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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, AriilL 21, 1906.
THE WORK OF RELIEF
Nothing could more forcibly illustrate
the resources and orgnnlzlng efficiency
of tho twentieth century world than the
n.annpr In w lilcu the people of thin enun
try are meeting the pnrthiimke emer-
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Jlluntrated Bee, one year JM of modem moans of communication the
Sunday tir. one year '
Tim Omaha Daily Uee.
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Immediate destruction of property and
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building regulations to conform to the
demands of the most modern construc
tion. Because Omaha has on the whole
Iepii extremely fortunate in the past Is
no good reason why It should 1k reck
less of the future.
of binding twine tbnt a tariff on hemp
will lo a good thing.
naiet Happy and Robitl.
Philadelphia Preim.
According to the London papers President
Roosevelt la Buffering from too much popu
larity, and yet his sufferings on that ac
count do not aeem to hurt him any.
livery to City Circulation Department.
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the famine and pestilence which follows
in their wake to make the fate of those
whom summary destruction overtook
seem merciful In comparison with that
of those who survived only to fall vic-
tlme of more lingering horrors.
Hut the earthquake prostrating a
great city and instantly depriving Its
hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of
shelter, food and all ordinary means of
subsistence, was not more swift than
the messaee that carried the tidings of
calamity from one end of the country
to the other. And the flames had
I 32, 120
4 2,BOO
I S1.4SO
81, 470
1 31.U30
81,330
31,370
10 S2.0IVO
It 21,1(K
II 31, 200
U 2,07
14 31,410
It 8 1,1 SO
It 81,430
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. :
C. C. Rosewater. aeneral mnnacer of Ths
Bee Pubiiahing Company, being duly sworn. hardly begun to complete the vast ruin
Ynva that that ,Ktnn ntimttat nf full and I CT 1
complete copiea of Ths Daily, Morning, before every resource of private and
r.ven.ng inn nunaev uee prinien nunus w.w 1 . , , . . ,1
month of March, lflog. was as follows: public benevolence, every power and
1 81.340 n a.i20 facility of social organization was
2 81.8R0 is 2B.200
,a SI.IMt
jo..!!...!!... ..81JJB0 the sufferers. The railroad and the
a 8i,ijW telegraph bring them almost within
2 81.020 1 . .) r.t il,a ivmnalliotlK nonnle
34 32,120 or the whole country,
? ' Yet to collect from the thousands of
J7!.!!!!!!!!!!!!81.obo cities and towns the food, clothing and
81,840 means of shelter, to transport these
S ,Z things across the continent, to distribute
ji 82,180 them to the multitude In need, find to
do all this in time to relieve thpm of
Total 06T.4B0
Less unsold copies 10,741
Net total sales tM5,T00
Dally average 81,151
C. C. ROSE WATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before, me this Jlat day ot Maicn, mo.
(Seal) M. B. HUNGATB.
Notary Publia
hunger and suffering Is an ennrmons
task. It is not possible to meet every
want, but everything that is possible
is being and will be done. Organizing
capacity, employed to the utmost to
meet this sudden emergency, is accom
plishing feats that are little short of
miraculous.
The basis of system at once furnished
by the regular army and local authori
ties tt San Francisco is already beln
rapidly extended with outside co-operation,
and in an amazingly short time
the supplies now pouring in from all
Have you contributed to the relief q,arters will reach the needy with cer-
fund for the earthquake victims? Every talnty and regularity. Such a rescue
little helps. could not have happened in any other
A century ago a like disaster
WHG1 OIT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving; the etty tern
poratriljr should have Tb Me
wailed to lliem. Address will he
chauaed aa ofteat as requested.
It. required something unusual to
age.
would have meant unescapable death by
rwj.u.a. ... bunger and dlseflfie t0 unnumbered thou-
or tramc managers to tnui at ivannus
Cltr.
sands who will now be saved.
The scientist who discovered tiat the
greatest earthquuke shock was at Talo
Alto was not gauging his estimate from
newspaper reports.
Advices from Los Angeles would iudl.
tate the state of the public mind to
be such that the discharge of a shotgun
might precipitate a panic.
