New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-02
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
FRIGHTENED BY FREE sILVER-TAAA-
TION-PERSONAL AND GENERAL"
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effects of free silver coinage should Bryan he
elected and should he call an extra session OF
Congress Immediately after his Inauguration
has had a serious effect upon the confidence or
depositors in commercial and savings banks
The bankers refuse to talk for publication. but II
is well known that steady drain OF gold, espe
cially on the savings banks. has set in ana that
these depostors placing their coin IN the SAFE
deposit companies vaults. If this boarding OF
gold goes on for several months II Will bring sew
erai of the banks very near to the danger me.
None Of the savings banks are making any large
loans even on gt-edged city real estate In
fact business is practically stagnant. as no one
knows what the year will bring forth AS re-
suit OF this timidity of bank managers real
estate is dead. no one can get money Tor pui'o-
,re and tho outlook for good returns from rents
Ia gloomy
Though many are clamoring for silver there
are evidences on every hand that the present de-
preston is due largely TO the withdrawal OF pro-
lection. This week the machinery Of the Pacific
wooen Mills has been taken out for shipment
10 japan. These mills for years turned out
blankets that were well known all over the couh-
try. hut two years ago they were forced to shut
down "a with the high wages paid here they
could not compete with English and Australian
woollen goods Wool which formerly brought III
good profit to the sheep-growers. is now drug
in the market and thousands of pounds are lHlpg
stored on ranches. because at present prices Wool
will not pay the cost of transportation IL is such
facts as these that relied upon to secure votes
in California for Mckinley. despite the glamour
Of the silver craze.
The agitation over the excessive taxes or last
wear and ths. demand made by officials for an in
creased amount for the coming year, has borne
good fruit The city tax levy will not amount to
more than 81 o. on 500. and the State rate
will not be 80 cents so that there VIII
be reduction of ~ cents on 500 from last
years rate.
An investigation of the sweatshops shows that
the methods Of other cities have been intro
duced here, and that many places need thorough
reform The wages are low the rooms are
small and crowded and work is made harder by
the presence of engines or Of stoves for pressing
garments The Labor Commissioners expect to
remedy some of the evils but they can do moth
ing to raise wages, as ten girls are waiting to
take every vacant place, even at the present
starvation rate of pay.
The Mechanics Institute Fair. which will be
open during September promises to be note
worthy this year. 1t will include great fac
tory for the illustration of the leading manu-
features of the coast. All the processes of
mining wheat raising fruit growing. dairying
etc will be shown. and in addition the fine arts
will be we'll represented conspicuous feature
Of the fair will be cataract of real wine, Which
will be illuminated by colored incandescent
lights There will also be an Xray outfit. in
which any one may be cathodzed
The State Supreme Court has decided that
Samuel ID. Worden must be hanged TOT wrecklne
a train near Sacramento in the railroad rlois
two years ago. and causing the death OF the
engineer and of three Regular Army so!uleiS'
The evidence against Worden was manly CIR
cumstantia but joined with his Nenomous
threats against the railroad company. IL mace
so strong a case that jury promptly conVlc!eu
him Worden had been conspicuous IN the
strike and had openly advocated the use OF
dynamite in destroying the railroad company
property. He comes of a good family having
relatives i'm Syracuse.
The poor little leper girl. Lena Grim is hay
ing her last days made cheerful by chailtape
people who We're touched by the pathos OF her
story. The for,orn child never had DOH ana
never tasted candy until she entered tne pes
house here. SO little had love or care done loi
her that she couldn't understand why people
sent her presents and she wept when she was
told that il was because they plued her iaie
and wanted To do something 10 SHOW Their leel-
ing She is taking the Japanese treatment loi
leprosy. but thus far it has merely served To
aggraVate the disease.
California fruit-srowers are much exercised al
Baltimore "A
nins firm of that city is preparing to use al
fcrnia labels for poor fruit put up by IT. IN"
plan is to send the fruit To dealers in pam
cases. and then permit them TO stencil thT
,as.s after arrival The California Fruit EX-
change has clear proof Of the scheme. ana II
has warned the Baltimore firm that If any
canned goods are sent out under these spurious
labels the widest publicity will be made OF the
matter and the trade will also be warned by LEI
tcr.
Governor Budi this week succeeded in remov-
inc PRINCIPAL Childs Of the San lose Normal
school and appointing Nice-Principal hahdail
II, his place. For more than year the Governor
has been camping on Childss tran determined
so have his scalu and the recent action of the
nr;ncinal in trying To force out a popular pro
f.ssor brought things to crisis Childs mas
hcen in charge of the school for seven years.
Tho E,npire Stock Company received warm
welcome at the Baldwin this week, many Ola
pleygoers coming III from the oounuH 70 ltiiu ~
their countenancc to the first night OF l5ohernla
1rraGericl, Warde as ShyloCk and Rose Coghlan
as Portia have been seen this week at me CaI Can
fornia Local critics praise Warde Tor ms schoi-
arship and his care In details put the' 10 mo-
6rd the actress accepiaDle.
Cons,,l + Lamb Doty, OF Tahin. arrived This
,,calx and began promptly to boom the project
of steamship line between this city ana the so
.ictv Islands. Doty's chief claim 10 dlstlhctioh
is that he is the youngest Consul In the Aineri-
can service but he has come into some noto-
rietv nv marrying a native girl and by his arbi-
trarv conduct toward American snip captains.
The steamer project Will require genius III
promoting TO make il a success, FOR al present
he trade does not Justify the establishment or
such a service. Several steamers when were
brought into oriental waters by the war between
China and Japan are now 10 load CaNlOFilla
wheat as a means of returning TO Europe with
fair profit Two Of the tramp steamers have al
ready arrived from Japan, and four more are eX-
pccted.
N4PRAG4 \SETT PIER PLEASURES.