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The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
PERSONAL.

d. 7. Perkins of Hueneme is In the City.
K. Nordenfelt of Minneapolis is at the Co.'S
mopolitan.
E. X. Stevenot, a mining engineer of Sonoma,
is on visit here.
Among the arrivals at the Palace is George
E. Woodhead of the Isle of Man.
Colonel Ironside Bax of England is at the
Palace accompanied by Mrs. Bax.
G. R. Eckart. mining and business man oi
Marysville, arrived here yesterday.
John Garwood, one of the weil-known bust.
ness men of Stockton, is at the Grand
Frank Mclaughlin, hotel man from Goshen
Tulare County, is at the Cosmopolitan.
Senator Alexander J. McCone of Virginia CITY.
New, is among the arrivals at the Occidental.
I. W. Peyton, business man of Spokane.
Wash, was among yesterdays arrivals at the
Palace.
H. H. Welsh, lawyer Of Fresno, is guest OF
his friend, Major William Fahey, proprietor OF
the Cosmopolitan.
A. 81. Barr of Galatians Ranch, and of the
general merchandising house of the Denny
Barr Co.. Callahans Ranch and Etna, is in the
City on business trip.
A. d. Remington, the wealthy paper-manu.
facturer of Watertown, N Y, who formerly
was proprietor of the Evening Post this City,
arrived here yesterday, and is at the Palace.
District Attorney N. B. Gillis OF Yreka, one OF
the ablest and best-known men of Northern
California, is at the Grand. The District AT.
torney is reputed to have large wealth, it con-
sisting in part of various mining interests.
z. w. Burnham of Chico, and formerly OF
the general merchandising firm OF Tickner
burnham d Co. of that city, one of the larg.
est north OF sacramento, is in the City. Mr.
Burnham's old firm having been dissolved he
is now extensively engaged in the wool and
grain business.
James P. Booth of the Daily Report who has
been very i'll with typhoid fever for good
part OF the time since early in January, is able
to be around once more. Two weeks ago he
left DR.. Lanes hospital and has since been
visiting at the residence of his brother, Attor.
ney Booth, in Berkeley. Journalist Booth was
at the Press Club day or two ago, it being the
first time for months
Ex-Sheriff B. F. Walker of Yreka, who for a
number OF years has been interested in gold
mines and cattle-growing, and who since the
expiration OF his Office as Sheriff of Sisk,you
County has also become interested in the drug
business, was among Yesterdays arrivals here
He is yet scarcely 40 years old, but has lived
for most of his life in Northern California,
The ex-Sherif is here on business trip.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
POLITICAL WISDOM.

For California TO send pledged delega-
ton to the st. Louis convention would be
a political blunder. Wisdom demands
that our delegation to that great National
gathering should be made up of strong
men unpledged, untrammeled and Tree. To
these conclusions nearly every Republican
has come who has given the subject the
consideration it deserves. The press has
in many instances declared 1t. Earnest
members of the party in interviews pub
lished in THE CALL have indorsed 1t.
Leaders of the party have urged 1T. In
fact, it may now be announced as the pre-
vailing sentiment of the party throughout
the State, and there can be little doubt the
convention will act in accordance with it.
The dominant factor involved in the
question was well expressed in commun-
ication published in THE CALL yesterday
from General Chapman in these words:
The Pacific Coast has never received just
recognition by any administration. 1t is en-
titled by reason of its varied and important
industries, by reason of its location on the
map as the western entrance to our continent,
by reason of its contribution to the wealth OF
the Nation and its promise OF future greatness,
to Cabinet office, at least. BY wise counsels
and harmonious action believe we can secure
this very important and very proper recogni-
ton from the next administration
ii we instruct for A or for B, we go with our
hands tied. We sink every opportunity to
urge the cause of silver, we leave entirely to
chance the hope OF obtaining place in the
Cabinet counsels, we push aside the peculiar
wants and demands of our region, and we
thus declare the man to be our paramount
object and all other things subordinate.
No man, as General Chipman points out,
can at this time forecast what will be the
situation at ST. Louis when the convention
assemblies. If we at the State Convention
pledge our delegates to particular man
we will be taking leap in the dark. We
will be depriving California Republicans
of all power to take an influential part in
the deliberations of the National assembly.
The folly of such course is now becom-
ing generally recognized even by the
stanchest friends of particular candidates
Irving NJ. Scott, a strong supporter of Nc
Kinley, is in accord with the ablest advo-
Gates of other candidates on this point. 81
believe he says, ''that the best interests
of the State can be subserved by sending
an unpledged delegation to st. Louis. )"
That is the way it goes everywhere. Cali
fornians are beginning to stand up for
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
FIXING FREIGHT RATES.

