The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1902, Page 6

FRIDAY......cc000rmeeseeres.JANUARY 24, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Atfress Al Communicstions to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Press e e AP PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F. Teleph: Press 201. 217 to 221 Stevensom St. Telephone Press 202. Deltvered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Singl to fusure B Prompt and correct compliance with their reguest. OAKLAND OFFICE. ..1118 Broadway NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. SRANCH OFFICES—S27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open oot $:3 o'clock. %00 Hayes, open until $:30 o'clock. €33 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. open untll 3 o'clock. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Wm. G. Leyng—Thursday, January 30, at 11 o'clock, Palo Alto Brood Mares, at 721 Howard street. i THE OIL CASES. HE Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railroads Tha\'e taken the oil rate cases into the courts. The Santa Fe has resorted to the Federal courts and the Scuthern Paci to the State courts in prac- tically the same proceeding, as in either case the ap- peal means a permanent restraint upon the State of California, operating through its Railroad Commis- sion, in the matter of fixing a rate on the transporta- tion of oil from the points of production to those of consumption. The former rate was 42 cents per barrel between Bakersfield points and San Francisco points. After a hearing and a rehearing a rate was fixed of 25 cents per barrel for the first 100 miles; over 100 and less than 200, 31 cents; over 200 miles and less than miles, 37 7-10 cents. The oil producers also asked a reduction, on switch charges for the nine miles between the Kern River wells and :Bakers- field, the charge being $7 and $5 per car, according to distance. This charge was cut by the Commissioners’ decision. in two As this nine-mile spur carried 2400 cars in Novem- ber, its annual earnings would exceed the entire cost of its construction, and at the old rate the oil freight earnings of the Southern Pacific on transportation from Bakersfield points would amount to $1,500,000 per annum. The net reduction made by the new rate, which is litigated, would be about $250,000. These figures are necessary to show the people first the very slight cut in rates which has driven the+ railroads into the courts for redress, and second the immenée magnitude of the California oil business. The result of the Itigation is awaited with much interest. The reduction in the rate is so small that it does not furnish adequate reason in itself for a re- sort to the court the two roads. Nor does it seem of such im, ance to the oil producers as to warrant the cost of litigating. But the volume of the reduction is of the least consequence to all of the par- ties concerned. The principle at stake supplies the motive for pursuing the case to the Supreme Court of the United States. The railroads contend that oil must pay its share of the average expense of moving all classes of freight. The producers claim®that oil must stand alone and pay such charge as defrays the cost of moving it and a reasonable profit to the road. Behind it all is the issuc of the legal vigor and power of the Railroad Commission. It is perfectly plain that the b, railroads do not desire to ob- solete the commission. It can ‘do them no harm, since it is without power to enforce its decisions. ~The Supreme Court -of the United States has decided that a State Legis- lature may provide the means for regulating the rates charged by common carriers, but it has also decided that such regulatibn shall be judicial. What is re- quired is that the Legislature create a judicial body of first instance, from which an appeal lies digectly to the court of last resort. The law may limit the delays of procedure. It may require an answer to the petition within a given time, restrict the joining of issues, cut off dilatory proceedings, and compel ap- peal to be taken or abandoned promptly upon entry of the decision. Because none of these provisions are thade by the Jaw or constit4tion in behalf of our present Railroad Commission we have ow to wait until the courts re- view the case. The issue is in their hands. They have interposed a temporary injunction, and it is their duty to bring the case to a prompt hearing. R —— The report that Prince Henry is to 20 to Washing- ton first instead of lanqing at New York will prob- ably be a surprise party to the Washingtonians, but they can be