The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1900, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1900. - @all | ..MARCH 31, 1900 | Proprietor. JERIRETOHTRETE 5. LEAKE, Manager. JOHN D. SFRECKELS, arket and Third, S. PUBLICATION OF Telephone Main IS68. . EDITORIAL ROOMS. Stevenson St. Telephon by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cemts. Terms by Mat Delivered Y CALL . postmasters are authorized to recelve sabscriptions. forwarded wheh requested. One Year.... ple coples w ...1118 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE. . ROGNESS rquette Building, Chicago. PONDENT _Herald Square NTATIVE: > Tribune Building NEW YOI Y LUKENS JR rANDS: Eherman House Great Northern Hotel: use; Audit NEWS STANDS: Brentano, 81 NEW YOR Hot A Tnion Square; WASHINGTON (D ...Wellington Hotel C.) OFFICE. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—: gomery, corner of Clay, open untdl 9 o'ciock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:3 839 until 2281 tlock ope: 615 Larkin, until 10 o'c afternoon and clalties. AUCTION SALES. at 11 o'clock, Horses, at n—Monday, April 2, O'Jl{ BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES es of Home Study now running in been found more generally of biographical hough these articles girls young sting them in his- g them in what has been 1e past, they can be asses who have an intel- 1 the series T and Charlotte cetches of Royal Women her 2 wide repute It includes seventeen papers women of such widely varied oan of Arc, Vittoria Colonna, 5 ne Herschel, Sarah Kem- . Le Brun, Mary Lamb, Charlotte Elizabeth Fry, Harriet Marti- lotte Cushman, Jenny Nightingale and on of Mrs rence Alcott 1des women who have lines of human en- be seen the I disti; om war, in which Joan of Arc stands pre- to the deec charity which have rendered orever memorable in the | Every reader can learn als of the English race. thing new and of permanent interest in this it a higher appreciation of have done in promoting the course and derive fror the work h wom welfare of humanity Many of the papers in the series have been already t 1 h are yet to come are fully s interesting as any that have gone before. If there s of The C who have not yet given at- ies, they will do well to item of the news of the n these studies or will better | t in reading. Each article of the f, and presents a critical and an author of established repute on 1as the double attraction of his- interest shed, but subject which toric value and perso THE KENTUCKY TROUBLE. —HE outstanding reward of $100,000 for con- on of the assassins of Goebel is likely to secure the hanging of somebody, with the high y that the victim of hemp had nothing to Mr. James Andrew o seems by the latest news to be running “If Youtzey will nows, he can hang Taylor and Republican party. for tion for Youtzey to make f able for the rest of their is going to confess in the morning, zey had better get in while he can The ight as well have his share.” addressed to the brother- ather-in-law of Youtzey. Scott assured Youtzey did not get in Culton would $100,000. Youtzey's relatives only re- t he had nothing to tell, thereupon he was arrest e he expiates s quoted as saying: he I can arrange language v der We doubt whether such an exhibition was ever made in modern times before. There is something ble in the conduct of Goebel's friends. They | permit a post-mortem, or any examina- whether he was shot in the To inculpate Republican State officers ry to make it appear that the shots came , but those officers, by refusal of a = deprived of the defense they would have if he were shot in the back. This fact, coupled i-k he o« »oded proposition of Scott to use the on to pay for testimony that will de- wublican party by hanging Governor Tay- | yws the whole thing with mystery and sus- It is known that Taylor was elected by a majority of 40,000, and that this was reversed by the lor, picion use of the Goebel law, and now if Ta#ylor can be hanged, as well as cheated out of his office, Kentucky will add a y undesirable load to her already pe- crliar reputation. i THE INTERESTS OF SAN FRANCISCO. HE commercial aspirations of San Francisco reach westward, to Asia. China and Japan offer the most profitable and inviting field. China is the better of the two, because of its larger and more productive population. Li Hung Chang is authority for the statement that China has reached the limit of her food supply, and must look to the nearest nation that produces a surplus of food to supplement her decreasing resources. So well is this aspiration of the Pacific Coast un- derstood that there is a bill now before Congress to appoint