The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 5, 1900, Page 6

THE N FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY APRIL 5, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. mmunications nager Third. 8. F. W. S. LEAKE, Ma PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market an. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS....717 to 221 Stevemsom St. Telephone Main 1874, Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. ingle Copies, 5 Cents. E inciuding Fostage: Gay). one vear oes -§8.08 day), 6 mon - .00 s Sunday), 3 months. - 150 65c 1.50 KLY CALL Ome Yeer... RS 1.00 All postmasters are aathorized to receive sabseriptions. forwarded when requested. Sample coples wil OAKLAND OFFICE. ves..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORKE CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON... Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PHEN B. SMITH 30 Tribune Building NEWS STANDS: News Co.; Grest Northern Hotel; 'y CHICAGO Sherman House: P. O Fremont House; Auditorium H; NEW YORK Waidort-Astoria Hotel Murtay Hill Hot WASHINGTON MOR NEWS STANDS: A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; .Wellington Hotel local tures rers of iron ore develc >pment bers and manu! comr Z to us a reject jor themselves, Mobile to Boston, t the Middle W live view the South- they did for them to reach ade by selling on astened eager] y y to agree with d the other edge of his kni fe by differentials give *he tage, there any reason 1s€ it to reach into remote dis- eir trade The oid; further assent to any bbs, for he seemed ro exte: farther East?” ter: 4 sters e We proposition offered by ag up his sleeve. pri munity req: 1siness activifies ciple of business th the prosperity of full circle and not a segment To promote it there must be in every great commercial and producing region such marufactures as are natural and a wholesale and re- tail trade in all the merchandise that is required by | es of a people. For this principle the c Coast jobbers are contending, and have as their allies the people who understand the conditions of symmetrical development. - Interstate Commerce Commission is an impar- | body. Its functions are judicial, and, although e coast is handicapped by having no member on its bench, we are sure that it will do nothing in violation hat is clearly the natural law of trade and de- nent | ires neces | The New York Post says: “If the Democrats have | the right candidate they will win this fall,” and the sayimg is true enough, but, unfortunately for Democ- racy, it is going to have the left candidate DEWEY'S CANDIDACY. N his return home last fall Admiral Dewey found his countrymen in an idolatrous stage of effusive feeling, and was immersed in an which nse, though pungent and plea finally dulls’ the nerves through which it is appre- ciated. The stage of satiety is reached, and though the censer still swings and the perfumed clouds rise and the satiated atmosphere of popularity But ince was from it, the aroma is unnoticed nerves turn to something new. The Admiral seems to have reached that stage in which the full soul loathes the honeycomb and turns instinctively to something new. Last fall, when the Pres: tial 1didacy was pro- posed to him, he talked like a hearty sailor, declaring that his life had been spent in his profession, out of Government running civil affairs of ar, ar ip was the limit of his knowleds should be left to those trained in the Now his taste changes and his point of view shifis with it. He accepts the idea which was repugnant to | him six months ago, and seems to h ar his country- Whatever sign he may make, or what say or do, will not diminish the kindly esteem in which he is held. But the state- ments in his assenting interview will not in any de- When leaves pedestal to which he has been elevated by popular men c him to the Presidency. gree increase that esteem. a man acclaim, because of action in a specific line to which training, experience or natural talent has directed him, and seeks to climb upon another, in a far dii- erent line, he comes to be judged by an estimate not f right to stand upon the former eminence, but his fitness for the new one. This h and mighty time in our history reat and novel questior Party is a h: overshadow the past. t is being re- n arranged. Already there is ap t a new cleavags, but it is partisan. Men in great public station or s¢ git 10t keep their opinions do: nt. - The people ar t grabbing for a President in a bag, lik2 Idren at a church fair, nor are they playing blind s buff this year to e man who is to 1l decide re in the An can farmer does not