The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 6, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1902. FEBRUARY 6, 1902 THURSDAY..... . JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’'S OFFICE Telephone Pre PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Telephone Press 202. 204 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers,*15 Cents Per Weel. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail. Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. .$6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 8 months, . 8.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. . 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. < 65 EUNDAY CALL, One Year. . :ofi:” WEEKLY CALL, One Year All postmasters are authorized to receive _subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in_ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance With their reque OAKLAND OFFICE.. . .1118 Broadway C. 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AMUSEMENTS. umbia—*In the Palace of the King." beum—Benefit of the Charity Fund of the Theatrical al Association this afternoon. and Opera-house—''Jim the Penman.” “The Pride of Jennico.” —*“The Ameer." “Master and Man." ‘The Danites.” and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Mechanics' Pavilion—Juvenile Fairyland Carnival, Febru: 3 ary Metropolitan Hall—Piano Recital February 12. Oskland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By W. H. Hord—This day, at 11 o'clock, Driving and Work Horses, at 712 Broadwa; By Hagopian & Co.—Friday, February 7, at 10:30 o'clock, Oriental Rugs, at 230 Post street Ry W. G. Layng—Monday, February 10, at 10:30 o'cloc Horses, at 721 Howard street. —— A DUTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. CCORDING to the reports that come to us the State are just more interest efforts 10 and attract immigration than terior counties of g in ever t history. the brass band methods of the old yefore in n not w but with an earnestness that promises good results. f object such efforts at present is that ng a suitable exhibit of the counties and of exposition. In that work s a larger interest than San 1e progressive men of the city ought v co-operate in promoting it. own that the success of the counties of cord: rnia_has been largely due to the in- leadership of Los Angeles. The peo- have recognized the fact that what- the re of any one of the south- as a distinct benefit to Los Angeles, and accordingly they have been ever willing not only d and back up the work of the counties, but to w es w motion many enterprises cal- ties and to attract to 3 mig the example of Angeles we can learn age if we make a proper use of icisco is to California what Los As the metropolis of the e corresponding benefits from the nt and increased development of the country which it feeds. 1 to our adva Sar ra e sout ased settle In fact, there is no surer way of building up San Francisco than by first build- g up the i The more peopie there are in the rger will be the amount of trade and r merchants will have to handle and our bankers to finance. ness men and the property-holders of the city should se themselves at this juncture and do all in their power to promote the efforts already undertaken by the people of the interior. terior. State the Los Angeles will probably brunt undertake to bear the f the Southern California exhibit at. St. Louis, n Francisco, with an equal consistency, should undertake to assure a proper and adequate represen- wtion of thesresources of the entire State. amount of money to establish such a useful and helpful leadership for the city would not be a heavy burden upon the community. $2000 a i and S month contributed to the State Board of Trade for the advancement of the welfare qf the State the tax upon San Francisco would be slight, while it would so increase the efficiency of the board as to enable it to accomplish many things toward turning the tide of migration to California. No argument is needed to sustain the fact that this city is the reservoir of the wealth of the State, and that the business prosperity of the city is dependent upon the prosperity of the State at large. Anything that tends to populate the State or develop the re- sburces and industries of the interior will tend to build up and make prosperous the city itself. The that should be acted wupon promptly. The St. Louis exposition is going to af- ford an extraotdinary opportunity for making known the advantages which California offers to settlers and to capitalists, as well as revealing the wealth of products we have to offer to trade and commerce, The time for preparing for the exhibit is but short. San Francisco, therefore, should act at once. She will be the chief beneficiary of the exhibit and should be the chief contributor toward the cost of preparing it and maintaining issue is one The use of the single word “wireless” ito signify wireless telegraphy has now become so well estab- lished in