The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 17, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1901. THURSDAY...... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communicstions to W. 8. LEAKE, Nanager. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 ....... «....OCTOBER 17, 1901 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8, F, Teleph. Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevensom St. Telephone Press 202. Deliverea v Carriers, 1G Cents Per Week. ingle Coples, & Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL Cnecluding Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL Uncluding Sunday), 8 r.onths. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. BUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEELY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarGed when requested. Mall eubscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order % nsure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. OGAKLAND OFFICE. - «+..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. 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TR | Grand Opera-house—Benefit of Charity Fund of the Asso clated Thea: 1 Managers this afternoo; 1 in the Barracks.” SELECTION OF SUPERVISORS. HILE it is inevitable that in the present Wmv.mic{pal contest the public will be inter- ested mainly in the struggle for the May- oralty, it will not be overlooked by intelligent voters that the election of a good Board of Supervisors is not less important than the election of the best man to the Mayoralty. It is to the Supervisors we must look for the ordinances by which the city is to be governed, and past experience has amply proven that corruption in the board is about as disastrous as it could be in the Mayor’s office. It should not be difficult for good citizens to make choice of which ticket of Supervisors to vote for. As has been pointed out in The Call, there are good elements and there are bad elements on each ticket, but there is this notable difference between the nomi- nees for Supervisors by the two regular parties—on the Democratic ticket there is a maximum of good elements and a minimum of bad, while on the ticket that has been put forward by a set of scheming bosses under the Republican name there is a maxi- mum of bad elements and a minimum of good. The contrast between the personal character of the two tickets is in itself sufficient to lead all citizens who have a high regard for the welfare of the city to vote for the Democratic Supervisors, but there is a further factor of importance that must be taken into consideration. The Republican candidates for Super- visor were nominated by a clique of political bosses who are in close relations with certain corporations to whom Supervisors can render favors. The candi- dates, therefore, were in advance of their nomination pledged to the corporations. If elected they will enter office not to serve the city but to serve the corpora- tions, who wish to make money out of the city. It is to be noted, further, that had the corporations desired to obtain from the Supervisors nothing but what honest and upright citizens would be willing to grant, it would not have been difficult for them to get good men to accept the nominations. The very fact that they nominated so many unfit men for the position of Supervisor is itself an evidence that their schemes are as bad as the men they have selected to carry them out. The Democratic nominees have been tried in office. Their proceedings in the past have not been always approved by all citizens, but there has been no ugly scandal arising from any of their actions. The record ich the mem- use—*“The Little Minister." o and Theater—Vaudeville every a Italian Band. TAUCTION SALES ange—This day, carload of Horses, DETECTED IN DISGUISE. the proclamation declarative of their guardian- of the American people the Hearst papers i the mothers of the country of their pro- tection and took their children in charge to be brought up in the way they should go, so that when they get old they will not depart therefrom. To this magnanimous offer there has not been a | general response accepting Mr. Hearst in loco pa- rentis. The Young Men's Christian Associations all over the country, which are supposed to speak | somewhat definit for American homes and the | voung in, have excluded all of his papers and | branded th jurious to the public order, peace The clergy of the country of all de- ons are supposed to have a keen interest in f the pcople, and they have expressed tude that the young be protected amination of Hearst's style of jour- N and morality nomina against the co: nalism The Bishops of the Episcopal church have quite sounded the note of alarm against that yel- rnalism. One says, “It stands for the corrup- the debauchery of political It is the duty of the church to y possible way the great harm done w and public moral an- ad and pernicious, and for the future of the country means greater wrong un- less pro: cked and