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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05
ORIENTAL MONEY.

Despite the efforts of the British Govern
ment to provide gold currency for India
the reports for the fiscal year Just closed
show imports of nearly 100000 ounces of
silver into British India, while about
700,0 900 ounces of gold were exported. This
would seem to imply that silver is the true
money metal of the country and that the
attempt to force a gold standard there
with the use of gold coin is as vain as an
attempt to make water run up hill.
Hardly less interesting than this SEEM
ing failure of the attempt to make India a
gold-money country is the report that the
dies for the new British ''trade dollar"
have been received at the Indian minis
and that the coinage will begin at once,
The new coin, which has weight of 416
grains and is similar in size, weight and
fineness to the Japanese "yen," is in
tended for circulation throughout the
Orient and will be current in all British
trading centers in Eastern Asia. The
making of these coins will of course create
demand for a considerable quantity of
silver, and it has already been suggested
that there will be big profit for the Eng
fish in buying silver cheap in this country
and sending it to India for manufacture
into Orienta. money.
If the japanese should succeed in open
ing up all China to foreign trade, there
will in all likelihood be a large demand
there for the new coin, and this could
hardly fail to have considerable effect in
strengthening the demand for an inter-
national agreement for the free coinage of
silver everywhere. With an increasing
market in China for foreign goods, Oriental
commerce will become so large that the
necessity of having some uniformity be-
tween the standards of Oriental money
and that of Europe and America will be-
come imperative; and that very argument
of uniform standard which is now used
so effectively by the monometallists will
then become an argument for bimetallism.
AS affairs stand at present, Great Britain
seems to be having everything her own
way. By the force of her influence she
holds Europe and the United States to the
gold standard which she uses at home,
and then through her Indian minis she
coins silver with which to capture the
trade of Asia. Exactly as she buys Ameri-
can cotton, carries it to Manchester and
manufactures it into cloth, which she sells
at a profit at Hongkong, SO will she buy
American silver, carry it to London, ship
it thence to the Indian minis, manufacture
it into the new trade dollars and make an
other profit in Hongkong. How long will
the United States allow these astute
islanders to play single standard at home
and double standard in the East, while we
play single standard all the time, and lose
all the profit of coming our silver for the
Eastern trade?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05
TEACHER YODER LEAVES,
He Is Displeased With Super
intendent BabCock and
Existing Conditions.
Reply of Mr.. Babcock to Charges
of Personal Animus-EStimate
of Instructors.

Although Mr.. Yoder, principal of the
Normal School, said yesterday he chad
nothing to say" in regard to his differ
ences with some of the school authorities
he expressed some positive opinions about
the schools in this City.
81 am going away because it is impossi-
BILE to do good work here under existing
conditions" he said. s'ThiS Normal
School has been farce heretofore. I have
tried to raise its standard, but could not
because the board failed to cooperate with
me. Twenty two of the eighty-three girls
titled to their honors. 1 recommended
that they be not passed, but the board
graduated them.
81 was quoted as saying that Deputy Su-
perintendent Babcock is incompetent. I
said it and meant it. That was a dis
graceful proceeding of his when he replied
to Mr.. Murdoch as he did at the Girls
High School Monday evening. 1t was in
bad taste, and was done in order to get
even with some members of the board and
myself.
81 shall leave in a few days to take
position as professor of pedagogy in a
normal school at the same salary I have
received in this position. As my election has
not yet taken place, although | am assured
it will be, will not give the name of the
school,"
Deputy Superintendent Babcock had
just returned from distributing medals and
presenting diplomas at the Hamilton
School when seen in his Office.
II do not regard the matter in personal
way" he said. 81 have only. the best
wishes for Mr.. Yoder, and if the board
should decide to retain him in the schools
l would do all l could to sustain him. 1
think have nothing to say to his charges
against me. believe my standing in the
community Will not be affected by an in
dividual opinion.
Gas to the bad taste of my remarks
about the teachers of the City, others may
be equally good judges. l was impelled
by no personal animus to make those re-
marks, but consider that / would have
failed in my duty if l had not made them
| have high appreciation of Mr.. Muir
docks personal and official integrity and
believe that he is conscientious in the dis
charge of his duties, SO | repeat that 1 was
actuated by no personal consideration in
saying what l did of the San Francisco
teachers.
"Yet have been associated with them
for long time and know them to be a
high-minded, faithful, conscientious and
capable body. Seven years ago the Ma
tional Educational Association, composed
of the flower of the teaching forces OF the
East met in conference here, and our
teachers, who mingled with them daily,
suffered not bit by comparison"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05
PERSONAL.