the East that the papers of that section speak of messages sent “wirelessly” or of being “wirelessed.” By and by we will all be “wirelessing,” and then the thing will be settled. The work is being un- | Such being the case, the busi- ’ The | Were something like | BUSINESS AND MORALS. HEN those who are advocating the adop- Wtion of an ordinance permitting racetrack. gambling at Ingleside advance the argu- ment that such a course would lead to an improve- ment of business in the city and put money into the channels of trade they doubtless believe they are scoring a good point against the advocates of moral- ity. They pose as practical men in ppposition to sen- timentalists, and demand the credit due to those who have the material welfare of the community at heart. That credit cannot be permitted them. The course they advocate would injure San Francisco materially as well as morally. The track gamblers who would flock to San Francisco upon the reopening of Ingle- | side racetrack would not come to bring money, but to take it away. They would come for the purpose of enticing men and Loys and even women to squan- der at the racetrack the money that should be used thriftily in legitimate channels of trade. The gam- blers would draw into their own pockets many thou- sands of dollars that.of right should go to the grocery men, clothiers, home builders, furniture makers, book dealers and savings banks. Money earned by | honest industry that ought to remain for the use of such industry would be taken by the gamblers and ‘cither used for the promotion of profligacy here or |carried East for profligacy there. When the first fight was being made against Ingle- side racetrack gambling The Call had occasion to | compile statistics showing the extent of the financial | drain which track gambling puts upon the city. The management of the racetrack put forth a statement {in 1899 showing that in four years Ingleside race- |track had paid out $1,736,176. The claim was that hey had put that amount of money into circulation, | while as a matter of fact it was first taken from the | city along with many another dollar. In the previous | year a dividend of 100 per cent had been paid to the i stockholders. The Call then showed that under that | management the bookmen paid to the association for license to ply their trade at the track $20 for every | race. There were on an average six races a day, and | the season lasted 100 days. As there were an aver- |age of eighteen bookmakers operating daily under | that stem, a simple calculation shows that during | the four years of its management of the Ingleside | track that association had received from bookmakers | alone upward of $864,000, all of which was taken from | the legitimate . business of the city. That of course was but one item of the revenues ot the association. They received money from every one who entered the racetrack grounds. They ex- acted tribute from the boys who placed the bets of | gambling women in the grand stand. In short, they {were not in San Francisco for health, nor for the | purpose of promoting our industries. They were here to obtain every dollar they could induce the | people to gamble away, and they were indifferent | whether it weré procured by their victims through | honest means or through theft, embezzlement, for- | gery and betrayal of trust. That is the way racetrack gambling affects trade. { Tt is a poor busines: | | s, then, for any community to isupport a racetrack even if the issue be considered | from the single standpoint of pecuniary profit. | It is to be borne in mind, moreover, that track | gamblers draw around them men who are a corrupt- ing force to the community. The scandal arising from the brief career of “Plunger” Lewis is a case in point and of current interest. Lewis undertook to make bets to a large amount by giving a check upon a bank in which he had no money. His defense was | that a job had been put up to defraud him, and he | was playing to get even. That is the kind of men | track gambling brings to town. | Then there :tumin;z from the 4Philippinc.<. who was induced to | gamble away at the racetrack the money he had | saved during his service, and who as a last resort at- { tempted to make his w home in a dry goods box [in a freightcar. That is an example of what track | gambling leads to when the unwary try to beat the { game. | Considered honestly and fairly from any point of | view racetrack gambling is abominable and de- | testable. Ttisa poor plea at best to argue for money against morals; to say that it matters not how many | embezzlements take place so long as the cigar trade is good, how many forgeries are committed so long |as there is a flush gang to buy beer, how many de- | falcations occur so long as the saloons flourish; that | we should look with indifference upon victims of | track gambling brought to ruin and to suicide so |long as the track gamblers are liberal with their i Poor as it is, however, {even