The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1902, Page 6

FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1902 FEBRUARY 8, 1902 SATURDAY.... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Pmpnetov Adluu AH Gflmnmn s t.o W 8. LEAKE Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE.......Telephone Press 204 FUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Ttarket and Third. S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. erms by Mail. Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday) DAILY CALL (including Sunda: CALL (including Sunday LL—By Single Month. ¥ CALL. One Year. LY CALL, Ope Yesr All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. 1l subscribers in ordering change of address should be lsr to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS In order 2 prompt and correct compliance with their reques:. <{LAND OFFICE +...1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS, Marager Foreign Advertising, Marguetts Building. Ohieago. (Long Distance Telephone *'Central 2619.") 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AUCTION SALES. at 10:30 o'clock, Oriental s day, , February 10, at 10:30 o'clock, OUR WINE INDUSTRY. SPIRIT REVIEW, in just published, ot only a good showing for the wine way of statistics but gives also state- ine men which present bright It appears that while there the wine crop of 1901 the high r grapes more than balanced matters the producer concerned. Moreover, ions of the industry of late have been suf- encourage production. It is stated: ely throughout the e greater portion of the vines being resistant 1 probably be 8000 or more acres ted vines this year.” al <(an\ngal edition was going on extensi angers that threatens the new pros- industry that a proper care may not advance the quality oi Cali- . Oldham, ia wines with a view to heir export to Great Britain, says in an ributed to the Review: “California has rs been acknowledged to be taking a place few countries in the world where fine good ordinary wines can be and who has made an i the , however, in the replanting of vine- nd heavy will in on bearing varieties be ew years fall back and there wili then ust a atly discredited, g to be more known, appreciated and Bundschu gives a similar warning against the tendency to produce large quantities of cheap at minimum prices, instead of higher In the course of his contribution to the he says: “When the ultimate aim of all the wine-p cing countries is lost sight of in crder to give way exclusively to the handling of bulk grapes on the mechani- a day (distributing the t vats without discrimination of growth, i iety), then I predict that a serious step toward the decadence of our wine industry has been a h is bound to injure sooner or later. rrvnq' on wh or wines great nes and to the crushing of cal method of so many tons and v step wh ich we are all striving to build stablishing after almost a semi- ¢ of strife and struggle.” warnings such as these should be carefully i the present situation is sufficiently good to to be indifferent and for more wine. P. T. Mor- the California Wine Association, ‘Unless planting is prosecuted vigorously the outrun supply and remunerative California product be _ supplied ther sources. little danger of nting in dry wine counties. The production ption are to-day almost equal, 1 consumption, the sup- plying the new countries acquired from Spain as a Jate war and the expanding markets of have to be looked after, as well as whose annexation to the United States can be a matter of 2 short time.” portant feature of the problem persor to them. ere is a strong der of may There is very Gverp tural increase in markets for California wines is presented by Andrea boro in a plea for a better supply of wine by hotels at lower prices. After pointing out that the consumpticn of California wine by the American peo- | ple is increasing, he notes that there is room for im- provement, and adds: “The hotels and restaurants ¢hould serve their patrons with wines at lower rates than they now charge. When they serve an excel- dinper for fifty cents it is absurd . to charge eventy-five cents or cne dollar for a bottle of wine.” Taking the number as a whole, this statistical edi- tion of the Review gives an optimistic picture of the industry. There is much yet for our wine men to learr and many improvements to be, made, but it scems clear that the worst years of the industry are over, and that Califorria is about to take her rightful rank among the wine countries of the world. 7/ lent of fine types of wine just as they | A | of the great troupe were to be grouped of making | | | Scandinavians. | outsider may Commission investigates. | Paris to Constantinople to die. | son. A POPULATION PROBLEM. in M WALDECK - ROUSSEAU, the Prime Commission appointed Minister of France, presiding over ¢ the Parliamentary to investigate the cause of the depopulation of France made some official statements of fact that will cause widespread interest far beyond the borders of that country. He declared that the statistics of the last fifty years show an excess of deaths over births in France. They also show a progressive increase in infant mortality. The Premier well said that the sub- ject presented a problem the most difficuit and most obscure and interesting in its elements that had ever pressed upon the attention of a nation. Some French enthusiasts have held that decrease in the birth rate, enabling the death rate to overtake and pass it, is a sign of high civilization, and as these conditions exist only in France they testify that French civilization has approximated the maximum. There is a-measure of truth in this. The race in- creases slowly or stands still at each extreme. . In primitive conditions, such as the original state of