f. D. Cobbs of Stockton is at the Baldwin.
Irving L. Blinn and bride are at the Palace
Hotel.
DR.. F. W. Hatch of Agnews is at the Lick
House.
W. r. Gould of Santa Barbara is stopping at
the Palace.
Frank A. Kimban of National City is at the
Grand Hotel
John L. Hudner, an attorney of HOLSTER, is
at the Lick House.
A. R. Johnson and wife of Riverside are
guests of the Palace Hotel.
C. w. Keeney of the Antioch paper-mills is
registered at the Brooklyn.
NJ. Lawrence of the Tallac House at Lake
Tahoe is guest of the Baldwin.
The Rev. w. Leacock and family of Eureka
have quarters at the Lick House.
w. L. Pritchard a Sacramento stock-raiser,
registered at the Grand yesterday.
Edward Hale of the Sacramento firm of Hale
Bros. is registered at the Baldwin.
Felix Tracy, a Sacramento business man,
registered at the Lick House yesterday.
A. P. Johnson and wife of Sonora are at the
Lick House. Mr.. Johnson is a mining man.
General T. w. Sheehan and wife of Sacra-
mento registered at the Occidental yesterday.
J. D. Stephens, Woodland banker and
landowner, came to the Grand Hotel yester-
day, accompanied by his family.
Professor A. L. Cotton of the Lick Observa-
tory, came in from Mount Hamilton yesterday
and registered at the Lick House.
DR.. A E. Osborne, superintendent of the
Home for the Feeble Minded at Eldridge, is in
the City and a guest at the GrandlHotel.
James M. Day, an old-time mining man of
the coast who has spent the past winter here
accompanied by hiswife, leaves this morning
for his home in Galena, H.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05
THE CHARMING AUXILIARY.
It's First Annual Meeting-EIection o
Officers for the Term.

Its First Annual Meeting-EIection of
Officers for the Term.
The first annual meeting of the Chan
ming Auxiliary was held on Tuesday after
noon in the parlors of the First Unitarian
Church.
The executive committee is composed of
Mrs. Horace Wilson, the president of the
auxiliary; Mrs. Frank w. Sumner and
Miss Kate Atkinson, the vice-presidents !;
Mrs. Louis M. Johnson, recording secre-
tary; Miss Elizabeth Easton, correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. Arthur Collier. bust
ness secretary, and Miss Kate Beaver,
treasurer.
The chairmen of the other committees
are: Mrs. G. G. Burr of the Postoffice mis-
sion committee; Mrs. Frank w. Sumner,
special ub-committee; Mrs. Lowell White
OF the afternoon lecture committee; Miss
Kate w. Beaver, publishing committee
Miss Wade, entertainment committee, and
Miss Anne B. Campbell, floral committee.
Mrs. M. L. O'Neal Mrs. P. B. Cornwall and
Mrs. Horatio Stebbins compose the audit
ing committee.
After good musical programme had
been gone through the meeting adjourned
till the first Monday in September.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05
THE GHOST CAR,
Its Presence on Bush Street the Subject
of a Suit.

Its Presence on Bush Street the Subject
of Suit.
A cloud of witnesses appeared in Judge
Hebbard's court yesterday to testify in the
case of the People of the State of Califor-
MIA on the relation of Colonel R. H. War
field of the California Hotel against the
Sutter-street Railway Company. The COM
pany is represented by Naphtaly, Frieden-
rich & Alderman and the people by the
Messrs. Freeman.
The object of the suit is to obtain a with
drawal from the road of its franchise on
Bush street, along which melancholy
.''ghost car" rolled for a long time at un-
known intervals. The general drift of tes-
timony by the score of witnesses who ap-
peared yesterday was to the effect that the
car was mysterious piece of uselessness.
The witnesses were variously facetious
about it.
one witness stated that he had once seen
Ihe car meandering out to the cemetery.
put mad never seen it return. 1t was ap-
parently not occupied and the driver did
not seem to expect passengers. He could
not recall any of his friends having ever
told him that they had seen the car occu-
PIED or coming toward the City. He pre-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05
A DOUBLE WEDDING.
Marriage of the Widow of the First
Engineer of the Lost Montserrat.
The Groom an Old Friend.

