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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-06
MP UAPSUALL SIGNS HIS TESTIMONY.

C,hauncey Marshall. Of the firm OF L. Waterbury
r. 20 who has been examined in supplementary
proceedings on a judgment which barring Magouh
& CO. hold against the firm FOR si"i'"o went 10 '"s
c,roooa cour, Yesterday and signed his testimony
+, ,as agreed between his attorneys ana JACOB
Marks. representing Barring. Magoun 4 CO.. mat
If the expert now work on the waterbury ooo ok
g. ojioued IN proceed with this examination me cN-
IS ri,,on ~ Nr Marshall will be considered closed
~ ih ernert's work Is not allowed TO proceed the
further examination OF MarshaH II 10 P'oe'" upon
fun do
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-06
GUESTS AT THE HOTEL MAJESTIC.

Recent arrivals at the Hotel Majestic are:
Frederick c. Sempe, OF 81. John, y. b., visiting
his mother Mrs. F. A. Semple, Morton Otis, OF
Washington. visiting W. II. Claggett Gustave II.
Martin, returned from Chicago; MT and Mrs
George n Fahys returned from their European
trip: Mr. and Mrs p. Floquet taken permanent
quarters; Gregory Mcpherson. returned from his
Pacific Coast trip and Mrs. w. II. Taylor and MISS
Rnrker returned from Scranton. Penn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-06
FEDERAL TROOPS AT STATE CAMP.
REPORT THAT A DETACHMENT OF CAVALRY MAY
90 TO PEEKSKIfr.

60 TO PEEKSKII.r"
repor: was received in this city yesterday when
came Indirectly from Fort Ethan Allen. to the erect
that the War Department had been requested 10 de-
tail two troops OF cavalry from the fort TO attend
the State camp at Pcekskill while the state troops
are there The report states that the request VIII
probably be granted and that about 100 United
states cavalrymen will be at the camp for several
weeks.
National Guard officers who were seen in regard TO
the report believe that there Is no truth IN H. TOT
ths reason that the entertainment OF the United
Ststes troops at camp would entail an expense on
the state for which no provision has been made ana
ina, the expenditure OF n large sum or money Tor
a "show" would not be In keeping with the prln-
cinles nj severe economy which have been laid down
and practised by the present state administration
in matters pertaining to the militia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-06
THE GAS COMPANY MUST WAIT.

Tho Aldermens Committee on Lamps and Gas
held a meeting yesterday to consider the applica-
ton OF the Consumers Fuel Gas. Heat and Power
Company for permission to lay mains In the
streets II was decided to withhold permission un-
iii the CORPORATION Counsel could be consulted 40
10 the bearing Of the law on the matter.s. - -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-06
ELEVATED ROAD ASSESSMENT SfAND"'

The AnnelIa,e Division OF the Supreme Court IN
a decision handed down yesterday. conhrmed the
action OF the Tax Commissioners IN ASSESSING 'ne
property of the Manhattan Elevated Rairoao com
pany AT SIS 1876 9s5 for taxation. tn" decsion' written
by Justice Van Brunt. all the Justices conc us
saws ut appears from the reports made 10 the 'ii
road Commissioners and from the fact that me
company was able pay dividend on a,s S11a ss
at the rate OF per that the coinPthy y. a.
not in the poverty-strcken condition II thought 10
make the Tax Commissioners believe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-06
WALL PAPER DIVIDENDS MAY BE PAID.

Judge Hoyt II. Wheeler. OF the United states 'r-
emit Court has dismissed the suit OF Henry NJ
Washburn and Others TO prevent the payment OF
,,.e,es, on the debcnure stock OF the National wall
paper Company deciding that the profits OF the
company warrant such payment when the suit
uas brought" says Judge Wheeler's decision.
'rate rad no, been made sufficient for the ens'i-
,n1g Interest Now sufficient profits have been as
reptained and certified by auditors according 10
contract TO warrant the payment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-06
A TRACK WALKER KILLED IN A TUNNEL.

