The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 19, 1901, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1901 SATURDAY..................OCTOBER 19, 1901 JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Aédress All Communiestions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third, 8, F. Telephone Press 201, EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stevenson St Telephone Press 202, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Centn Per Week. Singie Coplen, 5 Centn. Ter by, Mail, 1 DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday), one yea DAILY CALL Oncluding Sundcy), § mon! DAILY CALL (including Bunday), 3 1.onths, DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL. One Year.. WEEKLY CALL, Ope Year.... All postmasters nre nuthorized to receive wubscriptions. Sample coples will b forwarGed when requested. Mafl subscribers in ordering of address ehould be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.. .1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquetto Building, Chicago. 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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 220 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. e e e e AMUSEMENTS. fa—*‘Rudolph and Adolph.” Tivoli—"‘Cavalleria” and JI Pagliacel.” Grand Opera-house—"“The Littie Minister.” —*The Girl in the Barracks. 00 and Theater—Vaudevil! every afternoon and Fischer's—Vaudeville. Alhambra—Royal Itali Hill's Theater—Vaud Recreation Park— Sutro Baths—Open n. igh AUCTION SALES. By Occidental Horse Exchange—This day, carload of Horses, at 721 Howard street By J. H. Halton—This day, forty head of Horses, at Market street WATER .AND TYPHOID. W The Ex: E recently quoted from Philadelphia paper in relation to the prevalence of ty- phoid in that ci a dne to the water supply. miner retorted statistically in vindication of the purity of water effected simply by change from private to public ownership. We have no doubt that the public water of go, Philadelphia, New York and Boston saves m: lives in the same manner that brass pins—by not swallowing them. .. Within the last eight months the New York Journal published accounts of the filthy ‘condition of the Croton water, and showed how fortunes were made by peddling spring water in that city for drink- ing purposes at a high price per bucket. It is not un- usual for the Journal and Examiner to sing one tune in the spring and another in the fall. We have pointed out the neglect of cities which own their water supply to puriiy and have shown the power of cities to compel the purification of a supply in private ownershi The death rate in San Francisco is given at 23.6 per thousand. We suffer in the statistics from the location of the city and its being the last refuge of a large number of sojourners who come here stricken and die. It is to be regretted that such cases are not segregated from the deaths of our resident and per- manent population. But New York, that is not sought as a health resort, has a death rate of 28.6, and Boston of 24.8, Washington of 25.8, and Philadelphia of 226, Eliminating the deaths of sojourners, there is no doubt that the rate per 1000 of our resident population is less than the lowest. The assumption thdt mere public ownership of a water supply makes it potable is not borne out by the facts, since its potability depends upon the vigilance with which its purity is preserved, and there is no evidence that this will be any greater under muni- cipal ownership. Indeed, the presumption is the other way, unless municipal government can be in- fused with a different spirit and a greater fidelity to the trust imposed upon it. lives are s d by it, We desire merely to curb the enthusiasm of the advocates of municipal pater- nalism by bringing them down to consider that every large city s between elections to complain of the bad state of its streets, gutters, sewers and all other things that are now the objects of municipal care and administration. If the New York Journal see bugs in Croton water and declare that it smells to heaven, compelling the purchase and use of spring’ water to avoid fatal results, and the Examiner see in muni- cipal ownership water purified, glorified and made perfect and potable, there is a jog in the testimony that makes thinking people pause and consider. The Canadian Forestry Association estimates that the spruce forests of the Dominion are sufficient to supply the world with pulp wood at the present rate of demand for 840 years. The showing is good, but as it takes no account of the waste of forests by fires it will not be long before a very different estimate will have to be made. The people of the United States have had an experience in that way. It is not Icng since some of our experts were estimating that pine forests were inexhaustible in States where there is now hardly any pine at ail. Even our discovery of a means of producing plati- num cheaply enough to make it useful in the manu- facture of articles of general use proves to be after all only the revival of an ancient art. An Egyptian explorer has just discovered a