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The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
PERSONAL.

o. F. Paxton of Portland, Or, is here.
Ira D. Wines of Nevada is in the City.
DR.. F. NJ. Madison of Peoria, ILL.,, is in the
City.
James F. Dennis, an attorney of Reno, is in
town.
Superior Judge A. P. Overton of Santa Rosa
is on visit here.
w. G. Blain of Colusa is at the Grand, ac-
companied by his wife.
E. NJ. Brattain of Paisley, in Eastern Oregon,
is here on brief visit.
Ex-Judge J. NJ. Fulweiler of Auburn is among
the arrivals at the Lick
E. w. Runyou, who Is identified with a bank
at Red Bluff, is in the City.
Captain H. K. w. Ayers of Port Angeles,
Wash, arrived here yesterday.
B, S. Mckinney, q business man of Fair
field, Iowa, is at the Occidental.
J. Craig, manager of Highland Springs and
| the hotel there, is at the Grand.
Gabriel Gregoire, gentleman of Paris, who
is interested in California mines, is in town.
One of the pioneer merchants of Paisley,
Or, Virgil Conn, who has grown veal thy
there, is at the Palace.
John Flanagan, the leading merchant and
wealthy mill and timber-land owner of Coos
Bay, Or, is at the Lick.
E. A. Whitaker, general agent of the Chi
cago. Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, is
among the recent arrivals here.
D. L. Knight. owner of the woolen-mills at
Marysville, and engaged in banking and vari-
Gus other large enterprises there, is in town.
W. 6. Whitney, manager of the Mormon
choir, with seventy-five of the members, ar
rived here yesterday and joined the others oi
their choir
A. L. Cheney. the capitalist, of Boston, who
for long time was interested in the stock OF
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
is in the City.
Mrs John Sebastian of Chicago, W ife of Mr.
Sebastian, prominent official of the Rock
! Island system, is at the Occidental, accompa-
MED by Mrs. L. B. Kendall of Chicago.
Judge Adolphus Huvel of Modesto, grand
high priest of the Grand Chapter Royal Arch
Masons for the State of California, came to
town yesterday for the purpose OF attending
the annual conyocation which takes place al
Masonic Temple in this City next week.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
THE FIRST QUESTION.

Shall California send a pledged or un-
pledged delegation to the st. Louis con-
vention? That is the first question of the
| campaign to be decided by the Republi-
cans of the State. THE CALL favors an
unpledged delegati because it believes
| California Republicans are not antagouis-
tic to any OF the men who are likely to be
candidates before the convention, and,
therefore, the delegates should not be
pledged to one to the exclusion of others.
1t is the mission of THE CALL, however, to
speak for all, and to that end we invite
leading Republicans in all parts of the
State to make use of our columns in dis
cussing this question, SO important to all.
Wepublished yesterday among our Let
ters from the People" a communication
urging delegation pledged to Mckinley.
That letter represented one phase of
the sentiment of the people. There
are other loyal Republicans who would
like to see the delegation pledged to
Reed, or Allison, or Morton, or Gull
lom, or Quay. Each of these great
leaders has a personal following devoted
to him, and in that following there are no
doubt many persons who would like to see
the California delegation bound to their
favorite from first to last against any other
candidate whatever. The question there
fore comes: Is that the best way to con-
duct Republican politics at this time? 1t
is a question that presses for an immedi-
ate answer, as the State Convention for the
election OF the delegates will soon assem-
bic, and for that reason we invoke an
earnest but dispassionate discussion of it
at once.
1t should be clearly understood at the
outset that an unpledged delegation would
not signify antagonism to any leading
candidate. Because some OF the friends of
Mckinley have been advocating delega-
ton instructed to vote for him exclusively
belief has grown up in some quarters
that all who favor an unpledged delega-
ton are opposed TO him. That belief is
founded in error. Many of the stanchest
friends of Mckinley are in favor of unin-
structed delegates, believing that by being
free such delegates could have more influ-
ence in supporting the man of their choice
than they would have if it were known
they were bound to him absolutely. To
the friends of Mckinley therefore, as
to the friends of Allison, Reed, Nor rtoa
and the rest, the question of an instructed
or an uninstructed delegation is an open
one. 1t is an issue that can and must be
debated without reference to particular
candidates. To that discussion, we repeat,
The CALL opens it's columns and will Law
before the people what the earnest men of
the party think would be best for Califor-
MIA Republicans to do in order to make
their influence most potent at the National
Con yention
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
ENFORCE THE LAW.

