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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1902 FRIDAY ........... MARCH 14, 1902 7JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adtress A1l Communicaticns to W. 8, LEAKE, Namager. MANAGER'S OFFICE .Telephone Press 204 Pl'Bl:;EVATl\O!\ :);‘FXCE. ..Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Deliverea by Carriers. 16 Cents Per Weel™ Single Coples. H Cents. Terms by Mail. Including Postages DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year $6.00 DAILY CALL ¢including Sunday), 6 months 2.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 momths. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month 850 SUNDAY CALL. One Year.. 1.5 WEEKLY CALL, One Year. . 1.0 All postmasters are authorized to recelve subscription Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Ma!l eubscribers in ordering change of address should te particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order tc insure & prompt end correct compliance With their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. +..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. M, nager Foreign Advertising, Marquetts Building. Chicags. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON. . seseessHerald s NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH .30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astorta Hotel; A Brentano, 31 Union Square: Murrsy Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS ETANDS: Eberman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. 2. CRANE, Cor BRANCH OFFICES—Z27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open untsl 9:80 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:80 c'clock. 1941 Mission, open untfl 10 o'clock. 2261 Marker, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1008 Va- lencia, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. “The Serenade.” Central—Oliver Twis Alcazar—"'A Coat of Many Colors.” Columbia—**Arizona." Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—'"The House That Jack Built.” Pischer's Theater—*The French Maid.” California—*"The White Slave.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Sherman-Clay Hall—Katherine Fisk, to-night Mechanics' Pavi Norris & Rowe's Big Shows, Sat- urday. Bay Excursion to Vallejo—Sunday. _—_— ~ AUCTION SALES. st 10 o'clock, Trotters and Pac- e avenue. Horses, at 721 Howard street. e day g—Thursday, March 20, at 11 o'clock, 150 Howard street 15 o'clock, Chronicle MANUFACTURES IN CALIFORNIA. C ENSUS BULLETIN No. 136 gives the man- ufacturing statistics of California from 1850 to 1900, and considering that California is y an agricultural and mining State, the figures e a creditable showing. During the period e population of the State increased ,17G, while the average number of rs employed in manufacturiug establish- reased from 3964 to 91,047. Thus while the 1500 per cent the factory hands increased over 2196 per wcreased a little over ere 1003 manufacturing establish- capital of $1,000,197; in 1860 the establishments had increased to 8468 and $22,043,006. By 1870 the number of 1ed to 3984, but the amount of by them had increased to $39,- ¢ establishments numbered 5883 pital was $61,243,784. In 1890 actories had further advanced to 7923, had swollen to $146,797,102. In 1900 2 factories, with a capital of there 1 2 tot ddition to what the bulletin refers to as “man- es proper,” there are a considerable number of establ its carrying on what are termed “hand trades.” of 1 t The distinction shows a curious evolution nguage, because originally the word was “manufac- lopted into the language for the express re purposc signifying “hand trades,” as distinguished from the factories operated by machinery. Taking the terms, however, a; custom has fixed their usage, we get s 1900 of hand trades and manufactures to- 14,166 establishments, with a total capital of 2,640,144, employing 93,356 wage earners, of whom G836 were engaged in hand trades. The total wages i during the year was $48,709,123. The aggregate of products is given at $305,510,043, but it is ex- d that this is the gross value, and as the fin- ner ished product of one factory is often the raw mate- rial of another, the value of the former reappears in the statement of the latter, and consequently the original cost of certain materials may be included in the gross value. It is estimated that the net value of the products for the year was about $1 388, which represents the increase on the value of raw material resulting from the various pro- cesses of manufact Commenting upon the significance of the figures the bulletin states: *“Four important conditions have limited the growth of manufactures of California and have determined in 2 large measure the particular lines established. These are the geographical posi- tion of the State, the high rate of wages, the high | price of fuel and the excéptional attractions offered by mining and agriculture.” From an industrial and a commercial point of view the geographical position of the State is going to be materially changed by the construction of the isth- mian canal and by the continued reduction in freight rates, which will bring us into close relations with the East and with Europe. The development of our oil wells will supply the cheap fuel that has been lacking. Agriculture and mining will hardly hold in the future their