The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 25, 1901, Page 6

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Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville avery afternoon and Vauteville tan Hall-Lectures Saturday afternoom and even- Cal! subscribers contemplating a ehange of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mafl to their eddresses by motifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer remorts and is represcnted by a loeal agent fa all towns the coast. the arid \ranges. L part the pui domain progressively de- stroys the feed, the contention over what is left grows fierce. As the fo-age decreascs the moisture with it, and increasing aridity renders the region settlement, and the demand BATTLE FOR THE RANGE, AST ye “ime of violence and disaster on was a of more gon less fit icultural jor Government aid for irrigation grows more per- sistent. The forces which made the last a season of blood- ady in the field. A month ago cattic sters were patrolling a frentier of estern Colorado to keep out hun- of sheep, which had eaten up the Utah, and were driven to repeat the destruc- ion in the adioining State. Within the last s a dead line has been established in Wyo- - who patrol it warn intruders that the per ng it with stock. In the housands of animals have died in the last for shed men wi W s in forty dreds of thousa rorge i tive opx and th death i same State month because overstocking the free range has de- y for cre feed and th= stock starves and dies in its in t} most numerous ia range battles last year we e history of the frontier, bhut d thi e greatly excee year. not be com people that they seem indifferent to usele lestruction of the sole value of the graz- ing country, and as 2 of beefl that it is gradually disappearing 2 At ti:e same time that they are g the passing oi that food beyond the reach purses it is picposed to tax them by appro- piiations in the river and harbor bill to irrigate lands made increasingly arid by the wasteful policy which sed the cost of their beef supply. by leasing them to their 11d restore i forage, compel ‘those who profit by it to pay for its use; would restore beef to tabies on which its cest is making it a rarity, and would furnish ample scans to provide public irriga- tion withrout further burdening the taxpayer by Con- The question is not sec- ssing ny ting the ranges gressional appropriation tional to the arid regicn. No national question is more important than one ssary food supply, the protec- ie extension of the which concers tion of public propert o:cupied by productiv vation of order, by substituting law for lawlessness over a vast region. When these four objects can be accomplished by cne sizuple act of legislation there enough somewhere in the an act and reason enough in ke it the law. ny large Indian reservations, arei should be intelligenc * the Governn Ir the arid They are of the san stry to character and capacity for stock rarges as the n m which they are located. The | Government ~harged with their care and preserva- tion. It is | leaseholders themn as ranges to stock men. The ¢ restricted against overstocking, and the destruction of the icrage is thereby preventsd. The result ‘is that the recervation ranges are con- stantly increasing in valve and are real oases in the tlear desert around them. which is exactly the same kind of land and under the same climatic conditioas. | This object lesson teaches the dullest that, outside the reservations, the same rolicy will produce the same desirable resulis. The income of the Icases on the reservations goes to the Indians, as owners of the domain, and may Je applied to irrigation w piotects them from the former lawless invasion cf their reservations by stock men, and puts an end to the frequent combats between the invaders them- selves So it will be seen titz whole leasehold policy. with all its benefits, is already operated by the Govern- ment for the benefit vf the Indians.- What possible, reasonable. impressive cbjection can be made to ertension to the whole grazing region on the public domain, which is the property of all the people of this country? <n possible on their lands. It 0y T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVIEG TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. | mew | As their use in common as | limentary to the intelligence of | result suffer such an advance | It is a national question. | agriculture, and the conser- | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1901, WATTERSONIAN ROT. HERE is growing a great pressure in the South for the seizure of Cvba. The spirit of Buchanan, Mason and Slideli, as uttered in the brutal Os- tend manifesto, is abrcad -in that section, and the Democratic supporters of Bryan are possessed by it 1t is known that almost 21l the Democratic Senators were in 1868 Cuban annexationists, and now they covertly favor taking the island. The most earnest / | i | f | : | | ! | \ i The “solemn duty” part is left to Major | Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal. | Henry has an inventivs imagination. He invented | the Gold Democracy in 1896, and then invented a rezson for going into the Bryan camp in 1900. He