The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 7, 1902, Page 4

ve.....APRIL 7, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Ceress A1l Cemmunications to W, 5, LEAKE, Nanager. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. . .Market and Third, §. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Centx. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL Gncluding Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. EUNDAY CALL. One Year.. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. e ggfa32 STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Month of March, 1902. MarckL March March March March | Mareh | March | March March March March March March March March | March March | March March | Harch March March Mareh March March March March March Mareh Total FTATE OF CALIFORNIA, CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. b On this 34 day of April, 1902, personally appeared before me, William T. Hess, 2 Notary Public in and for the city and county aforesald, W. J. Martin, who being sworn according to law declares that he is the busineps manager of The San Franciseo Call, a daily newspaper pyblished in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, and that there were printed and distributed during the month of March, 1902, cne million nine hundred and six thousand three hundred and forty-five (1,806,345) copies of the sald newspaper, Which num- ber divided by thirty-one (the number of days of issue) gives an aversge daily circulation of 61,495 coples. W. J. MARTIN. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3d day of April, 1902 W. T. HESS. Notary Public in and for the City and County of San Fran- cisco, State of California, room 1015 Claus Spreckels build- ing. » AMUSEMENTS. “Sons of Ham.” e Fortune Teller."” Central—""The Land of the Living.” Alcazar—*“Madame Butterfly” and “The Great Unknown.” Columbia—*“The Cardinal.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—*'Gismonda.” Fischer's Theater—*'Fiddle Dee Dee.”” Maple Room, Palace Hotel—Msnila War Paintings. Oakiand Racetrack—Races to-day. <> THE BUSINESS BAROMETER. HE hesitation in general business noted a week Tago was even more pronounced last week. The country’s bank clearings showed a loss of 23.1 per cent compared with the corresponding week in 1901, and the aggregate clearings amounted to only $1,064,161,000. Not for many months have these rings fallen below the $2,000,000,000 point, and have for : _veral years averaged over it. A further sign in this direction is the number of cities and irge showing losses, over half of the great cities coming under this head last week. Ac- ording to these statistics the country is not doing as much business as it has been. . The decline in the volume of trade, however, has not yet attracted much attention, hence it is reasona- = to infer that not much significance is attached to It may be due to several natural causes and prove merely temporary. It may be that the spring de- nand has been satisfied and the summer demand has not yet fully set in. Or, possibly, speculation nay have largely subsided throughout the -country. It is certain that Wall street is a quiet spot just now, and the Chicago grain market shows a lack of spec- vlation and outside support which is rendering that great market a comparatively tame affair at present. owever this may be, the trade of the country is perceptibly lighter than it has been for several years, und those lines which have been overcrowded with orders, even to the point of refusing new business, now find little or no difficulty in promptly executing all orders that come their way. Lastyear it was almost impossible to secure prompt deliveries in any branch of the iron and steel trade, whereas very little is now heard about .difficulty in obtaining goods, and . the same condition prevails in many other lines. Again, the course of prices in March was downward, Dun’s index number giving the aggregate of quotations proportionate to consumption being $09,222 on April 1, against $101,543 on March 1, a‘decline of 2.3 per cent. # It must not be hastily inferred, however, that trade is dull. On the contrary, it is active, though not as much so as for some time back. Jobbers and retail- ers all over the country report a good inquiry for all kinds of goods, and collections are generally reported atisfactory except in the South, where they K have been chronically slow for a long time. The hesitation secems to be confined to the higher and larger levels of commerce, such as exports and imports, Chicago and Wall-street speculation, establishment of new en- terprises, etc., rather than the lower and smaller ley- els represented by the backs and stomachs of the people. The crop outlook has distinetly improved during the past thirty days, and now promises an ample