New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
TO HONOR RETURNING TRooPs-WHf
TEA CANNOT BE RAISED ON PA
CIFIC CoAsT-FRUIT CAN
NERIEs KEEP SCHOOLS
CLOSED.
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70 celebrate the return Of the LIST Caiiiorhia
,Jo,n,,o.rs from, Manila. There will be a water
,oooart ON the bav and parade at night UP
Market-st and along Van Ness-aVe.' WHICH
n,,, no shared in by all the military and CIVIC
soc,o,,os and marked by unusually picturesque
features Bands and delegations OF socletes
tro,n interior cities have already applied Tor
nIeces IN the line of march; all the Regular ana
o,untaer troops at the Preside and WITHIN
reach of the city will turn out; over one thou-
sand musicians will give stimulus 10 the
marching. and the Chinese VIII ada 'he
barbaric pomp of Oriental music ana spIenuiu
costumes 10 the richness Of the pageant All
abe local and State societies will turn out IN fuii
regalia.
Tho sur, of 1000 has been received in contri-
n,,tions to the fund for receiving the California
regiment and for providing for those who may
rot he able AT once 10 secure places. NJ. H. de
Young who is chairman OF the Executive COM
rntttee hopes TO swell the fund to $5O'VOO. ana
from the present rate Of increase IT looks as
though this large sum would be secured. Inc
largest single item has come from the DIE
benefit performance on Thursday afternoon d.
the Orpheum Theatre. at which all the theaul-
cal companies in the city took part. The peneh'
was the most notable ever given on the coast
and Melted $10J00 The performance lasted
over five hours yet there were no delays ana
no accidents. All the big corporations have re-
sponded literally, and even the Chinese have
given generously to the fund.
The Secretary Of Agriculture. James Wilson.
is a close observer, and made some shreWd COM
merits on the industrial conditions on TINS
coast as a fruit of his recent visit but his pre-
diction that tea will be successfully grown IN
California ignores the important labor question:
Cotton could be grown with profit in many parts
OF California if wages were as cheap as In the
Southern States and some system OF renting
land to families on shares was in vogue. When
a farmer must pay from $50 to $50 month.
with board. to get good farm laborers, there is
no margin Of profit in cotton, and there would be
none In tea. as tea requires more hand work
than cotton. Every fruit requires good manage
nnnt to make it pay when labor has to be hired
at present high rates.
The opening Of the public schools of San Jose
was delayed a week in order to permit the school
children to work in the fruit canneries Men
and women who have had practice in preparing
fruit for canneries are scarce this season. and
the result is children have been depended on to
prevent the fruit from spelling. Most of the
children are expert at this work. and can do
almost as much in day as adults. Complaints
of the lack Of laborers come from all parts of
the State. The Southern Pacific Company is un-
able to get enough men 10 complete this year
tie coast division Of the railroad, from this
city TO Santa Barbara 1t is not expected now
that the gap will be closed before November Of
next year.
A big gray sea lion weighing eight hundred
pounds and her eighty pound pup We're captured
this week by the lighthouse keeper at Ano Nuevo
Point in San Mateo County. 1t is rare that sea
lions are taken without serious injury, and 1t is
thought this fine specimen may be added TO the
curioslties of the New-York Aquarium.
The former Fish Commissioner Henry F. En-
eric, who died this week. was well known all
over the Coast for his active work in the preser-
walton and improvement Of game fish and birds.
1t was due to his energy that many of the
mountain streams of California have been
stocked with choice trout. and that the law has
been strictly enforced against shooting game or
taking fish out of season.
Louis p Drexle millionaire who had been
interested in large California and Nevada enter
prses for thirty years. is dead at his home here.
He made a fortune in the early days OF Com
stock mines and later prominent in develop
ing the Pioneer woolen mills. the California jute
mills and the JudsOn powder works.
]. West Martin, one of the best known Of Cali
fornia pioneers and a prominent capitalist of
Oakland died Yesterday. He came Of famous
Maryland family, and he married daughter of
Senator Foote. of Mississippi He was the head
of the Union Bank for Savings, OF Oakland for
years, and Regent OF the State University.
H. Phelps Whtmarsh. who made literary
reputation by The Worlds Rough Hand"
sailed from here this week for Manila 10 serve as
correspondent in the Philippines for "The Out
look"
Professor William Henry Hudson. of the Eng
fsh literature department at Stanford Unver-
sity, retained this week from years absence in
Europe. Most Of his time was spent in the British
Museum, where he wrote a short life OF Scott to
serve as the Introductory volume of a series,
Twelve Epoch Making Scotsmen," and a life
OF Rousseau for another series, which will be
published in Edinburgh
Tfburon Island. in the Gulf Of California,
which has been avoided for years by mariners
because of the treachery and ferocity Of the
Serbs Indians, who make their home there was
recently reported for sale by Ex-Governor An
drade. OF Sonora. Andrade denies this but
says he has a scheme for coOnizing the island
which has abundance of rich soil. Only a
small remnant OF once large Indian tribe re-
MAINS and these savages can be easily con-
trolled or deported If 1t should be necessary TO
do so.
suit has been brought this week in Los An
geles TO test the right Of the public TO land on
Catalina Island which is owned by the Banning
company. The Banning brothers have made the
island an attractive tourist resort but they re-
fuse 10 permit any opposition boats TO land pas
sengers on the island without paying them head
tax Recently several parties who tried TO land
were forcibly prevented
Work this week was begun at the new Oxnard
beet sugar factory in Venturaco, the largest
establishment of the kind in the world. 1t will
employ five hundred hands and run night and
day for four months. The town of Oxnard
which has grown up around the factory, already
numbers two thousand people and the company
has ten thousand acres of its near the fac
tory. The Chino factory, the big Chino
ranch will start next week