The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1900, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1900. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. E..Market a e Main 186S. to Main 1574 Deltvered by Carrie Single Coples, ", Term DAILY DAILY DAILY CALL (including S DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL Ome Year... WEEKLY CALL One Year. Al vee220.1118 Broadway GEORGE KROGNESS. * Foreign Advertising. Marquette Build- tag. Chicage. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. & CARLYON.... ..Herald Sguare NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: LUKENS JR. ..20 Tribune Buildimg CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Shecman House: P. 0. News Co.: Great North- Fremont H e; Amditorium Hotel. PERRY NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Walderf-Astoria Hotel; A. Bremtano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE..Wellingto: J. ¥. ENGLISI. Correspondent. Hotel BRANCH OFFICES—537 Montromery. cormer of Clay, open natil 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes. epen mntil H:30 o'clock. until 9:30 o'clock. 615 L 639 McAllister, open open until TR riim 9:30 o'clock. 1841 Missiol pe; e'clock. 2261 Market, cormer Sixte until ® o'clock. 1086 V: el @'clock. 106 Eleventh. © The Girl From Paris." ra -house—Corcert Thursday afternooa, March 15 e Old Homestead The 1dol's Fye Alcaz Never Again ectaltios March 13, ne among the r the Porto Rico s is under boycott in tion for repeal I paper pulp, a subject iblishers. The Examiner news received over he world.” resolution for Federal s big trees, and with great irough both houses 1t his name out of the n noticing his presenta- ion to the President to itself the credit of the en- for business would be discredit- e, but when practiced by a pretended s a deliberate fraud on the reading pub- a Democrat, and, after the State, the credit or discredit of h ve from this cc But st frauds its readers, ts party, so far a at he does. So far e seat which he fills wi and industry might as well be va- < begi ndent of t ng to attract wide atten- have no further use the for ey nd if a newspaper re. give f our own Congressman 1 eve e our district, whatever his rotest by declaring a boycott on the n De Vries” says that f the paper and pulp W. J. Bryan, J. G. Ma- e quite sure the Ex- under sensational ame of the author would have Phel 5 Is it “a common specimen adds that: “Nothing has bee he last five years in ths 1 bove, t beneath, or the waters under aminer has not taken the credit ner refuses all mention of Mr. introduced the resolution which and says: ‘The Examiner's ef- wonders, the giant trees 1 successful.” The managers of onal reasons for knowing that the much to do with the intro- paper trust measure by De Vries as Sulu or the Pope of the Greek miserable and contemptible boy- lest Representative California has by ner furnishes additional proof of the San Francisco journaliem its denunciation by limiting urnalism it wotild be an irreproach- ation in its tight fit perfect n to that boasting, braggart policy s all journalism e — published yesterday in The Call »m said the city was afflicted with not bubonic plague and It is pos- an Reynegom made a slight slip d really meant “baboonic” politics at the city'is suffering from. i ys the unexpected that happens, even in Massachusetts. Some of the telephone officials in Boston have declared themselves in favor of the bill providing for State supervision of the telephone busi- ness. They say they like it and expect to get fat on it. eess...MARCH 11, 1920 | 221 Stevemsom St. e Stockton Independent, | THE BUBONIC BOARD. FTER appearing in a continuous performance of three days, in a scientific farce, which proved to be a commercial tragedy to San | Francisco, the Bubonic Board of Health, relying on | the testimony of a rat, a monkey and a guinea-pig, left the footlights, raised the quarantine of Chinatown and | leit the city to recover, as best it can, from the wide- spread damage inflicted upon its trade and every | other material interest. | What a spectacle the incident presents! The Chief of Police hurrying at midnight to rope in a quarter of the city the Bubonic Board adopting the phraseology of grave emergency by bulletins that it | had “the situation well in hand,” and in other terms promoting the belief that it had identified the plague | and had given the pestilence a flying switch from the glands of a Chinese into those of a guinea-pig; the stolid indifference of the city government to the wel- | fare and interests of the city; the inefficiency of the quarantine maintained by the Chief of Police, which, it is said, Chinese boast of escaping by the payment of a dollar a head—all go to make a record of official | imbecility and worse that has not been equaled in the history of the city. It is enough to make the guinea- pig grin. | The nmatter was one that called for wise action, which would repress all alarm until the facts justified measures that would warn the public of a real dan- ger. As Consul Ho Yow has pointed out, isolation of the building in which the Chinese died, after a month's iliness, would have been sufficient until the history of his case could have been known. The quarantine would have then amounted to no more than that of single houses, where our common contagious dis- eases, such as