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The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
A BOY STRUCK BY A CAR
Emil Bazzini Seriously Injured
at Powell and Greenwich
Streets.
He Was Playing on the Track and
While Running Off Slipped
and Eel.

Emil Bazzini, boy 81 years old, living
with his parents at 1928 Powell street,
was seriously injured by an electric car at
Powell and Greenwich streets yesterday
morning.
The boy was playing on the track be-
tween 8 and 10 O'Clock, when car HOS
came down the grade. The motorman
rang the bell and the little fellow started
to run off the track. In doing so be
slipped and fell across the rail. The car
struck him and threw him off the rail.
and then went on some yards before il
was stopped.
When picked up the boy was uncon.
scious. He was placed in a hack and
driven to the Receiving Hospital, where
Drs. We'll and Rhine found that he had
sustained serious injuries. His right
colIarbons was broken, there was a con-
fusion over his LETT eye and an abrasion
on his head. It was also thcsght that his
skull was fractured and he had sustained
internal injuries.
DR.. Well said that the boy was also su,.
fering greatly from the shock to his avs.
tenn and there was a possibility that he
might not recover.
At the point where the accident oc-
CURED the electric cars run down a hill
on their way to the wharf. The car was
running at its usual speed, and If the how
had not slipped and fallen he would have
got clear OF the track before the car could
reach him.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

Secretary Sherman had a consultation
with the Senate Co mmittee on Foreign
Relations on Tuesda y, and discussed with
the members of that committee the two
important subjects of the arbitration
treaty with England and a new treaty
with Nicaragua for the construction Of an
interoceanic canal. 1t is evident, there
fore, the new Secretary is not wasting his
time in office, nor giving the whole OF his
attention to office-seekers, but has begun
at once 10 arrange for carrying out great
policies OF state.
The consultation was. of course, a secret
one, as BELTS matter of diplomacy, but it
is made known that Secretary Sherman
is desirous of arranging treaty for the
construction of the Nicaragua canal and
will take immediate steps to that end
While in the Senate Mr., Sherman took
the ground that the canal should be cou-
strucied directly by the Government OF
the United States instead IF through the
agency of private corporation, aided and
assisted by the Government Endorsement
of its bonds. From what was learned of
his conference withthe Senate committee,
it appears that he still holds to that view,
and if the Senate accords with him will
endeavor to arrange treaty with the
Nicaraguan Government for the consIruc-
ton of the canal on that basis.
While some of the Senator'S who favored
the Nicaragua canal bill of the last ses-
sion may have been induced to do SO by
reason of the advantages it gave to the
canal company. there can be no question
that the great majority of them supported
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

CIVIL SERVICE HUMBUG.

In a debate in the Senate on Tuesday
Senator Frye exposed one of the humhugs
of civil service reform as imposed upon
the country by President Cleveland
Speaking to resolution calling for copies
of all instructions given to engineer
officers in charge OF public works relative
to the application of civil service rules to
the engineer department, the Senator said {:
The civil service rules have been extended
by the President over the employment of all
manner of servants through the engineer de-
partment o: the Government, SO that if an
officer way up the Columbia River wants to
hire a laborer for piece of work the laborer
must have certificate from the Civil Service
Commission, aud SO on in the case of q sur
veyor who may be wanted for two or three
days. 1t is interfering with all The improve
ments OF river and har bors, and is absolutely
absurd and stupid.
1t is scarcely necessary to say that the
resolution was agreed to by the Senate.
The absurdity of the rules imposed by Mr..
Cleveland is well understood by all who
have any dealings with their operation.
Senator Frye has simply made known to
the country q condition of affairs with
which the engineering department of the
Government is familiar.
Mr.. Cleveland was a bungler in every
thing. He could not even do the right
things in the right way. 1t is time that
there should be thorough overhauling OF
all his executive orders. This Is particu-
larly so in the case to which Senator Frye
called atten ton, but there are many
others of hardly less importance. We
lave got rid of Cleveland. and we must
now get rid of the redtape which his stu
pidty and dogmatism mas imposed upon
the public service of the country.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
PROMPT WORK.