A double wedding took place on Monday
night at Sc Zoe street, at which Justice of
the Peace Groezinger officiated and which
was celebrated in joyous fashion.
The parties were Paul n. Vincent and
Elizabeth Brennan, widower and widow.
and Frank Richard Mills and Minnie Belle
Achison.
Mrs. Brennan was the wife of First En-
gineer Brennan of the collier Montserrat
which went down off Cape Flattery last
winter, carrying all hands with her to the
bottom. 1t will be remembered how the
fate of the collier was in doubt for weeks
so completely was she lost, and the friends
and relatives of those on board hoped
against hope until it became folly to doubt
Paul n. Vincent was an old friend OF
Brennan and is himself marine engineer
Mrs. Brennan is a sister of Mrs. Louisa
Worthington, who is to be tried a third
time for the killing of Harry Baddeley on
the water front year or so ago.
Frank Richard Mills, the groom in the
other wedding, is also seafaring man.
and all four are friends and lived in the
same house at 56 Zoe street.
The wedding was celebrated with g.
splendid supper, an orchestra, dancing and
merriment
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05
THE Willy JAPANESE.

Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald has be-
gun in good time his inquiry into the mat
ter of japanese laborers in the orchards of
California. He has made the surprising
assertion that there are many Japanese
laborers in California to-day who are wear
! ing the military uniform which they wore
in the war with China. From this we infer
that since the disarmament of some of the
Japanese armies as result of the treaty of
peace the recent belligerents have been in
SO great hurry to come to California that
they have hardly taken time to change
their clothes.
Whatever turn the discussion of labor
in the orchards may be given, we cannot
ignore the necessities of the orchardists
themselves. Their preference for this or
that kind of labor can be based on no other
ground than the value of labor itself. If
they announce that after very painful and
costly experiment they find japanese and
Chinese more reliable than Americans dur
ing the fruit harvesting season, we are
bound to give respectful heed to their as
sertions.
From the free labor bureau which Com
missioner Fitzgerald is setting on foot we
shall hope rather than expect to see good
results. Between the tramp and the I'M
employed, earnest man, and between this
man and employment, there are CULTS,
snares and entanglements which try the
souls of men. If Commissioner Fitzgerald
should receive the earnest cooperation of
all the agencies which are organized to
serve both the employer and the employe,
and all the agencies which devote their
energies to the announcement and uDIift-
ing of the laboring masses, the acme OF
prosperity would be insured. 1t is in or
der, therefore, not only for Mr.. Fitzgerald
to seek the cooperation of these organiza-
tons, but for them to find him and unite
their intelligence and energy with his.
Meanwhile he has confronted US with
the proposition that a usurpation of our
labor fields by the Japanese is now as Sc
rious a matter as that which gave birth to
the Chinese exclusion laws which there
has been SO great trouble in enforcing.
After many years of legal wrangling these
laws are declared valid so far as the Chi
nese are concerned. If the japanese offer
a similar menace, as Mr.. Fitzgerald seems
to think, the sooner we embrace them in
our exclusion methods the better; but ex-
clusion OF any sort of labor is injudicious
in the absence of efforts to make our own
labor adequate to the necessities OF en-
Movers
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Gustav Freytag left $3.50, 900 besides some
landed property, the largest sum ever made by
q German author.
The society of young women in Danbury,
Conn.,, whose members are pledged not to
marry any man who uses liquor, now numbers
400.
Prince Waldemar OF Denmark has one dis
tinction which no other member of the Danish
royal house can claim-he has no throne and
no prospects of one.
Henry Irving presided recently at the annual
dinner of the Savage Club, and in his speech
regretted that the club had become rather
fashionable at the expense of its bohemians.
The great dinner which the Emperor of Ger.
many is to give in Holtenau for the guests in
the opening of the ship canal is to cost $25, 600
The contract has been taken by Berlin
caterer to feed 1000 persons. There are to be
forty-two cooks and two chefs.
England is greatly interested in the cricket
ing record of Frederick G. Holland, a youth OF
10, who batted out 123 runs for Surrey in the
recent match against Essex. 1t was a perform.
ance due more to genuine skill than to luck
and, added to his youth and staying powers
it makes him promising successor of the
veteran DR.. Grace.
Sophia NJ. Palmer, daughter of the late Ear
of Selborne, ex-Lord Chancellor, writes to the
London Times to protest against the proposed
memorial to her father. "He detested," she
says, "the modern system OF testimonials for
the mere performance of obvious duty, and he
characterized memorials as "a new death tax +"
Professor George F. Comfort, formerly dean
OF the College OF Fine Arts of the University oil
Syracuse,is about to write an exhaustive treatise
on the science of esthetics. cit will embrace ~
he says, mot less than four volumes of about
500 or 600 pages" About fifty years ago Pro-
fessor Vischer of Stuttgart wrote a treatise
upon esthetics in five large octave volumes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05
A CANADIAN WARNING.