our American Indians and the present state of Eskimos, increase and decrease, births and deaths, nearly bal- ance. The natural law of life is that its ebb and flow are regulated first by the food supply and second by the preponderance of s If nature desire to ‘ex- terminate any form of life it is accomplished by pro- ducing but one sex. We are not aware of the find- ings of biology in this respect, but it is highly prob- able that one element in the extinction of races. of animals will be found to have been this preponder- ance of one sex. The French argument that exaltation in civilization is 2 cause is a melancholy appeal to the pride of na- tionality. It means that the Gallic race immolates it- seli on the altar of ultimate civilization and extin- guishes itself for the good of the world, leaving its achievements its epitaph. The food supply can hardly be a factor, for the vigor of natural resources is far from exhausted. Emigration does not account for the-decline, for the French are a home-keeping, non-migrating race and are not found great numbers abroad, as are the Celts, and As the French do not emigrate, so France receives but few immigrants. New strains of vitality are not felt in the blood of her people. An specuiate, while the Parliamentary But if speculation and in- vestigation hit upon the same cause or causes, what shall be the remedy? It may be accepted of the materialities of life and its practice have some- thing to do with the problem. A French wife is quite commonly the working partner and business asso- ciate of her husband. She is not merely interested in a in Germans s obvious that the French view | the housekeeping, but in the business which supports | the housekeeping. Her life has a different horizon from the merely domestic. It is a commercial hori- zon. The materialities of existence obscure the ro- mance of life The married relation is entered upon in a material way. The settlement of a marriage portion, the con- tract for dower, the business outlook and prospect of marriage resemble much the formation of a new business firm. Romance, which regards marriage as the foundation of a fam takes a secondary place or has a0 place at all in lhc proceeding. M. Waldeck-Rousseau admits the extreme obscur- ity of the causes into which investigation mist be made. We venture that an inquiry into the psychol- ogy of the question will reveal the operation of a nat- ural law that affects the fecundity of a people. We think it will be found that families are larger and children less subject to infantile mortality among those races and nations where romance is the cause and the purpose of marriage. We think it will be found that where material considerations are second- ary as a reason for marriage the population increases in number and in vigor and individuality, and in the mass has a better command of subsistence, of the means of life, of things material, than where these are made the primal motive. The Sultan of Turkey is again guilty of one of those executive freaks which make his admin- istration picturesque. He has condemned his brother-in-law to death and urges him to return from The brother-in-law seems to have conscientious scruples against cepting the invitation. ac- A MAN WHO KICKS. MONG the fetes p proposed for the reception of Prince Henry in New York was a gala night at the grand opera. All the famous songsters into one superb cast and no expense was to be spared to make the spectacle one of a beauty and magnificence never surpassed in any theater. Even at that, how- ever, the show on the stage was to be less brilliant than the show in the boxes. New York was to out- do itself, and the splendor of feminine loveliness gleaming with jewels was to impress the Prince with the truth that no imperial court can rival democracy when democracy chooses to do itself proud. Hardly had the bright bubble of fancy been blown by the committee of arrangements, however, before it was punctured by a remorseless wretch who has | more logic than courtesy and who makes the eternal erities an excuse for refusing to take part in those conventionalities that make it possible to display dig- nity and decorum in this beastly world. To arrange the fete at the opera it was necessary to assign to the Prince and his suite five boxes in the grand tier. Now these boxes belong to private par- ties who are stockholders in the opera-house and contributors to the guarantee fund. Four of them promptly consented to donate their boxes for the occasion. The fifth man refused. He declared him- | self averse to doing any kind of kow-tow to Princes, and, be- |and maintained that there is no reason why New York should get excited over the royal visitor. By way of giving emphasis to his refusal to give up his box the uncompliant gentleman said to those who questioned him: . “Prince Henry? Who is he, anyway? He's only a snip—a little snip of royalty. I do not know what has come over us when we make such an idiotic fuss over a Prince. President Roose- velt comes here and is received just like one of the rest of us. Why, I call him ‘Teddy’ myself. No royal box for him.” The statements of the gentleman are undoubtedly | correct, but just as undoubtedly he is making an ass of himself by asserting a sclf-evident truth at the wrong time and in the wrong way. It is a repetition | of the act of Pennoyer of Oregon refusing to go to the frontier of the State to welcome President Harri- It is a refusal to recognize the courtesies and the hospitalities of life, and it has already brought down upon the head of the offender tne righteous wrath of everybody in'New York who wishes to give | Prince Henry the grandest time he ever had in his life or will ever have again unless he should decide to make another trip and come to California. Of course