The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1901, Page 6

SEPTEMBER 13, 1001 FRIDAY D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A JOHN Adéress All Commuieations to W. 8. LEAKE, Macager. MANAGER’S OFFICE Telephone Press 204 | }’?BLICA'ITION OFFICE. . .ilrke( and Third, S. F. ‘Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. . ...217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. $6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 1-onths. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 65 SUNDAY CALL, One Yea: 1-: WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mafl eubscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to ineure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.... ....1118 Broadway €. 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AMUSEMENTS. “The Lottery of Love.” California— Columbia—*A Royal Family. “The Taming of the Shrew.” voli—‘Faust.”” Grand Opera-house—"'Quo Vadis."” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and evening. Pischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. Sutro Baths—Open nights. AUCTION SALES. | By G. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, September 23, at 12 clock, Crooks' Estate Properties, at 14 Montgomery street. = IS VALID. THE “JOKER” ALID and sound is the “joker” which Senator | VTE]':'}Y interjected into the law authorizing | Boards of Supervisors and the legislative dies of incorporated cities and towns to regulate liguor business. It is no longer in the authority of such bodies to issue licenses for purposes of rev- enue. The decision was given by the Supreme Court in the case of Henry Pfirrman of-Les Angeles, who objected to paying a tax imposed by the county, and it unqualifiedly affirms the validity of the amend- | ment. | The Call has thoroughly exposed the effect of the amendment and also the profitable use to which Sen- Taylor put it. He and his allies who solicited loon men of the State to employ them as coun- sel to fight any attempt on the part of Boards of Su- pervisors to impose a revenue tax upon them have won their game. They did not make as much as they would have done had not The Call exposed the trick, but doubtless they made a good deal, for they were busy in getting contracts from saloon-keepers some time before the exposure was made. They are there- fore somewhat richer than they were, and the county treasuries will be in fvture a good deal poorer. The gain to the manipulators of the scheme may be passed over as a matter of private business, but the 1oss 1o the counties is an affair of public concern. | The revenues hitherto obtained from county licenses | of the saloon traffic must be obtained elsewhere, and that means a heavier burden upon the taxpayers gen- erally. The saloon business is an unproductive in- Gustry, which adds nothing to the wealth of the com- | munity, so that the shifting removes the burden from 2 traffic that could readily have borne it and places it upon the productive industries of the counties, which are already taxed for county purposes about as heavily as they should be. The full extent of the wrong done to the interior counties may not yet be fully understood by the people, but they will have an understanding of it | brought home to thém before long. When the next tax levy is made up in their counties and the Super- visors seek out property to be taxed to make up the deficiency due to the absence of revenues from the aloons, the moral of the situation will be plain to all Senator Taylor is 2 candidate for re-election, and probably people who admire his smartness may be inclined to vote for him in the expectation that he will at the next sessicn of the Legislature show fur- ther smartness by introducing a joker in some other part of our laws -that will ‘be equally profitable to | those on the inside. The average voter, however, is ‘not likely to admire astuteness of that kind, or to ! approve of that sort of statesmanship. No doubt ‘it | is very clever in the way of legislative trickery, but it costs tco much for the performance to be attrac- tive to the taxpayer. Inevitably there will be a good deal of kicking against the new law, and in the kick- ing Senator Taylor will be fortunate if he escape get- ting 2 good portion of it from his constituents. Commenting upon the appearancc_—of Mr. -George Cumming at the ‘mzeting ‘of a number ‘of anarchists |- of this city on the Sunday following . the attempted assassination of President McKinley, The Cafl stated that Mr. /Cumming is a trustee of the Mechanics’ Institute Library, and. made the point that ~a man holding that official posi- tion has no right to 2ssociate with persons who up- hold the creed of anarchy either by precept or prac- tice, In making the statement as to the trusteeship The Call was in error. “Mr. Cumming has held that office, but does not hold it now. The institute is therefore in no wise affected by his opinions or his associations; nor is he bound by any official obliga- tign to consider the institute in anything he may say or do. A one hundred million dollar trust is being formed in Philadciphia. Such little things as that hardly receive the dignity of passing comment. SISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1901. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. HE .press has lined up with unusual unanimity in fixing the ultimate responsibil- ity for the attack upon the President on the yellow journals, and especially upon Hearst’s three-papers. And why are they and he not responsible? So far he has not dared to attempt any explanation, but has tried to cover his fresh tracks with pretended lamentation over the crime he incited. Readers of the Examiner remember its cartoon of the President as a negro min- strel rejoicing over thie sorrows of the poor, in a'coon song, published the morning of the day on which the assassin attempted his life. Hearst’s ‘Chicago American on the day before the assassination printed a quarter-page cartoon representing a machine like an automobile running over and killing a distressed person labeled “The Common People,” and with a heavy press squeezing the life out of another figure called “Labor,” while the President with blackened face was represented looking on, applauding and singing: “On our merry automobiles We go tearing down ze pike, And we nevaire mind ze laws, Because we make ‘em as we like. When ze common people meet us— « 3 Oh, ze sport it is immense— 7 For we crush him till he looks like What you call ze thirty cents.” This libel is under the caption, “The McKinley Minstrels.” No one knows whether the sodden mind of Hearst regards this as wit, or whether, appealing to the least intel- ligent people, he has found that such pictures influence them more than text which per- haps they cannot read. Therefore, the following comments from the press,cannot be said to misplace re< sponsibility for the attempt to murder the President, and for other lawlessness and dis~ order, when they lay it at Hearst’s door. The Sunday News, Sacramento, says: “Some of the newspapers that are now filled with weeping brutally denounced President McKinley. Up to. the day he was stricken down he has been viciously lampooned as a’pliant tool of corrupt trust combi- nations engaged in the business of plundering the people. There is not such a wide difference between the murder of reputation and murder of the man himself.” San Jose Mereury: «‘The right of free speech and free press has been abused to inctlcate the doctririe of anarchy, to plot and exploit murder and to overthrow the Government itself.” Alameda Argus: “The chief inspirer of the boycott in general is the Examiner. It is the apostle of 'striking, boycotting, mobbing and any sort of lawlessness.” Chicago Journal: “What man now in office has not been assailed in terms too vile for repetition by the: New York Journal, the Chicago American and the Saw, Francisco Examiner? These papers have vilified President McKinley in language so outrageous that billingsgate is respectiul when compared with it. “Day after day they have printed cartoons in which he is portrayed in the* most despicable character: and made food for the laughter of fools. “Not since McKinley’s first inauguration has William R. Hearst suffered one re- spectful utterance, one decent remark, to be made in the papers he has controlled con- cerning the President or concerning any other gentleman connected with the adminis- | tration. He has done his best and used his vast fortune to bring the President into con- tempt and to make him a reproach to the people who exalted him. By means of his wealth—a wealth he himself could never have acquired—Hearst has been able to pur- chase the talent and the ability that with pen and pencil have thus showered vilification and abuse upon the chief magistrate of the nation—the man whom the world honors, but whom Hearst does not honor or respect. “In addition to this Hearst daily foments strife among the people, stirring up envy, hatred, malice and all uncharitableness in one class against another. “Is it strange. then, that irf the public he has sought to educate and to sway men are to be found who are capable of assassination, men who would consider it their duty to kill such a man as Hearst has taught them to believe McKinley is?” Times-Index, San Bernardino: “The shooting of the President is partly at least the result of vilifications heaped on him daily by the San Francisco Examiner and other treasonable papers. Scarcely a day passes but that venomous sheet by word and pic- tures vilifies the President and Viee President, in every way exciting hatred and ani- mosity against them.” Sentinel; Red Bluff: “The chaotic condition of