scarlet fever and diphtheria, may be | found. There is no doubt that the time between the midnight fright of the nervous Chief of Police and the daylight development of his light-headed action would have sufficed to investigate the case of the dead Chinese, and its prolonged history would have at once removed all suspicion of the existence of bu- bonic plague, and the subsequent proceedings would have never occurred. But, as that would have been the sensible course to pursue, it was carefully avoided by a lot of official people, who have no sense beyond seeing a chance to gain vainglorious attention make themselves objects of interest The organ of this n of seli-seeking politicians did its evil worst to back them up and spread a panic by the issue of bubonic editions, filled with microbic hor- rors and feculent word paintings of the plague else- where, that were paraphrased from Richardson’s “Old St. Pau other’ sources that have their origin in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’ literature In this way the Ex- aminer strove to justify and glorify the- fool zeal of and of plague tragedies in Europe the small men who have the power to harm the repu- It was in line with the dema- said to have been uttered by the Chief of he quarrel of the tongs did not cease the whole Mongol population from tion of a great city. gogue th He seems unaware that the Chinese are Lere by virtue of treaty rights, and their treatment is a matter of international concern. Notwithstanding the cvils of the presence of Chinese here, which no one questions, their right to be here is settled by the treaty, and they are not exactly deadheads, as far as con- tributing to the revenues of the country is concerned. For the five months of October, November, Decem- ber, 1899, and January and February, 1900, the tota! taxes collected at the San Francisco Custom-house amounted to $2,816,700 65, of which the Chinese paid $721.193 40. or about 25 per cent of the whole rev- enue. though the Chinese population is by no means one-fourth of our total, being less than a tenth thereof. As taxpayers and people with treaty rights they have a distinct legal status, which even as great a man as the Chief of Police must respect. He might well threaten to close all the churches in San Francisco because the bodies of two murdered women Follies and crimes have appeared before in the administration of our city government, as were found in one. but they pass into forgetfulness or are almost trans- formed into wisdom and virtue by the antic capers of these witlings. The great seal of the city should be changed to a guinea-pig rampant, in the act of taking the Aescula- pian oath, and a Chinese couchant getting under the rantine rope by payment of one dollar. ——— e e Last week it was reported that the exposition in Paris would not be ready for the opening on the day announced in the original programme, but now it is | said everything will be in good order and there will Next week we shall probably get the frst report repeated and then another contradiction of it keeps the world interested in it be no delay Anything goes that advertises the show and aN EMPIRE REJECTED. to all comprehensive projects for the upbuilding of the West and the improvement of the vast region on this side the Missouri River that there is something quite note- worthy in the fact that the Boston Globe recently di- rected the attention of its readers to the foolish man- ner in which the arid and semi-arid sections of the country have been neglected. Tzking as its text a statement of Professor Wal- lace of Edinburgh, that if the possession of the great- est area of neglected land be an evidence of national greatness, then the United States may claim ‘to be the greatest nation in the world, the Globe points out Ithat while most Americans would hesitate to accept such a doubtful compliment, the words of the Edin- burgh professor are none the less true. It then goes on to say: “The Secretary of the Interior in his annual report is authority for the statement that among these un- appropriated lands there are 74,000,000 acres which would be ‘capable of sustaining and comfortably sup- | porting, under a proper system of irrigation, a popu- lation of at least 350,000,000 people” That is Mr. Hitcheock's calculation. Yet year after year our peo- ple have suffered this potential empire to bake under the cloudless sky and blazing sun of a great, voiceless desert. Some of its soil may be bored for 400 fest without finding a bowlder, and much of it is the rich- est alluvial deposit of the mountain floods, better than any of the loam which our New England gar- deners jealously hoard. Nevertheless, there are re- | gions where half a million acres of this rich earth ! would not supply sufficient grass for one little burro. | But let there be an overflow from the river and the grass will leap forth at the rate of twelve inches a day until it attains matur‘ty.” The improvement of that vast empire within the | confines of the Union is deliberately rejected by Con- J gress. Liberal appropriations have been made for th= improvement of small rivers and comparatively un- 1used harbors in the East, while a most niggard policy 1has been pursued with respect to irrigation. Senator | Warren of Wyoming recently made the assertion that lthe sums appropriated by Congress in the last