The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 24, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1899. OCTOBER 24, 1 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprieter. g B Jddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. e ot PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, 5§ cents Matl, Including Postage: Sunday Call), pHonna 238333 ...908 Broadway C. GEOR Menager Fore KROGNESS, a Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. . NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON 5 viieieiasesneee..Herald Square TATIVE: 29 Tribune Bollding S 8TANDS. < Co.; Great Northers Medsli K NEWS STANDS. Waldor A. Brentano, 31 Uniom Bquare) Murray HY WasH ] ....Welllngtoa Hotel ISH, Correspondent. omery street, corner Clay, 3 300 Hayes street, open unti! 639 McAlllster street, open until 9:30 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 941 Misslon stree! street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Valoncla street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twemty= second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock, AMUSEMENTS. afternoon and ecialties. es. at 11 o'clock, Horses, etc., at 1515 —This day, at 12 o'clock, Re THE CHARTER SUSTAINED. new ch le over d by the s been approv It <nown to our laws has been sub- and 11 doubts as to its accord with in officers who are to be elected will be received with gen- ef- sed since the ain a charter com- of the city and framed in ypular desire, and thousands expended in the various at- instrument defective in any ground whatever. here has been cleared The and on to the charter. improvement avenues munic v open and secure. The one duty officers who will wis administer the powers which will be theirs when placed in office. That is the issue of the The charter is secure and now let mpaign us good government under it equally secure by 1en who are to be counted on to apply it dom, public elec with w spirit, economy and civic patriotism. For some time past certain Democratic politicians and papers have claimed the charter as a Democratic The and has never deceived intel m has had no foundation in fact production gent citizens, who are aware that when submitted to the vote of the people the charter was sustained by votes cast in Republican districts and was ratified by a Republican Legisla- All that, however, is now out of the question. The decision of the Supreme Court takes the char- ture. ter out of\the domain of controversy and makes it itution of the municipality, the law of the whole people. Nothing but demagogy can attempt to make it a partisan issue and none but the dupes of demagogues will be misled by such attempts. e e e Miss Jane Dwyer, a local medium, has complained to the police t »x of chocolate creams loaded with blue- ntion of poisoning her. A the poisoned candy, says who examined t, there was just enough bluestone to make a good | emetic, and the police are now of the belief that a business rival of Miss Dwyer was taking this means of making her yield up some spook secrets. The policy of expansion is making an insidious progress direction. Two very estimable citizens of Sacramento have discovered that the town is not big enough for both of them and now one pro- poses to carve or club or shoot the other. The pro- posal, at latest reports, had not been accepted. AR T A dusky but charming representative of deposed in every South Sea royalty, who Is among us, says that the | title of Queen or Princess never troubled her. She neglected to add, however, that it created all sorts of a row among other worthy and well-meaning people. The inconvenience of relatives has again been strikingly demonstrated. The Emperor of Germany | is afraid to visit England because the world might think that he is sympathizing with his grandmamma in her war with the Boers. The paramount chief of the Basutos has been get- ting into print a great deal of late. That's the way with those paramount fellows ever since Blount's time. @all until 10 o'clock. 22C" Market | Legislature and con- | e new charter is to | t remains to the people is to elect | some person sent her through the | THE TREFFIC ASSOCIATION. E have called attention to the organization of the mercantile interests of this coast in a Trafic Association, which promises to co- | operate with transportation interests in such way as ! to protect the coast trade by giving it stability. The Eastern jobbers have long sought to locate the distribution of our trade at any point most con- venient to them, east of the mountains, From such point they desire to reach the retail trade here direct. To this end they have sought to powerfully impress | transportation, to force such a rate on less than car lots of merchandise and to secure such changes in classification as will enable them to add to their posi- tion of wholesalers at home the advantage of being peddlers here. From its beginning they have sought W | | | to put the Interstate Commerce Commission in a | hypnotized atmosphere, hoping that it would see nothing but distributing points East, and West noth- but a country to be distributed to, clear to the fic Ocean. t has not been altogether an accident that this coast has had no representative on that commission. None of the present members comes from this side of | the Missouri. Mr. Youmans of Sioux City is called | the Western member, and if he represent us he has 10st the world for a