The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 1, 1902, Page 6

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(Long Distance Telephone “Central 2619.”") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C.O.CARLTON. ..cvvvvennnnnnnns Herald Square NEW, YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH 30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Weldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Morray Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Ehermen House; P. O. News Ce.; Great Nortbern Hotel; Fremont House: Auditorium Hotel. Unjon Square: WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St. N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:80 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until £:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open 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 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 3 o'clock. 2200 Filimore. open until § p. m. AMUSEMENTS. Grand Opera-house—"'A Lady of Quality.” California—*'Black Patti Troubadors.” Tivell—“Little Red Riding Hood.” Certral—"The Two Sisters.” “harley’s Aunt. “Janice Meredith.” Orpheum—Vaudeville Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Paseball. Central Park—Vasco Ball Game. Sherman-Clay Hall—Piano Recital S8aturday afternoon. Oskland Racetrack—Races to-day. —— e HE Cuban junta sends out, via the United States Export Association, its plea for free THE JUNTA’S PLEA. ] trade in sugar and tobacco. The statements of this document are misleading. It says: “Our duties on Cuban products, sugar and tobacco, are about 10c per cent as against an aver- age of 50 per cent on all dutiable poducts imported into the United States from other countries; while the Cuban duties on our, products entering Cuba average less than 25 per cent.” This is plainly intended to make it appear that we discriminate specially against Cuba in our tariff, which is not true. Her sugar and tobacco pay the same as other sugar and tobacco, except in the case of sugar produced by the bounty paying nations, when we add the bounty to our tariff, which gives the non-bounty sugar of Cuba an advantage of 2 cents a pound over the bounty sugar of Germany. The low Cuban tariff is cited as a reason why we should lower or remove ours. Inasmuch as the Cu- ban tariff is fixed by our Secretary of War, who joins the junta in using it as an argument for free trade, we answer that if it be too low the Secretary has done injustice to Cuba, which he cannot plead as a reason why shall be done to the American sugar and tobacco interests. Our exports to Cubz for 1900 amounted to 1.9 per cent of our total export trade, while we sent to Ger- Yet, to protect Americ: we put on Germany a pro- hibitory duty by »g her sugar bounty to our tariff, and thereby imperiled our export trade to her, which amounted to $187,347,880. It will be seen, therefore, that if the: Export ad- junct to the junta hath tears to shed over our im- periled export trade.it should devote them to wash- ing away the countervailing duty on German sugar and not grieve over the less than 2 per cent that we send to Cuba. It is a novelty in American politics that the War Department appears asz the country’s guide, philoso- pher and friend in it: economic policy. The Secre- tary of War in.his last report says that “the inde- pendence of Cuba is vecessary to the safety of the United States.” We accept that saying for what it is worth. Let Cuba have the independence which we declared she had achieved before we struck a blow in ber behalf, and being independent let her make such trade arrangements as may promote her welfare, with the whole world. Last year she im- ported far moresrom other countries than from the United States, and if she took all of her imports from us their annual grofit would be an inadequate substitute for the destruction of two of our important zgricultural industries. The Export circular dwells upon our moral obligation to Cuba. We are under none. We are under the politica! obligation and pledge to- let her become independent, that her people may work out their own destiny, as we have ours. The American farmer has to earn his bread before he eats it, and is under no moral obligation to divide his loaf or give it all to a tropical people who can live with less work than he must perform. SE———— Having closed up the Venezuelan issue and the Nicaraguan canal question, it is said Lord Pauncefote desires to close up the boundary controversies be- tween the United States and Canada before he quits, but as the Canadians continue bumptious it looks as if the old man would have to give up or else/decide to spend the rest of his life in Washington. more injustice many 13.44 per cent of our total exports. fervently 1f there were any rumber of women in Congress the Panama Company would surely get away with Nicaragua. They have marked down the price of their canal and put it on the bargain counter, Aradesni. 