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The herald., 1897-02-27
STREET CAR LEGISLATION

The care required in law-making is
we'll illustrated in two bills now in the
legislature on street car franchises.
One of these is Bulia's five block bill.
This bill with a provision leaving the
central blocks of city, or the key of
the transportation system, in the city's
control would not be fatal to new en-
terprise. The protest of San Francisco
has secured an agreement whereby the
key to that city is left open. This is
Market street A similar provision
should be made for one of our central
streets, say Main street. If the city
controlled eight or ten blocks of Main
street without regard to other limita-
tions, the bill of Bulla's would never
have been introduced.
The other bill that intends to serve the
popular interests, but which may do
the reverse, is Mead's bill to allow bid
of their earnings to the city as payment.
The danger of this excellent provision
is that, under our present practice, an
irresponsible agent of existing COM
panies can hold up a franchise for
eighteen months by bidding an excess
sive and impossible percentage. At
present agents must put up the cash
they bid in certified check. Under the
new proposal they need put up nothing
been enforced.
The herald., 1897-02-27
GAGE VS.. THE PEOPLE

lie pltH VI Is tidA - ooSS ~ SeiA e~AA
| forms of government paper money and
make the national banks the sole source
of the countrys paper money supply is
meeting with so much opposition in COM
mercial circles that it will probably be
abandoned for the present, and perhaps
the matter will be laid over until the
Fifty-sixth congress convenes.
The lower house of the Fifty-fifth
congress, which will be convened in ex-
| ira session in March. could be relied
upon to pass any kind of bill that Reed
and the other leaders would endorse,
but the next senate will not be run by
the administration bosses. The Repub-
majority, counting the free silver
senators of the party, but it be-
gins to look as though the Ding
ley bill would fail to marshal the full
strength of the Republican side without
some kind of a monetary rider, and if
that should happen, we may be sure that
the Gage proposition would be slaugh-
tered.
1t is safe to say that three-fourths CT
the voters of this country would vote
down Mr.. Cages plan for a moentary
system. The sentiment that the gen.
eral government should be the one source
of the country's circulating money me-
dunn is deep-rooted. and although the
people might not be able to give sci
entific reason for their belief in the pre-
misses, the fact still remains that they
are the sovereigns of the nation, and
that they never hesitate to exercise their
authority. For thirty-five years the
| people have used the nations creations
of money, and. barring year or two be-
tween 1860 and 1870, it has never failed
| them, whether they employed the me-
dunn at home or abroad. 1t is not rea-
sorable that they would endorse Mr..
Cages radical departure until they had
been convinced that national bank notes
would suit their purpose better than gov
ernment money.
1t is unfortunate for Mr.. Cages plan
that in the years 1898, 1894, 1895 and 1896
241 national banks failed, and that the
total bank failures in those years, in
Guiding rational, state, savings and pri-
vate banks and trust companies, was
1016. 1t is very true that the purchas-
ing power of the notes of the national
banks was not impaired by the failure
of the concerns issuing them, but that
was because, and only because, they
were secured by bonds of the govern
ment which were themselves secured by
the business integrity and moral sense
of the people. Hence, the people rea-
son, if they have to issue and guarantee
bonds for a basis of national bank note
circulation, why should not notes issued
direct from the nations treasury be
equally as good? And, again, Mr..
Cages plan would necessitate per-
manent national bond debt, and not only
so, but the debt would have to be in
creased from time to time to provide for
the increasing demand of business in
terests 1t is no doubt the sense of ths
majority of the people that the govern
ment should be the source of the coun-
trys circulating money medium.
The herald., 1897-02-27
OVER THE TEA