is now inventing reasons for taking Cuba. He ladles out sentimental loblolly:on that subject as generously | as the stills of his State run bourbon. | He seems never to have heard of the declaration of | war, and if he know of our pledge of abstention from the sovereignty of Cuba regards it with fides Punica, | and as a very proper promise to be broken. Through- out the South there are many who follow this lead, and if Cuba hold out until 1go4, and the Democratic party, controlled by the South, get power, Cubd will he gobbled with the joyous alacrity and appetite shown by the python when it swallows a cassowary, regardless of the consent of the cassowary. Mr. Watterson recently proclaimed the unalterable union of destiny between the United States and Cuba, the same being closer than that between pie and its crust or sausage and is case. He said: ‘“The inter- csis of the United States and Cuba are inseparable: The island must prosper as we prosper, and we must suffer with it through maladministration and neglect. The Cubans are realizing this, and it is not surprising | that the saner minds among them look upon annexa- tien as the perfection of their government.” Upon such rot is faithlessness fed. ‘Cuba has about as much influence upon our destiny as a fly on a steer’s horn has upon the export of beef. It is a bit cf Wattersonian grandiloquence, which passes for pro- {foundity in a State where they rotten-egg Carlisle and make Joe Blackburn Senator. Cuba affects us as much and no more than Hayti, San Domingo, Jamaica and the Carib Keys. The idea that this great country, capable of producing all that it consumes and having a surplus large enough to | feed and clothe the world, must suffer whenever a J flea-bitten and fever-plagued island in the ttopics has | | ern press. a fever of revolution or a spasm of murder is pre- posterous. We join Mexico, with no ninety miles of water be- | tween us. Mexico has chilled and fevered, hungered and fed, had all colors of fever, and epidemics of brigandage and vomito, with no effect on our pulse or temperature. Canada has had rebellions, reverses and upsets of all kinds, while we have kept our head ccol and feet warm through it all. z Major Watterson's hysterical howl i§ the worst case | of the tail wagging the dog that has been proposed. | If there is no better reason for the policy of lying and stealing in the case of Cuba it would be better to give | none a: all. | In truth it makes hut little difference to us who governs Cuba, or how. We are far more interested | in a decline of the census of murder in Kentucky, for thar is an "American State, though it has Corsican | manners. When it is safe for men to go out after | dark in Kentucky ‘ithout wearing _boiler-plate clothes it will be time to fret about the disorders and the destiny of islands where the water, land and air court that he will provz that a conspiracy exists to | keep Chinese out of this country. The lawyer appears | to have undertaken a task which for others would be | a3 simple as it is easy. Everybody having at heart the | welfare of the city is in the conspiracy. B same time puzzled, by the remarkable decrease in vagrancy that has taken place in Great Brit- ain during the last four years. There appears to be nuc seli-evident explanztion of the decline, but of the fact there is no doubt whatever. It is made clear | by reports from all parts of the country, and particu- | aly from the eastern countics, where the tramp evil | has in former years been most notable. | are poison, and the fleas and mosquitoes spread [ cholera and yellow fever. | — | A local attorney has announced to the Federal | | THE TRAMP PROBLEM. RITISH sociologists are delighted, but at the | The Westminster Gazette in commenting upon the decline says it is “so remarkable, indeed, that if the | numbers decrease to *he same extent during the next | for1 years the workhouses in the eastern counties maz | shut up their casual wards, for there will be no tramps left to use them. The figures showing the number | of casuals relieved in the different unions have just | been compiled by the poor-law inspector for the East- | ern District. In Norfolk 20,037 casuals were reported by the different unions i 1897. In the following year this dropped to 24,128; in 1899 it went down to 15,093, | and last year it was only 9730—just a third of what it | was four years ago. The decrease is spread over every union in the county. In Suffolk the figures for the four years beginning with 1807 are: 23,003, 22,385, 17,655 and 12,838. Herc the decrease is not quite sc | great as in Norfolk, bur it is very nearly half. Evi- | dently the tramp is becoming scarcer each year.” While the British are rejoicing over that unex- pected ray of brightnass in the general gloom caused by the war and diminishing trade with increasing taxes, the more thickly settled States of our own | country are finding the tramp problem more vexatious | then ever. In Massachusetts the evil has become so | great the relief officets of the commonwealth are seeking to provide a better system of dealing with it. At the present time many Massachusetts- munici- pulities furnish food aad lodging for tramps, but at :;n:- same