The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1902, EBRUARY 12, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor Address All Communieations to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. , MANAGER'S OFFICE.. -Telephone Press 204 FUBLICATION OFFICE. .. farket and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Press 202, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. Terme by Mail. Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL ¢incluling Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—EBy Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year.. WEEKLY CALL, Ope Year. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. porn® g3f233 Mafl subscribers in ordering change of address should ba particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %0 insure & prompt and correct compliance with their reques:. GAKLAND OFFICE.... +...1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mazeger Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building. Chieago. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.”) 3 NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON ..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH ++30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Eill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—3527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 s er, open until 8:36 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 t, corner Sixteenth, open irtil 9 o'clock. 1098 Va- open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, cpen until § p. m. AMUSEMENTS. r—*“The Rogue's Comedy." ia—"In the Palace of the King."” eum—Vaudeville. d Opera-house—‘Raglan’s Wa: ornia—*"The Sign of the Cross. o and Theater—Vaudeville every afterroon and Pavilion—Juvenile Fairyland Carnival. Hali—Piano Recital. Hall—Song Recital Monday even!ng, Feb. 17. nd Racetrack—Races to-day. TRY TAXATION. UDGE SE AWELL'S decision that the high- fence ordinance recently adopted by the Board upervisors is invalid brings before that body more the problem of protecting the city against and the danger of high fences along crowded thoroughfares. Since the present ordinance id 2 new one must be devised. The continu- fences is an indisputable evil and it is bent upon the Supervisors to provide a remedy. In deciding the issue the Judge said: “In many e surface of the ground upon which fences are or may be erected in this city and county is more than ten feet above the level of the adjacent sidewalk. Upon st a lot no wooden fence whatever could be erected without violating the ordinance. A fence one inch high would be more than ten feet above the level e sidew Inasmuch, therefore, as the ordi- nance denies to some property owners what is per- mitted to others it is not equal and uniform in its operation and is, in my opinion, invalid.” While the decision seems technical, it rests upon a fact which is beyond gainsaying. The configura- tion of the city such that in ‘many districts the ound upon which houses are built and fences are ed is more than ten feet above the adjacent side- How to adapt an ordinance to the irregularity of the topography of the city will be found a perplex- roblem, and perhaps it may have to be aban- » incs cases of Should that prove to be the case there remains .| r method of dezaling with the nuisance. The s repeatedly directed attention to the good -obtained by the French Government in im- pesing a system of taxation upon bill board adver- tising, and there is every reason to believe that were ar system adopted in San Francisco a long Id be taken toward eliminating the worst evils of the high fence nuisance. step It is clear that where low fences or light railings erec along the top of an embankment more than ten feet above the adjacent sidewalk no harm §s done. Such fences are not so unsightly as to de- face tl ity, neither are they. sufficiently heavy to menace to persons on the street in time of high winds, nor so inflammable as to be danger- cus when fires break cut. The unsightly and danger- fences are, in nearly every case, those which are erected along business thoroughfares and used for then a tax be imposed upon such ad- license be required for the erection or for advertising purposes, the fences would then pass under the license laws of the city and could be regulated by taxation exactly other licensed privileges. There is no reason why they should not be taxed. A fence is property and advertising is a trade. More- over bill board and ience advertising is like peddling, inasmuch as it makes use of public thoroughfares, and therefore is rightly subject to municipal super- vision and control. Finally, such advertising is not ntly a gross nuisance, marring the appear- ance of the city, offending the eye and leading up to the erection of huge fences that are a serious danger to passers on the streets and to<adjacent property by reason of their liability to fire. It is to be borne in mind, moreover, that many of these fences erected in front of vacant lots are raised to such a height and rented to advertisers at such prices as enable the owners to make a profit