The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1900, Page 6

FEBRUARY 14, 1900 WEDNESDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor <. LEAKE, Manager Address All Communications to W. 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 Mail, incinding Postage: (including Sunday), one year (ineluding Sanday). 6 months DAILY CALL (including Sanday), 3 months Y CALL—By Single Month... AY CALL Ome Year. CALL Ome Year... postmasters are suthorized to recelve eriptions. forwarded when reqnested - Sample coples will be OAKLAND OFFICE. . +...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNYNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Build- ing, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. CARLTON ..Herald Square = CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: an House; P. O. News Co.: Great North- tel; Fremont House: Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Walderf-Astoria Hotel; A. Breniano, Sguare; Murray Hill Hotel. 31 Umion NEW YORK RE PERRY LUKENS JR.. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE..Wellington Hotel J4. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. RESENTATIVE: 20 Tribune Building BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery. cormer of Hayes. Clay, open til 9:30 o'clock. 300 = until 9: o'clock. 639 McAll until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkim, 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open e'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until ® o'clock. 1096 Valenci open umntil 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. cormer Twenty-second and Kentncky, open until ® o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Symphony Conoert Thursday afternoon. Orpheum—Vaudev tional Honeymoon.™ “ilis streets—Specialties. Races to-day. THE ROADS @ND THE SHIPPERS [Q Southern P. EPORTS from Los Angeles announce that the in that city between officials of t ic and the Santa Fe Railroad, on i representatives of the various has resulted in an h for some time p: nscontinental fruit men have gained reli e it ex- adjustment 1as been , and m the evils nges on the other, , and that fact will going to prove now expected. It is said, however, s granted by the roads include the ate car lines at the expiration of ation of the the report that “the sced on an equal footing, ey concessions sy there is much of promise, but rrangement has been made in secret 1 whether or no the railroads to grant rebates to fa- 1e fruit men will have to continue v through the fruit-shipping re is a long array of prece- hi his is not the first tims pledges of fair dealing. In dges over and over again st every case they have v found it profitable to not be kept. Il be general gratification over the iis particular dispute, even though it ve to be only temporary, the public should not expect too much from it. The only adequate rates is to give to the Inter- ) ission the additional authgrity and power which it has just asked of Congress. Clothed with that power the commission could com- pel the roads to keep their promises of fair dealing, d, in fact, could compel them to deal fairly whether they had promised to do so or not. state Com The Chief of the census complains that most of the applicants for positions can write but little and know slmost nof f ciphering, and from the fact he | lusion that the public schools teach draws Mr. Macrum evidently knew what he was about when ready t is $2000 salary allowance will not go very far considering war prices for provisions at the Boer capital —— at eve speech in his tour through New England, it is evident the thrifty folks of that section are keen vantage of everything that comes along in the way of a free circus. England is looking now to little nations to punish her little foes. Italy has been commissioned to make some of the black men of North Africa realize the sweetness and light of good manners in this critical juncture of British affairs. It looks as if California is to have a model State | capital, for not only did the Legislature do the right | thing at the extra session, but the city government has decided to rid the community of poolrooms. The Chicago woman who was buried alive and after 2 night in the grave was reclaimed for a new season of usefulness probably doesn’t want to repeat the ex- periment even for the sake of novelty. Reports from Manila are to the effect that our flag has been raised over two more islands, and Uncle Sam will soon have possessions enough of that kind to throw to the seagulls. The anfy instance on record where the Americans took water from the British was recently at Gibral- tar, when a transport needed some and accepted it asa favor. | | 1e threw up his job in Pretoria. - Young Adel- | bert Hay, according to latest advices, has found al- | Bryan is said to have drawn very large audiences | THE SOCIAL PROBLEM. HE case of Amy Murphy has led to a spa { modic and, in many respects, unwholesome di | cussion of a social problem, that neither legis- | lation nor declamation can settle and solve. | At its base lies the old issue of the necessities of | Poverty, crime and transgression originate | existence. 