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

OAKLAND OFFICE:
sos Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and so, "a Park Row, New York City.
DAVID NJ. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager.
he CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
There is talk of the carnival.
We are to have City full of high iinks
1t was a wet holiday. but enthusiasm
WASH dampened.
Bargain days are flying fast. There will
soon be spring in prices.
1t begins to look little bit as if the
Swanhilda were an airship.
Fourth street should wh1rl in and help
itself to a few OF the improvements it
needs.
We have rejoiced in the victory over the
funding bill and now let US prepare for the
next fight.
The temporary payroll at Sacramento
seems to have been as big a stuffed
prophet as old Grover.
1t was real genuine officially pro-
claimed holiday yesterday, but a good
many people didn't observe it.
The Park Commission deserves a fair
show, for it has given the people one
Astounding with lovely prospects.
People who are asking undue appropria-
tions for their own counties have little
right to demand economy elsewhere.
The finishing touches are being rapidly
put on the Cabinet and the country can
now see the shape it is going to have.
AS the coming Secretary of State Senator
Sherman's next remark about Cuba will
not be allowed TO drop with dull thud.
Idaho legislators are getting more fun
out of three candidates for the Senate than
a summer girl could get out of three lovers
in one hotel.
If the Cubans haven't taken the city of
Santa Clara there is at any rate sufficient
evidence for believing they captured the
telegraph wire.
An Eastern paragrapher asserts that no
other invention ever caused SO much talk
as the telephone, but it is clear he over
looked the hat.
There isn't woman in the United States
who doesn't consider all the guesses at
McKiniey's cabinet as mere exhibition
of masculine curiosity
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.
The elevation of John Sherman to the
Office OF Secretary of State will leave an
Ohio senatorship open to Mark Hanna or
fight and possibly to both.
The purchase of new desks for the COM
mittee-room at the Capitol confirms the
suspicious of two years ago that the last
Legislature pocketed the old ones.
We would have been more gratiied by
the report IRON Washington that t re con-
strucuon OF our postoffice building will
begin in June if the supervising architect
had been good enough to specify which
June.
In his new book, 1.-The Mystery of
Sleep" John Bigelow declares that ere
long the art of sleeping will be taught in
all our scientific schools. This seems to
be another attempt OF science to intrude
on the church.
If the Caledonian Club adopts the pro-
posed resolution appropriatlng $1,000 from
the club funds for the Burns monument
the success of the work will be virtually
assured. a sum like that will be pedes-
tai on which every body will be willing to
build.
a story that the Pacific Short Line
would soon begin an extension of its road
TO San Francisco was reported about two
weeks ago and then denied. as it is now
reported again it is evident there is some
thing in it, even if nothing more than an
ability TO Keep to the front.
The league recently organized by So
ciety ladies in Los Angeles TO exclude re-
porters from social functions will flourish
gaylv until the first big ball is given, and
then each particular member of the league
will stand 'like quilts upon fretful por-
cupIne" because her gown wasn't de-
scribed right.
New York has not yet completed her
new Capitol but she has outgrown it, and
there is now demand for an appropria-
ton for building for the library and the
Court OF Appeals. Thus the song in New
York to-day is the same it was when the
work began: That's the way the money
goes; pop goes the weasel"
The proposal in Congress to refer the
settlement of the Pacific roads debts to a
commission, to be composed of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, Secretary of the
Interior and the Attorney General, will
give new interest to the makeup of Nc
Kinley's Cabinet. Who are to be the men
to whom the work is to be intrusted?
The efforts which will be made at this
session of the Legislature to obtain an ap-
preparation for the improvement of Sacra-
mento River and the drainage of the
swamp lands will deserve the most favor
able consideration which can be given
them With a due regard for economy.
Sooner or later this important work must
be undertaken, and if the State begins it
we can with more reason ask assistance
from the National Government.