The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 17, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1902. JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. . LEAKE, Masager. Telephone Press 204 dat et ARSI Lags PUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, . F. Telephone Press 201. 217 to 221 Stevensom St. Press Delivered by Onrriers, 15 Centx Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL Oncluding Sunday), one year.. DAILY CALL (including Su-day), § 1-onths. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months. Address Al Communiestions to W. MANAGER’S OFFICE..... All postmasters are authorized to receive bscriptions. Bample copfes Will be iorwarded when requested. Mall subscribers In orderirg change of sddress should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. 1118 BroadWway OAKLAND OFFICE. . C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquetts Building, Ohicags. Geng Distance Telephone “Central 2618.) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. ...~ .Herald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: Mcrray H Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eberman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Premont House: Avditorium Hotel. SWASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St. N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—S527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open untfl 930 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 638 McAllister, open until $:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin. open until #:30 o'clock. 1541 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Eixteenth, cpen untfl § o'clock. 109 Valencis, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, opea until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—*Merchant of Venice.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—“Claire and the Forgemaster.” California—*0ld Jed Prouty.” Tivoli—“Little Red Riding Hood.” Central—*Pnder the Gaslight.” Aleazar—*For the White Rose.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and evening Fischer’s—Vaudeville. Sherman-Clay Hall—Angelus Plano Player Recital Satur- @ay afternoon. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Wm. G. Layng—This evening, 7:45 o'clock, Thor- oughbred Horses, at at CLASSIFYING THE STATE. ERETOFORE in all industrial expositions H and in efforts at advertising the State there has been a marked disposition effect a of Southern from to California. has State, T i Northern is has produced some friction, and perhaps d some disadvantage to the whole proposes a frank and open geographical clas- cation of the State by providing that at St. Louis ern, Central and Northern California shall each be represented in an exhibit that in its unity will ex- le State. State is nearly a thousand miles long, and practically the same and productions length, such an arrangement will do ct justice to each division, and will show the ity of the productive capacity. the w the climate whole in it When the raisins ern California, ard the oranges of Los Angeles those of Oroville prove the common capacity of Northern and South all § of citrus ion is taken away and each section, instead of indulging disparagement of the other, will address itself to making the utmost of the gifts and graces which are the common endowment of both. The plan puts each division upon its mettle, not to show that it has a monopoly of the natural resources of the State, but that it is making the best use of re- sources common to zll three. It is easily seen that s plan will produce the greatest exhibit the State ever made. California will appear in St. Louis in her true character and aspect as the greatest dis- trict on the earth’s surface. No other combines the mineral, aquatic and terrestrial capacities that have here we Some may approach us in one resource, but none has them all in combination. Our people begin to see that they are the architects of their own future and that of the State. Nature has fitfully smiled upon other places, but here alone does she lay- ish all the boun of her favor in every material way that affects the welfare of man. i o . s The bachelor: to have been ew York this year seems ball in sally brilliant even for such af- unu fairs. It did not get started until near midnight, and there s a supper at 1 o'clock, with another supper about 4 i orning. During the dancing of the cotillon the ballroom was suddenly darkened, and then, to the amazement of the company, there came from two poin the gallery a shower of illuminated 1 were taken up and tossed to and fro from one end of the room to the other. Altogether the scene is said to have been one of fairy brilliancy, and doubtless the fairies were highly, pleased with the bachelors. balls wk The clection of James B. McCreary to the United States Senate from Kentucky has been variously re- ceived. Some authorities assert he will prove to be one of the ablest men in the Senate and stand firmly | for good politics, while others recall that he is known in his own State as “Oily Jeems,” and