There is no surprise that the managers
OF the San Francisco and San joaquin Val
ley Railroad have employed an able traffic
manager and instructed him to prepare a
schedule of freight charges that will serve
to pay an income OF 6 per cent on the in
vestment in the road. Still, the idea is so
novel in the conduct of railroad matters in
California that it has necessarily attracted
surprised attention. 1t is to be observed
that neither the competition offered by the
Southern Pacific Company nor thespropo-
sition of charging "all the traffic will
bear" in those places where the competi-
ton will not be encountered is cutting any
figure in the plan of the Valley road. 1t
is going ahead on the simple business
proposition of securing a reasonable re-
turn on its investment. 1t is impossible
to encounter antagonism on such a basis
as that.
1t may be assumed that the schedules
first put in operation will be calculated on
uncertain data and that an allowance on
the side of safety may be made on that ac-
count. The managers cannot ascertain
definitely beforehand the volume of traffic
which they will obtain. They owe it to
the shareholders and to prospective bond
purchasers to make the rates safe while
placing them below the figures to which
the shippers have been accustomed. AS
the road is extended the amount of traffic
per mile will increase, and this will lead
to a reduction from the first rate.
After that will come denser settlement
encouraged by the lower rates, and this
will add constantly and increasingly to the
volume of business. The policy of operat-
ing the road so as to secure only fair
return on the investment will necessitate
steadily decreasing rates, so that the
factor operating to the development of the
section will be progressive in its tendency.
It will not be possible for the Southern
Pacific to pursue it's old tactics of cutting
rates for the purpose of crushing opposi-
ton. Not only is the opposition too
strong for that, but the Southern Pacific
Company's suit against the proposed
reduction ordered by the California Rail-
road Commission has tied its hands.
In time the Valley road will come to be
regarded as the pioneer in a movement on
the part of capitalists to respect the grow
ing sentiment that money is entitled only
to fair return on the amount of its invest
ment in enterprises which bear a vital
relation to the public welfare. 1t is the
contempt with which this just principle
has been treated by capitalists that has
given rise to the movement for bringing
railroads, telegraphs, water supplies and
the like under government ownership. A
few such examples as that set by the
Valley road would check a movement
engendering bitterness and threatening
vested rights.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Frederick Lux, ''The Princess of Athens" has
met with equal favor at the Municipal Theater
of Mayance.
Isidore De Lara's "Amy Robsart," which
has already been played with a success OF
esteem at Covent Garden, and which created
quite Juror at Monte Carlo. has just been
produced at the Pergola Theater, Florence.
De Lara was called before the curtain twenty
times. In this country he is little known,
except as q song composer, his Garden OF
Sleep being about his favorite song.
Certain theaters in Italy seem to be beating
the record in giving the audience its money 8
worth. in quantity at least Neapolitan
newspaper, II Cigno, states that on the sth
inst. at the Theater Del Fiorentini. the spec
tators were treated to "Norma" and "u Tro-
yotore" Begun at O'Clock, this solid and sub
stantial entertainment lasted till long after
midnight. Nine. Calderazzi played, one after
the other, the two roles of Norma and LeoEora.
Poor Nine. Calderazzi!
The German poet. Otto Roquette, has just
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.

Frau Clara Schumann is reported to be dying
from stroke of apoplexy. The great pianiste
is one OF the noblest women that have ever
adorned the musical profession, and her loss
VIII be deeply deplored, not only at Frankfort
on-the-Mafn. where she has resided since 1878,
but also wherever the music of Robert Schu-
mann is appreciated and loved. The history of
Clara's life, and her wifely devotion to her
unfortunate husband are almost too we'll
known to need repetition. She was the
daughter of Professor Week, who abso-
lutely refused to countenance the dreamy,
romantic Robert Schumann as proba-
ole son-in-law, though he had been so
impressed by the talent of Schumann that he
himself. had advised him to take up m usic as a
career. The young people finally married in
spite of the professor. After poor Schumann's
insanity and death, Clara devoted her talen Is
to making his works known and appreciated by
the public, and his popularity to-day is largely
due to her brilliant and sympathetic playing.
Since 1878, when Nine. Schumann took up her
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.