In raising money and rushing sup
plies to Han Francisco there is some
danger of forgetting Santa Rosa and
some other places needing relief.
SA? FRAXCISCO'S FIRE IXSVRAXCK.
It is too soon to estimate nearer than
within the most general outlines the
property losses In San Francisco, and
the means of rebuilding the city. The
commingling of the worst effects of
earthquake and fire throws some doubt
upon the amount of insurance that will
be available. Where there has beeu
great disaster from fire alone, the cal
culation is much simpler, Involving the
amount of insurance and the resources
of the insurance companies.
The vital point of course is nromntl-
Vaide of settlement and It ma bo as
sumed that the companies will leave
Having beeu guaranteed Immunity by
both present and prospective mayors,
the umpire mav call time for the Sun- notniug undone to ascertain speedily
day ball game as soon as he pleases. aD(l Place disposal of the property
owners the amounts that are to be paid.
Those absentee city councllmen may Even a less amount if promptly set
come back with full assurance that tied and forthcoming would be of far
they can draw their pay to the end of greater assistance than money paid after
their terras without being overworked, long uncertainty and delay. The same
Impulse to which the whole country
Springfield. Mo., lynchers are doubt- responds in rendering quick aid may
less grateful for anything which turns be counted on to move the insurance
the eye of Governor Folk away from companies to diligence in settlement
tnem until nis indignation nas had time Likewise the indications amor, m.
tO SUbslde. Slim OCe Blltllnrltio nt a unirlf n mnka
a liberal settlement will be universally
Omaha contributes $10,(X0 In one day applauded From any nolnt of view
",c '" ""t""M """ the burden that will fall upon the com-
S IT SOCIALISTIC
It Is not surprising that President
Roosevelt's suggestion of a federal in
heritance tax as a means of solving
some of "the problems connected with
the amassing of enormous fortunes and
the use of those fortunes, both cor
porate and Individual, in business,"
should be bitterly denounced ns "so
cialistic" by some of his critics. But
the suggestion is In fact neither
socialistic nor novel, but on the con
trary, has . been considered and acted
upon in one form or another by our own
people and by other highly civilized
people who at the same time reject
socialism. It always has encountered
opposition and denunciation from the
same interests which now regard the
president's proposition as so offensive.
tJovernment has always drawn a
broad distinction between the right to
control of property by the living pos
sessor and the right to control it after
death. The distinction is substantial
and essential, and many of the laws
which safeguard most Importantly social
well being are based upon this distinc
tion. The president's suggestion is not
to be compared in radicalism to the
chnnges which were effected in this
country when entails and primogeniture
were abolished. And those far-reaching
reforms were mild In contrast with the
earlier great change whereby the grip
of the dead hand through trusts or per
petual corporations was broken by Eng
lish law from vast aggregations of
wealth "swollen beyond all healthy
limits," although their original purpose
was benevolent and religious.
The history of our law for centuries
Is a progressive and conspicuous denial
of the right of the individual to con
trol after death property, either in great
or In small amounts, against the li:
terests of living society. But every such
denial has been resisted by precisely
the same influences which are sure tc
resist a national inheritance tax. Yet
It is not easy to see why there shoull
be such vehement denunciation of the
national application of a principle which
is In actual use in many of the states,
and which to a limited extent has even
beeu embodied heretofore in the federal
laws.
That there is a growing menace in the
transmission of enormously overgrown
fc-tunes is a fact that is being more
clearly perceived nil the time, and the
evil has been rapidly aggravated by the
extension of the powers and uses of in
corporation. It is an emergency that
society will have to deal with, and it
will not be prevented by the mere cry
of "socialism" which nny effort to solve
these problems would have to meet.
It would be more perftnent for those
who are so ready with that word 1c
propose a more effective remedy.
Tempting- th Kla Stick.