thap base plea cannot be made effectively.. The | track gambler is a kind of horse leech that sucks money out of a community as well as blood. If there | were no question of morals at stake, the gambling | scheme should be defeated in the interests of honest industry and legitimate trade. o . ] T An illustration .of the rapidity with which this country advances is shown by the fact that whereas | the construction of the first bridge from New York to Brooklyn was a continental wonder and excited universal admiration, there will now soon be three | additional bridges between the two cities, and the | projects hardly attract notice even in New York it- money in the tenderloin. | self. ‘ CARING FOR PETS, | ONGRESS may have its faults, but if reports | ‘ from Washington be true it cannot be rightly charged with any feeling of callous indiffer- :ence toward the claims which pets have upon the | human heart. It appears that the new bill for estab- | lishing a permanent census bureau differs from the | original bill mainly in that it provides for what a Massachusetts Representative called “keeping our | pets in office,” and the vigor with which it has been | supported shows that the change has won for it the | support of many a Congressman who otherwise iwould not even have taken the trouble to read it. | The story of the measure discloses an immense job. }I: will be remembered that when preparations were under way for taking the census efforts were made to | have all appointments subject to the merit system, | as the experience of the past had proven that ap- | pointments made as a part of the spoils system of | politics invariably landicapped the bureau in its work | and led to serious defects in the results, All such | efforts were futile. sus service as a means of helping its pets, and ac- cordingly a very large proportion of the employes of the bureau are nothing more nor less than political | tax-eaters. { When it was first proposed that the Census Bureau | was devised for that purpose which would have és- tablished the bureau with the least possible expense and placed its clerks vnder the merit system. To that ! proposal Congress showed itself adverse from the is the other recent case of a soldier re- Congress made use of the cen- | be made a permanent part of the Government a bill | ! istart. Then the scheme was devised to establish a permanent Census Bureau, but toprovide that the present employes should all be retained as a part of it. The scheme will mean the transfer of upward of 2700 clerks to the classified service and give them a permanent job under the Government; or, as it has been stated by an opponent of the scheme, “it means that 2700 appointments shall be taken out of the reach of citizens content to submit themselves to competition and given to those who entered the ser- vice through the preferences of Congressmen.” The bill, in fact, seems to be marked by a good many interesting peculiarities, Civil® Service Com- missioners Foulke and Proctor state that under its provisions not only will all present employes of the bureau be placed in the classified service, but every census clerk who has been employed and dropped within the last year will be entitled to reinstatement, | and furthermore, as Mr. Foulke puts it, “a man who | had been employed in punching cards in the Census { Bureau could be transferred to one of the depart- ments as a translator of Spanish.” Taking all things into consideration the bill seems |to be one of the best measures ever devised My | taking care of Congressional pets, and the taXpayers who protest against it will have to admit at least that Congress has a kindly heart. Ex-Secretary Gage denies that he intends to re- tire from business activities to private life. In a re- cent interview he said: ‘“Men who have been busy all their lives don’t know what to do with themselves when the regular demands qf business life are with- drawn. An old friend of mine who tried retiring told me he had never found anything so difficult. I shall keep in the traces.” All of that sounds well, but it is" none the less a vanity. Every man should learn how [to do something besides work.. If Gage can do no better he would find it profitable to imitate Cleve- land and go duck-shooting occasionally. T founded by an Englishman and mut under na- tional control. It was intended to be an im- |pulse to material development, to spread among the people a knowledge of the potential wealth of their | country and to bring to its development the work of | experts. 