use his daughter’s piano nkee Doodle” s to their uses. ng instrumen e he likes to An American carpenter does not use for a plow be rashboard for a jackplane because he ap- tes the white linen st an on its ribs. e American citizen does not send his watch to a ith to be cleaned. nor his horse to a jeweler He and He admire od illed in seli-government, 1 of means to ends there ecting e A ve of enthusias: A further bar cision e party whose candidate he would be and the which he w He invites re pon on th the apparent asst ient. We have had many men in of our history whose personality ch. Indeed it is doubtful if we have 1 d Linco! s for the others, they are h the Admiral seems to ington both had oppo- far away m which greeted him in c the eager enthusia er ck cter a few months id the capture of Cronje would dismay the dis- and that the death of Joubert would but it more lively probable that i ¢ will get their dander up and whip every . t the taking of Bloemfontein would is pears Lord Roberts ggres: them and ve h in sight VICTORIA IN IRELAND. thing Briti CCORDING to the statements of some of the fl more influential papers of London, the recent imperial demonstration on St. Patrick’s day and the visit of the Queen to Ireland are designed to be something more than a compliment to the valor of the Irish troops in South Af; as overtures to the Irish and forecast the adoption of ca. a policy of conciliation on a comprehensive scale. In support of that view of the case the London Chronicle in commenting upon the situation say: “The meaning of those who, not being Irishmen, made a point of acclaiming Irish gallantry and self- sacrifice on St. Patric throne to the man in the street, was to extend hand of brotherhood, to suggest oblivion of past discords, and to offer an equitable and a generous settlement of every outstanding grievance. Irishmen who cannot read so much as this between the lines of and who significance in the wave of popular sentiment which has pulsed round the empire since Majesty's gracious initiative less than a fortnight ago, must be blind indeed to all that most nearly concerns them.” How far the British Tories are sincere.in this sud- den manifestation of a desire for a “union of hearts and a union of hands,” and how far the Irish patriots will reciprocate it, are matters that remain to be seen. Conciliation is a plant of slow growth. The heredi- y antagonisms and prejudices of centuries are not to be overcome in a day, not even if it be a day so halcyon and vociferous as was that of St. Patrick. The refusal of James Egan, the city swordbearer of Dublin, to present the sword to Victoria or to take any part in the ceremonies of welcome is significant of the attitude of thousands of representative Irish On the other hand, a good deal of praise has Saturday’s record, cannot her men. | been given in Great Britain to a recent letter of John Redmond, in which he is reported to have said: “It seems likely that the great question in the immediare future of imperial politics will be the question of im- perial federation. This, which up to the other day was little more than a dream, has been brought within range of practical politics by the war in South Africa and by the action of the colonies in relation to the empire. Any scheme of imperial federation must include Ireland, and, while I do not look for a final | settlement of Irish questions in this direction, I think 1 see a possibility in the near future of a further de- | velopment of Irish seli-government.” The terms of the letter declare a belief on the .part | of Redmond that something like local self-govern- ment is in sight for Ireland, and the commendation given to it in London implies a willingness on the part of a considerable number of Englishmen to con- cede it. Victoria's visit may therefore prove to be more than an idle holiday or a state pageant. The British empire, like our own republic, is confronting 2 new era, and out of its complications Ireland may like incense. | ant at first, | al e rising and growing to | They | his person- | than | they suffer a few more | They are intended | s day, from the Queen on the ! the | find this | attain at last a portion at least of the independence for which her heroic sons have so long planned, agi- tated, worked and fought. ————————— It is said by the Philadelphia Ledger that owing to the enterprise of a Western railway upward of 1500 farmers from Pennsylvania and other Atlantic States are now on their way to make homes in North Da- kota. That men should ge to the blizzard country | to farm when there are so many idle acres in Cali- | fornia is strange, but then there is a big difference in railroads. | STATE SCHOOL PROBLEMS, ROM the sub-committee appointed to outline ubjects for the consideration of the State Edu- ational Commission at its meeting on the 12th of this month there has been issued a circular set- ting forth a number of important propositions for discussion. which they are presented by the' committee, are as follows: 1. Certification of teachers and duties of County Boards of Education. 