffered no dam
age except, perhaps, on the score of color,
for winds and bright sunshine came soon
enough to arrest any great tendency
toward fermentation. As for table and
wine grapes, although their percentage of
saccharine was reduced mporarily by the
absorption of water, that is misfortune
which one or two days of bright sunshine
will measurably cure. The real harm is
suffered in the case of those grapes which
have very tender skins, which permit of
bursting upon absorbing considerable
amount of moisture. Even a large per-
centage of these can be saved by prompt
crushing.
Whatever may be the individual losses
and hardships, the general State revenues
from the sources affected by the rain will
not be appreciably diminished. Prices
will be advanced in almost an exact ratio
to the shrinkage Of the crop. The wine
men have in the news of sales of the Cali
fornia product in London a consolation for
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14

Isaac Trumbo came across the line, got
into Salt Lake, woke up the town, put up
his money and got a. move on that would
drive the Kelley motor off the EARTH 1t didn't
take him month to wake up the whole State,
and the first thing we knew wave of activity
swept over US, and the long sleep was ended.
''Show me man to-day who will go down in
his pocket and put up like Trumbo. Whenever
they want anything in Washington whom do
they send? Trumbo. When they contemplate
any great improvements whom do they confer
with? Trumbo. When they want Senator to
represent them at the capital of the United
States whom will they send? Trumbo. I've
known that man for long time, and he has
shown his faith in Utah by putting his money
into the Territory, and when we get to be
State, which won't be long from now, we can
then thank him for il as much as anybody else
in America. 1t has cost him thousands of dol
lars to do things for Utah that he considers
mere pastime.
"Now, gentlemen, while we're talking lit
tie political lore, let me revert to the time,
little over three years ago, when sat at dinner
with C. C. Goodwin, also candidate. and
talked over the future of Utah. He asked me
what thought about the Senatorial question.
I told him that the first Senator from Utah
would be Colonel Isaac Trumbo He nearly
fell off his chair in amazement, and said that
he didn't even consider the Colonel a posi-
bility. l told him that man who was as in
terested in a Territory as Trumbo was in Utah
would be sent to the Senate by the people
whether he was much on the political lay or
not; l told him that they would insist upon
his going. have always claimed that man
with both influence and capital was good
man to send to Washington, provided he en-
joyed the confidence of the people, and you can
bet Trumbo does. It's a clear case, and we
know 1T. Why-well-what's the use of talk
ing about it +? l tell you Trumbo is going to
the United States Senate from Utah. Now, that
settles it,"
Mr.. Tarpey then got up from his seat and
went somewhere that he mentioned in low
voice, and several other gentlemen followed
n
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14
PERSONAL.

B. D. Murphy of San Jose is at the Palace.
R. P Lathrop, q merchant of Hollister, is at
the Grand.
Rev. Edward ]. O'Dea of Portland is staying
at the Grand.
M P. Dalton. mining man of Denver, Colo,
is at the Occidental
A. [. Willard of the navy registered at the
Occidental yesterday.
NJ O'Connor, mining man of Grass Valley,
is guest at the Grand
Ex-Judge S. S. Holl leading attorney Of
sacramento, is at the Grand.
Colonel George de la Vergne of Colorado
Springs is staying at the Occidental.
]. K. Law, Superior Judge OF MERGED, was one
OF yesterdays arrivals at the Occidental.
E. NJ. Taylor, prominent merchant of Grass
valley, and Mrs. Taylor are at the Occidental.
George Franetta, prominent merchant OF
Guatemala, registered at the Occidental yes
terday.
Wiley ]. Tinnin, ex-Collector of the Port and
eA-Secretary of Stale, came up from Fresno yes
terday and registered at the Grand.
Professor ]. NJ Wood, the violinist, will start
OIL in few days on an extended trip through
Washington, Idaho and Montana.
t. J. Murphy, grand vice-president of the
Young Mems Institute of Portland, Or, was
one OF yesterdays arrivals at the Grand.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14

gomery street, two on Third and seven
blocks on Folsom is all the good pave
ments that loom up out of the mass of
cobbles and basalt."
This is apparently an injustice, and the
people of the south side are to be COM
mended for their determination to prevent
its continuance. An admirable part of
their scheme would be the making of sue h
private Improvements as would tend to
compel recognition at the hands of the
municipality. 1t is deplorable to observe
that the large burned district, instead of
being covered with substantial brick or
stone houses is receiving wooden houses
of the poorer sort, such exactly as con-
tributed SO largely to the terrible destruc-
tiveness of the fire. There is necessarily
popular sentiment against public expendi-
lures for fine pavements in districts COW
cred with inferior houses. One excellent
building in block exerts a stronger inhu-
ence on the municipal authorities toward
appropriations for public improvements
than the moral suasion of half a dozen
committees.
This almost entirely explains the pres
ence of handsome pavements in the
Western Addition. 1t is to be noticed
there that good pavements invariably fol-
low good private Improvements. All this
is proper, for the reason that those who do
most for the good of the City deserve to
receive the greater attention at the hands
of the City. Public sentiment and public
policy never fail to recognize and reward
enterprise on the part OF property-owners.
The people of the south side have a more
profitable way for benefting themselves
by infusing spirit of pride and enterprise
among themselves than by demanding
more generous recognition at the hands of
the municipality. We have no doubt that
they understand this principle thoroughly
and will exert all their energies to its in
telligent application.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