At the meeting of the Ways and Means
Committee on Wednesday the Republican
| mem be.s proposed that the new tariff bill
should be reported 10 the House to- day.
To this proposition the Democratic men,
bers objected. Their claim was that they
desired time'to study the various sched-
ules OF the bill, but it seems clear that
their real motive was to cause delay and
to obsiruct the passage of the act as long
as possible.
After fuh discussion between the MEM
bers of the two parties on the committee,
the Republicans decided to hold to their
proposed course and If nothing unforeseen
occurs the bill will be submitted to Con-
gress this morning. This will pe prompt
work, indeed, and will give encourage
ment to the popular hope that the desire
OF the Repu blicans of the committee may
be carried out to the end and the new
tariff put into operation by May 1.
The claim of the Democrats that they
desire time 10 study the bill before dis
cussing it, or voting upon it, has spe-
cIous sound but no good basis to rest on.
The various schedules OF the bill were
announced publicly as rapidly as they
all the leading newspapers OF the country.
/ The democrats in Congress have had
ample time, therefore, to study every
clause of the proposed act, and it would
simply be waste of time TO now delay
consideration of the bill until they had an
additional week or more given them in
which to read measure that has already
been read throughout the Union.
1t is clear that if the Ways and Means
Committee and the Republicans of the
House should wait upon the pleasure of
the Democrats in this matter the extra
session would be prolonged until 1t
merged into the regular session in Decem-
Der and still the new tariff would not be
enacted. Of this fact the Republican lead
ers are well aware, and they are not likely
10 be deceived by the pretense OF desire
for time to study the bill.
Under the programme as arranged
ample opportunity will be given for the
discussion of the new measure after it has
been submitted to the House. Between
now and the 1st of April there will be
plenty OF time for de bate on every sched-
ule and on every feature of the bill. More
time would be merely concession to cb-
structive tactics, and this the Rep ublican
leaders are not likely to grant.
Up to this time the work or the new
bill has been prompt. The people have
been gratitied by the rapidity with which
the Republican party has set about the
task of accomplishing remedy for exist
ing evils. They have confidence that the
same resolution will continue 10 the end.
This is no time for delay or for concession
to obstructive minorities. The people
need the new tariff. Prompt WORK is i'm
peratiye,
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
OUR COAST DRFENSES.

The appear ance of the recent War De-
partment order prohibiting civilians from
visiting our fortifcations has been the sig
nal for number of sensational dispatches
to the effect that the order has come too
late anG that plans of our new coast de-
lenses are already in the hands of possible
enemies.
These accounts are very misleading, in
that they inevitably tend to create in the
mind of the public the idea that the value
of our new works has been discounted in
advance and that hostile ships, by a
knowledge of the mum bers and location of
guns, will have an easy task in attacking
them.
When we consider that our coast de-
fenses are only about one-tenth completed
it Is apparent that the present condition
of the works, even ii accurately known
abroad. would prove of little value. The
great difficulty of preventing the details
of permanent works from beco ming known
has been amply proved abroad, even where
the severest penalties are attached to
breach OF trust. Spies in the disguise of
worknen, balloon and long-distance pho.
tography are some of the well-knogn
methods OF securing such information.
After all, the location and mum ber of
guns is only one element OF harbor de-
fense. Torpedoes form another and very
i'm portant element, and as these are
planted only at the outbreak of hostilities,
it will be an easy matter to Keep tneir ex-
act location secret.
The real secrets of harbor defense are
the general "pian of defense" known
only to few high officials-the location
of mining galleries, cables. the arrange
ment of all the complicated system of
distribution of power and light, of tele.
phones, range-fnders and the various
auxiliaries so necessary 10 the effectual
use of the guns themselves. All these de-
tails are not apparent TO an observer and
may be effectually guarded. These ar.
rangements form the nerves, so to speak,
of the entire system and enable the COM
mander Of a harbor to direct the fire of all
the guns so as to secure the best effect.
By these means the target can be selected
at will and the fire concentrated, scattered
or withheld, as best suits the varying
stages of the conflict. In this way the
whole forms mobile instrument under
the control of one mind. All this is
matter OF organization and of continual
practice and drill The secret. if any. lies
in the harmonious coordination of all the
elements and their smooth working in
times of danger and excitement.
We may rest assured that the War De-
partment authorities after spending mil
lions on coast defense, have not omitted
the ordinary and necessary precautions
needed to make them thoroughly effec tive
In time of need
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
EFFECTS OF THE TARIFF.

