The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1901, Page 6

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(Long Distance Telephone **Central 2615.”") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. . vssssesss.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: ETEPHEN B. SMITH. 30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union $quare: Murray Hul Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: A% Eherman House: P. O. News Cc.; Great Northern Hotd: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. BRANCH OFFICES—I27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:39 o'clock. 615 Larkin, qpen until #:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, cpen until § o'clock. 109 Valencia, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2209 Filimore, open until § p. m. AMUSEMENTS. Calsfornie—*""Devil's Auction."” Tivoli—"Little Red Riding Hood.” Central—""The Silver King.” Aleazar—*'Charley’s Aunt.” Columbia—*Jenice Meredith." Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—"‘Carmen.”" Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening Fischer's—Vaudeville. Central Park—Vasco Ball Game. Oskiand Racetrack-—Races to-day. s CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. OR more than a generation there has been no Famendmcm to the constitution of the United States. After adopting such changes in the fundamental law of the republic as were needed to settle the issues of the civil war, the people have been content to carry on the Government under the con- stitution without further alteration. The content- ment, howeve-, has been by no means unanimous. With each succeeding Congress there have come ef- forts toward amending the constitution and some of them have received strong support in the House. This Congress is to be no exception to the rule. Already several amendments have been suggested, and some of them may be urged with sufficient force to become questions of practical politics. s a matter of course we have a revival of the old issue of amending the constitution with respect to the election of United States Senators. This time, however, in addition to the plans heretofore proposed there is 2 new one advocated by Senator Burrows. He proposes that when the Legislature of a State fails to elect a United States Senator the people of the State shall have = right to elect by direct vote. The measure is designed to remedy such evils as now exist in Delaware, which State has no representative in the Senate by reason of the prolonged Legislative deadloc An amendment likely to receive considerable favor is that proposed by Senator Stewart giving the Fed- eral Government authority to control and regulate r irrigation purposes the waters of rivers flowing through two or more States. It is believed that un- less some such amendment be adopted it will be im- possible i0 carry out any comprehensive plan for the rigation of the arid lands lying within the bounda- ries of the States. The advocates of uniform marriage laws have be- fore Congress an amendment offered by Mr. Gillett of Massachusetts, providing that Congress shall have power to establish uniform laws on the subject of di- vorce throughout the United States. The evils re- sulting from the existing differences regarding mar- riage and divorce in the various States have long been a cause of confusion to lawyers and to courts. The need of some remedy for them has been repeat- edly pojnted out, and the American Bar Association has made an effort to. bring about the enactment of something like uniform laws by the State Legisla- Such efforts, however, have €ffected but little in the way of reform, and it is therefore not strange that the more earnest promoters of the movement should now seek to accomplish it by giving the Fed- eral Government power to act for the whole country. An amendment likely to give rise to much discus- sion is that proposed by Mr. Crumpacker of Indiana, providing that “Congress shall have'power to tax the capital stock and earnings of all private corpora- tions carried on for the purposes of gain, without re- gard to the population of the States, and such tax may be gressive.” The amendment has a double object. First it would enable the United States Gov- ernment 1c levy an income tax on corporations, and second, by means of such tax it could exert control over the huge aggregations of capital known as trusts. The proposed amendment will doubtless be keenly debated, but there is not much likelihood of its passage, particularly at this time when the Goy- ernment has a larger revenue than it has any need for. Experience has shown that the people never make amendments to the constitution for slight causes. It took the strain of the civil war to wring consent to the amendments which grew out of that strife. We have no strain upon us now, and consequently most of the proposed amendments will hardly have much support either in Congress or out of it. When once the vast work of preserving the forests and conserv- ing the water supply of the West is fairly undertaken such constitutional amendments as are needed to car- 1y it out may be