Patrick Dr.scoll. twenty-four years Old a track
walker on the New-York Central and Hudson River
Railroad was struck by a southbound train while
in the tunnel at Seventy -second-st and Park-ave
Yesterday morning and was instantly killed His
body was removed TO the East Sixty -seyenth-st.
station. He was married, and lived In One-hu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-06
NAY SELL TIE CHURCH PROPERTY.

Justice Andrews. in the Supreme Cour,
,hor,yed tho Fourth I-niversalist Society to sell
,,o n,onertv AZ Forty-hfth-st and Fifth-ave. now
occuped by the Church OF the Divine Paternity o.
which the Rev DR. Charles II. Eaton 10 PASTOR "
John j. Hyiand for B25.0Q0
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-15
TWO ERAS COMPARED.

There never has occurred a single thing
to depress the prosperity of California,
except greed or lack of intelligence. In
the old days of Spanish occupation the
people enjoyed prosperity unequaled in
the history of the whole country. The
peace, content and honesty which accom-
panied it have never since been approached
in California. The facilities which then
existed for extracting wealth and happi-
ness from the soil and sunshine we're pitt
fully meager in comparison with those
now in our possession. The splendid
wealth of the gold mines had not then
been opened; the mellow wines grown
from the choicest vines since imported
from Europe and yielding so handsome a
revenue were unknown; irrigation had not
been employed to multiply the fecundity
of the soil; no railroads existed to hurry
to eager millions the gorgeous fruits which
the people since have learned to cultivate.
The only ships that visited these shores in
the old days were those which came to
bear away the hides for which cattle were
raised and slaughtered.
Yet in spite of all these disadvantages,
in spite of all this ignorance, the Spaniards
amassed fortunes. The inferior members
of their society drew water and hewed
wood in perfect content. Their farming
was exceedingly primitive and confined to
their own necessities. There was no hur-
rying, no scram bling. no theft and hardly
any crime. In those days California was
real Already, perfect picture of pastoral
content.
Since that time our opportunities for en-
joying the blessings of the early settlers
have been multiplied prodigiously. We
have discovered sources of wealth Of which
they never dreamed. We have had the
opportunity to bring TO bear on the re-
sources which they so imperfectly under
stood all the force of modern intelligence
and progress, and still. with all these SUI
perior advantages, we do not enjoy the
prosperity that was theirs. The reasons
why we have fallen short of their standard
are exceedingly complex, but 1t would be
shameful confession of weakness to ad-
NIT that we should not prosper immeasur-
ably beyond our predecessors. Whatever
may be the pressure of extraneous in
fluences, they can never affect the intrinsic
value of the natural conditions which en-
viron US. These natural resources are
opened far wider to US than they were to
our Spanish predecessors, and con-
fession that we are unable to make them
that much more available for our pros
perity and happiness is a proclamation
that we do not deserve the blessings which
are so freely offered.
Civilization is failure if it does not en-
able US to improve on primitive condi-
tions. AS matter Of fact, everything
that hampers our prosperity is purely
artificial-of human invention-the out
growth of greed and incompetency. and
can and should be made amenable 10 the
curative effects of ordinary intelligence.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-15
USEFUL EXPOsITIONs.

While it would be utterly profitless now
to attempt an estimate of the possible
benefits received by California from the
Midwinter Fair and compare them with
the cost to our people, the ques ton still
remains, Have we acquired the art of
making the wisest expenditure of money
for making known the resources and at
fractions of San Francisco and the State?
This question is brought to view by re-
markable movement in France against the
Worlds Exposition projected for 1900.
This has taken the form of an organiza-
ton in Lorraine, calling itself the League
of Decentralization, and it is propagating
voluminous pamphlets against the project
and stirring up strong sentiment through
out the republic.
France held her first exposition in 1856.
Prince Jerome NAPOLEON bitterly opposed
it, advancing some able arguments against
the idea OF universal shows. In his adj
ministrative report he declared them to be
inextricable, of arbitrary classification and
valueless as to instruction. At the same
time he commended the idea of partial,
technical. special expositions given fire.
quently and restricted to judicious choice
among such products as most attract cur
rent attention, and study of them by
critical and competent visitors. In 1867
NJ. lie Pay reopened the attack on the
same grounds and urged the substitution
of permanent for universal expositions at
determinate points on French SOIL away
from the vast centers of population-com
mercial and industrial museums, as he
termed them-such a. s since have been es-
tablished in England, in Germany, those
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-15
PERSONAL.

