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The record-union., 1895-03-30
RutcherS, ITninn.

a Sacramento branch of the Journey
men Butchers Association of the Pacific
Coast has been organized with charter
of twenty-three members. The follow
ing officers have been chosen: Charles
Stokes, President; George Gostic, Vice
President; Charles Sexton, Recording
Secretary; William J. Arnold, Financial
Secretary; Charles Zeiger, Marshal; Con-
rad " issigg, Conductor; William J.
Arnold, Treasurer; Richard Douglas, Out
side Guard; Fred Mund, Inside Guard.
The Royal Baking Powder is the
greatest of the modern-time helps to per-
Iect cooking and every receipt requiring
raising Ingredient should embody it.
The record-union., 1895-03-30
school Erercises.

interesting exercises were held at the
darkness Grammar School yesterday.
At their conclusion Director Sherburn
addressed tho pupils. He amused them
by relating some of his own experiences
while lad at school. The programme
was as follows:
Song, our Country's CALI, school.
champion Of Her Sex" Emma some,
Lizzie Hanrahan, May Gatford. Bessie
Cosby, Ruth Stephenson, Mabel Car
michael, Iillle Consiglieri. Louise
Lorensen, Gwennie Matthews and Jennie
Methyen: piano solo, Pearl Avis; "Ths
Liberty Bell" Robert Asher: Tine
Evening Wind" Belle Slaughter. njano
solo, Alice White; Going ON An Err
GarIaw; the Picket Guard" Viva
Wallace; Quotations From BRYANT -
Miss Heard's class; Flag Of O1r
Country" Hardwig SteiuIcke. Emma
Bethel, Jennie Cronkite, Edna Stegemsn
Edith Heilbron, Alice Craw, Clara
Kelly, Nellie McMorry, Edwin He'll
bIon; 'Abou Ben Adhem," Grace
Prince; "Unwritten Poems," Macy
Bryan; song, Guard the Flag" school.
THE action of the San Francisco Board
OF Health is an unusual tribute TO be
paid even TO an article of so high a
character as the Royal Baking Powder.
They say, in their judgment, "iU is i'm
possible to make purer or stronger
baking powder than the Royal.p
The record-union., 1895-03-30

SARsAPARILLA AND IRON. Get it from
the sole agent, McMorry, 55I NJ street. =
The record-union., 1895-03-30

THE JUDS0N EXCURSION f5sf ios sn point: 3 Mt:
Sacramento every TUESDAY. Upholstered
cars and managers through to CHICAGO and
Boston. Call on G. J. ELLIS. Agent IS. =. Co
Sacramento, or address JUDSON * Colo
Montgomery street. san Francisco
The record-union., 1895-03-30
Figured Black Silks,
CoIorod ChongeabIe Silks
And Black SoHeIS.
LOT I. Will contain the
best variety of Black
Silks to be found in
the market.
Black Figured Taffetas, 20 inches
wide. Price, 69c yard.


wide. Price, 69c yard.
Black Crystal Silks with heavy
cord. The new MuScOvite
weave. Price 82c yard.
Rich Black Satin Brocades.
Price, $50 yard.
Wide Black Tafeta Figured Silks,
handsome new designs, "a
inches, 79c yard.
Plain Mourning Silk in small ar-
mure weave. Price $50 yd.
The latest novelty: Rich Satin
BrOcade, with new Pekin mOire
stripe, p in. wide, 81 80 yd.
A small lot of Black Figured GrOs
Grain Figured Silks in the
new Serpentine and rare pat
terms. Price, 81 15 yard.
Black Satin BrOcades, with small
lavender and yellow figures 20
inches wide. Price, $50 yd.
Entirely new Silk Novelty for
choice waists, black figured
grOs grain with narrow cOIOred
stripes several inches apart.
81 % yard.
LOT Il, Changeable Silks
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tSundaY eEcenfea-
II, 1905

SUNDAY excepted zMondav excepted
A-For morning. l'-For afternoon
RICHARD GRAY, Gen. Trafic Manager.
I. b. GOODMAN, Gen. Passenger Agent
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06
A SINGULAR SUIT.