Sailed per steamship Paris for Southampton:
Claus Spreckels, Mrs. Spreckels, Miss Spreck-
els and maid and r. J. Techan.
Atthe Grand Union-Mrs. Duncan, C. NJ. Cor
ham; Murray HID H. Goodsell; Bruins
wick-W. Nj. Randall; Westminster-W. r.
Hobbs.
Sailed per steamship Augusta Victoria for
Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg: Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Bier, Mrs. M. Ehrman, Miss
Annie 4. Ehrman, M. Ehrman, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. Gailaud, Miss Flora Gallaud, Miss Selma
Gallaud, A. $. Crump, William Goeggel, Mrs.
Goeggel, Edward Goeggel Miss Gladys Goeg-
gel, William Haas, Mrs. Haas and maid, Miss
Fiorine Haas, Miss Alice Haas, Charles Haas,
|. w. Hellman, Mrs. Hellman and maid, Miss
Clara Hellman, Miss Florence Hellman, Mrs.
Isaac Hecht and maid, Miss Helen Hecht, Miss
Elsie Hecht, Henry Meyer, Mrs. Meyer and
child, Miss Edna Meyer and maid, Julian
Meyer, Miss Anna Simon and H. F. Stolz.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

of checked or plaid goods. One of blue with
broken blue ana white check for the skirt, had
no buttonholes, but on either side several tiny
gilt buttons, and was worn with gilt belt
hunters green cloth jacket had a skirt OF
mixed cheviot that toned in beautifully.
Shirt waists are worn for general use, but
there is an innovation this season in the shape
of exquisitely dainty vests of lace to be worn
with tallormGde costumes. These are gener-
ally made on a body of cambric partially fitted.
The woman who cherishes her pretty jacket
lining puts sleeves in this under-waist.
The skirts made specially to wear with these
jackets are well gored to ensure lasting
shape. They are moderately wide usually, not
more than six yards round, and generally less
than this.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

died at Darmstadt, aged 72 years. He was the
descendant of q Huguenot family, which took
refuge in Prussia after the revocation of the
Edict of Nantes. RoQuette was the lfbrettist
of Franz Liszt, to whom he furnished the words
for 1.-The Legend of Saint Elizabeth" an ora
torio which is often played with a scenic
arrangement in German theaters.
The Ziiani Choral Society has been for some
time rehearsing Verdi's "Ernani,"' and the
work is shortly to be given in public with
number of popular dilettanti OF the Italian
colony as soloists.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
THE SERENADER

saw a gallant cavalier,
In raiment rich and rare,
With gems Arranging from his cloak
And twinkling in his hair.
Ihey glittered as he swept along,
million sparks of flame,
And then methought heard his voice
A-singing as he came.
He lightly Lhrummed mandolin,
Its tones right cheerily rang,
Like raindrops pattering on the caves,
And this is what he sang:
"Heigho! Demoiselle Daisy,
Loosen your wimple white.
Heigho! Violet darling,
open your blue eyes bright.
Heigho! grasses and leaflets,
Hear you my tender call?
Heigho! come, pretty Mayflower,
You are the shyest OF all.
Heyday. come, Pussy Willow,
Wrapped in your hood Of fur.
Heyday, come, Daffodilly,
Prithee arouse and sir.
Heyday, gone are the snowdrifts,
Gone is the biting blast.
Heyday, wake pretty maidens,
Summer is coming at last
A hundred pretty heads peeped out
To hear the gentle sound;
A hundred pretty heads peeped out
Above the frozen ground.
de hung his jewels DER them all,
A crown of heatless flames,
A fascinating cavalier
To wake a hundred danes
"Who are you, sir?" / anxious cried.
1 tain would learn your power"
The serenader laughed and said,
"My name is April shower"
Youths Companion.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
CURRENT HUMoR.

