The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-05

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THURsDAY..... ....sEPTEMBER 5. 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The State Fair may already claim sue
cess.
1.-THE Durrant case in minute" keeps
you posted and saves your time.
There seems to be as much fun at the
fairs as there was at the carnivals,
The British Labor Congress opened red
hot with the socialists on the gridiron.
They are now calling Pennsylvania "the
Quaystone State" but it is solid just the
same.
In taking Formosa to make peace Japan
seems to have got her hands full of per-
petual war.
The organization of a patent medicine
throwing physic to the dogs.
Sacramento is said to be turning herself
into a dream of beauty, but her people
seem to be keeping wide awake.
By fining each of the performers SIS and
COSTS Colorado has managed to come out
out of the bull-fight with profit.
-S--
La Rue has made a move, Stanton has
made move, and why does Commissioner
Clark continue to stick in the mudP
The figures submitted by the railroad
experts 20 the Commissioners become less
luminous as they grow more voluminous.
The biggest display at the Atlanta Elk
position is to be bicycles, and perhaps at
the Paris Exposition it will be fying-ma-
chimes.
One of the troublesome accidents of East
ern weather is apparent in the report that
the crops of Wisconsin have already been
damaged by frost.
With bets three to one against the Val
kyrie in London and even bets in New
York, there is good chance for somebody
to make safe hedge for big stakes.
If the Commissioners undertake to
straighten out the railroad reports, figures
and statistics before they take action. it
will be a long time before any action is
taken.
The letter-carriers in convention at Phil
adelphia have undertaken great deal of
business, but if there is anybody that can
see it carried through and safely delivered
they can.
If all wheelmen make parade tonight
in favor of the improvement of Folsom
street it will not be long before they can
have a bigger parade to celebrate the COM
pletion of the work
Something more than million pounds
of fruit, valued at more than $4,000, 60
ing eastward in a single train Is an evil
dence of the California pull that keeps the
money coming this way.
The wife of a member of Parliament has
thoughtit worth while to write to the Lon
don papers to deny that she and her hus-
band put their thumbs to their noses and
wriggled their fingers at their opponents
during the recent elections.
The convention of the Pacific Coast
Women's Press Association affords Cali
fornia another opportunity to note the
excellent work which California women
are doing and to take account of how
many of them have achieved high rank in
one of the most exacting professions of life.
The report of disastrous hurricane in
Japan, coming so soon after the reports of
the earthquake on the Atlantic coast, will
remind the world that Japan is the East
and the Atlantic coast is the East, and
that so far as good times are concerned
the Pacific Coast is the one and only
West.
The mass-meeting to be held by the
South Side Improvement Club this evening
should be well attended. This will be one
of those meetings that tend to action and
not merely to make more talk. The south
side of town needs improvement and the
club has devised the right means of begin
ming it.
While the tests of the Cooley airship did
not show that the problem of flying ma
chimes had been completely mastered,
they made it certain that the primal diff
culties have been overcome and give good
reason to believe that before long the fly
ing trip will be something more than
metaphor.
The latest wrinkle in Eastern racing is
to pump ozonized oxygen into the lungs
of racehorse to improve his wind. and
the sports of the old school are protesting
against it on the ground that wind is one
of the things that a horse is bred for and
trained for, and that it ought not to be
supplied by artificial means.
The effect of one good enterprise well
supported upon the general progress of
community is manifest in the report from
Stockton that since the advent of the new
railroads there is disposition on the part
of the Council and property-owners to I'M
prove the city, and more street work is be-
ing done than has been undertaken for
years.