The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 6, 1901, Page 6

'HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1901. EPTEMBER 6, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Froprietor. Address All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. OFFICE. A A A A A A e e A A PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, §. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 Telephone Pre: o 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (Including Sunday), one year.. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sund: 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Mont SUNDAY CALL One Year. WEEKLY CALL One Yea Heamed s3f533 All postmasters are authorized to receive meriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o ineure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. ++22+.1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Yazager Yoreign Advertising, Marquette Building. Chioag). 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September 7, at 11 o'clock, Mission street. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. | Cal! subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew | addresses by notifying The Call Busi omee. This psper will also be on sale at all = r resorts amnd is represented by a local agenmt im All towss on the coast, F ry energies in the building of warships of all kinds, from bat hips to torpedo-boats. The vast ex- pansion of commerce in recent years and the increas- g dependence of industry for its prosperity upon THE BUILDING OF NAVIES. ACTS and figures compiled by officers of the show that the nations are exerting extraordin- foreign markets has given an added value to the great ocean highways, and each nation is doing its utmost to establish power upon the sea as well as upon land. The British of course continue to hold the lead they long ago established, but of late the Germans znd the Japanese have been coming to the front with a marvelous rapidity. The activity in the German navy yards is such that the great fleet which they have planned to construct will be completed fully a year earlier than was estimated. Since the war with China Japan has increased her tonnage of war ves- sels from 30,000 to 260,000, and it is reported that a further expansion of naval force will probably be ordered, so that ere long the navy of Japan will have a tonnage of 400,000. The tonnage of war vessels now under construction would in itself constitute an enormous naval force. A summary of the report to the Naval Department giving a list of the ships built and building by the seven greater powers of the world says: “England heads the list with 477 vessels, having a tonnage of 1,766855; France, although showing more vessels than England, 484, has 2 tonnage of only 781,065; Russia has 341 vessels, with 2 tonnage of 552,546; the United States, fourth on the list, 135 vessels, with a tonnage of 507,494; Germany, 261 vessels, with a ton- nage of 458.482; Italy, 231 vessels, with a tonnage of 322,707, and Japan, 139 vessels, with a tonnage of 251,408. The United States ranks next to Great Brit- 2in in the tonnage of battleships building, having 133,800 to Great Britain’s 229,900, but stands sixth in the tonnage of battleships built, 83,004, leading Japan only. In_the tonnage of armored cruisers building the United States is third, with 109,500, being ex- ceeded by Great Britain, with 226,400, and France with 148,260.” Since 2 good many zuthorities believe that in naval war between two powers of anything like equality in fighting force the advantage will lie with the nation having the greater strength in 'swi(t-going cruisers rather than in battleships, it is worth noting that the report shows that in the number of armored cruisers built the United States stands seventh, or last, with a tonnage of only 17,415. The report says: “Russia heads the list of armored cruisers built with a tonnage of 83,231. In protected cruisers building the United States is third, with a tonnage of 61,403, and third in protected cruisers built, with a tonnage of 21,000. Russia heads the list of these vessels building, but is last on the list of protected cruisers built. In arm- ored coast defense vessels the United States leads with 43,934 tons built and 12,940 building. France and Germany have 2 tonnage of 43,331 and 42,873 respectively, in armored coast defense vessels built, while Great Britain has a tonnage of 38,000 in arm- ored coast defense vessels built. United States are the only countries building ships of this type.” This enormous armament upon the seas entafls, of course, a heavy burden of taxation upon the work- ers, but under the conditions prevailing in our times it appears to be necessary. Without a powerful navy no nation could be sure of its commerce, and without commerce few of the greater industries could flourish. As any one nation increases its naval armament the others feel bound to follow, and there is no telling where the Timit will be. Sooner or later, however, it is bound to be reached. and it would seem that among the nations of continental Europe, where large armies as well as jarge navies have to be maintained, the limit cannot be far away. Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and | Naval Intelligence Department at Washington Russia and the | STATE PRESS ON THE STRIKE. T is well that the people of San Francisco be in- I formed of the state of public opinion in the State, as expressed by the impartial and independent country press. Therefore we continue the publica- tion of a condensation of such expressions from the interior papers. The Stockton Independent says: “The best, strongest and most forcible presentation of the merits of the employers’ position in the San Francisco strike was the editorial in The Call of the 21st.” | R Danville Sentinel: “A striker from San Francisco, who represented himself as an officer of the Ship- joiners’ Urion, was in town this week, making a tour of the country districts to deter men from going to the city to take the strikers’ places. He stated the fate of any person who dared affront the almighty union by going to San Francisco to work in this language: ‘Every scab that goes to San Francisco from the country is a marked man. He is spotted as quick as he takes a striker’s job and will get hurt. It may not be'the day he goes to work nor the next, nor the next week, but his time will come and he will get done up. He need not fool himself becawse he is strong and husky, he will get done up just the same.” This is the language o6f a labor leader, -an officer of a union, of an intelligent, responsible in- dividual, who was formerly a foreman in the Risdon Iron Works. When the right of American citizens to work is systematically interfered with, with the knowledge if not actual connivance of union leaders, it is time for the city, aided if need be by the State, to put an end to such interference. It is worth re- marking in this connection that while non-union laborers are warned away from San Francisco and done up if they go there, the strikers are coming |into the country, cutting under farm wages and in the hop fields taking employment away from women and children.” | San Bernardino Times-Index: | San Francisco is fast | | “The condition in reaching a climax. Manu- facturers and employers are concluding that it is wise to move away from that city and seek more desirable location. One firm has already filed papers in Los Angeles to transfer its business and another has de- | cided to do so.” The Los Angeles Times prints a list of outrages | and assaults by strikers on non-union laborers in this city that fills tw® columns, The Napa Register says: “The dastardly assault upon three non-union men who were peaceably rid- {ing on a street car at the corner of Market and Ninth | streets in San Francisco on Saturday exhibits the \perils that attend men who go from the country to { work in the city. Two were armed and escaped, but {the third was beaten into unconsciousness and left in the gutter. The Examiner makes little of it. It too busy rubbing factious ears.” The Sacramento Bee, replying to the Stockton | Mail’s advice that non-union laborers be beaten to | death if need be, says: “The Bee has no sympathy ith the word ‘scab.” If the men who are earning an | honest living and supporting their families in San | Francisco are scabs, will the Mail please tell us how | they differ from the union men who have flocked !into the country from San Francisco and whose in- flux has reduced the wages of ranch hands at least 50 cents a day? The ‘scabs’ in San Francisco are | keeping up and increasing wages; the union men in | the country are reducing them.” | A half-dozen country papers publish accounts of | cowardly and brutal assaults made on citizens from }'lh:ir localities who are \\'o:king in San Francisco. Some of these men have been driven out of country jobs by striking union laborers from this city who | have undercut their wages. In some cases their | wives and children have been by invading strikers deprived of money they expected to earn in the hop fields, making it necessary for the head of the family itn come to the city for employment. { Another issue of the Sacramento Bee says: “The | Examiner is the very worst counselor the strikers | could possibly have. Public opinion will not long fremaiu with a cause that makes use of brutality and | violence. These acts, which the Examiner either | passes by in silence or commends, will do more to defeat the strikers thau ali the arguments on the other | side. Yet the Exauiner does not perform its honest duty and tell them so, but pats them vigorously on the back after every act of disorder and lawlessness. Surely it presents a sad and shameful spectacle for a great journal.” . .. The farmers throughout the State are getting alive to the seriousness of their situation and, following the | suggestions of the Tulare Register and Marysville | Appeal, are proposing to call out a large force, pre- pared for defense, to take charge of handling their produce here and at other points of congestion. It is believed that they can put twenty thousand men | into the field within ten days, equipped to protect themselves while attending to their business. Again we warn the strikers that they have alienated their allies. % Chicago is to plant an apple orchard in a public park, and of course it will bear forbidden fruit, and equally of course the small boy will break in, and in the end that park is going to cause more trouble than two reform schools can straighten out. | A seemed a light burden to that which he bore when he found that he had a vermiform ap- pendix. He was informed that it was a useless part of his anatomy, a survival of the time when he went on all fours and chewed the cud likq.a cow, or per- haps of a still earlier existence, when he was a finny fish and took only water in his. To have the petty i little remnant of his past turn and smite him with a pain in his right side, below the midriff and just under his pocket, was a worry hard to bear. The surgeons soon learned how to explore his interior and cut the infernal thing off, and there are now so many in this country who have undergone that operation that it is proposed to form a national association, “The So- ciety of the