The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1900, STREET CAR CONDUCTOR e L BNk s o e SAID “UMPTY BAZAZAS.” | that in doing so it may add to the amount of its regu- 3 lar rates. In this State the corporation has not ' availed itself of this formal way of evading its share | of the Government burdens, It has persisted from the first in demanding the stamps from its customers and has made no change in its tariff rates. We presume that it is Mr. Farrell’s object to tear | the mask from the face of the corporation and compel | 1t to acknowledge its fraud by raising its rates, since, under the decision of the United States Supreme Court, it can continue to fleece the people of Califor- nia by that process. In this way only can the liti- gation he has instituted succeed. A public proclama- tion of the fact that the express company intends to continue its exactions even if it has to raise its rates would, perhaps, to some extent, satisfy those who are compelled to patronize it. e o ——— SOME ERRONEOUS IDEAS. 6 Che olsie :I'HI'-{K‘T'! AY THE FRUIT-GROWERS. | an increase of rates so long as the rates continued to | be reasonable. 'EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY An Era of Good Feeling. President McKinley has an earnest de- sire that his second term shall be, even more than his first term has been, an era of good feeling between the North and the %ou!h. Neither he nor his friends will willingly adopt any course likely to pre- vent a realigation of that desire.~WASH- INGTON POST. Japanese in China. It Is indicative of how little the re- straints of the Christian religion operate in matters of this kind, or, at least, how h discipline’ avails to prevent disorder, that almost all of the accounts that have been received credit the Jap- anese with exemplary conduct in their treatment of the Chinese people.—BOS- TON HERALD. They Need Relief. The experience of Great Britain with troops in tropical countries should have | admonished us long ago that it would be impossible to keep American troops in- deinitely in the Philippines without relief, It is plainly evident that nothing short of HE annual convention .of growers, now in session in this city, is found to o 5 | represent the progressive development of that B interest YHN SP KELS, Proprietor. s - OHN. D SPRECREL D s e SRR e . Manager. |ers discussed planting and production, This was a Press 204 | new field. Horticulture, like all industries related to the soil, had to advance by experiment. There is nothing in the earth, nor under the earth, nor above call. 6, 1900 | That's Why Some New York Women Are Bound to Reform Him. Rddress All MANAGER'S OFFICE. S LEA veessTelephone Commu PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .... 217 to 221 Stevenmson St. | the earth, to mark the locality that is best for prunes, Telephone Press 202. | er apricots, or cherries, or peaches. That had to be found out by experiment, and experiment took time, | for fruit is not like grain, the adaptability of which to a locality can be determined in a season. Experiment has now fairly mapped our horticultural < %c | field. We know that it is useless to plant certain : :‘:, kinds in certain localities, for there is a lack of chem- ical and climatic kindness to their production. The loss of time and energy in these experiments should be called something else than a loss, since it produced the sought-for gain by the information and enlighten- ment which foll The intelligent planter need no 15 Cents Per Week. opies, 5 Cents. + Incloding Postage: ng Sunday), one year ..88.00 2.00 One Year WEEKLY CALL, One Year 4 : All postmasters are muthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. subscribers in ordering change of address should be to give bot W AND OLD ADDRESS in order wed Hoot = & prompt and correct compliance with their request CAKLAND OFFICE. . vess..2118 Broadway KROGNESS, Advertising. Margu Building, Chicago. | Naneger Fore Long nce Telephone *‘Central 2619.”") NF YORK CORRESPONDENT: . C. CARETON..-«- resrverkrrrt Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: Tribune Bullding | WS STANDS: Brenteno, 81 STEPHEN B. SMITH NEW YORK Hozel xaidore A Unton Square: CHICAGO NEWS STANDE P ot B A News Co.: Great Northern Hotel Horel 3 AMUSEMENTS. £ady streets— Specialties Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and Oakland—Dog and Poultry Show. sb, Oakland Race AUCTION SALES at 11 o'clock, Horses, at December 12, at 13 o'clock, beaten by the jingo spirit of the British pub ng that He »ad the blessings of edu- issue. will to the the we bear t put us i terna- Can ted re of test? tual and moral de- rs? America hat republic Many of the com- excel us in the matter Ve must wake up. We plined for ttle with peoples disc Henry Asquith, address- Ce unsparingly mmerce, system, and