production of farm produce, from wheat down, while prices for beef alhogs are higher than at this time of the year for ten years. The farmer is doing very well all along his varied line, and as long as he continues to do so the country has ' no occasion for worry over the immediate future. The great lumber interests, too, are reporting an active and continuous demand for building material, and the vast rural population of the United States is re- ported to be or an unusually good financial founda- tion, farmers especially. Still, there is that slow falling of the commercial barometer, represented by the bank clearings, on which the country must keep an eye. Here in California there is mo halt. As frequently noted of late the city of San Francisco and the north- ern and central parts of the State seem to be having a boom. Not for ycars have there been so many Eastern people flocking in here looking for country homes and city vocations as now. They are not all tourists, either, but people who are coming to’stay. It gives the city a lively aspect which is very cheer- ful. Tt has been discovered that San Francisco, as the gateway to the vast Orient, is to be one of the three great cities of the United States, and energetic men from abroad are getting in here to seize the cream of-the young opportunities. { towns 4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL JUSTICE TO LETTER-CARRIERS. OR some reason the progress in Congress of the letter-carriers’ bill has not been so rapid as was expected early in the session. At that time there came from Washington cheering reports of the prospects of the bill, and those in favor of it were quoted as declaring themselves quite sanguine of its prompt passage. late other measures have come to the front and this bill has been overlooked so that there is danger it may not be acted upon at pay for efficiency. Of this session. The measure is one of simple justice. At the present time the Government does not give adequate pay to the men who perform the carriers’ duties in the postal service. There is no excuse for continuing this injustice. the Government are ample. As a matter of fact, the surplus in the treasury is so large that it has led Congress to act not only with liberality but with prodigality in some directions, and it is therefore the more unfair that a hard-worked body of public servants should be made the victims of a niggardly policy in the way of salaries. The bill under consideration is in no respect an extravagant one. further than to create in the carrier service an additional grade or class of carriers who | are to receive a salary of $1200 per annum; to go through a long period of service and reach a high degree of efficiency. The claims of letter-carriers for fair pay are binding upon every class of people, for |’ there is no class that does not benefit by their service. At all seasons of the year, no mat- ter what be the condition of the weather, they have to go their long and arduous rounds, | distributing letters to the offices, shops, stores and homes of the people. For the right | performance of that duty there are required not only physical health and strength, but fideliity, capacity, courtesy and an untiring energy. Promotion is slow and i dependent | upon merit shown and proven in the service itself. The public would be prompt to feel and | to complain of any lack of efficiency in the service, and it should therefore be willing to The republic is wealthy, the revenues of It goes no and to attain that grade a carrier will have While every citizen is thus in a measure bound to promote the passage of the bill as far as he can do so by urging it upon the member of Congress from his district, the duty is in a special sense incumbent upon Republicans. The Federal Government in all | its branches is in Republican hands. That party will be justly held responsible if the bill | be ignored or defeated; and, on the other hand, it will be entitted to the credit of having done justice if the bill be enacted. Such being the case, all Republican organizations | should be insistent in urging favorable action at this session of Congress. issue of the time should not be overlooked. | gation at Washington. When the convention of the League of Republican Clubs meets at San Jose this Strong resolutions in favor of the bill should be adopted unanimously and at once dispatched to every member of the California dele- There should be nothing perfunctory in the manner in which the resolutions are adopted, or treated after adoption. It will not do to embody them and lose them in the general mass of resolutions likely to be submitted to the should be treated as a measure of emergency relating to the particular bill now before Con- | gress, and whose passage is desired before adjournment. The issue will surely