James Kirkwood of Sonora is at the Cosmo.
E. L. Rehm of Sonora is at the Cosm o
politan.
Attorney Robert ]. Widney OF Los Angeles is
in the City.
Senator Frank MCGOWAN of Eureka went
home yesterday.
DR.. Maria styersbrom Of Salt Lake is guest
at the Cosmopolitan.
Raleigh Barcar, the attorney and editor OF
the Vacaville Reporter, is at the Lick.
NJ. B. sinnott. proprietor of the Umatilla
House, at the Dalles, Or, is at the Grand.
r. A. Thompson, the well-known newspaper
owner of Santa Rosa is at the Occidental.
Police Commissioner R. j. Tobin left for Los
Angeles yesterday on brief pleasure trip.
William Cline, the grocer, left for Los An
geles last evening to establish q branch store
NJ. E. Beatty of Portland is here with the in
tention of opening an Office. He is regis
tered at the Cosmopolitan.
Robert P. Porter, ex-United States Supervis-
ing Inspector of the Census, and owner of the
Cleveland World, sailed on the China with his
family for Japan yesterday.
A. s. White general manager of the Erie Dis
patch Company, Cleveland, Ohio, arrived here
last night and is at the Palace. He has come
to establish an agency for his line here.
Professor A.Van der Naillen and Mrs Van der
Naillen left Friday evening for France, Bel
GUM and England, where the professor will
investigate the latest electrical discoveries
Arthur Scrivener for thirty years connected
with the London and San Francisco Bank, SAYS
he has decided to retire in two or three
months and go abroad for rest, which he
feels he needs.
l. A. Hughes. the attorney of Santa Fe N.
Mex, who as agent OF the United States Treas.
ury Department has been collecting evidence
in the Peralta grant and other cases, arrived in
the City yesterday.
D. Bernard of Denver. who formerly resided
for many years in California andi is we'll known
here, is in the City. He has been following his
usual occupation of contractor and been en-.
gagged in railroad building.
Among the prominent arrivals from the East
yesterday were these: Attorney Matthew G..
Reynolds of St. Louis Clinton Morrison a Min
neapolis capitalist; Charles Friedburg lum-
Der merchant of Toledo, and George Ruben
stein, wholesale New York merchant. They
are at the Palace.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-15

preston seems to prevail that if the directors
of the broad gauge had not been restrained
from acting they would have decided to give
the experiment of cheap fare trial.
AS the matter now stands, the people only
look to the broed-gauge road, and their hopes
are based in anticipation OF the in junction
now restraining the officials being dissolved,
and leaving them freedom to act the petit
tion of the people asking for the reduced sched-
ule. But should the narrow-gauge people see
the error of their present course in regard to
fares, and decide TO reduce them. the people,
while being surprised, will be proportionately
more pleased.
OF course the people of San Rafael are not
quite unanimous on the subject, but as nearly
so as possible. There is small minority,
very small indeed, whom Father Lagan ap-
propriately christeneu the "snobocracy," who
would prefer that the corporate limits of the
town be divided only into private grounds;
that only mansions of the highest order be
allowed to be constructed thereon, and that all
But, as has been remarked, this class consists
Then there is the chronic objector-he is
usually unit, alone in his alleged ideas. He
waits until he has heard the opinions and ex-
pressions of everybody else on any subject,
then he studies and plans arguments the never
acts) in contradiction OF all he has heard on
the subject, just to be contrary.
With these exceptions the people of San
Rafael are unanimous that they are treated
unlustly, and not with the consideration that
is due them, and II reliefis not afforded them
soon they will devise methods to help them
selves. A RESIDENT.
San Rafael March l3 1896
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-15

