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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-12
NAVAL OFFICER
DIES ON 4 TRAIN
Pay Inspector Griffing
Suddenly Stricken.
Special Dispatch to The Call

OGDEN, Utah, Nov. u.-George H. Crit
hng, pay Inspector in the United States
navy. died here this. morning Of apoplexy
on the Southern Pacific train as it was
pulling into the yards.
The deceased was returning from Ma
Mia to his home in Philadelphia He was
accompanied by Lieutenant c. A Davis,
who goes East Tomorrow in charge of the
remains.
George II. Griflng was born at Hart
ford, Conn, April "a 1899. He was a pri-
vate in the Fourth Connecticut Infantry
from Nav, 1861, to June, 1864. He was ap-
pointed an acting assistant paymaster
November IS, 1864, was on the HIBISCUS,
East Gulf squadron, from November.
1sG4, TO August, 1865; at the League
Island station, from December, 1865 to
January, 1867. Commissioned as passed
assistant paymaster July %, 1855; on the
NarragansetU, Pacific. feet, 1SI0-73; on the
receiving ship Sabine, lSl4-16. Commits
stoned as paymaster October 3, 1874; on
the Enterprise, North Atlantic station,
lS17-7S: receiving ship St. Louis, 1SS0-S3;
Omaha Aslatic station, 1885, Trenton, Ash
attic station, 1886; special duty at Chester
Pa. 1855: assistant to general storekeeper.
ence, 1850; navy yard, New York, 1890 TO
October, 1881; Atlanta, October, 1891 to
July 1888; training ship MonOngahela
July, 1893, to 1884; waiting orders, March
1894; settling accounts. December, 1894;
navy yard, League Island, January, 1885;
Der, 1895. until mis- departure for Manila,
from which place he returned on the gov
eminent transport St. Paul on Tuesday
last.
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UNDER THE LUCKY
STAR OF SIROCCO'S
HAPPY HOROSCOPE

THERE is q royal good welcome for
the Grand's merry Monarch" There
! IS always such welcome for any
opera that can make relentless tail
ors and difficult housemaids fade away
like g-forgotten ghosts. From begin
ming to end a laugh patters faster and
more gayly at the heels Of the Monarch
and his royal astrologer and never a
worry dares show its face while they
hold the stage.
The story itself is as logical q bit Of
merry madness as ever was invented.
From the casting of the royal horoscope
which informs the King that his safety 10
one with that Of LazuH events follow in
q beautiful evolution such as cannot be
claimed bv kalf the plays that take them
geIves seriously. The King must guard
Lazuu as IL he were pedigreed poodle
3n order to protect his own life; so says
the horoscope. Then LazuH, hndlng the
King 10 be his successful rival in love,
threatens suicide. Was ever more eX-
quisite and nonsensica1 dilemma for
third act2
The Iibretto and the music are delicious
of themselves, but they are not obliged
to stand alone. William Wolff and Ar
thur WOoley are funnier than they ever
have been before, and there's vote OF
thanks due both Of them. Mr. Wolff is
always casual and unconscious. He is
more than ever so this week and, by his
standards, quiet as a lamb. Mr. Wooley
wins half his battle by masterpiece in
makeup and the other half by his ted
ding, anxious, helpless impersonation Of
Sirocco.
Miss de witt Of cornet fame returns
TO the OrDheum this week. One Of the
new turns is TO be by Cheridah Simpson,
The Tiyon Will present Patience"
this week its novelty being Miss
Sannfe Kruger. Whether she is a singer
or merely the niece Of Dom Paul remains
why Smith Left Home" is the last of
the Columbia farces. Shenandoah" fol-
lows.
'The Merry Monarch remains at the
Grand and MY Friend From India"
brings L. r. Stockwen to the AIcazar.
Harry Corson Clarke follows Nance
O'Neil at the California. Miss O'NeL will
appear IN Oakland November o.
Another California girl starting stage
ward is Lena Rafetto Of Mills College
She has entered the Stanhope- Wheatcroft
school. SARAH COMSTOCh.
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Paper and Trees.