suppressed”; another, that pus and demoralizing to sound public ; t “it is the firebrand of suppression is vital to the in- government”; another, that “it subverts truth and presents an unreal picture Others of these eminent Bishops say f journalism “is a disgrace to the 1, social and political injury”; that nt to the minds of right feeling persons, panders to the passions of the unthinking and incites to deeds of wrong”; “it is selfish in purpose and de- in effect”; “public morality demands that moralizi no hal eps be taken to check its blighting in- fluence”; “measures should be taken by every righteously minded citizen to suppress it for all time”; “its malignant sentiments have wrought a world of injury.” These are but a small part of the expressions of these eminent churchmen upon the character of Hearst's papers, and identally of himself as the protector of American mothers and children. The outspoken country' press holds to the same view, and pages of its expressions are condensed in this, from the Advertiser of Elmira, N. Y.: “The first essen- tial is to be sure that the educators are of the right order. At the mother’s knee comes the first lesson. Let the yellow journal be excluded from the Home. Teach the boys and girls to be true. Pure reading and clean speech will help to make pure hearts and clean lives.” The Junior Order of American Mechanics has passed this action: “Resolved, That we will not pur- chase, read or advertise in the New York Journal, and we call on our friends to do likewise, as an ex- pression of our contempt for Hearst, the miserable owner and editor of that dirty, filthy sheet.” That is a bit emphatic, but the action has been fol- lowed by “The Woodmen of the World,” one of the largest beneficial orders in this country. All of these seem to have seen through Mr. Hearst's disguise as the guardian and defender of the American home and American youth. He puts himself forward as a benevolent benefactor, a beaming, blooming play- mate of the girls and boys, but their parents are call- ing them into the house and shutting the door in his F face. The wolf invites the lamb to promenade, but the lamb declines. An English nobleman arrived in- New York a few days ago on a tramp steamer. The gentleman should not have so unrecessarily advertised himself. | of the board has, in fact, been one of w | bers may be justly proud. The Call is not a supporter of the Democratic party, nor of the Democratic ad- [ ministration of the city, nevertheless it quite willingly | bears witness to the excellence of the service which | this Democratic board has rendered the community. | Under any circumstances such men might with jus- | tice appeal to their fellow citizens for approval and | indorsement, but in this case the appeal is made with double force because to reject these men who have been faithful in office for the sake of electing a set of pledged henchmen of corporations and political bosses would be on the part of the voters themselves a repudiation of good government. It will of course be difficult for stanch Repub- licans to break away from their party, and The Call fully understands and sympathizes with the feeling of party loyalty which creates the difficulty. In this case, however, the issue should not be considered a partisan one. The men who controlled the Repub- lican convention did not represent Republicanism, neither did they care anything about it. Their sole object was to get possession of the city government, through the Board of Supervisors, so that they might use it for their own purposes. Republicans, therefore, can do no better service to their party than to repudiate these candidates of the bosses. Should the corporation candidates for Supervisor be elected the Republican party would be held respon- sible for their actions, good, bad and indifferent. Sound Republicanism, therefore, as well as good citizenship, requires the defeat of the corporation ticket. No loyal Republican will consent to make the party responsible for such a gang. o e e e The Buffalo Pan-American has fallen short of the attendance that was expected by its supporters, but as it has been visited so far by upward of 7,000,000 visitors, it seems to have done very well, considering the mildness of its midway. P e — OUR RIVERS AND HARBORS. ROM the tenor of the speeches made at the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, re- cently in session at Baltimore, it is evident that some at least of the influential people of this country have become convinced it is High time for our Government to urdertake the work of river and harbor improvement according to a rational system instead of leaving it to the hazard of log-rolling in Congress. The Government has never been extrava- gant in the amount of money expended for such im- provements when considered as a whole, but it has every year wasted ironey by making expenditures where they are of no value to commerce, while leav- ing unimproved many points upon which millions might have been economically invested. In.an