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

The—adeng Call FRIDAY....................DECEMBER 13, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adfress All Commusicstions to W. 8. LEAKE, Masager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. .Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. . .Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevensom St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Cepies, 5 Cents. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mafl 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. OAKLAND OFFICE... +essee.1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. NEW YORE CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON..cooereeessssssss. Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St, N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. California—*"The Cowboy and the Lady."” Tivoli—In Town." “Christopher Columbia—*A Royal Rogue.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Opera-house—""A Wite’s Peril.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and i Fischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—] Osakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. G. H. Umbsen—Monday, December 16, Real Estate, at < = 14 Montgomery CALIFORNIA AND CHRISTMAS. ROM the people of California there will be F sent this year to friends in the East or in Europe a great multitude of Christmas” re- membrances. These will be scattered far and wide and will be everywhere valued and treasured. In the aggregate their cost will represent a ‘large sum of money, so that the trade, both in its scope and in its | worth, is a matter of considerable importance. If the majority of the Christmas presents sent from California to other lands were made up of Cali- fornia products there would be a double benefit to the community. In the first place the demand would give a good market for the home industries that pro- duce the articles; and, in the second place, the dis- tribution of them throvgh so wide an area of country would materially assist in developing a foreign mar- ket for them. It is truc that no individual is going to send many such presents, and cach therefore may think it will not matter whether he send California articles or mot, but the subject should be considered in the mass and not with respect to the actions of a single person. The trade is large, the chance of making known the merit of hundreds of articles of California production is agreement all citizens should do their share in mak- ing the most of it. It is well known that the Christmas trade is one of the largest of the year. So much money is ex- pended in holiday novelties that a period of well- | nigh universal economy follows as soon as the holi- days are over. Trade in mearly all lines becomes dull, and it is somé time before business resumes its normal. activity, From that fact we may derive some conception of the vast amount of money expended in the Christmas trade, and most of that goes for the purchase of presents of one kind or another. Cali- fornia imports an immense line of Christmas goods from the East and from Europe, while her exports of such goods are much less.than they ought to be. A fair patronage of our home industries in that re- spect, therefore, is 2 matter of good business as well as of Jocal patriotism. While we have no notable industry engaged strictly in supplying goods for the Christmas trade, we have none the less quite a variety of products ap- | vropriate for Christmas presents, ranging all the way from photographs of California scenery to costly articles manufactured from gold. In the scope of that variety there is something to suit every taste. A search of the stores would bring to light a2 num- ber of beautiful products of California of which most people have hardly heard. It would be well indeed for some of our enterprising merchants to make a special display of California goods suitable for pres- ents and thus 2id in promoting the patronage of the home goods. Such a display would be widely talked | about and thus would serve as a good advertisement for the merchant, so that he would gain by it as much as would the manufacturer of the goods. The subject is worth the attention of every one who takes any interest in the development of the State. The choice of California products for pres- ents to people in the East will entail no increase of cost, and the articles will be much more of a novelty therc than would be any Eastern or European product. Let every one therefore in proportion to his means help to make this a good Christmas California industries by booming the market California goods. —— A New York woman is suing the operators of that curious device known as “loop-the-loop” for damages on the score that her daughter went insane after riding in the machine. It was generally considered that insanity was a preliminary qualification for most people who ventured into the perve-racking affair. for for A New York preacher with a salary of $10,000 a year has been offered the bishopric of Western Mas- sachusetts with a salary. of $5000, and now he is trying to decide whether the joy of living on beans and hav- ing a high title is worth the difference in the pay. \ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1901. MISS JULIET WILLIAMS GIVES HER HEART TO ALEXANDER LILY AN ACCIDENT LESSON. HE greatest railway accident since the falling T of the Ashtabula bridge was that on the Wabash road in Michigan. As the passenger (traffic on American railways amounts every year to the hauling of fifteen billions of people one mile, it