The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 22, 1900, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1900 SFRECKELS, Proprietor s, LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, . F. Telephone Main 1565, | T st. EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevemson Telephone Mauin 1874 | 15 Cents Per Week. 5 Cents. | Delivered by Carriers single Cople: Terms by Mail, Including Postage: $8.00 sa NO FORTIFIED CANAL. HE members of Congress who desired to make T the construction of the Nicaragua canal an act of war have abated their position and are ready to relinquish the fortification feature of the bill. The measure has now a good prospect of passing during this session, and we may reasonably expect that the work will soon begin and be actively prosecuted to a conclusion. In the execution of such a work there is no need of long delay. With the total resources required to complete it on hand, there is no reason why it should not be finished in two years or one year. The labor needed is in ample supply and may be drawn from all over the world. The mechanical aids to construc- ot 8.00 z 1.50 ey 6~ | All postmasters are anthorized to receive subscriptions. forwarded when requested. Sample coptes .+..1118 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE. C. GEORG OGNESS. Foreign Advertising, Marguette Building, Chicago. ““Central 2618.”") 'ONDENT: Herald Square NTATIVE: .30 Tribune Building WS STANDS: News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Hotel. RK NEWS STANDS: tel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Wellington Hotel NE, Correspondent. OFFICES— ock. Montgomery, corner of Clay, open £00 Hayes, open unt!l 9:30 o'clock. 639 11 $:80 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until BRANCH corper Sixteenth, open until ® o'clock. 1098 I % o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, La REORGANIZED POPULISM. disentanglement Democrac for the has to send dele- nvention which meets in Cin- the general judgment of keen h which it has been merged sive. ! The Populist party to compel the country to felt the pangs r the government, d continued it had a fair ng a rity and electing a one- But just as the Populist Samson’s 1 he Democratic Delilah sheared ing off with the gates of ot to-day lift the latchstring of a of wal eebled by the debauchery of ke an independent showing, ponderable strength to ifornia especially no new It elected nd a large number of local n, beginnir ng with its earlier form r as its candidate for President in otes in the whole country. In its candidate and going name, it cast in the Union ried twenty-three electoral | bered that this marvelous growth for the panic had not vote was the result of devo- i the party. In 1896 Bryan ainst the protest of the leaders, | ducted the party out of adolescence into b, the party fused and thereupon disap- our history there is no other case of lete evaporation of a political movement denly become so formidable that it had the Federal Government within its reach. 1g all their blunders, the Bryan lead- d with exceeding smartness in vithout even leaving its gar- nk to identify the victim. ote in 1892 showed an increase over 's preceding candidacy of 344 per he rate of nearly 29 per cent per annum. by 1896 the Populist vote would have as nothing succeeds like success v have exceeded three millions, and ed Bryan Democracy to third place. ipon the fusion wine when it was red, woe and redness of eyes and wounds its recompense. still insists upon interjecting himself the affairs of the Police Department. Not con- he guardians of the peace shall be arrayed 2 soldiers, his Honor now commands that they accept one of the new municipal flags. of teachers made by the tion would indicate that this depart- Phelan’s reform administration con- siders that the “good of the service” means playing Recent appointments rd of E: i May B« ment Another assault has been made upon Mayor Phe- lan’s private administration of public affairs. The Francisco Improvement Association wants cnow something about the expenditure of public The little brown men of the Mikado may discover some of these days that their invasion of America was not such a picnic as their march into China had been. | artists, to the virtual exclusion of the rest tion should be made ready in a few weeks, if they have to be built, but it is probable that the steam shovels and other application of power needed can be had without waiting for their construction. Next to doing the work this country has an opportunity of unparalleled magnitude to impress the world with its speed and skill in the execution of great things. Facilities that could build, ship, land, transport over the desert and set up a great steel bridge in Africa within six weeks after the signing of the contract can show an equally prompt completion of a waterway that cuts distances and continents in two. The utility of the canal to this country and the world will be great, but the primacy we will acquire | by its completion in a brief time will be of as much bortance to us as the use of the canal when fin- ished. Building it is one of those impressive tri- umphs of peace which emphasize the supremacy of a nation, and are of greater and more permanent value than any of the victories of war. The Napoleonic campaigns put their Captain alongside of Alexander Caesar, but their effects were fleeting. The em- pire they cut out and carved into shape by the sword has long since fallen to pieces. France has left the Invalides and the Mausoleum to show for all the ‘glory e 3 % | 1941 Mission, open untll 10 o'clock. 