The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 9, 1900, Page 4

- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1900. Che ¥ MONDAY......consb APRIL o, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor hddress Al Communications to W. . LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market Telephone Main 18GS. ..217 to 221 Stevemson St. Main 1874, EDITORIAL ROOMS.. Telephone Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY Gal day). £6.00 DAILY CALl Sunday), 8 mon 8.00 DAILY « g Sundey), 8 1.50 DALY Month 050 SUNDA 1.50 WEEKL Syosbioy S0 All postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. warded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE +...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Maneager Foreign Advertising, Marguette Bulding, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDE: C. C. CARLTON NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B SMITH..... Tribune Building “Great Northern Hotely CHICAGO NEW Ehermen House: P. O. News Co.: Premont House. Auditorium Hot STANDS Brentanc, 51 NEW YORK N Waldor?- Astorta Hotel; A. Union Squareg Wellington Hotel 615 Larkin, until 10 o'clock. 11 9 o'clock. open Kentucky. AUCTION SALES. BUSINESS CONDITIONS SATISFAC- TORY. ting a loss and three an in se, though gene t Pittsburg re ts the ecline e industries, which have £ W me time. Attempts are in order to stimulate busi- t very successful, as the great in- ed decline will still further les show rather more tone. Boots hides and leather are Wool is weaker, but woolen Unsettled labor and shoes are doing better more tone. are reported in fair movement mber easier prices. Provisions continue the Pork is 30 per cent and t higher than at this time ine in the country. la per cer st year and der all over the country. et hogs have been more ce for a long time and their raisers have es 10 e Other grains sympathize and the for breadstuffs is therefore dull all around. Any decline dvance immediately called street ruled quiet all the week rs, butz umber of selle The public are not ave the mar- ch to them ves. Cor i The sea- son has been exceptionally fine in the central and northern parts of the State and large crops of almost thing are assured. Low prices for grain and are expected on account of the great yield prom- As to fruit, the outlook is uncertain. The crop »rnia continue bright. ise bids pected to be large, as stocks of canned and dried fruit have become reduced to pfactically nothing, with the exception of prunes, of which there is still a fair sup- y on hand. The formation of the Dried Fruit Asso- ion will probably impart more steadiness to the ket and give Eastern buyers more confidence in ntenance of values. The wool market is <luggishly, as the dullness in the East The movement in merchandise con- both on local and export account, and nts of ctions are heard. Money is s are soliciting loans, whereas iey refused to loan on anything edged city securities. about cover the trade situation in he boom of Jast vear is over ring off has been natural and smooth. We are now back to normal conditions and with ordinary € is no reason why the country should not enjoy present prosperity for a long time to come. The Presidential election this year will, of course, quiet things down somewhat, but that is merely a temporary condition. e e e col plentiful and some b: a year or two ago United States. the care then Tt has been decreed by the authorities that the cen- sus of the population of the United States shall be taken during the first two weeks of June, and now if the Haif Million Clib be alive yet and feel lively it will organize several kinds of festivals in the city for | those weeks and invite twg or three hundred thousand folks to come to town and be counted Malefactors in Victoria must be marvels of crimi- nal cleverness. The authorities of the town sent out a small fleet of torpedo-boats the other day in an effort to capture an absconder higher quotations have checked the | d most markets report a lessened | Cereals still drag and wheat obstinately | fair to be heavy, but the demand is likewise ex- | i PLOTS . AND COUNTERPLOTS. D renomination of Bryan by the Democratic ! party is so certain that opposition to it is labor in vain, there are none the less many eminent Demo- | crats who continue to form factions against him and to talk as boldly as if they believed it possible to de- feat him. At a recent dinner in New York there was quite 2 gathering of prominent gentlemen opposed to Bryan, | 21d some of their utterances gave evidence of a firm conviction that they have a fighting chance. It was proposed that there should be a large banquet ar- ranged for April 13 in New York City and that rep- resentative Democrats from all parts of the country