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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08
PLANS FOR THE
PROPOSED ZOO, S"
Professor Tonielli Outlines
Some of Its Attrac-
tons.
Temporary Organization Effected
by Eleeting as President
David Starr Jordan.
Com mittee of L aiding Men Appointed
to Prepare a Canstitution-Prob-
abe Cost of Membership.

a preliminary meeting for the purpose
of establishing in San Francisco zoologi-
cal society was held yesterday afternoon
at the office Of DR.. q. II. Martin, COG SUIT
ter street.
Professor A. P. Tonielli in explaining
the project said:
"The Pacific Coast is the most favorable
spot in America for the establish ent OF
great geological garden. 1t will not be
necessary to Keep the animals in small
cages, but they may be surrounded by the
environments of their natural homes so
far as is compatibl with safety.
"The intention is to make the entrance
free to all. A geological library will IN
time be established, and course OF
lecture, at regular intervals. In time,
also, gallery might be established where
artists can exhibit their pictures of ami
mails and place them on sale.
at is believed that most of the work
can De done in a year. BY the way, we
intend TO establish an aquarium also"
Professor TonieIli is q cele brated African
explorer, and has been on this coast now
for two yearsand q half, IN order to benefit
his wiie's health. He is graduate oil
Oxford.
A temporary organization was effected
Yesterday by the election OF David Starr
Jordan president and Professor A. Z.
Tonelli secretary. A committee on cor
stitution as follows was apoointed:
Professor ToneIli. DR.. Ritter. Dr. Van
den berg. Professor Hardness, DR.. Martin
and Dr. Lorena.
twas suggested that the constitution
of the New York society should be ac-
cepted as a good example of organic law.
According to the New York schedule one
may become q member for So year. a
life member for 500. patron Tor $1,000
and founder for 5000.
Alta recent meeting of the Mission Park
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C|TY'S SHORTAGE
WILL Be REDUCED
Officials Meet To- Day to
Discuss the Stu
alton.
Expert Williams Reports on
the Funds in the
Treasury.
By Strict Economy the Difficulty May
B. Tited Ov r Until the N W
Fiscal Year.

The Finance Com mittee OF the Board OF
Supervisors has taken hold of the threat
ened deficit in the N unicipal funds with q
will. and the indications are that the
situation will turn out to be far less dan
gerous than has been stated.
The committee has had Cyril Williams 9,
its expert, working on the Auditors booKs
for several days past. and held a meeting
yesterday to hear the results of his labor..
Auditor Broderick was present. and
when anxious inquiries were made by
merchants in attendance as to the chances
OF their getting their money he remarked
that it seemed strange that they were
alarmed, when they always seemed anx-
lou. to furnish supplies.
1.-THE troubls lies IN the fact" he said,
that some officials cannot be induced to
keep within their appropriations.
II was intlmatsd that If the salary de-
mands for the last fiscal year were held
over until the new appropriation is made
the difficulty might be tided over. The
on such proposition.
81 am not going to say what will do, -
be replied, shut am quite likely to pay
the salaries hen they are due.
Clerk Russell said that it was unfortu-
nate that the City's credit should be
tn rown into diIrepute every year. He
thought that more taxes could be COL
lected. and that as the June salaries were
not due until July they should not be paid
until then.
Expert Williams report was then read,
showing that the probable shortage will be
$IO0, 900.
The deficit IN the variou. 50 bdivisions of
the general fund aggregate SS7,650, but
the estimated surplus in certain funds
was $40 400, making the deficiency, by
reason of overdrafts, $3S, $50; but to this
must be added $4,000 deficiency in the
collection OF fees, and $50. 900. deficiency
in tax collections, that would be applied
TO the general fund, making total deh-
cheney OF Slo0 600.
T report also showed that there were
deficiencies in the general fund over
which the board has no control. The
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Health DEPARTMENT expected 10 have
surplus of 5000.
Moreover. the fund for the payment of
police salaries had a surplus of 5000
which, it was estimated, would cover the
increase in salaries allowed by the last
Legisl ature, but as payment had been en-
joined and the matter had gone TO the
Supreme Court he credit was likely to re-
main on hand at the end of the fiscal year.
In reference 10 the shortage in fees VIII
liams SAID the new fee bill had red uced
the receipts of the Sheriff's and Recorders
offices one-haif. It had been estimated
at the beginning OF the fiscal year that the
fees would amount TO S2l0 coo, but the ex-
pert estimated thaI they would not
amount 10 more than s1S5 coo. The Police
Court fines had also fallen of. Last year
the revenue from this source was S31, 542-
Up TO May / of this year only SIS, OBS %
had been received
In conclusion Williams stated that from
the deficiency of s1oO0 600 in the general
fund may be deducted the amount that
may be transferred from the police relief
pension fund, in which there is credit Of
nearly $50 0OO.
Mayor Phelan, who was present, and
the members of the committee at once
saw that it would take earnest and we'll
directed work 10 stave eff a serious finan-
cial situation. and it was decided 10 cali a
meeting this morning at 10:30 at the
rooms of the board to talk the matter
over and find some way cut of the
tangle.
That's the only way to do it," said the
Auditor, ''cut down expenses and let out
all men who are not actually and actively
at work and needed. l have dispensed
with two men, and will have to work my
force overtime 20 keep up with the de-
mand, of my Office, and l think all should
do the same.
II might suggest that if those most in
terested would induce the banks TO take
up the salary warrants and not present
them until the beginning of the next
fiscal year il would remove the pressure"
After the meeting the Supervisors con-
suited among themselves and decided to
cut expenses in ali directions.
The contract for grading Alamo square
may be postponed until the next fiscal
year, making q saving OF $40, 900, and with
other savings reduce the deficit from
$50. 600 10 $50 600.
The Auditor intimated that II the board
and heads of departments would show .
genuine disposition to retrench he would
do all in his power to see that the City Is
credit was placed on a better basis.
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WHERE IS THE
GENERAL S|GL M
The Smart Schooner Out
Over Forty Days for
Alaska.
Must Have Been Caught in the
Same Storm as tine Ship
Samaria.
Another Cut.Rate War Between Here
and Puget Sound Ports New
in Prospect

