The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 16, 1900, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, S SUNDAY, The Fobst< Call. SUNDAY EPTEMBER 16, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. kddress All Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE, ... LICATION OFFICE..Mnrket n Telephone Pre 20 EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 te 221 Ste Telephone Preas 202. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Simgle Coples, 5 Centsn. Terms by Mail. Including Postage: DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), one year. 88,00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), € monti ) DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months. 1.5 DAILY CALL—By Eingle Month. - 85 £ AY CALL One Year. 1e EEKLY CALL One Year. 1.0 All postmasters mre muthorized to subseript Sample coples will be forwarded OFFICE .1118 Broadway GEORGE C KROGNESS, Manager Foresgn Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.) receive when requested. CAKLAND subscribers in oroering change of address should be NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order correct compliance with their request % A NEW YORK OCORRESPONDENT: TON..._. Heraid Square YORK REPRESENTATIVE: [ ...30 Tribune Building NEW ™ NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldor-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel CHICAGO House: P. O. N Auditorium Hotel S STANDS: Co.; Great Northern Hotel ter at Fair, September 24 to Octob AUCTION SALES. PROTECTION AND PROGRESS. A\ 1 and Progress” the Chronicie, 1as literature of the ablest exposition the world of the § develc rial uch more than an the subject rgical as well ensive study of trade as mn and free , not only in « proposition ites the of protection to destroy the arti- cing the wastefulness in- In this respect it presents ee trade, which promotes to and fro of w and finished articles. of protection must be the cre- nstead of one or is practical conversion of the enters of industry result of tk ons Mr. Young makes lustrial history of Great e effects of free trade, at phase of the argu- rteresting nd s and e rching but im- part analysis of the effects of free trade in Great 1 ] exportation ished goods to shown that g upon a decline of indus I power because of the waste of Great it is a blunder bor diessly strip the earth 1d energy may re the unnccessary destruction wel which can never be re- ch will come home to wer is framed it will en:- iinst a false sonomic men to deliberately waste an in- assistant provided by nature er be replace tics are ed to show the extent to trade waste is being carried on, and ver proof is zdvanced of the advantages sult :blishing the factory near the ne, so that no waste is entailed in from one place to another. Moreover, 1t that protection saves the workers of rom the excessive competition of other 1d thus directly tends to improve their con- and to advance them in all lines of human en- ¢ free from e the s pointed o country the issue between free trade amd protection is 1 a matter of controversy in our politics, the publi- of this book is timely from a political as well economic standpoint, and it merits the attentive udy of all thoughtiul citizens. It is bound to have powerful influence on the public mind, and will take high rank among the rotable publications of the year. | “Macaron In performing this work pro- | Iness by encouraging the unneces- | O instruc- | | ! of the campaign Republican ardor will be aroused | and there will be no falling off from the vote that gave | cther far-reaching policies which can be effected only | worse t { inv | beginning, for eventually every ship in the navy and | cighty-six miles in a very short time. THE FIGHT FOR THE HOUSE. OLITICAL experts of all parties agree that the p chief danger to the Republican party in this campaign is to be found in the contests of the Congressional districts. Notwithstanding the loud claims of the Bryanites and the overconfidence of a good many Republicans, it is recognized that Me- Kinley's re-election is as certain as any future event subject to human action can be. The decrease in the Republican vote in Vermont and Maine was due solely to the fact that Republicans knew the victory was theirs, and many of them therefore did not take the trouble to go to the polls. With the advancement McKinley all the hotly contested States in 1896. That much ure, but there is no surety of a Republican majority in the House of Representatives. Such being the case, the attention of the Repub- voters of California | should be turned at ance to the campaign in the Con- gressional districts. California should send a solid Not a single ad- licar