Non-Appendix,” to meet annually and show their scars and fight their battles over. But perhaps their exultation-is premature, and the surgeon may have to suspend his uplifted knife and spare the little piece cf man that is neither bowel nor bone. Dr. Hershey of Denver appears as medical counsel for the vermiform appendix, and declares that it has a function in the bodily economy of man. He | says that it lubricates the caecum, a large affair that stands between the large and small diviSions of the alimentary canal, a sort of canal lock, as it were. He is of the opinion that this lock is kept in operating order by the appendix, which acts as a sort of oil cup. ‘When the members of the society which rejoices in no appendix get together they will abate their re- joicings over their wormy enemy and see whether their caecums are properly oiled and in working order. For aught they know they have parted with It lubricatilfig friend which the despoiling surgeon can- = SR TR NG B N THAT APPENDIX. LL of man's physical troubles combined not restore, and their internal highway may be work- ing as hard as a gate on a rusty hinge in consequence. . They may all have to be inquired into again by the surgeons and have a bottle of oil hung from the floating rib to keep them greased. At the meeting of the International Law Associa- tion in Glasgow there was a discussion upon the sub- ject of marriage, during which it was developed that Scotland is the place where marriage is most easily effected and South Africa the land where it is most readily dissolved; so it seems that withall our vari- ous experiments in marriage and divorce we do not get a first place on either count CONDITIONS OF CUBA. ENERAL WQOD’S annual civil report upon G affairs in Cuba has been received at Wash- ington. It is described as consisting of “thirteen immeunse volumes” and dealing with every subject of importance with which the Government is concerned. From a summary given to the press it appears that while the conditions of the people are by no means satisfactory still an immense improve- ment has been made since the close of the war and the prospects for further improvement are excellent. The Department of State and Government in the island has been conducted under the supervision of the Military Governor, but under the direct manage- ment of the Cuban Secretary of State and Govern- ment, Senor Diego Tomayo. Under the Secretary there are six Civil Governors of the various pro- vinces, and under them are the various Alcaldes of the municipalities. The Government is abolishing many of the municipalities because their existence is not justified by any necessity and entails considerable expense. The abolition of these offices has of course given rise to some discontent, but it is not serious. Moreover the general adds: “After harvesting the first large sugar crop since the war, which will be completed in the coming spring, together with the gathering and sale of tobacco, coffee and other crops, it is believed the municipalities that remain will be able to assume a large proportion of the burden now borne by the state, and as a result the general rev- enues of the island will to a greater extent be avail- able for public works, such as the construction of highways and the dredging of harbors.” The sanitary conditions of the island have been greatly improved in every direction. The foul prisons have been cleaned as far as possible, but there is need of a modern prison for long-term prisoners. The hospitals have been taken charge of by the gen- eral government and zre now much better than they were. The report says that leprosy is general through- out the island, but in a mild form. Steps have been taken to find a suitable location for establishing a leper colony so that all persons thus afflicted may be removed from contact with the public. A good many difficulties have been placed in the way of the Government by reason of the inefficiency of men elected to office, but these are being gradually overcome. General Wood says: “The elections as a whole résulted in the extreme and revolutionary element being elected. In many cases the men elect- ed found themselves confronted with difficulties from the outset of their administration. They had made promises which they could not fulfill, and as a re- sult their popularity was short lived and complaints and fault-finding were extensive. To avoid serious confusion’ numerous inspectors are kept constantly employed| looking out both for the interests of the Department of State and Government and for that of Finance. Some Alcaldes have been removed, some suspended and some have been held under charge of serious| offenses.” Of the general condition of the country the report makes this important statement: “The great desire of Cuba tp-day is to obtain a reduction on the import duties of [Cuban products into the United States and strong efforts are being made in this direction. All far-seeing| business men realize that Cuba’s prosperity and advapcement depend absolutely upon her com- mercial relations with the United States, where her two main products have their principal markets. High duties against Cuban products mean that the development of Cuba will be slow, if at all. The im- portation| of United States products into Cuba, while it is increasing, is yet considerably below the total importation from other countries. The establishment of reciprocity in commercial relations between Cuba and the United States means everything to Cuba, for if she can obtain favorable duties on her tobacco, and especially on her sugar, her development will be im- mediate.” It is easy to foresee that this