The effects of the new tariff, whose en-
actment is now assured, are already felt in
industrial circles. This was made evident
by the dispatches of yesterday announc-
ing that the great Williamsburg Sugar
Refinery, after shutdown of over five
months, has opened with force of nearly
500 men. The dispatch added that the
introduction of the tariff bill with it's in
creased duty on sugar is the cause of the
resumption of work at the mills.
California has more than ordinary in
terest in the sugar industry. The subject
has been so thoroughly studied in this
State that We are able to assert it would
be easily possible for California alone to
produce all the beet sugar which We now
i'm port from foreign lands. Our soil and
our climate are so adapted to the growing
OF the best varieties of beets that no other
country could compete with us except in
the element OF cheap labor. With Gus
toms duly sufficient to protect the wages
of our workingmen we can look forward to
the time when the people of the United
States will obtain their beet sugar from
California instead OF from Germany.
1t is gratifying, therefore, to note this
speedy revival of industry at great fac
tory which has long been shut down. Ii
this much is accomplished by the mere
promise of new tariff we may be sure
that its realization will result in great
benefits to American industry. In these
days, when every city in the Union is
thronged with unen ployed men, it is no
slight thing to have factory resum g
work and give employment to 500 persons.
1t will be a great thing for America when
all the mills now closed shall be reopened
and their machinery started again. We
have waited long for the accom- plishment
of this much desired result, and every item
OF news which records the revival OF in
dustry will be received with more than
ordinary qualification.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.


The Parisian critics are clamoring for an
other American prima donna. This time 1t Is
Miss Margaret Reid, young girl, whose sing
ing has created such Juror on the Riviera
that Paris is curious to hear her. Miss Reid is
possessed OF a drama attic soprano voice of ex-
quisite quality, and is said to be as fine an
actress as she is a singer. Shortly before his
death the late Sir Augustus Harris heard her,
and was so impressed with her talent that he
was anxious to star her during the Covent
Garden opera season. Harris death put an
end to this plan, and for some mon tbs moth
ing more was heard of Miss Reid. She has
made such success on the Riviera, however.
that she will doubtless soon be starring in
Paris.
"His Majesty" the title of bright operetta
by two local composers. has been taken for the
new ud-Lehmann-M mackenzie comic op-
era, which is running in London. There is
absolutely no connection between the two
works, except in title. Mackenzie has corn-
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
With YOUR COFFEE

Miss Summers-That was an awfully old joke
your friend got off little while ago. 1 can
remember hearing it when was girl.
Mr.. Winters-Oh, it can't be as old as thati-
Yonkers Statesman.
Watts-I don't believe in the auti.high hat
legislation. The nuisance can be settled with
out passing any ordinance.
Potts-I know it can, but somehow a man
hatesto hit woman with an ax.-IndiauapoIis
Journal
Small Hoy-Mister, wants bottle of vase.
line.
Drug Clerk-Do you want scented or un.
scented?
Small Boy-No. I'll fetch it wild me.-Judge.
Hoax-why did you call your whist partner
"Gabriel?'
Joax-Because whenever heve sure trick
he always wants to trump it.-Philadelphia
Record.
After a woman has tried happiness with q
man for some time she begins to talk more
about the happiness to be found in heaven
Atchison Globe.
CIara-I suppose the brightest moment in
your life was when Jack proposed
Cora-Brightest? There wasn't par ticle Of
light in the room.-Belfast News
Colby-I see stovepipe hats first came into
use just 100 years ago.
Dewlap-Ahl
Colby-What are you staring at my tile so
for New York Press
"Have / done anything to offend you, dar-
lingY' he asked, brokeniy. To-day you
passed me without bowling and now you sit
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
IMPARTIAL -BANKRUPTCY.

