The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 10, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1902. M iTHE PRESIDENT AND THE SOUTH. OOSEVELT'S trip to Charleston serves to re- call to the people of the North and the West that a grand cxposition is open in that city. JOHN D. CPF\ECKEL 2 ¢esess 411 Cemmunientions to W. 5. LEAKE, Xamsger. MANAGER'S OFFICE Telephone Press 204 BLI( ATION OFFICE Teleph Pmpr ietor: E Market and Third, S. F. Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. . 1 Telephone Press 202. Delivered hy Carriers, 15 Conts Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail. Including Postage: DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday), one year. . DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL cneluding Sunday), 3 months.. DAILY CALL—By Single Mcnth EUNDAY CALL. One Year WEEKLY CALL, One Year. ters are authorized to receive =ubscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. 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Brentano, 31 Tnion Square; BRANCH OFFICES—S$27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until $:80 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 c'clock. 632 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until "clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 . corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1098 Va- open until § o'clock. 108 Eleventh. open until 9 k. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. 8 AMUSEMENTS. “The Cardinal” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—*‘Gismonda." Fischer's Theater—“Fiddle Dee Dee.” California—"'Sons of Hsm. oli—"“The Fortune Teller. Central—*The Land of the Living.” Alcazar—*“Madame Butterfly” and “The Great Unknown.” Metropolitan Hall—Song Recital. Maple Room, Palace Hotel—Manila. War Paintings. Sherman-Clay Hall—Plano Recital Saturday night. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. April 14, at 10 o'clock, Horges, Buggies, etc., at street FARMERS AND THE CANAL. Heretofore it has been customary to at- ste all oppesition to the railroads. This ndoubtedly correct. The late C. P. Hunting- ) had the greatest courage of any American r znd the most ample frankness of expression, crupled to declare his opposition to the canal, d every strong and debatable reason for opposition business standpoint originated with him. fluence over the issue was confessed by the Tl E unexpected has happened all over the canal financis never from a proponents of the canal, who renewed their energies n the last session of Congress with the exclamation, Now that Huntington is dead.” The whole country could see a reason for railroad opposition and it was taken into account as some- g t must be reckoned with by the friends of e canal But now a blast comes from a class supposed to be the natural enemies of the railroads, and there is evi- dence of the utmost surprise at Washington, and the through Congress seems less way of the measure than bejore. Mr. J. C. Hanley, president and general manager of the Allied National Agricultural Societies of America, has called on the President to file a strong protest against an isthmian canal. Therein the farm- ers submit energetic arguments to prove the canal detrimental industry. This revelation that Mr. C. P. Hunting- ton was speaking for the farmers as well as for the railroads is one of the most interesting features that has appeared in any.national matter in this genera- tion. President Roosevelt declared the protest so unex- pected and the arguments so different from any that had been brought to his observation that he asked for time to examine them. Those arguments are not pubhshcd and therefore cannot be reviewed now, but the protest itself is such an addition to the maze of complexities which in- velves many public questions that it will be the de- spair of those who have not studied the increasing complexity of our whole industrial and productive system. The friends of the canal in Congress have not expressed themselves upon the attitude of the farmers, but seem to be pausing, in doubt of what action to take. If the argument of the farmers indi- cate 2 set and serious opposition, it will make many representatives of rural conttituencies touch the canal very gingerly, if they favor it at all. The opposi tion may prove so serious that it must be met or sur- rendered to, and the friends of the canal need to be- stir themselves. President Roosevelt wis hes our representation in Cuba to consist of a2 Minister Plenipotentiary, with a salary of $10,000; Consul at Havana, $5000; Consuls at Cienfuegos and Santiago, each $3000; secretary of legation, $2000, and sccond secretary, $1500, making 2 total annual expenditure in salaries alone of $24,500. That lJooks like treating Cuba as a first-class power, and in recognition thereof the Cubans should erect a monument