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

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Tivoli—"The Belle of New York.” Central—""Lights o' London."” Grand Opera-house—"La Traviata.” Alcazar—"For Fair Virginia.” Columbia—*"The First Duchess of Marlborough.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. California—""Shore Acres.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening Fischer's—Vaudeville, Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By 3. 3. Doyle—This day, at 11 o'clock, Horses and Mares, 32} Sixth street By 5. Watkins—Thursday, at 11 o'clock, Horses, at 1106 Golden Gate avenue. THE *“ WIRELESS” AT WORK. PERI) NTS in dispatching weather reports E bu wireless telegraphy from the Farallones to Doint Reyes are now in operation. A skilled By had practice in the new tem of in the East, has been sent out b) the De- Agriculture to install the service, and he is now operating it. We have therefore virtually at- tained the wireless telegraphy for which The Call has so long worked, and which has been so much desired but by all persons who are erested in shipping and shipping news. The subject has been so fully discussed that the public is familiar with the benefits that may be ex- pected to accrue from the new service. Hereafter we shall receive much earlier notice of the arrival partment of ot by the weather bureau only, conditions of the weather, and e exceptionally ng under any of fog the benefits will the tallation of the system there will of e the adoption of it on all important ves- it will be possible for them to communi- e with the Farallones and both give and receive enter port. That in itself will nense an\nn\ag( and will far more than re- t of the service to the Government. fits which the wireless s: aphing wil fer upon the shipping i of the port are thus apparent to the understanding of all, it is not to be overlooked that the service has lled by the Department of Agriculture and gned primarily to assist the weather bureau in course cor news long before th be an i been inst is desi makin srecasts of the movements of rains, storms One of the difficulties with which the of- of the bureau have had to contend on this has been that of getting any sort of informa- tion concerning the weather to the west of us. Storms and rains and fogs would come out of the without any warning coming to the weather The station at the Farallones will afford in dealing with that difficulty. It will en- able the forecast officer to learn earlier than he has been able to do in the past what sort of weather is on the ocean in our vicinity and in what direction its ds are moving. Great as are the immediate benefits to be expected of wireless telegraph service from the Farallones to oc wi this city, they are sure to be exceeded by the bene- fits which will be obtained in the future. The new style of telegraphy is yet in its infancy. It is but a few years ago that The Call achieved for the first time in history the feat of obtaining news by that system of telegraphing, and when the feat was accomplished it was met by a storm of ridicule by the yellow press. Now the system is in operation at all the great ports of the world, and on the Atlantic nearly every large steamer and many smaller ones are equipped with it. Tt is hard to set limits to the expanding usefulness of such a system as this, and it may be accounted certain that the benefits flowing from it will steadily increase for many a year to come. The Buffalo Exposition lost money, while that at Glasgow is said to have yielded a surplus of some- thing more than $500,000, but then Buffalo has the satisfaction of knowing she had an electric exhibit that beat the world and that money couldn’t pay for anywhere else. It has been stated that the immediates cause of the death of Li Hung Chang was excitement cgused by a wrangle with the Russians over the Manchurian question, and it is probable a good many more men will perish over that same issue before it is settled. It is stated that at the automobile show in New York the new machines were heavier than the old patterns, but that does not look like improvement in the right direction< Thers seems to be nothing of Democracy left ex- cept the Solid South, and that is solid on]y on the face guestion | 1 { | i THE SAN RANGE LEASING. HE San Francisco Post raises its editorial voice Tm a great height against what it supposes a lease law will be, to compel stock-owners to pay for their use of the public domain as a range. Inasmuch as when such a law was proposed in Texas the big stock men fought it, and as they fought the leasing policy adopted by the Northern Pacific Railway, and in each case the plan carried by the support of the small stock men and actual settlers, it would be easy for us to say that the Post’s opposition is influenced by the big stock men, who don’t