relative rank among the industries of the State. Consequently the four conditions which have limited our manufacturing enterprises in the past will not be the same in the future. It is, therefore, reasonable to expect the next census to show a development of manufacturing industry unprecedented in the State, What we have done has been creditable, but it is as nothing to what we may expect to do. e —— The brother-in-law of the Sultan of Turkey has been made the victim of another cruel joke. The Sultan has sentenced him to perpetual imprisonment if he ever catches him. % THE KEEPING OF TREATIES. violation of treaty rights, though the same I rested on a forgery in the French treaty of 1860, the Chinese rose against the presence of white men in the Middle Kingdom. In this revolt 125 white people lost their lives and others were subject- ed to great hardships. In retaliation the Western nations sent a combined military expedition to China and inflicted upon that people the most cruel and complete, the most harrowing and inhuman pun- ishment since Hyder Ali ravaged the Carnatic. Mur- der, arson, outrage znd robbery left North China | soaked with blood and smitten by famine. Fleets were laden with the loot of hovel and palace, of the magazine and treasury. The Chinese were taught that even forgery in a treaty must be respected as a binding international obligation, and their punish- ment and humiliation were the subject of rejoicing in all Christendom. But Christendom professes the Golden Rule. It has compelled China to discharge her international obligation, to keep even a forgery in a treaty. Will Christendom keep its openly made treaties with China? This issue first comes home to the United States. For our troops in China, it must be said that they avoided the excesses of others, and for our Govern- ment that it took a course honorable and humane. | But now an issue is made. involving the power of this country to keep its treatics. We do not hark { back to the beginning of our treaty relations with that empire. It is history that when the Burlingame immigration treaty was made it was celebrated by | joyful formalities in California. By its several amend- | ments its terms have been restricted until it author- |izes the exclusion of Chinese, but it still preserves |all the rights it originally conferred upon Chinese who entered under it and have remained in this coun- try. By our pledged word in the treaty such Chinese have the right of mobility throughout this country, the right of domicile here and the right of peaceful residence and pursuit of a vocation. We are all familia- with the violations of these rights and the nullification of that treaty. There are places in this country where Chinese are not per: mitted domicile or vocation, where they are killed if they refuse to move on. The dead line in most of these communities was established before Christen- | dom by fire and sword compelled China to respect a | forgery in a treaty. But since that occurred the Chi- nese who are lawfully here, whose rights rest in the treaty, are being denied their enjoyment. In Colo- rado they are being expelled. A boycott has been put in force by which they are denied shelter, food and water. In the mountain towns of that State, | where the water as well as the food supply can both | be cut off, this rigid boycott has so terrorized the merchants who supply food and the companies that j control the potable water that aiter several months’ | resistance they have been compelled to surrender, {and the Chinese, many of them unable to escape, are condemned to die of kunger and thirst. By the constitution of the United States a treaty made the supreme law of the land, with the same vigor as the constitution itself. This treaty with China is the supreme law, as much as a treaty with Great Britain or an act of Congress. We may not concern ourselves about the sufferings of the Chi- }nesc. But we may well concern ourselves about the | power of our Federal Government to enforce its su- reme law and keep its public faith. If it cannot en- force its treaty with China we are clear that the treaty ‘:should be abrogated and the commercial advantages | which it secures to us should be given up. Better the | voluntary surrender of every dollar of gain to our commerce than to be known as a nation that will not*keep faith. The one only destroys profit. The other destroys honor. We are perfectly aware that the prejudiced and the | thoughtless will regard it as an indifferent thing that | our people are permitted at will to strike down their {own supreme law and at the same time disown our | international obligations. But these acts follow so | closely upen the cruel punishment of China for do- |ing the same thing, even when she had only resisted |a forgery, that they must impress all of our fellow | citizens who choose to have a conscience and to un- {derstand and respect the requirements of national | honor. All such will agree with us that if the treaty | cannot be enforced at home we should abrogate it and | abandon the commercial advantages it secures for us in China. Anything is better than national dishonor. Rather not a penny of trade; rather our ships rot at lanchor; rather the producers of our export surplus |1eft with it to decay in the warehouse than that we | be written down a nation that will not keep its cove- nants. { There is no power to enforce the