The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1902, Page 6

THE SA N FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 1 The FRIDAY FEBRUARY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor Adtress All Communioations to MANAGER'S OFFICE.......Telephone PUBLICATION OFFICE Teleph EDITORIAL ROOMS. . 17 to 221 Stevensonm St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail. Includinz P DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 month DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month FUNDAY CALL. One Year. WEEKLY CALL, Ose Yea § LEAKE, Mamager. Press 204 T{arket and Third, S. F. ress 201. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers in ordering change of address should be ticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order e 2 prompt and correct compliance with their reques:. 1118 €. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mesager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building. Chioago. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.”") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: CARLTON. +e+2e..Herald Square OAXLAND OFFICE.. Broadway c. c NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. .30 Tribuce Building NEW YORKE NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: CUBAN REACTION. A REPUBLICA, an organ of revolution and independence in Havana, soberly questions the declared result of the recent election for the | organic'officers of the new republic. it has required twenty-eight days for the returning board of the province of Havana to tabulate the tally sheets and declare officially the result of the election. Its final return shows that *53,486 voters went to the polls in that. province. This is disputed by La Republica, which declares that r.ot over 7000 voted in the city of Havana and the same indifference existed through- out the province. It also shows that the registry of voters in the whole province was.75,000, of which only 35,000 were registered in the city of Havana, yet the board returns 45,000 votes as cast in Havana, or 10,000 in excess of the registration and the exhibit of the census. The newspaper exhausts itself in demonstrating the iniquity of the returning board. Admitting its state- ment of facts, that iniquity is great. If that board padded 7000 votes cast into 45,000, and allotted them to candidates as it pleased, which of course would follow, it has nothing to learn from Tammany or of the Pilgrim Band in Philadelphia. At the worst those experts get the ballots into the box by judi- cious stuffing, repeating and impersonation of law- ful voters by others. They also miscall and mistally to candidates votes that were cast against them. But # must be said for our criminal countrymen who do slick work with the ballots that in their rude, un- L Murray Hul Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ...1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes. open until 9:30 o'clock. @33 ter, open until 9:80 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 1 . corner_Sixteenth, open tntil 9 o'clock. 1098 . open_until ® o'clock. 108 Eleventh. open untfl 9 . NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock 00 Fillmore, cpen until 9 p. m. —_— AMUSEMENTS. 296! Va. Alcazar—“The Rogue's Comedy." Columbia—*In the Palace of the King.” Orpheum—Vaugeville. A Young Wife."” , Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterzoon and hanics’ Pavilion—Juvenile Fairyiand Carnival. ay Hall—Angelus Piano Player Recital, Satur- litan Hall—Piano Recital to-morrow afterroon. Metropolitan —Lecture Sunday afternoon Metropolitan H: ong Recital Monday evening, Feb. 17. Oakiand Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Wm. G. Layng—Monday evening, February 17. at 7:40 o'clock, Racehorses aud Stallione, at 721 Howard street. GOLD STANDARD FOR M&XiCu. IXICAN merchants are weary of chasing the of exchange up and down the fluctua- of silyer. They buy for gold abroad er at h , and buy for silver at for gold abroad. The permutations of y affect their trade and exchange. the fluctuations will reveal the serious nerce when compeiled to do busi- an unstable medium. Last July $1 96 Mexican would buy an American doliar in Mexico. It was , but if it had stood still at that er could have made stable cal- Bat it is not in his power to make the ratio stand. By last November an Amer- worth $2 34 Mexican, and there were ap of com nearly two for on tio the buyer and bu ess. xiczn silver would slump esntirely to its that would exchange for $2 10 Mexican, exchange has dy at that rate. But Mexican is a transitory ratio, and will be maintained, and for | le bondage to a flickering ing to gold and starting an agitation bes merchants have mo assuran a de unbea; stand for its g It will be entirely i line with Mexico's marvelous Frcgress and enterprise for Mér to align with the na- tions that hold to the civilized standard, with whom s the most of her trade. tion, of Mexico we