The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1901, Page 6

Che 2oiEow. Call SATURDAY........ccc00uesesnnne---JULY 20, 1901 JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE. . Telephone Press 204 i orseidiedelugstsidisru e B il v PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 20L. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), € months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 50 SUNDAY CALL, One Year. 1.50 WEEELY CALL, One Yeer., - 1.00 Mafl subscribers In ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.....c.0000...1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Yoreign Advertising, Marquette Building, (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2615."") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON.......c000seesss..Herald Square NBW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. . 30 Tribw NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldort-Astoris Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Eill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Bherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House: Auditorium Hotel. Building BRANCH OFFICES-—327 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until $:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:80 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, cormer Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1006 Valencla, open until o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. AMUSEMENTS. Tivoll—*‘Babes in the Wood.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Columbia—*TUnder Two Flags.” Alcazar—*"The School for Scandal.” Grand Opera-house—'"The White Heather." Central—*"Michael Strogoff.” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. Sutro Baths—Swimming. AUCTION SALES. By Wm. G. Layng—Tuesday, July 23, Horses, at 721 How- ard street. By Unlon Stockyards - Company—Monday, July 2, at 10 o'clock, Packing-house Machinery, at Rods eo, 'Cal. 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew mddresses by notifying The Call Business Ofice. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent im all towss on the coast. THE SUPPORT OF THE BOSSES. ITH a combination made up of every sort Wo{ clement that can be rallied to their sup- port, Kelly and Crimmins are once more making a fight for such a position in the Republican party as will enable them to do politics profitably to themselves. Their combination includes such men as John C. Lynch, W. F. Herrin and Jere Burke. It also includes opium fiends, ex-convicts and the gen- eral rabble of toughs and roughs who in the past could be counted on to dominate primaries by force or fraud. Before the adoption of a valid primary election law Kelly and Crimmins had need of no further help than that which Herrin and Burke or other politi- cians of the Southern Pacific were willing to give in return for favors expected and demanded. They could carry primaries by the simple process of ob- taining gangs of rowdies and plug uglies from the Democratic camp to join their own gangs in creating disorder and giving opportunity for fraud in stuffing ballot-boxes. Under the new law the old tactics can- not be employed, and consequently something more is required than W. F. Herrin and an assorted lot of hoodlums. Kelly and Crimmins have therefore turned to the members of the State Central Committee and asked them to put their hands in the fire of local poli- tics to rake out the chestnuts. The bosses have asserted that in appealing to the State Committee they have a sure thing. They be- lieve they, have a sufficient pull to be able to bring over to their side the members of the State Commit- tee and obtain such a decision as they choose. It is quite possible they may be mistaken. A majority of the committee may refuse to do the bidding of the bosses. It is well known that the rank and file of the Republican party will not submit to boss domination; that a strong majority of the party believes this to be 2 favorable time for the elimination of the bosses altogether, and consequently many members of the State Committee may place themselves on the side of the people, despite all that Kelly and Herrin may do. If, however, the State Committee for any reason or lack of reason should intrude itself into city poli- tics and give support to the Kelly and Crimmins crowd, the result will not materially strengthen the gang. It is no longer in their power to bulldoze primaries. Since the order of President Hays W. F. Herrin and the Southern Pacific push are not so po- tent as they used to be. It is true the order for one cause or another is not being strictly enforced, but nevertheless the order is there, and some day the at- tention of President Hays may be called to its viola- tion, and then the men who are now mocking at him may have occasion to regret it. Under any circumstances the rank and file of the Republican party in San Francisco have nothing to fear from the struggle that is ahead of them. Even if the State Committee side with the bosses and defy the people; even if Herrin and Burke and the South- ern Pacific push be zllowed a free hand. in support- ing the disreputable gangs with which they are now associating, the better elements of the party can win if they will but give due attention to their political duties. They far outnumber the predatory classes that have rallied to the support of the bosses. Since honest elections at the primaries are assured under the law, all that good men have to do to win is to go to the polls and vote. The one thing to be done, then, is to organize and prepare for election day. The support of the bosses is noisy and vicious, but it