supreme law in | Colorado. The Sheriif of the county most concerned | | is the president of the boycotting organization. He will not call on the Governor for help as Sheriff to | enforce a law which, as chief boycotter, he has or- { dered to be violated. Without that call the Governor cannot act, and without his action the Federal Goy- ernment is silent. Therefore the condemnation of the Chinese to die of famine and thirst must succeed. Succeeding there, the example of Colorado may be { and will be everywhere followed at once and with im- | punity, and it will be demonstrated that while we | build a navy to protect the national honor abroad we | are powerless to defend it at home. Therefore let us surrender a covenant which we cannot keep. DIPLOMATIC TROUBLES. H bles. The calm and serene gentlemen whom | long experience has taught to conceal emo- | tion beneath a placid face, and to conceal thought by |a multiplicity of words, may go to and from council rooms to pink teas with smiling lips and bland coun- | tenances, but all the same they are not happy. There | are troubles which cannot be hidden even in the deeps of diplomatic hearts, which court dress cannot { wholly conceal nor plumed hats cover effectually from the cuter world. There was the Pauncefote case. A very sad one it The old gentleman, venerable for his vears as well as for his services, was on the verge of Elcliriug irom office. He was holding the position of | Dean of the Diplomatic Corps at Washington and was looked upon as the man who had saved the United States from an attack on the part of com- bined Europe. Suddenly there came a rumor that he was not the only friendly pebble on the-diplomatic beach at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish war, The rumor grew from more to more. Pauncefote was silent, but Germany was not. It was revealed that the noble Briton had tried to get the powers to sign ja joint note remonstrating with the United States, Pauncefote has nothing to say. It is announced he | is to seek rest at Biltmore. Upon the fall of Paunceiote the learned and illus- trious Dr. von Holleben rose to eminence above all the diplomatists at the capital. It was he who punc- itured Pauncefote’s swelling pride, and it was he, ’ | | | | | | IGH diplomacy at Washington has its trou- was and is. moreover, who shone most brightly in the effulgent rays cast by the meteoric Prince Henry. Everything looked bright and fair for Holleben. It seemed, too, as if he were solid. Alas for a world “where things are not what they seem.” Holleben has his trouble, and he, like Pauncefote, has hunted a place to rest. How- ever, he has not gone to Biltmore, where the Vander- bilts live. He has gone to Lakewood, where the Goulds shine forth. Of course the stories told about Holleben will not be widely credited. Discharged employes who go about telling office secrets may always be looked upon with suspicion. In nine cases out of ten their stories are the result of spite, and even when they have some foundation they are generally gross exag- gerations. It is bad for Holleben, however, that this story struck the country just when he longed for rest. Now he will have to go back to Washington and pre- pare some diplomatic notes. So they all have their troubles—these diplomatists. When they are not talking too much they are dis- charging the wrong employe. On the surface their | lives are ¢mooth like that of the crater of a quiet vol- cano, but every now and then there shoots forth a spirt of blue fire that shows something like hades be- neath. If the courts keep on in their industrious course of declaring invalid vital sections of the city charter that interesting municipal instrument will soon con- sist chiefly of holes, with hardly frame enough to hold its nothingness in evidence. THE VOICE OF HUMBOLDT. SOME days ago The Call, in reviewing the movement now going on for the advancement of Northern California, pointed out the advan- tages of the San Joaquin and the Sacramento valleys and of the rich counties in the foothills and the mountains that overlook them. In the course of the review several of the counties of those sections of the State were named in order to give definiteness to the general description. In the list of names that of Humboldt did not appear. If was a fortunate omission, for it has given the Humboldt Standard an occasion to speak for that county in a voice uttering veracities with the vim and vigor of native eloquence. After paying a tribute to Northern California gen- erally, and conceding the high merits of each partic- ular section of it, the Standard says: “Humboldt has richer and more productive valleys, as fertile and pic- turesque foothills and a wider diversity of industry than any county The Call mentions in that editorial. One good acre of Eel River or Arcata bottom land is worth more than any acre in any county named, as strictly agricultural land.” Superlatives are dangerous and we do not know how the claim of superiority over any other county could be maintained, nor exactly what qualifications are meant by the phrase “strictly agricultural land,” but we have no doubt that, judged by the Humboldt standard of such things, the whole claim is true. San Joaquin, Santa Clara or Placer standards of agricul- tural values may lead to different conclusions; but they must speak for themselves. It is the Humboldt challenge that is thrown to the