New-York tribune., 1901-04-21
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
PREPARING FOR PRESIDENTS VISIT
MANY STRANGERS IN SAN FRAN
CISCO THE WISCONSIN
A SUCCESS
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are being made here for the reception of Presi-
dent Mckinley next month The plans are not
yet in definite shape, but it is probable that he
will be escorted from the railroad station by at
least ten thousand troops. forming of the
largest and most imposing military displays
seen here in recent years. The electric light
decorations will be novel and effective. Market
Kearney and Third SITS. will be Illuminated with
powerful electric lights strung fifty feet apart
and softened by gayly colored japanese Ian
terms. The outlines of the Ferry Building and
the City Hall will also be marked by electric
lights. Only two formal dinners will be given
one by the Ohio Society and the other by the
citizens of San Francisco. The President
throughout his stay will make his home in the
residence of Henry T. Scott. which will be placed
at his disposal.
Never before were there so many strangers
in San Francisco All the leading hotels
are full and nearly every room is engaged from
now until after the Presidents visit. Clay NJ
Green. the playwright who is a visit to his
old home here walked the streets for several
hours one night this week vainly trying to get
a room at public or a private hotel. and
finally forced to the bay to Oakland to
get accommodations. The low colonist rate and
special excursion tickets have proved attractive
to many tourists, but the main reason for heavy
travel is the fact that the big Eastern railroads
have advertised CALIFORNIA; attractions for win
ter and spring excursions to escape the cold
weather of the East. With vestbuied trains
the trip may be made with all the comforts
of first class hotel and in half the time that it
consumed ten years ago.
Irving NJ. Scott, the builder of the new bat
tleship Wisconsin. is greatly pleased the
performance of the big fighting machine on her
first real sea service. The vessel proved to be
very fast in her run down to Magdalena Bay
and return, though effort was made to get
speed. She obeyed her helm as perfectly as
small vessel Captain Reter also proud of
the performance of his in the target prac-
tice, as out of total of 444 men. 397 qualified
as marksmen. 1t would have been a good OBJ
Ject lesson to foreign naval experts If they could
have seen the American gunners land solid shot
within the white outlines of a battleship drawn
on the cliff at Magdalena. The rapidity and ac-
curacy with which the big guns were fired has
probably never been equalled at target practice
on this coast.
President Tucker Of Dartmouth has received
a warm welcome this week from the alumni of
his college. dinner was given in his honor at
the Palace Hotel, and he spoke at Stanford Uni
versity on The Higher Learning of the Last
Decade" and at Hoitts School, at Meno Park
on Distinction in Men" Ira c. Hoitt was
the president made exception to his rule and
spoke to Hoitt's boys.
Whteaw Reid delivered an address on Friday
afternoon before a large audience of professors
and students of Leland Stanford University in
Assembly Hail. President Jordan introduced
him one of the stanchest friends of the uni
versity. He was received with great applause
which was repeated al the close OF his address
on the subject What Education Does the Re
public Most Need in the Days of Its Unparalleled
Prosperity"
w A. Nevills mining man. who is the most
active and unwearied litigant in the State filed
this week suit against w. II. Martin and John
Ballard TO recover S5o0000 for their alleged
depreciation of the Rawhide and APP mines in
which they are interested. Nevills asserts that
they have caused a shrinkage OF 100000 in the
value of the mines. They laugh at his suit, and
declare it is simply revenge. because they turned
him out OF the management.
An echo Of the notorious Durrant case was
heard this week when Samuel E. Dutton,
of the jurors who voted to hang the murderer
of two young girls. declined to serve In a murder
trial, because he declared he had be-
lieve capital punishment wrong This
avowal caused great surprise. Dutton
the only of the Durrant jurors who Wit
messed the hanging of the they sent to the
gallows by a unanimous vote.
The illness of number OF prominent actors
! scheduled for appearance this summer at the
Columbia Theatre has forced a rearrangement
! OF the season. Hacketts tour had to be can
| celled, and for the two weeks following Blanche
Walshs the theatre will be closed. Sag Harbor''
! VIII then come, but without Herne. After this
there would have been another hiatus but the
Columbia was fortunate enough to secure Henry
Miller and his company In Richard Savage"
After him comes Blanche Bates in Under
Two Flags; The Empire Theatre company in
Mrs. Danes Defence" and Frohmans DAILY
Theatre company in Lady Huntworth's Ex-
pertinent. Blanche Walsh has just closed at
the Columbia a successful fortnight in More
Ihan Queen" Neil Burgess has done great
week at the California in THE County Fair
the old piece seeming to have especial attrac-
ton for the large number of strangers now in
the city.
AS soon as the steel can be secured the frame
work of the new twelve story Flood Building
will begin to rise the corner once occInied
by the Baldwin Hotel The new building will he
lSo feet high to the top of the fire walls with
iO-foot dome In addition, making the total
height $50 feet The design is said to be i'm
posing. and the building will be great addi-
ton to the appearance of Market-st Other i'm
provements that VIII help the appearance of this
main thoroughfare are the Mutual Savings
Bank Building. near the lower corner of the
old Blythe Block. and directly opposite The
CALI Building, and the office building which
John w. Mackay will erect at the southeas ct
corner Of Fourth and Market SITS.
Among the real estate sales this week were
those of the Thomas II. O'Connor propertv on
the southeast side Of Mission-st., east Of Fifth
St. for $4,000 and of the southeast corner of
Third and Mission sts belongong to the
Crooks estate for $4,000. The Clark tract of
nearly three hundred acres, adjoining Burlin-
game the north, has been sold to San
Francisco syndicate which proposes to convert
It into park for suburban residences Chief
Engineer Schussler. Of the Spring Valley Water
Company, will lay out the grounds for drainage
and water supply.
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR STUDENTS.
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