The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1902, Page 6

The= Sk Call. THURSDAY.....v0inss0iee0. JANUARY 16, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress All Commeniestions to W. 8. LEAKE Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE. .Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. ¥, Telep! Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 te 221 Stevensonm St. Telephone 203. Delivered by Carriers, 10 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. by Mail. Including Postages DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL Gncluding Su:day), ¢ 3 nthe. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. ’ Eample coples Will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers in orferig chanee of address should be perticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to ineure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.... €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Kanager Tereign Advertising, Marquetts Building, Chieags. (Long Distance Telephone “Central 210.”) .1118 Broadway NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. ... eese..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH .30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldors-Astoria Hotel: A. Brentamo, 31 Unlon Square: Morray Hil Hotel % CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sberman House; P. O. News Cc.: Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House: Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D, C.) OFFICE....1408 G §t, N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFJCES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open wntsl 330 o'clock. 0 Hayes, open mntil 3:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until $:39 o'clock. €15 Larkin, open until 030 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 221 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1036 Valencis, open untll § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, opea until § o'clock. 200 Filimore, cpen until § p. m. — AMUSEMENTS. or the White Rose." enry VIIL™ Orpheum—Vaudeville. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and evening Fischs udeville. Certral Park—Vasco Ball Game. Recreation Park—Paseball. Sherman-Clay Hall—Angelus Piano Player Recital Satur- day afternoon. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Wm. G. Layng—Friday evening, January 17, at 7:45 o'clock, Thoroughbred Horses, at 721 Howard street. THE JUNTA ACTIVE. HE Cuban junta has emerged into the open and put its fists to the documents it is circu- lating to persuade the American people to en- 2 few score planters by free sugar and to- The members of the junta are Francisco Gamba, president; Miguel Mendoza, Gustavo Bock, Simon Dumois, Dionisio Velasco, Luis V. Francke, Alfonzo Pesant and Juan Pedro, delegates. These have issued a pretentious pamphlet de- g that: “The Cubans base their petition to Congress (for free trade) upon two propositions. First, the United States is under moral obligations to aid Cuba in the re-establishment of 'prosperity ‘in the island. Second, the commerce and industry of Cuba are in imminent danger of disaster if aid is not given immediately.” ¥ As for the first reasen, it is bosh. We assumed no ybligation to make Cuba prosperous or repair the waste of the futile revolution her people rying on when we rescued them by expelling The second reason is an untruthful statement. It is not true that Cuba has been shut out of the rest world and must break imto our market, to the suffer an industrial were Spain injury of our own farmers, or collapse. In eleven months of 1901 Cuba’s imports fell off ,000 below the same eleven months of 1900, and exports in the same time increased $17,383,000. ng the two together we have a gain in her com- mercial a financial condition in that period of $23,128,000! In that eleven months Cuba sent to the United States in her products an increase of $10,315,- ooo. In the same period Cuba’s exports to Europe increased $5.520,000. These are conspicuous and ap- preciable gains. A balance of trade in her favor of cver $23,000,000 in the last eleven months indicates anyth but an industrial collapse. It shows a very healthy state of trade. The argument is also made that when we drove Spain out of Cuba we shut Cuban products out of Spain. Even if that were true, it places neither re- sponsibility nor obligation upon us. The Cubans shut themselves out of Spain during the revolution they waged against that country. We ended the revo- nd now the junta says we are morally bound ake good the lost trade with