independent Rep n delegation to Congress. v e of free silver «nd free trade and the “policy of scattle” in foreign affairs should be permitted to go to Congress to misrepresent the sentiment of the people and the interests of the State. Since McKinley is sure to be re-elected it of high importance to place the House of Representa- | o is tives under the control of the party that will support his administration and enable him to carry out the construction of the Nicaragua canal, the upbuilding | of ‘our merchant marine, the regulation of trusts and through legisla st itself, there will be two years of party wrang- ling over great issues and hardly anything will be ac- complishe The public good demands that the House of Representatives should be Republican. It fore the du well as the interest of every endent voter to act with the Republicans in the gressional districts to the end that the delegation m State may be solid for sound money and ion. If the Government be divided are certain conditions peculiar to this State which | render the e ction of Republican Congressmen of eptional a age to us. Tt is well known that | s Washington suffered | ck of experienced men to uphold them. | and the Southern States have kepr | e House term after term, so that they prestige there, Califor- hanged her Congressmen so often ess many of the delegation were | men serving their first term and havi have rests at stern . ad € i Cong Of the | s this year a majority have al- L or more terms in Congress. They xperience which fits them to be of use to their State and their constituents. From the of Cal s welfare, therefore, it would policy even for Democrats to vote for the | ominees and thus assure the State the advantage of an experienced representaticn at the | national capit Finally it is to be borne in mind that many of the | Repu 1 candidates have not only served in the | e now holding places on the most im- | ittees, some of them are chairmen ttees. Consequently they are in posi- tion to materially advance and promote every interest of th It would certainly be foolish to set aside men who have high positions in the House for the purpose of sending there men who would have only subordin places. ht for the House is to be waged by the | ardor and strength. d meet the onset with a re nation to win every district. A solid delegation from essary to give the Republic iness is carried on KRepubl b portant com House of such con | | | Repub- lute determi- control of the House, and it will certainly be neces- | sary to subserve the interests of the State. Let Re- | publ 1d independents unite to make it solid. B ——— A Galveston boomer says the storms there are no | in along the Great Lakes, and that if the people build st He Galveston ar n table houses everything will be safe refore advises young men to go to nd grow up with the town. The counsel may not be good, but the cheerful vigor of the local patriotism displayed will appeal to many an Ame-i- can heart. That is the sort of stuff that builds up cities, and if Galveston have much more like it her future will be brigh: WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY EGAIN. in future NE more test has been made by the British dmiralty of the Marconi system of wireless | telegraphy, and again the test has resulted in demonstrating the success and practical utility of the The trial was made between Portsmouth and Pertland, a distance of sixty-five miles, and the test was the more severe because between those points there intervenes St. Albans Promontory, rising | high above the levels at which the messages were transmitted and received. So thoroughly satisfiel were the British officers with the results that they at once ordered the installa- tion of the system on thirty-two warships, and it is said will also have the system installed at all the land ons of the kingdom. That, of course, is but a ntion every important station in the empire will be provided | with the new means of telegraphy. It is to be noted that Marconi's agents offered to prove the system capable of overcoming an even severer test. They claimed to be able to transmit mes- sages over a distance of eighty-six miles, no matter how many mountains or cities intervene. In fact, one of them in an interview with a correspondent of the London Chronicle said: “Three years ago the great- est feat was nine miles, but now we hope to doubls It is obviously a great advantage for ships to be able to communicate with one another eighty-six miles apart, but it must be of still greater use to extend the distance to 1350 miles. The limit of possibility in this direction is as unknown as discoveries in any other branch of elec- trical science.” The expectation of an early