some way will be found to overcome the [obstacle. The gentleman who objects to making a fuss over royal snips and thinks a foreign Prince should be received in about the same way as a Presi- dent of the United States may be induced to take a month off and seek rest in the mountains until the royal reception is over. The rest of the people of the | United States will not trouble themselves much about the logic of the thing. The Prince comes to us as the representative of a great nation and a greater people. He will be welcomed for what he stands for. Wherever he goes in this country he will receive more honors than he ever had in Germany, but all the same the very people who do most to wel- come him and make his visit agreeable will remain stanch democrats and retain a clear idea of the im- mense difference there is between a President of the United States and any royalty whatever. — this city, eloped with another girl practically a child and is now held at El Paso under serious charges secms to know better than his keepers what is good for him. He wants to die. ———————e e A COLONIZATION SCHEME. OFFICIALS the Southern Pacific, the Union Pacific and their allied lines of rail- way are reported to be enggged in perfecting plans for accomplishing colonization scheme ever attempted by Western roads. The aim the largest is to provide an increased business for the roads by oping the rich resources of lands that are now lying idle. { According to the reports which come to us from Chicago concerning the plan it is the purpose of the men controlling the “Harriman as they are alled, to provide occupants for millions of acres of | fertile and unoccupied lands in Western Louisiana, Texas and Southern California. With that object, lines,” Eastern States upward of 1000 immigrant or coloni- zation agents to work up the scheme. the prospects of the plan S. F. B. Morse, assistant traffic manager of the Texas lines of the Southern Pacific quoted by a Chicago dispatch to the Phila- delphia Ledger as saying: “In the Southwest we have over three million acres of fertile land which ! would make good homes for industrious people. We believe that no section of the United States has a more brilliant future than Texas and Western Louisi- ana, and we are convinced that all that is necessary is to let the public know what we have got.” The dispatch goes on to say: “It is announced that within a short time every one of the thousand or cast of the Nlississippi River. From time to mentioned, and special inducements will be made to get people to visit the Southwest and;Southern Cali- fornia.” nificance for us is the repetition in them of ern” California. true the plan of the colonization is not to procure settlers for all California, but for a portion of the State only. Of course whatever benefits any section “South- | for all that it behooves the people of Central and Northern California to provide some means of making known their own advantages and attractions for set- tlers. All people are not alike in their tastes, and there may be many who aiter seeing Southern Cali- fornia would not like to settle there but might be pleased were they to see other sections of the State. The issue is one that merits the attention of our pro- gressive men. San Francisco should exert her lead- crship in this instance in making the fight for the whole State. The task would not be difficult. State Board of Trade is already organized to do the work, and it needs only that cordial support be.given to it. A mitted under circumstances which justify the conclusion that the burglars worked at their ease and with comparatively little danger of detec- tion. This case is that of the' robbery of a cigar store on Tuesday night. It appears the burglars ap- A POLICE NEED. NOTHER water-front burglary has been com- neath, were safe from detection by any one on the street above. The only way in which they could have been observed would have been by some one passing along the water front in a boat. Such being the case, one would suppose that the Police Department of the city would have been long since provided with boats sufficient for an effective water patfol to guard against robberies attempted in that way. It will, therefore, be a matter of surprise to a good many persons. to_learn that the city has no such water patrol and has never had. G In commenting upon the burglary Chief of Police Wittman said to a representative of The Call that it was but another demonstration of the urgent need of a police boat for patrolling the bay. He went on to say: “Every other large city with a water front has one or more launches or other craft and the front is regularly and systematically patrolled. In conse- quence the operations of bay or river pirates are ren- dered as difficult as the work of burglars elsewhere. ger of being detected. My predecessors have urged the necessity of a launch for bay patrol, but year after year provision for it has been omitted from the tax levy. I shall strongly urge the purchase and maintenance of a patrol boat and shall place it in my estimate of expenses of the department when the time comes.” The issue is one of serious concern tu all who own property along the water front or on the bay. In a city of this kind it is almost as important to patrol the bay as to patrol the city. It is quite evident that so long as thieves can approach from the water, out of sight of police or watchmen, there can be very little chance of detecting them. Police boats are, then, a necessity of the situation. Provision for such patrol should be made at once, or, if that be impos- sible, then certainly the provision should be made when the next appropriation is prepared for the Po- lice Department. There ought to be no question about the matter. In fact, the patrol boats