The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1900, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. JUNE 17, 1900 18 C"’ 12\ e G ll ! THOSE COMMISSIONERS. it { - = okl | HE Democratic State Convention rose to the g 5 e o : height of an “occasion.” To the directing ¥--ciaimesiviaghvacemer il SUNE 1, 2 mind of the Examiner it was a high board KN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor, ' e upon which to advertise. The plan adopted sk A to secure the indorsement of Sillybilly for the L ommunica‘ions to W. S. LEAKE, Marazer HANAGER'S OFFICE. .......Telephone Press 304 FLELICATION OFFICE. Market and Third. 8. ¥. Telepbone Press 201. single Ci by Mail, Imel ing Bundey). sange of address should be e both OLD ADDRESE in orfer mpn mné correct compliance with thelr reguest cieieee..1118 Brosdway KROGNESS, Advertising, Marguette Building, Chicago long Diswsnoe Telephone “Cestral 318.7) W YORE CORRESPONDENT: .. Heraid Sguare CHICAGO NEWE STANDS: House: P. O News Co.; Grest Nortbers Hotel: use. Auditortum Hotel ¥EW YORK NEWE STANDS: ‘e Hotel; A EBrentanc, I Usios Sguare; BR 4 YW OFFICES 7 Mortgomery, corner of Clay, opes 93 oclock. 36 Hayes, open until 93 o'clock. 8 $230 o'clock 615 Larkin open until pide % ock. 2361 Markee, Vice Presidency. With that poster on the boards the convention would have served its only purpose of benefit to that newspaper. But when it comes fo advertising, using anything from 2 swollen gland cut from the groin of a Chinese to the wreck of the Maine, the Examiner takes no chances on one alone. So it decided to have three sandwich the convention to tote its sign on back and 1t « ved them, and to tickle their van- ed them ommissioners.” They were to send the most inner, inmost, in. news, right from the slick and reeking v convention. The selected time-seasoned those Judge James uire, Mayor James Phe- Governor James Budd. The use of these ies was ut once suggestive of the bur- s ways the paper follows in getting news. were to be used in forcing the lock of that r secrecy which keeps the inner confidences of 2 convention im 2s deep darkness as the parlor of a of plumbago. wha vast outside and contents, looked who were bear- boards as of the and some to their ing. The news Oners. tagged as e pointer at a bench 1 were persons nguished th were who had dropped Leaders hlave pointed < of many Again they re the lights of in the wars of But what ioners, who v pur- the yel- wn taste in the 1d Be, the Has n, were there, and heir potent the a rden and jocund bee st jimmy applied < States of Judge Ma- sharpened his pen- N e with his silver tongue, and I find full delegations. n of the election of e ing of the right to Porto Rican tar of Huntington for mercy T ke a chamber of horrors. The uneasy ot Legi res gibbered to the breach of promise. In due " ner appeared bathed in a cold r 1ded 1o the waiting messenger pages on - - appeared, inscribed in letters of living light, é rant ews: “The Democratic State Convention ad- r to znswer for | journed to-night, and left no s o ot enough. The citi- The We his room, double-locked the e subj: e Wrong oleszle, universal condemnation of . - statement of facts showing the faise- e pretense under which it was issued. To P h that there should be a general me e thorou; sentative of the city and 1t d take every step that in the judgment of the wisest i« deemed necessary to relieve the city and curse put upon it. : time there is a strong delezation of a in attendance upon the s in a matter of tfis kind lerations have mo place, it might be by their presence in the East to jore the President the facts of the ge him to revoke the power which sed. Were Congress in session the act in such an emergency, but Why, then, should not c citizens request the Califor hia to act? hould uld is scattered be done promptly. youn znd his officers ve the State to every white that the quarantine is to be a e. The fact remains that portentous ngniuide to 1 to our industries. It threatens loss to to many znd ruin to some. Let the peo- thet, advise and take action. report that the Empress of China is on the side of the Boxers may mean nothing more than that the xers are having the best of it just now. By the allied forces crush the rebels and establish 1l probably be found that the wily old lady = on their side zll along and was only flirfing the other fellows. rom the way Democratic conventions are skippin ver question wi indorsing Bryan it looks as e leaders intended to put strings on the young < time 2nd not permit him to cavort as he did man {2 in 1896 The next racket we have in this country will be czused by 2 clamor throughout the West of a lack