Three little maidens one fine day
Sat slipping their fragrant tea.
Their talk must have been monotonous
quite,
For each one talked Of che"
The snow without fell thick and fast,
But they really didn't heed,
AS they placidly talked and laughed and
slipped
They were cosy and happy indeed.
A wonderful creature was he, trow.
By the things they said that day.
For his hair was black, of golden hue
And family streaked with gray.
His eyes were blue, melting brown,
AS black as the ravens wing.
He had mo voice at all, you KNOW"
But you really should hear him sing"
He danced divinely," he couldn't dance,
He only danced "a trifle."
He couldn't ''shoot a single Bit
Was "a dead shot with a rifle"
Yet all these pretty little maids
Seemed sweetly to agree
And smiled and chatted pleasantly
Over their cup of tea.
But I, who listened. family said,
I'D like to see this fellow
Whose eyes are blue and black and brown,
Whose hair is black and yellow"
Six pretty eyes were opened wide.
Three sweet voices answered me,
"Why. don't you know, you silly goose?
Its Jack and Fred and Lee"
LA BELLE READ.
The herald., 1897-02-27
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Nearly 6 per cent Of the veterans IN
the soldiers homes died last year.
A Lancaster, KY, man lost valuable
ham. He offers 81 for the ham and $500
for the hide of the thief.
There is Waldobore., Me-, woman
carrying on farm Of 100 acres and max
ing money when most men are COM
planning of hard times.
The relative values are such now in
Weston, Mo-, that traders swap halters
and throw in the horses to which they
happen to be attached.
A sign in a New York cigar store is
rather striking. 1t reads: Five hun
dred dollars accident insurance policy
with every package of genuine Havana"
Germany gains very little population
by migration, yet the natural increase
is so great that the empire gained 2,81,-
431 inhabitants between 1890 and 1895.
The total is now 52.279,901
A society has been formed in Shanghai
to conteract the crime of stealing wo-
men to be sold into worse than slavery,
which is alarmingly common, and on the
increase in some parts of China.
John Nicholas Brown, son Of the late
John Carter Brown, the millionaire
manufacturer of Rhode Island, has Civ
en- the trustees of the public library Of
Providence 100000 for the new library
building.
The remains of Gen. Ely s. Parker,
the Indian chief, member of Gen.
Grants staff, who was buried in Fair
field, Conn, cemetery, were recently re-
moved to Buffalo, there to rest with the
remains of his fellow Indians, members
of the famous Seneca tribe.
Some time ago Amador Cardenas
found a collection of skeletons Of i'm
mense mastodons in a ravine near Sal
tillo, Mexico. He has just forwarded the
collection to the City of Mexico, where
they will be placed in the national mu-
scum. The mastodons are the largest
ever found in Mexico.
After waiting three years, a South
Paris, Me-, man has just received his
diploma for the exhibit of corn which he
made at the worlds fair. 1t was lost in
the mall and it took about one year to
go through the red tape necessary to
find and deliver the diploma.
Rev. A. Fl. Burrows, commonly known
as "Parson Burrows" who keeps the
Nickels house, just across the state line
III Tennessee, established matrimonial
altar there seven years ago for the bene-
fit of eloping couples from Virginia. He
has officiated in the marriage OF 615
eloping couples from Virginia and West
Virginia and has made upward of $4,000
out of this business.
Another instance of the rapid progress
the Japanese are making in modern civ
ilization is shown in the fact that the
native babies have learned to cry iE :ha
approved American or European FASH
ion. In the palmy days. before the Japs
had learned so much, their babies were
models of propriety, and were scarcely
ever heard to whimper. Now they baWA
as long and as loudly as the most civil.
lied infant ever seen. .-s
The herald., 1897-02-27
Prison Yawns for Somebody

The insolence of Searles in refusing to
appear again before the Lexow commit
tee may be surprising. His reluctance
to testify is not so. He knows too much
of his own and his partners unlawful
practices. Nor is it really necessary for
the committee to secure his testimony
He and the Havemeyers and some other
witnesses have sufficiently shown that
the sugar trust is a conspiracy in inso-
lent defiance of statute law. The thing
now needed is not to find out more about
the sugar trust but to prosecute the
men who direct it and send them to Jail
as the law directs.-New York World.
The herald., 1897-02-27
sympathy for the Street Berssrs


To the Editor Of The Los Angeles
Herald: There appeared in the Times
of last Tuesday an article signed by ~.
w. H." and headed 1.-THE Plague Of
Street Beggars." The inhuman remarks
and selfishness OF the writer are sufflci-
ent to make every fair-minded citizen of
Los Angeles blush for shame. 1t is hard
to believe that there is man living in
this fair city Of ours, permeated with an
atmosphere of modern intelligence, who
is so lost to sympathy and feeling as to
write such a contemplate letter regard
Ing the unfortunate who must beg or
steal to exc out scanty existence.
OF course 1 admit there are few beg
gars in this city who are so from choice,
but, it would seem rather strange in a
place the size of Los Angeles with over
ten thousand of her actual citizens out
of employment, If there were not many
of them forced by stern necessity to beg.
(and If relief does not come in the very
near future perchance something
worse) that the little ones at home may
not starve.
Your correspondent suggests that
twenty-five policemen, dressed in cit
zens' clothes, carrying lunch baskets,
should walk for an hour in the evening
at the time men quit work Chat is the
men who are fortunate enough to have
work)-walk on cross streets between
Main and Broadway, etc., and thus they
would be able to make wholesale ar
rests. This dastardly scheme would
succeed probably in bringing up few
of the professional beggars, but in the
meantime would it not be more likely
to be some one of our citizens in dis
tress? 1 know of many that are in ac-
tual need in this land of plenty. would
like very much to meet that hair
Drained cynic and have talk with him
on these matters. No doubt he does not
have the least idea of the amount of
destitution here, hence. he looks upon
the whole proposition of relief with dis
trust B. w. LAND.
The herald., 1897-02-27
Different Compilations of Capital