say he is a very smooth article and dazngerous. British financial experts are busy trying to de- vise 2 means of increasing the revenues of the em- pire, and it is believed the chief increase of taxation will be upon tea, coffee and sugar. The blooming Britons, in fact, will have to get rid of their war debt by swallowing it for breakfast. Perry Belmont doubtless felt badly when Tam- many refused to support his candidacy for Congress, end felt worse when the voters of the district polled # majority against him; but the crushing blow did not fall on him until Bryan declared he is not a Democrat. Fresno, in Central California, | hown alongside cf those of Yolo and Colusa, in | California in the production | NATIONAL IRRIGATION. ENATOR BARD announces the opinion that S the members of Congress from the Western States will continue to disagree upon the ques- tion of irrigation, and that this disagreement will compel the whole subject to sleep again for an indefi- nite period. If the Senator is correct in his view of the situation it is to be lamented. The East is ready to indorse any plan upon which the West agrees, provided it does not call for burdensome appropriations from the treasury. It'is in immediate prospect that the Gov- ernment will undertake the construction of an isth- mian canal, and there is a general feeling, participated in by the whole country, that the work should be done on the pay-as-you-go plan. Whether this be possible or not there is a determination to hold the treasury in a strong condition, against any demand that may prove necessary. s Under these circumstances the proposition of the irrigators to use for the needed conservation and dis- tribution of water the proceeds of the sale of the pub- lic lands was sure to pass if agreed upon by the West- ern men. It is probable that they still stand agreed upon that plan, and that the policy is wrecked upon a divergence of views as to the location of the first work to be undertaken by the Governmeng As the sale of lands will produce only about $3,000,000 a year for an irrigation fund, and the works for impounding and distributing water will be costly, it is easy to un- derstand that localities will compete for the benefit. Wisdom would dictate that all localities combine in having the work started somewhere, in order to as- sure the stability of the policy of national irrigation | by bringing. it down out of the air to the ground, where it belongs. If it prove true that this disagreement shunts the proposition, the irrigators and all Western interests should combine for laws which will provide a fund and immediately begin its accumulation in the treas- ury, in trust, to be devoted to its purpose as Congress may finally decide. The Hansbrough bill, to put into such fund the thereto the revenue from leasing the arid stock ranges, it is estimated, will produce about $11,000,000 a year. As it is believed that the 400,000,000 acres of grazing lands will all be leased and producing within a year, the next session of Congress would find in hand a fund sufficient to start irrigation works in each of the competing localities, and there would be | no reason for further rivalry between them. | ©On the other hand, they would be found cordially combined in support of a bill to provide the neces- | sary machinery. for using the money for the purpose to which it is to be devoted. As far as the range | leasing bill is concerned, the action of the Pacific | Stockmen’s Association and the American Cattle- | growers’ Association in its favor brings it before Congress and the country as the one measure in the {interest of the West upon which there is substantial | agreement. Its irrigation feature may well bring to | it also the support of all irrigators. | Persistent disagreement by Western these great measures should be discouraged. The | cis-Missouri country should acquire the habit of !<landing together, like New England and the South. When this is done it will be found much easier to secure such measures as will foster the development of this greater half of the continent. The various voluntary water and fruit associations and organizations representing the grazing interests should be heard from on the subject of providing | the fund now, with the view of arranging the method | of its expenditure later on. T men over It is estimated that the products of the United “S!atcs taken from the ground last year were worth upward of $1,000,000,000 evén in the form of raw ma- ‘lcrial. That of course does not include grain or any | crop taken from above ground. It is merely a show- | ing of what we can get out of the earth by just dig- | ging for it. | A MISSOURI SAND CURE. ANY and various are the ills that flesh is M heir to, but even more numerous and more varied are the means by which humanity un- | dertakes to cure them. An exhibit of specimens of | the pills, bitters, tonics, drugs, tablets and plasters | that are now on the market would fill one of the Jar- | gest buildings ever erected at a imiversal exposition, and yet they do not by any means include all the varieties of cure