praised | next struggle between par- 1 be over the introduction of ystem into that king- e unusual spectacle nvited to take part in school ve may witnes omoters of this new American competition -lligence of the | )y our general sys- ing to our pride to have those who see it in close enough to see s. and perhaps their f excellence and use- ’ to their improve is sup eal power for the reforms | whole school adminis- T le more mindful of the utility nstitutions than the knowledge 1 example to be followed OUTRHGES IN. EZ!;INA. | have been reported of out- ed by the armies of civilization | ne is more significant of barbarity | a complaint said to have been | n t can board of certain actions com- mitte d the Japanese. The story is to the eff the Boxers, perceiving how willing | the tre those nations are to kill Chinamen, hav taker ge of it to involve Christian natives in | the slzughter. It is stated that emissaries of the | Boxers have succeeded in getting employment as in- formers of the allies, and as such have pointed out | Chatean Boxers, and thus procured their death. | In war’s “black caldron of confusion” the innocent As Gen- | When once it has | begun no man can tell when it will stop, or what sav- agery will be committed while it lasts. All that will | be conceded, but still it would seem possible for the | commanding officers of the allied troops in China to | exercise a sufficient care to prevent the outrages stated | in that report. It appears the persons accused by | the informers are shot summarily, for otherwise the | Christian natives could find*evidence to prove their | innocence The civilized world will not sympathize with China- | men as it does with the Boers, for race prejudices are | strong, but still even prejudice will hardly lead men | to condone such conduct as that attributed to the Jap- | anese and the Germans in this instance. The prime | object of the invasion of China is to put an end to the barbarities practiced there. but if the invasion be | attended with such a wanton disregard of the rights | of the Chinese people as the killing of innocent men | without trial, the result will be the very opposite of | that desired. It requires no great amount of wisdom to perceive that Christianity cannot civilize paganism by practicing the barbarities of paganism. suffer with the guilty. That is unavoidable. herman said, “War is hell. eral | been evaded, | of the courts | $10,000 a month in this State alone. 1898, therefore, our people have been paying that | | tail are small. longer risk his plant by misplacing it. =~ So the in- dustry has passed out of the stage of experiment in production. The orchards of cur great variety of fruits are distributed s experience has dictated, and the problem now upon the growers is the profitable distribution of their crops. Before them is the per- manent certainty 2 demand, foreign and domes- will take every pound of perfect fruit, in able form, at a profit to the grower. 1st study is the form in which the of some cons What the grower r market will take his product, and the best means of reaching that market at the right time atter is a matter of transportation, be settled by the operation of enlightened selfishness nd should They want the tonnage. want it to increase and not diminish. They want it to be a consiant factor in their annual busi- on the part of the railways. Th ness, in order t th at they may prepare to carry it, and lides may be a permanent and remunera- hat its fac tive part of their equipment. Wisdom on their pari dictates the provision of such facilities as will return a profit to the producer, and encourage the enlarge- ment of the istry. Along the line of these cor- rect business principles the transportation problem Production and trans in common that there adjustable. ich interests be portation y have ral disagreement between them, and what- nd curable, or inte riction exists must be artifici to ignorance and re b; The former branch of t n opens up a vast ficld. The market takes fruit in nned and drie Mr. Willi: back from Europe information ever »vable igent con- sideration he existing situa- ., and -~ as brougt of for another important form to which ay be reduced, as fruit pulp evaporated nditic be generally known that there is already localities in this country for these firm h require no glass or metal package. In New Orleans there is a large consumption of pine- an_ opening the product n to a semi-solid ¢ apple and other ev the West Indies. Francisco from Mexico produced in San imported ge quantity of guava and bricks. arts mnto quince and other pulps, This industry is the United lks have not forgotten the delights of 1e of the primitive dom of Old pple butter " made on the farm and boiled down until it concentrated all the delicious flavors of the fruit. Evaporate