2281 | of the Italian campaign, for Austerlitz, Jena, Lodi | nd Marengo. The Havre basin, prepared for the peaceful commerce of the world, is of more impor- tance to her than all the martial exploits which drained her treasury of its gold and her people of their vitality. Our countrymen have had their heads too much turned by war of late. They have been too much im- pressed by Roosevelt's call to the “strenuous life,” and the tiger in them has been appealed to until a wrong public opinion seemed crystallizing that fore- shadowed a military republic. We count the country happy the great object lesson making for peace that will be in the construction of the canal. T called the calm health War is their convulsion. of nations It is the death struggle of some and the death dealing spirit of others. War weakens a people physically War teaches craft. practice of honor. merce is strong. The country will have its mind sweetened and ed by the building of the canal, and if we can finish it within twelve months after the first ground is broken it will be of more material benefit and a | greater blessing to our people than it would be for us to overcome the whole world in arms. Mail Steamship Company is forced to y of the coolie “citizens” whom it is f the Pacific take back many shipping to this port the suspicion of the authorities at Washington that the oceanic adjunct of the South- ern Pacific Company is in collusion with crafty ring- sters will be removed. A NATIONAL ART COMMISSION. T the request of the Public Art League there A has been introduced into Congress a bill pro- viding for the establishment of an “Art Com- mission of the United States.”” The commission is to te composed of the president of the American Insti- tute of Architects, president of the National Sculpture Society, president of the National Academy of De- sign, and two other citizens of the United States to be appointed by the President, and to hold office for six years each. The commission is to be charged with the duty “of examining with reference to artistic merit the designs or models of every work of art to be purchased, con- structed, or offered as a gift, whether of sculpture, painting, architecture, or landscape architecture, in- | ciuding designs for coin, seal, medal, note, stamp, | or bond to be fabricated. The approval of the com- mission shall be requisite to the acceptance of said work of art or the adoption of said design or model. | Provided, however, that no design or model by any member of the commission shall be admitted to com- petition; and provided further that the provisions of this act shall not apply to the architect of any public building the cost of which building shall not exceed the sum of $50,000, except courthouses, postoffices, custom-houses and permanent hospitals.” Whether the manner in which the personnel of the commission is made up is the best that could be de- vised may be doubted, for it would place the commis- sion under the control of New York architects and of the country, but the need of such a commission is mani- fest. The Federal building now in process of con- struction in this city will long stand as an evidence of a lack on the part of the Government officials of artistic sense in selecting the site and of architectural skill in designing the building. That edifice may be useful to the Government, but it will never be an or- nament to the city. In fact, the only thing that at.ones for the selection of such an obscure site for a public structure is the kind of barn fashioned edifice that is to be placed on it, and the only excuse for the plain- ness of the edifice is the obscurity of the site. | The work which the munificence of Mrs. Hearst has made possible in designing a vast architectural scheme for the State University ought to have its counterpart in an elaborate supervision of the art and the architectural work of the Government. It is | pointed out by the Art League that “Congress has | under consideration at the present time a memorial | bridge to Arlington, a boulevard through the Mall, | the enlargement of the Executive Mansion, a munici- | pal building for the District of Columbia, a Hall of | Records, a Supreme Court, and numerous statues | and buildings for future use. The question for those interested in the artistic development of the country | is, Shall these truly great projects be executed with- | out a well considered and developed plan to group | buildings, landscape, statues and bridges in one har- | morfious and grand whole, or shall they be executed | as at present, under separate departments, here and there—anywhere—without general plan or grouping, and