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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
PORK PACKING AT FRESNO.

The report that a number of leading
business men at Fresno have formed
plan for organizing a pork-packing COM
pany may be taken as another evidence
that the new era now dawning upon Cali
fornia is to be one of diversified industry.
Further developments of the project, there
fore, will be watched with interest, and
there is good reason to believe they will
not be long IN forthcoming.
The conditions prevailing in Fresno
County seem to be in every way favorable
to the success of the enterprise. A con-
siderable number of hogs are raised there.
1t has been the custom to ship these
several hundred miles to market and the
cured meat has been shipped back again.
The local packing-hous will form in the
first instance connecting link between
the hog-raiser and the home consumer,
but in the end it will be much more than
that. By affording good local market for
hogs it will induce the raising of those
animals in larger numbers than at present,
and thus build up an industry which will
soon yield supply of pork more than the
home consumers can use, and taus give
the State another important and profitable
article OF export.
Every step made in this way toward a
diversified industry is a benefit not only
to the section in which it takes place, but
to the whole State. Success in any one
direction will lead to enterprises in others.
There are many articles of staple consump-
ton now imported from Europe or from
the Eastern States that might be profitably
produced at home. Every step in the direc-
ton of producing them deserves the heart
lest encouragement. We shall not have
achieved full measure of the prosperity
due to US in the resources afforded by
nature so long as any of them are unde-
veloped or so long as anything is imported
from abroad that can better be grown in
our fields or made in our factories.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
FOR IMPROVED STREETS,
Grand Demonstration Planned
by the SouthSide
Gu b.
Street Parade and an illumination
of Russ Square in the
Evening.

The South Side improvement Club has
decided that the proper way to draw atten-
ton to the needs of the south of Market
street district in the matter of street inn
provements is to hold mass-meeting and
carry things with hurrah.
The plan was discussed at the meeting
last evening, over which Captain Raabe of
the Mission presided. He told of the i'm
mense amount of enthusiasm aroused
when the Mission got 10000 people to-
gether and explained to them the value of
street improvement, and the project of
having a similar demonstration to call
attention to the south side, and particu-
larly Folsom street, was at once taken up.
1t was suggested that Russ square, both
on account of its location and availability
as ground for the mass-m meeting. would
be the proper place for the demonstration.
All united in determination to make the
meeting one which would convince the
City that the south side is fully awake to
its own needs, and determined to have
them attended to.
a street parade, followed by a grand
illumination of the square by means of
electric lights and bonfires, will be features,
and number of we'll known public
speakers will be on hand to set forth the
needs of the south side, and the determi-
nation OF the people OF that locality to be
reCOSulZeU
EIt was decided to await the action of the
Board of Supervisors on the ordinance now
being considered declaring Folsom street
boulevard, and to make the meeting one
of Notification in case of success and of
protest should the decision be adverse.
The project of paving Folsom street. from
First to Twenty-sixth, with bituminous
rock was thoroughly. discussed and figures
given to show the great advantage of the
noiseless pavement over basalt blocks or
cobbles from a financial point of view. 1t
was shown that to take up the cobbles.
some of which have been down for thirty
years, and relay them would cost $50 goo.
while to pave the street with bitumen
throughout would cost but $4,000.
The committees appointed to see the
Supervisors regarding the ordinance de-
claring Folsom street boulevard reported
that they had interviewed the individual
members and had been assured that the
project was favorably looked upon. The
San Francisco Road Club, an organi-
zatlon of bicycle riders, sent in a commu-
nication indorsing the work of the club for
better streets on the south side.
Messrs. Erb, Medau, Beckerdorff. Root.
Markowitz and Stone were appointed a
committee to see what can be done toward
keeping the pavements on the street in
better condition.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
THE LABOR UNIONS.
A Serious Charge Made Against Loca
Foundryman.

