The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1900. ..FEBRUARY 26, ‘1900 MONDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor tddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PULBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, S. F. Main 1565. 217 to 221 Stevenson St. Main 1574, DAILY CALL ¢« DAILY CALL (Inel DAILY CALL—By Single M 63c SUADAY CALL Ome Year 1.50 WEEKLY CALL % . 1.00 All postmaste; receive » Sample coples will be forwarded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE ...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising. Marguette Bulld- tng, Chicage. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CAELTON.... .Herald Square CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sbherman House; P, 0. News Co.: Great North- eru Hotel; Fremont House; Aunditorium Hotel, NEW YORK dorf-Astoria Hotel: A. re; Murray HMill Hotel. NEW YORK IEPRE!E‘TATIVE! | | | 5 LUKENS JR......20 Tribune Bullding | PERRY WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. J. F. ENG Wellington Hotel | o BRANCH OFFICES—G27 Montgomery. corner of | Clay, open until 930 o'clock. 200 Hayen, apen nuntil 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister, open | mntil $:30 eo'clock. 615 Larkin, epen until | »:30 o'clock. 1941 M open umtil 10 ‘elock. 2261 Market, ntil » o'clock. 1096 Valemncia, open o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until ¥ o'clock. AW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open unt 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Tivoli—~"The 1dol's Eye.” addin Jr.” phony Concert Thursday After- " “The Silence of Dean Maitland.” “The New South.” ia—"The 0id Homestead.” | Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and pla. corner of Mason and Pavilion n Eddy streets—Specialties. Animal Show, Saturday, ! 1 Oakland Race Track—Races. A QUIET SEASON IN TRADE. | iE s 1E statistical showing of trade was less favor- | able again last week. The failures 1e country were 201, against 191 for the year, and the bank clearings showed a | T Of the largest cities in the coun- v York, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, d Baltimore—showed a loss, while five— | 1 Francisco, Cincinnati, Kansas City and —showed a gain. This weekly irregu- again becoming pronounced, and indicates condition of trade. In fact, conditions The rai'way earnings are very large as h the same time in 1899, but they were year, owing to inclement weather, while it own that the railways are cutting rates. utive trade of the country is fair, but some are declining. through- ant staples The steep past twelve months can no longer be | e the top notch, so long expected, has | ast been reached, and goods have got so high that | pping off In other words, there boom. But the cheapening of the ting in more business here and there. ly noticeable in the boot and shoe | nufacturers reporting increased con- | ng to the decline in hides and leather, which | ng some shops work enough to keep them | ger, though most of them report few ne are shutting down. Cancellations orders are becoming numerous, and some grades are cheaper. The iron industry also shows less strength, and some markets report less business, | while others report more. Structural iron continues t icating large building operations during ling spring and summer. The West reports reasing demand for hardware. The spring | everything is reported enlarging rather than hing. ma and sc Wall there is no pronounced bear sentiment, speculation is nd favorable conditions fail to attract the Money has been working rather firmer oi! e, and this may tend to keep the market dull. California is making as good a showing at thc“ | yublic 1 moment as any other State, and better than some. Thus far there has been no marked decrease in the bank clearings of San Francisco, and indeed there was a pronounced gain in January. The merchan:s report business fully up to the average at this time of [ earnest students of the subject. the year, collections are fair and failures are compara- tively few, and then not serious. Farm products, however, are dull, and the tendency in most descrip- tions is toward a lower range of values. Wheat is still in the dumps, and has been slowly declining for some little time. The weakness and inactivity in this governing cereal impart a soft tone to the minor grains, and feedstuffs of all sorts are quiet and easy, owing to the abundance of green grass. Continued fine weather results in extensive farming operations, and the acreage this year bids fair to be vast. The South is still complaining of dry weather, while the | northern and central portions of the State have had rain to spare. The fruit men are regarding the fine February weather with an apprehencive eye, for a balmy February generally means a frosty March and the destruction of more or less