New-York tribune., 1900-11-04
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
ESTIMATES OF ELECTION REsULTs-AU.
ToMoBILE CLUB TO TAKE LIBRARY
BUILDTNG-wINE MAKERS COR
PORATION DISSOLVED.
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San Francisco. Nov. 3.-The general feeling
among substantial business men here is that
Mckinley is sure Of reelection In fact in the
business districts the sentiment in favor of Nc
Kinley is practically unanimous. Nothing like
It has ever been seen. and If the business men
controlled the result Bryan would have a very
slender vote. Laboring men, however are
swung by many influences among which the
most powerful is the feeling against holding
the Philippines The chairman of the Republi-
can State Central Committee says the State will
go Republican by at least 900 plurality, and
that the party Will return the complete Con-
gress delegation. These figures, he asserts,
from careful estimates from Republican man
ayers in every district. He says San Francisco
will go Republican by 3,O00, and that in the
southern counties the Republican gains will be
large, amounting in Los Angeles to fully $500.
On the other hand. the chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee claims the State
by 1900 and San Francisco by 5000. He also
claims that four Congressman are sure-the Hid.
With. With and With districts Both these es-
Inmates are scaled heavily by conservative ex-
perts. who incline to the view that Mckinley
VIII carry California but not by more than
5000 5000. In regard TO the Congress dele
cations it looks though the lid, With and
With were in danger, as the Democratic can
dieates in those districts are stronger than the
Republican.
When the Mercantile Library from its
present fine building st Golden Gate and Van
Ness aves. to downtown quarters, in Sutter-st.,
between Grant-ave. and Kearney-st., the library
building will be occupied by the San Francisco
Automobile Club. The great library hall on the
ground floor, which is the finest library room in
the West, will he used to keep machines. This
move Of the Mercantile Library was caused
h< ify of haN n1lar
The transfer to Van Ness-ave.. eight years ago.
proved Ill advised. as many members had not
the leisure to go out so far.
The California Wine Makers Corporation will
soon be dissolved. Next January it Will prob
ably be decided to reduce the capital stock from
S10000O00 to $4,000. This corporation for
Eve seasons handled the bulk OF the California
dry wines, and managed sales so successfully
that prices ranged from 101a cents to 141a cents
q gallon. against Z cents before. This sea-
sons price is sure to be low. as there is no CO.
operation among the producers dealers
The Santa Fe Railroad Company has been
buying secretly for months property around
China Basin opposite Mission Rock to be used
for station purposes These lots have been Sc
cured by agents ostensibly for private buyers.
but It has just leaked out that the Santa Fe is
back Of these purchases and has recently secured
al optlon on tnree Whole blocks. The company
proposes to build large wharyes and freight
sheds and make this its chief freight station
The result will be to develop that part of the
city
Mrs. Alice Rollins Crane, the magazine and
newspaper writer, was divorced this week from
Colonel L. P. Crane, who secured decree on the
ground of desertion, as his wife filed answer.
She has several claims In the Klondike, and has
spent couple Of seasons in Dawson, where her
house was much frequented. by American and
Canadian officials $50 zafK
President Hart of the Chicago Baseball Club
In here making arrangements for wintering his
players IN one of this ciIyia suburbs Mr.. Hart
believes that players fhr4ts in the California
winter climate, and that het can give enough
exhibition games TO pay for transportation and
maintenance. He will also try to induce "Bill''
Lange TO return to the team but in this he will
probably not succeed, as Lange is married and
has~gone into business here.
The old whaling bark Charles w. Morgan of
New Bedford. which arrived this week after a
year spent in the South Seas and japanese
waters, has proved that age does not incapaci-
tate whaler from getting good catch. The
Morgan was built hfty-nine years ago in New
Bedford. yet she is still stanch and speedy, and
she has brought in the largest catch of the sea-
son, amounting to fifteen hundred barrels OF
sperm oil and three thousands pounds of bone.
Professor Dyer. of Oxford began this week
his course Of lectures at the University of Cali
fornia on Mycenean Greek art He has
hundred and fifty lantern slides, illustrating
Cretan subjects. which have never been
hibited. and the photographs from which they
were made are still unpublished.
Stuart Robson has drawn good houses at the
Columbia to see his ''Oliver Goldsmith" which
is giving in the afternoon at the California
Theatre illustrated piano recitals on the Nibe-
lungen Ring.