The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-28
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

s'I see that my friend Colonel Billy Mcmillan,
Assemblyman from Storey County, is in the,
CITY," said Colonel K. B. Brown at the Palace
Hotel last night. Colonel Mcmillan is q
member of the Nevada Legislature, and as in
duty bound, he came down to see me and the
rest of the boys after the adjournment the
other day. He was telling me about the way
they played horses.in Carson during the latter
part of the session. One day when the AS
sembly met there was no quorum present.
The rollcall showed Assemblymen Beck,
Constant, Flanagan, Hogan, McNaughton,
Pitt and Stanley absent. Mr.. Allen moved
that the chief clerk be made deputy sergeant
alarms to go after Sergeant-at-Arms Flannery.
Just at that moment Mr.. Flannery appeared at
the bar of the House with McNaughten, Flan-
nigan, Pitt and Constant They were fined 81
each. A moment later Sergeant-at-Arms Flan-
merry presented Mr.. Hogan, who made an elo-
quent speech pleading to have the fine re-
mitted. He was fined 81 %. Afterl that Ser
geant-at-Arms Flannery was fined ST. On the
motion of Mr.. Allen the fund thusf realized
was appropriated for the purpose OF buying
candy to be given to the children of the orphan
asylum. That is the kind of 'horseplay' I like
to see," said Colonel Brown. 'Tt pleased them,
helped the orphans to few morsels of sweet
meats and didn't hurt anybody"
at surprised Claus Spreckels about a year
ago. said Postmaster McCoppin. yesterday to
q group of interested listeners from the Federal
departments who had gathered at the Sparta
about noontime. "Mr. Spreckels while in
general conversation asked me if I had heard
of place called China Basin.
al think 1 have said, and it would be
odd if hadn't, for I made it.
with that he took me by the lapel of the
coat and led me to one side to learn all about
it. This was before the San Joaquin Valley
Railroad had ever been mentioned, but the old
gentleman knew the available terminal points
along the front before he ever said competing
road to anybody.
"When Henry Haight was the chief executive
was appointed to act with the Governor as a
commission in setting aside those inlets, bays
and basins along the water front that might in
time, prove valuable to the State for doekage
purposes
"Then we marked out the India Basin and
the Mission Bay and the China Basin and all
the rest Of them. But I never dreamed that
was helping TO reserve deposit site for rails
road to be built by the people. Unjust saw.
though, that I could not have hoped see IL
serve nobler or better purpose"
There are three distinguished ex-Chileau
naval officers at the Palace in the persons Of
Emilio j. Garin, late commander of the I'm.
perial one of the three vessels which remained
loyal to Balmaceda during the revolutions
Lieutenant Frederick Valderrama and Lieu
tenant Alberto Vargas. The last named was
the second officer in command of the Chilean
torpedo-beat which came near sending the
United States steamship San Francisco to the
bottom in the harbor of Iquique in 1891, when
she was mistaken for the Esmeralda These
three gentlemen have recently returned from
Japan, where they were engaged to deliver the
Esmeralda by a contract made with the repre-
sentatiyes OF the Government of Ecuador.
who purchased the vessel Commander Garin
is much put out by published charges that he
failed to pay the crew which accompanied him
on that trip, and exhibits receipts from every
member of the same in refutal of the allega-
ton.
J. r. de la Mar, one of the best-known mining
men in Colorado, is at the Palace. In talking
on mining matters in general last night. he
said that Colorado had lately shown wonderful
signs of \recuperation from the i'll effects of
the low price of silver, and that the gold pro-
duction promised to soon obliterate all signs
OF hard times. He prophesies that the camp
of Cripple Creek alone will during the coming
year produce $13 900 900 in coin, and says that
other fields are also showing up well. "In the
old camp of Leadville,'' said he, s'all the old
silver mines are being released and proprietors
are putting down diamond drills in search OF
gold-producing veins" Mr.. de Ia Mar is san
| guine that new era of prosperity is about to
dawn upon the State in which he makes his
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