can see ourselves would have been if Mr. Bryan had succeeded in andards. An American and'a Mexi- n equal, and all our vast d have been impeded by doing busi- that fell from $1 96 to $2 34 in four d rose to $2 10 2 month later. a sane, safe and scientific stan- m our own position will be is the greatest of our southern e capacity, enterprise and too, Mr. Bryan will lose the t lessons, for he always iph at Mexico and Japan s of the beneficence of the silver standard. Japan changed to gold three or more years ago, and he lose Mexico he will be short of illustrations. in months Me and nei: progress New York reports of a reception given to Carnegie by the Stevens Institute of Technology, to which he gave $65.000, are to the effect that he said in his address he used to believe a man could not possibly spend $125 a month; then he drank toasts to the President and the leading professors of the institute, led in the cheering—for others, and in a loud, clear voice started singing a song. Evi- dently the gifted giver of many millions will end by touring the country as a vaudeville star. recently Professor Tyler of Amherst is reported to be lec- turing in the East on “The Clam,” which he says is one of the finest examples in nature of comfort and repose, and yet the professor would not like to be a clam; he would not even like to keep his mouth shut and give us repose. An investigation is being made in Chicago to de- terminc if possible if a man over 45 years of age is too old to work. It would not take long probably to discover that in the Windy City there are many men under that age who feel that they are too strong to work. At a meeting of the alumni of Syracuse University last week Governor Odell of New York was nomi- nated for president cf the United States, and now there can be no further. complaint that university men are not aggressive enough in politics. d ok s EP R Lord Salisbury seems to feel that he has scored a triumph of intuitive reasoning in discovering that Ireland is antagonistic to the point of hatred to the English. Lord Salisbury might learn facts more quickly if he placed less reliance in himseli, * 1l tutored hearts they, after a fashion, respect the sanc- tity of the ballot-box and insist that the ballot’ ‘Which falls as light As snowflake on the sod, But executes the freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God, Shall fall into the ballot-box, and thereafter they pro- ceed to revise the freeman’s will and beautify the re- sult. But it seems that the Cuban artists are faith- cure folk. They give the result absent treatment, not requiring the presence of the ballot at all. The voters may save the time required to visit the polls. These official mind-readers will attend to everything. The voter need not even touch the button in order for them to do the rest. It is 2 condition that may well be remembered when the exploiters and speculators get their pro- gramme of annexation ready for a plebiscite by the islanders, as they will before long. The *returning boards will attend to that, whether a majority vote against it or whether no one votes at all. If our lap is ready Cuba will sit down in it without regard to the will of her people. A returning board that can swell an actual vote of 7000 out of a registration of 35,000 to a total of 45,000 will see*o it that annexa- tion has a majority so large as to impress our senti- mental people. ! Why La Republica does not deal with the equally serious qitestion of the indifference that has come over the people is not explained. They fought ten years steadily for the right to govern themselves by the ballot, and bit their thumbs at us because President Grant refused to interfere and help them to the lux- ury of registry and returning boards. After resting on their guns they renewed the fight with such vim and vigor that Spain was driven to the end of her resources in resisting. The Cubans de- vised a flag and a junta. The junta headquartered in New York and the flag wasin all our windows haloed by the legend, “Cuba libre.” They supplied this country with heroics and shesterics, and Miss Cisneros and a job lot of Arnold Winkelreids, Joan of Arcs, Moll Pitchers and Molly Starks. We car- ried our weep-weakened eyes to the oculist, and the salty tears from pity’s sweet fountain as they flowed left a deposit on the national face like that deposited | by the waters of Shasta soda spring. We spent blood and treasure to give them the ballot, and the first time they have a chance to use it they snub the polls as indifferently as a Front-street merchant does his party’s primary. Is this a reaction from a supreme effort, or is it evidence that the Cuban aspiration for self-govern- ment was a fable, the revolution an insurrection of marauders and our part in the affair deserving of the booby prize? e — Ohio and Massachusetts are wrangling as to which 1s to have the honor of furnishing the first Secretary of Commerce and Industry. It seems to be the