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

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Central—*The Last Stroke. t the White Horse Tavern.” olumb ‘Arizona.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—*A Contented Woman.” Fischer's Theater- he French Maid.” ja—'‘Rupert of Hentzau.' The Serenade.”” Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and tan Hall—Miss Leonora Jackson, Friday night. tan Hall—Emma Nevada, Saturdgy afternoon. Sherman-Clay Hall—Song Recital Tues March 11. Woodward's Pavilion—Winter Circus. Oekl Racetrack—Races to-day. —_— AUCTIEN SALES. GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP. the British Government in for- coni to estab! stations for within the given of one of in Government ownership of pub- and operates nce forbids private ate hands com- t any time and lic and from s be a ready wel- n of cc find encou phy and every of communication. wever, ot subject to compe- fast to.the old w reported to have stated British € t to wireless telegraphy in this legraph lines in Great in 1870 with a ay maintain tele- Great Britain to , but a station may another line is in ni went on to say, is y. His stations used to s more than three miles from hin the scope of the beyond the jurisdiction rts that he once pointed the Postmaster General that if a ship were fog ithin the three-mile i should telegraph for aid the Marconi sta- i answer without violating the law, 1e Postmaster General wi coni repo: or storm ot informed him, cases re would be no prosecution. however, was of course atisfac- ntor closed his statement by saying: e years ago I asked for a license for a short line, but it was refuse It is very difficult to £ concessions from them which they need not give e situation is a logical and almost inevitable out- come of Governm ownership. The Postmaster General is e that his Government has invested E ge amount of money in telegraph lines and is dependent upon public patronage of the lines to ob- a re in them. He naturally feels it is his official duty to guard the lines against competition. Progress in telegraphy is therefore stopped until the Government itseli gets ready to adopt the improved methods. situatign would develop itself if Govern- ownership extended to street car line: water works, lighting plants «or any other publ utility. The officers in charge of a municipality in possession ghting plant, for example, could hardly be ex- ected to authorize competi Progress, in effect, halts where Government ownership begins, ion. This is one of the factors that should be duly re- garded in every serious consideration of the ques- tion of Government ownership of any kind of utility t can be left to private hands. So long as the Government itself keeps its hands off competition is always possible, and under the, stimulus of competi- the fear of competition private parties are compelled to promptly adopt every improvement of- fered. No such stimulus can affect a ‘Government. The British example teaches the lesson clearly. Mar- coni’s telegraphy may be applied for transmitting messages beyond the three-mile limit of the coast, but inland it is forbidden tion or The Governor of Scuth Carolina thinks both Till- man and McLaurin should be expelled from the United States Senate, and as that would give him a chance to get in there is no doubt of the sincerity of the thought. St. Louis is still incisting she will open her expo- sition on time, but there is something like even bet- ting in other parts of the country that she won’t, THE SHIPPING BILL. ENATOR FRYE'S strong presentation of the S merchant marine bill gives encouragement to the expectation that Congress will at last enact this measure of justice to one of the greatest interests of our people. Measures providing for an increase of our ocean-going commercial fleets have been long under consideration and the public is fairly familiar with the arguments on either side. The Republican party has repeatedly pledged itself to enact some measure for that purpose and the peo- ple have sustained it. The debate, therefore, ought to be deemed complete. It has been heard, consid- ered and voted on, and the judgment of the people has been in favor of the measure. A protective system becomes justifiable only when it is applied equally to all the industries of a people. If we protect American indpstries on land we should also protect American industries on the seas. The American sailor ought not to be the only American workingman who is left exposed to the competition of foreign labor, nor should the ship-owner be the only American whose property and capital is denied a fair degree of protection against the subsidized en- terprises of foreign capitalists. In addition to the argument of fair play, however, there is a special argument in favor of promoting our ocean-going commerce. The restless energies of our people have now reached a point where we produce in almost all lines of industry an amount of goods greater than our own people can consume. We have farm products and manufactured products of many kinds in sufficient abundance to profusely supply the home market and leave a surplus over. Fos that surplus we must either find a market abroad or wg shall, as the saying is, “fry in our own fat.” We shall have periods of overproduction, in which industry will yield little or no profit, the farm- ers will be in distress, the mills will shut down, workingmen will be unemployed and we shall have hard times in