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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17
STAMFORD UNIVERSITY.

1t is gratifying 10 note that a strong ele-
ment in the Legislature IS favorable to a
measure proposing to exempt the endow-
ment of Stanford University from taxa
ion. 1t is indeed to be regretted that we
have had to wait SO long for such meas
ure to be adopted. The university is for
the benefit of the State and we are simply
impairlng its usefulness to the people by
mposing taxes upon the munificent en-
dowment which the generosity of Senator
Stanford and Mrs. Stanford has bestowed
upon it.
1t is stated that Mrs. Stanford is now so
pressed for ready money to meet the ex-
penses of the university that she has been
compelled TO use the means which she
formerly set aside to sustain klndergartens
i'll San Francisco. The taxation of the
Stanford endowment, therefore, isvirtually
taxation upon children in San Francisco.
1t is not money drawn from private uses,
but from public good. 1t is certainly
neither wise nor expedient that we should
impose such taxes upon that which is as
beneficial to the general welfare as any in
stitution maintained by the State.
California, it is said, has been more I'M
friendly 10 the founders OF colleges and
institutions of learning than any other
State In the Union. This is in certain
sense a reproach upon our laws and those
who make them. We ought to encourage
such benefactions as that munificent one
which has founded Stanford University.
This view of the case WILL we doubt not,
be taken by the majority of the members
of the Legislature as it is by the people
generally.
Measures providing for the exemption
of the endowment from taxes should be
cordially supported and promptly passed.
The State owes much to Senator Stanford
and the least it can do to show its graft
tude to him is to take from his university
the burdens which are now imposed
upon it.
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A MONUMENT TO BAKER.

Legislature providing for
monument to the memory
Colonel e. D. Baker IN Colleen Gate Park
the with discussion
should passed without dissenting
California long overdue debt
whose eloquent
ve marble Colonel
Baker is that
Engshman aids
remarkable
childhood intellect and felicity
expression he naturally entered and moved along with the great
National fe of illinois,
his genius friend and companion OF Lincoln and douglass anu
TrumbuI In the West he
in his
professional political AT the he member OF he
Representative that State In
National however
when the Mexican War he recruited
menta n went o
with
engaged
speedily
soono be randw
on lie
he in fac fearless,
the exponent and apostle of freedom on this
hlp
of ardent
his magic uernce and themselves became bold and great From him Bodek
learned liberty
trouble than
of country
Baker
and fought fell
OF the most huous martyrs to the Union From the far
East his revenhy borne California be
Mountain beneath neglected waiting for California
permit of ingrattude
and the magnitude of his service prefer?
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LITERARY CULTURE.

The City of San Francisco, though
young in comparison with most of the
large cities of the Union, has by the rec
ord of preference IN books for the past
year shown herself to be superior to
all others in general literary taste The
testimony of the leading booksellers and
of the officials of public Libraries prove
not only that in general way books suit
able to serious studious, weIl-trained
minds are in great demand here, but by the
specific mention of what books and auth
ors head the list of favorites they have en-
abled us to make a direct comparison
with other cities.
The list is too long to name all of the
popular preferences here and elsewhere,
but when we consider two of. the most
read books in this City, "Quo Vadis"
and 1.-The Honorable Peter Stirling" and
set them in the scales to be weighed for
their mental worth against the chosen fic-
ton OF other cities, we find that nowhere
else are the master works of new writers
so quickly recognized as here.
This rapid recognition of the excellence
of new books is one of the most crucial
tests of finely discriminating literary APP
probation. Concerning the merit of
works long published, multiludes have
learned much as parrot learns a lesson,
and they know what TO read and what 10
praise by a sort of borrowed culture.
When new books. however, meet with a
prompt response to their deserving, and
outsell in a city, as they did here, the
popular but far inferior literature that
flooded other places till the demand
created for it was correctly called a craze,
it shows that our reading people by a
large majority know what is best without
getting their knowledge ct second hand.
In addition to this fact of preference for
the best fiction, the records OF the Public
Library prove that the proportion of
scientific, historical. philosophical and
religious works read in San Francisco to
the books that satisfy less thoughtful and
studious minds is about so per cent which
largely exceeds the ratio in other cities.
With us peter Stirling" outsold
"Trilby' even in the height OF the
''Trilby" craze. Fasteners may call US
wild and woolly. but the records of our
reading and book buying show that we
lead all American cities in literary culture
and in appreciation of unadvertised ex-
cellence.
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THE POSTOFFIOE BUILDING,