A Serious Charge Made Against LOcai
Foundryman.
Iron Molders' Union No. 164 met las
evening at 1859 Mission street and rein.
stated several OF the old members who
were suspended during the hard times tol
not being able to pay their dues. fully
seyenty-fiye have returned and they are
received without prejudice. The only rea
son for their suspension was that theunior
was not financially able to carr" the
delinouents, being obliged to send 40 pei
cent of the dues, as shown by the books, &c
the international Union. Reports were
made that the iron-workers' business is
Kicking up considerably, but still there are
many men idle. In the East better wages
are maid than here. In Chicago molders
earn from SO to So 50 day and here the
wages run from 81 Is to IS 90
Labor Commissioner fltzgeraiu mas
stated that he would like to learn why t Iie
are SO many idle ironworkers IN this city
At the next meeting OF the molders COM
mittee will be formed who will call upon
him and explain some OF the reasons.
One reason that will be given is that
large iron manufacturer III this CITY mas
been in the habit of sending TO Scotiano
for workmen and that he did so during
the recent hard times and at the same
time he was discharging iron-WorKers wno
were born in this country. III this Is
proved it will lay the firm in question
fable to punishment for violating the
United States contract laws.
At a meeting of the Carpenters and
Joiners' Union No. 4S3 last evening at 80
Eddy street. memorial resolutions were
passed regretting the death of the late
Charles G. Terriil, president of the
Builders Exchange. Twenty-six new
members were initiated. The report wac
made that while work in the buildings
trades might be much better, times, are
brighter than recently. In response to
letter from Labor Commissioner Fitz.
gerald asking for the unions cooperation
in the matter of gathering statistics,
Commissioner, and pledging him the sup
port of the union in every way possible.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
MODERN MEN OF MARX.

Rudyard Kipling, it is understood, proposes
to write a book on American baokwoods life
1t will contain "The Walking Delegate"
among other stories. In the autumn he and
Mrs. Kipling will sail for India.
R. D. Blackmore made up his mind origi-
nally to storm tate as poet and not as novel
list. His first five books were all poems. His
novel "Clara Vaughan" did not come out till
he had been publishing for ten years.
Among the verse-writers whom Canada has
given to the world during the past few years
may be mentioned Bliss Carman, Archibald
Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts, Duncan
Campbell Scott, j. H. Brown, w. W. Campbell
Frederick George Scott and the late George
Frederick Campbell.
1t was to NJ. Auguste vacquerie, who re-
Gently died in Paris that Victor Hugo handed
not long before his death the following memo
randum: 81 give $4,000 francs to the poor. I
wish to be carried to the cemetery in their
hearse. 1 refuse the prayers of all churches;
1 ask for prayer from all souls. believe in
God"
The Pope has granted the French author.
Boyer d'Agen, permission to write his biog-
raphy, and for this purpose has given him ac-
cess to the family archives of the Counts
Pecci in Carpineto. NJ. d'Agen has found,
among other things number of interesting
letters, which the Pope wrote to one of his
brothers while student of the Collegium
Romanum. He was then 10 years old.
Thomas Hardy sadly gives US to under
stand in his preface to the new edition of
"Far From the Madding Crowd" that the
delightful Wessex rustics, the inimitable char
acters of "Under the Greenwood Tree" have
disappeared forever. The change, he thinks,
is due to the recent supplanting of the class of
stationary cottagers by population of migra-
tory laborers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23

made have been modelled on the Chicago
plan and were induced by Chicago's sue
cess. In other words, Chicago should be
content not TO discuss the subject of popu-
lation in view of the fact that it now domi-
mates the whole Nation in all those sub
stantial matters upon which thrift and
material progress are bounded. New York
has a geographical position the superior
advantages OF which could be nullified
only by immeasurable stupidity. What
New York is as the gateway through which
Europe must enter America San Francisco
is as the entrepou for the Orient. These
two cities must inevitably and always be
great, but their greatness could be in
creased beyond all present conception if
they had such people as those who have
made Chicago the marvel of the century.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
AN OBJECT LESSON.

