The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN PULLMAN CAR PORTERS, Y the atrocious outrage committed by a Pull- man car porter' at La Junta upon an aged THURSDAY... ceveesessiss. N MARCH 27, 1902 B woman traveling alone public attention is once more directed to the dangers that menace JOHN D. SPRECKELS. Proprietor. Aitress All Commuaications to W, 5, LEAKE, Nanager. MANAGER'S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. . .Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. +.217 to 221 Stevenson St. women traveling without escort and relying for pro- tection upon the officers and employes of the sleep- ing cars. It is a danger of such seriousness as to merit something more than a passing notice, and it is high time some authority were invoked to com- pel the Pullman Car Company to afford ample pro- tection where at present there is little or no protec- tion at all. It not in Single Copies, 5 Cents. infrequently happens that on. the long Terms by Mail, Incinding Postage: stretches across the desert there are times when DATLY CATA: SmSaling SNasiavh Soe v women are almost alone in the sleeping cars. On DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 8 months DAILY CALL (inciuding Sunday), 3 months DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year..... WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receive subseriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. OAKLAND OFFICE. C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Herager Fereign Advertising, Marquette Buildiny, Ohieags. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.") ¢ YORK CORRESPONDENT +ess.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B, SMITH. . 30 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St, N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent, NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, Murray Hill Hotel. . BRANCH OFFICES—3527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open 6as open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 until 9:30 o'clock. McAllister, 9:30 o'clock Market, lencta, o'cloek. until 9 o 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until corner Bixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. open until § o'clock. 108 Eleventh, NW. 1006 Va- m. 2200 Fillmore, open until AMUSEMENTS, Alcazar—*‘On and Of.” Columbia—**The Christian.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—'La Tosca.” Fischer's Theater—Little Christopher.” California—""The Denver Express.” Tivoli—'‘The Serenade.” Central—'"The Man-o'-Warsman." Mechanics' Pavilion—Norris & Rowe's Big Shows. £herman-Clay Hall—Scng Recital, Tuesday night, April 1. Osakland Racegrack—Races to-day. $ess 88 442221118 Broadway Great Northern Hotel; 81 Unlon Square; open until corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open some occasions many hours pass before new passen- gers enter, and during the whole of that time the lonely women have no protection whatever against the car porter. The bell which is supposed to sum- mon assistance to any one who wishes it rings, not for the conductor of the train, but for the car porter himself. Consequently when he or any confederate is engaged in the wrongdoing the ririging of the bell calls no help whatever. The passenger is alone and has no other defense than what she can make by her unaided efforts. Such gross crimes as that committed at La Junta are infrequent, but lesser offenses committed by Pull- man car employes are common. Rarely does a week pass without some report of a serious crime com- mitted or attempted in the sleeping cars; but these | do not by any means constitute the whole of the of- fenses to which. women are subjected when trav- eling alone and exposed by some chance to the in- solence of the porters. Most of the offenses, in fact, are never reported, as the women shrink trom the in- evitable notorietythat would follow, The situation of a woman in a Pullman car at night is peculiar. The car is a traveling sleeping-room, to which the porter has access at all hours. A simple curtain separates him from the sleeping passenger. Virtually the porter occupies the position of a man in a woman’'s bedroom watching over her all night. The temptations to ruffians to take advantage of un- protected women are therefore many and strong. \V(.)men have awakened in the night to find the por- ter gazing at them. Sometimes they have awakened to find him attempting to commit robbery. If when such things occur the car be well filled and there are men among the passengers the woman is in no dan- ger of anything further than a petty robbery, but if she be alone the danger is great. Judging from the {frequency of the reports of of- fenses of one kind or another committed against e EXIT BUBONIC BOARD. AYOR SCHMITZ'S latest movement in the M direction of ridding the city of the pernicious vivals of the Phelan administration by dismissing four members of the notorious Bubonic Board of Health has-the approval of the public cor- dially and well nigh universally given. This sweep of the Mayor's broom rids the municipality of a set of officials whose gross blundering—or worse—brought upon San Francisco a degree of harm whose full ex- tent it is not possible to calculate. The dismissal winds up a shameful story, and it is to be hoped that with their departure from office the evil they did will depart also, and that San Francisco hereafter will have a clean reputation, so far, at least, as her free- dom from plagues and pestilences is