provided, but the repeated failures of efforts to amend the method of electing United States Senators seem to prove that the other amend- ments proposed will hardly do more than furnish subjects for constitutional debates. e e s tures The California orange-growers have had their little fight with frost ard have won out, and now the Florida growers have to tackle the same cold propo- sition. / : THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DE EMBER 26, 1901 LACK OF LOCOMOTIVES. { OMPLAINTS made by the orange growers | ‘ of Southern California against the railroads for an inefficient service in the transportation of fruit direct attention once more to an evil which seems to affect every part of the Union. It appears the railway managers have been so much occupied during the past year in reorganizing the roads and manipulating stocks that they have ' permitted the equipmegts of the rcads to run down, and conse- quently have been unable to handle the-traffic' of- fered them by the industries of the country. In#he East complaints of the lack of transportation facilities have been frequent and insistent. Again and again our exchanges have noted instances of large factories refusing orders for work solely because they could not get the railroads to haul their freight. In one case a large coaling company in Virginia found itself unable to supply even its regular customers with coal, and as a result something like a coal fam- ine was threatened over a wide district of country. So serious was the evil that it was reported the com- pany thought of applying to the Federal Government to compel the railroads to furnish cars for its intér- state trade. Many of our Eastern exchanges after investigating the trouble have reached the conclusion that the deficiency is due more to a lack of locomotives than to a lack of cars. It is said that if the railroads had engines enough to handle their traffic they could in- crease the rapidity of the movement of trains suf- ficiently to make the cars do double the service they now do. That view seems to be confirmed by the complaint of the orange growers, who among other | deficiencizs of the service allege that in many cases this season it has taken twenty-five days to transport a car of oranges to New York and eighteen days to Chicago, when the distance should have been covered in less than half the time. It‘is clear that if prompt runs had been made the cars might have been used twice or perhaps.thrice in the time consumed in car- rying a single load to market. It is not likely the roads will be caught next sea- son with so deficient an equipment as that which 1lhev now have. The recent combinations have prob- |ably settled railroad organizations and control for some years to come, and consequently the managers will have more time:to devote to the equipment of the roads. Furthermore it has been noted that the orders given for cars and locomotives have this year been- extraordinarily large. Next season, then, will find all the roads with many more cars and loco- motives than they now possess. That fact, howevery will not help the shippers of this year. It therefore behooves railrad commissions and others having au- thority to do what they can to urge the railroad man- agers to exert their utmost energies to supply the needs of the time. 2 | Reports from Great Britain are to the effect that there would probably have been a congestion of business along the main railway lines there but for the adoption of electric trains to handle local trade, |thus leaving the heavy trains free to carry the through traffic. The use of electric traction has’ en- abled the British roads to keep light freights in al- most continuous movement, and a recent estimate based on the service on the Midland Railroad of Eng- land is said to show that by doing away with infre- quent and heavy trains and maintaining frequent light trains moving at an average speed of forty miles an hour for its entire traffic, the capacity of the road could be practically doubled. So successful have these experiments been that it is believed by some experts that freight movement by heavy, slow trains will soon be almost entirely suporseded by the continuous movement of light trains. If that sanguine expectation be fulfilled the orange growers will not have in the future any com- plaints to make on the score of delay in delivering fruit to market. Certainly something will have to be done. A railroad that requires twenty-five days to haul oranges from California to .’\'e.