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The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
THE CONVENTION FEVER.
Los Angeles Land and Water.

Los Angeles lIdnu anu w ateT
The daily newspapers of Los Angeles have
caught the contagion of the convention excite
ment in San Francisco. The editor of the
Express returned from the northern metrop-
oils healthily inoculated, and at once started
a convention boom in this city, which, natur-
ally enough, does not threaten to reach q
similar gigantic scale. Unhappily Mr.. Osborne
has fallen foul OF the editor of the Times, and
compliments the reverse of harmonious have
been exchanged. In San Francisco the Exam
liner, the Chronicle and THE CALL dwell to-
gether in delightful unity TO the tune of
$25 900 on the subject OF inducing the Repub-
lican Convention to their City. If their mann
moth subscriptions have been compared to q
game of "bluff" it is still very much on the
cards that they may be "called," and therefore
their enthusiastic emulation should be ac-
cepted as sincere.
1t must be quite obvious that should the San
Franciscans succeed in securing the conven-
ton, Los Angeles would be very materially
benefited. Large numbers OF the most infiu-
entail men of the country would be attracted
to Southern California, either visiting Los An
geles en- route to the convention or being in
duced to take an excursion that could not fail
to rebound to their edifcation and our benefit.
Partisanship in this question has practically
played nc part, and it would be most unwise
to encourage the smallest seed of dissension
Los Angeles should adopt similar unanimity
to that of San Francisco in the endeavor to
bring the delegates to the coast, and when the
time comes should vie with the brethren IN
their enter tainment.
Up to date San Francisco has secured about
$75, 900 of the necessary 100000. Twenty of
the twenty-six delegates votes in favor of San
Francisco have been registered, and therefore
the prospect is distinctly encouraging. Los
Angeles has fund OF sympathy for the project,
has promised the heartieSt cooperation, and
should now contribute its share OF the equally
essential dollars.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
A FREE PUBLIC MARKET.

1t seems strange that although Oakland
has maintained free public market for
about sixteen years, San Francisco has
never made an attempt to institute such
an affair. The prices which City consum-
ers have to pay for articles of farm produc-
ton are grotesauely high in comparison
with the prices received by producers.
This is all because producers have no facili-
ties for marketing their products in San
Francisco Independently of commission
merchants and because the commission
merchants have complete control of the
situation. This does not mean to say that
the commission merchants abuse their
power, but that the absence of facilities for
bringing the producers and consumers into
contact makes low prices for producers
and high prices for consumers necessary.
The commission merchants 60 not receive
the benefit of this difference except in COM
paratively small measure. Restriction on
the traffic destroys even that advantage to
a large extent and effects an actual waste
of which no one receives the benefit.
Interviews with intelligent citizens, pub
lshed in THE CALL indicate the great need
and public desire for free market. Such
market is place maintained by the City
where producers may bring their products
and offer them for sale without the pay
ment of license, commission or rental.
Thus these three expenses would be saved,
| besides the waste which the present mode
of doing business represents. The free
market is an institution OF all European
cities and of many American as well.
The universal plan of such market is a
public open place into which producers
bring their wagons, loaded with farm prod
uce. There they stand during certain
hours of the day, and official market in
spectors look over the wares and remove
such as nay be found unfit for sale. A sa-
lient feature of such markets is the absence
of regular price for the various articles,
for it is not possible, as it is among COM
mission merchants, to arrange such mat
ters on the basis of demand bv merchants
or of other conditions of the market. At
the free market there are no restrictions
whatever; dealers as we'll as consumers
may buy at will, and in any quantities,
and even commission merchants are in
cluded among the purchasers. The alb
sence Of regular market rates has a tend
ency to depress prices, but experience has
shown that in spite of this fact the pro-
ducers secure very much larger prices than
through commission merchants, while buy
ers have to pay very much less.
That such an institution would be highly
valuable to the City is proposition ad-
mjttinp of no cOntrnyprsy
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
PERSONAL.