The North American Trading Com
pany's schooner General Sigl!n has not
been heard from Tor over forty days, and
fears are entertained for her safety Tine
last time she was heard from she was IN
the vicinity of Cape Flattery and IN about
the same place as the ship Ssmarla Is sup
posed to have been. 1t was blowing a hur-
ricane at the time and all hope for the
Samaria has been abandoned. Now
Messrs. Liebes & Co. are beginning to
fear for the Gin. Vessels tHat left here
three weeks later than her have reached
their destination and reported all well.
The General SigI1n left here with pro-
visions for the vessels of the North Ameri-
car Trading Compsny's sealing feet. Cap
tain Jerome Thomas was in command
and he carried q crew OF six all told. f..
C. Greenfield, agent of the company at
Wood Island. and his wife ana daughter
were passengers. If anything has hap
pened 10 the smart little schooner the
chances are that il occurred when she was
in company with the Samsris of Flat
terv.
The General Siglin was built at Marsh
field, Or, in 1894, and is sister vessel TO
the weiI-known sealing schooner, Win
chester She IL over so tons net burden.
so feet long, % feet broad and feet
inches deep. News from Alaska is now
anIiously looked for, ana should no word
come from the Siglin by the 18th inst. all
hope for her will be abandoned.
The bArkeltine Monitor nad 10 run back
to port yesterday. After getting away
from here in ballast she ran into q heavy
gaze and sprang = leak. The ballast got
into the pumps and choked them, so that
q change of course was i'm peratiye. When
the vessel came 10 an anchorage yesterday
there were several feet of water in her
hold, and an attempt will be made 10 get
her on the dryGock to-day.
The old Santa Clara Sirius Scandinavia
kahuIui- Cleveland will make her first
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county Clerk appropriation, for instance,
asS1OO, 900. Under the one-tweIfth act the
Clerk could spend $S333 80 month, bu:
the April salaries amounted to $40. 730
The deficiency on May 1 was so, 1873. The
estimated deficiency on June 30 is
$4,000. The appropriation to pay court
orders was S45 900 and the deficiency
amounted to $5c4s 20. The estimated de-
ticiency on June 80 is $500. This money
is drawn directly on the treasury By Or
ders of court and has been disposed of to
date as follows: To the Boys and Girls
Aid Society SO 425, to Police Court re-
porter. SIT 52S SIS. 10 Superi Court re-
porters SIS, 1874 35; total, S43 345 20.
The board appropriated $45, 600 to pay
iury fees under the county government
act, Demands on that fund for $44 79S
have already been audited, and the de-
mends against it that have not yet been
audited amount TO Sl942 so, and it is esti-
mated that there will be deficiency Of
$1,000. The Supervisors have no control
over that fund, nor over the appropria-
ton for election expenses, which is SIS, COZ
short
Referring to other accounts the expert
declared that the County Hospital fu nd
would be ST., COO short, owing principally
TO the cost of repairs, but the running ex-
penses are $1,000 q month in excess of the
appropriation. Williams further reported
that the Fire Department wa. confident
OF having surplus OF 5000, and that the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08
A Special Feature.

