The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06


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The charity bazaar is as dangerous as
the theater.
What we have done for Balboa avenue
Will be largely labor in vain unless we do
more.
Paris has learned by fearful lesson
that accidents will happen in even the best.
regulated cities.
Mr.. Dingley may still recognize his
little bill, but he would never have done
ii without the label on it.
The arbitration treaty goes to the waste
basket. We can settle our difficulties
with England one by one as they arise.
Bryan is expected to visit California
cities, but fortunately vacation time is at
hand and we can take to the mountains.
The tariff bill as reported is true sur
prise party. 1t was not only made unex-
pectedly, but came in an unexpected
shape.
1t is said by the Philadelphia Inquirer
that we are to have an onion trust, and it
is scarcely necessary to add it will be in
bad odor.
1t is time for US all to be giving consid-
Grafton to the Christian Endeavorers.
They will be with US pretty soon in large
numbers and full of enthusiasm.
1t is not surprising to learn that the
Greeks would rather deal with the Turks
than with the powers. An open enemy
is never SO dangerous as false friend.
San Diego may now be expected to join
the list of cities that claim to have dou bled
in population since $780, There is con-
siderable increase in the school census.
w q udy DC well scllIC QOnH 1OT q lOHR
siege on the tariff question, as it is now
evident that the bill in its present form
can never be carried through by storm
ing party.
The powers when encouraging the Sui
tan to whip Greece never thought of the
possibility that he might get so bold that
it would become necessary to whirl in and
whip him.
As no explanation of ex-President Har-
risons absence from the Grant celebration
has been forthcoming We may as well set
tie down to the conclusion that the baby
had tooth.
The export of gold is not altogether q
bad thing at this time, as it will have the
effect Of inducing the Senate to hurry UP
the tariff and provide the Government
with a revenue.
1t was wise move to take the Hawaiian
treaty feature out of the tariff bill. A
measure of that importance ought to
stand on its own merits and not be mixed
UP with other things.
It was only little while ago that some
people we're declaring that Senator Jones
had lost all his prestige, and now he holds
the balance of power in the Senate and is
bigger man than anybody.
With faster fruit trains to Eastern cities
we will be able to get better profit in those
markets, and the consumers there will get
better fruit, so in this instance we may
account the Southern Pacific officials as
public benefactors.
The correspondents who so forcibly de-
scribe the disordered retreat of the Greeks
probably went along with the stragglers
who led the backward movement, and did
not stav 10 see the troops who held the
Turks in check and guarded the retreat.
The bonnet which Victoria wears on
state occasions is q ponderous affair of
black velvet, with huge white plumes,
and it is said that the shape has not been
changed in twenty-five years. If it de-
pended on her Majesty to lead the fash
ions milliners would have time to go
bicycle riding and become experts.
One New England paper declares that a
craving for pie is perverted taste, which
is sapping the health of the American
people and making them a race of dyspep-
tics while another New England paper
says any man who does not relish pie is a
degenerate; so there you have another
controversy to disturb the country.
It is said that at the present time there
are either building or completing for the
British navy fourteen new battle-.hip
eight first and nine second-class
cruisers, two sloops. four gunboats, fifty
two torpedo-boat destroyers and eight
Iight-draught steamers for special service.
ANY power, therefore, that aspires to take
Britannia's place as ruler of the sea will
have to fight for it.
1t is said that over 7S0 applications have
been made for the erection at the Paris
Exposition of what are known as sen
sational novelties" They EN- brace almost
every sort OF engineering feat imaginable,
from revolving towers to glass tunnel
under the Seine. Only few of them of
course can be permitted, but it is likely
that some among them will make the
Eiffel tower and Ferris wheel look like
chromos.