opinion of the contestants that no other State has a right to even so much as make a nomination. In the end, however, they will be taught something. California ought to have the place, and probably Towa will get it. WU'S NEW YEAR. MINISTER INISTER WU continues to show the variety M of his talents to the enraptured East. He turns lightly from the seclusion of his august office to go to the committee-rooms of Con- gress and share in the toil of the lobby against the exclusion bill, and” then, unwearied, passes along to make a speech to an American audience on ‘some great occasion of national import. It was but a little while ago he was conspicuous about the Capitol, but on Lincoln’s birthday he was far away at Grand Rapids talking to the Michiganders about Lincoln, and, as reports say, making “his usual indirect argu- ment against exclusion.” Since variety is the spice of life it would seem that a man so versatile and seemingly so popular in the East would be always happy and cheery. Unfortu- nately, in this world there is no happiness even for lightning change artists. Minister Wu has his troubles. On February 7 he received in Washington a good many congratulations upon the occasion of Chinese New Year. Minister Wu was obliged to explain that the new year did not begin on that day, that the celebration by the Chinese in this country is all wrong, that he has remonstrated in vain, and that he is disgusted with his countrymen. In the course of his explanation the Minister said: “The Chinese in America celebrate New Year's day a day ahead of the proper time of observance. To- day is New Year eve, and to-morrow the proper day. Do you know why to-day is celebrated in the { ‘Chinatowns’ throughout the United States? It is | because they don’t krow anything about geography or philosophy. The pioneers among the “Chinese |in America were coolies who came here to work as | laborers. They started from China on the first day of the third moon. They counted one, two, three and so on, paying no attention to the fact that at the one | hundred and eightieth meridian they lost one day. As a consequence when they arrived in San Francisco they were one day behind, and those that followed them to this country made the same mistake. When 1 came here as Minister five years ago I told the Chi- nese of San Francisco of their mistake and issued a proclamation pointing it out to fhem and advising them to observe the correct day. But some of the ‘highbinders’ argued that they had been celebrating New Year a day ahead for many years, and _why !should they change? I also pointed out the mistake to the Chinese here in Washington, and they cele- | brated the correct day just one year. Why? Because |in that year they lost money in the conduct of their business and held that the changing of the New Year day had brought them bad luck.” | Having explained the matter to those who were congratulating him the Minister then proceeded to pronounce judgment on . the situation. He said: “The Chinese in America are a bigoted and ignorant class and I am disgusted with them all.” Neverthe- less, when he rose to speak at the Lincoln banquet he made his usual plea for an unrestricted immigration to this country of the ignorant' bigots who disgust him. In all his variety there is one point upon which he dcesn’t vary. Fthe Orient Great Britain and Japan have en- tered into an alliance which binds them under certain conditions to make joint war against a foe of either. It is a treaty which promises to settle the Oriental question for a time at least by assuring the territorial integrity and political independence of China and Korea. To that extent the treaty would serve our interests as well as those of the allies, and | if that were all it would doubtless be received here with almost as much faver as in Great Britain -tself. A careful reading of the treaty, however, shows that it may mean something more than the preservation of the existing situation, and accordingly all nations having interests in the Orient will have to watch the new alliance with considerable care. The treaty begins by a declaration that the con- tracting parties are uninfluenced by any aggressive tendencies in either China or Korea, but goes on to say that, recognizing that the interests of Great Brit- ain are mainly in China while those of Japan are in Korea, it is agreed that “it will be admissible for cither of them to take such measures as may be in- dispensable in order to safeguard those interests if they be threatened either by the aggressive action of any other power or by disturbances arising in China or in Korea.” Such an agreement leaves a large opening for cither of the allies to interfere in China or Korea at will, notwithstanding the disclaimer of any aggressive tendencies. Each retains the right to act whenever it believes its interests to be threatened, and the other agrees to support that right against any third party. The extent to which the support shall be car- ried