The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14

uated on the Great Lakes, and conse|
quently has the most favorable locatloh'
1t has the cheapest freight rates, ana is an un-
equaled distributing point for part the Norln-
west This question of cheap freights quickly
decides the destiny of a commercial GU! IL 10
the secret of this remarkable change.
The colonel is very wealthy man, who can
afford to spend much of his time in ms
favorite amusement OF sailing about the Great
Lakes. He owns a steam launch 100 feet Ieng'
with twin screws and compound expansion
engines which he runs with hard coal. "And
can sail 100 miles on one ton of this coal" he
added, 'at a cost OF So. That's cheap sailing.
Senator Elkins, speaking of the proposition
to have the National Republican Convention
held here next year, said that while he was
member of the National Committee no year
passed without the subject being brought up
by George C. Gorham, who was secretary OF the
senate after he and Jones of Nevada were de-
feated for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor,
respectively, of California.
norman, he said, always showed up with an
eloquent speech and invariably made the point
that san Francisco was just halfway between
the most easterly point in Maine and the most
westerly point in Alaska, and was therefore the
most centrally located city in the United States,
and as far as location was concerned was more
entitled to the national convention than any
other city in the Union.
Colonel Young of the Russ House was sneak
ing yesterday of the fact that the hotels are
more crowded than usual. ''The town is full
of people, he said. "We have no rooms left
and it is much so all round. There are MANY
more people here than there are usually at this
time of the year.
at is due largely to the promise of better
times. The guests all talk hopefully and money
seems to be much easier. The cutting of rates
+ba hos brO ir1fO a
many people from the Puget Sound country
and British Columbia. Then there are many
tourists from the East, who, having round-trip
tickets, have to lay over to get their tickets
signed here before returning"
esNow, I'm going to be grand marshal of the
Native Sons parade in Oakland, and to be any,
thing want" exclaimed Colonel T. P. Robin.
son yesterday as he polished his tile in the Oca
cidental Hotel after encountering a slight
shower 'I'm still over here on this
side of the bay, though. You know
l have not quite finished up the
Midwinter Fair business yet, but that is to be
closed out Immediately. There is about
SIC, 900 worth of old stuff out there to be sold,
Pm gradually closing it all out and when that
is gone then the fair is at an end" The former
director-general of sports and pastimes thus
made his final declaration regarding the ex.
hibition.
Adm Alexander, mining man from Colo
RADIO, is in town on his second visit within q
year. He put up at the Grand Hotel, and soon
afterward began plying the clerks with ques-
tons as to what had become OF Rippey, the
old man who shot Mackey, the bonan-
"a king, in Lick alley, some time ago,
Alexander would not say what his business
was with Rippey. ''Au I want to know is
where can find him." was his only reply. "I
would like to get look at him" A year ago
he wanted to find Rippey, whom he failed to
hunt up in the city.