on San Juan Hill. Having noted that 80 per cent of the failures in class work were by students who frequent billiard- rooms, the faculty of the State Agricultural College of Oregon has prohibited students from playing bil- liards; but if the faculty expect the prohibition to diminish the failures there is going to be a disap- pointment. The student who does not like to study doesn’t need a billiard table to tempt him to idle- ness A distinguished member of our Jlocal footpad gentry, who was sentenced to thirty years’ imprison- ment for his crime, says that when he gets out he will kill the police officer who caught him. Some- thing good might have been made out of this inter- esting convict if some one had encouraged his sense of humor, to their interests and ruinous to their | _ltry that sech an enterprise should be in full ®bpera- | tion in onc section while in other sections it is hardly given a passing thought. If for no other reason’than that it recalls to public-attention the marvelous in- dustrial awakening in the South as exhibited at the exposition, the visit of the President is in the high- est degree gratifying. ! TFhe Charleston exposition is not so large nor so comprehensive as that at Buffalo, which immediately i preceded it, but it is the best that has yet been held lin the extreme South. It represents high water mark | for that section in such enterprises, and there is some- thing of significance in the fact that it should -have been undertaken in the city whose traditions are no- | table for anything rather than for industrial or com- { mercial enterprise. The greatest display at the expo- sition is, in fact, the display of the new sentiment of | Charleston itself, and without the visit of the Presi- dent' that display would not have received anything like the consideration it deserves from the rest of the country. In his reply to the welcome that grected him on his arrival in the city the President alluded gracefully to the enlarged patriotism which in our time has eliminated the last trace of sectionalism from the hearts of the great mass of the American people. “I feel at home in your city,” he said, “and I think that any American who is worth his salt has the right to feel at home in every part of the United | States. Around this table I see many men who took | part in the great war. The war in which the younger ,among us here took part was a very little one, be- cause it did not have to be any bigger. But it had one thoroughly good effect; it put the cap on the structure that has been building while we were almost unconscious of it, and it taught us how thoroughly When we got through that war it did not make a bit of difference to us whether it was an admiral who came from Vermont or a lieutenant who came from Alabama, if the man had done his duty in such shape as to make us each feel an even more generous thrill of pride in our common nation- ality. The debt that we owed him had little to do | with the section from which he came.” | The development of a broad Americanism noted | by the President is deserving of the emphasis laid upon it, but the greatest change in Charleston has been not the enlarged sense of nationalism as op- | posed to State pride and secession, but the change |from old aristocratic pretensions founded upon | slavery to a full recognition of the value of industry |and the worth of workingmen. The present repre- sentatives of South Carolina in Congregs say and do many foolish things, but they do not scoff at | workingmen as “base born mechanics” and “mud- | sills of society,” as did their predecessors before the j\\'nr. Charleston has acquired the American social |ideal as well as the national ideal. The honors of ‘her exposition are. not to go to orators, constitu- honal lawyers, statesmen or generals, but to the men who in the fields or in the machine shops are win- ning for her a more honorable place in the JUnion than she has ever held since the days when her great Revolutionary statesmen gave place to the advocates of slavery and the agitatcrs for disunion. At the present time the whole South is moving swiftly forward in the industrial march. There is still a long and difficult journey to be made before South- |ern industry is on a level with that of the North. There is urgent need for bettqr and fuller common school education, for legislation restricting the em- ployment of child labor in fagtories, and for a pub- lic sentiment more earnest in maintaining law and protecting the weakest from violence; but despite such defects in her social and industrial system, there is a good deal in it worthy of the highest commenda- tion when contrasted with the evils of the past. Certainly the path in which Charleston is now leading the South is far better than that in which she led of old. The hospitable greeting which all her people have extended to