The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 28, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, FRIDAY .:FEBRUARY 28, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W, 5, LEAKE, Nenager. MANAGER’S OFFICE. cssas ‘Telenhonv Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. . .Market and Third, S. F. Telephone FPress 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Weel. Single Copics, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 8 months v Single Month » One Year... LY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are anthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subseribers in ordering change of address should te particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. .1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS, ¥, nager Poreign Ldvertising, Marquette Building. Chicago. 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AUCTION TH iE PRINLE AND THE PRESS. to the Prince of Prussia in s to b been the most so- ich vet adaptation to the scene t to the somewhat seem ve the visitor has rsble cont icipants. It is evident never miss a trick. Stand- he managed casily spaper fession men, as he as bably « 1andl n on the deck of his flag- who sat with him that his i said “You will the press, and 1 ) you ind that in the United States my to him: gencrals in command.” he is invited to try. Asis r never loses an opportunity their empire rests upon his erals; that they stand guard over tribes and protect their federation from offer. When he gives the newspaper f the United Stztes rank equal to his generals saying that this country rests upon the press in e same sense as his rests upon the army. Men and We are by ns the mjasters of compliment and the pur- cthren, let us sit up and notice things. f politeress that we thought we were. himself an artist in that line, and his is a fine representative of skill. Of wspaper men knew their position said, but they were too modest to tell it, T aware that it had got out. To be fair the newspaper genius of the United States en greatly enriched, stimulated and developed its best features by the countrymen of the Dr ald Ottendorfer, Carl Sthurz, Emil Pretorius have given to American lism some of its best impulses and highest or This is_ szid not with purpose of 10w his about it, Oswa any wapp: ice of a fact Journalism in this country owes best features to the freedom of our institutions, not be ungracious or amiss to say that jour. m in the empire of the Kaiser might hift the maintenance of the empire from a nd dependent army to the keeping of an in- dependent press It has been noted that for many years past almost every man who attains cabinet rank finds a good po- sition waiting him when he retires. Instance after instance could be cited of men who have left the Cab- inet to enter at once upon lucrative positions of trust, e Boston Globe finds the thing so common 3 to get a $30,000 job in New to get an $8000 job in the Cabinet at It remains as true as ever that there in politics, but it seems there is a good waiting for the right man when he comes More than 30,000 letters from New York City reached the Dead Letter Office within a month fol- lowing the recent city election, and the Washington authorities have found that nearly every one of them contained a circular telling a voter how to vote. It was a sad case of good advice going to waste, and the only. consolation is that perhaps it would 1ot have | been' followed had it been received. —_— Georgia’s campaign for the Governorship is al- ready under way, and as one candidate has been affectionately named the “one-eyed plowboy of Pigeon Roost,” another has been called the “two- eyed pigeon of Plowboy Roost,” and from this time forth the weather down in that part of the Urfion will ( grow warmer and warmer for months to come. The report that Senator Scott of - West Virginia has taken two wildcats to. Washington leads us to a suspicion that he expects to have to argue 2 point eor two with Tillman a | of The | before | ng compliments with Prince Henry, but is the | SUPREME OOURT ON THE MERGER. S the readers of The Call were led to antici- A pate by our forecast, the Supreme Court has decided it has no jurisdiction to project the anti-merger law of Minnesota beyond the borders of that State and make it the supreme law of the land. This decision seemed to us inevitable because of the interstate and therefore the Federal nature of the issue presented. The court has held heretofore that a State may control common carriers and transportation corpora- | tions within its own jurisdiction only, and not fur- ther. Under these decisions a State may prevent a change in the line of a railway that has received right of way and put service on a line on which towns and shipping points have been established, and to which productive and mercantile