want to pay for pasture, and under the present lawless rule of the free range have the force to exclude the small stock men entirely. But we don’t say that, for we don’t believe it. The Post is influenced by a partial and in- sufficient view of conditions and an entire misappre- hension of what the leasers want. No such law as the Post describes could ever pass Congress. Indeed; it is doubtful if it would receive the courtesy of reference to a committee. Primarily it is the irrigators who want a lease law, in order to check the present decrease of moisture available to make fertile land for cultivation. The physical re- sults of free use of the arid public domain are the cause of the greatest solicitude on the part of the ob- servers of the conditions on which settlement of the West depends. When it is known that removal of the protection of moisture even in States like New York is decreasing the fertility of the soil, so that that State, when almost too late, has been compelled to put-public authority forward to arrest aridity, one may estimate the need of a policy of conservation in the arid country west of the one hundredth meridian. Such policy is impossible as long as the stock range is free. If free it is overstocked, the vegetable cover of the soil which protects moisture is destroyed and the desert appears. Vast tracts in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Eastern Oregon have been de- stroyed by this process. The amount of stock fed on the range decreases every year,and as the range is the most economical producer of beef, that food is rising in price to the level of a luxury. What remedy is there? None is proposed except that which re- deemed the grazing country of Australia and has re- newed the ranges of Texas. This was done by leas- ing the range, compelling payment for its use and renewing its forage and capacity to carry stock. No 1 law on the subject can pass Congress that does not leave every foot of the public domain open and free to homestead and mineral entry, protect the entry- man by forfeiting the lease of any leaseholder who in- terferes with him, and that does not amply and ade- quately protect the present agricultural settler and freeholder and every stock-grower, down to the least. To say that _such a law cannot be drawn is to de- nounce us as inferior to the Australians and Texans and the land men of the Northern Pacific Railway. All of these did it, and now neither settler nor free- holder nor small stock man would in either case re- turn to the free and lawless range if he could. It is too much the fashion to denounce great public poli- cies that concern the physical conditions of the coun- try. Even yet the forest reservations are bitterly at- tacked in many parts of the country, but usually by men who consult some selfish interest opposed to the public good. Many public interests demand that the men who use the public domain shall pay for its use. The con- sumers of beef, who find it rising steadily in price, require the restoration of economy in its production. The irrigators have a right to use the public do- ‘main as a producer of revenue to provide irrigation works, and to this end to compel its users to pay rent. The domain belongs to the people. A few thousand of them have grown rich by its use free of cost, and in using it free they are destroying it for settlement by turning it into a desert. There seems no valid argument against leasing. If the anti-leasers | will concede that a law can be framed protective of al | rights, and will then look for reasons why this should not be done, they will be doing a public service, for the public want to krow if any reason exists why such a law shall not pass. s e et Roosevelt's Thanksgiving proclamation was issued at a time when most Americans were so busy with politics that they had little attention to give to any- thing else, and consequently it may be just as well to remind the public that among other things he said: “We can best prove our thankfulness to the Almighty by the way at which on this earth and at this time each of us does his duty to his fellow man.” T where not local, were the same as in 1896 and 1900. By the national platform, the utterances of President McKinley and the expression of State platforms the Republican party stood committed to sound money, commercial expansion, well adjusted protection and the re-creation of our merchant marine, and there was no break on the line any- where. Mr. Bryan made his final campaign in opposition to these principles, and lost on the field which he chose to battle for. It is remarkable that Iowa was the only State in which the Democracy clung to Bryanism. He entered that State for an extensive campaign. division and dissatisfaction that the candidate for Governor publicly objected to it, and as Bryan per- sisted notwithstanding his protest, the State Com- mittee formally disavowed any responsibility for Mr. Bryan, his appointments and his meetings. This was not enough. Bryan made his campaign and the party went into paralysis. The Republicans cast a larger percentage of the vote than at any- election since the Civil War, and had a majority close to 100,000. Now that it is over many who were silent in their indignation outspokenly attribute the result to Bryan's presence. Only six counties were car- ried by Mr. Phillips, and parts of the local tickets were lost in some of these.