will be seen that whatever re- duces to a minimum the chance for accidents is of as much importance to our people as the prevention of a fatal epidemic. The investigation of this casualty makes it appear that the engineer was confused in reading his orders and confounded the station names of Seneca and Sand Creek. The sibilant sound of each and the haste in examining an order not too plainly written on tissue paper caused the disaster, for the engineer ran for a meet at Sand Creek instead of lying at Seneca for the opposite train to pass. This danger has been for some time recognized by railroad men. Ii California we have so many sta- tions with Spanish names beginning with “San” that the practice i5 to use in railroading only the last name, omitting the prefix “San.” Thus San Leandro and San Lorenzo become Leandro and Lorenzo, in which form they are more easily dis- tinguished. A railroad does not always have the opportunity to name its own stations, as it runs to_towns already established. But these, as a rule, avoid similarity of names for the purpose of individuality and to pre- vent confusion in the mails. But where stations are close together the prefixes La, San, Lake, Mount, Las, Le, Lone, Los, New and others supply the cause of accident by misreading and confusion. The use of the points of the compass as prefixes comes in the same category. When railroads are free to name new stations which they create for the purpose of traffic they should be careful to make selections that are incapable of confusion with others. It is even advisable to avoid beginning the names of contiguous stations with the same letter of the alphabet, since too cften the engineer in his haste catches the first letter and takes the rest for granted. The physical equipment of American has long occupied the attention of railway operators. Improvement in grades and curves, and such stout construction of passenger-cars as to enable them to withstand the impact of a collision at highspeed, have progressed toward perfection. But they have paid less attention to what may be called the psychology of operation, that action ofsthe mind applied to the responsibility of train crews who have in charge the safety of person and property. Nothing is more common than what “absence of mind,” that passing aphasia which makes a “man forget an appointment, or to mail a letter, or an errand, the name of a friend, and sometimes even his own. To this every man is subject, no matter what his training or his occupa- tion. In the majority of instances in which it occurs the results are not serious, and the lapse of memory or its displacement from the object intended to one not intended is treated as a joke. In justice to railway crews let it be remembered that they are no exception to the rule, which affects all men alike. But in their case the.consequences are apt to be immediate and awful, and there is too roads is -called excellent, and by mutual | great a tendency to treat them as if they were the only men subject to this infirmity. They are entitled to every aid that can be brought to the support of their wits and their memory, and | the entirely dissimilar naming of contiguous stations is such an aid and is of first importance. A Cincinnati court has placed the value upon a worthless husband, more eloquently described as “indolent, loving, lying, gentle, deceitful, persuasive and soft.” In granting the wife a divorce the court { ordered her to pay her ex-husband a dollar a year for every year of his life. The only sarcasm in the af- fair exists in the fact that the fellow is young. FLOURISHING TERRITORIES. | ADVOCATES cf the early admission of Ari- zona, New Mexico-and Oklahoma to state- hood will find ample support for their cause in the report made by the Secretary of the Interior ‘upon the conditions of those Territories and the bright prospects before them of an increase in popu- | lation and in wealth. He concedes to each of them a ! larger population in 1900 than was shown by the cen- sus returns, and in other ways strengthens their posi- | tion before the country. Of Arizona he says the population is estimated at fully 135,000, and points out that a number of locali- ,‘ties in the Territory complain of injustice done by the census takers. Thus Phoenix was given a popula- i tion of only 5544, but at the city election in May, 1901, the registration of voters showed 2317 names, indicating a population of at least 10,000. As an ex- planation of the discrepancy it is said the census was | taken in midsummer, when a large proportion of the people of Phoenix were at the seaside and other sum- mer resorts. There are 23,503 children of school age in the Territory; the assessed valuation of property "as finally fixed by the Board of Equalization is $38853,831. The real wealth of the people, however, is much larger than that, as much personal property | and mining property escapes taxation. It is added: i“The quality of Arizona citizenship is said to be of i the highest character; the population t is typically | American, and the percentage of illiteracy is thought to be smaller than in any State in the Union.” Of New Mexico the report says: “The estimated total population at present is 300,000, exclusive of In- dians, which latter number 12,206. The Governor takes strong grounds against the injustice. as he de- | clares, which the recent census does in accrediting the Terrifory with a population of but 1¢5,310 in 1900. | He asserts that the registration in October, 1900, which showed 59,297 voters in the Territory, should serve as a fair basis for arriving at a just-estimate