The herald., 1898-12-14
DOWN THE LINE

eyes, of course l will talk" said Gov
ernor Gage yesterday, as | accosted him
going to the Douglas
The Governors building to select Of
Discret;on fees for the new
firm of Gage & Denis.
George Denis was with him, and they had
Just got back from Acton, where the famous
mine the governor has made so successful
is located. There have been rumors about
rich vein being uncovered there on the
day after election, and that Gage, Ross,
Denis, White and all the other notables IN
the company, as result of the find, are
now millionaires. So | asked the governor
about the mine. "Well, really, would like
TO tell you," he replied, but, you see, that
is a business matter about which | have no
right to talk just now, at least, Tor others
have an interest in the affair as well as l.
Then tell me who you are going to help
to be elected SENATOR" | continued.
You are certainly unlucky in the ques-
tions YOU ask" he continued. Now, j
would like nothing better than to tell you
all about the senatorial matter, but, you see,
| have been so busy of late that L have
not had time to think much about it, and
don't know thing to say And he smiled
at George, who gave wise wink and his
expression seemed to say: Henry, you are
certainly smooth individual when it comes
to talking to reporters
O O o
Z. J. Baldwin intends to make the Santa
Anita ranch receptacle for many relies OF
the Baldwin hotel
"Lucky's fire. A relic collector
Relics on Sunday saw among
the ruins of the build
ing the big sign, The Baldwin, that for
merly hung above the Market street en-
trance of the hotel and asked Baldwin what
he would take for it. That sign is worth
$1,000 letter. was the answer, which
would make the price $4,000. The sign will
he put over one of the gates to Santa Anita,
and Lucky" will construct a summer
house out OF a dozen columns which escaped
destruction, utilizing lot of other debris
in similar way.
Walter Moore made scene in the city
hall yesterday. Johnny Gaffey and Blink
er' Murphy were al
A Fire ter him to so out for
Was Safer a promenade of some
JOYFUL sort, but Wal
ter has had instructions to report at home.
and thought best to obey. Gatfey and Muir
ply were equally insistent, and he found
such difficulty III resisting their entreatles
that he tried to get Electrician Francis to
ring up a false alarm and resorted to all sorts
Of evasions to escape from their allurements
and be good. At last accounts the two were
hot foot after him with the odds decidedly
against his escaping. What happened after
be was caught? That's another story.
o o o
Louis Netter grows indignant when he IS
told of the report that he wears larger
hat now than before
The Same election, and dishes
Sized Hat out pencils and note
books profusely to re-
porters who he thinks may have some
malevolent idea OF alluding to his being at
tackled by the prevalent disease capits ele
phantiass. lie goes to the length OF as
serting that there is no such affection
known.
As a rule, the lady golfer takes distinct
IL second place on the links. The male
fiend Is so engrosSed
Ladles on in the pursuit of the
the Links elusive spheroid that
he is apt to grow self
ieh and to vote the lady golfer nuisance,
except in the club house. some lady golfers
certainly are somewhat distracting; they
have their little habits OF getting stranded
in a bunker and playing interminable tennis
against the obstruction. totally ignoring the
fact that there are players behind them,
whose time and temper are being exhausted.
Then, again, some lady players, as soon A.
they have holed out commence long con
versation without stirring foot from the
putting green, despite the fact that players
are waiting for the approach shot. But the
ladies had it all their own way at the Coun.
try club yesterday. a ladies' tournament
and lunch was being given and about score
of brave women in scarlet shirt waists ilum-
sterner sex strolled onto the grounds about
noon, but he never got much farther than
noon, ut he never got much farther than
the railroad track. The veranda of the club
house was brilliant with scarlet clad
forms There was no sign of anything ma =
culino within sight except the caddes. who,
OF course, don't count. The ladies mur-
INJURED Fore and the man fed on the next
car down town. THE GOSSIPER
Effect of British Naval Display
In deciding to display her truly imposing
naval power, England may have been in
fiuenced by the desire to show that she still
possesses the strength and the resolution 10
tIrOW her fOrpp b,4
scale whenever vital interests of the Eng,
lisH nation are threatened. The English
armaments are, therefore, by no means to
be looked on as an empty demonstration.
They are an important political event, and
will not be without effect, even if, as there
Is every reason TO sunnnse decentralization