js not dangerous when good citizens are combined against it. THE SAN FRANC1ISCO CALL, SATURDA Y, JULY 20, 1901. FACT AND FANATICISM. ISHOP POTTER, in a recent public expres- B sion, took the same ground toward the army canteen controversy that The Call has taken, and affirmed as facts the news items which have ap- peared in our columns, giving in detail the results of abolishing the canteen at army posts near cities, where at present the large posts are maintained. Bishop Potter is one of the most eminent church- men in the United States, and in the hierarchical sys- tem of his church might be called its American Pri- mate, for its most populous and important commu- nions are in his diocese. His character is of the highest type and his judg- ment of the best quality. Accustomed to investiga- tion and with a knowledge of human nature and the highest of humane feelings, his conclusions always de- serve and receive the respect of his countrymen, no matter what their denominational relations, or lack of them. He is not jumping at conclusions, nor thinking with his prejudices, nor speaking in the lan- guage of fanaticism, when he says that Congress was influenced to abolish the canteen in the interest of the rum secller, and that its abolition has already pro- duced the saddest of disorder and immorality. It is worth remembering in this connection that a com- mittee of clergymen in Chicago visited Fort Sheri- dan and made a report of naked facts as to the fringe of deadfalls around the post and their patronage by the enlisted men. That report did not bear out the statements of Rev. Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Hurst, and was, we believe, received without comment by the ministers’ meeting to which it was made. The Call does not make great professions of a de- sire to recast humanity, albeit in a higher mold. But if it be thought well to guard and guide the morals of the tens of thousands of enlisted men in our army, we are convinced that their indulgence in an appetite for alcoholic drink, which seems to be the common infirmity of primitive and civilized man, should be put under the restraint of the army can- teen, unless that appetite prove eradicable altogether. As, in the mass of mankind, eradication has never been accomplished, why is it not wise, moral, useful, religious, if you please, to protect it from becoming a disease, and the medium of other diseases, and de- stroying its unfortunate victim, physically and mor- ally? Every old army officer knows the terrors of the post deadfall, its evil effect upon the men and its interference with discipline. Many, a majority of officers, have noted the change that came with the post canteen. The name is expressive but unfortu- nate. Scores of ignorant fanatics assumed that it meant that the Government was dealing out to the soldiers canteens filled with whisky. Of course the more intelligent opponents of the change from bad whisky to light wine and beer knew better, but the error brought them recruits. The change was good, and its effects justified it. The canteen was the enlisted man’s club. It furnished him a reading-room and library. It protected him against squandering his pay. It kept him from con- tact with the indescribable moral degradation and debauchery to which the deadfall is the open door. In our army an enlisted man may win his way to the supreme command. General Miles did- that. Shafter and a majority of the major generals and brigadiers began in the ranks. The canteen library may furnish works on military history and tactics which such enlisted men as have ambitions may study. The army is a democratic institution in which a raw recruit may aspire to the generalcy, and may reach the post filled by Scott, Grant, Schofield and Miles. But he can never reach it through the dead- fall. We make no apology for any one who constantly or occasionally abandons himself to liquor, but it is a matter of common observation that many who do are possessed of excellent and some of them of su- perior qualities. It is a worthy work to turn their in- dulgence into a harmless channel that will not de- stroy the good in them, but permit its growth and Such considerations no doubt influence all non- permanence. the views of Bishop Potter, as they do fanatical investigators of the subject. Now let us see if the Bishop will be accused of being the tool of the liquor sellers and the War De- partment in spreading falsehoods as facts. Peru is making extiaordinary preparations for war and the fearful ones among her citizens are wonder- ing with whom she is going to fight. They should content themselves with one satisfying thought. Experience-teaches that fiery Peru will know that she has been in a fight no matter with whom she goes to war. SECOND CLASS MAIL ABUSE. POSTMASTER GENERAL SMITH'S deter- mination to exclude from the privilege of sec- ond class mail rates certain pantphlets and papers which are in no sense justly entitled to them has naturally aroused the men who have been for so long a time profiting by the abuse of the privilege. These men have already begun an agitation against the new rule. The country as a whole, however, will approve the order and support it as a measure of economy and of justice which should have been taken long ago. The Call has repeatedly advocated a revision of the postal laws in that respect along the lines of the Loud bill, which has been the subject of so much discus- sion in Congress and out of it. The law of 1879 in describing the class of publications entitled to sec- ond class rates says: “It must be originated and pub- lished for the dissemination of information of a pub- lic character, or devoted to