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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-18
The CARY HIGH SCHOOL

Prof. ID. L. Middleton, principal Of
Cary High School, was here yesterday.
he says his school opened last week with
a very large attendance, eight counties
being represented. There is a large
number Of boarding pupils and it is ex.
pected that the number will be- much
larger a little later in the session: Mr.
Middleton says it is certain that the local
patronage will be nearly doubled during
the months of September and October
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-18
Will NOT CHANGE SCHEDULE.

The Railroad Commission yesterday re-
x,s,xsrss-i.s order to the effect that the
ySouthern Railway train now leaving
here atJ2 o'clock at night for Greensboro
cave at 2:30. Col. Andrews went Before
the commission and argued that the
inc allowed for the run under the new
schedule would be entirely too short for
local freight train and that if the new
order was allowed to stand he would
change the schedule back and have the
tram leave here at II instead of
O'Clock.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-18
PREACHERS CONFERENCE,

The Local Preachers Conference Of
the M. Il. Church, South, which has
been in session at Epworth chapel, this
city, has adjourned to meet next year
at Franklinton. Rev. r. III. Whitaker
was reelected President; Rev. w. S.
Hester, first vice-president; Rev. r. u.
Floyd, second vice-president; Rev. I. A.
White, third vice-president; Rev. Levi
Branson, secretary and treasurer. They
report pleasant and profitable meeting
in Raleigh.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-18
Business Notices
THE BEST IN THE STATE.

MIR. d. G. Knauff, salesman for b. B.
Long & Song of Lebanon, Pa, manu-
facturers OF the famous Monogram and
Cuban Punch Cigars, is in the city with
b. +. Keith, State agent for the famous
brands. They are said to be the best
cigars ever offered in the State, guaran-
teed to be free of artificial flavor and
long Spanish filler
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-18
CAN'T AFFORD

To lose days work now. You need not
do 1t, IL you keep Kodak Headache Pow
ders three doses, 10c.), and Vick's Little
Liver Pills (4O in vial, 25c.) in your
vest pocket. They make work pleasant
and sunshine in the house. Druggists
sell them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-18
For North Carolina: Fair except show

TOT 4NOILlL 1dIOllnAs j. ga
ers on the coast; variable WINDS
For Raleigh and Vicinity: Far
Weather Conditions.-Ihe storm III
the northeast has disappeared off the
north Atlantic coast. The low over
Texas has not developed, but light rams
occurred again over the entire state a
considerable amount of rain occurred IN
the southern States east of the Mlsslss-
ippi and in the east Lake region ana
north Atlantic States. The largest a
mounts were, Ito inches at Montgomery
las at Augusta and 100 at Dodge Guy
In the central Mississippi valley the pa
rometer is high and the weather 1alr:
The temperature has fallen slightly at
most stations, except in the northwest
where it has risen. %
Maximum temperature Monday, o.
light wind and no rain
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-18
WANTED.

Partner or purchaser for prosperous
weekly newspaper in North Carolina
Good reasons. Address, Country Week
ly, care of News and Observer.
Aug. IA. g.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-18

City OF Mexico, Aug. 17.-New York
exchange sold at 1876 premium today, but
the majority of the transactions were at
134 and 80. 1t is believed here that sill
yer has not reached Is lowest level
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-18
WANTED-A PHYSICIAN.

To correspond with a physician who
has had long experience and can give
best references to locate in town of about
J, 200 population. Married man only con-
sidered. Address,
"SALOPHEN,"
Care News and Observer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19


of
all
down.
in
a araio
at
lie
house in
Cassery
in
The Senate adjourned without final the
in
this CITY, thus administering
temporary aunch
improved parks
the Goham campaign The Call
west of Devadero thousand
divided
call caused the 1000 acre lot to be saved to the
special issue in the 1867 campaign It's continued re-
lite labor
against foolhardy speculation which eliminated Bank
lead b this paper remained cool and collected sghn mat
over ma
The Call has always been tn STATE
NNp'1'ins
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19
SATURDAY, AUGUST p, 1886
BY GEORGE K. FITCH.