time compel those who apply to do a cer- tain amount of work by way of compensation. The | tlan is not adequate tc¢ the requirements of the problem, because some communities do not provide | such homes for tramps, nor in an, way enforce the general regulations .concerning vagrancy. It is now proposed that the St:.':ltc shall deal directly with the subject, instead of leaving it to local authorities, and to effect that end a caropaign of-education has been begrn. No plan of action prcposed in the discussion has | received more general approval than that of Dr. Eenry Shaw, and it is probable that it will be vir- | tnally adopted should the State decide to assume seif: “If the State owned four small farms—say at Middieboro, Wilmingto:, Sterling and ‘Chesterficid, there would be few places which would not be within thirty miles of one of them, and 2ll, except Chester- | field, would be within easy railroad communication with all surroundingterritory. In each of them a £ | small farm might be beught, and its buildings put in_ | condition to receive travelers. Let every person going | from place to place without definite destination, | needing or asking relici, be sent at the expense of ihe arguments in favor of that step appear in the South- | control. The plan is thus stated by Dr. Shaw him.” State to the nearest of the four houses of detention. with a commitment paper that will be evidence against him if he goes eiscwhere as a tramp. The house of | detention would act as an ethployment bureau, finding places for nien when 4t, and giving them useful work while waiting. To it the employers of labor in the ! country round might learn to come, as they have ior | years to the office of the Boston Industrial Aid So- ciety. The almshouse taint and the penal institution | features should be studiously avoided.” The simultancous decline of vagrancy in Great itain at a time of something like industrial depres- | B a period of general prosperity, affords a very inter- esting problem for socioiogists to study out. Possibly | the explanation is to be found in some method of treating tramps in British warkhouses thatyinclines them to keep away. If so it might be well for Mas- sachusetts to apply for the recipe. Postmaster General Smith has met the demand for shirt waists in the torrid East by granting permission tc mail carriers to wear during the summer months thar form of ga’mmnt. provided it be of a light gray washable material and be worn with a turn-down coi- lar, a dark tie and a neat belt. So it seems the shirt waist.is bound to coms. Nothing can stop the mails. - HILL "AGAINST TAMMANY. OSS CROKER, ficding himself in control of B the Democratic party of New York on the eve of the Presidential election, did not hesi- tate to use his power t> the uttermost for the purpose oif crushing David Benrett Hill. Doubtless the Tam- many boss believed he could drive Hill out of poli- tics altogether and get rid of him forever. Croker bas now an opportunity to meditate upon the vanity oi revenge and the impolicy of hitting a man when lie is down. Tammany is in sore straits, and Hiil, cmerging from the retivement of Wolfert's Roost, has taken to the warpath with a scalping-knife as keen as a razor and as big as a scythe. There was recently organized at Carnegie Hall in New York a political faction which took to itself the title, “The Greater New York Democracy.” We learn that the floor of the hall has a seating capacity of 1000, and every seat was occupied. Moreover, the tiers of boxes above were also filled. Nor was it a casual gathering of idle men brought in from the streets by the attractions of a brass band and the ex- pectation of hearing rad-hot speeches. It was reaily a notable gathering, and included some of the fore- most Democrats of the city. From first to last it was a Hill meeting. Whenever his name was mentioned it was applauded. Whenever Croker's name was heard it was hissed. The burden oi the speeches was the necessity for reorganizing the Democracy of New York and the overthrow of Tam- many Hall. One of the principal speakers, Joseph F. Daly, a former Justice 'of the Supreme Court, m vrging Democrats of conscience and intelligence to break away from Tammany, asked: “How can men lay their heads upon their pillows after thanking God for the purity of their homes and the innocence of their children and forget that the political institution they support with their votes is filling the streets with outcaéts, the penitentiary with criminals and paupers’ graves with victims—victims once as pure as the child at its mother’s knee?” As an expression of its purpose the organization adopted resolutions declaring Tammany Hall respon- sible for existing abuses in the administration of city affairs, that its permaaent overthrow is an essential prerequisiée to the success of any attempt to secure better local government, and pledging the organiza- tion to oppose the election of any candidates at the coming municipal election “nominated by the so- called Democratic city and county conventions to be keld under the auspices of Tammany Hall.” In addition to the resolutions there was adopted an address charging that New York is suffering from “vile misrule