The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1899 FRIDAY DECEMBER 8§, KELS, Proprietor. JOHN D. SPREC Address All Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE. . . Market and Third, S, F. Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS. ..... 217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1874, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mall, DAILY CALL (inclnding Sunday), 3 month DAILY CALL—By Single Month SUADAY CA me Year One Ye - be forwarded when reguested sample coples wil OAKLAND OFFICE C. GEORGE KROGNES Manager Forelgn Advertising, Marquette Build- ing, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON........ +..Herald Sguare NEW YORK RE PERRY LUKENS JR .29 Tribune Bullding CHICAC ouse; P. @ ) NEWS STANDS: News Co.; Great Nort Sherm " YORK NEWS STANDS: orin Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unton ay Hill Hotel. C.) OFFICE. . Wellington Hotel NGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—3527 Montgomery street, cor- ner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister sireet, open until 9130 o'clock. 615 Larkin 1 9:30 o'clock. 1941 ntil 10 ek, 2261 centh, open until 9 sireet, open until ® o'c . street, open until ® o'clock. md and Kentucky v Fund of the Assoclated woom, December 14, corner Mason and Ellls streets—Specialties. hase and Coney lsland. Bay, of Manila Market street, near v and Dog Show. orses, clock, Furniture, Car- ember 14, at 7:45 eet r 12, at 12 CALIFORNIAN SOUVENIRS. OW 1t n has arrived when all the occupied with thoughts i venirs for their good old Christmas nd to es or friends in the East N who int 1 ¢ icles which will make ) t e | ¢ either the natural be: tie r ¢ State or the handiwork of s will have for velty. Christmas gifts manufac- es themselves or To send picture, calendar which was brought from that s 1 nfer but a small favor ¢ as here. It is like ding coals to New- « ¢ Ches Grove. On the other I t Cal article will have the nting the land as well as the ¢ and will not be so common- it receive ck articles suitable for such giits. O delicate fruit confections is not as lar t should be, but it is still considerable. We hay s of ¥ books, albums of Caliiornian er ! Califormian scenes; souvenirs of « or « ge dwood; a host oi g d many other products of ¢ e attractive and welcome an ¢ gifts of Eastern friends A hat deal in novelties and art result in the discovery of some- e an every way an excellent souvenir 1 to send to a friend in the East or in g Californian goods for the Christmas le benefit will be conferred on the Stat place there will be a direct patronage of and in the second place an extensi artistic treasures. E Zven if nothing n photographs they are likely when many to r stead rake their next holiday trip to of to Europe. To send abroad the art work of the State, however, is better 1 > to create a demand for it in 1 may result in building up for us a large in articles of the kind ¥ industry e tike o wor proper share of the Christmas goods of the When one asks for Californian bric-a-brac at this season the display will show but scant against the rich rray of novelties brought from the East. ertheless it is well to build up out of what we We should not despise the d of small things. us help our manufacturers and artists of souvenir 1s, and in a few years California will have holiday d ties that will be in world, — Joseph Chamberlain, the British Colonial Secre- tary, is carrying the “hands across the sea” alliance to the point of hysteria. where that it is well to beware of the Greeks, par- ticularly when they come with giits. Emperor William says that with God's blessing and a strong fleet he hopes to sce German colonies advance until they become a blessing to the father- In the hurry of the moment his Majesty prob- v forgot the men behind the guns. judging from the submitted specimen of the hand- writing of the young Duke of Manchester he is making rapid strides in his chosen profession of jour- nalism. Almost at the start he writes as illegibly as Horace Greeley, Tall 18%9 l == | the shouting, still no one accounted for the where- +...008 Brondway | = | better it at corner Van | | Eastern people or 1 parlors to attract the attention of visitors | cannot claim to produce in this State anything | demand in all parts of the | Somebody has said some- | THE PHILIPPINE PUZZLE. T will be remembered that recently we suggested a mystery in the Philippine situation. Optimists were insisting that the campaign was all over but ly 6ooo Spanish prisoners of war and a | number of Americans in the hands of the Filipino | commands, somewhere. It is very difficult to con- | ceive how those prisoners can be held by scattered .g\i(‘rnn.l bands and prevented from making a junc- | tion with our forces in some part of