platinum box in a tomb supposed to be that of a queen who died seven centuries before Christ. A Philadelphfa man woke up that sleepy town the other day by riding through the streets on a bicycle drawn by a horse. He guided his wheel with one hand while holding the reins with the other, and the horse trotted him along at a merry speed. : THE CITY'S RISK. INCE our last reference to the risk that lies in the coming city election, events have brought more clearly before our people a prospective result of the gravest character. The situation emphasizes the political folly of permitting mere artifice znd scheming to control the action of conventions called and held in the name of a party end supposed to represent its organization. Had natural politics beén permitted, the Repub- lican party might have been represented by a ticket that throughout would have com- manded public respect and have been assured of victory from the moment of its nom- ination. Unfortunately the Democratic ticket, except the candidates for Supervisors, offers certain elements of political and popular weakness where it should be in both re- spects strong. We are convinced that the head of one regular ticket must be elected Mayopr if the future safety of the city is to be considered. Just why the head of the Repub- lican ticket continues to increase the improl bability of his success,is unknown to us, and perhaps to himself. Republicans would prefer to sai! the city into a calmer future by supporting the head of the ticket, if he would permit them to do so. The present situation is risky of a result that will give to the head of the class ticket a fictitious strength, which will be mistaken by those who made that ticket for real strength, and for an indorsement of the excesses which marked the progress of the late industrial disturbance. All men know what this will mean, but it will be too late to cor- rect the mistake when capital is in full flight and labor is pinched by the exiling of enterprise. The only rift in the cloud that overhangs the city is the straightforward declara- tion of the Building Trades Council that “this municipality is best governed when public servants are selected from the entire community, without regard to any pars 3 ticular class.” 1 Yet the politicians, who are supposed to have sense enough to consider the com- munity as a whole, have created a highly artificial situation in which it is possible for & strictly class ticket to hope for success. At present we have no advice to give beyond again declaring that all voters wha are interested in the welfare of the city should accept for a fact that there must be a substantial pooling of their votes for one of the regular candidates for Mayor. choice must be guided by the action of those candidates. Their If either of them do not see this, and weaken himself by follies that eannot be condoned, his fate be upon his own head. Never was there less prompting to merely partisan action than now. party lines more obscure and party feeling gations to party and greater to the welfare so-called Republican convention. Never were less spontaneous. Never were there less obli- of the whole city. The loyalty of the majority of that convention ran to influences outside the party that are degrading. The convention’s loyalty to these in- fluences was disloyalty to the party, and, pe: tion of the convention and its works. The painful and pitiful situation was could to prevent it. r contra, loyalty to the party means repudia- foretold hy The Call, and we did what we But our warning fell upon deaf ears, and the party name and pres- tige were seized to make a banner for elements that areas unRepublican as they are dis- loyal to every municipal interest. One could v correction of their “lunders, and would at least try tc put the head of their ticket in a position to offer the best hope for the city's rescue. But, as to do this would be an ex- hibition of natural politics, they have proved so far incapable of it, and appear to de- pend entirely upon the base and artificial methcds with which they are best acquainted. We have refrained from sudden judgment of their acts and have warned them in time to ! enable a change in their methods. of the best Republicans in this city, and w will leave welts upon San Francisco as if she had been scourged with whips. CHINESE EXCLUSION. NE of the notable phases of drift of public sentiment at pres is the increasing favor O with which a considerable number of influen- tial people in the East regard the possibility of an unrestricted Chinese immigration to this country. It required a prolonged and oiten an excited cam- paign of education fo convince Eastern people years ago that Chinese immigration would be a curse, and | now the moment the processes of education have | ceased they seem to have relapsed into their former | condition of ignorance or indifference. ing the question the New York Times recently said: “The initiative in the opposition to the continuance of the restrictions now imposed comes naturally from the Chinese, but if the reports orrect the movement is gaining Congres: conclusion In which