countries having abandoned the idea of
universal expositions as responding to no
need of modern times.
AS much of the most intelligent edu-
cation of the world concerning the attrac-
tions of California must be conducted on
exposition lines, the movement in France
has special significance for the people of
this State. The manager of the California
State Board of Trade has made encour-
aging reports of the good work accom-
plished by the California exhibit at the At
ianta Exposition, but there happens to be
no way of securing proof that he is right.
Much practical demonstration was given
in connection with our exhibit there, and
hence it is possible that through the whirl
and confusion of worlds fair. thought
full person here and there was able so to
concentrate his attention on the California
exhibit as to receive an intelligent concep-
ton of it's meaning. But we venture to
say that with permanent exhibit of Cali
fornia's products in q number of Eastern
cities, and with the travelling exhibit which
Santa Clara County is sending through the
country, we can accomplish more than all
exhibits made in the swirl and fury of a
universal exposition. Similarly, the superb
exhibit of the State Board of Trade in this
City, by the employment OF diligent means
for informing visiting strangers OF its
existence, might be made most useful
engine for advertising the State.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-15
MR.. HUNTINGToN's sLANDER.

In its issue of last Friday morning and
among its Washington dispatches con-
tanning the testimony of G. P. Huntington
before the House Committee on Pacific
Railroads THE CALL published the state
ment that during his examination before
that committee Mr.. Huntington went
on to explain that when he became presi-
dent of the Southern Pacific the Examiner
was on the payroll of the company for
$1,000 month, and when he ordered this
payment stopped the paper Immediately
began to attack him."
In SO much of the dispatch as attributed
this statement to Mr. Huntington while
testifying upon the witness-stand and
under oath before the House committee
The CALL was in error. After q full in
vestigation of the circumstances under
which Mr.. Huntington uttered the above
slander against our contemporary the
facts have been found to be these:
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Huntington s
testimony, when he had left the witness
stand and Immediately after the commit
tee had adjourned, but before its members
dispersed, Mr.. Huntington made the
above statement in the presence of several
members of the committee and of others
who were there. 1t has also been ascer-
tanned, with reasonable certainty, that an
effort was made by certain of Mr.. Hunting
toms adherents to draw from him the
same or similar assertion in the course
of his examination under oath before the
committee. In this respect, however, Mr..
Huntington was wiser than his advisers,
and with characteristic cunning avoided
uttering this SANDER under conditions.
which might have subjected him to the
pains and penalties of perjury, while with
equally characteristic unfsirness he poured
its venom into the ears OF the committee
as soon as he could safely Go so after leav
ing the witness-stand.
There is in this episode so much that is
characteristic of the method which Mr..
Huntington has long employed to Willy
the opponents of his cherished plans with
the vilest of ISLANDERS and the most absurd
innuendos that it hardly required an inves-
tigation TO bring conviction that the fact
of his uttering this SANDER was true, and
that he did so in fact and in the hearing of
at least some of the members of the COM
mittee our careful inquiry fully confirms.
What course our contemporary should
pursue in the premises it would not be be-
coming for US TO indicate. but that the
| mem bers OF the House committee who
heard from the lips of Mr.. Huntington
! this sIander when off the witness-stand
should compel him either to repeat or re-
| tract it under oath and in the presence of
the full committee there cannot be the
slightest doubt.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-15
A PEOPLES VICTORY.

