The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 29, 1902, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 190 The THURSDAY........... AT MAY 29, 1902 ¥ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propristor. VAflfll"ll All Communicstions to W, 5. LEAEE, Managcr. 5 TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. arket and Third, S. F. 17 to 221 Stevensom St. PUBLICATION OFFY EDITORIAL ROOMS. Delivered by Carriers, Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sund one year.. $6,00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 85c SUNDAY CALL, One Year 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Ye: 1.00 All postmasters nre authorized subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. to receive Mail subscribers in ordering charze of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to Insure @ prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. . .. ..1118 Broadway C. 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T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOB THE SUMMER. | Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mnew | addresses by motifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in =all towns on the coast. lencia, o'clock. until 9 — THE BANKERS MEET. HE Cal T ession this week at San Jose. tion has a very high standing in the country, and its expressions in favor of sound money and safe banking have been serviceable and highly esteemed in times when miseducators of public opinion were active in the propaganda of unsafe policies, danger- ous to our public credit. The association will find that its labors in behalf | of sciel he gold standard law needs the support of additional legisla- | tion that w e every dollar of all forms of cur- interchangeable with gold, and the currency needs of the people require that greater flexibility be | given to cur national bank issues. The latter may fornia Bankers’ Association will be in This associa- fic finance are by no means over. rency be accomplished by the bill recommended by the and Currency Committee of the House. It | ad- | ought to pass before this session of Congress journs, and the California- bankers will do .well to i it and recommend its passage if it be ap- proved by their judgment. If they have amendments | or a substitute to propose they should not hesitate to the same to Congress, for whatever | ommend will be highly considered by the ex- | nd doctrinaires who are trying to push this | ion to success, to strengithen our financial system and adequacy le the country is prosperous and there is gency upon er to our currency issues is no e us The great fault in our financial system was that up to the passage of the gold standard law it was all the result of emergency legislation, which is always sidered zrd imperfect. From 1862 until re of financial legislation had borne the hasty indigestion of the subject by Con- what remains to be done is left uatil we get in another panic it will be a botch of patchwork. Therefore let the bankers say that it must be done sow, when the times pipe of peace and plenty. hasty, ill-cc 1900 ev marks gress A treaty has at last been signed by Chile and the United States by which the southern republic is for- cver closed against escaped American defaulters and embezzlers. This seems, in view of the remarkable leniency of American courts, to be almost an un- necessa international precaution. Again the local authorities of this city are dis- cussing the immediate need of providing hospitals and schools worthy of San Francisco. In reference to these two departments of municipal life we have at present one distinction—we have no rival in the United States in unworth. As the Democrats of New Hampshire are said to be making active preparations for the coming cam- paign, it is to be presumed they are having their overcoats and wool mitts repaired and made. ready for a long cold spell. —_— v A convention of Indiana Republicans recently had to take 1012 ballots to nominate a candidate for Con- gress. It is safe to say there is no indifferentism in that district, nor any fear of a2 Democrat coming in winner at the polls. President Sam of Hayti, who has recently been ex- pelied from the country by the revolutionists, made the best abdication speech ever made under such eircumstances. He said, “I quit because I am tired.” The Territor? of Hawaii, it is said, is greatly in need of ready money. It is suspected that this plea is being made by our new sister in order to show that she is like the rest of us. 5 The Chicago Tribune rcfers to the Governor of ITllino’s 2s a “Governorette,” and it is fair to infer that if it ever has to classify Gage it will call him a E “Governoretticulus.” The startling suggestion has been made that Johnny Mackenzie intends to do politics among us. Let us hope his first experience here will be like his last in San Jose. SAN QUENTIN SCANDALS. N the proper course of news and in justifiable pursuit of information for the people | and taxpayers of this State The Call has entered upon an examination of affairs at San | This examination had no ulterior motive, and was for the purpose Quentin Prison. of vindicating as much as for condemning the management of that public institution, according to the facts found. It was a suspicious circumstance that access to the prison records, which are pub- lic documents, was denied to us. The representative of this paper had an order from Presi- | dent Fitzgerald, of the Prison Directors, for access to the books. Such an order should| not be necessary to secure to any citizen the right to see the books. That right belongs