The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 11, 1900, Page 6

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1900. G THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, o v JOHN SPRECKELS, Proprietor. < Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third. S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Steve Telephone Main 1574. Deltivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. single Coples. 5 Cents. Inciuding Postage: postmasters are aunthorized to receive An sabscriptions. Sa will be forwa when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE 1118 Broadway avalleria Rusticana.” Vaudeville every afternoon and roer of Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. 4wl Park—Gentry’s Trained Animal Show, Saturday, bowling, fishing, etc., every Sunday. ation—Race BOSH AND BUNCOMBE @ND PROB- ABLY BOODLE. d Commission met on Mon- form of of John C. Moore n of the Southern ger s effect: n the complaint ving con- rates, are questions of vital This board t we must en- the State will know, no responsi- le tter thor- ccordance with sitate to stand making aper had been read tpone consid y and common own the members of it receive y Pacific Company, and that rs to be sent them, but ge v to the railroad wine room of the nowing all that, the people ex- d the Fresno com- h the expectation intention of putting the com- y of pop he uselessness of the ts a widespread demand , an open letter published in The upon “Political Responsibility of Cali- * J. S. Taylor, lecturer of the Cali- in referring to the desire of the and honesty in State administra- hey want to know why the State Ra n does not exercise the authority r laws in preventing the railroads their rates for transporta- nits their convenience. If this be made of service to the public, it hed.” n of the farmers Commissioner Ed- ! h the answer, “We must real- ve the brightest intellects of this State to W Truly the people are aware the com- ght intellects against it, and lects at zll within it, but even that 1y for the utter stagnation on when flagrant out- st the law are committed. Honesty and not require any great amount of genius io for justice, neither are they frightened mission are matters of ox secretly nission. not ular scorn. tate Grange, com- acc of the comm: A re, that back of the bosh and mbe of Commissioner Edson’s paper there is f potency—something which the ive along with orders when they make visits to the Southern Pacific office or the Her- rin wine room. DIFFERENTIAL HEARING. E is ground for believing that the hearing given to the merchants of San Francisco has pressed the Interstate Commerce Commission that the demand of the coast jobbers is in line with the natural laws of trade and transportation. While Middle Westers loaded the issue with many in- tricacies, it is probable that the Commissioners saw in this that their contention is for a purely arbitrary 1d artificial interference with natural laws. If the rate policy of the railways is to be in the in- terest of gne section of the country and against all others, why not in the interest of one man and inst all others? The natural law of trade is to bring consumption and distribution together. The Middle Westers pro- pose to keep them apart and to use the railways for that purpose. We can say with fair certainty that the commission will not support that viey y see 2 “‘bright intellect” against them | CALIFORNIA’S OUTLOOK. ALIFORNIA has no hard-luck story to tell. The commercial record of the recent dry year was a record of progress and not of shrink- | | | @ age. Here and there some of the agricultural and horti- cultural crops failed, but elsewhere their yield was normal, or increased, so that the general average and the average increase were maintained. The experience induced economies that were accommodated to the shrinkage where it occurred in individual cases, and when the account of the year of drought was made up and balanced, it proved to be a fat year and not a lean one. There was no cause in it for any pessi- mism, nor complaint of hardship, nor foreboding of evil to come. It was superadded to the experience of the State in bearing its share of the hard times that began in 1893. But California bore that with no failures in business that sapped her strength, and with not a ure in banking that could be charged at all to financial conditions. The only bank failures had The products that are yielded by the soil did | | not, as a wholeNdiminish in volume nor in walue. | their origin in illegitimate banking, and conduct that | would bring failure in the best of times. When we consider the infrequency of accident to agriculture and horticulture here, the certainty that is in all rural industries, and put beside them the fre- quency of accident to crops in the East, by frost, by dry and wet weather, occurring untimely between seed time and harvest, it may be stated as an un- impeachable fact, that California is the surest and the kindest place in all the world, for those who live upon the soil. Our wealth in the land and the water is in the be- ginning of its development. The water that laps our coast is full of marine