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The San Francisco call., 1896-07-06
BADGES TO Be CHOSEN.
Designs for the Emblem of
the Golden Gate
Carnival.
The Committee Will Meet This
Afternoon and Consider
the Matter.

The time for the reception of the designs
for the badges, stationery and regalia for
the carnival of the Golden Gate expires
this afternoon at 4 o'clock. A committee.
consisting OF DR.. F. w. D'Evelyn, Colonel
O'Byrne and r. P. Doolan, will be at head
quarters to receive the designs. A num-
Der have already been sent in, and from
the class of work submitted the committee
will have a delicate task in selecting the
finest and most appropriate.
All seem to have gotten the carnival
spirit and embodied the idea in connection
with the resources of the Golden State.
The designs submitted already embrace a
large variety of subjects.
Hugh Craig, president of the Chamber
OF Commerce, has accepted the invitation
OF the executive committee to preside at
the mass meeting to De held on Thursday
afternoon next at 2:30 P. NJ. at the rooms
OF the Chamber of Commerce, in the Mer-
chants Exchange building. General War
heid has received assurances from many
OF the prominent business men all over the
City that they would be present and give
the carnival good start, both morally
and financially. A list of fifty vice presi-
dents is now being prepared, and will be
announced prior to the meeting
Special designs for artistic posters for
the carnival have been suggested to the
executive committee. They are yery
1avorabiy impressed with those offered
and have invited other artists to submit
designs. 1t is proposed to issue series of
these posters, sending them all over the
United States to call attention to the
features OF the carnival. Poster-collectine
being fad, it is thought that a small reye.
nue., sufficient to pay for their issuance at
least, can be derived from their sale from
those engaged in this delectable pursuit.
There will be no dearth of music at the
carnival II the committee accept only halt
the offers of foreign bands that have been
already rendered. The latest band to an
ply for place in the carnival parade is
Rosatis Naval Reserve Band from the
State OF New Jersey. The manager writes
from New York to say that the band has
been engaged for the Dallas Exposition
Tor the month of October and thinks il
would be good idea if the people of San
Francisco would arrange to have them
here. Local musicians, however, will have
first choice in all contracts for music.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-06

residents has destroyed the power of the
Democrats to lay claim to it any longer.
This change is due in great measure to
the growth of the City and the high death
rate of old-timers, known to the early
pioneers as men who would rather vote
early and often than attend dog-fight.
The Republican club recently formed in
the Forty fifth has also had great in
huence toward increasing the moral tone
of the politics of that locality. The club
was organized in December, 1895, and has
a memb bership of 400. 1t was reorganized
June with the following officers: Charles
G.. Nagle, president; NJ. Z. Babb, vice.
president; W. S. Wood, secretary. and
William Shew, treasurer. The executive
committee is composed of: NJ. E. Babb,
chairman; r. E. Silveria, w. S. Wood, C.
J. Ward, J. f. Lawson, w. Shew, T. ].
Stanton, l.. Kirsch baum, Philip Brown
and w. A. Scott. This committee has
been authorized to procure suitable head
quarters for the club during the campaign.
In view of the action recently taken by
the County Committee in increasing its
number. this club unanimously indorsed
w. S. Wood as the additional member
from the district. Mr.. Wood viii prove a
very acceptable member OF that body. II
elected he will look attentively after the
interests of his section of the City in his
capacity as an executive officer. He has
the respect and confidence OF his associ-
ates in the club and of the better class o1
residents in the district
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-06
FOR A HOSPITAL Only
The Angel Island Post for Mill.
tary Purposes May Be
Abandoned.
Applications to Succeed Admiral
Beardslee, U. S. N as Commander
of the Pacific Squadron