be presented when the convention meets, and it is to be hoped its importance will be fully understood. The Republican party has been the spe- cial champion of labor and the rights of workingmen. It has insisted upon a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. It is but right, therefore, since it is in control at Washington, that Congress.should see to it that the Government practices what the party preaches. convention. The question GIRL INSURANCE, NSURANCE experts have been keen scented in I searching fof things on which insurance may be placed at a premium. Life, fire and marine insur- znce are old and familiar lines in that business. Then, in the highly electrical States of the Middle West they have lightning, and in the same section cyclone, insurance. In the accident line we have a sumptuous list covered, from stepping on soapy feet upon the bottom of a bathtub to participation in the festivities of a railroad collision. But there i3 a line that has been -ungallantly neglected. We have often seriously called attention to the erotic lunatics who murder women with whom they think they are in love. | Just now the papers nearly every day record a crime of that sort. Spring is its accepted season. Tennyson has told us of the effect of the vernal equinox on the garniture of the lapwing and some other sorts of fowls, and also of its work on a young man’s fancy. He might have extended his remarks to show the necessity for girls to face the equinox with side arms, armored jackets and police protection, for it is at this season that the erotic fool goes forth to kill the girl that will not marry him. - As he also frequently kills himself, the law is cheated of a victim and the girl’s parents of vengeance. Inasmuch as violence is always preceded by threats in these cases, we have not scrupled to advise all girls to make such threats known to the best shot in her family that he may go forth licensed as fool killer in ordinary and perforate the cowardly wretch who does the threatening. In such cases it is useless to resort to the protec- tion of the law. The threatener can appeal to a jury, and his attorney makex it appear that he is really the abused party, that he %ias been “encouraged,” and is simply a harmless'and forlorn creature. So he goes free, or if bound over to keep the peace pays no at- tention to his bond, for he intends murder first and then the blowing out of his own addled brains, and in nearly every case does both. So, as men look with levity upon erctic threats, and the law gives in- adequate protection, the American girl is more ex- posed to danger from this source than if she were in the track of the lightning or cyclone, or were travel- ing by rail on a train whose engineer desires to pass an opposite train on the same track with both at full speed, We see no preventive of these erotic. murders, and as American girls are not going to be less attractive and their beauty is a fatal dower, we propose that it be made insurable. Instead of the usual physical examination into the condition of health, let the lady be subjected to one that shall determine the measure of her danger by her degree of attractiveness, and let the amount of the premium be determined thereby. This will guard her against a plea of the insurance company in court that she was guilty of contributory negligence by the lure of her charms, and her family will get jnsurance, if she be murdered, wherewith to prosecute her slayer if he do not kill himself, or to buy guns and ammusition to arm the rest of the daughters of the house for defensive purposes. It is gentle spring, and the etherial mildness is marred by the crack of pistols bringing down young women who have refused the advances of scoundrels who murder when they cannot marry. Now is the time to start girl insurance and make money out of it. Let it be remembered, too, that such a system does not interfere with the removal of wretches who threaten women under such circumstances. The hunt for them can go on. This is the open season for thet kind of game, and should be improved by all fathers and brothers, and even big cousins, who can shoot and who desire to protect their female relatives from the vilest and most worthless men that walk. e o By an act of the New York Legislature it has been provided that the names of all citizens who do mot qualify to vote by registering shall constitute a spe- cial list from which juries are to be drawn, and not until that list is exhausted can other citizens be called upon for jury duty. It is believed the bill will have the effect of making good citizens register in large numbers, SALTON BASIN. ROM the College of Agriculture of the Univer- r F sity of California there has just been issued an elaborate report on ‘“Lands of the Colorado Delta in the Salton Basin.” The report