and degracation,” that the present city administration has perverted the functions of munici- pal government “not only to establish a nursery and asylum for a horde of political camp followers who prey upon the taxpayers but to foster a system of ex- acting seeret revenue through a loathsome covenant with crime.” It says that under Tammany rule there has been a tremendous increase in the municipal ex- peusés amounting to $25,000,000 in three years, while the real estate valuations have been increased by $743,000,000. The address contains this sentence: “Worse and more intclerable than this burden of crushing taxes is the degradation, the infamy, which brings a sense of shame to every reputable citizen of New York. This city, instead of shedding its luster abroad, stands forth to-day in glaring discredit as the shelter and victim of the most depraved and mer- cenary government in the civilized world.” Among other things the address demands the “elec- tion of a Mayor whose conscience cannot be refrig- etated,” and when that was read the applause was tumultuous. Mr. Croker will take notice that David Rennett Hill is still alive, and kicking. , i A suggestion of the American Bureau of Statistics that an effort be made to promote American com- merce by means of a floating exposition of American products has been warmly taken“up, and it is now announced that such an exhibit will soon be sent out to make a tour Bf the Scuth American coast and from thence to other parts %f the world. The idea is not original with this conntry, for the Germans have al- ready tried the experiment. It is said an exhibition of the kind was-organized in Hamburg two years ago, and the results were in excess of the most sanguine expectations. The total cost of the enterprise was about $200,000 and the tiade resulting from it amount- ed to about $5;230,000. With such an illustration of the effectiveness of the scheme, it is hardly likely enterprising Americans will be slow to adopt it. The proposal to hold a constitutional convention in Alabama was carried, but the total vote was so light it hardly amounted to an expression of the will of the people. In fact, politics in that State has been so. theroughly cut and dried there is nothing in it to in- terest anybody except the politicians, and even ti1_ey take it easy. The Christian Scientists have obtained a' consider- able following in Germany, and are about to erect a large church in Berli but the doctrines of the Scientists are evidently vot understood by the people, | jor the Kreuz Zeitung describes their movement in Germany. as “an inroai of Anglo-Sa.x:ég ‘Protestant- ism.” x ST The three Phoenix thieves who stole 4 bar of gold from the hiding-place where it had been secreted by ancther thief probably felt that suchcompounding of a felony will be winked at by the law. But it would seem that even a thief Las some property rights. It Iras been decided by the military axthorities that the strength of the army of the United States shall be ‘fixed at 76,000 men. That is just about one soldier , if-fto every 1000 citizens, 2nd yet Mr. Bryan will con- tinue to howl about the menace of imperialism.” sion, with a notable increase in New England during | | PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. ' PREPARED £Y EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR .THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. What Science Has Done in American Com- munities to Cure COPYRIGHT, 1901. X.—EFFECT Frem time immemorial it has been known that consumptives get well in cer- tain climates. equable climate, such as Italy possesses, was considered necessary. Of course, we now know that warm climates are not absolutely essential to a cure, and yet it was because of this very belief that eli- mate-cure came to be well known before the present time. In a warm climate, the consumptive could be out of doors all the | time without discomfort, and he very soon learned that this was best for him, thus being misled into the belief that that particular place and climate had some miraculous power to recuperate his fail- ing health. Camping expeditions, long voyages ‘in open boats, and other out-of- door exercises, helped to raise the ques- tion to a scientific level. The greatest drawback in the fight against ‘“‘the great white plague,” tuberculosis, has been the fact that the medical profession, as well as the laity, believed superstitiously in the fetich of a certain place which alone had wonderful powers to heal. Ceonsumptives Can Recover Anywhere Heretofore it has been considered neces- sary to send the patient to the Riviera, to the Aips, to the Bjack Forest, to Califor- nia or to Colorado. Many physicians practicing at these so-called wonderful climate cures deluded themselves into be- lieving their particular climate necessary. The ume is nearly past, however, when the climate enthusiast will have the tem- erity to rise in a medical meeting and prcelaim any one section the sole place m which consumptives can recover, and ihe sooner the poor consumptive Knows this the better for him and his family, and, too, for his community. 