while leaving the lot unused and vacant. Thus they tend to check the upbuilding ofthe city and detract from the value of the adjoiring Iots. An injury is there- fore done not only tc the community at large but to particular persons. Some remedy should be pro- vided by law for the mitigation of these .evils, and. if nothing better can be devised we recommend the Supervisors to try taxation. —————ree The New York man who objected to giving up his box at the opera to Prince Henry has at last given way, and now New York is at peace. Afl'the Prince has to do is to walk in and take everything in sight. consti rtising. If vertising, or a of use fences as are reque Paderewski’s return to New York has been accom- panied by the usual high pressure excitement, and by the time Prince Henry arrives there will be only a jaded population to receive him. DAYBREAK IN CHINA. taken place in Feking, since tiic return of the court to that capital. Chinese royal exciusivencss and. austerity have been forever banished. The kowtow is no more. The Empress Dowager has won the title of the most powerful and remarkable woman in the world. Her statecraft has done what all the Western armies might have wrought upon in vain, She has received the foreign legations in the. For- bidden City and the sacred palace. She has admitted the wives of the foreign Ministers, replied to an ad- dress by Mrs. Conger, wife of our Minister, made her presents and sat with the ladies at tea. She has broken the exclusiveness of the Manchus. Hereto- fore the Manchus never went abroad. Chinese were forbidden to intermarry with them. They were the stern and narrow rulers of the empire. Ignorant of the world, self-poised, self-sufficient. The Empress Dowager has broken their power. They are com- manded to.educate their sons abroad, to permit inter- marriage with the Chinese, and are practically put on a level with the rest of the empire in its government. For years the Chinese proper have known the rest of the world, its laws, its civic institutions and its people. They have furnished to China its great and learned men, Li Hung Chang, Marquis Tseng, Wu Ting Fang, Ho Yow and others. Their ideas of regenera- tion and progress have been restrained by the narrow Manchus. The old Empress has gone further. She has de- creed the emancipation of her sex. By a decree she has forbidden foot binding, and from her genius a flash of light has illuminated farthest Cathay. She goes to the front of the class composed of such women as Semiramis, Tomyris, Zenobia and Kath- arine. The people of the Western nations should meet her halfway in this determination to maintain the unity and promote the progress of her vast em- pire. It is neither by territorial division, nor by in- vasion for selfish exploitation, that China is to be- come a useful and contributing member of the family of nations, but by an awakening. She has all the lore and wisdom of the past. What Babylon and Egypt had, she has. The virtues and ideals of Oriental phi- losophy are hers. Her people have morality, fidelity, thrift. They possess the domestic virtues, a keen mer- cantile instinct and patience at toil surpassing that of the ox. At present they feel only the wants of the remote past. Their needs are primitive. As they go up the path opened to them by the Empress Dowager new needs will appear, with new duties and new ideals. At the same time their capacity to trans- mute their resources 1o supply the needs of the West- ern world will increase, mutual exchange will grow and out of normgl commercial intercourse they and the West will prosper. Genghiz Khan laid his empire like a vast blanket upon the world, from the Caspian to the Yellow Sea. His descendant, Tamerlane, dominated from the Euphrates to “the Yangtse-Kiang, and set up the | peacock throne of the Moguls at Delhi. But all these feats of arms were as nothing to what this old woman has done by a decree that has no sword behind it but | her resistless will and awakened spirit. She was born a slave, but she has liberated one-third of the human race. THE greatest events in the new - century have The latest yawp of the Cuban reciprocity schemers is that if we do not provide prosperity for the Cuban sugar planters we will be worse than Weyler, because he undertook to feed at least the people he shut up in his concentration camps, while we purpose to let everybody starve.. If this sort of thing keep up we may expect the reciprocity fanatics to appeal to Wey- ler to come over and thrash us into consenting to free trade. MOCKING THE COMMISSION. HEN making their recent report to Con- W gress the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion deplored: “That the leading traffic officials of many of the principal railway lines, men occupying high positions and charged with the most important duties, should deliberately violate the stat- ute law of the land, and in some cases agree with each other to do so; that it should be thought by them necessary to destroy vouchers and so manipu- late bookkeeping as to obliterate evidence of the transactions.” If the reports that come to us from the East be accurate