The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1902, Page 6

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Msnager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chieag, (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.”") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON.......... +ess.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH.. 30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman 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—S27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 8:80 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 MecAllister, open until $:30 o'clock. 615 Lerkin, open untfl #:30 o'clock. 1941 open untll 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1098 Va- lencia, open until o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until # o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untfl § p. m. e STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, ‘Month of February, 1902. February 1.....60,560 | February February Februnry February February February February February February February February February February Februa February February | February February | February February | February February February February February February 8,780 | February ) NTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. { ™ day of March, 1902, personally appeared am T. Hess, a Notary Public in and for the ty aforesaid, W. J. Martin, who, being sworn . declares that he is the business manager of neisco Call, a dally newspaper published in the County of San Francisco, State of California, and were printed and distributed during the month of 1902, one million six hundred and ninety-five thou- e hundr®d and eighty (1,695,380) coples of the sald per, which number divided by twenty-eight (the number of Gays of issue) gives an average daily circulation of 60,549 copies. SEAL W. J. MARTIN. and sworn to before me this 15th day W. T. H of ran- Room 1015, Claus Spreckels Eldg. zar—"On ‘and OfL.” Columbia—'"La Madeleine."” C um—Vaudeville. G ra-house—*‘Cleopatza.” Mech Pavilion—Norris & Rowe's Big Shows. B unday. d Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. t 12:15 o'clock, stock & Company, at room 22, Chronicle building. ng—Tuesday, Ma: 25, at 11 o'clock, , at 721 Howard street 3lynn & Menton—This @ DEFICIENT WATER SUPPLY. B Y the Spring Valley Water Company there has been distributed through the city a card urg- ing consumers to be careful in the use of card, which is signed by George E. Booker, chief clerk, runs thus: “To the consumers Spring Valley water: You are respectfully re- ested not to use the hose to wash the sidewalk pavement in front of your premises, not to keep ing irrigators’ running on your garden and and to have all waste stopped at once.” he appearance of such a request immediately after heavy rains of last month and in the face of good prospects of abundant spring rains is full of signifi- ice to the people of San Francisco. It reveals the fact that despite all their assertions to the contrary ials of the Spring Valley Water Company are rful of a deficient water supply. They are not ;;(s_ured that even with the ‘good rains of the year they have ‘water enough to meet the demands of the city through the dry season that is to come, he Call has no antagonism to the Spring Valley wat The o Water Company, but in the. interests of the city it feels cal d upon to direct attention to the seeming lity of the company to deal with the water sup- y problem in a proper manner. Again and again of late there have been evidences of the, deficiency of the Spring Valley supply. Only a short. time ‘ago it was shown that the company had been using water from Point Lobos Creek to supply a portion of the city, notwithstanding the fact that the watershed of the creck was contaminated, and the municipal au- s were compelled to interfere before the com- y ceased to make use of it. It is known, too, the the Lake Merced supply is becoming deficient and for household purposes. Thus the supply of company is gradually diminishing, while the de- mand is steadily increasing. Under such circumstances the company has acted wisely in trying to prevent waste, but that amodnt of is not sufficient to the emergency. San co nepds not a restricted use of water, but a more abundant supply, so that the use may continue without restriction. The issue involved in the increasing demand for an enlarged water supply becomes more urgent with h succeeding year. It is important that consider- ion be given to it at once. Far more imperative than the question of what rates may be charged for water is that of obtaining an ample supply, so that there will be no danger of 2 water famine even in dry years. The matter merits the attention of capitalists who are sceking investments. Since we are charged to be careful of water even in' a year of abundant rains like this, what will happes when with a larger population than at present the city is called upon to face a prolomged drovght and a winter of deficient vainfall? dom: sdor THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SCHEME OF THE BOSSES. public would be at the mercy of the bosses. for six years to come. utterly abolished. { drag them from the fire. Gage and the corporation bosses comes. must attend to it. v HILE the effort of the allied bosses to force the renomination of Governor Gage constitutes the most salient feature of their policy, the public must not overlook the fact ‘that back of the fight for the Governorship there is another and a bigger scheme—that of bringing about the creation of a State commission clothed with such powers as will give the bosses and the corporations who | employ them virtual control of all the public utilities in the State. The bosses desire the ereation of this commission while Gage is in office in order that he may appoint their henchmen to the places, and they are working for his renomination and re-election in or- der to bind him to them for that and for other services. The Call and other independent papers of the State have repeatedly directed at- tention to the menace contained in the proposal to create this autocratic commission, but it is worth while to go over it again.” The scheme is embodied in what is known as “Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 28.” It provides for the creation of a commis- sion to be appointed by the Governor, and to be composed of five members, one of whom is to hold office for two years, another for four, a third for six, a fourth for eight, and the fifth for ten years. This commission is to have supervision and virtual control of railroad, sleeping-car, express, telegraph, telephone, water, light, power, banking and insur- ance companies. It is to supervise and regulate all their dealings with the public. With that commission under their control the corporations could do as they please. The A peculiar feature of the amendment is that it provides that no one shall be eligible for membership of the commission who is either directly or indirectly interested in any of the corporations under the supervision of the commission. That means that no one who holds stock in any bank, express, railroad, water, light, power, telephone, tele- graph, insurance or other corporations of the kind, or who is an zttorney for such cor- poratjons, or who is even indirectly interested in any of those corporations, can become a member of the commission. | Nearly every man of business enterprise is debarred. The office is to be for politicians, or for men who are willing to commit perjury with respect to their property interests, for the purpose of holding the office. Can any intelligent man have a doubt as to what kind of tax-eaters would be appointed to the commission, under that restricting clause, by such a man as Gage? It is true that after the first appointment the vacancies arising from the retire- ment of commissioners, one of whom goes out every two years, are to be filled by elec- tion of the people, but the appointees of Gage would be in a majority of the commission They would be clothed with authority to fix rates for every kind | of public utility. 'Local self-government so far as those things are concerned would be | No city nor county nor town in the State would any power to regulate its service of even such local utilities as water and gas. The people would be absolutely subject in such matters to the commission, and it is an easy prediction | that the commission wotld be subject to the corporations. With such a scheme under way it is easy to understand why the bosses who live | by the spoils of politics and the henchmen of the corporations. are working tooth and o | nail for Gage. It is easy to perceive why Herrin, though a Democrat, should be busily| | engaged in ‘co-operating with Kelly, Burns, Burke, Lynch and Crimmins, to procure the renomination of the Governor by getting control of the Republican State convention. To Herrin it is not a question of party pelitics, nor indeed is it to the others, for none | of them cares any more about Republicanism than Herrin doés. With all of them it:is a ‘ fight for the chestnuts of political spoil, and Gage is the catspaw by which they hope to longer have | The alert Republican press of the State perceives the danger and has given warn- | ing to the public. It'is a significant fact, too, whose meaning should not be overlooked, | that certain organs that pose as representatives of Democracy have given no warning on | the subject, but tacitly support Gage and the commission scheme. The fight against | is then distinctly a Republican fight for the honor of | the party and the welfare of California. To the rank and file of the party that appeal [ It is for genuine Republicans to decide whether a Democratic railroad boss shall be permitted by the aid of discredited and corrupt schemers, posing as Republicans, to get control of the party convention and dictate the.nomination of a man who if elected will deliver the State into the hands of corporations. That is the issue. Republicans COLLIS AND HIS -COIN. HEN the late lamented Collis P. Hunting- W(on said that no one would ever be able to track him through life by the quarters he had dropped the world believed him, and thoge who thought they knew him best believed him most firmly. No one doubted that Collis kept a strong grip on his coin and never let it dripple through his fingers. Mr. Huntington, in fact, was looked upon as a man who practiced what he preached, a philosopher who illustrated his teaching by his action, and not only lured men to thriit but led the way. Such being the well nigh universal opinion con- cerning Mr. Huntington the report that his papers show that he loaned rpward of $2,000,000 to all kinds of persons for all sorts of schemes wjthout security will have a tendency to weaken faith in popular judgment. So far from holding his coin with a firm grip Mr. Huntington seems to' have hardly held it at all. In describing the various small loans, which in the aggregate make up ‘the millions of vanished capital, the report says: “These were personal loans, some to his friends, some to mere acquaintances and some to strangers. Many of these claims are against women. In fact, it appearg that the millionaire was peculiarly susceptible to applications to loans from his female friends.” In the inventory of the estate it is