an American commission to proceed to China and an and make a study of those markets, their ements and their exchange capacity in com- merce. In 1808 China imported $146,077,000 worth of goods, or 36.5 cents per capita of her people. Of this the United States sold to her $20,000,000. China has now thirty-one open ports, each one an open door to our trade. This country is favored in China for the reason that we have respected her territorial in- tegrity have sed ports and zones of territory and spheres of in- nce by craft or violence, we have been content to requ While the other commercial nations rest our relations and commerce with her upon wholly natural conditions and upon a policy that has not injured her national pride and seli-respect. In an- other direction, however, we are undoing for San Francisco what this national policy has accomplished. Our Chinese trade from this port has spread through the settiement here of Chinese merchants. These Chinese business men pay one-third the tariff taxes collected in this district on importations. porter is also an exporter. These Chinese merchants have already done and are daily doing exactly the work to be charged upon the commission which Con- gress is about to authorize. They understand in its minutest detail the Chinese market; they know what American product that market will take, and in what shape it must go to the consumer there. In its be- ginning the trade of this country with China was in silks and teas. It was promoted by resident Ameri- can merchants in China, who understood the Ameri- can market, and its taste as to quality, its capacity as to quantity and its requirements as to times and In other words, we were in the beginning importers from China, and our merchants, located there, knew our market and catered to it. Now China i3 an importer from this country, and the Chinese merchants have settled here as American merchants did there, and are wise in the needs of their native market. It has been said, and truly, that if we want this export trade to China we must be mindful of the resident Chinese merchant. If we expel him we ex- pel the Chinese export trade of San Francisco. It has been for some time apparent that application of our very proper law and treaty regulations against seasons. | laborers to merchants is working against the Chinese | trade of San Francisco. Our commercial rivals on the north understand this, and as we increase our | policy of illiberality to Chinese broaden their hospitality to that class merchants of this city, who begin to feel the pressure of this policy, held a conference with Mr. Ho Yow, the Chinese Consul, and appointed a committee to suggest an intelligent administration of our exclu- sion laws, so as rigidly to exclude coolie laborers, according to the necessary purpose of those laws, but at the same time to secure the merchants the rights guaranteed to them by ‘our laws and treaties. Forty years ago Japan had no appreciable imports. Now her imports are over $3.00 per capita, of which we sold to her 14 per cent and Great Britain 22 per cent. It is easily possible for China in a short time to ipcrease her imfmns to the same per capita as Japan, and that would mean an annual importation into China of $1,200,000,000. Granting that we do not increase our percentage of that trade, the increase ean to us an annual export of $168,000,000. rancisco do not get the most of it, the faulr will be ours. In view of this it is rather discouraging to San Francisco commerce to see the Examiner stigmatize the effort to keep for Chinese merchants their plain rights under the treaty as an attack on the laws which exclude Chinese coolie labor. The Examiner's attack holds over every merchant the shadow of libel and abuse and the threat of boycott in his trade, unless he consents to dump Chinese merchants and coolie la- borers all in one, class and thereby drive away our Chinese trade by the denial of treaty rights to the Chinese merchants who are building it up. Any one wise in commerce knows that if we desire an export trade to India its best promoters would be Parsee merchants from Bombay, who might be in- duced to found houses here and become buyers of our products to export to the markets whose needs they know. The interests of this city require attention to- these matters, and those interested are injured by injecting the Chinese labor question into Chinese trade. We suppose that no discipline can reach Hearst's two papers to make them either truthful, decent or re- spectful of the highest interests of this city and State, and men who have those interests at heart should merchants, they would m proceed in disregard