fought
fol of
in
0
of
had a
Gorham boosted
The Call the only morning of Francisco
o
of
&cing
~ ndous a
railroad
the
OF 1863
Governor
sixty o Mission Bay
VIE srasping
Sco and conpe her colusve
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

the first place the owners of the Cen
trail Pacific Railroad Company, which
had become rich and powerful, were
DESTROYS of obtaining further subsidies
from San Francisco. This move was
earnestly and stoutly opposed by The
Call. A controversy commenced, which
ultimately became exceedingly violent
and acrimonious.
A few persons operating" in mining
stocks also paid large sums to pur
chasable newspapers to color the re-
ports coming from the mines with a
view to influencing tte market. In ad-
dition they gave blocks of mining stock
to gain their ends. 1t was we'll under
stood that in a proposed Spring Valley
deal the assistance of a venal press
was secured by the use of money.
Several of the papers thus subsi-
dizy could not have been pub
/ lished without such que - as
sistance. A condition of things existed
this city which had no parallel in til
| United States. The Call ST. ID in the
way of all these criminal projects.
Strong efforts were made to crush The
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

On January 4, 1895, The Call was
purchased by Charles NJ. Shortridge of
San Jose, who assumed editorial con-
troll and management of the paper on
January s. Numerous Improvements
were inaugurated, new and more rapid
presses introduced. and greater news
facilities acquired and the papers pro-
gressive endeavors and advocacy Of
beneficial public enterprises continued
to merit the popular approval.
During this period The Call led with
enthusiasm the movement which re-
suited in the realization of boon of
immeasureable value. in the peoples
railroad line which broke the back of
rail ID monopoly in one of Califor-
MAS richest and most extensive val
leys. The story of The Call would not
be complete withC 1T the mI-,ion ,f its
fruitful endeavors VII reference to Il ,
San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley
road.
The 18th of August, 1897, was another
memorable day in the history of the
paper. On that date John d. Spreckels,
the present editor and proprietor, pur-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

chased The Call, and the achievements
of the paper under the new order of
things are fresh in the public mind.
The Call has led the battle for genu-
inc municipal reform, and has laid
! bare all schemes that were Matched in
| the nest of political jObbery. 1t has
exposed corruption in high places, even
where the ermine of the bench was
used to cloak the guilt Without fear
or favor it has conducted it's campaign
for honest government in city and
State. It's potent influence for good is
universally recognized. It's circulation
has more than doubled since 1895, and
is to-day increasing at a more rapid
rate than ever.
An alliance with that peerless Amer
lean newspaper, the New York Herald,
enables The Call to furnish it's myriads
Of readers with a Geographic news SER
vice the most complete and accurate
enjoyed by any journal west of Chi
cago, While in the matter of local news
and coast correspondence it stands I'M
rivaled among it's contemporaries.
The earliest tidings anent the peril
Gus situation of the three hundred
American whalers imprisoned in the
ice pack off Point Barrow were given
The Call, and it was through the agen-
cy of this paper that the National Gov
| eminent at Washington was speedily
! apprised of the menace of death from
/ cold and starvation that hung over
those brave, hardy, but unfortunate
cOuntrymen of ours locked in the en-
brace of hOary winter on a glacial des-
/ ert at the fall of the long Arctic night
Thanks to the efforts of The Gail,
! which readily offered to equip an expe-
dition for the Government. the admin
istration dispatched the revenue cutter
Bear to the relief of the whalers, and
| that sturdy vessel is now speeding
! northward over the waves of ocean on
/ its holy mission, while countless thou
( sands in this fair land are praying that
/ the voyage of the life-ship may be
! crowned with that success which
means the saving of so many precious
/ lives, and the return of joy and hap
piness to so many homes and firesides.
! Again it was The Calls intrepid cor
! respondent who warned the thousands
on the klondike of the futility of their
| hopes of sufficient food reaching them
| by the Yukon River route to stave off
! famine until the spring AS a result
| hundreds of miners are making their
way down the river to the posts where
! there is an ample supply of flour and
! basOn, and measures are being consd-
cred in Washington for relieving possi-
bic distress in the Yukon Valley
What The Call has done in the past
is an earnest of what it will do on a
! larger scale, in the future. True to its
valued traditions, it will ever be, found
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