counted on to meet it bravely by asking Congress for an appropriation to celebrate the event. The report that J. Pierpont Morgan is reaching out after the control of extensive railroads in China need net surprise any one. China may not be a very good railroad country, but it is a part of the earth, and Morgan must take it along with the rest. i ’ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1902. GAY LAY OF A MINSTREL SINGING OF THE PRINCE OUR POLICE FORCE. Y the murder of Police Officer Robinson the people of San Francisco have been startled into a consciousness of the dangerous ele- ments that exist among the criminal classes of the __ |city. It is not a question merely of hoodlums, or of petty thieves, nor of unexperienced footpads who would shrink from the shedding of blood. It is an issue of hunting 8own criminals skilled in the use of weapons, ready to resort to them, and murderous by instinct. To protect property, person and life against their assaults we have a police force of but 591 men. It is.too small. San Francisco has an area of approximately forty-nine square miles, and the population at the census of 1000 was 342,782. It contains about 750 miles of streets. Were the present police force dis- tributed evenly throughout the area there would be about twelve officers to the square mile\, and were half of them to be on duty at a time each would have to patrol about two miles and a half of streets and look after a population of about 1200. The distribu- tion, of course, cannot be made in that way, for it must correspond to the comparative requirements for police protection in the different districts. The re- sult is that in the outlying districts the beats are so extensive the officer bas hardly time to make a sur- vey of them, and even in districts nearer the center of population the beats sometimes extend from ten to fifteen blocks on two streets, or an equivalent of thirty blocks, Under such conditions an adequate guardianship of the city is impossible. Every effort has been made by the police to fulfill its duty. That much vis at- tested by the readiness with which the officers re- spond to every alarm and by the number who have fallen, like Officer Robinson, in the performance of duty. By an act of the Legislature eight hours con- stitute a policeman’s watch, but owing to the emer- gency of the situation here it has not been found possible to limit a watch to that number of hours. The men are serving long watches as well as on long beats, and still the :igy is not guarded as it should be. The’frequency with which robberies, burglaries, as- saults and murders follow one another is appalling. The danger that attends the wayfarer in the streets of San Francisco is almost as great as that recorded of the cities of the middle ages. While the police are watching in one part of a beat footpads ply their trade in another, and when a cry for help summons the single officer who is in the neighborhood the criminal gang meet him with a fusillade of bullets and murder him. It is time to strengthen the police. Under the charter it is permissible to increase the force to one officer for every 500 inhabitants, with a captain for every 100 officers, a lieutenant for every 30, a ser- geant for every 10, and as many corporals as the needs of the service require. With our present popu- lation that apportionment permits the maintenance of a force of upward of oo men. . There is, then, no reason why the force should be restricted to the present inadequate number. On the contrary, there is every reason why it'should be at once increased in strength until it "is able to safeguard the city and hunt out the criminals who aré prowling about its streets and committing new crimes with each suc- ceeding night. Along with the strengthening of the police it is to be hoped we may also have a strengthening of the backbone of the courts. It has too often happened that the courts, instead of aiding the police in the ‘maintenance of law, have handicapped their efforts. A few severely just sentences upon burglars, foot- pads and the rest would have a wholesome effect. Moreover, there should be specially heavy sentences upon those who resist arrest. The officers who with so much of vigilance, energy and courage are fight- ing the battle of the law against crime should not be left unavenged by the law when one of them is attacked or hindered in the performance of his dan- gerous duty. 3 CO-EDUCATION IN GERMANY. ROM Germany the United States has learned so many lessons in the work of education that [ there is no little satisfaction in knowing that the Germans