The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-19

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ThE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
The Easter bonnets were lovely.
Begin the week by subscribing to the
Balboa avenue fund.
The big thing of the week is the Los
Angeles fiesta. Take it in if you can.
The Queens diamond Jubilee year Is to
be blood and thunder season after ali.
Now is the time for the Kaiser to prance
forth as the arbter of Europe ana put on
another uniform.
The Senate does not expect to finish
with the tariff before the middle OF June,
and the House has picnic.
While the Greeks and Turks are fight
ing the powers will get together and ar
range for division of the spoils.
1t is now clear that the intentions Of the
pacific blockade did no more than pave
the way for both Greece and Turkey to
raise Cain.
Mckinley is said to have bought in Ken
lucky a saddle-horse with all the gaits,"
nd hlXr ba n
style also.
A man of the age of Mr.. Gladstone may
call the Gar and the Kaiser youthful
despots," but they are not SO very youth
Jul after all.
1t will not be safe to bet on the fight
between Greece and Turkey until the Sec
onds on each side have shown themselves
in the ring.
If the financial editor of the New York
Times is right in saying wall street tries
to be hopeful, wants to be confident, but
Is nervous" then Wall street should come
West and invigorate itself.
All parts of California should send large
delegations and excursions TO take part in
the fiesta at Los Angeles. AS the festival
has now acquired National reputation
1t certainly deserves a State wide support.
The ground on which was fought the
battle OF Marathon is now the property of
the Greek Minister of War. and in DEFY
ing the powers he is simply standing his
own ground and drawing Inspiration from
his own fields.
Some British papers are quite vociferous
in declaring willingness to fight Presi.
dent Kruger and Kaiser William COM
bined, but this show of bravery may be
only dodge to hide an unwillingness to
fight the Turk and hep Greece out.
On July 4, 1911, the Pennsylvania Soci-
ETY. of the Cincinnati resolved 10 build in
Philadelphia a monument to Washington.
and straightway began to raise money for
the enterprise. The monument Is to be
unveiled May Is. Pennsylvania Is slow,
but she gets there.
If the Macedonians, Bulgarians and
Servians decide TO take part in the fight
against Turkey, the existence of that en-
pire in Europe will be virtually at an end.
and then would come a scramble for the
spoils that would probably continue the
war to the end of the century.
The fight between Greece and Turkey
will be interesting, but all the same pub
lie attention will be directed less to it than
to the big powers that are watching it. A
sligt slip in diplomacy somewhere may
start another WAY that would overshadow
this one and make it seem like sideshow.
While some people in New York mourn
the disbanding OF the Patriarchs, an ir-
reverent critic declares the only public
function the organization ever performed
was to define New York society, and he
adds: sit is doubtful whether New York
society was in the least better off for be-
ing defined"
Senator Mason's joint resolution proyid-
ing for an American exhibit at the Paris
exposition doesn't carry the appropria.
ton We might have expected from a
Chicago man. What would Mr.. Mason
have thought If France had considered
that $500, 600 would be enough for her dis
play at CnicagoP
If all reports are true of the amounts of
NS'N1 ~@AASA1~"hS oiO paying the lease
OF windows overlooking the route of the
Queens jubilee procession, it would seem
that her Majesty's parade will just make an
American holiday, but whether it Is worth
while to pay so much to see SO little is a
question for debating society.
There is a belief prevalent that the peo.
pie OF New England talk of nothing but
science, art and philosophy, but now
comes a man and writes 10 the New
Haven Register to ask If there is a board
ing house in that city where the boarders
can talk of something besides bicycles, so
1t Is evident thatin Connecticut at any rate
the people are as human as the rest of us,
BY way OF refuting the firpancy with
which the papers of New York and Chi
cago refer to Philadelphia es an over
grown village the Inquirer OF that city
calls attention to the fact that Phiadel-
phia has more asphalted streets than New
York, more houses for homes than New
York and Brooklyn com bined, m ore cleo
trio lights than New York and Chicago
put together, and, moreover, is the only
city in the Union which maintains a
bourse and commercial museum. II
these attachments do not lift Philad ell phia
above the rank of village, what do New
York and Chicago call themselves?