achievement of teleg- raphy without wires over a distance of 150 miles may seem oversanguine, but it must be borne in mind that what has been done within the last three vears affords a solid ground for entertaining such a hope. It is hardly more than a yvear ago when the Examiner mocked at the feat of The Call in procuring the an- nouncement by wireless telegraphy of the arrival of the transport Sherman with the California Volun- teers. A little later, when, in comhection with the New York Herald, The Call obtained reports of the international yacht race by wireless telegraphy across twelve miles of sea, the Examiner again ridiculed the vention, denounced it a fake and called the inventor " Now the system transmits messages for | thing to eat and a place to sleep. | | brought over $14,000. sixty-five miles by official test, and the inventor chal- lenges a trial for eighty-six miles. Surely with such a record of advancement he has reason at least for believing that within a few years more he will be able to double that distance. As The Call was the first newspaper in the world to apply wireless telegrapby to the uses of journalism, ng naturally takes a keen interest in the development of the system, but the invention has now reached a de- gree of excellence that makes every further improve- ment in it a matter of world-wide importance. It is an old saying that nothing is invented and perfected at the same time. When the work and the study of many minds have brought something like perfection to Marconi's invention it may prove so efficacious as to enable us to do away with wires for telegraphic purposes altogether. All voters who believe in maintaining the financial integrity of the nation should bear in mind that Bryan has said: “If there is any one who believes the gold standard is a good thing, or that it must be maintained, I warn him not to cast his vote for me, because I promise him it will not be maintained in this country lon, han I am able to get rid of G L e — IN RET@IL STORES. CLERKS UT of the movement started by clerks in retail O stores in this city to obtain shorter hours of labor it is to be hoped immediate good will come for all concerned. One of the most notable cconomic tendencies of the time is toward lessening the pressure of toil upon all classes of workers. It is not very long ago when almost all workers were compelled to spend from twelve to fourteen hours a v at their work. The improvement of machinery rendered it possible to do a given amount of work in much less time than before, and consequently trade after trade has succeeded in establishing a system of work not exceeding ten hours, and in many trades of only eight hours a day. The conditions under which retail trade is carried cn render it a somewhat difficult problem to limit the duration of the working day. Stores must be kept open for the benefit of customers, and the store keeper must adapt his trade to the convenience of the customers. It is an old saying, however, that where there is a will there is a way, and all experience has attested the truth of it. It is generally conceded that clerks in retail stores have to serve excessively long hours, and that some relief should be afforded sem. Any well devised plan for providing that re- lief will have the support of all peopla. Virtually the whole community will unite in support- ing it. reflecting The movement is one which cannot be carried out g | with success by separate action of the storekeepers, r the men or the methods by | B0 matter how willing some of them may be to grant the reasonable request of closing can be at their employes. Early ned only by concerted effort. It is therefore the more important that public sentiment | should favor and encourage the movement to that end. It is not right that any class of people should have to spend nearly all of their waking hours in the task of ng a means of providing themselves with some- An opportunity for social enjoyment, for study and for recreation should be found each day in the life of every man and every woman. D R The Duke of Abruzzi managed to get nineteen miles nearer to the north pole than any other ex- plorer, and as he is a royal Duke it is not likely he will take to the lecture platiorm, so the world can afford to praise him freely without fear of conse- quences. THE PROFITS OF F‘ORESTRY. ROM Vermont comes this story: offered his farm cf 300 acres for s A farmer for $135.000, but could find no one who would give him any- thing like that sum. Being hard pressed for money he determined to sell the pine that was standing on the place, and when it was put upon the market it As that sum was larger than any that had been offered for the whole place, the farmer