\v York is prac- tically worth very little more to the fruit trade than ay ox train. The very fact that the British military authorities in South Africa are to abandon the concentration camps is a proof that they have been found too de- structive to human life to be longer defended against criticism; but the critics will now have a right to ask why they were not zbandoned before so much loss of life occurred and before the criticisms became so keen. SUFFRAGE IN THE SOUTH. Two resolutions relating to the suppression of the negro vote in several of the Southern States are now before the House of Representatives. One of these is the Crumpacker .resolution, which was introduced at the last Congress but not acted upon. The other, a resolution by Moody-of Massa- chusetts, differs in many respects from the Crum- packer resolution and is believed to be more likely to obtain support from the Republican majority. Either of them, however, will suffice to bring the Southern and the negro questions once more before the country as matters of national politics, and con- sequently there are sure to be serious objections from all who are opposed to a revival of sectional issues unless it can be shown that they work an in- jury to the nation as a whole and that a definite and effective remedy can be provided by Congress. The difference between the two resolutions is a wide one. That of Mr. Crumpacker assumes that the colored population in several of the Southern States has been suppressed and proceeds to reduce the rep- resentation in Congress from those States in propor- tion to the disfranchisement of the population. The Moody resolution is one of inquiry. It does not ac- cept the validity of the Southern suffrage acts, and asks an investigation into their constitutionality. If the acts be found invalid they will be declared null and void. - If they be found to be valid Congress will be asked to reduce the representation from those States where disfranchisement prevails, in accord with the provisions of the fourteenth amendment. It is said the Southern members of Congress are not at all afraid of the Crumpacker bill, They are sanguine it will not be supported by the whole body of Republicans in the House, while it will be opposed solidly by the Democrats. The Moody resolution, on the other hand, they regard as dangerous, It will bring up a debate on the constitutionality of the Southern suffrage laws, and on that question not only would the Republicans be united, but many North- ern Democrats would vote with them. In fact, one Northern Democrat, Mr. Thayer of Massachusetts, has already said: “The stupidity of the Southern people in bringing the suppression of the negro vote so squarely before Congress passes all bounds.” He holds that the Louisizna suffrage law, for example, is unconstitutional and that the Supreme Court will so decide. He for one, therefore, will not follow the Southern lead. ; 2 In the South the new resolution has excited much more discussion than that of Mr. Crumpacker. The |pre_\:mhng opinion in that section seems to be that it would be better to lose representation in Congress than to have the suffrage laws declared unconstitu- tional. Georgia, for example, has not disfranchised negroes and would have nothing to lose in the way of representation should it be determined to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment, and yet the Atlanta Constitution says: “The critics of those Southern -States that have adopted the educational qualification may be sure of one thing—that those States will not be driven from their convictions of what is best by any threatened or actual reduction of representation in Congress.” Another view of the case was presented by a prominent business man of South Carolina, who, when asked what he thought of a loss of represen- tation on the part of that State, replied. “Our repre- sentatives are worth so little it would make no dif- ference to the State if we lost them all.” Whatever view be taken of the question, two things are certain: First, that the constitutionality of the various suffrage acts will have to be decided by the Supreme Court and not by Congress; second, that a revival of sectional or racial issues in this country would be deplorable. Congress, there- fore, might well wait for the decision of the Supreme Court. It will then be time to act, and the issue could be settled once and for all without a prolonged agitation. -There has been a scheme in New York to get Cor- nelius Vanderbilt to run against Perry Belmont for Congress this -fall, but unfortunately it has fallen through and the boys will not have the flush timies they expected when the campaign .opens, O the peace of the world more seriously dis- turbed by the British and the Boers than by any other peoples. Our strife in the Philippines and Russia’s aggressions in” Manchuria seem as nothing in comparison with the struggle in South Africa, where two civilized at:d Christian races are fighting for supremacy. On each side there are earnest ad- vocates of- peace, but their voices are lost in the shouts Qf the combatants fighting on one side for empire and on the other for national independence. Lord Kitchener has not eaten his Christinas dinner in peace, nor even in comfort. Dewet, Botha and the other daring and energetic leaders of the Boers were never more active than now, and the British commanders séem at last to have acquired about as much activity as the Boers themselves. The sur- prises of the war are no longer all on one side. The |later rteports contain almost as many accounts of BRITISH AND BOERS. NCE more a returning Christmas season finds outposts surprised by the Boers. Since the contemptuous rejection of Kitchener's proclamation calling tipon them to surrender