"My girl gave me the marble heart last
night" said the single one.
''Your woe is naught to mine," said the mar
ried one. 'It has not been two hours since nv
wife gave me the marble cake, of her own max.
ing. ng."-Indianapolis Journal
Ferry-Why don't you get married? Don't
say you can't stand the expense. That excuse
is too thin.
HargreaVes-I could stand the expense well
enough, but the girls father says he can't
Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Naw, the world is not getting a bit
smarter" said the aged gentleman. "My
grandson asks exactly the same ridiculous
questions that his father did at his age."-In.
dianapolis Journal.
"If women get into politics." says the Mana.
yunk Philosopher, 'they won't throw mud,
anyway; and, even If they did, they wouldn't
hit thing. ."-Philadelphia Record.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Another of Queen Victoria's servants re-
Gently passed at the good old age of 81. He
was her Majesty's herdsman at the home farm,
and he could remember the alterations being
made in the castle in the reign of George III
He had worked for four sovereigns in success
sion, and would tell with pleasure the story of
how he saw the Blues leave the Windsor bar
racks Tor Waterloo.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

IMPORTANT CHANGE OF TIME-The 10Th FMS,
the Northern Pacific Railroad inaugurated double
daily passenger service between Portland and 81
Paul, making saving of ten hours between port
iano ana chicago These are the fastest and finest
EQUIPPED trains that ever were run out OF the Pa
cific Northwest. The superior accommoda alton. in
our passenger equipment recommend our line IA
ALL Ours is the only line that runs dningcars out
OF Portland I. K. STATELER, general agent.
63S Market street. San Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

bis life that should not only recognize the
brotherhood of man, but demonstrate his
thorough honesty of purpose by acts that
were all in harmony with his high aim
and purpose. Yes, the world is better off
IN every way for Baron Maurice de Hirsch
having lived in it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Vincent Ray, Chippewa Indian, who died
the other day in Superior, Wis, left an estate
of $4,000.
Harry Furniss, the cartoonist of London
Punch is coming to lecture in the United
States this fall.
When Thomas B. Reed graduated from
Bowdoin College his Grafton took the first
English prize. His subject was ''The Fear-oI
Death.''
Bishop Hamilton of Niagara, who has been
chosen the first Bishop of the new diocese of
Ottawa in Canada is about 60 years old and a
graduate of Oxford.
Nine. Melba. the celebrated singer, lives
at Paris in beautiful mansion in the Rue de
Pronoy. The house is furnished with exouis-
ite copies of the furnishings with which the
Trianon was fitted for Marie Antoinette.
William H. Nourse of Boston. who was a
member of the Nile expedition of 1885 thinks
that General Kitchener is the greatest living
fighter of Arabs. He knows their language
and the customs, religious and social and is
able to go among them in disguise with i'm
punity.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

A commercial traveller from Marseilles, to
whom was shown the house at Besancon
where Victor Hugo was born, exclaimed con-
temptuously: "That tumble-down piacel All,
If he'd been born in Marseilles it would have
been something like housep'
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Judging from results prediction bureaus
seem to be operated very largely on the
principle of the Weather Bureau.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Los Angeles is as gay as if she were hav-
ing frolic OF angels amid aurora borealis
decorations.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

There is ahrdly likely to be a union be-
tween Democrats and Populists, but there
may be conspiracy.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

The California miner is liable to lose
more than his name when he becomes an
Alaskan miner.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

THE CALL is playing no favorite at st.
Louis; the field is good enough so long as
California interests are at stake.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Democracy has not only lost its head
but is in danger of losing Texas.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

The majority report of the Pacific Roads
Committee might just as well be dropped
into waste-paper basket without any
further fuss.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

STRANGERS, take home Townsend's California
Glace Fruits, SOC Id. 627 Market, Palace Hotel.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

1t is not the Hebrews only, but the peo-
pie of all the world who have suffered a
loss in the death of Baron de Hirsch.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

AS the Valley road goes forward in Cali
fornia the cinch of the Southern Pacific of
Kentucky goes steadily backward.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

There is possibility that England may
find in Africa what Spain struck in Cuba.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Why should our delegation to the St
Louis convention sacrifice the chance to
get a Cabinet officer for chance to ge,
nothing?
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