The Weekly Times of ST. Thomas, Onta-
rio, is one of those Canadian journals
whose jingoism is expressed in articles suf-
ficiently well founded to give occasion for
thought as well as for amusement. In a
recent issue it has made the British fortifi-
cations at Esquimalt the basis of an argu-
ment to prove that in case of war between
the two countries a British fleet could ruin
the cities of the Pacific Coast long before
an American army could disturb Canada.
In the statement of facts upon which
this argument is based the Times says a
feet from Esquimalt could destroy every
city and town on Puget Sound in ten days,
occupy the outlets of the railway systems
there, send ships up the Columbia River
to destroy Portland and the Oregon rail-
roads, proceed southwark and lombard
with impunity San Diego, Santa Barbara
and San Pedro, and could even enter the
Golden Gate and destroy San Francisco
itself, or, failing that, could at least with
long-range guns lombard the City from the
ocean and throw shells as far as the Palace
Hotel. 1t is claimed that not single sea-
port on the coast has any adequate de-
lenses, and that as matter of fact we are
completely at the mercy of the big war
ships stationed permanently at the naval
depot on Vancouver Island.
Having made this statement of the con-
dition of affairs the Canadian lingo goes
on to say: "Here is food for thought for
those bombastic Americans who, on every
pretext, loudly advocate twisting the Brit
ish lions tail. England is something of a
twister herself when she thinks she has
sufficient occasion, and the tail feathers of
the American eagle, as represented by the
Pacific Coast extremity of the United
States, are not in a condition to withstand
much serious twisting. AS things now
stand, it looks as though the owners OF
this melting appendage should go slow
in assuming aggressive attitudes, espe-
cially toward England until they have4in-
augurated an efficient system of coast
defense extending from San Francisco to
Seattle and Port Townsend"
1t will not be denied there is some sub
stance in this boasting. In comparison
with the great fortress and naval supply at
Esquimalt we are indeed practically de-
fenseless, and it might be to our advantage
to take some measures to protect our
selves. Preliminary steps might be taken
by strengthening our Notifications and in
creasing our naval forces on the Pacific,
but, of course, the only effectual step
would be to take Esquimalt, and that is
what we will have to do the next time we
twist the tail of the British lion in earnest
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05
A PECULIAR POLICY.