the midst of plenty. To obtain markets we must have the means of transporting our goods to any part of the globe where the best market is to be found. There was a time when we had a large share in the ocean com- merce of the world, but of late we have fallen'be- hind, and now we have to pay tribute to foreigners to carry our goods for us. A recent summary of our shipping as compared with that of Great Britain presents the sitaation in this way: World's tonnage, 1860, 13,450,000 tons. Of this Britain had 5,710,968 tons States had 5,209,175 tons. ‘We almost equaled Britain. We carried 40 per cent of the world's tonnage and she a little more. World's tonnage, 1900, 28,900,000 tons. Of this we had 5,164,000 tons, while Britain is credited with 14,600,000 tons. ' Actually we have over 100,000 tons less than forty | years ago, and relatively we have sunk from 40 per cent of the total to 17 per cent. Britain has increased from a little over 40 per cent of the total in 1860 to over 5 per cent in 1900. But as her tonnage is largely steam, she actually carries about } 62 per cent of the world’s goods; while ours, being still | 1argely sail, we carry actually not over 12 per cent of | the world’s tonnage, and we probably carry less than { 12 per cent of the oversea freight of the world. and the United { Surely such a showing as that cannot be satisfac- tory to any American. We have become the_fore- | most commercial nation on the globe without suf- ficient ocean-going vessels to carry the trade of a | third-rate power. For nearly all our imports and | exports we pay tribute to foreigners. We transfer to others the wealth that should be used in building American ships and maintaining American seamen. It is time to put an end to that folly. in a recent address before the Sons of the Revolution at Troy: “The battle of Walloomsac—persistently | spoken of by the New England writers as ‘Benning- claimed by New England historians as a | New England battle, when New England is no more entitled to it than Pennsylvania is entitled to the bat- tle of Trenton, for the Trenton battle-field is much {nearer to Pennsylvania than the battle-ground of | Walloomsac is to Bennington.” It is needless to say that just now whenever the New Englanders have to pronounce Mr. Hastings’ name they froth at the mouth. | ton’—i. STORM-PROOF TELEGRAPHY. NE of the results of the recent storms in the | East, followed, as they were, by a general collapse of telegraph and telephone wires, { has been a demand on the part of the public for the {adoption of some system that will render wires storm-proof. Within the area of cities the collapse of the wires meant something more than interrupted { communicztion: Several persons were killed by live wires strewn along the ground, and in commenting upon the fatalities one writer says the alternative is plain—*“we must either bury men or bury the wires.” Underground wires within the limits of cities are | feasible and will doubtless come in time. That | would prevent danger of death. It is not practicable, however, to place wires under ground in the long stretches between city and city, and consequently some other method will have to be adopted to main- tain communication securely through the storm sea- son. It appears from reports that an available sys- tem has been already devised for such purpose and put into operation on the Pennsylvania Railroad. It |'stood the test of the late storms and seems to give satisfaction. The New York Times speaks of it as “an auto- matic system of block signals,” and says it is not liable to injury from accumulations of snow or ice. Referring to the operation of the system during the storm it says: “It is rot an exaggeration to say that the atmospheric conditions which played such havoc with the overhead wires of the telegraph and tele- phone companies subjected it to a crucial ‘test. The engineer of signals of the Pennsylvania Railroad re- ceived reports yesterday from all' portions of the roads on which the electric system has been installed that there was not the slightest interruption in the | operation of the signals. Although the usefulness of over ten miles of telegraph and telephone wire was destroyed on the New York division alone, not an inch of the protected wire in the tubes was harmed.” The system, it appears,-is quite extensive, for the report goes on to say: “The entire New York divis sion is protected by the electro-pneumatic block sig- nals at present, as is zlso the main line as far west as Paoli, and about two-thirds of the distance be- tween Altoona and Pittsburg. The Atlantic City division of the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad is also equipped and operated by the electric blocks, The system is being extended over the lines to Washington, and west on the main line as rapidly as the comprehensive improvements in progress on those lines will admit.” Judging from these reports it appears it is quite feasible for telegraph companies to provide a system of communication that would be storm-proof. Even if it would not be advisable at present to adopt the system over the whole country, it might be put into use between the®principal cities of the Union i | theaters and periodicals, and enforce shorter work- and b:twéen large cities and their immediate subur- ban towns where prompt communication is a matter of high imgortance. We do not suffer from storms on this coast’as they do in the East, but even here, as recent experiencés show, the