to every one. But it was denied even when backed by an order from the president. President Fitzgerald says now: “Mr. Aguirre admits that when The Call men cailed at the priscn several days ago demanding to see the books, they were refused, but this was on the ground that Aguirre knew that they were [ mation to use against him, and he thought if an investigation was going to be made he should be present.” looking for personal infor- . This statement by Mr. Fitzgerald is disingenuous., The Call did not demand to see the books. President Fitzgerald demanded, by a written order, that we see the books, and his demand, officially made, was refused. That refusal was a fatal mistake for the Warden. It roused a train of suspicions that had not previously existed. How did he know we sought personal information to use zgainst him? Not a word about the prison had up to that time appeared in The Call. If the books contained nothing that could be used; against him, what harm could come by obeying the order of the president to show them?; | Our looking at them could neither give nor take away an entry nor change a figure. President Fitzgerald only involves himseli further by adding: | ought to have some time to meet people correctly when he is charged with such a grave| “A State official crime.” But the Warden had not been charged with anything. President Fitzgerald had not given The Call an order to meet Warden Aguirre, but one to see the books. The | books were not accused of any grave crime and needed no time for preparation. | were written up. How could the Warden use time to prepare to meet people? wish time to change entries, conceal books and destroy records? The issue turns not upon | his state of mind nor his physical condition. These may change daily. It turns upon the | They Did he story told in-the hooks and bills and records of the prison, which do not change of their own accord and should not be changed, even to prepare the Warden to meet peo- ple correctly. The Call is preparéd to prove every charge it has made. They are all the result of a searching investigation we were moved to make by the denial of access to the books demanded by the president of the Board of Directors. We have in hand proofs greatly in excess of what we have published. The flagrant and sustained violations of the law at San Quentin far outrun what we have already exposed. The law permits only the manu- facture of jute sacks at San Quentin as the sole prison industry. Under Warden Aguirre other manufactures have been carried on there, using raw material paid for by the State, to be made up for private account, without repaying the State for the material. Even if this repayment were made the transaction would be in violation of law. All this we are pre- pared to show and prove, together with an elaborate system of forgery and bookkeeping to cover it up. criminal We have no political nor personal motive against the Governor, the Warden or any- body else, in making this exposure and demanding an immediate and searching investiga- tion by the Prison Directors. The people of California are liberal to their public servants; they are willing to build and furnish for the Governor a house at Sacramento, but they are not willing to fur- nish him a house in Los Angeles and a residence in San Quentin, and by convict labor at that. We want the investigation now. There is no good reason for delay. It may easily mean the concealment, sophistication or destruction of the records and evidence. President Fitzgerald sdys: not be back until the 6th of June. “Director Ray is at present in Sonora, Mexico, and can- I cannot do anything until after that date.” Why not? The absence of one Director will not affect the facts. It will not change an entry on the books, nor purge a faise bill of forgery, nor change the identity of articles made in the prison for private account at public expense. But we wish to remind Presi- dent Fitzgerald that he is a public officer. Changed and forged bills have been passed un- der his nose without detection. ' Goods unlawfully made at the prison have been shipped | out before his face. The air of the place has reeked with cunning corruption, and he has moved in it ignorant of the spoliation and crimes that grew around him as thick as skunk cabbage in an Indiana swamp. To investigate conditions which we have exposed is to investigate also himself and his Board of Directors. Have they anything that requires delay to conceal? Let him and them beware of making it appear that they have, for we warn him that the books may be burned and their ashes given to the wind, the prison itself may be given to the torch with all inside its walls, and yet our evidence will exist to confront the guilty. Therefore it is| just as well not to wait for the uncertain return of Mr. Ray from Sonora. come back. He may never It is our duty to urge President Fitzgerald to do his, and go ahead at once with the investigation. This is no less due the Governor and the Warden. If the offenses we will prove have been without their connivance, if they are the victims of misplaced confidence, they should be cleansed and acquitted of direct guilt immediately. We will withhold our reserve mass of facts and evidence for the present, with the "assurance to our readers that the half has not been told. When it is all before the public, men will revolt against sending criminals to San Quentin to be made worse by the bad example set them in the management of the prison. CINCHING THE PEOPLE. SSEMBLY constitutional amendment No. 28, which Gage and the corporations are try- ing to fasten upon the fundamental