The importation of wood pulp into Italy
is greatly on the increase.
One and one-quarter million square
miles is the estimate Of the timber area
of Canada, as given by the United States
Consul General at Montreal.
Norway supplied Great Britain with
twice as much ground wood pulp last year
as the United States, Canada, Sweden
and Holland combined.
one of the most valuable timber trees
in the great Northwest, the red cedar
grows to a maximum height OF 300 feet
and a. diameter Of fourteen feet.
PAPER shingles have been introduced
into Japan by an enterprising Toxic firm
az substitutes for the wooden article.
The new IDEA is a slab Of thick-tarred
nesteboard. more easily managed than
ordinary shingles and costing only half
some historical trees have lately come
tnto the New York lumber market from
the Wilderness battlefield of the Civil
Va The bills of lading showed that the
trees had been feled - and nd the .n lumber
Inirie balls can be seen plainly, the
wood directly adjacent to, the bullets be-
ms, %eo discoiored or rotten, but not enough
10 damage the lumber.
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THERE is a royal good welcome for
the Grand's MERRY Monarch There
IS always such a welcome for any
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CRAZED PRISONERS
PLOT TO MURDER
Continued From Eleventh Page.
tinguishing the fires kindled by the bonn
bardment and saving much valuable prop

tinguishing the fires kindled by the bonn
bardment and saving much valuable prop
erty.
After the capture and occupation of the
city and suburbs, the troops at Iloilo saw
but little of the enemy, except in the way
of frequent outpost skirmishing, until
February IS. when a reconnaissance in
force was made through Molo to the
town of Mandurraio, some nine miles from
4 up IN the IF to4 f6r Inc detaSn
the command of Colonel Childers, who
had succeeded Colonel Smith in command
OF the regiment found the enemy in
strong force ana wei posted just beyond
Mandurraio. These were soon driven
from their position and pursued for sew
eral miles by the handful Of Tennes-
seeans, losing some thirty killed and
many wounded. But as at Manila the Ten
nesseeans escaped without the loss of a
man.
On March Is they were again in battle,
assisting to repel q large body of the in
surgents who attacked the town Of Jaro,
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Down In Old Kentucky

Traveler-There's a funeral in town to-
day, see.
Native-Yes
Traveler-Did the man or woman or
whoever it is that is being buried die a
natural death?
Individually. He came down heah
from the Moth and suggested abbitrftion
as means of settling feuds.-Chicago
Times-Herald.
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Diplomacy.

Mrs. Neighbors-I advertised for q plain
cook last week, but didn't receive single
reply.
vertise for a Rood-looking kitchen lady
and you'll be overrun with applications
for the position
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Little Jacks Home Thrust

1T am out Of all patience with you. Jack.
I should Just like to know why George
Jones IS always at the head Of his class,
while you are always at the foot!'
Jack hesitated for moment and then,
he said innocently:
you forget that Jones has very clever
parents Tit Bits
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Death of l. C. Parke

The death IS recorded elsewhere of L.
c. Parke, who passed away yesterday in
Oakland. Mr.. .Parke was well known in
MINING t6 this STATS R manv IN ve Michigan
engaging in the machinery business. He
leaves a widow and a daughter.
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a Faithful Employe.

Conductor-How old is that child mad
iMo+her-You have no right to ask such
an impertnent question.
Conductor-Excuse me, but 1t is fare
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SHERMAN e. CLAY HALL.