there appears little probability of any yielding upon the part of the Boers so long as any considerable number of them are possibly able to keep the field. On the other hand the Chesterfield speech of Lord Rose- ish statesman would undertake the task of restoring peace by conceding self-government to the men whom the British seem determined to treat as rebels. Before Rosebery made his speech a strong section of the Liberal party had met in convention at Derby and adopted resolutions favoring the removal of Lord Milner from South Africa and the concession of vir- tual independence to the Transvaal and Orange Free State. Had Rosebery taKen the same course there might have been a urion of the Liberal party that could have forced the Ministry to yield at least some- thing for peace. As it is, however, Rosebery remains a leader without a following and the Liberals a party without a leader. Practically there is no opposition, and Chamberlain can go on his course unrestrained. It is a doleful Christmas for the men of both armies. The frequency and the fierceness of the skirmishes fought during this week show that neither side feels any relaxation of the spirit of war. fight increases in bitterness and threatens to become something like a war which will end only by the extermination of the weaker party. It is another il- lustration to the world that the price of empire is high, but the strong nations will pay little heed to the lesson.. It is to be a long time yet before men will see the realization of peace on earth. A} Up to date the claims for damage filed with the Spanish Claims Commission amount to more than $60,000,000, so the talk about the in the treasury may be premature after all. ————— e ————— LESSONS IN SAFE-CRACKING. NEW YORK newspaper recently published A an instructive lesson in the art of blowing open a safe with nitroglycerine, and the article has been -promptly 1epublished by the evening rail- road organ in this city. The lesson given is easy to learn, for not a single detail of the operation is omit- ted. It explaing to the uninitiated just exactly at what point a safe can be best attacked, what tools to use, how to apply them, How to introduce the explosive and how to explode it so as to leave the safe open to the exploiter. The information contained in the article may be needed by the readers of the New York paper, for some of them may have been playing the lamb on Wall street and cannot get their money back without a resort to burglary. Just why the railroad organ should republish it, however, is not clear, for the railroad itself does not have to resort to such crude methods as safe-cracking in order to get other peo- ple’s money, and it is not to the interest of the road to teach the criminal element how to rob the rail- road safes. . In ali seriousness the publication of such an article is clearly against public morals. The article is writ- ten in such a way as to tempt persons of criminal ten- dencies to Jesort to burglary by teaching them how easily a safe can be.blown open. It is an instruction in crime pure and simple. It might serve as a lesson in a text book in a school for thieves. It will almost certainly set some :rir_ninal to thinking of safe-crack- ing and probably to rlanning such an exploit. The danger of such crimes is therefore much greater than it was before the instructive lesson was published. There is of‘course no way to punish a paper that thus publicly incites criminals to further crime by ex- plining to them how to commit it with success. Public sentiment, however, may be able to reach the editors of journals which publish such things and convince them that they cannot expect popular sup- port if they continue such publications. It is not within the rightful scope of journalism to teach' men how to crack a safe any more than to teach them how to commit murder and escape without detection, e ——— Tt seems at last to be settled that Miss Stone is to be 1eleased and is to come home, and it goes with- vut saying the lecture bureaus are getting ready to do husiness with her. surplus and Boer laagers surprised by British troops as of British | bery put an end to all hopes that a responsible Brit- | The. OLYMPIC CLUB PRESENTS SILVER COLUMN TO JOHN D. SPRECKELS CONTAINING AUTOGRAPH OF TH Doy g N innovation was established at the Olympic Club yesterday after- = A board of directors and President William Greer Harrison a secular and sacred concert was arranged for the club members and their lady friends, and i present to John D. Spreckels a very hand- hands during the last seven years. The programme, which was entirely mu- A. Sabin. In the big gymnasium, deco- rated with buntings, greens and bunches of Christmas berries, the audience gath- ered and listened to the carols of the choristers of St. Luke's, the by Miss Huilah and the eloquence of Gen- eral Barnes. On the stage were the offi- cers of the club and their wives, Claus Spreckels, W. G. Irwin, W. D. K. Gib=on, Joseph Grant, Henry E. Highton, Judge prominent guests. William Greer Harrison in a turned speech . introduced Barnes, who delivered the preseatation address. Unfolding