of the fantastic lying and sen- | sational follies of Hearst’s sheets. The seductive chase for gold has induced many of our Chinese highbinder citizens to leave the city for the north. There is every reason to believe therefore that the gold camps of the north will not suffer from lack of excitement. AMERICAN TAXES ON SHIPPING. AVID A. WELLS for several years before his D death was engaged in preparing a work on taxation designed to contain a record of his experience in assisting to shape State and national taxes, and of the conclusions drawn from that expe- rience and from his study of taxation in other coun- tries. The work has recently been published, and contains much information of value to legislators who desire to give to the people of the United States a well ordered system of taxation instead of the con- fused burdens which are now imposed upon indus- try and enterprise without yielding any adequate re- turn of revenue. Among the examples of foolish and hurtful taxes which Mr. Wells cites none is more worthy of note than the shipping taxes which oppress our commerce. On that subject Mr. Wells says: “Boards of Trade and commercial conventions may pass deploring reso- lutions concerning the decay of American commerce, and committees of Congress may continue to inves- tigate the same subject, but so long as ships engaged in the carrying trade on the free ocean, and owned in Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany and Hol- land, are not directly taxed, and ships engaged in ! competition in the same business and owned in Bos- ton, Portland, New Orleans and San Francisco, are | taxed, and taxed heayily, commerce will incline to move in the paths made easy and profitable to it. The difference in cost of a single penny per bushel in Iluyinsz down grain at Liverpool.may alone be deter- minative of the question whether millions of buchela An im- | Recently the | shall be supplied by the wheat fields of the United States or those of Russia, India or Hungary.” The comparative burdens of the taxation of ship- ping in the United States and in the maritime states | of Europe are thus stated: “Portland, Maine, levied more taxes in the year 1893 on its shipping, valued at 1 $909,000, than the Cunard Company paid to Great | Britain in the same year on ships valued at nearly | $0.000,000! The taxation of shipping at Charieston is five times heavier than that levied by Great Britain or Germany. During the year 1803 the city of San Francisco levied taxes to the amount of $85,675 on its | shipping—a sum within $60c of the combined taxes paid during the same year by the Cunard line, the | Hamburg-American line, the North German Lloyd and the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique of France to their respective: Governments, their com- bined shipping comprising upward of 700,000 tons of the best steel and iron steamship}, valued at upward of $58.000,000.” Such figures as these carry their moral on the face. When to them it is added that the Governments of the maritime nations of Europe grant liberal sub- sidies to their merchant marine, it is not to be won- dered that our shipping industry languishes and that of our own ocean commerce we carry but a petty per- centage, leaving the rich and increasing profits of the trade to be reaped by the ship-owners of other na- tions. It is evident that if we are to compete on equal terms with foreigners in the commerce of the world, we shall have to make a radical change in our methods of treating our merchant marine. It is said that the coming of Collis P. Huntington to this city will mark not only the obliteration of the influence of Stanford and Crocker from the South- ern Pacific Company, but will even blot out the very names of these men from the great corporation. If this be a fact it should suggest a deeply significant theme for a historian of Californian affairs. THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL MUSEUM, I HEN it was learned in Philadelphia that a \V project had been formed in this city to estab- lish a Pacific Coast Commercial Museum along lines similar to those upon which the great in- stitution in that city has been so successfully con- ducted, it at once occurred to the people there that the prestige of their own museum would be largely increased if the one in San Francisco should be an- nexed to it as a -subordinate or branch institution. good many Philadelphians that they have come to | our museum as a purely local enterprise quite as a | matter of course. Thus the Philadelphia Inquirer, in | commenting upon the Pacific Coast project, recently | informed its readers: “While the Philadelphia Com- mercial