We are promised that the work of con-
st-ucting the new postoffice building in
this City will begin in June, and the man
who makes the promise is not the man in
the moon. To that extent we are encour-
ageo. The announcement, however, we
fear ends there, or the promise comes
from the supervising architect, and we
have heard his promises before and know
too well how little trust can be placed in
them.
The early beginning OF the work of con-
struc:io1 is not the only promise which is
given us. We are assured that the high
towers on the proposed plan are to be
removed. That much is good, but it would
be better if the whole plan were to be
obiterated and an altogether new and
different building devised. OF the pro-
posed structure it may be truly said, as
Mrs. Poyser said of her chickens, "they
ought to be Matched over again and
Matched different" The structure with
the towers would be monstrosity. with
out them it would be hardly more than
commonplace warehouse.
The people, however. will not be dis
posed to be critical Tkey have waited so
long for ''any old thing that the promise
the present building without the mon
strous towers will be begun in June will
come to them as genuine good news. 1t
Will ada much to the gavetv of the season
and enliven us in our preparations for the
coming carnival. Let US then put trust in
the supervising architect for once and look
for the building early IN the coming sum-
mer. Even if its construction does not
satisfy as it will at least afford US the graft
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ond paragraph also 1t is like unto the first
If NOT rmore So" These are the words lust a.
thew stand: "The European nations find them
selves in the same attitude as the United States
perfectly agreeable to international bimet-
aIlism If il can be brought about, but utterly
Indifferent as to when or how it shall
come if indeed, it ever comes. So lar
as the pledge in the platform is con-
cerned. every BODY understands that il was
not Incorporated to be carried out However
anxious some Americans may be for bimet-
allism. the European nations, finding plainly
to do in attending 10 their own affairs and
caring nothing OF all about it, are content to
LEI the subject molder in the tomb Whv
should we care? Is not our currency the bes1
in the world? Who is wise enough 10 say that
any of the changes suggested would be bene-
foial ? Is it not better after all to let the god
standard alone? International bimet llism
is dead as Jeh osaphat. And it is always gracious
TO let the deed rest in peace. The dead are
tired They don't want to be disturbed As
Nation let us tarry no longer at the tomb" |
believe John Sherman can read that and smile
placidly. | think he is the right man in the
right place.
ests in the appoin tment OF Senator Sherman
10 the high place OF Secretary of State, but it
is equally certain that the men whose inter-
ests are confined to the products OF he soil
and the certainty of remunerGtiYe employ
ment will regard his appointment with in
creasing apprehension.
JOSEPH AsBURY JOHNSON.
San Francisco January 16, 1897.
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GENUINE WESTERN HOSPITALITY
W ashIngton Evening Star.

Washington Evening Star.
"Talk about hospitality" remarked q
broken-down actor yesterday. "the place to
fno it is in the Tar West. The last time was
out there we were playing uncle Toms Cabin
with real mule. We played to fair business
and paid our bills until we reached Red Bluff.
There the owner of the opera-house had a
piano for an orchestra, and it stood just below
the stage. When the mule came on some one
in the audience got funny and, throwing
lariat around the neck of the animal pulled
him off the stage. The mule and the piano
got mixed up, which ruined the orchestra,
and when he got away from the piano the
mule kicked down one of the boxes before he
walked through one of the seats to where the
fellow with the lariat wanted him. l had a
mouth organ, with which l went on with the
orchestral accompaniment, and we closed the
play with the fellow that captured the mule
riding him around the opera-house.
The manager of the theater claimed dam
ages, captured all the box receipts, and we
could not get out OF town. OF course we ex-
pected to walk, but I'll be blamed if the land
lord didn't pack us all with our baggage in a
boxcar, give us plenty OF lunch, and send US
clear 10 Virginia City without our paying a
cent The most hospitable fellow 1 ever saw"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17
AFTER THE BALL.

