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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10
IMPROVEMENT CLUBS,

In yesterdays issue we noted the fact
that the progressive residents of Tulare
had organized themselves into an improve
ment association for the purpose of en-
HANGING the attractiveness of that CITY.
Now comes the news that the towns of the
San Joaquin Valley, for distance of
thirty miles south of Selma, had organized
themselves for the immediate purpose OF
taking steps to secure the Valley road. 1t
was such an organization of the leading
men of Stockton that made it possible for
that city to make so generous an offer to
the Valley road, and to secure the road for
their city.
When Sacramento, a few years ago, be-
came alarmed over the movement to trans
fer the Capitol to San Jose, her more en-
terprising citizens organized an associa-
ton for the purpose of improving the city,
and great deal of good was accom- lished.
We have not heard much about this asso-
citation recently, but we trust that it is
still in existence and is aware of the power
that it can WELD. Oakland has two or
three admirable associations, the latest
being that of the merchants. which has
been doing some excellent work in the yay
OF offering inducements to the Valley road.
1t is one OF the strongest and most earnest
organizations of the kind in the State.
In various other cities and towns are
boards OF trade, chambers of commerce and
similar organizations. San Francisco has
number OF these, but the one up to this
time that has done what the City most
needs-apart from the work of the Half
million Club, which has different funo-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10
REACHING SOUTHWARK.

Comparatively few of the residents of the
City seem to be aware of the extent and
rapidity with which the region south of
Market street is being developed. Refer
ence is not made here to what is commonly
known as "South of Market street." that
dull and unprogressive region lying be-
tween Sixth street and the bay and includ-
ing some of the most execrable streets in
the City, but that broader and newer dis
trict, which includes the farther Mission
and swings enthusiastically toward the
Potrero.
Here one finds conditions wholly DIFF
ferent from those of the dilapidated "South
of Market street" region. Instead of the
unspeakable cobblestone pavements of
the older section, one encounters in the
new areas many miles of noiseless blum
nous pavements and smooth macadam-
lied streets. The houses are smart, bright
and clean, and numberless carefully tended
fiower-gardens add their testimony to the
numerous other evidences of a superior
population. There is prevalent through
out all the district spirit of thrift and
progress that is stranger to the region
dominated by Rincon Hill.
The Market-street Railway Company has
contributed generously to these handsome
results. For a year or more it has been
steadily pushing new electric lines in all
directions and improving the service of
the old lines under its control. The San
Mateo electric road to the cemeteries, in
spite of the drawbacks under which it has
suffered as pioneer line, has accom-
plished much, particularly in making ac-
cess to the cemeteries so cheap and con-
venient. Even the Potrero proper has sud-
denly taken on new aspect since the
wretched horsecar service on Kentucky
street was changed to an electric line.
By reason of excellent streetcar service,
the extension of branch lines in so many
directions and the laying of good pave
ments and sewers, this new section of the
City is the one that now is more rapidly
developing than any other. 1t is the most
valuable object-lesson that can be found
to prove that good pavements and we'll
managed streetcar service will invariably
stimulate development. 1t is as in
structive in its way as the old Rincon Hill
region is in its, and in an exactly oppo-
site direction.
Some of the most attractive of the new
streetcar trips which can be found in the |
City lie within this new region. The sys- ,
TEN of transfers to the various side lines is !
somewhat bewildering at first, but it is
impossible to find line that is not charm
ing for the variety of scenery and the
expansive panoramas which it presents. |
The straight run to the end of the Mission
line is beautiful, as also is that to the
cemeteries; but from each of these are
branch lines that offer attractions of their
own. One OF the pleasantest opportunities
which all of them present is that of reach
ing the hills which overlook the City, from
the San Bruno heights all the way around
to Twin Peaks.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10
THE BENCH SHOW.