is defined in the second and the third articles | of the treaty. By the one it is provided that if either | Great Britain or Japan be involved in war the other will maintain strict neutrality and use its efforts to : prevent other powers from joining in hostilities | against its ally, while the third article provides that should any other power make war against that ally the other contracting party will come to the assist- ance of its ally and will conduct war in common with it and make peace in mutual agreement with it. The treaty is unquestionably beneficial to Great Britain. It provides her with a strong ally to pro- | tect her interests in the Orient should she be involved 1 in a war with any great European country. As the situation stands the alliance is the dominant factor in Oriental politics, nor does it seem practicable for any other alliance to be formed strong enough to defy it so long as the United States keeps out of the con- troversy. Nothing that Russia can do in cémbina- tion with France or with Germany could make a | showing on the far-off coast of China or Korea of | anything like equal force to that which the navy of | Great Britain and the army of Japan could make. | The only probable act of retaliation would be an | aggressive movement by Russia on England’s Indian frontier. This would be possible and dangerous, be- cause Russia’s continental position protects her against attack. For the present, then, the Oriental problem may be said to have been settled. The treaty by its terms is limited to five years. No | one can foresee what the intervening timne will bring forth, and it is useless to speculate concerning what may happen. It may be set down as assured, how- cver, that the advance of Russia in Manchuria will g0 surely, even if slowly, on. The fate of China in the long run will depend upon the Chinese themselves. If under the energetic direction of the wonderful old woman who now controls the Government they set about fitting themselves for the protection of their territory and their independence, they will have no need of such protection as the British and Japanese alliance offers them. If they fail to do that the al- fiance, while it may delay Russia’s advance, cannot prevent its triumph ir the end BRITAIN AND JAPAN. OR the purpose of maintaining their interests in One thing seems well assured: Prince Henry will be a much bigger man here than he ever was at home and will have receptions all along the line from New York to St. Louis that will make a Berlin demon- stration for the Kaiser seem like a sideshow. ISTHMIAN CANAL PROJEOTS. ONGRESS has beén asked to appropriate ‘ nearly $200,000,000 for the construction of a canal at: Nicaragua, and Senator Scott of West Virginia stated in the Senate the other day that fully one-fourth of that amount has been already ex- pended in the various efforts made to determine the best route for constructing an isthmian canal. It would seem, then, that considerations of economy would induce Congress to take action at this session and expend no more good money on investigations. However, it is the unexpected that sometimes hap- pens. A resolution providing for the appointment of is now called, the San Blas or Mandingo Bay route, has been referred to the Senate Committee on Inter- oceanic Canals. The new route has strong backing, and if the contest between Panama and Nicaragua should develop a deadlock it is almost certain the San Blas route would receive at least the honor of an investigation by experts and a report to Congress, The amount of money expended for investigations would be thus raised considerably, and perhaps it might be made to approach one-third of the sum re- quired to build even the costliest of the proposed waterways. The men who are backing the Darien route are making a very attractive showing for their project. It is to be but thirty miles long, and will be on a sea level. The only great difficulty in the way of con- structing it will be thit of making a five-mile tunnel . through a mountain. ~That feature, however, is’ brightened up so as to make it spectacular and inter-. esting. Railway tunnels were works of the past cen- tury, why not a ship tunnel for the twentieth century?’ A part of the scheme is to have a system of towing big ocean steamers through the tunnel by electric trolleys. That in itself is a catching idea. A trolley car line is good, but a trolley ship line is better, Al- together the isthmian canal problem is getting com- plicated. There are now three Richmonds in the L field, and perhaps there are more to come. B a commission to examine the Darien route, or as it-|. | boating, WOODMEN TO GREET WITH FIRE AND B A S FITZPATRICK -+ HEAD CONSUL LARE OF HORNS %@ STANFORD® Dl Svu NEXT MONDAY NIGHT. MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE WOODMEN OF THE WORLD THAT IS ARR ROUSING RECEPTION TO THE HEAD OF THE ORGANIZATION UPON .4 GING TO GIVE A IN THIS CITY HIS ARRIV oW [ A. FALKENBURG, co-founder