wealth that has scarcely been touched. One animal alone that sports in our bays, the porpoise, carries in his hide a fortune of hun- dreds of thousinds, that no one has yet begun to reap. On the Atlantic seaboard the porpoise has been almost. exterminated, to secure the finest water- proof leather that is made. To show the riches ready to be won in what are regarded as small things, por- poise shoestrings are eagerly sought at a dollar and a quarter a dozen, wholesale. With mining in Alaska in its infancy, there is already a demand for | waterprooi leather footwear that is best supplied by porpoise leather, and that will grow steadily to great We mention this only as one instance of the resources that are yet untouched by our peo- The same could have once been said of each oi dustries that are now permanent features in our We say with certainty that California offers greatest variety of gainful occupations to be nd anywhere in the world. Our industries sing no solo. Their song is a chorus of the grandest volume. OQur people may be chidden for too much talk about that are imaginary, and for the magnify- ksets that elsewhere are taken as matters of course and not worth complaining about. proportions. econo; the Where all nature is bountiful, abundant, optimistic, buoyant with hope and big with promise, carping4 and complaint by man have no proper place and should cease. If a roll of the rich men of the State is called it will be found that every fortune made here, every competency gained, has been by men who always had confidence in the future, and laid plans regardless of to-day’s passing wind or weather. If they were in it and a new predatory bug appeared, instead of chopping down their trees they killed the bug. If ina e that pinched, while others let go they held on, drove a driit till they rediscovered the ledge. If rade they shed no tears over losing an old mar- ket, but found a new one. In this State wind and tide are always in the tail and never in the teeth of hope and enterprise. Therefore let Californians have done with hard-luck stories. There is no hard luck here. Politicians may say there is, but their saying has a purpose that is for their personal gain, not for the public good. astern men, who are charmed with every prospect here. are unfavorably impressed by the tendency of Californians to growl and grunt. Let us assure them that the cause of it is not in any existing condition, but is in the discontent of the Californian that he can- not live forever, in this best climate, on the most fruitful soil and in the midst of the most inspiring scenery on the planet. As he can’t have it all, al- ways, the Californian regards translation to paradise as a forced migratidn to a less pleasing country, and at bottom his way is simply discontent with what is to come, not with what is. mi Paderewski's refusal to play at Sacramento after secats had been sold for the performance is one of the offenses for which the law does not provide an ade- quate remedy. A return of the money paid for seats is not always a full satisfaction, for often other ex- penses have been incurred. When a long-haired bird has promised to sing and can sing he should be made to sing. @ MIGHTY ISSUEZ SETTLED. OW that we are approaching a Presidential t\I campaign, which will revive and intensify agi- i tation upon a host of problems, questions and issues, it is gratifying to learn by reports from Wash- ington that a matter which has long been tormenting and confusing to a considerable number of our people and has disturbed not only domestic life but even the placid channels of slow-moving diplomacy has been scttled. It is announced that high authorities at the capital have fixed rules of precedence for all officials, and there is no longer to be wrangling and discord in stately halls as to who shall go first when the butler announces “Dinner is served,” or some other grave function is to be observed. It will be remembered that not long ago a bril- liant and august company was invited to a high re- | ception given by a lady of eminence to Admiral Dewey. It was designed to be an occasion of dignity and joy, but it turned out to be one of wrangling and pain. | scription announcing to the guests that they were in- vited “to meet Admiral Dewey.” The words may ap- | pear harmless to the uninitiated, but in Washington they were felt as a bitter, stinging wrong. The sub- lime rules of etiquette forbid an Embassador to “meet” anybody. An Embassador is the representa- tive of a sovereign. People of all ranks must go to meet him; he cannot condescend to meet them. | Therefore an invitation to meet Dewey was in the nature of an insult to high diplomatic dignitaries at | the capital, and they treated it with a scorn so blast- ing and so cold it was felt as a blizzard all over the Atlantic coast. That was the most severe of recent sad occurrences resulting from a lack of a definite and well understood etiquette at Washington, but it is not the only offense of the kind. Alas! they have been only too frequent. | Hardly a month passes without reminding Washing- | ton society of the faet that it has become only half | Europeanized