Angel Island as a military post may
be abandoned and the troops of the United
States Infantry there stationed be trans
ferred to the Presidio and Benicia Bar
racks. In case this project is carried out
the United States Marine Hospital, now
occupying grounds on tle Presidio Reser-
vation, will be transferred to the island.
Some half-forgotten incident, concerning
the location of the hospital on the reser-
vation may be recalled.
When it was decided to aban don the old
Marine Hospital near the Pacific Mail
Docks, now used as q Sailors Home, per-
mission was given to locate the institution
on q military reservation, provided the
Secretary of the Treasury and the Secre-
tary OF War could agree on a location.
They did agree on the p resent location at
the head of Lobos Creek on the Presidio
Reservation and this was accepted.
The Government expended $4,000 in
the construction of a building and subse-
ouently allowed $4,000 for laundry appli-
ances and other apparatus.
Some good reasons are said 10 exist now
for removing the hospital, and Angel
Island, where patients could be trans
ferred from ships in rowboats and con-
veyed TO the hospital wards without being
loited over the streets of the City, pre-
sents many advantages. The island with
ont Notifications is not useful as a mill
tary station, and the great scheme of
harbor defense does not seem TO contem-
plate the building of works there.
An examination of the barracks at the
Presidio has been made, and Dy transfer
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by the people, and an Endorsement of its nomi.
nee by US would be taken as an Endorsement oi
its record This we will never give.
Furthermore we do not believe that on the
silver question the Democratic party is actu-
ated by motives of principle, but by motives OF
policy and that as party 1T can never secure
the free coinage of silver or of any needed
monetary reform.
Therefore the people as q whole would be
injured by q surrender of our principles and
the disbandment of the Peoples party, which
would ensue if we were to indorse Demo
cratic nominee.
Furthermore, we consider that the great re-
forms in government which the Peoples party
demand cannot be obtained, or even advanced,
by fusion, or combination, or Endorsement,
with either of the old parties.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, July 4, 1896.
The following is the circular to Peoples
Party voters of California:
Registration of voters under the old law was
kept open until within few days of the cleo
ton. By an amendment OF the election laws
enacted in 1895 the registration OF voters in
your county will close on August or 10.
This change in the law is not fully understood,
and it is your duty to take steps at once to see
that every People's-Party man is notified OF
this fact. You must make 1t your business to
urge and see that all Populists register immeoi
ately. Failure to do so means that thousands
of our voters throughout the State will be dis
franchised.
By order of the executive committee, Peoples
Party. E. NJ. WARDALL, Chairman.
r. z. BUSH Secretary.
San Francisco, July 4, 1896.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-06
SHARKEY Ard CH0YNsKI.

They Spared, but Not Together, for
Sharkey's Benefit.
The drawing card al the Peoples Palace
last night was the announcement that Pu-
gilists Sharkey and Choynski would spar a
four-round bout
This simple announcement had the effect
of filling the building with a paving crowd.
Both pugilists in their respective lines
being favorites their friends were ANXIOUS
to show their appreciation of their merits.
Yet there was little disappointment in
the programme, as the two braves did
not face Zach other, the change being that
Choynski spared with lightweight
named Leon Agnew from Illinois.
Of course, the three rounds sparring
was chicken play to Choynski, who per-
m:ited the lightweight to tease him for
the benefit OF the audience.
Not so, however. with the three rounds
spared by Sharkey and Needham, as
Needham Kept Corbett's friend in active
motion during the play. OF course, Shar-
Key Kept control OF himself and did not
deal any OF his powerful punches on the
body of his trainer.
The entertainment last night was in the
shape OF farewell testimonial to Shsrkey,
who is going East.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-06
REAL LTY MARKET REVIEW,
Summary of Transactions for
the First Half of This
Year.
GOOD BUILDING RECORD.
June a Light Month for Business.
Miscellaneous Notes of
Interest.

