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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
WESTINGHOUSE BIRTHDAY.

The Junior Order of United American
Mechanics have taken the initiative in a
movement to provide in this city suitable
celebration of Washington's birthday, and
have deservedly found hearty spirit of
cooperation in other orders and associa-
tons and among considerable number of
citizens. At meeting held last evening
the committee in charge found sufficient
encouragement to undertake the celebra-
ton upon a scale commensurate with the
importance of the day, and there is every
reason therefore to believe that on this oc-
casion San Francisco will fifty commence
rate the natal day of the father of the re-
public.
Celebrations of this kind rightly engage
the attention of patriotic men. The infiu-
ence of great lives upon the minds of the
young is one of the most potent of educa-
tional forces, and the memory of such men
forms one of the most precious possessions
of nation. We could better afford to lose
our. material wealth than the glorious
memories of our illustrious dead. 1t is
the sacred fame of men like Washington
and Lincoln that holds our people to-
gether in a common love and inspires the
heart of every ardent youth with true
grandeur of sentiment concerning his
country and his flag.
1t is a matter of congratulation that we
are to have Washington's birthday cele-
brated, and that it may be fifty and prop
erly done every citizen should give his
help and his influence to the work. 1t is
patriotic call and all patriots should re-
spond to it.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30

for axle case; 49, pedal; 46, tire valve; At,
brake; 81, brake lever So, saddle Of course
there are many other parts to complete BIZ
cycle, such as, for instance, the bearings which
fit into the hubs and axle cases, but the fore
going will cover about all that will be neces-
sary to give the novice a good idea of the
features in which improvements have been
made to bring the modern wheel up to its pres
ent state of excellence.
The New York Sun announces that the con-
tract has been signed with the Herreshoffs to
build the new cup-defender. The plans for the
yacht have not been fully disclosed, but it is
known that she will more closely resemble the
Colonia than any other known American
racing craft. The water-line, it is stated, will
be SO feet, with an overall length of 1872 feet.
She will also have less displacement than the
Colonia and be lighter in construction. This
latter arrangement, it is said, will be allowed
by the use of the Tobin bronze, which, it has
been decided upon, shall be employed. The
new defender will have less wetted surface
than seen in recent yachts built to defend the
Americas cup.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
VICTORY IN SIGHT.

The subscriptions to the valley road
already amount to a sum sufficient to
justify its friends in raising the shout OF
victory. The people of the San Joaquin
who have so long felt the burden of Excess
sive transportation rates upon their indus
tries see relief in sight. The people of San
francisco, whose expanding enterprise has
been restricted, see a new outlet opening.
Capital has found an investment that
promises safe returns. Unemployed men
see before them an opportunity for work
and wages. The whole mass of the people
of the State lift their heads in the assur-
ance of a coming prosperity; and the uni
versal voice this morning will take up the
cry of victory.
The good thus far accomplished has been
largely the result of the long labors of the
Traffic Association. 1t is the application
of business methods to the solution of a
well-understood evil or misfortune. While
many cheap politicians, with free passes
in their pockets, howled against the South
ern Pacific, the Traffic Association, to-
gether with Mr.. Spreckels and his col
leagues have undertaken the only remedy
possible, that of building a competing
IOdQ. OuQ6I NIL CpItChOlS SSAhCiU
there has been little talk, but much action.
The subscription list shows what has
been done, and gives CLEANS of what is to
come.
The road will not only benefit the State
as competitor to the Southern Pacific,
which it must of necessity be, but also by
developing to a still further extent the
great valley through which it runs. The
San Joaquin Valley is an imperial domain
a State in itself, with unparalleled resources
in its stretch of 700 miles of fertile soil as
level as a billiard table; a single line of
railroad is not nearly outlet enough. 1t
could furnish all the business which two
could do if it had the population, and the
reason why it has not had the population
is because it has only had one.
From such a road the investors may
safely count upon a fair return for their
money. Even at competitive rates on
freights and fares good percentage of
income will be assured at the start, and
this will increase as the years pass and the
country develops. The men who have
subscribed so literally have looked at it
from business standpoint, and seeing in
it not only relief for city and the interior
from the domination of monopoly, but
also good business enterprise, they have
undertaken it with vigor that cannot
fail of victory
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
AFTER THE BALL.