with little taste in individual structures?” The ability of American artists and architects to produce great effects has been amply demonstrated whenever they have been afforded a fair opportunity to do so. The magnificence produced in the tem- porary structures at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago was a striking proof of what they can ac- complish under favorable circumstances. An art commission, therefore, to supervise Federal struc- n having in prodpect | Commerce makes them | Commerce thrives by the | tures would be of vast service, and while the com- mission should be more representative of the whole country than is provided for in the present bill, the measure itself is one that Jnerits general support. —_——— The master of the ship Peru, who could not be convinced that a stowaway was an American citizen and kept him in irons during a long trip, should learn a lesson from the other masters of the Pacific Mail, who are bringing us scores of coolie citizens every month. | TRAVELING LIBRARIES FOR SCHOOLS EVERAL times of late The Call has had occa- S sion to direct attention to the benefits which traveling libraries confer upon the people of States that have been sufficiently liberal and progres- sive to adopt the system. We have now to note a new development in the use of such libraries in Pennsylvania—one which will doubtless be imitated elsewhere and prove widely beneficial. Under the traveling library system of Pennsylvania arrangements have been made for furnishing books from free public libraries to the public schools, and sets of books chosen for their fitness for the young have been selected by the library authorities for that purpose. A rule has been laid down by the principals of some of the schools that in order to obtain the privilege of receiving books from the library the | pupil must show a good report for the previous week, | both in study and in conduct. The rule has been found an excellent one, and it is stated that “although the traveling library has been installed only a little more than a month the principals bear testimony to a marked improvement in both study and deport- ment.” Commenting upon the results - attained in the schools of that city during the short time of the oper- ation of the traveling library system, the Philadelphia Record says: “It is to the interest of a principal and | assistant teachers of a public school to obtain the best possible results from the children intrusted to their | care, and it logically follows that a child who reads good, wholesome and instructive books, whether they | be of fiction, biography, history or adventure, can b2 more easily induced to imbibe a love for study and a | proper consideration for deportment than one who unly delights in trivial and sensational tales, which treat of crime or impossible performances of heroes | and heroines of doubtful character and calling. It | seems best, therefore, that the question of book- | reading for the young should form at least an ad- junct to school education. It should be, as a rule, a comparatively easy task for a principal or assistants to direct the taste of the children into a channel of proper reading if they have the right books at their command® This is another and very powerful reason | for a movement to place traveling free libraries in the | public schools.” California has been discreditably slow in following | | the example of Eastern States in adopting the new % system of making use of books in public libraries. | The State maintains at Sacramento one of the finest State libraries in the Union, and yet it is of com- paratively little use to the people. Probably in no | part of the world is there in proportion to population | a greater reading public than in California, nor one in which so many readers live remote from cities that have well equipped libraries. In this State, therefore, | more than in any other, would a traveling library fill | a true need of the community. The people have been dilatory in taking up the issue, but now that Penn- sylvania has demonstrated the value of the system to | the public schools, we may have our school teachers enlisted in the campaign of education on the subject. | Of one thing we may be sure—the traveling library has now become a permanent feature of American civilization, and until we have adopted it we shall be counted among the unprogressive States of the Union and behind the times. \ Republican voters in the Fifth Congressional Dis- | trict are being taught the evil of the Burns type of politicians. It will not require many more lessons to teach voters that everything the Mexican represents is the plague of politics. @MERICAN CHARITY FOR INDIA. R EPORTS from Washington are to the effecti that the Navy Department has chartered al 5000-ton steamer to carry wheat and other food supplies collected by charitable associations in the United States to the plague and famine stricken peo- ple of India. Upward of 3500 tons of such supplies have been already contributed, and it is assured that within a short time the full amount of the steamer’s | carrying capacity will be forthcoming, and