Chlrain N?WS.
if the anthrclt cnerators really wish to along in the late 'POn the Bpreckvl. the
attract the attention of the man who wields sugar kings ot the Hawaiian Islands, put
ths big stick, refusing offers of arbitration tip the tall Milldlng actors isiarsei eiren
Is the way to go about It.
ha might experience were he still In the around a courtyard that orened to the
land of the er.ar, and he has not yet givrn eky In the manner of early-day Spanish
any indications of wishing to sing ' There's houses. Ther was a wide carriage en-
I. AM) MIRKS AOSG THE Rlh.
San Franrlaro Institutions Leveled
by Karthqnake and Fire.
The Chronicle building, which was de
stroyed among others, was erected by the
De Youngs In lWJ, and was In reality the
forerunner of tho skyscraper era In Pan
Francisco. It occupies one of the angular
corners at the Intersection 01 niarsei.
Kearny and Third streets. For years this
structure was the marvel of the city, but
inanlalon of an Kille
Baltimore American.
Gorky has one consolation. His troubles
on this side are not near as great ns those streets
on a sort or diamond, a tan snau oi a
building like a monument, dwarlmg
everything else In Its vicinity. Then, a
few years later, came th Hearst, or Ex
aminer building, at Third and Market
The Talace hotel was built
no place like home.'
Tidal Ware of Immigration.
New York Tribune.
The Invasion of America by alien hosts
rivals In magnitude the historic migrations
of olden times of the Dorians, of the
Goth and Vandals, of the Saxons, of the
trance through which conveyances drove
In and deposited their fares. Magnificent
palms and flowering shrubs grew In pro
fusion In this courtyard, and potted plants
of tropical growth added color to the creamy
white galleries cn every floor to the top of
the building. With thousands of electric
lights flashing, and the spray from a
fountain In the center cooling the nlr. 110
Tartars and others. But we hope the na
tlon they are Invading is big enough and fairer scene could be desired In a great
strong enough to receive them without be- city
Ing materially changed or dominated by
them.
Special Interests to the Fore.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
It seems almost Impossible to present
any legislation In the public Interest at
Washington that does not hit some special
Interest. Here Is the wood alcohol crowd
opposing the denatured alcohol bill, al
though as a matter of fact Its passapa
will greatly Increase the demand for wood
alcohol in the denaturing process. But
the facts never appeal to these special ln-
Two blocks west on Market street, at
Powell, San Francisco blocks, la or was
the Baldwin hotel, owned and for years
operated by "Lucky" Baldwin, the great
horseman. Commercial travelers, sporting
men, people whose names were famous In
one way or another, always have patron
ized the Baldwin. It burned to the ground
about 1899, but was rebuilt finer and
grander than ever. In the same building
was the Baldwin theater, the leading play
house of the city.
Across Market street from the Baldwin
l.Miti K..t aii0-Ai nnnORitlon to
Cuban and Philippine tariff revision ou CBmc 10 lno "L""CT"r "l DU1 B,,u
proved that.
POLITICAL C'OXTRIBl'TIOXS LAW.
on the corner adjoining the "Emporium
the great department stofe of San Fran
cisco, where a man might find all his
wants supplied excepting only a lodging
place. One block away, on the southwest
corner of Fifth and Mission streets. Is
the United States mint, a magnificent
Drastic Feature, of the Measure En
acted In Jievr York
Brooklyn Eagle.
Oovernor Hlgglns signed the bill forbid- structure, and nearby the general post-
ding contributions by corporations doing office, that cost the government nearly
huslnesa In thla mate for any political pur- M.ccn.000, said to be the finest work or
pose whatever. Therefore, It Is now a law architecture In the United States.
ot the state.
A disposition is apparent to call this
law the "big insurance law." A hlle It
is true that the bill was reported by the
Armstrong Insurance Investigating com
mittee. It was an insurance bill only as
The city hall, reported wrecked, occunled
a diamond-shaped block bounded by Market
street on the east, I-arkin on the west,
McAllister on the north and Leavenworth
avenue on the south. The building cost
Insurance companies are corporations about KonO.OOn, some say nearly I7.ono.ooo.
within the meaning of the law. With equal The Market street side for one-qunrter the
Justice' it might have been called "a big depth of the block was used ns a park.
bsnk bill," or "railroad bill, or manu- where hundreds rested in the cool shade
facturlng corporation bill." In its appll- 0f trees and the fragrance of flowers. The
cation the law will affect each and every entre building was used for city offices.
corporation and Joint stock association of legislative and executive. For years it
the state, no matter what business It may sheltered the Jail and courts, but a few
have been organized to do. And in that yearg &g0 ft hall of justice was built a
wide application it will more seriously few big distant from the city hnU. All
nffect the size of the campaign fund than tne city's court machinery is there, the
if it were limited to Insurance corporations. Jall tne jn COUrt, police headquarters
sorrow. That was the death, at the age of
14 years, of their son.