and is still afflicted with raw Ameri- | canisms. Hence the vigor with which the task of isenling questions of precedence and other great | forward. Now it is announced the end has been at- tained. Washington is to have a court etiquette, even if it have no court, and there are to be royal man- ners, even though royalty be present only by the proxy of an Embassador. We are told that “the intricate problems have re- ceived the careful consideration of the highest au- thorities, and the round of social festivals will be in- augurated next season under a simple and easily comprehended system of rules. The imperative neces- sity of adjudicating the claims of the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate has compelléd the promulgation of a new and regular order of pre- cedence. * * * The new rules will take as the basic principle the triple co-ordination of the powers of government in this republic.” The harmony which is to follow these rules will not be a glad harmony, however, for the further infor- mation comes that it “will not be inaugurated with- out passive resistance by these gentlemen (to wit, the Embassadors). The Government may be a trinity, they say, but the executive is its only visible and ap- proachable semblance. The Embassadors hold that this rule will violate all international customs. But the fiat will go forth, and next year there will be no trouble to decide whether Mrs. Justice should call oa Mrs. Senator, or otherwise. It will be plain sailing, at least, on a hitherto stormy sea.” Let us hope for the best. If the coldness produced by the rules prove too cold on the stormy social sea, the atmosphere may be warmed up by firing a couple | of Embassadors, or three if need be. There is talk in New York of running Otis for the Vice Presidency on the Republican ticket, but the old General has had running enough after Aguinaldo and | ought now to have a rest. THE AUSTRALIAN M@IL CONTRACT. B lian and British closed mails between the United States and Australia to the Oceanic Steam- ship Company another evidence is given of the superiority of the San Francisco route to and from Australasia and the United States and Europe. The mails of course are forwarded by the shortest, quick- est and safest route available, and it was only by demonstrating its superiority in these respects over Y the action of the Postmaster General in | competing lines that the Oceanic Steamship Company | obtained the contract. The award is certain to give satisfaction to the pub- lic, for the Oceanic is one of the oldest and most re- liable steamship lines upon the Pacific, and its carry- ing service can be relied upon for speed, certainty and efficiency. The regularity of the mails will there- fore be assured as far as anything can be which is liable to the accidents of the world, and the advan- tages to the commercial community will be notably great. The service is to begin with November. Steamers are to touch at Honolulu, at Apia or Pago-Pago in Samoa, as the United States Govern- ment may direct, and at Auckland. It is to be noted that the Oceanic Company has also arranged with the Tahitan Government for a steamship service | eleven times a year between San Francisco and: Ta- hiti. That will give our merchants and manufac- turers 4 new means of extending trade with the isl- ands, and is therefore an enterprise of great impor- tance to the port. e e Mr. Clark of Montana has discovered that buying a seat in the Senate is under certain conditions worse than buying a gold brick under any conditions. e r— THE TELEPHONE ORDINANCE. UPERVISOR McCARTHY'’S ordinance pro- S viding that telephone companies shall furnish to the patrons of the nickel-in-the-slot tele- phones the desired switch before exacting the nickel from them promises to furnish the public with re- lief from a long-standing abuse. Several efforts to accomplish the same object have been made in the past with no success, but this time there is a fair prospect the ordinance will be enacted and that in operation it will prove effective and beneficial. It is the contention of the company that it cannot obey such an ordinance, nor carry out the require- ment of furnishing the switch before demanding pay for the service, without increasing its present force of employes, but the claim appears to be ill-founded. At any rate, the number of additional employes re- quired will not be large and their wages will be but a small percentage of the enormous profits of the company. It is likely, therefore, that what the tele- phone corporation really objects to is not the in- creased amount it will have to pay out for wages, but the number of nickels it will lose when deprived of the privilege of practicing the old form of extor- tion. i The bill has been passed to print by the Super- visors, and it appears no objection has been made to it on the score of illegality. It will have, of course, to run the gauntlet of the Mayor's veto, but even that danger seems to be slight in this instance. The subject has now been under consideration a long time, and ample opportunity has been given for de- vising a measure which will stand the double test of