The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 16, 1898, Page 18

1 8 THE SAN FRAMNCISCO CALL, UNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1898. 00C0CO000 200000000000 C00C0C00000000000000000000C0C000 Q0000000000000 00000000000Q0C000Q 4 o < <o [ (4] © o < (4] < < © (4] Q o (4] o < < < < (4] (4] © < © Q < 4 < < © [ (4] o @ ] [ < o © [ (4] < (4] < o < L4 [ o d X Made for Claus Spreckels and said to be the very finest car ever turned out by the Wagner Car Company. te primavera, resembiing white mahoga ef beauty of the car, to the connaisseure acery of hollywood, a unique feature eneral effect is one of subdued, though rich harmony. . OBSERVATION VESTIBULE s the exquisite finish of its weodwork: a wood of delicate grain and capable of taking the highest f Th of art in itself, and supplies just the one touch needful to complete the design. by any car shop in the world o t your ease in a palace veler through sparsely settled dis- undedl bysey tricts. He can, if he will, bridge the continent from east to west in four or luxury, e ting dainty food s on silver, sleeping on the softest can house which waited the can this va awalt on p red it possible for the his ease Jjourney at by deft and gazing may care to visit. windo at There anre ov s the pe- way in the aire of to- ned Europe remarkabl. evolution of tion of this enormo has taken place twenty in this wili st continent to go south into tropic the T north into aretic ne living in his own self-con- independent of country and free from all the petty an- Canada, ordinary days, or he can dawdle along 1 and take a month over the trip, ng off his car at any spot he r 180,000 miles of rail- United States, more than s, yel every spider's web pos: of steel is within the reach of the mil- lionaire and his palace car. travel for He could least a month without ng over the same stretch of meeting always new people, scape spread before him as he \ his observation car chang- magnates are, for the most part, con- tent to journey in the ordinary Pull- il Uil j 11 it is paneled ats are upholstered in green plush, the windows have The ceiling, decorated with embossed. white figures on an old gold ) tRroughout with the The panels are inlaid curtains of a similar A more delicate piece of decoration was man, paying their fare just like any common individual. But about six months ago Claus Spreckels determined that California should possess not only the finest private car in the State but the finest in the United States, which is practically saying the whole world. ¥or in no other country has the art of car-building reached such a pitch of development. European sov- ereigns travel in cars far less comfort- able, far less splendidly equipped, than those owned by private American citi- zens. So Claus Spreckels sought out Carl- ton C. Crane, the Pacific Coast agemt of the Wagner Palace Car Compuny, and gave carte blanche for the finest palace on wheels which art could de- zlgn or skill construct. The Wagner ompany went to work and devoted all its energies to the creation of & mas- terpiece. Though Wagner cars do not run on the Californian lines, every one who has been East has noticed the magnificently equipped trains which run over the Vanderbilt roads. The Lake Shore Limited, which runs be- tween Chicago and New York, is said, indeed,. t6 be the finest train in the world. The Wagner works at East Buffalo, New York, are equipped with every appliance for turning out work of the highest class. Consequently Claus Spreckels’ mag- nificent order had every chance of proper execution, Indeed, ine presi- dent of the Wagner Company, Dr. W. Seward Webb, gave his personal at- tention to the matter, determined that the Wagner Company should not - be eclipsed by its rivals. The result is to be seen to-day at the Oakland mole, and hundreds of passengers to and from the city pause daily in their rush for the boat to gaze at this dream of lyxury. / The mere size of the car alone attracts attentlon, for it is 65 feet long and 9 feet 8 inches wide, It bears on its side, in gilt letters, the name Sprec- kels, and the label. of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway <om- That is sive the car a local habitation, as ne did the honors of the pala Jf course, it belongs to Mr. the rajlway compar Inside the arts of the upholsterer and decorator, the cabinet maker and French polisher have been carried to their highest limits. To e a de- tailed description of the car would be simply to set down a catalogue of beau- tiful and costly things, The whole of the rear portion is oecupied by an ob- gervation room, about nine feet square. Practically three sides of this apart- ment are of glas There is nothing to obstruct the view from the windows. Then one enters the living portion of the establishment. The: are three large staterooms, provided with wide beds and furnished with every device Handsomest Palace Car that Ever Came Into ‘tth@ West. & cooler. the other end of the car. GORNER OF THE DINING SALON, The dining-room or parlor comes next, quite a large apartment, occupying the whole width of the car and extending for a length of fifteen feet. The table, laid with silver and damask, wiil seat haif a dozen people comfortably. No requisite for delicate dining has been forgotten. There is a muniature sideboard and wine- The ebony cook, grinning with pride, exhibits his compact little kitchen 2t It is furnished with a most ingenious range, pots