The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 29, 1900, Page 18

OFPICE. .Market and Third. 8. F. Teiephone Main 1565 PLELICATION 221 Stevemson %t 1574 I DITORIAL ROOW Teiep rriers. 15 Comts Per Werk Simgle Coples. 5 (ents Delivered hs = Postage war . All posimasters are suthorized to receive - wren ceqzesed .111% Broadway HE WARDNER TRCUBLE. uppress the civil deceive no one. Governor r Democrat and has been sions He is a pror ent did it. If Lentz inst the Demo- not against ed States lican party that Populist-Democra party, sgue Jeaders of that party in the sghing stock of themselves. t is not the Rep ot the ic The 5000000 to begin with, then e tax took $1.934 and it s Government will take about The error of Mr. Smith was in leav- no children to inherit it, for inheritances are high; and he take in investing his estate in one ing his will in another, thus giving whack at it. It is to be remembered, however, that the old man being dead will not miss and those to whom the fortune falls need take it if they think the tax too high. large es the taxes on colla further m - country and ma two the money not Recent developments indicate that as female imi- perso nembers of the Police Department are g g successes. Chief Sullivan might ad- vantageously use the excess “talent” in the depart- ment by giving us a farce comedy with his office as the central scene. not Germany has decided that our agricultural products BRY@AN, HIS PEDIGREE. el Bryan treated light and airy & o, 2od as sumed that everybody is waiting to hear as 3 part of the audience i: “The public wonders between Americans s that between English to induce de and turn its market is the only po- i 2 British needed that on policy we are er forei d Bryan interference in Ame Under our protec not only crowding England out of ressing hard upon her ially we have her down, and her sole hope of getting on her feet again is in the election of Mr. Bryan and the decadence of our commerce under | free trade now. mar- home A CURIOUS LAW QUESTION, BERLIN M. CARTER, late captain of the O United States army, convicted of gross frauds in swindling the Government in the construc- | tion of improvements at the harbor of Savannah, has at last entered a Federal prison and begun his term of servitude. So far as he is concerned, therefore, the sensational case ends in 2 triumph for law over influences sufficiently strong to baifle it for years. In the meantime, however, the case has taken on a new phase, involving other parties, which promises to be as remarkable as that attending the trial of Carter himself. In the frauds which Carter was convicted of com- mitting he did not act alone. Certain wealthy con- | tractors residing in New York are accused of being associzted with him. Last December a Federal Grand Jury in the district in which Savannah is situated in- dicted five of these contractors as parties to the con- spiracy to defraud, and an effort was made to arrest | them in New York and take them to Savannah for trial. By dilatogy proceedings before a United States Commissioner in New York the accused men man- aged to delay the law so long that early in this month the Savannah Grand Jury made a formal presentment of the case to Congress calling attention to the evi- dent attempt to save the accused men from trial. Shortly after this presentment was made Judge Brown of New York refused to issue a warrant for | the removal of the indicted men to the jurisdiction of | the Federal court at Savannah. { The case has naturally attracted 2 good deal of at- | tention. It is sufficiently notable in itself to cause | remark, but coming as it does as a sequel to the | notorious Carter case, its interest is augmented. It | appears that the ring which was so powerful as to | nearly clear Carter is once more at work on behalf | of the contractors and is still sufficiently potent to delay justice, even if it do not defeat it altogether. The action of the New York Judge in refusing to surrender the indicted men to the court at Savannah is said to have excited a good deal of indignation at ‘Washington. It is stated that the Attorney General and the Solicitor General have openly denounced the decision and will take steps to have it reversed. ' It appears, however, there is now no power of law by shall not be admitted within the lines of the Father- ' which the officers of the Government can compel the land. This seems particularly unkind after we have | New York courts to surrender the men to the. Sa- been buying German guns with which to enforce | vannah court, and accordingly a bill has been intro- American demands. duced into Congress to confer the power. The meas- mismofumcy.forh'fllncwbebmac‘om- i ! paratively short time when the