The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 16, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1900. FROM THE CAR PLATFORM. R ECENTLY one of the Bryan steering commit- tee—we believe it was either Senator Tillman or Senator Jones—advocated the nomination of ] Dewey for the Vice Presidency, to run with ryan. He declared it would make a hurrah cam- paign from start to finish, with interest unabated With his mind’s spectacle, and, Bryan AY 16, 1900 from rati PUBLICATION OFFI cation to inauguration. eve he gazed upon the respiendent rising to rhapsody, exclaimed: , “Imagine it! and Dewey touring the country from ocean to ocean; car platform, and Bryan thrill- Deliverea wr Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. e Simgle Copies. § Cents. oratory, while his hand rested roory e 4 ?:':l :.,’._",:.'n.f.,r_"","' z the shoulder of the hero of Manila Bay.” ALY CAN - -0 quambtn. o doubt it would make the circus season a failure DAty o i ition, and would reduce attendance at : he premium-paying point. There below t} t would have to be forgotten, 1e thrill will bleach. ion section of antecriptions. Sampie oop - . . recuestad hen PAKLAND OFFICE 1118 Broadway sty celebrated speech JRGE KROGNESS. x’urgsl that Dewey Ve Marquette Buiizing, Chicago report Philippine Com- vocated ing the flag to a big, big n: The people wh e C 1 also have to forget that th e casting vote in the Se e on the subje NEWS STANDS: News Co.; Great Northern Hot:! Hotel m 2 foreign shore? Senator relies upon a thrill so for these things, the record and < NEWS A STANDS: Brentazo, 31 Usfon Squars take no though lington Hote e right thron gton Ho Colonel Bryan stands on that well- d with uplifted eye and voice n an oratorical trapeze, without e, with » appli; alled out notorious ¢+ Britain forgettery duty the circle with the was led to talk , and aiter na- s W s 1gINg S Dewey sat at the Club in St T various i except Eng- m and e of plu 1 in the mar e propositions to the head of Ch: b cent gold thereiore intends orters. like Colonel Patterson , that his power over rt of Bryan issues, except finance hem to get votes. If the S Afri according e theory disentangle to get 1 system. e of the our fin ds to do, and the purpos ke every railroad right of way rget his real purpose. ury has been asked to n reference to the methods the exclu This ought ackson an opportunity to demand h he sought. THE FOREST FIRE SEASON. OREST fires have become so common in ths ed States that unless they be of extraor- de they are almost unnoted out- ey occur. Thus the extant of uch fires is never fully known ing to conceal service to the cou nd have at rest protection is not understood. tration of how large a fire may occur in he woods of 2 thickly settled State without attracting n elsewhere is to be found in the Philadelphia g an account of forest fires around May & Hardly anything more on was given of the occurrence in ed by the example of Iii the high path of t he telegraphic dispatches to the country at large, and yet in any other land than the United States the disaster would have been a nine days’ wonder. From the reports given in the Philadelphia Public Ledger it appears the fire raged around Dubois all to have been 2 bad r the British 2ll around. The troops sui- ing the kop, Roberts condemned the officers who had anything to do with it from o Thorneycroft, the press condemned rtment for publishing Roberts’ letter, ent shows signs of censuring the ng the original dispatches. s perbaps more serious than tha she passed in her row with Uncle Sam try has threatened to resign and in sym- he theaters have closed their doors. t day lonz. In the afternoon it was augmented by a wind amounting almost to a tornado, but fortunately ind brought up storm clouds, and early in the g 2 torrent of rain fell and quenched the fiames. The amount of damage was large. We are told the flames rushed along with the wind upon the village of Raintown and wiped it out of existence. Three children perished in the flames and many per- sons were severely burned. At London Mines a nber of buildings occupied by the employes of the and iron companies were burmed Many houses at the village of Winterburn were consumed, and but for a change in the wind the whole village would have been destroyed. All through the country- side farmhouses, barns and mills were destroyed. Another dispatch in the same paper and of the same date says: “All the buildings in the village of Cor- bett, Potter County. Penn., were destroyed by forest