Luzon. Since then it has been semi-officially announced that Aguin- | aldo was negotiating for a surrender, and even Ad- | miral Dewey. who ratified the Singapore agreement, | was saying that he probably cught to be shot when we | abouts of nca our hands on him. Still no considerable of Spanish or American prisongrs issued out of that terra incognita beyond our lines in which | the civil and military organization of the Filipinos | was supposed to have been dissolved. Since then comes the information that after the | hardest and most gallant campaign ever undertaken by American soldiers, presenting more obstacles than | the pursuit of Billy Bowlegs in the everglades of Florida, we are in possession of less than one-third of Luzon and our garrisons are being attacked with sanguinary results. The slaughter of the natives in the rainy campaign | is reported to be enormous, yet the natives persist and their fighting force seems to rise out of the ground, as if the ghosts of their dead sprang from their unhallowed sepulchers to fight again. The optimistic view of the President does not seem to be justified in this later report. Civilians in Manila and certain navy officers of credibility have never adopted the view taken by the Philippine Commis- sion that the vast majority of the natives are not in sympathy with Aguinaldo. We do not doubt that | the wily natives express to our authorities their opposition to the native leader, but their statement conceals rather than expresses their sentiments. The indication is that, except the few “leading peo- | ple.” of whom we have heard so much through the commission, the natives are practically unanimous | Carnage, suffering and famine may force them to intermit fighting to recruit their food , but there is in sight no prospect of their acceptance of a statute of oblivion that will | cover the events since Wildman wrote the proclama- tion creating their own government and fanned to | flame the spark of independence. | It is our opinion that the sooner our Government got ber n | against a change of masters. upp! recognizes that the fight in the Philippines is prac- | tically with the whole people, and that we have no iriends there among the natives except the few who are regarded by their countrymen traitors, the The Ma character is peculiar. People of that blood who cherish a sense of wrong are never won over by any generosity of The President seems to depend upon edu- cation, industrial prosperity and laying upon them a ght hand in the way of government. But all that as will be. counts for nothing if it be true that they are con- | vinced that they have been deceived and outraged. This vein runs thre gh the whole Asiatic character. tantly in India and so never per- Every garrison in Hindostan stands d over British sovereignty and is like a torch | over a powder magazine. So it must be with us in the Philippines. We cannot furnish the natives any better government than England gives to India, and it will probably be much worse, so that we may as | well make up our minds to a permanent condition of smothered fire in the islands ready to burst into flame. If Admiral Dewey's bad advice were followed and Ag do is shot when caught, we will, in the native ¢ ation, have simply added another to the Spanish martyrdom of the lamented Rizal, and the | effect will be far from soothing to native sentiment. | o e . Dan Burns and the public have at last reached a plane where both are in perfect agreement. Decent people and the Mexican both object to the proposition that he serve for a year in' the United States Senate. Burns believes that the term is too short; the people | know that it is too long by a year. ‘ THE IRON PIPE COMBINE. | ROM reports given in our Eastern exchanges rl[ appears that the pipe manufacturers’ combi- | nation, against which the Supreme Court gave judgment on Monday, was a veritable combination in restraint of trade and had something like a lead pipe | cinch on the market. It fixed prices to suit itself and varied them when it chose, having no fear whatever of any competition. g | In the report given of the decision of the court it | was stated that the contract of the combination pro- vided for auctioning off the right to make bids for supplying with pipe cities not in allotted tesritory, the | successful bidder to meet no opposition from other | members of the trust; or if other bids were made none | of them should be lower than that of the company | to which the award had been made by the combina- | tion. In cases in which bids were asked for in terri- tory allotted to members of the territory the agree- ment was that no bids should be made except under the supervision of the company in charge of that ter- | ritory under the agrecment. As to the manner in which the