the commission had good grounds for mak- ing that complaint. It was not uttered upon a moral conviction of the guilt of railway officials, but upon a certain knowledge of it. In fact, so powerless is the commission to enforce the law that it cannot en- force respect for itself, and railway men have no hesi- tation in frankly admitting violations of the law and defying the commission to punish them. At a recent hearing in Chicago several traffic man- agers were under examination by the commission concerning the granting of rebates. They had no hesitation in admitting that rebates were granted wherever it was deemed for the interest of the roads to grant them. One of these officials, D. T. McCabe, traffic manager of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, testified to giving secret reductions in freight rates, and when asked for the records of the office showing the transactions said they could not be produced as the road did not have them. The following conversation is then reported to have en- sued between McCabe and Commissioner Clements: “No recozds of transactions involving so much money?” doubtfully zsked the Commissioner. “I do not think we kept them after they had served their purpose.” “Why not?” insisted the Commissioner. “Possibly because we thought you might ask to have them laid before you,” admitted Mr. McCabe. ~“You ‘mean to say, then, sir, that those records were destroyed for the purpose of removing evidence of your illegal acts?” “Yes; that was the purpose, if they were destroyed. I do not say they have been destroyed, but I think they have been.” the law—such reductions from your public tariffs?” “I am in charge of traffic matters, and do what T feel is necessary to protect the interests of the com- pany.” Neither McCabe nor his railroad is to be punished for the offense thus frankly admitted. The law has been violated, but it cannot be enforced; the commis- sion has been mocked, but it cannot vindicate itself. Such a condition of affairs is not pleasing to a peo- ple who like our own have been brought up to have a high respect for law and to look upon it as a safe- guard not only of justice but of liberty. It is full time for Congress to take action in this matter. If the law be unjust it should be repealed; if the com- mission be unworthy of respect it should be abol- iched; but so long as the one remains on the statute book and the other represents the Government of | the United States the railroads should be compelled “Who is responsible for such serious violations of !to respect and obey them. There is really no room for argument upon an issue of this kind. Either re- | peal the statute or enforce it Investigators in the Capitol at Washington have discovered that the historic structure is infested with millions of disease germs, among them being that of lockjaw. This particular microbe has not, however, | affected any of the national orators in recent debate. CALIFORNIA PRODUCTS. Y the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Associa- B tion there has been issued a prospectus of a descriptive catalogue of the commercial pro- ducts, natural and manufactured, of the State of Cali- fornia, which is to be accompanied by a general re- view of the resources and advantages of the State, so that as a whole it will constitute a valuable addi- | tion to our commercial literature and will prove an cfficient factor in expanding and increasing our trade. The object of the catalogue, as stated by the pros- pectus, is to make known the products of California to consumers both at home and: abroad. It will be given a free general distribution throughout the Union and will also be circulated in other countries. It is not the intention to insert any paid advertise- ments and no charge will be made for a description of any Californian product. On the contrary, the prospectus announces that “full imformation regard- ing all products is solicited in order that all may be properly represented. It is desired to obtain the data for each subject from those having special knowledge of it.” { While there have been a large number and variety of publications on the subject of California products there has been none that is thoroughly comprehen- sive in its nature. From each of them there has been omitted something of importance to the-State and to its commerce. The consequence is that even well informed Californians themselves have but an inade- quate knowledge of the industries carried’ on around them; and those who are most willing to pa- tronize home industry frequently make use of foreign articles simply because they do not know of the ex- istence of home products of the same kind. As an illustration of the need of compiling full in- formation concerning the State and its products the prospectus says: “Thirty-eight delegates from the New York Mer- chants’ Association and Chamber of Commerce, spe- cially appointed for the purpose, visited Texas in April last with the ultimate purpose of promoting the investment of New York capital in industrial devel- opment in Texas and of increasing the trade of New York with that State. Eleven