are.learning also from us. The success of the co-education of boys and girls in our public schools has so fa¥orably impressed many - German educators that they are now advocating the adoption of the same system throughout Germany, and have accomplished a considerable movement that direction. A recent convention of the public school teachers of Westphalia adopted a series of resolutions declar- ing strongly in favor of the co-educational system. Among other things the resolutions stated: “The aim of the public school is the same for both sexes; al- though the talents of the sexes are different and re- quire different treatment, a one-sided cultivation of them may easily create an unnatural chasm between boys and girls, so it seems desirable to educate them together; the habit of daily association with the op- posite sex tends to diminish the moral dangers of growing boys and girls.; and, finally, co-education is the most natural system because it is most like the education in the family.” Similar resolutions are reported to have been adopted by a convention of the public school teachers of Wurtemberg, and it was declared that “for the sake of a more advantageous organization of the schools small communities should not found sepa- rate schools for boys and girls.” Another report states that from this time forth in Baden and Wur- temberg girls will be admitted to the higher schools for boys on passing the entrance examination. It will seem strange to Americans that it is not until ‘this late date that the Germans are learning the advantages of co-education. The practice has be- come so fully established here we can hardly remem- ber that it was ever looked upon as a problem. [ —— in STATE BANK NOTES duced a banking bill which may probably be found to constitute a rallying point for those who are disposed to object to permit national banks to issue notes based upon assets. The bill authorizes under certain conditions the issue of circalating notes by State banks and banking associations of de- posit and discount. As the circulating notes of na- tional banks are based on national bonds, the pur- pose of the bill is that the proposed notes of the State banks shall be based on State bonds, bonds issued by cities and by countiesy A report from Washington giving a summary of the measure says it provides that “upon deposit with the Treasurer of the United States of such bonds the Comptroller of the Currency is to issue to the bank circulating notes not exceeding in amount 80 per cent of the market value or par value of the. SENATOR PLATT of New York has intro. or upon bonds. The amount of notes issued to a bank is re- stricted to 70 per cent of its capital stock, and they are to constitute a first lien on the bank’s assets. The provisions for inspectionr and supervision of the banks by the Comptroller of the Currency are prac- tically similar to those for national banks, except that the banks are required to deposit gradually with the Treasurer of the United States a sum equal to 2 per cent of their capital stocks, which is to form a safety fund for the redemption of the notes of any bank whick may fail.” The principle involved in the bill is by no means new. It has been under discussion ever since the agi- tation on the subject of reform in our banking laws began. It happens, however, that there has never been a time when any showing could be made of the strength back of it, so that it is not possible now to forecast what will be the fate of the new measure. That it is introduced by the Senator from New York would seem to imply that it will prove a formidable competitor to what is known as the “asset currency plan,” should it have been put forward for that pur- pose. It of course goes without saying that should it be enacted there would have to be very careful supervision over the kind of State and county bonds that would be used as a basis for the new notes. Upon the bare summary thus far reported from Washington it is not possible to make a definitive judgment, but the very introduction of such a mease ure is a matter of no little importance, for it is certain an earnest effort will be made to settle the banking problem at this session of Congress, and the Platt bill may prove to be a notable factor in the solu-*| tion. O critics of the Chinese exclusion policy is the glibness. with which they deny the plainest factors of the problem. They will not admit that the Chinaman is an unfair competitor of American work- ingmen, nor that he is unfitted for absorption into the American race, nor that his free admission here would raise upon the Pacific Coast