Great combinations of capital for le-
climate purposes Of trade are neither
contrary to public policy nor'detriment-
al to the common prosperity. They are
both encouraged and protected by law.
But combinations formed to destroy
competition, to control production and
prices, to establish monopoly in order
10 amass wealth by forcing tribute
from the masses, present one Of those
evils which it is the very purpose of
government to suppress, for the same
reason that it aims to suppress crime
and protect the people against wrong
and tyranny.-New York Herald.
The herald., 1897-02-27
HUMOR OF THE HOUR

Brown-"They say that 95 per cent of
the business Of the country is done on
credit" Jones-"Yes, and there are lots
of people hustling ali they can to in
crease the proportion. Puck.
The New Necessity.-The Governess
II know French and German" Mrs.
Uptodate-"That is not sufficient. l
want some one who can teach my chill
dren Scotch. h."-Brooklyn Life.
What on earth induced you, John
You gave that waiter S. for a tip, and he
was the worst 1 ever" That's just
it, my dear. 1 wanted to enable him to
retire. re."-Harper's Bazaar.
An Aid to Memory.-The school girl
--"Weren't there nine MUSES.? 1 keep
forgetting" Her brother = Mines
right Can't you think of ball game
nine on each side and nine innings?"-
Puck.
Moses Junior-"Fader, a shentleman
in de shop wants to know if dat all-vool
nonshrinkable shirt will shrink"
Moses Senior-"Does it fid him." Moses
Junior-"No; i'd is too big" Moses
Senior-"Yah, id will shrink!"-Tit-
Bits.
Reporter-"Do you know what they
are saying about you over in the Nine
teenth ward 2" Professional Politician
NO What is it?" Reporter-"They
say you won't stay bought" Profession
al Politician (off his guard)-"Its an in
fernal lie!"-Chicago Record.
Asker (to Fisher, who is returning
empty handed from fishing trip, with
dog at his heels)-"What do you call
your dog?" Fisher-"Fish." Asker
why. that's a funny name for dog.
What made you give it to him?" Fisher
ta won't hita p-Tit-RitS
Her Plan.-He-"Do you believe in
long engagements" She-'Well, 1t all
depends" He-"I don't understand"
Shelf he has plenty Of money and is
inclined to be liberal, long engagement
is the thing; but If he cannot afford
boxes at the opera and such things
always make his regime very short. -
Philadelphia Leader.
An old Scottish woman had gone on a
visit to her soldier son at a garrison
town where an evening gun was fired.
When the gun doomed forth the hour
she was very much startled. "Whatna
noise is that?" she asked, in alarm. "Oh,
that's sunset" answered the son. 'Losh
keep us!'' she exclaimed. II didna ken
the sun gaed down wi dunt like that.
-Tit-Bits.
"I have been much interested in your
"reminiscences" remarked the passen-
ger in the long gray overcoat, as the
train drew near the end of the journey.
You have been an actor thirty years,
I think you said" YES" replied the
elderly passenger, with whom he had
been conversing. Excuse me for ask
ing, but can you recall how many times
rufflians and thoughtless boys have
thrown eggs at you?" II have never
had an egg thrown at me in my life.'
.'Never?" absolutely never" The
passenger in the long gray overcoat said
nothing further, but after he got home
he, discontinued his subscription for five
comic weekly papers-Chicago Tribune.
The herald., 1897-02-27
Take Look at Home

No just objection can be raised against
the action of wealthy citizen who
gives $3.50, 900 to carry on the work of the
board of home and foreign missions of
his church. Yet when the papers of New
York report, as they did yesterday, that
in a single night five young women of
this city were arrested by the police for
disorderly conduct on the streets while
drunk, it indicates that the need of help
in the home mission is so great as to
justify philanthropy in disregarding
the foreign mission altogether.-New
York World.
The herald., 1897-02-27
keepine Out Dear Foreign Rails