George A. Tilton, a Railroad Man.
Spreads His Dsbts Abroad.
George A. Tilton. who records himself
as being IN the railroading business, has
filed petition in insolvency. According
to his statement Mr.. Tilton distributed
his favors impartiaily along the route Of
his run. -
He has creditors in San Francisco. VAL
ielo, Deiano, Bakersfield, Stockton. Tu-
iare, Saugus and Los Angeles.
Inc dealers and hotel keepers who
trusted Iiiton and who find themselves
ieit IN the iurch will he gratified 70 learn
a sad tinge is impaired by the iact that hs
has no assets. -
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
RONDEAU.

Through painted panes a glory flows,
And over aisle and altar throws
Soft floods Of crimson, blue and gold,
Till silen forms in sculpture stoled,
Seem waking from a long repose.
Ahi how the tinted marbe glows,
For every cheek now wears a rose.
And each white face seems aureoled,
Through painted panes
These weird word weavers who disclose
Strange things to Us in rhyme and prose,
Who conjure up the dead and cold,
Or ii.e's great varied page unfold,
Their art Is but light that 81 hows
Through pain ted panea
LOUIS a. ROBERTSON
San Francisco. March 16.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

Of voice is always alluded to in French opera
parlance as the Falcon of the troupe.
The committee which is busy organizing the
fetes at Bergamo in honor OF Donizettis CEN
tenary is collecting quite museum of SOU
venirs OF his life and work.
"Shamus O'Brien," Stanforo,s Irish romantic
opera, has repeated its London and New York
success in Chicago.
Mile. Trebelii has accepted the words of a
song written by Henry s Kirk ofOakland. The
piece will be set to music by Mattel.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
THE END Is APPROACHING

New York Sun.
The course OF many Libraries, reading-rooms
and clubs in vigorously excluding the World
and Journal newspapers is sure to be pursued
by decent institutions of the same kind gen.
orally. 1t is q movement whose natural i'm
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
CALlFORN.ANS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, n. Y, March 17.-At the st.
Cloud. Cleverly, Mr. and Mrs. Jones.
Netherland-F. Greenbaum. Cosmopolitan
T. Powers. Sinclair-P. Fishgu. Grand Union
u. Bell. Newton L. Thorp and DR.. Clarence
Heller left the st. Cloud and sailed on the
Havel for Bremen.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
The Hudelson libel.

Inc criminal libel case OF Benjamin +. Hud.
eison was called in Judge Campoelrs court
yesterday afternoon. As C. w. KYLE. an i'm.
poltant witness. Is unable to leave Sacra-
be made. f-oeAoss "iA
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

'onn Burns, the English labor leader, has
maze will which he thinks no court can
s.a urea1. Hs leaves his best love to his wife, a
parish aud his debts 10 his country"
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

There will be plenty OF time given for a
fair and full discussion of the tariff bill,
but no time for obstruction.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

1t would have paid Carson better to
have helu mineral exposition. She
would have made nearly as much cash
and got great deal more credit.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

While Congress is in session it might as
well pass the immigration bill which
Cleveland vetoed. The country needs
that as well as the tariff.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

Crown Prince Constantine of Greece has
gone to the front with an army headed
for Constantinople, and if there is any
thing in name the town will be his.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

The readiness OF Greece TO defy the
great powers as well as Turkey cohtirms
the belief that she has strong friends to
take her part as soon as the war becomes
fierce.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

"They say the Rev. DR.. Fourthly has been
leading a double life."
eyes, he confessed to the trustees that he
reads the Sunday papers before going to serv-
ice."-Chicago Journal
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

Protection to American citizens abroad
is one of the demands to be formulated at
the Cuban mass-meeting on Saturday
evening, and every patriotic citizen snould
be present TO approve aud indorse it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

Champion Corbett, like President Cleve-
land, now takes an EEK" before his title.
We are having a new deal alI round.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

BROWNS BRONCH1AL TRoCHEs' will quickly
relieve Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh and Throat
Diseases. Sold only in boxes
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

A ''recent visitor TO the drawing-rooms of
royalty and the English aristocracy" reports
that the book most TO be seen there is Mrs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poems.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