fruit. These points cover the condition of business throughout the State and country. In quiet times there is little to be said. The volume of trade will hardly reach the high figures of 1899, unless some- thing now invisible occurs to give commerce a re- newed stimulus; nor is there any sign that 1900 will be an unfavorable year. Briefly stated, the rush is over, and we have settled down to normal conditions again. T ——— Missionaries are complaining to European powers that China does not take kindly to these advance agents of peace and good will to men. Nations no more than men welcome visitors who are the pioneers for pirates. FEuropean “spheres of influence” have taught the Chinese a bitter lesson. | city | or inconsiderate action. | ‘ BURIAL WITHIN THE CITY. INCE at a joint meeting of the Judiciary, Hos- 15 Supervisors a majority agreed to recommend the passage of an ordinance prohibiting burials within the limits of the city, after August 1, 1901, that long | debated issue will once more come before the munici- | pal authorities for action. [ It has been evident to all intelligent observers of | the development of the city that sooner or later the 4 use of the old-time cemeteries as places of burial must | cease. At the time those tracts were set aside for the repose of the dead they were remote from the habi- tations of the living, and there was then no objection | to that use of them. In the growth of the city, how- ever, the population has moved westward as well as southward, and the cemeteries are now within one ‘of the best of our residence districts. We cannot put a stop to the increase of population nor to the building of new homes in those parts of the city, and conse- s there must be an end to further burials in the que cemeteries there. The issue is not peculiar to San Francisco. growing city or town in America and in Europe has had to deal with it. Modern sanitaty science has disclosed the fact that the burial of the dead within the limits of cities is a fruitful source of disease; and Every | is moreover objectionable in many other ways. Gov- ernments enlightened by science have therefore put a stop to the old-time practice, and cemetery aiter cemetery within city limits has been closed. In some instances the new ordinances have put a stop to the custom of almost immemorial antiquity, but in every instance the results have been beneficial, and after the first feeling of antagonism was over, even the opponents of the reform have conceded the wis- i dom of it. The issue has been brought about in San Francisco more quickly than in other communities owing to the rapid growth of the city, and for that reason it appears to some to be premature. It is hardly a gen- eration ago since the cemeteries were established, | and some of the more conservative of our people can- not be persuaded that it is necessary to so soon clo: them. Among those, however, who live in the di tricts, and are familiar with all the conditions, there are no doubts on the subject. The cemeteries block the westward growth of the city and the dead are in the way of the living. It is not right nor wise that it should be so. Sooner or later we must do what has been done elsewhere in this regard and put a stop to burials; and it is certainly expedient that we should do so as soon as possible. The proposed ordinance does not undertake hasty It is not to go into effect for more than a year from this time—in fact not for eighteen months—and that allows an ample period for arrangements to be made for burials in the suburban cemeteries. It is to be borne in mind there is nothing in the proposed measure that even by implication carries any disrespect for the dead, or can wound the tenderest centiments of the living whose dead are resting within the city. The measure is based indeed upon the teachings of science and the reasons for it appeal to the intellect, but there is nothing in it to offend the heart or hurt the sensibilities of the spirit. It isa judicious measure well devised for the general good It must be adopted in the end, and it would be best to have it adopted now. e e The banishment of Biggy ought to suggest a pic- torial theme for that proposed Phelan flag emblem for new San Francisco. The incident will afford the Mayor an opportunity to pose in the heroic, and it needs no suggestion to remind the gentle reader that his Honor considers the affair one of primary im- portance in his spectacular career. R The New York man who sold his wife through the | divorce court for $30,000 must have bought her as an investment. The wife, however, probably deserves any congratulations that may be free for the occa- sion. @N ANTI-TRUST SUGGESTION. ANY have been the suggestions as to the best /\/\ means of preventing the admitted evils of trust organizations. Some reckless reformers would sweep away the good of