law of California, is especially objectionable by reason of the fact that if adopted it will suppress every vestige of local control over public utilities, including even such necessary matters as water and light. After stating that the commission to be created by the amendment and appointed in the first instance by Gage shall be the successor of the Bank Com- mission and the Insurance Commissioner, the amendment goes on to say: “The State commis- sion shall in every respect, so far as relates to all and every the said rates and charges hereinbefore men- tioned, and to all and every the matter and things, howsoever connected with performing said services and furnishing and supplying said commodities, be the successor under the constitution and laws of the State of the Boards of Supervisors and city and county or city and town councils and other govern- ing body or bodies of the several counties, cities and counties, cities and towns of the State, with the same powers, authority and duties now established by the constitution of the State and the laws of the State, or hereafter to be established by the Legislature, except where the latter may conflict with this sec- tion.” It will be seen that this takes away the right of local seli-government so far as the regulation of any kind of corporation is concerned. Municipal gov- ernments would- thus be deprived of one of their most important functions. The corporations that controlled the commission could do as they pleased. The people would have not even a right of appeal to the courts, for the amendment in express terms gives the commission exclusive power and jurisdiction. It is hardly necessary to point out the evils that would result from such a surrender of the right of home rule. A commission clothed with such vast powers and working with the giant corporations for the corruption of the Legislature would be an abomination from first to last and the people would be powerless. So far, indeed, as suppressing local self-government is concerned, the amendment would be a flawless cinch. CONGRESSIONAL SALARIES. OME time ago attention was directed to a S statement of one of the advocates of in- creased pay for members of Congress that there is not a man of any influence in either House who could not make more money in some line of business than his Congressional salary amounts to. The statement was not a valid argument for an in- crease of pay, for the Government does not under- take to compete with private business in the way of monetary rewards. Still it seems that a considerable number of Congressmen have made up their minds to retire at the end of their present term on the score that there is not money enough in it. The Washington correspondent of the St. Paul Globe recently gave a list of Representatives who will not be candidates for re-election afid gave the smallness of the salary as a reason for retiring. Sev- eral of the lot have been in Congress for two or more terms and have had ample experience upon which to base their judgments. It is quite probable the disgusted Congressmen can earn more in business or professional life than the salary of a Congressman amounts to, while at the same time their disgust may be due to quite a dif- ferent fact. Probably each one of them went to Washington in the expectation that he would achieve a national reputation as a statesman and be- come a noted leader of his party. The experience of two or more terms has shown them the folly of their expectations. They are big enough men at home and have a goodly following, but at, Washing- ton they count for little. A Congressional career, they perceive, has no. glory for them, and so they decide to leave it. . That the rewards of private business are drawing the master intellects of the country away from a de- sire for a Congressional career is quite true, and it is good for the country that it should be so. The wel- fare of the people depends more upon work and wages than upon talk, more upon enterprise and basiness than upon the average legislation that occu- pies the time of Congress. It is well for the country therefore that politics ddes not absorb all the brains of the country. The salaries now paid are high enough to get all the Congressmen we need, and it is not likely we would improve the lot if we doubled the pay. o 1 PREPARE GRAND ENTERTAINMENT FOR VISITING MYSTIC SHRINERS f— HE Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine of North America, of which P. Shaffer is the imperial potentate, will soon be here with the other imperial officers and thousands of nobles from all parts of the Union to attend the twenty-eighth annual | session that will open on June 9 and con- tinue until the 14th in Golden Gate Hall. The business of the council will occupy about half an hour each day, but the fun will last all day and late into the night during the entire week. In preparation for the entertainment of the visitors, who will be among the most prominent people of every State, Islam Temple of San Francisco, Colonel Charles H. Murphy, potentate, has for several months been holding meetings in headquarters in the Claus Spreckels building annex to devise ways to expend the $35,000 that has been contributed by members of the order. Last night the general committee, Noble Charles Lord Field, chairman, adopted the programme of events for the week. On Monday, June 9, the tired and travel- stained nobles will be allowed to dismount from their camels that have carried them across the desert and be permitted to rest at their hotels. They will be received by numerous committees and escorted to the quarters that have