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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24
| AROUND THE
CORRIDORS,

DR.. NJ. D. Allen of Delano is at the
Grand.
Fred M. Kraus, a prominent St. Louis
merchant, is at the Palace.
r. c. Miner, an extensive Stockton n.er-
chant, is a guest at the Lick.
A. L. Hadley, an extensive Fort Wayne
| Qnd) merchant, is at the Palace
H Cox, manager of the Stanford base
ball nine, is registered at the Palace.
A. d. Cults, a well-known general mer-
| chant of Marysville is at the Grand.
A. F. Jack, prominent Paso Robes
banker, is a late arrival at the Palace
F. w. Emhry, a Rochester IN. W capi-
talist, has apartments at the California
Joseph Craig, proprietor of the High
land Springs Hotel, is stopping at the
Grand.
DR.. Kaestner, a prominent Leipsfc phy-
stefan, is among recent arrivals at the
California.
Deputy Controller w. w. Douglas is
down from Sacramento, and registered at
the Grand.
Captain John e. Boyer of the First Wis
consin Infantry Volunteers is registered
at the Occidental.
j. w. Heard, well-known Grass VAL
ley mining man, is at the Grand accom-
panied by Mrs. Heard.
c. NJ. Coglan. secretary of the State
Board of Equalization, accompanied by
his wife, is at the Lick.
George Crocker and julius Kruttschnitt
of the Southern Pacific Company arrived
from the north by special train Yesterday
morning.
e. S. Pilsbury, the well-known attorney.
has gone TO New York on business con-
nected with his profession He will re-
turn about Christmas
E. t. Wallace mining expert, and ]. n.
Wadsworth, banker, both of Yreka: John
II. Carruthers, a Butte (MontD mining
man; w. T. Kerney, Toronto (Ont5
merchant, and w. A. Ward, in the mer
chandise line at Victoria, B. c., are among
late arrivals at the Palace
DR.. Catherine V. c. Scott has lust re-
turned from the East, where she went
three months ago to attend POSTGRADUATE
lectures and to meet her brother medi-
cal missionary, home on a vacation from
Persia She spent some time in New
YORK City during the heated term and re-
turns more than ever satisfied that San
francisco climate is the best this planet
affords.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24
THUGS OF THE RING.

He prize-ring is a disgrace to the country. lo-
Grafton OF it has bred a race OF muscled
Migrants petty confidence men; has lowered the
general moral tone OF than one community;
has been productive of no good. The pugilst is a
public burden too lazy to work, too uncultured for
professional life and lacking in courage to become
a hghwayman. When not in training for some event,
which when it does come of is fasco he naturally
drifts TO association with criminals and outcasts
There should be abatement OF the professional
pugist Other nuisances far less obnoxious are
abated. Garbage goes to the crematory; thieves to
jail. Why this exception in favor of the pugist, who
is more OF menace to humanity than the inert ofal
OF the rogue who gets caught?
Theoretically there may be some excuse for prize
fighting. In reality there is not 1t does not stimu-
late decent people healthfu exercise, but it opens
to lot OF pluguglies easy way in which to make
d living. There are laws against prize-hghtng, but
they are so constructed that locally the Supervisors
can override them; and the Supervisors do. They
have on more than one occasion been bought for
seat close to the ringside.
Upon the Legislature will rest the duty of so chang
ing the statute that it be defed by lawless
Supervisors and other promoters" Every person
encouraging one OF these illegal affairs by his presence
should be arrested and heavily fined Every principal
should be sent to the jail the chain gang. Every
official connving at it should be deprived of office
Prize-hghting, so far at least as California is
cerned, stop. It has been borne with too long.
1t has brought odium enough upon the common
wealth
A general discussion of the prize-fght in the alb
stract is not here necessary. We even pass over
inquiry to why anybody should care which of two
rufians whip the other. 1t is enough to say
that the sport" brutal and useless it would be
ii conducted honestly, has degenerated into swinde
and outrage Let it be stopped Any fstic contest
more than friendly bout at athletic club
admission being charged and prize offered should
be regarded offense and rgidly punished The
duty OF the Legislature this subject is clear, but
from time to time effort may be made in these
columns to illuminate the clarity 1t is time for the
Corbetts and Sharkeys to actually a living by
method of toll to which their limited intelli-
gences adapt them. Yet they not wholly to be
blamed The burden of guilt rests with those who
have the power to stop the disgusting fakes and fail
do
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a DEGENERATE SPORT.

