The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 15, 1902, Page 6

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BRIGHT TRADE REPORTS. HE principal feature in trade last week was the T stringency in the New York money market during the last two or three days. On Friday cail loans advanced to 20 per cent, ahd as the banks called in their loans to meet the demands for cash funds a general selling movement was started in the stock market, which caused a decline all along the line. The stringency has been gradually growing jor a fortnight, and is largely due to the demands of the West for money with which to move the crops, and is a regular annual occurrence, varying in inten- sity from year to year, according to the volume of crops to be moved, the supply of money, etc. It is usually short-lived, for as soon as the tide of money reaches the West it turns right about and reflows to New York, so it is not long away from headquarters. The shoe pinches the stock market very often while it is gone, however, and this seems to be one of these occasions. There were reports of pending importations of gold from Europe, but they were not confirmed. The European bourses view the New York situation complacergly, and do not attach much importance to it. The only disagreeable fea- ture of the stringency is the smallness of the surplus over the legal reserve which the banks are required to hold, but the general calling in of loans by the banks offsets this deficiency to a considerable extent. Aside from this little flurry trade presented a bright and lively aspect, as reports from all over the country were of a uniformly cheerful tenor, pointing to a brisk jobbing and retail trade almost every- where, with improving collections, especially in the South, where the expansion of the usual fall trade is particularly marked. The West and Northwest have sent in nothing but bright reports for a long time. The only lines which appear to be halting at the moment are the New England footwear trade and iron furnace work, the latter being hampered by the scarcity of fuel and the great colliery strike. The bank clearings for the week showed a good gain of 186 per cent over the same week last year, while the aggregate clearings rose to $2,446,723,000, the largest volume for some weeks, showing a marked expan- sion in business throughout the country. The fail- ures were 205, against 193 for the same week last year, The. food and clothing staples generally continued firmness. exhibit Wool and woolen goods rule firm, there is no particular change in cotton, hides and leather are in good shape for sellers, and provi- sions are slow at the high prices everywhere. Lum- ber, structural iron and other building material are firm and active. Shortage of cars continues a fea- ture of railway reports, and is a twin nuisance to the shortage in fuel, which is annoying the iron and steel trades at the moment and leading to continued imports of pigiron, billets and even steel rails from Europe, to the great disgust of American operators. The large crops have caused a decline of 3.5 per cent in prices for August, as indicated by Dun’s index number. But the consumptive requirements of the country seem to be increasing, and there is no falling off in the demand for goods to explain this decrease in prices. In California conditions remain precisely as be- fore. We are enjoying a demand for grain and for- age such as we have not seen for years, and the mar- kets for cereals and feedstuffs are rapidly advancing in consequence. Most of this demand comes from Australia, which is suffering from drought, and from Europe, which is after our very fine barley this year. This movement is steadily clearing the differ- ent crops off the fields, and those farmers who raise grain and hay are especially cheerful at the moment. Grapes are also rising, but fruits are slow, owing to the large crops and the small size of the fruit, which is a handicap to the market this year. Otherwise there is nothing uncommon to report this week, the State sailing along smoothly on the stream of pros- perity. The authorities of the University of California were sorely disturbed over the large number of students in the entering class at Berkeley. The learned gentle- men should compose themselves. Their disturbance will be nothing to the disquictude of the rest of us when the young ladies and gentlemen graduate. *The reappearance of the venerable Horace Boies 2s a candidate for Congress in Iowa may be taken as evidence that the “young Democracy” of to-day is made up mainly of old warhorses that have begun to fieel coltish egai ~ 615 Larkin, open until | 2201 | ! ‘THE CONDITION OF CHINA. HE report of Commissioner Sharrettsg the T American revenue expert who was sent to China by our Government to study financial and revenue conditions there, may well arrest the at- tention of the Western powers responsible for en- forcing the enormous indemnity put upon that em- pire. The indemnity was so obviously out of propor- tion to any losses for which China was responsible as to suggest a motive for its imposition far away from that which was professed. Its effect has been to intolerably oppress the Chi- nese people. If it had been for loss of territory it might have been excused, on the ground that the other nations had lost and China had