should have been supplied'long ago. ——— While some of the Senators have been very indig- nant about the alleged press censorship at Manila, they exercise a very rigid censorship over the Con- gressional Record so far as their own proceedings are concerned, and most of the really lively parts of their i debates are never published. e San Francisco should take an earnest interest in the exhibit California is tc :make at the St. Louis expo- sition and be energetic in promoting it, for there is no section of the State that will be more benefited ll:;hwhate\vel' good results from it, The rascally Count who deserted a young wife in settling up the country tributary to them and devel- | (it is said, they purpose to send into the Middle and | Concerning | more agents will be at work throughout the States | time | homeseekers” excursions will be run to the territories | The feature of these reports which is of most sig- | If the statements of the reports be | of the State is bound to be beneficial to the rest, but | The | proached the store in a boat and, working from be-' Here these ‘rats’ can do their work with slight dan- | { | | 'SCHWAB HAS A S WITH H HORT AUDIENCE G EDWARD IS MAJESTY KIN Schwab were entertained at private luncheon to-day at th Mansion House by the Lord Mayor, Sir Joseph Dimsdale. The party included Sir Thomas Lipton, Archibald W. Macono- chie, M. P.; Sheriff Bell, and Colonel Hunsicker, chairman of the Nickel Cor- poration. Schwab had half an hour's audience | with King Edward at Mariborough House this afternoon. Schwab was accompanied by Sir Thomas Lipton, who introduced him to his Majesty. The King greeted L o S B N PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. Cavanagh of Olema is at the Grand. Judge S. S. Hall of Sacramento is at the Grand. J. M. Gardiner of Los Angeles is at the Grand. Judge W. D. Tupper of Fresno is at the California. Mason W. Mather, & mining man, is at the Occidental. W. M. Middlecoff, an attorney of Stock- ton, is at the Lick. H. P. Stabler, a fruit-grower of Yuba City, is at the Lick. W. F. George, an attorpey mento, is at the Grand. F. B. Henderson, an oil man of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. J. B. Caldwell of Washington, D. C., is at the Palace with his wife. W. L. Elkins Jr., son of the _‘hiladel- phia street-car magnate, is at the Palace. ‘William McKinley Cobb, who is con- nected with the Pension Department, is at the Occidental. C. W. Hinchcliffe, manager of the tele- phone company’s business at Los An- geles, is at the Palace. Ferdinand W. Peck, Commissioner Gen- eral of the United States at the raris Exposition, is at the Palace with his wife and daughter. General Robert A. Friedrich, United States Attorney for the first division or southeastern district of Alaska, is in Ban Francisco for a brief vacation. ——— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb.7.—The following Cal- ifornlans are in New York: From San Francisco—C. B. Lutz, at the Broadway Central; H. R. Earle, at the St. Denls; A. Ellinghouse and wife and W. F, Chrko, at the Herald Square; G. Greenzweig, ‘the Astor; H. 8. Leckle, at the Cad! la.c E. D. Baker and L. H. Fosburne, at the Nnvan’e. A. B. Bowers, at the Imperial; . Scherrer and H. Spencer, at the Criie- m. From Los Angeles—Miss F. A, Clarke, at the Albemarle; J, T. Giles, at the Grand Union; M. B. Curtis, at the Herald Square. —— Ex. strong hoarhound candy.Townsend's.* of Sacra- pASERSAE R St abriof Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.” e ——— Townsend’s California glace fruits, 50c « ound, i{n fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas. ets. A nice present for stern friends. 9 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * Spectal information supplled fllll} t pusiness houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Anen'u) sm ont- gomery street. Telephone Maln 1 . e ————— The children of a wealthy wldowor al- wavs oblect to his second marriage. | T L T KRS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, WHO THROUGH THE COURTESY THOMAS LIPTON HAD AN AUDIENCE YESTERDAY WITH KING EDWARD. DURING IS TOUR O ‘ ROPE MR. SCHWAB HAS HAD INTERVIEWS WITH THREE MONARCHS = T, A TR * ONDON, Feb. 7.—Charles M ) his American visitor in the most cordial | tions of the United States, and evinced Schwab, president of the United | manner and chatted freely with him, | nothing but thé most kindly s iment States Steel Corporation, and Mra. | mainly on the friendship between the ward that progress which Ame bu | a | United States and Great Britain. His | Majesty especially referred to the close | connection between the industries of lhe} two countries and the friendship existing ! between the workingmen on both sides of \ the Atlantic. ness is making in Great Britain. The conversation, which was formal, touched on g throughout which his < ity toward Americans and th tions was strikingly apparent. Schw To a correspondent Schwab said: | sald his Buropean trip had been nurely “All T can say is that I had a most en- | for vleasure and as such had been emi- jovable interview and came away with “ "pflfi‘r‘;n;u;‘[;sf'(”’ ¢ Biieisd g A charming recollections of King Edward.” 3 Gur. at Ruréps Schiwal wu It was learned by the correspondent | Locy'yed, In audience by three monarchs, that the King displayed keen interest in | sire na n and strengthen the and knowledge of the industrial condi- quite to maintain friendly relations with America. [ 1] *— | St. Valentine and the Maiden | [ What to Do When Held Up by a Footpad By Chief of Police Wittman and Captain ..eymou\t A Day at the Public Library The Funny Things Peop'e Do and Ask For Ther: o Judge Coffey’s Wards in Chancery San Franciszo Orphans Who Are Heirs to Ov $200,000,000. 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