The bench show will probably find lib
eral patronage from all classes of people
and certainly deserves it. 1t is conceded
that the array of dogs exhibited is very
fine and that the management has ar
ranged the show and the terms of the COM
petition with an excellence of Judgment
that will go far to make it success in
every particular. The people who attend
the exhibition will have, therefore, much
to be pleased with, as well as a good op-
portunity of informing themselves on the
points that are considered essential to
raise a dog to the highest aristocracy of his
kind.
Almost every man who has any kindness
OF nature or any sympathy of disposition
at all has a fondness for dumb animals as
well as for human beings. The brute crea-
lures of earth have virtues that humanity
finds worthy of its liking. From canary
birds to elephants, every animate thing that
man can live in association with is found
to have some charm of companionship
that gives delight to his master. No other
dumb creature, however is so companion
able as dog. No other has been so closely
allied with man through all the history of
uuAldH ucfe4OP1HeHt lIOIn SdNdgeTy up 10
the present enlightenment, and no other,
with possibly the exception of the horse,
has done more to assist in his advance
ment.
The time has gone by W hen the white
race has any need of dog to assist in de-
tending the home or in obtaining food
Nevertheless the animal remains in our
homes as valued as ever, and there is
hardly any likelihood that he will ever be
wholly banished. The man who does not
have liking for dogs and a sympathy
with them is neither so good nor so wise as
he thinks himself. 1t is to the credit of
society that it likes dogs, and the larger
the crowd that attends the bench show the
better sign it will be of the real good
heartedness and healthy human nature of
our people.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10
MR. ASHFORD IS HOPEFUL,
He Says the English May Have
Something to Say at
Honolulu.
The British Minister Gave Kind In
timations and Sent Protests on
to Kimberly.

| Clarence w. Ashford, exile from Ha-
waii, yesterday received letters from his
| brother, V. ". Ashford, and other men,
bers of his family in Honolulu, which con-
| tanned some information that was verv
| cheering to him, and which appeared to
make him think kindly and hopefully of
| the British Government.
| 81 have received letter from my
| father" said Mr.. Ashford yesterday,
(which shows that the British Govern
ment is not Indifferent to the rights and
interests of it's subjects in Hawaii. On the
day before the Mariposa sailed my brother,
V. V. Ashford, who was recently released
from jail as political prisoner, called on
the British Minister, Captain A. G. S.
Halves, and had lengthy interview with
him. Immediately after nv arrival in
San Francisco | wrote q protest and de-
mand for damages, sustained by nv
broth er, myself and our families, for being
confined in jail and our business interests
destroyed. In the protest 1 also embodied
the fact that / had been banished from the
country without cause, and that my
brother was slowly dying from maltreat-
ment in a wretched prison.
minister Halves informed my brother
that my protest and demand had been
placed in the hands of Lord Kimberly,
Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and that he
would give it attention at the earliest pos
sible moment. He even intimated that
my brother and l have good ground for
complaint.
1.-The British Government has officially
recognized all British subjects in Hawaii,
except A. NJ. Hewitt, who is naturalized
Hawaiian citizen. The British subjects,
who were imprisoned and forced to suffer
other indignities at the hands of the Dole
Government, and who can show that they
took no active part in the uprising of last
January, will without doubt be indemni-
fed through formal demand by their Gov
eminent.
when British subject has just claim
there is no danger that it will be permitted
to lapse into oblivion. If the Government
of Hawaii should feel disposed to be stub
born in refusal to do the fair thing it
may receive dose similar to that dealt
out to Nicaraguans at Corinto.
"My brother, V. V. Ashford, is much
better and will arrive here by the Aus
tralia," continued Mr.. Ashford. "Since
he was released from prison and was per-
mitted to have the services of a competent
physician he has improved wonderfully.
He writes me that while in the Jail he was
denied proper diet, even to fresh milk, and
was experimental on with strychnine and
lot of other drugs that nearly Slapped
away his life.''
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10
AN INOOME-TAX SCANDAL,