parish, and his parishioners see but ! It should be th | co-operate with of him. = of the Traffic Association to railroads in securing a Commis- eyes coast who sees through coast d We use the word co-operate advisedly and with de ion. The of commerce will not be served by the appointment of any man who sees roads the sum of all villainies nor the sum of all virtues. He should be a who ex- pects to find Western transportation, overland .and 2 erests in common and ir interests libe 1 man | local, alive to the f | with the coast production and distribution. t to have the business of mer- To do this they want all the th clause of the'inte The railroads v ts, not of peddle in Asiatic trade. By water we have 00 to 7000 miles in that trade is advantage subsists there d not be permitted to add leage of 2500 miles to Chicago, or York, and so carry that trade from en then we bring i atic source nearer to New Y bined water and rail than she k by comt 1 1stead ing with our distributing trade ng it over to points into peddlers’ of part own populat y title of the Traffic and transportation in a non effort. Transporta- of | that increase | ymmetrical development of all Where pro- re all in proper and unskilled, is lesale, jobbing bly employed 1 community. | and retail i the whole com y is built up. There is no evidence that the overland railways have any desire to re coast termi merce Commission a sy the necessity of of a region that has a long | the Traffic Association, by portation interests, has it from that curse rate wars. W has been paralyzed. struggles are their unstable and threatening of change. When they fall below the cost of the traffic they imply a reaction for recoup- ment of the resulting loss. The unthinking rejoice at a rate that loses profits to a railroad, while the mer- chant groans in spirit at a condition that he cannot control, but What com- merce needs is equal service to all at an equal and fair rate, which is not subject to erratic change. A Traffic Association which covers the coast from Puget Sound to San Diego and sits in council at the | terminal points of every overland railroad can exer- | cise a powerful influence for stability of rates and the of commercial conditions. Now it sity that we have from the region covered by this Traffic Association an Interstate Commerce Commissioner who knows the character and conditions of our trade and who notes keenly any respect in which our mercantile rights and interests are outlawed, either by the law itself or by the prin- ciples upon which it is administered. | e ——— o T— ct or destroy their present ey need on the Interstate Com- npathetic mind which can see he commercial life ul on its freight. Again rank contact with trans- erentials to t its power to protect trade e of commerce—railroad have | ver they Rates m: e by roads in these in very nature which threatens his ruin. | e | resulting stability | a supreme nec The Governor is waiting, the dispatches say, for public sentiment of the State to crystallize into a de- | mand for an extra session. If there is one thing in the State which above all others Gage is known not to represent, it is public sentiment. S the wonderful work which has been accom- plished by the Philadelphia Commercial Mu- seum and the men who maintain it that it seems well assured such institutions are among the most bene- | ficial a commercial community can establish and sup- port. Out of the museum there has come to Phila- | delphia a great export exposition and a commercial congress which was in every respect the most im- | pressive of its kind that ever assembled. That much has been achieved for one city, but the wider effects of the museum have been felt in all the larger Eastern cities and have been everywhere noted and appre- ciated. In his address at the Commercial Congress ex- Senator Edmunds described the work of the museum, he being a trustee of the institution since its organi- zation. In the course of his speech he said: “It is not a private corporation; it is not a body of gentlemen associated for gain, nor a State or na- tional organization, but it is an‘ international organization, . whose purpose and design and whose work have been devoted to the increase of in- dustrial commercial intercourse among all nations. | It has gathered in its museums year after year the | products of almost every clime, and the manufactures of almost every country on the face of the globe, be- | ginning with the simplest raw products, in order that her artisans and producers of manufactured | goods could see where they could obtain the advan- tages and the best means of developing their indu tries and products through the aid of our brethren in every other country who are able to produce things that our climate would not produce. * * * Tt hag, | also, samples of the products, raw and manufactured, of our own people of every description and kind, that A COMMERCIAL MUSEUM. O much has been said throughout the East of -, Jour brethren of other countries could perceive what | yachts that dare to enter a race with her. mate wholesaling | population | raged commerce | ‘ we could do and make comparison for mutual inter- change of products. It has established besides that | what in a short term is called the Bureau of Informa- | tion. Its scope is much larger than that—it is an fencyclopcdia of all the commercial relations on the | globe.” | Not long ago a movement was started in this city to