In the experience of the great conven-
ton of the Young Peoples Baptist Union
at Baltimore the people of the East have
had an object lesson teaching clearly the
untitness of Atlantic Coast cities for such
gatherings in midsummer. It was an ex-
perience which none of the delegates
a potent argument why the conventions
of the great National parties should be
held on this coast.
According to the telegraphic reports the
heat of the city was well nigh insufferable
during the day, and even during the even
ing in the big tent where the main SER
vices of the convention were held the Their
mometer touched the 100 mark. During
the day no attempt was made to gather
all the delegates at one place. Services
were held in different churches in order to
avoid as much as possible the heat engen-
dered by large crowds. Nevertheless in a
single church five persons were Frustrated
by the heat and had to be carried out.
Had the whole convention been held in a
single hall or tent during the day the
number of prostrations would have been
very large and perhaps not few fatalities
would have resulted.
The heat in Baltimore, it must be re-
membered, was not exceptional. While
in San Francisco we were enjoying cool,
breezy, delightful Sunday, the entire At
lantic Coast was sweitering in breeZeless,
sitting torrid heat, that sapped the vital
ity and threatened the prostration OF all
who were compelled to make the least ex-
ertion. Certainly climate in which such
weather occurs is not suitable for conven-
ton work of any kind and least of all for
a political convention where excitement
runs high and mems blood is at fever heat.
1t is familiar fact that at every great
political convention held in the East,
whether in the valley of the Mississippi
or on the Atlantic Coast, the delegates
have invariably suffered from the heat. not
a few have been seriously exhausted, and
the work of all has been largely interfered
with. Surely, il is time to profit by the
experience of the past. Improvements in
transportation have made San Francisco
as easy to reach from ail sections of the
Union as Chicago was before the war.
We ought, as people, to begin to enjoy
the benefits of that improvement and profit
by it in making San Francisco the great
midsummer convention city of the Nation.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
PERSONAL.

G. D. Stearns of the navy is at the Palace.
Judge c. C. BUSH of Redding is guest at the
Grand.
DR.. Henry H. Maggie of Mokelumne Hill is at
the Russ.
G. Bustelli, a vineyardist OF Livermore. is at
the Grand.
at the Lick.
is at the Lick.
Rev. C. s. Fackenthal OF Pacific Grove is at
the Occidental.
W. d. Campbell, a merchant of Los Angeles,
is at the Grand.
Harry Posthelwait, fruit-grower from San
Jose, is at the Lick.
John e. Goodman, q banker of Napa, regis
tered at the Palace yesterday.
John Finnell, big rancher Of Tehama
County, is guest at the Palace.
R. J. Bentley, an attorney of Sacramento, and
Mrs. Bentley are guests at the Lick.
CommanderJ. J. Brice of the navy was one
OF yesterdays arrivals at the Palace.
A. L. Levinsky, a leading attorney of Stock
ton, registered at the Grand yesterday.
A. ]. Boogar of Red Bluff, Sheriff of Tehama
County, registered yesterday at the Russ.
Theodore Allen, a mining man of Angels
Camp, was one of Yesterdays arrivals at the
Grand.
Mrs. Irwin C. Stump arrived here from New
York yesterday and took apartments at the
Palace.
J. B. Caldwell, passenger agent of the Rio
Grande Western Railway at Salt Lake, is stay
ing at the Grand.
H. B. Wall, one of the proprietors of the Ho-
tel Continental of Philadelphia, registered yes
terday at the Palace.
James w. Bartlett of Weaverville. District
Attorney OF Trinity County, came down yester-
day ana registered at the Lick.
s. F. Black, State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, came down from Sacramento yes
terday and registered at the Lick.
Harold Power, mining man OF the Forest
Hill Divide, came down yesterday to attend the
meeting of the executive committee Of the
State Miners Association and put up at the
Grand.
William Gillette, the playwright, arrived
here yesterday in advance of his company,
which is to appear at the Baldwin in one of his
plays, "Too Much Johnson August 5, and
registered at the Palace. Among the success
full plays he has written are "The Professor"
1.-The Private Secretary" "All the Comforts of
Home" "WilkinSon's Widows" "Held by the
Enemy" With Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett
he wrote tEsmeralda."
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
A SAN JOSE VIEW.