the President meets a cordial re- sponse from the whole Union, and the response is the more carnest because the occasion of the visit and the welcome is cne that shows a growing re- spect for labor as well as for the Union. P one we were. Something radically wrong has shown itself in the mental make-up of the local Grand Jury. After ma- ture deliberation that distinguished body of official inquisitors insists that the Board of Public Works must cease to give excuses for its varied delinquen- cies and resort to action of some public benefit. To most observers this demand under existing condi- tions borders on an absurdity. A TURKISH ERUPTION. NCE more the Turkish war cloud ~which O hangs permanently over Europe has begun to emit flashes of fire and give signs of an cutbreak of activity in the volcano below. Not long ago the Greek Government called the attention of the great powers and of Turkey to the dangerous agitation going on in Macedonia and Bulgaria. A little later came the apnouncement that the Turkish Government had arranged to mobilize 90,000 men for service during the summer. The two events taken together gave warning that something serious was going on among the réstless populations . of Macedonia and Bulgaria, and now comes the news that the expected has happened. Dispatches from Vienna report that Turkf’sh troops have been sent to four localifies on the Eaét- ern Roumanian frontier to guard it against an attack from Bulgaria; that the Turkish reserves near thie capital had been ordered to hold themselves in'readi- ness to respond at once to an order to move, and that there has been already considerable fighting along the frontier between the Turkish troops and small bands of Bulgarian adventurers. Further reports from Constantinople are to the effect that serious disturbances resulting in ., armed of European Turkey, and fears are felt that some- thing like a general outbreak between Mchammeglans and Christians is imminent. It seems, therefore, that the Greek Government was none too soon in calling attention to the agitations, and that the = Turkish Governmefit has been a llme too slow'in preparmg to syppress them. An eventual outbreak of sufficient violence to over- throw the existing order of thmgs in European Tur- key is one of the few things on which the forecasters of the future of Europe are agreed. In fact, it has been nothing but a clear consciousness of the immi- nent danger of such an outbreak that has prevented it from occurring long ago, for had it not been fore- seen and carefully guarded against by every resource ‘Lnown te d|plomacy Ih:re would have been no conflicts have taken place at widely separated points ! Turkish empire in Europe at the beginning of this century. Despite all that diplomacy has been able to do, however, it has not been possible to give stable equilibrium to the decaying empire. popular discontent among the rebellious and hali- barbarous peoples of the various Balkan states is never quiet for any great length of time. The most active force has been that of the desire of the Mace- donians to.annex their country to Bulgatia and thus form a considerable kingdom extending from the Danube to the Aegean Sea. For the accomplishment of the desire there has béen formed an organization known as “the Macedonian committee,” and its agi- tations, varying from making speechcs\ to killing Turkish soldiers, have been incessant ever since 1878. The scheme of the committes seems to be the simple one of exciting-violence wherever it can and then making use of the consequent severity of the Turkish Government in dealing with the insurgents to rouse Christian sympathy against the “unspeak- able Turk.” Their one object is to compel a reor- ganization of the whole of European Turkey, and the creation of a kingdom which will be a sort of independert standing ground for- the Slavonic races. 1t is that very fact that makes the powers of Europe watch them so closely and so suspiciously. ~There is | probably no power that would lift a hand to help the Turk if it were not that all of them are half afraid of the menace of the spirit of “Panslavism.” Hence the Gréeks were prompt to give the Sultan | notice of what the conspirators have been doing. Turkey, in fact, may not be much loved. but no one | fears her, while the rising’ demand of the-Slavs for | nationality sounds in the ears of all Europe like a tocsin of universal war. B — ‘Western railfoads are objecting now to the conten- tion of the Federal Government that cannon, horses and ammunition shall be carried as personal baggage of soldiers. The railroads certainly should be ready to admit that in times of emergency these articles zre not excess baggage to Uncle Sam’s fighting men. s o sy EXIT THE BARNSTORMER. is inhabiting his new barn on his Lincoln farm, but his thonghts are unutterable. He has wit- nessed the