22s Suffer st. Next Friday afternoon at s:1k
MINETTI QUARTET, Chamber Music Con-
cert 9th SEASON.. Reserved seats 75c: admis-
sion, Soc Tickets on sale at Sherman & CIay's
Music Store, November 16 and IT.
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that can be reasonably asked of a self
respecting nation when we have con-
sented to leave to arbitrators the detl-
milton OF oui national boundary. We have
not sought to impose conditions upon the
tribunal, but have left 1t at liberty to
determine the law as well as the fact
by formulating for itself the principles
In pursuance of which its decision will
be rendered. Acknowledging. as 1t must
acknowledge, the equity OF our position,
the British government might properly
inform Canada that, as colony, II can
not be permitted to subordinate to it's
local interests the collective welfare Of
the British empire. Such a reminder
was formerly administered, when the
northeastern boundary of the United
Statse was settled. the line ultimately
agreed upon being as unacceptable TO the
Inhabitants of British North America 9s
II was to the inhabitants Of Maine. In
the case not only OF Maine but of oregon,
our federal government has settled bonn.
dairy disputes without inordiuate defer
ence to the wishes of the denizens of the
localities Immediately affected and II
will be scarcely pretended that British
colony has more right to prejudice the
interests of the British empire than an
American state has to prejudice those of
the Union. A question of national from
tier, which, under regrettable but poss-
BILE circumstances, might involve two
great powers in war, should be regarded
as, at bottom, one of imperial concern.
o.
1t may be propounded as an axiom
that the good will of the United States Is
of incomparably more Importance to the
British empire than is the good will of
Canada. 1t is by no means true, how
ever, that in the case before us, Great
Britain would have to risk the loss of the
one in order to keep the other. Only an
infnitesimal fracticn of the Canadian
people are interested in the Alaska boun-
dary, whereas almost all Of them are
vitality concern ed in the improvement and
extension of commercial relations with
this country. II the British government
would announce its determination to treat
the Alaska boundary as an imperial
question. a name which 1t certainly de-
serves as much as did the boundary OF
British Guiana, the other matters which
were discussed by the Joint high COM
mission. and which are of practical sig
nificance to the great mass Of the Can
adams, might be again taken up, with
q fair prospect of reaching an ADJUST
ment satisfactory to both sides.
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A Sign of the Times.

1t is interesting to note as a sign Of
which has taken place on the subject of
civil service reform that the Washing
ton Post, for many years the bitterest
opponent of this policy among the
newspapers of the country, now says:
THE merit system, minus the OBJ
structive absurdities that have some-
times chara acterized its administration,
will be more urgently needed in the fu-
ture than it has been in the past. This
government has assumed new and
great responsibilities in its recent ter
ritorial acquisition. There will soon
be many places to be filled in our colon
ial service. To fill them with the hench-
men of politicians would be to default
on our obligations and to incur serious
risk of disgraceful failure in governing
the new wards of the nation. The
growth of our foreign trade ought to be
augmented by marked Improvement in
our consular service. The merit sys-
tem-fair and competitive tests Of merit
is needed in this work"
Our contemporary, of course, here re-
fers to a genuine merit system, hon
estly administered-a civil service re-
form project such as Governor Roose-
welt is working out in New York, in
which the examinations of applicants
are pertinent to the duties involved, the
ratings made fairly and the appoint
ments based on these ratings, without
chicanery or manipulation. AS nearly
as it can be done, this system aims to
apply to the public service the same
principles of administration that govern
the business affairs Of we'll managed
private Notwithstanding employ
ment and promotion stand on fitness
alone, without regard to politics, re-
ligion or pull" To such a programme
every honest citizen must perforce
subscribe, and it is a happy conse-
quence of expansion" that it is caus-
ing the people to look at this matter
with a new sense of responsibility and
with quickened public conscience.
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REXFORD'S.

SCRANTON, May 20.
For this week we shall offer
worthy silverware, 5000 pieces,
bought, most of it, for this sale and
offered, as an advertisement, at
prices that will probably never be
duplicated.
Selling starts at 8 o'clock and
lasts. six days only. See our win
dow.
buys six Rogers & Bros
SSC teaspoons. You know what
most jewellers get, $I.25 and 81. 50
the set.
ro secures a Pairpoint
, .OU quadruple plate butter
dish. Wedding present buyers can
pick from one hundred just such
values. Plenty of choice.
-o each for sterling silver tea
0UC spoons; three fancy pat
terms. engraved Tree. Only SIX 10
a customer.
each. A thousand fine steel,
lC nickel-plated nut picks; chas-
ed handles.
rs 40 for 6 Rogers and Bros"
Dl. .ZU table knives or forks;
the name, stamped on each, guar
antees them. Cost more to make.
n.z-o buys tea set and 20
pI/.SU inch tray. When
you see it you will say $35, it's
regular price, was most reasonable.
THE REXFORD CO.,
I3s Wyoming Ave.
Clock sale next week.
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Close It UP.

