The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 3, 1901, Page 6

OCTOBER 3, 1901 THURSDAY...: JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Lédress All Commenications to W. 8. LEAKE, -Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE. . .Telephone Press 204 VUBLICATION OFFICE. , . Market and Third, 8, ¥, Telephone Press 201. " Merchant of Vent a’* and “I Pagliacel.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. Albembra Theater—'“The Brownles in Fairyland,” @ay afternoon. Sutro Baths—Open nights. Satur- AUCTION SALES. By . Watkins—Saturd: &t corner Tenth and Bry: By G. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, October 7, at 12 o'clock, Crocks Estate Properties, at 14 Montgomery stree:. ' B WHATDOES ITALL MEAN? N connection with the recent assassina- tion of President McKinley will the Exam- Iner please tell what it meant when on February 4, 1900, it published, from its Washington correspondent, the following: “The bullet that pierced Goebel’s chest Cannot be found in all the West; Good reason. It is speeding here To stretch McKinley on his bier.” WHAT IS AN ANARCHIST? HE following deadly editorial appeared in Hearst’s New York Evening Journal on May 22, 1901, less than six months be- fore President McKinley was shot down by a pupil of yellow journalism: “What is an anarchist?” “According to accepted definitions, issued by the higher classes of society, an anarch- ist is one who tries to do something useful that has never been done before. “There is a change coming some day, whether the gentlemen who denounce char- ity as anarchy want the change or not.” T ing prevalence of typhoid in Philadelphia, ad- mitting that it is the chronic summer condition in that city. For years the public water supply has been reeking with filth, and jobbery in the manage- ment of the water supply, under municipal ownership, has either prevented any attempt at betterment, or when such attempt has been made conditions have nce the consumers, relying upon official statements that the water was all right, have It is said that in all the history of Fhiladelphia’s ownership of the water supply the municipal governmenf®has been a willing captive of spectlators who know how to make money for themselves out of the public necessities. The oldest water plants in the United States under municipal ownership are those of Washington City, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, and it is an in- teresting fact that for a large part of every year the water in each of those cities is unfit or dangerous for potable uses. There is no city with its supply in pri- vate ownership that can show such a record of neg- lect of the public health, which may be affected by water-borne diseases. One point put forward in the advocacy of public ownership is the greater cheapness of the water. But + this point is impossible of proof because nowhere do the municipal accounts show the oost to the tax- payers, who are also water rate payers, of the public supply. - It is to be hoped that this phase of the question will be taken hold of by State Legislatures and that laws will be passed compelling cities which have gone into business, in street railroads, ‘water and lighting plants, to keep their accounts exactly as the accounts of corporations engaged in the same lines of business are kept. Only then can anything be known about the cost cf 2 municipal water supply. If the claim of the municipal ownership advocates ‘now made rela- tive to the comparative cost of water by the two sys- tems, private and public, made upon the face of the present erroneous system of accounts, be true, it is evident that correct accounting will show that the private supply is the cheaper, for the difference claimed is such a narrow margin that it will disappear when it becomes possible 1o get a correct balance from municipal accounts. This factor in the problem determined, there remains the question of sanitation, as affected by the water supply Here appears the experience of Philadelphia, because for the better part of a century the quality of he, supply has been deteriorating, and no effort by the city government has availed to correct the evil. At the present time several millions of been put in the hands of the government to purify the water, but the Philadelphia Paper says: “It is probable that the betterment will be less for the citizens than for those who are undenaking to bring it 2bout. In any case, long before the Citizeng obtain the fitered water promised them there is ample time ior typhoid an¥ other impure water dis- eases to reap their grim death harvest,” Does any one imagine that