1Its foundation preceded the creation of the | scientific bureaus of the Cabinet departments, and | much of its field is now covered by them. But these [ bureaus are handicapped by the need of trained men. Neither in the Smithsonian nor in the universities of the country do the existing facilities furnish enough | high experts to carry on the scientific work required | of the bureaus in the Interior and Agricultural de- partments. | Not even in the formal reports of these departments | does one get an adequate conception of what this | work is. Scientific agriculture requires certain highly specialized work. The subject of vegetable i physiology alone, which concerns the best results from existing culgivation and the addition of useful crops, diversify the cultivation of the future, the work of many more ex- perts now available in the United States. Concurrent is vegetable pathology, which in it the control of" knowledge of plant disease, a subject of the vastest importance to 1ag! culture and horticulture. Tracing the that waste plant life and cause failure of profit to the | planter is so requisite that it is not second in impor- tance to the medical profession which combats disease |in man. Entomology has progressed further ‘than | either of the foregoing specialties. It deals with animate, they with inanimate, life. Not only in these lines but in the whole vast field of biology, of mechanics, of dynamics, modern life |and its needs call for a training that shail be the superstructure built on what foundation the univer- | sities supply. As understood on his own declarations this super- structure is begun by Mr. Andrew Carnegie in the institution which is to bear his name. Its trustees are made by the trust deed a self-perpetuating cor- i poration, of which the President of the United States, President of the Senate and Speaker of the House, | secretary ‘of the Smithsonian Institution and presi- dent of the National Academy of Sciences are made ex-officio members. The endowment is $10,000,000 in 5 per cent bonds, yielding $500.000 annually. The purpose was tersely stated by Mr. Carnegie in his brief and impressive ispccch at the first meeting of the trustees. He said: “Gentlemen, your work begins; your aims are high; you seek to extend known forces and to discover and utilize new forces for the benefit of man.” When Ptolemy Soter, the half-brother of Alexander the Great, founded the Alexandrian Library and its | academy, he, moved npon by the spirit of Aristotle, his teacher, made the same declaration of purpose. Separate ages in the history of man have accom- | plished their purpose and passed between the. two events, and yet the field is not exhausted nor have the needs of man for its tillage been satisfied. The spirit is uplifted mightily in the contemplation of this latest preparation for continuing a wotk that began when men lived who had listened to Plato. CARNEGIE INSTITUTION. HE Smithsonian Institution at Washington was to requires than are has If Schwab, the steel magnate, has shocked our sense of the propricties by his recent exploits at | Monte Carlo, he certainly has left nothing undone | to tickle those who shy at royalty. A few days ago when asked for an interview by Emperor Franz Joseph Mr. Schwab sent word that he was too busy. It looks as if the departure of Prince Henry from | New York will be the signal for something: like an | outbreak of civil war in high society, for so many | snags have arisen in the course of arranging for his reception that the only way to get them out of the social swim hereafter will be to fight them out. It seems to be settled that Sir Thomas Lipton will try again for the America’s Cup, and of course he will be welcome when he comes; but if he keeps the | thing up it will not be very long before that sham- rock of his will begin to appear like a leaf from a | chestnut tree. _— Two very estimable members of the Board of Edu- cation are striving, with a view of keeping their jobs, to do the historic wicked brother act in connection with their administration. They forget that ignor- ance gives no pardon for offense under the law. A -codfish recently caught on the shore of Nova Scotia was found to have in its stomach the mouth- piece of a trombone, and the next thing we know we may hear of a school of fish transforming itself into a marine bhand. ‘Mrs. Pat Campbell says that since coming to this country she has won $22,000 at bridge whist from society dames in New York, so it would seem she is not so gifted at elevating the stage as she is at raising ; the limit and lifting the stakes. diseases | STRONG ROMANTIC DRAMAS WIN ¥ SUCCESS AT TWO PLAYHOUSES - SOPRANO NOW SINGING AT OR- PHEUM AND ACTRESS APPEAR- ING AT GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. - 2. NE of the most successful produc- tions of recent theatrical seasons is the current play at the Colum- bia Theater, ‘“In the Palace of the King,” with Miss Viola Allen and her company at the helm. itself is of sterling interest, the story stir- ring and picturesque and told with clear- ness and speed. The nlayers rank with the best of the theatrical organizations that are to be seen and the settings are of the utmost splendor. Miss Allen re- turns to us with a broader genius and lores de Mondoza has the best part in many respects that she has been seen in heré. William Pascoe as the hero, Don John, makes a very pleasing impression, and