world in the statement quoted, and the world must meet it on the terms of the challenger. Our contemporary goes on to say: “Humboldt is capable of supporting a population ten times as large as it now has.” Hardly any one will be bold enough to dispute that proposition. In fact, it has all the force of a cunning under estimate intended to give verisimilitude to al] the claims that precede and fol- low it. The world will say: “If the Standard is so modest in this claim, how can it be suspected of ex- aggeration in anything else?” There is no telling how many people Humboldt could support. With good railroad and steamship communications Humboldt Bay could support as many people on its borders as San Francisco Bay, and the county could be relied upon to feed them on strawberries and cream. Nor would they ever lack for meat, for our contemporary says: “When the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys are parched with heat, Humboldt’s valleys are green and great herds of cattle and flocks of sheep are fattening on their succulent grasses.” It must not be supposed that this gallant flinging of the Humboldt Standard to the breeze was done in any defiance of The Call. cd the hand that waves it. No such motive animat- With a judicious spirit it says: “The Call is right in trying to wake up the people to do something for Northern California. All it says of this section is true; it might have included Humboldt in its plea for recognition, and it could have said as much for us as for any other county mentioned. We can console ourselves, however, for the oversight by the thought that we do not need advertising so much as a large portion of the country mentioned by The Call. Our amazing resources will in due time. advertise themselves, as they are now coming to the attention of Eastern settlers and East- ern capitalists more and more each year.” All of that is true, but the fact that Humboldt does not need advertising is no reason why The Call should overlook her claims or fail to do her justice. Nor, indeed, have we ever intentionally done so. We know she “sends us five millions a year in products and is still on the map as a part of Northern Califor- nia,” and we gladly give place to the statement ‘of the Standard: “Our hill lands, capable of producing the finest orchards, are being taken by the homesteader, and there are hundreds of quarter sections on which a family can make a good living and enjoy a climate that neither blisters cne in summer nor freezes him in winter; which is mild, healthful, invigorating, glo- rious. It is well that all the Eastern people do -not know how much better, casier, happier they might live and dic here than in the East, where winter's cold freezes them and summer's heat blisters them, where blizzards and cyclones plague the people and destroy human life. If they knew it as well as we do we should be overrun with home-seekers and literally crowded with population.” Such is the utterance of the voice of Humboldt, and now if any one wish to take up the challenge or find a home where all is bright, beautiful and blooming, let him go to Humboldt and see for him- self whether it will be saner to take up the challenge and fight it out or accept the situation and make a home in a land where the soil is rich, the climate beneficent, the people prosperous, the future golden, and the Standard waving on the outer-wall in defiance to foes and encouragement to friend Assessor Dodge has reached the conclusion that he needs more help to perform properly the duties of his office. Perhaps a closer attention to quality in the matter might make unnecessary a fuss about the quantity. £ —_— In seeking to release his client from the meshes of the law a local attorney argued that the phrase “twenty-dollar pieces” means twenty one-dollar ! pieces. This particular client must certainly be in a Ibad fix. OFFICIALS GIVE GENERAL LONG FAREWELL SILVER e THE LovinaeCup AND S, LBU™M PRESENTED To GENERAL LonNg +. HE local officials of the United States army transport service yes- terday presented Brigadier General l Oscar F. Long, the retiring gen- eral superintendent, with a hanl- some hammered silver loving cup, upon which was engraved a suitable farewell tnseription. Accompanying the cup was a leather-bound album, suitably inscribed and containing the names of the twenty- four officials representing the executive staff of the army dock. General Long accepted the token with brief thanks. He spoke of the loyal service of his associates and said that cessful conclusion. The Inscription on the cup reads; “Presented to Brigadier General O. F. Long, general superintendent army trans. port service, as a token of esteem, af- fection and high appreciation of his sterling character by the dock offici serving under him at the United State army transport dock, March 1, 1902 The first page of the album containing the names of the officials is engrossed with the following: To General Oscar F. Long: We,, the under- signed officers and employes of the United States army transport service, who have had auguration of the service on April 1, , de- sire to express our sincere congratulations on your promotion to a higher office, and at the same time to convey to you the feeling of re- spect and admiration which your many ster- ling qualities as an officer and our command- er has engendered, To whatever sphere your duties as an officer of the