The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1599 POLICY. formerly “innumerable and dangerous thing. 1 measures now before Con- i toward put- the banks, Manager en the y will ...Market and Third, S. F. dialn 18CS. EDITORIAL ROOMS i Stevenson St. hold as s d in the creation oi 15 Cents Per Week. Centx. Mail, Including Postage: ng Sunday), one year..$8.00 Deltvercd by Carriers, Single Coples Terms by (ine) (includ o [y ALL AL uding Sunday), ALL—Ry Single Month.. © CALL One Year... WEEKLY CALL One Year.... All postmasters are authori subseriptions. sSample copies will be forwarded when requested ed to increase by per letting th -a ..... 905 Droadway « Mansger Forcign Advertising, Marguette Build- GEORGE KROGNESS, ing, Chicago. AEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: CARLTON... . ..Herald Square is of equal v here, because ths i gives the [ S par everyw NEW YORK RE PERRY LUKENS JR. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. 0. News Co.: Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditoriem Hotel. TATIVE: Tribune Building E 4 d it always a gold g these banks cont how ract the currency? ould do it issue and to call back to 1e ever tell v they NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. wn of the thi d. The issue has gone into myriad ited to be checked against in far or can the banks hold money by WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. . Wellington Hotel J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—! Montgomery street, cor- ner Clay, open antil 0 o'clock. 300 Hayes open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister 30 o'clock. 615 1 0 o'clock. 10 o'clock. street, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1096 Valencia wstreet, open antil § o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open antil ® o'clock. AW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. e Cus- , the e use ¢ 1 pose the AUCTION SALES. bankruptcy. such a pol his derstand this time But the c« and therefore ed that bridge, ut crossing it. 1 report expressed the customary to do its v the brevity of its term of office in pass- mpl e, » the various branches of the v approvin f a happy holiday e operator at the deposited in the slot. This signal ous, we er at- nd thereby m undoubtedly a great deal of dissatis- 1sed in this manner, together with the t the boxes will get out of order, as admitted In tall with the | we could faction out of them in reference to any id your co ttee Is were given to t light, which is ¢ how the operator might 1 no appeal x cted-in some other way of rel all concerned wi ile only bout w ers it is n b3 g of what h and Moody were and looking t would ults their were to the s: gs of the s om their touch t telephone, as there is no doubt in our minds that flat rate is the only satisfactory way of giving the d service.” the recommendation that the nickel-in-the- away with the public will hardly , it should not be abolished until 1 be the effect of the resolution re- ired switch to be’ made before the 1 A company which lets on their llowers of one may her in alli- f all religion, all 1 is required. deposit of the nick to remedy a defect of mechanism cleansing and sweeten- . €een- | cannot see a wa irg of that operates in favor of the company may very . N WG bie kly find a remedy en the defect works After yesterday's e between California and the ™ Carlisle Tndians who will say that football is not bar- | i e 5. o4 """ | Another point of particular interest is in the state- the redskins, after triveling nent: the of t with victory h the “In regard to the Supervisors we find that the reprehensible habit of selecting the street light fund he aid of the depleted treasury is worthy of severe censure. The city is plunged in total dark- ness for a period, exposing its citizens to the ravages of the criminal element on that account.” It is hardly fair to lay upon the Supervisors the whole | The doliar limit of taxation with the resulting limit of, | revenue was demanded the voters of the city and | the Supervisors were doing no more than fuifilling | their pledges when they limited the tax. In mak- {ing the apportionment to the various funds the advice of the Mayor and of the Merchants’ Associa- tion was asked and in the main followed. While the Supervisors are thus not solely respon- | sible for the lack of ilumination, it is, however, none the less-gratifying to have the evil pointed out by the Grand Jury. It is high time to provide San Fran. cisco with adequate street lights every night in the year. The ill lighting