The Southern Pacific Company is Begin
ming to hear unexpected and troublesome
echoes of the famous strike of last wear.
The latest move on the part of the strikers
is to demand an accounting of the hospital
fund, which has been accommodating for
thirty years. The amount of the fund may
be roughly guessed when it is known that
about 10000 employees of the Southern
Pacific and its allied concerns are required
to pay so cents each month into the fund.
Of course the expense of conducting the
hospital department has to be deducted,
and it is here that the ingenuity of the
men who defended the famous Cotton suit
will be again brought to the test.
The strikers have engaged an attorney.
He expresses the opinion that they have a
cause of action. According to his view
the hospital fund is a trust held by the
railroad company for its employees, and
that they are entitled to the recovery of so
much of it as has not been expended for
hospital service. The most astonishing
part of his contention is that the money,
amounting to millions of dollars, has been
used by the company for the construction
OF the Market-street cable system, and
that the suing employees are entitled to all
the profits which have accrued from thi s
or any other use to which the money of
the fund has been put That is to say.
the employees of the Southern Pacific in
reality own the Market-street system.
This is probably only one of the many
forms in which the money has been in
vested and is earning profit.
1t would be idle to discuss the legal
phases of the case; that is the function of
the courts. The sermon in the situation is
that whereas in the years gone by the
employees of the Southern Pacific were
famous for their loyalty and devotion TO
the company's interests, that feeling now
is dead. 1t was to have been expected
that the discharged and blacklisted
strikers would cherish a feeling of
enmity, but the sentiment does not stop
there. Throughout the whole system the
men now realize that they occupy a
position of servitude, not sympathy and
friendship, toward the company This
sometimes counts for a great deal in i'm
portant interests when it comes to pinch.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06
A THREATENED CUT.

Conceding the sincerity of the Southern
Pacific employees who signed the petition
to the Railroad Commission against a re-
duetion of freight rates when they declare
that they were not prompted thereto by
any officer, member, agent or employee OF
the company, directly or indirectly, but
that they acted of their own motion and
without the knowledge of the company,
we must still remember that while the
commission was holding its investigation
OF freight charges, certain officers OF the
company declared that it might be ueces-
sary to reduce the wages of its employees
in order to counterfeit the effect of the
freight reduction. That aside, the signing
employees might have considered the fol-
lowing matters:
/. The Southern Pacific Company within
the past year has reduced wages, and these
reductions were made before there was any
hint of ia reduction of freight charges by
the Railroad Commission.
2. 1t should be regarded as possibility
that the company intended to make
further reductions, and that the action of
the commission is merely used as an excuse
to that end.
3. AS the Southern Pacific is ignoring
the freight reductions ordered by the COM
mission and declares its intention to resist
them, and expresses confidence in its
ability to defeat them in the courts, the
employees cannot assume either that the
reductions will be made effective or that
the company can consistently use them as
an excuse to reduce wages.
4. The reduction of freight charges does
not mean either that the company will
have to save money in any direction to off
set it or that reduction of wages is the
only way of offsetting it.
8. If the reductions should become
effective the industries of the State would
be so greatly stimulated as to effect an in
crease in the company's revenues more
than sufficient to overcome the loss suf-
fered through the freight reductions.
6. Such stimulation will increase present
operations and create new enterprises,
with the general effect of increasing OPP
portunities for the employment of men,
and, in sense, of making the employees
of the railroad independent of their pres
ent positions.
Z. Taking broad, humanitarian view of
the subject the reduction of freight charges
and the resulting increase of developm ent
and industries will give employment to
thousands of men who are now out of
work.
These suggestions are submitted to the
consideration of the wise and broad
minded men whom we take the EN- ployes
of the Southern Pacific to be.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06
Personal.