address before the congress Chairman Bur- ton of the House Committee on Rivers and Harbors pointed out that during the four years from 1897 to 1001 the amounts appropriated for rivers and har- bors, including continuing contract appropriations, were in the aggregate only $63,060,717. That sum is certainly not excessive when the extent of our rivers and harbors is taken into consideration. In fact, as Mr. Burton said, it is but a fourth of the amount appropriated during the same period for one arm of the military service. Mr. Burton’s plea was for liberality in appropriat- ing money for such improvements, but the liberality, as he went on to say, should be exercised with dis- crimination. We should not scatter the money ac- cording to the demands of Congressmen striving each to get an appropriation for his district, but it should be applied where it would be of use to the nation as a whole. Mr. Burton laid down a good rule on the subject in saying: “In view of the neces- sary limitations in the amounts appropriated in river and harbor acts, and the pressing need for deeper channels and improved facilities along established lines of traffic, it is better to appropriate for localities where traffic is already established than where it is uncertain or problematical. It is more business- like to finich one and obtain results from it than to make piecemeal appropriations upon all.” 2 A similar solution for the problem was offered by Mr. Schermerhorn of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, who, in describing an “ideal river and harbor bill,” said: “It would provide for a careful classifi- cation of these improvements in the order of their relative importance to the interests of the country from the broadest and most comprehensive stand- point. It would provide for the rapid and system- atic improvement of these works in the order of their importance and need, with due regard to the subor- dinate development and improvement of secondary or minor waterways.” ' Some carefully considered systematic programme of river and harbor work such as was suggested by the Baltimore congress would doubtless have the ap- proval of the great mass of the American people. It would, however, have the antagonism of Congress- men seeking appropriations for the creeks of their districts, and its adoption by Congress could not be obtained without a long preliminary campaign of education. In the end, however, something of that kind must be done. The steamships of our time are rapidly increasing in size. They are already so large that comparatively few harbors are deep enough to receive them. Harbor improvement, therefore, is enforced upon all the great commercial nations of the globe. Experience has proven that in the economy of our time it is cheaper to fit the harbor to the big ship than to use small vessels that are fitted for shallow harbors. It was estimated by one speaker at the congress, Mr. Lincoin of Boston, that the saving in ccean freights to the American people by reason of the increased tonnage of ships has amounted in the last twenty years to upward of $300,000,000. That sum will go far to repay all the harbor improvements we need for many years. Therefore the fight for systematic river and harbor improvement ought to begin at once and be prosecuted vigorously. B ——— In a recent desperate feud between fighting Ken- tucky families four men were killed and five were dangerously wounded. The most pleasant feature of the interesting affair was that no non-combatant was injured and the tone of the population has been meas- urably improved. THE CASE OF MISS STONE. ISPATCHES from London announce that the D Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports it is believed in the Turk- ish capital that the United States’ Government will in- sist that Turkey shall repay whatever amount is found necessary to ransom Miss Stone. Another telegram from Constantinople is to the effect that the Russian Government has expressed a desire to assist the United States in rescuing the abducted missionary. The reports of course cannot be regarded as abso- lutely reliable, but they open up an interesting phase of the situation. The men who captured Miss Stone and her com- panion and who have demanded for their release such a high ransom may be no more than Bulgarian ban- dits, and should such prove to be the case it is not likely any international complications will ensue. There have been, however, many evidences tending to confirm the report that the bandits are acting in connection with the ‘“Macedonian committee,” a set of men who for years past have been trying’to raise a war in the Balkans in the expectation that it would result in a further dismemberment of the Turkish empire. The committee is avowedly revolutionary, and no one suspects it of being overscrupulous in the means it employs to obtain money or to incite strife. It is therefore not altogether improbable that the committee may have had something to do with the bandits who have so securely hidden Miss Stone