gained a rev- enue producing asset. As a matter of fact the West- ern armies had ruthlessly ravaged a large part of the productive territory of China and had dismantled and destroyed, for the present, its producing power. In the view of our Government this widespread destruc- tion should have been considered punitive in itself, and should have been deducted from the money in- demnity exacted after it was over. Such a consid- eration, however, did not influence the other pow- ers, and the United States, to the imperishable honor of our administration, voluntarily abated and reduced the share of the indemnity allotted to us. In the execution of his commission General Shar- retts encountered extraordinary obstacles, imposed by representatives of the other Western nations. !Germany was especially hostile to a tariff schedule | that did not practically exclude American products. After an interview with ' the British Minister that Government joined ours in the effort to make an open door tariff, and the others followed, slowly and ;reluctantly. At last a schedule fairly impartial was arranged that is very satisfactory to the commerce of this coast, for which due acknowledgment should be made to General Sharretts. He finds China going headlong toward a financial collapse, and predicts | that as a result of the burden of this indemnity and slipshod revenue methods within twenty' years the crash will come and payment of the indemnity fail entirely. Civilization should gentle the Christian nations. It should increase the quality of mercy and heighten consideration for others. It is evident that as pre- sented to China none of these qualities and char- acteristics appear. As we have already published, be- fore the Boxer outbreak the German Minister caused his legation guards to fire upon and kill a number of unarmed Chinese. His murder in his chair followed, and then came the panoramic tragedy. The indemnity that <losed it was levied utterly with- | out regard to the capacity of China to pay, and ex- ceeded enormously any damage suffered by the citi- zens or subjects of the other nations. Then we have the spectacle of the nations concerned fixing the rate of taxation the Chinese must stand, and self- ishly fighting among themselves for exclusive com- mercial zdvantages during the process of squeezing taxes out of that people. The course of General Sharretts was highly hon- orable and will be commended by his Government and his countrymen. But, doing 'his best, he sees ahead only financial disaster and bankruptcy to China. In his opinion there is a gleam of hope, the realization of which depends upon the ferment of internal reform. If China can see clearly the effect | of enlightened administration of her affairs, and de- velopment of her resources, she may yet carry the burden of this indemnity, pay it, and rise stronger than ever. He believes that the development of Chi- nese coal deposits and other mineral wealth, by di- | viding the burden with agriculture and manufactures, | will redeem the empire from pawn to the Western world. From the point of view held by this country such a policy is most desirable. We don’t want a pauper | China. We don’t want a destructive tax there ‘Ho repay hypothetical damages. We don't | want the consuming power of that people | duced. but increased. We desire that pros- ;pcrit5- in China shall effect what it does everywhere | among human beings, the multiplying of their wants | with the capacity to supply them. Now is the time for the United States to use the influence of such advanced Chinese statesmen as Wu Ting Fang and Ho Yow, and direct it to the im- provement in the administration and development re- of that empire. China should be to our Pacific Coast | trade what Europe is to the Atlantic seaboard. We are nearest to that vast country, and we should do all that may be done to prevent its collapse, improve the condition of its people, reform its revenues, de- crease its burdens and sustain the consuming power of its people. This may be called Pacific Coast statesmanship, and our public men and those whom | we commission with authority may well direct their attention to its study. B — The report that Sara Bernhardt has signed a con- tract to appear at a Berlin theater may be taken as evidence that peace is restored between France and | Germany, or else that Sara is getting old and longs for audiences that will look upon her as a novelty. PUBLIC EDUCATION. | ROM the first the Republican party has made { Fitsclf in a special sense the champion of public education. It has fostered and promoted the instruction of youth in every department of learning, from the primary school to the university. The con- ventions of the party have always sought to choose right men for the administration of school affairs. The party of course has not always chosen rightly, and at times has had to set aside men whom it once nominated and elected; but where it has proven a man in office and found him at once faithful, energetic and cfficient, it has delighted to re-elect him. Therefore from one end of the State to the other there is grati- fication in the renomination of the Hon. Thomas J. Kirk for the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Mr. Kirk was not an unknown man to the edu- cators of California when he was first nominated to the office