statement will be made usé of by the free traders and by those=who are willing to break down the protective system through reciprocity treaties, to strengthen their claims for something like free trade with Cuba. That will be another untrammeled competitor with Cali- fornia in 'the home market for fruit and sugar, and the competitor will have the advantage of cheap water transportation to the Eastern market. Such being the case Californians will have to watch the issue with care. [ Embassador Choate is reported to have recently suggested that it would be a good idea for British schools to send a number of students every yéar to American colleges while American schools sent boys to British colleges. He thinks the interchange would accomplish a good deal in the way of promoting in- ternational friendship, and probably it might be better than the present plan of exchanging of Embassadors. Let us recall Mr. Choate and send over about as many boys as we cah get for the same salary. psh e S In addition to the trouble caused him by the menace of famine in several provinces of his empire the Czar has other troubles. For example, he is not getting along so swimmingly with his Finns as he expected when he annexed them, and it is probable his visit to Paris is intended mainly to get a rest from the comforts of home. ' The thing that troubles New York is the difficulty which the average politician has of understanding how Croker can run Tammany Hall while living in England. The politician has a clear comprehension of wire-pulling, but pulling the wireless and wireless pulls are beyond him. According to one report, young Rockefeller intends after his marriage to be a society leader, and accord- ing to another he cannot play golf; now how are these absurdly conflicting statements to be reconciled by a tired world? e 2 ‘A student of Scottish life says that in recent years the people have about abandoned the practice of eat- ing oatmeal, so there is encouragement for the hope that some day the Bostonians will quit eating beans. Tt is stated that at this time more than twenty air- ships are ibeing constructed in the suburbs of Paris, so there must be a good deal of capital in that city to be thrown to the winds where the birds can get it - CRESCEUS IN HARNESS READY FOR TROTTING-A FAST MILE & B P - %5 e 2E A THE CHAMPION OF THE TURF WEARS THE RECENTLY INVENTED TWO-MINUTE HARNESS, WHICH I8 OF SKILLFUL MAKE, AND SO PERFECTLY ADJUSTED AS TO ENABLE THE FAMOUS RACER TO ATTAIN GREAT SPEED. o EYOND the shadow of a doubt the new trotting cham- pion, Cresceus, owes much of his success to the harness B boot-makers’ skill, says the Philadelphia North Ameri- can. Not alone must his limbs be cared for so as to entirely avoid bruising, but each ‘particular strap from browband to crupper, constituting his harness, is perfectly ad- justed, so as to obtain the best results and aveid friction, however minute it might be. Cresceus, when ready for a fast mile, wears the compara- tively recently invented two-minute harness and all, or nearly ali, the protecting bcots as yet fashioned for a trotting horse. The bridle is furnished with blinds, and for a check-rein he wears the high side strap, passing through loops on either side at the rosette, thence to the upper jaw bit. A face piece sup- ports the supplementary bit and is buckled into the crown piece, which passes oover the head at the ears. A chin strap keeps his mouth closed and goes under the chin, buckled into check bit. An ordinary light saddletree supports the shafts, and directly parallel to it, at a_point about a foot back of the saddle plece, the body band of the two-minute attachment, so-called, passes, buckled like the everyday surcingle. No Strap Binds His Breast. Short straps, fitted with thimbles at the ends, are extended from this body band to the ends of the shafts of the sulky, acting in the capacl v of the breeching. The traces, or lugs, extend from the same fastening point on the body band back through the loop on the shafts to the whiffletree buttons or ‘clips. No shoulder straps are needed, nor are the usual breeching straps encircling his quarters required, thus admit- ting of greater stride, as no strap ‘crosses his breast to shorten the swing of the shoulder blades. He stands wearing a standing martingale, and also the ring | martingale, to give the driver perfect control of his head when he should either pull hard or go to a break. He cannot lift | his nose beyond the tension of the standing martingale. Hand | loops are adjusted to the reins, so Mr. Ketcham can be sure | of his grip on the lines, as should a rein slip through his fin- | gers he would immediately lose all control of the horse while | at speed. a Felt quarter hoots, cut to exactly cover the forward hoofs, protect his heels. Felt shin boots protect the cannon bones to the knee. Knee boots with an inner arm extension are | | 1s used rather than leather, — buckled ahove the knee joint and supported by elastic web- bing straps passing over his shoulders_at the withers. These straps are more to prevent the knee ~boots from dropping about his ankle joints. Should a buckle give way it would be extremely dangerous to the flying trotter, for were he to trip in a loosened boot a somersault would certainly follow. Every Joint Is Protected. A system of protecting boots, jointed as as to admit of folding his ankles and coronet joints, extend from the bottom of the hind feet to the hock. These are termed the shin and ankle boots, with speedy cut and scalping attachment and a hock extension, which latter encircles the hock snugly and absolutely covers all high parts liable to be cut with his