2. Definition of grades, | relations of high schools, grammar | grades to one another, constitutional concerning State school moneys. board for normal schools and requirements for ad- mission to such schools. 4. Method of selecting the Superintendent of Public Instruction. electing school trustees and 6. Compulsory education. at Teachers’ Institutes. 8. Concentration and super- vision of rural schools and transportation of pupils. 9. Technical education. 10. State textbooks. | The constitutional amendments proposed are for the purpose of removing the restrictions upon the Legislature which prevent the adoption of the de- sired reforms in grading the schools. Two substi- utes have been suggested, and it will be for the com- mission to consider which is the better. The first would substitute for section 6 article IX of the con- stitution the following: “The public,school system shall inciude primary and gramimar schools and such high schools, evening schools, normal schools and technical schools as may be established by the Legis- lature, or by municipal or district authority.” The alternative substitute is more guarded in lan- problems and and primary amendments of teachers. 5. Time appointing guage. It provides: “The public school system shall include primary and grammar schools, and such high schools, evening schools, normal schools and technical schools as may be established by the Legislature or by municipal or dis- trict authority but the entire revenue de- rived from the State school fund and the revenue | derived from taxes collected for primary and gram- mar schools shall be applied exclusively for the sup- port of primary and grammar schools. der technical schools shall be applied exclusively to the support of such schools.” In support of the amendment the committee points out that the effect of the present constitutional re- rement is “to extend the term ‘grammar school’ and the type of instruction proper to grammar schools can be pushed. It prevents the consideration questions relating to those grades on grounds, and compels the consideration of such questions instead on purely financial grounds.’ Furthermore, the committee sa; “Until this limi- tation is removed it is of no avail to recommend im- provements in the gradation of our schools at this most vital point.” | It will be noted that the question of school grading as well as many others in the list affects some of the most important features of our school system, and the discussion of them by the State Commission will | awaken widespread interest. No part of the machin- ery of Jocal administration more closely affects of educational the welfare of the commonwealth than that of educatio: and its problems merit the attentive consideration of all. FOR THE PROTECTION OF PATIENTS ENATOR GALLINGER has introduced a bill S providing for the regulation of scientific ex- | periments upon human beings in the District | of Columbia, the object being to put an end to cer- tain offenses to which the American Humane Society has recently directed attention. It provides that no person shall make or perform upon the body of any | human being within the limits of the District any scientific experiment involving pain or risk of life or | health, for any other object than the amelioration of by the act. These restrictions are that the experiment be per- formed only by a duly qualified physician or sur- geon, that the subject of the experiment be not less than twenty-one years of age and in full possession | of reasoning faculties, that the person making the experiment obtain a license to make it from the Commissioners of the District, that no such experi- ment be at any time continued against the expressed will of the person experimented upon, and finally it is provided: “That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prohibit or interfere with any properly conducted method of medical treatment or surgical operation, whether experimental or other- amelioration of suffering or the recovery of the pa- tient treated or operated upon.” The advocates of the measure claim it has no other object than that of protecting those who cannot pro- tect themselves; that no reputable physician or