The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1901. WEDNESDAY............... OCTOBER 30, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. BB T SRR SO TR S Adéress All Communicstions to W. 8. LEAEE, Msuager. MANAGER'S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 e i S PSS ek PUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, S, ¥. Telephone Press 201. DAILY CALL Oncluding Sunday) DAILY CALL (ncluding £unday), DAILY CALL—By Single Month EUNDAY CALL. One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarGed when requested. Mall subscribers In ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o insure = prompt and correct compliance with their request. PAKLAND OFFICE.. ...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicage. (ong Distance Telephone “‘Central 2613.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON...... «++.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH... 30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. BRANCH OFFICES—G2 Montzomery, corner of Clay, open wuntil $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open untfl 9:30 o'clock. €33 MecAllister, open until $:3) o'clock. €15 Lerkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, cpen until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, eorner Sixteenth, open until $ o'clock. 1036 Valencla, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corper Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 200 Fillmore, open until $ p. m. -_— AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—*"The Henrietta.” o Vaudeville. —*'Sporting Life.” ‘armen.” 1 e Great Northwest.” d Opera-house—" My Friend From India.” Grand opera, commencing November 11. Tennessee's Pardner.” 00 and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and Fisc} Vaudeville. Sutro Baths—Open nights. AUCTION SALES. By W. P. Beauchamp—This day, bazaar goods, at 828 How- a street. at 37 Doyle—This day, & —— RISE OF POINT RICHMOND. at 11 o'clock, Horses, HEN the Santa Fe secured terminal facili- W at Point Richmond it was by many sup- posed to be a temporary expedient, to be abandoned when adequate yard room and water front could be secured farther down the bay. This idea raust now be abandoned. While the Santa Fe may cure convenient landing of its passen- se sake of a shorter ferriage to San Francisco, its landing plant at Point Richmond s destined to become a permanent commercial and transportation adju to San Francisco. For all direct land carriage this city is as much on ew York is. The bulk of its landward traffic must always reach it by ferry, and puUrpos the enlarging accommodations on its water front indicate that its incoming and outgoing commerce, continentzl and ocean. is to be by water. The Santa ond emphasizes the value of with rail trans- ¥e road at Point Richmc deep water connection immediately portation. No expensive mole had to be built and the cost of continuai dredging is avoided. The same tage has been sought by the Standard il Company, which is locating its plant there, and the more recent purchase of 500 acres on the same iront by J. P. Morgan discloses the value put upon such immediate deep water contact by business men. The effect upon San Francisco will be beneficial. It means that this city will transact its business along the whole eastern shore of the bay, and that its great- est concentration and best development will be where ship and car can come together. All of this business deep water fro will be tributary to San Francisco, just as the count- less business establishments on-New York Bay, Long Island Sound and North River are tributary to New York City. What San Francisco has needed has been the touch of ship and car. In that respect the Sound ports have had an advantage over us which they have wisely improved. It is a facility that takes a burden off commerce. -On the Atlantic side of the continent it has always resulted in the attraction and Great sums have been expended, as at Galveston and Savannah, to secure it. concentration of commerce. This city is fortunate in having it so near to her | water front and in such easy touch with all her actvities, Z Every added facility increases commerce. - Per- haps the constructors of the San Joaquin Valley Rail- way builded wiser than they knew, but it is certain that in secking the Point Richmond terminal they showed great business foresight. Since the construction of the Central Pacific road, a vast and valuable enterprise and bold in its day, California has had no equally bold and valuable en- terprise until the projectors of the San Joaquin Val- ley road entered upon their work. Its absorption by the Santa Fe system completed its efficiency, and brought the long looked for second transcontinental line to this city. Those who thought honestly that one road sufficed for the carriage of our trade can now witness the interesting spectacle of the two lines pushed to their utmost capacity to transport it. Both are enlarging their equipment, their yard room and all of