offered to a suffering race. There | are electric cures, water cures, heat cures, friction | cures, faith cures, bone-rubbing cures and cures by ithc Roentgen ray. Still it has been felt that some- | thing more is needed, and Missouri has come for- | ward to furnish it. We are informed that a citizen of { St. Louis, who is at once a lawyer and a man of science, has discovered that a small dose of Missouri sand taken once a day will cure anything, and that | humanity need suffer no longer. | From the report that comes to us it appears the | discoverer of the great secret was for a long time an |invalid. He tried all that doctors could do for him iznd all that patent medicines could do, but found | them of no avail to cure even a symptom of disease, much less the disease itself. Then he noted that ani- | mals are not afflicted with the unnumbered ills of | humanity and he began to study their wa He soon learned that animals have an instinctive fond- ness for earth, and perceiving that they have no | stomach troubles he concluded that earth is a specific | of high value. He at once decided to try it. He Egalhcrcd fine sand from the banks of the Mississippi | River and took a teaspoonful of it every day in a glass of water. He claims to have been speedily | cured, and now, for the sake of his fellow-men, he is | gathering the sand, sterilizing it and selling it at 25 | cents a sack. The demand for it is said to be large, and it is quite probable the problem of keeping open the channel of the Mississippi will be solved by di- verting the whole mass of sand from the river bed to the human stomach. The announcement of this discovery comes as something of a surprise to the country, for it has been supposed that every Missourian was born with enough sand in his system to serve all mortal pur- poses. Furthermore, it was supposed that if a Mis- sourian ever took to swallowing doses of sand or anything else he would take it in whisky and not in water. However, we live and we learn. Possibly it will be the custom in St. Louis hereafter to use sand instead of sugar in whisky, tea or coffee, and.the ex- ample may spread during the exposition year. Should the new remedy prove a universal cure San Fran- cisco will be all right, for we have sand to sell. In fact, we will be able to dispense with taxes and run the city on the income derived from the sale of ster- ilized sand from the park, provided it can be proven that Pacific sand is as efficacious as the Mississippi River article. To that end we should begin boosting your sand at ance, for the proof of its efficacy will not proceeds of land sales, and the Bowersock bill, to add | be found in the results of experiments but in the vigor with which we assert the merits of the article and the frequency with which we swear to them. o ——— MORE POWER NEEDED. O held in St. Louis about a year ago, there has emanated a strong and well directed move- ment to bring about legislation conferring upon the Interstate Commerce Commission power sufficient to enable it to rightly perform its duties and enforce its rulings. The executive committee appointed by the convention has prepared for that purpose a bill, now before Congress, and an active campaign of educa- tion has been undertaken to arouse public sentiment on the subject. The importance of the issue is well presented in the current number of the North American Review by Edward P. Bacon, a merchant who from the first Has been active in the work of procuring an adequate remedy for the evils to which shippers are subjected by unscrupulous railway managers. He aided in bringing about the enactment of the first interstate commerce act, has watched its operations closely and is familiar with its virtues and with its defects. His article abounds with illustrations of the weakness of the law under which the commission acts and of the urgent need of conferring greater authority upon it. | The limitations which hamper the work of the commission are set forth by Mr. Bacon in the state- ment: “The Supreme Court has gone to the extent of declaring that the law confers upon the commis- sion no authority to proceed further when in any case, after a full hearing of all parties in interest, it finds that rates or regulations are unreasonable or unjust, than to so declare, and to order the carrier to cease and desist from charging such rates apd en- forcing such regulations; and that the commission has no authority to declare what in its judgment would be reasonable and just rates and regulations in the case in question, or require such changes to be made in them as would bring them into conformity with the provisions of the act.” Since the law is thus defective it is not surprising that the railroads pay but little attention to the de- crees of the commission and either evade them or openly ‘defy them. Mr. Bacon cites many specific instances where the efforts of the commission to ac- complish justice have been foiled by a lack of power to enforce its rulings. In fact, the railroads at times frankly admit their defiance of the commission. Mr. Bacon says: “At ahearing