Every effort that tends to develop the
region lying between California and the
Mississippi and Missouri rivers will bring
the consumers of CALIFORNIA; products
nearer to the point OF production. The
nearest market of any consequence that we
now have is Chicago, 1900 miles away, and
New York is 1000 miles farther. In seek
ing markets SO remote the greatest diff
culties and heavy expense are encountered.
Colorado is only 1900 miles from San
Francisco, or HOO nearer than Chicago and
21o0 miles nearer than New York. In
States in the Union, and il is capable of
supporting a population sufficiently large
to consume all the fruit and most of the
wine that California could supply at pres
ept. Yet by reason of certain facts herein
after to be considered the population of
Colorado is not increasing, and its princ-
pal cities, Denver and Pueblo, have been
| suffering greatly. 1t has not been able to
send us its coal and iron, which we need
| more than anything else, and we could not
send it our fruits. Bankruptcy or closing
up has overtaken its woolen- mills, powder
| mills, nail factories, shoe factories, glass
| works, cement works, cooper-shops, tent
| factories, mattress factories, soap works,
| tanneries, paint works, box factories, i'm
| plement works, stamping factories, rolling
mills, foundries, machine-shops, stove
works, car works and many other factories.
| This is all because of railroad discrim-
| ination, which made it impossible for
| Colorado to compete with Chicago and
! New York in exchanging commodities
with San Francisco. Worse than that.
although Colorado is rich in iron, English
rails could be delivered at the docks at San
Francisco for less including the price of
the rails and all transportation charges,
than the charge for freight alone on rails
from Pueblo to San Francisco Com
forters and other irst-class freight were
carried from New York or Chicago to San
Francisco for 81 a hundred pounds, while
the rate from Colorado to San Francisco is
S.. To San Francisco rails were 90 cents
from Chicago and 81 60 from Colorado, bar
iron was so cents and 81 60 from the two
points respectively, water-pipe was so and
IS cents respectively; canned goods from
San Francisco were rs cents to Denver and
so cents to New York. And so it went.
AS consequence of this disgraceful con-
dition of affairs, which tends simply to
prohibit the settlement of the region living
between California and the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers, George ]. Kindel. a
large manufacturer of Denver, seeing that
ruin to himself and to all other manufac-
| turers and producers of Colorado was in
evitable, brought suit before the Interstate
| Commerce Commission last April against
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Doctor-I would advise you, dear madam, to
take frequent baths, plenty OF fresh air and
dress in cool gowns.
Husband ian hour later)-What did the doc
tor say?
Wife-He said ought to go to a watering
place and afterward to the mountains, and to
get some new light gowns at once.-Fhegende
Blaetter.
"Papa, do lawyers tell the truth?''
Certainly, my boy; they will do anything to
win their case."-Danville Breeze.
~ have often heard" said Mr.. Haicede, as he
watched the movements of the hired man. al
have often heard of fellers walkin' in their
sleep, but you air positive the first man I ever
seen that slept in his walkin'. "-Indianapolis
Journal
Witness" said lawyer in the police court
the other day, ''you speak of Mr.. Smith being
well off. Is he worth $5O00?"
"No, sah.''
1.-TWO thousand?"
"No, sab; he amt wurf 25 cents"
'Then how is he well off ?"
"Got wife, sab, who sports de hull family,
sahP'-Yonkers Blade.
Customer want spring suit.
Tailor-Yes, sir. Would you like one made
of thin gray goods or one OF these heavy Irish
graph.
Wyld-Can't you overcome your thirst for
rum?
Tramp-Yes, sir, with dime.-Life.
"What do you know about gold and silver?"
asked the aged farmer of the irreverent youth.
"You are too young to understand anything
about the coinage question"
''Oh, of course" -jeered the youth. 81 guess
I am too young to be safe man to sell gold
brick to-"
The allusion was painfully personal.-In-
dianapolis Journal
Observation-Disclosures you'sare charged
with committing an assault on the night
watchman.
Konrad-I only threw his jacket behind the
stove.
Night Watchman-Yes, your Worship, but
was inside the jacket; that makes all the diff
Observation-Disclosures.
Mrs. Trott-Oh, 1 only went into town on q
shopping tour
Mrs. Streete-Did you? Tell me all about it;
did you have real good time?
Mrs. Trott-Not at all. found what
wanted in the very first store I went into.
Mrs Streete-How provoking ?-Boston Tran.
script.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05
AN AFRo-AMGRIOAN CONGRESS

The recently issued cali for congress of
the Afro-American Leagues of California
to meet in this city on July 80 will awaken
no little interest in the affairs of that por-
ton of our population. The congress Is
intended to be thoroughly representative
one, not of the Leagues only, but of the
entire Afro-American race in the State.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05
To Develop Central America.

A new company has been incorporated en-
titled the Central American Development
Company to cement the commercial interest Is
between this country and the Central American
repuDlics The capital stock Is 81 900, 900
and the directors are: NJ Casin. C. F. Thomes'
A. Ballen, N. G. Den, F. A. Woodwork.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05

sumed that it must have been brought
back in some way in order to start toward
the cemetery.
This seemed to be the general sentiment
of the majority OF the witnesses In favor of
the forfeiture of the franchise. The case
will be continued to-day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05

To this day Lapp men and women dress
precisely alike. Their TUNES belted loosely
at the waist, their tight breeches and their
wrinkled leathern stockings, their pointed
shoes, the whole appearance of them, in
short, is identical.