establish a commercial museum here, and it was announced that the officers of the Philadelphia mu- seum would co-operate with the enterprise. It is to be hoped the undertaking will be pushed while the success of the great organization in Philadelphia is | still fresh in the public mind. This is a good time to begin anything that tends to promote commerce and a commercial museum is certainly of that nature. e ——— The British press had to join in the chorus of “Hail, Columbia,” when the American defender beat the Shamrock. Pretty soon they’ll be adopting “Yankee Doodle” as the British national hymn. l many strings, and is in danger of wearing some of them out. He continues to accuse the Repub- licans of treason, and of being enemies of the people, and at the same time begs of them to vote for him | and to bolt their own ticket. The present Board of | Supervisors, with a Republican majority, has not | waited for the new charter, but has instituted some commendable reforms, and thereby stands in marked contrast to its predecessor, which was largely com- posed of men of Mr. Phelan’s selection. But he denies that the present board is entitled to any credit ‘ for its reforms. He, Phelan the Mighty, forced it | to be a reform board! He has recently fallen into ! torrid praise of Mr. Joseph Britton, his Republican supporter, and so far the only one publicly known. Phelan praises his age, calls him “the Grand Ol | Man” and other pet names. Age is a merit in men | who support Phelan, but an offense in men who op- | pose him. In his speech in the Twenty-eighth Assembly Dis- trict on the 18th inst. he said: “This is not the days of | ’49. Republicans bring out old men from the past. We are not old men.” THE DAYS OF ’'49. N his campaign Mr. Phelan plays on a harp of | | | It is really to be hoped that Mr. Phelan’s intended 1 reforms do not contemplate disfranchising cld men, or having them knocked in the head. These whom he | calls old men and sneers at so flippantly had the man- | hood to marry and rear families bearing their nnme“ and the genius-and courage to lay the foundations of | our institutions. Mr. Phelan himself is descended from their class, unless he intends to go back to the | “ Greek myth and declare himself seli-creative, or like | | Topsy insist that he “jes’ growed.” These old men at least had the energy to carn their own fortunes | and to create the conditions in which Mr. Phelan, without any self-exertion, became and remains a mil- lionaire. It is a wonder that he does not order the Bear flag torn down, the State seal battered and everybody older than himself sent to jail for the high crime and misdemeanor of age and experience He is singularly given to the division of the people into classes. He first divided the people into Demo- | crats and traitors, the latter being Republicans who | will not bolt their ticket and support him. Now he divides them into Democrats and old rpen, the latter being those who do not support him and therefore are denounced as Forty-Niners, who, of course, ought itu die out of Mr. Phelan’s way and let him run things |ona strictly anti-'49 basi. J —— Mexicans and cowboys along the Arizona and New Mexico borders seem to be making fairly good targets of themselves. As long as they confine their pistol practice to one another there will probably be no serious objection to the game. LIPTON WILL TRY AGAIN. | IR THOMAS LIPTON, who bears his de- | S feat with an equanimity that commands the re- | spect of all, announces that he will challenge the | New York Yacht Club for another contest for the | America’s cup in 1901, and will at once set about de- | signing a crait to make the race. In the meantime | he has suggested to the New Yorkers the advisability of taking the Columbia to Europe next year and assures them if they do the Shamrock will try her again. There Is nothing in the suggestion that implies dis- content with the circumstances or the terms under which the races were held off Sandy Hook. It means no more than that Lipton has carried into | yacht-racing something of the vigor which has | marked him in business, and he doesn’t like to stop while a loser. He evidently believes in his boat, and while he purposes to build a better one if British skill can do it, he would like to give the Shamrock another chance to win while the new boat is being constructed. Whether the Columbia will be taken abroad next year will, of course, depend upon many things. There may be circumstances which would render such a | course inexpedient. It would be gratifying, however, to the American public to have her go over and give the Shamrock a trial in the Shamrock’s own waters. It has been a notable victory to defend the cup at home, but it would be a greater victory still to meet the best yachts of Europe over the famous yachting | courses in European waters and bring other cups and trophies to attest her invincible superiority over every craft of her kind the Old World can furnish. The extent to which Lipton is ready to go to win the America’s cup is shown by his statement that the cost of the Shamrock alone, without including the expense of her crew or anything else, was about $500,000. The new yacht he intends to order will | certainly not cost less. His expenditures therefo-e | | will far exceed the million mark and his yachting en- terprises will have to be included among the largest in which he is engaged. If the construction of yachts ended