The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRA ISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Commun ations to W. §. LEAKE, Manager ess A PUBLICATION OFFICE.. Telephone ) et and Third, S. F. 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1874, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Simgle Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year..8$6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months.. 3.00 DAILY CALL (imcluding Sunday), 3 months.. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month.......00e.. 65¢ SUNDAY CALL Ome Year.... . 150 WEEKLY CALL Ome Year.. . 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. sample coples will be forwarded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE +...908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mamager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Build- ing, Chicago. YORK CORRESPONDENT: NEW C. €. CARLTON.... ....Herald Square AEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PEREY LUKENS JR.. 29 Tribune Building CHICAGO WS STANDS: Sherman House; P. 0. News Co.: Great North- eru Hotel; Fremont House: Aunditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Walderi-Astorin Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFIC J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH Clay OFFICES—3527 Montgomery, corner of 0 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open nruil ) o'clock ) McAllister. open until @ o'cloek. 615 Lurkin, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, opem until 10 o'clock. i Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 10896 Valencia. open until 9 o'clock. W .. Wellington Hotel LABOR IN HAWAIL “JOLLOWING close upon introduction of the [ report submitted by Harold Sewall, the spe- | cial agent of the United States at Hawaii. | We have no light on Mr. Sewall's functions, nor what is expected of a special agent of this country in Hawaii, but this report is of the deepest interest to American labor and to American employers. His | conclusions are in favor of contract labor. He says | that the ordinary manual labor there is performed | by unskilled workmen, contract and free, divided by nationalities among the Japanese, Chinese, Portu- guese, Italians, Hungarians and Hawaiians. He de- nounces free labor as fluctuating and uncertain; be- ing free to work or not, the free laborer may be here to-day and there to-morrow, always shifting about. He reports that while free men receive more per day than contract men, they are always liable to be di rged at a moment’s notice, and their posi- tion is precarious because distrust between employer and i is mutual. The naivete of this state- 1g. Very naturally a free laborer dis- moment’s notice when his employer e him by bond labor is likely to be shiity, here to-day and there to-morrow. Very naturally, rust an employer who hires him only , to discharge him and take a bondman soon as he can get one. sees at a glance that the purpose icertain employment of free men to become bondmen. Mr. Sewall are to force th proceeds to portray the happier condition of bond They get 50 cents a day and 'are bound for three years. Women get 25 cents a’day, and o time actually spent in labor is for. No pay is given during disability by or other cause. The plantation time- keeper registers each one's time accurately and by his roll. An overseer leads them out the morn and gives the signal to be- Mr. Sewall says his busi- y"”; whether this is done oy persuasion is not specified. 1 agent says these contract laborers are mother takes her baby to the field with is surely a privilege to be prized. Some- its, there are outbreaks when thump- crowd together. The of some laborer by the however, are usually t and work is resumed. He ese bondmen sometimes desert. To “Accumulated debt is a pro- rtion and pure laziness is another. These di little better wages entice many ter.” the process of getting ipal importations are ser emselves as bond- ysical examination, as the If sound and heaithy the immigration company better style than On he run away. This wn as a luxury. If single men barracks with from six to forty v is furnished “with a interest. settled ‘policy of eady 61,000 coolies seem indifferent to the United States by use of nd lab and “master.” des the master's preference makes the employment of free 1 , the vertigal ey o t besi bor, whi e reliable at labor ion. This ters in Hawaii or or they can e that Mr. bill to erect a territory in Hawaii comes a labor | he could | landing, his photo- | 1t is plainly in- ted States, | war, however, that is puzzling to the veterans of our | Civil War, and they are confinually asking explana- | tions of it. The cause of surprise is that the advance on either | side should be stopped by such a comparatively small loss as is reported in the dispatches from the British or such as come from Pretoria. Why should Buller abandon an attack upon the Boer positions when his loss in killed, wounded and missing all told did not exceed 10007 Why should the Boers after a victory in which their loss was comparatively