fires this afternoon, and several persons were badly burned. There is much anxiety among the women regarding the safety of their husbands and sons who are in the lumber camps near Corbett, surrounded by the forest fires. It is thought at least half a dozen persons perished in the flames.” It is with such a widespread calamity the season of forest fires for this year has opened in Pennsyl- vania. The destruction of buildings entails a loss of many thousands of dollars, and there is no computing how much value has been destroyed in the woods themselves. Yet such a disaster has received but little attention even in the States adjoining Pennsylvania It must have taken years o P ) f experience to teach the Steamship Company the : the profit probably preparation. ac French newspapers have agein involved une in 2 * with Germany. These Gallic journalists must long in the same class 2s our South igerent bantams “war ng of hailstones “as incorrect. It should thing does not do to the Nebraska record pervisors seem determined to stop frezk ad- ing in this city. It is unfortunate that the does not possess the power to prevent the ad- i official freaks. rican war news is becoming monoto- every time Roberts gets his Boer trap set it is discovered the Boers are not any where near where the trap was fixed i seople at large, and consequently the impor- | We have here, therefore, a striking illustration of the carelessness and indifference of the American people to one of the most serious evils that affect the coun- try. There is hardly any sort of occurrence to which more attention and study should be given than to these fires, for the destruction of our woods means not only a present monetary loss, but it means 3 menace to the welfare of future generations. Our season for forest fires has not yet come, but in due time it will be here. Then we shall have again 4:5 we have had for years past fire after fire sweep- ing over thousands of acres, and the people beyond { our borders will be as indifferent to them as we have ;been to the fires in Pennsylvania. It is clear that nothing but a persistent agitation, a campaign of in- struction carried on continuously for a long time to come, will convince the American people that they ’ha\'e no right to boast themselves of economy and | thrift, and hardly any right to call themselves civil- | ized, until they devise some means of putting a stop to the yearly waste of these destructive conflagrations. | It is probable the fires we have noted have cost Penn- sylvania more than would have been required to pay for protecting the forests of the whole State for a year. California will doubtless have almost as dis- astrous an experience before the next rainy season begins. When will we learn wisdom from these | lessons? Although Quay lost his seat in the Senate, the re- cent Republican State Convention in Pennsylvania gave him laudation enough to console him and make | his foes in that State feel like thirty cents. fl regulation was taken by the Board of Super- visors on Monday in passing to print Super- visor McCarthy's ordinance providing that no person or company engaged in supplying a telephone ser- vice to the city or its inhabitants shall ain more | than five telephone instruments upon any one party line. TELEPHONE REGULATIONS. NOTHER step in the direction of telephone corporation to give a service commensurate with the | manner in which the company now ca business. | An excessive number of telephone upon any one line works a wrong not only to the | parties whose instruments are on the line, but to all | the patrons of the company, for frequently those who have an exclusive line find it impossible to get the desired switch on the party line because it is occu- pied by one of its numerous connections. The meas- ure, therefore, promises to remedy one of the abusss of the corporation, and may be expected to prove highly beneficial to the public. In taking this step the Supervisors were met by the old cry that the reform would entail further expense | on the part of the corporation and that it would re- sult in an increased charge upon the patrons of the The suggestion that such would be the effect the ordinance was made by Supervisor Branden- It is a repetition of the assertion made by an official of the corporation in another connection, that any increase of expense would be “put in the bill.” Sooner or later that issue will have to be met. It comes to the front at every step taken toward tele- phone regulation. There seems but