said these loans will have to be put upon “what is known to financial people as the cat and dog list.” should be given to the loans is not clear. To the public it would seem more appropriate to refer to it as the “aviary” list, since it is to represent money that Huntington threw at the birds. That, however, is.a minor matter. - The main point is that Talleyrand was right in saying we should “call no man wise un- til we have read his letters,” though in this case we should substitute “notes” for letters. We*none of us know one another. ‘Mr. Huntington seems to have been a good fellow and a soft thing to a great many people after all. e Some of our European friends are again showing their kindly and altogether unsolicited interest in our affairs by accusing us, in conjunction with Great Britain and Germany, of responsibility for rebel vic- tories in China. The dignity of being a “world power” has after all some disadvantages, if European nonsense may be considered a disadvantage, President Benjamin Ide Wheeler in an address to the Teachers’ Institute sounded a warning that the United States must beware of any entangling alliance with any foreign power. President Wheeler is not the only one who believes that because Uncle Sam has beobme a big boy he must not therefore try to play the games of the other big fellows.. Officers high in the counsels of the United States army seem to have entered upon a period in which all of them have something disparaging to say of the others. They should have a care that all of them, in the opinion of the American public, be not tarred with the same stick. The State of New York intends to appropriate $100,000 to pay for its representation at the St. Louis exposition. But perhaps California does not need a hint in reference to her duty in this vitally important s matter Just why that name | 4 THE END OF THE TREATIES, [SPATCHES from Washington report that D by way of settling the controversy over the right of the House to a voice in ratifying or rejecting reciprocity treaties the Senate committee will recommend the amendment of cach treaty by a provision that “this treaty-shall not bécome effective until the same shall have been approved by Con- gress.” Such amendment, if adopted, will put an end to the present controversy, but will not settle the claims of the House to a right to a share in the con- sideration of treaties affecting monetary questions. The Senators, in fact, propose to concede as a priv lege in this case what the House claims as a right in all such cases. It enables the two houses to avoid an ugly wrangle, and, while it does not surrender any principle contended for by the Senate, will doubtless serve as a precedent in similar cases arising in the future, In another respect the proposed amendment will prove a matter of high importance, for it will effec- tually put an end to the treaties. The House will never ratify them, even should the Senate be willing to do so. The country will be glad to have this quietus put upon the schemes. The treaties were not “reciprocity” treaties in accordance with the definition of the term by the Republican party. In- stead of providing for new markets for American goods by opening our own markets for goods not produced at home, they sacrifiged some American interests for the sake of advancing others. In some of the treaties the sacrifices were very great. Thus Senator Aldrich, in speaking of the French treaty, called it “a pernicious agreement” and said that in making the concessions provided by its terms the United States would obtain from France no =ore than the low tariff rates of that country which are unconditionally granted to other countries and should be ours of right. For a long time past it has been foreseen that the treaties would not be sustained by the people. There was, however, a possibility that some of them might be ratified by the Senate, and accordingly the coun- try will be gratified by the announcement that they are virtuaily defeated already, since it has been deter- mined to amend them so as to require the ratification of both houses of Congress. All is well that ends well. s o et In a new comic opera just produced in the East the scene is laid in Philadelphia and the plot repre- sents the Sultan of-Sulu trying to divorce his eight wives in order to marry a Boston girl; and while such a situation would be comic enough, it seems hardly compatible with a quiet town like Philadel- phia. The scene should be shifted to Omaha. It will be noted that Embassador von Holleben kept right along saying nothing about the charges brought against him, and as a consequence the sub- ject has been almost forgotten. It sometimes pays to be a diplomatist ard to have learned how and when to keep your mouth shut, President Roosevelt is reported to have said that when he leaves the White House he will write a_his- tory of Texas, and now it is safe to say nearly every cowboy will expect to figure in it as a representa- _tivg of strenuous life and prominent citizenship. MARCH 21, 1902. /BLANCHE WALSH ASSUMES ROLE " OUT OF KEY WITH REPERTOIRE" * OT a large, but an interested au- dience, greeted Blanche Walsh and her supporting company in “Janice Meredith” yesterday afternoon at the Columbia Theater. The chief interest of the performance naturally centered in Miss Walsh's as- sumption of the role made so attractive by Mary Mannering on her recent visit here: It is a part rather out of key with | Miss Walsh's repertoire, with its strong comedy interest, and the opportunity of comparison of Miss Walsh with herself and with Mary Mannering was one to be valued. Her work surprised. Though In the beginning of the play the actress seemed out of