he now holds. Born in Missouri forty- nine years ago, he came to California in 1873 and settled in Fresno County in 1875. His life has been devoted to the cause of public education. He served for twelve years as a teacher and for eight years as Superintendent of Schools in Fresno County before his election as State Superintendent. He has had, therefore, ample experience in the work he has been called upon to supervise,.and in every department where he has been tried he has given the highest satisfaction to those who are most deeply concerned and interested in the cause of education. The esteem in which Mr. Kirk is held by his fellow educators is shown by the fact that he was chosen by them in 1893 to be president of the State Teach- ers’” Association. He holds in.the Masonic order the 1 Knight Templar. Socially he is one of the most genial and popular of men, having broad sympathies with everything human. He possesses in a high de- gree the faculty of making and retaining friendships, and the circle of his personal friends is even wider than the State. In his administration of the office of State Super- intendent Mr. Kirk has been at once progressive and conservative. His work during his present term has won the approval of those who are best fitted to judge it. He has well merited the renomination h has received, and in his campaign for re—e]ectioz should have the support not of Republicans only, but of every man who believes that the administration of the schools should be above partisan politics and free from merely partisan considerations. Voters will take no risks when they cast their ballots for him. He has been put to the test of actual administration and has shown his fitness for the work. A vote for him is virtually a vote for the maintenance and ad- vancement of every true interest of the public schools. It is stated that of the $40,000,000 which the various church organizations of Great Britain and America set about raising for a twentieth century fund over $30,000,000 has already been subscribed. That is quick work, and it is as good as it was rapid. e — FROM CAPE TO CAIRO. ONSUL G. BIE RAVNDAL of Beirut ‘ states in the ctrrent number of Consular Re- ports that “all maps of Africa more than six months old are obsolete because history is being made so rapidly inthose regions.” The chief scene of African activity is of course along the line of the projected railway from “Cape to Cairo.” Along that line a “train de luxe” is now running from Capetown to Biluwayo, a distance of 1500 miles. The Beira-Salisbury line has been ex- tended southward and a junction formed with: the main line at Buluwayo, and in a short time the train de luxe will be running over the whole route. It was originally designed that the road from Bulu- wayo to Salisbury should constitute a part of the main line from the Cape to Cairo, but the discovery of extensive coal beds in another district of the coun- try has led to a shifting of the main route to the west so as to tap the coal fields, and the change will en- tail the crossing of the Zambesi River at Victoria Falls. So rapidly is the new work being pushed for- ward that it is estimated the road will reach the coal mines this fall and be at the Zambesi River within a year. Another change in the original plans has been made, and instead of running the main line through German East Africa, as was originally intended, it will now be carried to the upper waters of the Nile through the territory of the Congo Free State. That means that instead of heading for Lake Tanganyika after leaving Victoria Falls the line will run due north to Lake Kasali. The German territory, how- ever, is not to be wholly neglected, as branch lines will tap the country and furnish it with the -advan- | tages of direct communication with the great through route. Consul Ravndal goes on to say: “Approximately the distances to be covered are: Buluwayo to Vic- toria Falls, 300 miles; thence to Lake Kasali, 700 mifes; from Stanley Falls, on the Upper Congo, a road will be constructed to Mahagi, on Lake Albert Nyanza, 48 miles, thus supplying the connecting link between the southern lines and those of Egypt. Such is the scope of the concession which Mr. Rob- ert Williams obtained last month from the King of the Belgians.” In discussing the collateral roads now constructed or in process of construction the Consul says: “By joining at Lake Kasali the Congo Free Staté railway and river system the Cape to Cairo Railway would secure a western feeder of the highest importance. On the eastern side there are already two feeders in waiting, the Beira-Mashonaland railway, 350 miles, and the Mombasi-Uganda railway, 660 miles. An- other prospective eastern feeder is the proposed Suakin-Khartoum line, the construction of which, 350 miles, has been decided upon by the Soudan Government. This will make Suakin, on the Red Sea, instead of Alexardria, the chief port of the Sou- dan. To those eventual feeders may also be added the French line from Djibouti through Abyssinia to the capital of King Menelek’s dominions, 430 miles, and perhaps to Fashoda, an enterprise which by an act of the Chambers was recently granted financial support from the Government of France.” It will be seen that we have here a railway pro- gramme of first-class importance. Only a few years ago the project of