The inaugural ball is now over, the ladies
have folded their silks and ribbons in their
trunks, the firtations which began on
Monday evening must be pursued in the
seclusion of the home, if they are not
dropped altogether, the headaches wrought
by suppers and champagne have yielded
to doses of sodawater, and now the hour
has came for sober, serious work. There
is new Governor, new Assembly and
half the Senate is new; the time has come
for buckling down to the duties of the hour.
Grave topics await the attention of the
Legislature. In a few days a new city
charter for San Francisco will be reported
by the Freeholders, and passed, amended,
or rejected according to the degree of in
telligence possessed by members. The
more thoroughly the latter acquaint them
selves with the science of municipal poll
tics, the less time will be wasted in debate.
The subject of fire insurance demands
careful attention and wise action. Many
other subjects require the attention of the
Legislature, not the least important ofthese
being the revision of the Wright law Great
ing irrigation districts. When that act was
passed attention was drawn to defects in it
WHICH, SS6uIcu 1lhGly 10 lupeQe OLe Sdle VI
district bonds. The apprehensions then
entertained have been confirmed by the
event. The benefits of the Wright law
which is a well-meant statute, have not
been realized in consequence of the diff
Guilty in selling the bonds. A solution of
the difficulty might be reached if the coun-
ties were authorized to indorse district
bonds.
The present Legislature was elected on a
platform of rigid economy, and Governor
Budd, in the speeches he made on the
stump, pledged himself to save the money
of the people to the limit of his power.
Citizens expect these pledges to be re-
deemed. Recent Legislatures have squan-
dered money in a reckless fashion, creating
commissions and boards with high-salaried
members for all sorts of purposes. The
thing has gone so far that when an office
seeker failed to get the Office he wanted
from the Governor he has gone to the
Legislature and got an Office created simply
in order to furnish him with salary. 1t
is high time that this sort of thing were
stopped. Economy must be the order of
the day; for members who are Indifferent
to it the State will have no further use.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The projected expedition to the north pole by
Julius Won Payer has novel object. The Aus
tnan painter-explorer is going into the frozen
zone in search of new landscapes and new ami
mails for his brush The Old World has been
exhausted for the artists canvas, he says, and
the popular taste is for Observation-Disclosures
in place of tigers and lions, Mormon families,
negro battles, shepherds of the Pampas, sun
worshipers, anything out OF the ordinary run
of painters subjects. Won Payer wants es-
peeially to depict the polar night, with its cop
per moon and rivers of molten silver.
Chinese papers say that the Emperor has
ordered six two-edged swords for Prince Kung,
Lii Hung Chang, Ii Hung Tsao. Weng Tung Ho,
Kang vi and General Won Hanneken. With
these they have the right without asking i'm
perial permission, to cut off the heads of all
persons from the second rank down who pro-
pose peace with Japan. This does not look as
if the Chinese wish to give up the fight.
Stanley j. Weyman, the novelist, practiced
in London as a barrister for about ten years,
and with fair success He never really liked
his profession and was poor speaker. He is
an unmarried man and lives with his mother
and sister.
The Count of Flanders, brother of the King
of the Belgians, is the richest Prince in Europe
Yet he is asking to have his allowance from the
Belgian Government increased from SAC, 900 to
$4,000 year.
The name of the President of France is a
word of one syllable, and is pronounced as if
sne1led uFor
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
PERSONAL NOTES.