if a corporation owned the Philadelphia water plant it would have taken nearly a century to call it to account and compel it to purify the supply? Or does any one believe that when the corporation was compelled to do so the consumers would be in doubt whether th, to be benefited in the end? ’ The lesson is that government can compel to be done well that which it cannot do well jtself. Tt will be interesting to know whether the twelve millions that Philadelphia spends for filters will be charged to betterments of the plant and appeéar as part of the cost of the water supply, or be put to some other 2ccount in order that members ‘of the city govern- ment may continue to boast of the cheapness of the public water. , October 5, at 11 o'clock, Horses, t streets. TYPHOID FROM WATER. HE Saturday Evening Post notices the alarm- become worse, been freer and less cautious in its use. dollars have of that city ey were VER the cettlement of the strike in this city there will be well nigh universal rejoicing. Only thpse who fomented and encouraged it, the walkingdelegat.es, the yellow journal and the inflammatory writers and orators who were gain- ing notoriety from it, will be dissatisfied. As a whole the community will find abundant cause for gratification in the ending of a struggle which ought never to have begun and which after entailing heavy losses threatened to culminate in serious riots and disturbances. There ‘was rejoicing in many a workingman’s home last evening when the news was received that the strike was over and the workers are to return to their work. The wolf of destitution that threatened the family vanished when the glad announcement was made. Once more the days are to be passed in earnest Industry instead of idling about the streets, and once more wages are to come regularly to support the home. The sav- ings of past years are not to be drawn upon any longer for daily bread and supplies, but on the contrary there are now to comé earnings which will afford an opportunity for more savings. Nor is it in the iomes of workingmen only that there has beex{rejoicing. The strug- gle affected to a greater or less extent almost every class in the community. There is hardly any trade or industry that did not suffer some injury from the prolongation of a struggle that disturbed business and menaced the peace of the community. Even beyend the city the news of the settlement will go as glad tidings, for now there will be an end to the restraints that have been upon the shipment of the crops of the farmers. Traffic will move forward again, goods will obtain a prompt access to their markets, capital will begin to circulate and pouring into the channels of trade through the medium of wages will quicken activity in all lines and restore to the city its wonted prosperity. N - With all this rejoicing The Call has the fullest and heartiest sympathy. From the first it has deplored the strike and has endeavored to hasten the settlement of it upon terms that would be satisfactory to all. There was indeed no reason why the struggle should have been waged so bitterly or continued so long. The unions were not striving for any benefit for labor generally, nor for their own members. There was at stake no ques- tion of hours nor of wages. The members of the unions were satisfied with their wvay, with the labor and with their employers. They were called out to make a so-cailed unionism, Bad as the { “sympathetic” strike upon the wild cry that rich men had organized to destroy lator rike was in its effects upon the industries and trade of the commutiity and of the State, the public will have no word of blame for the industrious and law- abiding workingmen of the unions who took part in it. They were the victims of lead- ers who forced the strike upon the unions in order that those leaders might have a chance of posing before the public and of making a pretentious showing of earning the salaries paid to them out of the fees and dues collected from the industrious. Later on the strikers were further ill advised by the Examiner and by certain inflammatory speakers who ve- hemently insisted that the business men of the city slavery, and that unle were trying to crush the poor into ss they continued to fight they would be reduced to a condition worse than that of the serfs of Russia or the slaves of old Rome. By their clamors and falsehoods these leaders and demagogues managed to prolong the strike for weeks after the more reasonable and intelligent workingmen were willing to settle it. They also provoked the lawless to commit those assaults that have in so many cases resulted in death. They have done