1 in some breakdown, perhaps in a remote generation, of the capacity for self-support. Too many parents pass a life of toil in the effort not to equip their chil- dren for seli-support by their own exertions, but to amass a competency which will assure their support without personal exertion. In the percentage of cases in which these parental efforts finally fail, the hildren in whose behalf they have been made are without provision and without training in indus- try and thrift, to finally become, or contribute, re- cruits to the great army of the incapacitated, from whose ranks the world gets its degenerates, society its vampires and prisons their recidivists. In whatever cause it may generate, aversion to proper industry and lack of ambition to persist in any form of honest effort that will bring independence lead to the same result. No legislation can prevent it, no generosity of opportunity can banish it. The remedy lies in the character of the individual, and in society has no other protection than the development of character. The necessity for seli- port is present in a majority of the people. ~The yrld would be better if that necessity were felt by the final analy In American life there has been growing a false spirit of foolish discrimination between different forms of personal exertion and modes of employment by which self-support may be achieved. Without any desire to discuss a sorrow that has touched a family, the case that has been recently discussed in the press and pulpit may serve as an example. The most whole- some tone of American society was in that period when American-born girls sought independence and had a valuable training for their future domestic du- ties along the line of occupations that were suited to their sex. New England never had a nobler popu- lation that when young American women, self- respecting and modest, worked in the mills. The New England mill girl won her dowry and crowned herself with honor, and her class mothered a genera- tion of men who reflected its glory and lived in its praise. domestic service and mastery of the art of house- keeping were beneath her. In domestic service she had the guarantee of a good home, kindly companion- ship, good example in morals, and the relations of confidence and friendship she acquired were lasting. In these respects a sinister change has come. - Girls who must contribute to their own support will take places in shops and stores, in telephone exchanges and telegraph offices, and, without the vocabulary and edu- cation necessary for excellence, will contribute to the army of typewriters and stenographers recruits in- competent and unqualified, earning in these occupa- tions less than is necessary for their support and dress in the style required by the positions they hold. | Instead of being in an atmosphere of virtue and good example they are in an environment of suggestion and exposed to contacts that lead to degradation. The numbers in which they offer for these employ- ments tend to redude wages below the standard of decency and morality, and to injure thereby the in- come of the most competent. They pull down to the level of their incompetence the guild of capable women who in some of these occupations earn and should have compensation equal to that enjoyed by men. In this system there appears a phase of life the most melancholy that the mind can contemplate f not in the first generation, surely in the second, it produces a class untrained in seli-restraint, reared in hereditary poverty, degenerate physically and morally, and ready to exist by yielding to the invi- tation of vice along the line of least resistance. These victims of folly, who crowd into the hectic and unnatural conditions offered by what they choose to consider as “polite employment,” condemned to the nerve-tangling service of the telephone and telegraph office, or to weary standing i_or hours behind the shop counter, or to the rough manners, vulgarity and profanity of too many offices and counting-rooms, would shudder with horror at being a “hired girl” and learning to do housework well, to their own bet- equipment as wives and mothers. They turn ter 2way from the good wages, the warm shelter, the | good example which await them in families that need their service and can compensate it liberally, where their board and lodging are added to higher wages | than they get in the other occupations, and, scorning | it all, set their feet in the path that ends, for too many of them, in the morgue. | At this moment there is a home, in domestic ser- | vice, for every girl in California who must support | herself. The wages in such service are constantly ad- { vancing. The work required is consistent with the preservation of health and strength, and the associa- | tion leads to morality