The record of real estate transactions,
mortgages and releases for the first half of
the present year is not as encouraging as
it might be. 1t indicates a general dull
ness that seems to increase rather than
diminish. A variety of reasons for exist
ing conditions are given by different brok-
ers and dealers. Some regard the cause as
largely local in character and contend that
the present depressed condition of the
market is due mainly to the heavy tax
rate of last year. Others are of the opin-
ion that the generally disturbed financial
condition of the country is largely respon-
sible for disinclination on the part OF the
people, especially capitalists. to invest to
any extent in real estate. In nearly all
the large cities of the country the same
dpllness exists to nearly or quite as great
an extent. The tax question does not
obtrude itself so prominently in
hardly any other place as it
does at present here, for last year San Fran
cisco enjoyed the rather unenviable distinction
OF having neariy or quite the highest tax rate
of any City in the country. This was of course
an additional handicap to the real estate mar
ket that other cities did not have TO contend
with, yet elsewhere business generally has
been reported slow ell the year. From this it
is fair to assume that the general condition OF
the country is as much ii not more responsible
for the prevailing condition of the market than
any other one cause, and it will require more
than a decreased tax rate to cause renewal of
activity in realty transactions.
The story of the market for the first half of
1896, indicated by th.l records, is told in the
following figures, which are taken from the
July issue of Magee's Real Estate Circular:
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ring another artillery company to Fort
Mason and enlarging the accommodations
at Benicia' it appears that the infantry
companies now stationed at the island can
be properly sheltered. In fact, it is held
bv the highest military authorities that
the main concentration of troops on this
coast should be at the Presidio.
II is essential also that the water supply
oil the Presidio should be ample for any
emergency, and that the water should be
free from all pollution. The location of
the Marine Hospital at the very source of
the natural water supply OF the Presidio is
regarded as a serious drawback. The SUBJ
iect was freely discussed by General R. n.
Batchelder, and Major Davis, the repre-
sentative of the Secretary of War, when
these ofncers recently inspected the mill
tary posts OF this department.
The subject is now under consideration
at Washington, and should the Secretary
OF the treasury and the Secretary OF War
agree the hospital may be moved to Angel
Island, and the troops moved from the
Island to the Presidio without Congress
slonal Legislation. The authority originally
conferred on these departments to estab-
llsh the hospital on a military reservation
has not been revoked.
The surgeon-general of the Marine Hos
pltal service expected to visit San Fran
cisco at the time the quartermaster- gen.
eral and the representative of tie Secre-
tary OF War inspected the posts here, but
when he was about ready to leave Wash
ington the reports of cholera in Cuba made
1t necessary for him to remain on the At
iantlc seaooard. All the papers and esti-
mates bearing on the proposed transfer of
the Marine Hospital to Angel Island have
been prepared and submitted to him.
General William M. Graham has gone
to Monterey for few days. Captain Ben
lamln K. Roberts, Fifth Artillery, is COM
manding the post
Lieutenant Oliver E. Wood, Fifth Ar
tillery, has been granted leave of absence
for one month.
Major Charles P. Eagan has been as
signed to duty as chief commissary OF SUBJ
sistence of this department.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-06

Captain Oscar F. Long, A. Q. NJ, has
been assigned to duty as post quarter
master at the Presidio.
Major John A. Darling, Fifth Artillery
has been granted leave of absence for
eleven days.
First Lieutenant ]. F. Reynolds Lands,
First Cavalry, has been granted leave of
absence for one month.
One OF the most i'm portant army retir-
ing boards ordered for many years will
convene in Chicago about the middle of
the month. The duty of the board Will
be to examine for retirement officers from
the rank OF colonel to lieutenant. 1t is
understood that Major General Wesley
Merritt Will be the senior officer and chair
man of the board. Brigade General E. S.
Otis will PROBABLY be selected as one of the
officers to serve. An officer with the rank
OF colonel will be the third line officer on
the board. Two medical officers OF high
rank will also be detailed
Advices from Washington report that
among the officers who will be ordered to
appear before the board are Colonel r. e.
A. Crofton, Fifteenth Infantry; Lieuten-
ant-Colonel ]. II. Bradford, Seventeenth
Infantry; Major A. S. B. Keyes, Third
Cavalry; Major ]. A. Darling, Fifth Ar
tiIlery, and Major ]. Turnbuil, First AR.
tillery.
Commodore J. A. Howell and Commo-
dore George Dewey of the United States
navy have made formal application tC
com mand the Pacific Squadron. Admiral
Beardslee's two years on this station viii
expire in August. Word came from
Washington that the Admiral mas askec
to remain on the Pacific for another year
but that Secretary Herbert will feel com
PEELED to decline the request as there are
several officers of fla rank who have haC
no sea service on this line
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-06
REUNION AT FRUITVALE.
ParishIoners of st. Francis Church
Enjoy a Patriotic
Outing.