is made up of a summary of field and laboratory work by Frank J. Snow and discussious by E. W. Hilgard and G. W. Shaw. While the report deals with all the physical fea- tures of the region under review, public interest in refer to the possibility of producing profitable crops from lands so heavily charged with alkali. To that phase of the subject ccnsiderable space is given. A list of “possible crops for alkali soils” shows that a wit\e choice is offered for those willing to make ex- periments in such cuitivation, while a table showing the highest amount of alkali in soils in which various kinds of trees, shrubs, vegetaliles and grains have been found unaffected furnishes’a guide in making the expefiments, which will be useful to all who un- dertake them. 7 # In concluding the study of cultivation of alkili soils, the report says: “People should not be de- ceived by a rank growth of plants in arid regions un- less ‘the characteristics of such plants be definitely known; for the very fact of the existence of alkali ‘is evidence of intrinsic fertility of the soils, and crops are well known to have luxuriant growth on such lands provided only that the saline matter is not present to such an extent as to approach the limit of toler- ance of the crop grown. Notwithstanding the pres- ent success with the alkali-resistant crops named, res- idents are urged to adopt the methods laid down in this publication, as those which alone may reasona- bly be expected to give immunity from alkali damage for any censiderable length of time.” e e The Liberal party in Great Britain has received another blow that niakes its wounds bleed afresh. A few days ago one of the most eminent of its mem- bers, General Sir William Butler, delivered before “the Irish Literary Society” a lecture on Cromwell, and charged the great Puritan with brutality, duplic- ity, bloodthirstiness and hypocrisy. It pleased the literary society all right, but the Liberal press of London is lamenting that the alliance of the Liberals with the Irish has led them to trample on many of the most cherished beliefs of the Liberals of former years. After discussing for months how to devise a scheme for suppressing, negro suffrage without violating the constitution, the Virginia convention is reported to have at last decided to require the pay- ment of a poll tax as a preliminary to voting, and, furthermore, to admit to registration au man who does not understand the constitution. The two re- quirements taken together form a sort of double- barreled restriction, and it will be a clever negro that escapes both. When asked during the recent investigation of the big railway combine what is meant by “a community of interests,” J. Pierpont Morgan replied: “It means that a certain number of men owning property can do what they like with it.” The definition is good, but it clearly signifies a wide distinction between community of interest and the interest of the com- munity. 3 — . Russia is again fermenting rebellion in her univer- sities, and even some of the professors are accused of showing.sympathy and encouragement to the students. It would appear that one takes his life in his hand in seeking an education in the dominions of ‘the White Czar. i Some Den{ncratic papers that like Henry Watter- son and do not like to tell him he is talking too much have begun referring to him as the Chauncey Depew of the Demaocratic party. G.eneral Miles made a great reputation fighting Indians, but one stalwart rough rider seems too much 5 . : % it will be mainly directed to those portions which ! 1902, ENGLAND’S NEW BATTLESHIP QUEEN o AND THE VESSEL’S PROTOTYPE; AR HE battleship Queen, launched March 8 at the Devone o I port dockyards, is the third ship in the British navy bearing that name. The first, commonly known as “the great ship,” was bullt by Henry III in 1232, and was only a large, open boat, about 70 feet in length, carrying a crew of thirty, of which ten were crossbow men. The second Queen was the first three-decker launched in Queen Victoria's reign. The ship was one of many designed by Rear Admiral Sir William Symonds, surveyor bf the navy from 1832 to 1847, and was launched at Portsmouth May 15, 1839. She was of 3240 tons, old measurement, and 4800 tons displacement. Her length on gun deck was 247 feet 6 inches, length on water line 204 feet 7 inches, extreme breadth 59 feet 2% inches and ex- treme draught 26 feet 3% Inch. The height above water of bow was 35 feet, at stern 38 feet, the lower port side 6% feet and the main truck was 190 feet above the water line. She car- rled an armament of one hundred 32-pounders and ten 68- pounders, weighing, with ammunition, 311 tons, and the weight of her all-around fire was 3680 pounds. Her total cost was $672,460. Socn after her return from the Crimean war the Queen, with