Judging by the results at Carson the
predictions of the sports are no better
than those of the weather prophets, and
yet the weather men never bet on their
forecasts.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers,
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen'sl, $40 MONTGOMERY. >
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

there with such an air of hau.eur and pride
that"
George" interrupted the girl. with an un-
bending air, but in her voice cadence sweeaer
than m usic at night, 81 have stih neck. =
BOston Globe
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

This is decidedly an unlucky year for
Spain, and the best thing her people can
do is to avoid war, diplomacy and specu-
lations and confine them selves strictly to
legitimate business.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

As about 400 bills held over from the
last session are before the Senate it is
evident that body will not lack for work
while the House is considering the tariff
In fact the Senate is in great need of a
new set of machinery for the transaction
of business, and this would be a good
time to adopt it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

Now that the work on the boulevard
has begun it should be prosecuted vigor-
ously to the end. The workingmen of
the City need the employment and the
City itself needs the road
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

If your hair is harsh, dry and wiry, you will
find Ayers Hair vgor OF essential service in rem
dering 1t soft, plant and glossy.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
MEN AND. w0MEN

Louise Michel has written and arranged for
the publication in Paris OF a history of the in
surrection of 1871.
young Bohemian physician. DR.. Eukula, who
cures shortsightedness by means of a simple
operation.
Verne is still busy writing two romances a
year, though he publishes only one. He goes
to bed at g. is up at A, and from that hour till
noon he is at work.
Intimate friends OF the late Alexander
Dumas have resolved to keep the remem-
brance of the dramatist alive in their minds
by special dinner every three months in
Paris.
Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell of Idaho Falls presi-
dent of the Idaho Woman's Christian Tenn per.
ance Union, has been elected chaplain of the
State Legislature, an unusual honor for q
woman. She was largely instrumental in Sc
curing woman suffrage for Idaho.
Nine. Adam was driven into journalism by
the unhappiness Of her first MARI led life. Her
parents married her while she was girl of Is
husband and. aided by George Sand, wrote
herself into fame in Paris
The assertion that Frank r. Stock ton "some-
times waits an hour for a word'' mas called
forth the following interesting piece of infor-
nation: "Alphonse Daudet has long periods
of men tai inertia in which he is willing to
work, but feels unable to frame a SENTENCE
When Rev. ]. ]. Arnaud, the recently elected
department chaplain of the Grand Army OF
the Republic in New York, entered the army
he was but Is years old. He went out as q
drummer boy and stndied for the ministry
when his term of service was ended.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

CALIFORNIA glace fruit. Townsend's, Palace.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

proposal has been made in Massa.
chusetts to employ all the male convict
labor in the State N cutting canal
across Cape Cod. 1t seems there is no
other employment which can b, given
them without injury to free labor, and as
the canal has long been desired the pro-
posal has been very favorably received.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

Verne Is still busy writing two romances a
year. though he publishes only one He goes
to bed at 8, is up at 4, and from that hour till
noon he is Mt work
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

The bill protecting litigants from the
danger of having their cases tried by
preiudiced Judges has been passed by the
Senate and the men who charged that it
was supported by bribery have been re-
manded to Jail. and so that episode passes
from the domain of current news 10 the
satisfaction of every body OF right iudg-
ment
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

Contracts have been let for beginning
the work of construction of a railroad be-
tween Oakdale and Sonora, and the enter
prise is to be pushed vigorously ahead.
This is one OF the many evidences that
progress has started again in California
1t will not be many years before we have
the State eridironed with small roads as
feeders for the main thoroughfares.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

Secretary Sherman has already been in
consultation with the Foreign Relations
Committee of the Senate on the subject of
the Nicaragua canal, and as he is known
to be favorable to the conduct of the en-
terprise under the direct control of the
United States the outlook is encouraging.
This administration may yet be noted for
starting that great work ard carrying it
well along to completion.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

The ordinance making it a misde-
meanor for any one to spit on the public
sidewalks. in the corridors of public
buildings or in the streetcars has been
signed by the Mayor and has gone
into effect. Remember, therefore, that If
you expectorate in any OF these places
hereafter you cannot expect TO rate as a
good citizen.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18

Louise Michel has written and arranged for
the publication in Paris OF history of the in
surrection of 1871.