- In his own State Mr. Bryan fared no better, though he made an airtight fusion with the Populists and other elements of discontent. It is now apparent that whatever new alignment may appear in our fu- ture politics, it will not be affected by Bryanism. Nor will it likely reflect the peculiar views of the Quincy Democracy of Massachusetts. Perhaps the generation now active need not concern itself about such alignment at all, since it is apparent that until 1908 the country .is sure to remain under Republican control. Mr. Bryan has all the time failed to appre- ciate that his leadership in\the last two Presidential campaigns has driven vast numbers of the Northern »mocracy bodily into the Republican party, and they show no signs of coming out again. They were the thinking men who had reached the age of judgment and discretion, and who find at their age that it is useless to go back and participate in any attempt at rehabilitation of their old party. Their example has influenced almost an equal num- BRYAN NOT POPULAR. HE elections for the year are over. The issues, His appearance at once produced such | FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13, 1901 ber of younger men, so that there is provided a sort of perpetual succession to the come-outers of 1896. When the Republican party is beaten it will be by some great schism in its own ranks, and the cause of such a division does not appear now by any analysis of existing conditions. The party will go forward in the path Phat it has steadfastly followed, fortunate in having so far at- tracted to it the best and highest elements from the ranks of its opposition. There was a time that the Democracy consisted of the Southern States and New York City. Now this combination is broken, for it is proved that that party can no longer rely on New York City; either in Pres- idential or local elections, and the party takes on more and more the appearance of a purely sectional organization, with the race question as its sole ex- cuse for existence. This winter will probably see the final victory of an isthmian canal and its necessary collateral, the re- creation of a merchant marine, both as Republican achievements. President Roosevelt’s policy will satisfy the, aspira- tion of the country for the control of the trusts by curbing their power for harm and destroying their stimulus of speculation. Then what is:left? Mr. Bryan may continue to talk about our commercialism and putting the dollar above the man, but Republican policy will continue to make more dollars per man than the country ever had before, and make it easier for the man to get them than ever before. e — Here is a Pennsylvania story showing a variety of life in the good town of Wilkesbarre: Two women quarreled so often and so loudly over their back fence that the neighbors put up a fence sixteen feet high and warned the women not to break it down. The women were unable to see each other any more, but they found a knothole in the fgnce and shouted scoldings through that. Thereupon the neighbors appointed a committee to inform the women that un- less they quit wrangling they would be run out of town. It is in that way the Pennsylvanians maintain their reputation for peace and quietness. e ——— . THE RECIPROCITY CONVENTION. N next Tuesday there is to assemble at Wash- O ington City a gathering to be -known as “The National Reciprocity Convention.” It is not to be representative of the people as a whole, nor even of all the great interests of the people, the membership being confined to those ‘“‘actively engaged as principals o- executive officers in manu- facturing firms or corporations.” That means, of course, that the object of the convention is to get together a number of manufacturers who can be united in favor of a programme of reciprocity and then make use of the organization in promoting re- ciprocity treaties, " While it is the belief that the convention will de- clare in favor of a system of reciprocity treaties that will open foreign markets for our manufactured goods, no matter at what cost to other industries, it is by no means certain it will do so. Upon the vexed question of reciprocity the manufacturers are themselves divided. Mr. Carnegie, for example, has wecently pointed out that reciprocity would be diffi- cult to devise