The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 1, 1902, Page 6

THE, SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1902. THURSDAY .........................MAY 1, 1002 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevemson St. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Weelk. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), One year..... DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months... DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Yea: All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in ordering change of address should be perticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.. €. GEORGE KROGNE:! 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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until ® o'clock. 2200 Fillmore. open until ® p. m. — T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new mddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer d is represented by a local agent in resorts AMUSEMENTS. ‘The Fortune Teller.” al—"'Slaves of the Orient.” Alca: ‘The Lash of the Whip.” Columbia—"When We Were Twenty-one.”” nd Opera-house—*‘Old Lavender. cher’s Theater—*"Fiddle Dee Dee. California—""The Starbucks.”” New Chutes—Opening Thursday, Recreation Park—Baseball to-day, May 1. PUBLIC UNTIDINESS. RXOFESSOR HAMLIN of Columbia Univer- ty contributes to the Forum for May an ar- “Our Public Untidiness,” which serves as a timely reminder that while we are the nd most progressive people in the world we g our wealth altogether to the best advan- e on richest h progress as we should toward certain much needed improvements amid which we live. The profes- ys we “are the most untidy among all the ations of the world,” and, what is more, he ng arguments to prove it. great has s Am facts cited to sustain his indictment or Hamlin says: “On his first visit to Europe elligent American often opens his eyes to the inferiority of our prevailing standards of public but if he fails to apprehend this while abroad it is painfully impressed upon him when he disembarks at New York on his return. Arriving at the st port in the New World, he lands at a decrepit wooden dock covered by a cheap shed of tim and sheet iron. For this shabby landing the ong othe housekeeping; city receives a rental of many thousands of dollars | 3 . : ; S e | and to a desert on which a bird could not live, will from the steamship company. Emerging from this unworthy structure he finds himself upon a street for which for , dilapidation and general squalor of appearance it would be hard to find a match out- e of our own country. Constantinople can rival it, but Constantinople is at least picturesque.” The charges made in that statement could be justly applied to other cities than New York, but so far as the water approach is concerned San Francisco is not among them. Our water front lacks a great deal of being ornamental, but since the construction of the ferry depot and the laying out of the esplanade there is evidence at least of a movement to make the harbor approach attractive and commodious. The ferry depot itself is a spacious and stately structure, and the great thoroughfare that leads from it to the city is fairly well paved and well kept. Upon that score, then, we are not subject to such severe criti- cism as the professor zpplies to New York, but when we turn from the ferry entrance to the railway en- trance we are completely at his mercy. Anything uglier, shabbier and more incommodious than the Southern Pacific railway station on Third street can hardly be found in any' large city in the world, and it would be difficult to find 2 much dir- tier thoroughfare than that which leads from it to the center of the city. Visitors who arrive in San Fran- cisco at that depot can perceive no reason why’the city should be looked upon as a metropolis. The structure itself is so flimsy and so cheap that the im- pression produced is that it was designed as but a temporary affair, erected because the business of the locality did not promise to last long enough to jus- tify the erection of a durable building, and the street upon which it cpens furnishes little to remove the impression. For this untidiness San Francisco is of course not wholly responsible. The duty of constructing a proper railway station rests upon the railway com- pany, and that duty is rapidly becoming imperative, American railways, so far as the East is concerned, have been progressive and magnificent in the con- struction of depots. Some of the stations in the larger cities are equal to any the most magnifi- cent capitals in Europe can show. San Francisco is deserving of as good treatment from the railroads in this respect as other cities of similar importance, and should President Harriman provide us with a suitable station it is reasonably certain the city would take steps to make the avenues of approach worthy of the new structure. Public tidiness, says Professor Hamlin, “costs more 2t first than the untidiness of public negligence, and this makes it unpopulag, but it brings good re- turns in the end. It pays, as all thrift pays.” Of that truth there can be no question. It would pay San Francisco to improve her streéts. 1t would pay the Southern Pacific Company to improve its sta- | | N ) FUNSTON’S ORATORY. OT long ago General Funston stated that he was requested by the President to go to Bos- ton and repeat the various speeches he had made in favor of hanging the college professors and clergymen who petitioned Congress in the Philippine matter. This amazing statement was not credited by any thinking man in the country. But General Fun- ston acted upon the assumed approval of his extra- ordinary discussions of the Philippine question, and in a speech at Denver made an attack on Senator Hoar. Then he applied for a leave of absence to go to Boston and unsheathe his tongue. This leave was not only promptly refused by the War Department, but he was curtly ordered to cease his remarks upon the Philippines by the President himself. 