their worst, and now the members of the unions can look back over the record of the strike and see what such leadership has cost them, and upon what false pretenses it was asserted. The lesson has been a costly one, but fortunately the moral is plain. The strike has ended like all others started upon such pretexts as this. The amount that has been lost to the employers during the struggle may to some extent he made up by them through the process of increasing the price of their commodities, but the losses of the can never be regained. workingmen They can never recall the days that were passed in idleness nor obtain the wages they might have earned during all these weeks. Nor will the commani- ty ever make up the loss resulting from the suspension of traffic, and the cost of the ef- forts to maintain the peace. The price has been paid. Now let us profit by it so that we will not have to take anothér lesson of this kind for many a vear to come. A QUESTION OF JAILS, T a recent meeting of the- “Howard Associa- A tion of Criminal Experts,” a British organi- zation devoted to the study of penology, some reports were made concerning the American system of ‘county jails, and it appears the experts pronounced the system to be-much worse than that which obtains in British jails of a similar grade. Some of our contemporaries have met this criti with a vigorous and emphatic denial. It seem be the opinion of many of them that the criti upon our jails was virtually an assa#lt upon our far as to say: “The American newspaper that would uphold any of the charges made by the How- ard Association is untrite to its country.” We have not seen the charges. made by the How- ard Association, and consequently we can neither up; hold them nor refute them. We have noted, how- ever, in some of our contemporaries statements in- tended to prove the American system better than the British, but which in our estimation prove the reverse. For example, the Boston Globe says: “America’s alleged increase of crime, as compared with the reported contrary tendency in Great Britain, - is cited as proof of the superior efficiency of British penal methods. The severity of some of the British and Continental jails may possibly work to decrease crime abroad by driving criminals out of the coun- try. Certain it is that here in America we have been obliged to receive some of the refuse of foreign jails. Some of the British prisons have been netorious dis- graces to the human race. While the prison system in some cases in this country has been lamentable enough, the general tendency has been to make them as humane as.is. compatible- with justice. Indeed, some maintain that we have erred on the ‘side of leniency.” : Accepting that statement as: true, the question arises: Why should a jail system which induces criminals to leave the country be deemed:a bad sys- tem? Why should a system that attracts the crimi- nal elements of other countries be deemed a good system? - 1f the British jails put a stop to crime, or at least notably diminish it, and the American jail is so pleasant as to prove a welcome resting-place for tramps during the winter months, why should ours be deemed the better of the two? - Are jails designed for the encouragement of petty crimes and the mani- festation of a tender humanity toward the criminals? The_Call believes in patriotism. It is ready and promp-t to uphold any American institution: when as- sailed by a foreigner, but it does not believe that the county jail system, either in Boston or Atlanta, or even in some California counties, is above legitimate criticism by expert penologists. Certainly no county in America has yet had any remarkable success in dealing with the petty criminals that make up the habitual inmates of county jails, and if the Howard Association can furnish any plan by which we can make criminals leave the country or quit the trade it will be worth our while to consider it seriously and not reject it simply because the county jail is an “American institution.” o - e s e i It is stated that the British Government has ex- pended the sum of $5,000,000 in Missouri and Kansas alone for horses and niules with which to carry on the war against the Boers, and the breeders of those States afe noting with satisfaction that there are no signs of ary speedy end to the struggle. B | of the paper, THE NEW YORK TIMES, Y way of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its first publication the New York Times re- cently issued a fac-simile of the first edition together with an elaborate history of its career from that time to this. Taken together the two constitute a striking