literature, the sciences, arts or some special industry, and having a legitimate list of subscribers; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to admit to second class rate regular publications designed pri- marily for advertising purposes, or for free circula- tion, or for circulation at a nominal price.” Despite this plain statement of the law abuses crept in. Publishers of cheap and trashy novels adopted 2 plan of publishing them as a series, issued periodically. Advertising fakers followed the example and began issuing their publications periodically, The consequence has been that the Government has been compelled to carry through the mails at second class rates a large amount of matter which of right should never have been admitted to that class. It is reported that the cost of handling second class mail under the present abuse of the system amounts to about $60,000,000; that in weight it constitutes three-fourths of the entire mail, and yet it yields only $4,000,000 out of the $110,000,000 of revenues derived from the service as a whole. The Postmaster General purposes to exclude the fake periodicals from the sec- ond class mails. Congress should have undertaken the work, but, since it failed to do so, the Postmaster General after consultation with the Attorney General / 1 as to his powers under the law has concluded to g0 as far as he can toward applying a remedy for the evil. In order to exclude fake publications without ex- cluding any that are legitimate there is to be a rigid investigation of mail matter and the various publi- cations will be judged on their merits. A recent re- port from Washington says: “It is explained at the Postoffice Department that it is not the inten- tion to refuse second class rates to legitimate publica- tions. They have not constituted a burden upon the postal facilities of the country. The department’s action will be aimed against cheap publications, which make offers of premiums evidently of more value than the publication itself. The Postoffice Department does not wish to injure the business of those pub- lications that give value received for their subscrip- tion price and yet operate premium schemes. It only aims to correct abuses which, for instance, have de- veloped in offers of merchandise worth $1 and a prac- tically worthless publication whose subscription price ostensibly is $1.” | We believe that every legitimate publisher will ap- prove the action taken by the Postmaster General. In fact, it has been announced that representatives of many of the leading publications of the country have visited Washington and after consultation with the officials have been convinced that the proposed changes would not injure any legitimate publication and have since lent a hearty support to the new rule. Now that so much has been accomplished it re- mains for Congress to complete the work. There is no reason why the Postoffice Dcpartment. should not be self-supporting. Many improvements that will in- crease its benefits to the public can be made when once the abuses of second class mail privileges have been stopped. The fight for redress has been a long ‘| acre that stored and distributed water can reach. one, and it is gratifying to see at last that victory is in sight. e o 4 The shirt waist as an article of attire for men is proposed inyovation in the apparel of men, and weak- minded American imitators of London swells will THE STOCK RANGES. MR. LUSK of California, president of the cently attended the slated meeting of the board of control of that organization at Denver. an extent that the board decided to omit the annual assessment per head of stock represented, and to tion, relying upon membership fees for what funds it requires. the public domain in the arid region. On this sub- ject Mr. Lusk said: “There has been a complete A year ago many opposed leasing, but stockmen gen- erally now realize that free grass means no grass at They realize that the open range is a bygone thing, and now the only question is the detail of the new the cattle men on the proposition, and I think when the bill is presented we shall find the stockmen of into law. Sheep men and cattle men now are strug- gling for possession of the little grass that is left, be plenty for all and some left over.” i No truer and terser statement can be made. Free of the most economical production of livestock, and that means a progressive rise in price of all livestock It is reassuring, too, to read the declaration that | stockmen are \illing to pay for what they get. It interest and the public, who are the owners of the public domain. i the .opposition of the stockmen, and we will freely criticize the leasing measure to the end that it shall tofore estimated that it will yield about ten millions a year for devotion to irrigation. We have recently leasing will yield twenty-five millions annually, which we regard as excessive, at least in the initial stages of that as the beneficent and conservative results appear in the increased moisture, forage and capacity of the The prospect to the irrigator is alluring. The rev- enue of the leases, devoted to irrigation, will even- tion of the West. It will make fertile every tillable It these States, enhance the commercial importance of their towns, make necessary the building of more and will multiply the power of the West in the Na- tional Government. doomed. London swells have met with derision this probably and happily take the hint. American Cattle-growers’ Association, re- The association was found to be increasing to such recommend its entire abolition by the next conyen- The meeting discussed the leasing of the ranges on change as to the