The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

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and addresses they must not be disappointed If
there is no answer to the communication. The
names are not for publication, but for reference
Questions will be answered as soon as possible
after they are received. Sometimes answer
cannot be had sooner than three weeks after start
ing the inquiry.
Questions the answers to which will amount.to
an advertisement of any business or article Will noI
be answered.
Questions asking for the standing of any in
dividual or firm will not be answered
will be answered.
Material for debaters will not be furnished.
Religious questions respectfully declined.
BICYCLE TERMs-G. P, City A novice
bicycle race permits entry therein OF any rider
who has never won q race, or second or third
place. He may have started in dozen races,
but never being placed, he is still novice.
All novices are class riders.
scratch race is one wherein all riders start
from the scratch or tape, thereby being under
equal conditions.
In handicap race the riders are allowed to
start varying in a mile race from 20 to IT'S
yards, one over another, according TO their
known ability as riders, the desire being 10
bunch them together at the finish. Inc pest
riders would start from scratch, one little
slower at 20 yards ahead, another at 90 yards,
and so on.
Races are run in heats when there are too
many who enter the race to permit all starting
at one time with safety. For instance, mile
scratch race might have twenty who had en-
tered; no track can safely permit more than
seven men to start from scratch at once; so the
race would be divided up into three heats the
winner and scored man TO compete IN the
final for the prizes.
To enter race: At all race meets sanctioned
by the Leagne OF American Wheelmen (and
rider racing at a meet not sanctioned by that
body would be debarred from ever racing
against L. A w. members) the club giving the
meet issues an entry blank.to each who wishes
TO participate. On this the party must specify
in which event he wishes to take part. Those
who enter in handicap events must, in order
that the Handicapped may not be misled in
placing the contestants, give true answers in
regard to the last three events in which they
took part These must show distance OF race;
date and place; name of scratchman or virtual
scratchman; start in yards received from
scratch; if in final heat the position was first,
second, third, fourth or unplaced; name OF
winner; the winners time and own time ii
known.
Class 4 and BAN amateur, according to the
definition OF the L. A. W. and A. A. O., is one
who is not engaged in, nor assisted in, nor
taught cycling or any other recognized athletic
exercise for money or other remuneration, nor
knowingly competed with or against protes-
siOnal for prize OF any description; or one
who, after having forfeited the amateur status,
has the same restored by a competent author
ity having jurisdiction over the sport. That is
class A. Class 3 is one who shall be a cycle
rider who may be in the employ of, and have
his travelling and training expenses paid by
manufacturer OF cycles, club or other party in
terested in cycling, but shall not compete for
cash Invisible prize, nor realize upon any
prize won by him. One also who has ridden
Tor any prize valued at over $50, or OF differ
ent description from that allowed in class a.
BALLors-M NJ, Nevada City. Cal. The law
OF this State says:
Nothing in this code shall prevent any voter
from writing on his ballot the name of any person
for whom he desires to vote for any Office, and such
vote shall be counted the same as if printed
upon the ballot and marked as voted for.
The law then has the following in regard to
blank spaces to accommodate voters:
There shall be left at the end of the list Of candi
dates for each office as many blank spaces as there
persons to be elected to such office, in which
the voter may insert the name of any person not
printed upon the ballot for whom he desires vote
as candidate Cor such Office
In regard to counting appears the following:
Any name written upon ballot shall DE counted
for the Office under which it is written, whether or
not 4 cross is marked after it.
To mark ballot so that it may afterwards be
identified is prohibited, for the law says:
No voter shall place any mark upon his ballot
by which 1t may be afterwards identified the
one voted by him.
In the case mentioned by the correspondent
the canvassers who found that on ballot the
that of Sam Jones, the regular candidate for
Marshal, were under the law justified in count
ing the written name, and the manual that
says "The mere fact that the name is written
proves that this was the one for whom the vote
was intended" is correct. There is no doubt
about the correctness of the assertion that "the
Australian ballot as adopted in this State al
fords the protection needed to purchase votes
and have proof that the goods were delivered"
If a voter wishes TO sell his vote and GER
tify that he has voted according to contract,
l,
thereby voting for himself for any Office agreed
upon, and the watcher can, when that particu-
lar ballot is called off, determine If the pur-
chased voter has done as he promised he
would. In large city like San Francisco this
has not been practiced TO any marked extent
Such votes are counted as scattering" and at
the last election held in this city the highest
number OF scattering votes for any one office
was II; in all, 140 votes cut of 60 100 cast.
ABRAHAM Observation-Disclosures, City. No one
who ever undertook the task was ever able to
state with precision what the religious views
of Abraham Lincoln were. On that point he
was very reticent, but the following was once
spoken by him when questioned on the sub
ject of religion: 81 am like my neighbor Glenn
when do good feel good; when do bad I
feel bad. That is my religion" w. H. Hern-
don, who was Lincolns law partner for twenty
years, in his lite of the dead President said:
Mrs Lincoln said this to me in speaking of
her late husband: He never joined a church
but still, as believe, he was religious man
by nature. The Evangelist of New York is
authority for the statement that Lincoln was
an attendant at the Presbyterian church. but
he was not communicate
John G. Nicolay and John Hay in their life
of Lincoln, first published in the Century, saw
of the burial service held in the east room of
the White House: "Rev. DR.. Hall of the Church
of the Epiphany read the burial service Bishop
Simpson of the Methodist church, distin-
guished for eloquence and patriotism offered
prayer, and the Rev. P. D. Gurley at whose
church the President and his family habitually
attended worship, delivered a short address
ETC." The late P. D. Gurley was the pastor OF
the F-street church, Washington, D. c.. which
in 1853 united with the Second Presbyterian
Church OF the same city, and he continued to
be the pastor OF both congregations until his
death, which occurred in 1868. Dr. Gurlev
numbered among his regular hearers several
Presidents of the United States among them
Abraham Lincoln, at whose deathbed he was
present.
FTL1BUsTERs-A. o. S., City. If a party of
men went TO the Hawaiian Islands on fill
clustering expedition and was captured by the
authorities there the result would be disastrous
TO the parties captured. Filibusters is a name
that was applied to associations originating in
the United States for the ostensible purpose of
freeing Cuba and other West Indian islands or
Central American districts from European con-
troll In 1855 General William Walker with
California company sailed on a flibustering
expedition against Nicaragua, seized the coun-
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