That the Southern Pacific Company con-
tlnues to operate its trains through the
City OF San Francisco in utter disregard
of the laws and lives of the people is not
TO be wondered at. At intervals, frequent
enough to have aroused the people OF
almost any other community to a state of
riot long before this, is its list of victims
added to. Some are slightly injured, some
are made cripples for life, some hnger in
suffering and agony until death comes as
welcome relief, some are killed outright
with scarcely mark to show the cause of
their sudden taking off, while others are
so horribly torn and mangled as to be al
most beyond recognition.
In every instance where death results
there lie three distinct causes of action
two criminal and one civil. There is vio-
lation of the municipal ordinance prohib-
iting trains from running faster than eight
miles an hour within the City limits; man.
slaughter has undoubtedly been commit
ted, as the killing resulted from willful
violation OF law, regardless of any other
circumstances, and damage has resulted to
the surviving heirs. An occasional civil
suit for pecuniary damages is brought, but
who ever heard of a criminal prosecution
Of the Southern Pacific Company for vio-
lating the eight ordinance,
when 1t is notorious fact that their trains
are sent rushing through the City at a
speed exceeding thirty miles an hour a
score of times a day; in fact, their pub
lished time-card on the coast division pro-
vides for this deliberate violation of the lie.
gally expressed will of the people
oh offo \
penalty, which, if imposed through the
efforts OF the regular authorities, would
probably put stop to such sad scenes as
the one witnessed by two young girls on
Tuesday, when c. H. Green was struck
and killed by the San Jose express at Day
street. AS described by the two witnesses
mentioned, "the train came whizzing
around the curve" at a point where the
law requires it to move at a pace no fas ter
than eight miles an hour. But should the
infliction of the legal penalties for viola
tions of the law prove to BE- without suf-
ficent deterrent effect, the prosecution on
charge OF manslaughter, not of an en-
gineer or conductor, but the highest of
fcials of the Southern Pacific Company,
who are really responsible for the fast run
| ming OF trains and the consequent fatali.
ties, might prove more etficacious. Here
is good work for the Grand Jury to take
IN.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
OUR NORMAL SCHOOLS.

AT the JOINT meeting OF the trustees OF
the three Normal Schools maintained by
the State, President Childs of the San Jose
institution made the surprising assertion
that there is demand for 800 new
teachers in California every year. OF this
number the Normal Schools furnish 225
and the rest come from county examlna-
tions and immigration. The Importance
OF this statement lies in the fact that in
some quarters opposition toward the Nor
NAL Schools exists on the assumption that
they are turning out more teachers than
are required, and that their presence is an
inducement to young men and women to
learn a profession which they will not
have an opportunity to pursue. The fact
is that the Normal Schools, numerous and
largely attended as they are, cannot sup
ply the demand.
The efficiency of our Normal Schools
has been greatly raised within the last
decade. Time was when there was a
prejudice against teachers turned out by
these institutions. This was largely be-
cause OF their youth, but lack of conf
dence IN the institutions was also factor.
On the occasion of the National conven-
ton OF teachers held in this City few
years ago the visitors freely expressed
their astonlshment that mere boys and
girls were so largely in evidence as teach
ers, the Eastern idea being that teachers
of more mature years were more efficient.
But experience has demonstrated to the
country and district boards throughout
the State that the enthusiasm of the young
teachers produced in California has a
special and superior value. AS the Normal
School authorities take a particular in
terest in the welfare of their graduates,
extra exertions are made to secure posi-
tions for them, and this gives them a dis
tinct advantage. The fedglings remain
for long time under the moral influence
of the Normal Schools, and so a double
good is accomplished. A certificate of
graduation from any of our three schools
for teachers now commands the highest
respect.
The teachers who come from other States
are sufficient leaven to keep our educa-
tional system in close touch with the meth
DDS of the outer world. Their influence is
observable in the State conventions held
every year, and this is amplifed by the
presence of eminent instructors in the
difficult for one not intimately associated
with the educational machinery of the
State to realize the perfection of it's work
ing and the importance of its results. In
no other part of the country is the move
ment so earnest and virile. While we are
absorbed in contemplation of the indus
trial and commercial achievements aud
possibilities of the State, we are in danger
of overlooking the value of factor which
is silently working for the achievement of
those tangible results. Out of such an ed
ucational system, public and private, as
that which is nur turing the intelligence of
the people will come a solution of the
problems that are vexing US. California
is becoming as famous for its schools as
for It's fruits, flowers, climate and gold
mines. 1t is eminently fitting that this
engine for the advancement of our fame
and prosperity should receive the most
generous support of the people.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16