and pans and kettles without number. which can insure comfortable repose. The dining-raom or parlor come next, quite a large apartment, occup: ing the whole width of the car and tending for a length of fifteen feet. The table, laid with siiver and damask, will seat half people comfortably. There is a miniature sideboard and wine cooler. No requisite for delicate dining has been forgotten. The ebony grinning with pride, exhibits his pact little kitchen at the other end of the car. It is furnished with a most ingenious range, pots and pans and kettles without number—in short, a complete batterie de cuisine. eom MARRIAGE @ND DIVORCE - dAs VIEWED BY CHURCHMEN Discussed from seven standpoints in the church body. a divine institution, or only a civil Does the marital human orig nd with death, or is the perfect consum of marriage found only in celestial wed- Is divorc n offer in the sight of God tial to the ciety, or is it es: conditions? s that have pever been answered ction of society in general. hus religious bodies e given as an entertaining medley of opinion ct of marriage and divorce: e, and in- to door the and int on. The and a § ng for a su ntiment_of the clergy signed by some 2000 t rule upon the sub- on revision of r of this church shall so ize a mar- party to a divorce during the life of other party. is concise and positive law, if adopted, will be substituted for the law that now obtains and which s that the innocent party to a divorce for the of infidelity may receive the rites of marriage. ‘he committee is composed of Bishops Doane of Albany, Dudley of Kentucky, McLaren of Chicago, York, Parent of Maryland, Burgess of and thirteen ministers and laymen. But the ) is not unanimous in the demand for this radical revision of the canon on divorce. Bishop Pot- supported by four other members of the com- proposes a4 moderate revision which permits ze of the innocent party to a divorce on ground of fidelity, but makes obligatory the fur- nishing of a certified copy of the record of the court granting the divorce. A et ev. 5 Shaw, assistant rector of St. Luke's opal Church, expressed this brief opinion on the ent and future of the marital state, which he ad- itted might or not be indorsed by his fellow clergy- ‘G:od has given us a law to guide us. The moment that man and woman are joined together in matri- mor there begins an operation of the law that, if not int upted, will bring certain results; but like other laws, if interrupted, a wrong result is sure to follow. God has said that but one thing will inter~ rupt the law of matrimony and that is the act of in- fidelity. P The Protestant view of divorce was plainly, and positively expressed by Rev. J. A. B. Wilson, pastor EE e of the Howaad- reet Methudihst o Church, who dismissed first the LEMETHOBIST <3t TRIECE) S e b oart ] View. ing that the Savior himself settled —————— " that question by declaring that in the resurrection “they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God.” On the subject of divorce he sald: “The Bible, which is the only moral standard, gives put one ground of divorce; all divorce laws that con- travene this law are iniquitous and demoralizing to the individual and the community. The divorce laws of this State are monstrous. “I think no church advocates and no clergyman believes in or wishes to solemnize marriage where one party has been guilty of the infamy of divorce save for the one cause; but it is wholly impracticable to question persons upon such a subject. Where the case is notorious or persons volunteer information the minister can exercige his discretion. “The case of Mre. Willlam K. Vanderbilt was no- torious; and that greatest ecclesiastic and churchman on earth (in the sense of statesmanship), Bishop Pot- ter, nobly did his duty by refusing to solemnize her marriage with Oliver Belmont. But think of a min- 900000000000000000000900'000 00000000000000000000000 ister putting every candidate on the witness stand ‘and examining and cross-examining them as to pre- vious marital relations and causes of separation! Something must be left to the individual conscience. The ciergyman cannot assume the whole responsi- bility for the conduct of others.” g R _ The Catholic church settles the divorce question simply and absolutely by positively refusing to solem- S nize the marriage of persons that | cATHOLIC | % Father John Brennan, assistant | 1% pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, ——e——-———— gaid, the opinion of one priest is the opinion of all, because it is the plain law of the church, that divorce for any cause and the marriage of div are not tolerated. And the church holds s death alone can sunder the marital bond ath does absolutely sunder it. he applicants for the celebration of the marriage ceremony must be accompanied by witne to tes- tify that they are free to marry; or in the a nee of witnesses they must go before a notary and make affi- 5.