before the Interstate Commerce Committee in the Senate on the Cullom | bill in Aprii, 1900, in reply to a question put by a member of the committee, the attorney of one of the more important railways of the country stated that the company which he represented had nevér com- plied with an order of the commission without con- testing its validity,in the courts.” The Interstate Commission itself, in a feport sub- mitted to Congress last January, and to which The Call directed attention at the time, said: “In every part of this country carriers have by concerted action, | without any notice to shippers, and indeed against | the vehement protest of shippers, advanced their rates upon a large portion of merchandise carried under class rates an average of one-fourth.” From | that and from other instances of wrong cited in the | report the commission drew the just conclusion: | “When hundreds of shippers complain that a public servant has perpetrated a wrong upon the public in the discharge of a public duty, there should be some public tribunal before which inquiry can be had and by which redress can be administered.” It is to grant to the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion power to provide such redress that the bill now before Congress has been drafted. The railroads have | fought the Cullom bill and other kind by declaring that they aim at conferring ar- bitrary power to fix rates. The assertion is unfair. The power which the bill proposes to confer upon the commission can be exercised only after a full hearing of both sides, and is restricted to such ! changes as may be necessary to bring the carrier complained of into conformity with the provisions of the interstate commerce act. Such a measure merits the support of the whole community. We have in our State an illustration of | the folly of creating a commission without giving it power to act. Railroad transportation affects not only commerce, but every important industry, and it is time that something were done to compel railroad companies to obey the law. Fde]ighted in the saying attributed to the Duke of Wellington: “The victory at Waterloo was won on the cricket ground at Eton.” The phrase pleased them because it implied that the sports of the public sclfools of England trained boys to grow up into a manhood capable of meeting any kind of | battle with courage, and winning it through a stub- born pluck nurtured on the ball grounds. The South African war has shown them that they have relied too much on the old public school training, and now Rud- yard Kipling has mocked the men produced in those schools by taunting them with being “flanneled fools at the wickets and muddled oafs at the goals.” Before Kipling's verse was written, however, a considerable number of persons in the kingdom had discovered that modern war requires for success something more than an ability to win a game on a playground. Pluck, tenacity and strength are as necessary as ever they were, but they are no longer sufficient. Officers who spend their time playing ball of one kind or another are not fitted to command men on the battlefield. The day when victories in war could be won on the cricket ground at Eton has gone by. The officer of our time must learn his trade, and skill in athletic sports cuts but a slight figure in it. The result has heen an agitation for a radical change in the British system of school instruction; not in military schools only, but in all public schools. If the agitators succeed in carrying out their plans there will be less reliance hereafter in a manhood de- veloped on the playground and mentally trained mainly in the classics. The British youth of the future will be educated'in science and technology. If he purposes to enter the army he will have to under- go a military training similar to that provided at West Point, and when he takes command in war he will furnish his men with something more than an ex- ample of pluck. The agitation of this subject shows to what extent the British public has been affected by the struggle in the Transvaal. It is probable the lessons learned from the war will repay to future generations the cost it will impose upon them in the shape of a national debt. TIn fact the British appear to have learned at last that their empire is by no means so secure as they deemed it; that as Kipling says: “Men, not gods, UT of the Interstate Commerce Convention, measures of the BRITISH SCHOOL TRAINING. OR three generations the British people have ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHS RECEIVE = HOTOGRAPHIC work showing the P highest development in that art may be seen at the salon which is being held in the rooms of the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art un- der the ,auspices of the California Camera Club and the San Francisco Art Association. There was a large attend- ance last evening, a special reception be- ing given. There was a concert and promenade. The magnificent pictures shown in the exhibition room were highly appréciated. The best individual collection of pho- tographs is shown by Oscar Maurer, but - / it the collection of photo-etchings exhibited by Frank BEugene of New York are worthy of notice. On the walis are pic- tures of endless variety. That the hang- ing committee placed them there is suf- ficlent guarantee that they are of high‘ order. The collection comprises 450 pictures. These were made by amateurs the world | over and have been exhibited in Chicago, Philadelphia and other large cities. As stated in the catalogue, the object of the salon Is the exhibition of that class of photographic work which shall best ex- emplify artistic feeling and execution without regard to particular schools or faus. Professor O. V. Lange has some' very realistic flower studies. C. E. Ackerman has three clever pictures. One, entitled “The Neglected Lesson,” shows a pretty girl bowed in sleep over the keys of her piano. It is in red, and the light from the candle on the instrument gives a wonder- ful effect. There are a number of China- town pictures and studies of all Kkinds. The exhibition will continue until next Thursday evening. @ i e e @ PERSONAL MENTION. Judge W. H. Hatton of Modesto is reg- istered at the Lick. “General J. W. B. Montgomery of Chico is a guest at the Palace. L. C. Hurst, a mining man of Grub KGul(‘h‘ is a guest at the Lick. E. Irish, a prominent resident of Santa Cruz, is at the California. Tim Reagan, the well known mining man ot Bofse City, is at the Lick. J. L. Bryson, a mining man of Omega, is among the arrivals at the Grand. The Rev. T. A. Hyland of Astor is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. Ex-Congressman A. Caminetti of Jack- | son is spending a few days at the Lick. H. P. Anderson of the firm of Ander- son & Chanser, grocers, of Los Angeles, is staying at the Palace. W. G. Gardner, private secretary to E. 0. McCormick, left last evening for New Orleans to represent the Southern Pacific Company at the quarterly meeting of the Transcontinental Passenger Association. e e Californians in New York, NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—H. Gray, at the Imperial; Mus. L. Thorn, at the Murray Hill; W. R. Nieper, J. H. Clark and L. Weil, at the Herald Square; S. Hyslop and V. A. Shafer, at the Gllsey; A. Martin and wife, at the Astor, and K. T. O'Neil, at the Grand Union. From Los Angeles—J. T. Gaffey, at the Albemarie, and D, H. Steele, at the St. Dennis. ———————— J. Richard Freud’s Will Filed. The will of J. Richard Freud was filed for probate yesterday. He leaves one- half of his estate to his wife and the other half to his two minor sons. He di- rects also that §25 per month be paid to Marle Blanche Condere, his children's nurse, during her lifetime. —————— Marsh Mallow Kisses at Townsend's, * —————— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* AR oS el Cal. Glace Fruit 60c per 1b at Townsend's.* ————— Special information supplied daily ta business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * B Oil of roses is made on a large scale in ‘Bulgaria, at Miltitz in Saxony and at Chinchilla, Spain. The one great virtue of Burnett's Vanilla Ex- tract is purity. It's real vanilla extract & noth- ing but vanilla extract. Always use Burnett's. —— The twelve railway companies of Eng- land and Wales employ between them 312,- 000 men. The Scotch and Irish companies employ 40,000 men between them. ———— HOTEL DEL CORONADO, cholcest Winter Resort in the world, offers best liying, climate, devised it; men, not gods, must keep.” ’ boating, bathing, fishing and most amuse- ments. E. 8. Babcock, manager, Coronado, Cal, | | { | | PRAISE AT SECOND ANNUAL SALOEI o LEADING MEMBERS OF THE CALIFORNIA CAMERA CLUB, UNDER WHOSE AUSPICES THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IN THE MARK HOPKINS INSTITUTE OF ART. SALON IS BEING HELD The following musical programme was rendered last evening: Organ, overture, ““Aroldo’™ ells; song, “Friar of Orders Gray" (Old Eng- lish), Julian Eisenbach; aria, '‘Martha,” “Es- ser Mesto” (Flotow), Madame Joseoh Berin- ger; violin romanze (Svendsen), Miss Pearl Conness; song, ““The Thorn” (Old English), R. H. Hunt; organ, “Largo” (Haendel), Emil Cruells; song, “Fill the Cup’ (Roeckel), Julian Efsenbach; songs, (a) “‘Widmung” (Schu- mann), (b) “When the Heather Blooms” (Jo- (Veraf), Emil Cru- - seph Beringer), (c) “The Merry Brown Thrush” (Buck), Madame Joseph Beringer: violin, ed”” (‘Meistersinger) (Wagner- Wilhelmj), Miss Pearl Conness; song, “The Island of Dreams” (Adams), R. H. Hunt: or- gan, - “Marcke FPootificale’’ (Gounod), Emil Cruells. The reception committee was composed of Captain Robert H. Fletcher, J. W, Er- W. win, B. Webster, Charles A. Goe, Carl E. Ackerman, W. G. Stafford, A. L. Coombs and Henry Heyneman. MAYOR SCHMITZ'S FiRST DAY IN OFFICE, By Alfred Dezendorf THE OLDEST LIGHTHOUSE TENDER ON THE COAST IS A WOMAN, Read about her in next Sun- day’s Call. READ THE WOLFVILLE STORIES BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS. FASHIONS, EEAUTY QUEST MRS. McKINLEY'S TELLS HER STORY. NURSE WHERE GIRLS LIVE ON §I15 A YEAR S e e et —_== 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 ASTORY BY BRET HARTE.