of the streets has something more than 2 nuisance. {to come to | us season ) he year it wded with cartiiquakes, storms, wrecks, fires’ and mining disasters. H | s have California’s share of the Lawton fund uted beiore New Year's day. 1 without havi Make your sub- to be coaxed for it. ific officials are as willing as ev ey cannot fell what caused the accid 2less it were the cat. e b more our climate has justified our brag. We | 4 have had a lovelier day for Christmas if we it to order. ce 1= money and the labor we expend on parks h us-and remain for future generations 1o become It is a menace to g of those who re- | blame for the deficient lighting of the city. | the community in many ways and it is to be hoped some means be found to remedy it. PARK IMPROVEMENTS. IFFERENCES of opinion are at all times valu- D able, since by bringing about controversies they compel the advocates of each side to con- sider more carefully every point of any cause over which contention goes on. has been lost by the appearance of an active opposi- tion to the proposed extension of the park system. It has led the advocates of progress to make a more th h canvass of the people than they would have oro done oth | impro opposition compelled the campaign of education. | The time has now come for closing the contro- y. The days for the special elections are at hand. To-morrow the voters are to decide whether San Fr: s equal to the tion of our time, t jectors have been nd have answered ve they have been com- It has been shown that the cost will ver: The arg ed to with been will serve all classes of citizens and the city; that the grading will not s of jure adjoining property. In short every ob- jection which has been made has been promptly met, and the issue as defined by the arguments on both sides is the simple one of choosing between progress and stagnation; between keeping up with the proces- sion of civilization and lagging in the rear of Ameri- can cities, The economy of purcha ure g at once the areas oi d required for the proposed park improvements is not to be overlooked. As Mayor Phelan said in ddr in cl g the campaign on Saturday: 1¢ good and estimable gentlemen of the opposi- v we cannot afford it. You can't get anything its his a wi be a good investment, viewed solely from a ess standpoint. - A little over thir we 1 $800,000 for Golden Gate Park; to-day it is worth $11,000,000. Forty-six years ago New York paid $8,000,000 for Central Park; to-day it is worth $200,000,000. 1 Francisco is bound to grow; it cannot be held back; and what we want to do is to and hold land for public breathing place: ds for the pop d to come. t to correct the disad iges under whi e city has labored, and we must build on t e the city is y V. best of sc tem to protect the finest hos- ation that is bo ds out of the hos- W a city to be- will drive people that they will or our peopl ) als so far as possible. You can come so dilapidated and ugly that it or you can make it .so beaut s bent the tree ”; now in the youth oi San Francisco it is to bend the m attaining all that makes a city des: residence for cultured men and wc The gen- did in providing lden Gate Park, but we can see that they erred in le as a place of ion now passing away well not preserving the p not extending the panhandle to Market street. r us to rectify that last error and to so extend the park system that it will be more than double its pres- ent value to the publ It uld be done by a well imous vote, and it is to be hoped the cam- 1ad the effect of rousing 4ll nportance of the issue. THE TEACHERS' CONVENTION. F;Im.\! the Teachers' Conv bles to-day in S the meeting includes r ' Convention which assem- nento much is to be ex- ine of work prepared for y important issues, and the State are expected to be present and take part the discussions upon the problems involved. Much of the time of the con- vention will of course be taken up in the technical or pected, for the ¢ foremost educators of th routine work of the Teachers’ Association, but that | will not prevent due consideration of other subjects of deeper import and of wider interest. According to the programme which has been an- nounced ome oi the principal features of the proceed- ings will be a discussion upon the surest and prompt- est means of eliminating personal and political inter- ference with our public school system. For the pur- | pose of getting authoritative views upon the issue, the teachers have invited a number of eminent men to address them and take part in the debate. The discussion therefore promises to be