o condemn racing it is now carried on III tiis
| city is not to condemn it when properly con-
Quoted To maintain racing all the year rouno
is simply to kill the sport far as every legitimate
feature of it is concerned.
Racing ideally leads to the breeding OF gooo
horses healthfu and pleasing exhllaration on the
oart of spectators who love horsefesh, and fair re-
turn to the breeder. But, like some other sports,
racing has reached low level. 1t has little LETT to
commend it. Morally it is a plane with the wheel
OF fortune or the she'll game. Once it was an aid to
county fairs Now it does much to ruin such events
Once there was possibility of Judging by the known
merits OF horse his prospect OF winning That chance
has gone, that racing, by inducing men TO Det,
becomes a swindling operation.
One phase OF the damage wrought by the con-
tinuous performance on local raceracks may be adj
verted to here 1t has ruined without number
1t has sent trusted employees to San Quentin or to
exile Women have been caught by the fever OF folly
and brought to their families and disgrace to
themselves. By frequentng the racetrack girls and
bows have beclouded their own characters. His pas
sion for gambling aroused by the constant oppor-
tunity afforded by the races, placed Theodore F1ge
under the suspicion of murder and THEFT and his old
father suffered pain and financial reverse Welburn
sought the track, and somewhere in foreign land
reward posted for his capture Welburn is fugitive
Unable to fee his cashier ruined by the means,
found such peace the grave of suicide affords
Widber gambled the races, and he will for seven
years be elon in stripes, his reputation gone his
future blasted
Such are few sample specimens of the work that
the racetracks have done for San Francisco Yet,
as intimated in the beginning, there methods and
limitations by which racing be made desirable
attraction. To define these methods and fix these
limitations is one OF the tasks which will fall to the
Legislature 1t is task too important to be lightly
considered and which must by no means be neg
lected. So rotten has the system in vogue become
that it will in the end, unless corrected, mean the
abolition of the speed contest The racer better be
hitched to dray than be used merely part OF
plan for dipping the public and leading the inexper
enced into temptation.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24
WEBSTER DAVIS
AND THE FIGHT

1t is pleasant to turn aside for a mo-
ment from the boastfulness and jeal-
ousy, the arrogance and self-esteem Of
certain public men, and contemplate
the achievements of modest worth and
unassuming merit. The Hon. Webster
Davis, Assistant Secretary of the Inte-
rior has just illustrated for our en-
lfghtenment and reinsurance the posi-
bilities that are open to a man of real
ability and worth who goes forth with
out the meretricious aid of clamorous
announcement
Mr.. Davis has no clacque- He is en-
veloped in no nimbus of manufactured
notorety, nor aided by any accessories
of artificial reputation. Yet Mr. Davis
try extending from Pennsylvania to the
Pacific Coast, and the harvest Of his
oratory is Republican triumph all along
the route. In Pennsylvania Ohio. In
diana, Kansas, Nebraska, California
and Washington he has strengthened
the party by his eloquent and patriotic
appeals Quay owes him for much of
his hard-won success against the most
powerful opposition he has ever yet
encountered. In Ohio Mr. Davis fought
valiant fight with burning words
and sumptuous periods that carried
CONVICTION TO every QOuDIInS HedIt LII
Indiana he helped to perpetuate a Re
publican ascendancy, which, to say the
least of it, is abnormal and depends
upon most extraordinary and unusual
circumstances In Kansas, where Mr.
Davis was especially active, the Popu-
lists have been driven out of power for
the first time in many years, even Jerry
Simpson, the pow-wow of Medicine
Lodge, having gone down before the
storm of popular enthusiasm. In Ne
braska Mr.. Davis was most consp1c-
uous agent of the political revolution
which recovered tie State ~ Repubii-
canism by a remarkable majority. In
California Mr.. Davis party has swept
everything before it and in Washing
ton the tremendous majority which
sent Hon. J. Hamilton Lewis to Con-
gress two years ago has been extin-
guished and that picturesque and most
attractive statesman has been retired
to private life.
No doubt it will be said by persons Of
a certain mental h; ~ that these are
mere condolences. We shall neither
deny nor argue that ungracious point.
1t is worthy of remark, however, that a
still more noticeable coincidence is dis
cernible in the situation-the coinci-
dence of Democratic gains in almost
every State which Hon. Webster Davis
did not visit, and among nearly all the
communities which were deprived Of
the stimulus of his oratory Enough to
point out the facts and leave the coun-
try to form it's own conclusions. We
shall not say in so many words that Mr..
Davis is the only political apostle in
the land. We content ourselves with a
simple statement of. the fact that his
itinerary has been converted into trail
of Republican victory and leave to 9TH
ers the task of expl lining 1T upon any
hypothesis save that of his personal
magnetism, his contagious fervor and
his brilliant flow Of language.-Wash-
ington Post.
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THE UNCHANGED STOMACH.