in the recesses of the mountains. Should the developments of the case prove com- plicity on the part of the Macedonian committee | there would then be cause of a genuine international complication, for it is well known the committee has direct dealings with the Russian Goveérnment. In fact, it is generally believed in rope that the real headquarters of the committee is at St. Petersburg, that its members are in the pay of the Czar, and that its activities are designed more for the purpose of giving Russia an excuse for interfering in Turkey | than for anything clse. It will be seen that if this theory be true Russia might well afford to be prompt | in offering aid to the United States. Her Govern- ment could with little trouble bring sufficient pres- sure to bear upon the Macedonian committee to force it to surrender -Miss Stone even without a ransom, and it would be to her advantage to do so, for she could thus display herself before the world as the pro- tector of Christians in the Turkish empire. Of course too much credit is not to be given to any of these reports. The entire population of the Balkan Peninsula appears to be involved in a conspiracies of one kind or another. network of Between revo- lutionists and bandits there is probably not much dif- ference. The very man who is conspiring for liberty and religion to-day may be conspiring for robbery and loot to-morrow. The men who are carrying on political intrigues are doubtless. in many instances the same who are acting as the leaders of brigands and bandits. In the meantime the Turkish Government is in a bad fix. The bandits have given notice that if they are pursued by troops they will kill the women. Thus if the Sultan be vigorous he may lead to the death of the unfortunate captives, while if he neglects to exert the utmost energy he will naturally be held responsible for the success of the robbers. -He will have, however, little sympathy. More and more it is becoming evident that a strong government is needed in. the Balkans to keep the peace, and it is clear the Turk will never again be in a position to exert that power. @ *During the recent races for the America’s cup three systems of wireless telegraphy were used in making reports, but an expert from the Navy Department who was detailed to note their comparative values found that when the three systems were being worked at the same time it was impossible to read the messages of either of them. The operators were finally forced to divide time so that no two were in operation simultaneously. Unless such interference can be prevented there will be complications in the future, for should the ships of one country be signal- ing by one system and the ships of another country begin with a different system neither signal could be understood. It is a case where too many cooks would not merely spoil the broth but epill it. It is said on authority unofficial but reliable that England will grant all our demands in reference to a Nicaragua candl. This is very kind of her, and indi- cates that she has judgment enough to surrender gracefully and without delay what later she would have to give at whatever cost to herself. From the showing that has been made in the Schley inquiry of the unreliability of naval logs and naval charts it is evident the things landsmen have been telling to the marines are nothing in compari- son to what the marines tell one another. A Chicago man wants to pay the city of Genoa $30,000 for a famous violin. The offer was refused, | nual FIVE HUNDRED MINERS PLAN two sessions of the convention on Mon- day, Tuesday and Wednesday. The first session will be held at 10 a. m. Monday. Governor Gags will deliver the address of welcome to the delegates. President Voor- hels, Secretary E. H. Benjamin and sev- eral committees will submit reports of in- terest. W. C. Ralston, ex-president of the assoclation, has a report treating par- ticularly with the questions arising out TO ATTEND STATE_CONVENTIOl\l The understanding is that Mr. Ralston will relterate practically what he has said before on that much debated topic. The Debris Commission will be represented at the convention by three delegates and it isentirely in the range of possibilities that some questions will be asked to bring out the amount of benefit that the dam will be to the miners, who were principally instrumental ig having the appropriation - B ELE i & VOORHEIS. - received returns from the mining counties of the State sufficient to warrant the conclusfon that 500 del- egates will be present at the an- convention of the California Min- ers’ - Assoclation, which will open in Golden Gate Hall next Monday morn- ind and will continue in session three days. Placer County will send down eighty delegates, Shasta 100, Nevada fifty, Calaveras forry-four, Amador twenty. seven, Yuba fourteen, Sierra twenty-four, Tuolumne ten and Alameda twenty. Five delegates will represent each of the coun- ties of San Bernardino, Fresno, Marin, San Luis Obispo, Solano and Kern. The two organizations