and more difficult to maintain. Never- theless, at the annual meeting of the National Asso- tion of Manufacturers there was disclosed a strong sentiment in favor of reciprocity, and accordingly those who believe the convention will support a pol- icy of that kind are not witheut good reasons for their opinion. It is to be remembered that Republican reciprocity was defined in the platform adopted by the National Convention at Philadelphia in these words: “We favor the associated policy of reciprocity so directed as to open our markets on favorable terms for what we do not ourselves produce, in return for free for- eign markets. If the manufacturers ask for that kind of reciprocity there will be no objection on the part of any stanch Republican protectionist. If, however, they ask for a reciprocity that would ex- pose our wool, fruit and sugar or other industries to ruinous competition in order that they may obtain freer markets for manufactured goods in Argentine, France and Germany, then there will be objection. The object of calling the convention to meet at this particular time at Washington City was undoubt- edly that of enablitig it to exert influence upon Con- gress in favor of the pending reciprocity treaties. Those treaties have long ago been weighed by the people and condemned by the voice of those who are best fitted to pronounce judgment, upon fiscal mat- ters. Scnatoy Aldrich has emphatically declared against them, and Senator Hoar some months ago expressed a dislike of any kind of reciprocity on the ground that it would take our tariff regulations out of the hands of Congress and place them in the Lands of the State Department. If we undertake any extensive system of reciprocity treaties, then we must surrender our control of our tariff and leave it to be a matter of barter with the diplomats of foreign na- tions. With such valid objections against them the reci- procity treaties already submitted to the Senate were virtually dead. Indeed, some of them are really dead because of the lapse oi the time allowed for the rati- fication. The defeat of the existing treaties, how- ever, would not prevent the negotiation of new ones, uand consequently the forthcoming convention of so powerful a body as that of the manufadturers of the country to consider the policy of reciprocity becomes an event of the first megnitude, The proceedings will be watched 'with interest by the country at large, and by none more keenly than by those who would like to break down the whole protective system, and who are quite ready to make use oi reciprocity as a means of doing it. S It is stated there are 24,000 legitimate physicians and 6000 quacks practicing medicine in the German cmpire. The proportion of four to ‘one: in favor of legitimacy could hardly be matched anywhere else. In this country, if any comprehensive census could be obtained of all, who carry on some kind of quackery in curing disease it would probably be found that the quacks exceeded the legitimate doc- tors in number instead of being equal only to one- fourth of them. i _— Malvar, the Filipino insurgent who has just issued a proclamation announcing himself as captain gen- eral and reorganizer of the Filipino army, has doubt- less the satisfaction of knowing that the appointment was unanimous, for it appears he consulted no one but himself in regard to it. —_—_ ‘We are going to hear a good deal about reciprocity this winter, but it is not likely any of it will be put into practice for the simple reason that none of it has yet been devised that is worth practicing. S WELA The Boers continue to show an ability to give the British every now and then a surpnse that jars a whole regiment. PLANS MADE FOR A SPLENDID M’KINLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL KIND IN THE WORLD. — PROPOSED NEW HOSPITAL AT NARBERTH, PA., AS IT WILL APPEAR WHEN COMPLETED. MANY INNO- VATIONS WILL BE INTRODUCED, AND IT IS SAID THE INSTITUTION WILL BE THE FINEST OF ITS Montgomery County, Pa., Memorial Hospital which the structure the k BiMty and attractiveness. The style of the building will be of the Greek order. plans provide for the erection of three fireproof main build- ings, one for diphtheria, one for scarletina and one for small- pox, and three isolated cottages, each coutaining four rooms. for the treatment of other contagious diseases. The three main buildings wiil be built of brick and terracotta and identical in construction, being sixty-five feet wide and one hundred fect long, with an administration building in fromt, in which will .be located the quarters of the resident physicians, the nurses and employes. In the rear, or wings, are to be the patients. form a feature of this hospital. will be of enamel cement. AND valued at $14,000 has been purchased at Narberth, as a site for a McKinley ill cost $300,000. architect has paid