agreement was car- | ried out we learn from our exchanges that testimony , was taken in the case showing that in 1806 the indi- vidual members of the combine were willing to fur- nish pipe of the various sizes commonly called for at $13, $14 25 and $14 50 per ton, but that the price ex- acted from the city of Atlanta, for example, was 'Su 75. The contract was taken at this rate by the | Anniston Pipe and Foundry Company, and out of | the proceeds a bonus of §7 10 per ton was distributed to the other five members of the combine. | One of the most interesting features of the tes- timony was the proof that the combination had a practice of making large cities, such as Atlanta, New | Orleans, St. Louis and Omaha, pay higher rates than mall towns which bought less quantities and whose rade was, for other reasons, less desirable. This dis- | crimination against large towns and large orders was | made on the principle of “charging what the traffic would bear.” Presumably the large towns can pay more per ton for water-pipe than small towns, there- | fore they should be charged more. In other words, there was no market price for iron pipe. Each con- umer had his pile sized, and was then €ompelled to | stand and deliver. It is gratifying that the Supreme Court found in the law a means of declaring such a combination il- legal and thus putting a stop to its practices. Califor- nians, however, will take notice that the iron pipe | men are not the only magnates who have a custom | of taxing traffic all it will bear. This State, being i rich and prosperous, has been made to pay heavy | freights for a good many years on that principle, and | the express companies have fixed charges by the same rule. Now that the pipe cinch has been broken it may be possible for the courts to break other cinches in the same way. At any rate a precedent has been established and the application of it will widen with years, and in the end the courts may settle a good many problems which are now considered beyond solution. Governor Gage is boasting that he has been in eommunication with the national Jeaders of the Re- publican party. A careful summary of the 800 bills introduced in Congress does not show that there is in contemplation the establishment of a new national museum. O and refined regard for all that makes for com- munity enlightenment, long ago established a public library. This institution, under the manage- ment of Miss Ina D. Coolbrith, one of the finest of our literary characters, reached a high distinction, which has been well sustained. It has been housed, however, in an insufficient, crowded, overloaded and unpicturesque frame building near the City Hall, and for a long time the people have dreamed and hoped for an improvement in its quarters. Quite happily and unexpectedly the opportunity for such a change came in the donation of a large sum by Mr. Andrew Carnegie for a building, conditioned on the people providing a site. 4 Mr. Carnegie has shown lavish liberality in the creation of library facilities in this country and in | his native Scotland. Some ungracious references have been made to Mr. Carnegie’s motive in these donations, but it need not be sought further than his own simple statement that when he was a poor boy, | forlorn and struggling with an ambition beyond the es- | tate to which he was born, his most serious handicap was a lack of books in which to study along the lines | to which his inceptive talents prompted him. He | then promised himself that if his dreams became | realities and he ever enjoyed the possession of a for- | tune he would, as far as possible, use it in putting | books within reach of all who, like himself, needed | their aid in the training that would better equip them for a useful place in this busy world. That promise has been kept, and to-day tens of | thousands of youth are getting the benefit of his early icxpericnce by having access to books in the libra- { ries he has helped. | The people of Oakland began and carried on to | an extent successfully the raising of the money to buy | a site for the building. But the work was undertaken | by business men, who of necessity were too absorbed in their daily affairs to give it the constant attention needed to the end, and it was finally assumed by the devoted women of the Ebell Society. They imme- diately organized the work and have prosecuted it | with zeal and intelligence. They proceeded in a | business way by first taking an option on a site that is | indorsed by the library trustees, is centrally located, | very accessible from the High School, the Central | Grammar and the other schools of the city, for the greatest usefulness of the library is to the pupils in these schools. The City Council gave the ladies of | the Ebell a fixed time in which to