Town Talk this week makes special fea-
ture of the recent Elks' banquet and dedica-
ton OF that body's handsome new lodge
ROOM The popularity OF the Elks is so great
that Town Talk has issued al extra edition to
meet the demand Tor copies. Leading officers
are represented by fine half-tone portraits,
the advancement of illustrations ami article
incident thereto being high y artistic. The
u.utl departments, however, have not be- n
neglected on account OF space devoted to the
p O. E. The Saunlerer tells his customary
fund of amusing storiettes and gives a resume
of local events of the recent past and early fu-
ture. There is Q choice assortment, also, of
original fiction and verse aud q number OF
excellent editorials.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08
William mons Valuable Estate.

William J. simon and MargaretM. Simon have
petftioned for letters OF administration on the
estate of their father. William Simon, de-
ceased Due search has been made and no
will can be found. The property consists
mainly OF real estate in this City, and is esti-
mated to be worth 500, 2I3. Wickiife Mat
thews is attorney for the heirs.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08
PICNICs AND EXCURSIONS.
AUCTION >ALES.

~ FRANK " } UTTERFIELD-ThIs day. May
& TlaS.a~ranl a. EOS : Ills St. at ! o'clock.
BYL. VrNcENr-This day. May :, Furniture at
1922 HYDE street. 81 i O'Clock
BY C. H UNssES CO--Monday, May 10,
Zeal Fas-ate. a. - Mont gomery st, az IL O'CLOCK.
8D tAsrC,. < iLDEIDeE--Tuesday, May II
Pei Fs-are. 81 salesrooms, 63s Market street.,
? o'clock
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08

We make of getting Drwea for ladies'
We make that is made
We the table
We make of filling correctly complaints.
We selling goods
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08
GRISSINI BREAD.
A Schilling & Company
San Francisco

TAKE THE PLEASURE OF INTRODUCING
this kind OF bread IN the market of San Fran
cisco, where ~ has been already in use among sew
eral European families IL is brad original
of the northern part OF Italy, familiar 10 the
people of turin. from where IL took name, but
actually can be found almost In every DO Ell, and
its use Is so widespread that it can be found al
most on every table of rich well as OF poor
people.
In frct the form requires careful pre- paration
OF the paste which has to be well raised, and the
most careful baking 20 as to obtain . Uniform
bread The form it-elf ex plains how carefully and
skillfuliy IL has o De made, and shows a. once
how b. alt hful II must be, not only for the thor
ough way in which it has BEEN baked. bus for its
porous quality. which makes it light and well
bake all through. outside well inside. It is
he ,ithfuI for children. being very easily used as
ready soup in milk or broth
II is Iasling. and can be softened by warming it
in the oven. Although its price is tie higher
than the ordinary bead, yet it Is an economy, As
yery little of 1t Is wasted Delivered all parts
Of the City free Of charge, in the country c. u.
=. II AG a NJ Z N Z.
1913 Dupont Street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08
NEW TO-DAY.
HOT COFFEE.

EVERY BEST HOT
which sell all flavor
Order for until P welcomealwa pleased
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08
Association the following petition was

Association the following petition was
adopted:
OFFICE OF THE MISSION PARK ASSOCIATION.
&. D. SHADBURSE, President,
T. c. MCEwEN. secretary.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4, 1897.
To the Hon. Mayor and Board Of Superrtsors ~
the City and County Of Scn FrGRctsco-GESTLE
MEN: The Missiom Park Association OF San
Francisco and the undersigned residents and
taxpayers of the City respectfully request your
honorable body 10 make q reasonable appro-
priation in the next tax levy for the purpose
of providing public park and geological gar
den, and in the meantime that you invite pro-
posals tor and select g suitable site Tor the
same in the Mission districi.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08

Picturesque San francisco.
The view with News Letter to-day is
worth preserving.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08
ADJUSTMENTS.