a number of other sailing ships of the line, was fitted with auxiliary screw engines of about 2000 horsepower. The experiment was a failure and. good ships were spoiled. Like the rest of England’s ‘‘wooden walls,” the old Queen has gone into the wood pile and disappeared. The new Queen is of 15,000 tons displacement, 400 feet length, 75 feet beam and 27 feet draught, carrying four 12-inch, eight 7%-inch, eight §-inch. eighteen 12-pounders, six 3-pounders and eight Maxim guns. The weight of shells fifed from the four 12-inch guns Is 3400 pounds, against the combined all-around fire of the old Queen's one hundred and ten guns of 3680 pounds. The estimated total cost of the battleship just launched is about $5,500,000. The naval review at Spithead on the occasion of King Ed- ward's coronation has been set for June 28. About 130 ships of the British navy and 20 vessels of other nationalities will be present. At the review in 1856, after the close of the Cri- mean war, there were about 250 vessels, but of these 140 were gunboats and 50 mortar-boats, In 1887 the fleet numbered 109 vessels, and in 1897 there were 165 present, including 13 non- effective ships, such as training brigs. The battleship Illinois is the only vessel of the United States navy that will partici- pate in the event, The recent launch of a submarine boat from the yard of Vickers, Sons & Maxim, at Barrows, was intended to be a sort of =ocial function, to which the builders had invited a party of friends. The Whitehall officials spoiled the intended cele- bration by sending the following laconic telegram: “The party must not enter works.” It is probable that the Admiralty feared the plot of Fenians or Boer sympathizers, for there is no secrecy about the construction of the submarine boat of this particular design, sold by the American inventor to the Britlsh Government. The British crulser Hermes is a notable sample of_defec- tive design or workmanship of engines in that navy. e ‘was commissioned October 5, 1899, and served one year and two months on the North Atlantic station, during which time it required $20,000 for repairs to her machinery. Returning to England, she is now being overhauled at an estimated cost of $182,000, of which $100,000 is for machinery. The first cost of the Hermes was $1,184,240, exclusive of armament, and the re- pairs, therefore, equal 17 per cent in one year of the original cost. It is frequently charged that United States naval vessels are coplesof British designs,and it istrue that the Charleston, Bal- timore, Philadelphia and Yorktown were built from English plans, yet the average repairs of those ships was about 3.3 per cent for three years after their first commission, and the larger part went toward repairs of hulls, hence these vessels have had considerable improyements made upon the original engine designs, The United States cruiser Olympla has broken all coaling records in the navy by taking aboard in one day more than 600 tons of coal. The device so successfully tested is the plan PERSONAL MENTION. C. H. Woods, a merchant-of Chico, at the Lick. E. May, a business man of Portland, Or., is a guest at the Lick. Major Levi Chase and son, of San Diego, are registered at the Occldental. Fred Gerstley, a wool merchant of Los Angeles, is registered at the Lick. Brigadier General M. D. Hardin, U, 8. A., is at the Occidental, accompanied b; his wife. ® - 1s of the city limits. e Stuffed prunes with apricots. Townsend's.* —_———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend’s.® —_————— Vacaville, Cal. Townsend’s California glace fruit, 50c a ound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- ets. A nice present for Eastern friends. > foul. 630 Market st., Palace Hotél building, ma Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 E Zorrin stieet. Telephons Main 1ois. % by which “an guish dry, white, L e e S ANSWERS TO QUERIES. NARROW GAUGE DEPOT-N. M., Hickman, Stanisiaus San Jose narrow gauge depot is outside ARGENTINE MONEY-F,, City. present rate of momey in Argentine about $2 273 of the money of that country for $§1 United States money. MARCONI'S PARENTS—L. H. B., City. Marconi, the inventor, was born at Nar-' eabotto, near Bologna, Italy, in 157, of an I‘ulhm father and English mother. CARTER AND ROOT—A Subseriber, “Kid” Carter and Jack Root fought in San Francisco June 25, 1901, and 1n the fifteenth round Carter lost SUGAR—S., Oakland, Cal. This depart- ment cannot furnish you a simple method | ton Star. ; ulated LATEST ADDITION TO THE BRITISH NAVY, THE QUEEN, LAUNCHED BY QUEEN ALEXANDRA ON MARCH 8, 1%2, AND THE SECOND QUEEN, A THREE-DECKER LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIP, LAUNCHED IN 1839. RE- PRODUCED FROM LONDON ILLUSTRATED NEWS. ey 4 of Naval Constructor Baxter, for some years statiomed at Mare