was surprised, and the fellows who had re- fused to buy were more surprised still. It was an illustration that even in Vermont the shrewd men do not always understand the value of things right under their eyes. Commenting upon the sale the Boston Globe says: “The timber on many a New England farm would sell for nearly as much as is asked for the whole place, though the owner is often quite un- conscious of the fact.” Another illustration of the growing value of forests is furnished in a recently published volume on the for- ests of Great Britain by John Nisbet. In reviewing the work the London Chronicle says: “The present | area of woodlands in the British Isles is about three million acres, and even this area is managed very in- differently, so that while the Belgian forests (1,750.000 acres), according to Dr. Nisbet, yield annually nearly | £4.000,000, and ours, ii equally well managed, would | yield £7,000,000, they de not probably yield more than one-fifth of this sum. So insufficient are our wood- lands for our wants that the value of the conife-ous { timber imported in 1809 was £21,000,000. Much of this we could certainly grow on our own waste lands and thus save our meney and also provide a large amount of healthy country labor. * * * He sup- plies some remarkable figures of the yield in the Earl of Mansfield's woods at Scone, where the Douglas fir, now seventy-five years old, is worth £194 an acre, I | besides having already more than paid for the cost of planting and maintenance by the sale of thinnings. He also cites the case of a large plantation in the Chil- tern Hills seventy years old that sold for £220 an | acre. Timber is rapidly becoming a scarce product in the world and forestry is going to be the grand farming of the future. If in a country like Belgium a forest can be made to yield annually an income equal to about $10 an acre on a large scale, it is fair to assume that in the United States on smaller and well chosen areas the profits would be much larger. According to a recent authority Germany has 10,000,000 acres of state forests all wpon land unfit for other purposes, and derives from them an annual revenue of $23,000.- cco. That is not so gocd as the Belgian income, but it is far and away better than the American method of burning and wasting forests, and in California, at any rate, we ought to profit by the lesson. Some surprise has been expressed at the fact that Cupid was very busy during our recent celebration under the direction of the Native Sons. Critics should not forget that our Native Sons believe deeply in the growth of their order. If you have not yet contributed to the fund for the relief of the Galveston sufferers make up your mind to do so at once. In an emergency of this kind help that is not given promptly will be no help at all, —_— Dawson, the veracious correspondents say, is now a rich man’s city. Perhaps the industrious scribes meant to say that the town is for rich men only, PTEMBER 16. 1900. + and Others, < By L. Du poni Syle. PSS TS TREANE S L e “<> AT AT A TR TR T A TR T AT Tk * TSR TR AT JULES CLARETIE. Director General Comedle Francaise By Courtesy of Tauzy, Bookseller. AT AR R R TR TR @ : :czmfimg M. Jules Claretie 2 FORYORD recently given ir. San Francisco, was not dramatized by Mr. Colgate Baker, but by the Rev. Freeman Wills, an English clergyman, brother of the late W. G Wills, who adapted “Faust” and “The Viear of Wakefield” for Sir Henry Irving Mr. Miller been giving the play for a vear; before he took It up d been played for a year in London by Mr. Mar- tin’ Harve Now, Mr. Colgate Baker may, before the year 1598, have w and pub ed (or had acted) a play “The Only Way"; if so. he has as much right to the title as Mr. Wills. wrote his play after the year should not have taken Mr. Wi 1598 title. any case, the statement that Mr. B: “dramatized ‘The Only Wa, which fascinated (?) San Francisco theater-goers a short time ago,” is a lie and should be branded as such. Baker suffers from such a misstatement even worse than does Mr. Wills. If the fellow who has been making it could be caught he should be straightway elevated to what Pope has happily called “‘a nitch in the Temple of Infam e R T R The Rev, Madison C. Peters is a New York clergyman of unusual originality and power. He may not be an authority upon Patristic Hierarchism and his views upon that favorite topic of medieval controversy— ‘How Many Angels Can Stand Upon the Point of a Needle"—may be as hazy as are mine, but he has some clear, modern ideas upon another topic— “The Church and the Theater”—and he is not afraid to express them. Here are a few of the good savings from an article of his in the September Book World: “Let us bring