retreat of Croker,-whom he hailed as “the | Prophet of Tammany the Great.” He has borne the return to the Senate of his sinister supporter, Gor- man, who gave him wormwood in both his cam- paigns by backing him on the score of “regularity” alone. He has seen Hill rise from his ashes to beam TIIESE be trying days for Colonel Bryan. He ited Congress to lay upon it his commands and finds them disregarded by the members who chafe under his yoke, and finally he is called to mourn the defeat of Senator Jones by Arkansas, the last State in the forty-five that was to be expected to repudiate the gospel of Nebraska. Jones is fallen! Twice he elected Bryan by large majorities before the clection, and, seeing through a glass darkly the glory of com- ing power, filled Cabinets and foreign missions in advance. Jones had Bryan's certificate of character. He displayed the peerless one’s certificate that his cotton-bale trust was not a trust, but an industrial benefit for the masses. But the wind has blown it all away, and Jones is no more. In Missouri the other Bryan prophet, irreverently called_“Gumshoe Bill Stone,” is-in uncertain pursuit of a Senatorship, but small boys scoff at him. In the still midnight of his barn, with silence only broken by the Jersey cow chewing her cud and her call nestling in the straw, the pageant of the past marches by, blows out its torches and goes hence, forever. Thé reorganized Democracy may be no wiser than his disorganized Democracy, but it is reorganized and his finger was not in the pie. He has left to him The Commoner and many useful reflections. Once he inspired terror, but, woe is him, now it is pity. J. Pierpont Morgan is giving evidences of a humor that may become dangerous if it be not checked in its incipiency. Before sailing for England he gave positive assurances that America is good enough for him. A CURRENCY NECESSITY. post check currency bill now before Congress it appears the measure will provide the people with what may be called a necessi&y of the time. Our present system of arrangements for sending money in small sums through the mails does not by any means reach the whole mass of the people or furnish all the means that are required, A postal money or- der may be a “facility” for persons who are located near postoffices, but to the general public to procure a money order or to get one cashed is more a matter of difficulty than of facility. The post check plan obviates all difficulty what- ever, and at the same time provides a method of sending money which is fully as safe as sending a bank check. - Specimens of the proposed currency which have been sent out by the bureau which is advocating the reform show clearly how - slmple the system is and how easily our present paper money can be made effective for the proposed service. In appearance the proposed post check resembles that of the present $1 bill. On blank lines the holder may give the name and address of any ore to whom he desires to make payment. The person to be paid attaches signature to the bill and collects the amount of money named. Forgery of the signature of a payee, like counterfeiting, rznks as a penitentiary offense. » The advantages of a series of bills which can be converted by a stroke of a pen from currency to a check, payable only to the person or firm specified, will accrue to all classes of people and to well nigh every kind of business, but they will be especially beneficial to persons who live remote from - post- offices. In fact, tl,e system may be described as one which wili be a convenience to all and is well nigh a necessity to many. To put the plan into operation will entail little or no cost to the Government, and ‘the bill providing for it should be enacted ®t this session of Congress. It is one of the reforms and" improvements the people need. F ROM the number of indorsements given to the While the talk in the Democratic camp goes on about Bryan and Hill and Gorman and Parker there is every now and then a voice that shouts for Tom Johnson. One of these has recently said that if Johnson were given control of the Democratic Con- gressional campaign committee the party would have a walkover: from which it will be seen that while Tom's boomers do not have a chance to talk often, { they say a lot whenever they get a word i in. The volcano of | as the political phoenix of New York. He has vis- ST. PATRICK’S CHORISTERS e : MAKE BIG HIT IN “PATIENCE GENEVIEV] SukLivad FINE and well balanced rend tion of Gilbert & Sullivan’s opera, “Patience,” was given last night at Native Sons’ Hall by St. Pat- rick’s Choral Society. Miss Etta ‘Welsh, the prima donna, and the mem- bers of the chorus perfectly presented the score, and the performance was given with a vim, dash and attention to detail that showed earnest, painstaking work on the part of all. The opera was handsomely staged and