a race problem more difficult of solution than that of the South. In the face of the records of Chinatown and the almost daily offenses committed by the highbinders they will not even admit that the Chinaman has criminal ten- dencies, Here, for example, is the Boston Transcript blandly saying: “Few people are ready to admit that i whatever vice and immorality may exist among these immigrants is a sufficient reason for putting up the bars against them. We know, on,the other hand, that the Chinese give us little trouble on the score of crime; the free admittance of this race would mean no danger of adding strength to the ranks of the an- archists. In this connection what higher tribute to the law-abiding character of the Chinese could be paid than this statement, made in a communication to the Transcript by Mr: Yong Kay, general mis- sionary superintendent of the New England Chinese Mission: ‘As far as I can ascertain, among the Chi- nese residents in New England States there has never been a single murder or burglary case among them, though Chinamen have been in New England nearly forty years. Can any other nationality in New England show an equal record? ” Goethe has told us that among certain classes of people “there is a stupidity against which the gods themselves war in vain.” The men who will not ad- mit that there are any considerable number of crimi- nals among the Chinese immigrants to the United States belong to that class, and it is hopeless to argue with them. The assertion that Chinese do not add strength “to the ranks of the anarchists” is really neat. Only in Boston could it ever have been thought out in seriousness or uttered without a grin. Fortunately the long campaign of education on this subject has done its work effectively so far as Con- gress is concerned. The exclusion policy will be continued. General Grosvenor's statement, published in The Call some time ago, gives assurance of that. It will, however, be worth while for Eastern critics to post themselves before undertaking to discuss a subject of which they know so little and of which the Pacific Coast is forced to learn so much by the re- peated outbreaks of highbinders. M there are in the office of the Deseret News. So we learn from a Salt Lake dispatch. The trouble cannot be remedied by a strike nor by a lockout; nor can it be dealt with by a board of ar- bitration. Therefore the lamentation is the more bit- ter and cannot be assuaged by swearing. Trouble of course is not infrequent in newspaper offices, though as a rule there is less of it in such places than anywhere else on this mundane globe, except in the happy homes where love abides; but never before in a newspaper office has there ever been such trouble as that which Jurks within the ‘pre- cincts of the News and haunts the hearts of those who work for it. , According to the stcry that comes to us the cause of the trouble is this: The Digseret News is the offi- cial organ of the Mormon church in Salt Lake, and e CHINESE AND ORIME. NE of the®peculiar characteristics of Eastern MARRY OR QUIT. UCH of trouble and much of lamentation The accompanying ** skit’’ visiting the Atlantic seaboard in February next. Is ths result of a proposition laid before the Merchants’ Exchange of San Francisco to send one of ils members as an emissary fo mest.a certain txalted personage who contemplates The members of the Exchange were unanimous in their selection of a gentleman eminently fitted for this position by reason of his persuasive powers et natural gifts too numerous {o mention. Great .German Traveler.” GRUSS DEN PRINZEN. Air: “Hoch dem Kaiiser.” ER PRINZ he komm across der sca, Komm all der vay from Chermany, Unt vat you tink he komm to see? Bill Berg und Mich! Vot he care for dot big New York— St. Louis Bier—Chicago Pork— He komm owit hier to have a talk Mit Billund Mich! Ve fix him ven ve got him hier Mit Norman's importirted Bicr, Mit Schwartz-Brod uf dot Brand “McNear,” Will Bill und Ich? The gentleman is a'pnminon.l mgmhr of shipper of grain and siands, generaliy, very high in social and financial creles. the Exchange, a large He is known as ““The <+ BiLL BERG UND MILH: | | | 1 H Al. Geberding, he make a speech Apout der price dat corn will reach; (You pet dot feller is a peach) Bei Gott! B Den pooty soon wve tree go up To Marchand’s und der Poodle-Pup, ' Und later—uvell—we go to sup, Ve SIX! Dere was some ladies sehr charmant, Some gentlemans vot vas galant, AL""“":";'P;E("T"E Und so I see der Elephant— e cossor e 305 A Herr Jesus! & Ach Himmel! in der Etwigkeit | No more ‘again I wvill get tight 4 ' * Und drink