2%, Hanna and Foraker have picked out a good time to have their Ohio fight. There is plenty of time for them to get it over and harmonize before the next elections take place. The great rubber trust has been starfed with a cap- ital of but $75000,000, which is a small amount as trusts go in these days; but THE NEW YEAR. HE CALL greets its rez{ders, and, looking forward, hails the new year. The past _goeth like a shadow befoie the light.. It has been complained that -one. genera- tion refuses to learn from the experience of those that preceded it. But why com- plain? It is in the nature of man to try for himself. True, cthers may have failed in-that which he attempts, but it is in the-nature of man to*feel within him powers that he does not see in others, and therefore he enters withont fear where many have fallen before him. If it were not for this determination of each man, each generation, each year, to do as if there had been no other man, generation or year, it is easily seen that the race would be imprisoned in precedents, and all effort, all originality, would end, and man would walk in a little circle, without ambition or enterprise. Of each year we expect great things because men dare to disregard the failures of others as proof that what they tried and did not was impossible, and because, too, men refuse to. accept success in any matter as the end of it, and fearlessly put their hands to greater achievement. Morse did not scruple to deny that Franklin had reached the] limit of knowledge as to the power and adaptation of electricity when he inverted the lightning rod to defend man against it. chained it to a wire. Graham refused to accept Morse’s success as the end, and the world has the telephone. Then came Marconi, discarding both Morse and Graham as the ultimate, and we have electricity talking through the air, a wireless bond between continents. . So, as men pledge health and happiness at the Tew vear, there is in their greeting this spirit of a noble independence of what has been. Itis the buoyance that gives zest to the outlook and fervor to the day. The world refuses to believe that the past had all of anything. If it believed other- wise the future would have no radiance. If the dead hand were upon all human concerns what a stagnant world it would be and how insipid the life of man! This seems to be the philosophical basis of that raised’ and light-winged spirit which gives to this day its intercst and its pleasure. , Even the poor creatures who de- vote it to grossness and excess are blindly seeking to give expression to tliul spirit, which they feel without understanding. Let us be charitable to their transgressions, for ‘heir motive s kin to the highest. A hundred years ago, in‘the good year 1801. there were men who believed the world stood on the last summit, that in science, invention, art and philosophy the last page had been turned in the book of knowledge. But since then illuminating gas, the steamship, railway, telegraph, telephone, the wizard of the wireless air, electric light and | power, the pneumatic transmitter, the machine harvester and thresher, and sewing machine, and the greatcompany of kindred discoveries and inventions, cause us to looK back in wonder upon simple-minded 1801; riding on a wagon, reaping with a sickle ! proud of the sailors who would voyage from Europe hither in less than two months! All of it catre in the refusal of men to accept the complacence of 1801. Self-satis- fied old year, buried with a hundred dead companions, we respect your memory and pay tribute to it when we inscribe your epitaph: “Sacred to the memory of 1801; the | year that did not know it all.” But while we write, something tells us that a hundred years hence another hand will write that inscription over 1901 and its company of the dead, and the century which it led will rest and rust, lost in that long perspective that reaches back to the concert of the morning stars, and the faces of men, still turned to the future, will shine with its increasing light. Optimism, courage, adventure, are the quenchless qualities of man which distin- ‘guish him from the brutes that perish. He will not chain himself to a creed, nor formula, | nor prescription. \ £ { Individualized, how valuable is this disposition in man! The year past