one which will suggest at least some means of limiting, if not wholly putting an end to, what has long been recognized as one of the most serious difficulties in the of earnest educators. The management of public schools in either the | city or the country is never an easy matter under the best circumstances. There are a thousand obstacles in the way of success. The teacher has to deal with the perversities of childhood augmented by the in- fluence of numbers which impels every unruly. child to be more unruly than he would be at a school where there are lesser numbers; there are the per- | versities of parents who do not always exert an in- | fluence that is helpful to the teacher; there are also | difficult problems arising out of school laws; and | when to all these are added the push and the pull of | politicians or job seekers forever interfering, it will ! be seen that the career of a public school teacher is | one that calls for about as much patience, diplomacy and energy as any other in the world and receives but | small reward | It has been frequently pointed out that among the way 1e direction of | around the City Hall and in | It is | l HUNDREDS For that reason nothing | ¢ heavy increase of the tax rate; that | er a heavy expenditure or deep cuts which | out paying for it, and the purchase of the prop- | years age | | greatest. evils that affect and injure our system of | | public education are the frequent uses of the schools | as parts of the spoils of politics; the use of school | positions and school funds as perquisites by-munici- | pal bosses to reward their followers; the occasional selling of school positions by corrupt trustees; the | trading of positions in the schools jor the purpose | of obtaining positions elsewhere; and the wasting of | school funds cither by carelessness or by fraud. Much has been said of these evils and they have been again and again exposed and denounced by the .| press and sometimes by grand juries. Up to this | time, however, no really effective method of getting ;rid of them has been devised. Evidences of their | existence are to be found everywhere from New Eng- [1and to the Pacific Coast. There can be no question of the readiness of the people to apply a remedy if one can be devised, for on no subject are all classes of any American community more united than on that of keeping politics out of the schools. If, there- fore, the convention at Sacramento can formulate any plan of action well designed to eliminate the evil it will achieve a great benefit not only for the teach- ers but for the State, and for that reason its proceed- ings will be watched with more than ordinary interest. eIt et e tiet e tietiotiet ot ot e tiet et el tietiet ot e e tietielie @ | nding of the merits of the proposed | n would have been attained had not | [ | ‘ | i { f \ | WESTMINSTER, IN e ., R RLY 1500 people of this clty the § Army to for the they enjoyed yesterday. York City 2 their holiday meal, while in the Un! St the to 150,000, EA h Fellows’ buliding. street boxes and d to secure been at work he kitchen preparing the food, and when it was placed upon the tables it was tempting enough for the daintiest. Six long tables, capable of accommodating 4 people, were soan filled on the opening of the doors at 12 o'clock. An hour later and a similar rumber were admitted, those holding tickets standing in a long line on Ste- L R e s e el e el e s DISTRESS, BACK N PORT AEAIN The Transport Brokei -Down on the Bar. . The transport Westminster was com- | pelled to put back into port yesterday. She sailed*from here with 40 horses and mules and a g0 of fodder Sunday afternoon, but got no farther than the | lightship. While on the bar a small stop- cock blew out and the steam escaping into the furnaces blew a cloud of ashes and cinders into the bliges. The engineers w at a glance that in a few minutes the byge pumps would be choked and at once notified the bridge. The captainr brought the transport to an anchor and there she | remained all Sunday night and nearly all of Christmas day keeping the light- ship company. de, third assistant engineer, and | an oller, were slightly burned E Hansen was in & dangerous position, having lost his way in the dense volume of escaping vapor. One of the Chinese firemen found and led him to the gangway. He was burned | about the hands. Wade escaped with a | few slight burns and the fireman was not | injured. Apout noon vesterday Captains Batch- | clder and Barneson of the transport service went_out to the disabled vessel on the tug Relief. They found that