United States may call you, there you will be follow our affectionate regard and esteem. “To have been associated with the upbuilding of this magnificent service indeed no empty honor, and the pleasure of serving under an officer g0 able and at the same time so considerate and courteous to all under you as you have always been will never be forgotten by us. We wish you health, happiness and pros- perity in the future, and trust all your under- takings may result as successfuily as has your management of the United States army trans- port service. The presentation was made by Captain L e e e e ol SONG LOVERS WONDER AT THE FISK RECITAL Mrs. Katharine Fisk's second song re- cital, given at Sherman-Clay Hall yes- terday afternoon, attracted a notable au- dlence of musicians and lovers of song. The fame of the charming singer has gone abroad and each concert will doubt- less see sincerest of compliments to an artist—larger and yet larger houses. Mrs. Fisk is more likable, admirable with each hearing. Her voice grows on one and her rendering of every additional number adds to the wonder aroused by her ver- satility. Perhaps this is the singer's most notable distinction, a quick and vivid sym- pathy with the soul of every song she sings, each phase and mood of it, from “Die Lotos Blume” of Schumann to the quaint merriment of “The Gingerbread an. M“Dle Lotos Blume” was superbly sung yesterday afternoon with a tranauil and tender grace that shaped the lovely song into lovellest form. Again Mrs. Fisk showed her intimate sympathy with Saint-Saens’ genius in “La Cloche,” a beautiful song, but rarely heard here or anywhere. “The ern Day,” a charming lyric by Chadwick, was also beautifully given, showing the rich depths of the singer's lower voice to splendid advantage. “The Lass With the Delicate Air,” a quaint old English ditty, was delightfully conceived, the delicate extravagance and affectation being pic- tured with that fine humor that is not the least of Mrs. Fisk's many attractions. The song rather belongs to the soprano kingdom, however. A group of five lighter songs, three of them hardly worthy the effort of the vou during is artist, closed the programme. To-ni, {lt'sf cal ogramme includes a set of five Bil Doneet by Dvorak, the Beethoven #Chea- tion Hymn” and a couple of Brahms' numbers. “You needn't tell me,” averred Miss Batchgurl, “that golf isn’t good exercise. It makes the young men so much strong- | in the arms that—that you can scarcely f)‘;ealhe."-—Tlt-an. y HOTEL DEL CORONADO, choicest Winte: | Resort in the world, offers best living, climata. boating, bathing, fishing and mosi amuse. ments. E. S. Babcock, manager, Coronado, Cal. without their co-operation he could not | have brought his efforts here to such suc- | the homor of serving under you since the in- | North- | LOVING CuUP affection; and we all know that the o transport service will have its best friend that spot. While all thinking minds realize now some- thing of the magnitude of the work you have so ably conducted, I am certain that to th future belongs the full realization of the tas) that has been performed without a hitch; whe that time comes, and the vaporings of ignorant, or willfully biased slanderers of great service are forgotten in their littlen then your name will stand forth with whose merit has entitled them to the grate. ful and lasting remembrance of their country " We bid you godspeed and like success in n | | | | | | | ‘ i | , = == f LOCAL CHIEF OF THE ARMY TRANSPORT SERVICE WHO WAS IR MADE THE RECIPIENT OF A TESTIMONIAL ON THE EVE OF HIS [ DEPARTURE FOR WASHINGTON. | John Barneson marine superintendent, | your future undertakings; greater we could not who told the story of the cup in the fol- lowing words: General: I have been honored by those onm under your command, the upbuilding and direction of our magnificent transport servic with the presentation to you, on the ¢ of your leaving the service here to move on- ward to a greatly deserved promotion, of a loving cup and testimonial; and never was the term “loving cup” more appropriately applied, as it signifies in a small degree the love and | affectionate esteem which your sterling quali- ties as a commander have engendered in the hearts of all of us who have had the honor and pleasure of serving under and with you. While we are all pleased, indeed, to know in this promition, it is a pleasure mixed with sadness at the knowledge that the service here suffers a great loss, which Is felt personally by all of us at the prospect of your departure from amons us. Wherever you may g0, we will always follow you with our esteem and the dock with whom I have been assoclated, | on | | | that your worth has been officially recognized | desire. —————— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* ————— S0c per Ib at Townsend's.* 1i's California glace fruit, #c a fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- . A nice present for Eastern friends 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * B N BN e ey Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Fro Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- street. Telephone Main 10 - ———————— A Kansas man has celebrated two silver weddings, having lived twenty-five years with each of his wives prlumiaatsy & s S The one great virtue of Burnett's Vanilla Ex- tract is purity. 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