of F the beneficiary organization known as the Woodmen of the World, ® and at present the head of the order, holding the office of head consul, will arrive in this city next Mon- day evening on an official visit to the | camps of this city. He will reach the fer- ry at the foot of Market street at 8 o'clock, where he will be met by the membership of eleven local camps who will be on hand with music, red, white and blue fire. A procession of Neighbors of Woodcraft will be forméd under the marshalship of John 8. Patterson of Golden Gate Camp. The guest of the evening will be escorted to the Mechanics’ Pavilion, where he will be tendered a monster reception. In the procession there will be a cav- alcade of aids, a flambeau corps number- ing one hundred, all the local degree teams in uniform, degree teams from ad- jacent cities, floats and fireworks. The hayseed band of California Camp will turn out in uniform and will make noise while some of the other bands are rest- ing. It is expected that there will be three thousand Woodmen in line. Twenty-seven thousand invitations were issued for admissfon to tHe Pavilion, and it is expected that one-half of that num- ber will be honored. After the reception and the uttering of the Woodman's ery there will be an overture by the orches- tra, “The Woodman's Song,” by the audl- ence; a short address by Peter F. Gilroy, chairman of the general committee; ad- dress of welcome by Mayor Schmitz, who was recently Initiated into the order; then a fraternal address by Head Consul Fal- Kenburg, who is admitted to be the most brilliant orator along fraternal lines in the United States. Then there will be an exhibition drill by uniformed teams of Golden Gate, Mission and Western Addi- tion camps. The night will close with dancing. The affair is under the arrange- ment of the following committees: General committee—P. F. Gilroy, chairman W. B. Nye, vice chairman; H. L. Springer, treasurer; A. G. Glison, secretary. Finance—W. D. Ferguson, chairman, Golden Gate No. 64; A. W. Wehner, Redwood No. 91: M. J. McCabe, Mission No.' 264; J. M. New. L S e e e o Ex. atrt;ng hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* —————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* ———————— Look out for 81 4th st., front of barber and grocery; best eyeglasses, specs, 15c to 40c.* e Townsend's Caltfornia glace fruits, 5c a pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- . A nice present for Eastern friends. fiuluket lL?Pillce Hotel bullding. — e —e———— Special information supplied daily to bunlne-su hf,‘,‘“fi and p(ll{lfilc n;e?!ob thte ureau en’s), nt- B e e alsphocic TsaiML Tt — . A White Cloud, Mo., man was seen on the street carrying a rusty stovepipe. An- other fellow kicked the, stovepipe and out tumbled several chickens the man was making way with. The one great virtue of Burnett's Vanilla Ex- tract 18 purity, It's real vanilla extract & noth- ing but vanilla extract. Always use Burnett's. —————————— The things that elude us are the tem; {ations for which there has been mldep; way of escape and for every disappoint- ment there has been something gained. HOTEL DEL CORONADO, cholcest Winter Resort in the world, offers best living, climate, bathing, fishing and most amuse- % { bert, Western Addition No. 306: J. F. Mec- Elroy, Tamalpals No. 427; J. D. Peterson, Calumet No. 436; W. R. Bell, San Franc No. 437; L. H. de Curtonl, Richmond No. 470; D. L. Mayers, California No. George Hil- debrand, North End No. 646; Dr. A. H. Glan- | nini, McKinley No. 668. Entertainment—W. B. Nye, chairman, Rich- 470; J. F. Brooks, Golden Gate No. 64; W. S. Shaw, Western Addition No. 306. Invitation—Fred C. Russell, chairman, Red- wood No. 91; G. W. Yost, Richmond No. 470; J. T. Kane, Redwood No. 91. |~ Floor—Dr. A. L. whi Parade—Grattan D. Phillips, chairman, | No. 264; Dr. M. B. North End No. 646; T. J. Mahoney, Tamalpa\s | B, F. Scheil, No. 427; A. G. Page, California No. 634. | Grand marshal—J. S. Patterson, Golden Gate No. 64. Music—H. L., Springer, chairman, Western Addition No. 306; John Boyle, Golden Gate No. 64; F. J. Tyrell, Calumet No. 436. Press and printing—T. L Fitzpatrick, chair- | man, McKinley No. 668; J. M. Sauter, North | End No. 646; D. A. Ryan, Kinley No. 668. Hall—W. B. Wilson, chairman, San Fran- cisco No. 437; A. G. Gilson, Tamalpals Ne. 427; C. G. Darling, Calumet No. 436. —_— EEEEEE HEIREEENEE How | Played the “Fiddle” in Dawson. BY MAYOR EUGENE E. SCHMITZ. What | Hope to Be When | Grow Up. Fifteen Grammar School Girls Picked at Random Reply to This Question. Read Their Unique Answers. Most Original Society Girl in San Francisco. How to Serve a George Wash- ington Luncheon. Safi Francisco Women Who Have Colonial Costumes. Look for ““Brockman’s Mav- erick.” Eight Pages of Color That Are Pleasing to the Eye. Correct Fashions for Lent. THE SUNDAY CALL PRINTS MORE CALIFORNIA STORIES THAN ALL THE OTHER SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY PAPERS COMBINED.