careful attention to the three great canons of the profession—utility, sta- located the quarters for Here many innovations will be introduced. Novel methods of sanitation and medical treatment will The floors, walls and ceilings In each room will be a small lobby, where the physician all other articles used In planning windows will be mas The there will be placed be a register, connec a furnace, it will be chimney. between the patients placed in every room the slightest risk of kind in the world. which the air will filter. The buildings when may keep his rubber coat, antiseptics and in the treatment of the patients in that particular department, thus obviating the danger attendant upon the carrying of articles from one sickroom to another. The system of ventilation will be an entirely new one. The de immovable and at the base of each a layer of compressed cotton, through Under each patient’s bed there will ting with a shaft, through which the air will be sucked by means of electrical fans and carried to a centrally located power house, where, after passing through purified and find its way out through This system will be so devised as to furnish a com: plete change ‘of air in every room at least every ten minutes. Another new feature will be a system of communication and their friends. A telephone will be and the visitors will be able to converse with the sick from a lodge on the grounds without running contagion. completed will be the finest of their ANSWERS TO QUERIES. /WEAK LUNGS—S. F. T. C., City. The best places in the State of California for people with weak lungs are those which are distant from the ocean breezes. TRANSPORTS—T. C. G., Oakland, Cal. For positions in the United States trans- port service make application at the office at Folsom-street wharf, San Francisco. HOOP SNAKE—Subscriber, City. The abastor erythrogrammus, or so-called hoop snake, possesses none of the re- markable qualities attributed to it by tra- dition. The statement that when danger approaches it takes the end of its tail in its mouth, forms a complete hoop and then rolls away is mere fiction. YACHTS—A Subscriber, San Rafael, Cal. Any first class bookseller can pro- curefor you books on the building of | vachts. There have been published a number of articles on that subject in| periodical literature during the past few | years. Such can‘be traced by examining | Poole’s Index of Periodical Literature, 10; be seen in any of the libraries. | PROPERTY—Silma, Dixon, Cal. In| California if the wife dies the entire com- munity property passes to the surviving husband without administration. If the | wife is possessed of separate property it is | subject to her testamentary disposition. If she alesintestate and leaves a husband | and but one child, the property goes to | the surviving husband and child, share | and share alike. | HIGH SCHOOL FRATS—B., Santa| Clara, Cal. If a number of young men | of a high school desire to organize a chap- ter of one of the high schosl fraternities | they should communicate with onel already in existence and from the secre- | tary obtaln all information as to mode of procedure to have the chapter insti- tuted. AUTHOR WANTED—Q., City. This correspondent’s desire is to know who was the author of the following. Can any | of the readers of this department furnish | the information? The sunlight glitters keen and bright ‘Where miles away Lies stretching to my dazzled sight ! A luminous belt of light, Beyond the dark pine bluffs and Wastes of sandy gray. FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE—A. L.,| Oakland., Cal. For information in regard to appointments and percentage of those | appointed in a branch of the Federal Gov- | ernment, make application at the depart- ment in which the appointments were made. If there is any good reason why the information asked for should be fur- nished it probably will be given, but as a rule the departments do not answer ques- tions to satisfy mere curiosity. MOLL PITCHER—Vallombrosa, Mendo- cino County, Cal. The woman known in American history as “Moll Pitcher” was born in Pennsyivania. Her name was | Mary Ludwig, daughter of John George | Ludwig, who came to this country from Germany with the Palatines. She was a servant in the family of General Willlam Irvine at Carlisle, Pa., and married a barber named John Hays July 24, 1769. On December 1 he was commissioned gunner in Proctor's First Pennsylvania artillery, Continental line. When he went into active service she followed him, as | did the wives of many soldiers, doing | laundry work for the officers. At the bat- | tle of Monmouth she carried a pitcher giving water to the soldiers and from that fact she was called Moll Pitcher. When her husband was killed at his post she took his place and her conduct so pleased General Greene that he introduced her to General Washington, who