champagner all der night - I Mit Billy! $ i Next day a Katzenjammer sits; Der Prinz he schwear “Gott’s Donner-Bliiz, / “Vere is your Burgomeister, Schmits? ; Gott dam?” “Vy aind it dot he show to me % by “Der Eagle Bird of Liberty - “Vich I did komm so far to see G sl “Mit Billy?” l PP, gy g 3 5 * Next day did komm ein telegram From Berlin, und it say: “Py dam, “Komm back geschwind nach Haus"—I am Der Kaiser! : Der Prinz den say: “Muss Heimwaerts gehen “Hab viel gethan und viel gesehen; “Adieu, meine Herren—Auf Wiedersehen,” Prinz Heinrich! To me dey gif der “Ifon Cross,” 5 Poor Bill! he got der “doublecross.” HE Kom guur ::RM‘.,“‘,_ S Dey both komm frw.n dat Cherman Boss— Sill AND MICH- Der Kaiser! - Es o b8 % San Francisco. L B o e e e e e e o R S PERSONAL MENT.ON. P. Reed, a mining man of Jackson, is at the Lick. J. Haslacher, a merchant of Oakdale, is at the Palace. The Rev. Father Brady of Sacramento is at the Grand. John.McKea, a mining man of Red Bluff, is at the Russ. Levan S. Peck, a young club man of New York, is at the Palace. D. W. Kirkland, a druggist of Los An- geles, is registered at the Palace, Garrigson Turner, an attorney of Mo- desto, is a guest at the Grand. H. Wittenberg, a cracker manufacturer of Portland, Or., is at the Grand. Frank H. Buek, an extensive fruit- grower of Vagaville, is at the Palace. A. Salomon, a merchant of Nevada, is 2 is at the Lick. recently a decree has gone fdrth from the church | ReTe On & business trip and is at the authorities that all male employes of the News shall be married by the close of next June or hand in their, resignations. It is a casc of “double or quit” with a new significance. There is no wager about it and no chance to win. % Our report says that the News, in addition to em- rloying the number of men required to get out an afternoon paper, operates also a job office, a bind- ery and a bookstore. It employs all told about 100 men, and it seems that a considerable pel%entage of them are not married nor are they matrimonially in- clined. 1t is hard to hustle for a wife even when one C. R. Tillson, an attorney of Modesto, is among the recent arrivals at the Lick. H. H. Jastro, a capitalist and oil man of Bakersfield, is among the arrivals at the Grand. James M. Lezinsky of New York and J. C. Diifield of Denver, both mining men, are at the Palace. M. Nathanson, secretary of the Harlem racetrack, is out here in the interests of his jockey club and is staying at the Pal- ace. Fali M b B O Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Jan: 2.—The following Californians are at the hotels: At the Natlonal, M. E. Roberts of San Francis- is stimulated by the sweet influences of rapturous | co; at the Raleigh, William Osterman and carly love, but harder 'still to hustlé when the heart is like lead and the pocket lighter than a bubble in the moment when'it is ready to burst at the slightest touch. Pity, then, the sorrows of the Deseret men. It might be supposed that in a case of this kind a man not inclined to court might appeal to the courts; but no. Such an appeal does not lie. the reconrse would be vain, for a Chicago Judge wife of San Jose, Mrs, F. Morris, Miss B. Morris, San Francisco; at the Shoreham, Chester Willlams of San Francisco. o SRR Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—The following Cglifornians are in New York: From San Francisco—H. Gray, at the Even if it did | Imperial;. I. Cohen, at the Criterion; W. H. Baugh, at the Broadway Central; Mrs. E. Gorden, at the Gerard; J. Jerome, at has just decided that any man with $25 in his pocket | the Navarre, and F. Van Devly, at the is able to marry. There is nothing, then, for the | 210t From Sacramento—E. H. Sutton and News men to do but to go forth and hunt up a girl | wife, at the Manhattan. From or a new job. We are too far from the scene of the struggle to undertake to forecast the result, but it seems certain that next June either the News will suspend publi- cation or else the welkin above Salt Lake will ring Los Angeles—W. W. Turner, at the Murray Hill, and D. Offnutt, at the Earlington. S The foot of a horse is one of the most ingenicus and unexampled pieces of mechanism in the whole range of animal with bridal bells every day from the time when the | Structure: . first June buds begin to bloom until tifey culminate in the voluptuous roses of July. And here’s good luck to them all. ; 5 —_—— HOTEL DEL CORONADO, cholcest Winter Resort \nl::-wwnflfi..::len best living, climate, boeting, 0§ and most amuse- ments. E. S. Bn'coci'. manager, Coronado, Cal. F ‘w, -sulpliate of ammonia or nitrate of soda, ANSWERS TO QUERIES. AN ECU—Spanish, City. The coin of which a rubbing has been sent to this department is an ecu of the reign of Louis XV of France (IT15-1774). It was coired in 1724, and the price that dealers charge for such is from $275 to $3 50, ac- cording to perfectness of the coin. PORTO RICO—F. H. 8. 