In the course of his argument on Wednes-
day before the Supreme Court against the
income tax Mr.. Choate in denouncing the
injustice of the law in exempting certain
corporations from the tax while imposing
its burdens upon others, gave description
OF one OF these exempt corporations in
language SO picturesque and with a con-
clusion so startling that it well merits to
be called to the attention of those who
may have been too busy to read the argu-
ment.
Mr.. Choate did not give the name of the
corporation to which he referred. but he
said it has accumulated property amount
ing to 1904 ,000,0 900. He then exclaimed
''Do you know what this concern is that is
given the vast advantage implied in this
exemptionP 1t goes under the reputable
name of moneyed corporation. 1t is a
moneyed monster. 1t lives upon money.
1t swallows money; it digests money; it
breeds money. 1t lays golden eggs by the
bucketful every day and then weaves
golden coins about them to warm and
WHY them. 1t has as many arms as there
are States in the Union and which it is
constantly putting out in all directions for
I11C pOSC Va III N4bu NOT are It's
operations confined to the bounds of this
country alone. 1t extends to England and
to the European countries and is always
raking in money"
After this description of the monster cor
poration, Mr.. Choate went on to say that
having obtained so much money the COM
panv reinvested it by forming trust COM
panies, organizing banks, building and
recognizing railroads and floating Gov
eminent loans. Not only this, but it con.
trolled Congress and directed legislation,
as had been confessed by the Attorney
General.
The point in these statements which will
attract most attention is the assertion that
the unnamed corporation according, to the
confession of the Attorney General him
self, had controlled Congress and directed
legislation. 1t appears then the income
tax was as subject to the dictation of a
great trust as was the sugar schedule in
the tariff. Truly the Congress of reform"
was the worst on record. While making
the loudest professions of devotion to the
"dear people," it was legislating always
according to the wishes of the most cor
rupting forces in the country. Capital
invested in legitimate enterprises, in fac
tories and in business that gave employ
ment to workingmen and helped to build
up the country was deprived of protection
and burdened with an income tax; but the
great grasping combinations of avaricious
capital that aim at monopoly and are per-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10

A MATTER OF CLIMATE.

The people of the Eastern States have
been surprised to the verge of amazement
by the announcement that the Mexican
international Exposition is to begin in the
spring and close in the fall instead of being
held In the winter time. They have judged
other climates by their own, and concluded
that in country so far south as Mexico,
the summer must be hot beyond endur-
ance to any except natives, and that the
winter is the only season when the weather
is at all temperate.
The repeated expression of this surprise
has set the Mexican authorities to the task
OF explaining that climate is not a mere
question OF latitude. Records of the Their
mometer over a series of years are quoted
to show that on the tableland on which
the City of Mexico stands the temperature
changes but little during the year, aud
that the weather of July and August is not
SO hot there as it is in most of the cities of
the Eastern States. In fact the I'Wo Re
pu6tacs exultingly declares "there is no
place in the United States whose summer
climate is as agreeable as that of the table
lands of Mexico"
There is, of course, an exaggeration in
the boast that no locality in the United
States has climate equal to that of the
Mexican capital. The 1Do Republics evil
IDENTIFY overlooked the fact that California
is part of the United States. Despite
this exaggeration, however, there is reason
for believing the lessons in climatology
which the Mexicans are giving to the East
ern people may be beneficial to them.
Right knowledge is always worth hearing e,
and particularly so when it puts an end to
widespread errors.
We, ourselves, have considerable inter-
est in the subject. Eastern papers persist
in speaking of California as ''winter
resort" Most of those who come here for
the winter return home in early spring to
avoid what they fear will prove an excess
i've heat in the summer months. Judging
all the world by their experience with the
Eastern States, they find it difficult to
listen seriously to a man who says the
summers are cool and pleasant in land
where the orange grows and flowers bloom
in winter.
Having ourselves tried for long time to
teach our Eastern friends something of
the mysteries of climate and having been
met almost everywhere with incredulity,
we are glad to have the Mexicans assist US
in the work of education. We desire to
bring the next Republican National Con-
vention to this city for many reasons, but
not the least of them is the opportunity it
will give for making known the true nature
of California summer. We are weary of
having our delightful State classed along
with Florida and Bermuda as mere win
ter resort, and if the Mexican International
Exposition will help in giving the Eastern
people true ideas about the eccentricities
of climate, we shall have good reason to
promote it and do all in our power to help
make it big thing.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10
PERSONAL.