it more, so that it requires no ves- sel to hold it, but may be wrapped in oiled tissue and packed and shipped in a box, and you have the fruit pulp, which Mr. Mills finds in demand all over Eu- rope. It may be that this pulp can be made to take the place of most of our dried fruits except prunes and If any grower will visit a Mexican store in this city the Mexican with their luxurious flavor, he will get a lesson in the possibili- raisins. and taste pulps, ties of this method of preparation. Commercially it will remove some of attend the dried fruit industry. Unless dried fruits are protected by sulphuring, or other expensive processes, they are destroyed by parasites. the risks that In certain of our markets there is objection to these processes. But the semi-solid pulp is not attacked by any insect and keeps in perfect condition in any climate. Its production is simple and it can be carried on by the fruit-grower independent of any combination. The suggestion is worth the immediate attention of ur planters. State Horticultural now in session, is a body of distinguished men. They are something more than mere planters, for in Cali- fornia horticulture ranks with the learned professions. The State is fortunate that its great interest is in such skillful hands- The Association, THE EXPRESS INCORRIGIBLE. HE action brought on Tuesday by E. M. Far- rell in which he asks the Justice’s Court to de- cree to him the return of five cents illegally col- lected by Wells, Fargo & Co. for the payment of tha corporation’s war taxes on five packages-of merchan- dise tendered for transportation may seem a small af- fair to the ordinary reader, yet it involves a principle which ought not to be regarded lightly in this juris- diction, The war revenue act was enacted by Congress June, o8, and Wells, Fargo & Co. managed to make its patrons in California pay the taxes imposed upon it by that statute. Every effort tax-shirking corporation to terms has either by open defiance of the decrees or by cleverly manipulating the litiga- tion brought to determine the illegality of its posi- tion. These taxes have been computed to amount to Ever since June, in has ever since to bring the amount monthly for the luxury of patronizing an un- patriotic, hypocritical, tax-shirking corporation. It has been fortunate for-the express company that the amounts of which it defrauds its patrons in de- If they had amounted to more than one cent in any individual case probably it would long ago have been brought to terms. But it appears that so long as people are robbed in California of one cent at a time they will submit to the outrage. In Mr. Farreli, however, the community is to be con- gratulated on having discovered a public-spirited citizen who is willing to hire a lawyer and make 2 fight. No decision by any court in the country, from the Supreme Court of the United States down, has ever justified Wells, Fargo & Co. in maintaining the po- sition it assunies with reference to these war taxes. Two local Judges have decided against it, and half a dozen tribunals in the East have made similar rulings. In all these cases it has been held that un- der the revenue law the corporation must affix stamps to its bills of lading and pay for them. The Supreme Court of the United States, in the celebrated case of the American Express Company vs. Maynard, con- curred in the view taken of the duties of the express T a recent meeting of the “Women's Society for Political Study” one of the members read a paper on the advantages of eating raw food. The New York Press in reporting the mecting tells us the paper excited a redhot discussion, in the midst of which a motion to adjourn was put and car- ried, but without effect, for the members stuck to the floor and continued 1o argue until dark. : All of that is to us only a matter of idle curiosity, but we are concerned in this statement: one had a burning desire to speak. A member who had listened with evident impatience declared that she knew a woman who had gone a step further in this direction. She established in her home a diet of raw cabbage, pecan nuts and water. Later she adopted Greek attire and went barefoot. Her hus- band then sent her to Southern California to tread the sands, where he would not be mortified her.” The revelation thus made that some New York husbands send to this State wives who delight in liv- ing on raw cabbage and other food of the kind brings before us one of the evils against which we h#ve to contend. There seems to be an idea among certain classes of the East that any old thing will do for Cali- fornia, and the result is we get a good many inhabit- arts we could really do without. 