been reserved for them. RECEPTION TO LADIES. On Tuesday there will be an assemblage of the members of Islam Temple at the Palace. From there they will escort the Imperial Council to the place of meeting, the members all wearing dress suit and fez. In the afternoon there will be a re- ception at the Lick House from 3:30 to 6 o'clock to the ladies who accompany the nebles on their pilgrimage. In the even- ing there will be a grand parade, to be made up of the fifteen divisions, each pre- ceded by a band.. Sixteen calcium lights will be used to light up the route of march, and there will also be twenty stands for burning redfire. The proces- sion will be on Market street, from First to Ninth, with a review at the Pavilion. In the procession there will be young la- @ it @ PERSONAL MENTION. Jesse D. Carr of Salinas is at the Lick. ‘W. F. Purnell of Sacramento is at the Lick. J. Finnell, a fruit grower of Chico, is at the Palace. C: B. Gillson, a mining man of Napa, is at the Grand. 3 Dr. 8. E. Simmons of Sacramento is at the California. Frank Gray and Lee L. Gray of Fresno are at the Occidental. Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. Dr. Samuel A. Fisk, a prominent prac- titioner of Denver, is at the Occidental. General Traffic Manager E. O. McCor- mick of the Southern Pacific leaves to- day for a three weeks’ trip to the East. Governor John J. Brady of Alaska, who has been touring Southern California with his family, has returned to the city and 13 at the Lick. J. J. Allen, connected with the Ward Line Steamship Company, is here on a visit from Mexico, accompanied by his wife. He is at the Palace. R. R. Ritchie, general coast agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, ‘who went East recently with the remains of his wife, has returned and 1s at the Grand. Cal. glacr fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_—— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend’s.* —_—— Townsend’s California glace fruit, 50c a pound, in fire-etched bo: or Jap, bask- ets. nice present for Bastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * —_——— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali. fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. * ——— The Germans of Chicago—490,000 in ail— outnumber every other nationality, even the Americans, by 2000. , ———— PP Going to Thunder Mountain PP The Northern Pacific Rallway fs the best, cheapest and quickest route. From Lewiston and Stites, Idaho, there are good wagon roads to either Warrens or Dixle, from which points the tralls into this district are most accessible. For rates, etc., address T. K. STATELER. G. A. 047 Market st., 8. F. —_———— Do Your Feet Ache And burn, and make you tired all over? Allen's Foot-Ease makes the shoes comfortable, rests and cools the feet and makes walking easy. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Sample sent Free, Address Allen S, Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. | o ’ | ‘ | 1 3 Ed LEADER OF THE MOVEMENT TO ENTERTAIN THE THOUSANDS OF NOBLES OF THE ANCIENT ARABIC ORDER OF THE MYSTIC SHRINE WHO WILL VISIT THIS CITY NEXT WEEK. s 4 dies representing each county In the State and an emigrant train drawn by eight yoke of oxen. During the march this will be attacked by a band of twenty wild Indians, the whole to be as realistic as it | was in the days of '49 on the plains. His Satanic Majesty will also have a float with an immense caldron of redfire, over which will be a candidate holding onto the rope. There .will be a mounted es- cort under command of Noble George F. Neal, all attired in new costumes. ‘Wednesday will be Los Angeles day, for Al Malaikah Temple of that city will then ‘have charge. There will be a reception by that temple at the Palace to all Shriners. In the evening there will be a promenade concert at the Pavilion, BALL AND BAY EXCURSION. On Thursday, in the forenoon, there will be a drive to the Presidio, then to the cliff, where lunch will be served, and then a return through the park in time to take the ferry to reach the Oakland race course, where the Arab Patrol, eight 'm rumber, will drill. At night there will be a reception and concert in the pavilion. On Friday the visitors will be taken over the wishbone route as far as San Jose, where lunch will be served, and on the re- ture they will stop at Palo Alto. At night thege Avill be a grand ball in the Pavilion, the grand march to start at 9 o’clock. On Saturday three steam vessels will take the*nobles afd their ladies on an excur- slon around the bay, and at night there will be a banquet in the pavilioh, where ccvers will be set for 2000 persons. It is expected that there will be about 6000 persons in the day and night parades. R. P. Hurlbut will be the grand marshal. A feature on one of the nights at the Pavilion will be the introduction of thirty Chinese boxers and wrestlers, and as many more Chinese in the richest of stage cestumes, who will render selections from a Chinese opera, with accompanying deaf- ening music. 0000 0000, 0000000000000000000000000000, 3 0000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000, 0000000000000000000000000000, 0000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000| 0000000000000000000000000000 0020000000000000000000000000] 0000000000000000000000 DAILY LIFE ON A BATTLESHIP. By Alfred Dezendorf. TRAINING ANIMALS FOR THE Z00. By C?loncl Daniel Boone. SAN FRANCISCO'S YOUNGEST MILLINER: The story of a seven-yearsold girl who maked her own hats. BASKET BALL, THE SCHOOL- GIRLS' GAME, With illustrations of crack teams in action. 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