John Ball Of the Big Trees Hotel is in the
city.
Sheriff E. w. Kay Of Visalia is staying at the
Grand.
F. W. Blade, editor of the Gilroy Advocate, is
in town.
P. B. Fraser, the Stockton banker, is visiting
in the city
Jackson Hatch of San Jose registered at the
California yesterday
R. I. Bentley, the Sacramento fruit-packer, is
here for short stay.
W. r. Caruthers, a merchant of Santa Rosa,
is staying at the Lick.
NJ. r. Engle has returned to the Palace after
a brief visit to New York.
c. E. Tinkham, the Chico lumber merchant,
is in town with his friends.
A. w. Simpson of Stockton joined his family
at the Occidental last evening.
William A. Junker arrived at the Lick yes
terday from the Hotel del Monte.
Charles H. Lux, the San Jose capitalist, came
to town with his wife last evening.
F. w. Wilmans, who is engaged in the lum-
bering business at Newman, is in town.
H.R. Bernard, secretary of the Preston School
OF Industry, lone, is guest at the Grand
Robert Effey, Mayor of Santa Cruz, came to
town yesterday and is guest at the Palace.
II. Brace and John A. Jackson of Youngs-
vile, Pa, and E. w. and G. w. Campbell, of
Kane, Pa, are at the Palace Hotel. They
are capitalists who intend investing largely in
Humboldt County redwood forests, and will
leave on the next steamer for Eureka.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Instead of binding their women's feet so that
they can't run, China should have done this
with its soldiers.-Philadelphi Times.
Ada (pensively)-I hope you will invite me to
the wedding when you get married.
Jack (boldly)-Pn invite you to the first one,
and ii you don't accept there won't be any
wedding.-Life.
Arizona Pete-What's that thing that whizzed
past?
Citizen-A trolley-car
Arizona Pete-In my country we sometimes
hold up railroad trains, but you bet we'd let
that thing have its own way.-Philadelphia In
quirer.
Little Boy-That ink that papa writes with
isn't indelible ink, is it?
Mother-No.
''Tm glad of that"
"Why?"
give split it all over the carpet."-street &
Smiths Monthly.
Hell could believe that this was one of
mothers own pies. dear.
She-Could you really, darling?
He-Yes; it tastes as If it had been made
about ten years ago.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
An effort was recently made by an ambitious
newspaper man to get Rudyard Kipling to ex-
press an opinion about "Trilby." Du Maurier
should not feel hurt to learn that the effort
was a failure.-New York World.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
THE SIEGE OF WEI-HAI-WEI

The jaws of the Gulf of Pechili consist OF
Charlotte Point on the north, on which
Port Arthur stands, and Shan Tung pro-
montory on the south, on the coast OF
which are situate the two populous cities
of Chefoo and Wei-hai-wei. Port Ar
thur fell into the hands of the Japanese a
few weeks ago. 1t was then determined
by the Government at Toxic that Wei-hai-
wei, where there is a drydock, ship
building plant and Notifications which
have been supposed to be impregnable,
should be the next place assailed; the pos
session of the jaws would convert the Gulf
OF Pechih into closed japanese sea. Ac-
cordingly, two Japanese armies, with an
auxiliary fleet, were dispatched to reduce
the place, and the command of the expedi-
ton was intrusted to the veteran Count
Oyama, who had captured Port Arthur.
The first of these armies landed at a
point east of Wei-hai-wei known as Yung
Cheng. The force was 25,00O strong, and
had no difficulty in brushing away the
Chinese troops who opposed the landing.
The second army, which numbered fewer
bayonets, landed at Ninghai, on the west
ern side OF the promontory. Both took up
a line of march for the rear of Wei-hai-yei.
Meanwhile, japanese fleet, consisting of
twenty Japanese crui sers and twenty tor
pedo-boats, occupy the entrance to Wei
hai-wei harbor, bottling up the Chinese
men-of-war which have taken refuge there,
and standing ready to take part in the as
sault on the works when the land forces
come up.
The movement of the latter is slow, in
consequence of the bad condition of the
roads. But the invaders ought to reach
the outskirts of the city by the end of this
week. General 0yama will probably waste
no time in digging parallels. Hefound, at
Port Arthur, that Chinese troops will not
stand to their guns if attacked briskly in
front. He will probably order an assault
without waiting to breach the walls. His
officers feel so much confidence in the en-
terprise that they have sent word to Chefoo
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
THE WAY OF REFORM.