affairs which brought about the attempted assassination of our President will continue in this country until such time as the people see fit to curb the license of these mouthed demagogue.” twin evils, the yellow press and the loud- Independent, Stockton: “The suggested reward of Parker, the colored man who struck down the ascassin of President McKinley, should be approved as a’ measure of simple appreciation and justice. The only difficulty is that some yellow newspaper like the Examiner would seize upon the movement to advertise and glorify itself.” Record - Union: “We have always held to the belief that the sensational and lurid press have been sapping the very foundations of society by corrupting tastes and lower- | ing the standards of the rising generation. “Of that press the San Fraacisco Examiner, the New York Journal and the Chi- cago American are foremost types. This order of vicious journalism, at once shameless and hypocritical, is forever explaining when driven to corner by the logical results of its preaching that it means no harm. The anarchistic advocates employ the same plea, and pretend to "abhor the taking of human life, while preaching doctrines that inspire their devotees to assassinate. “This lurid press, like the Examiner, the Journal and the Chicago American, cartoon the President one day as a public enemy, the tool of malign influences and the puppet of oppression, and the very next, when public indignation is aroused by the act of an assassin, sycophanticly laud him as pure, kindly and devoted to the - highest and best interests of the people. “It is this order of journalism that makes way for the lawless anarchist, no matter what professions of innocence are offered. It has brought respect for authority into con- tempt; cism—to which all officers of the people are it-insidiously teaches that it is heroic to defy. charge of duty. it has belittied the law and sneéred at its administrators; ‘it has debased criti- properly subject—into vilification and libel; the law and resist its officers in the dis- “It has done its vulgar best to stimulate unholy unrest, to fire envy into the blaze of hatred, and to make the distinctions between conditions the causes for unjustified bloody revolt. : “It has made recitals of crime the daily food of the million, and its criminals the heroes of the hour. It has blunted sensibility in youth by its shameless immodesty, and has debased regard for woman by lauding her weakness, and making her shamelessness with still more debased men-the chief literature of lurid pages of daily nastiness. “It has taught the doctrine of resistance to lawful authority as a virtue, and has kindled in the minds of youth, brought into its baleful atmosphere, the belief that law is oppressive and lawlessness heroic. “So might we continue with many other counts of indictment, every one capable of being established in verity, and still the half not be told of the influence that is destroying modesty in one sex, and cultivating brutality and contempt for law and order in the other.” V Space- is. lacking for the volume of like comment that has come to hand. In all the chorus of detestation and rebuke only one voice in the press has been lifted in behalf of Hearst. The Chronicle, Virginia City, Nevada, ventures his defense, saying: “The at- tempt of certain citizens and journals of San Francisco to connect the Hearst papers with the assassination of the President is very silly and unjust. It cannot be denied that in some respects the Hearst journals are faky, insincere and decidedly yellow, but in their general policy they have shown themselves the friends of the common people.” Hearst may take what comfort he finds in this, and “the common peop]e“ what pleasure they may in the possession of “‘a faky, insincere and yellow” friend. South American diplomats are very much disturbed by a fear that the United States in seeking to pre- vent a South American war is exceeding both its authority and its ~privilege. The disturbed ones should have a care that Uncle Sam does not go fur- ther and insist upon peace even at the expense of war, Europeéan scientists ate engaged-in the task of re- {neafurinl the earth, so people who think of buying it will soon know exactly how much there is of it. Extremes meet in this 1d, and before long the man who is a Bryanite in the Democratic camp will- be about as lonesome as the man who is virtuous. \ CUBA'S QUEEN OF BEAUTY IS NOW VISITING GAY NE W YOR 5 ’ SENORITA SILVIA ALFONSO Y ALDANA, BLACK HAIRED, LIQUID EYED, CLEVER AND VIVACIOUS, EASILY WINS THE HAVANA CONTEST FOR THE MOST §EAUTIFUL WOMAN OF CUBA AND GOES TO GOTHAM, ACCOMPANIED BY THE FORMER QUEEN. C She is a young woman of 20 years, as vi arrived on the Ward line steamer This may be due to the fact that she was English is marked with the prettiest kind eyes typical of the Cuban woman. paler than the average Cuban’s, forming a eyes and hair. of a good natured joke. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. W. D. Mosher of Stanford is at the California F. P. Meserve, an attorney of Redlands, is at the Grand. W. J. Nelson, a mining man of Mojave, is a guest at the Grand. E. J. Oullahan, a real estate man of Stockton, is at the Grand. ’ Dr. A. E. Hzall of San Jose is at the Lick accompanied by his wife. D. J. Flannigan, a lumber man of Eu- reka, is registered at the Grand. James Collins, a fruit grower of Court- land, is at the Lick with his wife. George P. Godsen has returned from Ja- pan and is registered at the Lick. Mr, and Mrs. F. 8. Morgan of Nevada City are staying at the Occidental. C. W. Easton, an attorney and politictan of Modesto, is a guest at the Grand. Thomas Flint Jr. is registered at the Palace from his home in San Juan. Milton McWhorter, an oil speculator of Bakersfield, is registered at the Grand. C. Vivart, a civil officer connected with the Rangoon bureau, is registered at the Palace. 1. B. Hamilton, a merchant of Los An- geles, is among the recent arrivals at the California. Customs Surveyor Spear and Mrs. Spear returned on the Dorlc yesterday from a trip to the Orient. They are at the Pal- ace Hotel. T. F. Fitzgerald, Pacific Coast passen- ger agent of the Texas and Pacific Rail- way at Los Angeles, is a guest at the Oc- cldental. He is in this city on routine business connected with his position. Don McKee, son of Judge McKee, left the city on Wednesday last for Mexico to assist in operating the electric plant for ‘furnishing power and light to the mines at San Fernandez, State of Du- rango, S. F. B. Morse, assistant passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific at Houston, Tex., is a guest at the Palace. Mr. Morse has ccme here to meet his wite, who returned yesterday on the Doric from a visit to Japan. Rev. John McGinty,; pastor, of Holy Cross Church, returned last night from a three months’ visit to his old home in Wilkesbarre, Pa. Father McGinty says that during the time he was absent he traveled about 13,000 miles. He returns in the best of health and spirits. A party of German military officers ar- rived yesterday from the Orient and are now quartered at the different hotels. The party, which is on its way across the con- tinent, thence {o Europe, consists of Ma- jor Baron von Buttlar, Major Gerhard, Captain Engel, Captain Hintze, Captain ‘Graet, ~Captain Messing, Lieutenant Jantzen, Lieutenant von Lossow, Lieuten- ant Norwack, Lieutenant von der Sode, Tieutenant Bethmann, Lieutenant Nig- mann and Lieutenant Poltzer. —_————— : CORONADO TENT CITY, Coronado Beach, Cal.. will be the popular summer Tesort this ‘season. It became famous last year for com- fort, entertainment and health. Its splendid cafe was a wondér. the fishing unexecelled. 7 UBA’S “Queen of Beauty,” Senorita Silvia Alfonso v Aldama, is in town, says the New York World. Havana, and is stopping at the Hotel Marlborough. vacious as a Parisl- enne and with the rare taste in dress of her French sister. She speaks French as fluently as she does Spanish and her Senorita Alfonso has the black hair and the liquid brown Her complexion is much She is a clever and witty talker, and regards the distinction she bears of being the prettiest woman of Cuba as something “My friends are responsible for it,” she said with a smile. o S 2 e e She Morro Castle, from Cuban rewspaper. 16,320 votes. educated in-France. of an accent votes, but I have a in my Ebehalf.” fine contrast to her although of Senorita Alfonso took place in March last. - Every three or four years a new beauty Is chosen in Havana by popular vote, the contest being managed by La Figaro, the The contest which resulted in the election She received Her. nearest competitor was Senorita Marguerite Mendoza, who received between 10,000 and 11,000 votes. “Miss Mendoza is far more deserving of the honor than I am,” said the ‘“‘queen, and early in the contest had the most number of good friends who worked hara The Senorita’s father, Cristobal Alfonso, is a wealthy man her grandfathery s Miguel Aldama, sacrificed his fortune during the Ten Years’.War. en route to Paris. Beauty” four years LONDON BOOK GOSSIP Sir Edward Blount's ‘“Reminiscences,” which Longmans are to issue, are ex- pected to be mest interesting. Sir Hd- ward might be called the “Grand Old Englishman of Paris.”” Here will be read his career in the French capital as an English banker and pioneer of the French railways. = His' reminiscences im one field or another cover the long pe- riod from Waterloo until the death of Queen Victoria. He was in the British diplomatic service when George IV and William IV were on the tarone, and years later went through the siege of Paris. But, indeed, Sir Edward has an endless store of experience and informa- tion to