conditions have been ad- justed. A State may regulate, judicially, rates of freight and fare on all traffic in its own borders, and not beyond, and it may also, by parity of reasoning, “xc‘\em the applicatior of a merger of lines to the rates on business transacted within its Jurlsdxchon But beyond this a State cannot go. The further is- sue is Federal The action in the Federal courts ordered by Presi- dent Roosevelt raises this Federal If the jcourts do not find law enough in existence it will | be the plain duty of Congress to enact it. “The im- mediate effect of the President’s order has been to | arrest other industrial combinations that were under way. This is in itself a good thing. The people | want time to breathe and look ‘about them and study | the ultimate effect of these combinations. Admitting { that there'is a natural law_that leads surely through | competition to combination, the people want to know and losses of competition, its combina- issue. ‘is whether the instability n-beneficial effects, can be remedied by | tion without at the same time removing some of the | safeguards of competition which are absolutely essen- {tial to the individual and industrial life of the country The most odions use of the power of transporta- n corporations heretofore has been their power to grant rebates and special privileges to individuals and localities. A road decides that a specified may be carried on here and not there, and its dis- criminating rate absolutely forces the flourishing of in one locality In like manner a discriminating rate makes | the business of one man profitable and destroys that such industry and destroys it in an- other. another. While roads are competing they detect The complaints of re- | these offenses in their rivals. | bates and discriminations filed with. the Interstate | Commerce Commission, as a rule, are made by { 1ailroads against their competitors. ! ! The people have become keenly intelligent and { keen ive in this matter. Where competing roads a common administration . and it is obvious that this safe- The keen eye of rivalry will be i may merge, receive }ha\'c 2 common policy, | guard is withdrawn The only known means for detecting dis- crimination will disappear and be no longer at the | It is true that Mr. Hill, presi- { dent of the Northern Securities Company, which rep- closed. service of the shipper. resents the merger that is now in contention, has given the assurance that the combination will not raise rates. But that is not the question at all. The ! people do not fear increased rates as much as they fear rebates and discriminating rates. Mr. Hill may not have had this phase of the question in mind, or | he may have thought of it and not have cared to mention it. It must necessarily figure in the very front of the discussion. The people may admit the economy of combination. They may assent willingly to the in- crease in railroad profits resulting from that eco- They may easily see the commercial benéfit of stability in rates. They may omit to discuss any of these phases of the subject and accept them con- | tentedly as settled in line with interests which the shippers and the roads have in common. But they will not be content to leave it in the power of a combination of parallel roads, the same ter- | minals and often with the same interthediate stations, to- so ulate rates and rebates as to effect a transfer of settled industries, destroy the value of real {estate in one town and inflate it in another, and | build the fortunes of a few individuals at the expense of the many. These are the parts of the problem of such vital interest that there will be no contentment nor sense | of safety until they are settled in accord with public {interests. ‘There must . be some safe substitute somewhere for the watchfulness of rivalry and self- interest when these are merged and lost in combina- tion. Just what this substitute is to be must be a fu- ture development. At the first view it seems that it will be found in the publicity which the President’in- sists shall be made the first statutory duty of com- binations. Surely publicity will be a great part if it be not the whole of the substitute for the watchful- ness of competitior nomy. with ma It is said to have taken the Senate less than fifty minutes to ratify the treaty for the purchase of the Danish West Indies, evident annexation schemes have become so common to this country | that not even a Senator thinks it worth while to go | slow in dealing with them, or even to make a speech on the subject. o e e SAN FRANCISCO AND THE STATE. ’ O resources and industries of California at the ! St. Louis exposition, To the accomplishment of that need San Francisco should contribute liberally and promptly. In a special degree should she con- tribute to the promotion of movements for good ex- hibits from