their facilities, and increase these as they may, production and the demands of commerce fol- Jow closely upon every expansion of accommoda- tions. It is doubtless the fact that if one road only had been here it would have proved madequate to answer the demands upon it. So those who looked npon the San Joaquin Valley project as a mere ideality, useful only because it re- sponded to a sentiment in favor of a rival road, re- gardless of any demand for it, prove to have been mistaken. It was not an ideality, but a first-class commercial reality, in the realization of which com- merce has prospered and both roads have flourished. This is the law of commercial action. An addition to facilities always stimulates their use to an increase equal to that addition. Both of our transcontinental roads will find this law pushing them for a long time to come, and the Santa Fe will not soon be able to stop the enlargement of its terminal facilities at Point Richmond to accommodate its .local.and through traffic, and meet the needs of such extensive business plants as are foretold by the operations of Morgan and the Standard Oil people. LET Us TALK MR. WELLS. HE election is near at hand and the candidates are going to judgment upon the record they have made since their nomination, and, if they seek such offices as per- mit personal discretion like that of Mayor and Supervisors, the power behind their nomination is involved in the same judgment. Mr. Wells, you have said a few things as a candidate. You said you would go off the ticket if Mr. Flint did not go on. He did not go on and you have not gone off. Why was it so important that Flint should go on the ticket, why did he not go on, and when | he did not, why did you not go off, as you said you would? What light did you see that kept you on the ticket? The people have not seen it. Will you tell them why you stayed, why you are the political Casabianca of the campaign, and remain on the burning deck without Flint to keep you company? The people are going to vote for and against you for Mayor. They want a man of decision of character in that responsible executive place. You may make some votes by telling them why you changed your mind and stayed after your positive demand was ignored. Who ignored it? Who induced you to | stay and what was the inducement? You have $aid also that if the candidates for Supervisors had been.nominated first you would have refused to go on the ticket with them. If your heading such a ticket was so improper that you would have refused knowing what it was, how did the situation | change when it was sprung on you after your nomination? As a question of political | logic can you tell why your leadership of an improper Supervisor ticket became proper because you were nominated first, when it would have been improper if you had been nominated last?. In what respect did the chronological order of your nomination .heal the immorality and impropriety of the Supervisor nominations? Your name Asa means a gum, that was used anciently for healing, and so came to be used as the designation of a physician—a healer. Now, have you gummed that Supervisor ticket because it was nominated last, when you could not have gummed the same men had they been nominated first? The people would like to know how and why | the order in which the nominations were made has affected the fitness of those candidates | whom you would have refused to lead had you seen them first. Do you know, Mr. Wells, that according to your own statement of the case you were bunkoed by the bosses, who put you in the position of leading a ticket sight and unseen, and then sprung on you a Supervisor ticket that so nauseated you that you threatened to throw up your own nomination unless Flint went on? Now, why Flint? Was it because you counted noses and reputations on that ticket and decided that Flint would hold the balance of power between dishonesty and unfitness and fitness and hon~ esty, and that your own reputation would be saved and safe if you had him thers to control the board? Was that not your real reason, Mr. Wells? If it were, why did you surrender? You said “the leaders and Mr. Herrin” agreed with you. Then why did not Flint go on? If you will tell the people these things it may help you. It will at least be dealing frankly with them, and that is a commendable policy in a public man. You have brushed aside the question of public franchises and other issues, as being too petty for your consideration, and have said that the people “have ‘to take a Mayor on trust.” Now, if they were sure they were taking you on trust, Mr. Wells, it might be all right. But they don’t know that and nothing that you have done or said makes them sure that they would be taking you on trust. In view of what you have said about your own Supervisor ticket and of your vacillation in the Flint matter it seems that you are not your own man; you are some other man’s man. They don’t care to take that oiher man on trust. “The leaders and Mr. Herrin” appear to the