Martin Murphy is in the City.
W. Wood, a druggist of Pasadena, is at the
Grand
r. B. Butler. a landowner of Fresno, is at the
Grand.
DEE G. Case OF Ukiah registered yesterday at
Baldwin.
CT. Adams, rancher of viss.lia, is guest
at the Lick.
Rev. w. NJ. Bowers of Stockton is guest ct
the Baldwin.
Andrew Brown, merchant of KernVille, is
at the Grand.
F. F. Markham and C. F. Giles of the navy
are at the Baldwin.
Mrs. Charles NJ. shortridge returned from
San Jose yesterday.
FW Williams, q mining man OF Sonora, is
staying at the Lick.
Arthur Wallace, q coffee-planter OF Near
aqua, is staying ct the Russ.
DR.. w. S. Taylor of Livermore was one OF yes
terday's arrivals at the Palace
Superior Judge J. A. Logan OF santa Cru@
registered at the Grand yesterday
John E. Budd, a leading attorney at STOCKTON
and brother of Governor Budd, is at tne Granu'
A. G. Boscawen, member OF Parliament
from London, and his wife registered at the
Palace yesterday.
Captain William E. Dougherty, the indian
Agent at Hoopa ReseryatlonJ huulpOlU1 NO'4-
ty, is at the Occidental.
s H. Babcock, traffic manager OF the RIO
Grande and Western Railroad Company at
Salt Lake. is at the Palace.
Superior Judge G. w. Nicon OF Tuolumne
County came in from Sonora yesterday ana
registered at the Occidental.
George H. Appel, manager at Sacramento OF
the California Fruit Transportation Company
of Chicago, registered yesterday at the Palace
Congressman D. D. Aitkin of Michigan, who,
as deputy supreme chief ranger OF the Inde-
pendent Order of Foresters, is visiting the
courts of this State, returned TO this City yes
terday and registered at the Occidental.
H. A. Pollak, the well-known advertising
agent, founder of the Cosmopolitan Advertis-
ing Agency of this City. departs East Monday
night, and if prospects East permit 1T, Mr..
PolIak will establish branches of his popular
institution in leading cities of the United
States.
Colonel Varigault, chief of the Fire Depart
ment OF Paris, and two of his assistants, Major
Krebs and Captain Condier, arrived here yes
terday and registered at the Grand. They have
been sent out by the city of Paris to make an
examination of and report on the fire depart
ments of the principal cities of the United
States and Canada.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06
AN EXCELLENT FENDER.

Recently practical trolley operator of
long experience testified before a special
committee that the best fender for trolley
cars was good brake and a leyel-headed
motorman. This seems to be getting at the
meat of the subject. 1t is evident that a
motorman should be a man of superior
alertness of perception and quickness OF
movement, but all this will go for moth
ing if he is inadequately furnished with
means for making these qualities effective
1t is fact that brakes have been invented
which enable the motorman by a touch of
the hand to stop the car instantly, but as
they are expensive they have not been
employed by electric railway companies
Evidently such brake is as important as
a fender.
At the same time brake which stops
the car instantly is likely to iniure the
passengers unless special means are de-
vised for their safety. A yielding seat-end
for sitting passengers would save their
bones, and passengers who cannot find
seats might be prohibited from entering
the car. All this would be expensive to
the companies, but it would be better not
to have trolley-cars at all if they are to be
operated at the prodigal sacrifice of life.
With motorman of inferior capabilities
fender which may be conceived to be per-
fectly safe will naturally tend to induce
carelessness. The subject is seen there
fore to be more complex than would APP
pear at a glance. No humane considera-
tons affect the conduct of these transpor-
tation companies. 1t is a desire to increase
business which induces the creation of a
perfect service, and the dread Of financial
loss which causes the exercise of great
care not to inaict injury or death An es-
sential part OF the precautions against the
latter danger is the selection of the most
competent operatives.
1t is an extraordinary fact that in pro-
portion to the mileage electric cars are
vastly more deadly than steam cars. This
adds another complexity. 1t is equally
strange that, although electric cars have
been in operation sufficiently long for the
motorman to become as efficient as posi-
bic, they continue to kill. Leaving their
personal qualifications out of considera-
ton We can enumerate the reasons for the
killing, thus: First, because the cars have
inadequate tenders; second, because they
cannot be stopped quickly; third, because
they run at too high speed. Every one of
these difficulties is comfortable by legisla-
ton.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06