1 know that the arld West, that high mesa land stretching for hundreds of miles through Colcrado, Arizona, New Mexico, a small strip of Western Texas, and away into old Mexico, is undoubtedly the best for the average consumptive, but the poor man cannot go to health resorts, nor can he well change his environment, Just think of the good that would result not alore to the individual, but to society at large, if such a person could only know and have faith to believe that it is possi- ble for him to recover in his own eity, be that in Maine or Oregon, California of Florida, Louisiana or Ohio. I say, possi- ble to recover, and it must be thoroughly understood that what is claimed is that he can .recover if he will faithfully live in the open air—in sleet, snow, wind or rain—yes, even in the fogs around Lon- don. 1 firmly believe that if the diagnosis is made early, in the first stage, and the patients are sent constantly into the open | air in all kinds of weather, a large per- centage, over half anyway, will be per- manently cured, while many other cases will be arrested. No one must be misled by this statement. The diagnosis must be early. The patient must know his con- dition before he has been run down by fever and has lost his appetite, strength and welght. Whenever one has a cough with expectoration and his cough ' lasts longer than a few days his case requires the immediate care 6f a competent physi- cian. It is in such cases that a patient may and probably will recover by the outdoor treatment, no matter in what city he stays. If the case has advanced be- yond the first stage it is possible to ar- Test it and, In a few instances, cure it fiwithout the necessity of going away from ome. Patients That Have Recovered. What I say must be accepted as a firm convietion ard as free from special in- terest in any locality, for the changes in the Government service have taken me into nearly every section of the United States. In all these places I saw the con- sumptive sailor because I had to, for he was my patient. I also made it a point to see the native consumptive in his home and in his hospital. I know of consump- tives who are stiil living after ten, fifteen, twenty and in one case forty years of suffering and struggle in unfavorable cli- mates. These, however, were persons with indomitable will power. I know cases which have recovered in Chicago and St. Louis. From a time in the remote past con- sumptives have died by hundreds of thou- sands every year. Great men and women and even kings have given their lives to the study of the disease, and this slow but steady evolution from the mere physic-giver to the seeker after cause and effect has brought about a united move- ment among medical men throughout the world. The result proves again that when once the composite medical mind becomes fixed uvon what is thought to be a right principle, something wonderful must hap- pen for the benefit of mankind. The med- ical man has sald that the filthy tene- ment death traps, which are breeders of tuberculosis, must go; that the spitting nuisance must cease and that con- sumption must be stamped out. Already hundreds of old buildings in London, Ber- lin, Paris, Philadelphia and New York, which were known to be badly infected with tuberculosis, have been pulled down and replaced with good buildings, because of the pressure brought to bear on mu- nicipal authorities to remedy the evil, The movement for the better housing of the poor has spread over the entire world, even to Japan. It has been shown that in nearly the same proportion as the poor are housed !n well lighted and well ven- tilated quarters, where there is abundance of fresh air and life-giving sunshine, does the percentage of deaths from consump- tion drop off. This is not hard to under- stand, if one will but recall that domestic animals do not thrive in the dark and dampness. Need of Awakened Public Sentiment. It is estimated that 120,000 people die in the United States every year from con- sumption. If the same number of persons who died last year in any American city from consumption were to die in that city next year from smallpox, yellow fever, cholera or plague panic would follow. Let me put this a little more forcibly. In the home of yellow fever, whence we de- rive nearly all our epidemics, viz., Ha- vana, a thousand inhabitants died of yel- low fever from to 1894, To combat this it cost the United States many thou- sands of dollars annually to keep a corps of marine hospital officers, with their thorough equipment, always at work in preventing panic in the United States. Bear in mind the horror occasioned by yellow fever and then make, a mental note of this: In this same city of Havana, in the same vears—1890-1894—there were 7000 deaths from consumption. Yet the public remains indifferent to the insidious dan- gers of tuberculosis. ¢ is high time that such ruthless annual slaughter suould cease. There are many reasons for this condition, some of which are not vet fully understood, even by the medical profes- sion, but for our purpose we may say that it is mainly due to the fact that the aver- age man is careless in the habit of spit- ting—careless everywhere, in the club, in the street cars, in the railway station. To try to check the spread of the dis- ease societies