complete their | work, and in the ten days which remain of that time | they should be furnished the five or six thousand dol- | lars’ balance which is yet to be made up. Oakland should noc think of letting them fail. The benefits to the city of success will be manifold. Not only will | this fine building be assured and all of the blessings and progress follow which flow from the use of a | well-housed public library, but that community will | certify its co-operation with other public benefactors | who, having wealth, desire to appropriate part of it | to these purposes which make for the health, happi- | ness and progress of mankind. The people of Oakland will readily see that if this effort should fail, which it will not, that city will be disregarded when those who are able are seeking for a community through which they may return part of their fortune to the public uses of the people in the | midst of whom it has been acquired. | Oakland is looking forward to a fine park system, ) of which she stands in great need, and for which her | natural charms offer unexampled facilities. When that system is developed there is no doubt that the public will enjoy such additions as have been | made to Golden Gate Park by the Lick statuary, the | Sharon children’s playground, Stow Lake, the | Spreckels music-stand and the Crocker conservatory. | But there is doubt whether such liberality will be forthcoming if Oakland should fail in this effort to provide a site for a library building which has been donated on that condition.. . Aside from other motives the very gallantry of the city should refuse to let these ladies fail in their vol- unteer work. Oakland raises large sums by popular subscriptions for Fourth of July celebrations, for the entertainment of visiting bodies, and recently for the reception of returned soldiers. But let us assure the people of that city that all of these purposes, while extremely praiseworthy, are fleeting and imperma- | nent in their effect upon the community compared | with what will follow the announcement that the good | women of the Ebell, by grace of the liberal and pro- gressive, have raised the money and bought the site | for what may be easily foreseen as the finest public | library building in California. The Call is glad to | do what it may to rouse the liberal spirit of that city 1 and to encourage the Ebell ladies to persist to victory. THE OAKLAND LIBRARY. AKLAND, with commendable intelligence General Methuen’s assertion that the battle of Mod- der River was one of the bloodiest of the century | was doubtless written in the excitement of the | moment and when he has time to count up the loss | he will take a second thought and withdraw the | statement. This has been a century of wars and the battle which exceeds all others in carnage will have | to be very bloody indeed. —_— Representatives of the local telephone monopoly | have told the Supervisors that the company is ready to pay back to the public money which has been wrongfully collected. The greedy corporation is | either striving to pose as a mammoth joker or has | some thought of seriously crippling its capital. —_— The desperate zeal with which certain members of | the School Board are striving to elect new teachers | to the department might suggest a revival of the in- | quiry whether or not the market price of positions | has advanced since the scandalous administration of the old board. SmuEgs What a millennium there will be when Joe Chamber- lain’s pet triple alliance gets in good working order. | Just fancy the roast beef of old England smiling in a sea of gravy at the spectacle of the great American porker and the sauerkraut of Germany lying down side by side. 3 There is one woman in Boston who is probably very thankful that the allotted life of woman is no more than three score and ten years. A judge had the power the other day to sentence her to an im- prisonment of one hundred and eighty-nine years. o S With Embassador White housed in a Berlin flat and Embassador Harris looking for a home in Vienna it would seem that the Washington authori- ties might enjoy the farce known as “Why Jones Leit Home.” ‘000000000000000000000000000000000000000900000000000000: : : ¢ WORKING : . @ & 0000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000009000000000009° T, LOUS TS UNERPECTED A I CALIFGRNA Country Papers Start Rear Fire. ATTACK JOBBERS OF COAST —_—— The members of the Pacific Coast Job- bers'’ and Manufacturers' Assoclation have had their attention called to the fact that certain newspapers published at interior points in this State have been advising their readers that thelr inter- €sts were rather with the St. Louis and other Middle West jobbers than with the assoclation n the coming hearing in this city before the