There was little political gathering at the
Palace Hotel last night, and the possibilities OF
the Senatorial combination in California were
fully discussed. 1t was decided that nobody
knew too much about the case, and the con-
versation drifted over into Utah.
who's to be the next Senator from that Sec
tion?" inquired one gentleman.
John Q. Cannon" answered some one.
"Or Charley Goodwin OF the Salt Lake
Tribune"
"or, perhaps-let me think. what's that
mans name. All"
Isaac Trumbo is the fellow you're thinking
about" chimed in Dominick Tarpey, the Salt
Lake capitalist. Eyes, that's the man-Isaac
Irumbo. They can't beat him. Gentlemen,
let me tell you one thing-Isaac Trumbo is the
man. You can talk Cannon, you can talk
Goodwin, or anybody else you please, but
Irumbo will yank the persimmon. Now, that's
right"
Mr. Tarpey calmly fecked the ashes off his
cigar and sat down. No one seemed to offer a
protest against such statement, and he con-
tlnued: "I'll tell you why. Some years ago
Utah was the deadest place you ever saw.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14
PLUCK THAT MUST WIN.

instead of being discouraged by the re-
fusal of the Board of Supervisors to make
an appropriation to assist in defraying the
cost of paving Folsom street the South
side improvement clubs have been only
reused to greater activity. A curious re-
suit of this unfavorable action on the part
of the Supervisors is a determination by
these clubs to see not only that the funds
of the Street Department are handled
honestly hereafter, but that the south side
of town shall receive its just proportion of
the money expended for improvements.
The temper of the people in the latter re-
gard is shown in the following declaration
by Secretary Schwartz:
''In the Merchants Association exhibit
at the Mechanics Fair is a map showing
the paving of the streets of San Francisco
bitumen, basalt and cobples being plainly
marked in different colors. The neglect of
Southside is apparent at a glance. While
nearly all the Western Addition has btu
men this section and the Mission show a
few small patches. A block on New Mont
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Shell got letter from papa to-day saying
that he has made his will.
He-Do we come in anywhere?
She-Not directly, but he has left all his
money to an asylum for diots.-Indianapolis
Journal.
STUDENT learn that there are cases In which
people have had from childhood an uncon-
trollable desire to eat soap. What is the cause
of that?
Learned Professor-They are victims of sap
peso mania.
Student Um - what does sappessomania
mean?
Learned Professor-A desire to eat soap
New York Weekly.
Doctor, kin yes prescribe fer sick teller fer
nothin'?"
"What's the matter with your"
"Indigestion"
"Overeating?"
NAV; nothin in me stumick to digestp-
Chicago Record.
"My dear daughter" said Mr.. Dukane, els
Mr.. Northside q young man OF regular habits?'
ooh, yes, papa" replied Miss Dakane, ear
nestly. "He calls regularly every Friday and
Tuesday evenings, and hasn't missed for ever
and ever SO long.''-Pittsburg Chronicle Tele-
graph.
"Why, Jeanne, however came you to marry
that man? You are 1S and he is SO, just double
your age. When you are 40 he'll be an old fell
low of So"
Jeanne-Good gracious! never thought of
thatl-Geillustreed Familieblad.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14