have been formed which, with State, municipal and philanthropic donations, have built sanatoria and in- duced hundreds to go to these places, where they are taught how to cure them- selves and prevent the spread of the Gis- ease to others. The city of Chicago early undertook to care for the consumptive oor in better quarters than the county Fuupltu b{ erecting buildings especially for tm%h?ll?:h?t Du'nnmx.d !;'or many 'S EX Iphia has ecares Oor mauil, Juitovers from this malady and there Are hundreds of men and wWomen now earnin; a living in that city who have recuvcreg or had the disease arrested in places of fresh-air treatment right inside the city limits. With these home sanatoria in one's own city or near by many homes have been kept intact and the family earnings have gone on. If every good citizen would begin at once to talk for more light, more air, more sunshine, better housing of the poor and the immediate care of the con- sumptive in sanatoria laws could soon be enacted which would restore to every man E. bis ht of fresh air and sunshine. uch of ‘Whitechapel district of Len- Eradicate a Dread Disease. —_— By J. ©O. Cobb, M. B, PASSED ASSISTANT SURGEON UNITED STATES MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE. In those long-ago days, an | Consumptives and OF CLIMATE. | don has been pulled down and if the law could be made to reach tnis, the vilest tenement section in the world, there is | still hope for every city. Proper Sanatorium Treatment. In all parts of the country the sanato- rium treatment of consumption is now be- | ing considered. These sanatoria are notn- | ing more nor less than specially construct- | ed’ houses situated in as favorable local- | ities as the environs afford. Here one can g0 and live under rigid rules. No claims are made for any specific benefits except those derived from fresh air, good, whole- some food and close adherence to the dis- cipline of the place. The patient very soon learns one thing which aids him material- ly. He learns that many consumptives recover and that the patients soon make light of their troubles and try to help in every way to regain health. They learn to keep quiet when their temperature ranges above the normal or below it: how to take chest gymnastics, to aid in ex- gunding the diseased and restricted lungs; ow to eat slowly and chew the food well how to keep cheerful and not to fret. Most of all, they learn to toughen them- selves to prevent catching cold and to get alopg without being coddled by overanx- ious relatives and friends. 1 wonder if the consumptive knows how much good he is doing the community by fioing to one of these places? By leaving is home he ceases to be a most serious menace to his own relatives and is indi- rectly benefiting the community at large. By example he is. aiding in the advance o(ysanltary knowledge. A Great Movement Well Under Way. In just fifty years' time the sanatorium movément has received an Impetus that cannot and must, not be checked. Started on a small scale at Gorbersdorf by the illustrious Brehmer, aided by some trust- ing and philanthropic friends, the plan has been adopted in nearly every civilized land. To-day there are hundreds of such places scattered here and there in Eu- rope; the Americas and Japan. Tuberculosis has spared the rich very little less than the poor and monev has lately been forthcoming in enormous sums for the better care of the consumptive. Fhe movement is thus not alene due to philanthropy, but is one of seif-preserva- tion. Of all the gifts in the name of suf- fering humanity | cannot conceive of one more_humane or one Indicating more sound judgment than the erection of a sanatorium for the care of the consump- tive poor in one’s own community. The folly of this age of philanthropy lles in | the erection of monster buildings for hos- itals. The consumptive does not need a ospital. He needs to be helped into the open’ air and guided and directed in Lis treatment by some one who is thoroughly | acquainted with all the routine of this method of cure, Arid Climate Is Desirable. There is another side of this question that cannot be ignored—viz.: That fgvor- able climates are desirable, and many} times more beneficial than those pl:u:es“ which we have spoken of above. It is useless for medical men in the Bast to decry the advantage of the arid “West, and by the arid West I mean Colorado, | Arizona, New. Mexico, a small strip of Texas near Kl Paso and the mesa lands of Old Mexico. 