concerned. The dismissed officials have sought out an injupc- tion and will make a fight fo retain office. By doing so they serve no other useful purpose than that ef bringing to the test of the courts one of the dis- puted points of the new charter. Perhaps it is just as well to have the test made now,and in this way, for it seems inevitable that every clause of the charter will have to undergo judicial construction sooner or later; but if the dismissed officials win, the victory will avail them little. They were discredited long before they were dismiissed, and since they can ac- complish nothing in office and have not the confi- dence of the people, it would have been, wisdom on their part to have retired at once, and leit legal tech- nicalities to be tested by others. The Mayor's statem of the reasons and cause for removing the four officials is terse and strong. Referring to the reports of the board upon the al- leged bubonic plague cases he say: “Without desir- ing to cast any persgnal reflection, I find that where the work of your bacteriologist has been supervised the same results have not been obtained as when he has acted alone. Out of thirteen ‘suspected’ cases reported before April 8, 1901, and investigated under your authority, six or seven were pronounced and published by you as cases of true bubonic plague, examined between April 8, Out of 103 such cases 190y; and August 27, 1901, under joint investigation of your board and the State Board of Health, not one authentic case of plague was discovered. Since the last-named date, there being no further active official participation by these physicians in the au- topsies, numerous cases are again reported and pub- lished as true bubonic plague cases.” That statement in itself would be sufficient justifi- cation for the removal of the four officials, but the Mayor goes on to strengthen it by adding: “Yet with full knowledge of all the facts there continue to be published and given to the world, up to the present day, under your auspices and authority, re- peated announcements of its continued existence, and constant reports of new discoveries and ‘verifica- tions,” These reports, published in the prominent medical and lay journals of the world, have done and are doing our city and State untold damage. They are keeping from us a large number of desirable im- migrants and tourists: to a large extent they are holding back the development of our industries and interests through the influx of outside capital, and, with the imaginative prophecies of future augmenta- tion in the number and virulence of the cases, they are seriously jeopardizing the future welfare of our city.” In making these charges against the bubonic schemers the Mayor has not traveled beyond the rec- ord made public by the press at the time when the subject was one of dominant interest, and referred to many times since. The courts may find some ground-for denying the right of the Mayor to make the removal, but if so it will have to be sought for in a legal technicality, for certainly in the wrong done to the community by the bubonic board there is ample justification for the summary dismissal from office. Senator Tillman has been trying a lecture tour in Massachusetts, and the result has been such that the Jecture bureau men ‘will hardly offer him anything to make a farewell tour. His audiences have been small and the irofi great. e women in the Pullman cars it would seem that the company exercises little or no care in the selection of the men to whose protection their passengers are to be intrusted. Their one object appears to be to get cheap men, or men who are willing to work for what they can get out of the passengers in the way ‘of tips. Consider what must have been the reckless- | ness of the company which would put in charge of a car where women are asleep at night such a brute as he who committed the outrage at La Junta. Some arrangement should be made to give a re- sponsible officer charge and supervision over the por- ter. From the sleeping car there should be-an alarm system which would summon the conductor of ‘thé train at a moment’s notice. It might even be advis- able to require the company to employ women look after the comfort of ladies in the sleeping cars. Something, at any rate, should be done, for the right of a woman to travel alone and to be fully protected everywhere is not to be disputed. The Pullman Car Company is enormously rich. It can well afford to employ trustworthy officials and adequately protect its cars. It should be made to do to. | | Chamberlain’s bill providing a British working- men’s pension system by which workers after the age of 65 will be entitled to a weekly pension of seven shillings has passed the second reading in the Com- mons, and consequently Chamberlain has recovered some of his old-time popularity among the working- men. The bill, however, is still a long way from be- coming law, and with the war on their hands it is doubtful whether the taxpayers will be ready to put into operation a plan estimated to cost about $30,000,- 000 annually. W writers are grumbling and growling over the war or the decline of commerce and in- dustry, there is still a considerable number ‘of optim- ists in the kingdom who contend that the people and the empire were ‘on the whole never absolutely bet- ter off than they are now. It is conceded that the growth of the United States and of Germany has lowered Great Britain's comparative rank, but fig- ures are cited to show that she has grown and is growing as