auction, great industries which would be
developed by lower freight charges remain
undeyeloped, and along with them those
which could afford to pay high rates.
In short, the railroad companies have
always fought competition on the sole
ground that it would divide the traffic,
persistently ignoring the fact that the in
crease of production to which competition
gives rise more than offsets the loss COM
ing from division of the traffic. 1t is a
safe prediction that the Southern Pacific
Company will gain more from the stimu-
lation OF development which the Valley
road Will create in the San Joaquin than
1t will lose by competition with It, More
than that, there are products naturally
suited to water transport as there are
others best served by railroads; and no
country or section having the opportunity
to employ both these resources can reach
It's highest development without their
emplOVment
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
A FAVORITE SONG.

James Whitcomb Riley has addressed the
following verses to Professor Crouch, the dying
author of kathleen Mavourneen":
Kathleen Mavourneen, the song is still ringing
AS fresh and clear the triil of the bird.
In the world-weary hearts it is sobbing and sing
ing,
In pathos too sweet for the tenderest word.
Oh, have forgotten the who first breathed 1t ?
And have we forgotten his rapturous art?
Our need to the master whose genius bequeathed it;
oh, why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?
Kathleen Mavourneen, thy lover still fingers,
The long night is waning-the stars pale and few.
Thy sad serenader, with tremulous fingers,
Is bound with his tears as the lily with dew.
The old harpstrlngs quaver, the old voice is shak
ing,
In sighs and in sobs means the yearning refrain,
The old vision dims and the old heart is breaking
Kathleen Mavourneen, inspire us again!
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16

, ever. Trebbi died and the composer. forgot
his work. Tedeschi, the successor to Trebbi
happened to find the score and remem bering
the success OF "I Pagliacci" and 81 Medici" he
thought it only fair that the public should
hear "Chatterton." Leoncavallo was begged
to revise the work. and, as already stated in
1HE CALL, 1t was recently presented to the
critical Roman public with immense success
at the National Theater.
Everything comes to him who knows how to
wait. There is Mozart, who died before Haydn,
schubert or Beethoven, yet these composers
have for long time had their statues in the
good town OF Vienna while Mozart has mad to
content himself with little, insignificant
monument, placed in the house which he in
haolted on the Rauhens teingasse, which, since
It's reconstruction, has borne his name At
last 1t has been decided to inaugurate, at
Vienna, monument worthy of the great mas
ter, and 1t is the Emperor Francis Joseph who
Will preside in person at the ceremony, which
Is to take place at the end of the present
month. The hofkapellmeister of Joseph II
Will thus receive posthumous honor of which
no other Austrian musician can boast, for even
at the inauguration of BeethoVen's monument
the Emperor did not assist in person. After
the unveiling the Imperial Opera, for three
consecutive nights, will play ''The Marriage of
Figaro" Don Juan" and 1.-The Magic Flute"
and the Vienna Conservatory will give grand
popular concert, devoted exclusively to
Mozart's works. The monument will be placed
just outside the Imperial Opera-house.
LIE Menestrel says: ave have already told
how the dean of militant pianists, Antoine de
Kontski, left his home in Buffalo to take
concert tour of the world. We now learn from
the Singapore Free Press that De Kontski has
been giving concerts at Singapore, and has
astonished every ore by his vigorous and bril-
liant playing and his marvellous memory
Nothing betrayed that the pianist was an
octogenarian, even when he played the sonatas
OF Beethoven by heart. The old man won
marvellous success, and at the end of each con-
cert he was obliged to play his celebrated
piece, The Awakening of the Lion as well as
his charming Pompadour Gavotte.' Our
Singapore contemporary states that De
Kontski is going to India, after which he will
visit Siberia and will tour in Russia and other
temporary of Beethoven, Field Mendelssehn.
Chopin, Thalburg and of Liszt, playing in
Paris in 1897 would be an apparition of no
mean interest.
People are just beginning to realize how
much Eduard Grieg owes his wife for making
his songs known to the public. If some day it
should come to be universally recognized that
by the side of the two long-honored kings of
song, Schubert and Schumann, Grieg, too, is
entitled to a throne, to Mrs. Grieg will be
largely due the honor of having FASTENED the
advent of his recognition. Nothing is easier
than to criticize her singing. Even in its best
days her voice must have been of a somewhat
uneven quality, lacking in smoothness and
sweetness, as in thorough training, yet no
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