3 This disposes of Funston as an episode, but his stream of talk that ran before it was officially dammed has left a turbid impression that will long remain. Taken in connection with the dictation of the War Department in economic legislation and the revelations of war methods in the Philippines, the impression is distinctly bad. The ¢ountry is rapidly reaching the conclusion that there has been too much Funston in military conduct in the islands. It is now incontestably established that two or- ders were issued by high officers, one to kill ‘all grown people and onc to kill all over ten years old, and the trial of General Smith by court-martial for the latter offense is evidence that the administration believes the testimony of Major Waller. There is an uneasy feeling in the country that these facts, secured by so much trouble and against an obvious attempt to prevent the revelation, implies that they are only a small part of what might be told. Given a helpless but defiant people treated in the Funston spirit, and there is created a condition for ample exercise of wantonness and inhumanity. The story of the murder of a Filipino priest and the taking of the watch and chain off his dead body by a commissioned officer, and his burial secretly on a baseball ground used by the troops, so that the grave would be tramped down, is an abhorrent incident of conquest which revolts the people of this country. It is remarkable that these acts could go on so long, and it is greatly to the credit of the President that he has interfered so promptly and powerfully upon the revelation being made and has also re- buked the spirit behind these outrages by rebuking the leading promoter of that spirit in this country. He has gone still further in the same direction by in- terfering to prevent a repetition of these scenes in Mindanao and among the Moros. he Funston spirit has protested that this order will injure our “prestige.” To the sober mind there can be no greater injury to our prestige than by fol- lowing the policy of Spain, which we denounced, and adding to it all the evil features which go with our greater power and resources. Americans are not so inconsistent as to approve the use by their army of- ficers or their representatives of methods which were made our excuse for interfering in Cuba and finally taking from Spain her insular empire. More than that, when informed they will not permit such mis- use of their national strength to tarnish their national character. The halt has been called none too soon. The trial of General Smith, the order to desist in Mindanao and the vocal embargo on Funston are all concur- | rent and tell unmistakably of a reform in policy and methods. They prove that the conservative advice of Governor Taft is accepted as the philosophy of the situation and that the noisy Funston and the military hydropathists in the 1slands will understand that what they say and do must no longer compromise the ad- ministration nor affront the people. These orders of the President bring in sight pacification on the islands and a right spirit in our domestic politics, and cannot be too highly ap- proved. To issue them required in the President_just the quality that the people demand in that high office. | The jingo spirit which would create a solitude and call it peace, which would order the murder of all people over ten years old and reduce a populous isl- chatter its disapproval. But the real manhood and courage of the country will applaud the President and support his position. B Roosevelt may think it, great sport to call down everybody in the army and the navy who does not talk to suit*him, but if he does not lvok out the friends of some of those men will jorm a combina- tion and call him down at the next Presidential con- vention. y REPORTS FROM RUSSIA, HARLEMAGNE -TOWER, United ' States Embassador to Russia, who is now on his way home, recently stated in London that the reports of disturbances in Russia are grossly exag- gerated. He denies that the situation is anything like so serious as has been described by the press, and asserts that neither are the people so turbulent nor the Government so severe as has been stated in the numerous reports that fiave found circulation in Western Europe. By way of specific contradiction to some of the re- ports the Embassador is quoted as saying: “One reads here of the savage charges of Cossacks upon unprotected mobs, on whom they inflict knoutings ‘and other hardships. How mistaken is that impres- sion I know from personal experience. A short time ago I accidentally got in a crowd on whom Cossacks chargéd. They came riding down, not very fast, with swords not drawn, with only small riding whips in their hands, and shouting ‘Please' pass on.” I saw not a single trace of brutality, No one was hurt. In our country I have seen police who had not the same consideration for an excited crowd as had these Cos- sacks, who are always portrayed as so fierce. No cavalry could have handled a mob more gently.” While the denial imade by the Embassador is in- teresting, it can harc\ly be accepted as a refutation of the press reports. Ihat these reports have been largely exaggerated is probably true. When a Gov- ernment undertakes to suppress/ news, when it for- bids men to gather the facts concerning any current event and publish them to the world/ it is inevitable that errors and exaggerations will circulate instead of the truth. It was not necessary for Mr. Tower to tell the world that fact, for the press itself has fre- quently pointed out that the reports of riots on the one hand and military severity on the: other could not be wholly relied upon. 7 While conceding the probability of exaggeration, however, it will not be admitted that Mr. Tower is right in saying that, the Cossacks of the guard sup- press