that the Duchess of Portland, then Miss Dallas
Yorke, would first meet her husband at a rail-
road station. These two prophecies came true,
but hardly needed the second sight Oh MIS-.
Lee to foretell them.
An sonly original" circus is now giving per-
formances at Christiania, Norway. The mem
bers of the troupe represent various grades OF
nobility. One baron is director OF the edu-
Gated dogs another baron is clown; the
latter's wife, baroness, charms the puonc
with her songs; countess beats the cympals'
marquis twangs the either, and duke
blows the fife.
The Empress of Austria is an inveterate
smoker. her daily average being thirty to forty
Turkish cigarettes. She says that smoking
soothes her nerves, and that whenever she
feels ''blue'' cigarette will do more than any,
thing else to cause her to see things in hap
pier light. When writing she smokes almost
continually. On her Majestys writing-table
are always large silver box of repousse work
filled with cigarettes, matchbox OF carved
Chinese jade and a capacious ash-receiver,
made of the hoof of favorite hunter, which
broke it's spine over baekthorn hedge sew
eral years ago during one of the autumn hunts.
Almost mechanically she lights cigarette after
cigarette she sits in her great writing-room,
which is fitted up with carved oak panels and
Gobelin tapestries, the somber hue of the walls
being relieved here and there by trophies Oh
the chase. Any one who has had the oppor-
tunity of examining closely the slender, white
hand of the imperial lady has noticed faint
yellow stain on the first and second fingers OF
the left hand, caused by the cigarette.
Queen Elizabeth of Roumania, whom every
body knows as Carmen SYLVIA" Is tall, finely
figured woman of stately presence and digni-
fed manner, with large blue dreamy eyes and
profusion of prematurely white hair, and an
appearance somewhat resembling Sarah Bern
hardt as Roland's daughter She has more
title than any other royalty to the name OF
''literary queen" But, besides her merits as
an author, she is very remarkable woman,
who has earned the gratitude of women all
over the world by her efforts to raise the con-
dition of her sex in her adopted country. She
is a notably sparkling conversationalist, SO
that it has been said that any one having the
honor of long conversation with her would
wish to take down in shorthand or by the aid
of a photograph every word the Queen said.
This is even so when trivial matter is on the
tapis. But when poetry or literature is the
subject, then, indeed she becomes the bright
est and most animated of the company. She
begins her literary work daily long before day
break and works by lamp until the sun brings
more light. Her published works include
poems, essays, novels and an opera, but she
has disdained to exploit the Queen in the in
terests of the writer or to make q hit by means
of her position.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Admiral Dot, the noted dwarf, keeps hot.
at White Plains, N. Y.

Admiral Dot, the noted dwarf, keeps hotel
at White Plains, N. Y.
The Methodist Church is to found univer-
sity at Kansas City. A fund of $4,000 for
this purpose has been raised.
The oldest Judge on the English bench is
said to be Lord Esher, who has just attained
his eightieth year. He has been twenty-seyen
years a Judge, nineteen years Justice of
Appeal, and master of the rolls twelve years
son of Geheimrath julius Schwabach.
member of the firm of Bleichroeder of Berlin.
has shown himself a phenomenal spendthrift
Within eighteen months he squandered over
$3.50, 900. While residing OF Leipsic Ger
many, he sometimes telegraphed to his tailor
at Berlin to come to him by special train to
take an order. He is now under guardianship.
Reinhold Begas, tn e creator of the Emperor
William National monument the cornerstone
of which was recently laid in Berlin, is about
30 years of age. He is said to be fine speci-
men of his race, with long, flowing beard re-
sembling that of the late Emperor Frederick,
large blue eyes, a Gr@co-R Roman nose and a
large head.
Mrs. Lee, the gypsy of the Devils Dyke, near
London, is one of the celebrities of the day in
London. She is fortune-teller, and a number
OF the members of the highest nobility, includ-
ing the late Duke Clarence and the Duchess of
Portland, have consulted her as to their fu-
ture. She says she foretold the Duke of Clar-
ence that he would not live to be married and
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DEAD AT SEA.

Uncover heads-let all attention be!
Our sailor lad is going out to sea;
With silver gems across his faithful heart
He silent waits the signal to depart.
And he has sailed wherever ship can go,
Through all the ocean country, to and fro;
But never yet upon his devious way
Has had voyage like the one to-day
Our bugles singing softly fore and aft,
We launch the sailor in his narrow craft;
Three voIleys moaning far across the wave
Salute him as he journeys 10 the grave.
To duty all the time for tears is past:
Now each to work while life to each shall last;
For when the waves our hapless comrade won
We saw ourselves little later on.
WILL CARLETON in Every Where for September
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OPINIONS OF WESTERN EDITORS
California.


What a lot of ink and space would have
been saved to the newspapers of late If 1t was
only spelled yot!-Los Angeles Times.
The sage of Buzzards Bay is doing well to re-
cruit his physical and mental energies by fol-
lowing the quiet and peaceful pursuit of a
fisherman, for he will soon have another Con-
gress son his hands," and just as likely as not
1t will give him nearly as much trouble as the
legislative body with which he recently
wrestled so long and painfully. The execu-
tive who undertakes TO control the legislative
department of the Government is likely to have
trouble as well as Congress on his hands,
Fresno Republican.
1t is not difficult to account for the continu-
Gus deficit In the treasury nor for the con-
slant drain on the reserve. Everything is
going out and nothing coming in. The bril-
liant theory that the more we import the better
off we will be, because the customs receipts
will be larger, fails miserably when practically
applied. And the country cannot hope to re-
gain its wonted prosperity until it has returned
10 the sound principle of protection.-San Jose
Mercury.
Should MADEIRA not be touched by the line of
the new railway, the fault will at least not be
due to Indifference on the part of the people of
the town. Long ago the projectors were asked
to say on what terms the road would be brought
to MADEIRA, and liberal offers of assistance were
presented to the company. Having done that
much, MADEIRA can only wait for developments.
MADEIRA Mercury.