San Francisco for years past has been
used to two kinds of laW-one for the COM
mon, everyday citizen and onefor wealthy
individuals and corporations. That is not
a healthy state of affairs, and The CALL is
making an earnest effort to remedy it.
There is a law that provides for the sale of
railroad and other franchises in munich
alites. Its purpose must be obvious to
any person of moderate intelligence. 1t is
to lessen the danger of monopoly by large
corporations and to compel them to give
some adequate return to the city in case
they receive valuable franchises. But in
San Francisco this wise and just law is a
dead letter. The Solid Eight of the Board
of Supervisors of that city recently gave
away magnificent franchise to the Market
street Railway Company, after refusing to
consider petition from other responsible
parties for the same franchise. The law
was deliberately violated, and the action
of the board was SO barefaced and high
handed that the citizens of San Francisco
are seriously considering proposition to
begin proceedings of impeachment against
the guilty members of that body.
Ofcourse, so notorious job as that is a
blow not only at San Francisco but at the
State at large. As THE CALL says: I'VE
are exulting at this time With more than
ordinary qualification in the revival of
trade and industry under conditions that
promise a new era in California develop
ment. Every material prospect is good.
Our agriculture fiourishes, mining has
been undertaken with renewed vigor,
manufacturing feels the impulse of better
times and our commerce looks to an early
completion of the Nicaragua canal for an
opportunity to expand beyond even the
most sanguine dreams of our merchants.
So far, therefore, as that prosperity which
can be measured by money is concerned,
we have a bright outlook before us and a
reasonable expectation of realizing our
hopes. On this score there is little to COM
plain OF and much to rejoice over; but
how is it with the prosperity that depends
on morality, law, politics and good gov
ernment?'
That is question that cannot be ig-
nored. Now, If ever, California should en-
deayor to make itself morally clean. Ma
terial prosperity cannot long abide when
the laws are not respected, where corporate
influences control body of so great au-
thority IS the San Francisco Board of SUI
pervisors, where politics is degraded to the
low level of spells, and where the State,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
POPULATION OF CITIES.

In its issue of yesterday THE CALL re-
viewed the processes by which New York
and Chicago are estimating the number of
their residents. The subject is more
amusing than instructive. Thus, Chicago
new directory contains 507. 300 names, and
on that city's assumption that each name
represents three and half residents the
claim is made for q population of l, 775, 800.
New York's directory contains 800, 125
names, which on the same basis would
make the population of that city 1896, ga,
or 3,6l0 less than that of Chicago. New
York, however, chooses to estimate five for
each directory name. This would make
her population /, 1896, $40; but if this basis
be adopted for Chicago also, that city would
have 1885, or 540,s60 more than New
York,
OF course these figures are wholly absurd
Even leaving out the account OF the enor-
nous area of Chicago, which has been
extended to include every town and village
in the region round about, they mean
nothing of value. If the boundaries of
New York should be similarly extended, so
numerous other cities and towns, her
population would make the boasts OF
Chicago appear miserably absurd. If San
Francisco should base its estimate of
population on the Chicago method, her
population would be 5000, and if she
should extend her limits TO equal those
of Chicago, her population would be close
to million.
And yet it has been largely with the help
of such noise and brassbanding as this
that Chicago has become so wonderful a
city. 1t is an application of the old prin-
ciple that the world takes us at our esti-
mate OF ourselves. Still, this is meant in
no way to detraet from the high credit
which Chicago has earned for being the
most wonderful city of modern times.
Having all the shrewdness and the hard
business sense which lie at the foundation
of success, it knows that evidence of
growth is an invitation to energy, enter
prise and capital, and that men with
money to invest keep away from cities
which are standing still.
The ways in which Chicago shows that
1t is prosperous and progressive are innu-
merable and instructive. The beginning
OF all of them is the energy and civic pride
OF its people, and these are made effective
by a remarkable cooperation. The Co.
lumbar Exposition, inaugurated and con-
Quoted against the vindictiye hostility of
the National metropolis, and supported
solely by the brains, energy and money of
Chieago's own production, was the most
brilliant achievement of the kind that the
world has seen. 1t was the apotheosis of
the spirit which has moved in many less
conspicuous ways. The magnificent
houses, perfect payements. handsome
boulevards and beautiful parks are other
evidences of its manifesting energy. And
yet all of these, valuable though they are,
count for little in comparison with the
incredible enterprise with which its people
have pushed their commerce in all pos
sible directions.
The later advances which New York has
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