The beauty of protective tariffs is be-
ing strikingly shown just now. when
the price of American steel rails Is IS
or Sc ton below the English medium
and yet we have duty of $3.50 ton to
protect our infant industry from the
terrible foreigner. In a few weeks the
foreigner will be complaining that we
are taking his own markets from him
but congress will continue the duty for
the benefit of the trust when it reor-
ganizes to mulct the home consumer
Kansas City Times.
The herald., 1897-02-27
THEIR GRIEVANCES STATED

The hearing before the special COM
mittee of the council appointed to ex-
anime into the manner in which the oil
industry is conducted, and to devise
measures for relief from the nuisances
complained of, held in the council cham
ber last evening. demonstrated beyond
the shadow of a doubt that the facts, as
set forth in The Herald from time to
time, have not been overstated. Both
The herald., 1897-02-27

A Chicago alderman seeks to have all
bells exceeding eight inches in diane
ter prohibited from ringing on Sunday
morning so that the residents of the
pork metropolis may have a gCud snooze
one day in the week.
The herald., 1897-02-27

The speaker of the Missouri legisla-
ture threatened to order the chaplain
to settle the hash" of couple of quar-
reling statesmen. That chaplain should
be chairman of the legislative committee
that is to officially attend the Carson
prize fight.
The herald., 1897-02-27

Searles thinks the ingratitude of con-
sumers toward the philanthropic sugar
trust is monstrous. He says the sugar
refining business is conducted in the
interest Of the people. Ananias was
knocked dead for telling lie not half
so bald-headed
The herald., 1897-02-27

The Nicaragua canal is apparently
no nearer completion now than it was
one year ago, and if Tom Reed is re-
elected speaker of the house, the next
congress will do little for it. The czar
is feminist" the canal.
The herald., 1897-02-27

A Chicago firm has been caught in the
act of cutting pure ice for family use"
on a lake whose water the authorities
had condemned for being foul, con-
taminated and disease breeding" But
that is Chicago enterprise. We never
cut ice that way in California.
The herald., 1897-02-27

When one reads the testimony Of the
sugar trust managers, and sees how
very forgetful they are, and how
very little they know Of the sugar busi-
ness the wonder is how such stupid men
could have engineered such a monu-
mental steal.
The herald., 1897-02-27

r. A. Dague of the Santa Paula
Chronicle is publishing some thoughtful
and interesting papers on the questions
of the hour. Santa Paula is fortunate
in having such a broad-minded and
large-hearted man at the head Of its
newspaper.
The herald., 1897-02-27
Panniest Farce Of Them All

Many funny farces are mounted with
the meeting place of the upper house Of
congress as a stage, but none Is more
side-splitting than the solemn clearing
of the galleries that the momentous
proceedings pending may not reach the
general public.-St. Paul Globe.
The herald., 1897-02-27

There were private secretaries before
Dan Lamont, and there have been pri-
vate secretaries since. but in the estima-
ton Of the present generation, Lamont
stands as the highest. development Of the
qualities fittest for that oflce.-Water-
bury (Conn.) American.
The herald., 1897-02-27

Rev. Moody's plan to print Monday
morning papers on the Saturday night
before is an insult to the Hebrews and
the Seven-day Baptists. Let them be
printed on Friday. News? Well, no
matter about the news
The herald., 1897-02-27

to investigate and see whether 1t was
compositor did 1t on purpose. The
copy" said the editors wife had gone
on a tour to Kansas" but the type made
the announcement that she had gone
on a tear to Kansas"
The herald., 1897-02-27

A bill to require the Pullman COM
pany to pay into the state treasury one
fourth of its receipts in that state was
being favorably considered by the Mis-
souri, legislature the other day, but a
wag defeated it by asking to have Pull
man sleeping car porters" substituted
for the pullman company"
The herald., 1897-02-27

Orders for 100000 tons of American
steel rails for use in British territory
have been booked this week. Neverthe-
less. our ironmongers insist that high
tariff is needed to protect them against
the iron and steel works of England.
The herald., 1897-02-27

When the bill to prohibit the sale Of
the deadly cigarette was before the Ten
nessee legislature a rural member sug-
gested that If parents would give their
igarette-smoking boys a few doses of
hickory tea there would be no use for
the proposed law-and he was not far
wrong
The herald., 1897-02-27