practicability and legality. The McCarthy ordinance has every appearance of being such a measure, and the public will with justice demand that the Super- visors and the Mayor give it that cordial and faith- ful support which is necessary to obtain for it a fair trial. The passage of the ordinance will naturally revive popular interest in the movement for an amendment of the charter so as to give the Supervisors power ¢o regulate telephone charges. It will be remembered that when proposals for taxing the telephone com- panies upon their slot machines were under considera- » | tion an official of the company tauntingly declared It appears the cards of invitation bore an in- | that if the tax were imposed the corporation would exact the amount from the public by putting it in the bill. Something of the same sort may be resorted to in this case. In fact, the chief point in all discussions of the relations of the telephone corporations to the municipality at this time is that of giving the muni- cipal authorities ample legal power to supervise such corporations, just as corporations operating other public utilities are supervised and regulated. Until that amendment of the charter has been adopted all that the Supervisors can do will afford but inadequate protection to the public. The opposing attorneys in the Fair case are pretty reckless in calling each other bad names, but up to date none has been mean enough to call another “craven.” If Bryan wish to fly another double Vice Presi- dential tail to his kite this year he may possibly find material for it in the booms of Dewey and Miles. awarding the contract for carrying the Austra- ’ | | e The Dewey Presidential boom seems to be some-. thing of a tropical flower, for it shows signs of with- problems of etiquette has been taken up and carried | ering at the first frost. ISSUES MADE WHILE YOU WAIT. - (772 7 | DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM | = 7 Ea® Campaign Orator. R A Chdn e How the Adjustable Platform Will Serve the Purpose of the Democrati [ R R R R e A S ot o o S o ol b e A 0 g —Denver Times. RESULTS OF THE FAKE PLAGUE SPREAD BY EXAMINER-JOURNAL The foliowins cxtract taken from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, shows how the Eastern press regard the “fake plague’ staried bere by thz Phelan Board of ‘Bad Health and exploited by the Examiner-journil. «“TOURISTS FLEEING FROM PLAGUE STRICKEN SAN FRANCISCO” A i A Thousands are fleeing from the plague. nlnd even to make li:httut lthe hfi Léx:; o many are coming | there are now cases of plague ghu:: :?;‘:xesurfi?: resigl in California a.ng {Eaptieivec, s Jus!‘tlhx’nk of the m‘orgla,lxl'tl{ v ‘whie! would resu rom carryin; along the western coast until a month | contagion to every part of the country by later than they are staying this season. | tourists who have until a short time ago In these words Sylvester Rogers of Al- |crowded the hostelries of the principal bany, N. Y., explained the fact that Den- | cities 1y the State, On, the very train on ver hotels and all the hotels at stopping | Which I came eastward there was repre- sented almost every State east of the Mis- laces on the way East are now crowded | - D ncar th 1Ba Bf whereas thie eIVl O L Tk rush of travel from the West does not | train there was the least contagion, the bubonic plague would spring up in brac- ordinarily come until a month later than it has this year. | tically all the principal parts of the coun- | try_eimultanecusiy. The danger, though i B " | small, {s great when the seriousness o On tho train from 'Frisco." sald be at | ne gisease is taken into consideratien. the Albany Hotel last evening, “I Was | ‘The guthorities in all probability will surprised at the large number of those | stamp out what little of it there is, in with wkom 1 conversed who frankly ad- |San Francisco, and prevent those affected - he ly fleeing from | from coming into the city, but as we open mitted that they were simply fleelng from | {rm SORIGE (G 00 (e Bt The ;dar er will increase of allowin the doubt at all, is now to be found in San | pERELY (0, e i through the Golden Francisco. It is true there may be only | Gate along with the commerce which comes from the same general locality as a few cases of the plague, but that there the plague. Discretion. you know, is the is even one case is enough to frighten away many tourists who, all their lives, | better part of valor and the scores, the have heard of how deadly this plague is | hundreds, who wrote that sentence in and how rapldly it spreads when intro- | their copy-books at school a generation duced into any country. “Every precaution is being taken, I have been informed, to guard against its spread ago are putting it into &rac!\ce by shert- ening their stay on the Western coast and hurrving home. I am one of the number.” | & i TIME--3 A. M. Volce from above: “Is that you, John? You're very late Brown (returned from celebrating the latest victory): * twelve, my dear, I think—"" The Cuckoo Clock: “Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!” B B e B S e L o o o S | | | ren't you?" Tt's only about—er— Brown (grasping situation instantly): “Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! 