uld be invited to take part in it. From an account of the gathering given in the New York Times we learn that “as an incentive to action rn capitalists largely interested in Southern en- ses have communicated their wishes to- their ntatives in the South, and expect wholesome resu It is added: The Commercial Travelers and Hotel Men’s Anti-Trust League is also taking an active part in the movement, and the members have sent out a circular letter, in which they say: ‘This <h lcag yan can be defeated for a renomination. The re- ports from our members in the South particularly re- sent the idea that the Populists should write the Indeed, in some localities this Democratic platform. has raised a storm of indignation, and they wonder | why the New York leaders do not blaze the way by | putting forward and supporting some such man as Auvgustus Van Wyck. We wish to urge in the strong- est possible way that you will talk this matter over: with other leading spirits of the Democratic party and see whether some organized effort cannot be in- | augurated to take a public stand against Mr. Bryan’s | renomination.” ” 3 While that fight is forming against Bryan his sup- | acting very much as if they are afraid of it and are ’\-)me to resort to any kind of tactics to win out. Thus we learn from the Baltimore American that the Bryan Democrats, who have complete control of the party machinery in Maryland, have issued a circular ‘ calling upon the voters at the primaries to pledge all | delegates to Bryan. The circular is quoted as saying: | “If they refuse to do this it can only be for the pur- ‘\poec of deceiving persons into voting for delegates supposed to be for Bryan, but who would turn out | in the convention to be against him.” “Beware,” it adds, “of unpledged delegates. Any delegate who re- s to be instructed to vote for Bryan does not in- any delegate who is not pledged i tend to vote for him; It appears evident from such a circular that the fight against Bryan in the East and South is much stronger than shows on the surface. Bryan is a ous leader, and his following makes a good deal of noise in cheering him, but there is a great, silent mass of voters in the party that will have to be reck- oned with when it comes to the election of delegates and, moreover, there is a small but potent body of silent wirepullers in New Ye working quietly to bring out all the opposition to Bryan thdt can be found in that mass. Therefore the plots and the counterplots are being worked with zeal and energy on both sides. There is ample time to arrange a surprise party for the Democratic Na- tional Convention, and it is quite possible Bryan may find one awaiting him. e ——————— to the national convention; The German law-makers can digest most anything the Kaiser wishes, but they have evidently concluded would be more dangerous to swallow his meat bill 1 any amount of American pork. Collis P. Huntington has presented the Art Insti- tute with two pictures and deserves thanks for his generosity, but it is doubtful if his right hand knew | what his left was doing at the time. THE WAR’S DELAY. D sent out from South Africa seem designed to conceal the existence of war rather than to inform the world of its progress, enough is made evi- nt to reveal the difficult if not dangerous situation in which Lord Roberts has got his army. For the | sake of capturing Cronje he cut away fronf his base of supplies and rushed to Bloemfontein. In the ac- complishment of that feat he appears to have ex- | hausted his horses, or to have lost them by disease, for ever since that first fierce swift rush he has been unable to achieve any success whatever. i The Boers have resumed the aggressive. | swarm around the British lines on all sides, cut their th ESPITE the fact that the censored dispatches communications, capture an important post here, a | wagon train in another place, a battery in a third place and half a regiment somewhere else. In the midst of these “uniortunate occurrences” the vast | British army is almost as impotent to use its strength ! as was the huge Spanish armada in the days of Eliza- | beth to exert its force against the nimbler ships of England. Roberts, in fact, is at bay and can neither T His only course is to stand where he is and wait until there have been sent to him a sufficient number of | horses to enable him to sweep the Orange Free State | wi clouds of mounted infantry and drive the scat- , tered parties of Boers away from his flanks and com- | munications. The Government at London is doing all it can to | furnish the horses, but the obstacles in the way are | many. It is a long distance from Europe to the | Transvaal and horses are not to be transported from | the one place to the other within a week. Moreover the horses