W. E. Bonney, as the King of Spain, glves an exceptionally strong picture of the despicable monarch. Arthur Hoyt is cast is in competent hands. The crowds are handled cleverly and the produection is one in all respects that should be seen. Al el at the California Theater, where a very “The Pride of Jennico” is being given. K. Hackett won so much favor. Wallace ‘Worsley, who was with the Empire Stock part and seems to have his metler in the romantic drama. Miss Frances Neilson as the Princess of Dornheim shares honors with Mr. Worsley and the rest of the cast is made up of clever people. The play is admirably staged and the drama is highly enjoyable from end to end. Next week the California will have another excellent attraction, the Froh- man production of ‘Ine Sign of the Cross,” with Charles Dalton in his original part. LR The Grand Opera-house has a very bill this week with the favorite play, im the Penman,” as the programme. Ed- ward Arden, who is now in the third week ood sion-street house, has the role of the “Jim the Penman.” The role suits Mr. Arden excellently and he is well sup- ported by the stock company of the house. Herschel Mayall does good work as the famous forger, Laura Nelson Hall as his wife is seen to advantage and Lillian Al- bertson shows much promise,in the role of Agnes. Gardner Crane is another player who does much for the play. “Rag- lan's Way'’ comes next, another play from the pen of Mr. Arden. PSR The Alcazar edition of “The Danites” is going very well this week. It is by much the strongest of the Western plays that have been produced and the Alcazar company is giving a very pleasing ren- dering of its powerful story. M. L. Alsop has the part of Sandy McGee and fills all requirements’ as the typical miner of the days gone by. are particularly well suited in their parts, and Marion Convere as the heroine, Nancy ‘Willlams, and Margaret Wycherley as Hulda Brown are both attractive. The *“Rogue’s Comedy” is billed for next week. T e There is another week in sight of the popular production of “The Ameer” at the Tivoll Opera-house. This is the second week of the opera and it still remains very popular with Tivoli audiences. ing in the Tivoli’s best style, and the fine company of singers do ample justice to the vocal end of the opera. “The Sere- nade,” the favorite production of the Bos- tonians, will come l:ext; . “Master and Man” is the Cer}tra! The- The play | stronger spell and as the charming Do- | a clever court fool and the rest of the | The romantic drama is also in evidence | enjoyable and picturesque presentation of | The production is the one in which James | Company last season, assumes the hero’s | of his starring engagemént at the Mis- | George Osbourne as the | parson and Frank Bacon as the Judge | It is | smartly put on, costumes and settings be- | B clever detective who finally ‘““lands” the |l ingenious thief known to the police as W 1 | | | | +* ater’s bill of the week and has found favor with the patrons of the uptown house. Among those who do much for the strong melodrama are James Cerrigan, Hallett Thompson, Ernest Howeil, An. nette Marshall and Margaret Marshall, “A Young Wife"” will be given next week. i wie ‘Wincherman’s tralned bears and a per- forming monkey were added to the al- ready strong bill at the Orpheum yester- day, and scored an animal triumph at both performances. One big bear, which stands higher than his trainer, is as gentle as a kitten and does the most amus- ing things, while the three lesser bruins are well educated and very droll. The act comes direct from Russia. via Austra- lia, and is the best of the kind ever seen here. Adeline Roattino is a pleasing so- prano; Victor Jerome, Lottie Fremont and Harry W. Welch present a decided novelty in “The Haunted Mill,” and Jo- +* | seph Reichen’s hand-balancing dogs are | wonderful canine acrobats. Josephine Sa- | bel, the “little woman with the big | voice; the great Cycle Whirl, Jordan and Crouch, eccentric dancers, and the Da | Coma family of acrobats are in their last | performances. Mary Norman, the draw- ing-room monologist, and many other new features are announced for next week. o o je s’ race on stilts,” together 1al amateur bill, will be the at the Chutes and Zoo to- Burt, coasting the chutes on still a considerable attraction. « o e The Steindorft Symphony Orchestra will | celebrate St. Valentine’s day with an ex- ceptionally good programme. The open- ing number will be the “Unfinished Sym- phony’ of Schubert, one of the most beau- | tiful améng the symphonies, and with Glinka's overture, “The Life of the Czar,” | ‘a typical number of the Slavic school; the | charming *‘Serenade” of Jadassohn, and | a lovely example of the modern French | school in “Phaeton,” the symphonic poem | by Saint-Saens, will comprise a pro. | sramme that has not been excelled in in- terest since the reorganization of the so- | clety. | programme | night. 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