adoption of the Pennsylvania system would be a great advantage. [ The Bostan Journal says: “Better late than never should Bostonians realize the danger spot they have in the Common. For years, at night, the historic Jheart of the ity has been a place to which the pru- dent and un%tccompanied person gives a wide berth. In the summier it is infested with corpulent tramps and in winter with unspeakable brutes and highway. robbers.” L‘;t -us rejoice that San Francisco is not Boston. We - have troubles of our own, but none like that. | | 3 | e s a— HOME| VIEWS OF TILLMAN. OWN }in South Carolina the “good people” D and the press are indignant over the asper- Isions dast upon their State by the press of the country generally in discussing the fight between Tillman and McLaurin. With a special earnestness they resent tle imputation that Tillman represents the Bourbon| element of South Carolina, or any other element associated ‘with the old families who ruled the State from the days of the Revolution to the days of Hampton and Butler. Tillman, they say, is not a Bourbon. -He is the man who detounced Bourbonism from stump to stump, roused the poor whites of the up country against the Charleston aristocrats, and turned the first families:out of office and very nearly out of politics. These families would be very glad to see both Tillman/and MeLaurin turned out of the Sen- ate. They haye no use for either of the fighters. The Charleston News and Courier, in commenting upon the statement in Tillman’s apology to the Sen- ate that he had no experience in legislative affairs before he entered that body, and that his four years of service as Governor of South Carolina had un- fitted him for the Senate, says the apology was even worse than the offense, that “there is nothing in the office of Governor of South Carolina to encourage the manners of the prize-ring,” and adds:, “It would be better for the State and for public decency if the country could be spared the humiliation of being represented by men who cannot control themselves. No punishment that the Senate could inflict upon the South Carolina Senators would be too severe for their outrageous conduct.” The Cdumbia State is equally severe in its con- demnation. It declares an inability to understand why Tillman and McLaurin should have become so suddenly fierce in the Senate when they had been de- nouncing each other as liars and worse for months before the present session of Congress began. =It says: “We are constrained to declare our regret that Senators Tillman'and McLaurin did not carry out their agreement of last summer to resign their seats and appeal to the people of South Carolina for vindi- cation. And we think we can say for the white | voters of the State, without regard to faction, that they would be glad to have an opportunity now af- forded them to vote on the fitness of Benjamin R. Tillman and John L. McLaurin to represent them in i the Senate of the United States.” | Since those statements may be taken as expres- sions of public opinion in South Carofina, there is reason to hope we are nearing the end of Tillmanism. It was an uprising of the peoplefof South Carolina that carried him into office; and it is now time for another to sweep him out of.it forever. One of the results of the visit of Prince ‘Henry is the instruction of the American people that the title of the Kaiser is that of “German Emperor” and not “Emperor of Germany.” It may appear to us like a difference between tweedledum and tweedledee, but among the Germans it is a difference big enough to fight about if occasion come. FOR PHYSICAL CULTURE. UR esteemed fellow citizens of the national capital are supposed to be so much absorbed in themselves as to be careless of the coun- try at large. It is known they have no vote, belong to no political party and take no interest in elec- tions. Furthermore, as they have neither a farming | industry, a manufacturing industry nor a commercial industry, they care nothing about trade, tariffs or | free silver. Finally, as they have a society ably led | by Embassadors and supported by naval officers, they are indifferent to social sets in New York or San Francisco. Hence the belief that they care noth- ing for the outer world, but live like the epicurean gods, indifferent to all around them. Such being the prevailing opinion on the subject, it is gratifying to note that the denizens of the capi- tal have really an interest in the country and are not neglectful of the public welfare. Some of them have induced Senator Mason of Illinois to introduce a bill providing for the establishment of a depart- ment of physical culture, for the purpose of promot- ing the health, beauty and happiness of the people in every State in the Union. The bill provides that the proposed department shall provide under national control and at national expense public parks, play- grounds, gymnasiums, fountains, baths, laundries, ing hours and the observance of a Saturday hali- holiday. There is nothing small nor mean about a measure of that kind. It is generous as well as patriotic. Washington might have asked such things for her- self alone, but she has been liberal. She asks only that"the nation shall support them and that the first development of them shall be at the capital as an ob- ject lesson. Just how much money would be re- quired for the programme is not estimated, but it will certainly be large. The surplus would bé noth- ing to it. There would be a chance to