of the population. Few of the large number of voters are without families, and even among the miners in the Territories more than half have families. Reckon- ing, therefore, five persons to the family of each voter, would make the total estimate of population 296,485." The taxable value of property in New Mexico is ! $150,000,000, and the opinion is expressed that this sum would be more than trebled within five years after the admission of the Territory as a State. The number of children of school age in the Territory is 53,008, and of those 47,700 are enrolled as pupils in the schools. Illiteracy has steadily decreased since the annexation of the Territory to the United States, and at the present time does not exceed 20 per cent. Oklahoma, though the youngest of the Territories, is the brightest star of them all. It was accredited by the census of 1900 with a population of 398331, but the present estimate gives a population in excess of 500,000. The taxable value of property for 1901 is $60,464,606. The enumeration of school children for the year was 114,737. Of the population generally it is said: “The people of the Territory are distinctively l i ! American, less than 5 per cent being of foreign birth, and the percentage of illiteracy is less than in three- fourths of the States. Social life in the Territory has generally the same aspects as in the States, with- munity is a thoroughly democratic ome, where all have equal opportunities for advancement and pre- ferment.” strong and valid arguments for conferring statehood upon ‘the three Territories. FEach of them is now more populous than several of the States, and each/ population and in industry. They are occupied by people who are quite capable of self-government, and accordingly there seems to be no reason why their WATTERSON’S IDEAS. ! LL stories concerning Henry Watterson's terson has no desire to be President. That much is made evident by his speech at the banquet of the Massachusetts Association. He stated ex- Presidency unless he were assured beforehand of re- ceiving the electoral vote of Massachusetts. That settles it. the remainder of his speech disported himself with the recklessness of a free lance. He'admitted that in some things Massachusetts is better than Kentucky, | chusetts is quite an old settlement, while Kentucky { “is young yet.” Passing to a consideration of the tariff he declared that the time is not far off when will be insisting upon the continuance of protection. Then he broke forth: “What a comedy, the thing we call government; and what a humbug, the thing I believe we shall never approach the ideal in gov- ernment until we have forced public men to speak the truth.” L4 truth and how to restore it to the service of politi- cians, or rather how to bring politicians to a worship of truth. He believes the change is going to be ac- will become sated and refuse to swallow any more. He says: “The press—particularly the yellow press —is doing a noble work to the correction of this nothing they read in newspapers, and aiter a while, tiring of the endless daily surfeit of misinformation, they will begin to demand a journalism less interest- ever they make this requisition—whenever they dis- criminate between the organ of fact and the organ of fancy—there will not be lacking editors who prefer ing lies.” Mr. Watterson, it will be seen, is an optimist. He believes we are living “in untoward times,” but he says we are in danger of Mammon, and that there is a growing use of money in elections. By way of getting rid of that evil he to Senator Hanna, who was present at the banquet, that the | national committees of the two parties should ar- range to give their joint note for whatever sum they deemed advisable to expend during a campaign; that the sum thus obtained be equally divided, and that after the election the winners should pay the whole note. Leaving that proposition to be considered by the | intelligence and morality of the country, the gifted * Kentuckian pursued his oratorical flight to other | themes and cheered his listening Bostonians by as- | suring them that no matter what may happen to in- dividuals here and there who fall a victim to the | temptations of h/fimmon, the people themselves will | never be corrupted. He declares we are going to redeem the nations and the races of the earth not | only politically but mcrally. | revitalize the primitive religion, with its often mis- | leading theologies, into a new and practical system | ! of life and thought, of universal religion, to which the Declaration of Independence, the constitution of | the United States and the Sermon on the Mount | shall furnish the inspiration and the keynote, to the end that all the lands and all the tribes shall teem | with the love of man and the glory of the Lord.” | Such is Mr. Watterson’s platform. It sounds like | a bid for the vote of Massachusetts, but really it is | a farewell tq\lhc Presidential bee. Mr. Watterson | will retire. out there being any class distinctions. The com- It will be perceived that these statements constitute has ample resources and area for further growth in desire for statehood should not be granted. Presidentia} aspirations are false. Mr. Wat- pressly that he would not be a candidate for the Having thus put aside ambition, Mr. Watterson in but attributed the superiority to the fact that Massa- Pennsylvania will be for free trade and Kentucky we call politics! And yet, after all, how inevitable. From that point the orator proceeded to discuss complished by filling the people so full of lies they evil, because already people are