Central and Northern California, since Los Angeles, the metropolis of the South, will give her aid exclusively to the south. San Francisco has { of course the whole State to look after, but in doing so she should not overlook the fact that certain sec- tions need help more than others. At the spresent time the southern-counties swarm with tourists. All the great winter resort hotels are crowded to the limit, and ‘there have been times when some of the principal hotels have had to turn away as many as a hundred applicants in a single day. Of these crowds of seekers after winter sun- | shine comparatively few will'see the central or north- ern parts of the State. They will not even think of visiting those sections becatise they have heard little about them and know nothing of their attractive- ness for holiday pleasure-seekers as well as for set- tlers and for capitalists looking for investments. The advantages of the central and northern sections of the State ought therefore to be brought out | strongly -at the St. Louis exposition. They should be given an cqual prominence to those of the south, and to that end San Francisco should co-operate with'the people of the interior and act as energeti- 4<ally as Los Angeles is acting on behalf of the section so it is NE of the pressing needs of the time is that of providing for a suitable exhibition of the industry | )to which she stands in the relation of financial n,etropolis and commercial capital. It is of little profit to repeat over and over in a general way that Northern and Central Califor- nia are rich in resources, fertile of soil, beautiful in landscape and blessed with an unsurpassed climate. We must make known to the East the specific at- tractions of the various counties, the particular points of interest to tourists and the particular advantages offered to settlers and to capitalists. When that in- formation has been fully spread abroad through the East we shall have in this section of the State as many tourists as the south and find our valleys and foothills filling up with an industrious and progres- sive population. The St. Louis exposition is going to afford the best field for advertising California that the imme- diate future offers. be represented there at its best, in generous rivalry each vying with another to see which can most fully | show forth the marvelous wealth of the domain of California. In that rivalry San Francisco should take part as leader, helper and director. The city is in competition with no section. Its welfare is de- pendent -upon the welfare of all. It can have no other self-interest than that of promoting the inter- ests of all. Its help just now, however, most needed by the central and the northern portiens of the State, ‘and in that direction the help should be given. The issue is 1ot one to be set aside. It is a genuine duty which the city owes to the interior as well as to her own best interests. It should there- fore be attended to at once. is There has been a large amount of eloquent talk on the rapidity with which Japan has advanced herself to the rank of a civilized nation, but inasmuch as it appears there is not a single millionaire in the king- dom,- it seems the talk has been ill-founded. In these days civilization without millionaires seems like a contradiction of term: GOVERNMENT DEPOSITS. OR a long time there has been more or less dis- F cussion concerning the best means of getting the surplus money in the United States treasury back into the channels of trade so as to prevent an thing like a restriction of the money market. It has been the custom to achieve that end at times by de- positing the money without interest with the larger banks of the country upon s‘ecurity of United States bonds. The plan has been effective, but it has not been satisfactory. = Periodically there have been com- plaints of favoritism on the part of the Government in making the deposits, and sometimes the com- plaints have been carried to the extent of angry and ugly charges against the administration. It is to. the credit of the treasury that not a single one of the charges has ever been substantiated, but none the less it has long been recognized that the custom of making deposits of Government money without in- terest should be stopped, and that where such de- posits are made the bankers should be required to pay current interest rates just as they pay upon other deposits. Two bills are now before the House dealing with the subject. One of them, by Mr. Sulzer of New York, directs the Secretary of the Treasury to de- posit all surplus funds belonging to the United States Government with national banks having a capital of not less than $500,000 and a surplus of not less than 500,000, and provides:. “That such deposits be made without requiring United Stateé Government bonds as security, that on such deposits