The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 21, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY., DECEMBER 21, 1899. SFRECKELS, Proprietor. ommunications to W, S, LEAKE, Manager PUNLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson St. Teiephone Main 1874, Deltvered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, § Centa. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sanday), one year..86.00 VAILY CALL (including Sunday), ¢ months.. 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday 1.50 DALY CALL—By Single Month 63c FLADAY CALL One Year e 150 MEEKLY CALL One Ye 1.00 All postmasters are elve bacriptions. be forwarded when reguested Sample coples wil OAKLAND OFFICE.. ....008 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mansger Forelgn Advertising. Marguette Build- ing, Chicago. NEW YORK ¢ CARLTON.. PONDENT: «. ++s.Herald Square ORRE « R SENTATIVE: Tribune Bullding NEW YORK REPR PERRY LUKRENS JR AEWS STAND CHICAG Sherman Ho P. 0. News Co.: Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: A. 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AUCTION SALES. &t T:45 o'clock, T eastward u! upon open the b has ria and ¥ n whip r intervention between her y that she had for curbing er power in Africa is the power everywhere, and as her e to her rivals, it is for objection to a fin at she must deny herself prey. h the Boers, for a The American people support 1ld stand with unbroken front destruction of republics by monarchies. port them because of opposition to icy of Great Britain, and it will be i to cowardice if the world permits the for- xation of the two republics. This being all nitted, the friendliest act toward Great Britain will be such timely intervention as will prevent a fruitless conquest and return the whole issue between her and the republics to diplomatic discussion and ultimate arbitration. It may be said with force that the Mon- roe doctrine restrains the United States from inter- ference. But our own thirst for conquest has so frac- at doctrine that to plead it against an effort ve republican government in South Africa would e derision. We say without hesitation, though y be merely on the plane of selfishness, that the administration at Washington would make a good stroke in domestic politics if it would cancel the bad effect of Mr. Choate’s too flamboyant ora- tory by offering just such intervention. It might make no friends for the President in England, but it would add greatly to the list in America. We have other secli-interests to plead. Recent events in the financial world are a flashlight on the fiscal situation. The monetary difficulties of England put upon New York a stress that was eased only by the pouring of $21,000,000 into Wall street. Berlin felt the jar, and hardly a bourse in Europe escaped. If these bad signs are set in the financial sky by an cight weeks' war, the effect of a protracted cam- paign may well rouse the most somber anticipations. The interests of the financial and commercial world require peace, not war. Therefore England has not herself alone to consider, but must think of the wider interests of mankind. P — Mahmud Pasha, one of the numerous sons-in-law of the Sultan of Turkey, is a fugitive. He is accused of having stolen his wife's jewels, but it will probably 1 con- the ¢ sentiment e world is w general tured be found upon investigation that he merely fied from too much mother-in-law, T street, near | THE SACRIFICE OF LAWTON. HE death of General Lawton while leading his troops is a blow that is felt throughout the He had become the central fighting Jpine campaign. In his disregard bborn pluck and courage with d fought in the midst of ch- tacles that were more formidable an enemy, he renewed the best tradi- my and presented a character that was high and soldierly level of Sheridan and His ¢ d reireshed that confidence al- s felt by our countrymen that the occasion would & o er i the circumstances nor how dangerous the y an American appear equal to them all. To the army his death is a calamity, to the country a sorrow the keenest that has been felt since the Span- began. It has propagated the feeling that ces are out of proportion to any possible woul s. The rising feeling of exul- ised close of the war is checked ere reopens a long and bloody vista be- us and the peaceful occupation of the archi- hat population or upon i endship. It a small part of one aged in resistance to our government of alienar ch English children canhot itudinous races of India can ng foreign hand. The g to the Philippin whereas our develop c we found practically uninhab- h our people took possession, e Islands are already well populated by o have long made it their home, who r races, and to wh s far better adapted than it is se two facts, T len re- her races and climatic mplete his analogy , and suggest the Il we continue, expect- nant or hostile people with we do otherwise? His con- f the com- He asks: “Why over remote ver that the on s the establ; territory annexed, i and th government with th zation ines. We have es of conquest alone, d a greater cost in lives, Every step that s which < rther like steps necessary, with like results. Along this course ng end is ht but ultimate ex- I besom from the islands all of seli-government in the th which they fight for it. At the distant end of this policy there rises the prospect ion that has felt no aspiration d has no intellectual impres- aration for it. Those who as- dead, slain, as