Spain. But what did that amount to? Cuba's avérage market in Spain was worth annually $6,500,000. Grant that is lost to Cuba, her gain in trade with us of $10,315,000 and with Europe of $5,520,000 in the same period, a total of $15,835,000, ought (6 make good her loss of $6,500,000 with Spain. The more-this plea of moral obligation and lost trade is examined the more impudent it appears. But unless the American farmers, who have at stake the employment of 40,000,000 acres of land and 400,- 000 people, are alert, the brazen junta will win and pocket the profits which belong to our own tillers of the soil. an According to-a New York financial expert we still cwe Europe about $1,700,000,000, and therefore are still 2 long way from being the creditor nation of the world. The estimate, to say the least of it, appears to be exaggerated, but even if it be correct there is nothing in the situation to fret about. We are all right. It is for Europe to do the worrying: The situation of President Castro of Venezuels may not be so bad as appears to outsiders. It is true he has two revolutions to confront, but as they are revolving in opposite directions they may yet smash one another and leave the Castro Government to hold an inquest on the wreck. It has been noted that at the recent meeting of the American Historical - Association Edgar Stanton Maclay was not’there, but it is strange that any no- tice should have been taken of the fact. Maclay has not been 2 historian since the Schley inquiry. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, ' WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? HE CALL has discharged an unpleasant duty T in exposing the immoral and faithless condition of the County Clerk’s office.” That office in its importance ranks next to the courts. The Clerk draws the juries that try issues of property, liberty and life. He takes bonds, is the custodian of wills and documents in probate, is concerned in judicial finalities, and immensc interests depend upon his in- tegrity and that of his records. Carelessness or cor- ruption in the Clerk’s office leave "their mark for years. Like a distemper of the blood in man, they reappear again and again, and their stigmata ~are upon the property, the rights and the reputations, of generations to come. The property of the pegplc passes entire through probate every generation. How necessary, then, that the record, and all that pertains to that passage of jmaterial things from gen- eration to generation in probate, shall be clean and made by clean hands! The people nominate and elect the County Clerk. If they choose they czn put the office in pure hands and secure its proper administration, or by neglect and inattention, by carelessness and indifference, they can permit it to become the personal asset of a gang of grafters. This latter seems to have happened. The Call and its coadjutors offered support and gave opportunity to a movement in the politics of this city and county that would have lifted it beyond the | reach of the blear and fetid bosses. The time to do this was at the primaries, and the way was open, but, the respectable people, good Republicans, taxpaying citzens who are bled of their means not to support {local government but to sustain gangs and gangrene in politics, refused to walk therein and the bosses were victorious. Part of the result is now exposed in the condition of the County Clerk’s office.. The Clerk is detected in making illegal contracts for support as a candidate, binding himself in writing to use his official patron- age to/repay those who gave him active support and perhaps money to help him into office, all in defiance jof the law. But these illegal acts, made illegal be- cause such promises and contracts entered into had come to be the stench and odium of our politics,’ were not all nor the worst of the symptoms of the Clerk’s character. It was a felony to make the contracts. Is the office of Clerk safe in hands that commit fel- | ony to secure it? If so, let us go a step further in | the psychology of the case. After making these promises and being the beneficiary of them, getting value received in influence, votes and other valuable considerations, Clerk Mahony proceeded to violate | and repudiate his felonious contracts and pre-election | promises, illegal in their nature. He had sold him- self for a consideration. He had bartered patronage paid for by the taxpayers. ' He was bought by con- tract, and then refused to stay bought. Dean’ Richmond, whose experience with men in private and official life. had been long and varied, declared that “an honest man is the d—d scoun- drel who stays bought.” But in this case the people have not the impaired and defective satisfaction of feeling that the high and important trusts of the | Clerk’s office are in the keeping of that form of honesty which the great New York manipulator of men found to be the best he could get hold of. To criminality this record adds contemptible qualities, which present a character that has festered in the air of boss politics until no idea of manhood, fidelity and { duty survives. But the people, who are nearly or remotely the vic- tims of such officialdom, are themselves to blame. When the way is open to separating politics from the | gutter and cesspool they refuse to walk therein. Let |the clean and conscientious citizen sit down .and | ask himself why he and all like him combined should ibe utterly without influence in the municipal gov- | ernment. Let him ask why the patronage of that | government, and largely its official methods, are dic- tated by a boss, with no visible means of support, living in defiance of the moral code and the criminal statutes, dictating, like a lord paramount, the action of the officers elected by the people, corrupting the fountain from which issue juries and justice, imper- |iling the support of the widow and orphan and play- |ing with Justice as if she were a draggled wanton. | Let him ask why there is more ‘strength in the little finger of such a boss where an officer or an official act is concerned than in the lcins of all‘the decency of the city, and then reflect if a government under such control is to be endured any longer than it can be purged and jpurified. But, let this typical citizen remember that he is to blame. There are enough like him to have it otherwise, but they will not, and so we have slumgullion government, chosen in fel- ony and administered in crime. Tom Reed, once of Maine, but now of New York, who is rapidiy becoming something like a reminis- cence, obtained a little society notice the other day by giving a swell dinner to fifteen friends. There was a time when such a banquet would have been the talk of the nation, but as it is it got only just lines enough to contain the names of those present. A Men’s Christian Association in New York last Friday, is reported to have said: “The best of wealth is not what it does for the owner, but what it enables him to do for others; and let me tell you there is nothing in money beyond buying a com- petence, nothing but the satisfaction of being able to help others.” The statement is a platitude, and, like every other old familiar doctrine which mankind has heard from press, pulpit and forum over and over again, it em- bodies a truth in words so vague that one can neither detérmine exactly what it means nor find fault with it. Wealth, indeed, serves no other pur- pose than that of providing a comi)etence and ‘en- abling a' man to help others, but what is a compe- tence, who are the others a man is to help, and how is the help to be given? Those are questions which remain to be answered by each man in his own way. To Mr. Carnegie a competence means a residence near Pittsburg, a mansion in New York, a castle in Scotland and an island of many thousand acres main- tained as a shooting ground on the coast of Georgia. The cost of any single one of those things would 'constitute an ample fortune for a dozen families ac- cording to some other folks’ ideas of a competence. Mr. Carnegie’s idea of helping people is to give them a public library provided they will maintain it. That is a most potent help for some peoplc‘ but there are others who would stai\'e in sight of a library and find no help in its books. Whatever views we take of these diverse ideas of a competency and of helpfulness, it is unquestionable that those Americans who have attained great wealth have been munificent in providing help for others in every way in which help is humanly possible. They have built up great industries that give employment to thousands of workingmen at much better wages than they could otherwise have obtained; they have WEALTH AND ITS USES. NDREW CARNEGIE, addressing the Young l THURSDAY, diversified American industries and thus enabled men to work at whatever is best fitted to their tal- ents and ‘most congenial to, their tastes; and they have provided many a community with the. means of achieving a prosperity sufficient to enable the greater number of families to live in the culture of literature, science, art and music. In other directions the helpfulness of American millionaires to their less successful fellow citizens has been