Aa a monument to thMr sorrow and to
perpetuate the name of their son, the father
and mother decided upvn the university.
For a location they selected the beautiful
Palo Alto farm, thirty-three miles south
of San Francisco, a place which the boy
had lived. The cost of the university was
IM.ooo.OdO.
Senator Stanford lived Just long enough
to see the opening of the university. With
his death the greatness of his widow be
came known Senator Stanford left his
wealth to the university, and on paper the
bequest was a magnificent one, but 1S9S was
a panic year and when Mrs. Stanford went
Into the affairs she found ready cash very
scarce. Then began a long, hard struggle
In which many sacrifices were made. Mrs.
Stanford manipulated, studied and schemed.
Out of hr private fortune she raised $2.5iO,
ono. which she doled out bit by bit, making
every cent count. Gradually the estate
began to gain, and the university was
placed on a fit n basis. She gave Ill.OOO.OCO
and her splendid home In San Francisco
to ths school, and when she died, In
March, 195, her estate was still estimated
to be worth tofion.OOO.
She left Lel.ind Stanford university one
of the strongest schools, finsnclally, In the
world.
Tho failure of the water supply which
placed San Francisco at the mercy of the
flames doubtless was due to the breaking
of the many largo fluwlines that lead to the
city.
In part this breakage may have betn
caused by falling buildings, but primarily
It resulted front the violent movement of
ths earth. Such accidents have occurred
In the past, notably In 197. when large
Bowlines were cracked during earthquake.
San Francisco's water supply Is provided
by the Spring Valley Water company, from
a series of lakes, and reservoirs formed by
immense dams aerosn valleys or canyons
In the mountains. The largest of these
reservoirs are the Pllarcltos, Ban Andreas,
Crystal Springs and Calaveras. The capm-
city of these four storage pluces Is so large
that the figures ctrry little meaning to the
ordinary minds, but It Is more than 72.0OO,-
Ooe.ono gallons. In addition to these reser
voirs, which are all on high elevations,
there arc six distributing reservoirs Lake
Honda. 3fiS feet above the city, with a rapa
city of 33.nno.000 gallons; College Hill, 254
feet. 15.0OP.flOO gtllons: University mound,
1 feet. 3B.nno.ono gallons; Clay street hill.
375 feet, 141.000 gallons; Francslco street.
139 feet, 7,000.000 gallons: Lombard street,
30 feet, 4000,000 gallons. This shows A
distributing capacity of 95.000,000 gallons
and an elevation guaranteeing a supply In
every part of the city.
The distributing pipe system from four
Inches tip to thirty-seven and a half Inches,
has a total length of more than 400 miles.
That It is big" will be admitted. It is
big in the wide area of its applicability. It
Is big In the effect It will have on politi
cal campaigns. And it Is big In Its sweep
ing provisions, which make officers, direc
tors, stockholders, attorneys and agents
of a corporation who "aid, abet, advise, or
consent" to a violation, guilty of misde
meanor. As will nny person Who solicits
or receives the money from a corporation
for political purpose Is mode guilty. It is
"big" also In the feature which puts a pre
mium on Information as to the violation
of the law. A person offending against It
Is made a competent witness against an-
and criminal court.
Mechanics' pavilion occupies the entire
block across Larkin street opposite the
city hall. It Is an Immense "barny" struc
ture, where prize fights were held when
the law allowed It and where horse shows
and similar entertainments ore given. It
Is a frame building and old.