it will appear to the rest, pirations, the process of educating the ull and cowardly becomes a gloomy prospect. The death of Lawton and the events in Negros and Cebu bring into more decided focus a temperate, otic and wise discussion of the policy that is cost- so high a price. The people will ask if an au- thoritative declaration, on the lines of Schurman’s conclusions, will not stop the conflict by impressing the natives not merely with the hopelessness of re- | sistance but with the hopefulness of a willing and co-operation to secure practically all that It will be observed that Schur- ternative their incorpor: as citizens and the erection of ntry into a State. We do not think that the | American people will ever consent to this. There is | leit, then, military subjugation and endless govern- | ment by the strong hand or a promise of ultimate in- dependence. Lawton's death seems to have no bright and con- at a great cost i crowned by ke man contemplates as tion into the republic their cou soling lesson in it. But if some sane policy issue | from the awiful sacrifice his fame will shine the | brighter. | — The dismissal of the cases against the sure-thing | faro men of this city on the ground that State laws do not prohibit gambling carries with it the sugges- tion that some State laws ought to be changed, and | changed quickly. | IRRIGATION AND THE CENSUS. | ROM the Director of the Census information r:has been received that special effort willbe made by the Division of Agriculture of the Twelith | Census of the United States to collect and tabulate important data relating to irrigation in the arid and semi-humid regions of the United States. A prelimin- ary schedule has been prepared and will soon be sent out to obtain the names of corporations and indi- viduals owning irrigating canals or ditches. This is one of the essential steps for securing desired infor- mation regarding the extent and value of such irri- gation works and their sources of water supply. In the preliminary schedule a request is made for the names of the principal canals or ditches in their order downstream. Request is also made for the name and postoffice address of some persan who can give detailed information concerning each ditch. The principal schedule, now in course of preparation, will be mailed to the addresses thus obtained calling for further- data, which will be supplemented by de- tailed statistics gathered by the census enumerators. It should be noted by all interested in the subject that these various inquiries of the Census Office in nn way conflict with or duplicate the work with refer- ence to irrigltiol'l which, is being conducted by any other department of state. The most nearly related | inquiry is that of the Geological Survey, which, like that of the census, is under the immediate direction of Mr. F. H. Newell, the special agent for irrigation in the Eleventh Census and hydographer of the Geological Survey. P> The subject is one of vast interest to California, and it is gratifying to know that the Census Bureau is preparing to gather comprehensive statistics of the subject. The information thus obtained will mate- rially aid the more particular work which has been begun under the supervision of Elwood Mead. It will be readily apparent that the volume and value | of these statistics will depend very largely upon the attention and interest shown therein by those engaged in irrigation, and it is earnestly hoped that all to whom the schedules are addressed will appreciate the | importance of the request and make prompt and care- 10 ful reply. In this way only will it be possible to make the information concerming irrigation full and complete. If some of the British reports of operations in South Africa are to be taken in sober earnest there is reason to believe that nature Has made a strange compact with the Boers and is no mean fighting com- panion. It is said that a British flying column has been stopped in its flight by a river. ROADSIDE FRUIT IN EUROPE. NE of rent nu ta d Sta success whi e most interesting papers in the tur- ver of Consular Reports is that con- by Hilary S. Brunot, g 4n account h has attended the experiments of various opean Governments in planting fruit or nut trees g the country roads. The movement began in but has'been followed elsewhere, until now derable number of districts in Ger- irg and Belgium orchards. In Wurte ed at $200,000, but since t i al trees coming into bearing has increased the revenue more than threefold. In Saxony the an- nual income derived from fruit trees along the na- tional roads rose from $9000 in 18% to $42,000 in 1892, amounting to a total income of $340,000 for the thirteen years. Be! istics show that up to the = ne the number R T B e SO S S 3 Consul at St. Etienne, concerning the ! year 1894 there had been planted along the highways | that kingdom 741,571 fruit trees, which furnished road fund with a revenue amounting to $2,000,000. All that has been done in other countries, however, is but a trifle in comparison with what has been ac- complished in France, where the production of the roadside trees is estimated at $60,000,000. For the purpose of providing proper care for the | trees the road supervisors and employes are care- ructed in hortitulture. The kinds of trees s. In Southern roads are planted with a species of wild y, th t of which is used for making wine, alcohol and a peculiar species preserves. In Touraine p! of o s . | 1m trees