w. K. Sullivan of Chicago, ex-United States
consul to Bermuda, and for number of years
on the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune
ana chicago Evening Journal, is at the Palace.
Mr. sullivan is receiver for the American
Building, Loan and Investment Society of
Chicago, which furnished capital to erect
many buildings IN the West. and which failed
some time ago for 1882 900. Only one build
ing, however, was built by the company in
California, and that was in Bakersfield.
In the erstwhile booming towns of the North
ike Portland, Tacoma and Seattle, this COM
pany constructed, or aided to construct, a
great many buildings of different kinds. 1t
also built many in Minnesota, and in fact
throughout many of the Western States
Mr.. Sullivan says he has already paid 20 per
cent in dividends since he took charge, and
could pay more now. 1t is his business to
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
AN UNPLEDGED DELEGATION.

THE CALL favors an unpledged delega-
ton from California to the st. Louis con-
yentiop. 1t is not opposed to Mckinley,
Reed. Allison. CuNom, Morton or any
other leader of the party. 1t has no can
didate. 1t seeks to advance no one Repub-
lican leader at the expense of another. 1t
is opposed to none of the great men who
have been named for the high Office of
President of the United States by the Re-
publican party. 1t will support Loyalty
and vigorously any one of them who may
receive the nomination at st. Louis. For
that reason it stands to-day and will stand
all the time in favor of California sending
an unpledged delegation to that conven-
ton.
The arguments in favor of an unpledged
delegation are many. A National conven-
ton to nominate President Of the United
States should be deliberative body. This
Is true in all cases and under all circum-
stances, but it will be particularly so at the
st. Louis convention, since it is evident
that the man nominated at that conven-
ton will be the next President of the
United States. The men who are to take
part in his nomination should be left free
to consider which is the most available,
which is the most likely to serve the inter
ests OF the whole people, and in our par
ticular case, which will be the most likely
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Pacific Coast.
California has no interests opposed to
the Nation, but she hasinterests peculiarly
her own which are unknown to the Nation
at large, and which must, therefore, be
advocated by her own people. 1t is for
that reason that her delegation to the con-
vention at st. Louis should be unpledged
to any particular candidate and left free to
advance her interests as best they can.
1t is clear that if our delegation should
be sent with its hands tied, pledged to
some particular man, it would be re-
garded as antagonistlc to every other can
didate before the convention. California
does not wish to appear in that aspect to
the Republicans of her sister States. She
wishes to appear to stand as she does stand,
pledged to any candidate who may be
nominated at the convention. 1t is to her
advantage. therefore, and due to her posi-
ton in the Union to send to st. Louis a
delegation pledged to nothing beyond the
great principles of the party and cordial
sunDOrt Of IFS chosen 1aadar
California should have delegation of
strong men, men of resource, men OF
ability, men OF brains. men who know her
interests and will defend them, and make
them recognized at the National Conven.
ton. 1t is such delegation as that which
The CALL supports, and we urge the CO.
operation of Republicans throughout the
State to assist US IN the work of sending
10 the st. Louis convention delegation
pledged only to the Republican party and
whichever leader it nominates for the next
President of the United States.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
THE CHAMBERS APPEAL.

