The herald., 1898-12-02

Waters was approached by a
Frozen seedy looking man,
the fragrance oil whoSe
breath indicated his last potatlon, anu was
presented with greasy torn piece OF paper
Mr.. Waters, you are interested III tue sue
cess of the Republican party IN TINS cam
paign," began the paper bearer; now am
raising a fund to help the campaign along IN
the Seventh ward, and ] wish you would
subscribe something to it. Mr. waters
looked at the paper, which bore two or three
names which he did not know, and replied:
MY friend, make my political subscrip-
tions for such purposes to the central COM
mttees.' "Oh, | see how it is; you are
elected now and don't care came from the
man. Eyes, | am elected answered
Waters. land don't care about throwing
away money this way, elected or not" And
so another enterprising scheme was cut short
in its infancy Waters may be good thing
to his friends, but he is not limping from
having one leg really longer than it ought
to be as result of pulling process by the
grip of hungry and thirsty pan-handlers.
General Moses H. Sherman is having a
warm time of it with the serial story in the
Call and the suit by
Too Long the defunct Peoples
Drawn Out oank, which claims
some sort of an illu-
sorv commission on some sale OF bonds made
some wears ago. The Calls story in its IN
ception was thought to be a good piece OF
newspaper work. but as the months pass
bv, and il has been worked in the old-time
style of .to be continued in our next just
at the appetizing crisis apparently, read
ers have lost faith in it largely, and the
stuff begins to have more the appearance OF
persecution than anything else. The lnti-
nation that General Sherman bought two
city councils for 100000 belttles the whole
story. They don't come so cheap. 10 buy
some of the men who formed those councils
would take more money than the Call
editor could even dream OF. Nr. Spreckels
seems to have bought another journalistic
gold brick in the purchase of this scoop,
which. while somewhat startling 1t first, has
become as attenuated and as long drawn out
as the famous leg which Mr.. Shortridge
grasped so long.
There seems to be some change about the
conduct of the horse show. for | notice that
NJ f. Wooster has
Where Is charge of it, and that
Cal ByrneP while apparently he
is making good prog
ress, | hear considerable talk about the non
appearance of Callaghan Byrne in the list OF
officials. though it was generally understood
when the show was first talked OF that Mr.
Bvrne would have considerable to do with
it. There is no doubt that MIR. Wooster Is
all right and has the needed financial re-
sources. for it takes pile OF money to make
such a thing a success, as they rarely show
profit when the accounts are closed, but
it would appear that man like Byrne, VINO
is wealthy. well known and has strong
personal following of friends, would be a
good man to be prominently interested. |
wrote paragraph in this column some time
ago, when the matter first came up, on IN
formation then had to the effect that he
would be at the head of the affair, and re-
gret that | was misinformed. MIR. Byrne
has been expected here for some days past,
but now no one, ,seemstN know what has be-
come of him.
Howard Wright. the next speaker of the
assembly, after visiting Whittier was so
pleased with the
Improved work that had been
Institution done there, that lie
took occasion to say TO
Mrs. Adna Mitchell, the president of the
board OF trustees, that when he had been
there two years ago he thought the best
thing to do with the school would be 70
abolish it. but that now he considered it one
of the best institutions in the state, and
thnnoht that Governor elect Gage would do