Museum is planned on a national scale and oit Western trade especially, and is only incidentally a national affair.” have taken toward the Pacific Coast museum, it will | | be well to disabuse their minds on the subject. The Pacific Coast cannot afford in this, nor in any other great enterprise, to admit the doctrine that the East is national and the West is merely local. So long as such ideas prevail we shall be handicapped in every | effort we make for advancement, either at home or abroad. The Pacific Coast is as national as the At- { lantic Coast, and, moreover, has now grown suffi- ciently strong to assert itseli in commerce, industry and politics. The issue whether our museum is to be indepen- | dent or subordinate is not one of prestige merely. If | the Pacific Coast museum be a seli-centered insti- tution, national in its scope, it will be entitled, like | that of Philadelphia, to governmental aid, but if it | be but a branch of the Eastern institution, it can ex- pect none. That fact is made clear by the Inquirer | itself in the statement: “There is before Congress— | | or at least there will be, for the Committee on Inter- | state and Foreign Commerce with but a solitary | 000 for the Philadelphia museum. The friends of be tacked on to this bill for their own use. | hope, by taking advantage of the prestige won by | one. There is small justice in such an attempt. | we would wish it hearty success and give it a ‘bless you' with emphasis. But it is only intended for the exploitation of local products. local, and therefore not a proper subject for national support.” The promoters of the Pacific museum can hardly be oblivious to the importance of this question, which they will have to determine at the very outset of their enterprise. Doubtless Philadelphia can offer many inducements for us to accept the position of a Western agen?y of their museum, but to renounce independence for the sake of them will be much like | selling a birthright of nationalism for a mess of pot- | tage. ONE NUISANCE SUPPRESSED. N these days of fiasco municipal administration, when we have to put up with streets unlighted have the streets sprinkled largely at their own ex- pense, every step taken toward a genuine improve- ment in any direction, or to the suppression of a nuisance, is a matter of more than ordinary gratifi- cation. It will therefore be pleasing to the public to learn that the Board of Health and the Chief of Po- lice have determined to put an end to the practice of scavengers hauling the refuse of the city through the principal streets during the busy hours of the day. | and also to forbid them from carrying off the scavenge in uncovered carts at any time. The nuisance resulting from the practice was one ‘'of the most serious in the city, and was the more to be condemned because it was in violation of the law. It was a practice, moreover, that was well nigh universal. Probably every scavenger in the city vio- lated the ordinance requiring a heavy and suitable cover to be attached to his cart. When The Call ex- ploited the nuisance it found-the carts going about the thronged streets with hardly a pretense of cover- ing, and the law ignored as if it were not. The new rule requiring the scavengers to haul the refuse from the city between the hours of 10 p. m. and 6 a. m,, taken with the determination to enforce the ordinance requiring carts to be covered, will re- lieve the public of a nuisance which was a serious menace to health as well as being offensive even when not dangerous. The prompt response of the offi- cials to the crusade of The Call against the evil is gratifying, and it is to be hoped the new policy will be adhered to steadfastly hereafter. Since Supervisor Tobin appears to be so familiar with the ways and the tricks of the “heathen Chinee” he might to advantage exercise some of that cun- nina which has made his model and master famous. This idea took such firm hold upon the minds of a | believe it to be true, and accordingly they refer to | { local in name only, the Pacific is intended to ex- ‘ Since that is the attitude which the Philadelphians | objection has agreed to it—a bill appropriating $200,- | | the California enterprise are asking that $50,000 shall | They | the older enterprise, to secure money for the ne\v| | | If the California concern was national in its scope | | | Its value is purely | after midnight, and merchants have to arrange to | Money and Repu cisco. plague, Chinatown was quarantined and thousands away from the eity. secare. cisco. nal has spread the news broadcast, fact. 3 was not plague quarantined. ing up yellow j to come. plague. dispatches. atch to forty citles of the Y)een published. This the curse of it. | imagine it | invented it Mayor Phelan of were the A WARM RECEPTION ble to be forgotten for reonths to dome. found dead of a disease which has certain symptoms in common with bubonic may discredit the scare among the intelligent, the ignorant, who doubtless accept lt} ag.zra\-med and black-faced fictions as Mayor Phelan, and to prevent the holding of a unicipal executive that o AgT B Bitas ap i Pnl(ed States denying the sensational stories that had vord and deed and officially reaffirmed. 