the leaven of the gospel into the amusement lump and teach the people how to use amusements without abusing them, and save the church from ox HE Comedie Francaise has suffered | a severe loss in the resignation of | its director general, M. Jules Clare- | tie, who has successfully shaped the | policy of that institution for fifteen | years. Sixteen years before he was | * appointed director—that is, in 1869— | he published a book of essays entitled | “Modern Life in the Drama,” and in the | preface to that book laid down what he | considered essential to the progress of the | stage. “The drama will be saved,’ he wrote, “and will have its due influence on morals when authors, courageously following a single path, despairing not even after a check, shall impose upon | themselves the task of placing upon the stage modern life with all its complica- tions, all its wants, all its sufferings.” In| saying that it is especially modern life in the drama that I have sought to study I shall have characterized thé criticism that I have carefully attempted here. Modern life! That is, this confused pe- riod wherein we wear ourselves out, this stormy time, this night cut by lightning strokes, these cares, these fears, these | hopes followed by exhaustion, these burn- | ing or bleeding problems, cruelly compli- cated just as we think them solved, and this melancholy of our day, this anaemia and this neurosis, the two maladies of the age—in a word, all this excess which will mark with bizarrerie the transitional period through which, protesting, we shall have passed. One might characterize these times, in- deed, in the burning phrase of Lamme- nais: *“Those who saw them have related | | that sadness was in their heart; anguish rent their breast and, as if weary of the toil of living, they wept."” It is these tears and this anguish that | 1 would see studied by our dramatic au- thors, and the day when a man of con- viction and of talent shall boldly paint, without forethought of immediate suc- ss, of loud bravos or of pain, life, mod- ern life—that man, studying and drama- tizing social questions, living evils, act- | ual griefs, will be truly a great man sim- | ply because he will be true. His dramas, | instead of passing away like an irides- cence of springtime whose color a sun- beam destroys, will stand, will endure, will show to times to come what we have loved, what we have longed for and what | we have suffered | When this was written M. Claretie could | hardly have dreamed that he would one | day be in a position to employ the re- sources of the first theater in the world to stage the work of just such a writer | as he hoped for. Yet on the 17th of Jan- | uary, 1887, he had the felic C: ing Dumas' masterpiece, thoroughly modern play if ever there was | one, with Laroche, Febre, Bartet and | Reichemberg in the cast. That was glory | enough for one administration haq he ac- complished nothing . For well has Dumas himself said (Notes Sur Denise): | “When civilization shall make up its ac- count, who knows but we shall perceive | that these amusers of mul[lludes»lh?sei amusers who can make known to us Cor- neille, Racine, Moliere, Beaumarchals, | Hugo, De Musset and others—have done | more for civilization than all the politi- | clans who pretend to lead the world?" SRR B e O R “Mr. Colgate Baker is a writer of ac- knowledged ability. It was he who dram- | atized ‘The Only Way,' the play which fascinated San Francisco theater-goers a short time ago.” It is time that somebody nailed this lie, which from the form in which it has sev- eral times appeared seems from some Grub-street in New York. The intention is evidently to boom Mr. Baker. If that young gen- tleman has a proper and modest estimate of his own abilities—and I believe he has —he cannot do better than hasten to de- liver himself from his friends, The play known as “The Only Way,” Dr. Rulinson of Los Angeles is at the Palace. J. D. Bradley, a Merced rancher, is at the Grand. Fred Sigel, a prominent Los Angeles | hatter, is at the Grand. R. M. Marshall and daughter of Charles- ton, 8. C., are guests at the Palace. B. M. Lelong, a big shipping merchant | at Sacramento, Is registered at the Occi- | dental. Dr. L. Dearth. proprietor of the Dearth | Sanitarium at Los Angeles, is registered at the Grand. A. G. Campbell, owner of a large mine | at Humboldt, is stopping at the Grand | with his wife. | J. F. Weggman of the United States cavalry at Washinzton is stopping at the | Palace with his wife. | T. G. Thomson and wife of Spokane are | at the Palace. Mr. Thomson is a promi- | nent mining man. Major Edward E Dravo, stationed at Manila, is in the city and has taken quar- ters at the Ocecldental. Dr. S. American, who