such combinations as well as the evil by abolishing them altogether; but such people, while they make a good deal of noise, represent but a small class of the population of the In one form or another co-operation is country. being practiced in almost all lines of industry, and, as | it would be well nigh impossible to define the boun- | dary between the organizations which tend to the street continues tame and featureless. While | general welfare and those which are adverse, it Is clear | that anything like a wholesale condemnation of | trusts is not to be desired. The very difficulty of distinguishing between the | good and the bad features of these combinations adds interest to any intelligent and fair-minded suggestion | of an effectual method of dealing with them. Bourke | Cochran’s recommendation that full publicity should | be given to all the business of trusts was of that nature and received no inconsiderable approval from Another recently | made by James J. Hill is equally worthy of considera- | tion, and in some respects is perhaps the best that | has yet been put forth. Mr. Hill says: “The way to abolish trusts is to . make stockholders liable. If trusts when organized | were compelled to demonstrate to the legal authori- | ties that every share of stock issued had been fully | paid up on a par basis, a very long step would be ‘[!aken in a remedial way. In addition thereto the stockholders in every trust organization should be | made responsible for ultimate losses in double the amount of the par value of their stock, precisely as | banking institutions are now organized. Thus it would happen that every time a man of property put | out a share of stock from an organized trust he would be liable not only for the money which he had | already put in, but for as much more, in case any loss | was sustained by the public on account of this organi- zation.” a law of that kind and should do so, there can be no question that it would put a sudden stop to the for- mation of speculative trusts and the floating of stock based upon a fictitious capital. Moreover, it would ! put an end to the practice of issuing watered stock. There would be very little chance of booming trust stocks if the stockholders ~were made liable for double the amount of the par value of the stock they held. Mr. Hill is himself president of one of the greatest corporations in the country and has administered its affairs with remarkable success. Few men under- stand better than himself the uses of large combina- tions of capital and the abuse sometimes made of The Supervisors will please take notice that the | them. His opinion, therefore, on the subject is worst possible way to lighten the deficiency in the | something like that of an expert and merits the con- treasury is to shut off the lighting of the city. Roberts has found it very much easier to trap Cronje than ta get him out of the trap. sideration of statesmen in dealing with the problem. The clamor of demagogues against trusts is doing more harm than good, for by reason of their ex- travagance they incline many persons to believe the If Congress have constitutional authority to enact ! problem of trust restriction to be beyond practical solution. Such suggestions as that of Mr. Hill. how- cver, give encouragement to the hope that we may pital and Health Committees of the Board of | yet put a check upon the evils without preventing the accomplishment of the economic benefits of | trusts. D |THE REGULATION OF TELEPHONES. T the meeting of the Board of Supervisors to- day steps will probably be taken to provide for siich supervision and regulation of telephone | corporations as public welfare requires. To accom- | plish that it will be necessary to amend the charter, {and it is to that end the action of to-day is expected to be taken. I Supervisor McCarthy, whose ordinance imposing a I!icense tax upon telephones promises to prove an efficient measure, gave notice some time ago that he would move for an election upon the charter amend- nient, and the time has come when the motion should be made. Any delay would be to the advantage of the corporations. The issue is now fresh in the pub- lic mind, and popular interest in it has been stimu- lated by the boast of an official of the Pacific Tele- :phonc Company that if a tax be laid upon the cor- poration in this city it will “put it in the bill.” If the measure be delayed there is a danger that the excite- ments of the coming Presidential campaign may dis- tract the attention of the voters from their local in- terests, and the corporation will profit by it. It is to be remembered that after the proposed amendment has been voted for by the people it will | have to be submitted to the Legislature and ratified by that body before it becomes a part of the charter. | There is to be a meeting of the Legislature