described in Paradise Lost" No sooner
is one squadron swept from the field by
archangellc power than it reappears ready
Tor more devilment. Even when some
tremendous combination of tidal wave.
landslide and earthquake hurls the entire
leadership, rank, file, baggage-train and
commissary outfit of one party down to
the nethermost pit in the abysses of outer
darkness, they all jump up again and
swear it is better to reign in hell than
serve in heaven. Never was there such an
arena of incessant disasters and invincible
optimism. If the man of all this world
most deeply, darkly dyed in pessimism
were put into American politics he would
be chipping cheerfully in less than thirty
days and perhaps even Justify growing.
However simple the relations of men and
women to one another may have been
originally, the folly of lawmakers and the
wisdom of Judges have long since made
them complex, and now Boston Judge
has tangled the skein once more and
mussed the completely up in confusion
worse confounded.. Two women came be-
fore the Judge, each claiming to be the
wife of leading citizen who had just de-
parted from this world leaving consider
able estate behind him. which he had duly
willed to his wife. The Judge declared
that the woman who was first married to
the deceased is undoubtedly his lawful
widow, but he declined to decide which of
the two was the wife to whom the property
was left, and referred that difficult ques-
ton to higher court. The logical infer
ence from this decision is that woman
may be the lawful widow of man with
out having been his wife, and another
woman may have been the wife of de-
ceased man without being his widow. All
OF which shows that to be able to see to
the full depth of the law one must be very
penetrating or else live in Boston.
The honor shown to Hall Game since his
arrival in this country has led some critics
who delight in carping to try to disturb
his pleasure a little bit and weaken public
applause By saying that his success in lit
erature is due not so much to the merits of
his work as to the adventurous aid of q
boom from Mr.. Gladstone. The story goes
that, when Game was an unknown man,
Gladstone sat up until morning on one
occasion to finish one of the Game novels,
and thereupon with his usual exuberance
of utterance wrote to the publishers to tell
them so and to order all the other Game
books. The publishers of course adver-
tised the letter far and wide and as every
body wished to know what sort OF book
could keep man like Gladstone awake all
night Gaines fortune was made The
story is interesting enough in itself, but it
is hard to see how any one can suppose it
detracts from the merit of the writer. 1t
is evident, ii the book had not been good,
good critic would not have praised it, and
if Gladstone had not been good critic his
praise would not have helped the author.
The publication of the story entities Mr..
Caine to more congratulations.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06
A TIMELY APPEAL.

San Francisco has been so singularly
favored by nature that it would be an in
credible pity and an incurable reproaeh
should the citizens fail in the performance
of the plain duties which lie before them.
The situation contains no element of the
commonplace but is extraordinary in all
its features. The position OF the City with
reference to the commerce of the world;
its opportunity as factor in the develop
mept of American greatness: its respon-
sibility, as the necessary metropolis OF
California, to the needs of the State and
the desires of her people; its central oeeu
patton and control OF strange and rare
blessings which might be employed to the
incalculable good of the race, all combine
to the creation of unique burden of duty,
all demand the direction of men possess
ing the highest conscience and inteIli-
gence, and all operate to make conspicu-
Gus and damning the smallest neglect
which they receive.
These wonderful things cannot be ap-
preciated, and, not being appreciated, can
not be done if conscience and intellect are
lacking; and if they are not done our only
conclusion is that our people are made
quate to the conception and performance
of the duties which rest upon them.
There is proof, however, that such an APP
probation is in the process of birth. Evil
dence that men of character and brains do
exist among US has been found in the or
ganiZation of bodies for curing most OF the
evils that beset us. The Civic Federation
and the Union for Practical Progress are
looking after the political evils that hinder
us, and the Merchants Association, the
Manufacturers and Producers Assoeia-
ton and the Half-million Club are taking
care of the more material concerns of the
community.
At the very beginning of this dawning a
black danger arises, ominous and threat
ening. 1t comes with the familiar old
sheer with which rascality always greets
honesty and dignity, Being afflicted with
moral idiocy it has no conception of the
high responsibility which the peculiar con-
ditions and position of San Francisco i'm
pose upon its residents, and being invested
with moral idiocy it cannot comprehend
the existence or weigh the value of manly
pride and integrity. Considerations OF
citizenship and patriotism are in its esti-
nation merely the Numbering of fools.
The presence of Christopher Buckley is
the body and soul of this menace. The
political methods of which he is an expo
nent debauch the weak, encourage the de-
PRAYED and consolidate and lend force to
all that makes against the efficiency of
high citizenship and the moral and ma
terial advancement of the communitv
The extent to which he will be permitted
to exercise his power will be the true meas
ure of the intelligence, morality, citizen
ship and patriotism of our people.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06
0AKLAND's FUTURE.