proof that sensationalism, or any other form of freak and folly, are not necessary to the success of journalism in this country. From the start the Times has been a legitimate ne paper, ap- pealing to the intelligence of the public, and it has A { found a support sufficient to enable it to grow from government, and the Atlanta Constitution goes so | a four-page paper when it began on September 18, 1851, to the large and handsome journal it is to-day. There have been many improvements in the world since the first copy of the Times was published, and a glance at the fac-simile of that copy shows a con- siderable number of them. ~In the first place the European news was obtained from papers two or three weeks old that had been brought over by the slow-going steamers of those days, for there were no ocean cables. In the second place the principal item of home néews was an account of a fugitive slave riot in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and attention is thus directed to the bad conditions of the old slavery days. On the other hand, the paper affords evidences that the people of the world were much the same then as they are now. Thus in an account given of the visit of President Fillmore to Boston the writer says: “I am informed that the true friends of the Presi- dent took no part in the formal preparations to re- ceive him, because of the officiousness of certain in- dividuals.” It will be perceived from that statement that Presidential receptions then were not widely dif- ferent from those of our time. The officious men took front seats and the true friends were crowded ‘| out. Other items of note are a discussion of the Nica- ragua canal route and Great Britain's relations to it,"and a letter taken from the London Times dis- .cussing how the British could win back the yacht cup that the America had captured: In the fifty years (l;at have passed since that bygotie day when the light of the sun first saw the Times there have been many discussions on those subjects, but they are still unsettled. . The cup as yet remains with us, and the canal is still in the air. In the course of its long career the Times of course has had varying popularity and influence. Its found- ers, Henry J. Raymond and George Jones, have a high place in the history of American journalism. They made the Times a power in the nation, and the present proprietors and editors are to be congratu- lated on the success with which they have kept up the best traditions of their predecessors and continue to make the Times an dxemplar of legitimate jour- nalism, 4 e ——— Dartmouth College has recently held a grand Web- ster memorial celebration and her faculty and grad- uates havg pointed to the career of the great orator as an évidence that the small college has its triumphs a3 well as any big college; but the country will not accept the doctrine until some small college shows a first-class football team. There is now talk in Great Britain of constructing a tunnel railway from Scotland ‘to Ireland so as to avoid the disagreeable and dangerous passage across the channel, and as financial experts estimate that there is traffic enough to make the road profitable, it may be undertaken in the near future. /’ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1901. THE STRIKE SETTLED. OPERA, MINSTRELSY AND DRAMA 2= NE of the very best things of its O kind is the Columbia bill of the week, the sparkling “Florcdora,” which is crowding the pretty theater to its capacity. The mu- sic is bright and catchy, the lines are funny, there is a plot that can be dis- cerned without a telescope and, not least, there are bunches of pretty girls, smartly 8owned and set in scenery that satisfies the most exacting. The famous “sextet” is all our propnetic orchestras have paint- €d it and is encored nightly with an en- thusiasm that knows no limit. Grace Dud- ley is the individual hit of the plece, which otherwise depends safely on its sparkling ensemble; but the pretty actress in question is a new type here, aud the audlences demand “more” with unfailing regularity. Phil Ryley, W. T. Carleton and Charles H. Bowers also succeed in SERVED TO THE THEATER-GOERS | == g?rx\ =, Sl S e ATARCEAY PusTo. GORDON * & & e ] & their efforts, and Ida Doerge is a clever and Frances Gordon a pretty girl. There are to be Sunday night performances dur- ing the engagement. CEE West's Minstrels are doing a tremend- ous business this week at the California, packing the popular playhouse to - the doors at every performance. To-night al- most an entire change of bill will be pre- sented, including new jokes by Billy Van and other attractive