people as the ones who are to be taken on trust if you are elected. Now, frankly, Mr. Wells, the people would rather deal with Mr. Herrin first hand and not second hand. He is the real scene and you seem to be the curtain. On you are painted good personal reputation, a fair record in the Auditor’s office, and other pleasing features. But when the bell taps and you are rolled up, the stage presents an entirely different aspect. “The leaders and Mr. Herrin” are there with schemes and plans un< known to the people and not seen on you, as the drop curtain. The people don’t want to take them on trust. They made you lead a Supervisor ticket that made your gorge rise. They made you stay on the ticket when you deglared you would go off. They liked you for a drop curtain. They wanted to present the people with ‘a fairy scene, may we say with wells of living water? and you suited them. Yes, when it comes to taking one on trust, the people want to know who it is. You did the pig-in-a-poke act when you took an unnamed Supervisor ticket on trust, and see where you landed, Mr. Wells! How can you advise.the people to do as you did, and to be deceived as you were? You say now, Mr. Wells, that the charter compels a Board of Supervisors to be good and that under the charter it can’t be bad. Who told you that, Mr, Wells? How do you know it to be true? When did any form of government make dishonest officers honest? What discipline, rules, regulations and written forms, constitutions or statutes ever wrought moral change in men by their mere phraseology and form? Mr. Wells, don’t play the siren and sing that song to lull the public-stomach into peace with that Supervisor ticket that turned yours. MR. WELLS’ R. WELLS’ speeches at the more important M political gatherings held by the supporters of his ticket have been published in full by The SPEECHES, COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION, USTICE BREWER of the United States Su- J preme Court in his address at the recent Yale festival pointed out the relation of education to Call, and any one who has had sufficient interest in his candidacy to read them has found in them ample cvidence upon which to base an estimate of Mr. Wells’ ability to talk coherently for as much as two or three minutes at a time. To one phase of those speeches we desire to direct the attention of the peo- ple of San Francisco, for outside of any question of policy involved it is a matter of importance to have in the Mayor’s office a2 man who can formulate his ideas with definiteness and express them in intelligible English. Mr. Wells has not been called upon to make an extempore speech nor to make an argumentative speech. The uttermost required of him at his princi- pal mass-meetings has been to speak about five min- utes, and ample time has been allowed him for prep- aration. Yet, with all that time for preparation, Mr. Wells has never yet uttered from the platform as many as 300 words of lueid and logical meaning. In one of his short speeches he said that certain issues “are momentous,” and in the next breath said a can- didate for Mayor should not be troubled with such “petty questions.” Ke began his speech at B’nai B'rith Hall on Monday evening in this way: “I see that I have been quoted as making a speech at the banquet at the Palace Hotel, wherein it is illuminated with a beautiful portrait, large display type, and as saying that the present Board of Supervisors is a good Board of Supervisors, and that in all of my resi- dence here of forty years it is the best board I ever saw.” This is a sample of the Wells style of speech. 1t is not requisite that the Mayor of San Francisco be an orator, but it is requisite that he be able to talk coherently. His duties will require him to act as spokesman of the city in receiving distinguished guests, in receiving the President if he come to Cali- fornia next summer, as has been suggested, and in welcoming the delegates to important conventions that may be held here. While, therefore, a Mayor need not aim at oratory, he must at least have the fac- ulty of putting together a half-dozen sentences, each of which will be intelligible in itself and not contradictory to the sentence that precedes it or that follows it. Were there no other ground for ob- jecting to Mr. Wells, his speeches alone would prove him to be utterly unfit to perform the duties of the Mayor of San Francisco. R MR T TA SR S The Republican campaign in Ohio is booming along with all the big speakers of the party in the field, but the Democrats appear to have gone fishing. good citizenship and emphasized the responsibility of the individual to public affairs. Many evils exist in the social fabric and in government, and they are sometimes of a nature that cannot be effectively reached by the courts. It depends upon the people of any given community whether such defects shall be remedied or left to operate unchecked. Speaking of the proper method of dealing with these pernicious tendencies, the Justice said: “Appeal must be taken