draw/from. The followers of Frankfort Moors will | get his new novel about the middle of this month. It is a historical romance | and has for its title “A Nest of Lin- nets.” The story, I believe, .is largely con- cerned with Bath at the time when that city was an all-popular and fashionable resort. Such well-known characters as Dr. Johnson, Horace Walpole, the Duch- ess of Devonshire, David Garrick, Mrs. Thrale and the Sheridans are introduced into the tale. Its chief interest, however, is central in the beautiful Miss Linley and Dick Sheridan, whose romantic at- tachment ends after many exciting inci- dents, as. it actually did end. Messrs. Hutchinson are the publishers of the book. I hear that Justin McCarthy, thanks to a long stay on the bracing coast of Kent, is now in capital health.. To e friend who the other day congratulated him on this he laughingly replied: *‘Yes, you may take it authoritatively that I am just 40.” Mr. McCarthy is now working daily on his history of the reign of Queen Anne. An English publisher writes: “The cor- respondent who is conversant with the publication of books both in England and America is a most intellectual, painstak- ing man in his business. judge of the macrits of a .new book so far as its literary: quality is concerned, but he is not always a business man in an age when advertising becomes more and more essential in every business, with few ex- ceptions. He is timorous about spend- ing £100 (3500) on a new book. It is a general complaint among authors that their Books are not advertised. Accord- ing to many of them advertising is less | when a writer is receiving a royalty than when the publisher has bought the book outright. Certain publishers prefer to take the larger risk in_ purchasing out- right from the author, who has at least the advantage of _getting payment at once, and sometimes a larger payment into the bargain. Authors' royaltles av- erage between 10 and 15 per cent on the gross published price. Hall Caine, who is an excellent man of business, recelves a higher percentage than any other writer: Misz Corelll, who | is his rival In mammoeth sales, is said to prefer to have a lagge sum down and a smaller royalty. It is rare fer an au- thor to bind himself to”a publisher for any length of time, though sometimes it harpens that the first work of a promis- He is able to | The teauty was chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. Villes Pulido, a newly married couple, Who are on their honeymoon and are Senora Pulido was Cuba's “Queen of ago. ANSWERS TO QUERIES YACHTS LAUNCHED—O. A. K. The yacht Columbla was launched’ Jrog 10, 1899; the Shamrock IT, Apeil 20, 1001, and the Constitution, May 6, 1901 FORTS FISH AND CLINTON-T. B P:». Ci v. Forts Fish and Clinton wer.e H'; New York, on the Hudson River, and were used during the revolutlonar;r war in the struggle for the Hudson. . Tre were standing during the War of ml; For details of the fofts fn New Yori. old and new, go to the Fres Pubily Librar; Yibrary and. consult historles of New City. The answer in boda recently given in ?;eb;;ed upon the fact t per does - pear in the City Directory, el(hsrn:: :hpa general portion or in the classified list of newspapers; that it does not appear in the newspaper directory of 191, and the :}ur!her fact that upon inquiry on Golden ate avenue, where it was three years ago, the lpformltlpo‘ixbua::: g_lven that the paper was no longer pub- lished. The publisher of that paper an- nounces that it is still alive and is pub- lished weekly on Polk street. The editor of that paper never received a medal from the Prince of Montenegro, but about three yizars ago George Kovacevieh, g compositor on that paper, a medal by the Prince. PR @ i b @ ing author will be acce \derstandlng that his nei’i"?w?‘c‘,"fi‘:; | books are offered to the same - This happened when Messrs. Ward, Loen % Ward, Loek e:“cC](L"made Mr. _Guy Boothby's *“Dr, Nicola™” so great 4 S R feature of the Wind~ Serfal rights are the moder: Ve P | chief means of income. A suc:es‘;‘t)\‘xle]x:.otvf elist will receive £5 ($25) for a thousand | words from an English magazine and £5 ($25) a thousand from an American. If the story runs to 60,000 words, these will vield £600 ($3000). Magazine rates rise to a maximum for peculiarly popular writ- ers of £10 (350) or £12 ($60) a thousand words, while Rudyard Kipling and . pos- sibly Dr. Conan Doyle may sometimes re- ceive as much as €20 (3109). Exact-information on this subject 13 hard.to obtain, but it is an obvious mat= ter of business. When, for example, Dr. Conan Doyle - resuscitates - Sherlock Holmes at the earnest wish of his pub- lisher he is able to demand an extra largs fee. A publisher who is also a magazine proprietor” will. often purchase both the serial and publishing rights at the samg rate. 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