'f“g?lairxs“l:rju:( what men of ordinary sense could have foreseen as the thousands of those who voted for him declaim against | proclai tate o :Esul! of re-electing Phelan, it as if they were in no way responsible. FOR THE DOVE. —Detroit Journal. B T S i EXAMINER-JOURNAL PLAGUE- CONDEMNED BY THE PRESS How the State Has Been Made to Pay in tation for a Piece of Sensational Journalism. b San Francisco Wave. The bubonic plague scare, absolutely unreasonable and unwarranted, prom- ises to turn out the most expensive piece of political work ever done in San Fran- It is proving ajvery bad business every way, and its effects are not lia- Simply because one Chinaman was the information telegraphed to the world that the dread allment had broken out in the Californfan metropolis. This sum- mary action taken on a suspicion has quarantined San Francisco and turned The effort to participate in the Cape Nome business being made by a few of the more enterprising of Californian merchants In a hundred other ways it is operating to the disadvantage of San Fran- If there had really been a case of bubonic pla; of the Board of Health had been justified by subsequent find some excuse, but that the California metropolis should have been blackened and injured for no good reason whatever is shameful. opinfon was a factor some measures would have b lize the effects of the Board of Health's rashness. and while its announcement in either organ is_ nullified by the same gue there, if the action evelopments, one might In a city in which public een taken ere this to neutra- As it is, the Examiner-Jour- their circulation is in the ranks of Berkeley Daily Gazette. e ® * The offense charged against the New York Journal is that it published in an exceedingly conspicuous and continuous manner that San Francisco was plague-ridden, and did not attempt correction after it was known that the city The result is that vessels from this port have been put in quarantine at other ports, wholesale traffic is being injured and tourists scared out of Northern California. Thus the city is made to suffer an injustice. In a sense the suffering is a just retribution for the sin of patronizing and build- ournalism, to which, the city has learned, nothing is sacred or too valuable or good to be defamed, pictured with mud cuts and defiled by contam- ination with the columns of a sacrilegious and defamatory sheet. ishment is too severe, and reaches the innocent as well as the guilty. The whole coast is suffering from these false alarms, and will continue to do so for some time It is taking some severe lessons to teach the public to discriminate be- tween a journal which prefers fiction o fact and vice versa. & e Redding Free Press. San Francisco has been suffering from too much Phelan. The Mayor's Board of Health and the Examiner, aided and abetted by the New York Journal, have been advertising to the world that San Francisco is afflicted with bubonic The East became alarmed and the alarm was exaggerated by false On Monday a delegation from the Merchants’ Association walited on But the pun- ublic meeting by that associa- cial to send out a dis- may stop the evil report from growing, but will not cure San Francisco needs to be disinfected from something worse than bubonic plague—and that is Phglnn{am,. Stockton Record. The reproaches of the kettle by the &ensorious pot find their parallel In San Francisco, where people’s feelings have been lacerated by learning that yellow Eastern papers have repeated and enlarged upon home-made bubonic fever in that city. The le is an official invention. The inventors didn’t was such a rapid-fire, long-distance explosive, or they wouldn't have ‘When it went offi B‘ndbthe echohln Ia. g W A ) : rator proved to be megaphonic, al s cked an LT angz’%clnllypdemed in words what his Board of Health had officially lies about the New York edition of the San Although that absurd Those who made the loudest outery usiness element” who were the most active in support of Phelan. PERSONAL MENTION. Colonel J. A. Hardin of Santa Rosa is | at the Palace. J. P. Cox, ex-postmaster at