'Cuckoo! Cuckoo!"-Punch. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. , Redding, Cal. “Put none but Americans on ?“d to-night’ was one of the mottoes of the Knownothing m This sentence is supposed to have the countersi, on the eve of an important battle of the Revolution, and is attributed by some to Washington and by others to General Putnam. GENERAL GRANT—Professor L., City. General U. 8. Grant in his tour around the """};’-,,'“f\"'}’ ann F?ndmuhptem& the city at that thme. o at time. -GLOBES—G. E. A, Vallejo, Cal. Deal- ers in school supplies will furnish you the kind of globes you desire. This depart- ment cannot nt the address of such :i:ller-, as it does not advertise any busi- GREEN'S TRAINER—P. D. City. Geor reen was trained for his latest fl‘ht‘:flh Al Neill by Fred F. Foster. EDISON—R. M., City. Edison, the in- ‘ventor, is not classed as a vegetarian— one who discards everything in the line of animal food. VENUS—R. F. W.. City. The bright planet seen in the early part of the even- ing during the latter part of March of the current year was Venus. DEPTH OF OCEAN-W. 8., City. there has never been any soundings the center of the Atlantic and of the P: cific oceans” it is impossible to give the in desired information. dx B _ WHAT THE HAND COUNTS—A. S., AMERICANS ON GUARD-J. K. H., Sacramento. = “* in crib containing four treys and a six spot counts twenty and not twenty- SHIPS OUTSIDE—A. B., City. There is no submarine cable to the Farallones. Vessels outside of the heads are spoken by pilots. The fact that a vessel is out- side is communicated by signal from the Farallones to the Merchants’ Exchange signal station at Point Lobos and from there by wire to the exchange. When the space between the island and Point Lobos is not obstructed by fog the keeper at Point Lobos has no difficulty in making out signals on the islands. When there is such a fog vessels generally stand off until it clears. BAZAINE—S. F. L., City. Marshal Ba- zaine gained distinction in war prior to the Franco-Prussian events. He served with distinction in Algeria, Spain, the Crimea and in the Itallan campaign of 1859. In Africa In 1836 he gained the cross of the Legion of Honor, in 186 he was romoted to commander of t n 1869 wag made command erial Guard. After the capitulation etz_with three marshals. 6000 officers and 173,00 men, he was found gullty by court-martial of haying failed to do his duty, was sentenced to degradation and death, but the sentence was commuted to imprisonment for twenty years. In 1874 he escaped from the Isle St. Marguerite and made his way to al PERSONAL MENTION. W. B. Hughes of Santa Cruz is at the Occidental. Louis Kahn, a merchant of Oakdale, Is at the Palace. Sheriff D. B. Getchell of Nevada County is at the Russ. B. E. Bush, an attorney of Hanford, is at the Lick. J. L. Chaddock, an attorney of Fresno, is at the California. H. 8. McCormick, a bonanza farmer of Portland, is at the Grand. Andrew P. Dron, a mining man of Big Oak Flat is at the Occidental. George A. Joslyn, an Omaha capitalist, and his wife are at the Occidental. A. B. Hammond, a prominent railroad promoter of Portland, is at the Palace. Adolph Fleishman, a prominent fruft merchant of Los Angeles, is in the city J. C. Steele, a capitalist of Pescadero, and his brother, F. N. Steele, are at the Ru: Lacy R. Johnson, a rallroad man of Vancouver, B. C., and his wife are at the Occidental. John Devlin of Butte, Mont., who re- cently sold his mine for 375,000, is at the Russ with his wife. John W. Mackay, president of the Pos- tal Telegraph Company, is here on one of his periodical visits. John J. Byrne, general passenger and ticket agent of the Santa Fe at Los An- geles, is at the Palace. Marion Biggs and Dwight Hollister, cap- ftalists, of Oroville and Cortland respec- tively, are at the Grand. L. T. Gurnsey, owner of the Redondo Hotel and a heavy stockholder in the Re- dondo Raflroad Company, and his wife are at the California. Percy L. Schuman, a Chicago attorney, who has been in Northern California in- specting some valuable mining properties, has returned to the Palace. —_————————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Id at Townsend's.* f Look out for §1 Fourth (5¢ barber, gro- cer). Best eyeglasses, specs, 10¢ to #c. * Special information supplied daily to § business houses and public men mm Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 58 - gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 —————————— Robbed a Cripple. James Burns, an ex-convict, robbed Fred Houseman, a cripple, last Monday night on Sacramento street, between Montgomery and Kearny. Burns took 30 from his vietim. He was arrested yes- terday by Policemen Dugan and Brodt. ADVERTISEMENTS. PNEUMONIA leaves the lungs weak and opens the door for the germs of Consumption. Don’t wait until they get in, and you begin to cough. Close the door at once by healing the inflammation. Scolls Emulsion. makes the lungs germ- proof; it heals the inflam- mation and closes the doors. It builds up and strengthens the entire system with wonderful rapidity. " - SCOTT R BN Ceniety Now Yerk.