2 An illustration of the evil that results from that state of affairs is to be found in a letter recently pub- lished in the Kansas City Journal from a Kansas man now traveling in Southern California. He say “California is as brown as ginger and just as dr Still I like the State pretty well. I should like it be ter if they would keep some of their good things at | Almost all their fine fruit is eaten in Chicago, | and I am told that the best of their wines also ar= | Lkome. I do not care about the wines, but I The other day I ordered a piece shipped away. do want fruit. this land of high-tariff raisins at least one of the com- ponent parts would not be bogus, and I was abso- | lutely disgusted to find the sallow and shamefaced crust covering the cheapest currants. This tells you as much about the economies of California as I could give you if I were to write a book. And, speaking of parsimony, I think that as between the Californian and your goat-faced Mennonite, the gentle exile from Russia is a noisy spendthrift.” Now it is not “ice to have it bruited abroad that onie can get better fruit in Chicago than in Califor- and that we cannot furnish wayiaring men with mince pie equal to the Kansas standard. Nor is it nice to know that New Yorkers are sending the raw cabbage wives to fill up the State. Evidently the Kan- sas man must have met a community of Eastern immi- grants somewhere and mistook them for natives. How else could be have found in this State a mince | pie substituting currants for raisins? How else could he have come to the conclusion that the Californian is stingier than a “goat-faced Mennonite”? Clearly the Eastern people have some erroneous ideas about California, and it is incumbent upon us to correct those errors even if to do so we have to ship back to the New Yorkers their undesired wives and kill every Kansas tenderfoot caught ordering mince pie within the confines of this commonwealth. iTONNflGE RATING OF LOCOMOTIVES. A Railway Club a paper was read by B. A, Worthington and printed in the “official pro- lings” which shows in a striking’ manner the ac- | ce | curacy with which it is now possible to calculate the | The paper, whi working power of railway engines | bears the title, “Tonnage Rating of Locomotives,” is | of a highly technical nature and reveals the author's | possession of a thorough mastery of the subject. The object of the rating is to determine what work | can be accomplished by a given locomotive on a given | | | track within a given time, in order that the managers of the road may make the fullest and most econor use of the power at their disposal. It is stated that | the first tonnage rating was introduced by General | Manager Kruttschnitt on all Pacific system divisions ‘JuIy 1, 1897, and of the results the writer says: “The | year previous to its introduction the tons of revenue | freight per freight engine mile averaged 188. Dur- | ing the two years following July 1, 1897, this load in- | creased to 207 tons, while in the third year, or year | ending June 30, 1900, it had grown to 235 tons. The new tonnage ratings were put into general effect in the spring of 1900, and for seven months ending Sep- tember 30, 1900, when they were generally used, the | Pacific system load per freight engine mile increased to 251 tons of revenue freight, or one-third more than it was in 1807 before we had the tonnage rating sys- tem.” After a careful and elaborate explanation "of the data upon which the calculations are based and the | methods of working out the problems of rating, Mr. Worthington gives several illustrations showing how closely the results of actual operation accord with those of theoretical estimates. A single one will sui- fice here. Mr. Worthington says: “Fest No. 1 was from Tucson to Gila Bend, 128 miles. should be taken with a ‘D A’ ten-wheeler, with helper, over the Estrella Hill in 5 hours and 15 min- | utes, net running time between stations (excluding stops); the actual performance was 2623 Ms in 3 | hours and two minutes.” | The facts cited by the writer attest the value of the | rating system and its essential accuracy. It also shows to what extent railway economics are indebted mathemetical science. Much has been saved to the road by these calculations, and the men who have | worked them out for the company may be well es- teemed among its most useful employes. The most serious setback which American jockeys appear to have received in their struggle against the prejudices of British sports is that they are unquali- fiedly indorsed by Richard Croker. It is sometimes companies, but held that the tax could Re shifted by 1he§t to be protected against our friends. “Every | by seeing ‘ » | of | mince pie at a restaurant, supposing of course that in | T the November meeting of the Pacific Coast | Our figures | showed that a load of 2600 Ms net weight of train : to | | | | POLITENESS. | | the force recommended by Secretary will meet the military ne ties of the nation for a couple of years to come.