of cars to haul the crops. It is mot to be disputed there is onme plague in California—and the name of it is Kinyoun. door and thirsting for inform: first there issued s from a private dining-room of An eager throng tion blockaded the hallway. At ds of feasting such as trickle the Pacific-Union »sing a canvasback that has felt the fire enteen minut Then re were the wailings followed by the protests of a just se of the disappointed, monkey against a squirt of germs from a Chinese bubo. Then silence fell. to be broken by the cry of the banshee, and soon were heard the struggles of an expiring ambition. Then the death-ratile rose and solemnized the air and all was still. The Would Be appeared at the door, pale but calm, and handed out the News: “The Democratic convention appeared to be 2 representative body. There is something for- midable in the assemblage of men from all sections of the State. 143,000 votes. Mr. McKinley polled over 146.000 votes. This convention acts, behaves and appears in every respect as a body.” The wire stretéhed to its task as this hot stuff struck it, and the fluid sputtered at every insulator, The ghosts of John Bonner, George Frederick Par- sons and Loring Pickering, which had sat up in ap- prehension, returned to their harps and their music lessons. Deacon Fitch, who had moved uneasily in bis sleep, drew 2 long breath ind snored away to dreamland again, 2nd from the experienced throats of | fifty reporters rose in gratified chorus, “We still hold | our job.” l THE POPULATION OF CITIES. —3IROM the preliminary reports received from | census officials engaged in counting the popula- | tion of cities it is evident that one of the notable features of the census of this year will be the enor- | mous differences in the gains of various cities. Thus 1it is estimated New York proper will show an in- terease of population of something like 33 per cent, | Brooklyn 57 per cent, St. Louis 52 per cent and Chi- | cago 68 per cent, while Philadelphia will show but | | 15 per cent increase and San Francisco hardly more {than 14 per cent. | The official figures will of course show some errors in these estimates, but in the main they will probably stand good. We shall thereiore have in the census of this year a striking illustration of the effect of trolley cars and other modes of rapid transit in stimulating | the development of suburban districts around large icities. It will be noted that each of the cities where In the last election Mr. Bryan polled | | there has been 2 very large percentage of increase . of population has during the past decade annexed a wide sweep of suburban area, while in those where the increase has been comparatively small there has been no such extension of boundary. . By adding large sparsely settled districts to their cities the people of Chicago, St. Louis, Brooklyn and New York have enabled a considerable population to find homes without going out of town. The rapid transit lines render it convenient for thousands to live in the suburbs who formerly would have been com- pelled to live downtown. Thus in cities where the suburbs have been annexed the population has in- creased by great percentages, but where no such an- nexzation has taken place the tryxd of population to the suburbs has diminished the natural increase of the city itself. The climate of San Francisco and the district around the bay is such as to encourage fam live outside the city. By a short ride one gets away from the fogs and winds of the peninsula on which the city stands and finds ample space for homes where | the climate is perennially delightful. The ferries and the railroads that connect the city with the outlying suBurbs afford abundant accommodation for all who wish to come and go. There'is never a season of the ygarand hardly even a single day when it is unpleasant to make the trip from the city to any of its suburbs. It is therefore inevitable that the tendency toward suburban life which is so marked a feature of our time should be,more pronounced here than else- where, for in no other part of the country is such life so agreeable at all times. Not until the full reports of the census officials have been published showing the increase of population thronghout all the region around the bay shall we know how much has been the real gain of San Fran- | cisco during the decade. Thousands of those who live in the suburbs are active citizens of San Fran- cisco and only sleeping citizens elsewher. Their work, their business and most of their wealth is here, and they are virtually citizens of the There is therefore no reason why we should be down- cast over the preliminary estimate