1 have seen the comsump- | tive in nearly every portion of the United States, and T am sincere in saying that | I have seen the most astonishing results in this countr{ with some patients, both in acute and in old cases: The improve- ment was so rapid in some instances that | I would not have believed it if I had not seen it. I have nothing but a passing in- terest in this western country, but as one interested only in what is the very best ior the consumptive, I say to the person | with means: Go to some point in Colo- | rado, Arizona,-New Mexico, El Paso or| Old_Mexico, just as soon as your disease is discovered. Do not be misled by ex- travagant advertisements, for one place is as good as another in the sections named, in so far as climate is concerned. Do not wait, do not take chances, but go at once, and, as all patients are benefited | by change of environment, one is more apt to receive the greatest benefits in the arid region by ing there early. If he does go under these conditions I believe that I am safe in saying that he has over 80 per cent of chances for his permanent recovery. No patient, however, should | come to this country without the advice | of a physician. There are certain condi- tions—well known to medical men, which would prevent one’s coming here. Best Place for Consumptives. If you are able physically and have the money, there are many places where one may go and.live comfortably. Of course Denver and Colorado Springs have the | greatest reputations and most liberal ac- commodations, but seattered throughout | Colorado are many smaller towns where there are good hotels. Coming south, there are Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Phoe- nix, Tucson and El Paso, with good hotels which have been recently improved. There | are many smaller places to which the con- sumptive may go, but in many of them the food and rooms are poor. . | These smaller towns have just as good | climate as the larger ones, the only dif-| ference, so far as the consumptive is con- cerned, being the lack of accommodations in the small places. At first it ma, better for one to go to some one of the larger cities just mentioned and then change to a smaller town if desired. But whatever place is chosen, whether In this almost boundless west or near one’s own home city, let this advice guide you as the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night: Come what may, discourage- ments, backsets, or even hemorrhages, re- solve that you will live steadfastly in the open air. PERSONAL MENTION. 0. W. Brothbeck of Los Angeles is at the Palace. G. Niscon, a mining man of Nevada, is at the Palace. R. J. Northam of Los Angeles is regis- tered at the Palace. Dr. Benjamin A. Plant of Santa Cruz is a Ruest at the Grand. A. A. Van Voorhies, a merchant of Sac. ramento, is at the Grand. . .General Fitzhugh Lee has returned to the city and is at the Occidental. S. A. Palmer, a Santa Cruz merchant, accompanied by his wife, is at the Grand. —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, April 24 —The following. | Californians have arrived: Ex-Congress- man James G. Maguire of San Franciseo, at the Ebbitt. A. L. Parsons of Califor- nia, Carl E. Lindsay of Santa Cruz, Mr. Holman of San Jose, at the Raleigh; Colonel A. H. Bloomer of San Francisco, at the Chamberlain. e e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOREK. NEW YORK, April %.—The-following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—J. Huguenin, at the St. Denis; J. Schmitz, J. F. Valentine, J. Young, at the Broadway Central; L. Barchers, Mrs. J. Bruchmann, at_the Belvedere; Miss M. Lansing, Mrs. G. L. Lansing, at the Ev- erett; E. J. Lawton, at the Herald Square; A. Lewin, at the New York; Miss M. B. Meagher, at the Holland: L. H. Watson, | W. C. Watson-and wife, at the Grand iumon; S. M. Herman, at the Normandie, From Los Angeles—Mrs, M. W. Long- ! street, C. E. Handy, A. Wileox, Mrs. M. ;A.dwl;;ox. t“t huuv ]I::ll;:d; l,;:m: Howard and wife, at the o —B. J. Moore, at the Holland. 2% g —_—— 2 R WHAT 1S MEANT. s who st e to 1 noen nnk? conditions w-fi e 'y merely mean “ 4 ‘When they use th-.'- ‘AN ADVOCACY OF MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP o IR S The Call does mot hold itself responsible for the odinions pablished in this column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as comniunications of general interest. To the Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: I take it from your recent ~ditorials that you have become an outspoken and energetic opponent of municipal ownership of public utilities in gen- eral and In San Francisco In particular, neve theless® the fairness with which you treat the subject encourages me once more to trespass upon your attention. In the communication from me which you published on April 18 statistics were presented which show that water supplied by municipal ownership in the United States averages 40 per cent cheaper than that supplied by private corporalions, and that of the fifty largest cities in the United States only nine have private ownership of their water supplies. You argue against the force of these facts by saying that the watcr supplies of Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and Boston are during portions of the year. As you kiow Chicago has recently spent a great many mil- lions of dollars in constructing & drainage canal by which the sewage of the eity will be dive from Lake Michigan into the Illi- Tois River and finally to the Mississippl. As soon as this was even partially accomplished typhoid fever in Chicago showed a remarkable decrease, thus proving that the sewage which formerly went into Lake Michigan and polluted the water supply was directly responsible for the large number of cases of typhoid fever i the city. You say that the water supply of Philadel- phia is bad, but that city has recently ap- propriated $12,000.000 fur & complete fiter sys- tem to