carried to South Africa are liable to perish | from disease almost as soon as they arrive. It is | even probable the dreaded rinderpest has broken out | already among the horses of the British service and | that it, more than anything else, is the cause of the | long delay at Bloemfontein. If that be so, the situa- | tion is much more serious for the British than the | censored dispatches reveal. Lord Wolseley from the | point of vantage of the War Office in London has predicted that Roberts will enter Pretoria in May, but | Roberts himseli from the point of disadvantage at the | front is reporting nothing but unfortunate occurrences | #nd would doubtless be well pleased if he were sure he would be able to move at all in the merry month of | May. | advance with success nor retreat with honor. b e — THEZ PUNISHMENT OF LYNCHERS. O much of popular condemnation throughout S the Union has been pronounced upon the Southern States because of the frequency with which lynchings occur in that section, it is but fair | attention should be given to the efforts the better class of Southern people and the authorities are mak- | ing to put an end to those outbursts of violence and | eruelty. These efforts have not been whdlly ineffec- : tive. A strong public sentiment in favor of support- | ing the law has been developed in the South and in Virginia the law officers have succeeded in convicting ESPITE the fact that to all appearances the | ue has done enough work to demonstrate that Mr. | | porters in some of the Eastern States at least are | They | land sending to the penitentiary six men guilty of, ! lynching a man in Patrick County. Ii the example thus set by Virginia be followed else- where, the end of lynching will be near at hand. 't rarely happens that lynching is done by parties who cannot be identified. = The trouble has been that when | arrested and tried it has been found impossible to in- | duce juries to convict them, no matter how strong | and clear might be the evidence against them. The ‘ | result has been that the lynchers have felt no restraint | in the commission of violence and have vied with one | another in efforts to carry it from one degree of sav- | agery and fiendishness to another. Just as soon as the | law finds support in the South and juries can be ob- | tained which will convict, the lawless gangs that prac- | tice lynching will be ‘broken up and cowed into sub- | jection. Several schemes have been devised in the Southern | States to check the evil, but none thus far has proven | effective. In some States counti€s have been made | liable in damages for lynching, but no damages have | ! ever been awarded. In Georgia it was proposed to authorize special sessions of the courts to try sus- | pected persons without delay, but the scheme was abandoned because it was recognized to be futile. In | fact the issue in every instance returns to the honesty of juries in the performance of duty. Virginia has | taken the right path. If it can once be assured that lynchers will expiate their offense in the penitentiary the South will soon be as law-abiding as any other | section of the Union We have had a sufficient number of disastrous floods lresulting from broken dams in this country to justify the conclusion that in the construction of great works | of that kind hereaiter there should be a strict govern- mental supervision to see to it that the economy of th: company that owns the dam does not endanger the | lives and the property of those who live in the valley. s e - e ’ REPUBLICAN LEAGUE CLUBS. | N the 27th of this month the convention of Re- O publican League Clubs of California is to assemble at Los Angeles and, as that date is now drawing near, it behooves all localities desiring | representation to begin at once making preparations | for it. There ought to be a Republican club in every | county, city, ward and district. Every considerable | center where there are a number of Republican voters should have its club through which those voters may | obtain representation at the convention and whers no such clubs exist the work of organization should | be promptly undertaken. The league clubs are the more useful to the party | irasmuch as they do not represent the rival claims of | aspirants for any office, nor are associated with or are | controlled by any facfion or clique. Their work is to | arganize the rank and file for campaign work and to | give an efficient support to all candidates of the party after their nomination. In past campaigns this work has been so notable as to win the commendation of | Republican leaders in all parts of the Union and it is not to be doubted it will be equally efficacious in the | campaign now approaching. It is to be borne in mind that the one danger that