The San Francisco call., 1897-05-12

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BRANCH OFFICES:
s27 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untn
$3.50 o'clock.
S8e Hayes street; open until $3.50 o'clock
els Larkin street, open until $3.50 CLOCK
SW corner Sixteenth and Mission streets, open
until o'clock.
ISIS Mission street, open until O'Clock
1877 Ninth street, open until o'clock
1905 Polk street; open until 80 O'CLOCK
NV corner Twenty-second and KENTUCKY
streets; open till O'Clock.
OAKLAND OFFICE:
eos Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and SO, 81 Park Row, New YORK Clts'
DAVID NJ. FOLTZ, Eastern Mansger
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
THE SUMMER MONTHS.
Are you going 10 the country on vacation II
20, It is no trouble for to forward THE CALL TO
your address. Do not let 1t miss you for you will
miss Il. Orders given 10 the carrier or left at
Business Office will receive prompt attention.
NO EXTRA CHARGE.
The Federal building will soon be in
sight.
The Sultan has won the fight, but the
stakes are still in doubt.
This is excellent weather for picnics, but
there is danger the fruit of it won't be
good.
Cuba will be pacifed when Gomez takes
Havana, and he is drawing nearer to it
every day.
Little by little the depression lightens
Up, and every week brings US nearer to
easier conditions and better times.
The Greeks are convinced they would
have won if their generals had not made a
mistake and some day they may try it
again.
There are lots Of improvement clubs in
the City, and all of them are doing good
work, so that municipal progress is going
on much faster than some folks suppose.
The powers could not agree on a policy
for preventing the war in the Levant, and
now they NAV be as helpless as ever in
trying to devise one which will establish
peace.
The school census shows an increase
sufficiently large to enable US to i2in the
chorus of cities boasting of the growth of
population and shout as loud as any of
them.
The Nashville exposition seems to be a
complete success so far as exhibits are
concerned, but more visitors are needed
to keep it moving lively and make good
show of it.
With two Mayors and a double set of
municipal officers all the way through,
Omaha has opened up her much adver-
tised exposition with freak show little
ahead of time.
All Californians should unite in an
effort to get the work at San Pedro started
as speedily as possible. There should be
no long delay there as there was over our
Federal building.
United effort and persistent agitation
have won the fight for the Federal build
ing in this City, and now let us get in and
help Los Angeles make her contest for
speedy beginning of the work at San
Pedro.
It is to be regretted that so much splut-
ter was made about the intention of Gen
eral Miles to attend the operations OF the
war in Greece. 1t has given the inn pres
sion that American dignitaries sometimes
get left.
Plans for the proposed geological garden
are becoming numerous and it is evident
that public interest in the project is in
creasing. 1t means a new attraction for
the City, and that is something with
which all can sympathize.
The officials at Washington promise US
that we may see the first, and possibly the
second, story of the new Federal building
erected before Christmas. So it seems to
be the intention to keep the work moving
rapidly as soon as the beginning is made.
Secretary Sherman lebrated his sew
enty-fourth birthday on Monday, and was
the recipient of more floral offerings thon
an average queen of floral feta. The at
tentions of men in Washington are paid
just as deYotedly to statesmen in office as
to the bellies of the season.
our new warships by sending them to
Honduras to protect American interests
while the revolution is going round. We
might as well let the lawless elements of
the Central American states understand
at once what we could do if we felt like
doing it.
In order to secure proper place in the
jubilee celebrations to his wife, the daugh-
ter OF the Queen, the Marquis OF Lorne is
to be raised to ducal station without
waiting for the death OF his father, the
Duke OF Argyle. 1t will be for him there
fore really joyful occasion, and he will
get something out of the show for his
money.
A bill has been introduced into Congress
providing for the appointment of tariff
commission to consist of seven persons to
serve for twenty-one years with salaries of
$500 each, whose business it shall be to
report annually what changes sre needed
in the customs duties ana internal reve-
nues. The object is to take the tariff issue
out OF politics. but the only thing it would
be likely to accomplish would be the crea-
lion of new offices for politicians 10 wran-
gle over.
The decision OF the Supreme Court on
the telephone case gives long extension
to the monopoly and disappoints many
expectations of the public. There is, of
course. no use protesting against the de-