Interstate Commerce Com- mission. There is no disguising the fact that this feature of the case Is displeas- ing to the association. Traffic Manager Loveland said yesterday: " “Since my return from the hearing be- fore the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion at St. Louls, my attention has been called to the attitude taken by some of the papers in the interior towns of the State, which, while unquestionably hon- est, shows a misunderstanding of the case which we should, it seems to me, at least try to correct. The position is taken that the jobbers of the Middle West are justi- fled in this attempt to secure business on the coast, and that the retallers and con- sumers would be benefited should they be successful in their contention. Let us dis- cuss the matter from the standpoint of the retailer and consumer. ‘Under the present tariff “the jobbers of the Middle West and of this coast are serving the trade of this section. Neither Is barred, and the {Jlul tff's own wit- nesses, the jobbers of St. Louis and other similarly situated cities, testified at the recent hearing that they had done busi- ness on the coast right along since the ndr&pt!on of this tariff, and that their trade is increasing. This is as it should be, as the retailers and consumers of the coast have the advantage of healthy com- petition. This condition of affairs is sfactory to the jobbers of the coast, ““The coast jobbers claim no pre-em tion of this territory or exclusive right to the business theréin, but have simply invested their capital in the jobbing busi- ness, expecting to meet the competition of one another and of any locality so situated as to_be able to offer ‘OOJI mn this market. We claim that It is to the advantage of the retailers and consum- ers to have the large shippers given a carload rate, thereby enabling them to carry stocks at the different jobbing cen- ters, greatly to the convenience of the retailers, giving them a base of supplies near home, where they can get such arti- cles as they would not under any cir- cumstances buy in carloads, and at a price based upon carload frefght instead of less than carload. ““Would it be to the advantage of the retailers and consumers to have the term. inal between carload and less than ca load done away with? The interior pa- pers say that If this were true they could ship 100-pound lots as chenpl{l as the job- ber can ship a carload; and that the mar- ket In which they can buy would mate- rially widen. Gramlnfi that this is true, they could not buy their goods for any less than they do now, while buyl of local jobbers,” for the reason that their purchases In the East would not entitle them to as low a price as the jobber gets because he buys In larger ~quantities. They also overlook the fact that if they could ship as cheaply as the jobber, the large department stores of the East could also ship at that rate and would imme- dlately begin to supply the consumers to the detriment of the retailer. We claim that the best possible condition Is the one now existing, which enables the 10bh2l’l of different sections to compete for the business of the coast.” AROUND THE _ CORRIDORS J. D. Biddle, the Hanford capitalist, is at the Grand. Dr. W. M. Lewis, a leading medical man of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. W. W. Buch, U. 8. N, is among the ar- rivals of last night at the Palace. John L. Hudner, an influential attorney of Hollister, is a guest at the Lick. Rev. Arthur Rhodes of Santa Rosa is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. Arthur H. Cathcart, U. 8. N., is regis- tered for a short stay at the California. Colonel John R. Berry has come up from Los Angeles and is staying at the Lick. Dr. F. L. Miner of Honolulu s at the California, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Fred Hawkins, a well known resident of Los Angeles, Is among the late arrivals at the Palace. Dr. A. L. Wilson, one of the leading physiclans of Tulare, is registered for a short stay at the Lick. Lawrence Harris and Irving M. Bush of Butte, Mont., are registered at the Palace, where they arrived yesterday. H. E. St. George, a lucky speculator in the Fresno oil lands, is at the Lick on a short business trip to this city. H. J. Small, superintendent of motive power for the Southern Pacific at Sacra- mento, is registered at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. P. Evans, two prominent soclety people of Vancouver, are at the Occidental while on a short visit to this city. Dr. J. A. Weston, one of the best-known medical men of Silver City, Idaho, is at the Grand while spending a few days in this city. M. H. de Young is home again from New York. He arrived in town yester- day, looking well after a round of elabor- ate dinners. W. R. Keeler, a wealthy resident of Denver, who Is largely interested in Colo- rado mining properties, is among the re- cent arrivals at the Occidental. Ex-Senator Stephen M. White has come up from his home in Los Angeles and is a guest at the Palace. He has completely recovered from his recent illness. Captaln and Mrs. 8. 