The entire State of California may con-
graduate itself on the last ruling made by
the Supreme Court with reference to the
franchise of the Valley road through the
city of Fresno. When the directors of the
road applied for the franchise the City
Trustees of Fresno, though anxious to
grant the privilege, feared to run the risk
OF violating the act requiring that all fran
chises for railroads in cities should be sold
to the highest bidder, and hence an agreed
case was submitted to the Supreme Court.
1t came in the shape of an application
from the Valley road for writ of mandate
compelling Fresno 10 grant the franchise
without competition. Upon an imperfect
understanding the court denied the writ,
and the entire San Joaquin Valley, which
had based so strong hopes on the relief
which the new road would afford. was
thrown into CONSERVATION. The railroad
company petltioned for rehearing. This
was granted, the case was fully presented,
and yesterday the Supreme Court made an
order directing the City Trustees of Fresno
to act upon the company's application for
franchise without reference to any bids
for the privilege sought, and to grant or
deny the application on its merits, as the
Trustees may decide. This means that
the Trustees will grant the franchise, and
that the progress OF the road through the
valley will be unhindered. The ruling of
course applies to all other cities and towns
through which the road is to pass.
The ruling is eminently just, though in
making it the court was compelled to ex-
ercise large discretion not expressly per-
mitted by the bungling construction of
the statute. 1t is notorious fact that the
act was intended solely to prevent the cor
ruption of municipal bodies by unscru-
pulous street-railway companies, and that
there had arisen abundant reasons for
erecting this safeguard. The law was
never intended to require that the fran
chise for through railroad covering con.
siderable distance and passing through nu-
merous towns should he included, unless,
perhaps, there was competition for fran
chise over the same route by two competi-
tive companies. Neither of those condi-
tions existed in the present case. For that
matter, considering the number of streets
and possible routes which even competi-
tive railroads might secure through any
city, it is hard to imagine that even the
second of these conditions could be forced
into construction of the statute.
1t is now clear sailing for the Valley
road, and Fresno might appropriately cele-
brate this wise and Just decision as the
most important ever rendered to affect its
prosperity. The road will arrive in time
to move large part of its valuable crops
of this year, and that will mean a great
saving in the cost of transportation, reason
able profits on the valuable products of the
county and large accession to the money
value of productive lands.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-15

man Hetrora, the Russian EN- passador and
diplomat, who is in JAPAN has caused a lot OF
excitement. AS l said, however, there is no
use objecting, tor Russia is bound to get Korea.
''But so far as the Japanese Empire is con-
cerned do not think Russia will ever try to
oust her from her island possessions. do not
think she could if she wanted to. Japan is too
firm there for that.
'If man these days wants to know about
Japan he ought TO read Lafcado Hearns
'Glimpses OF Japan,' in two volumes, and
'Out of the East Mr.. Hearn spent number
of years in the interior of Japan, three or four
of which were occupied in teaching. He has
written of the people as they are better than
any one else know.
''The average American or European, though
residing in Japan, in nearly every case knows
nothing about it. He goes to Toxic or Yoko-
hama and goes into business, and stays thirty
or forty years probably He sees the people
only in surface way. He ought really to go
into the interior and live there, and mix with
the people. Then he would know something
Of them.
Returning to the matter of Japans war,
however, she got glory and place OF standing
in the W orld as fighting nation. Aside from
this she got almost nothing. yet to-day she has
40, ,O00. 900 people, almost ell of whom may be
called fighters. She will hold her place in the
seas where she is"
Ira D. sankey, the famous singing evangelist,
and party left last evening for Stanford Uni
versity. They went at the request of President
Jordan. Mr.. Sankey said at the Occidental just
before his departure:
''We will hold q meeting there on Sabbath
evening and then go on to Del Monte, reach
ing there Monday evening We will 60 from
there to Pacific Grove, and hold meeting
about the 18th with Mr.. Stebbins.
"Then we will return to San Jose and on
March % will hold two meetings. On the 25th
I will be at Napa and will hold one service
there. We will then return to San Francisco
and hold farewell service. 1t will be at the
Y. NJ. G. A. building again. Mr.. Mccoy has
been very anxious for me TO give another ser
vice and have decided to do so. 1t viii be on
the 9th inst. On the Goth will hold meet
ing in Oakland, and on April 1, 2 and 3 we
will be In Sacramento, the occasion of the con-
vention of the State Sunday-schools, and will
hold services On April we will be in Salt
Lake and on April IL We will hold meeting
in Denver