BALDWIN THEATER LII Captain"
COLUMBIA THFATER A Run on the Bank
MoROsco's OPERA House - An American
Hero.
ALCAZAR THEATER East Lynne
1IvOLI OPERA House >hsmus y Brien
OKPHEUM High Class Vaudeville.
OBERoN.-Grand Concert
GOLDEN GATE HALL-Lecture.
sCTRo Baths Bathing and Performances
THE CHCTEs AND SKATING RINR-DS4y II
HEight street. enc block east OF the PARK.
BICYCLE RA CEs-Corner Baker and Fell Streets
Sunday afternoon, at O'Clock
OAKLAND RACE TRACK--Races today
PICNICS AND Excl RSI0NS.
HAYwARD's P ARK.-COncerts every Sunday.
Ell CAMPo-Music, Dancing, Boating Fishing,
every SUNDAY.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08

Asses II
These popular and dainty biscuits have
given such general satisfaction that
have had to double our orders. Ask for
upid's Kisses.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08
CrOouet Sets. s balls

full line of these in store: balls 81 so:
8 balls 81 rs, - IS, 81 so. So g. Buy one
OF our good sets and have II always. We
try TO keep a full line of game, for outdoor
sports
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08
Water White Honey

This is the new crop, first of the season,
flavor Is unsurpassed. color as white as
paper, purity un9ues Toned, in 5-gaIIon
tins at Sc pound; l gallon tins 81 each.
We have cheaper grades
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08
BOn.BOns, Der lb.

DVH'DVH Pei IB' y.
These are not the common kind put up to
sell, but something fine, which we turn out
TO win and hold trade. Fresh every day.
good adyer iser Would tell you Of our
fine Loyney's Candles.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-08

The case OF the United States against Mate
HcNlchol OF the American bark Harry
Morse was heard by United States Commits
siouer Heacock yesterday and Will be re-
sn-at tn rrnrnin-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-01

The income tax is still to the fore in
the United States. \ member of the
State Legislature of New York has
brought forward measure for tax
upon gross profits and income. The
tax proposed = to be graduated one.
One-half per cent is to be charged
upon an annual income of $1,000 and
less than $4,000; one per cent on in
comes from $4,000 to $4,000, ore
and a half per cent on incomes
between $4,000 and $4,000; two
per cent on everything between
$4,000 and 100000, and one-half per
cent for every additional ten thousand
dollars of gross income That the bill
will pass is unlikely; there are enough
rich men in New York to defeat it, but
the graduated income tax is the fair
est tax that has ever been proposed
1t is the miserable selfishness of
wealth that keeps it from being put in
force. In time it will be the tax that
Governments will rely upon, but there
will be a great political struggle to
put it on the statute books of the var
ious States. The leaven is working.
however, and that is an encouraging
thing.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-01
EUROPE IN A FIX.

AS one reads more fully the reports
that come from Europe it begins to be
seen how the powers are going TO di-
vide themselves. From the latest DIS
Matches 81 nrrn""- q" if ti.o ai'isivn
will be Germany, Austria and Russia
against Italy, France and Great Brit
ain. The trio last mentioned undoubt-
eddy have their populace at the back
of them, but it is an entire reversal Of
their policy. Those three countries Al
the later fifties went to war with
Russia to support what they now
would give considerable to overthrow
if they only knew how.
The Eastern question is very com
to cut the Gordian knot. The trouble
is that with telegraphs and telephones
no man can now play the part of Alex
ander. He is too much hampered by
''orders" from home. The responsible
ity of the men in the field is over
Swallowed by those who are not there.
1t was one of the unfortunate details
of the war of rebellion. Telegraphs
are wonderful things, but they some
times upset the plans of the best of
men.
The solution of this Cretan question
would have been reached three or four
months ago if the men of action had
been allowed to settle the question in
stead of the men of inaction, viz: The
diplomatists. The latter are one of the
curses of any form of civilization.
What man wins by the sword and the
rifle, is lost through the chicane of
the diplomatist One has only to look
at the struggle in Crete. The Chris
tians have the upper hand, but for dip
lomatic purposes the whole force of
Christian Europe is put on the side of
the unspeakable Turk. Was ever such
an illogical position ever taken?
Whatever may be written here on
the subject will have no influence on
the ultimate issue, but it is a satisfac-
ton for any community to be voiced
against wrong. Instead of dividing,
the European nations should unite and
drive the Turk out of Europe. The re-
generation of the Turk in Asia can be
left to generations yet unborn.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-01