1t has been suggested that Greater
New York should be called Tomplatts-
burg, but there are few loud-mouthed
patriots who prefer the name Of Tam
manYYille.
The herald., 1897-02-27

H. Clay Evans of Tennessee wants to
know the sense of a man being a Re
publican in Democratic state if Nc
Kinley has no appreciation of that brand
of patriotism.
The herald., 1897-02-27

The New York Sun has not yet made
the charge that Grover Cleveland is at
the bottom of the troubles in Crete, but
it will.
The herald., 1897-02-27

1t should be set down to Weylers
credit that he makes it hot for only such
newspaper correspondents as represent
the "new journalism"
The herald., 1897-02-27

A bill has been presented in the Mis-
souri, legislature ito terminate flirting
with female passengers by railway con-
ductors and brakemen.'
The herald., 1897-02-27

It is we'll enough to mention White
law Reid for high position, cabinet or
otherwise, but do not let it get beyond
the mention.
The herald., 1897-02-27

Dignified Benjamin Harrison doing
the pace-the-f1oor act to quiet young
Benjamin, or Jane, as the case may be-
would make a great study for an artist
The herald., 1897-02-27

In giving it out that he is a farmer
(and he does own a farm) Major Nc
Kinley commences to pave the way for
a second term.
The herald., 1897-02-27

joices in the name of Nicholas Christie
ooulakis. Such name should be a
tower of strength in any cause, for 1t
shuts out the professional jawsmith.
The herald., 1897-02-27

An enterprising Ohio man is selling
slivers from the church which Mr. Me-
Kinley attended when he was little
boy.
The herald., 1897-02-27

Crete has not asked the United States
to recognize her belligerency, but the
world has admitted it for several thous-
and years.
The herald., 1897-02-27

Emperor William is catching it from
every quarter for proposing that the
powers aid Turkey to subjugate the Gre
tans.
The herald., 1897-02-27

A Kansas Populist wants law placed
on the statute books to prohibit law
yers from being elected to legislative as
semblieS.
The herald., 1897-02-27

Governor Bushnell is taking his crow
like q little man, but if Foraker is not
watched he will slip his dish under the
table.
The herald., 1897-02-27

A would-be patriot down in South
Carolina desires the state to compel all
express trains to stop at every station
The herald., 1897-02-27

Mr.. McKinley's inauguration boots
cost $25, and they will be used later on
to Kick Democrats out Of Office.
The herald., 1897-02-27
THE PUBLIC PULSE

CThe Herald under this heading prints
communications, but does not assume re-
sponsibility for the sentiments expressed.
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as IL consistent with the
proper expression of their views.)
The herald., 1897-02-27

The health board Of Chicago has
brought suits against 224 milk dealers for
selling an impure article. -.
The herald., 1897-02-27

Senator Quay has concluded that he
will not permit the capital Of Pennsyl-
vania to be removed to Philadelphia.
The herald., 1897-02-27

The wife Of Colorado editor has re-
solved herself into q committee of one
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-26
MAGICIAN BANCROFT DEAD.
Expired Suddenly in Charleston
Last Night.

dispatch from Charleston to the Morn
ing News says: Bancroft. the well-known
magician, died at the Riverside Infirmary
here this morning He filled his engage
ment at the Academy of Music last Tues
day night. The next morning he was so
i'll that he was unable to go on to the next
stand. His physician said he was suffer-
ing with typhoid fever. For the last two
days he has been very i'll man, and the
end came at l o'clock this morning."
Frederic Bancroft was the only Ameri-
can magician of any standing in the world
He was born in Rochester, n. Y, but
spent his early years in the west. He
made his last appearance in Charleston
last Tuesday night. He was billed to APP
pear in Savannah Thursday night but
his manager, Edward L. Bloom, who had
come on ahead of him, was advised that
day of the illness of Mr.. Bancroft. His
engagement was then postponed until next
week, but Friday night Manager Bloom
was advised by the physician attending
Mr.. Bancroft that he was a very i'll man
and would not be out for six
weeks. In view of this
fact, Manager Bloom cancelled the
magician's dates, and the other members
of the company were to leave for New
York in few days.
Mr.. Bancrofts malady was typhoid fe-
yer, but his Illness was not considered to
be of a serious nature. Manager Bloom
left for Charleston on the midnight train
last night, and was probably not aware
of Mr. Bancroft's death up to the time of
leaving.
Bancrofts reputation as a necromancer
was worldwide