The city hall was the last public building
on Market street as you go west. From
that point east to the ferry house was an
unbroken line ot business houses.
Kearny street. In the heart of ths
other person so offending and he is saved 8trlen district of San Francisco, is said
City Electrician Mlchaelsen reports as
a result of investigation that the aver
age rates charged for electric light
ing current In Omaha is somewhat
less than that exacted in other
cities of the same class. That Is no
sign, however, that the prices In Omaha
are what they should be, especially for
the householder and small consumer. It
Is just barely possible, if not probable,
that electric lighting prices are way up
all along the Hue,
the next day Kansas City announcet
that It will sell supplies to contributors
at the usual rate.
Ban Francisco people will some day
take an unholy but natural delight in
paying those bukers who increased the
price of bread to $1 a loaf the day aftei
the disaster back In their own coin.
panics Is tremendous, but if ever there
was a calamity calling for the ex
haustion of every Insurance Resource it
is the loss that has befallen San Fran
cisco. In a substantial way the whole
country is voluntarily assessing itself to
repair the loss and to meet the more
Immediate and pressing necessities of
tha case,
So sweeping and entire has been tbti
destruction that all possible means of
rebuilding will be little enough. The
city will be rebuilt, and its people are
already bravely and with characteristic
American energy beginning to address
themselves to that task, and it is up to
Ten thousand dollars for the privilege the Insurance companies in the fullest
of beating a rival to a contract for ns to do tbo!r a"
bsullng goods la a higher price to pay
The famine-threatened people of Call
. fornla will have an opportunity to
satiate their hunger from the surplus
products of Nebraska, Iowa and adjoin
lug states, which every year raise
enough to feed the whole nation.
than most traffic managers can afford.
Tho directors will be expected to reim
burse them at the expense of the stock
holders.
Miners who reject a pv.rmsiiion to
arbitrate matters in the tituri.::nnis rlold
have no logical right to ol o 1 to the
same position taken by citerntors In
the anthracite district. Arbitration
aceuis to te popular for either side
chiefly when It is known opponents will
not accept.
It is unfortunate that John Sharp
Williams could not have waited to begin
his campaign for the admission of Okla
homa until after the bill to give Ne
braska volunteers Handing lnjhe pen
siou otHee had passed the house. Retng
one of the reliably republican stutes
Nebraska has no hope of favors at the
bauds of the minority.
The affirmation of the constitution
allty of the Inheritance tax law by the
elraska supreme court warns neonle
about to die In this state to figure 011
leaving a slice of their property for the
tax gatherer. The enactment of the
law by the lust legislature, however,
providing for a redistribution of the In
heritance tax collections back to the
counties from which they come removes
one of the objectionable features of the
law as originally pusseJ
A LESSOy FOR BUILDERS.
The disaster at San Francisco teaches
that while no foresight can guard
against duruage by earthquake, the re'
sistlug powers of structural buildiugs
to Ore depend largely upon material and
methods. As In the great Baltimore
fire, so in the San Francisco Are, cer
tain types of building seem to have
withstood the flames much more suc
cessfully than others. A general con
liagrHtlon sweeps all before it. but the
ordinary tire In a large city follows the
lines of least resistance and eats up
first the fJlmsiest tinder boxes as distin
guisheil from buildiugs of substantial
construction.
Omaha, which Is even now In ths
midst of a veritable building boom
should take heed of these warnings to
strengthen Its building regulations and
Insist upon strict enforcement of them.
The department of building inspection
in tills and other growing cities is al
ready one of the most Important
branches of municipal government and
promises to become more and more Im
portant as time goes on. Adequate and
thorough Inspection of building con
struction Is absolutely necessary for the
protection of both life and property and
the constant need of a competent and
fearless Inspection must hfi impressed
stronger and stronger upon the public
The republican candidate for the
council from the Twelfth wnrd. D. A.
X. Chase, is a young man of intelligent
and energy, who will devote his best
talenta to the management of the city's
business. Although comparatively new
In politics, he carries the assurance of
a reputation 4 for straightforward deal
ing and close attention to business two
qualities highly desirable in the city
counclh
The candidate who is running for
mayor on his backbone keeps harping
that bis word is better than his bond
and that he never went back on a prom
ise. That suggests the question how
many promises he has out and whether
he has not been giving his word so in
discriminate); that to keep faith with
one would be to break faith with an
other.