well as her rivals, and is steadily improv- ing the condition of Ler people. As an cvidence of the advancement of the British masses toward a higher standard of life it is pointed out that they pay morc rent, have more house room to the family and eat more eat. per capita than they did thirty years ago. Other trade figures show that the country spends more annually for clothing than in the past, and consequently the people must be bet- ter clothed than they were in the preceding genera- tion. Finally, the educational system has been vastly extended and improved. Municipal enterprises have greatly - bettered the conditions of the poorer quar- ters of cities, while a similar advance has been made in the improvement of rural dwellings. Being thus better housed, fed, clothed, educated and trained than in former years, the average Britisher must be much better off than his father. As some of the pessimists contend that the im- provements in the conditions of the masses have been attained by a sacrifice of capital, that industry is lan- guishing and trade decreasing, the optimists cite financial returns to prove there has been a gain in- stead of a loss of British capital in recent years. It appear$ from these statistics that the gross assess- ment for the income tax, which in 1873 was $2,570,- 000,000, increased to $3,070,000,000 in 1898-99, or by $1,400,000,000 in twenty-five years, an average annual increment of more than $55,000,000. The estates passing at death, which in 1873 had an aggregate value of $645,000,000, 2mounted in 1900 to $1,460,000,- 000. The total sum passing through the bankers’ clearing-houses in 1873 was $30,010,000,000; in 1809 it was $45,750,000,000. The amount of paid-up capi- tal in stock companies, which in 1884 was less than $2,400,000,000, had beccme upward of $8,100,000,000, an increase in sixteen years of $35,700,000,000. Those figures certainly show no evidence of decay in either trade, commerce or finance. Other statis- tics show that since 1873 the capital invested in Brit- ish railways has mcre:ued by upward of $2,000,000,- 4%00.. The steam wnm‘qpl the k;ncgiom was 1,714, BRITISH OPTIMISTS. HILE the majority of British orators and to | FRANCISCO CALL, ! 000 tons in 1873 and had increased to 7,208,000 tons in- 1900. The capital on deposit_in savings banks, in trustees’ savings banks and in.Government stock pur- chased through savings banks was less than $310,000,- 000 in 1873, but was $655,000,000 in 1899. The capital of workmen’s co-operative societies grew from $37,000,000 in 1883 to $132,000,000 in 1899; the funds of the principal trade unions, which in 1892 were $8,000,000, amounted to just double that sum seven years later. By those and other statistics drawn from official sources the British optimists certainly make a good argument for their case and a good showing for their country. Great Britain of course cannot continue to hold the pre-eminence in the world which was hers after the fall of Napoleon. That rank in the future will belong to the United States, but there seems no reason for any sane Briton to grumble about the prospect.’ They have only to avoid such foolish wars of aggression as that now being waged in South Africa to find an abundant prosperity in industry and commerce. —— It is announced that a company with a capital of $80,000,000 has been organized in New York for the purpose of handling nothing but corn and corn products. The day when corn was used only for bread or whisky is gone by. Tlere are now more than thirty commercial products made of corn and used in such varied articles as beer, oil, sugar, rub- ber, mucilage, gum drops, wall paper, soap, ink, salad dressing, pipes and calico. In fact, corn comes very near being the whole hog in more ways than one. o FESTAL SANTA CLARA. ANTA CLARA COUNTY’S Blossom Festival S promises to open the spring season with dn at- traction sufficiently fair and novel to draw to this section of the State thousands of the tourists and winter sunshine seekers who are now thronging the overcrowded hotels of the south, It has been ar- ranged on a large acale and will continue ior a week., Each day will present something of novelty to the visitors, and the abounding hospitality of the people will make the whole week one of cordial wel- come and uninterrupted pleasure. The fete will be literally a county festival. The cities and towns may be especially decorated for the delight of visitors, but the whole sweep of the rural districts will be adorned. Nature will take care of that. For miles and miles around San Jose as a cen- ter the sightseers will ride through avenues embow- ered by shade trees and decorated on either side as far as the eye can see with the gorgeous glories of blossoming orchards. The air will be bright with the blooms of innumerable flowers and sweet with a thousand perfumes, and not'even in San Jose her- self, with her rich decorations arranged . by artistic eyes and with lavish hands for the best effects, will the lover of natural beauty find more delight than will await him along the well sprinkled highways or in rural lanes far away from the crowds. The valley is well fitted for such a festival. It is broad enough for ample views of magnificent dis- tances, and yet not so broad but the mountains are in easy view on either hand, and rise like a sublime frame to inclose the loveliness of the level lands. Moreover, at this season of the year the mountains enhance with especial force the beauty of the orchard valley, for they are ncw gleaming with color from the emerald foothills glowing with the verdure of young grass to the purple peaks swathed in the mists and clouds of s?)ring When through the flowery fields and shaded roa‘fs, with the endless vistas of mountain ranges stretching serrated lines to east and west and changing in tint and hue with each hour of the day, the visiting thousands ‘drive or walk through the joyous week of the festival, the scene will be as charming as any that Arcadia ever saw in the days when Greece was young and the wood nymphs danced amid the flowers with the light-limbed motion of gods at play. It is gratifying that the festival comes at this sea- son and in this particular valley.