to the great court of public opinion, whose decrees are irresistible. In that court every man is counsel and every man is judge’ That court may not stay the movement, but will control it. It can make the movement with all the wonderful things attending it subserve the higher thought of en- nobling the individual. Who shall lead and guide in that court? Not the demagogue appealing for self- ish purposes to ignorance and prejudice. We turn to the educated lover of his country, the one who be- lieves in her institutions; who would not destroy but keep pure, and is filled evermore with the thought that true service of the public is the greatest glory of the man.” At this juncture in San Francisco there are many issues submitted to the tribunal of. which Justice Brewer spoke. Certain grasping corporations, in alliance with the worst elements of our politics, are striving to bring about the election of a Board of Supervisors that will not only give the corporations unfair profits in their dealings with the city but will open the town to gambling, pool-selling, side- entrance saloons and kindred forms of vice. The ap- peal, therefore, goes to the court in which every man is a judge. It is made to the intelligent lover of his country and of his city. The responsibility of the individual in this case is not slight. It cannot be shirked by the easy process of voting a particular ticket becauge that ticket'hap— pens to bear the name of the national party to which the individual belongs. National politics has nothing to do with this contest, which is one of morality against immorality. It is the duty of every citizen to weigh the case upon its merits, to vote for the wel- fare of the city and defeat those who are trying to loot it. X ———— ——— It is estimated that the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo will result in a loss to the stockholdets of something like $4,000,000; but then Buffalo has had a great deal of fun out of the affair, so perhaps she has had her money’s worth. HOME RULE PARTY IN HAWAII NAMES WILCOX FOR GOVERNORP > ONOLULU, Oct. 22.—The Bulletin says: “The Independent Home Rulers have set their minds on Robert W. Wilcox as the next Governor of the Territory of Hawali and no one else will they have. The attempt at substitution for the recent petition in favor of Wilcox and sent to President Roosevelt of another one in favor of Sec- retary Cooper has been branded by the party as an attempt on the part of its onemies to throw discredit on the Inde- pendent Home Rulers. “A meeting of the executive committee of the Home Rulers was held last Thurs- day night. There were fifty-two mem- bers present, there being but sixty-five on the committee. This large attendance was undoubtedly due to the announce- ment that governorship matters would be discussed. Besides the fifty-two there were present seven or eight members of the Legislature. Robert W. Wilcox, Ha- wall’s delegate to Washington, was umong those present. b — + “There was a long discussion on the Governorship of Hawall. Several persons were mentioned as being in the fight. After much talk and a thorough airing of the subjeet it was decided that Robert ‘W. Wilcox was the only man the Home Rule party cared to indorse. The sense of the meeting was unanimously in favor of the present delegate. “As a result of the discussion and the apparent sense of the meeting in favor o S B 2 2 e T T S e e ] ANSWERS TO QUERIES. THE NAVY YARD-L. V. C. Fort Bragg, Cal. The navy yard at Mare Is- land is open to visitors every day except Sunday. NO PREMIUM—J. W., City. No pre- mium is offered by dealers for §5 pieces of 1846 and 1833, nor for $2 50 pieces of 1852 and 1878, 'VICE PRESIDENT—N. N,, City. Thera is no Vice President of the United States at this time, but there is an acting Vice President in "Ep person of the President of the Senate, Senator Frye. FATHER'S RESPONSIBILITY — Old Subscriber, City. The question asked about the responsibility of a father for injury done by his son to another boy in a fight is one that can be answered only upon a full knowledge of the facts. TRUCKEE—A reader, Eureka, Cal. The population of Truckee, Nevada County, Cal., is about 1500. The distance from San Francisco is 209.3 miles. The railroad schedule time is about twelve hours, There s a paper published there called the Republican, a semi-weekly. HOW HAPPY—R. J. C,, City. The quo- tation “How happy could I be with either, ‘Were t'other dear charmer away! But while ye thus tease me together, To nelther a word will 1 say.” Is from Gay’'s “Beggar's Opera,” act 2, scene 2, written in 1727. ‘ PROPERTY-D., Oakland, Cal. Neither the wife nor the husband has any interest in the separate property. acquired before or after marrlage. If the wife holds real estate as her separate property she has the right to sell the same without con- sulting her husband and she does not re- quire his signature to the deed. PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP—Subscriber, Lodi, Cal. Platonic friendship, also called Platonic love, is a spiritual affection be- tween two persons of the opposite sex. It is the friendship of man and woman without mixture of what is usually called love. Plato strongly advocated this pure affection, and hence its distinctive name, CASINO-W, B,, Thermalito, Cal. In the absence of any agreement to count points made in the game of casino the rule n the last deal for the one who holds cards to count first and if cards are even, then the one who holds spades Is entitled to count first. The order of counting is cards, spades, big casino, little casino, aces and sweeps. 