of the petroleum miners of the State will be represented. The Chambers ¢f Commerce of San Fran- cisco and Sacramento have elected five delegates each. The reports are very in- complete, Delegates are vet to be named by the counties of Butte, Santa Clara, San SECRETARY E. H. BENJAMIN has Diego, Inyo, EI Dorada, Mariposa, San Benito, Sonoma. Trinity, Siskiyvou and Madera. Soma of the Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce have not re- ported. It is arranged that there will be @ chreleiroleclelefuleries PERSONAL MENTION. Robert Robertson of Santa Cruz is at the Palace. Colonel W. M. Branhall of Santa Cruz is at the Grand. S. A. Mackintosh, a mining man of Chico, is at the Grand. Alec Brown of the State Board Equalization is at the Lick. A. W. Maiby, a banker of Concord, is among the arrivals at the Lick. N. E. Deyoe, a furniture dealer Modesto, is staying at the Lick. C. Busjager, a prominent merchant of Mexico, is in the city on business and is at the California. General O. O. Howard, U. 8. A., retired, arrived yesterday from Vermont and is a guest at the California. Sam Thall, brother of the late Mark Thall, arrived here yesterday and is staying at the California. Ex-Congressman Tom Geary of Santa Rosa returned yesterday from Nome and is spending a few days at the Lick. H. F. Ells, an extensive manufacturer of hats in Philadelphia, is at the Palace. John A. Black, an attorney of Tucson, is spending a few days at the Palace. of of Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Arrivals at the New Willard—A. J. Dongel of San Fran- cisco; at the Raleigh—A. H. Naftzger of Los Angeles, W. H. Hough and wife of California, Miss Lizzie McCorkell and Miss E. L. McCorkell of San Franeisco; at the Ebbitt—R. Finking and wife of San Francisco; at the Shoreham—E. F. Bar- bour of San Francisco. —_———— “Humph” The meaning of the word “humph” was recently the subject of judicial deciston in the Irish Court of Appeal. Justice Mad- den and Justice Boyd held that “humph,” as used by Sir Walter Scott and Miss Aus- ten in their novels, was an expression of dissent, while the Lord Chief Justice and Justice Burton inclined to the conclusion that “humph’” only meant a “dissatisfied condition of the mind.” The Couri of Ap- peal has now decided that the word is “an expression of doubt or dissatisfaction,” or, as Lord Justice Walker put it, in the words of the ‘“Century Dictionary,” “a grunt of dissatisfaction.” —_——— ‘Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. * ——— Choice candies. Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —_————— Cal. Glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* —_——— Drunkenness and all drug habits cured at Willow Bark Sanitarfum, 1839 Polk. * —_—— Towrsend’s California glace fruits, 50c a pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- kets. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building.* and forever we will be left in doubt as to what the gentleman would have done with the instrument if he had securéd it. ————— Speclal information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephane Main 1042, * + of the proposed restraining dam on the Yuba River. Since suit has been begun in the United States Circuit Court to enforce the option given by O'Brien to the Gov- ernment, as represented by the Debris Commission, there has been no abandon- ment of the original desire to have the relations of the miners to the dam talked over thoroughly. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. HALF DIME-S. N. E., City. mium is offered for half dimes er 1846. No pre- CRIBBAGE—A Subscriber, City. As it | 1s impossible to have five fives or any five cards of one denomination in the game of cribbage, this department cannot an- swer the question asked. E.-A.BENJAMIN L ey o PROMINENT CITIZENS OF THIS STATE WHO WILL TAKE AN ACTIVE :\ PART IN THE ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE CALIFORNIA MIN- ERS' ASSOCIATION WHICH OPENS NEXT MONDAY. * made to Insure the construction of the dam. Thers may be other debates, but the one concerning the dam Is expected to overshadow them all in immediate inter- est. The condition of legislation will be the subject of one report. Officers are to be elected for the year ensuing. Presi- dent Voorhels will probably suggest that the scope of the association shall be broadened. feofolerk +HH+PH+‘H‘H4-H+H+H»H-H‘3‘K‘W%%%H~H-FH-H—FH+F @ A CHANCE TO SMILE. Wife—Here's an advertisement in the coined aft- | paper that you'd better look into. It says | a man is wanted, and he won’t be worked to death, and he'll get enough to ljve on. Husband—Says he won't be worked ta death, eh? “Yes; and they promise pay enough ta live on.” “Huh! Some catch about that!"—New York Weekly. NEXT SUNDAY CALL Remarkable Confecs- sions of Mrs. Leonora e —— E. Diper. The world's most famous trance medium, The most startling admissions since the exposure of the Fox Sisters. Count Divizza. PAGES OF HUMAN _ln which a San Francisco society ‘woman is concerned. INTEREST STORIES...12