8., Fresno, Cal. To determine if there is need for a patrol in Porto Rico under the supervision of the Secretary of War you should read the re- ports to the Sbcretary of War. These re- ports from military officers at that point give the best idea of the condition of af- fairs. CORONATION—Subscriber, City. The practice of placing a erown on the head of a monarch is very ancient, as appears from the record that Solomon and Aha- ziah were crowned. Leo I, Emperor of the East, was crowned by Anatolius, pa- triarch of Constantinople in 457, being the first instance on record of a sovereign Tecelving his crown from the hands of a priest. . FERTILIZER—M. 8., Egan, Riverside County, Cal. The following is said to be % good fertilizer for.orchards: “Mix 40 tushels of unbleached wood ashes, 100 pounds of ground bone and 10 pounds of commonly called Chile saltpeter.” A cheap and good way.to sudply nitrogen to the sofl is to sow clover and plow it under after it has reached a good growth, AMOUNT OF CASH—A Subscriber, Napa, Cal. It is to be presumed that by the question, “what is the amount of eash in the world?” is meant the amou..t of gold, silver and other metal used as currency. That is a question that can- not Me answered with any degree of cer- tainty. Approximately the coined gold is 210,500,000 fine ounces of 32 2-3 thousana ounces to the ton of 2040 pounds and the eoined silver 1s 3,663,400,000 fine ounces, ‘There’is no published aggregate record of miror coinage. RABBIT SKINS—L. M., Bast Oakland, Cal. To cure a rabbit, skin lay the skin on a smooth board, the fur side under. mest, with tinned tacks. Wash the skin first with a solution of salt, then dissolve t;flo and a half ources of alum in a pint of warm water and with a dippe: in this solution molsten "::o :::’-« nl:: over: repeat thls every now and then for three days. When the skin is quite dry take cut the tacks and roll it the long way, the hair inside: draw it qulckly backward and forward through a large smooth ring until it is quite soft; then roll it the contrary way and repeat the operation. Skins prepared thus are useful for mgny domestic purposes. A CHANCE TO SMILE. Mrs. Crawford—I suppose you suffer great deal from your dyspepsia? Mrs. Crabshaw—Not half as much as I dld when my husband had it.—Judge. ““Dere ain't much sympathy in dis world, an’ dat’s a fack,” said Meandering Mike, “I took dat policeman into me confidence. T told him dat I had had all de troubles extant; dat T was jes’ a collection of sor- rows.” “What did he do?" ““He looked me over an’ den said 1 about time fur him to take up a c‘nl?o‘v-‘ tion.”"—Washington Star. He—She always calls things by their right names. She—What horrible name did she call you?—Yonkers Statesman. Husband (to wife)—I've been out half the day trying to collect money, and I'm wild enough to smash up the furniture. It bedts all how some men will put off and off. A man who owes money and won't pay it isn’t fit to associate— - Servant (opening the door)—The butcher, sorr, is downstajrs with his bill. Husband—Tell him to call again.—Tit- Bits. Mr. Botts—I think, my dear, I have at last found the key to 'success. Mrs, Botts—Well, just as like as not youwll not be abie to find the keyhole. She—Some doctors claim that unhealthy results follow A He — They've got cause and effect twisted. Kissing is generally the resuit of a heart affection.—Philadelphia Record. Madge—So she found marriage a fail- 2 Marjorie—Yes; she made a court allowed Judge. and, like most failures, thing out of it. The T 310,000 2 year alimony.— ——— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* —_——— Cal. Glace Fruit 30c per 1b at Townsend's.* —_—— Look out for 81 4th st., front of barber and grocery; best eveglasses, specs, lic to 40c.* —— Townsend’s California glace fruits, i0c a :ouna, Am ’flxl-etl:had fImxu or Jap. bas- ets. nice present for East ends, 839 Market st., Palace Hote] b:;lnd.ln‘m. L Special information supplied dall: A e o A Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. Telephone Main 142 TBP..!': I:c hestitates is lost s is true, and - That ‘an auction ‘sais the chap ‘Who hesitates 1aay save his money. ——— Burnett’s Vanilla Brtract is the fixed stand- ard of excellence. Has outlived criticism. I8 the finest, purest vanilia extract that can be boulhe. { o