Island. The lighter from which the coal is taken, by means ‘of a trolley arrangement, hoists the coal in bags hold- ing 800 pounds and requires very little handling after being faken aboard. Another réason for the rapidity attained is that the coal burker compartments are now made much larg- ‘®r than in the ships built ten years ago, and there is conse- quently less space wasted, and trimming is done with greater rapidity. British warships still hold the best record in coaling, 200 tons in one hour being the best, while the United States battleship Kentucky has taken aboard 186 toms under very favorable conditions, and in coaling at sea the best record in our navy is that of the Massachusetts with 40 tons in one hour, which is considered good speed. The cruiser Minneapolis, in ordinary at League Island, is to be fitted up as a receiving ship to take the place of the old Richmond, which latter will be towed to the Norfolk navy- yard. The Minneapolis is a sister ship to the Columbia, re= cently converted into a receiving ship at the Brooklyn yard, and was launched August 3, 1893. Her first cost was $5,840,- 9% 44 and the repairs foot up to $127,638 78 to July 1, 1%L Neither of the two “pirates” have come up to the expectations of the Navy Department; too much was clalmed for them before they had materialized. The trial speed (23.0713 knots of the Minneapolis) was misleading and never since approxi- mated under service conditions. Their coal consumption was far greater than calculated and the coal to be carried - fell from 2000 tons to 1670 tons, reducing their radius of action from 2%.520 knots to about 7500 knots. During the recent war with Spain the service rendered by these two cruisers was not such as to encourage additional vessels of that type, and ignominious ending as receiving ships after ten years' service is a sad diSappointment to the Bureau of Steam Engineering, but will prove a great saving in repairs to these obsolete ships. *r eie One of the armored crulsers for the Chilean built by Vickers, Sons & Maxim, at Barrow. Thn:vzesl:altul: cording to the data reported, will be a decided advancement in warship design, and is practically a battleship, with great speed. The dimensions are stated to be: Length, 435 feet: beam, 70 feet; horsepower, 25.000; speed, 22 knots, and the arm. ament is to consist of four W-inch and fourfeen T%-inch guns. A ship of this type will be able to outsteam any vessel su- perior in guns and protection, and ¢an overhaul and destroy any other warship it may choose. e re o The largest crane in the world is located a yard, Kiel. It weighs 40 tons, and is c.y.'bx'fifimf;hg tons. Its arms spread 150 feet from point to point, and are 130 feet above ground. The crane is worked by electricity The Krupp establishment is busily engaged in turning out a new type of guns, consisting of 6.69, 7.48 and 1102 inch cal- ibers. A few trial guns of 472 and 5.9 inch calibers and a new form of carriage, which collapses like a folding chair when a round is fired, are also being made. There is no con. tract, so far as known, for this ordnance, but it is bein turned out as a speculation; but the Vorwaertz calls att . tion to the fact that in 1897 Krupp manufactured guns at tts own risk which were shortly after taken over by the Govern- ment. The present activity in gunmaking indicates that new B:.‘:::fle: m-dy be introduced on all the battleships and large mnd:r:, and a consequent demand for additional naval A 12-inch gun recently manufactured by K. the most power('ul plece of ordnance ma’de l;:p‘;r:; tcr‘;?l;ttr:_r Rear Admiral O'Neil, chief of the Burean of Ordnance, is authority for this statement, and compares the G 2 with_the latest n Tttt S avy gun of that caliber in the United States as follows: Krupp's gun carrfes a projectile weighing 91 B vt o Taohad F it 15, oind S04 Lt u; ron. % American gun weighs %0 pau%ds. its lnfi;ly\l;gl’;ccfi; l:: lron.rm Per second, and its penetration is 47 inches of wrought L] ACHANCE TO SMILE. The Mother—My daughter has been u: to the tenderest care, to the utmost ‘ys‘e.e pathy and to unflagsing gua trust this will be continuen oo K The Suitor—I hope sq, I'm sure.—Detroit County, Cal. The The is Free Press. “How do people enjoy trolle rides such crowded cars?’ i . ” “‘Oh, everybody is buoyed u; P by the ex- pectation that everybody else will get oft at the next corner.”—C! - - b g hicago Record: “Do_you still think an American bil- ll?.nnlre Is greater than Shakespeare?” ‘Well,"” answered the Chicago collega prolel.gor. “I have modified my opinions. I won't say_ that he is greater. But T in. sist that he is ina position to be of more practical benefit to a college.”"—~Washing- — What you pay for extracts is important, ™ mmm:u_m-‘cw:‘. “@ett's Vanilla costs more because It's worth m—. - person can distin-