it was almost an impossibility to clear the | bilges while the vessel was pitching and | tossing on the bar, so they ordered her | into port. The work of fixing the | Westminster up again did not take very | long, and she will be ready for sea again this morning. The damage was slight, but neither captain nor engineers would take any chances by going off shore with the bilge pumps llable to choke up at any moment. The crew as a whole was se- cretly glad that the accident happened as it gave nearly all of them a chance to eat their Christmas dinner ashore. The Westminster came back under her own steam. = The transport Valencia docked at Har- rison-street wharf yesterday. She will be turned over to her owners during the week and will then be got ready for the Cape Nome trade in the spring. The vessel is to be thoroughly overhauled and | the Union fron Works will put her boilers in first-class ehape. When completed the Valencia will be in as good condition agein as when she went into the trans- port service. The Pacific Steam Whaling Company intends running quite a number of its vessels to the gold fields this year. Be- sides the Valencia it will send north in the spring the Jeanle, Thrasher, Ex- celsior and Mary D. Hume. The latter vessel was the pioneer of the steam whal- | ing fleet to winter in the frozen north. In all she spent nearly nine years in the Arctic, and when coming home this year was nearly wrecked. Her stem was car- ried away and the vessel leaked so badly that she nearly went down with ail hands. She has now been rebuilt -and turned into as smart a little steam schooner as there is on the coast by Hay & Wright. She will run between St. Michael and Nome In connection with the Steam Whaling Company's fleet. The Thrasher has spent several winters in the frozen north and the Jeanle was one of the vessels succored by The Call's rellef expedition in 1597. She had a nar- row escape on that occasion, but has been practically rebuilt since then and is now as fine a four-masted steam !‘;P:o“;;r quthere s '-hflon. - xcelsior w: e pioneer steamer of the Kiondike fleet lhprlee years . She left here with every inch of flnpifl’x room on her taken, and she bids fair to &0 out again similarly crowded in the sight would hard-hea ness. It is cially the tramp and the shiftle drunk until their mon the chanc rafi send. Not a fe the uniforms of Un safe t ers had ev than ridi lows could be picked out at a glance Beluga. on his r payd from the fron guinett} proceeded to use it. | shot, but it went off before One of of his index finger, and Dr. Ro! gned on' on street waiting thei of the true there were s deserving 0 say wear- algning g a brakebeam. Th fel- again, but the aw him in spite He s eturn it yesterda E got the present of irgun 2 He loaded it with BB the shot lodged in the to extract it and dress the wound at the Harbor The a | Captain Hospital. entice boys on the tr: la_had a right merry Christm: Glass gave the members of the crew permission to invite their friends, ant and In Was cro dinner t officers. Begga terday. ity were bare-faced frauds., Drs. Mor n and Foulkes of the Harbor Hospital were tanding on the corner of Mission and East when a well-dressed man with a “peg-leg’” came alc empty salve box in his hs pitiful story about an open wou stump of his leg and no money to get the prescription, that gave him Insta relief filled. Dr. Morrison examin salve box and sald, “I can do better than give | you money to have that thing filled. Go over to the Harbor Hospital and 1 will be there in a few minut leg for walting thanked but as consequence the tender wded on every trip he boy Vig he made. and thelr guests had turkey and cranberry sauce, mash: tatoes, bread and = butter. mir { squash ple, oranges, nuts and For supper ‘they had cold boiled ha cream and e 1 other ¢ cles, Lemo ved throu the day: to al most enjovab! hands assembled on deck and gave three rousing cheers for Captain Glass and his | re were plentiful on the front ycs- Some of them were really deserv | ing of Christmas charity, but the major- and dress your you. Tell the ard you are for Dr. Morrison.” The beggar him and started for the hospitel, soon as the_doctor's back was turned he went up Mission street on the run and was not seen on the front again during the afternoon aN A presents them for whatever value th: have Fditor of The Call: in Boston a party of progressive citizens, | ppreciating the future greatness | fully a RGUMENT IN FAVOR OF THE BOND ISSUES | does not hold itself responsible for infons published In this column, but may