The San Francisco call., 1896-12-31

EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 80, "a Park Row. New York City
DAVID NJ. FOLTz, Eastern Manager.
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HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Good-by, '96.
New illuminations every night.
"Polk Street and Progress" is the latest
cry.
Before long we shall see everything in
town in q new light.
This is the last day to try it on. To-
morrow you must swear off.
There is nothing teacher likes so much
as chance to educate another teacher.
Sacramento River improvement is big
enough undertaking to be made National
issue.
This will be known as the year when
free-trade foolishness died out of Ameri-
can politics.
The only heroic course left for Spain
and Turkey is to form an alliance and
whip the world.
T re reported sinking of the island of
JuaA Fernandez is not necessarily hshy
because it is a sea tale
We have lighted the streets this year
and next year we will see clearly how to
improve them in other ways.
The report OF the Code Commission has
made its little noise, and before long we
shall know how it struck the people.
California constructed more miles of
railway this year than any other State in
the Union. We can score one for that.
The bank failures in the lake States are
bad, but fortunately the evil Is not spread
ing. The rest of the Onion is all right.
The realizations of the year have been
greater than the disappointments. We
are more hopeful people than we were.
The memorial of the Committee of Fifty
opens up an old story, but it is one of the
chestnut burrs that needed to be opened.
Cleveland may regard Olney as an ex
FOUNDER of the constitution, but the
Senators seem to think he is simply slog-
ging at it.
If the appropriation for deep-water
harbor goes 10 Santa Monica It will be
because of some deeper current than is
known to the sea.
The report that General Bradley is tired |
OF being Governor OF Kentucky probably !
means no more than an increased activity |
in his desire to be sent to the Senate for
rest.
Ii Hung Chang is to write a book about |
us, and it goes without saying be will |
strip the last peacock feather from our |
National vanity before he gets through |
with US.
Business streets that do not supply |
themselves with better illuminations Will |
soon be in the cold as well as in the dark. |
Trade will not be warm anywhere outside |
the bright area.
Having decided in the Bacchante case |
that her art is superior to her morals Bos-
ton is now trying to suppress Sunday con-
certs to show the world that her morals |
are superior to her music.
The organic ization of Chinese revolu- |
tlonary junta in Chicago adds another |
kink to the fame of the Windy City. 1t |
will soon become known as the political |
storm center of the world.
1t is not clear whether the walking con-
test at st. Louis is to be regarded as a re-
vival of an old sport or only another evil |
dence that st. Louis has not yet got be- |
yond that stage OF development,
A Chicago naturalist asserts there are
forty-seven different kinds of feas in the |
world and now let US hope some inventor |
of that enterprising city will devise forty |
seven different ways of catching them. Il
Representatives of the cotton-growers |
of the South nave gone to Washington to |
ask for protection against the importa- !
ton of cotton from Egypt. There is no
longer any sectionalism on the tariff ques- |
ton.
The Pacific Coast Commercial Travellers |
Association is not only long in its name,
but has no shortness anywhere. The re-
port for the year shows an increase of
members hip and also of funds. Long life |
TO it.
AS the Emperor of japan has recently
bestowed upon the President of France
the insignia of the Order of the Chrysan-
themum, he ought to give our Grover the
order of lacquer work when be goes out of
Office.
Philadelphia has once more justified her
claim to the title of "The City of Homes
by affording a market this year for up
ward of 100000 Christmas trees. 1t would
seem she might as weuywnirl in and adopt
old Santa Claus as patron saint.
All the representatives of American in
dustry who have appeared before the
tariff-makers at Washington have asked |
for specific duties on imports. The ad
valorem crank hasn't been able to grind |
out even so much as single speech.
The sidewalk ordinance will prove of