S. A. Alexander, a merchant of Fresno, is q
guest at the Lick.
H. C. Tupper, an attorney of Fresno, is q
guest at the Lick.
Professor Charles Il. Keyes OF Pasadena is a
guest at the Grand.
II. C. Robinson, mine-owner Of Placerville.
is staying at the Lick.
S. T. Black, State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, is at the Lick.
J.T. Wardner mining man OF Idaho regis
tered at the Lick yesterday.
NJ. X. Harris, an attorney OF Fresno, regis
tered at the Lick yesterday.
w. ]. Scrutten, a mining man OF Laporte,
registered yesterday at the Grand.
J.. Schenkel, cofee-planter of Guatemala,
and his wife are guests at the Lick.
Ben Rich, editor OF the Silver Hammer of
st. Anthony, Idaho, is guest at the Lick
Alexander White, an attorney of Los Angeles,
was one OF yesterdays arrivals at the Lick
DR.. A. E. Osborne. Superintendent of the
Home for Predetermined at Eldridge, is at the
Grand.
NJ. NJ. Cooley OF the Coronado Hotel, Spokane,
and his wife registered at the Occidental yes.
terday.
Adjutant-General A. w. Barrett came down
from Sacramento yesterday and put UP at the
California.
Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit leading
attorney of Stockton, and his wife are guests
at the Lick.
Since Mr.. Benjamin Cohen's return from his
Eastern trip he has received a large consign-
ment of the latest Eastern styles.
Lee Fairchild returned yesterday from Utah,
where he had gone for the purpose of stump
ing the Territory during the late campaign
Gabriel A. Berger, the architect, member of
the firm of Everett and Berger, left ON Thursday
for France, where he will study the modern
designs OF French architecture. Before his
return he will visit other parts of Europe, in
Guiding London.
A number of big bookmakers arrived from
the East yesterday and put up at the Palace.
They are: Riley Grammar and E. M. Porter of
Lexington, KY; Roy Carouthers, J. C. Ryan
and T. Kerr of Chicago; Fred Cowan, E. w.
Purser, George P. Suydam and William Muir of
New York, and E. W. Purser of Brooklyn.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
FOR THE CALL" BUILDING.
Bridgeport Chronicle-U MON.

Joseph Hunts six-horse team has taken to
Carson for shipment to San Francisco five tons
of travertine for interior decorations of THE
CALL and Parrott buildings, now being erected
on Market street. One slab ON the hind wagon
weighed three tons. On account of shipment
by teams the size of the blocks must be limited,
but II we had a railroad at our doors twenty
ton blocks could be gotten out handily. Next
summer. after improved marble working ma
chinerv is put up at the quarry, all the finish
ing work win be done at the quarry, so that
there will be no heavy blocks to be shipped !;
but until then the saving of the blocks into
veneers and finishing them will ali be done
at the Vermont Marble Works in San Fran
cisco. This is the first shipment, for COM
mercial purposes, of travertine from an Amer
lean quarry, the Bridgeport quarry being the
only deposit of trayertine known outside of
France and Italy, and for beauty and solidity
1t far excels the European article. as can read
lily be seen by comparing it with the French
material in the Mills building, San Francisco.
1t takes most beautiful polish, and after its
great beauty is seen in THE CALL building, no
fine building in San Francisco will hereafter
be considered complete without Bridgeport
travertine for interior decoration. Regular
shipments will be made all winter, as Mr.. Hunt
will put on sleighs when necessary and make
regular trips between here and Carson
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
ARE WE IN EARNEST Z?

If the people of this City are really in
earnest when they profess desire to ac-
complish the many things which are
needed to advance the community, why
were there only 100 responses to the 600
invitations sent out by the Merchants
Association asking leading men in various
occupations to become members? We all
know what the Merchants Association
has accomplished. We know that through
its splendid efforts the system Of street.
sweeping was revolutionized and the
streets made clean and attractive; that it
was largely instrumental in putting stop
to fraudulent contract work on the streets,
and that its influence in bringing about
the Grand Jury investigations was potent,
though other influences working to that
end deserve full credit; that it is composed
of intelligent and patriotic men, who are
governed by no mean and selfish motives,
and who are working zealously for the
common good.
It's services had been OF so conspicuous
value that with the Manufacturers and
Producers Association, the Civic Fedora
ton and the Half-million Club it had be.
come one of the central forces of progress.
And yet, when it attempted to make its
strength and influence all that they should
be, and to that end had invited 600 strong
men of the community to throw their in
fuence into the fight it received only 100
responses.
Perhaps it is because the men invited
were already allied with other organiza-
tions seeking to promote the public well
fare. If so, the question is raised, Have
we not too many of these organizations
The object of the Merchants Association
is to look after the material condition of
municipal affairs, with an eye to an extern
sion of its scope. The Half-million Clubs S
aim is to increase the population. The
Civic Federation is working to expose,
punish and prevent official rascality. The
Manufacturers and Producers Associa-
tion is promoting the home consumption
of our products.
All these aims are most admirable, but
clearly they have common. purpose,
which is to do the things which are needed
to make this great City. The tendency
in other lines of reform and progress, par
ticularly OF moral character. is to or
ganize federations of scattered forces. We
have here, for instance, the Associated
Charities, which enables charitable socie-
ties to work far more intelligently and
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