she will | | then start across the ocean on her mission of bene- | volence. | The Indian famine is the most extensive calamity | that has befallen the human race in recent times. The prolonged drought has withered everything in the fields of a vast region extending over 300,000 square miles and having a population of upward of 40,000,000 i people. It is stated that at this time more than | 3,500,000 persons are receiving governmental relief and are dependent upon it as the only recourse against starvation. Moreover, the situation grows worse every day and will continue to do so for months to come, as the usual rains of the country are not due until far in the summer. It is to be deplored that this widespread famine has befallen India at a time when the British Government is engaged in a war so extensive that the British peo- ple are neglectful of the demands of India upon their charity and their justice; and the evil is all the worse because that war is so offensive to American sympathies that many persons who would otherwise be eager to assist in raising funds for the relief of the famine-stricken people will hesitate to do so, because of their conviction that the British Government itself should be left to face the wrong which an unjust war in Africa compels it to inflict upon a starving people in India. Fortunately for the sufferers of plague and famine, American charity on the whole is above the reach of prejudice. The abhorrence of the British invasion of the Transvaal and Orange Free State will not entirely check the generous feelings for the people of India. The steamer which sets forth under the American flag and at the cost of the American Government to carry the free contributions of American people to the starving poor will attest once more the abounding liberality and humanity of our people. There has never yet been a call for help in any part of the world to which we have not promptly responded, and this is not to prove an exception to the rule. e —— The most captious critic will not deny that what the Rev. Edwards Davis lacked in performance he compensated for in promises of love. The letters of the ex-reverend gentleman indicate that he is a disciple of the Ella Wheeler Wilcox school. . The Nebraska brand of whisky must be‘something in the nature of chain lightning. A man who ab- stained from it for six months dropped dead the other day as he was about to take another drink. | praise for the play and for Bernhardt's impersonation of the chief character. And | other s however, w Sarah Bernhardt, and, all | defect or advantage of throwing ev | press of admiration. BERNHARDT IS THE “WHOLE THING” IN EDMOND ROSTAND'S «L’AIGLON B e i g ry cene From himself and the renown gained for Edmond Rostand in the production of “Cyrano de Bergerac” come to be equaled if not surpassed by — | work made great expectations for the | later one, though they were built on dlf-! ferent lines, and Bernhardt has risen to | the fullest height of the occaslon. | practically no exception the Continental | and British critics bave had nothing but while they say that the dramatist has not in “I’Alglon” reached the masterly heights that he attained in “Cyrano, agree that the actress has never appeared | in stronger light ot her the dramatic critic of the Lon- | ous talent elicited loud applaus “She Is herself, 80 to | house, which was crowded x v | eritics and the elite o 'arisian soc and when I say | O (8000 scene, which is pronounc don Times say speak, the entire plece, that never has her tragic genius reached | . - such a height I shall have summed UD In | Times to be wholly unique in Mterature. @ single word all that language can ex- |is thus described by that writer: “It Is the custom at the Austrian cou that when a member of the ir f ily receives the deathbed th@others should be present. i sired to conceal from the King of Rome the fact that his last hour is at hand, Bernhardt has ren- Gered with the greatest eclat other plays of Rostand—'La Princesse Lontaine’ and “La Samaratine'—but only in ‘L’Aiglon 4s she seemed to find the medium of word and thought that could carry her to HE wondertul success achleved for her 1830 and 1832, at Baden, a gay health resort situated at a | e Sarah Bernhardt in the rendering |a prologue for the introductlon of “L'Afglon” at the Theatre Sarah Bern- | sona hardt, Paris. The success of the earlier | 1€F su S With | Emperor Duke’s mother; and the Countess Cam: ata. There are'in all no fewer than forty nine personages whose names appear | the playbil | else completely into the shade. F 1 in fact one else the role of I'Alglon would be|one of the a | crushing; but Mme. Bernhardt's ma in love with e and Rei L’AIGLON The Lesson in Strategy. Sl o e e S 1and a chapel has been his bedroom. One of duchesses eatest heights. e play is laid In Austria, between It commernces with a scene arranged next the young ar: comparatively short distance from | refuses. Austrian_capital. It serves chiefly as she begs hi of per- | replies, ges, of whom the most important, af- | fami are lam- er Guard, who has his idol's son getting engaged as lackey in the