and virtue. Yet the Ameri- can mind has been trained to regard it as the work of | “a gervant,” and girls reject it, to be servants in- deed of taskmasters who respect neither their woman- hood nor their right to wages that clothe the body |in decency and the soul in purity. The easier, bet- | ter paid and more wholesome places in domestic service are filled with immigrant women from abroad, | or by Chinese and Japanese men, and the press is | illed with the tragedies that close a career in the polite service, preferred to better wages earned in a | pure atmosphere. i Thoughtful people deprecate the declamatory out- | break which has followed the most recent of these ]tragedics. One clergyman has advised that men be !shot down whose debased natures prey upon the sit- | uation. Women have publicly, pointedly, and per- | haps indelicately, discussed the subject, all unaware |that such means have never yet curbed vice, but | rather serve to inform the vicious of the ways and | means for its gratification. No one has proposed any | plan for removal of the situation itself. No one has | attacked the folly and false pride which create it | No one has uttered a word of advice to girls to cease lcrowding occupations where compensation is so low ! as to leave no recourse except sin or starvation, | while better, safer and more womanly and dignified employment waits in vain for their coming. We deprecate and feel inclined to denounce the spirit and the method in which the subject has been | publicly discussed: “Vice is & monster of such hideous mien, That to be dreaded needs but to be seen, But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.” subject has proceeded is nothing more than the cul- | tivation of that familiarity. Let it be understood that | ro law and no public meeting can take the place of | home training in modesty and virtue, and that pride goes before a fall, and the fall is farthest when prids | has rejected a form of employment. well paid, safe | and honest, in favor of something which is neither, | and the moral lapses will be less and society will be better. In that day, too, no American girl felt that ; The manner in which the sensational treatment of the | To MEET IN CHARLESTON. N official bulletin just issued by the executive f\ committee of the National Educational Asso- ciation announces the unanimous selection’ of Charleston, S. C., as the place of meeting for the convention of the association in July of this year. The selection of such a place of meeting for a mid- summer assembly of persons from all parts of the Union is hardly likely to be regarded with favor at first thought, but the committee accompanies the announcement with good and sufficient reasons for the choice. It appears from the circular that at the meeting in Los Angeles the board of directors indicated a prefer- ence for Charleston by a larger and more decisive vote than has been given for any place of meeting within the last ten years. Notwithstanding that fact the executive committee, to whom the decision was referred, took into consideration the claims of other cities and visited several of them before deciding. They found the Charleston people had taken steps to | provide for the convention, and had made arrange- ments of so satisfactory a nature that no objection could be found. In fact, the committee say: ‘“There is no condition which has ever been asked by the association of the inviting city that has not been an- ticipated and met in the most generous manner by the city of Charleston.” As a further reason for selecting that place for the convention the report says: “The committee were deeply impressed by the earnest appeal of the citizens of Charleston, indorsed with equal earnestness by the leading educators and the press of the South, that the present is a most opportune time for the National Educational Association to lend its aid in support of the recent revival of educational interests in the South, which is no less manifest than is the industrial revolution throughout the same territory. More- over, the committee could not fail to recognize the new national spirit which has arisen from co-opera- tion in the recent Spanish-American war, and which suggests the certain and valuable results that will fol- |low a closer and more helpful fellowship in solving the peaceful and important problems of national life and education. While it is believed that the associa- tion can do a great national service by meeting in Charleston, it is also believed that both profit and | pleasure will come in large measure to those teachers | of the North and the West who take this opportunity to gain a personal acquaintance with the South and its | peculiar social and educational conditions, and at the city, famous for its hospitality as well as for its many | interesting historical associations and surroundings.” | The reasons given are sufficient to justify the | choice. Tt is true Charleston has not been known as | a summer