The celebrations of yesterday and the
public rejoicing over the defeat of the
funding bill were as large and as univer-
sal as could be expected upon the short
notice which was given. The Governors
proclamation declaring the day legal
holiday was not published until the N orn-
ing when the celebration was to take
place, and very naturally Preparations for
a general outpouring of the people could
not be made. Nevertheless enough was
done and said to show that the people
sincerely rejoiced in the public victory
and are we'll pleased with the prospects
for the emancipation OF the State from the
control of the monopoly.
Through all the celebration, however,
1t was noticed that feeling of uncer-
tal1ty was among the people. Even the
most enthusiastic felt a consclousn ess
that the war was not yet at an end, and
that final victory is not assured. This
feeling was something more than an in
stinct. 1t is we'll founded in reason, and
1t behooves those who have the interests
of the State at heart to consider well what
steps are to be taken next.
Reports from Washington show that a
ii
favor of a measure which would check all
steps by the Government toward lore
closing the mortgage on the defaulting
roads and refer the settlement of the debts
to commission to be composed of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, the Secretary of
the Interior and the Aforementioned.
Such a ommission would undoubtedly
seek to deal justly with the people and to
maintain every right of the Government
against the defaulting roads; but, never
theless, toe people would prefer to have
the present law enforced.
There is no reason why there should be
any further legislation or even negotia-
tons in the matter. The roads have de-
faulted in their obligations to the Govern
ment and the Government should enforce
It's claim against these rich and powerful
corporations in exactly the same manner
IN which it would enforce them again st an
ordinary citizen who had taken up
homestead and then defaulted in his paw
ments.
The ball is over. We have now to face
that which comes after the ball. We have
had our jubilee and have rejoiced in the
mplishment OF one great victory. We
must now, however, proceed to prepare
ourselves for another issue Of hardly less
Importance. Until this question is finalIy
settled the right of the Government main
tanned and the interest of the people pro-
tected we have no sufficient reason for Law
ing aside our watchfuIness or ceasing to
remember that we are still engaged in a
etrnUUIo
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS

In the remote dun mountains of Lower Cali
fornIa, where a few years ago there was w1ld
real estate boom and later placer excitement
at Alamo, there is said to be now some solid
mining progress.
Gay Lombard, a stalwart young man dressed
in corduroy suit and topped with a broad
trimmed white hat, came up from there yester-
day and is at the Palace. He was banker
and mining operator at Salt Lake, where he is
yet as largely interested as before, and about
year and a half ago went to the Fortuna dis
trict, sixty miles east of Ensenada and 125
south of San Diego.
1t is the Fortuna mines, so called, in which
he is interested and of which he has the man
agement. He says his company put in $75, 900
and did over 1000 feet of development before
they began to get golden returns. They crush
their ore by ten-stamp mill. Mr.. Lombard
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HARRISON'S VIEW OF THE SEN ATE.
Washington Post.

Washington IOSb.
"If the Hon. Benjamin Harrison had allowed
the persuasion of his friends to induce him TO
say that he would accept the United States
senatorship the office would have been handed
him on a gold platter" said one of the pest
known Republican leaders OF Indiana.
"But General Harrison has firmly declined
to entertain the idea of coming to the Senate
for one moment. He is contented with his
domestic life and his law practice, and no in
ducement could tempt him back to Washing
ton where, in the last years of his residence,
he experien ced such bitter at1iction.
1.-THE general said TO me once that during his
service in the Senate he never met but one
man that was really Senator, and that was
George F. Edmunds. All the rest were Grand
boys or department messengers for their con-
stituents He was Disguised with the expert
ence, and would not repeat it for any earthly
considerations
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A PUBLIC DUTY.
attend the Nicaragua canal Meeting aud
Promote the Measure.