\ Separ r good cause is recognized, but di- vorcement is a disobedience that resuits in the volun- tary excommunication of the church communicant, and requires no action of the church or priest.” S W. J. Walters presented the following view upon the gulrject of celestial marriage, from a Theosophical e Stanapoint; “There is no doubt that there | Visw is a celestial marriage, and it | | properly and thoroughly under- R stood it embodies a great truth— the union of the soul with its God. It has been said that marriages are contracted in heaven. The mean- ing of this may be found in the fact that the soul of man dwelling in its own home—the world of cause, which is the heaven of the Christian—assimilates the experience gained while wedded to matter. Souls are brought together, not by blind chance, but an intel- ligent law; it follows therefore that ties once formed must last until the causes once set in motion have been .exhausted. But if celestial marriage contem- plates reveling in sense gratification it can find no place in theosophical teaching." Bioosioe THEOSOPHIST Mrs. R. §. Lillie, resident speaker of the Society of Progressive Spiritualists, said: “As we believe that harmonious | and happy marriage Is the expres- 1 slon of pature’s highest and di- vinest law and the highest means SPIRITUALIST View. ——————— of progress In development of the human eoul, s0o do we believe that marriage con- tracted in ignorance and proving inharmonious is the most fruitful source of imbecility, weakness of mind and body, drunkenness and all crime. For this rea- son divorce should be made as easy as marriage, or marriage made as difficult as divorce. _ “As to the continuance of marriage as an institu- tion beyond the change of death, we say with Jesus that in the higher life they neither marry {that is, contract new marriages) nor are given in marriage (that is, bound by the old marriage). The conditions of nature requiring marriage having ceased to exist after death the bond is in the future, therefore, only that of love and tender memories of loving associa- tions, where true marriage had existed.” "L The Chinese converts to the Christian religion have positive views on the subject of marriage and di- I LT . vorce, renouncing the polygamous CHINESE | marriage that obtains in China, CHRISTIAN discountenancing divorce, and -, adopting the Protestant and Catholic belief that death ends the marital rejation. \ it Rev. Nam Art, Chinese pastor ‘of the Presbyterian Missfon, said that during the twenty years he lived in his native land he knew personally of only one case of divorce. It is a social condition almost un- known there, though polygamy is common, particu- larly among the rich in the cities. The Chinese be- lieve that in the future life only the last surviving husband or wife is entitled to the marital relation. But Nam Art, since he has adopted the Christian religion, has no future marital aspirations. Death, he contends, ends’ the marriage state, and divorce is a condition ho‘aoes not tolerate. have been divorced. And as Rev.' C000000000000000000D0000LO000ODD0000002000000000000000CC00CC00OCO0200COCO00CO00O00C0CO000 How many millionaires are there in the world? A commonly accepted estimate places the number. of men in this country owning $1,000,000 or more each at be- tween 4000 and 5000. In the world at large there must be from fifteen to twenty times as many, by no means confined to the more civilized races. Perhaps there are 100,000 in all, though this may be doubtful. For instance, India is full of native millionaires. Not only tite great num- ber of Indian Princes, with their fabu- lous hoards of state jewels, must be reckoned in the list, but there are many millionaire merchants in the cities. The great Parsee houses of Bombay have as good credit as any merchants in the world, and their heads are fabulously wealthy, although, like all the “warm” lr;lx;n of the East, they live very hum- For In one-half of this globe, it must be remembered, the richer a man Is the more ragged his ciothes, the more squalid his house. This device does not save him from frequent robbery by his rulers, or even in some cases from mur- der. Turkish and Persian millionaires are not goad life insurance risks, yet the Jews of Damascus and Teheran and the Greeks of Smyrna include many who could measure wealth with the smaller American nabobs, In Egypt wealthy men are able to dis- play their riches freely. Alexandrine Greeks and Cairene Copts and Jews are often immensely wealthy. Even in Mo- rocco, Nahon the banker must be sev- eral times a millionaire under foreign protection, and there are others in in- land towns whose wealth is great. The great Chinese merchants have as fine a commercial reputation as the Parsees. Not alone in China, but in Hongkong, the Straits Settlements and even In Burmah they include in their number many men of vast fortunes. In Japan millionaires are yet compara- tively few, but are rapidly increasing in number. In bir Russia millionaires are prob- ably fewer than in little Holland where immense wealth is derived from the colonial trade. France has shoals of millionaires. Germany, once poor, is rapidly gaining Iimmense wealth in shipping, trade and manufacture, and her rich men are already legion. Aus- tria and the Balkan states have many great fortunes. Italy’'s old rural prop- rletors of proud family are mostly “land poor,” but her merchants. ship- pers and manufacturers are shrewd and well provided with money. The trade of the Mediterranean is largely in Italian hands. New millionaires swarm in South Af- rica and Australla, because of the roid discoveries and the diamond mines of the Kimberley region. Mexico, the Cen- tral and South American states and Canada have together perhaps two thousand. Even bleak Newfoundland has one, and he one of the most re- r!l‘n.lrdkable in the lot, the famous “Czar eid.” Finally it must not be forgotten that Great Britain alone has many more small millionaires—men from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000, who live quietly and unos- tentatiously—than the United States. Such modest wealthy men are not few in New York. Most readers will remem- ber the stir Mr. Faverweather’s death made, though few had hearcd of him living. About the same time & man ‘worth $14,000,000 died on an uptown street, He got a two or three line “obituary note” in most of the news- apers. The public had never heard of im. —— How_She Looked at It.