Folsom, 18 | at the Grand. | James See, a mining man of Oroville, | 1s at the Russ. State Senator Thomas Flint of San Juan | is at the Palace. Dr. J. A. Collie and wife of Chicago are at the California. §. M. Griffith, an ofl dealer of Fresno, Is at the Occldental. John Miller, a banker of Healdsburg, is at the California. R. I. Bentley, a fruit grower and shipper of Sacramento, is at the Lick. E. W. Hale, a prominent merchant of Sacramento, is at the Occidental. Albert Mayer, a jewelry manufacturer of Maine, Germany, is at the Lick. Joseph R. Ryland, a banker of San Jose, is at the Occidental with his family. Leonard A. Crane, a wealthy horticul- turist of Santa Cruz, is at the Palace. Thompson, editor and publisher Paul Daily Dispatch, is in the city. H. Wittenberg of Portland, largely in- terested in the cracker trust, is at the Grand. D. J. Atpin, a furniture manufacturer of Grand Rapids, Mich., and his wife are at the Grand. A. B. Barrett, State Bank Examiner, is up from Los Angeles and is stopping at the California. Gus Holmes, proprietor of the Knuts- ford Haqtel of Salt Lake, who has large in- terests in California mines, is at the Pal- ace. He is accompanied by O. P. Posey, a mining expert from Salt Lake. James Campbell, the Honolulu million- aire sugar planter, and his family, who have beer spending the winter in Califor- nia, came up from San Jose yesterday and will leave for their home on the mail steamer to-day. They are at the Occiden- | tal. Mrs. Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America is expected to arrive here to- night on one of her periodical visits. She is accomranied by her private secretary, Major Hughes, and Colonel Duncan, com- mander of the Pacific Coast division of the Volunteers. —_—ee———— | @40404 040404 0404040404040 + + A 14-year-old boy beat his @ g way from Pittsburg to San + Francisco. Took Horace Gree- ley’s advice and came West— to pick up gold and fight In- dians. You will find some ex- cellent reading about him in The Sunday Call of April 1. G+040+040+0+0+040+40+0+0+0 ————————— ‘Wanted in Haywards. Mabel Stein, a handsome blonde, 21 years of age. was arrested on Montgomery street yesterday by Detective Anthony. | Sha is accused of stealing jewelry from a | family at Haywards, where she was em- | ployed as seamstress, March 17. It is said | she is engaged to be married to an em- ploye in the Custom-house. | taking any jewelry or money, and says | she will be able to show that her arrest is all a mistake. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. PARK LEVY-F. N. H., City. The | amount allowed for the park in the tax fevy last year was §214,000, MELBA'S PARENTS—A. B. C., Healds- burg, Cal. The father of Mme. Melba, the singer, was Scotch and her mother was Spanish. | With the exception of two or three very small concerns all the tin can factories are In what is known as ‘“‘the combine.” BRYAN IN SAN FRANCISCO—Ira, | City. William J. Bryan was in San Fran- cisco on the 6th of September, ), delivered an address & the wl‘;?;iw:'rlg pavilion.. | PROCESSION—A. S., City. No proces- sions are permitted in the eit; f York without authority. If thnr: |: né‘:!: | will be granted. CERTIFICATES—B., Calistoga, Cal. A certificate issued by an officer in the United States having authority to issue such does not require an internal revenue or war stamp, but any other certificate must have upon it a 10-cent stamp. So holds the United States Attorney General. She denies | Jection to a procession the required permit | e RAILROAD WILL BE CALLED DOWN BY COMMISSION State Board Will Consider Arbitrary Increase of Rates. ‘Will Meet Here Next Week With Members of Interstate Commerce Commission to Settle a Vexed Question. S There will be a special meeting of tha oad Commission in this city on Tues- or Wednesday of next week, or soon thereafter as the Commissioners can get together. The arbitrary action of th Southern Pacific Company in increasing rates without consulting the State body is the subject which will be considered. Commi oners Blackstock, Edson Laumeister and Secretary Sesnon been in Los Angeles getting pointers fron the Interstate Commerce Commission, now in session there, with a view of bein prepared to handle the local situation without gloves. Members of the Interstate Commerce Commission are coming to San Francisco and will interest themselves in the inves- tigation to be made by the State board. ft‘ulmu Commissioner Edson left Los Angeles Thursday for Fresno, where he intends to gather information bearing on the local situation. Commissioner u- meister has returned to San Francisco. Commissioner Blackstock, who will re- main in Los Angeles