features. The advance sale for Herrmann the Great opens this morning. The famous magician begins a week's engagement at the California on Sunday night, bringing with him this time many new and start- ling {'lusions. Judging from Bastern re- ports Herrmann has vastly improved over his former performances in this city, and is now eminently fitted to bear the illus- trious title to which he has succeeded. As a pure sleignt-of-hand performer Herr- mann is acknowledged to be the best in the business. o e “Carmen’” {s still crowding the Tivoli though now in the fourth week of its pre- sentation. The other bill of the week is the favorite double bill, avalleria Rus- ticana” and “I Pagliacel,” in which Sa- lassa and Tonlo is adding fmportantly to his brilllant reputation. Castellano is also doing excellent work in the part of Canio. In “Cavalleria’” the Turiddu is splen- didly sung by Agostini, and Santuzza is done by Barbareschi. In response to a large demand the success of last week but one, “Nabucco,” will be repeated. “Nabucco,” under the inspiriting leader- ship of Paul Steindorff, has aroused a quite remarkable enthusiasm for the first operatic success of Verdi, and will be a very welcome revival. “The Masked Ball”" wiil be the alternating bill. e Mr. Haworth has this week added an- other item to the debt of gratitude that the patrons of the Grand Opera-house owe him by his production of ““The Mer- chant of Venice,” the current bill. Though one may sometimes differ from the actor in his concepticn of a part, his work, thoughtful, intelligent and admirably con- scientious, must always be recelved with respect .and admiration. Mr. Haworth's Shylock is a clever effort, and in some de- gree he is well supported by the stock % ! F STARS IN THE HISTRIONIC FIRMAMENT WHO ARE ATTRACTING ATTENTION AMONG THOSE OF THEIR OWN PROFESSION AND PLEASING AUDIENCES IN THE THEATERS OF THIS CITY, o company of the house, notably by Miss Adele Belgarde, the Portfa of the cast. Next week Mr. Haworth will be seen as Hamlet, in which he should be at his best. A The Alcazar will put on next week the ever-amusing Gillette farce *“Too Much Johnson,” which has always been one of the favorite bills at the Alcazar. It is a rollicking, merry comedy, full of humor and vim, and should serve to show the new stock company to its best advantage. The new leading man, Mr. Alsop, will be seen as Billings, alias Johnson, and from his work this week should be amply.qual- ified to fill the bill. “Liberty Hall” goes this week with much spirit. & . e “Kidnapped"” is a big drawing card at the Central Theater, where it is being presented in 2 most attractive manner. The drama is live and exciting, while there is a constant fire of rollicking hu- mor that keeps the audience laughing from beginning to the end. The scenic features are especially noteworthy. “‘Bea- con Lights™ goes on.nex‘t week. “The Brownies in Fairyland,” that charming creation of Palmer Cox, will be presented at the Alhambra on Saturday afternoon next. Seven performances will be given and 200 little ones will take part. The management announces fifty special- L e o 0 e 2 O PERSONAL MENTION. Judge E. C. Hart of Sacramento is at the Grand. F. A. Hihn, a capitalist of Santa Crus, is at the Palace. E. C. Smith, a banker of Pacific Grove, is at the Grand. Ben U. Steinman, ex-Mayor of Sacra- mento, is at the Palace. John T. Cameron, an extensive cattle dealer of Newman, is at the Lick. H. Postlethwaite, a well known mer- chant of San Jose, is at the Lick. Clinton B. Hale, a prominent resident of Santa Barbara, is at the Occidental. Frank J. Carr has returned to the city after a two months' trip to Bartlétt Springs. Louis Kaiser, United States Consul at Mazatlan, is here on a vacation and Is staying at the Grand. Major Willlam Gorman Gamble of the United States Quartermaster’s Depart- ment is expected to return shortly from Oregon. He will be again stationed in this city. SRS Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—The following Cal- ifornians are in New York: From San Francisco—Mrs. Cecil, Mrs. H. M. Jen- kins, at the Manhattan; A. W. Liechte, at the Grand; P. B. Bekeart, at the Im- perfal; D. H. Jones, at the Hoffman; J. H. Flathman, at the Hotel' Morton; G. Rose and wife, at the Hotel Cadillac; Mrs. A. Strong, at the Holland House. e Californians in Washington, WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: Arlington—N. A. Manly of San Diego, A. Dutton of Los Angeles; Raleigh—J. T. McJenkins and wife of Hanford; Ebbitt— Mrs. W. E. Holbry of San Francisco, W. E. de Groot and wife of Los Angeles. —_—— “Mr. Dash,” ‘said the waiter, “a man just lifted a silver spoon from the tabie." “‘Call the police!” roared the clerk. *The man is a “But R{::’:tne of our regular guests.” “‘Ah, then he is doubtless a klepto- maniac. “You needn’t mention it, Georze." ‘“And he pays.