John Piper, the oldest manager of opera
houses ON the coast is down from Virginia
City mixing UP with the theatrical world,
renewing old acquaintances and making new
ones. John walked into the Occidental Hotel
yesterday and grasped the hand OF an actor
who used to play on the Comstock in the COS.
"How you been?'' inquired Piper. "Do you
ever recall the John Mccullough night, when
we gave him the benefit and cleaned up $4,000
for his company? wonder if the old days
will ever come again?''
Mr.. Piper played with his fingers few Sec
onds and looked very much distressed. "Say,'
he continued, didn't play the greatest the
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
INVESTMENTS.

Golden Gate ave. and Franklin-s5x12e. to rear
street; 3-story; good dwellings on the avenue;
building rear street small corner vacant; rents
Rents s4s6 so; cor. Geary and Larkin-12Ox
l2O; corners covered with stores and dwellings.
Post ST., bet. Powell and Mason-27 :6x1 81 IS,
and good 2-story and basement; building rents
500; make offer.
sixth ST. w. side, near Bryant-6Oxs5,, and g.
story; two stores below and six tenants upstairs;
rents low, S69; $4,000; half can remain on mort
Steuart St., bet. Market and Mission-357sx
1875; cheap.
s27,5OO; rents sl75; Taylor ST. bet. Post and
Sutter; boarding house: AZ rooms; large lot.
Ninth ST., near mission: good business block:
2 fats, and lot 25x7O: store should be put here;
Powell ST. near California: 45x107; and good
2-story buildings; rent for $3.50; fine viewi
Fine Investment on Geary ST.; so feet front and
building: 31a blocks from Market ST.; $4,000.
RESIDENCE PROPERTY PACIFIC
HEIGHTS.
Reduced to $4,000; make offer; NV. corner Pa
ctc ave. and Broderck ST.. 35xl27 g; a very
slightly lot, with view OF bay and one block from
the cars.
Jackson and octavia sts.: elegant corner; uo.
surpassed marine view; 60xl17; $4,000; OF
largerslot.
Buchanan and Webster; 47:6x1376, and resi-
Pacific Heights residence and large lot; north
side Washington ST., in best portions view supreme'
only $4,000.
Broadway, north side; 35 feet front and resi-.
Cheap; north side Clay ST., bet. Polk and Van
Ness ave.; 50xl 81 IS, and 2-story dwelling; $l3,
000; make offer.
HOUSES AND LOTS.
Webster-st residence; near Grove; lot 41:6x9I;
residence OF II rooms; SO, 800.
Pine. Stockton; 81 4:6x77:6, aud 2-story OF 12
rooms in good order; $500 Just spent on it; rents
$35; $1,000.
s2s0o~Hawthorne st. connects with New Mont
gomery st.). off Folsom: 29x112 6, and large
comfortable 2.story house IL rooms.
Grove St, y. side, bet. Franklin and Cough:
27:6x6s;9, and 2-story; in tenements $525O.
CHEAP LOTS.
Union ST., N. side: magnificent view: 27Bx
1875; only S210O; bet. Scott and Devisadero sts
in Baldwin Park.
Clay ST., n. side, bet Walnut and Laurel: 25x
1878 S2775; fine view.
Pacific ave-, facing the PresIdio near Walnut at.
lots 25x100 $2500, or any size.
Reduced to &20OO-Lots 25x127:S; jackson ST. !:
magnificent view; bet. Locust and Spruce: street
work done: any size front.
$3.50 each-Easy terms; lots on 17th 18th and
18th aves.: 25xl2O; 100 to IT'S feet from Point
Lobos ave.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
WILL SUCCEED IN NEW YORK.
Livernore Echo.