until the adjourn- ment of the Interstate Commission, made the following statement last night with reference to the State board “We shall, after arrival in San Fran- cisco, fix a time for holding a session, and this may be Tuesday or Wednesday next. The holes that the Interstate Commerce Commission is jamming into the many vexed questions that have surrounded the railro: situation will prove of interest and largely aid in simplifying matters. ORGANIZERS OF THE COMMERCIAL MUSEUM Dr. W. P. Wilson and William Har- per of Philadelphia Tell of Sue- cess in the East. Dr. William P. Wilson, director of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, and his colleague, William Harper, chief of the bureau of information of the same insti- tution, arrived last night from the East and have been given apartments at the Palace as guests of the city. They were met on approaching the city by a com- mittee of prominent citizens headed by Mayor Phelan and escorted to the Palace in carriages. They will remain only until | Monday, when they must return gastward. | They have come to assist in the organiza | tion” of the Pacific Commercial Museum. | In an interview Dr. Wilson stated that | the Philadelphia Museum, organized in 1894, had grown farther and faster than its organizers had ever dreamed of. Its aim is to study and develop foreign trade—not only to find a market for American prod- | ducts but to reciprocate by finding a mar- | ket in America for foreign products not | manufactured here. The city of Phila- | delphta. at first backed the museum, but now it has become such a matter of inter- | national importance that Congress has eppropriated a large amount of money to { aid in its work. Philadelphia donated six- | teen acres of land near the business cen- | ter, valued at $§750,000, upon which build- ings to the value of $1,000,000 havs already | been erected, and plans are ready for more | buildings that will cost as much again. The buildings when completed will cover a ha | the whole_ground. Philadelphia appro- | priates $115, annually to support the museum. While the information supplied to manufacturers and producers is C- tically free, the fhuseum realized 600 last year from voluntary contributions. “The greatest obstacle to our (orr!sn trade,” said Dr. Wheeler, “is that we do not know what is required in foreign | countries. This s what the museum tries | to find out and supply to interested peo- | ple. We employ from 10 to 180 clerks, who read and write twenty different lan- uages. We take 2200 trade journals. All oreign Consuls are our agents by act of Congress. We are in constant touch with nearly every Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce and similar commercial body in the world. All the doings in the world tof trade are classified and indexed and | weekly bulletins issued to show to busi- | ness men the drift of trade. | “There should certainly be a commerctal | museum here, whose duty it will be to de- velop trade in the Orient, Australla and in South and Central America. portunity is a glorious one.” ———————— | Peanut taffy, best in world. Townsend's. * sl s bt Dserin b o The op- Send your Eastern friends Townsend's Californta Glace Fruits. 50¢ 1b. in fire- etched boxes. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel.* —_———— | Spectal information supplied daily to | business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- | gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. : — s Cumso—One thing may be said in favor of the English generals in South ca. Cawker—What is that? “They haven’t begun to write for the magazines.” Personally Conducted Excursions In tmproved wide-vestfbuled Pullman tourist siseping cars via Santa Fe route. Experienced excursion conductors accompany these excur- | sions to look after the welfars of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louis every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 623 Macket street. —_—— Nothing contributes more toward a sound di- gestion than the use of Dr. Siegert's Angosutra Bitters, the celebrated appetizer. —_———— i Faded halr recovers its youthful color and softness by the use of Parker's Hair Balsam. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15 cts. e e 1 H Proved Genuine. Tess—Do you really believe her complex- fon is genuine? Jess—There's no doubt of it. I saw the box; the label on it sald: “None genuine | without our signature.” and there was 1 gxre signature right enough.—Philadelphia ess. FOR NOME, ST. MICHAEL FRANCISCO # FROM 54N ALASKA COMMERCIAL COMPANY «.FOR... Nome, St. Michael, Dawson «-AND... 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