had its sorrows, its failures, but those who suffered them look forward to-day, expecting to rise from every fall. Those who knew good fortune only, refuse to rest with that, but plan for greater things, and in the combination generate the great energy and enterprise which | speak to the children of men, that they go forward. Here, in this new land, is the theater | arld seat of American optimism. In no other part of the worldis the philosophy of the new year a force as active. Men expect fortunes out of mines that failed for others. and get them. They sail argosies where the ships of the past went to the bottom. They seek and find wealth where others lost it. They wed the blossoms and create three fruits where only two ripened before. If it be said that summits are impossible to the transit of commerce, they scale or tunnel them, and commerce rejoices in the new pathway. If others think that deserts are barren and shine only to lure and kill, here men e¢nter them, clad in courage, and.-bring back from the mirage riches that would dazzle a prince. This is the American orient, the land of the new year, i Every one is an argonaut, and nature provides a golden fleece for every seeker. It is good to be here, and The Call greets its friends and their households, with congratulations that their lines are cast and their lot fixed in a place where to-morrcw is bigger with promise and brighter than to-day, and the gifts and graces of to-day cause yesterday to be forgotten. THE LAND OF EDUCATION. R. EATON, formerly president of Beloit Col- D lege, after having spent a year in carefully studying the conditions of university in- struction abroad has announced that the means for higher education are being improved much more rapidly in the United States than in Germany, and that on the whole there are even now better provi- sions for such cducation here than in the land which for so long a time has held undisputed the foremost place in the educationa! world. The strength of the German system lies in the de- velopment of specialists, but the system has tended to produce a race of scientists who have a higher re- gard for knowledge itself than for any use to which it may be put. Thus German instruction does not always tend to practical results. Dr. Eaton, in speak- ing of Germany, says: ‘“Her great professors, whether surgeons, chemists, theologians, philoso- phers or historians, have still to learn the art of translating for the student mind the wealth of wis- dom with which they themselves are supplied. The German professor lacks the personal magnetism and power to attract his students which is so characteris- tic of the American college professor.” It is not, however, in personal influence only that American universities are surpassing the renowned seats of learniig in Europe. Thanks to the munifi- cerit endowments granted by States to their univer- sities, or bestowed by munificent millionaires, the wealthier American nniversities now offer to students better facilities for study than can be found else- where. “In physical equipment,” says Dr. Eaton, “the German institutions are far behind what we know at home. Leipsic alone of all the great schools lias a modernized plant. The other universities have been content with indifferent extensions of their libraries and laboratories. Student life here also travels on uncompromisingly traditional lines. An American is gratified to observe, however, that the seriousriess of purpose, lack of which Europeans are prone to charge against us on account of our exces- sive indulgence in detracting influences like athletics, is found here absolutely in no more marked degree +than in the United States. On the contrary there is a unification of student life on the gridirons and dia- monds of American campuses which no amount of ‘kommers’ and saber dueling will ever produce.” Of late years we have heard so much about the absorption of the American intellect in business, and our inferiority to the Old World in higher education, that this statement of a careful stident and expert in cducational matters is particularly gratifying. Stu- dents have been coming from Great Britain for some time to study in American schools of technology, and now there se¢ms a prospect that ere long they will come from f3ermany to take courses of higher ucation in our ,univershies o ITH epigrammatic terseness the London CON DITION OF THE NATIONS. Mail has summed up the conditions of the i V people of the principal cities of the dif- ferent nations at this season by saying: “London, medium; Paris, poor; Berlin, bad; Vienna, bad; Rome, good; St. Petersburg, good; New