onbrunn_palace to Metternich; the Francis: Marie Loulse, the n s was, Mme. as the y nothing of numerc drama cially for therefore, to look 2 doors, but t and that, plished, the aperial fam L drama the Paris dramatic critic of the Lon 13 recounts the son of e baptism of L ‘You regret f Metternich world, for the safe the Emperor.” " Mettern ty of the empire, » " he asks TOMMY ATKINS UP TO DATE We take him from the nurses and the malds We load him up with guns and haversacks, We teach him how to form a hollow square, 'And what is what in marches and attacks; We show him how an, ultimatum work Anud how we play our little bluffing game. It_matters not what he is called abroad, We call him Tommy Atkins, just the same! CHORUS. Oh, Tommy! Tommy Atkins! You're a good 'un, heart and hand; You're a credit to your wages, And to all your blooming land; You're a beauty when you're dreaming Of a war across the foam, But, God help you, Tommy Atkins, When you get away from home! Ot course, we have the world up on a string; We like to think we own the blooming earth; What care we for the rights of other folk | While we are in the game for all it's worth? | We fancy that we run America, (While Europe bows to us with cringing | smiles Africa and Asia are our pie) And all the little cheap Pacific islesl CHORUS. Oh, Tommy! Tommy Atkins! You are always in the righ But stop at home and talk, It is safer than to fight For you must be circumspect, st There are kicks across the foam, And God help you, Tommy Atkins, It you get away from home! —New York Evening Sun. PERSONAL MENTION. J. L. McCandless of Salinas,is at the Grand. | J. F. Condon of Verdl, Nev., is at the | Grand. C. Lusk, an attorney of Chico, is at the | Palace. | J. W. Stetson, a mining man of Phoenix, | is at the Russ. C. L. Galvin, a mining man of Redding, is at the Grand. Frank Shaw, a mining man of Los An- geles, is at the Grand. G. W. Cummings, a mining man of Plac- erville, Is at the Lick. Lincoln Fowler of Phoenix, Ariz., Is a guest at the Occidental. 8. A. Marks, a merchant of Los Angeles, and wite, are at the Russ. | C. O. Dunbar, editor of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, is at the Grand. James Finnell of St. John, a son of the rancher of that name, is a guest at the Palace. Alexander Brown, member of the State Board of Equalization from Milton, is at the Lick. H. F. Anderson, a wealthy English resi- dent of Ben Lomond, and his wife are at the Occldental. Miss Alice B. May will accompany her father, Edward May, on a tour of Europe. They will be absent several months. P. H. Lannan, manager of the Salt Lake Tribune and one of the most prominent Republican leaders in Utah, is at the Pal- ace. . Colonel L. P. Wright of Washington, who has been appointed Deputy Collector of Customs at Nome City, Alaska, has beeen at the Occidental for several days. He left last night for Seattle, where he will take the first steamer for the new gold diggings. —_— ———————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, April 21.—A, Sbarboro and wife, Miss Sbarboro and R. A. Sbar- boro of San Francisco are at the Raleigh; Dr. H. Kretzman and family of San Fran- cisco are at the Riggs. . —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 21.—J. E. Bell of San Francisco is at the Fifth Avenue; Edward Woerling and wife of Los Angeles are at the Emplre. ————— Examiner’s Fake Plague. Ukiah Republican Press. There can be no doubt that the Ex- aminer has done much injury to the com- merce and prosperity of California by its senseless exploitation of an alleged case of bubonic plague in San Francisco, As | nearly as can be determined there was | absolutely no truth in its statements. Now the same journal is filled with a weird tale of white slavery in the Ha- waMan Islands. If ever the public press needed official censorship the yeilow jour- nal of San Francisco would afford ample rovocation for such a_ law. It is daily lled with lurid tales from its various Creelmans, and has become noted as vehicle for the most astounding and dis. {epu!ahle fakes ever heard in this coun- | ry. most economy, and seems to be willing to i dorse any measure that might give it an ;z'ggor(unlly to state, “The Examiner did The Call Exposes Gigantic Fraud. The San Francisco Call of last Friday exposes a crooked piece of work whereby the Collector of the Port and others have fllegally landed over 10,000 Chinamen Aside from this, it has discarded cherished principles of its political exclusion that this gig: It Is lucky for Califo ic fraud has been di. —_———————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend i s Special information supplied daily business houses and public men by | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mo: gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, Davisville Enterprise. , —_—e———— Brewers on the Pacific. Coast have in U’B ; E 1126 Market Street. J.0'BRIEN & CO, Cloak and Suit House. Largest Stock, Latest Styles, Lowest Prices. SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS FOR THIS WEEK! LADIES' BLACK AND COLORED $1.00; sale price.. 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