prevail, in Limagne the walnut, in Auvergne the chestnut and ip Normandy the apple | tree. s to be noted that these st from being denounced as an governmental competition with private enterprise, were brough: about in France mainly by a demand of the orchard- ists themselves. Consul Brunot says: years ago the picturesque roads of France were lined with stately poplars, but, although ate economics, so far “Some twenty | Northeastern | ornamental, their roots went far and wide, rendering | the adjacent fields sterile, and plows were continually stopped by offshoots lying almost on the surface of the soil. The farmers appealed in such strong terms that the communes decided the fall of the poplar and the roads v.ere cleared of these trees in favor of the h le but more useful mirabelle (a small plum), nd thousands of baskets of this fruit are shipped to ris daily. Another interes output of fruit of this kind, so far from injuring the orchard-owners, led to the development of a new industry, for when the crops of mirabelles proved too large to be handled in ordinary way French in- genuity was set to work to find a new method of handling them, with the result that large quantities are now illed, and the alcohol, slightly perfumed, finds an increasing sale at increasing price. Five or six years ago the product was sold in Paris for from | 20 to 30 cents a quart, but now it cannot be obtained | for less than 50 cents, and the finer grades bring $1 | a quart. The facts are mainly interesting as illustrations of the extent to which econc s are being practiced in the heavily taxed countries of Europe. The income derived by the communes from the trees is an im- | portant addition to the road funds. The vast urban | populations afford a market for an almost unlimited | quantity of fruit, and hence the success of the under- taking wherever it has been tried. | ————— There may be some satisfaction in the fact that a blow has been struck by local authorities at the itrafl'\c and profit in misery. The inglorious end of | the Eureka Home is an indication that child torture has not yet become locally popular. A Santa Cruz gambler has been convicted for ope- rating a sure-thing proposition which he shrewdly | dubbed “Klondike.” His victims probably realize that they were at the wrong end of the game to feel the full significance of the new term. Mayor Snow of Oakland says that the greatest evil against which the town must fight is that it is too near to San Francisco. As far as any one is informed there is absolutely nothing to deprive Mr. Snow of the privilege of moving. The triumph of Uncle Sam’s colored troops has been won. They have conquered the Filipinos with a cakewalk, and late dispatches show that the con- qugred natives are everywhere feting and entertaining their black conquerors. o4 The British War Office, it is said, has awakened to the necessity of a vigorous campaign in South Africa. One would think that the affair had already been speedy enough even to suit the fire-eaters of old England. The City Receiving Hospital ought to be placed in the category of pitfalls which for public safety are under police surveillance. Shady transactions are matters of almost daily record in the institution. An Oakland minister wants the United States to stop the war in the Transvaal. Uncle Sam has prob- ably arrived at the conclusion that as a peacemaker he is not a glittering success. —_— There is good authority for the statement that there is in process of organization in this city a mil- lion dollar cannery trust. It might properly be called a can-solidation of capital. The old story of the Ishmalite is being told in the sufferings of China. She is the outcast and the prey of nations. g g point is that the increase of the | *+ P> +Peded e e -siedeie 4093 e = D R e o I | | PRI BIP P00 0P LRI B 0PI T IR I P I TP PP I 00000000 0R P00ttt t0 0ttt tttttt sttt stdoittotdotetdodotdidotodototstdsssdodisdedote Baaas oo 2 ] 'The Inglorious End of the Christmas Turkey ~Chicago Dally News. THEUE (AL S Christmas Edition COMPLIMENTED Vallejo Times. The San Francisco Call's Christmas | edition issued Sunday attracted much at- | tention. The cover of the paper was an artistic triumph. . Woodland Democrat. The Christmas number of The Call was a notable publication. It was ndt remark- able for its size so much as for the ex: cellence of its selection of miscellany and for the manner in which it was f{llus- trated. It contained many choice stories and sketches, appropriate to the season, written by eminent literary people, and the artists who contributed to the pic- torial beauty of its pages are recognized as among the most t;&lvn.led on the coast. California Demokrat, Dec. 18, The Christmas number of the San Fran- cisco Call must be classed as one of the heretofore unexcelled performances in the newspaper line in our city. It is not so much in the large number of pages (52) as in the artistic make-up and its literary merit. The colored plates of the supple- ment are of exquisite beauty and an ar- tistic handling of the subjects which we had npever before had presented to us. This Christmas number, practical as it is, is so grand that every one should send copies to friends In the East and in Europe. The technique as well as the edi- torial work is such that the The Call has reason to be proud of its performance of yesterday. (ERSNENDS N, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BTAFF AND BALL—O,, City. The steel staff on