It must be conceded that we have fallen
upon times where the way of the reformer
is perplexing beyond all precedent. 1t is
not thorny. On the contrary the people
have strewn it with roses. It is not hard.
1t is in many places almost soft snap.
Nevertheless it is perplexing. 1t has as
many forks and as crooked branches as a
manzanita tree, and is so devious and
twisted in its ramifcations that at many
points of its involuted course the most in
telligent reformer hardly knows whether
he is going ahead or coming back.
AS if this diversity of paths were not
in itself perplexing enough, the road
of reform in this city is also beset
with multitude of distractions. The
reformer who goes out with a rifle
loaded for bear fushes whole coveys
and droves of other tempting game at every
turn. About the time that he gets hot on
the track of ballot-box suffer, he rouses
perjurer. When he has spotted bood-
Ter he runs over a iury-briber. When he
has fixed his eye firmly on corrupt Off
cial, behold will-stealer fiutters across
his vision and abstracts his aim.
Under these circumstances it is difficult
scattering. The tactics of the lad who
sought to kill every one of flock of black
birds by the simple process of swinging his
gun in grand sweep when he fired his
single barrel is likely to appear to the be-
wildered reformer as feasible plan for
him. 1t is hard to hold to one game when
there is so much in sight and particularly
so when all the roads are so tangled up
that it is difficult to tell which game is fly
ing from you and which is coming your
way.
1t is certain, however, that to achieve
any kind of success there must be no scat
tering and that straight ahead course
must be held. That course in the present
instance is the course that leads to home
rule. Local self-government will give us
the power to do anything. We can bag
all the game when we get to that point of
vantage and make thefur OF feathers fly at
every shot.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
UP TO DATE IDEAS.

New York is having a bicycle show in Madi-
son-square Garden that is causing almost as
much interest as the great horse show. To the
layman 1T would not seem that much variety
can be got out of the wheel, but the thousands
OF enthusiastic cyclists think differently. Ac-
cording to the New York Herald, there is great
interest in an exhibit showing the various
parts OF a modern safety wheel, and diagram
OF dissected bicycle is given for the informa-
ton OF those unfamiliar with the important
as follows: No. 1, tire; 3, rim; 5, front hub;
6, rear hub and sprocket; 7, spokes; 10, front
forks; Id, steering post; IS, cork handles;
10, handle bars; II, handle bar stem; 18,
lamp bracket; 21, saddle-post; %, upper brace
or top tube; "a, center brace, or diagonal
tube; 25, lower or main brace; 26, head; 20,
rear upper brace; 80, rear lower brace; 80,
chain; 81, front sprocket; 81, crank hanger
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
WORK, NOT TALK.

That was a good saying of Thomas
Magee on Monday that heretofore the San
Joaquin railroad has been built in the
papers, but that the men now at the head
OF the project propose to go to work with
out taking the public into their confidence.
Business men do not stand on street
corners proclaiming their purposes. Plans
for large undertakings must be confiden-
TALLY laid and perfected before it is safe to
make them public. People must for the
present be satisfied with knowing that the
enterprise is in the hands of such men as
Claus Spreckels and his sons, Daniel
Meyer, James D. Phelan, Alexander Boyd,
o. d. Baldwin, W. F. Whittier, Alvinza
Hayward, the representatives of the Par
rott, the Donahue and the Sharon estates,
Louis Gerstle, Levi Strauss, Andrew Nc
Creary and other citizens of equal stand
ing-men who are not apt to undertake a
thing and let it drop.
An endeavor is being made in certain
quarters to represent the enterprise as a
measure of hostility aimed at the Southern
Pacific. This is false light to regard it in.
Of course, to a certain extent, every new
railroad that is built completes with every
old road which runs in the same direction.
But as communities grow and population
increases, a territory which barely supplied
traffic for one road becomes able to support
two, and the new line, after taking business
at first from its younger competitor, ac-
tually after time becomes in a measure a
feeder. Every railroad builds up terri
tory, and it quite often happens that the
territory so built up furnishes traffic which
can be better accommodated on the old
than on the new line. The San Joaquin
Valley is just such a territory. 1t is an
imperial domain, State in itself, with I'M
paralleled resources in its stretch of 700
miles of fertile soil as level as billiard
table; single line of railroad is not nearly
outlet enough. 1t could furnish all the
business which two could do if it had the
population, and the reason why it has not
had the population is because it has only
had one.
Whether the Southern Pacific, with a
bonded Indebtedness largely in excess of
the sum for which the road could now be
built, can compete to advantage with a
line built for cash and with no debt, is a
matter which concerns the proprietors of
that property more than the public. Mr.
Huntington and his friends probably know
what they are about. In the meantime
the capitalists of San Francisco probably
know what they are about in furnishing
this city with a new channel of access to
the valley; and one evidence of their fit
ness for the work is their unwillingness to
take the public into their confidence at
each stage in the undertaking.
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that thew NAV be expected there within a