reach us are strength among men, many of whom are reaching that there are large areas of the United States where an important increase of cheap labor would be ad- vantageous. The interest in continuing the present stringent law is confined largely to the Pacific Coast, and whether it is there as strong as the leaders of the labor organizations weuld have us believe is a ques- tion which it is difficult to answer without a more in- timate knowledge of public opinion on this subject than can be gained from the newspapers of the Cali- fornia cities.” If Eastern people do not believe that the white peo- ple of the Pacific Coast are universally agreed in favor of Chinese exclusion they are the victims of a delusion. The fight against anything like unrestricted immigration from China will be made not only by labor leaders and the newspapers of California cities, ern and Southern the | but by well nigh every fighting force among the people. It appears the fight will have to be made with the utmost energy, for the danger is seemingly much greater than Californians expected. The Times says in the South there is a demand for Chinese labor to supplant the negro, and of the East it says: “The general feeling seems to be that the Chinese as we know them are a peaceable, industrious race, who trouble nobody, and if not molested by hoboes and Hooligans mind their own business and fill a very useful place. The excitement of twenty years ago over the inundation of this country by a tidal wave of Mongolian immigration has completely subsided and it would be impossible to revive it.” I such statements represent Eastern sentiment we may as well get ready for a hard contest this winter. The work of cducating the East must begin all over again. Evidently Minister Wu has been sawing wood while we were asleep, and it looks now as if he had the exclusion law very nearly beaten. s st e General Baden-Powell, whose defense of Mafeking thrilled the British public, is not a very great hero when compared with others in the annals of British history, but yet it is said that his reputation has been such an advertisement for the school where he was educated that the applications for admission have so increased the managers of the school do not know what to do with them e bl Attention has been called to the fact that Roosevelt is the first President of the United States who was born and brought up in a large city. New York is bragging over the fact, and Chicago is getting her back up. — Mr. Bryan seems to be troubled at this time to de- termine whether to follow the example of his silver friends like Towne and buy an oil well or leave the gang and come out for gold AUSTRIA’S CANAL SCHEMES. ONSUL GENERAL HURST of Vienna has ‘ furnished to the State Department an inter \ esting report upon the grand scheme of canal | eonstruction which has been undertaken by the Aus- trian Government for the double purpose of improv- ing the commercial facilities of the different parts of unity. In its entirety the plan is larger than any other designed for canal work in Europe, and when completed will provide Austria with a system of in- | ternal waterways that will prove of immense advan- | tage to her people. provides for—(1) a canal from the Danube to the | River Oder; (2) a canal from the Danube to the | Maldau, near Budweis, and the improvement of that | river so as to fit it for canal boats from Budweis to | Prague; (3) a canal from the Danube-Oder canal to far as Melnik; (4) a canal from the Danube-Oder canal to the Vistula and to some navigable portion of the Dniester. g In the aggregate the new canals will open upward of 1054 miles of navigable waterways, and it is esti- | matefl the cost will be about $152,000,000. The money is to be provided by the co-operation of the prov- inces, districts and cities that are to be mainly bene- fited with the Government. The work of construc- tion is to begin not later than 1904, and is to be so calculated that the whole system will be completed within twenty years. To provide money for imme- diate use the Government is to issue 4 per cent, tax free, bonds, redeemable within ninety years. It is stated by the Consul that although the topo- graphical features of the country will render the work of construction difficult, and the severe winters will close the canals for a considerable time each year, the system will be of incalculable benefit to the whole country, and will connect Austria more closely with Germany and with Russia. It is said that not only will the cost of freights from the German seaports be appreciably less, but many portions of the interior now practically inaccessible to extensive trade can then be successfully developed. The undertaking of an enterprise of such impor- tance and of such undoubted benefits to the people will of course go far toward relieving the discontent of the people. There will be employment at good wages for thousands of men, and the money put into circulation will increase trade ‘and activity. The scheme is therefore an exhibition of a high order of statecraft on the part of the Austrian Ministry. It is better to put an end