The brunt of the transportation of
supplies to stricken San Francisco will
fall upon the Union Facifle as the orlg
Inal and shortest overland route. An
emergency like this wilt make the na
tlon proud of the part it took in helping
to construct this great highway of com
merce, now the main artery Itetween
the Atlantic and Pacific.
Now that Australia has engaged In
raining sisal hemp, Filipinos have an
other excuse for asking tariff conces
sions at the hands of the United States,
I in the light of successive cat;itr"lIic I3ut it will L bard to convince Users
Some democratic spies who have been
peeking in at republican campaign head
quarters have decided that things there
do iiot suit them because not sufficiently
evidencing business. If that were really
the case, these democrats would shake
hunds with themselves and keep still
Instead of yelping about it.
to be the most cosmopolitan thoroughfare
In tho world. Its beginning Is at Market
street and Its end In the bay, over a
ragged cliff, the dumping place for old
Iron. It starts with smooth pavements,
runs into board walks and terminates on
soil so rough that even the goats, as nu
merous as In Hoboken, find difficulty in
their meanderings. Its mile and a half
of length harbors every business and every
degree of business, and ail races walk there
Kentucky has passed a law prohibiting and dwell In its houses. Italians, Grecians,
Uncle Tom's Cabin" shows within the Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Malays,
limits of the state. Arabs, a few Americans, French, Germans,
Attorney General Ellis of Ohio has scored a are to b n,et ,n Kearny street. There
as a trust buster. Proceedings Instituted "ro u""-e "ecr millionaires; princea
from indictment and punishment In giving
such testimony. There is no doubt about
the "bigness" of tho law nor as to the dras
tic nature of Its provisions. It would ap
pear as if there were no loopholes in it.
Yet It Is quite possible that in time the
Ingenious campaign manager will And a
way to circumvent Its Intent.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
L&ZlLJUlfflCM
makom
Delicious Biscuit,
Griddlo Cakes
and Doughnuts
LI L TO A L AI (511.
Interviewer Senator, I have called to
ask If you will give me some remlnls
ceiisos of your public career
Senator (with dignity) Not much, young
man. do I propose to let any man with a
rak run amui k through my past hlstorj .
Ualtlmore American.
"Yes. ehe'a swell enough," said the Chi
cago girl." I
"Nut h"r forefathers?" suggested the
Uoston girl.
"Oh, gracious, don't make tt any worse
than It really Is. She's only had three."
l'hiladelphla Ledger.
"Are you going to run for congress
again?"
"Run?" repeated the permanent states
man. "I don t have to run. It Is In
variably a walk-over for me now." Wash
ington Star.
"I suppose the Galleys will summer at
Newport ?'
"I don't know. They told me they rx
pootrd to spring in Hernmtla."
"Gracious, I wonder where they'll fall?"
Philadelphia Press.
"I saw the doctor go into your house
tills morning, yuiverfull. Anything hu
iier.ed?" "Two things have happened, blame the
luck!" Cleveland Leader.
Kl
nar'a Act In KIkHt Style.
Cleveland Leader.
In the days when kings won crowds
by showing themselves braver, stronger.
more masterful than other men they were
expected to prove their right to their
thrones by seeking the hard task, the
leader's duty. In these easy-going times
royalty Is screened from peril. It Is
kept in sheltered luxury. It Is petted and
pampered. The world does not take it
seriously aa a vital force in the heavy
tasks of the age. It reigns without rul
ing. Therefore the courage and devotion
shown by King Victor Emmanuel and
Queen Helene In the worst days of the
eruption of Vesuvius Btund out like a
beacon on a mountain top. It Is a mani
festation of real royalty.
Everybody Works the Consumer.
New York World.
The operators flatly reject the coal
miners' arbitration proposals. Until tha
surplus stock of anthracite coal has been
sold to the public at exorbitant prices
It Is not likely that work will be resumed
In the mines. The periodic stopping of
production gives the miners a vacation,
enriches the operators and adds another
wrong to the public's list.