8. Harvey have re- turned home after an extended tour through the East. Thelr daughter, Miss Bessie Harvey, accompanied them on their travels. Charles B. Holbrook, secretary of the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Is confined to his home. For a long time he has suffered from bronchial troubles and has not been able to secure relief. —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Robert Meyers of Los Angeles Is at the Grand; A -Gutsch of San Franelsco is at the Imperial. ——r——— TAINTED BACON CONDEMNED. Market Inspector Witzemann Finds Some Bought From the Gov- ernment. Chief Market Inspector Nicholas Witze- mann yesterday afternoon condemned twelve cases of bacon, weighing 1200 pounds, in the New York Auction House, at 120 Battery street. Witzemann care- fully inspected the bacon and found that it was in an advanced state of decay. He 1here'|‘xxon saturated the stuff with coal oil and ordered it sent to the works. The bacon was to have been sol & e Droprietor of the establishment e prop: o est men stated tgn the bacon was purchased one of the Government transports and warned him not to con it. * The | auctioneer finally acknowledged that it | had been sent to him by Irvine Brothers, k{:e local grocers, to be sold on commis- sion. Inquiry at the store of the firm at Sec- ond and Howard streets developed the fact that the bacon had been received in exchange for other goods from the com- missary at the Presidio. It is a common practice for the Government to get rid ot‘foo«ls of which it has an \'t‘r-sup{\ly and get other goods in their stead. Mr. Irvine stated that the bacon when bought was good, but that was some weeks ago. He showed some of the same kind of goods which he has had on sale in his place which Inspector Witzemann pro- nounced wholesome. “It is very peculiar,” said Witzemann, “that some of the bacon sold by the Gov- ernment to the grocery firm should have been sent to the auctioneers to be sold for 6 cents a_pound when the wholesale price is now about 11 cents. It looks as If the good bacon was retained by the grocers and the tainted goods sent to be sold for what they would bring.” SUPERVISORS WILL ORGANIZE TO-NIGHT CAUCUS TO TAKE PLACE AT THE CITY HALL. Deane May Fight the Civil Service Law, and Is Already Making Up His Slate. The Supervisors-elect have finally fixed a definite time and place for their prelim- inary caucus, and will get together this evening at the chambers of the board at the City Hall. The meeting is brought about by those members who have been most active in the fight for the chalrman- ship of the Finance Committee—Henry Brandenstein, Charles Wesley Reed and Richard Hotaling—and it is likely that that vexatlous matter will come up for settlement to-night. Reed and Branden- stein are sald to be running neck and neck in the lead for the job. o far no oppo- sition to the appointment of John Ryan as chief clerk of the board has cror d up, although other appointments which the board will have as yet have been given no consideration. Just now the wise ones are speculating upon the action to be taken by County Clerk Deane with regard to the civil ser- vice exactions of the charter. It is gen- erally known that Deane claims that the clvil service rule does not nfl? ¥ to his office, and he is even now making up his slate upon that theory. He claims that he is held responsible for not only clerks of the Superior Court but also of the Police Courts and that he will be required to furnish a bond of $0,000 upon assuming | office, and that it Is not the Intent of the charter to prevent him from employing those for whom he will assusie 5o heavy a lability. Deane has sought legal ad- vice upon the point and says that a num- ber of the heavy-welght lawyers of the city have advised him to ignore the civil service clause. A The serious illness of Mayor Phelan's mother has rl‘flumwl in ln‘m-ssnlhm'gf speculation upon his appointments to the numerous Coglmlsflnmlmnnd has resulted in an indefinite delay in the announcement of the Civil Service Commission, which was to have been made on Tuesday last. The Mayor has eschewed all political mat- ters and remains closely at his mother's bedside. He was in his office yesterday afternoon for a few minutes, but trans- acted no political business. NEEDS OF SAN FRANCISCO. ‘The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opirions published in this column, but pre- sents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest. Editor The Call: The depression 1n business and the decline In property In this city for a number of years last past have been the result of a deficlency in re- sources. A city should not be built: it should grow, as a result of the inneront wealth upon which its prosperity s found- ed. In comparison with Louls, whi-h now has atout one million of people, Sin Francisco has a very feeble agricultu backing. Missourl has nearly fifty [ sand square miles and nearly every acre will make a little farm withcut the cx- pense of irrigation. I asked a Congres: man from Missouri a while ago, who tra eled all over the State, what he thouzht of California. “Well, doctor, I llke your country pretty well, what there Is of it, but there's tco much of it covered up by these here great bl& high mountains.” Vater! water! water! is the need of California to increase its agricultural ca- pacity and necessary to render this aman- ufacturing city. With water brought from the mountains San Francisco can be made the cheapest and the grandest manufuc- turing city on the globe. Water, EX cor- relation of forces, can be chang into electricity and through this force the city can be lighted, the street cars moved und every demand for power supplied. Per- manent employment can be glven to | bor and the city by the hundred thousand will grow rapidly in population. Water will not rise above its level and a city cannot grow but in correspondence with its resources. It will become dull, iife- less and profitless in proportion as it is built beyond the elements of its nutrition. This city now is like a rickety child—the head is too big for the body. We have ‘0o many storea ‘‘to let” and too many houses without tenants. We must stand still or provide more business tributaries. With adjustments repairs and elongations and elenly of water to flush the sewers will eep for a long period without generating any cause of disease. Under all the cir- cumstances it will be well enough to vote for school and hospital bonds. We have no more use for the panhandle and its al- lied concatenations than we have for a quarter :ection in the Great Sahara l.es- ert. There is no analogy between Sa Francisco and Paris. Monkeys and fool: are imitating animals. Men of sense alyze thelr environment and conduct ti lives accordingly. San Fraucisco is no balcony climate. Many persons avoid residence here in consequence of the fogs and, as for “breathing places,” the s abundance of “breath” drives many away and preveants others from coming. People tolerate trees here to “break the wind” and cut them down where they do not serve this purpose. S8an Francisco Las a climate radically different from any oth- er spot on the earth. It is unique, even in its own State. We are seal-jacket and overcoat packers the year round. Houses make a ity and not parks. Let the four hundred houses remain on the panhandie and add others to them to shelter us from the wind. We have a mile of desoin:e panhandle already. It would be a good speculation to sell it and put the money into mountain water works. Only about one-third ¢f Golden Gate Park 1s {n- proved. Properly reclaimed we h: enough for -1r n Rroportion as we incur bonds forsuper- uities and neglect “public util‘ties,” Phus talk about *“bullding a city” is nonsense. A city that is of any account forges ahead from'the irresistible power th: L power that is at (ke ‘The blight of decay soo less tree. (! D. San Francisco, D ——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CENSUS ENUMERATORS-J. H. R., Oakland, Cal. Census enumerators and clerks will not be selected until after the census supervisors shall be named by the President and confirmed by the Senate. VALUE OF COINS—L. B., Berkeley, Cal. A gold dollar of 1851 commands a premium of 15 cents; the market price Is n atiacks a root- CLEVELAND, 1899, from $2 to $250. The market price of a two dollar and a haif piece is $, no pre- mium offered. A half-dime of 15% does not command 2 premium, nor is one offered for Balkan or Danish West In- dian coins. The value of such is rated only by what persons desiring to be pus- sessed of such would like to give. A CENTURY—B. C., City. There is probably no subject that has been the subject of argument more than when the twentieth century will commence, yet the matter is so simple that it seems almost impossible that there should be an; ground for argument on that point. t takes 100 years—not 9—to complete a cen- tury. Consequently the first 100 years completed the first century, and the sec- ond century commenced with the year 101, and so on. “We are l{iving In the ninetcenth century, and, as it takes 100 years to fin- Inl,h a ca}ll&ryn,llo it will '!A:e 190: ({e;r- ef neteen centuries, an lor th-?m’ruwn 1901 will be the first year of twentieth century, the HEMP DEALERS OF THE