beginning to believe ing and more trustworthy; and, believe me, when- to grow rich telling the truth than to die poor tell- thinks the excess of evil will work its own cure. He suggested “We are,” he said, “to | e New, Yorkers who have known Roosevelt as a free and frequent orator are noting with surprise that since his elevation to the Presidency he has made but one speech, and that was no more than a short ad- dress at the Yale bicentennial. It is evident that Roosevelt understands the responsibilities of his.po- i sition, and knows that where he is now it is danger- ous to talk too much. Ananias scems to have chosen Cleveland, Ohio, as the locality for a modern residence. He has assumed the character of a newspaper correspondent who says { | that two burglars, surprised by a child in a house a | few nights ago, listened to her pleading, begged her to pray for them, returned what they had stolen and now resolve to lead honest lives. President Roosevelt is being censured by some supersensitive persons for giving football the indorse- ment of his presence. These critics are convinced that the game is brutal and the President erred in | | sanctioning it. It would be interesting to know what | these carpers think of the President's astounding conduct at San Juan Hill. Tl e A Philadelphia anarchist who is servifig a term in prison for murder has asked for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that he is tired of hjs surround- ings. This shows us the futility of depriving anarch- ists of that reward of their trade—a rope. There is one hope for the internal revenue tax; the brewers and the distillers have found it impossible to work together, and as the chances are that each will keep the work of the other from effecting anything, the tax will hold its own. A Paterson woman said the other day that she wanted to join the angels. She took a dose of hair tonic, but her journey will have to be postponed until she finds some agency more buoyant. . —_—— The quiet, unobtrusive, respectably sedate town of Providence is making a strenuous bid for popular- ity. There are on the calendars of the town courts 687 divorce cases to be heard. It is reported that Yale's football team made up- ward of $70,000 this year, and yet there are some peo- ole who say a university career is not profitable. {'which were highly | Burope. OCIETY will be thrown into a flutter over the announcement of the en- gagement of Miss Juliet Willlams and Alexander Lily. Members of San Francisco’s smart set saw nothing of Miss Williams for three years until the last season, and no time has been lost in taking her back to their hearts, for she was ever a favorite, and now to think of losing her again will come in the nature of a shock to them. Mr. Lily, the groom-to-be, is a native of Columpus, Ohio, and comes from one of the vy best families there. His father, M. C. Lily, was during his life time at the head of the M. C. Lily Company, for many years large furnishers of Government sup- plies. Mr. Lily reached San Francisco only three days ago and registered at the Pal- ace. He has arranged to remain in this city for some time, having been appointed agent for a number of Eastern compa- nies. He is a graduate of Princeton and said to be a very clever man. The acquéintance began in New York. Then Miss Willlams traveled abroad ex- tensively and it was not until she returned to San Francisco that Mr. Lily visited her here and obtained her promise. It was intended to keep the betrothal a profound secret until after Christmas, when Miss Williams would have invited her most intimate friends to luncheon and confided to them first; but the news leaked out before a formal announcement could be madé. There are no wedding arrangements yet, as the affair will not take place for several months to come, but spring will claim Miss Williams for a bride, It will be remembered that Miss Wil- liams made her social debut several sea- sons ago with her sister, now Mrs. Walter S. Hobart. Her personality is more than pleasing, She is a splendidly bred girl with a charming face and manner. Such a favorite cannot well be spared from San Francisco and héer friends will do their best to persuade the young couple to make this city their permanent home. Since her return to the coast Miss Wil- liams has divided her time between the 0ld home in San Rafael with her grand- mother, Mrs. Robert Neale, and the town house of her cousin, Mrs. Albert J. Dib- blee, at 2717 Pacific avenue, this city.. Dr. and Mrs. James A. Black gave an informal dinner in honor of Miss Edith Huntington last evening at the Pendletor:. Covers were laid for fifteen and the deco- rations were red. It was a delightful af- fair. The debutantes of this season were the only ones of the fair sex Invited and army officers constituted the mascuiine portion of the company. Miss Huntington will soon be a debu- tante herself, as she intends to make her formal bow to society January 24 next. In a few days she leaves for New York, where she will select her ‘‘coming out” gowns. Miss Huntington Is a niece of Lhe late Collis P. Huntington. She will be a very popular bud. The -guests were: Miss Ardella Mills, Miss Pearl Landers, Miss Catherine Rob- inson and the Misses McClung, ands Dr. C. Clark Collins and Dr. McVean, U. S. A.; Lieutenant Lowenberg, Lieutenant Brower, Lieutenant Babcock, Captain Kirkpatrick and Lieutenant Day. f S The California Keramic Club closed its annual exhibition last evening at the Palace Hotel. Mrs. Hatch carried off the honors of the exhibition with her hand- some works of art. Miss Smith also ex- hibited a