The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 26, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1902. THURSDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Froprietor. 4 éirese £1] Communies T TELEPHONE. te W. 8. LEAKE, Manag:r. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Wlll Connect You With the Department You W ivh. Market and Third, S. F. 217 to 221 Stevem PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. DAILY CALI (including Sunday) DAILY CALL inciuding Sunday) DAILY CALL—By Single Mont) EUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Yes All postmasters =re ruthorized to recel subseription: Semple coptes will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers mn ordering cha: e of address should be particuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order Invure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.........:....1115 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS, Xerager Foreign Advertising, Marquetts Building, Chisags (Long Distance Telephone *“‘Central 2619.") WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. MORTON E. CRANE, Co .1406 G St., N. W. pondent. 10 SUBS(RIBERS me;xm FOB THE SUMMER, Call subscribers contemplating n change of restdence @uring the summer months can have by mall te their mnew addresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This per will also be or sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in all towns on the com BRI THE APPALACHIAN FORESTS. Y a substantial majority the Senate has passed B the bill providing for the establishment of a vast forest reserve along the crests of the Appalachian Mountains, in the Southern States. The bill has been before Congress for a long time and has received general approval. It has been re- garded as a sectional measure, though the benefits will accrue mainly to the South. One of its most effective supporters is Senator Depew, whose recent elaborate speech on the subject had doubtless much to do in procuring its passage. The forest is to be one of the most extensive in the world, 1 include upward of 4,000,000 acres of land. he country, however, is not rich nor well pted for agriculture as at present practiced in this e Government expects to obtain the r $10,000,000. While comparatively for farming purposes the region is of the never co ) & desired tract § valuel highest value for forestry and also as a point of con- servation of the water supply of a wide area of country speech on the bill Senator Depew said: The Appalachian forest preserve as proposed in the g measure is about 150 miles in length and of ng breadth. It is from 4000 to 6ooo feet above the sea. It rums through -the States of Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The slopes of these moun- tains are very steep, varying from 20 degrees at the lowest to 40 degrees. The waters which flow from the perp: streams, e side to the Atlantic and on the other of Mexico. . . » The timber in this forest is all hardwood, and is the largest body of hardwood on the North American continent. It is of forest growth, embracing, on account tion, the woods which can be grown in ate, semi-tropical and tropical countries. Te are 137 varieties, making this forest one of the interesting in the world. The deep soil has forming for a thousand years or more, and in its interlacing of tree roots and humus, of grass and leaves, there has beer created an enormous sponge he absorption, retention and distribution of the rainfall.” The maintenance of the great forest means some- thing more than the preservation of the timber; it means the preservation also of the rich agricultural lunds that lie along the streams that flow down from the mountai The lands affected by those streams on the Atlantic side of the mountains are 150 miles wide, while on the Mississippi Valley side they are much wider. The menace to them in the waste of the forest lies in the fact that the mountain region has a heavier rainfall than any other portion of the United States except the North Pacific Coast. In the win- ter the rain falls in torrents, and where the forests have been swept away the torrents rush down upon the Jowlands, flooding everything and sometimes ac- tually washing whole farms away. Senator Depew in speaking of the destruction of the forest said: “It has turned these peaceful waters into roaring floods, which have plowed deep and destructive gullies through fertile fields and across grassy plains. One freshet in the Catawba River last spring, occasioned wholly by the deforesting of the mountains, swept away a million and.a half dollars’ worth of farms, buildings and stock. The damage done by the freshet of last year alone in the large territory fed by the streams and rivers which came from these mountaigs was estimated at over $18,000,- 000. This destruction cannot be repeated many years without turning into a desert the fairest portion of our country.” While the Appalachian forest is far away from us California can watch with satisfaction the action of the Government in establishing and maintaining it. We also have a forestry problem to solve and will be thankful for whatever help the National Govern- ment gives in such matters. Tun on the to the G be: for Out of the experiments to be made in the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama lessons will be derived by which we may profit. The whole Union, in fact, may expect bene- fits from the measure, and future results may prove it one of the most important acts of legislation under- taken by this Congres S———— A Redding woman has confessed in court that for three years she wrote a man burning love-letters for fear that he might kill her if she showed coldness. She has placed upon herself an' awful job of persua- sion when she makes love to the next fellow.a 2 e Corruption in public affairs and dishonesty among officials seem to be diseases most contagious in the frozen north. Fast upon the Nome frauds comes the scandal in Dawson which has sent several prominent officers into exile. . fed by the perpetual springs, | | | { | the city. LIGHT ON SAN QUENTIN. HE CALL has exposed the sophistication, forgery and substitution of accounts at San Quentin. We presented proof that bills had been allowed that were not made out by the’ claimants, nor upon their original bill heads, and that the prime?