made her a sergeant. She was pensioned by the Gov- eynment, afterward married Sergeant George McCaulley, died at the age of 79, and the citizens of Cumberland County, Pa., erected a magnificent monument to ‘her memory. ‘Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. ———————— Choice candles. Tonwsend's, Palace Hotel* —_————————— Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per b at Townsend's ——— Special information supplied dally m business houses and public men b; Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’ nnl gomery street. Telephone Main IML > The Japanese residents of 'racom- ‘Wash., have organized to keep ou disordérly characters from their Sountey. PERSO\AL MEi\TlO\' Dr. Albert ‘V Kirk, the well known oculist, has returned home after a four months’ tour of Eastern cities. —_— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 12—The following Californiars are in New York: From San Francisco—W. E. Boyer and W. H. Tal- bot and wife, at the Imperial; H. W. Colie and wife, at the Cadillac; M. D. Judah, at the Brcadway Central; R. S. Atkins and J. J. Gottlob and wife, the Herald Square; H. W. Brown, the Earlington: J. Dubois, at the Denis; L. Beckett, at the Grand Union; G. I Ives and wife, at the Hoffman, and | D. Smith, at the Sturtevant. From Los Angeles—E. Keltner, at the Herald Séluare. F. S. Smith, at _the As- . Denton, at the Mariboroug! M 35 Penisthn and Mrs. C. W. alker, at the New Amsterdam. City Barber (to Scotch customer after shaving)—Little bay rum, sir? Scotch -~ Visitor—Well, I'm na fond o rum, but I wadna refuse a drap o’ whis- ky.—Pittsburg Pres: | mailed this instead of bringing it A CHANCE TO SMILE. “What!” shouted the Pop politician “Abandon our organization just when everything Is coming our way? Well, [ guess not! Why, the prospects are for only a half-crop of corn, and oats ars clean destroyed.”—Kansas City Journal. Bacon—This year reminds me a good deal of a watch. Egbert—How so? “Why, we know there ought to be a spring in it somewhere, but it's hard to find it."—Yonkers Statesman. The Literary Editor—That fellow Serib- bler sent in a paper this morning entitled “Why Do I Live?” The Editor—What did you do with it” The Literary Editor—Returned it with an inclosed slip saying: “Because you per- sonally.”—Indianapolis New: —_————— . SUMMER RATES in effect at Hotel de} Coro- nado until December 1. Ticket to Coronado and return, including 15 days' board and room, $60. Inquire at 4 New Montgomery st. ADVEBTISEIENTB. 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BRUSI'IESZ’&R Pt brewers, bookbinders, candy-makers cammice: i laundries, paper: ers, printers, painters, shoe stablemen, tar-roofers, tanners, tailors, ete. ‘BUCHANAN BROS., Brush Manufacturers, 609 Sacramento St —— Rionart’s Flaxseed Balsam ‘Will cure your eough; 50 cents; at all druggists’. —— e s Many causes induce gray hair, but Parker's Hair Balsam brings back the youthful color. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15 ets. v - ADVERTISEMENTS. STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY (QF,EOSTON, IN THE STATE OF MASSA- chusetts, on the 3ist day of December, A. D. 1900 and for the year ending on that day. as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California, pursuant to the provisions of Sections 610 arnd 811 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Com- missioner. & CAPITAL Amount of Capital Stock, paid up in Cash w ASSETS. Cash Market Value of all Stocks and nds owned by Company 9553, Cash In Company’s Office. l.g 5!0 19,189 39 Interest due and Accrued on all Stocks and Loans i 2,302 52 lection. Due from other Companies for R:;- - e surance on losses already paid. 42 33 Total Assets ... 624,633 51 LIABILITIES, Losses adjusted and unpaid. 8210 Losses in process of Adjustment or in Suspense .. Gross premiums on Fire Risk ning one year or less, n‘mmn reinsurance 50 per cent. 5,192 31 Gross premiums on Fire Risks, run- ning more than one year, $151,748 05. reinsurance pro rata. Due and accrued for At ate R e All other liabilities. Total Liabilities Received from ail ther sources; Total Income .. EXPENDITURES. Net amount paid for Fire Losses (in- $131, 134 28" cluding §20.961 %, losses of previous years) . Dividends “to Stockholders. allowed for Co: Brokerase Paid for Sal charges for officers. clerks, ete. Pald for State, National and taxes All other payments and Total Expenditures .. Fire. Losses incurred during the year....$123,331 42 Risks and Premiums. | Fire Risks. | Premiums. Net amount of Risks, written during the) year .| $28,844,303 | $304,187 12 25,241,598 284,115 34 30,386,355 | 322.132 &7 FRANCIS PEABODY, Presiden HENRY S. BEAN, » Subscribed and sworn to e Tt B Wi, e o AMERIGE, GEORGE gt Public. PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT, BAGGS & STOVEL, General Agents, 411 CALIFORNIA STREET,