H. Silver. capitalist OF Los Angeles, is at the
| Palace.
DR.. W. D. Rodgers OF jacksonville is guest
at the Occidental
W. H. Turner, an attorney of MERGED, is stay.
| ing at the Grand,
C. C. Might, an attorney of Modesto, regis
tered yesterday at the Lick.
H. P ellis, a leading attorney of Yreka
registered at the Palace yesterday.
Francis A. Fee, an attorney OF MADEIRA, and
Mrs. Fee are registered at the Lick.
William Beckman of Sacramento, an ex-Rail.
road Commissioner, is at the Grand.
r. NJ. Shackleford prominent citizen OF
Paso Robles, is staying at the Occidental.
A. Carl Bank, superintendent of the Preston
School of Industry at lone, is at the Grand.
A. B. Hammond and r. A. Eddy, prominent
mining men of Montana, are at the Palace.
Professor J. ]. Donovan of Santa Clara Col
lege came up to town yesterday and registered
at the Lick.
Bruce Burnside, ex-Chief Justice of Ceylon,
arrived here yesterday by the Mariposa on his
way home TO England and is stopping at the
Occidental.
Prince Franz Josef of Battenberg and Colonel
Townshend of the Light Guards, who is accom-
panying the Prince on mis- tour around the
world, are at the Occidental.
Joseph N. Dat, Postmaster-General of the
Hawaiian Islands, and Mrs. Dat, have come up
on the Mariposa for short holiday and reg
istered yesterday at the Occidental.
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson. the widow OF
the novelist, and her son and daughter, Lloyd
Osborne and Mrs. Strong, who came up from
Samoa on the Mariposa, are stopping at the
Occidental
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10

enough hens and hogs to stop the importation
of eggs and pork from Eastern States. If these
two industries did not prosper here the case
would be different; but nowhere in the United
States can eggs and pork be more easily and
cheaply produced.-orange County Herald.
Clear skies are ours OF right, year of har-
vests, and twelvemOnth of poisoning; and
any one who can find any fault with climate
like that of California ought to be set down on
the apex of the North Pole clothed in a sum-
mer suit to consider the mercies which were
his while he was here, until he realizes by con-
! trast the sum total of their immeasureable
vastness.-Los Angeles Times.
If the terminus of the Valley Railroad should
remain here for only single year Stockton will
gain $40 for every one the road has cost the
people. Its coming has been Hike rain to the
drouth-parched earth; like the warmth of the
sun to the flowers; like a tonic to the weakly +;
like wine to him who is heavy laden" and
the people should be grateful to the source of
all the good they have derived.-Stoekton In
dependent.
We notice that the San Francisco press, fol-
lowing the brilliant lead of the CALL have
begun to scrape the moss off their backs and
brighten up their battle armor. San Fran
cisco seems to be slowly but surely awakening
to the fact that If she expects to maintain her
supremacy as the metropolis of the Pacific she
must be up and doing. Location and priority
hold good es safeguards only among silurians
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Journal.
Biggs needs more new blood-business men
who will work together to build up the town
and offer inducements to home-seekers to start
into business, induce the large land holders to
cut up ranches and sell them in small hold
ings. encourage diversified farming, foster
new enterprises, to prove to the consumer that
they can buy supplies here as cheap as else
where, to work for good roads that the people
may have easy access to the town and to kill
off the fossiized winners by treating them with
the contempt they deserve.-Biggs Argus.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10