the United States treasury receive interest at the rate of 2 per cent per annum, and that ‘such deposits shall be a first lien on the assets of the bank.” a The other bill, introduced by Mr. Pugsley, who is himself president of a bank and is a member of the Committee on Banking and Currency, is similar to that of Mr. Sulzer, differing from it mainly in that it leaves the depositing of the surplus money to the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury instead of making it compulsory. The two bills agree in authorizing the deposit of the Government money without requiring the security of bonds, but upon the payment of interest. Several Secretaries of the Treasury have urged the adoption of some such measure. The main thing of course is to get the large sum of money now locked up in the treasury into genmeral circulation, but it is also desirable that the Government get a profit on it. It will be remembered that some months ago Secretary Gage estimated that if the Govern- ment funds in excess of $50,000,000, which sum should be kept in the treasury as working capital, had been placed on deposit at 2 per cent, the interest during a period of not so many years back would have given the Government an income of $32,000,000, and besides would have furnished money for enterprises that would have materially advanced the prosperity. 1t is estimated that at present the Government has in the treasury vaults and lying idle something like $150,000,000 which could be returned to the channels of trade without inconveniencing the treasury in making its payments. That sum of course ought to be in use and in circulation. The curious thing about the situation is that there is no partisan issue in the matter: there is no evident difference of opinion concerning it; the press of both parties and of all sections favors the plan; it has been \recommended repeatedly by Secretaries of the Treas- vry, but in some way cvery bill to bring about the re- form gets shelved. It remains to be seen what will happen to the two ncw before the House. One or the other of them should be enacted, and it is to be hoped the business interests of the country will be sufficiently active to bring it aboul A literary man in New York is suing for divorce from his wife on the ground that she is “morally ir- responsible and temperamentally untruthful”; and yet it seems a woman of that kind would be an ideal helpmeet to a writer of historical romances. —_— Thke notification sent by Secretary Hay to Russia and China that they must not get too close together in Manchuria seems to imply that while the United States desires no part in the Oriental pie, it is de- termined that no one else shall have any. e T Among the clients—or rather the dupes—of a brokerage firm in New York that advertised methods of “getting rich quick” there were found to be no less than twenty-three bank cashiers. Truly the gold brick catches them all. What does it profit Democracy to have Bryan out of polmcs and his mouth out of gear ko long as Tillman is in the Senate and Wheeler in the House to remind the country what sort of men Democracy puts to the front? It seems to be the opinion of Barcelona and Tri- este that arbitration is a good thing in the way of settling strikes so long as it can be administered by the army. Every section of the State should | 1902. THIS WHEEL, LARGEST EVER CAST, CAN BE OPERATED BY ONE MAN —— MOST TWO YEARS TO BUILD. PICTURE OF HUGE WHEEL WHICH IS BEING FINISHED IN BALTL\:IORFt f-‘OR A MINING COMPANY. SIXTY-FIVE FEET IN HEIGHT, WEIGHS MORE THAN A MILLION POUNDS IT 18 AND HAS REQUIRED AL- s HE largest commercial wheel ever cast has just been set up in the shops of its makers, the Robert Pool & Sons Company of Baltimore, to be i tested before it is shipped to its owner, the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company of Michigan. Its height, or diameter rather, is sixty- five feet, and.with its supports it weighs more than 1,000,000 pounds. It is to be used to carry away the refuse from stamp mills. The wheel is known as a sand wheel. | Upon the inner surface of its rim will be arranged 550 buckets, each measuring 4 feet 6 inches by 3 feet. As the mighty PERSONAL MENTION. Ernest Tamm, a capitalist of Los Gatos, is at the Lick. v J. Morris Jones, a banker of Colusa, is a guest at the Grand. H. H. Peterson, an attorney of Fisher- mans Bay, is at the Russ. Jesse D. Carr, an extensive landowncr of Salinas, is at the Lick. Don C. Porter, a hotel man of Pasa- dena, is registered at the Grand. { V. 8. McClatehy, editor of the Sacra- mento Bee, is at the California. J. H. Graham, a well known cattleman of Nevada, is registered at the Russ. L. A. Blasingame, a stock raiser of Fresno, is among the arrivals at the Grand. Terrence Mallen of the firm of McCann & Co. of New York is a guest at the Palace. Themas