statute of limitations | will operate to relieve the accused conmtractors and | they will then be able to langh at courts, Congress and grand juries. This case, tzken 2s 2 whole, iar that has ever arisen i frands committed were enormous and t voived zre all of them connected with strong business and political combinations. Carter was convicted by 2 military court upward of two years 2go. but it was only on Fridzy last that he was taken to prison. Now the men who are charged with having n seem about to escape even 2 trial fluences are back of the accused men and by what iaw lor so A case of persons in- THE DUTY OF THE S<UFERVISORS. other corporations con- ies are regulated r postponement of the tould act. trolling There sh On Mon d then be no furt A CHAMPION OF TRACK GAMBLING S m. With a stubbornness which argues something | a mental incompetency to rofit by the teaching of experience, he ignores all that the Police Courts and the Morgue records re- veal of the effects of track gambling, confronts the indignation of all good citizens, defies public opinion. | and pushes himseli forward as the champion and ad- vceate of the gamblers. At the meeting of the Police Committee of the UPERYV! who can on around DR HELMS is one of those men learn noth | Board of Supervisors on Thursday Helms expressed | a determination to submit an order permitting horse- racing for a period of sixty days and allowing pool- selling within the inclosure. He endeavored to in- duce the committee to recommend the order, but failed in the effort, and thereupon announced his in- tention to take the case before the full board. 1f Helms and men like him have not learned the evil results of track gambling by what has taken place in this city within a time comparatively short it is hardly likely that anything would teach them. and argument would probably be thrown away if ad- | dressed to them. We have had defalcations, em- | bezzlements, frauds, robberies, suicides and murders resulting from track gambling, and some of these | crimes are of such recent occurrence that the com- munity has not yet recovered from the shock. There is little danger that Helms' order will“be | sustained by a majority of the board. There are not | many men of his type in the city, and it is hardly likely there can be more than one or two of them on the board. The people and the officials of San | Francisco have had enough of track gambling for ‘the rest of the lifetime of this generation. We have contributed enough to the nefarious profits of the Eastern sports and have yielded them an ample number of victims as fugitives from justice, convicts and suicides. As an advocate of the gamblers Super- visor Helms may discredit himself, but he can do nothing more. In San Francisco the track gambling issue has been made up and closed along with the tracks. Supervisor Helms has progressed far enough in his advocacy of the racetracks and all they entail in dis- tress and dishonor to the city to suggest that he is well qualified to organize a society for the suppression of virtue. American citizenship appears at last to have won an international value. Many resident foreigners who intend visiting the Paris Exposition are making their preliminary declaration as American citizens before they go. The local shoemaker who bet and lost un his belief that he could write English is probably convinced now that there was much of truth in that old adage that the shoemaker should stick to his last. is one of the most pe- | United States. The | | who has seen much se | Palace. e | is also making 2 g from what is gning | i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. APRIL 29, 1900. UNIQUE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN A PRISON A DEPARTM 4 s ! 1 [ T T TR Fairbanks of Pet a H. Kennedy, a merchant of Stockton. is at the California. Edward Berwick a rancher of Mon- ning man of . who is at of the World, guests at the Gr. Dr. M. S. S . an army surgeon ce in the Phil- Occidental. nel G. F. Elliott of the ed States marines is at the Occiden- having just returnsd from the Philip- Herr Gol tag, is a guest atihe on a pleasure trip, but dy of trade conditions. | Captain E. Dubois of the Forty-second Infantry is at the Occidental. He went to | of the Germar: R He is her, | the Philippines in December and was shot | sh der in an engageme: He returned home on transport Sherman. | Francis B. Clarke of St. Paul, general | trafic manager of the Great Northern Rallroad, arrived at the Palace yesterday. | He has come to attend the adjourned | meeting of the railroad presidents to be held here this week., when a division of | the Oriental trade will be discussed. e —— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 22.