leasing question in the last year. all. Stockmen are willing to pay for what they get. law. The sheep men, too, are swinging into line with the West united solidly in demanding its enactment while if the lands were properly protected there would grass means no grass. No grass means disappearance products, to the injury of the consumer. means a better understanding between that great The Call pioneered for the leasing policy against conserve all interests and injure none. We have here- seen a statement by a cattle man in Nebraska that the policy. The revenue may, however, approximate ranges. tually more than double the production and popula- will increase the taxable property and wealth of all railroads to carry the increased tonnage to market, B ——— Some Chicago capitalists have organized a com- pany to be known as “The Olympian Games Associa- tion,” with the intention of holding international con- tests in all kinds of games; and now we may expect to hear the pork packers bragging about their Greek culture loud enough to beat the bands in Boston. R ST A England is taking steps to imitate our national school of naval strategy.” It is to be hoped, if unfor- tunate occasion ever demands, that our British friends may learn that there are some things in America which it is impossible for foreigners to imitate. J. Pierpont Morgan has extended his sphere of in- fluence and has purchased a railroad in Chile. If Mr. Morgan is not extremely careful the first thing he knows he will own the earth and the rest of us will have to fight his battles to help him keep it. The attitude of Vice President Roosevelt toward the Presidential boom which Governor Odell’s friends are trying to start in New York ought to have been sufficient to cool the atmosphere even during the hot wave, but perhaps Teddy kept it concealed. A New York cow committed suicide the other day by drowning, and journalistic investigators are troubling themselves to discover why. Perhaps the unfortunate animal was sensitive enough to take a dislike to her surroundings. LR France is again working herself up to her custom- ary summer hysteria and temporary madness. She thinks that her hereditary enemy, England, is plan- | tary of the American Numismatic and | Archaeological Society. His address 1s 71 FIRST SUBMARINE BOAT WITH ITS RECOR WORK WAS THE DROWNING OF HER CREWS. THE WHALE, THE FIRST SUBMARINE BOAT, BUILT DURING THE CIVIL WAR, IS ROTTING WITH RUST AT THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD. THE VESSEL WAS EXPECTED TQ PERFORM WONDERS, BUT HER ONLY D OF FORTY-TWO VICTIMS <+ o3 HE Brooklyn navy yard simply teems with relics and curiosities of absorbing interest, says the New York Mail ‘ and Express. There is a navy museum on the grounds, with curlos of every description, but the curio par ex- cellence of the yard is a large hulk of iron rotting with rust in a remote and unfrequented corner of the grounds hav- ing no connection whatever with the museum. This curio is the first submarine boat, ever made in this country. The Whale is the odd name of this boat. Nothing could be more appropriate, for the vessel is bulky, ugly and clumsy. The story of the Whale is one of the most tragic chapters in the history of the yard. She was built during the Civil War, in the early sixties, and wonderful things were expected of her. The designer of the vessel got Congress interested in his plan, and the Government made a large appropriation for the building of the boat. Not only did the Government and the designer expect that naval warfare was about to be revolutionized, but the people through- out the whole country as well, much having been published about the vessel in the newspapers. The designer had an idea that he would go down in histery as another Ericsson. Instead of that, however, his name has gone to oblivion, and there is not an officer or jacky at the yard who can recall his name. The vessel was a long time in construction. When, finally, she was completed, arrangements were made for a gala launch- HE Alabama editors have returned to their homes after their 7000-mile trip ard all report a most delightful out- ing. Secretary Rountree of the Alabama Press Associ- ation, in telling a reporter of the Birmingham Age-Her- ald of the journey, said: “We were simply treated like lords at every place we stopped, and in all the land there is not a more hospitable people than the residents of California. They reminded us of our own Ala- bamians, and, to our surprise, had prepared everything for our coming. At Albuquerque, N. M.; Fresno, Cal., and Stockton we were lavishly entertained. At San Francisco we simply could ot have been shown more attention. As the guests of the San Francisco Call, on the morning of our arrival, we were given a tug ride over the bay. The Call's editorial staff acted as hosts. That night we were entertained at the Press Club. We were next taken over the United States battleship Oregon, our recep- tion being specially planned. Mayor Phelan gave us a trip to the Cliff House and banqueted us there. In short, we had a ngral:elg?:;uon. Ala., Banner devotes considerable space to the trip, and, refering to the San Francisco visit, says: “San Francisco is a splendid city, the ninth largest as re- gards population in the United States. It contains some mag- nificent bulldings, fine streets and storehouses, although many streets are very. steep, and above all a most hospitable people. Bright and early the next morning we were all on board the ANSWERS TO QUERIES. NUMISMATIC SOCIETY—Coin Collec- tor, City. J. Sanford Saltus is the secre- West Forty-third street, New York City. CHINESE IN SAN FRANCISCO—Enq., City. The number of Chinese that arrived in San Francisco from May, 1882, to June, 1885, from foreign ports was 13,636. The de- partures during the same period were 33, 410. Excess of departures, 19,774. ——e————— Choice candies, Townsend’s, Palace Hotel* ks A Rl et e Cal. glace fruit 0c per Ib at Townsend's.