The San Francisco call., 1896-07-20

rived at the Palace last night in order to be
present at the conference OF railroad men, to
which Tom Mckay has come from Japan as
particularly interested party.
H. Y. Spyke, the wealthy traveller from Hol-
land who had never heard OF Corbett, left the
California yesterday for a six weeks bicycle
trip to San Diego, after which, barring acci-
dents, for he knows very little about riding, he
proposes to return to this City, as he has taken
rented wheel from here.
Richard Gray, general traffic manager of the
Southern Pacific Company. now on his second
years leave of absence or half pay, or $4,000
year, is on farm in Lake County, suffering
from palsy, which has recently affected the
muscles OF his face and throat. 1t is feared he
official position.
Captain NJ. V. Lancaster OF Shanghai came
from the Orient on the China and registered
at the Occidental yesterday. He is an old sea
captain and is on his way to Glasgow to rake
new steamship out to Yokohama, to be used in
the trade between that port and Hongkong.
Captain Lancaster was here twenty-five years
ago, and viii spend several days in this City
looking up old acquaintances.
Lieutenant A. Bontakoff and Lieutenant S.
Talieff. officers of the Russian navy, arrived at
the Occidental yesterday with the passengers
who came in on the China. They have been
on duty in China, Korea and Japan. and were
recently stationed at Vladivostok. on the
Siberian coast, but are now on their way TO st.
Petersburg, having chosen the longer way
home as q sort OF pleasure trip.
George w. Reith, an Englishman who has
lived for some time in Singapore, was pas
senger by the China and registered yesterday
at the Occidental. where he will remain few
days before resuming his journey to England.
He spent several months visiting the Dutch
colonies in the East Indies, all of which he
says export only to Holland and keep their
ports closed to other commerce.
Sho Nemoto, special commissioner from
japan TO investigate Mexican, Central Ameri-
can and South American commercial pros
poets, with a view TO the extension of Japanese
shipping, arrived from Japan yesterday with
j. Kusakado, who is going to Mexico to con-
summate the purchase of 100000 acres, near
the southwest coast. for the Japanese Coloniza-
ton Society. They are at the Occidental.
s. Mas of Baltimore returned yesterday
from his third visit to Japan and China, and
took room at the Occidental. He says:
'This fear of japanese competition is all rot
One American can do as much work as six
Jsps Their $40 bicycles are not half as good
as those sold in America for $50. In cotton
goods they never will be init with u.s. They are
greater than we are in only one thing, and
that is in ourios, but in what they do excel
they can gain only in small sums
W. R. Madison, originally OF this City but
for some time secretary to T. d. Mckay at
Yokohama, arrived at the Occidental yester-
day. He brought with him q handsome
silver trophy, won in Yokohama by a former
member of the Reliance Wheelmen of Oakland.
1t is large goblet-shaped cup, with chrysan-
themums beautifully wrought upon the outer
surface in bold relief. Upon the cup is this
inscription: "Presented by w. S. Stone to C.
II. Balm, winner of ten.mile bicycle race.
Yokohama. March z, 1896" Balm is the can
tain Of the Reliance Wheelmen of Yokohama.
which he organized. The cup he has sent to
his father, Robert B. Balm of 1s California
street.
Thomas d. Mckay, general passenger agent
at Yokohama, Japan, of the Occidental and
Oriental Steamship Company, Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, the Union Pacific Rail-
road and the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
way, is at the Occidental, having arrived from
Japan yesterday on the China, which broke
sll previous records from Honolulu to San
Francisco this trip, covering the distance in 5
days IL hours ana IL minutes. Mr.. Mckay
vigorously denies that his visit here and the
prospective conference of railroad magnates
to be held in this City to-day or tomorrow are
occasioned by even the slightest dissatisfac-
ton on the part of the various companies he
represents with the manner in which he has
transacted their business and solicited passen.
gers for this port in competition with the
Canadian Pacific.
Arthur ]. Mundy, manager of the ]. B. Mil
let Publishing Company of Boston, Mass, re-
turned from Japan yesterday with his wife
and took rooms at the Occidental. The pur-
pose OF his visit to Japan was to grange for
the publication of a very elaborate popu.
lar work on Japan, compiled by the
Jaranese themselves. He engaged the
services of thirty or forty Japanese
literary persons to furnish the descrip-
tive material and employed artists to
make paintings on silk, to do fine LACQUER
work and superfine lace embroidery, all OF
which will be used in the first edition of the
work, which is intended to reflect Japan as it
is. He also made 8 contract for 800 600 colored
photographs, sx10 inches, $50 of which will
be used in illustrating each set of the books.
which will be in ten volumes Something of
the elaborateness of the work may be imagined
from the fact that $4,000 will be charged for
each set in the first edition of fifty. The Sec
ond ana third editions will be $1,000 and
$3.50, but will not be so elaborstely embellished
with hand painting and artistic work
manship. Captain F. Brinkley, editor of
the Japan Mail, the leading English
paper of Japan, win be supervising editor
The book will be resdy for the market about
next February.