with racing such expenditures would be anything but commend- able. The beneficial effects of the contests, however, are far reaching. Just as horse racing has led to the | improvement in the breeds of horses. which have | given us the splendid horse of to-day, so the racing of yachts has led to improvement in the construc- tion of nearly all kinds of sailing craft and has ma- | terially stimulated seamanship. The vast sums ex- pended for yachts therefore have not been wasted. Shipbuilders have learned from the contests some- éthing which has been of advantage to commerce and | to industry. | One reason given by Lipton for desiring the Co- !Iumbia to cross the ocean is that she would teach | Europe a lesson in yacht-building. He is quoted as | saying: “I sincerely hope she will cross the Atlantic i if for no other purpose than to show them over there | what a' Yankee yacht is like. You can take my word | for it she would sweep everything before her.” Such !appreciation of the merits of our hoat shows we have | a foeman worthy of our ‘most generous rivalry, and | it is to be hoped the Columbia will be taken across the seas next year to meet her old rival and all other | ? | 5. C of the THE CALIF ORNIA SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS, (FOUNDED BY JAMES LICK) Sir: = This G. A. MERRILL. | them— just as muscle is made. ltion of the teacher to stimulate and direct Yours very truly, ithe efforts of the student. be the idea of your Circle—to prompt people to undertake a line of profitable study and to stimulate and direct their efforts in pur- suing it to an advantageous end. Your plan has the merits of some of the most |popular educational movements of the day—such as the University Extension Courses, Corre- | spondence Schools, etc. The subject matter of your courses has been wisely selected, and in each group the differ_ ent parts are well co-ordinated. contributors is a formidable one. easy to bring the services of such men and women within the reach of the people at large. WMW&H‘W A an SR gaCan SR B e B e T e e i s e . e & @ e o O S S e aeCe SR S S e SiCi SiCh Sl i siom o e ) REDITABLE TO THE CALL Principal George A. Merrill Says the Plan ‘f‘Home Study Circle’ Merits of Some of the Most Popular Educational Movements of the Day. Has the SAN FRANCISCO, October 7, 1899. Editor SanFrancisco Call—Dear educational movement you have inaugurated is creditable to The Call. when you say that it is impossible to measure its power for good. best teacher is not the one who can tell his students the most. education is a process of unfold- ing what is within us. ties are developed by exercising You arequite right The Real Our facul- It is the func- That seems to Your list of It is not Principal. ARQUND THE CORRIDORS T. J. Fleld, a Monterey banker, is a guest at the Palace. Ex-Senator James McCudden down from Vallejo yesterday. Dr. D. O. Lewis, U.. 8. N., is among the arrivals of last night at the Occidental. Ex-United States Marshal Gard of Los Angeles is among the recent arrivals at the Grand. President David Starr Jordan has come up from Stanford and is registered at the Occldental. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Shefton, two promi- nent society people of San Diego, are reg- istered at the Palace. Judge John F. Davis, a prominent jurist came | of Jackson, is a guest at the Palace, | where he arrived yesterday. State Senatcr Thomas Flint Jr. has come up from his home in San Juan and is registered at the Palace. Dr. F. Plant, a physiclan who has spent some time in Mexico and Central Ameri- ca, is registered at the Grand. Frank W. Griffin, the wealthy young mine owner of Oroville, is at. the Cali- fornia while on a short pleasure trip to this city. Paris Commissioner B. C. Truman has come up from his home in Los Angeles and is registered at the Occldental with his daughter. D. B. Banning, a Los Angeles capital- ist and owner of Catalina Island, is at the Ogeldental on a short trip to the city which combines business and pleasure, F. R. Leonard, D. B. Blakeslee, E. J. Fisher and John H. Donnelly, four lucky miners from Cape Nome, have come back to civilization and are registered at the Grand. J. A. Muir, division superintendent of the Southern Pacific at Los Angeles, is in the city for the purpose of visiting a son who is attending school in San Mateo County. H. Z. Osborne, a prominent politician and journalist of Los Angeles, where he holds the office of United States Marshal, is a guest at the Palace, where he will re- main for a few days. Mrs. J. C. Kirkpatrick left for New York last evening for a six weeks' pleasure atrip. She will visit several of the East- ern citles and spend much of her time with her friends and relatives. Judge Felix H. Merzbach, accompanied by his wife, returned yesterday afternoon from New York. Mr. and Mrs. Merzbach have been traveling in the East and Eu- rope during the last six months. The following members of the Los An- geles Board of Trade have com: up to this city to attend the meeting of the jobbers of the coast, who are formulating their plans to combat the assaults of the Business Men's League of St. Louis; F. ‘W. Braun, R. M. Craig, J. O. Keepple, N. V. Newlin and C. C. Reynolds. —_————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—H. R. Bush and J. Hubert Mee of San Francisco are at the Fifth Avenue;. E. C. Davis of San Francisco is at the Hoffman; Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Moore