surgeon is affected by it, as it will not interfere in the slightest degree with any method of treatment de- signed for the benefit of the patient, but that it “for- bids absolutely all experiments productive of pain or distress or dangerous to life or health upon children of any age, or the inmates of asylums, hospitals or public institutions—in short, upon those who from weakness or ignorance cannot protect themselves, and whose helpless condition appeals to the common instincts of humanity.” The Humane Society claims to have ample proof of the necessity for restraining legislation of the kind proposed. In these days, when an enthusiasm for scientific advance prevails in all civilized countries, and when such large rewards of fame and fortune at- tend any notable discovery in science, the temptation to make experiments upon human beings is inevit- ably great, and it is not to be doubted that in many instances such experiments are made less with a view to the good of the patient than for the discovery of some secret of pathology. It is therefore advisable that a safeguard be provided for the weak and the ig- | norant against the excessive zeal of the devotees of bill applies only to the District of Columbia, but if it prove efficacious and beneficial there, it may be fol- lowed elsewhere, and its consideration is therefore a matter of interest to the country at large. o ———— Colonel Baden-Powell might as well buy a house and lot in Mafeking and settle down for life, as it looks as if he can neither walk out nor be driven our. These, in the order in | 3. A governing | 7. Attendance of trustees | The revenue | ived from taxes collected for high schools and | ar up the scale of our grades of instruction as they | the patient, except under the restrictions established | wise, having for its demonstrable end or object the | science, or the recklessness of quacks. The Gallinger i { D o e S a S e e A e S e e D i S S P S S S S S S S San A e e SR SR S e *THE END o owners, Scammell & King, who will put > & be &1nto the bar r are reduced to When a a powder. PLAGUE SCARES -~ KEEP TOURISTS ~ FROM HoNOLULU | Mail Boat Australia Sails | With Only a Few | Passengers. — Big Fleet of Sugar Vessels ir Quaran- tine—Harbor Commissioners Let Contracts—Tug Ida W purglarized. | The Mail steamer Australia got promptly on time for Honolulu Owing to the plague scare she took away very few passengers, but there was a full cargo of general merchandise. The vent of the Mail boat will be anxious |100ked forward to in the islands as owing |to the quarantine supplies are getting very short down there. The cabin passengers wib away ed on the | Australia William Booth, Mrs. Ed- | sar, Miss Grau, Miss C. Howland, | Chief Justice 4 Judd, Mrs. Judd, Miss A, Judd, J. R. Judd, Mrs. M. 8. Levy, W. Lindgren and wife, L. A. McCreanor, William Morris and wife, Mr. . Pet- M 8. N. on, E. J. Ward and Trs. M. Widdifleld, Miss Widdifield. Justice A. F. Judd had to be car- mer. He came to this wealth, but got worse in- stead of better. It is feared that he may live to reach Honolulu. The Judge § companied by his wife, daughter and son, Mrs. M. S. Levy is the wife of the well known Rabbi. e is going to Hon- olulu to nurs her son, who ws treated as a plague suspect by the authorit and sent to the Pesthou: Later turned out that he had typhoid fe | the moving of him through the in an ambulance nearly caused h | His mother will bring him home when he is convalescent The arriv another sugar fleet has again made things lively at the quaran- tine station. The Planter was released , and the cabin passer of the Sherfdan were brought ashore, but the fleet was almost doubled by the quar- antining of the _barkentine _Archer, twenty-one days from Honolulu, ship Falls of Clyde, fifteen days from Hilo, schqoner Dora Bluhm, eighteen and a half-days_from Kahuluf and the schooner Jennie Wand sixteen days from Mahu- | kona. The pilots are not in love with the quar- antine. The captains who are held on the ships and those who have to do double duty outside In_consequence all have their little kick at the plague scares and their | accompanying ills. ptain Swanson is | patiently tezching Captain Pearce the in- tricacies of erib on board the Sheridan: : Jordan is learning all carry the plague, Captain “Newt" | about rats and how the: ) | aboard the S. N. Cagtle; Captain Wallace is getting pointers on the best way to | reach the volcano aboard the Falls of | Clyde, while Captain McCullach is study- | ing Hawailan legends aboard the Mauna | Ala. 2 | “The Harbor Commissioners held a short session yes 3 awarded a couple of contrad One was for a shed