resort, and that in July the weather will be | trying upon the delegates from the Northern States, | but for all that the city is not without its summer- | time attractions. It is, moreover, desirable that the | Educational Association do all in its power to en- | courage public education in the Southern States, and | the general gathering of distinguished educators there will have a marked influence in that direction. During the last decade South Carolina has not only entered upon a new era in its history, but has made | a notable advance in the development of a new order ‘of things. The industrial spirit of the people has | been awakened to such an extent that the census of | this year will rank that State in cotton manufacturing | second only to Massachusetts. New industries re- quire, of course, new education, and with the fac- tories now springing up in all parts of the common- same time enjoy the courtesies of a typical Southern | wealth there will come a demand for better schools | | and longer terms of yearly instruction. At the Charleston convention the members of the associa- | tion will have an opportunity to study the educational | conditions of the South to the best advantage, and good results may be expected both for the educators and for the hospitable people who entertain them. i e s THE COST OF COLONIES. FFICIAL reports recently issued by the O French and German governments concerning colonial affairs can be studied with profit by thoughtful Americans. We are urged by the imperial- ists to enter upon experiments which the French and | the Germans have tried for a good many years and it will be of advantage to us to learn what results they | have obtained. The German reports have been issued from the Statistical Bureau in Berlin and give an account oi the trade which Germany has carried on with her colonies during the past year. From these it appears that during the year Germany imported from her colonies goods to the value of 4,617,000 marks and ex- ported to them goods and silver coin to the value of 10,149,000 marks, making a total trade of 14,766,000 | marks.. That looks like a very good trade to follow | the flag, but further statistics show that the subsidies given by the imperial Government to the colonies amounted to 14,788,000 marks. Thus the cost of send- ing the flag to the far off dominions was 22,000 marks more than the whole amount of trade that followed it. In that loss moreover no account is taken of the cost | of administration. The results of the French experiments are given in a report of the Coloniagl Committee of the Chamber of Deputies. They show that during the last ten years the contributions of the French colonies to the colonial exchequer have amounted to $125,000, while the expenditure of the Government in admin- | istering the affairs of the colonies during the same period amounted to $164,400,000. The French statis- tics deal solely with matters of revenue and adminis- tration and throw no light upon the results of trade with the colonies. It is safe to say, however, the com- ruercial benefits have not been less dearly bought than i those obtained by Germany, for the French, like the Germans, have had to grant enormous subsidies to | keep their colonial trade going. It will be seen from the experiments made by these governments that colonies cost more than they are worth. Trade will follow the flag on a merchant ves- sel far more profitably than it will follow the flag carried by a warship or a regiment. The Germans | and the French moreover have reduced the cost of government to about as low figures as is possible to a civilized people. The wages paid to their soldiers are small and the salaries of their officials, whether mili- tary or civil, are slight in comparison to ours. It will cost us to govern a colony far more than it costs either of those military nations and we are not likely to get more in the way of trade. Colonial expansion is in fact about the costliest venture a nation can engage in. Even Great Britain has never found it profitable and at the present time is engaged in wasting more treasure upon South African expansion than she will get back for the rest of this generation from all Africa, even if she suc- ceed in conquering the Transvaal and building the | great railway from the Cape to Cairo. In all these things there is a lesson for our statesmen and it is to be hoped they will be wise enough to learn it in time. His Honor the Mayor must have reached the con- clusion that he caught that surgeon’s knife of his by the business end instead of by the handle. ¥ : : : : : : : % 4 % : i i : $ z : i i SOLDIER TO WED A BELLE Lieut. Lyman Welch, U. S. A., and Miss Edythe Knowlton Are to Be Married To-Day. Lieutenant Lyman M. Welch, Twen- tieth Infantry, U. S. A., and Miss Edythe Knowlton will be married to-day at 2 o'clock at the Hotel St. Nicholas. Lleutenant Welch, who Is the only son of Dr. and Mrs. Welch of the St. Nicho- las, recently returned on the steamer Conemaugh, from the Philippines, where he saw considerable service. The various cotillon clubs of the sea- son have decided to join forces for the last affair of the season, and have issued invitations for an assembly at which all will be largely interested, and which will take place on Tuesday evening, Febru- ary 20, at Golden Gate Hall. —————————— WORTH ALL THE SUBSCRIPTION. Bishop Register. The San Francisco Call publishes dally a section of its Home Study course. The plan is most commendable and the arti- cles and instruction given are fn them- siolves worth all of the paper’s subscrip- tion. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Frank H. Buck, the Vacaville frult packer, is at the Palace. Stephen M. White, ex-United States Senator, is at the Palace. Judge Ansel Smith of Stockton is stay- ing for a few days at the Grand. Willlam Palmtag, a politiclan of Hol- lister, is at the California. E. L. Sanford, the popular Hanford hotel man, is staylng at the Lick. A. P. Fraser, a prominent young attor- THE LION’S SHARE IN SOUTH PP DU S U e W St e S SRS S S S S ney of Fresno, is a guest at the Occiden- tal. Mr. and Mrs. B. U. Steinman have come down from Sacramento and are at the Palace. G. G. Essam, the Chicago banker and millionalre, is one of the late arrivals at the Palace. W. 8. Cleary, the Stockton mining ex- pert, is one of the arrivals of yesterday at the Lick. R. M. Wiley, editor and proprietor of the Arcata Unlon, is in the city on a short pleasure trip. Thomas H. Thompson, & wealthy land owner of Tulare, is registered for a short stay at the Lick. Willlam Wallace, a capitalist of Helena, Mont., is registered among the late ar- rivals at the Palace. J. Ross Trayner, a prominent fruit grower of Marysville, is among the recent arrivals at the Lick. L. A. Sheldon, a millionaire lumber man of Bissons, is at the Grand while in the city on a short business trip. G. M. Flavel, a wealthy business man of | Astoria, Or., Is registered at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday. John Thorman, a wealthy vineyardist and wine man of St. Helena, is one of the recent arrivals at the Grand. Fred A. Somers was welcomed on the floor of the Produce Exchange yesterday, after an absence of some months in the East. - K. R. Babbett, a prominent mining law- yer of Colorado Springs, s at the Palace while visiting the city on professional business. e — ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. NO PREMIUM—Subscriber, City. There is no premium for a dime of 1835, a half- dollar of 1813 nor one of 1818. This de- partment cannot advertise the address of any coin collecto: NON-PAYING TENANT—O. 8., City. The simplest way to get rid of a non-pay- ing tenant i{s to commence an action to Bard. H ned the hi te: we have always en RS m‘r ful and conscientious d‘:aml honest and right. not have been made. States Senate. “ In the selection of Hon. Thomas l;:mll. has tion was a Republican party of the State. outcome of a lon, to Stephen M. hite. clean if ability, way with vigor and intelligence. TS TS TS TSSO T OO TSSO BARD'S ELECTION GIVES UNIVERSAL SATISFACTION. OSSOSO TS T T TS T O ‘Washington Press. Senator Bard is fitted to fill the high position to which he has been elected, as his record is clean, he is a brainy man of affairs, an upright and honorable gentleman, and will be a credit to tl'.m lete.he is to represent at Washington. Chino Valley Champlon. Than Thomas R. Bard no more representative man, no man of higher in- tegrity can be found in the State of California. The State is to be congratulated, for it will be ably represented in w;uh(.ngtgn‘ . Ventura Democrat. We can cordially rejoice in the triumph of Mr. Bard, for whom, as a citizen, hest regard. We belleve he will be a faith- be guided in his officlal course by what he . . Ontario Record. Thomas R. Bard is a man of the people and a better selection of a representa- tive of this great Western commonwealth In the upper legislative house could There is not a taint against his character and he stands Defore the people to-day @s & man qualified in every particular for the United . Downey Champon. R. Bard for United States Senator our Re- publican friends have done well. His long and successful business career in Cali- qualified him to guard well the interests of the State. happy ending of the most Bitter Senatorial fight in the history of the ° ¢ [ Q L Weekly Calistogan. Thomas R. Bard, the man chosen to succeed Stephen M. White, is & wealthy business man of Ventura and is eminently qualified to flll the place with credit to himself and the party which hu.jus= nhzced him in power. San Luis Obispo Tribune. All s well that ends well and we join in the general satisfaction over the end that has been reached and in the general verdict that our Legislature could have made no better cholce for Senator than in bestowing the toga upon Thomas R. . His elec- Monterey Cypress. The election of Hon. Thomas R. Bard to the United States Senate