Judge Ogden's decision in the famous
waterfront case of Oakland was in favor
of the city, but bitter fight on appeal is
ROW to be made, and it will be some time
yet before a final decision is reached. This
must be the case in spite of the fact that
the decision follows the Chicago water
front case, which has been taken TO settle
the principles involved in all controversies
of this character. In the meantime it is
pleasant to speculate on the wonderful OBJ
portunities which Oakland will enjoy in
case the ultimate decision is in its favor.
The opening of the Santa Margarita
line OF the Southern Pacific will have an
effect on Oakland, as that city will no
longer be on the route of the travel from
the southern part of California and from
New Orleans. San Francisco will gain
what Oakland must lose in this instance.
AT the same time we must reflect that, as
Oakland has never taken a step to make
the most of its opportunity as the Western
land terminus of the three great arms of
the Southern Pacific, its loss from the
opening of the Santa Margarita line will
be trihing. With the exception of the ben
efits accruing from high development of
limited agricultural region lying to the
south, Oakland enjoys no especial pros
perity separate from its close contact with
San Francisco. 1t has never even devel-
oped the enterprise to construct a fine
wagon road to the fertile valleys of Contra
Costa.
There have been some very good reasons
for this apparent laxity. Principal among
them was the inability of the city to build
up sea traffic. 1t had splendid water
front, stretching for miles along the shores
OF one of the finest harbors in the world
But this was held by private corporation.
As consequence the ocean traffic that
Oakland might have secured had it been
in possession of its water front became es-
tablished at San Francisco
Should the final decision be in Oakland's
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
THE GEORGIA DEMOCRACY.

WILL THE SOUTH PROVE TO BE SOLID IN 1896?
To the Editor of the San Francisco Call = SIR
The New York SUMS Atlanta correspondent
frankly admits that Georgia may desert De-
mocracy and turn Populist, and a recent dis
patch indicates like apprehension, the i'm
mediate occasion of the dispatch being the
special election for Congressman in the famous
Tenth District The Suns informant thus states
the situation:
"The result OF the contest in the Tenth Congress
sional District will exercise a decided influence
over the future movements upon the political
chessboard in this State" He then explains that
the Democratic party is seriously divided over the
silver question, and declares that political affairs
are now badly complicated and inharnonious in
Georgia" AS another cause for apprehension he
adds: 1.-THE obvious frauds that have been and
still are being perpetrated in the Tenth District
will recoil with great force upon the Democratic
party The gravity of this allegation appears in
his explanation, which is this: Every reputable
newspaper IN the State, irrespective of party ten
cts, pleaded earnestly with the last Democratic
Legislature 10 pass election law that would prac-
tically render frauds impossible; but it did not
heed the appears OF the press" though "the law
was considered of paramount importance both as
matter of good conscience and TO protect the fair
name OF great State"
He concludes by saying: ''In the cities and
large towns the Pepulistic idea does not meet
with much encouragement, but in the rural
districts the contagion is spreading" and he
declares that "if the breach in the Democratic
household is not healed before another general
election is held it is rational TO assume that
the Populists Will dictate the choice OF the next
United States Senator" He closes his CORE
spondence with this sentence: ''The election
returns for 1894, as formulated and counted,
demonstrate that the gain of a few thousand
votes would put the State in the hands OF the
Populists" This information, it will be re-
membered, is from reliable Democratic sources
and is not colored to suit any party.
Republicans will read this brief summary of
the situation in Georgia with satisfaction, and
it is equally certain that Texas Democracy is
practically in a similar fix, while Alabama and
CArOllnaS dppi0pGly q 9
Democratic States. JOSEPH AsBURY JOHNSON.
II Essex street, October s. 1895.