Ahend the Nicaragua canal Meeting and
Promote the Measure.
To the Editor of the Call SIR: Your journal
has been a consistent and steadfas tfrieDG OF the
Nicaragua canal, and SO may consistently re-
quest you for the public good 10 call special
attention to the public meeting called by the
,,bamber of Commerce on Tuesday, January
10 1897, att o'clock P. M, at the Merchants
Exchange assembly hall, California street, to
petition Congress Ior the prompt enactment Oh
the Nicaragua canal bill now penolng.
The prospects for the passage OF TINS measure
of such vital interest to the Pacific coast were
never so GOOD, and it is a duty that our CIVIC
organizations and citizens owe 10 tne coIl-
monweaith to support by public encourage
ment and endowm ent the faithful services OF
our friends now working hard tor US IN Con-
gress. Let us show our appreciation OF tneir
efforts on our behalf; it is thus that PUBIC
men are encouraged in the performance Vi
their duty. Respectfully yours,
WILLIAM L. MERRY.
San Francisco, January 16, 1897
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Letters From the Peop1e.
BEARDSLEE SET RIGHT.
Letters Explaining HIS Orders Concern
ing Sotsrenfr Flags.

Letters Explaining HIS Orders Concern
ing So,srenir Flags.
OAKLAND, Cal, January 8, 1897.
Editors Call-GENTLEMEN On Monday last
(the 4th inst.) there appeared in the Examiner
an article rejecting upon Admiral L. A
Beardslee, U. S. N, in relation to an order is
sued by him to the officers commanding the
flag ship Philadelphia and the Monadnock not
to receive the souvenir banners int nded to be
presented by the local committee at Monterey
of the carnival and fiesta at that place incl
dental to the celebration held on the 9TH Of
July last. The admiral being absent at Val
paraiso and therefore ignorant OF the attack
made upon him, l. as chairman of the COM
mittee OF arrangements of the Associated
Veterans of the Mexican War for the celebra-
ton of the fiftieth anniversary of the aking
possession of California and the raising of the
American flag at Monterey by Commod ore
John d. Sloat of the United States navy, wrote
respectful reply and furnished data with
printed copies OF letters from the admiral 10
myself and to that local committee. This was
on Wednesday last The letter of reply by my
self was suppressed or destroyed by the man.
aging editor of that paper and the stigma in
tended to be fastened upon Admiral Beardslee
still remains, and by sucn action the Examiner
is made party thereto.
| therefore respectfully refer you to the
article pub .ished in the Examiner and to the
inclosed addenda to my report, with copies of
letters from Admiral Berdslee 10 myself and
TO the local committee at Monterey of the
same date of October 81, 1896, and it will be
seen that there was no sudden cause for sur
prise and CONSERVATION on the part of the So
called "director general and the committee
al that place. 1t is matter of justice to Ad-
miral Beardslee that the truth should be
known. and as chairman of the committee of
arrangements of the Associated Veterans of
the Mexican War, who inaugurated the cele-
hratiOn flttietl
anniversary of the raising OF the American
flag at Monterey, having made trip TO WASH
ington at my own expense and secured the
Co o peration OF both Secretaries of War and
the Navy, simply ask that the copies of Adj
miral Beardslee's letters be published, and it
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says his people are entirely satisfied with the