mobs by rididg among them and crying out “Please pass on.” The “please” is a touch too much. As a matter of fact, while newsgathering in Rus- sia is a very different thing from what it is in the United States, the Russian censorship is not able to suppress it wholly. There are a thousand channels by which Russians can obtain news and circulate it outside the countty without the police knowing any- thing about it.” Exaggerated it may be, but it is not absolutely false. Despite Mr. Tower’s experience with the mob and the Cossacks, it is safe to say there has been-a good deal of bloodshed between them during the last three months, and there is likely to be more before the year closes . It 'has been decided by about all the soldiers' who administered the water cure to Filipinos that the treatmeént is not painful, but perhaps they were not in a position to decide upon that point. The Fili- pino is the man who can give expert testimony on the subject. Rty ganization of national banks with a capital of —— INCREASE OF BANKS. I less than $50,000, or'a ‘minimum of $25,000, ap- pears to be realizing thefbrightest expectations of those who designed it to increase the banking facili- ties of the country, and especially of those sections which are remote from large banking centers. It ap- pears from a’ recent statement of the Comptroller of the Currency qhat from the date of the passage of the act down to the close of last month there were added to the system' upward of 919 national banking asso- ciations, or a net increase of 803, - All of the banks included in the number given are not new banking associations, for among them are 121 banks with capital of $8;305,000, representing conversions of State banks; 290, with capital of $15,130,000, reorganization of State or private banks liquidated for that. purpose, and 508 banks, with capi- tal of $26,544,000, primary organizations. In other words, a trifle over 55 per cent of the banks organ- | ized were those of primary organization, and the re- mainder conversions® or reorgan}'iatmns. A classification of the banks by capital shows that 611 of them are of the class Having a capital of less than $50,000, their aggregate- capital amounting to $16,004,000, while the remaining 308 larger banks have a capital of $34,265,000. While the total number of these new national bank organizations has thus an aggregate capital of $30,- 269,000, the amount of their bond deposit as security for circulation is but $13,339,500, showing that they have been organized for other purposes than' that of obtaining the privilege of issuing bank notes. The complete figyres for March 31, 1902, as com- pared with those of March 14, 1900, show that the aggregate capital of national banks has increased from $616,308,005 to $672,759,195, or $56,451,100, and circulation secured by bonds from $216,374,705 to $317,460,382, a net increase of $101,085,507. In addi- tion-to the foregoing amount of bond-secured circu- lation on March 31 last there was also in circulation notes to the amount of $40,016,025, for which lawful money has been_deposited ‘with the Treasurer of the United States on account of insolvent and ligui ing banks and associations reducing their ciru}a't The relation of the national banks to the circula- tion of notes and the conditions under which it is profitable for them to do so have recently been made thé subjects of an interesting report from the Treas- ury Department for the use of the House Committee on Banking and Currency. From a summary which has been given out through the press it appears the net profits are by no means so large as is generally supposed. . The New York Times inggeviewing the treasury tables explains them in' thisway: “If a bank should loan $100,000 at the rate of 6 per cent its revenue from the loans would be $6000. Now, if it should put that $100,000 in 2 per cent bonds at 100% it could take out circulation up to the par value of the bonds purchased, which would be $01,324. Its receipts would then be, from interest on the notes loaned $5749 44, and from the interest on the bonds $1826 48, or a total income of $7305 9z. The deductions from this income would be, for tax $456,62, for expenses $62 50, for sinking fund $120 72, or total deductions of $639 84. Taking this amount from the gross receipts of $7305 02 there is a net income of $6666 08, and a net profit over the loan of the amount invested in loans of only $666 08, or 0.666 per cent, or two-thirds of one per cent. Con- trary to the usual impression, this ‘profit is smaller as the current rate of interest advances. It is 0.79. per cent when interest is at 4 per cent, 0.66 per cent at 6 per cent, 0.52 per cent at 8 per cent, and only 0.38 per cent when interest is at 10 per cent.” It is to be borne in mind that the calculation as- sumes that the banks will keep its notes always in circulation at interest. Should it fail to do so the profits would be reduced. It appears, therefore, that the question of taking out circulating notes is onc that requires a good deal of close figuring on the part of national banks to decide rightly at any given time. HE act of March 14, 1900, authorizing the or« ion. Representative Cooper of Wisconsin said ' the other day that the Wisconsin volunteers who had served in the Philippines had returned home troubled with “Philippinitis,” which he described as “a persistent feeling of lassitude.” It seems to be rather a catching kind of disease, but perhaps it will yield to: the water cure treatment. After months and months of inadequate service to the city and exasperation to the public a most un- usual incident has given some variety to the affairs of the Board of Public Works. That interesting “body boasts a defender of its work. It is perhaps unneces- sary to say that this defender is the Board of Public Works. . Joe King, the local ‘ex-convict preacher and re- former, seems on the high road to secure some