the national colors from the sfiver piece that stood on a ta- ble near the speaker, the gift was ex- posed to view. It is of silver and stands four feet one inch in height and weighs 3% ounces. In form it is a graceful Co- rinthian column with a base of twelve panels. On one of these panels are em- bossed the arms and emblem of the club, the remainder portraying athletic exer- cises both anclapt and modern. They are all exquisitely elaborated, showing ath- letes in the quick and action on field and water, The base upon which these pan- els rest is marine in character. The work throughout Is - all hand carved. On a globe surmounting the column is a grace- ful figure of the modern type of athlete. In his extended arm is a laurel wreath. Accompanying this handsome plece of silver is an album containing the auto- neatly donors of the present. The album is in itself a work of art. It is bound in leath- er with filigree work of brass, after the style of the fourteenth century, appliqued upon it after svecial designs. The inscription on the silyer columm reads: Preserted by the Olympic Club to John D. Spreckels in recognition of his loyal and un- selfish service in providing for the club its splendid salt water system. Christmas day, 1901. General Barnes in his presentation speech told the reason of the gif:. To Mr. Spreckels the Olympic Club owes its fine supply of salt water. For seven vears the members of the Post-street athletic insti- tution have been furnished with ocean water and no charge has ever been made. The graceful silver column stands as a testimony of the Olympic Club’s appre- clation for the kindness and consideration of one of its fellow members. Presentation by Barnes. The presentation speech of General Barnes is as follows: Among the interesting events of this Christ- mas commemoration is the public expression of the grateful esteem of the Olympie Club for ‘a gentleman whose generous bread has been cast upon the waters of the Pacific Ocean, and which, after seven years have glided by, he Is about ‘t,r, find again in the memorial it js my agreeable offer him on behalf of the mudm&mkcmb. 5 noon. Through the efforts of the | the occasion was taken advantage of to Some testimonial of the club’s npprec_ta—' tion of a boon which has come from als | sical, was under the direction of Wallace | splenaid | singing of Donald de V. Graham and Mrs. | M. E. Blanchard, three solos on the piano | Hebbard, Professor Hengstler and other General | graphs, in alphabetical order, of the 1200 | + - There are many gymnasia and athletic | schools in the United States, but it is uni- versally conceded that of all these Institutions | this 1s the most complete—the best and the | most comfortable place for work and play in | he whole country, and it is most of anl dis- | tinguished by its equipment of fresh and sait ! water for bathing purposes and for the stead- fast culture of the sentiment of personal clean- liness, which fs thg prototype of the higher civilization. No unclean race was ever a great race, and he who regards not his body as the | temple of his soul is not fit to possess the one cr perpetuate the other. Four hundred years ago Francis Bacon in his great work on the advancement of learning declared that “clean- ress of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God." Two hundred years later the groat Methodist preacher, John Wes- ley, admonishing his flock, then, I fear, quite inclined to physical self-neglect, if one may judge by the context of hig dfscourse upon the subject of “dress,” uttered the memorable | eplgram which deserves to be engraved in let- | ters of gold upon the face of the wall of the ! Olymplc baths: ‘‘Care of the body is cer- tainly a duty and not a sin; cleanliness is In- | deed next to godliness." i And so, founding thc observation upon this text, we may say that the Olympic Club, if not a church, is very near ome, and Willlam Greer Harrison, If not a reverend, is all‘the same revered. History of the Company. This splendid structure, devoted to athletic | training 1s, as I say, especially endowed, and if only Lord Verulam and the great Methodist could again cross the boundaries of death and { visit here they might heartily congratulate each other that the seed they sowed had come to_a glorious harvest. I Dhelieve it is ngw about ten vears since the Olympic Salt Water Company was organ- ized. The idea of supplying the public .with cheap salt water bathing, easy of access, was born of- the ‘active brain of William Greer Harrison. To the capital of the corporation | Messrs. John D. Spreckels and Adolph B. Spreckels were the. prificipal subseribers, and | of its shares they have always retained the | vast majority. This beneficent corporation ex- pended in the construction of Its pumping plant’ and connections with the great bath house on Larkin street more than -$500,000. This es- tablishment has been an Infinite blessing to | the health of the public who frequent it and an unmixed good to the neighborhood, whose sewers its exhausted waters perpetually flush. The Olympic Club at about the same time, for certain legal reasons, organized an