of San Francisco are at the Holland; John N. Green of San Francisco is at the Gilsey; F. P. Fay of Los Angeles is at the Imperial; Miss L. W. Dean and Miss T. G, Dean of San Francisco are at the Netherland; Dr. N. H. Morrison of Los Angeles is at the Plaza; Mrs. V. B. Angared, Mrs. E. An- gared and daughter and Marie Portailer of San Francisco are at the Martin. o OO0t CE RSO0+ O+ O+ 0400 —The New York World. ® ¢ oo | ures as to the cost of the yacht Sham- rock have not been made public, but it is the general belief that the vessel has cost_something like $100,000. The owner of the Shamrock has not told any one what it has cost him to run his yacht per day since her first competition” with the Columbia. REAL ESTATE—M. D., City. An action for the recovery of real property must be tried in the county in which the subject of the action is situated, subject to the power of the court to change the place of trial. ARTISTS—N. C. Mc., City. Warren, Davenport, Swinnerton and Edgren, the caricaturists, received instruction in the local schools, but the peculiar faculty which has made them prominent in t particular line was latent in them was self-developed. SUZERAINTY—Subscriber, City. erainty means paramount authori command. It is derived from s which is lord paramount or a he fief when other fief depend. It the supreme or highest lord, bu usage, a superior lord to w According to the fe éloped in Northern r of allodial lands wa: acknowledge himself the vas erain, and do homage to lands; the term suzerain w to the king than to his vas su-vassals holding of them. Suz- By is meant free of rent, independent. allodial AN ESTATE—S,, City. If a man adopts a boy according to law, dies and in the will it appears that the adopted boy has been made the sole heir with the proviso that he cannot inherit until he reaches the age of twenty; should the adopted son die before he attains that age and did not leave a will, the property wouid go to his heirs according to the law of suc- cession. If he was taken sick and death was apparent, he would have the right to will the property which would come to him at the age given in the will. If a legatte dies during the life time of the testator the testamentary disposition to him fails. AVERAGE RAINFALL—W. M., Santa Rosa, Cal. An average of “the rainfall of the State of California since 1850 would require an immense amount of compilation and when completed would not be of any value, for it would not be anything upon which to base any calcu- lation for the reason that in some parts of the State at times there is a great deal of precipitation, while in others d ing the same season there is but little. The average in particular localities can be furnished, as, for instance, in San Francisco the average of the r: of fifty seasons is 23.01; the heaviest during an year was in 1884, when it reached 38. and the lowest was in 1898, when it w but 9.31. The rainfall from October 1, és:lfzh to October 1, 1899, in that city, was E— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* e — Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by t.e Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mon .- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters—acknowl- edged the world over as the greatest known regulator of the stomach and bowels, DIRECTORY OF RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. Catalogues and Price Lists Mailed on Applieation. BOOKS AND STATIONERY, THE SAN FRANCISCO NEWS COMPANY, 242 to 350 Geary Street, Above Powell, PERIODICALS, BOOKS AND STATIONERY. COAL. COKE AND PIG IRON, J. C. WILSON & C0., % Pattery Street. Teiephone Main 1384, COPPERSMITH. JOSEPH FOX, Supt. H. BLYTH, M C. V. SMITH, Ship , Prumbing,” st mboat o T » and Ship Work a Special end 18 Washingtop st. Telephone Main S8iL FRESH AND SALT MEATS. JAS. BOYES & CO., Ess, machers, o FURS. J. N. LOFSTAD, ::YIK“‘ Y s, upstars. La , lowest prices, remodali CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—H. V. More- house and J. R. Patton of San Jose are at the Shoreham: W. G. Cooke of Oakland is at the Riggs House; ‘W. W. Enyck of San Francisco is at the Arlingten. ——————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LENGTH OF TRANSPORTS—J. R City. The following are the lengths of the United States transports named: Sherman, 445 feet; Hancock, 450.02; Grant, 445; Warren, 370.07, and Sheridan, 445.05. NATIVE SONS—H. N. Q., City. There is In Oregon an association of Native Sons and one of Native Daughters on similar lines to the Native Sons and Na- tive Daughters of the Golden West. AMERICAN MINISTER IN CHINA— L., Moss Landing, Cal. The full name and title of the United States Minister to hina is Edwin . _Conger, Envo; Extraordinary and Minister 5lenlpotom & ary, City of Peking, China. THE YACHTS-H. D., City. The fig- IRIN FOUNDERS. WESTERN FOUNDRY, 3oriov & mieter Fremont st. Cas ngs of Every D Orger Dol Hinck 10 oD Mads o PAPER DEALERS, WILLAMETTE ¥ULE, AND PAPER co. 122 Montgomery street. THE SMITH PREMIER TYPEWRITER USED EVERYWHERE. Get Catalogue - We Rent Typewriters. L. & 8. ALEXANDER & 20., 110 Montgomery St. PRINTING, E C HUGHES, o, o, 2R0TER, THE HICKS-JUDD (0., Friaters,, ., Book- rs. 23 First st. STATIONER AND PRINTER. Tel:eoxdr:’pm: PARTI“DGE 208 California street. WHITE ASH STEAM COAL, %2=5, 2% DIAMOND COAL MINING CO., of its GREEN RIVER COLLIERIES, ia the Best Conl a_the Market. Office and Yards—450 Main street.