—Mr. Short—My dear Miss Kate, I have a very serious question I wish to ask you. Miss Long—What Is it, pray? Mr. Short—Will you marry me? Miss Long (scornfully)—Do you call that serious, Mr. Short? Why, I don’t think T ever’ heard anything so0 ridiculous.—De- troit Free Press. Evasion.—Teacher—What! You haven't learned the story of Cain and Avel yet? Tommy—No; maw says it is bad man- ners to pry into famlly quarrels.—Indian- - apolis Journal. 00000000000 0000C000000000000000000000200200000000CC000000000CCO0CQOODAVVOCOVOO000OOODO inenin MILLIONAIRES SCATTERED ABOUT THE WORLD. “I can cook a full course dinner here for at least twenty people,” he ex- claims with professional enthusiasrh as he goes over the details of his domain, where everything is ready to hand, stowed away in a marvelously small space. In another compartment is a patent heater, guaranteed ta Keep the interior at an even temperature, no matter how intense the rigors with- out are, But the chief beauty of the r, the connoisseur, is the exquisite finis of its woodwor It is paneied tr out with the exquisite pri Te sembl white mahog: wood delicate in and capable of ta the highest finis The p! e laid with delicate tracery of hellywood a unique featur Thesseats are upholstered in phush; the windows have curtair similar tint. The general effect is of subdued though rich harmony The ceiling, decorated with emb white figures on an old gold se a work of art in itself, g, is and supplies just the one touch ngedful to complete the design. 0000000000000 0000000000 GREAT QUESTIONS GROWING OUT OF THE WAR Discussed by Senator Allison of iowa Special to The Sunday Call. O change in the war tax is likely to be made at the coming session of Congress,” said Sen- ator W, B. Allison, in discussing the big ques- tions of the war. “We don’t know how much . money the Government Is going to need and we shalli not know before the session of Congress ends. Besides I don't know anything from which the tax ought to be taken. Certainly not from beer or tobacco.” “How about the tax on checks and telegraph mes- sages and express packages?’ I asked. “Those are the features of the new law which cause inconveni- ence to the greatest number of people.” “And those are the taxes easiest to collect and surest,” said the Senator. “‘We shall not touch them.” Jot even at the extra session in the spring?” “I think not. I don't believe there will be any change in the tax law for a year anyway.” “Do you think the war taxes will be made perma- nent? “It is likely that some features of the law will be retained. Suppose we annex Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philippines. That will admit free sugar and a number of articles from which we now derive a large revenue. We must make up the deficiency in some way. The taxes levied in the war revenue bill are now bringing in about half of the twenty-five to twenty-eight millions a month which the treasury is receiving.” - T called the Senator’s attention to the attacks on the war revenue law which Senator Jones, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is making. “Jones says we are taxing the consumer,” said Mr. Allison. “The people to whom he is appealing are not the people who send many express packages or telegrams or sign many checks. Yet these are the three taxes which bear most on individuals. Of course we expect the Democrats to criticize the law.” Senator Allison said he did not believe the army scandal was going to have any weight in the coming election. He said if mistakes had been made in the army administration the people were not going to hold the Republican party responsible for them. “Out in my State, Towe,” he said, “the Democratic party is making its fight along the old lines—free sil- yer, free trade, anti-trust and so on.” “Then the sllver issue is not dead?” “Not at all. If the Democrats got into power they would pass a free silver law. They are pledged to it, That is still the issue. They have fafled to get up a party division on the subject of expansion and for all‘that any one can tell now the issues of 1896 will be the issues of the Presidential election of 1900." I saw Senator Lodge at his beautiful home over- looking the sea at Nahant. Part of his property was used for a time by the War Department as a coast signal station because the Senator’s grounds border the cliff at the extreme end of the point of land on which Nahant stands. The location is almost ideal in its picturesqueness. The Senator’s house stands back a little way from the cliff on the highest point of ground, commanding a view of the ocean on three sides. When I called the Senator was in the act of receiving a Spanish flag taken from one of the ships destroyed at Santiago, which a grateful constityent serving on the New York had brougnt to him from Cuba. The presentation was brief and then the Sen- ator showed me Into his cozy little sun parlor on the south side of his house and talked