$5 per day on the Amer- can plan.” “He does? Why, the gentleman is a souvenir collector. Hho‘w dare you cast reflections on his cl racter?”"—Chicago News. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. HALF OF °2i—J. L., City." A half-dol- lar of 1827 does not command a premium from dealers. SCHLEY—Subscriber, Ukiah, Cal. The name of Schley is pronounced Shla, with the sound of a as ate. LOSSES BY FIRE—S., City. The losses by fire during 1900 in the United States were, it is estimated, $138,000,000. | BARBERS—J. K., City. The license of- fice should be able to furnish you the number of licensed barber shops in this city. FRACTIONAL CURRENCY—Washing- ton, City. A small premium is offered for new and crisp fractional currency of the denomination of 5, 10 and 25 cents. | The premium is according to the issue | of such currency. | OLD TIME BALLAD-A. O. S., City. If the gld time ballad, “Belle Brandon,” that you heard at one of the theaters re- cently is in print you will have no diffi- culty in obtaining the same from any of the first class music stores in this city. CRAYON DRAWINGS—A. O. §., City. To fix crayon Grawings the only method is the previous preparation of the paper by washing it with a strong solution of isinglass. When quite dry the paper is in good state to take -the drawing, after which it should be inverted and be held horizontally over steam. That will melt the size, which absorbs the charcoal or crayon, and when it has again become dry the drawing is fixed. FOREIGN COUNTRY—Subscriber, Ala- meda, Cal. The following is given as the maneer in which New Jersey came by the title “foreign country”: Joseph Bona- parte, the oldest brother of Napoleon I, came to America and located at Point Breeze, near Bordenton, N. jJ. He was institutions, passed an act urchase ang as an alis et hold real estate mthlx:ntl:g .amusing features. tate. 17 0 opposed the bill spoke nl. tilev} ?Int: as ‘“‘Bonaparte's kin, while those who ra‘:’::‘e‘a ot'heN:ln flod humoredly styled themselves as “hig ajesty’s servants’ and as “foreigners," -~ + ties, a big ballet and any number of feats are on sale at Sherman & Clay's, and the prices ate 1) and 2 cents for the matinees and 10, and 30 cents for the evening perform- ances. Wilfred Clarke and company, Boyce and Wilson, Madge Fox, Arnold Grazer and Blanche Treleese, the Svengalis, Press Eldridge, Parros brothers and Dorothy Morton are the Orpheum entertainers this week. The Svengalis continue to mystify and amuse, the clever children, Arnold Grazer and Blarche Trelease, have made strong hits, ani Press Eldridge has a new budget of songs and jokes that never fail. Wilfred Clarke and company and Boyce and Wilson in clever sketches are also favorites, and Madge Fox and Dorothy Morton, with the Parros brothers, com- plete the good bill. o The Gagnoux. Richards and Relyea, Robert Nome, Sam Holdsworth, Lynton and Wilde, Agnes George and Hinrichs" orchestra are Fischer's attractions of the week and are offering excellent fare to the patrons of 2}:9 pn:pu]';n‘ concert-house, The Chutes and Zoo will have a “la- dies’ obstacle race” as special attraction In addition to tho usual amateur and Yaudeville entertainment. There are also in the moving nictures portraits of Presi. dent McKinley at the Buffalo Expesition. 3 g L A CHANCE TO SMILE. Tom—Mary, did I understand you that your attack of rheumatism was cured by Christian Science, so-called? Mary—No, sir. The attack of Christian Science was cured by an attack of rheu- matism.—Buffalo News. z e He was thoroughly happy when he en- tered the front door with a package in his hand and exclaimed: “I've got something here for the woman I love better than all the world.” “John,” she said sadly, “I dom't ob- Ject to extravagance ordinarily, but I do object to you buying expensive presents for the cook.” But then, you see, his' appetite, not Times she judged him by his heart.—Denver The Excitable Leading Lady, hearing footsteps passing her dressing-room, thought it was the Irascible Stage Man- 2ger, against whom she harbored enmity “Say. you lobster,” she called, in her sweet, cultivated accents, “I want you it “Excuse me," interrupted the Producer of the Footsteps, “f am not the lobster. 1 am only the supe.” For, indeed, it was the young man who each matinee and evening announced that lh? carriage was walting.—Chicago Jour- nal. 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