FREDERICK TREVOR, who has been an
| nounced with flourish OF trumpets emf
nent London sargeon" has recently declared
that the human stomach has undergone no change
whatever since the earliest age to which mans exist
ence be traced
In the processes OF development carried on by
evolution through long periods of time the BRAIN the
muscles and even the bones OF men have undergone
considerable transformation The skull is larger, the
toes are shorter and arms and legs and lungs have
all changed The stomach however, stands i'm
mutabe 1t is in the daintiest darling OF to-day even
as it was in the troglodyte OF the palaeolithc age.
Mr. Trevor considers that this stomach, which has
come down to survival OF the time when men
lived on mastodons, is too large for our enllght
ened needs and is fruitful OF ills, because it
is abnormal to our civilization. He favors the re-
moval OF a considerable portion of it,, and says Eek
perience has shown that such an operation would
ensure greater comfort to everybody"
To the unrehectng man this topic may seem I'M
timely to the occasion of Thanksgiving; but he who
reflects for moment will perceive that it is most
pertinent and opportune. What greater JOY and
fort can we give to any American citizen he sits
down to dinner to-day than this assurance on high
authority that the stomach with which he confronts
the turkey and the pie is the vast, capacious
devouring organ with which the cavernicoous giants
CT the time OF earth's primitive vigor dgested and
absorbed the rich juices and massive hbers of the flesh
of the megatherun and the pesiosaurus, and after
dream OF Eden awoke in the morning to slaughter an
ichthyosaurus and have another feast?
Whether or not it may be better for all to have
surgeons considerably reduce stomachs at some
future time is another question. For to-day it is
sufficient know they have yet been reduced In
the stomach yet equal to the primal demigods
who were strong enough subdue the earth and its
beasts with their bare fists without the aid of nipple
ments or weapons and whose mighty appetites en-
abed them TO eat anything from pterodactyl to a
sea serpent without the aid of cooks
In this assurance let every American so to his feast
to-day Let him eat his turkey with JOY and drink
his wine with merry heart. And may good dges-
ton wait on appetite.
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MILITARY RECORD
TO Be PROUD OF

