The San Francisco call., 1897-04-15


615 Larkn street, open until 9: 80 o'clock.
sW corner Sixteenth and Mission streets, open
until o'clock.
25lS Mission street, open until O'Clock
1877 Ninth street, open until o'clock.
1905 Polk street; open until $3.50 o'clock
NV. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky
streets; open I'LL O'Clock.
OAKLAND OFFICE:
9JS Broad way.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 80, "a PARK Row. New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ. Eastern Manager.
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
Keep up the fund for the Balboa road.
Let US show that we can carry through
local enterprise without hitch, q haggle
or halt.
1t is Omaha, Nebr., to-day, but it may
be Omaha. Iowa, tomorrow. The state
OF life along the banks OF the Missouri is
very changeable.
The story that the Mississippi was sub
siding was altogether premature. The
Missouri has begun to contribute to the
foods and the rampage is worse than
ever.
The Oakland people who are complain
ing of the croaking of frogs must be over.
sensitive or whimsical in their dislikes
There are other croakers that are worse
than frogs.
1t is, of course, gratifying to be informed
once more by dispatches from Washing.
ton that the tariff bill win pass the Senate,
but what the people yearn to know is the
whenness of the passing.
1t seems unfair that Europe should CO.
cree Greece to keep the peace with Tur-
key, but suppose Europe should stand
aside and it should turn out that the
Greeks are unable to whip the Turks, then
what?
The Randsburg couple who made on
Monday the first marriage in the new
mining camp seem to have hal the sati,-
faction of accomplishing something like
golden wedding without waiting fifty
years for it.
Since the recent victories of the Cubans
the Spaniards do not hold entire posses.
sion of single province in the island.
The Cubans, in fac, are already free in
everything except name and the peaceable
possession of their country.
The appointment of a commission to
arrange for an international conference on
the silver question will please everybody
except the extreme gold standard men,
and fortunately there are not enough of
them to disturb the harmony of the
country.
The Palo Alto Neus remarks that the
winners OF the baseball game at Stanford
the OF er day are entitled to an epicurean
diet, in which the oyster is to play prom
inent part. Is this because they succeeded
in crossing the OYSTER more times than
their rivals did?
Americans in London Will contribute
largely to the hospital fund to be raised
as memorial to the Queens grand jubi-
lee. They will not only have front seats
at the show, but be part of the show
itself That is American style, and while
1t comes high we must have it.
The Summerland Aduance is relating
great tales of copious oilwells that are
being discovered and operated in its vicin-
ity. California may yet add another mark
OF distinction to her crowded escutcheon
that of furnishing natural antidote for
the troubled waters of the Mississippi.
Byreason ofthe generous gifts of Thomas
Stanford of Melbourne, Stanford Univer-
s.ty is likely to become one of the greatest
art centers in the Union What he has
nj riv
tribution to the art treasures of the State,
and California owes him grateful vote of
thanks.
It's report ed from Astoria that the Chi
nese have demanded that all white labor
be excluded from the canneries along the
Columbia River, and the demand is not
wholly Illogical. 1t seems clear that either
the white man or the Chinese must go.
and this is as good time as any to decide
which shall travel.
An order from the Postoffice Department
al Washington has shortened the mail
route from Marvsville to Quincy, so as to
have 1t begin at Honcut and leave Marys-
vile back along the road 4 few miles To
put it mildly, the Marysvilie papers are
not enamored OF this pretty notion, and a
good deal ofvociferous appealing from the
decision is being done.
Senator Morgan says: THAT Cuba will
be free is written in the stars that glow in
the unfailing light of the Southern Cross.
to which her children turn their eyes with
hope that grows brighter as the night of
their sorrow grows darker The senti-
ment of that is good and the rhetoric is
fine, but unfortunately Cuba is is the
northern hemisphere and her children
cannot see the Southern Cross.
There seems to be boom in the olive
industry, as the Pomona nurseries alone
are said to have sold over 400. 600 trees for
orchards, not only in California, but in
Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. II the
Government will now assure the olive
growers against cheap European olives
and cheaper cottonseed adulterations we
shall soon have new industry to add
millions to our Western revenues.
The failure of the French opera to be
seif-supporting in this City for the season
may have been due to some extent to the
lack OF a proper opera house with suitable
number of boxes. 1t will be worth while
TO repeat the experiment next year, and it
might also be worth while to build an
opera house for future experiments. In
the meantime it is to be remembered that