— CHICAGO TIMES-HERAL Uniform Divorce Law. What Is needed is a uniform divorce law. It is of little avail to say a divorce is granted in Tennessee only for reasons recognized by civilized people everywhers as just and proper 2 divorce can be obtained in a Western borough State for all. The present inviolability the condition is prejudicial to of the mar! e vow; upon this depent the purity home upon t tne ’;n(eg)n(' society. — NASHVILL AMERICAN. What the United States Desires. The United 2 THE LADY PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK ANTI-STREET CAR CON- | DUCTOR LEAGUE, WHO BELIEVES HE CAN BE MADE A MODEL OF | Tllustration is from photo’' by Imperial Gallery. EW YORK streetcar conductors, according to the World of that city, are to be given until the beginning of the New Year to make up their minds to reform. The Women's women, at the head of which | Barah Frost. Mrs. Charles O’'Connor Ir- win Is secretary. That the Women’s Anti-Conductor League is disposed fo be fair and rea- | sonable fn conducting its reform move- | ment is indicated In the following rules, | to which the members have subscribed: | Members will | Rule 1 always { will not be put to the inconventence of chang- ing bills of large denominations. Rule 2—FEach member pledges herself to re- member that conductors’ tempers and patience are put to many severs tests, and agrees to | give them as little trouble as possible. | Rule 3-In the event of discourteous. treat- sign a report of the occurrence, giving the number of the car and of the conductor, and the date and hour of the objectionable act. Rule 4—Members agree to make these signed reports to the president or secretary of the league, 1n order that when a sufficfent number have been recelved they may become the basis of action by the league looking to the desired reform. had its inception after the adjournment of a woman's meeting held for another purpose. The specific occurrence which inspired the organization of the Anti- Conductor League was described by one of the women present. She had come to the meeting on an Amsterdam-avenue endeavor to | have small change ready so that conductors | ment members pledge themselves to make and | The movement to reform car conductors | e car. Being a resident of the suburbs she | was unfamiliar with the streets of New | York, and was much confused by the jar- gon used by the conductor. When she thought she must have arrived near her | destination the conductor poked his head into the car and sald: mpty bazazas!™ “What street did you say?” demanded the passenger, “Ufty-umpt. sald the conductor. Much annoyed, the lady from the sub- urbs went out on the platform and re- | buked the conductor for his careless use of the vocal organs. He only glared at her and safd: “What do you expect for 33 a week? A tenor solo?” Other women present reported similar Instances of rudeness. Mrs. Sarah Frost, president of the league, sald: “The nice conductors are lovely. There | Is no more patient and courteous class of men. They keep their tempers and per- form all sorts of kindly services for pas- sengers who are inconsiderate and do not deserve much attention. Such conductors will know by means of our movement that they are appreciated. “We admit,” she answered smilingly, “that women are often incomsiderate in their treatment of conductors and we | pledge ourselves to practice reform while | preaching it. Mrs. Frost i{s a handsome woman of commanding presence. Though pleasant of aspect and very affable she does not | look_lfke one to whom a car conductor in his proper senses would be rude. She is founder of the Women's Republican League of Syracuse and has had other ex- periences in the management of important movements. % { FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. | + BEIGE COLORED CLOTH MANTLE. The- engraving represents a three-quar- | vet. It is loose in front, and fastens be- neath a ruche of mousseline de sofe | matching the cloth. The collar, lapels, ends of the sleeves and two flounces round the bottom are of marone velvet, | edged with ruches. PERSONAL MENTION. J. H. Henry of San Jose is at the Pal- ace, York. Dr. F. M. Archer of Redding is at the Grand. Senator B. F. Langford of Stockton is at the Lick. Professor E. A. Ross is registered at the California. State Superintendent of Schools Thomas J. Kirk is at the Lick. | T'T. C. White and 0. J. Woodward of | Fresno are at the Lick. David Starr Jordan registered at the Occidental last evening. Baston Mills, a Paso Robles mining man, is at the Occidental. Edward A. Meserve, a Los Angeles at- torney, is registered at the Grand. George H. Baird, a Marysville fruit man, registered at the Lick yesterday. George B. Dunbar, a prominent Chicagn merchant, 1s at