more experiences of prison life with which to harrow the public and misrepresent the penitentiary. Joe has four new charges of burglary against him and a con- spiracy of indignant citizens who have been robbed. Europe is showing new and dangerous signs of anxiety over the wonderful progress of J. Pierpont Morgan’s maritime schemes. Perhaps ‘the weird ! world power dream of Cecil Rhodes will be made a reality by America’s ambitious millionaire. By a scratch of the pen the gigantic steel trust has increased its mammoth debt by many millions of dol- lars. It would be interesting to know how many guesses the public would need to tell upon whose shoulders this ‘new weight will falf. Senator Clark. of Montana has given another evidence of his speedy disposition and methods, and again he intends to plead not guilty. He is accused of manipulating his automobile ‘at a cyclone pace. He didn’t kill anybody. ——e Up to date New York has. presented Roosevelt, Odell, Hill, Shiepard, Parker and Woodruff as candi- dates for the Presidency in 1904, but should none of them suit the country others will be named in due | time. GORTER TOWER PROVES ITS WORTH . IN A PRACTICAL WORKING TEST VIEWS OF GREAT FIRE-FIGHTING MACHINE, THE NEWEST ADDITION TO THE LOCAL DEPARTMENT, AS IT APPEARED IN ACTION, YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT STOCKTON AND BAY STREETS. THE TEST OF THE MACHINE THOROUGHLY DEMONSTRATED ITS EFFECTIVENESS. — % HE new Gorter tower of the Fire Department, known as tower 3, was giVen an official test yester- day afternoon at Stockton and Bay streets. The trial was a practical working test and in every respect the glant machine fire-fighter, the pride of the department, met the expectations of Chief Sullivan and its ihventor, Henry Gorter, and gave ocular proof of its unequaled efficiency in fires in tall buildings. Four engines—No. 1 and three relief ma- chines—were used to force water through the tube and a pressure of 140 pounds to the square inch was reached several times during the test. Each engine had two lines of three-inch hose attached. The tower nozzle has a diameter of two and a quarter and the lower, or ‘“‘deck’ nozzle a diameter of two and three-quarter inches. At times streams were thrown from both of these, each playing with a force much greater than can be obtained by the di- rect use of the fire engine and its sepgrate line of hose. TEARS UP THE EARTH. The ‘“‘deck stream,” designed to be used | to ight fire through first, second and third story windows, was given a separate test and the force of the stream was a revela- lation. Water was thrown to a horizontal distance of more than 250 feet and when turned downward it tore up earth and cobble stones and tossed the debris’into the air like the glant stream of a hydrau- lic mine. The mast was deflected from the per- pendicular as far as 35 degrees in various directions and the direction of the mast nozzle was constantly being changed, both the mast and the nozzle being worked by mechanism from the truck: with all the nicety of the operation of a machine gun. The mast is capable of extension to the @ ieiefieinimirieleivieleieieeiii @ New Incorporations. The Twentieth Century Gold Company was incorporated yesterday, with a cap- ital stock of $1,000,000. The directors, each of whom has subscribed §1, are J. D. The Sanitary Watering Trough Com- pany was incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000. The directors are N. W., Anna E., and M. Griswold, J. E. Boone and H. M. Van Arman. —_——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's® —_—— Prunes stuffed with apricots.Townsend's.* xS i Ses e ity This week,81 4th st., front barber & gro- cer, best eyeglasses & spectacles, 10e-40c.* e Townsend's California glace fruit, 50c a pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bask- ets. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st.. Paiace Hotel building. ¢ o st odisad-clsm b iiddh b Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. 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The mast can be deflected 35 de- | grees from the perpendicular in any direc- was thrown to a height of nearly 200 feet. The new tower, although it has been in commission since last August, has not yet been used at a fire and the trial yester- day was its first working test. A great crowd of people, including many women, watched the exhibition with interest. The giant fountain and a rainbow two blocks long, showing in the mist from the stream, -formed .a spectacle well worth seeing. ITS THREE ADVANTAGES. The test was under the direction of Chief Sullivan and “the Inventoy, Henry Gorter, was in charge of the tower, with a machinist from the .corporation yard, where the tower was built, and a fireman to assist him. The Gorter tower has three distinct ad- | tion, permitting a stream to be thrown at right angles into any window within that radius. Ball joints are used, both at the base and at the top of the mast, doing away with the necessity of using short lengths of hose. In the old towers the hose at the top of the mast is a constant source of trouble. The mast of the new tower is extended by the power from the Pelton wheel built on the truck. The same power is used to raise the mast from the horizontal position on the truck. In Gorter’s first tower extension of the mast above the steel framework had to be done by handpower. The new structure works with a simplicity and perfection that re- duces to a minimum the danger of the mechanism failing at a critical moment. EXT SUNDAY’S AL THE REAL RAMONA. By Professor George Wharton James. E. H. HARRIMAN, THE MAN. By Bertha H. Smith. CALIFORNIA GIRL WHO WILL ATTEND CORONATION OF EDWARD Vil THE WATERSPRITE. First of a notable seties of costume poses by well-known society ladies. THE NEW OUTING GIRL. FASHIONS, FICTION, PAGES OF HUMAN INTEREST STORIES. THE LAND OF MIRACLES. P, AND HEINY IN NEW AD- VENTURES. 7/