threatens the Republican party is that of overcon- fidence. That danger faces Republicans in many States, but it is particularly menacing in California. Our people have been so prosperous under the Mc- Kinley administration, it is hardly credible a majority | of the voters should cast their ballots against his re- t election. It will not do, however, to trust to the hope that everybody will vote right. The Bryanites are very sure to poll a large vote and if any considerable number of Reptiblicans remain away from the polls the State will be lost and with it the Presidency may be lost. | Under these circumstances the paramount duty of | Republicans is to form organizations which will en- able them to bring out the full vote of the party on | election day. That duty is one which the league clubs | have undertaken and the object of the State conven- | tion at Lo® Angeles is to stimulate and rouse and [ direct the members in its performance. It is therefore of the highest importance that all districts of the State should be represented at the meeting and it is to be | hoped there will be not one locality of considerable | population in the State that has not its delegates on the floor when the convention is called to order. MORE BATTLE PARKS. | | oA D ! ROCURING the establishment and the main- | p tenance of “battle parks” at the cost of the | Federal Government has become something | like a political industry in the South and for the pur- | pose of obtaining appropriations is almost as effective as the establishment of custom-houses a thousand | miles from the sea or the improvement of inland | streams which are dry one-half of the year, so as to | make them navigable for ocean ships in wet weather | and useful as wagon roads in dry spells. } The South has already a considerable number of battle-ground parks and there are now before Con- | gress bills providing for the establishment of several f more of them. Of these it is said that three are likely | to be passed at this session—one providing for a park at Stone River, Tenn.; a second for a park near | Atlanta, Ga., and the third for a park in Virginia | covering six thousand acres and including the sites @eisieieieied MM&MO+@WW+WW%WWMQ of the great battles of Fredericksburg, Chapcellors- | ville, the Wilderness and' Spottsylvania Courthouse. For the Virginia park a great deal may be said. That little section of ground has been the scene of the hardest fighting and greatest battles of the cen- tury. -It is estimated that in the various canflicts which took place upon it upward of 500,000 men con- fronted each other and that the number of killed or wounded exceeded 120,000. Moreover the battles | were rendered more illustrious by the presence of the greatest generals of the war and to the deeds of hero- ism among the rank and file on both sides were added the brilliant tactics of Grant and Sheridan, Lee and Jackson and all their famous associates. There is not likely to be any great objection to the establishment of these parks, for they have a practical usefulness as well as a sentimental value and will serve the Government as fields in which to give instruction ir forestry. It is to the credit of the Southern people that they are showing enough of loyalty and thriftiness to premote such parks and, while none of them will ever rival in historic interest the field of Gettysburg, they will still serve to recall the deeds of those Whoss valor freed the slaves and kept the Union® whole. 1f Huntington have any well-directed d®sire to pro- vide for the relief of the railroad employes he will dis- miss the fellow that started that so-called relief scheme and give everybody a rest from his troubling. i — i Those who predicted that Cecil Rhodes would be coldly received in London overlooked the fact that he arrived there with a sack full of diamonds and forty promises of big dividends in the slack of his jaw. The McKinley-Bryan contest this year will be much the same as that of 1896, only the fight will be cooler | while it goes on, and the frost for the Bryanites will N anns R e e U SO o Saeveevas . t ; i : WILLIAM J. BRYAN—I DON’'T BELIEVE I CAN CATCH IT. ¢ ® HOW THE CALIFORNIA PRESS VIEWS ADMIRAL DEWEY'S CANDIDACY Napa Journal. There may be some people who still want the admiral for President as much as ever, but his chances for securing a nomina ical parties at this time are not at all hopeful. T ite and d tial candidates have already made defin: . n from either of the gre he leaders who make Pri ifferent arrangements. t polit- iden- ‘Woodland Democrat. Admiral Dewey was for a time the idol of his fellow-citizens. Now that he has announced that he is a candidate for President of the United States but re- fuses to say whether he is a Democrat or a Republican, he