twenty I\ S a rule Eastern people are either so indifferent 1’ or so antagonistic and | years for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers would have sufficed to irrigate and redeem 100,000,000 acres of waste land. On that issue the Globe points out that scientific engineers have repeatedly reported that the best way to guard against floods in such rivers as the Missis- sippi and the Missouri would be to draw away the surplus waters at their sources, and store it up, if need be, instead of trying to restrain the floods by dykes and levees along the banks in the lowlands. It then adds: “It has been estimated that the loss occasioned by the abnormal rise of the Missouri in one year repre- sented an amount of money equal to the cost of all the hydrological basins needed in the far northwest, and that if one-tenth of the money which has been ex- pended for the restraint of the Mississippi had been expended at the mountain sources of the Western rivers the farmers of the Mississippi bottom would have been rescued from the peril of periodic floods, while at the same time a vast desert on the plains | would have been rescued from its perennial drought. But Congress has sent the money only where there | are constituencies, and these abound in the Missis- sippi Valley, but are not to be found among the prairie dog villages of the trans-Missouri wilderness.” It is gratifying to note that Eastern people are be- ginning to understand the importance of this ques- |tion. We are spending millions in pursuit of the | vanity of imperialism in the Philippines and rejecting a rich and noble empire within our own borders. We are wasting money in wars which will yield no other harvest than future wars, entailing further expendi- tures, while refusing appropriations for the improve- {ment of our own lands and rendering them sources of | incalculable wealth. ——ce—— The British have come to the conclusion that the Boers are demoralized, but the is evidently father of the thought. Kruger's offer to make peace on exactly the same terms he proposed before the war began certainly shows no evidence of weakening. wish A BIG TELEPHONE FIGHT. ( ]\'ER in the East th;;aspem of the year are brightened for the patrons of telephone lines by the organization of a powerful company to fight the Bell monopoly and by competition bring | down telephone rates and at the sanje time improve | the service. As a substantial victory:for the new or- ganization in the East would undoubtedly result in | breaking down the monopoly here as well as there, | | the contest is of almost as much interest to San Fran- | cisco as to those cities where it is now being waged. ‘ The Philadelphia North American, in giving an account of the competing company, “the Telephone, [ Telegraph and Cable Company of America,” says it is composed of some of the leading capitalists of Philadelphia and New York, among whom are John Jacob Astor, Daniel O'Day, Standard Oil Company, | H. R. Wilson, banker, New York; W. J. Latta, Phila- delphia; C. W. Morse, president of the American Ice | Company; Charles E. Adams, president of the Mas- | sachusetts Board of Trade; H. E. Gawtry, president of the Consolidated Gas Company of New York; W. H. Gelshennen, president of the Garfield National Bank, New York, and George Crocker of San Fran- cisco. The combination, it will be seen, is a strong one, and it appears a decided victory has been already ob- tained over the old monopoly. The Erie telephone system, one of the largest branches of the Bell Com- pany, has been acquired by the new corporation. This | system is said to be subdivided into five divisions, | operating in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arkansas, Texas and a portion of Ohio. It has a capital of $22,000,000, and its ac- | | quirement adds immensely to the prestige of the rival | | organization, while at the same time diminishing the | strength of the Bell Company. | Commenting upon the contest the North Ameri- can says: “From the conflict now raging between the two corporations may come cheaper telephone rates | ]k-r Philadelphia. The Telegraph and Cable Company has a capital of $30,000,000, and its promoters have planned to carry the battle of competition against the old company to every city or town where a tele- | phone line is operated. They are known to be seek- | ing a franchise in this city, and those who are familiar with the situation predict their success.” From that report of the fight in the East we can draw reason for the hope that before long the new company will extend the field of its operations San Francisco and force an improved service and lower rates here. There is certainly a good oppor- tunity for the new corporation, since the monopoly here has conducted its business in such a manner as to incline the public to give a hearty welcome to any new comer in the field. In the meantime, however, it is to be noted that rivalries between great corporations controlling pub- lic utilities generally end in compromises, by which the rivals agree upon rates sufficiently high to enable them to extort from the people sums as large as the traffic will bear. For that reason it becomes more im- perative than ever to clothe the municipal authorities with power to regulate telephone rates. If such power be not vested in the municipality we may see the rival companies united