that our increase #vill be only about 14 per cent. The cial figures of the bay district will give us a better showing. THE GRAND JURY REPORT. with a report containing many good recom- : mendations and also excuses for the failure to achieve satisfactory results in the way of the suppres- sion of evils and indictment for crime. The report indorses the recommendation of a former body that the powers of grand juries should be engthened, and says: “The Grand Jury is condemned by the pwblic for failing to do that which it is powerless to do, no matter how anxious or how willing, and is held in mockery and contempt by many who should fear it most.”] The justness of the plea is made evident by the statement of facts regarding public On that score the report say: ette, no crap games that we could find. If there are any, anl metropolis. NCE more 2 Grand Jury has closed its career we think there are in a cosmopolitan city of this size, | they are so quiet that they cammot do much harm. There is a great deal of gambling carried on with the law’s sanction, too much for the good of the youth and weak adults of the city, who cannot ist wasting their hard-earned money in a foolhardy effort to ge: something for nothing.” The report then goes on to specify poolrooms, poker game resorts, so—called “commercial broker- age” establishments, where gambling in one form or another is openly carried on, and points out that in many places there nickel-in-the-slot machines which are virtually a ans of affording gambling opportunities. Efforts have been made to suppress these places by grand juries and by the police, but the efforts have failed. In explanation of the failure the report says: “The police have arrested the pro- prietors of these establishments several times, but the courts, both Police and Superior, have dismissed the cases on the ground that it is not a percentage or "uanking game, and hence nnt against the law. * * # Our Superior Court says that playing draw-poker is a game of skill and not of chance. So that when phyed without 2 banking or percentage feature it is within the law. These open poker games have, of course, to make a profit out of the players. The or- ‘drop or draw-out’ would be unlawful. This difficulty is overcome by a very palpable subterfuge, the house sells the players two packs of cards an hour and a check, which entitles the player to 10 cents’ worth of refreshment from the house when- | ever he chooses to take it.” The complaint is an old one, for the evil is one of long standing. It is clear there exists either a defect in our laws or 2 weakress in the courts, and perhaps | there are both. Judge Belcher's decision upon the | Wer to | | Reno marriages shows that the courts have prevent the evasion by subterfuge of the marriage law. Why, then, can they not prevent the evasion of the laws against gambling, when the subterfuges prac- ticed are so transparent as those described by the Grand Jury? It would seem that a court resolutely determined to make the law respected could find 2 means of preventing its open violation under such shallow trickery as is practiced by the more notorious offenders. It would certainly be worth while for some Judge to put the matter to the test and see if the | Supreme Court will sanction a subterfuge that thinly conceals so gross an evil as that of public gambling along the principal thoroughfares of the city. | course to the Legislature this winter and have the | laws amended. We have putan end to racetrack | gambling, and the next step must be that of closing | the places where gambling is carried on under other forms. The vice is the most pernicious that entices | youth. It leads men to waste their earnings, tempts | them to dishonesty and so on by swift steps from one | degree of crime to another, until in too many cases the end is-murder or suicide. Here. then, is an evil which the better element of the people must unite to suppress. If the Grand | Jury, the police, the courts and the law be alike pow- | erless, there remains the community. The people are not powerless. They can amend the law, strengthea the Grand Jury, rouse the police to activity and put upon the bench men who will not permit the law to be mocked by‘my trick or device that rascality can practice. EE— And now comes an expert who declares the wild jubilation of the British over their recent victories to ' be due to ‘the fact that of late years they have taken | to drinking claret and offee like the French'instead of sticking to beer; but perhaps a good deal of the hilarity was due to too much beer. Colonel Jack Chinn is quoted as saying recently: “Every man in Kentucky who needs