Clark, a mining man of Placer- ville, is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife and family. | C. E. Florence, who conducts a large | general merchandise - store at Lodl, is| registered at the Russ. { Alphonso Hart, a’former resident Ohio, but now one of the leading law-| yers.of Washington City, is stopping at | the Grand Hotel, He is accompanied by‘ his wife and daughter. | ——————————— | Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—The following Califorians are In New York: From San Francisco—G. R. Grifith, at the Im- perial; Miss Sader, at the Albert; Mrs. Hecht, at the Manhattan. From Los An- /geles—H. Chandler, at the Pabst. ] News in Army Circles. tain George A. Detchmendy, Twenty- se?:?r’\d Infantry, who arrived on the Meade, is one of the officers who played a prominent part in the campaign which resulted in the capture of Aguinaldo. The number. of sick and insane soldiers who ived on the Meade and Rosecrans is 1‘2? The payment of the discharged men will commence on Monday at Angel Isl- and. A Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* ——————————— &al. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend' Rk it Cheinalia) Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c a und, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- ets. -A nice present for Eastern en%-,‘ 839 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. —_— e————— Spechl information supplied daily to ' usiness houses and public men by the Pre-s Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), m Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main X ____.._.-..»——-— rmy worm is essentlally a grass- ntlnesulnlect. though it often feeds upon other plants, and is sald to prefer oats to corn. Gt i, SURE The one great virtue of Burnett's Vanilla Bx- tract is purity. It's real vanilia extract & noth- ing but vanilla extract. Always use Burnett's, e is recommended for’ b.lhln m-(}"'n because it harmonizes with & {anned skin “‘and the emerald and g phire of the ocean.” HOTEL DEL CORONADO, choicest Winter | ‘Resort in the world, offers best living, climate, ‘boating, bathing, fihh‘ and most amuse- aents, E. 8. Babcock, manager, Coronado, Cai, | | wheel revolves each bucket will scoop up its capacity of earth and refuse, which it will dump into a trough at the top. The order for the wheel was given in June, 1900, and work upon It began a month later. It is expected that in two months more it will be ready for ship- ment. Hence it will have caken one year and a half to build it. The shaft for this great moving mass of steel came from the Krupp gun factory. It is 32 inches in diameter and 27 feet long, with a 26-inch hole through the cen- ter. Its weight is 42,000 pounds. In building the wheel the work was laid out in twentieths, and when the makers A CHANCE TO SMILE. He—I wonder what your father say when I ask him for your hand? She—Don’t worry about that, dear. He rehearsed it with me this merning, and he does it beautifully.—Tit-Bits. wilt original—*“Ah,” said the great singer. “I have hit on a plan which will indeed bring me distinction.” “What is it?" asked a friend. “I shall make a Absolutely | farewell tour, and—I shall not go back.”— Answers. were ready to put the segments together they found the work had been so skillfully done that every piece fitted to perfection. Several pieces of machinery had to be spe- clally invented and made in order to pro- duce certain portions of the wheel. Sb carefully is the work of *‘setting up'* being done that a magnifying glass Is in constant use to determine the accuracy of bolt adjustment, etc. So exactly has the wheel been balanced that It can easily be operated by a small screw and by one man. ‘When in actual use at the mines it will require the force from a 700 horsepower electric motor. Forty cars will be required to move the structural work to its destination. PY oot ,““WM"%++%—H-H+H-HH—FH?“HHMM. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ENGAGEMENT—“Proper,” City. Tt a young man has become engaged to a young lady, a stranger to his family, it his duty to present her to them, so they may become acquainted. BURIAL—M., Thermalito, Cal. The law in California is that when =z corpse is buried, if the deceased is under 10 years of age the grave must not be less than five feet, and if more than 10 years the grave must be not less than six feet deep. That Humboldt Behte. "Can Yon Describe Your Best Friend So the Policc Would Know Him? Wlly the San Francisco Girl Is Queen of Ameri- can Women.—By Mary Norman.. Read the Speeches That Wonm the Lodi- THBSUNDAYCALLLBADS THEM ALL N EXT SUNDAY’S CALL Tie Sunday Call Contains More Western Storics AIl Other San Francisco Sunday Papers Combin SECOND DAY OF MARCH. READ “BROCKMAN'S NAVERICK.” WHAT BECOMES OF THE CO-EDS? 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