next win- | ter, and if the amendment be adopted by the citizens this yeaf the Legislature can take action upon it at that time. Ii there should be delay, however, in holding tthe election, the matter would have to go over for | two years, or until the legislative session of 1902. Clearly, therefore, the Supervisors should give the subject prompt consideration and urge action upon it as rapidly as possible. It is to be borne in mind that in the proposed amendment there is designed nothing of injustice to | the telephone corporations. The object of it is sim- | ply to put such corporations on a level so far as municipal law is concerned, with all others controll- ing public utilities. When the new charter was under consideration the astute attorney for the tele- phone corporation managed to have the charter so drawn that it gave the Supervisors no power to regu- | late such corporations. The trick is clever, but not ;commcndable. It will not profit the telephone cor- | porations anything, but it will put the municipality | to the expense of an election to amend the defect, and in that fact the corporation and its attorney may | find something of satisfaction. Were it possible in | practical affairs to do “poetic justice,” it would be proper in this instance for the people to compel the corporation to pay the whole cost of the election which it has rendered necessary; and the corporation in turn would be justified in exacting the amount from the attorney whose excessive astuteness got it into the scrape. | [: many earnest and energetic people to save the giant trees of Calaveras a reasonable hope is ;afl'ordcd of their success. A resolute public opinion | directed to a worthy end rarely ever fails to accom- | plish its purpose in the United States; and in this case the object aimed at is one against which there |'can be no possible antagonism. The only obstacle in | the way of those who seek to save the trees is the inertia that has to be overcome. Even when the Government is willing to do a certain thing, it is not always easy to get it done, for the executive depart- | ment waits on Congress and Congress waits everything. | The Call has pointed out a method by which the | trees may be saved through governmental aid with- | out waiting for an appropriation to purchase the | grove; for if that be waited for the grove may be cut | away from the face of the earth before it comes. Whether that plan or some other equally good be adopted is, however, a detail of the subject. The one vital point is to save the trees, and in any well-directed | plan to that end there should be, and doubtless will | be, general and cordial co-operation. E The grove is one of the most interesting natural | features of this continent, and even of the world. it SAVE THE SEQUOIAS. ROM the efforts that are being made by so on is one of the wonders of nature, and to destroy it | would be an offense hardly less gross than that com- mitted by the vandals of old in destroying the mighty monuments and edifices that stood in Greece and | Italy to attest the architectural magnificence and | artistic beauty of the civilization of the arcients. A | new civilization has arisen which can replace the old edifices with buildings hardly less stately and much more commodious, but no civilization could by the careful cultivation of a thousand years restore the Calaveras grove to its present sublimity. Fortunately the interest in the grove is widespread. There are thousands of people in the East who will be as eager as Californians themselves to save it from the woodman's ax and saw. The co-operation of these persons in the efforts to save the trees may be confidently expected. Their influence will have weight with Congressmen from the Eastern States, land it is thus reasonable to hope they may be in- duced to act promptly enough to prevent the felling of a single one of the great trees. s Meantime to the various clubs, associations and in- dividuals who are giving so much of their time and their energy to save the grove, the thanks not only of Californians, but of all Americans, are due. They are doing a work which will redound to their credit through all future time; and if they succeed the big trees will stand as monuments to their energy and public spirit if not to their names. I TCC—————— S ——— Reasonable people would have thought that his Honor the Mayor, after the crushing scandal of the Esola affair, would have handled the local yellow sheet with tongs. But the saffron kid still has his Honor by the nose and insists upon the unholy al- liance. The Mayor has again been rebuked; this time by Senator Perkins for interfering in the Nicaragua Canal project with some yellow nonsense. e Another Southern Pacific engineer has been exon- erated for mangling a helpless pedestrian to death. Human life in San Francisco seems to have