hanging will get it,” and for once the sympathy of the nation is | with him. Such sentiments are popular, and it is to | Oom Paul’s statement, “Wherever I am there is the lafifldt\n‘l‘m"mpflmu-mh o to your harnees. I --Du PontSyle-- e Tk k& behind Denton’s shounlder) by Tony owed Hodgman a grudge. Tony dence is refuted. how Dent is reconciied to his wife—be | in the fourth act of the hook they who love a roms story read? Very without em ercepted Letter Conversat | HENRY CaNBY. an event to Brox NEW play by Augustus Thomas is alway be looked forward to with i Howard retired with well-earned could have be the cnly one among our playwrights wh : ise of being able to fill his place. pity, for if you can only can even mentioned in compe the rest of that Act IV a Gillette, whose knowledge of co ‘As intimated above, Mr. Mr. Pinero’s, but whose capacity t chaetindin than 5. M »een spoken of; iy American—is Mrs. a padlock, a gold bracelet so thick steal #t because they thought it ugh to sink a ship—pone of w reatly lived in the desert ¥et been demonstrated. Now. dra chanical construction never live as do those which | and vividly portray character: that is why Scribe is t while Angier and Dumas are living fore and “In Mizzoura” are better play ama’ ‘Secret Service. since 5 & [ “In nis most recent work, “Arizona” (R. H. Russel them. Bonmita Canby Is & w | York), Mr. Thomas has followed out the pl frank, impulsive and affeetior ne { fully employed in b ping tt r of American chara of his f. fortunes, w developed free from frcheas of Boyean dwleation: | g s o™ secied e Dotter Suvn - Life in a great city of the Atlantic seaboard is not very differ- | p o iop | ent from life in 2 great city of Western Europe, but Bonita (following siightly} Arizona presents conditions and develops typs anything to be found between the Neva and the G | Such a type in “Arizona” is Henry Canby, own © | Fde to war and be s Aravaipa ranch, a cattle king whose heart s great as h»'- That s her serious me fortune, He has two daughters. Estrella and Bonita, the | .. " 7o Denton's grea -combs to fix his Denton—You know, at the post rs in the same building. T know that former married to Colonel Bonham of the Eleventh States Cavalry—a man considerably older than herself ham knows that his wife is not happy but does not know the use: father-in-law, being consulted, gives sensible ex- planation, couched in uage delightfully "Arizonese: Canby [rising and walking}—Colonel, I've broke a good many colts, broke lots of "em to go double. When you P up, they jes' whip-saw that way. [He pantomimesa s d'sconcerted pulling with his hands.] T al cial pu = how &irls 1 agin the tugs at the same time. Then I give 'em Bonita after they've run ‘emseives nearly to a standstill x e the wheelers in a band home. They come back together 1 wagon. Colonel—But I'm no colt, Governor. Can’ You are at gittin’ married: and all new married folks are jes’ the same. For a while whip-saw—then bolt. Some bolt harder and more of it than others. but they bolt—all of “e Colonel—Well, are Estrella and I whip-sawii:g or b [resuming his place at the table}—I take you're Each of you thinks if he could only run a little faster | he'd get away from the other: but you can't. You're yoked Now, that don’t mean trouble; it simply means you ain't used that comb? [Bonita shakes her head much pleased.] Bonita [taking comb from hair and regarding and Denton smiles ar Mos But it soon appears that Canby's explanation is more pictur- | esque than accurate: Colonel Bonham has a rival for his wife's affections in the person of one Captain Hodgman. a younger end handsomer man. When the colonel is one evening sum- moned to Los Angeles Mre. Bonham arranges to elope with Hodgman; gives him her jewels (this is a bit ancient, Mr. Thomas!) and is stayed upon the eve of flight only by the in- terposition of one Lieutenant Denton. a friend of the colonel, who threatens to shoot Hodgman unless he desist from his pur- ‘Denton finds the tables turned; he is himself compromised i by his well ed presence in Mrs. Bonham's house and by her jewels (which he had taken from Hodgman) b Hodgman desisting and the colonel returning unexpect- | ing found | bad t very long. Denton—Oh! [Pause.] And I suppose there arn't | fellows passing this way? n [reflecting]—Well | age—still— [Pause.] What? ‘Do me a favor? Denton [really serious and very any other. [Pause.] Will you? [ of smile, and slowiy shakes her Should the courts be powerless we must have re- | in his pocket; at her entreaty and in order to save he ing second comb fr B tation he refuses the colonel any explanation; this I , 1o tell them apart to the