The telegraph informs us that W. r. Hearst
OF the Examiner-ls devoting his entire atten-
tion to his New York newspaper venture, the
Journal, and it is predicted that the paper will
cut an important figure IN the affairs OF that
city. 1t is added that he has shaved OF his
mustachc, in accordance with the prevailing
fashion in Park Row-but If the prediction OF
impending success is based upon that fact the
dispatch does not so state.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
Boston Herald.

Not few women took the trouble to go to
the polls on Tuesday and vote against woman
suffrage, but their number was not large ana
they did not determine the negative result.
The inexpediency of woman suffrage was sod. ue
nj women who neither registered nor went 10
the polls. Their sentiments were expressed py
the masculine voters.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
New YORK Commercial Advertiser.

The sweeping Republican major1ties consul
tuted an explicit and Overwhelming mandate
for the restoration of ample protection TO
American industry, for the preservation OF the
integrity OF every form OF American currency
and for the unhinching maintenance or
American interests and honor in the Western
Hemisphere The fight for the complete re-
habilitation of Republican National pohcles
hos onened with inspiring vigor. 1t must be
KENT M with increasing energy from now until
Deyt election day
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
st .Innis Star.savings.

Let us see 1t was Grover Cleveland wno' IN
March, 1898, on the occasion OF ms inaugural
discovered that there was something wrong
with the currency. Then the free silver heresy
broke loose in his party Then came the land,
slide OF 1894 which slid oyer into 1893 and
n;nnino Grower as the country's fiscal Moses,
In the interval has been good to himself, but
where yes. where, are his bruised, distracted
aDd dncr-pnvpred followers?
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

If we are to have reorganization of our
National Guard we may as well look out
for war.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
indianapolis News,

Apparently the women of Massachusetts do
not favor the extension OF suffrage. II they
would not vote in favor of the privilege tney
would not be likely 10 avail themselves OF IL II
it became their right And yet we suppose
that in MASSACHUSETTS, there has been more
agitation of this subject than IN any other
Eastern State
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
RICH MINING DISTRICTS.
MERGED Star.

The resources of the mining counties are
receiving much attention just now from the
San Francisco press. THE CALL has an able
representative in the field who is engaged in
presenting to the world the true status of the
rich mining districts now being developed in
our State
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
THE LITTLEFIELD INQUEST
Fort Bragg Advocate.


THE CALL of November had the full evil
dence given in at the inquest OF Littlefeld,
recently murdered in Round Valley. In the
verdict brought in by the Coroner,s Jury the
officers who had charge of Littlefield at the
time of the shooting are implicated IN the
rir
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

The Turk is not exactly an Indian, but
he is one of the kind that is never good
except when he is dead.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

The Sultan would doubtless like some
of his big critics to put themselves IN his
place for while.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
cALIroRNIANs IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 15.-Among re.
cent arrivals are: C. E. Pemberton and wife.
Los Angeles, Ebbitt House; r. L. Sprague, San
Francisco, Arlington Hotel.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

expression of the popular viii. There is no
other reason for Kentucky going Republican
this year, for the first time II its history, ns Y
except the mistake made by the leaaerS III ~
question BY nominating an unsound candl-
date on q sound platform.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
CHICAGO LIMITED.
VIA SANTA FE ROUTE.

new train throughout begins october 90.
Pullman's finest sleeping-cars, vestibule reclining
chair cars and dining-cars Los Angeles to Chi
cago, via Kansas City, without change. Annex
cars on sharp connection for Denver and st.
Louis. Twenty-seven hours quicker than the
quickest competing train. The Santa Fe has been
put in fine ply sical condition and is now the best
transcontinental railway. -
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
HARP1NG ON THE ELECTIONS.
New York Tunes

new 1Ork Times.
Although Tammany's candidates are elected,
Tammany wins no victory. The increase from
Grants vote OF 100000 last year to Purroy's $
vote of 10000 yesterday is very much more
than accounted for by the Germans who went
over to Tammany, not permanently or from
love of it, but out of resentment at the Rennh
lican Sunday excise policy We do not believe
that the Tammany organization cast 90 600
votes yesterday. There is abundant eyidence
that the Germans gave them as many as 30. 600
party in the city, it is actually minority fac
tion of the Democratic party.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
An Astrological Vision.
Los Angeles Express,