sub-committees were appointed, each charged with a special branch of study. The party traveled more than 6000 miles and visited thirty-seven important points in Texas. The preliminary statement of the report of the delega- tion, and one upon which stress is laid, is that it was assumed that ample data as to the natural resources of the State and their present development would be readily accessible from official sources. Much to the disappointmeht and embarrassment of the various ‘committees, it was found that such data was exceed- ingly meager and did not furnish a comprehensive view of the natural resources and industrial condi- tions of the State. The report states, ‘There is a no- table lack of such information as to Texas, and in all probability the State has been much prejudiced thereby.”” That lesson from Texas should not be lost upon California. It is to the advantage of all that the pro- posed descriptive catalogue be speedily and accurately compiled, and cordial assistance should be given by all producers of every kind to the association in completing, publishing and circulating the work. It looks as if those Bulgarian brigands had made up their minds to keep Miss Stone as a valuable ad- dition to their firm on account of the immense amount of free advertising she gets them. COSTLY INFORMATION. HEN a member of Cohgress rises in his \;s’ seat and asks that some branch of the ad- ministration be requested to compile, print and furnish Congress with information concerning any part of the public business his motion receives a prompt second and is nearly always approved by a majority of his fellow members. In fact a request for information is one of the hardest things in the world to refuse. When a man wishes to learg some- thing in order that he may more properly fulfill his duties it appears nothing more than just and right that the information should be given him. Back of everything in this world, however, there is @ question of cost. To furnish information for Congressmen requires a considerable expenditure on the part of the administration; and there are times when the cost seems to be more than the information is worth. It takes only a few minutes of time for either branch of Congress to ask the information, but it takes a great deal of time for the clerks of the bureau having the matter in charge to compile it, ar- range it and get it printed. Owing to public interest in all affairs of our insular possessions and the prevailing ignorance concerning them, the demand for information of one kind or an- other concerning them has been so frequent as to im- pose a heavy burden upon the Division of Insular Affairs, and accordingly the officials have made a protest. The public has thus been made aware of the extent to which'the abuse has been carried. As an illustration of the heavingss of the work often imposed by requests for information, it is relat- ed that a §enntor recently introduced a resolution calling for a report in minute detail of all receipts and expenditures in Cuba from the date of the military occupation to April 30, 1900, with “a statement of public works of every kind, together with the cost, necessity and propriety of the same, with copies of contracts,” etc. For the War Department to comply with the request the labor of ten clerks for six months was necessary, and for six weeks those clerks were obliged to work over time. Congress will there- fore have to consider a claim for their extra compen- sation. The compilation, when published, filled five large volumes, so that in addition to the cost pof clerk hire the Government was put to further heavy expense for printing.” It is quite safe to say that neither the Senator who, asked for the information nor any one elseswill ever read those volumes. The money has been done in vain and the money virtually wasted. The case cited is perhaps the grossest of the kind, but it does not stand alone. It appears there are con- tinual calls upon all the departments of the Govern- ment for the compilation and publication of facts which are of comparatively little value to the public, and which ought never to be called for in that way. It js right, of course, that Congress should know what is going on, but in seeking for information it should not forget to seek also for an understanding iof what the desired knowledge will cost. GILLESPIE DRAMATICALLY DECLARES o+ Gfo £ GULESFE Casrorcs frmaves L oo HE trial of George D, I well known local lodging-house keepe: street, for the killing of Willlam F. Griffin, an apprentice plumber, on the evening of August 20 last, Was be- gun in Judge Cook’s court yesterday. Gillespie’s trial promise$ to be one of the shortest on record. The testimony for the prosecution and defense was all heard yesterday, excepting that of two witnesses who will testify to Gillespie's good character te-morrow. The argu- ments will be brief and an immediate verdict is expected. After the opening statements by speclal Prosecuting Attorney Black for the peo- ple and Attorney Robert Ferral for the defense, Officer George W. Russell pre- sented and explained a diagram of the house at 