colonel's forcing him to resign from the army in dis- % - Making allowances, as one is fects abo noted, we must Thomas has written an play—good to read and g large-hearted nationalism of this play grace. This situation closes the second act. | The third act operns with Denton as major-domo at Canby’s | ranch, to which be had come, drawn by love for Bonita, after | his resignation from the army. Bonita is evidently willing and | things look heppy for Denton when the Eleventh Cavalry, en route to the war (with Spain) stop at the Aravaipa ranch. | tence it would be found in this of Ca Hodgman repeats the slander about Mrs. Bonham and Denton; | We're a little shy on water, but there's as much « the latter strikes Hodgman, who, the next moment, is fatally | woman as you can round up in the gospel of St. J s i s oo BofiofietiofoeBoBolio ot oNoeRetieNe@ PN — There were —five oyle's was the lowest. A & 4 | tlon from the Union Iron W : CONFESSION OF CRIME : . “ | larger maing in t f . to the Chief with | & | thing possible to 2 BY HYPNOTISM. § [ otin v Wit moss B | Ing and was weico i : By John D. Quackenbos ;. Held for Robbery. = Of Columbla College. 4 | John Parcai ana Chart i | about 17 years of age, w QeBoefiotiotiotiotioiototiotietioetieiotiotioeBeBe® (e votore the Superior Mogan yesterday | in 51000 bonds eac | of robbing Theod UBLIC interest Las been aroused recently on this question by the extortion of a confession from a thief by means of hypnotism. seriously considered. Hypnotism only gives us a means whereby we can the more readily get at the divine man within. It is not 0 much a key (o the door of a man’s mind as a more effectual way of ringing the doorbell and conversing with the occupant. Generally speaking a strong-willed man may siill keep his criminal secret spite of all influences, hypnotic or otherwise, As a rule oriminals are very hard to hypnotize, because they set thefr whole pature against the hypnotist, and | when a man s under the influence of liquor it is impossible to do anytiing with | him. | There iz no doubt that hypnotism can and will be used to detect crime. But | day, June 19, in Nat Special information businese houses and public Press Clipping Bureau (A gomery street. | Sixty wards of the Soclety were taken to day for their annual outing. limits to the future of hypnotism in overcoming the obstinacy of criminals. The time may come when the old, ineffectual methods of regenerating the moral nature will be superseded by bypnotic treatment. The astonishing results already aftained prove this beyond question. By hypnotism we éan reach people who are moral imbeciles, and by no other power known to man can you do this. We can discover the sense of right and wrong where pome seemed to exist. We can overcome evi) habits and awaken the higher self which never com- pletely dies in any man or woman. Where every other influence has fsiled to restore a man to moral sanity bypnotiem has succeeded. So I would say that if it fails to extract a confession from a criminal no other means can be used with success. » There is such a thing as compuisory hypnotism. which can be applied to any person without bis consent. It is possible to shatter a2 human will as you might break a china vase against & rock. But this is a new and almost undeveloped field, about which little can be said at present. (CITY TREASURY’S STOCK OF COIN IS AUGMENTED eraberg. They will enjoy am Pext Sve o ot weeks Tickets on sale June Zist wnd return within seventy 4 to Chicazo. om the Ow Tnion Pactfic Raflway. D. CASE INVOLVING THE RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH Aleck Goldstein Will Test the Ques- tion Before the Board of Police Commissioners. Aleck Goldstein, an Australian, | rested Friday at | Geary 1900... North mm.mwmtm?fi ——————— Seawell's decision T > ‘Wanted. + G SRS e et S | e out by Juns - o . 7| horses-to J. 3. Doyle, the vaise being suppiied daily me? Telephone Main 142 * we are only on the threshold of knowledge in this direction, and no one can set | . Boys’ and Girls’ Outing. Boys' and ¢ in charge of Superintendent C the pine trees of Cagzadero THE CALL’S Home Study Circle. SEYMOUR EATON, Director SUMMER COURSES, ' ) [ nishing. | V. Comparative Studies of Two Con- ' turizs. A confession of crime obtained in this way may or may not be a valld | paper carrier livi one. It is not necessarily infallible, any more than a voluntary confession street, of §7 on the o would be. It would have 10 be verified by other evidence before it could be | —_—e————— Commencement Esercises. Hypnotism will not make a Har instantaneously veracious. 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