A merry reunion of the st. Francis
Church parishioners took place at Pitts.
vile Park, Fruitvale, on July 4. The ex-
ercises were interspersed with skillful
games of endurance and strength. The
Cosmopolitan Military band discoursed
music, and the platform at times was
crowded with young dancers.
thousands and were well contested, pro-
fessionals being barred.
In the race for young ladies much RI
valry was engendered, but an untoward
accident marred the contest. The daugh-
ter OF ]. Wrede, 733 Union street, fell and
fractured her right arm. The fathers i'm
mediateIy dispatched for surgeon.
Throwing the heavy weight, Sc lbs, was
hotly contested, and the prize was won by
the pastor, Father Carraher, who stands
over six feet and weighs 90 pounds of
avoirdupois. He Immediately said that
Heaven loved a cheerful giyer," and
forthwith distributed the $40 to the girls
to purchase irecrackers for the occasion.
The reception committee, under the
skillful management of T. B. Cunning
ham, distributed seventy-eight gate prizes.
at the northwest corner of the park an
impromptu patriotic demonstration was
had, and progressed uninterruptedly dur
ing the day. under the direction of the
younger element of the parish. The CEN
trail figure OF the extemporaneous display
of enthusiasm was Paul A. Mccarthy, who
with histrionic effect read the Declaration
of Independence, and recited Drake S
address to the a American Flag"
Firecrackers and cheers for the American
flag concluded the entertainment.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-06
He LIVED LONG IN SIAM,
Rev. DR.. Mcfarland, Founder of
the First English School
in Bankok.
Author of Siamese School and Scien.
tifc Book s-He Came Here
to Live.

Rev. DR.. s. G. Mcfarland, for thirty-siz
years resident of Bankok, Siam, ha:
come from the Orient to spend his de.
clining years in Berkeley or in Oakland
He arrived yesterday on the City oi
Peking with his wife and daughter and his
son, DR.. George Mcfarland, physician in
charge of large hospital in Bankok, the
capital of Siam.
''I went to Siam in 1850" said the aged
clergyman, when seen at the Occidental
hound, but in a small sailing vessel, by
way of the Cape of Good Hope.
"For the first fourteen or fifteen years
was engaged in missionary work in con.
nection with the Presbyterian Missionary
Society of America. Then was appointed
by the King to establish and take charge
of a high-class school for the young
princes and the youths of the first families.
sit was the first English school in Ban
kok and was modelled on American lines.
l began with sixty pupils, and there were
300 boys OF the best families under nv
care when left the school in 1891.
"For the next three years / was en-
gagged in compiling school-book in Siam
ese-a geography and first, second and
third readers. much after the general
style OF the school textbooks used In
America.
81 also wrote some scientific works deal
ing with the botany and the geology OF
Siam. Latterly ] have arranged in the
Slamese language series of books on both
single and double entry bookkeeping.
"Bankok, l suppose, has a population OF
about 100000 or 100000, but the Govern.
ment has never taken census. 1t is the
largest city in the kingdom. Foreigners
estimate the population of the whole coun.
try at from 5000 600 to 5000, 900.
The Siamese are bright and progres-
slve, but not so much so as the Japanese.
The King-I have known him since be
was little boy-is very desirous of i'm.
proving his people, and he is well liked.
"The exports of Siam are raw silk.
hides, teakbark, tenbsrk and rice. The
natives do good deal of fine art work in
gold and silver in Snd for tie palace"
Mr.. Mcfarland is broken down in health
and has chosen the neigh borhood of San
Francisco, he says, as second to Honolulu.
the paradise of the Pacific. He has reIa.
es in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-06
Rev. Peter C. Yorke Explains
the Necessity of Central
ization.
ONE GOD AND ONE CHURCH
People of st. Peters Admonished to
Pray for the Union of
Christendom.