}\part of bill heads had been cut off and pasted upon new bill sheets that bore accounts not in the handwriting of claimants or creditors, nor for articles actually sold to the State by them. We. exposed the extensive use of forgery of hills and accounts by convicts, em- ployed for that purpose. All this part of the exposure is now admitted to be true by the Prison Directors, who last Saturday passed an order declaring that: “Hereafter no claims will be allowed” that bear those stigmata of crooked work and are ob- | viously blemished by crime. As this action of the Directors is in advance of the formal investigation to begin on the 26th, it is the affirmation by the board that our charges were true, upon the evidence which we have already submitted. “Hereafter” bills blemished, pasted, substituted, forged and sophisticated are not to be allowed, which means that heretofore such bills have been allowed by the Directors, who supposed that they were straight and honest bills, as they were countersigned by the prison officers. The vast extent to which the system of false and forged accounts has been carried is not yet wholly known to the Directors. The means of completely informing them are in hand and at their disposal when they are ready for the evidence. They will then see what a multitude of doorways to fraud and theft, heretofore swinging wide open, are closed by their “hereafter” order. There were two lines of dishonesty followed at San Quentin. In their pursuit they were sometimes distinct and sometimes merged, one being necessary to the stc- cessful practice of the other. The board’s “hereafter” order will suppress the pursuit of one, and the board may well strike practices in the other heretofore followed, not only with a stern “hereafter” order but with some measure of punishment. - The sec- ond line is the carrying on of illegal manufactures in the prison. Our proof of this is just as clear and convincing as that of the manipulation of accounts, which is accepted by the Directors without further formality than its appearance in our columns, The manufacture of furniture, articles of luxury, of harness and other things not permitted by law was begun in San Quentin shortly after Warden- Aguirre took charge, aund was in full blast at the date of cur exposure. Then there was a scuttle to cover. Ar- ticles already finished were hidden and those in process were abandoned. Why? If their production were lawful and legitimate, or our exposure untrue, why stop work and hide that already done? Not only have we the evidence of this unlawful work, but of the delivery and ship- ment of the results to various parties who were the beneficiaries, innocent or otherwise, of these violations of the law. When the Governor of California made his ‘celebrated private inquiry and emerged from behind locked doors to announce that he found prison affairs in fine condi- tion and our charges false, he was fortified by the affidavits of three persons in the prison, the commissary and two others. These were to the effect that books, bills, records and accounts were proper.and virgin, and the prison management up to missionary standard. If these affidavits, procured by the Governor, are true, why do the Directors make their significant “hereafter” order? The manipulated bills bear the countersign of the com- missary, who makes affidavit that all was pure and proper. If so, why not go on counter- signing forged, pasted, patched, substituted and sophisticated: bills for audit by the Direc- tors? It will be seen that the evidence procured by the Governor and treated by him as exculpatory is not credited by the Directors, who evidently don’t consider it worth the paper upon which it was so hastily written that Sunday when the notary was so sud denly summoned to affix the jurat. So far the Directors have vindicated themselves. They do not intend that . for- gery of accounts shall go ons right under their noses and while they are investigating prison affairs. They stamp with disbelief the Governor’s report that he found every- thing right and proper when he looked behitid the door, and they declare that “here- after” the criminal practices shall cease as a result of The Call’s exposure of their ex- Z PHILIPPINE CHOLERA. istence heretofore. HOLERA appeared in Manila in February ‘ and has spread to the provinces. The medi- cal authorities were at first optimistic about it and made reassuring reports, which have not beén justified by the subsequent spread of the epidemic. At the last report there had been 8899 cases and 6676 deaths. > The high death rate proves the very virulent char- acter of the disease. Among the victims are nearly a hundred American soldiers. The epidemic is re- ported to be increasing and it has evidently got away from the medical officers entirely and is beyond their control. Our frequent communication with Manila through the transport service makes necessary the most rigid inspection and quarantine. It is known that we received from the Philippines the most extensive and widely distributed invasion of smallpox that the country has ever suffered. This occurred notwithstanding the universality of vacci- nation and the