Peace, Brethren!
Chicago Inter Ocean.
It looks as If the campaign In Iowa would
become scurrilous. Governor Cummins has
been denounced as a muckraker by one of
his enemies. If this is not libelous, what
Is?
"How do you like the president's latest
portrait?''
"Quito rukish. Isn't it?" Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
AX FR A.X ISt O FROM TIIK K
Bret Harte (lvsti.
Rerene. Indifferent of Fate,
Thou sittcst at the Western (late;
I'pon thy height, so lately won.
Ptlll slant the banners of the sun:
Thou seest the white s-as strike their tent
O Warder of two Continents'.
And, scornful of the peace that flies
Thy angry winds and sullen skies.
Thou drawest all things. small or great.
To thee, beside the Western Gate.
O lion's whelp, that hides fast
In Jungle growth of spire and mast!
T know thy running and thy greed.
Thy hard, high lust and willful deed.
And all thy glory loves to tell
Of specious gifts material.
Prop down. O Fleecy Fog. and hhle
Her scepter sneer and all her pride!
Wrap her. O Fog. In gown and hood
Of her Franciscan Brotherhood.
Hide mo her faults, her sin and blame;
With thy Kray mantel cloak her shame!
So shall she, cowled, sit and pray
Till morning bears her sins away.
Then rise, O Fleecy Fog, and raise
The glory of her coming days; ,
Be as the cloud that flecks the seas
Above her smoky argosies;
When forms familiar shall give place
To stranger speech and newer face;
When all her throes and anxious fears
Lie hushed in the repose of years;
When Art shall raise and Culture lift
The sensual Joys and meaner thrift,
And oil fulfilled the vision we
Who watch and wait shall never see,
Who, in ths morning of her race.
Tolled fair or meanly In our place,
But, yielding to the common lot,
Lia unrecorded und forgot.
of commerce are building fortunes there
nd where It tops the hill beggars and
peddlers haggle with housewives over a
slice of fish or a handful of onions. Car
riages roll along, half its length; trolley
cars hum merrily along until they reach
the hill Telegraph hill and thero they
stop. People climb the remainder of the
wav nn rleuta in the w-nltr Voti pan baa
ate has no right to probe into local af- every form of wonM n Kpa Btre
fairs in Cincinnati and Hamilton county. ,rnm . ,,.. , ,hn
But the probe was Inserted and drew J7o.- ,h. ,,, hllrnlp ..r.llnw a thtr
000 Into the county treasury. The court ... M,,oHnQ ,w .
In behalf of the state put the Wholesale
Grocers' association out of business.
A bunch of officials In Buffalo, N. Y
are gravely Involved in a graveyard scan
dal, being indicted for profiting by the
purchase of an abandoned cemetery. The
property is well fitted for political graves.
An Ohio court rules that the state sen-
spoke too late.
Ing their faces tp the east nt sunrise. The
lost and the vicious are in Kearny street.
Few well dressed persons are seen north
of Bush street. It Is a sreat place for
"souvenirs" of a cheap kind that are sold
to tourists who know they must see the
Things seem to be coining Pennsylvania's great, tha rich, the poor, the besotted, the
way. Not only has the state got back Its
deposit In the failed Enterprise bank of
Allegheny, but it has received from the
United States government about $OT,000 it
loaned the nation during the war ot 1811
Thomas Mlnshall, who died recently at La I street to- know Ban Francisco.
Crescent, Minn., at the age ot 82. had been
postmaster at that place for forty years
consecutively from 1S59 to 1800. In 1S93
Marshall dishing, who was Postmaster
General John Wanamaker's private secre
tary, issued a book, and at that time there
were men still in office whoso appointments
as postmasters weiit back to I818, 1839, 1841,
iM, 1815, U48 and 16 1.