has excited the ridi- cule of three-fourths of the American people. $: "8 : 3 San Diego Union. Admiral Dewey has been badly advised and has.blundered. people, mindful of his great services, will continue to admire and honor him. The American He will learn, however, that these marks of faver do not imply a wish to place him in the office which he thinks “not difficult . . to fill.” . Petaluma Argus. If Admiral Dewey decides that he would take a nomination for President on either ticket he will have the satisfaction of realizing that he is not the fi that has lost much of his well earned honors at the hands of his very cl posed friends, one of them, at least, in lady’'s attire. . - . Analy Standard. Admiral Dewey will make the mistake of his life if he allows his name to be placed in nomination for the Presidency. Now that he enjoys the admiration of the whole world he should let well enough alone and retire while his glory is at its height. B Oakland Tribune. As the principal figure of the Spanish war Dewey would have occupled as ominent and as popular a place in history as Grant, Lincoln, Farragut or even T g\'fluhlngton, but as the office-seeking politician his away. 3 Santa Rosa . Republican. Not many regard the admiral as a Presidential his announcement seems a very foolish act. laurels will quickly fade possibility. To most people It gives the lmhplresslon that his head has been turned by the consideration that has been shown him. . Los Gatos Mail. ‘We believe the admiral is making a very grave mistake; he Is a far greater man in the hearts of the people to-day in his present position than his candidacy can ever possibly raise him. . Stockton Alas for the gallant admiral, like to continue to revere! tion recall Job, xxxii, 9:10: understand judgment.” ¥ Record. whom every His weakness In ylelding to the pleadings of ambi- “Great men are not always wise; neither do the aged American admires and would . Sacramento Record Union. He has won too high a place in the hearts of his countrymen to be rudely or easily cast out of thelr faith and confidence. But in perfect honesty, candid ron\‘h‘tlon impels the judgment that Admiral Dewey is unfit for the office of President. PERSONAL MENTION. George L. Arnold, a Los Angeles attor- ney, is a guest at the Lick. Rallroad Commissioner E. B. Edson is registered at the Occidental from Gazelle. J. C. Jones, a prominent business man of Paris, Iilinols, s at the Lick with his wite. James Stevens of Ingersoll, Ontarlo, is at the Occldental, accompanied by his wife. T. D. Blodgett, M. D., of Tulare and Eleoya Clarke, M. D., of St. Louls are at the Grand. Mrs. F. W. Johnson and Mrs. E. A. Coult of Marysville are at the California for a brief stay. Louls Halle, American Adviser, is registered at the Palace with his wife. Thomas Duffy, chairman of the Demo- cratic County Committee of Del Nor;e and a prominent citizen of Crescent City, is at the Grand. J. F. Dunne and wife of San Felipe came up yesterday morning to attend the funeral of Dunne’s former business part- ner, Edward T. Donnelly, who died Fri- day last. ——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NXW YORK, April $.—L. Rawlings of San Francisco is at the Fifth Avenue; W. J. Bartnett of San Francisco is at the Im- perfal; H. Lewellyn of Oakland Is at the Empire. Lotta’s Boston Property. E One of the leading tax-pavers of Boston is * Miss Charlette M. Crabtree, better known as “Lotta,” and her real estate as- sessment for two blocks of property in Ward 7 agsregates $15,00. "THis property consists of square feet of land, upom which stands the new Gould Hotel and the Park Theater ufiolnln’. giving her a total area of 14,571 spuare feet of land, with a front: of 180 feet on Washington street rabtree pays 5 tax on_this . She got control of the Park R el ol mince, The MR Rey- each, year since. otel nolds dnl\h\vhuh was eon-umm.dm:i-: an editor of the Chicago | | nominated the admiral class, NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. ‘The naval expenditures of China during last year were about $3,200,000, and thus far, up to March 1, about $800,000 have | been expended. The Russian navy personnel numbered | 41,000 officers and men during the past year and the estimates provide for an in- crease to 52,250 for 1900-01. It is stated in a Japanese paper that the Government will not permit any forelgner to witness the naval maneuvers which are to take place this month. Queen Victoria's yacht will be ready for trial in about three months. Two hundred tons of ballast has been built into the hull and 300 tons of top-hamper has been removed. Four armorclads. in the British navy, the Anson, Benbow, Howe and Rodney, ranging from 10,300 to 10,600 tons, and de- are pro- nounced by English naval experts to