with me about the new immigration problem that confronts us. 1 asked Senator Lodge,if he believed any modifi- cation of the immigration laws was needed to cover the new colonial conditions. “The problem has not presented itself to me be- fore,” he said, “but I should say that when we annex Porto Rico to the United States a Porto Rican be- comes a citizen of this country and can come and go as he likes in any part of it.” “It is possible, then, for our employers, if they chose to do so, to bring as much cheap contract labor as they like from Porto Rico after it has passed under the control of the United States?" L “T think we shall have very little to fear in°that direction in Porto Rico,’ said the Senator, with a iaugh. “I see the price of hack hire there has gone up from $1 an hour to $3 alread;. The Porto Ricans in the first place are not likely to want to come to 000000000'60000000000000000090000000000000DOOOOOQOOO and Senator Lodge of Massuchusetts. this country in great numbers, and if they did they would very quickly adjust themselves to our scale of wages. Many of the foreigners who come to this country are willing to work for a few cents a day at home, but they want full American wages when they come here.” I quoted what ex-Minister Denby had sald to me recently, that if China became a competitor of the United S.ates in manufactures Chinese skilled labor would rise to the earning level of ours. “Not immediately,” said the Senator, “but I have no doubt it would in time. he Chinese contract laborers of Hawail, of course, will not be permitjed to enter this country as a result of annexation. That labor was excluded under the treaty; no more Chinese laborers can come to Hawaii and I have no doubi the very able commission now investigating Hawaliawn government will provide for the continuance of tha provision until at the expiration of the contracts the Chinamen are returned to their native land.” “And how about the ten million people of the Philippines, if we assume that those isiands may be- come a part of the United States?” “In that case,” said Senator Lodge, “I have no idea that any of the natives would want to come to this country. And if they did I don’t believe they could stand the climate. However, I do’ not care to discuss the Philippines even on a supposition, because I am a member of the Senate eommittee which will have to consider the treaty now being negotiated in Paris. The Philippine question is in the hands of the Peace Commissioners and should be left there. I have no idea what the instructions of the commissioners were. In fact I don’t believe any one in this country except the President and his Cabinet knows. Public sentiment on the subject? I don't care to discuss even that. In fact I don't want to say anything about the Philippines, one way or the other.” Senator Lodge said his bill for the amendment of the immigration laws which was once vetoed by President Cleveland would probably pass the House at the coming session of Congress. It has already passed the Senate. It applies the reading and writ- ing test to all immigrants—requires them to read an extract from the constitution picked out at random. “T never could see much in the objections of Mr. Cleveland,” said the Senator, “but one reason he gave for vetoing the bill has been removed. That part of the law relating to Canadian laborers has been elimi- nated. It never should have been in the bill. It was put there in the House at the request of Mr. Corliss of Michigan. Coming at a tIme when so many Americans were going Into the Klendike it would have invited retaliation.” Senator Lodge said that there was a strong feel- ing in Massachusetts in favor of the bill and that it would undoubtedly be indorsed by the Republican convention of the State. 1 asked the Senator what he expected Congress to accomplish at its next session. “We shall pass the appropriation bills, and I sup- pose the bill for the government of Hawail reported by the commission now there and a Nicaragua canal bill.” “The Nicaragua canal bill now pending or one that will ‘eliminate Warner Miller and his outfit,’ as Sena- tor Teller suggests?” The Senator smiled. “The trouble with that plan,” he sald, “is that the Warner Miller outfit owns all the concessions down there. However, I don't know in what form it will be, but that a Nicaragud canal bill will pass at the coming session I feel reasonably sure. Congress will appropriate liberally for the army and navy—of that there is no doubt.” “Do you expect an extra session of Congress, as Senator Allison predicts?” “Senator Allison is a very wise man. I hope, how- ever, that there will be no extra session.” “You don't expect the regular session to make pro- vision for governing the colonies?” “There isn't time to consider that except in the case of Hawaii; and in that we had long notice and have made a thorough investigation. I believe Porto Rico should be left under military law until we have had time to consider the needs of the people.” “And do you believe then that the general terri- torial form of government should te appiied?” “On that question,” said the Senator, “as on most of the new matters pending, I have endeavored to keep my mind a blank, so that I may be prepared to give them unbiased consideration when they come before me for determination.” 0000000000000 00C0000000000000000000000C000C00000000C0CQ000000VO0Q000CO00OQOL000020000 C00000000000000O000C0000QQOCC0OCC [+)