to recoup from San Fran- cisco the sums they expend in fighting one another elsewhere. to PR IR IR IR IR IR IR IR R RN IR IR IR IRNE RN ReR RN 4R+ RNeL +Re NN RoR R 4R Rk e Ne%e Re ReRO A report from Dawson says it is estimated the out- put of the gold diggings of that district this year will exceed the value of $25,000,000; but the chances are the man who made the estimate has mining claims to sell to any one who wishes to speculate. Every now and then comes a report that some chamber of commerce or board of trade has indorsed the consular service bill, but the bill itself is in a pigeon hole and it seems likely to stay there for the rest of this session. . Kaiser William has now painted a picture, written a battle hymn, composed a piece of music and pro- duced a drama, so there is really nothing leit for him to do except to declare war on somebody or take to lecturing. The new boy preacher is a very good preacher of the kind, but what has become of all the others that for a generation past have been doing the boy preacher act in this country and Great Britain? With all his speechmaking Bryan has not yet fur- nished his party with a watchword for the campaign, and it seems the Bryanite war cry this year will be hardly more than an inarticulate howl. By a timely article in the Atlantic Monthly, Olney got his name before the public again just as he was about to be forgotten, and Tom Reed will do well to profit by the example. The next time the Board of Health runs up against a diseased Chinaman it will study the case a little be- fore it announces the bubonic plague and quarantin everything in sight. | sitting at the head of a | almost ascetic; GARI MELCHERS' GREAT PAINTING, ‘THE SUPPER AT EMMAUS. e e e T S S Sy S S S S S @+ ARI MELCHERS, the Detrolt genius, who came so strongly into ‘public view through his decorations for the new Congrossional Library at Washington, continues to add to his fame as an artist. As usual, he is far better known abroad than in his own country His largest picture, “The Supper at Emmaus,” is at- tracting great attention among connoisseurs. The Christ, rude table, breaking bread, severely treated, of a tender, attenuated type, contrasts strongly with | the two disciples—one tall and muscular, the other stout and gross—brilliantly painted with much impasto, thelr faces full of awe and reverence, exemplifying the verses: ““And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave.to them “‘And their eves were opened, and they knew him.”" The color of the picture is brilliant, Intensifled by vivid spots of green and orange. Mr. Melchers' first great essay in decoration was made for the Chicago Exhibition. These decorations filled the corner pavilion of the Liberal Arts building, and were the most mas- terly of any of the frescoes there. Unfortunately they have perished by fire. His most important decorations were made for the new Congressional Library at Washington. They are very fine in color, following the rule of Puvis de Chavannes, that mural decoration should be low In relfef and dellcate in tone. A peculiar and Interesting temperament. While at work unconscious of discomfort; content with the merest necessities; ungregarious, almost unsociable; preferring not to talk about his work or show it. His friends, knowing his nature, allow for it, and, in return for the small amenities of life, he gives them—first his work, which is enough, and then his honest conviction artistically—he gives you the truth “straight.”” He cares neither for friend nor foe in matters of THE SUPPER AT EMMAUS, BY GARI MELCHERS. From the Magazine of Art. MMWMMMWM&MH+HH—@+@-&Q+@+Q+M [ ] D900 9000000006060 0 406D+ D00 6060600000600 s0e0sbdebedeQ B R B e R e e e S L S A SE AR A S TS TS art, and following the advice of Thackeray In his “Pletorial Rhapsody,” praises merit though it belongs to his dearest fo ‘Withal, having a catholic taste, caring very much for picture exacily the opposite of his own, considering it an honor to call himeelf a pupil of Puvis de Chavannes, who had 2 warm ad- miration for Melchers’ work, and friendship for him person- y, which he showad In a very touching way on the day Meichers was gazettel a Chevaller of the Legion of Honor - glving him, with many expressions of affection, his own cross, with its faded bit of ribbon, which he had recelved as a young man from the hands of the Emperor Napoleon III. Mr. Mel- chers is also a Knight of the Order of St. Michael of Bavaria. He has had medals of honor in Paris, Berlin, Antwerp, Munich and Amsterdam; in fact in nearly every capital of Europe. Mr. Melchers was born in 1860, in Detroit, Mich. The record of his career is almost monotonous, so uniformly successful has it been. His father, belng a sculptor, knew the advantage of early training and sent him in his seventeenth year to Dus- seldorf. This town Is out of vogue as an art center now, and the modern Paris-taught men smile at the tedious German method of passing in slow degrees from the elementary class to the life; but Mr. Melchers has nothing but praise for the place and its professors, and perhaps much of his own pains- taking method was acquired there. It is a sign of the man that he pursues his artistic way re- lentlessly. Without acqualnting his father, whom he feared might too strenuously object, he left Dusseldorf in 1881 for Paris and began his