the participants were elaborately cos- tumed. Miss Welsh, with her clear bell- ‘like soprano voice, at once charmed the audience, and at each number, either in solo, duo or trio, she was accorded a rousing reception. The chorus of milk- maids, the esthetic-loving young women, were particularly picturesque and sang and acted like veterans. The soldiers’ chorus of twenty male voices was par- ticularly effective and in the finales of each act came out very strongly. All the principals were excellent in their several roles. Miss Sullivan, as Lady June; Miss Byrnes, as Angela; Miss Hausmann, as Ella, and Miss Anthony, as Saphir, deserve special commendation. The entire cast was as follows: Miss Etta Welsh, Patlence; Miss Genevieve Sullivan, Lady Jane; Miss Lillan Byrnes, An- gela; Miss Frances Hausmann, Ella; Miss Mar- garet Anthony, Saphir; A. F. Schieicher, Mr. e Y ) PERSONAL MENTION. E. H. Cox of Madera is at the Palace, C. R. Tillson, a merchant of Modesto, is at the Lick. De Witt Clary, an attorney of Stockton, is at the Liek. L. A. Spitzer, a fruit-grower of San Jose, is at the Grand. John H. Norton, a capitalist of Los Angeles, s at the Palace. E. T. Manwell, an attorney of Yuba City, is visiting in this city. The Rev. Samuel U#sworth of Reno, Nev., is at the Occidental. A. Anderson, a fruit-grower and well- known politician of Suisun, is at the Grand. ‘W. H. Moore, a prominent resident of Los Angeles, is at the Palace, accom- panied by his wife. LR e _ Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Apgil 9.—The following Californians have arrived: San Francisco —B. Banton, at the Continental; W. G. Deal, at the Broadway Central; Miss J. Monteith, at the %t. Denis; W. J. Plerce, at the Bartholdi; R. Samayon, at the Kensington; A. D. Sangster, at the Her- ald Square; J. Triest, at the Savoy; W. P. Thomas, at the Astor. Los Angeles—K. Steinlein, at the Savoy. Oakland—C. T. Forrest, at the Broad- way Central. Palo Alto—Mrs. Keating, at the Graad Union. Stuffed prunes with apricots. Townsend's.* z —_———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* Notice—Best eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ to 60c. Look out 81 4th (front barber & s(ocery).' —_—— Townsend’s California glace fruit, 50c a gound in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- ts. ‘A nice present for Eastern friends. Market st., Palace Hotel building. * ———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Burean (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. B A little girl finding a threaded needle on-Sunday, commenced sewing with it. Her mother coming in, said: *““Why, Jane, are you working on Sunday? Don't you knnw it's wron: to do that?" % qupwe. " said the little girl, “Gvd knows T'm only using basting thread.” Men shaved without soap, 15c, at Russ House | Antieeptic Barber Shop, 217 Montgomery. * Miss FRANCES ! HBEUSMAN N S - o - MEMBERS OF ST. PATRICK'S CHORAL SOCIETY WHO TOOK LEAD- ING PARTS IN THE OPERA “PATIENCE,” PRESENTED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BUILDING FUND OF THEIR PARISH. Bunthorne; - James C. O'Donnell, Eugene Bournizeau, Major; William Ogtivie, Solicitor. Chorus—Misses Mary Anthony, Ethel Brown, Catherine Blake, Ella Barry, Libbie Brooks, Susan Brooks, Ella Canning, Eva Can- ning, Kate Cusack, Gertia Croin, Celia Feenéy, Lizzie Fuller, Kate Fuller, Mary Fitzgerald, Agatha Glover, Mollié Glover, Mary Hegerty, May Lyne, Kate McGuire, Lilian Nunan, Fred- erica Reid, Kate Robinson, Loretta Smith, Eleanor Sheehy, Nonie Sullivan, Nellie Teha- ney and Louise Wiskotschill, James Butler, James Casey, Dennis Casey, Maurice Corridan, ‘William Cox, John Doherty, Michael Donnigan, v, John Griffin, Walter Hancock, Archibald:.| Ignatius John H. O'Brien, Puke; Roy B. Kay, Colonel: | Brearty, John O’Brien, Thomas O’ Brien, Georg: Kerr, Thomas Leach, James Mc- Shields, O'Brien. The production was under the direc- tion of the following staff: Stage manager, A. F. Schieicher; musical di~ rector, Curt C. Davis; accompanist, Miss Mary Short; floor manager, John J. Griffith; assist- ant floor managers—George Shields and Dennis Casey; assistants, young men of the Choral So- clety. The opera will be repeated this even- ing, and a dance will follow the per formance. Harry Smith, James Smith and James ‘ APRIL THIRTEENTH MOST DARING HORSE- WOMAN IN THE PARK. MEMORY TEST FOR A PRIZE SECOND INSTALLMENT. Forty Pupils From th= Public Scheols Are Put to a Test. DO YOU WANT TO LAUGH? Sce “Pat and Heiny " in Their Latest Adventures. This page has attracted more attention than any other comic page published in San Francisco. THE BUILDING OF A SUBMARINE BOAT. JULIET CROSBY IN MME. BUTTERFLY. As Viewed by a Japanese Woman. THE MOST STUNNING PARISIAN GOWNS IN SAN FRANCISCO. S THE SUNDAY CALL PUELISHES MORE WESTERN STORISS THAN ALL OTHER SAN FRANCISCO PAPERS COMBINED.