the Palace with his wife, E. 0. McCormick, general passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific, is home Friday from St. Louls and ter mantle of beige colored cloth and vel- | H. B. Huntington has gone to New | Chicago, where he attended meetings of the Transcontinental Passenger Associa- tion. W. D. Sanborn, general agent of the Burlington in this city, left last night for New Mexico and izona, to be gone about ten da: “‘Could you do somethin’ fer a pore ole | saflor?” asked the wanderer at the gate. “Pore ole satlor?” echoed the lad the tub. sy e “Ye ty, years. “Well.” said the lady at the tub, after a critical look, ‘‘you certainly don’t look as If you'd ever ketched up with it,” and resumed her Delsartean exercises of de- tergence.—Indianapolis Press. , I follered the wotter fer twen- | ble terms or things, a settlement > the interests ¢ etvilization. ¢ tained by £m£u.»(n.". upon Ch y forci seem excessive 1o public intelligence meant by this that China made to pay indemnities to ti ability or to inflict shment limit of its ordinar is no sense in mak: arouse the hatred and deflancs : Chinaman and incite them to begin war- fare agaln In preference to accepting wha they would regard as a dishonorable peace —PITTSBURG DISPATCH. Noise a Nuisance. There are those who affect to rd noise as inevitable; indeed, as something to be encouraged and to feel proud of as 5 Indication of energy and -stremmous life.” The most potent processes in na- ture are quite noiseless, while those which are full of sound and fury signify little save ruin and destruction. Needless noise is an indication not so much of energy as of waste of energy. It is barbaric, child- ish, even at the best and when it disturbs no one—which s seldom. In the vast ma- jority of cases in the streets of a populous city it is_an infringement upon personal | rights and an assault upon personal peace, comfort and health, such as {s most mild- Iy to be described as a nuisance, and might with propriety be called by a much harsher name.—NEW YORK TRIBUNE. England’s Coal Problem. The {mportation cf coal from the United States has added (o the growing uneasi- ness of the English public. Coal is the foundation of En I's commercial su- pramacy, and the nation is nuw contront- ed with the fact rhat its mines can no longer supply, at a reasonable price, all the ccal that is needed for home con- sumpiion and for the existing export trade. To curtail home consumption would be to close factories, while to for- bid coa. exports would be to strike a seri- ous blow at the shipping trade and to endanger England’s__commercial supre- macy cn the seas. While the country is hesitating between the horns of this lemma the price of coal is rising high that {t threatens to inflict sever r- ing on_the poor during :h ter.~CHICAGO TRIBUD e e Cholce candtes, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* —— et Townsend's California glace frults, 50c a und, in fire-etched boxes or Jap, bas- ets. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building. * ————t ey Special information supplied dally business houses and public men by the FPrees Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 310 Mont- gomery st. ‘lelephone Main 1041 - to In 300 German towns, with an gate population of 15,000,000 inhabitants, medical statistics are now regularly re- ceived and compiled. —_—————— IT WAS THE ROUTE IN 49! It Is the Route To-Day, and Will Be For All Time to Come. Ladtes and children traveling without sseort appreciate the advantage of a solid vestibuled train ltke ““The Overland Limited,” running through from San Francisco to Chicago, with- out change, IN LESS THAN THREE DAYS. Leaving San Francisco dally at 10 & m., via. Central Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern raflways. Pt ————— The victims of mext winter's epldemis of grippe those whose systems have not recovered from exhaustion of summer. DR. SIEGERTS Angostura Bitters, great South American tonio for weak people. INN SUNDAY EXT 'S CALL DECEMBER 9, 1900. TO MY OLD FRIENDS THE PUBLIC I am back in harness. With the issue of December 9 I begin a special engagement with the Sunday Call. 1 am going to revive “Peck's of Bad Boy Papers entitled heartily as they did fifteen years -“REFORMING THE CREEDS. By REV. SAMUEL SLOCOMBE. Musical SCENES IN A WOMAN'S GYMNASIUM. Bad Boy"” and write a new series Peck’s Bad Boy Grown Up. 1 believe that the Bad Boy's friends will rally to his support as ago. Sincerely yours, GEO. W. PECK. P.S.—Remember the date, December 9. A Man Who Once Sang Before Royalty and Is Now an lnmate of the San Francisco Almshouse. THE LATEST FAD IN DOLL SHOWS. Why American Girls Have to Go to Europe for Polish. By ANNA VIRGINIA METCALF. MILITARY DISCIPLINE IN A FRUITVALE SCHOOL. The Poster Room and How to Arrange It.