The Republican party of California as
an organized body has no favorite and no
antagonist among the candidates to ap-
pear before the convention at ST. Louis,
and will send there delegation pledged
TO carry the State for whoever is nomi-
mated.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Teacher-Gracious, child, but you are stupidI
You'll never learn anything, and then you'll
die bad man!
Little Mickey-Teacher, nom. Me father read
in a book last night that all great men didn't
mount to much when dey wus school kids
Pniladelphia North American
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Congress had better pass the appropria-
ton bills and leave everything else until
after the people have spoken in November.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

General Weyler's trocha promises to add
a word to our language even if it adds
nothing to his reputation.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

In the San Joaquin they are beginning
to laugh at monopoly.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

The Los Angeles man finds his hat as
useful as ever to talk through, but he can
not wear it any more.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

The Morgan report struck the funding
bill lobby like an explosion of dynamite.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

If Populism has the nerve to make a
straight fight this year it will come very
near wiping Democracy off the face of the
West.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

ENGLISH ANK HoLIDAYs-J. S. N, Oakland,
and Whitsun Monday are legal bank holidays.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

An investigation of the bond deals may
not expose fraud, but it will nevertheless
be worth while to lift the mask off and let
the people see what is under it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

THE chief reason for the marvellous success Of
Hoods Sarsaparilla is found in the medicine tsel,
1t is merit that wins. IT stands to-day unequaled
for purifying the blood.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Smalley says we may have war with
England, but it is only a smallish scare.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

The New England Democrats have been
the first of their party to get Russell on
for Presidential candidate.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

The Senate made good record in war
talk and ought to make better one in
providing for coast defenses in case the
next war talk should happen 20 mean war.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
WHAT "THE CALL" DOES.
Seattle Ara,,s

AfSU5.
me San Francisco Daily CALL is working up
an immense circulation in Seattle and vicinity.
IHE CALL prints the news, all the news, and
puts 1t in such shape that it can be read.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Competition has settled the monopoly
problem in the San Joaquin and eventu.
ally the same means will be used to settle
it throughout the State.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

If the posing of Kelly and Mahoney as
Republican leaders in the Fourth Con-
gressional District were not farce it would
be an insult.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

If Senator Morgan is IN search of health
he had better come TO California, where
everybody is ready 10 pledge it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

FoK COUGHS, ASTHMA AND THROAT DIsoRpERs
sro'ozIs bronchial Iroches" are an eifectual rem
edy. Sold only in boxes.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

WHEN III with pains and exhaustion PARKER,s
GINGER Tonic is your surest relief.
PARKERis HAIR BALsAM aids the hair orou,th
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

STATES IN THE UNIoN-J. E. ]. Thirty-two
States have been admitted to the original
union of thirteen so there are now forty-fiye
States In the Union and six Territories.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

AS nearly every intelligent man in San
Francisco knows the position and conui-
ton of Kelly and Mahoney it is easy to es-
innate the character of those who follow
them.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

NOTHING contributes more toward a sound d.
gesuon than the use Of DR.. siegert's Angosturs
Bitters, the celebrated appetizer
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Nor ExEMPT-F. Nc, City. Greenbaeks are
not exempt from taxation. If you deposit
greenbacks in bank they are treated as SO
much coin
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

BERING SEA CLAIMs-J. A. R., City. The
United States refused to pay the Ber1ng Sea
claims on the ground that it is opposed to pay
ing for anything but actual damages, and will
not pay consequential damages.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

The great central transcontinental road
must be saved 20 the American people
and not be permitted to fall beyond con-
troll into the hands of monopolists and
foreign bondholders.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Governor Russell of Massachusetts, is Democ-
racy's Little Lord Fauntleroy.-New York Re-
corder.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

1t is never safe to count on SouthernlRe.
publican delegate during the watermelon sea.
son.-Atlanta Constitution.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Streetcars in Boston move so slowly and
get blockaded SO often that correspond
ent OF the Journal of that city has started
an agitation to have them provided with
Libraries for the amusement of the pas
sengers.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

Herr Bebel told the Reichstag the truth
when he said the imperial decree making
the duel obligatory in the German army
in the settlement of quarrels was unwor-
thy of a cultured state.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23

MINING CLAIMs-There is no law in regard to
the location of mining claims than that which
has been in operation for several years. No
new law went into effect last July, as suggested
by the communication sent by you.