the marvel of the world. Counting only gifts of not less than $10,000, the benefactions of the rich men and women of this country last year amounted, according to a compilation of the Chicago Tribune, to the sum of $123,888,732. Of that sum there went $68,850,061 to educational institutions, $22,217,470 to charities, $15,388,700 to libraries, $11,133,112 to mu- seums and art galleries, and $6,298,489 to churches. Among those ‘who gave these vast sums to the public for the common use of the people Mr. Carne- gie himself stands as the giver of the largest 'sum. His benefactions for the year were $42,888,500, It will be seen, then, that he is doing his best to live up to his. understanding of the uses of wealth. In fact, whatever faults may be found with the race of strong men who are now making American industry and finance the wonder of the world, it canhot be denied that they know how to use their money as well as to make it, and that in using it they are munificent in the support of every worthy cause that needs money to. sustain it. P st oo It is said that the ball at the White House given for the debut of Miss Roosevelt was the finest enter- tainment of the kind ever held at the national capi- tal; but the public will femember to have heard very much the same thing said about nearly every other function at the big mansion. — l THE BUSINESS OF THE PORT, ITH something like the effect of an alarm bell came the report from Washington of ~ V the intention of the War Department to dis- pose of the army transport service to the Philippines and to rely for transportation hereafter upon private !lines. San Francisco woke up and began to look at the situation. There was an evident desire on the part of James J. Hill to obtain the Government work for his lines at Seattle, while the Pacific Mail steam- ship line, which' might have been expected to make the fight for this port, was found to be seemingly in- active. It looked for a time as if we were in serious danger of losing an important trade, and there was in consequence an eager desire to learn from Wash- ington just what might be expected from the pur- posed change. i In response to the desire of the public The Call obtained all information that could be learned either here or at the national capital, and yesterday was enabled to publish an interview with Secretary Root which puts an end to any fear of immediate in- jury. In reply to questions by the special cor- respondent of The Call the Secretary said: “I have asked Congress for authority to give up the trans- ports and to make a contract with a private com- pany or companies for doing the business, but I hardly think the change will take place immediately. When the Government comes to make this contract we shall be very cold-blooded about it, and we shall make a contract to the Government’s advantage. 1 cannot sec how any company operating or proposing to operate from Seattle can possibly make a propo- | sition to us that would even partly offset the aban- | donment- of the Government’s ‘plant. at the Presidio in San Francisco. It is safe enough to go upon the proposition that the Government will always ship | its men from San Francisco, and as a natural course | of events most of the Govergment freight will follow | the route over which the menh gp.” | The statement of the Secretary is feassuring so | far as the present emergency is.concerned, but it will not do for San Francisco to accept too confi- dently the saying that “it is safe to go upon the prop- osition that the Government will always ship its men from San Francisco and that the freight will follow the route over which the men go.”” In the world of trade nothing is safe unless men interested in it ex- crt themselves to keep it so. Those who rely upon circumstances to bring thenf good fortune or to pre- | serve what they have generally wake up some morn- ing to perceive that circumstances have become ad- verse and fortune is gone. San Francisco is the metropolis of‘the Pacific Coast and is likely to re- main so, but her merchants and capitalists must work to hold for her the prestige of that position. Back of the Puget Sound ports there is an pctive, progressive man ever planning and working to at- tract to them trade and commerce for his railway lines. The Southern Pacific Company and the Pa- cific Mail Company bave not been working in that way for San Francisco. On the contrary, there have begn many instances when they worked directly against the welfare of the city. A case of the kind was brought to light 1ot long ago when it was found that steamer rates from this city to