the same market value as it has at the mouth of a cannon in South Africa. The janitors in the City Hall have been placed under bonds. Is it possible that our worthy munici- pal authorities suspect that the knights of the brush and broom intend to steal away the old pile piece- meal? ‘The Russians are mg advantage of the troubles of Great Britain in the least. They are taking nothing but Herat and Persian ports and other little things that can be taken at disadvanage. Ral s an ol o ol o cadn o o e o e e e T S e S SN SD SR SO D D NP I I A S P P PSSR S SRS S S Sl e ol 6 A A R e e e i X ‘ \\aév"fi:i’h | gl v Cecil Rhodes (to John Bull)—“Cheer Up! (From the Chicago Record.) . P e rti e e e . B Ve B I'm Rescued.” R B e e e e I R S I S e S S L S S [ e e S e B S S S S =l ANOTHER NOVEL | 1S DRAMATIZED “The Silence of Dean Maitland” just misses being a loud melodrama. It was presented yesterday afternoon at the Cal- ifornia Theater by H. R. Roberts and | company from Australia. | The craze for staging successful novels | fiscal year beginning April 1 are given at [ & has led to many dramatic catastrophes, | but to none mere fatal than this. The unfitness of Maxwell Gray's story for the stage was variously evident from the be- ginning of the play to its end and the mechanic who adapted this very poor ma- | terfal to theatric purposes made a Sorry | job of it ind: It could not be made | into a good play, but it might have been | made into a better one. | There is nothing vital in the cowardly and long drawn-out remorse of Cyril | Maitland, clergyman, seducer and mur- | derer; vet after the single episode of the | murder, which oceurs in the prologue, | there are four tedious actfuls of conse-| quent incidents devoid of interest and with little or no dramatic value. | Regarded psychologically, there is never a telling touch in the treatment of the character of Maitland. The problem | of this conscience-stricken man of God | without the fortitude to bear the respon- sibility of his crimes might be one of op- | portunity if handled more concretely; as | it is, the purpose is defeated by the ex- | cessive tenuity of the plot, and no actor | in the part of the contrite dean, be he | ever so skillful, could succeed in knitting the loose ends of hapbazard incident into a fabric sufficiently compact to bear the broidery of a convincing characterization. Mr. Roberts certainly cannot do so, for as an actor he is most disappointing.’ He is handicapped by his looks and by his voice, which is unequable and which he uses badly. His emphasis is particularly irrational. What his resources may be | we have yet to learn, and as he will ap- | pear later in the week in a broad Irish | farce, it is quite possible he will improve on acquaintance. The capability of grad- uates from glish stock companies is | sometimes considerable, for they afford the best training for an actor in the world, but if it be within Mr. Roberts' ability to carry Shakespearean leads and | low comedy parts, it is a pity we should be first introduced to him in a role that does not suit him at all. The other members of the company either act very badly or do not act at all; | usually the latter, and the stress of emo- tion which should be brought on by some of the anguishing scenes concern them so little that they neither express nor con- vey. There is a single exception to the uni- form mediocrity of the company, and that is one of promise rather than of fact. Mr. W. J. Townshend as Charlie Judkins, in the prologue, showed some real ability which not only needs cultivation, but war- rants it. PORTER GARNETT. A Denman Thompson will appear in his original role of Uncle Josh in *“‘The Old Homestead” at the Columbia this even- ing. It is the first time in many years that he has visited California, and, sur- rounded with his own company, this most popular of American plays should prove a strong_attraction. On f"ednesduy night the bill at the Cali- fornia will be changed from ““The Silence of Dean Maitland” to *“Mrs. Quinn's Twins,” in which Maggie Moore will make er appearance. She will be supported in this comedy by her Australian company, including Mr. H. R. berts. “The New South,” by Clay M. Greene and Joe Grismer, is the attraction at the Alcazar for the week. The Grand Opera House will continue to present “Aladdin Jr.” with new and nu- merous specialtles, lncludin? Edward B. Andrews, a coon songster from Kelth's, New York. The extravaganza is having an_exceptional run. The success of “The Idol's Eye” g un- abated at the Tivoll, where it is breaking all_records. It is now in its sixth week and still drawing. The new attractions at the Orpheum are: The Franks trio, from Berlin; Truvollo, a ventriloquist; Pauline Moran and her ickaninnies and the Passparts, Kathryn gstermnn and Happy Fanny Fields, who have proved exceptionally successful, re- main. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The shipbuilding programme for the French navy provides for 177 additional vessels, at m cost of nearly $9,000,000, to which should be added $47,000,000 for ves- sels not yet completed. During 1899 three German shipyards, namely, Schichan, at Elbing; Vulean Works, Stettin, and Germania yard, Kiel, built and delivered three armored cruis- ers, four torpedo cruisers, four torpedo boat destroyers and eight torpedo boats. These vessels were ordered by China, Bra- zil, Italy and Japan. Holland is also becoming ambitious to take its rank somewhere among the naval powers. A naval policy has been formu- m ..nd":" d?(o‘:in.— e Ive i : . Regentes, | inch above an excess of six inches al- | transverse bulkheads afford a very fair | three monitors, seven Gelderland crulsers, | twenty-one first-class torpedo boat: twelve small torpedo boats and fourteen | gunboats for East India service. This programme is to extend over ten years, but as this proposition has been made again during the past three years, there is some doubt about the scheme material- | izing. | | Great Britain's naval estimates for the | $129,422,0u0, OF $13,704,550 in excess of that of | last year. The increased number of ships has, of course, necessitated an Increase in the personnel, especially in the grade of lieutenants, which is advanced from 113) | to 1550, | Russia is building six cruisers, ranging | between 6500 and 6630 tons and speeds | varying from 20 to 23 knots. Three of | these cruisers, the Diana, Aurora and | Pallada, are building at St. Petersburg | by contract, and are of the 20-knot type | and 6630 tons. The Waryag, building at Cramps’, BogatyT, at Stettin, and Askold, at Kiel, are of the 23-knot class and 6500 tons, and the contract stipulations for | speed are identical, and will no doubt be | very interesting as to results, as three separate yards will be put on their mettle | to drive their ships for twelve consecutive hours at an average speed of 23 knots. | The Askold is further handicapped by a limitation to a coal consumption of two pounds, and the builders will be further- more subject to a fine of $20,00 for every | lowed. Some interesting steam trials have re- cently taken place in the French navy which, unless the trials were “jockeyed,” | would indicate that some speedy craft had | been turned out from French dockyards. The battleships Charlemagne and Gaulois, | of 11,275 tons, passed through their twen- ty-four hours' trial at sea, under two- | third power, developing 9200 and 9270, re- spectively, with corresponding speeds of 165 and 1641 knots. During the three hours’ full-power trial the Charlemagne | developed 15235 horsepower and 18.136 knots, and the Gaulois gave 14,925 horse- power and 18.02 knots speed. The defects | in the sheathed cruiser Guichen appears | also to have been nearly overcome, for on | a three-hour run under full power she de- | veloped 25,455 horsepower on 136.39 revolu- | tions, and averaged 23.54 knots In two | runs over the measured mile course. The armored cruiser Fuerst Bismarck, of 10,482 tons displacement, was lald down in the dockyard at Kiel April 1, 1806, and launched September 25, 1897. The estimat- ed cost is: Ship and engines, $3,375,000; gun armament, $750,000; torpedo armament, $196,000; total, $4,820,000. The armor belt, 8 feet 2 inches in height, extends all around | and is 7.87 inches thick in the maximum, tapering to 3.94 inches at the ends, and the several protective decks and armored | protection against shell fire. The arma- | ment consists of four 9.45-inch rapid-fire | 40-caliber guns, in two barbette turrets: | six 5.91-inch rapid-fire 40-caliber guns, in | separate armored casemates; six 5.91-inch rapid-fire 40-caliber guns, in armored tur- rets; ten 3.87-inch rapld-fire 30-caliber | guns, with shields, and ten 3-pounder and four l-pounder machine guns.. Of torpe- does the ship will be fitted with pne bow tube, four submerged in broadside and one above-water stern tube, armored. The motive power is three l-t:{llnder vertical triple-expansion engines, furnished with steam from eight cylindrical and six water-tube Durr boilers, of 13,000 horse- wer, collectively, two thirds of which s furnished by the cylindrical boilers. | The coal capacity at load line is 1000 tons, | %%d a speed of 19 knots is anticipated. e Fuerst Bismarck being intended for service abroad, the hull is sheathed with azack l;d r:::eppered, :h\u rsllk.lng frequent essary in order t the initial high speed. 2 —— HAVE A SMILE WITH US. Maude—' "Would you didn't love?” nn'”—'-'?w?,.' ?n.dnumg Maude—*"But suppose he had a million?" = 'l‘:- ‘Oh, then I'd love him."—Chicago 01 On the Tugela.—C: 1—** taken off your Euardbe Sentry (wno o lowed a Boer to rush the lines)—‘“No, sor! 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