one way to deal h it effectively, and that is to so amend the city ter as to give the Supervisors authority to regu- late telephone corporations in the same manner that other corporations controlling and operating public | utilities are operated. It is fortunate for the people that the various questions growing out of the exac- tions and the tax-shirking of the telephone corpora- tion have been brought to an issue on the eve of a State election, as the election renders it possible for s on its |o stein. wi the people to deal with them promptly and conclu- | In all parts of the Union the extortions and ice of the telephone corporations have ndignation, and efforts are being made all progressive communities to protect the public ghts. It is an issue w must be settled, and the Supervisors are doing good service in striving to bring about reform of telephone abuses in this city. e —r——— s ——— ively. inadequate ser | aroused pub | One of our local pastors is going East to study the | results of systemized charity. He is evidently one of | those who do not believe the greatest of virtues be- { gins at home. — @& MERCHANTS’' RELIEF FUND. ! NDREW M. DAVIS contributes to the car- 1[:\ rent number of the Merchants’ Association Review an interesting plan by which the asso- ciation can be made a potent helper in the work of charity and the members relieved from much of the importunate demand upon them for contributions to | all sorts of philanthropic schemes, many of which are | philanthropic in name only and hardly worthy of { help. l;:’ is pointed out ‘that we have in San Francisco “a generous public, which in a benevolent and un- inquiring way pours thousands of dollars annually | into outstretched hands.” The merchant is the | shining mark for every appeal; and, as Mr. Davis | | says: “So confidently is he expected to subscribe to | every cause—good, bad or indifferent—that | scarcely feels himself iree to refuse. He knows that | a certain amount of fraud and imposition is practiced | upon him, but being in no position to make investi- { gations he gives mechanically, indifferently, and often against the dictates oi his better judgment.” To avoid the evils of indiscriminate giving, while | at the same time affording more effective help where {it is needed, .Mr. Davis says: “Let a fund, to be | known as the San Francisco merchants’ relief fund, | be created, this fund to be made up of seli-imposed | contributions from not only the merchants of this city | { but from every and all available sources. Further, | let the fund thus created be distributed among the | various philanthropic institutions of our city and | county, according to their merits and interests; and, | finally, a competent board of directors should be se- | lected to take charge of this work—men who will not | alone direct the distribution of the fund, but who will | devote the time necessary properly to carry on such a | | work. A plan of administration will naturally develop | as the work progresses, and the fund at the disposal of the board should increase as its efficiency and in- i fluence widen."” | As a part of the plan proposed it is said the board | should have the right to exact that those who con- | tribute to the fund bind themselves to subscribe only : through the relief association to such institutions as 1‘ are placed upon its list, as otherwise the very object of the organization would be defeated. ! much work in the way of public improvement that it is doubtful if it can undertake charitable work as well. ]'l‘he plan of Mr. Davis is, however, an exceptionall; good one. If carriéd out with proper a detail it would result in widespread benefits to the merchants and to the charitable organizations of the ity, and it therefore merits attentive study and con- sideration. The intent of the ordinance is to compel the | prices charged, and is fully justified by the unfair | instruments | he | M The Merchants’ Association has already on hand o | R e : L e e e T o L S o L L HE WON'TBEHAPPY TILL HEGETSIT. - R R e e e e A B L g - —060& & ils Orthodox (pristiapity Deeliping? 