—Mr. Sutherland | of San Francisco is at the Manhattan; L. Dowling of Los Angeles is at the Empire. | e i ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. TO OBTAIN FINAL PAPERS—Sub-| scriber, City. If you took out your first | papers more than five years ago, have re- | sided in the United States ever since and | desire to obtain final papers, but cannot find two witnesses in San Franeisco who | can certify to_the fact that you have re- sided in the Union for five years, present Such proof as to residence as you have to the court where vou intend to appiy, and you will be advised what course to follow. P —— Berolzhime Not Dead. A dispatch published from New York, | dated April 1, stated that Mrs. Catherine Jordan, famous for years as one of the handsomest women on the Pacific Coast, | was found dead in her apartments on West Forty-second street. The gas was | turned on. The statement was added that | Mrs. Jordan had been married twice and that both her husbands were dead. The following letter shows that one of them is still alive: Editor The Call—Dear Sir: My attention was called to a dispatch from New York, April 1, published in your journal on the 2d, headed: “Mrs. Catherine Jordan takes her own life.” It states that both hus- bands are dead. Q):mle an error, as I, at . am very much alive. l“A‘: Iu:m :ysubunber to your Sunday issue, I would thank you to make a proper correction in your next Sunday’s issue as far as lhlal ru.r:l o(h}‘he lr't‘l,sxl:‘ ri:'cm:- greatly oblige. - Hont e ¥ . BEROLZHIME, 3430 Vernon avenue, Chicago. Good Night for Footpads. Footpads are especially in evidence in San Francisco just now and they act with remarkable boldness. But what else could xpected of a city which shrouds itself ?: Tmpenelnble darkness half the night to keep up the pretense of a low tax rate? —Sacramento rd-Union. Origin of the Khaki Uniform. ‘olonel Dulier, who says he is the in- ventor of ‘the khaki uniform, is & native of and has lived in for the last twenty years 'He served in the English army says, “I was at Bri cav- alry in It was while hol this tion I Invented khaki. Ne- cessity was the mother of this, as it has been of all inventions. I was robbed of all my uniforms, and I cast about in e g which this coat here s made. It is, as .—o—o—o' —0-0—0—0—0—0—0—%’ + FASHION HINT FROM PARE, ¢ 3—4—0—0—0—0—0—0-0-.—0—0—. L R e e S R R R R R I R L A R R R * L i e R S T ) The toque represented by the engraving is of sky blue straw, charmingly trimmed wild pansies, draped in sky biue On the crown at one side is a large sky blue and mauve taffetas tu rosette of blended. RAILROAD WILL FILL | POTRERO MARSH LAND Mission Bay Tract Will Be Needed When Its Coast Gap Is Com- pleted. The fifteen acres of marsh and laguna, | which were formerly a part of Misston | Bay, bounded by Fourth, Kentucky and | Channel streets and the base of Potrero | Heights, is to be filled in. A contract was secured yesterday by Henry A. Whitney, secretary of the Potrero Land and De- | velopment Company, from the Southern Pacific Company to do this work. The piece of property mentioned was | given to_the railroad company by the tate Legislature some years 0 to be used as a yard for the company’s rolli stock. A part of this property was All in several years ago. 18: complete its present work will necessitate the removal of about 20000 cubic yards of earth, which will be taken from the Deveiop- ment ompany’s uerock 1 Pposi the Union fron Works ¥ ——_ e chief reason for filling in thi erty at the present time u‘nm t‘x:ep;o 1- road company wiil need it when trains are running regularly over the new line | between this city and Los Angeles. Pas- | sengers from the south will th here direct instead of by way of ittt THE EXCUSE FAILED Charles Miller, a Standard Of magna! whose home is in Franklin, Pa., hll"t‘ precocious son less than 10 years old in whom hard business sense and worldly caution are highly developed, says the Philadelphia Evenin One day Milier said to his son: oo - “My boy, it's time for you to go to bed. | I want you to get up bright early to- morrow and go te church with me.” ) 1 don’t think I care about going te cn‘“rcl)x‘ to-nlxgrrow." replied Master er. y not?” “Last Sunday the preacher sald was ngelllo._pruc about the devil.” - ‘I know he will say lots of hard about the devil-awful hard things Wen “Don’t {W think, Dl‘ that if we lis tened to that sermon it would be rather flp!,e"u-m If we ever met the devil --n! s i glfll ut :rb.:y "'muthml Inmud! en come and. tnbo'l Judge the Fool. l Ex-Judge Curtis of New York refuses Yoction of bia sorie Hen who heve orn the' sudielel erraine earain legas in comr $iing lawyer wouid ma fo obtain. 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