oriental points gave Eastern shippers large advanQages over San Francisco shippers, and,: furthermore, that/the Pa- cific Mail Company was loading its \vgels with wares shipped directly from the East, while goods of- fered by our own shippers lay upon the wharves and could not “obtain transportation. Where such methods prevail there can be no safety for commerce. The alarm felt at the first announce- ment of what might follow the sale of the Gevern- ment transports should therefore serve as a warning for the future. It is time for our progressive and far- seeing men to bestir themselyes in providing means for bringing to this port the bulk of the vast trade that is to grow up between the United States and the Orient. A Kansas physician, described by his friends to be the oldest practicing physician in the world, recently celebrated his one hundredth birthday, and we are told he “disdains a cane, walks to see his patients every day and reads without glasses.” There re- mains untold just the one bit of information we would like to have—did he ever take*any of his own medicine? One of the significant reports from China is that the Empress Dowager in giving her consent to plans of reform proposed to her insisted that something in the way of reform be provided to better the condi- tion of women in the empire. A Chinese woman’s rights’ movement is hardly a thing the old century would have deemed prcbable, but this is a new one. — e The Carnegie Institute starts with such array of distinguished citizens at its head that there is danger it will stop right there, FEach one of the trustees is already so eminent that he will not feel it incumbent upon him to get in and hustle for the institution, or to make a reputation for himself. P e, The Hanna-Foraker fight in Ohio has untangled itself to some extent. Tt is not quite clear yet where Hanna is, but Foraker has managed to crawl out of \ the big end of the horn, and he is all right. \{ JANUARY 16, 1902. SOCIETY GIVES ENTERTAINMENT : TO PRESIDIO HOSPITAL INMATE§ ceived at the Neustadter residence at Van Ness avenue and Sacram;mo lstree:o‘:;r; ing the aftesnoon. The drawing were decorated with the chofeest cut flowers and dainty refreshments were served. ‘Among others who received ye’(t(m;:"; were Mrs. Robert Howard BenneTDh“ Mrs. Walter Ellis Rountree, Mrs. i, 3 | | | | | | SOME OF THE SOCIETY LADIES WHO GAVE AN ENTERTAINMENT | LAST EVENING AT THE PRESIDIO HOSPITAL, WHICH WAS | THOROUGHLY ENJOYED BY THE SICK AND WOUNDED. l‘ % - o low shades. The music and reception | Mrs MacMonagle and Mrs. Chapman, room decorations were American Beauty | who was assisted by Mrs. Sherwood, Miss Toses. Miss Ellinwood was attired in a | Meta Fitzhugh and Miss DuBoise. {thin violet ~gown, exquisitely em-| The Sine Cura Club announces that the \ broidered. Miss Scott wore a dainty | hop scheduled for this evening has been - ¥ | gown of cream white, with garniture of HE concert at the Presidio General Hospital last night was a delight- ful affair. It was under (he= auspices of Mrs. George G. Carr | and it is, therefore, needless to say that the entertainment was a brllll.anl success, as Is everything which Mrs. Carr undertakes. Some of the most charming young ladies in San Francisco society as well | as able men contributed their talents to | help brighten the evening for the inmate. of the hospital, and their songs were en- thusiastically received by the audience, which included many visitors. The popu- lar sextet from ‘‘Florodora” was de- lightfully| rendered, and also two scenes from the opera, “Hansel and Gretel,” by Misses Culien, Heath and Sexton. Mr. Frank Rodoiph, besides singing in the sextet, gave a solo, “My Wiid Irish Rose,” and was encored. Mr. Rodolph, who made such a decided hit, is the same one who is preparing to take his talents East and is to give a farewell concert on the 20th of next month at Native Sons Hall. Mr. Rosborough’s pantomime was | cleverly done and heartily applauded. Mr. | Arthur Carrington gave a delightful | specialty, including the “Drinking Song. ‘The last number was purposely omitted from the programme as Mrs. Carr had a surprise in store for the guests. It was | a burlesque on the Florodora sextet en-, titled *“The Hopkins Doraflora,” and oc- casioned no end of laughter. The per- formers in this number were rollicking students from the Mark Hopkins Insti- tute of Art and were strikingly and amazingly costumed. The ladies wore startling poster effects in gowns, coats and hats. Those in_the burlesque were: Miss Davis, Miss Deas, Miss Noonan, | Mig¢s Garter, Miss Gregg, Miss