studies there in the ateliers of Boulanger and Lefebvre, and also at the Beaux Arts. He made his debut in the Salon of 1832 with “The Letter.” At the International Exhibition of 138 one of the two medals of honor given in the American section of fine arts fell to Mr. Melchers for his ex- hibit of “The Sermon,” “The Pflots” and “The Communion,™ surely a very rare distiction for a man not yet 30. AROUND THE CORRIDORS | Judge J. W. Hughes of Sacramento s at the Lick. * Senator C. M. Simms of Santa Rosa is | a guest at the Lick. | A. Curtls, a frult ralser of Los An- geles, s at the Grand. E. C. Voorhels, a mining man of Sutter Creek, Is at the Palace. R. B. Butler, a wealthy frult grower of Fresno, Is at the Grand. Judge A. C. Hinkson of Sacramento is registered at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Holden of Newark, N. J., are staying at the Occidental. | John Costa, a wealthy mine-owner of | Downieville, is registered at the Lick. | W. W. Hentz, a_well known rallroad | man of Salt Lake City, ‘s at the Palace. | H. Warren and G. W. Somerfield, cattle men of Nevada, are staying at the Grand. | Dr. W. ing. w. dental. few days. after East. geles. Astoria. C. O. W. Gross of Visalia is a guest ! at the Grand. at the Grand, where he arrived last even- H. Walker, a millionaire business man of Salt Lake City, is at the Occi- Dr. E. M. Proctor, a prominent physi- cian of Placerville, is at the Palace for a of Phoenix, Ariz., is at the Grand, ac- companied by his wife. Louis Bloes Jr. has returned to the city | a six weeks' absence, which he | | spent in visiting the principal cities of the | | Dr. G. H. Kiefer, a leading medical man ! Bank Commissioner A. W. Barrett is a guest at the California, where he arrived | last evening from his home In Los An- —_——— | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 10.—A. Ross of San | Francisco is at the Buckingbam. W. Hugh | | Grey of San Francisco is at the Waldorf- | Poole of San Francisco is | .—0+0—0—0—;—0—0 E FASHION HINT FROM PARIS, s — 1 1 1 1 i NATIVE DAUGHTER WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN A BO MISS ALICE CONDON. e R B B R AR R S SRS 00000000*"00?00000@:00@0 PO IO P e O ee i 've,-o—o*o+0+o+0+o-b. SPRING PRINCESS DRESS. The model represented is suited for the | spring and can be worn without a man- | tle. It looks very stylish in red cloth and black velvet, but can be made in other j colors. It is fastened with large dead gold buckle: ————— | C. P. Huntington Coming. | General Manager Julius Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific Company left Friday | night for New Orleans, where he will meet C. P. Huntington and accompany ,h,lm over the lines of the road to this | efty. Mr. Huntington is due to arrive at New Orleans in about a week, and his trip from that city to San Francisco will bs taken in a lelsurely fashion, so as to | bring the president of the great corpora- tion here toward the latter part of this month, or a few days betore the annual meeting of stockholders, which is sched- uled for the first part of April. —_———— | Deserted by His Wife. ‘Ward B. Hoffman has sued Carrfe B. Hoffman for a divorce, alleging desertion | as cause of action. —_—— Cal. glace fruit i0e per I at Townsend’'s.® —_—————— ‘ Note 81 4th, nr. 5c barber and grocery. Best eyeglasses and specs, 10c to 4.’ * —— e—— Special information supplied dally ty business houses and public Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’ gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. —_——— Liveried Menial—Me lud, the carriage walts without. Lord Fitz Josher—Without what? “Without horses. me lud; 'tis an autoe | | | | Bessie Bonehll one of these days 100k to her laurels, is to be one ot $ | moPle " —Chicago Record. the chief attractions in the “Brownle” production at the California next week. Alice Condon’s talent lies In the direction of male person- ation. For this sort of work she is naturally adapted. Her volce is strong ana true and has a pleasing ‘“carrying” quality. She has already won dis- tinction on the stage, and among her professional associates she is known as the child with the marvelous memory. Her gift of rapld memorizing has made her particularly available for “short notice’” parts, and no matter how limited the time or long the part, the little artist has never yet been known to fafl. The tiny male impersonator is not destined to remain long with us. The East already is stretching out its greedy arms to snatch the California girl ‘and Alice Condon is shortly tg be one of the main attractions In a big New York vaudevills show. Aucq CONDON, 14 years of age, with a peculfar talent that will make Wednesday and Friday, every Bunday. BeReReReBeReNe ReReRoReReReoRe oo Roo RoR eReR o0 NN oo Neke ReN ek oo Roe Uotio Ne RNoKQ "< No. 1 Montgomery street. —_— Personally Conducted Excursions In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe route. Experisnced excursion conductors accompany these emcur- sions to look after the welfars of passensers, To Clicaxo and Kansas City every Sunday, To Boston, Montreal and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louts To 8t. Paul avery Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 629 m':.,nm ———— T If you have not decided how to go East, go to sea the handsome moving pletures, now om exhibition, free at Union Pacifioc Ticket Offiosy