The San Francisco call., 1897-08-19

9os Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and ST. "a Park Row. New York City |
DAVID NJ. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
THE SUMMER MONTHS.
Areyou going 10 the country vacation: 3: IF
so is DO trouble for US TO forward THE CALL to
your address Do not let it miss you for you will
miss it, Orders given TO the carrier left at
Business Office will receive prompt attention.
NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
Sor summer months
See the Mechanics Fair early and often.
Stud the pure-food exhibit and profit
by il.
In making the trip to the Klondike it is
not the first step that costs most.
1t is safer to try California diggings
than those of Alaska, and the chances are
just as good.
Home industry will supply sufficient
wages for home people if home people will
patronize 1t.
Hidden under the soil of California
there is many a gold pocket that hasn't
been opened yet.
From the frequency with which the
Utica mine gets itself on fire it seems TO
consider it has money to burn.
Railroad building in Alaska and the
Yukon Valley will be the next big enter
prise and snowplows will be in demand.
In short time the rush for Alaska will |
be over for this season and then we can
attend to home affairs and get ready for
the bigger rush next spring.
The rush of people to the Yukon will |
soon overstock the labor market and be-
fore long Dawson will be confronted with |
the problem OF the unemployed.
Dyea and Skaguay are about even on
port privileges end advantages, so the one
which first gets a good road open to the
Yukon Valley will be the metropolis.
The rapidity with which the British are
driving the warIike tribesmen OUT of the
hills of Chitral is a good object lesson for
Weyler if he knows how to profit by it.
The international duel between Henry |
OF Orleans and the Count of Turin will be |
the cause of at least forty other dues OF |
similar character. Such things are conta- !
gious.
Santa Rosa is never so lovely as when |
displaying her hospitality, and just now
ha ise bor tO tha 70
Institute as one OF the most beautiful |
places on earth.
Populists who are searching for plat
form and gold Democrats who are search
ing for voters will do we'll to drop their
pursuit of those things and begin to hunt
holes before frost comes.
We do not hear much of the civil dis
turbances in Brazil, but as the Govern
ment is negotiating for loan OF $40, 900
it is evident the war is flaming up enough
to burn money very lively.
Free-traders may assert as vehemently
ss they please that the new tariff has had
nothing to do with the new prosperity,
but the people having tried a free-trade
tariff once will not try it again.
The Klondike gold deposited in the
Mint at this City does not appear in the
statement of the Treasury Department
and as this signifies that it has been with
drawn in the shape of coin and placed in
the banks it will be seen it is already in
circulation and helping business along.
Eastern papers are making fun of an
officer of the National Guard of Massachu-
setts who on retiring from command
closed farewell address to his men by
saying: May God preserve the militia of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. BY
command of Brigadier- General Peach"
Some disconnected men of the Peoples
party in Ohio are protesting against the
nomination of Coxey for Governor on the
ground that he is not Populist. AS
matter of fact in these days no office
seeker is Populist in the eyes OF any
other Populist who thinks the office is
seeking himself.
Commenting on the advantages OF pleas
ure trips on Lake Michigan the Inter Ocean
says, 'The lake, either in calm or in storm,
is as grand as the ocean" After that we
may expect some self-suu1clent CITIZEN OF
Chicago 10 rise and assert that the gas
lamps Of the city, either fiaring or flicker
ing are as grand as the stars.
The latest New York notion has been
advanced by a genius who proposes to
connect the upper stories of the various
sky-scrapers by means of cables along
which are to run aerial cars, so that per-
sons living in the tall structures can pass
from their homes and offices to roof
gardens and high restaurants without
having 20 descend to hot streets at all
during the summer season. tits crank's
romance to-day. Tomorrow it may be
business reality.
On the heels of the completion
of the organization of the whisky
trust comes from the Blue Grass
- -, II of