Tonights meeting of common coun-
Gil to consider finally the ordinance ap-
propriating Sl7,520 for the first years
payment to the Barber Asphalt COM
pany for the asphalt repairs contem-
plated in the contract entered into be-
tween that company and the city of
Scranton on the 27th day of last Janu-
ary should close a chapter of Disgrace
full delay in performing a very neces-
sary public improvement.
That contract. 1t may be worth while
TO note, stipulates that in considera
tion Of S17,520 year to be paid by the
city TO the Barber company for term
of ten years, the said company must
repair all asphalt paved streets In the
city and keep the same in good con-
dition, furnishing all necessary tools
and materials and assuming liabilities
for all damages caused by the negli.
gent Or improper performance Of its
work. The city is to pay in quarterly
instalments Of 81, $50, falling due on the
first day of Mag, August, November
and February in each year; but before
any payment of money shall be made
to it, the Barber company must first
present a certificate from the city en-
Gineer setting forth that all the stipu-
lations of the contract have been COM
piled with, according to the specifica-
tions on file with the city clerk and
accepted by the company as part of
the contract. 1t rests with the city
engineer TO decide whether the city
shall get what it will pay for; and We
know of no municipal authority better
qualified than a reputable and efficient
engineer to protect the city's interests
in such a matter. Another feature of
the contract is the stipulation that the
city shall appropriate the necessary
S17520 from the current revenues of
each year. or shall pay as it goes, and
embarrassment of future generations.
For ten years from Jan. q last the city
of Scranton is bound by ties of law
and honor not only to cause the asphalt
streets to be kept in continue good
repair, but also to pay for tlluse re-
pan ll'lIl 'Guell lCI w pudl ltl, do llllS
shall elapse, out of the city's current
income, leaving the account book at
each years end cleanly balanced so far
as this item goes, without debt or due.
We need not now review the belated
opposition which has arisen since this
contract was signed by the parties in
interest nor expose again the numerous
Misrepresentation which have been
put in circulation with a view to OBJ
structing the contracts execution. 1t
is sufficient to call attention to the con-
tract and the streets; and the two,
viewed together, show to common coun-
Gil very clearly the pathway of its duty.
Close it up!
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Genuine VS.. Spurious Civil Service
Reform.

After several months of careful con-
sideration the president upon recon-
mendation of his cabinet, has decided
to issue an executive order removing
from the classified civil service about
1000 positions now covered by civil
service regulations. InasmUch as this
decision will doubtless bring upon him
from civil service reformers of the pro-
fessional type an avalanche Of unjust
and abusive criticism it may not be
amiss to explain the reasons prompting
him to make X.
1t is to be remembered that shortly
before Mr.. Cleveland left the White
house he issued an order throwing the
civil service rules over practically every
appointive office in the government not
previously classified. Prior to doing
this his henchmen in the various de-
partments had carefully cleaned out
as many Republicans as they could
including many Union veterans, and
had put in their places Democrats
largely recruited from the Confederate
veteran element. Apart from the par
principles OF genuine civil service re-
form, the Cleveland order was objec-
tionable for the reason that il covered
many positions utterly unsuited to civil
service requirements, such as private
secretaryships, confidential clerkships,
deputy revenue collectorships, cashier
ships and other posts of peculiar re-
sponsibility as to which the RESPONSE
bic heads of departments should have
the freest privilege of selection. If a
railroad should change hands, the new
management would. on business prin-
ciples, retain all worthy men in the
ranks OF the actual trainmen, track
men, shopmen. etc, irrespective Of their
politics, religion or other considerations
not affecting their ability as laborers;
but the new management would want
to have and would insist upon having
a free hand to remove or supercede
the custodians OF the companys funds,
the immediate personal lieutenants OF
the department chiefs and all other en-
ployes whose positions are influential
in determining the success or failure of
the new executive policy. This would
be only fair and right.
The positions which President Nc
Kinley proposes to take out of the
classified service are OF this character.
His decision is not midway between the
demand of the spoilsmen and that of
the civil service reformers; it is sub
stantially the decision of all true civil
service reformers themselves-ot all
men who care more for the proper ad-
justment of the public service than
they do for personal notoriety achieved
In the capacity of chronic grumblers.
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A new trial for Dreyfus. If conduct
sd hv the army according to the old
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state of Michigan in proportion to pop
ulation. This anomalous condition
may be partly attributed to an excel
lent system of state supervision Of the
youth for the prevention OF crime,
coupled with improved reformatory
methods for those who have taken the
first steps in the criminal pathway.
But 1t seems probable that a part Is
also due to the fact that Michigan has
been among the most active OF states
III the enforcement of measures for the
protection of the public against undue
aggressions. The leaning toward
mercy has grown with the advance In
civilization. 1t should find its ex-
preston in the modification of laws.
however. and not in non-enforcement
OF severe statutes"
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THERE WERE OTHERS.
From the Philadelphia Times.