[NoTE.-There are number of questions SO often
asked that il is deemed advisable to keep the re-
plies before the public for time in the hope that
the information may be impressed upon the popu-
lar mind.l
CoPYRIGHr.-Books and music can be copy
righted copyright lasts for twenty eight years,
for an additional fourteen years. Trademarks can
not be copyrighted. An author who copyrights his
BOOKS has reserved to him the right to translate or
dramatiZe.
CITIzENsHIP.-Tha fact that a foreigner be
comes citizen of the United States during the mi-
norty OF his children. that act makes his children
citizens OF his adopted country.
THE FENCE LAWN San Francisco no division
fence can exceed ten feet in height; exception,
however, is made in the Of fences that inclose
places of public amusement.
CIVIL SERyIcE.-The secretary OF the Civil Ser
vice Commission in this City gives notice through
held.
THE MAYA boy who wishes to enter the navy
should send his application to the executive officer
OF the receiving ship Independence at Mare Island.
WEST PoIsT.-The Congressman Of the district
mas the appointment OF cadet to West Point
when there is vacancy in his district.
CONTRACT MARRIAGES NOT LEeAL.-Ibe law
which permitted contract marriages in this State
was repealed by the last Legislature.
POLL TAx.-An employer has the right to pay
poll tax for an employe and withhold the amount
from wages due the empoye.
HIGHEST PoINT-R. O., Iverson, Mendocino
County, Cal. There are three high points in
San Francisco from which parts of the City and
surrounding country can be seen. There is no
one point from which the entire City can be
seen, because hills intervene. There is the top
OF Twin Peaks, 915 feet; the top of Clay-street
Hill, between Jones and LeaYenWorth, 34S feet,
and Telegraph Hill, 251 feet.
THIRD TERM-Inquirer, Modesto, Cal. BY
reason of the omission of few words an an
swer given last Sunday was not complete.
Grover Cleveland is the only man ever NOM
mated three times in succession for the Office
OF President OF the United States.
WATER ORDINANCE-J. c., City. The Query
Column has not the space to publish the water
ordinance of this City. By calling at the Office
of the Supervisors in the City Hall you can ex-
anime the ordinance there.
DANIEL O'CoNNELL-S., City. Daniel O'Con-
nell was born August 6, 1775, near Cahirci-
veen, small town in County Kerry, Ire
land. He died May 10, 1847, at Geneva. The
emancipation bill was passed in 1929.
BEHANZIN-J. G. R., City. Behanzin was
King of Dahomey at the time he was pursued
to the north by General Dodds in the latter
part of 1893. Shortly thereafter he surren-
dered to the French troops.
HURDLE RACE. w. c., Stockton, Cal. In a
120-yard hurdle race, 3 feet inch hurdles,
the last hurdle is placed Is yards from the
finish. In 220-yard race, hurdles feet 3
inches are used.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23

reported. Coming as it does from the very
stronghold of gold monometallism, it
shows that even in Wall street some far
sighted men are looking to the future and
are considering the financial problem in
broader light than that of individual gain.
Ii the existing demand for money has
made the price of gold bullion SO high that
1t IS OF doubtful profit to the United States
to maintain gold reserve and gold
standard OF money, what will be the price
IN case OF a general European war when
the expenses of the nations are increased
hundredfold? Certainly there will have
to be break somewhere, and it would
seem to be an act of financial wisdom on
our part to have returned TO bimetaliism
before the break comes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Attorney Vogelsang has returned from
three weeks vacation at Weber Lake.
'The fishing was fine from the day struck
the place to the day left Yes, I'll tell yon
the exact weight of the biggest fish caught
three and an eighth pounds. Don't smile.
am telling the TRUTH" said Mr. Vogelsang to
some friends in the Occidental Hotel.
"But, say, you should have seen Judge Hunt
He thinks he can tell the exact weight OF a
trout at glance. In order to prove it he took
up pair OF pocket scales, and one day he
hauled up pretty fair-sized fish. How much
does it weigh, Judges? called out from my
boat. Two and quarter pounds he an
swered. With that he pulled out his scales,
and 10, the index recorded one aud quarter
pouudsl With that his Honor arose and in q
mighty wrath heaved the scales some fifty feet
to starboard, remarhng: Those scales don't
know as much about the weight of fish as
do"