3 MARE ISLAND-8. O. T. C,, City. An fsland is a plece of land that is entirely surrounded by water. The definitions of island do not set out what kind of water surrounds such a plece of land. Mare Is- land is surrounded by San Pablo Bay, by Mare Island Straits and by Napa Slough. As long as California has been a State that piece of land has been known as Mare Island. If the slough was filled in then what is known as an island would be called a peninsula. —_————— ‘Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. * —_———— Choice candles, Tonwsend's, Palace Hotel* f Cal. Glace Fruit 60¢ per 1b at Townsend's * * Townsend's California glace frults, 50c & und, in fire-etched boxes or Jap, bas- ts. A nice present for Eastern &xm. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building. * } b!-x:ed‘l i:formauon supplied dally to usiness houses and public_men b: ping Bureau xfAue‘x::'l).emn» io%‘- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, of Mr. Wilcox a set of resolutions to be forwarded to President Roosevelt was presented, adopted and signed by Presi- dent D. Kalauokalani, Vice President James Kaulla and Secretary Nakookoo. “It is said on good authority that the Independent Home Rule party is consid- ering the name of Representative Fred W. Beckley as delegate to Washington in place of Wilcox, should the latter be appeinted Governor.” A CHANCE TO SMILE. The Tip.—*Can’t you give me a nickel, sir? I am starving,” said the beggar. “Certainly, my man. Here's thirty cents—five for your meal and a quarter for the waiter,” replied the kind-hearted pedestrian.—Harlem Life. “Harry,” she sald, thoughttully. ““What is it?” responded the business man, rather shortly. “I wish you could rearrange your busi- ness a little bit.” “How?" “So as to be a bear on the stock ex- change instead of at home.”—Exchange. ‘worried He—There, dear, after toiling and plan- ning for years, we have at last been able to buy this beautiful home, and you ought to be perfectly happy. She—But, I'm not. PROMINENT MEN OF HAWAII WHO ARE TO THE FORE IN PO- LITICAL AFFAIRS. * @ i PERSONAL - MENTION. W. Coblitz, German professor at Tokio University, is at the Palace. F. E. Dunlap, a prominent attorney of Stockton, is staying at the Lick. C. E. Tinham, an attorney of Red Bluff, is among the arrivals at the Grand. 'W. C. Potts, a capitalist of Jamestowa, is staying at the Grand. He is accompa- nied by his wife. Samuel McMurtrie, a railroad contrac- tor of Denver, is among the recent arrl- vals at the Palace. R. C. Dorsey, a merchant of Fresno, accompanied by his wife, is spending a few days at the Lick. R. D. Hatch, manager of the Novato, is in the city and has made his head- quarters at the Lick. Captain French, U. 8. A.,-who was In charge of the military post at Nome, ! staying at the Occidental. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: San Francisco—F. M. O'Brien, at the Albert; G. Croxen, M. P. Boss, L O, Boss, Miss Boss, N. A. Menderter, M. Shepard, at the Holland; D. C. Henby, J. A. Gill, at the Hoffman; Mrs. T. H. McDonald, N. H. Neustadter, Mrs. M. Ralston, at the Imperial; C. F. Wright, at the Sturte- vant; F. H. Buck and wife, Mrs. J. B. Cory, at the Manhattan; J. F. Donahue, F. M. Greenwood, at the Marlborough; J. Dubols, at the St. Denis. Los Angeles—F. L. Hossack, at tha Astor. San Jose—C. D. Blaney, at the Man- hattan. —————————— The young men deserve great credit for fixing up, considering that they haven't the hope that some rich girl will take a fancy to them. A girl always stands a show of being overtaken by a prince on a noble charger, and though the charger turns out to be a seat in a milk wagon she is just as happy.—Atchison Globe. —_————————— He—What's the matter? She—I know we shall never be able to sell it.—Harper’s Bazaar. In Next Sunday’s Call 20 Pages Human Intercst Slories 20 Beginning November 3 Beginning November 3 Special Arrangements Have Been Made For Contributions From the Following Famous Werilers: THE CALL’S ILLUSTRATIONS EXCEL until December 1. nado $60. Inquire at 4 New Montgomery st. THE SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE SECTION WILL BE DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO MATTERS OF LOCAL INTEREST BY BEST KNOWN WESTERN WRITERS, AN EXTRA EIGHT-PAGE SEC- TION FOR WOMEN AND CHIL- DREN, WITH HALF-TONE IL- LUSTRATIONS. BRET HARTE, JOAQUIN MIL- LER, MADGE MORRIS, INA D. 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