* i o il Lrbit Téwnsend's California glace fruits, 50c a ound, in_fire-etched boxes or Jap bas- ets. 639 Market, Palace Hotel building.* i — Selling out Al eyeglasses and specs, 10c to 40c; look out for 81 4th, front barber. * —_—————————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ Green and red go well together. Give a man plenty of greenbacks and he can paint the town a deep red. e LA B Grand Canyon Excursion. ©On July 22 the Santa Fe will make a spectal excursion,’ $40 for the round trip, from San Francisco to the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Leaving San Francisco at 9 a. m. on the 224 you arrive at the Canyon for supper the 23d. In all the world there is no place like this, the grandest of nature’s marvels. Towering mountains, mighty chasms, rushing waters, crevices, the home of ancient clifft dwellers, all painted by the brush of nature in colors beautiful. Ask about it at the Santa Fe office, 41 Market street. T e L Best Way to the Yosemite. The Santa Fe to Merced and stage thence via Merced Falls, Coulterville, Hazel Green, ‘Merced Big Trees, Cascade Falls and Bridal Vell Falls, arriving at Sentinel Hotel at 5 the next afternoon. This is the most popular route and the rates are the lowest. Ask at 641 Mar- ket st. for particulars and folder. Cheap Rates for Epworth Leaguers s and Their Friends. The Santa Fe will zell low rate tickets to all points, July 12 to August 15 inclusive, to hold- ers of Epworth League tickets and friends ac- companying them. Call at Santa Fe office, 641 Market street, or ferry depot. ——— Chicago and Return $72.50. On sale July 20 and 21, the Unlon Pacific Rall- road will sell round trip tickets to Chicago, good for 60 days, at rate of $7250. D. W. Hitch. cock, General Agent, 1 Montgomery st. San Francisco. —_—— Faded hair recovers its youthful color and softness by the use of Parker's Hair Balsam. Hindercorrs, the best cure for corns. 15 cts. —_———— Cogonnen ning a war because one of her ships is making sound- ings on the French coast. ! Slegert's Genuine Imported Angostura Dr., Stop Diarrhae and Stomach Cr-m&:. ), ters.* Next Sunday’s ing. Volunteers were asked for to man the boat on her first trip under water. There were twice as many men volunteered as were wanted. The vessel was fitted with a crew, and then submerged. Half an hour afterward the vessel was fished up from the muddy bottom with her entire crew of sixteen men dead. The inventor then discovered a faulty valve, and said that when that was remedied there would be no fault in the boat. The valve was changed and another launching took place, four- teen volunteers going down in her this time. Like their brother Jjackies of the first experiment, they never agaln saw the light of day. It was two years before the Whale received its third and last trial. In the meantime the inventor had made many changes, and he assured all the spectators that “this time thers is positively no danger whatever.” Notwithstanding his assur- ance, however, only twelve men dared to enter the boat and be submerged. For a long time the crowd waited to see her reappear. But she only reappeared after twenty-five minutes, and her reap- pearance was due to her being hauled out by a derrick. The twelve men had been dead for a good while. Having killed forty-two men, no further experiments were e e o hism The Benes Smrsp et Dt % Te a 1a- tion of “The Man-Killer. i it T e e e e e e e Y ALABAMA EDITORS DESCRIBE THE CALIFORNIANS AS MOST HOSPITABLE PEOPLE OF ALL IN THE LAND Reliance, a tugboat specially chartered for our voyage of dis- covery down the beautiful bay of San Francisco. A hand of music on board enlivened the proceedings and helped to en- thuse a few of the more timid who dreaded seasickness. The weather was delightful, just cool enough to be pleasant, the sea as smooth as a mill pond, the sun shone brilliantly, and the salty taste of the light breeze was delicious to one whose ear- ller life was spent on the ocean wave. The committee who had us in charge kindly indicated the different points of interest. On the hills we saw the camp of the United States soldiers, the Clff House and Golden Gate Park; we passed the great iron works where the Oregon was built, and we sailed close to the side of that magnificent vessel itself lying securely at anchor not far from the spot where she first entered the water. Like many a human being, after being tempest-tossed around the world, she was again at home. A dainty lunch was served on board, and in the afternoon we returned to the cfty. We were indebted to The San Francisco Call for this delightful trip and cannot 2dequately express our thanks. At night there was a recepitlllun ?t u:‘ r;ress Club, and a visit to The Call office, which was luminat rom top to botto: i honor of the Alabama Bress Association. TRIS was the mepnd time it had been so illuminated, the first occasion being the vigit of President McvKinley a few weeks ago. “Next morning The Call again was our host and escorted the party on board the Oregon, where a pleasant time inspecting this man-of-war.” AT Y. l THE SUNDAY EXODUS FRON ' SAN FRANCISCO. | THE LAWYER AND HIS FEE. COMING SPORTING EVENTS, BY LOUIS HONIC. TETTTEETTETTY all 209000022900908 THE FIVE BATTLES A YOUNG MAN HAS TO FIGHT. BY REV. F. K. BAKER. LITTLE RODNEY JONES’ PETITION TO PRESIDENT McKINLEY. HOW MULES ARE TRAINED «.FOR... THE YOSEMITE TRAILS.