119 Ninth street, where the trag- edy occurred. Mrs. Emily Griffin, widow of the deceased, was then called to the stand. She testified that her husBand came home in an angry mood on the evening of August 2, and when she in- quired the cause of his perturbation he told her he would explain after supper. Continuing, she testified: “I was putting the potatoes on the ta- ble, when my husband took up a mush bowl and thrust it down very hard upon a saucer, breaking it into fragments. He spoke rather loud, and just at that mo- ment Mrs. Gillespie opened the door and walked into the room. She wanted to know what was the matter, and my hus- band told her to get out of the room. She went to the door and called for her husband, who came and said that order must be maintained. Gillespie then went out of the room and returned with a pis- tol in his hand. My husband was sitting in the rocking chair with his arms rest- ing on the arms of the chair, when Gil- lespie put his pistol directly in my hus- band's face. My husband laughed and said he guessed Gillesple wouldn’t shoot anybody, and at that moment the pistol was discharged. I saw the flash in the looking glass, for I was not looking at either just at that mement. When I turned I saw my husband leaning back in the chair with blood all over his face. I asked him if he was hurt, but he never answered me. He was taken to the hos- pital and when I saw him again he was dead.” This practically closed the case for ths prosecution. The defense consisted of the testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Gillesple. Mrs. Gillespie swore that a loud noise as of breaking dishes in the Grifin room attracted her attention and on opening the door she saw a fragment of dish strike Mrs. Griffin in the breast. Griffin called her a vile'name and ordered her to leave the room. She called her hus- band, and as she did so she saw Griffin 80 to a closet and return with a knife n his hand. Griffin said he would fix Gilles- pie if he interfered and on the latter's arrival the witness told him to be care- ful, as Grifin was armed. Gillespie thereupon left the room and returned a moment later with a revolver. Qriffin became abusive and finally made a hip- pocket motion, whereupon Gillespie fired. The witness was positive Griffin was not seated in the rocking chair at the time of the shooting. The defendant took the stand in -his own behalf and his story was the same as that of his wife. When asked if he intended to shoot Griffin, he raised his hand aloft with the answer, ‘As God is my judge, I did not!” He declarfd that he wanted merely to intimidate Griffin by 4 display of armed force and that the weapon was discharged by accident. " This closed the case for the defensa, with the exception of two witnesses who will be called to-morrow to testify to the general good reputation of the defendant. ————— MORAN ON TRIAL FOR MURDER. Accused of Being the Man Who Club- bed George W. Rice. The trial of Thomas Moran, charged with the murder of George W. Rice, the non-union machinist, at Twentieth and Howard streets about 6 o'clock on the evening of October 11, was commenced be- fore a jury in Judge Lawlor's court yes- terday. Rice was first clubbed after leay- ing the car and knocked down; then Wil liam Buckley, who was convicted last Fri- day, fired the shots into Rice’s prostrate form. The prosecution claims that Moran VTESD AT YL THAT PIAM" THAT HE DID NOT INTEND TO KILL R * THE Vaas e \ P — 1 SLAYER OF WILLIAM F. GRIFFIN DRAMATICALLY PROTESTS HIS i INNOCENCE\ OF INTENT TO COMMIT, MURDER DURING TRIAL | OF THE CHARGE AGAINST HIM BEFORE JUDGE COOK. | el did the clubbing. Attorney George D. | Collins represents Moran, and Assistant District Attorney Alford and Attorney | Peter F. Dunne the prosecution. The | courtroom was crowded, and as much in- terest appears to be taken In this trial as in the trial of Buckley. Moran’s face | wore a strained, anxious look during the | proceedings. The witnesses examined yesterday were the same as those examined at the Buck- ley trial. They were Corporal George W. Russell, Dr. Emmet Rixford, George E. | English, Dr. L. D. Bacigglupi, Louis R. Levy, John Boost, Charles Angelus, Wil- llam Spless, Lieutenant William Price, Edward D. Leahy, Arthur Cleve, Sergeant Thomas 8. Duke, William Kidd and Frank J. Keaveny. The most important testimony was that of Arthur Cleve. He positively identi- fied the defendant as the man he saw standing beside Buckley when the last named fired the shots at Rice. Keaveny also gave strong circumstantial evidence. He was on the rear platform of the car. He saw two men leave the front of the car, and one in height, build and general appearance answers to the defendant. An- other man came from the rear of the car. Sergeant Duke testified that Moran made a statement shortly after his arrest on the morning after the murder to him- self and Detective Bailey that at 6 o’clock the previous evening, which was the time of the murder, he was in a restaurant on Third street, so as to show the contra- dictory statements made by him later. 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