the top of The Call bullding Is ten inches in diameter, and the gilt ball on the top of the staff is nineteen inches in diameter. The ball is 362 feet above the ground. DANCING SCHOOLS—Beatrice, Val- lejo, Cal. If Beatrice will send a seif- addressed and stamped envelope to this department a list of dancing schools will be mailed to her. This department does not advertise any business. TESLA—A Subscriber, City. Tesla is the postoffice name for a place in Alameda County that is known as Corral Hollow. It is fifty miles from San Francisco, twelve miles from Livermore and thirty- six miles from Stockton. It is reached rail from San cisco to Livermore an from there twelve miles by stage; or one may go by boat to Stockton and by rall | from there to Tesla. = The place was | named Tesla after the great electrician | of that name, for at that place it was the | Intention to " erect an immense electric | plant. | AN IRISH-AMERICAN—E. H., Mark- ham, Cal. An Irish-American is a per-| son born In Ireland who settles In the United States, or a person born in the United States of Irish parents. A per- son born in Ireland who comes to the| United States, becomes a citizeh thereof, is Irish by birth and American by adop- tion, consequently is called an Irisl American. TODDY—J. L D., City. If you had read | Answers to Correspondents in the issue of The Call of December 17 you would have found the answer to your question | about toddy and you would have saved | yourself the trouble of writing a letter of ]complnlm and adding, “Do you ever In- | tend to publish the answer; if not, state | your reasons?” J. L. D. and other cor- | respondents are Informed that edch one must not consider himself the only cor- | respondent and thag his query can an- | swered the day after the letter of inquiry | | is received. A very lagge number of let- | ters are received every week and the | answers are turned in numerically and published in the order that they are| turned in. Correspondents should not feel disappointed because the answers to their questions do not appear within a day or two. All will appear in rotation as mn‘ as space permits. ————e THE MINT—L. A, City. The positions | in the United States Mint are controlied | by the Civil Service Commission of the | United States and are in no way affected by the Civil Service Commission under the city’s new 8arter. The United States Civil rvice Commission says: “There is no need of seeking the aid of any prom- inent or presumably influential person to secure an application blank or an appli- cation, and no recommendation other than those provided for in the application blank should be forwarded to the com- mission, as the rules forbld the filing of any such letters with the application.” In other words no one can obtain a posi- tion in the Mint or in any other depart- ment without taki an examination. Examinations are held in the lpl’ifl{, and fall of the year and applicants should lace lves in communication with he department In which to take an ex- amination. Under the new charter in San Fran women will got be barred from examination for any position they can fill, but they will have to take the clvil service examination. As soon as the charter Inl.:nornuon heads of de- may. e tempo sixty days, and it is it after that all persons will have to take the civil service examination. For the positions in Insurance companies asked ahout, make application to any insurance company. —————— Thanksgiving extra mince ple. 905 Larkin st.* ———— Townsenl's famous broken and mixed candles—two pounds 25 cents. 7 Palace Hotel building. :* —_— Fine plum pudding at Townsend's. —_——— Note 81 Fourth st, §¢ barber and gro best eyeglasses, specs, lic to #e. —_—— Time to send your Eastern friends Townsend's California Glace Fruits: e b in fire-etched boxes. 627 Market; Palace * No waiting at Townsend's: plenty of help. Thousands of packages of Caltfornia Glace Fruits and Candies packed all ready to band out. €27 Market street. . —_——— Spect; information supplied dally to business houses and public men b the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 nr.np gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, o Ordered to Vacate. Wil remove In January to 735 Market street, Olsen grocery, and move back to 639 Market street, Palace Hotel buflding in February. Townsend Glace Fruit and Candy Factory, 627 Palace Hotel bidg. ¢ —_——— Officers Report for Duty. Captain J. D. Poindexter, assistant sur- :‘mn. reported at the Presidio yesterday. e was assigned to temporary duty the recruits pending his (mmy rm{xu:"rr: Manila. Second Licutenant wullnm H Noble, Thirteenth Infantry, also reported and recelved a similar assignment. —_——— The Fastest Train Across the Conti- nent. The California Limited, Santa Fe Route Connecting train leaves & P> Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. equipped train and best track of any Iine to the East. Ticket office, €25 Market st. —_—— No new year's table Is complete without a bottle of Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters, the great South American tonic of exquisite favor. —_—— Personally Conducted Excursions In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experienced excursion conductors accompany these excur- slons to look after the welfare of passeneers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal and Toronto every nesday. To St. Louls every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 625 Market street.