York, ex- cellent.” The Mail might have added: ‘“‘San Fran- cisco, glorious.” Reports from Europe have long since made the reading public of the United States fairly familiar with the trade conditions and prospects of the lead- ing nations. Great- Britain has had the disadvantage of a prolonged and ecostly war, but out of it has drawn something of good. The large expenditures | necessary for carrying on the war have stimulated many lines of industry, while the number of unem- ployed has been diminished by the enlistment of men required for the army. Consequently, despite the disasters of the war and the heavier taxation it has imposed upon the pecple, the holiday season this year has not been so bad in Great Britain as on the Continent. The German situation is peculiar. The, Kaiser has had much success in promoting the foreign com- merce of kis people znd for a long time everything promised to be prosperous; but now American com- petition has begun to affect German trade. A con- siderable number of industries have been compelled to close: for a time, and, according to recent reports, there are upward of 00,000 unemployed men in the empire. In Austria the situation is nearly as bad, but as the government has entered upon an elaborate and extensive system of public improvements it is likely the idle labor will ere long have adequate em- ployment. . That the situation in New York is excellent goes without saying. The whole country has been pros- perous and the metropolis has reaped the benefits of handling its trade and finance. Excellent, however, as is the showing made by the great city on the At- lantic, it is not equal in general and diffused pros- perity to that which is found among the people of California. This is the land of the superlative. In wealth, as in weather, we are ahead of all rivals, e e s In 1850 there were 108 savings banks in the United States, with: 251,354 depositors, having an average de- posit of $172 76 each, while in 1900 there were 1002 savings banks, with 5875456 depositors, having an average deposit of $405 80 each; so it will be seen we have grown to be a thrifty people, and can afford to cglebrnu along about Christmas and New Year. The announcement that Mr. Bryan’s Commoner cleared $40,000 in its”first year is a proof that while déal more profitable than a free silver agitation. He made the strange power a servant and and threshing with a flail, stitching with a hand needle by the light of a tallow dip, and | a weekly paper is not exactly a gold mine it is a good | E SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1902 CALIFORNIA CLUB WOMEN . SATIRE ON KNICKERBOCK | ) 4 s % LUnoR L RovoAcE ENJOY ER DAMES by Sanford G. Lewald and Miss Nelle M. Blakey. Six pretty figures were danced. Perhaps the most attractive feature of the even- ing was the marching and counter-march- ing among the silken banners and softly giowing Japanese lanterns. the. effect be- fng both picturesque and beautiful. During the cotillon supper, which was gerved at midnight in the Maple room, ths following programme was given: Agdress of welcome, Walter FH. Robinson: flute solo, James T. Ludlow: toast, ‘“‘Our Club,” Miss Posey McGrath; solo, Miss Alvina Eisenmann; toast, “‘Our Belles and Buds," Merritt D. Robison; recitation, Miss Virginia M. Potter: solo, Philip J. Eisenmann; toast, “Our Bachelor Members," Miss Coral G. Giibert; toast, “‘Our Charter Members,'= Wil- llam F. Hooke. Altogether the evening was one of the most delightful ever recorded in the his- tory of the Entre Nous. The following named participated in the leading sets: 2 Misses Linda_ Priber, Ethel Way, Mabel Hamilton, Aimee Auger, Posey McGrath, Camille Neison, Genevieve Smith, Sadie Lud- low, Ethel Boyd, Lillian Lubben, Ida Pari- > HE members and friends of the Cal- ifornia Club enjoved their ‘“‘found- ers' day” session yesterday after- noon, it being’the fourth anniveas- ary of the club’s existence. The emtertainment was held in the au- ditorium of the Y. M. C. A. bullding and Mrs. James C. Crawford was chairman of the day. Mrs. J. W. Orr gave the “founders’ a clever an interesting ad- dress, discussing the original purpose of the club and its aims toward practicabil- ity, encouraging the members to progres- sive thought and aggressive action. Mrs. Orr was heartily applauded. “The Knickerbocker Dames” filled the second half of the programme, a clever one-act play written by Mrs. Lovell White and Mrs. Ella M. Sexton, prominent mem- bers of the club, and comprising ten char- acters. one of which was well taken by Mys, Sexton, the others also being played by members. The characters were: Mrs. Verlenid Van der Donk, Mrs. A..D. Sharon; Mrs. Stuyvesant Stayvesant-Smythe, Mrs. Flla M. Sexton: Mrs. Van Twiller West- ervelt Robinson, Miss Mabel Craft: Mrs. John Jacob Astor Jones, Mme. Emelia Tojetti; Mrs. 1. A. M. A. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Edzar R. Bry- ant; Mrs. Livingston DeWitt, Miss Elinor Croudace; Mrs. Gracie Van Brunt Sweet, Mrs. James C. Crawford: Mrs. Rocsevelt Van Tas- sel, Mre, George E. Bates: Miss Dorothy Went- worth, Mies Jenpie A. Long; Miss Charity Neerdonk, Miss Abble Edwards. Note.—The Krickerbocker Dames—a soclety of aristocratic ladies of New York, whose an- cestors were the early Dutch settlers of New Amgsterdam, as New York was formerly called. They were orzanized to find out and to per- petuate the valorous deeds of thefr forefathers, and to trace their own lineage and family trees. Thelr December club meeting is pre- sented to the California Club with the above cast. The vortrayal ©of the dames—ever thankful that they were not as other women whose pedigrees began yesterday— was brought out with intellectual shad- ing and was delicious to' the audience. The players were armed with a motley ar- ray of family trees, charts, coats of arms and other nroverties, which they flour- ished with the most amusing effect. The audience was far from blase. Bursts of applause repeatedly interrupted the dialogue; many leaned forward in their seats, eager to catch every word, while others remained standing with eathless Interest. It is seldgm that good professionals make mcre of their lines than did the ladies in the cast vesterday. The intel- lectual shading and polish, for the most part, could only be criticized favorably. In addition to the byplay and other inter- esting points the ladies’ gowns fascinated the audience. - After the performance the guests went upstairs to the club rooms; where dainty refreshments were served and Mrs, White and Mrs. Sexton received an ovation. The talented performers were also con- gratulated: s e . Mr. and Mrs. John D. Spreckels enter- tained about eighty. guests last evening for Misses Lillian and Grace Spreckels at their home, Laguna street and Pacitie avenue. -:-’:e ul::‘i;‘ was most informal, no invi- tations | sent out, but friends were ked 1y by members o(m fam- y to come and dance the old year out guests entertalned with the Spreckels’ usual hospitality. The delight- ful informality of the occasion rendered this home dance especially enjoyable. Miss Pearl Sabin gave a farewely lunch- eon to friends yesterday at her home, as she leaves on Friday for the East. The decorations were Japanese and chosen with excellent taste. The large round ta- and candlesticks with paper shades in col- ors. Chrysanthemums were selected In a variety of colors to correspond with other decorations and the hangings on the wall were in Japanese. Miss Sabin was so charming a hostess her guests were loth to say adieu, as so lovable a girl can scarcely be spared. Those present were: Mrs. Redmond W. Payne, Miss Mand Mullins, Miss Char- lotte Field, Miss Loulse Howland, Miss Pearl Landers, Miss Edith Pilisbury, Miss Jessle Fillmore, Miss Edith Simpson, Miss Margaret Salisbury, Miss Tiny O'Connor, Miss Rowena Burns and Miss Virginia Belknap. , R The guests of the Occidental Hotel were entertained last evening by a “hop” in the dining-room by George Hooper. erybody had a great tihe and a sumptu- ous supper was served during the even- ing. The Entre Nous Cotillon Club’s assem- bly and german took place last evening in the beautiful new ballroom of the Pal- ace Hotel. It was an especially brilliant event. The costumes worn were univer- sally charming, each fair dancer being a picture by herself. The cotillon was led ble was lighted with Japanese lanterns | 4 - = CLEVER WOMEN WHO AIDED IN THE PRODUCTION OF “THE COLONIAL DAMES” WRITTEN BY TWO MEMBERS OF THE CALIFORNIA CLUB, AND WHICH WAS THE FEATURE OF THE FOUNDERS DAY ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY THAT ORGANIZATION. 3 -+ ser, Lillian Breiling, Alma Cutter, Mae Glad- ding, Doris Heuer, Belle Herzer, Lottie Has- Lell, Edna Dudley, Pauline Ryder, Ella Van Kappff, Eva Dolan, Daisy Huggins, Florence Gladys Delzelle, Gertrude Coleman, Florence McCoy, Elizabeth Balser, Mae F. Keeffe, May Wisemann, Pearl C. Haas, Car- rie Nelson, Alvina Eisenmann, Edna Sulli- van, Florence Marinovich, Lilllan Smith. Messrs, Louts C. Haven, George P. Fuller, W. Gorden, Vietor J. La Motte, Harry e, Harry T. Batley, Willilam F. Hooke, David W. Wise, H. L. Cunningham, Henry C. Lassen, Alfred Lorber. Dr. A. W. Baker, Ernest Brand, M. 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