Julius Palmer must be making
money. Having an ex-Queen to ex-
plot he is evidently using the
unhappy lady as means of adj
vertising with hotel proprietors. The
terms at the Shoreham were evidently
not satisfactory, so julius moved his
charge over to the Cairo, getting up,
incidentally, little tale of assassina-
ton which lent mystery to the change
He has got better terms now, evident
ly, and has been able to show off his
prize at a sort of free and easy enter
tainment when Julius had the shutters
closed, the electric lights turned on,
a couple of fiddlers to play aloha De-"
and "Ahi Wela," and some four humid
red of the free and enlightened citizens
(chiehy female) out of the sixty mil
lions of people in the United States,
were led with awe and trembling be-
fore the eX-monarch of the Hawaiian
Islands. Now there can be very little
doubt that the proprietors of the
Cairo, who are keen business men, find
that the advertisement which julius
has furnished them with is much to
their commercial advantage. But it is
"a very humiliating position to put an
eX-sovereign in. Well may Liliuoka-
lani say. save me from my friends!
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@inePy @)o1plcs.
MARCH 26, 1897.
A TALK ON CLEANLINESS.
MARCH 26, 1897.

1t is not often that people
in our line of business speak
about toilet soaps, but as the
handling of hardware plows
and other implements soil the
hands and face, it is natural
that we, as well as others, use
soap.
We have a large stock of
soaps of various kinds-too
large for our own consumption
for some time to coae-and
will allow our patrons to take
advantage of our stock to sup
ply themselves.
The name of Colgate & Co.
is known the world over as
the makers of fine toilet soaps,
and when we offer Cashmere
Boquet and Jockey Club at
Soc per cake, Glycerine, Rosa
dore and Honey for zoe per
cake, Rico and CASTLE at 1Oc
per cake, there should be no
hesitancy about buying them.
The same make of Demul-
cent shaving Soap is an assur-
ance of superior quality, even
when we sell it at 1Oc per
cake.
Everyone is familiar with
the healing properties of Cuti-
cura soap. 1t confers on con-
sumers the greatest of human
blessings skin without a
blemish. Twenty cents per
cake is too cheap.
Medicated tar soap makes
an excellent shampoo as well
as a bath soap. Many use it
exclusively. You will find it
impossible to buy this soap
anywhere for less than 25c
per cake, except of us, where it
goes for 15c per cake.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-01
THE FUTURE.

From all that can be learned, after
taking careful review of the informa-
ton brought by the Australians mail,
the prospects of Hawaii with regard to
tariff legislation in the United States
are good 1t is very evident that Ha-
wall has good friends in both houses,
and that those friends are willing and
anxious to work for her best interests.
This colony, planted as an outpost of
Anglo Saxon civilization, in the midst
of the Pacific is not going to be left
to take care of itself and have its best
men fall heartsick and dispirited for
lack of that support which, as pioneers
of the free institutions of their moth
er country, they have every right to
expect.
The makeup of President McKinley's
Cabinet shows that the Republican
party in Hawaii can count upon not
only himself, and he is a most power
full factor, but upon the members of
that body. How would it be other
wise? That there are Americans who
can stultify themselves and their own
institutions is true, but the Mckinley
Cabinet does not contain material of
that class. Perhaps it would be better
to say jewellers instead of Ameri-
cans, for the latter word means in
every ones ears Republican, and there
are many who live under the protect
ing shield of the Republic who are
anything but true Republicans at
heart. Now and again one of the
jewellers breaks loose. Mr.. Astor is
case in point, and his journal is do
ing just what one might expect him to
do.
In Mr.. Astor's journal, the Pail Mall
Gazette, there is mourning because Ho-
nolu1u is virtually "a Yankee town."
and then, with remarkable frankness,
it ADDS, "How is it that our Island En-
pire has left out this large and fertile
group of islands," For an all grabbing
policy commend us to this sentence.
Evidently Mr.. Astor's writer's want to
own the earth and put fence around
it. However there is no question as
to the ultimate outcome of the present
position of affairs.
In the days of Lord George Paulet
Great Britain might have obtained the
dominance in these Islands, and she