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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
FAIR PROPERTY is
TO BE CONSIDERED
IT WILL COME BEFORE THE
STREET COMMITTEE.
The City Urged to Assert It's Right,
and Also to Abate Nui-
Sance.

One of the most important matters that
has been called to the attention of the
Street Committee of the present Board of
Supervisors will come up for considera-
ton on Monday. 1t will be in connection
with the disputed Fair property on North
Beach.
j. T. Engle will present a communica-
ton setting forth the legal status Of the
property from his point of view, and urg-
ing the necessity of action on the part of
the city to assert its rights to the same.
His communication in part will say:
If the Fair estate is not checked now. it will,
at enormous expense, fill in and utterly de-
mental act of vandalism against the marine
and mercantile interests of the world, and
ISOLATION Review is advocating the construc-
ton of just such safety slips on the entire
northern city front.
There will also be submitted the follow
ing petition, which is being numerously
signed:
The undersigned residents and registered vot-
ers in the Forty-irst Assembly District re-
spectfully represent:
That the health Of ourselves and our families
and the safety and comfort Of our homes is Sc
riousIy threatened by the maintenance of an
enormous open cesspool by the Fair estate on
the northern side of San Francisco portion
of the bay has been land-locked and walled In
by line of piles and rock and by a filling Of
sand within that line, so that the water within
that enclosure longer GIBBS and flows with
the tue, DuC is COW lillC d pOHu VI LIANT
Into this lake empties the sewage from an area
of more than 140 blocks and it is there pent up
TO stagnate and to breed noxious exhalatIons
and a pestilenCe to poison the air which we
and our families must breathe
If the public streets had been left open where
they cross the tract that is being reclaimed
and where they intersect the rim of the pond
referred to- or If sewers had been constructed
therein at all of those points, no such unfor-
tunate result would have ensued If all Of
those streets or portions of streets were now to
be opened or large sewers built therein, the
iGti 1J1iS0 10
We accordingly memorialze your honorable
body and urge upon you the necessity of af
fording US immediate relief from the danger
herein referred to- either by compelling the
extension of all sewers across the Fair tract or
mentioned be perforated where the streets in
tersect the same, and that sewers other
openings be maintained therein to allow
the uninterrupted discharge Of all sewage into
the waters of the bay
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
AROUND THE
CORRIDORS

H. C. Tandy Of Hanford is at the Lick.
]. Muth of Tahiti is staying at the Oc-
cidental.
Mrs. L. w. Howes of Boston is a guest
at the Palace.
Mrs. E. F. Pierce of Los Gatos is a
guest at the Lick.
P. c. Drescher, a Sacramento merchant,
is at the California
f. H. Mason, a hardware merchant of
Spokane, is located at the Palace.
I. ]. Friend and wife of Los Angeles
have engaged apartments at the Russ
Volney w. Foster, prominent Chi
cago resident, is a guest at the Grand.
George D. Clarke and wife of Kobe,
japan, are registered at the Occidental.
Mrs. o. NJ. Henry Of Modesto is at the
Occidental on a short visit to this city.
William A Spinks. the expert billiard
ist is registered at the Grand from Chi
cago.
Ernest D. White of New York and w.
c. Pieffer of Portland are at the Cali
forna-
Alex Brown. member of the State Board
OF Equalization, is registered at the Lick
from Milton.
James Dunsmuir, the coal king, Of Vic
toria. B. c. is registered at the Grand
with his wife.
C. E. S. Wood, leading attorney Of
Portland. Or, is at the California, accom-
panied by his wife.
B. Wood Davis and J. c. Armstrong.
two Cincinnati merchants, are among the
arrivals at the Palace.
Ex-Sheriff w. c. Conroy of Auburn and
H. r. McNoble, Stockton attorney, are
among the arrivals at the Grand.
Mrs. Craig Lippincott and daughter and
Clement Lippincott and wife of Philadel-
phia are among the guests at the Palace
F. E. Curtis, a Los Angeles hotel pro-
prietor, and w. r. Forman, an Antioch
merchant, are making the Grand their
headquarters.
Miss G. o. Selby of Indianapolis came
to this city to join her brother, Norman
Selby, better known as kid Mccoy, and
is at the Occidental.
Major General William R. Shafter re-
turned from Los Angeles yesterday morn
ing in company with his aid, Captain E.
II. Plummer. He has entirely recovered
from his recent indisposition and spoke
feelingly Of the grand receptions given
him in the southland.
w. E Cook, member of Company c.,
First California Volunteers, was among
king. He was in service in Manila, but
was obliged to return on account of sick
ness, and he is now stopping at the home
of his mother, Mrs. N. F. Cook, of 312
Eddy street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
NATIVE DAUGHTERS BENEFIT.
Longfellow's "Evangeline" to Be
Read in Connection With
Series of Tableaux.