outside cor- poration and obtained from the Board of Su- pervisors a salt-water franchise, which it Pproposed to transfer to the Olympic Salt Water Company in consideration of a perpetual supply of salt water for bathing purposes. But, un- fortunately, it turned out, upon careful in- vestigation, that the franchise o offered for barter carried with it no power to the pur- chaser to collect tolls for any salt water which might be sold. The agreement between the two corporations was then clearly vold for want of consideration or, at least, utterly ineffective i and without value, but that discovery made no difference to John D. Spreckels—his word was as good as his bond. He had promised the water to the waiting swimmers of the Olympic Club and he performed his promise re- liglous exactitude, not by way of sale, but by sracious gift. For more than seven years his and his assoclates’ pumping plant and pipe lines have inhaled tHe saity glory of the Pa. cific Ocean and exhaled it here, in infinite freshness, with the saline scent of the seaweed upon it, and in it the vigorous ozome of the sea. More than 600,000,000 gallons of ocean water have, in o constant tide that has known no ebb, been delivered into the great bathing reservoir of your gymnasfum to your vast &ain, but at a personal loss to Mr. Spreckels and his brother of more than $100,000, and this costly benefaction Is assured to you for the future as long as the salt water company shall exist or mu!mawofthmmllhm’-a ury, et l It is Indeed most fitting that the Olympic ORATOR AND TESTIMONIAL HE PRESENTED ON BEHALF OF OLYMPIC CLUB TO JOHN D. | SPRECKELS. ’1 Club should recognize on this day of universal &ood will and kindly sentiment the great liber- ality and unselfisimess of John D. Spreckels. San Francisco has witnessed the descent of numerous gigantic fortunes Into the out- stretched hands of many of its citizems, but there have been no other milllonaires who with quiet and unostentatious good will have done so much for the health of the young men of our city and made so little noise about it as Mr. Spreckels. With all my heart T congratulate the mem- bers of the Olyn pic Club that it has found so generous a friead, and I congratulate Mr Spreckels upon the pleasure which the beautiful token presented to him to-day must always bring. It will adorn his home more tham any achievement of the painter's or sculptor's a and his children/ and his children’s childre: as they look upon it, will be reminded of the deep and grateful respect and affection with which the members of the Olympic Club r garded their father and grandfather. John D. Spreckels Responds. General Barnes’ speech was punctuated with hearty applause. At its conclusion he extended his hand to Mr. Spreckels, who arose to thank the club for its ex- pression of good will, but General Barnes had not yet finished. Asa personal friend of Mr. Spreckels he had yet a few words to say. When the speaker sat down a general handclapping followed. My Spreckels responded as a fellow Olymplar thanking the club members for thei handsome gify and their kindly expres- sion. He said: appreciate ‘the gift of the club and y Of General Parmés. What I have done would have been done by amy other one of you. I have always been fond of athletics and what ifitle I have done was from my own desire and my best conviction to establish something permanent for the Olympic Club. We are all here as friends devoted to manly efforts and clean sports. To me this giff will repre- sent many a pleasant hour of good fellowship which I have known in the Olympic Club. Mr. Spreckels’ response was warmly re- celved, ® The musical programme continued after the presentation and upon its conelusion, ladies, escorted by the club members, were taken through the building. This Christmas social innovation was voted a general success. PERSONAL MENTION. J. Weil, a merchant of Sanger, is regis- tered at the Grand. J. L. Bryson of the Gold Crown mine is staying at the Grand. Frank Lyman and wife of Sacramento are among the arrivals at the Grand. Charles B. Harris, United States Consul at Nagasaki, is staying at the Occldentj! Frank Long, a mining man of P Mont., is among the arrivals at California. Edward Stratton, interested in the oil business at Bakersfield, is a guest at the California. P L. 8. Alexander of Watsonville Is in the city for a few days and has made the Oc- cidental his headquarters, —— . A CHANCE TO SMILE. o R 2 * “Women have no originality—no inven- tive genius.” “Nonsense; I've seen my stenographer make a memorandum with a hatpin on a piece of soap when she had no paper handy."—Chicago Record-Herald. the orato: the She—I see, this paper has an article en- .titled “The Bee as a Barometer.” He—Well, I've known ’em to make a fellow’s temperature go up, all right.— Yonkers Statesman. ——————— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* ——— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's* ——— Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per ib at Towns: . Guiliet's New Year's extra mince ples, ico mngm Ml‘rlh:mhu' ————— Special {nformation supplied dafly to public B e e B N