trifling remain in their intrenchments instead of profiting by the British demoralization, and by an advance in force all along the line turn the repulse into a decisive vic- tory? By way of illustrating the difference between the method of fighting during our Civil War and that which now prevails on both sides in South Africa statistics have been compiled and published in con- siderable numbers. They shoéw that Americans | stormed heights fully. as formidable as those which confront Buller or Methuen, and did not deem them- | selves whipped on either side until the losses were !really so heavy as to make further effort useless. Some of these statistics, compiled by a correspondent of the New York Sun, are particularly instructive on the point. | The writer, who quotes his figures from the records of the War Department, says: | In one actlon one Union regiment lost 82 per cent. Three Union regiments lost between 70 and 80 per | cent. Seventeen Union regiments lost between 80 and 70 | per cent. | Forty-one Union regiments lost between 50 and 60 per cent. These numbers are all taken from the muster rolls | on file in the War Department, where each man is ac- counted for by name. The severest loss was by a Confederate regiment at Gettysburg, 720 out of 800 men, or % per cent. Another lost in one battle §2 per cent. Three lost in one battle between 6) and 70 per cent. ‘ Nine lost in one battle between 50 and 60 per cent. | | | Twenty-nine lost in one battle over 50 per cent. That was fighting. It was war in earnest. never safe to charge whole armies with cowardice, | and both the British and the Boers have long since | established a reputation for valor. It is safe to say, | however, that if Grant and his men had undertaken | to relieve Ladysmith they would never have turned | back from Tugela River after a loss of less than one | man out of twenty, and that if Lee and his army had | been in the place of the Boers on that day they would | never have permitted a retreating foe to get away without a countercharge to hurry them in their going. # THE HEPBURN C@ANAL BILL. i < E I] ingron that the House Committee on Inter- | state and Foreign Commerce has ordered a | .fa\-orable report on the Hepburn bill for the construc- ‘&ion of the Nicaragua canal. From the strength of | the lobby which opposed any action on the measure at this session of Congress it was feared that the biil | would not even come up for consideration, and that the whole issue would be postponed until the report RATIFYING indeed is the report from Wash- for a year at least. The action of the committee ren- ders it certain that the friends of the measure will | make an’ earnest contest in its favor and by forcing a debate will put Congressmen on record. Thus, if the bill be not passed, people will at least know the reason why. It is well known that for some time past the Panama Canal Company of France has been trying to induce the United States Government to take up that scheme instead of constructing a canal across | Nicaragua. A “campaign of education” has been | vigorously conducted in the interest of the scheme. Some of the most influential papers in the country | have either given it a direct support or have opposed the undertaking of the Nicaragua canal until the | Panama route should have been considered. The | recent organization of the Panama Canal Company of America was an important step in the direction of carrying that scheme to success. The prestige which it had already acquired is vast, and should the pro- | | moters of it succeed in getting the Commissioners of the Isthmian Canal Commission to show any kind of favor whatever toward the Panama route we should It is | of the Isthmian Canal Commission, which will not be | probably have a controversy that would divide the ‘ advocates of the canal enterprise into two camps, one | N Y, 30 rolls Axminster Carpets, 15 rolls Velvet Carpets, the 23 Golden Oak Chiffoniers, 11 Ladies’ Writing Desks, n the g1.50 kind, ready at.. $1.50 kind, ready at... 21 rolls Linoleum, for the kitchen, was 50c, your pick 60 rolis Stinson’s Tapestry Carpets, the $1.25 favorite. the $13.50 kind, to clean up at. 8 Swell Little China Closets, the $25.00 ones, for you at eat as wax, your pick at.... 3 Every odd lot has got to go. The new building most completed. The opening No time now for old-time prices. Look at this list for to-day: 160 Moquette Rugs, 54 inches long, the $2.50 onss, ready at. .$1.50 each -$1.00 yard $18.50 each et eisrmasenina BN T . anch A hundred things we didn’t tell of—for instance, 2o Kitchen Stoves at 50 per cent saving, owing to our fight with the stove comtine. How will I get to this big Home Store? Take Fillmore, street cars direct to the door. Market-strest car) to Sixteenth street. Mission or yellow Kearny- Valencia (blue The store occuples three acres, so you cannot miss it. Pattosien’s, corner 16th and Mission S Come early to-day. Open Saturday evenings. * | ts. ’, — 4 W AROUND THE CORRIDORS | H. B. Mulr of Ukiah is at the Grand. Judge John F. Davis of Jackson is at the Palace. C. H. Schiveley, a banker of Oroville, 1s | at the Grand. | W. H. Haiton, a Modesto attorney, is a | guest at the Lick. ! George Brown, a mining man of Jack- | son, is at the Russ. | J. M. Canty, a rancher of Grayson, is | stopping at the Lick. | Sam Frankenheimer, a merchant of | Stockton, 1s at the California. | Dr. M. Spitta of Bremen arrived last ‘! night and is stopping at the California. | Dr. M. S. Taylor of Livermore, accom- panted by his wife, has registered at the Palace. L. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Castle and Mrs. Mary E. Tenny of Honolulu are reg- istered at the Occidental. | The Stanford Glee and Mandolin Club | arrived last night after a trip throughout | the State. They are temporarily stop- | ping at the Occidental. | J. F. Sanders, the well-known Colorado | mining man, arrived in this city yesterday | ana is stopping at the Palace. He is ac- | companied by his wife. Louls James, Mrs Hendricks, Miss | Kathryn Kidder, Miss Singer and Mr. and | Mrs. Charles B. Hanford, all of the James-Kidder company, are stopping at| the Occidental. | NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Work was formally begun on the new nk clear the corre- good and stocks r of the fall of < arms else- € ced no effect on the \market the faces of operators e her parts of the world. There is goods of various nts are heard from any quarter. trees is reported very large by es for most varieties have been 1.1 that Roberts was sent out r the discredit of being super- general of lower rank than himself, it he British have a finer strategy in man- generals than in conducting the war. n hic message to the Supervisors Mayor Phelan i the various commi ns will be expected to the policy of the Mayor. Is that what the mission is preparing to do? bound to show they can do some if they can’t relieve Ladysmith they can relieve h vers who ion with cane loyers in the favoring the Panama route and one the Nicaragua ronte. That antagonism would of course entail long delay and might defeat the measure for years to come. The bill as reported provides for a canal which shall be wholly under the control of the United States Gov- ernment. Section I authorizes the President of the United States to acquire from Costa Rica and Nicar- agua the control of such portions of their territory as may be desirable “on which to excavate, construct borer’s l»‘f'*-_‘ ”{_ ¢ pound | 5nd defend a canal of such depth and capacity as will aiian bond labor di ces a pound he sufficient for the movement of ships of the great- American free labor, and therefore dis- est tonnage and draft now in use from a point near Greytown, on the Caribbean Sea, via Lake Nicar- agua to Brito, on the Pacific Coast.” Section 2 pro- vides that when the President has obtained control over the territory he shall direct the Secretary of War to excavate and construct the canal, and the final sec- places free la As far as employer and laborer are both concerned there are two remedies. One is the extension of American labor laws, anti-contract, to I ii. The other is r the Ameri laborer and 23 cents § wife, with the privilege of taking her baby into bor. eight-hour wainl s a day f the field with her. The Call had a most intimate knowledge of Ha- waiian conditions, and knew the effect of a vertical su shed them before annexation. We warned the peo- ple of just what appears in Special Agent Sewall's ial report. But certain American newspapers were then dilating on the “Paradise of the Pacific” and pointing American laborers to vineclad cottage in eternal summer, under the palm groves of Maui. They had their way. The annexationists prevailed, and the cottage and American labor and wages have become a dissolving picture, and in their place is the not docked for leaving a stint unfinished. We now desire to say that as Special Agent Sewall »orts the labor situation in Hawaii, so it will be the Philippines, Porto Rico, Cuba and every square inch of tropical territory we buy or steal. Nature is not fickle and her laws are fixed. There has never been any highly productive labor in the tropics ex- cept bond labor; none work there except on com- pulsion, and we enter the tropics with the employer as 2 master and labor as a bondman, to be urged by the whip and killed on revolt. A PUZZLER TO AMERICANS { WING to the distance from us of the war in | South Africa and the rigid censorship exer- cised over all reports sent out from the front | it has been impossible to form a clear idea of the dif- | j ficulties with which each cide has had to contend. It |is known that the British have not been able to ad- | vance to the relief of the beleaguered garrisons, and that the Boers when victorious in repulsing the Brit- ish have never ventured to follow up the victory. | There may be good and sufficient reasons for this hesitation on each side, and judicious critics, in the absence of fuller information, will not undertake to condemn the inaction. There is one feature of the 1 and tropical conditions upon white men and pub- | tion provides that the sum of one hundred and forty millions of dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated for the completion of the work. It will be seen that the provisions secure about all that has been contended for. They provide for a canal owned by our Government, constructed by it, and wholly under its control. The bill eliminates all fear that the canal might be under the control of cor- porations or that the enterprise might be used for the purpose of obtaining subsidies for a syndicate of promoters. Of course approval by the committee is far from being approval by the House. The battle has not been won. All that has been attained is success in the preliminary skirmish. The opponents of the measure are numerous and strong, nor do they lack for specious arguments to de- fend their cause. It is always easy to find good rea- sons for delay. In this case it will be urged that since ! an Isthmian Canal Commission has been appointed to examine all the routes and make a report, it would be best to delay action until they have completed their investigations of the comparative merits of the different routes. The one answer to that is that the | routes have been investigated again and again by commission after commission, and it is not at all likely the present one can add anything of importance to what is already known to Congress. Nothing is to be lost, therefore, by taking the measure up at once, but much will be gained, for the need of the canal is pressing and the sooner we get it the greater will the benefits be. 2 | Dr. Jordan’s prophecy that the British empire will | go to pieces within a century is safe in one respect at least—no one old enough to pay attention to | it will live long enough to find out if it be false. | By effecting an organization for co-operative pur- | poses, the fruit growers may not devise a means for | owning the earth, but they will at least keep them- | selves from being crowded off it. Admiralty harbor works at Dover on De- cember 15, when the first block of con- crete, weighing forty tons, was laid. | The German navy estimates provide | | $750.000 for reserve ammunition and money | to begin the construction of two drydocks | at Wilhelmshafen and one dock at | | Danzig. | The British torpedo-boat destroyer | | Earnest recently grounded at Tangier, | and after having got off managed to do | 21 knots easily, with one engine and twog | after-boflers. The Deutche Flottenverein, which cor- responds to the British Navy League, has just issued its first annual. The book contains matters relating to the navy and | merchant marine of all countries and has plans of naval vessels drawn to a scale | of 1.1000. The apparent chief object of its | publication is to show the necessity for | a larger increase of the German navy. The Nijo, torpedo-boat destroyer built for Japan, was launched, with steam up, from the Yarrow yards December 1§ last. Two days later the boat had a prelimi- nary trial and made 31.206 knots, and on | the 2ist the official three hours' trial at sea came off, during which she averaged 31.15 knots, with an air pressure of less than one inch. The boat carried a load of thirty-five tons. The Italian navy will be augmented dur- ing the present year by the commissioning | of the battleship Ammiraglio di St. Bon, | the armored cruisers Varesa, Vettor Pisani, Garibaldl and torpedo cruisers | Agordat and Coatit, besides six torpedo- boat destroyers and several torpedo-boats. L Work will be hurried on the battleships Regina Margherita and Ammiraglio Brin, now in course of construction, and plans are nearly completed for six cruisers of one type. A trial of the 5-inch armor for the Rus- sian battleship Retvizan. building at Phil- adelphia, gave very satisfactory resuits. The plate was backed by twelve inches of oak, behind which were two five-eighths- inch skin plates, and the projectile used was & 5-inch shell weighing fifty pounds. Five shots were fired with velocities rang- | ing from 2057 to 2099 foot seconds, giving blows varying from 1466 to 1527 foot tons, | and none of the shells penetrated the plate more than two inches and the heav- jest blow dishing it not to exceed one- quarter inch. The plate was made by the new Krupp process. The British Admiralty has discontinued the use of training ships fitted with sails, and substituted modern cruisers without sail power. This action has, of course, aroused naval officers to give vent to their feelings and opinions regarding the merits of the training system under the old and the new plan. The London Times of last month contained columns of views ex- pressed, the older officers generally disap- proving of the new system, but Admirals ‘Hopkins and Erskin evidently realize that with the departure from old fighting | ment has recommended the construction | 2+3+0+0—0~0+0+0—0—0+’ I be A DAILY HINT FROM PARIS, o/ | .¢+0—0+0—0—0+0—0—‘+0¢.