over | the apron of the Creek route ferry slip. Newson & McNeil and Val Franz each bid $1528, while Fred Miller bid $1520 and got the job. Ghe paving of East street in | front_of the ferry depot was let to the San Francisco Paving Company at 14% cents the vard. The ex-transport City of Puebla_ will 0 out on the Walla Walla's run to Puget §5una next Friday. The latter vessel will go on the drydock to-morrow and will have a few necessary repairs made. She will resume her usual run next trip. The tug Ida W was ransacked last Tuesday night. thieves got aboard the steamer and stole everything they could lay their hands on. They broke into the forecastle and took all the men’s clothes. then went to_the cabin and stole Captain Dan James' Sun- day suit and his oil clothing. SHOULD SUFFER FOR THE PLAGUE. Alameda Argus. The merchants of San Francisco are suffering heavy loss from diversion of trade through a sensational and untruth- ful report, emphasized by big type and pictures, that the black plague had ob- tained a foothold in San Francisco. There appears to have been no motive at all in spreading this report other than one of pure deviltry. It is an exaggerated case of malicious mischief, It will hurt even the newspaper that is guilty of it, but that will not make good the injury to innocent and decent parties. “What to do” is the question. '0 whereas and re- solve at public meetings will neither miti- gate the present situation nor guard against a repetition of the offense that produced it. Just what remedy is prac- tical may not be set forth with certaint but this may confidently be said: damn a newspaper and then to subscribe for it is never felt by the man at the head of it to “indicate the public’s active dis- pleasure. —_——————————— THE EXAM NER SCHOOL OF CRIME Sacramento Bee. Sunday's Examiner contained a roseate article concerning four or five men who have risen from poverty by “following the races Tet that metropolitan journal print a few of the names of once good men and women who have been forced into pov- erty, driven into crime, maddened into suig¢ide or are still living in a perpetu: :elllflt“wn earth because of this same em abit. It is the greatest curse in California to- dxy,":.ml every honest turfman will ad- The brig W. G. Irwin is now out about ten day trade, and will in"all probability make steamboat A considerable portion of the Irwin's cargo for Nome will be a steam beer plant. it $5000 into the venture and expect to make a cl, the water is turned in and the 3 faucet is turned and out comes as fine a steam beer as was ever served on the water front. L O i S e S o Some of the water front | AP OEPIE S DS 2 s aa OF HER LAST VOYAGE AS A SUGAR BOAT.” from Honolulu, and on her arrival here will be turned over to her new ! She is perhaps the fastest vessel in the Hawallan L 4 her in the Nome passenger trade. ime to the gold fields. fortune out of it. B keg of compound allowed to OUR STREET IMPR a new process all the ingredient: the thirst-quenching fluld is required a ce tand an hour or G40+ +006+009 D e T i T e + The owners of the patent have g of a first class steam »f the extract is put nd of that time the rtain quantit é At the ) P A s0. OVEMENTS UNDER BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS The Call' does not hold itself respo the opinfons published in this colum ble for . but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest DITOR The Call: Thanks to the | new charter, th ns of San | Francisco have to pass through an | inter ¢ period of moral evolu- like Dar- | tion and to adapt themselve | win's spec to new condi Just now they have slowly to educate up to the level of our Board of Public Works. Formerly when at the city front a street | became impassable the good, plain, more | or less honest men whom we had made | our Superintendent of Streets got a hun- dred dollars’ worth of rocks toge dumped them irto the holes; rolled over the improvement sm hoped that in a year or So a new Super- intendent of Streets might do even bet- ter. Now, of course, nobody cares to ex pect that our Board of Pubiic Worl sided over by a real United State and compose education and talent are competent to tackle the heaviest engineering problem of country, would dump rocks_intc street holes like hayseed farmers. They know better. Plans are made to place the dilapidate street on piles or on a concrete foundat of lonel colon of gentlemen who by birth, or both. Pl and _specifications _cost alone as much as did the rocks of the good old Street Superintendent. When the bids come in the reg of the fau block turn out to be a_matter of say § or more. Unfortunately