"It is maintained," says the New York
Sun, "that the title 'honorable' In this coun
try Is conferred rather loosely upon all
The famous Cliff house, perched on the
rocks and partly over the sea, is reported
among tha earthquake wrecks. Command
ing a magnificent view of the Golden Gale,
the Peal Rocks, the far-stretching beach to
the south, and the restless sea. It was a
mecca for tourists as well as San Fran
ciscans. The old building was burned In
1805 and was succeeded by a costlier stone
structure. The building and ground, tlia
adtnlnlnff salt water hatha aa well, tha
officials holding distinguished public office. norai .rk and mugeum on gutro heirht.
Custom has endorsed iu use as related to wer8 planned and owned by Adolph Sutro.
memuer. 01 congress, governors, state sen- famous as a mining engineer.
The first Cliff house stood on the edge of
the bluff that rose abruptly from the sea.
The waves of the Pacific pounded against
the rocks below the generous piazzas from
which the visitor looked out and away to
the horizon with nothing to break the
vision except, on a clear day, the tops of
the Farralones, far to the southwest, sen
tinels that told tha voyager that the Golden
Gate and San Francisco were near.
The rocks and tlt seals were as much a
part of the whole wonderful picture as was
The Bee does not have to boust and
brag about its superior news service on
the Pacific coast earthquake. The Bee's
various regular aud extra editions speak
for themselves, and more particularly
when compared with the eflorts of the
local yellow Journals.
ators, judges and the courts of record, high
federal officials and the mayors of the
larger cities. It is Insisted that the title
simply Indicates that the person has held
or does hold an o trice deserving of honor
and respect."
A whirlwind campaign in Clarksvllle,
Ark., has resulted In the election of L. F,
Petrie Juet turned 21, to the mayoralty.
ar. r-eme is a mercnant. tte had no
thought of embarking on a sea of munici
pal trouble until the day before election
Then the young men of the city persuaded the Cliff house and no one that went there
him to run. It is said that he injected a ever thought of either without the other.
hitherto unheard of amount of ginger into But It was within the walls flf the old Cliff
his one-day campaign. His opponent was house that memories were formed. Stories
W. H. Langford. a prosperous citizen of have been written about It; plots have been
nuaaie age. Mr. Langiora laughed at Mr. laid there In story books "A Trip to
Petrte. It was his great good luck that Chinatown," the late Charles Hoyt's laugh-
he had his laugh before the votes were! able farce, had Its inception In 0110 of the
counted. The city was aroused and there dining rooms. In a way the Cliff house was
was a mighty shower or ballots-230 In all to San Francisco what the big hotels or
-and Petrle's majority was 40. clubs are to other cities. Strange things
Following the Galveston flood, six years happened there, sometimes, friendships be-
ago, the city was placed by the governor, gan, romances built, midnight suppers.
for the purposes., of the emergency, under cards and wine. A visitor would no more
the control of a commission of five men, think of missing the place than he would
pass by unnoticed the Waldorf-Astoria In
New York or Monte Carlo on the contlnen
tal trip.
To reach the Cliff house you passed over
a winding drive of nearly six miles from
the city, through the Golden Gate park of
more than 1,0(0 acres. There was a sudden
after the old city government hud been
abolished by the legislature. The commis
sion was virtually absolute, and Its work
of government during the years of recon
struction was so completely successful (hut
t lis citizens of Galveston nave declined to
return to the old system of mayor and
common council and various other admin- turn when you came out of the trees and
lstratlvc posts filled by popular election.
So successful does this system appear to
be In Galveston that other Texas cities
are clamoring for It. Houston has Just 1
followed suit by securing a new charier
embodying ths Galveston Idea, and Dallas,
also, last week voted for It. There, is a
populur movement In the tame direction at
Ir.'Ui giu Autouio and Fort Worth.
before you was the Pacific:
Leland Ktanfcid university, reported de
stroyed in tha California earthquake, was
tha tribute of Senator Leland Stanford of
California and Mrs. 8tanford to the tnem'
ory of their son, Leland Stanford. Jr. In
th lives of tl'is couple, whose estate waa
urth ycihaps .,'."., '.m, eus great
Browning, King & Co
a
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With our Regular and Half Sizes, the
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on.
Suits, $15 to $30.
Overcoats, $15 to $35.
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