says his people are entirely satisfied with the
results thus far.
These Fortuna mines are about twenty miles
from the Alamo district. He says that while
previously that was placer district, the placer
interest has led to the discovery OF good
lodges They followed the gold up to its
sources.
Mr.. Lombard is impressed with the quick
ness with which man can do things these
days. He left the Fortuna mines at 8 o'clock
Tuesday morning, drove sixty miles by team
over a rough mountain road to Ensenada,
caught steamer and reached San Diego;
staid six hours there and caught train TO
Los Angeles, got another there without delay
and rea ched here Thursday morning.
He says the winter is delightful IN the noun
tains OF Lower California. Where he is min
ing it is 5000 feet above the sea-
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-, ha seen that he had full warrant anu
o Wi. g Tor his action. Respectfully yours
cause 1or Mo "o EDWIN A. SHERMAN,
.ho COMMITTEES of arrangements
cn n tbe ssociated Veterans OF the Mexican
War.
The following are the letters referred to:
Fr.esu1p PHILADELPHIA, PACIFIC S ETA ~
fHAe'hif SAN FRANCISCO, OCTOBER 81 h,re
M, Dear Major sherman; Thanks for 'he Oiue
O nd go d book. =. .ot,o eides in the differ.
ME an, 90 nnfort nnately occurred to mar te
harmony 4 celebration n DO for the my
hI1pdars and discourtesies shown 10 sIo1s n'
guests, and to myself and people nnae or mn men. if
mand was either very ruue A'"H' -
more than one responsible a. dou m Mr.
Duck worth, and am, yours ;ruiy' p,.,nsrEE
"UN1TED STATES FLAGSHIP PHIIAD e. 1 ELLA
SAN Fra Nclsco, CAL october 1 ~ aaSe COM
riftee SENT CsntennfaL Celebration, Monterey, Cs
DEAR SIR: learn from Report on comm ''ee -
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Arrangements OF the Associated Veterans of the
Mexican War; that from the funds contr buted TO
be exp n1ed in items connected with the semi
centennial celebration at Monterey on July z,
1896. there is certain por, ion set aside for the
purchase of 1.-TWO souvenir banners ordered last
evening for the United States ships Philadelphia
and Monadnock."
among those who organized d managed the cele
b arion, wide dferen, opinion as the proper
distribution of the money collected, not dollar
OF it shall be expended directly or indirectly on
any OF the forces under my command.
l could not permit the acceptance OF banner
undtr the circumstances. Yours truly,
l.. A. BEARDsLEE, Rear Admiral United States
NAVY.
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FAITH.

will not Learn to doubt my kind.
If bread Is poison. what is food?
If man is evil, what is good?
I'll cultivate n friendly mind.
/ see not far. but this see
If man is false. then naught is true;
If faith is not the golden clew,
To life then all is mystery
know not much, but this know
That not In hermits cal m retreat
But in the thronged and busy street,
The angels most do come and 60.
Who to the infinite would rise
Should know this one thing ere he starts
That all its steps are human hearts;
To love mankind is to be wife.
I will not learn to doubt my kind.
If man is alse then false am 1;
Ii on myself can't rely,
Then where shall faith foothoId find +:
Christian Registe
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INVENTIONS FOR HUMANITY'S
SAKE.
Kansas City Times.

There is no lack of inventions to diminish
the cost OF production or to save labor, but in
ventions which protect human life and linn
are slower in forthcoming and in adoption.
Yet in progressive age humanity should
rank before gain. Every movement for the
amelioration of the condition of the masses
and the lessening of their danger marks more
truly than manners or monuments the adj
vance of civilization.
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CALlF0RNlANS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, n. Y, Jan. 16.-At the st. Cloud,
G. L. Bates; Metropolitan, F. D. Fraser; Stuart,
J. w. Harrison; Imperial, ]. r. Dwyer; Bar
tholdi. ]. Gross. E. A. Mexican, Los Angeles,
left the St. Cloud to sail on the Lucania for
England. Mrs. Anna Rosenberg and Albert
Herman Rosenberg arrived in from Bremen
on the Labu; SO did Max Lichtenield of Stock
nj Inn
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"Mrs. Newly, is it true that your husband is
so very apsent-minded?"
Perfectly. We've been married six months
and many an evening at IL o'clock he gets IN.
takes me by the hands, tells me what a delight
full time he had and would leave if I did not re-
mind him."-Detroit Free Press
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HOW GOLD GROWS.
Indianapolis Journal.

There are gold miners who insist that gold
grows.' This seems scarcely possible, but
there can be no doubt but that the output of
the yellow metal is growing from year to year.
as the increase of 72 per cent in the United
states since 1892 proves.
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Phillips, ROCK IsIaDo r,cur.

Phillips Rock Island Excursion.
Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via R,o
Grande and Rock Island RAILWAYS Thropgn
tourist sleeping cars to Chicago and Boston. Man
ager and porters accompany these excursions ia
Boston For tickets, sleeping-car accommodation
and further information. address Clinton Jones
General Agent Rock Island Railway, 80 Monn
gomery street. san Francisco
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We have rejoiced in the victory over the
funding bill and now let US prepare for the
next fight
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The best thing the visitor to the Home
Products Fair at Los Angeles Will see will
be the city itself. That Is a home product
the whole State is proud Of.