the opinion prevailed that the estab-
lishment of the terminal business there
with bridge to the Oakland shore and
numerous warehouses and wharves on
the island, would result in serious, ii
not immense, damage to San Fran
cisco. The Call held very strongly
to this view of the case. The scheme
was very generally denounced by the
press and at public meetings. A COM
mittee of one hundred citizens was or
ganized to take measures for protect
ing the public interests believed to be
endangered by the railroad company
Goat Island had been reserved by the
Government of the United States for
military purposes. The Federal army
engineers in response to an inquiry
whether there was any objection to the
occupation of the island as a railroad
terminus, replied that such occupation
would seriously diminish the military
value of the position. The coast sur
vey engineers declared that any bridge
or solid causeway from the Oakland
shore to Goat Island would check the
currents along the eastern shore of the
bay, cause the deposit of a large
amount of sand and mud, diminish the
tidal area, and reduce the amount of the
dewater flowing out of the Golden
% with the ebb thus injuring the
i'-9lue of the harbOr. For these reasons
The Call and it's colleagues opposed
and ultimately defeated the railroad
lcompanys designs
Journalism in San Francisco from
1870 to 1877 was demoralized to a very
great extent by individuals who had
private speculations to advance. In
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

Call, as the Sacramento Union was
crushed by the Central Pacific Rail-
road Company for opposing it's lust of
power and spirit of monopoly Alto
gether the railroad and several pri-
Vate spectators spent six or eight
hundred thousand dollars in their en-
deavors to undermine The Call. In
this struggle they were assisted by
most of the other city papers Those
were the times to try what honest Jour-
nalists were made of
Notwithstanding these assaults of the
moneyed powers, no damage ensued to
the paper. The Call increased con-
stantly in strength. Probably there
had never been such a powerful COM
DlnauOn to destroy newspaper, but
in the end the assailants gave up the
struggle, convinced that it was hone
less.
During the eighties The Call dealt
with many important propositions
material to the interests of the people.
All questions relating TO municipal af-
fairs were clearly and impartially dis
cussed in its columns, and the paper
was made more than usually interest
ing in all its departments. Novel fea-
lures We're introduced, and lines of in
formation heretofore uncOnsidered in
dailies were opened TO the public
The Calls efforts on behalf of the
Traffic Association and against the
Huntington-Pacific Mail combination.
are part of the history of the CONNER
cial life Of the State
The last act of Mr.. chickering's exist
ence, the last drop he gave of a life
long fidelity to the interests of the peo-
pie, was the course of The Call dur
ing the general and municipal cleo
ton in this city in November. 1892.
The CAN separated the general from
the municipal election, and While argu-
ing zealously in favor of the RepubIi-
can candidate for the Presidency, re-
Jected partisan consideration entirely
where the city officers were concerned.
The Call was the creator of the
municipal and legislative non-partisan
movement which resulted in the cleo
ton of l.. r. Ellert to the mayoraltv
and rescued the city from the control
of Christopher Buckley and the bosses.
The Call also took a hand later in
the local elections on the Oakland side
of the bay, considering it proper to do
so on account OF the large circulation it
enjoys there. It's influence for good
was felt and the paper received a for
NAL letter of thanks from the grateful
citizens for it's valuable services in the
cause of reform.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

years Of the next decade, beginning
with the completion in May, 1869, of the
Central Pacific Railroad across the
continent, were marked bymore stirring
and important events. To deal with
them in a journalistic way required a
strong heart and a clear head in the
editorial chair OF a leading journal like
The Call. Mr.. Pickering possessed
the required qualities in an eminent
degree, and they enabled him to carry
the paper through a series of severe
ordeals
What is known as the railroad strug-
gle commenced here in 1872. 1t created
great strife and intense bitterness. Eek.
Governor Leland Stanford, president of
the Central Pacific Railroad Company.
in his efforts to obtain legislation ia
vorable to his transportation interests.
remarked incidentally, while before a
committee of the Legislature, that San
Francisco was on the wrong side of the
bay" This reused the resentment of
our real estate owners and residents
and they demanded the railroad COM
pany's ntentiOns-especially the truth
of its alleged plan to capture Goat ISL
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