| tion-is the Merchants Association, which
is working steadily and intelligently to
improve the appearance of the City.
It is worthy of notice that as rule the
merchants of a city are the men who best
understand the value of attractive exter-
| nails and who are best qualified to introduce
them. The two lines of work which lie be-
fore every city and town in this State are
internal improvements and the advertise
ment of their attractions. In the larger
cities and towns 10 is eminently advisable
that separate bodies have the direction of
these two tasks, but in the smaller ones
the best results can be accomplished by a
single body. 1t is quite evident. however,
that while the work of enhancing local
attractions is strictly a home concern,
advertising community and taking the
other steps necessary to induce settlement
require general State cooperation. The
Half-million Club of San Francisco would
be the proper central body through which
all the clubs and associations of the inte-
rlor having the settlement of the State in
view could most proftably operate, and to
this end each town and city in the State
should have representative in the San
Francisco BODY
The recently created State Bureau of
Highways will be the proper body with
which local improvement associations
might cooperate to the best advantage, as
from this bureau may be learned the best
methods of streets and roads.
1t is most encouraging to see these or
CARNATIONS being formed throughout the
State, for it will be through them that all
the good things needed by California can
be best accomplished.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10
AROUND TEE CORRIDORS.

"California?" said Senator Cullom in the
Palace yesterday. ga very poetic name
Whence did it spring."
"From an old Spanish work written in the
fourteenth century. 1 have the translation IN
my library" answered Colonel Isaac Trumbo,
to whom the question was addressed.
"What colonel written in the fourteenth
century," said the Senator inquiringly. "This
country was not discovered until the nj
teenth"
"True. True" answered the colonel. "Thats
what makes it so interesting as story"
"Well, tell us about it. Can you give US the
actual facts?" Senator Cullom settled down
and the colonel began:
81 believe can quote the whole story almost
word for word. 1t always impressed me. These
are the words: Westward from the mainland
beyond where the sun sets in the blue sea,
there is a forest growing up from the rich earth
of cline made for all good and perfect things.
1t is there that birds of beauteous plumage and
flowers of rarest hue grow wild and free, with
out the hand of man to rear them up or tear
them down. The beasts of the field lie down
together and live in perfect peace. When the
great orb of day rises out of the east the air Is
filed with the sweet carol of birds and sleep
ing Nature wakes to greet the dawn. There are
no clouds in the sky, and only the dew of
night, which is the mist of Gods tears, falls
upon the earth and feeds the flowers. Over ALL
and grander than the ever changing scene, q
fair-haired woman reigns. and every leaf that
hutters in the breeze or falls in autumn to the
mother earth is reared to life or laid to rest
under her own watchful eyes. IT'S she who
guides the petals of the tiger-lilies and turns
them to the sun as heralds Of its coming.
"'There is no land so filled with milk and
honey, no forests half so deep and cool, no
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10
Improvement fever. Expose yourself to it
whenever you get chance.-San Diego Sun.

improvement fever. Expose yourself to it
whenever you get chance.-San Diego Sun.
Manufactures should be multiplied many
times, and every mountain stream should turn
an industrial wheel. - Ellensburg (Wash.)
Capital.
DR.. Cleveland is determined to try the gold
cure, although he must know that it will al
most certainly kill the patient.-Carson City
Tribune.
That person is the best off who borrows the
fewest ideas from his neighbor and the most
from experience and study.-Wheatland Four
Corners.
If you are not satisfied with the county and
cannot speak well of it get out and go some
where else, for while you remain in it you are
a hindrance to its Observation-Disclosures Mer-
curry.
It is not a boom in the price of town lots or
farming property we want now, but an oppor-
tunity to ship what we raise to market without
paying all it will bring for frieght.-Vlssl1a
Times.
Organized society owes every man an oppor-
turity to get his bread If he is wiling to get 1t
by the sweat of his brow; but it does not owe
any man a place on the earth VINO WILL not
earn his bread when the opportunity Is FUR
nished.-Colusa Sun.
This State has the soil and climate to pro-
duce all the sugar needed in the United states,
but the addition OF capital and business ener-
gy are required as an addition to make sue
cess of such enterprises Claus Spreckles sue
cessfully broke the ground in WatsonVllIe.-
jacksonville Pajaronian.
The point of greatest prosperity Of this State
will not be reached until our people own