The white star in the heavens these morn
ings indicates that the Republican National
Convention will go to San Francisco. No
charge is made for this claiTyoyance.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

There can be no question that civic re-
form mas begun to show its work in many
places where it is needed most.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

So long as our coast defenses are made
ouate to the needs of war, our country is
under bonds to Europe to keep the peace,
no matter what happens.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

Marlborough has repaid New York for
all her trouble over his Wedding by max
ing the horse show brilliant success.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

THOUSANDS of people have found in Hoods Sar-
saparilla positive cure for rheumatism This
medicine by its purifying action neutralizes the
acidity of the blood and builds up the system.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

Show yourself at the art exhibit and
give proof that you also are artistic.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

The best means OF contributing to the
prestige OF the City just now is to con-
tribute to the National Convention fund.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

Democracy hardly expects Presidential
candidate next year, but it would like to
find somebody willing TO drive the party
hearse.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

Observation-Disclosures is perfectly dry, soft
and mild, and is entirely free from the mists COM
mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam
ship, including fifteen days board at the Hotel del
Coronado, $50; longer stay 81 80 per day. Apply
A New Montgomery ST., San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

We no sooner get one enterprise started
than we see the need OF another.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers,
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

One of the amusements of the coming
winter will be the comedy of an investi-
eating committee hunting for the vigor in
Cleveland foreign policy.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

There is a chance for Whitney to put in
his idle time this winter writing book on
''How Not to Be Candidate or the Best
Means of Preserving a Barrel"
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
Raltimnre Snn

The people of Maryland have won in their
great fight for political freedom and pure
government, ana the leaders who have brought
discredit upon Maryland Democracy have been
branded with the lasting stigma of stern
popular condemnation. 1t has been the peoples
battle from beginning to end, and theirs is the
glory, as theirs will be the gain
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

When you speak of the art exhibit to
your friends do not reserve all your praise
for the works of artists who are either
foreign or dead.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

Shall we have an open market? is the
next question.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

The State OF Kentucky has been singularly
free from the influence OF the boss in politics
and the elections of that State represent the
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

NICE present for Eastern friends-California
Glace Fruits, soc h., Jap. baskets. Townsends+
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

Although the Merchants Association
has only 272 members it has done work
for the benefit of all and should have the
support of at least thousand good citi-.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

BY adding 20 drops of DR.. Siegert's Angostura
Bitters every glass diseases from drinking pollu
ted water avoided.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
The World Is Full of Bravery.

Alameda Telegram.
When we hear a man tell about a quarrel he
has been in we think we have at last met the
brayest man in the world.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

The star-eyed goddess of free trade is
not feeling exactly like May queen, but
still she murmurs, There is many black,
black eye, they say, but none so black as
mine"
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

CLIPPING BUREAU-Subscriber Tomales, Marin
County, Cal. Answers to Correspondents does
notrecommend any individual or firm and does
not vouch for the responsibility of such, there
fore eennot say if certain clipping bureau is
n reliable one.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

One of the Russian witnesses in the
Kovalev trial is reported to have testified
that he does not believe in the existence
OF God, but, as he afterward said, he be-
heyes the Gar has supreme power all
syer the world, it is probable he was sim
sAy mistaken in the name.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

ExAMINAgIoNs-R. f. R., Santa Monica CAL
Answers to Correspondents is not aware of the
existence of any college or university 'where
one may pass an examination through CORE
spondence, or in other words not attend the
college or university"
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

PICTURE cards. Roberts, 22o sutter.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

report that the Los Angeles Grand
Jury has discovered frauds committed by
some of the county officials is said to be
startling, but no one has called it sur
prising
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

SOFT baby cream, 15c pound. Townsend's.t