The feast Of st. Peter was celebrated
with unusual solemn nifty and splendor at
the edifice bearing his name.
''St. Peters never witnessed such scene
before" declared Father Lyons at the
conclusion of the services, and the con-
course of people of the parish who had as
sembled to do reverence to their patron
saint was truly something of which the
parish priests might be proud.
The feast of st. Peter is ordinarily OBJ
served June %, but on this occasion it was
postponed until the Sunday succeeding.
A solemn high mass was celebrated by
Father Casey, assisted by rather Lyons
deacon, Father Organ subdeacon and
Father Lynch of st. James Church master
of ceremonies. The music, which was
rendered by a choir specially trained for
the occasion, was under the direction of
Miss Mamie Coonan, organist. 1t was of
an unusually high order.
The sermon was delivered hy Rev. Peter
Z. Yorke, and the earnest attention which
the congregation gave to his remarks
testified to the esteem in which he is held
by the people OF his faith. The theme of
his discourse was the necessity OF
authority in order to have unity in the
church.
In temporal affairs, he said, unity is
effected by authority of the government.
The central Government at Washington
preserves unity In civil affairs, and so is
authority necessary IN the affairs OF the
church. The necessity of unity, he de.
clared, was evident, else there would be a
constant state OF confusion.
The speaker then compared this country
in regard to civil affairs with the church
in matters spiritual. He showed that just
as the States, jealous of one another in
many ways, are neld together by authority
OF Congress, the church is kept together
through its trials by a centralized au-
thority.
Until $50 years ago." he said, "there
was unity in the church, and that was as
our Lord wished it to be. We hear those
Search the Scriptures Let US search the
Scriptures"
The speaker here referred to a mum Der
of passages in the Bible from which he
adduced authority for an individual head
to the church. ''There is one Lord, one
faith, one baptism, one God" he said, $50
there must be only one true church.
1.-THE Lord appointed St. Peter supreme
head of his church. He said TO him /:
Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will
build my church, and will give to thee
the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Feed
my lambs. Feed my sheep And though
Peter had once been lacking in faith he
gave him authority over the others. He
said to him, When thou art converted
confirm thy brethren These words show
that the Lord gave Peter authority over
his church"
Father Yorke deplored the disruption of
Christendom, and declared that the dis
union arose chiefly from want of author
ity. There was nc guide to direct. Son
this day, the feast of st. Peter,' he con-
cluded, ''the people of st. Peters honor
the patron of this church. Pray that the
day may soon come when the disunion
will cease to be. and ali people will be
within one church and worshiping one
God"
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-06
Magee's Real Estate Circular for July con.
tains the following timely article:
THE REWARD OF WORK.


THE REWARD OF WORK.
The City OF San Francisco (headed by Claus
Spreckes and sons with q subscription of
800, ,000l raised the total sum of So 400 600.
and the result will be frst-class railroad
from Stockton TO Fresno, distance saw of 25O
miles. The issuance of bonds for So 900 600
will complete this road to Bakersfield near
the southern end of the valley, and will also
give this City and State road, by some route
not yet selected, from Stockton to San Fran
cisco bay. For over twenty years the people
OF the City and State have maintained q news
paper and wordy war against the Southern
Pacific and its varied exactions and over
charges, without accomplishing ANYTHING
whatever in the way of redress; but at last the
people of this City stopped talking and began
acting.
They raised the sum named and used IT in
the construction of first-class opposition rail-
road. The result, although the line is only
finished to Fresno, is tn. tle Southern Pacific
has already reduced its r. t. to point which
1t lately declared before the Railroad Commits.
sioners, If IL were forced to adopt, would re-
suit in bankruptcy. We call attention TO these
facts 10 show the utter uselessness of com
and work. During the past five years of dull
times every other man, especially the rich
has made complaints without end Each one
has talked as though he had personal grew
ance against somebody because times were
hard, rents falling and profits low, or actuai
losses taking their place. All such people
should be suppressed hereafter as impudent
nusances.
No one has right to constant prosperitv
and profit but he who manfully, in and ont Of
season, works for them. San Francisco one of
the wealthiest OF Cities had been going behind
every way, and she deserved to go behind for
she allowed the railroad monopoly SO to dis