FROM the Pnllaoelpnla Times.
There is the probability that huzzas for
General Funston have jolted the air too
soon, and that hats must be tossed up
again for the brave swimming of Luzon
river, on the road to Malolos, and the
capture of a Filipino company, and this
time with the announcement that the
jubilation is for a band of courageous
Pennsylvania boys. Letters from Manila
to Westmoreland county tell of the
heroic conduct of Lieutenant Richard
Coulter and other members of Company l.,
of the Tenth regiment, in connection with
this now historic event of the war.
-:o:-
These letters were evidently not writ
ten in the spirit CT disputant for mar
tial honors, but as a plain chronicle OF
the engagement before it was known
that the world was applauding the dash
ing Kansas general. They relate, simply,
that Lieutenant Coulter and his men
swan the river and captured the Filipinos
and that General Funston, who had
crossed the river at another point, came
up afterward and. as the senior officer,
took charge of the prisoners. AS a SOU
venir of the capture Lieutenant Coulter
received the sword of the insurgent cap
tain, which has been brought to his home
in Greensburg, by his brother.
-:o:-
If the story which these letters tell he
true, and there is no reason to doubt its
accuracy, then new laurels have been won
for Pennsylvania soldiery, and the men
and women Of this state who saw them
go forth to give battle to the people of
the east and who have followed their
laborious marches and victorious engage
ments, will have new cause to be proud
of the warriors this commonwealth fur
nishes for its country's service. Cen
eral Funston has done many things for
which he has rightly received abundant
praise. Let the Pennsylvania boys have
the credit which they seem to so richly
deserve. "There is glory enough for all"
and Pennsylvania should be exuberant
that fair share of it has come to her
cnld
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Automobile corporations continue to
grow like mushrooms. There is no
question that there will be millions
in the horseless carriage business for
some one during the next few years.
but the history of the bicycle-making
industry indicates that there will prob
In the automobile business If present
prospects of imitation are fulfilled.
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There Is. howe,Sr, a mode of escape
from tho existing complication The
SY.tink. foreign 0.fice canaet but reoos-
nis1 ,iat We, Sa our pare, nave done an
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rule Of secrecy. would leave matters
unchanged. If Dreyfus is innocent
he should be freed forthwith; IL guilty.
there should be no attempt at revision
of his case. The affair has reached q
phase where compromise Is impossible
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The disinclination Of the Cuban vet
Grams to accept s75 apiece from the
United States is phenomenon in nat
ural history, but there is balm in the
reflection that Uncle Sam is in that
much.
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President Schurman may be a good
college executive, but II is to be feared
he is no match for Malay diplomacy.
Otis peace programme of shot and
shell is the sure cure for that insur-
raotinuarv feetinu
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The promises of some of our invent
ors are enough to cause the apparition
of the lamented Keely to remain con-
stantly on guard.
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THAT HE WILL BE TRUE TO HIS
FRIENDS.

From the Wilkes-Barre Record.
What is to be expected of a governor
who makes a man like John p. Elkin,
of indemnity bond notoriety his attorney
general?
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A square meal seems to be about the
only thing obtained by the Filipino
peace ENJOYS at Manila