COAST MEET SURPRISES Eastern Houses Deny the Shortage. OPEN VERSUS CLOSED PORTS S News has been received in a private dis- patch that two large astern manufac- turing concerns—the McCormack Harvest- Ing Company and the Plymouth Cordage Company of Boston—have ked the War Department to keep the ports of the Phil- ippines closed. The basis of their argu- ment Is a denial that there is any searcity of hemp In the United States; also that S5 per cent of the binder twine used In the United States is made from sisal imported from Mexico. They also deny that there is any dearth of hemp twine in the coun- try. These statements are so opposed to all the facts as they are understood here that the largest hemp importing concern on the Pacific Coast, the Tubbs Cordage Company, was applied to for information. Astonishment was manifested at once by Manager Kellogg when he 1 of the representations of the Eastern com “In twe or three monl‘hx. sald Mr. Kel logg, “there will be a famin lh'?puru are kept closed. wish the ports to be open. We have posed that the houses named in the patch that you have shown us were favor of open ports. There Is no p ticular scarcity of the raw ms but there will"be a great shortag near future unless the conditions in the Philippines are changed. The price has been largely advanced simply because the ports are closed. In 18§ spot hemp brought 6% cents. Upon the correspond- ing date this year, November the price was 1432 cents, or double the price of last year. There s no hemp in Manila and none 1 be brought out until the ports are opened. I suppose there is hemp in the provinces, but the situation mow Is Hke an embargo. “It is not true as applied to this coast that $5 per cent of the binder twine Is made of sisal. I would think that it woul be nearer the truth to say that 8 per cent of that twine !s made of hemp on the Pacific Coast. Hemp goes further to the pound in making twine and Is beiter than the sisal. Sisal has also advanced. In 1898, on November 30, sisal was worth 6 to 6% cents. On the corresponding date this year it was quoted from 5% to $% cents. Sisal cannot be used for ships. “A great quantity of hemp rope has been used here in connection with the ofl well industry. oil man com- plained to me of hemp rope g and the price of pipe combined were eat- ing up all the profits of the ofl industry Last year hemp rope sold at 9 cents poun d it now brings 1S cents. of fmported hemp on hand th New York and Boston on were as follows: Ne: bales; Boston, 600 bales. On November 3, 158, the stocks wer ew York, 10,000 bales: Boston, 4000 bales. In 1 on November 3): New York, 30ston, 11,000 bales. Fitler is buying up all the hemp th he can get p on the way 00 bales and We are ti gest hemp importers on the Pacl t. There is only one other on the coast—the Portland Cordage Company. Suit Against the Railroad. The representatives of the Southern Pa- cific Company in this city were served yesterday with summons In a suit brought in the United. States Clreult Court in Los Angeles by Willlam . Scribner to recover $251¢0 damages for the death of his daughter, Mary E. Serib- ner, last August. S was run over by a train at the Sixth-street crossing at San Pedro. ——ee———————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —— e — Special information supplied dafly to Business houses ind public men by tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street, Telephone Main 1042, —_— New Lodge of Elks. To-morrow night the officers and a large number of the members of San Francisco Lodge No. 3 of the Protective and Benevolent Order of Elks will go to San Jose for the purpose of Instituting a Jodge of the order in that city, with a membership of 125. «Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for thelr children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colle, regu- lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. 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Finest equipped train snd best track of any line to the East. Get full particulars and handsome folder at ticket office, 628 Market street. —ce—————— ‘Steeplechase a Hit. Large crowds are the rule at the Steeplechase this week. The merry races on the horses, the swiftly moving bicy- cle circus and the many other stern novelties maintain thelr strong hold on ublic favor. The razzle-dazzle continues ts phenomenal run. ADVERTISEMENTR Colds . Chest When your cold has settled down deep in your chest, cough syrups will not relieve you. The system must be given strength and force to throw off the disease. \ . does just this. It enables you to conquer the inflam- mation. Thelungssoon heal, and all danger ispassed. Do not let the disease become chronic because of neglect. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chermits New Yorks