Mr.. Lincoln would be the best man for
the work of pacification. The shock oc-
casioned by the Presidents assassin
alton caused such revulsion of feel
ing that all minor considerations were
lost. Political spites and hatreds ap-
peared puny in the presence of this
great calamity. The political boycott
of The Call was forgotten, the wisdom
of the papers course applauded, and
the dissidents repented of the feeling
they had wn. Within two months
after the death Of the President the
papers circulation had more than dou-
bled.
The lower-priced paper movement
had commenced in 1856-57, The Call
having been the pioneer so far as sue
! cess was concerned. Then followed
the Chronicle, Republican, Post, Mail.
Echo, Globe and half a dozen others
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

$ocratic candidate. When the cam
l.aign preceding the election opened &C
lively IN this State a delegation of the
Union-Democratic party waited upon
the managers of The Call and more
than requested that as the war was as
good as over the paper should throw it's
influence for General Mcclellan. There
was more than a hint that the paper
would be boycotted unless it agreed.
No attention was paid to the almost
mandatory request. The result was
that Democratic names began to drop
from The Calls subscription list like
leaves from trees in November. On
election day the paper had lost nearly
half its circulation, which before the
political disaffection reached TO- 900
copies daily. But The Call con-
tinued faithful to its convictions that
under the circumstances of the time
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

Watchful of the interests of tie pro-
pie; on all public servants it will keep
Vlgilant eye. 1t is a str.king exem-
plification of the fact that a newspaper
OF to-day may be just and honest, and
at the same time successful; that it
may be clean, and = the same time
bright, entertaining and attractive. To-
day, each department of The Call is
equipped with every requisite for work
of the highest quality, and of the
greatest efficiency.
The Call has now taken up it's per-
manent abode in a grand and impos-
ing edifice that is admirably suited TO
the dignity of the leading newspaper
of the Pacific slope. Here it will be in
still Gle to~ch with the life and ac-
tiVity, the trade and commerce, of the
splendid city. which, throned like Rome
upon her seven hills, looks with abid-
j. faith and radiant hope from her
matchless harbor with it's thousand
masts, to the s1m1ds Golden Gate,
through which drifts the desolate fog
and through which the lido of wealth
is flowing forever to her feet.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

ownership until January 1895.
On February 2, 1870 the name of
Peter B. Forster & Co. appeared for
the last time al the head of the paper.
The next day il came out under the
management of the San Francisco Call
Company, composed of Pickering,
Fitch and Simonton, and the second
epoch of The Calls career was begun.
The office of the paper was removed
from the cramped quarters on Com
mercial street to the building on Clay
street, south side below Leidesdorff
Mr.. Pickering entered on his duties
with a cheerful alacrity. which showed
that the position suited him, and that
his heart was in his work. He held
the idea that for a leading journal
a morning daily was the most availa-
bic. To realize this favorite idea he had
bent all his energies to the purchase
of The Call as being the paper best
calculated for the object in view.
In every way Mr.. Pickering was ex-
cellently equipped for the work he had
gut out for himself on The Call 1t
improved by jumps from the moment
he took hold of it. Not only did he en-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

large the paper, but he introduced all
the very latest newspaper appliances
into its mechanical department.
With the exception of the bulkhead
monopoly no very important measure
had occupied the public mind during
the ten years preceding his installation
into the editorial chair The period
might be called the war decade. There
was restlessness and uncertainty in all
branches of business in California, par
ticularly that of journalism: but the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

which were started, but discontinued
after few months existence. The Call
outstripped them all in the race and
the older and higher priced papers suf-
fered in consequence.
In 1867 Loring Pickering became a ST.
lent partner in the paper by the pur
chase of Jobson's interest. In 1869 he
induced his partners in the Bulletin,
George K. Fitch and James w. Simon
ton, to join him in the full requirement
of The Call, and it remained under that
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

and. The city papers, especially The
Call. were full of the matter. The
whole situation is very clearly anC
compactly stated in Hittelrs history o
San Francisco. The Supervisors hav
ing refused to grant a subsidy for {
bridge at Ravenswood. the Central Pa
cific Railroad Company urged it's ap
plication previously made to Congress
for permission to occupy Goat Island
Little attention had been given to max
ing q terminus at the island, but in 1877
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19
SAN FRANCISCO, 1882.