sharp hind shoes while at top speed, as his hock action is high as well as sweeping. The front of the hind hoof is entirely covered and protectcd by the scalpers, and the speedy cut boots prevent contact at the front of the ankle joint, a very tender spot. The hock extension is directly in support of the curb joint. Cresceus, as a four-year-old, sprung a curb, so the owner desires to | afford it as much of support as is possible. Every buckle Is leather covered to avoid rusting incident to sweating out, and every strap Is covered with chamois skin, to avoid chafing in the least. Harness Costs Large Sums. This system of booting from end to fitted to the limbs and feet that each :ov:?:t;lse EZJ??:"Q'QE‘Z ficlent flexibility to entirely avold checking the action of the joint. It is indeed a fine art, this boot manufacture, and the entire outfit probably does not weigh above ten pounds. Felt st as it is lighter, more cleanly and A duplicate set Is in use for sl duplicate set for use should the part. These boots are expensive. about ten dollars. shin boots fourte extension twenty-five dollar€. The hock extension, with curb Jjoint protection, cost fi a.set. The two two-minute harness of itself costsfgltdgg:; wenty-fiv o a ér:y%oufi_fonars, vet the main harness costs over one hun- _Cresceus’ reins cost bits are cheap at ow work and still another horse break a boot at any The quarter boots coat en dollars, knee and arm hind shin, speedy cut and at least fifty ten dollars. dollars & patr, and the @+ b > 2 political misdeeas, as PERSONAL MENTION. | B. U. Steinman of Sacramento is at the Palace. officeholder. cent wards of the State to the lowest of cessor is a political hack and a chronic and it was clatmed by the San but it would that Ne was hounded Francisco morning papers, remained Di. Osborne’s suc- H. M. Johnson of Fresno is at the Cali- fornia. J. J. Hebbron, the Salinas rancher, Is at the Grand. Judge N. A. Dorn of Salinas is staying at the Russ. H. L. Vroom, a Dawson mining man, is at the Grand. Charles R. Drake of Los Angeles is a Zuest at the Palace. Frank Buck, the Vacaville fruit man, is a guest at the Palace. E. B. Nelson, a hotel man of Olema, is registered at the California. George F. Buck, a prominent attorney of Stockton, is a guest at the Lick. Dr. A. M. Remey, U. S. N,, is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. Walter B. Maling, clerk of Judge Es- tee’s court at Honolulu, is here on a visit. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hopkins have come | over from Pledmont and are at the Cali- fornia. | W. R. Johnson, 'a railroad man of | ‘Washington, D. C. is a guest at the\’ Russ. | James Touhey, a wealthy stock raiser | of Sacramento, is among the arrivals of | vesterday at the Grand. A. N. Rhodes, accompanied by a num- | ber of other gentlemen connected with the United States burial service, is at the | Occidental. Caleb W. West, speclal ‘agent of the | treasury stationed at Niagara Falls, ar- | rived yesterday to make the biennial rou- tine investigation into the Custom-house. He will remain about six weeks. Mr. ‘West is one of the numerous ex-Governors of Utah. . _—— Outrage on the State. | } Willows Journal. The removal of Dr. Osborne from charge | of the State Home for the Feeble-Minded | is an outrage on the State and the pa- tients. Dr. Osborne has conducted the in- stitution successfully and satisfactorily for more than fifteen years. He is an American Republican, in no sense offen- sive and has held the place undisturbed under two Decmocratic administrations. The cause of removal, if there be any, has not been made known, but it is the general belief that a berth had to be pro- vided for some one for political favors, and a_conscientious and capable citizen must_fall. The Governor may be nom- inated for re-election, but he will never get in if the Democrats put up a good/| | man. Gage s Disreputable Act. Red Bluff Sentinel. One of the most disgraceful and damna- ble political outrages ever committed upon e good people of the State of Califor- nia was the removal of Dr. Osborne a& superintendent of the Home for the Fee- ble-Minded at Glen Ellen, This action by Governor Gage through his board of trus- | tees, headed by Boss McKenzie of San ! Jose, will not_soon be forgotten by the people, and should forever damn Gage | politically. It was a sacrifice of the inno- — SUMMER RATES at Hotel del cm&| Coronado Beach, Cal., effective after April 15; | $60 for round trip, including 15 days at hotel. | Pacific Coast 8. S. Co., 4 New Montgomery st. yR= Dr. Osborne had held the position since the institution was established and had made a special study of the diseases which carried the afflicted ones to. his care. He never meddled in politics, and is a high-minded gentleman, with the rep- utatién of conducting most successfully the home under his control. ‘What excuse Gage can give for the out- rage committed in permitting the removal of such a man we are at a E) stand. Osborne is a Republican, but was not disturbed by Governor Budd. It re- mained for Gage to perpetrate the most disreputable act through his henchmen of removing Dr. Osborne. Many hard things have been said about Gage in the past, ss to under- | —_—— Choice candies. Tow-<end's, Palace Hotel® ———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_—— Selling out. Best eyeglasses, specs, 10e to 40c. 814th st., front of barber and grocery.* —_———— bs:;ecm ):nl’ormntl%n supplied daily to usiness houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), fim. . 510 gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 / CALIFOR- OUT SEPT. 8 PRICE 5 CTS ORDER NOW - NIANS. ADMISSION NUMBER