be unable to meet any foreign modern armor- clad with any probablility of success. Yet they were built as late as 15 nd 1889, but so rapid and thorough h: n the ad- vance in naval design, armor and arma- ment, that these costly vessels, aside from their poor sea-going qualities, are at the mercy of a modern unarmored cruiser. Mr. Vickers of the noted British firm of gun bullders refutes the statement re- cently made in Parliament that French artillery Is superior to that of England. The Vickers 12-inch gun now being placed on board alk the new battleships has a striking energy exceeding that of the French 12-inch gun at 2000 yards by 44 per cent; at 4000 yards by 5 per cen® and at 6000 yards by 72 per cent. The French gun used .a projectile weighing 644 pounds, while that of the British gun weighs 850 pounds. Russia’s fleet in Asiatic waters consists of eight armored ships, six cruisers, four gunboats, one torpedo boat destroyer and several torpedo boats in reserve at Viadi- vostok: and Port Arthur. This fleet will | be increased during the present year by three armored yessels, the Petropolawsk, Nackimoff and Poltava, the cruisers V: riag, in course of construction at Cramp' yard, and Pallada, a new gunboat, Ghil- yak, two transports -carrying submarine 2 @ | Chicago Record. D R R ey & | | {mines and ten of the torpedo boatdestroy- ers now being built at Russian yards. | The Belleville boiler, almost exclustvely | used in recently built ships in the British y, is severely criticized by = London ngineering, which summarizes the de- fects of this type of water-tube bofler and tes that it cannot be trusted to remain sound for more than a few months at best. Its chief defects are that the tubes bend first and then crack; are liable to burn out if salt water gets into them and | are prone to pitting. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED YESTERDAY The Congregation Sherith Israel En- tertains the Orphans at Golden Gate Hall by a Dinner. The fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Congregation Snerith Israel took place vesterday. The synagogue was crowded to the doors, large numbers having to stand all through the services, showing | their appreciation of their rabbi. the Rev. Jacob Nieto. Aaron Sapiro, Inmate of the Jewish Or- phanage Asylum and a pupil of the rabbi, who leaves shortly for Cincinnati to taks a course preparatory to becoming a rabbi, dellvered a stirring address. His subject was “Our Home,” and he paid a splendid tribute to the institution. He was fol- lowed by Stella Harris, Theodore Fried- lander and Hugo Jacobson, all of whom acquitted themselves with homor as speakers. At the close of the addresses a symbol ceremony was enacted, repre- senting the meeting of God and Israel. At the close of the service the orphanage children in procession sed the altar, and from thence to Golden Gate Hall, where a sumptuous banquet was served to them. At the close of the repast the children were entertained with vocal and instrumental music. The happy gathering broke up a little be.ore § o'clock. )st Dr. Clampett to Deliver an Address. The public will have the opportunity of hearing Rev. Dr. Clampett, new rector ot Trinity Church, at the Christian Assocla- {Ton auditorium, Mason and Ellls streets, to-morrow evening at $ o'clock. This will | be his first public address outside of his own pulpit, and the educational commit- fee of the Assoctation Night School for Men has secured him to deltver the clos- | ing address of the night school for the season. Admission free. —_————————— Buddhist Mission. The Buddhists at their mission, 807 Polic street, celebrated yesterday the anniver- sary of the nativity of Buddha. Services Were held at 2 p. m. in English, and in Japanese at 8 p. m. The Rev. S. Sonoda, K. Nishijima and Dr. J. R. Gueiph- Norman addressed the meetings. pnl 2 s | | Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_—————— Spectal information daily to business houses and v:w:n the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 580 I | somery street. Telephone Main 1043 * | . A Californian has patented a .uvlng Ea tus which 1 not lnuyvn wit the wearer's arms or legs when swim- ming, two elongated air-tight cones being | strapped to the person's back, with tha | o Pends of the come toward the head | to support the body in a nearly horfzontal | posttion. ADVERTISEMENTS. THE MOTHER with a nursing baby has two lives to support Her flesh, suength and vitality are taxed to the utmost, and | must be maintained or both | will surely fail. - Scolls Emulsion. | will keep up the mother’s | strengthand vitality. It also | enriches the baby’s nourish- ; ment, and supplies the ele- | ments necessary for proper ! growth and dzelopmintP:f “bones, teeth and tissue and $r. L e