on Wednes- day gives the best of matisfaction to Republicans generally and {s a most happy drawn out and bitter contest over the selection of a successor Mr. Bard's abllity and inte will do honor to California in the h:gh 2mc= to which he has been elected. ty are unquestioned and he Pinole Times. California is to be congratulated on the action of her Legislature in the election of Thomas R. Bard as United States Senator. not very distinguished public-record. He is a man of but is not a mere tool or representative of wealth. We feel sure that he can be relied upon to forward the interests of California in every legitimate This gentleman has a good business Porterville Enterprise. Burns has been turned down and the State has been saved from the disgrace _of sending to the United States Senate a man with such a black record. has cost us a pretty p:nny to delec’. l: Senator, but the cost does not cut such a great figure as it would nave done Gage's man had been winner. We congrat- ulate th‘;“‘\epubllcmn ‘who caused the election of Bard, but for the lupnoneg‘of It Burns there are no words strong enough in the American language to express our Teelings. g Los Gatos Mail. There is a great rejolcing all through the State over the unsuccessful effort of D. M. Bu to capture the Senatorial peach. It is a matter for rejoicing, too, that the determination to have “‘any one but Burns"” did not result in the selection of one equall: and whose abili Thomas tive halls. = undesirable. but a man whose character is unassall ty to fill the responsible position o e Bard will ably represent California’s interests is unquestionable. Senator n the nation's legisla- . St. Helena Star. 3 The outcome of the Senatorial struggle in Sacramento is a source of great gatisfaction to the people of California. The election of Hon. Thomas R. Bard of Ventura reflects credit upon the State and the Republican party. splendid victory of the tisfactory outcome n} &n " political a manipulator, whil succes: business man, whose political career is not one of “State aonvention packing. but of aquiet support of the principles he holds o It was a le over machine politics and is bably the most California’s Senatorial conteatsmonum is widely is a man of the people—a quiet, ng"” or R R O e Sk I o o o Sk S o o A LS o e 4 b ede oo . * B AFRICA. —New York Herald. evict him. Consult a reputable attorney and he will give you proper advice. BOOTH-E. 8. G, City. About once in five years some one revives the story that J. Wilkes Boot the assassin of Presi- dent Lincoln, is still alive. The ques of his death was settled more than thi years ago. TWO QUARTERS-F. P. B, City. AX%- cent plece of 183 without arrows at date and without rays at the eagle commands a premium of from $2 to $3. What is called THE HALL OF JUSTICE-C. B. R, City. This department simply deals with facts and does not offer guesses as to what may happen. For that reason it cannot make a_guess as to the probable time when the Hall of Justice on Kearny street will be completed. It is generally understood that the Police Department will be the first to occupy the buflding. PAYROLL—P. & K, City. Thls depart- ment does not inquire into the privats business affairs of any one or firms, and for that reason cannot furnish you the information about the number of men on the payroll of the firm named on the 24 of February. If you have any valld reason for making the inquiry address a letter to the firm. - e Cal. glace fruit 50c per Id at Townsend's.® ——— e - Special information supplled daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephome Main 1042 - —l e Storekeeper Insolvent. Robert. L. Boaz, a storekeeper. residing in San Jose, filed a petition in the United States District Court yesterday asking to be declared an Insolvent. His liabilities are $2312 65 and his assets prefsenime Do el Personally Conducted Excursions In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experfenced excursion conductors accompany these excur- stons to look after the weitars of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal ———— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colig, regu- lates the Bowels and s the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, 2S¢ a bottle. —_—— The Fastest Train Across the Com- tinent. The California Limited, Sants Fe Routs. Connecting trains leave at §p. m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Fioest equipped train and best track of any line to the East. Ticket office. 623 Market street. Foresters’ Bazaar. The local courts and circles of the An- clent Order of Foresters will open a ba- zaar in the Foresters’ puilding, commenc~ ing next Saturday and continuing for a week. On Friday Little Tryphena teh- ard, the pet of al Circle of the order, in conjunction with her classmates. will give a grand juvenile literary and mu- sical entertainment in the hall named, ADVERTISEMENTS. Young Girls How it is for irl o go nothe “deciine. " eat less and less, become