has been seriously ill with blood poisening for the past | month, is much improved. H. M. Wheeler and H. J. Small, mer- chants at Los Angeles and Sacramento respectively, are registered at the Palace, George M. Perine has taken his apart- | | ments in the Occidental again, after | | spending the summer sight-seeing In the East, Clarence King, an old-time Californian, | who is now living in Chicago, is renewing former acquaintances here, having taken quarters at the Grand. The marriage of Miss Isabel Lyman and R. B. Phillips will take place at the Cali- fornia Hotel next Tuesday evening at 9 o'clock. About 150 invitations have been issued. Rev. G. Karney, wife and daughter of London are stopping at the Occidental. They have come to America on a pleasure tour. Mr. Karney's son is in charge of the Seamen’s Institute in this city. The marriage of Miss Jennie Wollenberg of Roseburg, Or., to Carl Munter of Cohn & Munter, merchants at Cottonwood, will be celebrated in the parlors of the Calf- | fornia Hotel this afternoon at 4 o'ciock. | A dinner will be served to about fifty Buests. THE VALUE OF LANGUAGES. A good story is told of two Oxford un- dergraduates touring in the East, who entered the shop of a Jew whose knowl- edge of English, though he spoke most other tongues, was limited. With the cus- tomary carelessness of the Anglo-Saxen | race when abroad, one undergraduate re- marked to the other, an failing to make the Jew understand what he wanted, “The fool does not speak English!" This remark came within the radius of the old Jew's comprehension, and drew from him the following questions: Do you spik Italian?" to which they re- plied “No. “Do you spik Grik?* “No.” - ( | ‘Do you spik Turk?" “No. ‘Do you spik Spanish?™ Mo ) “No. After a pause the old man, with consid- erable fll?ty, ejaculated: fool; you five times !n:?li" ‘discomfiture of the young man.—Tit-} : & FASHION EINT FROM PARIS. COSTUME IN VENICE GUIPURE. This stylish costume is in hemp colored Venice guipure, over a transparent of sul- phur colored taffetas. The corsage Is trimmed with a strip of taffetas of the same color, with turquoise buttons. bottom of the skirt is finished off with a strip of taffetas. The w: o ot tan waistband is in —_——— A FABLE FOR LAZY GIRLS. There was once a Woman wha was so i extraordinarily Clever as to be able to persuade a Man that sne was Reautiful. Fut she was not Domesti~. She wrote Fascinating Letters, whicn mada the Man believe that to have A ne A ny One like That in %ouaeke;;l)e;. But he was ays, which was one she fiked Him S mach, One Day b Sta T er as she sat C Fascinating Letter to him, &'3’“33‘ a Large Hole in her Stockin Do,” he said, “I am afraid Thi; and Broks the Ensapi,not Atterward the Worman atiended Classes m} Domestic Science, including Sewing, her' eEfl‘;)r:l 'fl' U'l'nvnillnl. ches us that it is Sometimes too Mend.— ountry Magazine. Set in his Late to end'!'h.é The | Mr. | ! | millating attitude as the de- « of the drama, from attend- ing power to restrain her member: “The 1 the various afford legitimate material for R 0 wrights and actors are not te blame for what we often get on the stage. The Americans like slang and vuigarity. Pla wrights t live to write and they noble se but 1 the exhit all th word that looks tion of doubtful feet down The theater and opera w and tendency be above the li tends them. The demand wil supply. In nothing e show so much bad dorsement of piays Americans thelr in- aste as play and e *“The church has made ndous mistake in its wholesale a 4 the theater. * * * There is nothing in the precepts of our religion which makes us march tune of down the path o “The Dead M. 8 sohn, by ! ¢ serve t Prejudice s more like yo night would rches would be fu FOR THE CALL READERS. Lendon is to hav the American t rk fi and under Lipton. store There is a Isle of W feet well in the water. Powers, the Kentuckian, convieted of in the murder of ( be excused if he idea that thirteen £ puts some an unlucky numbe y r office June 13, 130 He was nominated arraigned July 13, & s one of thirteen c pirators named; w defended thirteen lawyers: his swe art thirteenth witness; the ev that 1300 him: he g penses of the mountai: with him when he closed August liers were ve Culton $1300 to pay the ; he took 313 the eviden fled; Pearls are being found in great quanti- ties in the Black and St. Francols river: in Southwest Missouri. Poplar Biuff fisherman found the fi em in an o nary mussel which picked up ¢ shoal in Black River. He sold the ge a St. Louis jeweler for & nd then hundreds of people have flocked to the rivers to engage in peari fishin r valuable gems have been found. 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