There have been a number of rehearsals
of ''Evangeline,' which is to be produced
in Native Sons Hall this evening
for the benefit of the Native Daughters
Home, recently established In this city,
and the number of tableaux which have
been under the direction of a committee
of La Estrella Parlor, under whose aus
pices the reading will be given, has in
creased from sixteen to twenty-one.
These, presented at the proper time
when Longfellow's exquisite production is
being read by Past Grand Presidents Miss
Clara K. Wittenmeyer and Miss Mariana
Bertola and the Misses Rose Cohen and
l.. O'Keefe, all noted for their elocution-
airy talent, will give an added interest to
the words of the poet. In addition. there
will be several selections by choral of
thirty voices, four vocal solos and spe-
cial orchestral music.
The money realized will be devoted to
aid in the complete furnishing of the
home.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
ONE-STORY BALDWIN.

y ALDWIN'S announcement OF intent to Ouilo
~ row of one-story rookeries on the site Tor
- merly occupied by his imposing undertook and
sepu1cher combined is direct afront to the people
of this city and threat to capital 1t has almost the
SAVIOR of blackmail, for Baldwin is shrewd enough
to realize that one phase OF the Indignation he will
arouse may take the form OF offer for the property
Such structure Baldwin contemplates would be
worse and more unsighty than hole in the ground.
1t would deface one of the prominent corners. and
necessarily attract cheap tenants, if any at all 1t
would be a blot and blight, having the distinct
effect of lowering property values. On that corner
should rise stately structure, and this time not made
OF lath and plaster.
Baldwin is not appreciative San Francisco has been
too good 10 him, and he would repay its kindness
with shanty The walls of his old hotel should have
been condemned while hot and eveled to the ground
while warm Instead of this course being taken, the
aged capitalist was permitted to do as he pleased to
take his time in clearing rubbish to use the streets
as repositories for blstered bedsteads and soaking
mattresses and to abuse everybody who objected.
Now he begins to show the brand of gratitude which
stirs him.
The first thing Baldwin knows he will be getting
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
"A PRoFEssoRsHIP OF ADVERTISING

N a recent address at University College, Liver
| pool on the occasion of the formal opening
1 of a school Of commerce in connection with the
college, the Right Hon. James Bryce, NJ. P, in OUT
lining the work which should be undertaken by the
school, suggested systematic training in what he
called "the art and mystery OF Advertising
While the proposal is novel in its nature, it is well
worth serious consideration. Mr. Bryce stated that
In none of the great commercial schools of the Con
tnent or elsewhere is any instruction given IN the
value of advertising commercial enterprises, or the
best means of employing it, and went on to say:
advertising has now become extremely important
part of Our commercial life it would be very desir
able if something could be done to reduce it to a
science so as to enable the young merchant to know
in what way his money expended for advertising
could be used to the greatest advantage.
That such a of instruction, based upon the
experience of successful advertisers, would be bene
fit to young men about to embark in mercantile life
is indisputable Millions of dollars are expended
every year in Advertising and it is safe to say that
much OF it is virtually wasted Shrewd of course
learn by experience how to advertise in profitable
way but considerable number of persons go on
wear after year paying for so-caled advertisements
that yield them hardly any returns whatever.
In this connection it is worth noting there has been
formed in London association calling itself the
Society for Checking the Abuse of Advertising. 1t
has conducted successful campaign against all de-
vices which are disfguring streets landscapes
or are dangerous life and limb. similar society
. would find a good field for operation in America,
where such devices are carried to the extreme
Whether Mr.. Bryces suggestion will be adopted
at the Liverpool School of Commerce is doubtful 1t
sounds somewhat too fancifu lie accepted by con-
servatives and yet it is essentially wise. Young
who intend to carry in all parts of the
world ought certainly to be instructed in the best
e means of making known TO foreigners the nature,
uses and prices OF the goods they handle, and to do
that they must to advertising of kind 1t
would be we'll therefore to teach them the folly of
spending their money various forms of so-called
advertising which offend the public instead of attract
p ing it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
THE FLOOD SUFFERERS
Over Two Million Yellow River Chi
nese Starving to Death.

pathetic appeal has been received by
the Chamber of Commerce on behalf of
the flood sufferers of the Shantung prov
ince of China. Those signing the appeal
are American and English people, and
their account of the prevailing distress
of the unfortunates shows that the situa-
ton is serious. The writer's state that
the Chinese of the district have raised
something like $4,000 American money,
but this will go but a short way, as there
are over two millions of people starving.
The letter states:
Daily, almost hourly, are in receipt of re-
ports from our countrymen in the interior de-
plotting the condition of the famine refugees.
Hundreds of villages submerged, others sur
rounded by water, houses, furniture clothing,
in fact everything, is under water The ma
tives themselves living in straw huts Many
have absolutely no shelter from the winter S
cold and snow, subsisting on bark, willow
twigs. roots. etc. The summers crops have
been failure the seed for next springs SOW
ing is gone. and there is nothing for these
starving millions to hope for.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
A Benefit FOR THE INTERIOR