remedy the defect. We find the cities of Chicago and Philadeiphia spending milliona of dollars to purify their water What is the Spring Valley Water Works doing in Francisco? The only one of the ten largest cities in the United States that is supplied by a private corporation? ‘What Is the death rate in San Francisco, as compared _with Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, whose water supplies you say are bad, and what is the rate of deaths from typhold fever in_those several cities as com- pared with San Francisco? The Oakland En- quirer presents these figures: In San Fran- cisco the death rate Is 20.73 in each thousand of population; in New York it is 19.01; in Chicago, 15.01: in Philadelphia, 13.56; in Bos- tom, 19.41. In San Francisco the percentage of deaths from typhoid fever is 2.46, while in New 082; im Chicago, 1.73; in Philadel- phia, 3.86; in Boston, 1.45. In other words the death rate is higher in San Francisco, whoss water is supplied by a private corporation, than it is in those cities whose water supply you condemn, and the death rate from typhoid fever is likewise higher in San Francisco as compared with the cities Wnose water supply you condemn except in Philadelphia. and in that city a perfect system of fiitration is now being constructed. Whatever the death rate in the citles whos water supply you condemn may be the con ditions are far worse in San Francisco, who water suprly is contrulled by a private cor poration. If the argument is worth anything it proves that private ownership is bad as com- pared_with public ownership. In your editorial of April 23 you say a municipal plant pays no taxes, therefore t share which it ehould yay is borne by other property and is added to the taxpayers' bur- dens. This is an argument which Mr. Symmes advanced in the recent debate on municipal ownership at the banquet of the Merchants’ Association of this eity, but it is entirely sroundless. The people of the city and county of San Francisco pay the taxes of the Spring Valley Water Company at the present time. Under private ownership it is held that the water company is entitied to receive first its taxes and operating expenses and then a reasonable return upon the actual value of its property used in supplying water to the mu- nlcipality. The Spring Valley Water Coi pany’s taxes for the coming year will be §196 - €00, almost all of which will be paid in San Franeisco. Of this about one-third goes to the State and two-thirds into the city treasury. Under municipal ownership the taxes pald to the State would be saved entirely, while the burden of the muricipal taxes would remain where It is now—on the rate-payers of the eity. "Municipal ownership therefore represents a saving of the State taves, and the municlpal axes will continue to be paid by the peopie of_the city. You also say “to put a municipal plant in ccndition for comparison with one in private or municipal ownership it must be charged * * 3 with interest ov the cost of the plant.” This s always dcme, but to the disadvantage of private ownership. The city of San Franm- cisco .can borrow monmey at 3 per cent, but we pay the Spring Valley Water Works 3 per cent on the value of the property; hemee municipal ownership would represeat a. sa of 2 per cent in intérest. This is cne of strongest - arguments in favor of municipal ownership of the wate: supply of San Fran- cisco. You also say that the municipal plant must “be made equal to the private plant by using the same filtering and other devices to make the same potable.” As we have seen the death rate is less in the cities under municipal owner- ship than in San Francisco and yet those citles are using every endeavor td benefit their water supply by filtration and other devices. The water used in San Francisco is not filtered, Bowever. and there is no way that the Spring Valley Water Works can be made to filter its supply and thus assist in lessening the large deeth rate in San Francisco and the large list of casualtles from typhold fever. To recapitulate: The Call argues that under municipal ownership the large cities of the country have poorer water: they lose the taxes which private plants would pay; interest on the cost of publi¢ plants is not regarded, and public plants are obliged to put in filtration systems in order to make the water safe. As a matter of fact the death rate in San Fran- cisco is higher than in any of the large eities owning their own water supplies; the death rate from typhoid fever is higher in San Fraa- cisco than In any large city owning its own water supply except Philadelphia; the State taxes on Spring Valley Water Works would be saved under municipal ownership and the burden of the municival taxes would remain the same as at present; the city can borrow money for 2 per cent less than we now pay any filtration_system and cannot be mada to put one in, however desirable it may be ‘to have our water filtered. The one way to im- prove our water system is by munictpal owner. ship, and under municipal ownership we could have an urimited supply of water from the Sterras, than which there is no better in the world. Yours truly, . REED. 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