sympathy with the part, wanting spontaneity and the lightness of ANSWERS TO QUERIES. FROM HAMLET—A. A. E,, City. “Lay not that flattering unction to your soul” is from Shakespeare's “Hamlet,” act III, scene 4. CONSUL FOR CHILE—A. 8., Auburn, Cal. The Consul for Chile, resident in San Francisco, s Juan Astorga Pereira, 6§06 | Montgomery street. BASEBALL RULES-R. L. G., San| Martin, Cal, Books on baseball and rules governing the game may be ob- tained at a small cost from or through any first class book seller. SUBSIDIES—A Subscriber, “akland, Cal. In the question you ask you do not stale the government that you say grants subsidies to certain vessels. Without knowing which subsidies you desire to be informed about, this department ‘cannot answer your query. FUR BEARING ANIMALS-G. E. N, Monterey, Cal. There is a Federal law which declares that it ts unlawful to kill otter and other fur bearing animals in | Alaskan waters without the permission of | the Secretary of the Treasury. There is | also a law which declares that it is un- | lawful to Kill, capture or hunt any fur | seals in the waters of the Pacific Ocean north of the 35th degree of latitude, in- cluding the Bering Sea and sea of Okhotsk. BLACK LEG-B. B., Quail, Los Angeles County, Cal. There is, so it is said, no cure for black leg in cattle. There are, however, various methods that are pre- ventives if applied in time. There are so many different stages of the disease and so many methods that this department has not the space to devote to them. The safest thing to do is to call in the ser- vices of some one who is versed in the disease, who will do the proper thing at the proper time. Experimenting with un- known remedies will result in the loss of the cattle. ADJACENT LAND—G. 8., City. The law of this State is as follows in regard to adjacent lands: ‘“Each coterminous owner is entitled to the lateral and sub~ adjacent support which land receives from the adjoining land, subject to the right of the owner of the adjoining lana to make proper and usual excavations on the same for purposes of construction, on using ordinary care and skill, and taking reasonable precautions to sustain the land of the other and giving previous reasonable notice to the other of his In- tention to make such excavation.” Ap- ply this law to the case in question and you have the answer to your query. 4 —_—et————— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, March 20.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—G. Martin and wife, at the Vendome; Miss Apperson, Mrs. P. A. Hearst, I. M. Scott, at the Hol- land; H. A. Fisher, at the Bartholdi; O. C. Huefuss, at Union Square; H. A. Yu- zuk, at the Grand; M. Boynteson, M. H. Hecht, Miss Hecht, Miss Larson, at the Savoy; D. M. Morris, at the Imperial; R. H. Pease and wife, Miss M. Pease, at the Albemarle; W. C. Winters and wife, at the Grand Union. work, and in the third act gave a strong and humorously sketched-in scene that was amply convincing. The emotional element, curiously enough, rather lacked conviction, noticeably in the scene where the rebel lover of Janice returns to her to find himself in the very jaws of the loyal- ists, Miss Walsh quite falling to give the atmosphere of terror. third act is also rather under than over acted, but on the whole it is a pleasing performance, and, though without any imperative claim, could yet be advantage- ously included in Miss Walsh’'s repertoire. Tabitha, a pretty part, was prettily taken by Miss Rose Braham, a graceful prepossessing young woman, who is lost @ chocfoorferierfofofonforfoofosfoforlonfeefecfoftonfusfosfoonfentueforfocfofonfumfrsfofocfofuutnfrfufeefufuiniuinfuioiel @ | PERSONAL MENTION. C. H. Rlege, a paper manufacturer of Fresno, is at the Lick House. Dr. Bliss Perry of Boston is at the Pal- ace. Dr. Perry is editor of the Atlantic Monthly and has come West to deliver | the chafter address at the University of California. Josiah Austin, E. Frank Brewster and John H. Stedman, business men and bankers of Rochester, N. Y., are at-the California. Mr. Stedman fs interested in mining properties in this State. —_————— Lake Superior is the deepest of the Great Lakes. Its greatest depth is 1003 feet and the lake is 601 feet above the level of the sea. ——————— Burnett's Vanilla Extract is the fixed stand- ard of excellence. Has outlived eriticism. Is the finest, purest vanilla extract that can be bought. | touch essential, she later warmed to her The climax of the | and ! 3 | || A CLEVER YOUNG ACTRESS | WHO PLAYS TABITHA IN | | “JANICE MEREDITH.” | | ! | o - * for the rest of the week in the cast of “La Madeleine” as Ton! Touchette. The remainder of the cast - seembd rather at odds with their parts, with the | exceptions of Emmet Shackleford, who was good as Colonel Rahl, and Robert Lowe, who was a respectable Charles Fownes. ——— i { Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* —_———— | Cal. glace fruit S0c per Ib at Townsend's.* | —_———— | Townsend's California glace truit, 5c a ‘pound. in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- | kets, A nice present for Eastern friends. €39 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * | 8. ok s> Sntabalc s to the ont- . Special information supplied daily business houses and public men b; Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 0C0000000000000000000000000 S 5000000000000000000000000003 500000000000000000000000000 0 600000 600000 00 of ° Do You Wanl to See a Photo- 500000 000 o o o o o o o o o o 0000000000000 0000000000000 0000000000000 0000000000000 000000000000000000000000000900006 From San Jose—A. Salyer and wife, at the Morton. 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