to discontent by furnishing work and wages than to try to suppress it by the despotism of the sword. PR N DA - The Manufacturers’ Club of Charlotte, N. C., has invited to its annual banquet President Roosevelt, Minister Wu Ting-Fang, Senator McLaurin of South Carolina and Governor Aycock of North Caro- lina. The combination is peculiar and the country will attend closcly to hear whether Wu has anything to say to his hosts about furnishing them with cheap labor. > Bhnoi s e If it were not for a regrettable skirmish now and then where some one gets hurt that South African war would seem like-a footrace between an over- fed bull and a jackrabbit. The Schley-Sampson controversy will probably go down to history not only as a drawn battle, but as a long drawn one. l the Upper Elbe and the improvement of the Elbe as | sh that in the face of the peril that is seen by all clear-eyed men, the | | men who usurped control of the organization would be sobered and chastened into the | We warn them again that we speak for a multitude | ith a desire solely to avert a misfortune that | i | the empire and of helding it together as a political | A ¥ By Sally Sharp. DITH PRESTON and Drown are engaged. Edith told her happy secret te her friends, who went down to con- gratulate her sister Norma vye: day afterncon. Although all of us were unprepared for the splendid news, none of us were astonished. Previous tc M Preston’s departure for Europe I wa among the many who asked her if she was engaged to Willard Drown, and I was Willard Handsome i also among the select majority to whom The measure recently enacted by the Government | Miss Preston declared ‘“there is not one word of truth in it.”” However, it is out now, and we are all delighted. There is any amount.of nice things to be said of the happy younsg couple. Willard Drown is a son of A. N. Drown and a member of the law firm of Drown, Leicester & Drown. He is a Yale man, and equally as popular in profes- sional as in social circles. Edith Preston is one of the handsomest of the many beautiful girls of the young- er set. She is ihe daughter of E. ¥. Pres- ton, the well-known attorney, and Mr. Preston is not a little proud of the fact that his charming daughter is the image of hér dad. Miss Preston, however, has more than her beauty to recommend her. She is charmirg, accomplished and has unusnal tact. While the wedding of Miss Norma Preston and Worthington Ames will take place in the very near future, it will be some time before Edith Preston becomes Mrs. Willard Drown. b e About thirty young people went down to the Palace to congratulate the Preston girls yesterday afterioon. The rooms were just a bower of roses, the kind re- membrances of many admiring friends. Assisting Mrs. Preston and the Misses Preston to receive were Miss Rurth Mec- Nutt, Miss Bessie Ames, Miss Mary Den- man and Mrs. Ben Lathrop. Miss Edith Preston was stunning in a magnificent white crape gown elaborately trimmed with lace. Miss Norma Preston looked yvery beautiful in a dainty Paris gown of pale pink chiffon, trimmed with ecru lace. May Denman wore a beautiful gown of white organdi= with a point lace ycke. Miss Ruth McNutt was attired in pale blue peau de sole. Miss Bessie Ames’ gown was of ecru- colored silk, trimmed with panne tur- quoise velvet. P Basides the announcement of the en- O CO O TO FELICITATE ONE SIST FIND ANOTHER T NGRATULATE d WILLART DROWIT L o WELL KNOWN AND POPULAR SOCIETY BELLE AND TALENTED YOU OUNCED. THE WEDDING ‘G ATTORNEY WHOSE ENG AGEMENT HAS BEEN FORMALLY DAY HAS NOT BEEN SET. — gagements the Misses Preston had an- other surprise at their tea—the presence of a whole bunch of charming men. Of course Worthington Ames was there and Willard Drown, and very handsome these two young fellows looked as they stood with the receiving party. The presence of men at a tea is so unusual and so very desirable that I am going tc put their names first in the list of those present. A tea is really a place where the men should come first, so here goes. Among Miss Preston’s guests were: Milton Latham, Leonard Chen. Will Denman, Burbank Sommers, Willard: Drown, Mr. Tobin, Ralph Edmonds, Ben Lathrop, Pelham Ames, E. F. Preston. Jack Spreckels and Tom Ransome, the Misses Grace and Lil- lie Spreckels, Mrs. Leonard Chenery, Miss Charlotte Ellinwood, Mrs. George Martin, Miss Elsie Sperry, Miss Janet Hooper, Mrs. Walter McGavin, Miss Bessie Ames, Miss Bernie Drown, Mrs. A. N. Drown, Miss Therese Morgan and Miss O'Connor. e In the evening the scene of the festivi- ties shifted to the Ames home, on Taylor street, where Mr. and Mrs. Pelham Ames celebrated the thirty-sixth anniversary of their wedding in addition to the betrothal of iheir son to Miss Preston. ¢/ e e On Thursday evening the ‘“‘pretty maid- ens” and ‘“gentle strangers” who are to take part in the “Florodora™ sextet at the Doctor’'s Daughters’ doll show met at the residence of Mrs. Linda H. Bryan, 2422 Buchanan street, and went through their first rehearsal. The girls did remarkably well and I predict that many hearts will be smashed by them—smashed perhaps beyond repair. The boxes for the show are going like the proverbial hot cakes and the box holders thus far are Miss Katherine Dillon, Mrs. Henry Payot, Mrs. Athearn Folger, Mrs. Walter E. Dean, Mrs. M. H. de Young, Mrs. W. H. Taylor, Mrs. Gus Taylor, Mrs. Mark Gerstle, Mayor Phelan, Mrs. James Folilis, Mrs.