in that Tear Abraham Lincoln
was elected President of the United
States for a second term, defeating
General George 3. Mcclellan, the Dem
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

COPY OF THE FIRST PAPER PRINTED IN CALIFORNIA.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

Mr.. Lincoln was the proper man for
the Presidency. The hollowness of the
Confederacy had been shown, and when
the internecine difficulties were settled
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-13
The Status of Woman i'm France.

For fifty yesrs woman in this country
has owr ed her own properly, so that
now there is no American, probably,
who ever ttioks of a womr n as human
being who parts with all her posses
siOns at her marriage. 1t Il true that
she may often surrender her spiritu al
possessions, and in some parts of the
country, where certain unwritten
law has been recently declared, she
may herself Re so far considered as
mere personality that her consent,
otherwise her free will, plays no part
in the issue whicN her hus ba nd settles
sunni arily; but be- visible possessions
are her own; the moneys and lands
that ST e brings ar all tt at she earns
belong to her, and the law gives ber
sll the protection against the wrongs
the husband. as of ott ers, of which
human cupidity is capable. 10 England
u married won ans property act was
passed in 1882. The Danish woman
has bad the right to collect and to dis
pose Of the product Of her toll since
1880. The Swedish woman since 1874,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-13
Words That Trouble the Tongue.

DrimtaidhvickhillicA an il the
namc of small hamlet in the Isle OF
Mol containing not more tnan dozen
inhabitan S. How they pronounce it
is myst sry only to be solved by some
one acquainted with Gaelic, but the
fat that the Scotch are a patton OF
few words So ems easy to explain, if
they have msnv such words as the
above in their lang uage..
A sample of WEIGH nomenclature is
Mynyddywllyn. which is the name of a
parish close to Cardiff, whilst smother
Ofthe same kind is Lianfairpw gwngyl1.
Perhaps, however. the Germans may
be fairly said to carry off the palm in
word coming. How is this for speci-
m ~n-Consta n tinopl iscr erdudles C k
pfeifer? or this enc, Jnngfrauenzimmer-
dur 'hsc Observation-Disclosures?
The first means COnstantinopolita q
bag-pipe player. and the last is the
mama of a young ladies' club which
adorns the brass plate of the door of a
house in Cologne to ti:is day.
Ribelais gives the fol owing name to
particular book which was supposed
to he in the library of Pant Cruel s
medic+l student friend. Victor An l.
pericat ametana parbeue edanptecr bra
tiones TOOrd can ium:'' viii st Anan-
tachaturd 4sivratakatha IS an actual
Sancrit word to be found in any Sancri t
dictionary, and the word c. uninstarids
sarchedes occurs in the works of Plau-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-13

and the Norwegian since 1888, have
had the same property rights Even
the woman who is the subject of the
Tar is the mis- ress of her own. But
in France the woman of the hum bier
class who is m trrit d works for tn e
man, keeps her money only if he will
and must give it to BIN if there is the
best of rea or s why she should be per-
mitted to Withhold it's, for exam pie,
if he he an idle drunSard. spe ding for
hi. pleasures The earnings OF the wife
AID mother that are needed for the
hous ehold. Among tie shOpke eping
hOurg, OILS, the woman works also
along side of the husband, is often the
real head of the establishment, es-
pecially in the little businesses whose
prosperity depends upon good taste, pa
tierce, tact, and unfailing courtesy.
And for the toll which knows little
rest. the possib e maker of the family's
prosperity receives what is granted by
the head of the house, whose temper
and awkwsrd-minde dness may possibly
prevent the wiie's achievement OF a
still greater prosperity, involving a
larger dot, and therefore more shin
ing marriage for the daughter
Harper's Weekly.