HOUGH but % years of
age, Lieutenant Thomas NJ.
Anderson Jr., U. S. A, now
a guest at the Occidental,
has a military record of which
any War-scarred veteran might
well be proud. He entered the
Fourth Cavalry in August, 1894,
and, after successive promotions,
received his commission as lieu
tenant in June, 1897.
1t was in the Thirteenth United
States Infantry, however, that he
won his Misunderstanding the
charge up San Juan hill-per-
haps the most notable as we'll as
fatal engag cement of American
troops on Cuban soil. OF the APO
men in his regiment that took
the field, 100 were killed. larger
percentage Of field loss than that
suffered by any other regiment
during the campaign.
''The road we traversed," he
said, yesterday, was very mar
row, with high, dense and almost
impenetrable underbrush on either
SIDE. Inc enemy, hHOWlHS lAdI IL
was the only road we could take,
had trained their guns upon 1T,
and were doing terrible execution.
Ahead of us were the Sixth and
Sixteenth regulars, and the Sew
enty-first New York Volunteers
all comprised in the Second Bril-
gade. The Seventy-first, COM
posed of raw, undisciplined men
and unable to respond to the tell
ing fire of an unseen enemy, was
routed, badly beaten, and retreat
ed along this narrow road until
stopped by our division COM
mander, General Kent, who or
dered them to lie down on each
side of the road so as to permit
the troops in the rear to advance.
This we did by walking over
them. crossing the Bloody Bend
at the San Juan River, and en-
tering the open field in front of
San Juan Hill, which was strongly
fortified by the blockhouse and in
trenchments. 1t was there that
we lost so many officers by Span
ish sharpshooters concealed in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24
ANUS EMENTS

Observation-Disclosures Lights"
Columbia-"At Gay Coney Island"
Alcazar-'Imagn ation."
Tivoli-Zuzette.
Morosco' SIN Sight of ST. Paurs.'
Orpheum Vaudeville
Comedy-"Cyrano de Bergerac."
The Chutes-Gorilla Man. Vaudeville and the Zoo
Olympia Mason and Edoy Streets, Specalties
Glen Park-Mission Zoo.
InGeside Coursing Park-Coursing.
Sutro's Baths-Swimmng.
Ingleside TraclS-Races To-day
RosenthaI - Coming December.
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QUICK WORK WELL DONE.

HE work accomplished by The Call in reporting
the Baldwin Hotel fire merits notice as a striE-
ing illustration of what modern newspaper can
accomplish when directed by energetic men and
equipped with up-to-date machinery.
The first alarm turned in at $40 a. m. The
Call obtained report of the fire and published it in
the Oakland edition. which was sent out at 4:25 a. m
Thus the gathered, written out, printed and
published in seventy-fve minutes The Call was the
only paper in the city that gave the in its regular
Oakland edition.
At $50 the city edition issued with full page
account OF the fire. and at 7o3 edition containing
complete report UP to the time the fire was extin-
guished was published
The record, it is to be noted, made for quality
and accuracy of the report we'll for speed It is
one OF the many proofs The Call has given that it
has the men and the machinery TO meet and master
every emergency that arises.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24
Death of a Foolish Woman.

Mrs. Annie Ambrose, wife of F. NJ. Am
brose, residing at 81 Roach street, died
yesterday morning of pelvic peritonitis
the effect of a criminal operation per-
formed by herself. The deceased was a
native of California. "a years II months
old.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24
CALIFORNIANs IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Nov 23.-J. C. Stubbs OF
San Francisco is at the Windsor. H. F
Ramsdell of San Francisco is at the Hoff.
man.
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Jack-Come, old man, cheer up. What
if she did break the engagement: she's
not the only fish in the swim.
Tom-Oh, I don't care anything about
her breaking the engagement but you see
I've got to go right on paying installments
on the ring for the next six months.
That's where the icy breeze comes in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

Ryder-That's a fine collection of stuffed
birds you have there.
Walker-Yes; and they cost me a mint
of money.
Ryder-Where did you get them?
Walker-From my wife's discarded hats.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), $40 Mont
gomery street. Telephone Main 1912.
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

JOAQUIN MILLER-A l.. L., Chicago,
Ill. The pOstOffice address of JOAQUIN
Miller is Oakland, Alameda County Cal
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