VA Union when in expressing regret that some OF
q the interior papers take narrow view OF the
proposed Pacific Exposition it said the only consider
alton of the subject worthy of intelligent concern IS
this: 'Is such an exposition desirable for the coast
in view of the importance it is now assuming IN ma
tonal concern?"
That is truly the whole issue at stake and as the
Record Union goes to say: If such an EXPOSE
ton will substantially advance the interests in
the eyes of the world and they deserve, then it is
desirable at any cost If it will not tend to enlarge in
teigence concerning the Pacific States Pacific Ocean
commerce. our relations to the lands beyond the
our coast production and capacity; it will not tend
to crystalline sentiment in the nation upon the lmpor
lance of the Pacific Ocean commerce. then 1t will be
folly to promote it.
The only way to find a correct answer to the ques-
ton involved in these considerations is by studying
the results of expositions in other parts of the United
States Within the last few years thorough test has
been made of the subject the East Atlanta held an
exposition which proved profitable to the South
that Nashville followed at once with another. The
success there led to the undertaking of even
larger exposition last year at Omaha, and now, en-
couraged by the results New York, Philadelphia,
ST Louis Buffalo and Detroit making prepare
tons for expositions, and New Orleans and Cncin-
natl are talking OF like enterprises.
Surely with such results before his eyes intel
lgent man can doubt the benefits of expositions or
regard them as beneficial solely the cities in which
they are held The expostons at Atlanta and Nash
Vile attracted attention the entire South, and mil
lions OF dollars OF Northern capital and considerable
number of Northern men have since gone South to
develop the mining and manufacturing interests OF
those States Similar results OF good to the whole
Pacific Coast will follow comprehensive inter
rational exposition at San Francisco.
Nor can it be denied that we have reached point
where such exposition is needed. Our rural indus
tries have been so developed the production outruns
the demand of the market open for them. We
need new markets, and such markets to be found
in many parts of the world The only way to find an
entrance to those markets. however is by advertising
ourselves and making resources and products
known to consumers.
Anything which will stimulate the commerce of
San Francisco will make an increased demand for the
products of the interior Anything which will draw
the attention of the industrial and commercial cap
taliss of the East and OF Europe to this coast will
help every farmer miner and orchardist well as
the residents of cities and towns. The benefits of
the exposition will, in fact be felt throughout the
whole coast. From the Atlanta exposition the new
energy radiated over the wide region from the
Potomac to the Mississippi and there is reason
for supposing the influences of the Pacific exposition
would be less widespread
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
Lenten Service at st. Mary's.

At o'clock this afternoon the second
of the series of Lenten exercises under
the auspices of the Calvarian Society will
be held in ST. Mary's Cathedral. The dis
course which will follow the WAY of the
Cross" will be delivered by the Rev ].
E. Cottle. His subject will be Human
Repentance" The text is from ST. Luke
gospel-"And the Lord. turning, looked on
Peter, and Peter rememb ered the word
of the Lord The services will conclude
with the benediction and blessed sacra-
rant
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
Not David Donohue,s Brother.

Relatives of David Donohue, who was
unfortunately shot and killed during a
duel between Martin Kelly and Billy Har-
rington in the Republican county commit
tee rooms some years ago, refute the
statement that the deceased was a broth
er of James Donohue, as has been an
be sent to Jail that he might mend his
ways. David Donohue had but one broth
er, John Donohue, so naturally James, the
petitioner. could not have enjoyed that
relationship.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
Mary G. o,Brien,s Will.

The will of Mary G. O'Brien. filed yes
terday, bequeaths an estate valued at
$3.50 to her daughter, Mary P. O'Brien,
who is named as executrix to serve with
out bonds. In her will Mrs. O'Brien says
that John O'Brien' of Company 1, Eighth
and said that he was her SON Mrs
O'Brien says that the soldier is an i'm
poster and entitled to no share of her
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

Ex-Governor James B. Grant of Colorado, OF
the shrewdest richest and most popular in that
State once its Democratic executive, has left the
Democratic party and joined the Republican. How
ever, there is enough of the Democratic party left
there to cast shadow Mr. Grant evidently got tired
of flocking by himself
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
Greek Church Lenten Services.