3 : By Felix Adler. $ *. N the light of the new We have learned that we live on the outer shell of a litth —0—0——0——0—0—00— globe, whick is but a mere speck of dust amid the infinitles, | than belfef. pigmies dwell in a few protected nook: of the earth. A lttle too much heat or and we perish. parent sun. of young worlds and old worlds and dead This new conception of the earth does mind unfavorable to them. order to be acceptable to his Maker. plainly contrary to the modern idea of teaches that the impossible 1s not required of us. perfection is unattainable, but we know that the road to per- fection lies open and that if we would be men in the highest sense we must travel it. The early Christians knew that no human being could be | perfectly good, and vet they believed that perfection was re- a redeemer who could impart to them his goodness was necessary. With the wider outlook which we | quired of them. Henc have to-day we see that such a miracul not needed. Our idea of perfection has been modified by the | discovery of the laws of human developm cefve that it is nearer to the truth to believe in a boundless in- | | stead of a narrow world, so also we accept the idea of progress and character culture. In short, a new | been created, which is unfavorable to the acceptance of the old dogmas. Many are unable from some sentimental reasoms to give up the old beliefs, even though they ha not as we formerly supposed the center of the universe. We | Underneath our feet still blaze the eternal | fires that were kindled when this earth lay on the bosom of its Above our heads we can see the unending array dict the old dogmatic bellefs, but it creates an attitude ot} For Instance, the orthodox doctrine of a redeemer rests upon the assumption that a man must be perfectly good in | Every false idea we bold materially affects our conduet. ‘We must constantly be prepared to receifve new ideas and en- which | tertain new outlooks. The contribution which Jesus made to the moral teachings of the world is Invaluable, but it is not s of this outer shell a little too much cold | churches take their morrow. worlds. | not logically contra- | This doctrine implies | that a man is either altogether good or not good at all. It is| development, Absolute final. There is room doctrine of brotherly whole social problem question. lous intervention Is| ent. Just as we per- | being ia. We cannot témper of mind has | things. They preach socialism to-day In fact, the pulpit tends to cases just the echo of the newspaper. We are told by Dr. Briggs that the great aim is to recon- clle science and religion. But is this resdjustment possible to religion as traditionally delivered? | What we must have is a clear, rational basis for our good- | ness. It is not true that the deed is independent of the creed. brotherhood. How shall love express itself? astronomy our earth has dwindled. | teaching of astronomy and biology. Others draw a curtain e | over the dogmas and declare that action is more Iimportans But in the latter case the dogmas are only keot In the background, not abandoned. Again, the ministers of too many ideas of good from the mere surface of and imperiallsm to- become in too many on the ethical tree for a higher branch. ‘We cannot get sufficient help in our political or conjugal or industrial duties from the teaching of the New Testament. The love in the abstract is not enough. The is how to properly apply the principles of That is the crucial There s an intrinsic flaw in the mind which will not allow us to conceive of infinity. We cannot imagine what an infinits think of a God NMke us, and therefore we cannot In any adequate sense take an infinite being as a pat- tern. Man cannot be godiike; but he can feel that he is sus- ceptible to influences that come from a divine source. and more we are learning to rely upon human effort and not More upon miraculous interference. We @epend upon the development ve accepted the new | LEWIS MORRISON . ROUNDS THE HORN EWIS MORRISON, the venerable Shakesperean delineator, who as Mephisto in “Faust’ has earned a reputation second to none who is now playing the part, has arrived in San | Francisco from the East, hale and | hearty, after a successful season on the road. Mr. Morrison's trip to the coast was out | of the regular order, as he came around the Horn from New York in a sailing vessel. He took this course for relaxa- ation and the benefit of his health, and | the experiment was highly successful. He is apparently rejuvenated, and appears to be .evan.lh years younger than when | he was last here. of the outlook for the com- L g R theatricals Mr. Morrison | prophestes I of the Eastern theaters are dol | good business, and the demand for class attractions is greater than the sup- | ply. Mr. Morrison still clings to the idea | That he will live to see the day when the | old school of wiil regain its hold | upon the community, and tragedy will | again f to the 'ront and assert its it Heaie in playdom. has fitted for himseif an | elega: iumme‘;ce in this city, and will | e San Francisco his home during the | next year, with his ch Florence Roberts.” This estimable young ‘I.nin will begin her starring engagement |8 e Alcazar the early part of mext | month, opening in “Bappho,” which is now in course of preparation at that, the- ater, This is the play which Olga Neth- ersole presented in New York and which was SUpP by the authorities on the Fround that it was detrimental to public - newest and most John Drew, in _his st “Thi ranny of Tears, succeastul play, Tbe Ty ambia. Theatér seen at the e evening next. The cast and il be identical with those m“:? ‘;’I‘u‘mpue Theater, New York | City, during the nm‘o! thlet l-y.p;::cl: | h the opening o e n beekn, T he ot o he e the o al booking of the year. though the g 3 H g i s w —_——————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GOOD FRIDAY YEARS AGO—H. C. M., Bodega, Cal. Good Friday In 1828 fell on the 4th of April. | MINING LAWS—E. H, City. For in- | formation about the mining laws of Cali- nrnll at the office of the State Min- for call ing Bureau, ferry bullding. NORTHAMPTON BANK — 8, City. ‘Those were concerned in the robbery |of mx at Northampton were sen- t to imprisonment July 18, 1ST7. PRIVATE NIGHT SCHOOLS-F. J. 8., City. As this department does not adver- private enterprises it cannot give | §»'5§ fhe addresses of private night schools. ASYLUMS FOR INSANE-E. M. N, City. This dmrme“ nt cannot advertise ‘addresses nor :griviua asylums for insane e POWDER WORKS-W. W. G, Wi- liams, Cal. For the information you de- | party you pame in your letter. This de- partment does not advertise any private | enterprises. a year of prosperity. He says | Heh | wife, “Miss | —O—Q—O—H—O—O—O—’ FASHION HINT FROM PARIS, 4| | ! | .—Q—O—Q—H—Q—Q—Q-O—O—Oé | k3 . i ! i | A A S S S SRS M’W"MQ'. o T I B e ] { ! B et et e b e i et ese® i NEAT DRIVING MANTLE. 1‘ The mantle represented is of slate-col- ored cloth, lined with bright mauve satin, !and is ornamented with stitched bands. | The body is a lary lerine, very loose in {m.mn{ oy S e | PERSONAL MENTION. Julius Cain, a merchant of Newman, is | at the Lick. L. J. Wetzel, a business man of Yreka, is at the Grand. ! Dr. H. L. Pace of Tulare and his wife are at the Palace. DeWitt Clary, a mining man of Stock- | ton, is at the Lick. L. F. Moulton, a grain merchant of Co- lusa, is at the Lick. H. P. Nve, a prominent resident of San Diego, is at the Palace. Paul H. Blades, a newspaper man of Los Angeles, is at the Lick. Dr. A. M. Gardner of the Napa Insane 14 Asylum is at the California Professor James E. Keeler of the Mount Hamilton Observatory is at the Palace. J. B. Summers, owner of a rich copper mine at Yerington, Nev., is a guest at the Lick. John W. Mitchell, lawyer and politicdan :'fuwmtlu.hl!thohhe.mhh e. Mrs. B. S. Rector, wife of the proprietor of the National Hotel at Nevada City, is a guest at the Lick. Robert Locke, who has been an Asso- clated Press correspondent in the Philip- pines, is at the Occidental. Robert J. Burdette, the famous writer, and his wife came up from Pasadens yes- terday and are at the Palace. Captain E. B. Hayward, Lieutenant S P. Cottrell and L. M. Cutts of the United States army are at the Palace on their ‘way home from the J. B. K. Connelly, formerly editor and proprietor of the (Ohto) Sunday ews, is at the Palace with his wife. They touring the coast for pleasure. 2! of our own ideas and powers, not Upon any especial revelation or imputed righteousness istered yesterday at the Palace are: E L, 'Doheny. the “Ofl King”"; E. T. Earl, the big fruit shipper; Dr. H. Smith and G. A Smith. Professor ¥F. F. HIlder of Washington, who has spent several months in the Phii- ippines in the interests of the Smithsonian nstitution, returned on the Thomas and is at the Occidental. Colonel Sumner Snyder of the Nime- teenth Infantry, Coionel John W. Fremch of the Twenty-second Infantry and Colo- nel Jacob Kline of the Twenty-first In- fantry are registered at the Occidental Miss Annfe Pickie, who has been sten- ographer in the office of Assistant General Passenger Agent Donaldson of the South. ern Pacific Company, salled for Nome on oo s e e e iy — Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 gomery street. Telephone Main #9@ * —_— His Last Remark The court jester lay dying. Round couch were gathered those who w‘= hear his last words. 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