that they may be expected there within a
few days.
When the allies invaded China in 1860,
they did not trouble themselves about the
mouth of the Gulf of Pechili-frstly, be-
cause they dominated that sea with their
fleets, and secondly because the permanent
occupation of Northern China did not
enter into their purposes. They fanked
and took the Taku ports, and thence
pushed on to Peking. The Japanese oc-
cupy different position. They may have
gone to China amino manendi, as the law
yers say, and may contemplate the perma-
nent occupation of the province of Pechili.
In that case the possession of the ports
which close the mouth OF the gulf may be a
necessary preliminary.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30

FOR YOURSELF.

Just at this moment a good many very
attractive offers are being made to those
who have Clothing to buy. We have
Clothing to sell, to be sure, but we have
something to give away, and that is
little bit of good advice. Go to all the
places that make you these startling offers
of bargains" reductions" clearance
prices and all the rest of the catch words
and see what you can buy for certain
sum of money and when you have been
around come to the wholesale makers-the
only ones-and see what the genuine
wholesale price would be on similar suit
or overcoat.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
Latest Marriage Licenses.

The following marriage licenses were is
sued by the County Clerk yesterday
Miers T. Bluxome, Olive L. Smith, 2S-3
Joseph Filiatrault, Louise Primet, 3S-2S
Fred R. Pielhop, Matilda Preithauf,
2S-1S; Charles II. Brown, Myrtle Evans,
23-20; Gustave D. Harper, Jeanette H.
Cook 42-25; Thomas Harkins, Kate With
ingham, 54-49; Frank P. Hansen, Ellen
/. Wells, 21-18; Albert G. Flanders, Mary
g. Brown 34-23
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
Very Nearly ScaIped.

Thomas L. Provost of 1913 San Carlos
avenue was riding on Mission-street
electrician last evening, on his way home.
At Seventeenth street he jumped off the
car before it was stopped, and instead of
aighting on his feet he. struck the ground
off, and he was taken to the Receiving
Hospital, where it was stitched and dressed.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

There is possibility that the elaborate ma
chinery for collecting the income tax, which
Mr.. Carlisle has planned for the internal
revenue department, will be thrown down,
even If it is set up, before year. This posi-
bility includes the chance that the Supreme
Court will declare the tax unconstitutional
and that the next Congress will repeal the
measure in toto, urged thereto by the fact that
majority of the people regard it as unfair and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The flood OF resolutions for the investigation
of San Francisco's political morality that is
surging within the legislative chamber of the
State is creditable in high degree to the
morality of the statesmen themselves On a
well-known theory of moral philosophy. the
appreciation of an evil is the first step toward
its correction.-Living Issues.
In spite of powerful pressure, Governor
Budd has turned down the political hacks,
who have been bowling for recognition in the
appointment of Registrar of Elections in San
Francisco, and casting their claims aside named
for the Office man whose honesty no one can
doubt.-Alameda Telegram.
1t is to be earnestly hoped that the present
Legislature may stamp out the infamous con-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
Not for the AImsbouse.

While being removed from the Receiving
Hospital to the Almshouse yesterday
morning. Robert Anderson, an old beggar,
died, and his remains were conveyed to the
Morgue.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
The Registrars Messenger.

Registrar Hinton stated yesterday that
he had decided on the man he would APP
point as his messenger, but would not an
nounce the name until next Monday. He
said that it was not Thomas Kelly, the
son of Martin Kelly, the ex-boss.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30

The condition of the Senatorial contests
in Oregon, Washington and Idaho affords
reason for believing that the smallest
States have the biggest deadlocks.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30

Legislative investigation, q sword of Dam
ocles hanging over the officers of q munich
pality, is likely to work more practical reform
than any amount of moral suasion.-Fremont
Wash J Review