The special Lenten music In the Ortho-
dox Greek Church is especially solemn
and the nocturnal, which is the service
for Saturday evenings. will be especial
liz interesting.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

That England has hand little affair in Egypt
wherein the death is likely to make that Of the
Spanish-Amercan war seem trivial is circumstance
which the people of this country have hardly consid
cred worth noting This thing of spreading civiliza-
ton among the benghted while it is an established
habit, nevertheless comes high
Several collectors have recently left the city leav-
ing no addresses, and none OF the money which they
happened to have taken in. However, as they left a
large part Of the latter at the racetrack and pool
rooms they will not be able to declare dividends
il they escape the police and their conscences.
Since Dewey has called for the Oregon there is no
doubt he will get it. If there is anything Dewey
wants all he has to do is to say
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
CAL1FoRNIANs IN WASHINGTON

NEW YORK, Feb. A.-Peter Mcdonald
of San Francisco is at the Hoffman.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

A pretty young whose husband is now
serving a of nineteen years for crime in which
she was his confederate is about be tried for the
second time in New York. The first time the jury
disagreed, and as the woman is handsome ever,
there is no reason for anticipating any change
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

gentleman who suffered the inconvenience OF
having handful of whiskers plucked from his chin,
and has brought suit for $780, is moderate in his de-
mands. Certainly barber would have removed them
for less, but between barberng and barbarism there
is distinction which must be maintained.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

General Shafter must have brought fairly good
constitution back from Cuba or the multiplicity of
banquets to which he is being subjected would lay
him out
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

The best appetizer and regulator of the di-
gestiye organs is DIR. Siegert's Angostura Bit
ters Try it. Be sure to get the genuine.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

It is pleasant surprise for this country to learn
from Sir Charles Upper that Great Britain our
victory with in the debate with Spain. If
Sir Charles knew this before he ought not to have
kept it secret.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

The legislative scheme to prevent lawyers from
badgering witnesses has much to commend it, but
good club would better serve the purpose
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

vote OF confidence passed by Legislature which
seems to have much confidence in Burns really
does not amount to much.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 80 Mont
gomery street. Telephone Main 1912.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

DYSPEPSIA CAN BE CURED BY USING
Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets. One little tablet
will give immediate relief or money refunded.
Sold in handsome tin boxes. AT owl Drug GO.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25
In the Divorce court.

Mary R. Crawford has been granted a
divorce from Thomas Crawford on the
ground of willful neglect. The plaintiff
was allowed to resume her maiden name,
SCHUYLER. Suits for divorce have been
filed by Alvina Schmidt against Carl II.
klesen against Jens Mikklesen for cruelty.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

The most appropriate souvenir of our
Golden State for your Eastern friends
would be q basket of Townsends Califor-
MIA Glace Fruits SOC 10. 627 Market ST. .
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

Look out for 81 Fourth ST., near barber and
grocery; best eyeglasses, specs. 15c-4Oc.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-25

In Mexico the family of a dead duelist
can claim support from the person who
shot him.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-02-23
FRENCH BRAZILIAN BORDER.
CLASH BE'TwEEN THE TROOPS HAS
BEEN REPORTED.
Forwnrd-Aii Liberated Convicts
to he Cruelty Treated.

Correspondence of Associated Press)
Kingston. Jamaica, February 1l-Ad-
vices received here from Cayenne. French
Guiana, say that the joint commission
appointed 10 inquire into the boundary
question between France and Brazil has
just been heard from on the Counani river.
The news was more sensatinal than salts
factory. and for some reason the colonial
government was doing its utmost to sup
press the facts,
Tho correspondent says that both COM
missions went out guarded by heavy es-
corts equally matched. The Frenchmen
had the gunboat JoufIroy and nfty Sene-
galese soldiers and the Bra2llians had the
Sunboat Guarany and an equal number of
troops. A collision occurred between these
Two forces IN the interior. There were no
DETAILS and IL wus not publicly known
whether there had been any bIoodshed
The fact that the governor Immediately
sent reinforcements OF 200 troops to the
front without waiting TO communicate with
Paris was thought to indicate that the
matter was serious
The French government has issued an
oruer that all liberated convicts now at
large in the colony shall be concentrated
In Maron. This indiscriminate and nm.
looked for action tells most cruelty ON
many now respectable citizens in CAYENNE
Being legally unable TO make any distinc-
non between the reformed and the incor-
rigible cutthroat element which is an
nuaily growing larger and becoming a
menace to the colony, all have been ruth
iessly included in the damnation OF Ma
roni - ''"-
According TO British Guiana newspapers
the authorities there are on the lnolfnnt
Tor these prospective immigrants over m.
border and this Is perhaps the cruelest as
pect OF the affair II some of the en-
patriated respectable citizens of CAYENNE
decide to try their fortunes in the more
British possessions they viii
DC promptly deported back to Cayenne us
rebels; TO be dealt with according 10 the
French laws "e W the