of general interest as communicati Forty years ago of thelr city, organized for the purpose of devising ways and means of straight- | ening & narrow park system. nd widening their crooked and streets and purchasing land for It was estimated $3.000,000 would put the streets in order and buy sufficient land for park purposes, as property values were then very low. Scarcely had they put forth their plans when the “conservative” element of the community rose In their might and pr tested t hat it was an outrage on the city simply a job to provide drives for the rich and ta: home. that all X the poor man out of his The arguments were used then such projects were mere luxuries. Didn't they have the Common and Publie present wide streets in of foun but a mad the city 1 purposes? must These used against have those new-fangied ::lllo'h? l!.lre oulh:lf the rl‘l e mal human bein, such things for cuh?‘ e | Gardens? ‘They had been sufcient 1 past, were they not sufclent for. \he for the re? Who ever heard of Boston? Who ever heard tains and beautiful drives? Who man would be willing to put n_debt for such unnecessary Wouldn't it be better, if we to izgens as any and buy many other arguments were all efforts to place the cily and futu and in line for its (uun'rn development. What as It is u the result? rue there were no mortgages exe- OF GUESTS ARE DINED BY SALVATION ARMY LJ . 04 . o 3 4 . et eltietiete * K - o Kl Bl + o * b + g + o X B ) - /'\' & - o . - he sun near by and stumps of cigars or cigar- Dacco Jorit maybe the first good meal for weeks ssing. The s of no work, rent due and 1 all its hidesusness that were to the dining-room would be rtsickening. One family r an came with od for t had preve ot » ‘being distributed. A for shirt-fronts pork and beas sparkling fc $1, per yea ars and more than poses and the end profit by their mistakes ard the future? hall we do all he past, to retard ire of our city? . bear in mind that it ¥ to say that you are Ir favor « nprovements 'if you allow the How do all the voting. Re- that every man who is opposed to ond issues will go to the polls and *will count two against your one. V. JOHN E. QUINN. MORE PRAISE FOR THE CHRISTMAS CALL Angels Camp Record. st Sunday’s Call was one of the most tic holiday papers ever issued on the t cc It was full of news from the first page to the last one. The col - plement was indeed a beauty, . —— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A BACK DATE—C, K., Cit , fell on a Saturday. THE NEXT CENTURY—J. J. W., Nlei- laus, and R. E. B., Monroe, €al. The next century commences with y o January, 1%1. b NONE IN DESBEND-—C. B., Newville, Th""w (.n l'm‘-w-: States Consul at in Caucas Cauchsta a4 nor in Russtan THE SAMOAN ISLANDS-T. K., City. For reHable information as to the pros- for a young man with a ¥. Christmas, small apital who wishes to engage 1 business | on one of the Samoan Islands, address a Luthe: Osborn, United States Consul at ,\;\1..“ ——— Cal. glace fruit c per Ib at Townsend's.e —_—— Guillet's Ios Cream and Cakes | st5 tel. East 158 i h‘-m e Note 81 Fourth street, 5S¢ barber, | best eyeglasses, specs, 19 to 4e. ———— Special information supplied da business houses and puhllpc mtn“"' Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 310 gomery street. Telephane Matn 142 grocer; . he ont- . —_——— A Pleasant- Meeting. Teddy Hartman met a Jolly e d San Fruncisco friends Tt last week. old at & lunch at Zinkand's . RS S5 e LG, Oriental to Install. Oriental Lodge No. 144, Free a cepted Masons, will hold its fifteen koo dred and nineteenth communication o night. It will aiso be the thirty stk o { nual Installation of the electod ong o0 pointed offieers for the ensuing Masonie year. It will take pl. : in the Masonic Tempe, © S+ John's Hall —_— Personally Conducted Excursions In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourfst sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experienced excursion conductors accompany these efcur- sions to look after the welfare of passencers To Chicago and Kansag City every Sunday Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louts every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office. 623 Market street. No new year's table is complets without a | bottle of Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters, the | Sreat South American tonic of exquisite flavor, | The Fastest Train Across the Conti- | nent. The California Limited, ~Sas Connecting |r:ln :l:: 5 ;.‘. » La-v g Wi . Friday and Saturday. Finest equipped train and best track of East. mmoun.nl-nm-:."--'.