‘J, L e U e ] PERSONAL MENTION. | D. W. Knox, is at the Grans F. M. Wilmas arrived from Nome yes- terday. He is at the Lick. \ 0. J. Smith, a mining man of Reno, n attorney of Sacramento, Nev., is a guest at the Palace. D. S. Rosenbaum, the well known mer- chant of Stockton, registered at the Pal- ace yesterday. L. A. Crane, a young rancher and fruit grower of Santa Cruz, is at the Palace for a few days. G. A. McElfresh, high chief ranger of the Foresters, is up from Los Angeles and is at the Grand. J. J. Weil, a prominent merchant of Sacramento, is here on a short business trip. He is at the Grand. D. M. Riordan, an electrical mining ex- pert with headquarters at Los Angeles, is among the recent arrivals at the Palace. C. W. Macfarlane of Honolulu arrived here yesterday from New York, accom- panied by his wife. They are at pres- ent staying at the Occidental. Lieutenant C. W. Schwartz, a young of- ficer of the German army, arrived from Berlin yesterday. He is touring the world and is at present at the Palace. A. B. Spreckels will leave New York on the 24th inst. for this city. Mr. Spreckels has been absent several months on a pleasure trip and returns much improved in health. William F. Doty, brother of the United States Consul at Tahiti, arrived here yes- terday. He was studying at Princeton, but was compelled to leave on account of failing eyesight, and returned to islands. He will attend the San Anselmo Seminary and remain there until he ceives his D. D. degree. it i 0] Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The following Californians registered at the hotels to- day: At the Raleigh, W. D. Gould. Los Angeles; at the National. J. A. Cauldwel!, San Francisco; at the Metropolitan, W. F. Pearce and wife, San Francisco. fesletls = s Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—J. Ropp, at the Herald Square: Mrs. F. Koster, Mrs. J. L. Moody and Miss Moody, at the Manhattan; Miss Bartnell and W..J. Bartnell and wife, at the Park Avenue; J. B. Clot, at the Broadway Central; A. G. Glenn, at the St. Denis; G. J. Grannon and C. J. Sercan, at the Grand Union; T. H. Larkins, at the Victoria; Mme. Leblois, at the Albert; A. T. Merrill, at the Morton; 8. W. Vogt and wife, at the Albemarle. From Los Angeles—W. F. . Green and the ! D. Spreckels, Mrs. Thomas H. Williams, E. W. Hopkins, Louls Sloss Jr., Reub Hale, Mrs. Eugene Lent, Mrs. R. H. Moore and Mrs. H. Fletcher Ryan. The ladles who have charge of the pro- gramme are working faithfully and the show they will offer is bound to be th ve: finest amateur affair ever held in this city. Miss Jennie Blair has charge of the pro- gramme for the evening and has as her assistants Miss Grace Spreckels, Miss L lie Spreckels, Miss Katherine Dillon. A. F. Tubbs, Mrs. Chauncey R. Wi and Mrs. Watson D. Fennimore. Mrs. George B. Sommers is in charge of the afternoon programme and has for h assistants Mrs. Linda H. Bryan, Mrs. R. Cluness Jr., Mrs. Wakefleld Baker an Miss Hyde. 4 Mrs. George G. Carr is in charge of the fetching sextet. . . I think about the noblest thing I ever heard of 1s Mrs. Ed Danforth's muni cent gift—$5000 to the Elmhurst Home Convalescents of the Children’s Hospit: Mrs. Danforth was about to go to Euro and had arranged to spend $5000 in h trip abroad. While she was planning itinerary her attention was called to wants of the convalescent home. Danforth personally investigated the q tion, and the resuit was that she aba doned her trip and handed over to management of the hospital the mone she had intended to spend in enjoyable travel. Just at present I would not care to be Mrs. Danforth’s secretary and have answer the many commendatory letters the lady is receiving. B ittt el @ wife and C. L. Pinney, at the New Am- sterdam; J. Morton, at the Hoffman. From Oakland—A. W. Mowry, at the Hoftman; S. D. Nesmith, at the Astor. _From San Jose—E. G. Northrop, at tha Victoria; Mrs. 1. A. Graham, at the Man- hattan. From San Diego—K. A. Parrott, at m; Vendome. Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. * —_——— Choice candies. Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —————— | Cal. Glace fruit i0c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_———— | How to make money. Read the pointers in the Wasp's Financial articles every week, * g v oot el Drunkenness and all drug habits cured at Willew Bark Sanitarium, 1839 Polk. = _— Towrsend's California glace fruits, s0c a | pound. in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- | kets. 'A nice present for Eastern friends. | 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building. > —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 310 Mont. gomery street Telephone Main 1042, s —— .. k2 - THE SCIENTISTS ARE ALL AGOG! MRS. PIPER, great medium, CONFESSES. Read her own story in NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. e I ¥ ER, % A