superiority of modern sanitary science. Smallpox is not feared in the islands and means for its control are not used. It is one of those diseases which tropical people do not fear. But their toler- ance of it became the means of exporting it to this country, where in many States it has been for two years a formidable problem!'for local and Federal sanitary cfficers. Cholera, unlike smallpox, is equally terrible in the torrid and the temperate zones. If it were intro- duced and first appeared at one of our seaports energetic means would suppress it, as its last attack on New York was turned by confining it to the ships in the bay, the quarantine stations and detention headquarters, so that not a single case appeared in But this was accomplished by vigorous measures, including the complete cremation of all victims of the disease. If the prejudices of the peo- ple did not prevent, cremation would be found the most powerful agency in stamping out the disease in the islands. Our sanitary science has conquered yellow-fever in Cuba and has before it a battle and a victory over the cholera in the Philippines. If, however, the dis- ease should pass through a seaport to appear in the interior like the smallpox, and should locate on one of the great watercourses, the consequences would be serious, because of the difficulty of fighting it under such circumstances. e e According to the London Lancet the activity of reformers is not due to moral causes, but to patho- logical conditions. The condition of mind that pro- duces that sort of activity, says the Lancet, “is not vigilance or prudencs, nor deliberate or considerate judgment; it is not even a natural and rational anx- iety, though it may exhibit itself in the guise of any one of these. It is mere fussiness.” It is now up to the reformers to refute that diagnosis or take a pill, AT A notorious swindler who has worked himself into the toils of the Federal court expresses very strenu- ous objections to having his picture taken and re- produced. This is probably one of those cases where a man’s face is too well known to be consid- ered a legitimate asset in trade. A Berkeley professor has undertaken the task of bringing the producer and consumer more closely together in harmony. He ought to make a low tackle on the beef trust. ! ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS, ENSUS BULLETIN No. 180, just issued, ‘ gives statistics of the manufacture of alco- holic liquors in 1900, which was the first time the industry was made the subject of a special in- quiry by the Census Office. The report is not ab- solutely accurate. It is stated the determination to publish detailed statistics of the industry was reached too late in the organization of the Census Office work to permit the preparation of special schedules for the collection of information, and the general schedule for manufactures had to be used in obtain- ing data. As a consequence there is lack of uniform- ity and completeness in the returns. For the purpose of ‘he Census Office the industry was divided into three branches, those of malt, vinous and distilled liquors. The reports from all branches of the industry show that 1,108,602,104 gal- lons of malt liquors, 103,330,423 gallons of distillates and 23,425,567 gallons of wine were manufactured during the census year ending May 31, 1900. This is a total for all classes of 1,325,358,004 gallons, which does not include quantities reported from small es- tablishments with a product less than $500 each; wine returned from farms and as a subsidiary pro- duct of distilleries; and spirits returned from wineries, principally as a by-product. In the manufacture of malt liquors New York leads, the value of her product of that kind in the census year being $36,137,854. Pennsylvania was second and Illinois third. In the production of dis- tilled liquors Illinois leads the Union with an out- put for the year of 32,508,433 gallons. Kentucky ranked second and Indiana third. In the manufac- ture of vinous liquors California held the\first place with a product valued at $3.037,871. New York was second and Ohio third. The manufacture of malt and distilled liquors is fairly well distributed through- out the country, but the production of wine is largely centered in the three States named. The combined capital engaged in the industry in California, New York and Ohio amounts to $8,437,783 out of a total capital of $9,838,015 for the Union as a whole, The totals for all branches of the industry show 2835 establishments with a capital of $457,674,087, and an output for the census year valued at $340,615,466. It is noted that the total valuation includes $96,708,- 443 as the value of distilled liquors, and that amount includes an indeterminate amount of internal revenue tax, which cannot be accurately computed because of lack of uniformity in reporting it. The report says: “If such tax were included in every instance the value of the distillates reported would approximate $r40,- 000,000 and the total value of all liquors would be in- creased from $340,615,466 to about $384,000,000. Re- turns from breweries uniformly included internal revenue tax in values of products.” Whilé we have been enjoying our commercial in- vasion of the markets of Europe it appears the Ger- mans have taken away from us a large and valuable market in South America. We are evidently not vet big enough to grab the whole world. When we reach out for one place we have to loosen our grip somewhere else. — By vote of the Board of Supervisors San Francisco is assured of some new, substantial, artistic and health permitting schoolhouses. For a while at least after their construction the people of the city will be justified in all reason in looking upon them a freaks of our traditional municipal policy. ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS TO CE C.Lan_a)r_,, BusimeLy cuovo i o LEBRATE FOURTH OF JULY PECIAL efforts are being mac by the committees having chs of the arrangements for b Fourth of July celebration of the Anclent Order of Hibernians (o be held in Schuetzen Park, San Rafacl. There will be open air exercises to com- memorate Independence day. An original poem will be delivered by a local poe an oration by an eloquent resident of this city is scheduled, and patriotic songs wi be sung by the audience. Besides this there will be games and dancing to amuse the picnickers. A special platform has Been erected for Irish jig and reel danc- ing and valuable prizes will be awarded to the most expert. There will be a tus- of-war between married and unmarried men and all kinds of surprises are prom- ised by the committee. / th COMMITTEEMAN AND LADIES WHO ARE ARRANGING FOR HI- BERNIANS' CELEBRATION. CITY CHARTER IS IN NEED'OF MORE AMENDING The Supervisors' Committee on Charter Amendments declded yesterday to recom- mend an amendment to the charter pro- viding for progress payments on public contracts. The necessity of this amend- ment was advocated several months ago by Commissioner Manson of the Board of Public Works. Under the present law payment on a contract is not made until the work is completed and declared satis- factory. Small contractors are thus barred in many instances from bidding, wkich tends to lessen the competition. It was stated that as contractors had to wait so long for their money they includ- ed in their bids interest on their outlay, which raised the price of the contracts. The proposed amendment will authorize the Supervisors to incorporate in the or- dinance empowering the Board of Works to let a contract a clause providing for partial payments to contractors while the work is in progress. This will be done under such regulations as may be deemed necessary. The committee also reported in favor of a charter amendment whereby the Board of Public Works may permit prop- erty owners to do their own sewer con- necting on unaccepted streets under offi- clal supervision, instead of having it done al their expense by the board, as at present. Commissioner Casey opposed this amendment on the ground that all sewer woPk should be done bf] experts on a uni- form plan. Casey sald that the many leaks and collapses in sewers was due to the fact that no general plan had been followed and the work had been done in a haphazard way. ‘The committee also adopted a number of minor changes in the charter provi- sions relating to street improvements in crder to make.the charter conform more closely to the general law. During the discussion Commissioner Casey expressed himself as strongly in faver of the city establishing its own bitu- men plant for the purpose of doing the repair work on bituminous streets. Casey says that the proposed innovation would year by year become a matter of more importance owing to the increased amount of = bituminous paving. Casey thinks the Board of Works shouid do ail its own work of that character, because the charter contemplates that it should, and he belleves it would result in better werk. He indorses the amendment re- quiring the Board of Works to do the street cleaning and belleves that this will 1?1%] to the establishment of municipal stables. —_— braeee————1 Cal. glace frult 50c per Ib at Townsend's.” ———— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* ———— Reduction, genuine eyeglasses, specs, 10c to 40c. Note 81 dth, front barber, grocer, * —_——— Townsend's California glace fruit, e a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Marl street, Palace Hotel building. . — Special information . supplied daily to busine¢s houses and public men by ths Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, —————— Customs Inspectors Disappointed. The day customs inspectors petitioned the Treasury Department through the California Congressional delegation about a year ago for an increase of pay from $3 er da{ to $4 per ,» the same pay that s received by the discharging inspectors. The latter class of officials, ’grobflm to officials f{om revent the two grades o cf coming merged to the possible disad- — e < John P. Dignan will be in charge of the floor and will be assisted by the follow- ing young ladies: Miss Annie Reedy, Miss Julia Keeffe, Miss Mollie McCarthy, Miss Della Collins, Miss Bessie Hennessy, Miss A. Donovan, Miss May Dunne, Miss Winnie Higgins, Miss Annie Ryan, Miss Annie Morrissey, Miss May Murray, Miss Julia Callaghan, Miss Annie Cavanagh, Miss Agnes Lyons, Miss J. Molloy, Miss Fannie Gallaway, Miss Tessle Powers, vantage of the more liberally pald class., filed an application for a raise of pay to 5 per day. Customs Collector Stratton was notified by the Secretary of the Treasury yesterday that both applica- tions had been denied. ——— Cheap Rates to Minneapolis, Minn. N. E. A. Convention, $84 %0, Sen Francisco | to Minneapolis amd return, going direct lines, returning Northern Pacific Rallway. On sale July 1 and 2, good sixty days. Only requires six days for entire trip through Yellowstone National Park. Just the season to visit ““Na- ture's Greatest Wonderland.” The Northern Fravin, Miss Vaughn, Miss Miss Emily Doyle, Miss Bessla ulia Keenan, Miss Margaret Ke nan, Miss Mollle Dempsey, Miss Nellle Co nell, Miss I;‘?ue IP‘-oeney. ml:s Cora Long, M e i " - | Copeland, Miss Pollie Burke, Miss Crawford, Pacific train ‘“North Coast Limited,”” is unex Miss Emma Connell, Miss B. Daly, Miss Han. celled by any other. Seeing is belleving. T.|aan Gibson, Miss L. Murphy, Miss Frankis K. Stateler, general agent, 647 Market st., S. F. | Connell. 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