Brower, Mr. Layne, Mr. Kuss, Mr. Dannenberg, Mr, Keane, Mr. Rixford and Mr. Rogers. Mrs. Carr was greatly assisted in pre- aring this sextet by Mr. Perham W. ahl, who revised the verses and Intro- duced apropos Presidio jokes in addi- tion to driling the performers. Mr. Nahl is_a son of the well-known artist. Mrs. Arthur Lewis graciously presided at the piano. ‘ ine programme was as follows: Song, “My Wild Irish Rose,” Frank Ro- dolph. Two scenes from the opera, ‘‘Hansel and Gretel” (Humperdinck); Hansel, May A. Cullen; Gretel, Helen Colburn Heath; Sand Man, Hazel Sexton; Mrs_ Arthur Lewis at the plano. Florodora sextet, Miss Bernice Landers, Miss Elsa Cook, Miss Mary Payne, Miss Chispa Sanborn, MissLucerne Ransome, Mr. Rosbor- ough. Mr. Greenfleld, Mr. Paschal, Mr, Ro- dolphi, Mr. Klinck; Hawajlan songs, C. . Greenfleld, A, R. Poett; pantomime in two acts, John Rosborough; ““La Boheme,” a potpourr! of nonsense by students of the Mark Hopkins Institute of At and Arthur, Carrington. The wedding of Miss Eleanor Morrow and Lieutenant Henry L. Roosevelt yes- terday afternoon was beautiful and im- pressive. The home of the bride's pa- | ian rents, Judge and Mrs. Morrow, at Rafael, was lavishly decorated with roses, ferns and smilax. The ceremony was performed by Rev. A. A. McAllister. Miss_Alice Wilkins was maid of honor nd Dr. John E. Page acted as best man. The bride was attired in a princess gown of white organdie, en train, with garniture of white lace. She wore a dia- mond brooch, a gift from her mother. Miss Wilkins wore white net over white silk_and Mrs. Morrow was gowned in blnls. Chantilly lace, embroidered with gold. After the ceremoray a dainty wedding breakfast was served, The happy couple took the 5 o'clock train to this city. They will sail to-day for the Phillipines, where Lieutenant Roosevelt has been assigned for umi. Miss Morrow is the daughter of United Statés Circuit Judge W. W. Morrow. Lieutenant Roosevelt is a second cousin of President Rm.uevan. - . Miss Charlotte Ellinwood was hostess at a delightful luncheon at her home, Pa- cific avenue and Devisadero street, yes- | terd. Miss Cornella Scott of St. Louis was guest of honor. The decorations in the dining-room were yellow entirely, ex- ceYlt the variegated leaves. There were yellow flowers and candelabra with yel- N ~ blue. The guests were: Miss Grace Spreckels, Miss Lillian Spreekels, | Miss Fanny Loughborough, Miss Loughborough, Miss Polhemus, Miss Ardella Mills, Miss Katherine Herrin, Miss Ethel Cooper, Miss Lucy King, Miss Elizabeth Hunt- ington, Miss Maud Muilins, Miss Ruth Dun- ham, Miss Leontine Blakeman, Bernie Drown, Miss Margaret Salisbury, ) Pierce and Miss Elizabeth Ames. Josephine Mrs. Winthrop E. Lester-gave a de- lightful dinner last evening at her home, Sutter street and Van Ness avenue, for Miss Georgina Jones. Eight guests were pleasantly entertained. The table deco- Trgonis WerBe entirely in red, including erican Beauty roses and cand a with red shades. ebs Mrs. Adam Grant gave an informal tea at her residence, 1112 Bush street, yester- day afternoon.’ The decorations were chiefly American Beauty roses. Mrs, Grant was assisted in recéiving by Mrs. J. D. Grant, her daughter-in-law. Mrs. David Neustadter was “at home™ yesterday, the first of Ler two reception days this month. Many callers were re- Sophia | | indefinitely postponed owing to the death fi:k‘me of its members, Miss Jewel Kene- ck. —_——————— Marsh Mallow Kisses at Townsend's. * — Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* —_— Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* ——a g Look out for §1 4th st., front of barber and grocery; best eyeglasses, spees, 15¢ to 40e.* e Special information supplied daily business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- | gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. e e | “Muscadine” is a_disease to which silk worms are liable. It consists of a fungus |growth in the body, which breaks throutgh the skin and speedily kills the nsect. ———— —— Guillet's New Year's extra mince ples, ite cream and cake. 905 Larkin: phone East 198. * MRS. McKINLEY'S NURSE TELLS HER STORY. THE OLDEST LIGHTHOUSE ZNDER ON THE COAST IS A WOMAN, Read about her in next Sun- READ THE WOLEVILLE STORIES BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS. e e e ——— FASHIONS, BEAUTY QUEST AND HUMAN INTEREST STORIES. RELEASE OF GERONIMO AND HIS APACHES. WHERE GIRLS LIVE ON §i5 A YEAR A SAN FRANCISCO WOMAN'S EXPERIENCES IN PANAMA, / THE SUNDAY CALL MAGA- ZINE SECTION IS THE LIT- ERARY SUNDAY PAPER OF THE WEST. NEXT WEEK BEGINS A STORY BY BRET HARTE. to' -