\ | 1 | | | | | D e e e o e e o I e o B g P B o ; 1 @ t ° t * t ® i INDOOR DRESS. The dress represented is of mauve lib- erty velvet, covered with mousseline de | soie to match. The corsage i{s a bolero, fastening at the side. The haif-sleeves are in muslin and lace. The tunic is of muslin, showing the velvet skirt, which | is tight in the upper . The scarf| across the bolero is of muslin and the | waistband of mauve satin ribbon. [ et S e R e e e i et o ] rigged steamer will never restore the lost art.” In the United States navy opinions | differ among officers as to the merits of sailing-ship training and practical ex- perience to be gained in a modern vessel. A salling training ship, the Chesapeake, has just been buiit, and the Navy Depart- | of two vessels with auxillary sail and | steam power for training purposes. Fourteen torpedo-boat destroyers were added to the British navy last year. They were all of the 30-knot class and ranged | from 300 to 324 tons. Their trials were a | continuous run of three hours under full | power to establish their speed, and a run also under full power to ascertain their | coal consumption. The names of the | boats, with average horsepower, speed and coal consumption, are as follows: 2 2 = | amor |30 |7EE 3 BOAT. 3 g g 3 H 83° 686 [ 2901 | 2m €28 | 3009 ( ... s15 | 3013 | 3% ass | S0z | 24 e | nam | 340 & | xS | 13 so7 | soam | 2os S04 | 30205 | 238 67 | 037 | 230 2 | 3004 | 23%0 &1 | 08 | 260 sz | 0152 [ 2840 €45 | p2m | 260 14/ Leven 6159 | 30383 | 2088 Boats designated by numbers 1, 2 and 13 were built by Palmer and fitted with Reed boilers; boats numbered 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 were built at Barrows, Laird and Clydebank, and bave Normand boil- ers with modifications, while boats Nos. §, 7 and 8 were built by Thornycroft, and are of course fitted with the well known boll- ers from that noted buflder. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GOODS BY SAMPLE—C. V.. City. There is a law that requires individuals who sell by sample to pay a licen: e se, but it is not CONSUL AT COLOGNE-J. ., Sacra- | mento, Cal._John A. Barnes Is the Unicad tates Consul at Cologne, German: write to him on any subjéct address hiry by his name and the title of his office. A NATURALIZED CITIZEN-A. s City. If a man was born fn Ireland, came to the United States and in course of time became a citizen thereof, he would be a pative of Ireland and & citisen of the es, o Ly el ommonly spoken of as an THE GAME OF CASINO—H. C., Nico- laus, Cel. Ir playing casino the players methods, steam having supplanted sail, etc., a different system of training fis needed. Admiral Hopkins thus expresses “Seamanship as understood by the handling of a ship under sail has gone by the boards, and the training of a few officers and men for short periods in a efther ecree to count points as they mak, them o~ at the end of each play. If the rst is agreed u; + frst is SSreed upon. then on the last (uireu uumber of = ather D o 3 ints goes out, but if lowed, th x.;glda;"c;:d;" as the n'.ni 1o Sonat feer notwithstanding that : E‘Io“:n:.x :‘anv.o' ho ‘first makes (he re- | mors than enough to go out. The count is cards, lgldel. big casino, littie ¢ o and aces. If in a game A has 4 poincs make and B has a like number of po to make, and A gets cards and two and B geta sp: s, b ces A MORTGAGE—J. B, City. A gage executed in this State for one would run four years after it becam before the statute of limitations be a bar to an action. In mortgage aw the time allowed ): | to be brought to quiet tf record clear. NOT FOR A QUARTER—M. F., Reno, Nev. You have evidently been m formed as to a premium being off) a quarter of 1894 with the letter It is for a dime of that date in San Francisco that a pre offered. There were but twe such coined and all but one are for. The quarter of 1354 minted at San Francisco not classed as a premium coin. KILLED OR WOUNDED-—Subscriber, City. If you desire to know the name of any officer or enlisted man killed or wounded at the Philippines at any time since the occupancy by the American troops, address a communication to the | War Office, Washington, D. C., giving name, regiment and company in which the party was about whom you seek In. formation. The information will be fo warded to you. Townsend's Cal. glace fruits, 50c Ib, at 735 Market st., will move back In Febru- ary to Palace Hotel, 638 Marke. st. . accounted * Special information supplied dally te business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 * } Selling depot for Waterman Fountain Pens and Koh-i-noor Pencils. Sanborn, Vail & Co. - Every time a girl onto & new wrinkle in hairdressing she has her plo- ture taken. Personally Conducted Excursions. In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourlst sieeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experienced excursion conductors accompany these excar sions to look after the weifars of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. J ADVERTISEMENTS. | Ll Pneumonia lalways leaves the lungs | weak. Weak lungs are breeding grounds for the | germs that cause consum | tion. Chronicbronchitisalso | often follows pneumonia. | If you have had pneumonia, tthc_: germs of consumption are at work. Don’t let | them get a foothold. Begin | at once and take i §C0"I’l"S EMULSION; | it will drive out the germs | by making the lungsstr. | onger than they are . 306,454 $1.00, al druggom,