* It occurs at the right moment to bring northward a large proportion of the great host of Eastern people still lingering in the south, and thus affords us and all Northern Cali- fornia an opportunity to reveal to them what this section of the State has in the way of attraction for pleasure-seekers and assurance for those who are looking for places in which to make homes. The people of the county are working at it with a deter- mination to make it something more than a passing frolic. They intend it shall fully illustrate the spring- time beauty and promise of their valley and their foothills, and make a permanent impression upon the minds of all who see it. They have had large ex- perience in arranging such entertainments and have both the wealth and the culture required to make warm-hearted hospitality a thing of grace and beauty. The visitor to the State who has passed the winter amid even the fairest of our southern scenes will [lose much of the glory of this springtime in Califor- nia if he departs without sceing festal Santa Clara in her robes of blossom. We have not kept tally of the Carnegie appropria- tions, but they must by this time have very nearly met, the demand for public libraries, and accordingly we may hope to hear any day that the old man is | going to give us something new. ——— WILL THE SENATE YIELD? THE Senate lately receivéd a committee report in favor of its supreme power in ratifying re- ciprocity treaties without any concurrence by the House. This was to. be expected. The two houses are jealous of their constitutional prerogative, and neither was ever known to take a back step. But as the Senate approaches action on the reciprocity trea- ties it gives signs of being content with a declara- tion of its primacy and of intending to soothe the House by a concession. The Forcign Affairs Com- mittec proposes to amend eath treaty to provide that t “shall take effect when approved by Congress.” The members of the committee were all desirous of being understood that this is something they do not need to do at all, that the treaties become the supreme law of the land as soon as ratified by the Senate, and that the concession does not in any way impair the treaty-making power of the President and Senate. To all this it may be said that if approval by the House does not affect the constitutional val- idity of the treaty, to withhold such approval will leave the treaty in force. For this reason it is the obvious duty of the interests to be traded off and in- jured by these treaties to continue opposition in the Senate and defeat them there if possible. Otherwise they may find it too late after Senatorial ratification, for the House will be permitted a voice simply on the principle of comity. ! \ Every time a prominent Democrat says the Bryan craze is dymg, out Bryan bobs up and starts in to | 30, show that lu is a bigger craze than ever. ¥ 2 THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1902. SAN FRANCISCO LODGE OF ELKS PREPARES FOR ANNUAL ELECTION b d HE annual election of officers of San Francisco Lodge, Benevolent I and Protective Order of Elks, will be held to-morrow night in the lodgerooms, at the corner of Sut- ter street and Grant avenue. District Deputy C. L. Ruggles of Stockton Lodge will preside over the election. For some time there was likelihood of a contest over the office of esteemed loyal knight, but it was finally conceded that the place should go to J. S. Partridge, an attorney, who has figured quite prominently of late in the Elks, the Native Sons, the Masons and the Eastern Star. The officers who will probably direct the affairs of San Francisco Lodge and who will be in- stalled Into office on ths first Friday in April are: Percy V. Long, exalted ruler; J.. N. Odell, estéemed leading knight; J. S. Partridge, esteemed loyal knight; H. MeD. = Cameron, esteemed lecturing knight; Herman Kohn, sec- retary; George E. Hunt, treasurer; John Bro- der, tyler, and James P. Dunne, trustee. The annual banquet of the lodge to its members will be given in Golden Gate Hall Saturday night, when the service will be in keeping with the well-known reputation of the lodge for hospitality. Covers will be laid for more than 360 guests. The toastmaster will bid them ‘‘eat, drink and be merry” at.7 o'clock in the evening, and *“Auld Lang Syne” will be called for 4 o’clock the next morning. The lodge will hold a special meeting Monday night for the purpose of balloting on the names of 120 applicants, who made application before the first of the present month, when the initiation fee was in- creased from $25 to $50. If all are elected, and they probably will be, their initiation, as a class, will be held in the near future. Next week the lodge will have a field night—that is, the members will go in a body to the California Theater to hear the latest minstrelsy as presented by Field and his company. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. SUNFLOWER-T. E. D, City. It is in Ksznsas that the sunflower is known as the State flower. - PHINEHASS., City. The Christian and Biblical name Phirehas means bold countenance, trust or protection. AT R POLL TAX—F. N., City. The law of California permits an employer to hold out of wages and pay the poll tax of those in his employ. THE KRUGER—A. D. City. The steam schooner W. H., Kruger was at Tillamook on the 24th inst. and was to sail from that point on that day. KATIE ON THE STAGE—M: G., Forest Hill, Cal. This department has not the space to reproduce poems or songs and for that reason cannot publish the verses entitled “Since Katle Went on the Stage.” STRONGEST FIBER—S., City. Silk is the strongest fiber of animal or vegetable origin. Threads made of it are said to be three times as strong as those of a cor- responding size made of flax and twice as strong as that of hemp. A BRAZILIAN COIN—Subscrlber San Jose, Cal. The coin described in letter is a copper 40-rels piece of Brazil of the reign of Peter II, coined in 1832. Such coins may be purchased from dealers for 85 cents. THE SANTA ROSA—County Sub- scriber, Paso Robles, Cal. The side lights on the steamer Santa Rosa are illumi- nated by electricity, but there are oil lamps also that may be used in case of the electrical current giving out. MINTS—H. G. D., City. There never was a United States branch mint in the State of Oregon. In 1792 the parent mint was established in Philadelphia; in 1835 branches were established at Charlotte, N. C., New Orleans, La., and Dahlonega, Ga.; in 1852 at San Francisco, in 1862 at Denver, Col., and in 1863 at Carson City. PRIVATE OWNERSHIP—A. L. D, City. In the perlodical room of theé Free Library in the City Hall may be found a number of articles in the reviews andl literature of the day that will give con- siderable information on the subject of private and public ownership of railroads. Such articles can be discovered by con- sulting the index to be found In that rcom. ST. LOUIS FAIR—Subscriber, City. The site selected for the World's Fair in St.! Louls in 1903 is at the western boundary of the city and extends over into the County of St. Louis, outside the city. The site includes the west half of Forest Parlk, consisting of nearly 700 acres, the grounds of the Washington University and contig- uous lands, making a total of about 1200 acres, or approximately twice as much as was ever before devoted to an exposition. ALL BUT ONE—S. B., City. The de- struction of a place where all were lost but a baby you ask about is no doubt the city of Funchal, island of Maderia. On the 9th of October, 1803, the city was swept Into the sea’ from a cloudburst in the mountains behind i§, Such was the tremendous rush of waters that even the foundation of houses down to the nafive rocks were carried away with the soil. A baby found asleep on a wide board near the shore was the unly sign of life after the storm. . AUTOMOBILES—RIder, City. The auto- mobile record of the United States for long distance up to the first of last Ja uvary is: £2 miles in 3 hours 10 minutes between New York and New Haven, No- vember 21, 1901, by 8. W. Baruch in a road vehicle; 225 miles in 15 hours and 11 | ‘minutes between Newport, R. L, and Bos- ton Mass., by H. W. Whipple, July 21, 1901, in a road vehicle; 825 miles by G, W. &:ulu and J. S. Mitchell, between Toledo, 0., and New Ydrk. m‘ yt. October 14 o Devare. e Octaber 3, ton, c T 24, in 1:06 2-3. 3 ? A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Another sign of prosperty,” remarked the optimist, “is that more persons were married last year than ever-before. “Huh!” snarled the othér man. ‘“There were more persons living on the earth last year than ever before.’—Washington Star. One of the managers of a hospital asked an Irish nurse which he considered the most dangerous of the many cases then in she hospital. “That, sur,’ sald Patrick, as he pointed to a case of surgical instruments lying on the table.—Tit-Bits. “Say!" the girl's father called from above stairs, “this is an unearthly hour for that young man to be here, Mary.” “You're right,” responded the young man, who had just been accepted; ‘“the hour Is unearthly, sure encugh—it's sim- ply heavenly.”—Philadelphia Record. “John, dear, the papers are telling of another accident to a man that got on a street car before it had stopped. For my sake do be careful. “Fer your sake, Maria? How did you know my accident insurance policy ex- pired yesterday?’—Washington Star. “There is a good deal of controversy Just now over the exact words used by the man who was kicked by a mule.” ““Well, what of it?"” “My opinion is that if the mule was In good condition the man dldn’t say any- thing.”"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. ¥ & PARTRIDGE, BUSHm THioro - + PROMINENT ELKS WHO WILL PROBABLY BE ELECTED TO OFFICE. - S Fur-Bearing Animals Disappearing. In the opinion of the Governor the Xlaskan fur trade is doomed to extinc- tion. The sea otter and the fur seal are fast disappearing. The beaver has been driven to the remote districts. The Arctic fox, the bear and the mink seem to be the only fur-bearing animals which are still found in considerable numbers in Alaska. The enagting of a stringent game law by Congress, in order to afford better protection to the moose, caribou, deer and other large game, is advocated. — e % Ex. strong hoarhound candy. 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