it turns out, t that there is no such sum of money avai able. Perhaps the board knew that b forehand. Anvhow it has succeeded _in proving the fact in a scientific way. The feamsters recelve the hearty regrets of the board and drive around the block as before. On Sixth street, between Folsom and Harrison, a similar experience puzzles the afflicted property owners. Our old-fas ioned Superintendent of Streets, under tt pull and istomary and provided for in such cases, might have putsome money aside to raise the curb to the street r road track, which represents the | 8rade of the street since it was accepted by the city twenty years ago. Our Board of Public Works does not do such kind of busin Their professional conscience got troubled b bt if that grade of twenty ¥ the true one, The origin aim to have been two fee have given the matter ounty Attorney, it since some Thence it will and will rest there a Meanwhile nobod: could expect money for the improvement. s been done that can be done and all | gal and professional manner. Should original grade of i, then the the level of th street two lroad track so that it sver rest of For unfortunately du sn that has passed sin lowered by feet, populated all the generat a mile of ween, d and re)—has been left two to be slowly educated our Board of Public an s of the Sixth-street prop- ¢t to do business on a d will once more express ts and the teams will dr! a terrestrial or pe the board or > thing is eertain, to-wit, that, since differences In the professional and have sprung up. there City Hall at haif-mast J the empty purse that h ble ard of Publle Works free from all further Insinuatio If it should ever be taken dow emember that we do busine: on 3 and that w as soon million or 1 square now two feet be- law to the legal and professional ROBERT R. RUSS. Columbia Square, City. STILL LIBEIZING gALFFORNlA Yreka Journal Hearst of the New York Journal and | S8an Francisco Examiner is about as great a liar in reporting the plague on this coast as he is In traducing the administra- tion. No doubt he will next accuse C fornia of being infected with smallpox, if he can make a lot of nickels in doing so. The Examiner keeps a little more shady for fear of loss, but Hearst's other | paper in New York is libeling California most outrageous) * —_—————————— GAGE NEEDN'T WORRY. | s 2l | Visalia Delta. | When Gage was campaigning for the office of Governor of California he said he wanted to be Governor for only one term. There is now no occaston for Gage to worry over the possibilities of being nominated a second time. | - | ANSWERS TO CORRESP 'ONDENTS. A SCAR—Z., City. No method has yet been discovered that will obliterate the trace of a scar. | NEXT JANUARY—Subscriber, Santa | Cruz, Cal. If you are living at one sec- [ ond past midnight December 31, 190, you | will then for the first time be living in | the twentieth century. | THE BLUE AND THE GRAY—Sub- | scriber, City. The poem entitled Blue and the Gray,” in which occur the words “Under the laurel the blue, under the willow the gray,” and “Under the roses the blue, under the lilles the grajy was written by F. M. Finch. The poem was inspired by a custom of Southern women. The women of Columbus, Miss., animated by noble sentiments, showed themselves impartial in their offerings made to the memory of the dead. They strewed flowers alike on the graves of Confederate and of Union soldiers. ENGLISH ARMY AND NAVY-J. B. K., City. The term of enlistment In the *The | !Enzlish army is six years for “short ser- vice” and years for “long ser- vice.” ed twelve years may and at cloge of stment, which makes twenty-one ¥ service, he is entitled to retire wit fon. Able and ordina; eldom enter direct into the E navy. The su ply is obtained from the apprentices from which the seamen and peity officers, classes are recruited. The boys enter the n voluntarily and they may be re- ceived between the ages of 15 and 16%. They enlist with the understanding that they are to serve for ten years after hav- ing attained the age of eighteen. b —_——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend's.® —_———— Special Information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, > —————— Art Exibition and Concert. Mark Hopkins Institute of A of California and Mason. Open ¢ 9 till 5. Concert to-night Admission 25 cents. —_——— A Simple Deduction. Stuper—Here's a nice letter for a man | to_receive! The scoundrel who wrote it callssme a blithering idiot Teeple—What's his name? “That's just what I'd like to find out; | but_there's no signate “Don’t you recogni: he writing? 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