Angostura Bitters. the great regulator of the
digestive organs. Get the genuine DR.. Sic
gert's imported from South America
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tall trees, only a few yards away.
"Of the officers, two were killed
outright and five wounded The
men behaved admirably, and the
discipline of the troops was per-
feet. They advanced with all
the more determination as their
comrades were killed off. This
was a grand thing to see.''
Lieutenant Anderson, who has
the strongest testimonials to his
bravery recalls, with very natural
pride, his Introduction to Ayers
chief of staff by Secretary Alger,
as the first man to reach the top
of San Juan Hill''-an incident
that occurred when he was suffer
ing from typhoid fever at Mon
tauk Point. Lieutenant Anderson
is the son of Major General An
derson, now second in command
at Manila, and will leave for the
latter point on the Coptic, to act
as his fathers aid.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

All honor to J. L. White. He died the death of a
hero. With every opportunity to save himself, he
chose to save others, and he fell victim to his own
generous bravery. There is greater heroisn.
Greater love hath than this, that man lay
down his life for his friend" And yet there seems
to be greater love-the humane impulse to lay dow,
life for stranger speaks of breeder and more I'M
selfish humanity Mr.. White persisted at the fire.
He death conscious that he had saved Others
and those who witnessed his acts will remember him
as valiant and noble man.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

DIVORCED. j. S., City. An individual
coming TO California from New York or
any other State wishing to apply for a
divorce must be a resident of the State
one year before action for divorce can be
instituted
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

The Angliczed Astor denounces as a lie the story
that he made wager concerning the size of the
section of redwood procured from California He has
need to get excited Nobody ever believed it was
anything else
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

RELATIONSHIPS. B., Oakland. Cal.
The latest estimates on religions in the
United States are those based on the
census of 1890. These give Roman Catho-
lies. 2277 ,039; Adventists, 58,742; Baptists,
Az, POI; German Evangelical. 100 060
Methodist 1850 240: Presbyterian, 229 012;
Lutherans, 1,0S604S; Mennonites, 102671;
Jews, 250, 900.
INVITATIONS TO WEDDINGS-Mi
B., Oakland, Cal. A writer on etiquette
says on the subject of invitations TO
weddings: mo answer is necessary.
Persons living at a distance receiving an
invitation inclose their card and send by
mail. Those who cannot attend either
send or leave their cards for the hostess
within few days after the wedding.
After the bridal party returns home. If
the bride has reception days, all who were
invited to the wedding must call. and il
is also imperative to call on her mother,
who invited you
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

A woman in New York committed suicide because
her husband objected to her riding bicycle at night
The excuse appears insufficient. Still, her request
that he take tender of the pet dog, which she
could not take with her. ought to be needed, and in
attending to the "purp" he may in measure forget
his woes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

Somehow the police reporter fails to state whether
these fellows who attempt suicide account of de-
spondency" feel any gayer after stomach-pump has
wooed them back to the discomfort OF living
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

wealthy man has been arrested for the theft of
of lard worth so cents. He ought to be ashamed
There are cans of lard worth dollar
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Uncle Sam, with Aguinaldo across his knee, a
single in his hand and expression OF determine
ton on his face would form fitting picture illustra-
tive OF the situation in the Philippines
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

The Call will admit to being little proud of tn
way in which its young handled the story OF til
Baldwin fire
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

The finger OF suspicion pointed at Mr.. Reddy OF
Oakland appears not to have been loaded
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For once the whole town can say, II told you So
The Baldwin had been for years known as death
trap, and its long exemption from destruction had
been wonder.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

The Report intimates the wisdom of betting that
prize fight will be fake. But is it permissible to bet
on thing?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

After while San Francisco will reach such stage
Of development TO object to the building of grea
structures of lath and plaster.
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New baskets, just arrived Townsend's.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

The only regret to the shooting at thieves at thu
Baldwin fire is that the bullets to have missed.
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When people freezn3 to death in Nebraska
wonder arises that any should stay in that
blizzard kissed country when California is so &C
cessibe.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

The war cannot be regarded as absolutely settle
until somebody has explained why the of TIL
Teresa deserted.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-24

Jacob Neff is one of the who must submit with
what patience they to having honors thrust upon