The letter add ressed by the San Fran
cisco Chamber of Commerce to Speaker
Reed of the House of Representatives is
firm and digniied reminder OF that states
mans duty with respect to the Nicaragua
canal bill. 1t calls the Speakers atten-
tion to the fact that both political parties
have indorsed the canal scheme, that the
subject has been before several Congresses
and is now thoroughly understood, and
that he bears the responsibility of action
on the bill pending in the House of Repre-
sentatives. He Is given politely to under
stand that he is expected to give the
House an opportunity TO vote on the meas
ure. The most interesting part of the let
ter is this:
THE development of our commerce, our
industries, our international influence, our
political and military safety. all demand
It's prompt construction under control of
our Government. 1t will no more iniure
vested interests than the Erie canal or the
st. Mary's canal, both connecting the
Great Lakes. On the contrary, like them,
it will create rapid development on the
west coast of the United States, which
will ard inland transportation interests.
1t will rapidly increase our merchant
marine and open the Pacific Ocean 10 the
Mississippi Valley and to our Gulf States"
The obvious meaning of this paragraph
is that the overland railroads, which con-
troll the opposition to the canal bill, are
lighting it in fear that by crippling the
monopoly which they enjoy the canal
will decrease their earning capacity. The
fallacy of that fear is clearly indicated in
the letter, and the statement therein
made has always been the contention of
progressive Californians. 1t stands to
reason that cheap and slow route to the
great markets of the world for low-grade
products and those in which haste of ship
ment IS unnecessary would stimulate the
production of articles requiring haste in
forwarding. 1t Is on these latter that the
best profits are made by all connected
with them-producers, transporters and
dealers. AS it is, without any such outlet
as the Nicaragua canal, the overland roads
have to carry all the grades, and as the
freight charges on w-grade products are
above figure that encourages their pro-
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
CALIFORNIANS In NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, n. Y, April 15.-At the Hoff-
man. c. a. Davis: Grand Union, ]. B. Eldridge
Coleman, H. II. Lang and wife; Belvedere, 81.
Bowen, Mrs. W. Bowen; Everett Mr.. Sims;
Savoy, A. Galland; Netherland, j. L. Hellman
and wife, F. Hellman, Miss Hellman. Sailed
on the steamship New York for southampton
Mrs. Paul Cowles, Miss B. Ursula Green, Mr..
and Mrs. Hawber, Miss Heyneman, Mrs. Denis
OSullivan and infant, Mrs. l.. NJ. Thompson,
Miss L. l. Thompson, M. ]. Thompson and
w Fl Wright
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
A VERY PRETTY WAIST.

The long shoulder seems OF the 1880 period
have had decided effect on the modes OF this
season. One OF the most charming models is
shown here. The effect is best when two
materials are used-one for the sleeves and the
under-waist, another for the body. Or the
sleeves may be of the goods like the body if
preferred, using contrasting goods only for the
under-body, which is visible at the top in V
shape both back and front. Ii one fabric is
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
Gross Mismanagement.

When the manager of a big business estab-
lishment neglects his duties the bad example
is quickly followed by those of his subordn-
ates who have an opportunity to do SO. The
Government is the biggest business establish
ment on this continent, and the President is
Its general manager-mismanage he has been
since March 4, 1893
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16

IMPORTANT CHANGE OF TIAIE.-The 18th inst
the Northern Pacific Railroad inaugurated double
daily passenger service between Portland and St
Paul. making saving Of ten hours between Port
land and Chicago. These are the fastest and finest
equipped trains that ever run out of the Pa
cific Northwest. The superior accommodations in
our passenger equipment recommend our line to
all. Ours is the only line that runs diuing-cars out
of Portland T. K. STATELER, general agent
638 Market street. San Francisco.