number of handsome art pieces complimented. The exhibition was the most successful that the club has ever given. . . William Northrop Cowles and Miss Marie Zarne, two well known members of the exclusive set of this city, were united in marriage in New York yesterday, The news of the wedding was telegraphed last . | night to the Loughboroughs, who are rel- atives of the beautiful bride. Archbishop Corrigan officiated at the ceremony, which was performed at the residence of the bride’s aunt, Mrs. Dr. Keys, on Fifth avenue. Miss Zane is an attractive and accom- | plished young lady. When she was here three years ago she was made much of by the smart set. She comes of one of the oldest and most esteemed families of Ohio. The city of Zanesville in that State takes its name after her father. For tne last few years she has been traveling in Her brother graduated from | West Point this year, Mr. Cowles is well known in this city. He is a member of the leading clubs and has been associated with the Crockers in many important business deals. e The marriage of Edward A. Douthilt, assistant to Attorney General Dole ot tue | Hawaiian Islands, to Miss Edith A. Alden, daughter of Mrs. Victoria Alden of 519 Devisadero street, will be solemnized to- day. Mr. Douthitt is well known in legal and fraternal circles and is a native of this city. He went to Honolulu in June last to accept the position he now sholds and returned by the latest steamer for the express purpose of taking a wife with @ ittt e e @ NOTICE TO PATRONS. Owing to the large size of The Call’s Christmas Edition to be issuel Sunday, December 15, and the great vclume of extra advertising already received, no advertisements of any deseription will be accepted for pub- lication in that issue after 9:30 p- m. Saturday. The Christmas Call will be the largest, finest and most elaborately illustrated holiday edition published on the Pacific Slop2. Send a copy to your Eastern friends. Ready for mailing 5 cents per copy. PERSONAL MENTION. A. White Brown, a clubman of New Work, is at the Palace. W. F. George, an attorney of Sacra- mento, is at the Grand. 0. Y. Woodward of Woodwards 'Island is registered at the Grand. J. R. Haughton, a capitalist of Chico, is among the arrivals at the Lick. R. Schmidt, an extensive wine manu- facturer of Calistoga, Is at the Lick. Willing G. Blatt, an extensive shoe manufacturer of Detroit, is registered at the Palace. p J. F. Moore, a well known sheep ralser of Santa Barbara, is spending a few days. at the Palace. Dr. T. J. Cox, a prominent physician of Sacramento, is at the Palace, accom- panied by his wife. J. D. Farrell, president of the Pacific Steamship Company of Seattle, registered at the Palace yesterday. Choice candies. Townsend's Palace Hotel.* B et — Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's. * hribiis ot Thousands of packages of Cal. Glace Fruits now ready for shipping. Time now to send Kast. Townsend's, 639 Market street, Palace Hotel. . Speclal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main'1042. ————— The sugar cane is now cultivated in | every part of Africa that has been ex- plored by whites. —_——— HOTEL DEL CORONADO, cholcest Winter Resort in the world, offers best living, climate, boating, bathing, 'fishing and most amuse- ments. E. S. Babcock, manager, Coronado, Cal. - him on his return, which will be after the holidays. Miss Alden, the bride-to-be, is a charm- ing young woman, whose accomplish- ments have endeared her to a large circle of acquaintances. The wedding will be strictly private. | > Mrs. Wiillam Giselman, 720 Golden Gate avenue, gave a tea yesterday afternoon from 3 to 6. She was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Willlam A. Lange and Mrs. Lewis - POPULAR SOCIETY GIRL OF SAN FRANCISCO WHOSE ENGAGEMENT l TO ALEXANDER LILY, LATE OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, WILL BE FOR- MALLY ANNOUNCED AFTER CHRISTMAS. L SRR SR R SR TN A0 SR ing to Edwin C. Sharpe at the home of the bride’s parents, 1701 Geary street. The groom is connected with the firm of the John A. Roeblings Sons Co. C Rt The ball given last evening at the San Francisco Verein rooms by Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Schwabacher was a very pleas- ant affair. It was in honor of the Misses Stella and Mina Schwabacher, debutantes of the present season. Many stunning gowns were in evidence and the Misses Smith. A large number of friends were present and the affair was most enjoy- able - ¥ oo e Miss Eva Pepler was married last even- Schwabacher, who assisted in receiving | the guests, were especially charming. Sup- per was served at midnight, after which dancing was résumed. RN DAY REAURT CHRISTMAS EDITION Wil be the greatest Christmas number ever printed in the West. 32 PAGES IN THE 32 MAGAZINE SECTION THE CONVALESCENCE OF JACK HAMLIN. By BRET HARTE. A 10,000-word stary in Bret Harte's happiest vefh, and the most expens sive Christmas feature that hs everappeared in a San Francisco paper. AN ARCTIC DAWN By JOAQUIN MILLER. SIGN OF THE RED GOOSE By MADGE MORRIS. THE ROSE OF SHARON By AUGUSTA PRESCOTT. A CHRISTMAS IN YELLOW By KATHRYN JARBOE. By San Francisco Divines. MENUS FOR A CHRISTMAS DINNER By faa Prflxu'l Best Chefs. A SANIA CLAUS STORY By FANNY W. M:LEAN. L'FE S10Y OF THE LATE MARGARET CROCKER FULL-PAGE PICTURES Ey ths Following Artistss l 0 CAHILL, ERADSHAW, WARREN, KAHLER, OWENS, 2 PARMENTER, ROHRHAND AND BOREIN. A JOLLY CHRISTMAS GAME. A Checkerboard, with rules, whereby two, three or bur can play. The greates: Chzcker game ever devised, FREE WITH THE SUNDAY CALL CHRISTMAS EDITION.