put all the money now in the treasury into immediate circula- tion and issue a lot of paper money in addition, It is npt likely the Government will undertake the proposed department, but the very introduction of the bill is itself pleasant. It is conducive to good feeling between the capital and the provinces. It shows that we are not forgotten by the haughty as- sociates of Embassadors and naval officers. The capital may be indifferent to our politics, our morals and our art, but it feels a warm interest in our phy- sical well being. The suggestion that we should be provided with public laundries and baths is itself a proof of affection. Had the petitioners been callQus and harsh they would have gone no further than to recommend for us the usual Washington means of purification—a coat of whitewash. e —— Early in the game a New Yark bartender invented a “Hohenzollern punch” in welcome of Henry, and now a musical composer has ddne a rag time march in his honor, and if he takes both of them home with him he can give the Kaiser a treat that will shake CAPITAL CITY BUSINESS MEN PLAN PROGRESS; NEW GENERAL MANAGER AP- POINTED EY THE SACRAMENTO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. i o+ ES ACRAMENTO, March 5.—The direct- ors of the Chamber of Commerce, in line with a policy of increased activity which has been undertaken, decided upon engaging a general man- ager, who shall have charge of the details of organization and promc- tion. H. A. French was chosen to fill the position and entered upon his new @ i ivloeirt WEST DEMANDS THE LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS DENVER, March 5—Discussion of the land-leasing question was opened in the American Cattle Growers’ Convention this morning. John P. Irish of California made an ad- dress in favor of the enactment of a law to authorize the leasing of public lands. It is necessary, he sald, that the 600,000,- 000 acres of forest land be preserved to help hold the snows of winter and fur- nish the necessary water for the western pioneers’ homes and other uses. There are 400,000,000 acres of land not fit for any other use than the great one of devel- ‘oping and growing and fattening the cat- tle, sheep and horses, and which, accord- ing to a recently published statement, by overcrowding, was being depleted at the rate of 5,000,000 acres a year. Further than this, the great scramble for this grazing country was resulting in the loss of 300 lives a year by sanguinary encounters. The revenue to be derived by the leas- ing of the public domain, 400,000,000 acras at 2 cents an acre, will give a total of $8,000,000 to be used for the construction of irrigation enterprises, and what will follow? The most profitable result will be the realizing of winter feed for stock, as no one will intelligently advocate the idea of an Increase of grain acreage. “The West ought to follow out a sys- tem of symmetrical development if it is hoped to build up these millions of acres of neglected country, to induce immigra- tion, to make cities and towns, to make a greater and a better nation through more individual agricultural freeholders,” said Colonel Irish, in conclusion. Frank Benton, who has been in the cat-/ tle-raising business for thirty years in the, ‘West, and who now has two ranches in Northern Colorado and, Southern Wyo- ming, delivered an address on “‘Practical Illustrations of the Leasing System and Its Benefits.” C. Wantland read an interesting paper on “The Advantages of Range Control.” On motion of A, C. Cleveland of Nevada President Roosevelt was elected an hon- orary member of the assoclation. ——————— PERSONAL MENTION. G. M. Martin of Watsonville is at the Lick, H. J. Gosse of Reno, Nev., Is at the Grand. §. A. Bournfield of Dawson is at the Palace. J. Craig, proprietor of Highland Springs, is at the Grand. General R. H. Warfleld returned yes- terday from a trip to Honolulu. v Arthur Spear, accompanied by his wite, returned yesterday from a honeymoon spent at the Hawallan Islands. / E. Black Ryan, tax attorney of the Scuthern Pacific Company, has returned with his family to his country residence at Menlo Park. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, March 5.—The following Californians have arrived: San Francisco—R. L. Knapp, at the Vendome; H. Wilson, at the Broadway Central; B. Ambler, at the Astor; H. A. Hutler and wife, at the Manhattan; R. C. Miller and wife, at the Bartholdi; Mrs. Mills, at the Albert; H. C. Van Ness, at him up from head 1o foot. the Hogmu.' o | dutles to-day. The Chamber of Com- | merce intends to extend its efforts for the | development of Northern California in general and the country immediately trib- | utary to Sacramento in particular. The new manager will have charge of the ad- vertising of this section; of the general organization of the work of publicity and supervision of the details of the work of | the committees. The chamber has al-| ready outlined several important move- | ments looking to the development of this | city and section. Mr. French, the new general manager, was born in Belfast, Me., in 188. He was educated at Tufts' College, Massachu- setts, and was for fifteen years engaged in | newspaper work _in_Boston, Wora and Providence, R. I. He came to C fornia three years ago, working one year for the San Francisco Chronicle and two for the Sacramento Bee. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. NO CONFESSION—H. B., City. There was no confession in the Durrant case. THE STANDARD—S. H. H., Ukiah, Cal. There is a paper published in Phil- adelphia called the Protestant Standard. It is issued every Thursday. SECRET SERVICE—R. H. S., City. The secret service in connection with rail- roads is a sort of detective system for the | purpose of investigating certain matter that the company wishes private informa- tion about. CRIMINOLOGY THE TOPIE OF POLICE CHIEFS e A ~The newly organized Association ot Chiefs of Police of the Pacific States con. cluded its session yesterday and journed until the second Tuesday in gust, when it will meet at Portland. Or. At the meeting held ycsterdgy morning and afternoon in the Police Commission- ers’ chambers at the Hall of Justice tha heals of the various police departmen:s on the coast discussed many interesting and important subjects bearing on polica matters. They discoursed long -and in tently on the soclal evil and handled tho subject without gloves. Chief Wittman, Chiet Sullivan of Sacramento, Chief Elton of Los Angeles, Chlet Hodgkins of Oak- land, Chief Rawle of Santa Cruz and Chief Reynolds of Butte, Mont., ail joined in giving the association their views on the varfous methods of controiling the so- cial evil, which they deemed necessaty in 1l large citles. *Then the subject of criminals tn all thelr varfous classifications was taken up. Nearly every member of the octation recited interesting incidents of detecting eriminals and identifying them by the different methods they have at their com- mand. The Bertilllon system, adopted by the National Identification Bureau. was discussed at length, Chief Wittman im- parting to the members of the assoclation considerable information he eollected on the subject during his trip of investiga- tion throughout the various large cities of the Fast and while attending the meeting of the police authorities from all over the United States held at Atlanta some time ago. Chief Wittman explained the Ber- tillion system in detail. Will Induce Co-operation. Chiet Elton of Los Angeles stated that the system was extensively used in his department and he said Le had found a practical and efficient method of iden tifying criminals. After discussion Chief Sullivan of Sacramento mov the members of the mediate steps to induce the Board of Su- pervisors or County Trustees of the sece tlons over which they have control to in- stall the Bertillion system. The members of the association became quite chatty on this important subject and judging from the drift of the cc they will go back to their homes with firm intention of taking more interest in the exchange of photographs of criminais and suspects and the work of assisting their colleagues in the apprehension criminals wanted in other sections. This feature is one of the orincipal ones con- templated by Chief Wittman when he cailed the chiefs of the coast cities to- gether. At the morning session Chief Wittman was elected president of the assoclation, Chief Elton of Los Angeles was elected vice president and Chief Hodgkins of Oakland was elected secretary and treas- urer. Warmly Indorse Chief Kidward. Hearing that Chief Kidward of San Jose was about to resign his pesition as the head of the Police Department of that city, the association adopted the following | resolution: Whereas, Our esteemed colleague, James A. Kidward, Chief of Police of San Jose, has an- nounced his intention of resigning his office, which he has so ably filled for the past eight years, and to retire to private life; ‘and whereas, he has by hls uniform courtesy and prompt attention to police matters and his firm demeanor in dealing with criminals made himself a necessity in polics work on this coast. Therefore be It Resolved, by the Assocfation of Chiefs of Police of the Pacific Slope In convention as- sembled, That should he persist in his deter- mination to resign the law-abiding citizens of this coast in ieral and the citizens of San Jose in particuidr would suffer a loss that will not be easy fo replace and the assoclation would lose one of its most valued and active merhbers. ) The above resolution, which f§ quite a compliment to Chief Kidward's efficiency as a police official, was introduced by | Chief Sullivan of Sacramento and unai- mously adopted. The convention ad- journed at 5 o'clock to enjoy a banque which opened at 6 o’clock at an uptown restaurant, The banquet, which was a very enjoyable affair, was tendered by Chief of Police Wittman. Chief Wittman has other entertainments in view for his guests, which will be enjoyed by them be- fore they leave for their homes. —_———— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* —_————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* s, s Sfendesdnnic Townsend’s California glace fruits, §c a ound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- ets. ‘A nice present for Eastern friends, 639 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * —_——— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 + Should Society Women Give Afternoon Teas on Sunday? Can You Describe Your Best Friend So That the Police Would Recognize Him? ANOTHER TEST Character Study of NEXT SUNDAY. the Man Who Dis- covered Tonopah. BY ALFRED DEZENDORF. The Women of Washington Who Re- ceived Prince Henry. Don’t Overlook the Wollville Stories. Read “Brockman’s Maverick.” Clvb Women Suggest a New Cure for Insanity. The Operalic (Sensation ol the Fast, The Sunday Call Magazine Scction Contains More wmmnnwomnsn'rm Sunday Papers Combined. * o e o=