The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

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BRANCH OFFICES:
$50 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until
$50 O'Clock
$40 Hayes street; open until $50 o'clock.
713 Lsrkin street; open until 80 o'clock
sw corner sixteenth and Mission streetsi open
until o'clock.
25lS Mission street; open until o'clock
lie Ninth street; open until O'CLOCK
OAKLAND OFFICE:
EOS Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and go, "a Park Row. New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTz, Special Agent
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY %, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The street-sprinkling problem is begin
ming to look dusty.
Civilization in this country can do al
most everything except clean q street.
"
Huntington forgot much during the
week, but he will remember the rest day.
It would be good idea for Mrs. Grundy
to abstain from the Brown trial during
Lent.
The only things that are going along
steadily in Congress are talk, time and sal
aries.
The celebrations of yesterday were good,
but we should make them more general
next time.
Some scientist had better turn Roent-
., NJ
in ii at once.
There is a growing suspicion that the
rain is waiting for the festivals to begin
before it drops in.
Huntington, Fitzsimmons and Kaiser
William will have to fight it out to decide
which owns the earth.
In the glory OF the celebrations let us
hope that no one overlooked the memory
of George Washington.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage
breast, but the gentle sex RACES over it
when PadeTewski is around.
Politics are lively and war is threaten
Ing, but somehow science manages to fur
nish all the sensational news.
Now as for those kinetoscope fellows who
went to Ell Paso to get the Fitzsimmons
and Maher fght-what do they think7
The bicycle clubs are making a good
fight for better streets. but who is going
to make the fight to have them kept clean
Through the general boasting over our
delightful weather there can be heard the
low murmur of the farmers praying for
rain.
We are going to have a strictly protec-
tive tariff campaign this year and free
trade won't be in it at any time from start
to finish.
So long as our thoroughfares remain in
the present condition no one in San Fran
cisco can be accused of trampling on i'm
provements.
1t is easier for the average American to
seize two opportunities in spite of fate
than to take one holiday even when it is
offered to him:
When Paderewski was in the East we
made fun of the enthusiasm over his play
ing, but now that he is with us we have
learned something.
The British have at last made up their
minds that they would rather take the
Monroe doctrine as pill than to get it in
the form OF powder.
If Nansen expects to be as big man as
Roentgen when he gets back he must not
only find the north pole, but the
"Symmes hole'' as well.
Between the Board of Health and Board
OF Education there is prospect of a war
that will be neither healthy for the one
nor instructive for the other.
1t is now charged that the Buckleyites
intend not only to ruin the City but to
spoil the Iroquois banquet, and thus does
inlquity increase at fearful rate.
Washington's farewell address warning
the people against party spirit comes ap.
propriately at the beginning of Lent, and
OF course society will give up parties.
Last week brought US many good things
but none better than the decision of Judge
Nallace sustaining the poolroou ordi.
nance. The City is becoming purified.
The French Senate has decided to leave
the dispute with the Chamber of Deputies
to the arbitration of the people, and ou1
Senate might proftably follow the ex.
ample.
1t seems to have been with the Roentger
ray as with so many other great discover.
les. Lots Of people saw it before the man
who got the credit of it, but they didn't
know it.
The Merchants Association certainly
cannot be expected to pay the cost OF
street sprinkling forever. They have
shown how it should be done, and now
the City should do it.
From the way the street railways are
working it would seem that when Mana
ger Vining is not enforcing some old way