a railway from Capetown to Cairo was derided as the fantastic dream of a British ad- venturer. The dreamer, Cecil Rhodes, is dead, but his work lives after him and goes forward about as vigorously as he could have driven it himself. Within a few years a tour through Africa by rail will be commonplace, and we shall doubtless hear before long of a world’s exposition of arts and industries in the very heart of the region which Stanley called “Darkest Africa.” B — Chicago University publishes so many kinds of papers and periodicals that it has found it necessary to set up a large printing establishment to do the work. It would have been better of course to employ the money in hiring editors to kill half the stuff they are tempted to publish, but of ' course they never thought of that. A local hack driver was arrested the other night on a charge of robbery. One would think that he se- cured enough in the ordinary progress of his business without resorting to the hazardous occupation of a vulgar highwayman. A Minneapolis woman committed suicide a few days ago because her husband would not buy her a $25 dress. The lady is now probably situated happily in a locality where she won’t be tormented by new styles. Judging by our Eastern reports Pierpont Morgan owns the world and John W. Gates owns Chicago, and now it is up to lightning calculators to determine which of the two has the biggest wad. It is said that the unspeakable Sharkey has decided to leave the prize ring. It is sincerely to be hoped that he intends also to keep his affairs out of the range of public scrutiny. Flme T The Kansas City man who has been predicting that beef will go higher yet in the market may be a good man in his way, but it is a safe bet he isn’t running for ‘office this fall. - St. Louis has postponed her world’s exposition for a year, but all the same she is making a world-wide exposition of her boodle politics just to show, her en- high position of Thirty-second Scottith Rite and a Lterprise. J* iy e & CRUISER TERRIBLE IS HOMEWARD g 18 BOUND AFTER LONG FOREIGN SERVICE CRUISER TERRIBLE, ONE OF ENGLAND’S MOS'T FORMIDABLE WAR VESSELS, W&‘IXCH RECENTLY LEFT HONGKONG HOMEWARD BOUND, AFTER THREE YEARS' ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE BOER WAR AND ON THE CHINA STATION DURING THE RECENT TROUBLES IN THE ORIENTAL EMPIRE. HE British cruiser Terrible left Hongkong July 29, home- ward bound. She was commissioned March 24, 1898, and left England in September, 1899, under the command of Captain Percy Scott, for China via the Cape. She was detained at Cape Town in consequence of the Boer war and rendered good service notably by landing guns and getting the: ing m up to Ladysmith in the very nick of time, thereby sav- the town. The Terrible then continued her voyage, ar- riving at Hongkong May 8, 1900, and again rendered important service during the recent troubles at Tientsien and Peking. The alleged defects in hull, machinery and notably the boilers, which have been frequently reported, appear to have been exaggerated, for the ship will have served a continuous com- mission of nearly four and a half years by the time she reaches England, which is more than is usually expected from modern ships of war. A waste of considerable magnitude has been discovered at the counts has recently made a detailed report. the utilized in the past as rubbish material for roads. ‘Woolwich arsenal of which the Committee of Public Ac- It appears that ashes and brass refuse from the several ships have been Two years ago the discovery was made that marine store dealers were in the practice of purchasing metal picked up from the rub- bish heap, Col paving 83 cents a ton for such sifted material. onel Bainbridge made an investigation with the result that contracts were made for the sale of the wasted metal at $30 a ton, after the larger pieces had been picked out and re- turned for use in the gun foundry. It is estimated that the annual loss to the Government has been not less than $50,000, and that the total foots up to $1,250,000 since the waste began. The committee expresses the opinion that this heavy and con- stant waste is to be attributed to the “want of knowledge and training on the part of those selected to chief positions of aut] hority in the several manufacturing establishments which comprise the royal arsenal.”” The new dock building at Chatham is giving the contract- ors serious trouble and postpones its completion considerably. One morning last month the pit was discovered to be covered wit] h water which was rapidly increasing and finally sub- merged the locomotives, cars and tools used by the contractor. Upon investigation the coffer dam was found to be intact and that the water spr came from a “blow” or subterranean ing. The roadbed alongside the excavation settled over two feet and much time and money will be lost through this unavoidable accident. Similar accidents occur with nearly all modern structures of that kind, and notably in New York. However careful may the preliminary borings may have been de, the presence of springs and quicksands is not known until manifested by sinking of ground and flooding of exca- vation at the inopportune time. . The Jurien de la Graviere, a French protected cruiser of 5605 tons, has recently had her preliminary trial, making a spe at ed of EL'I knots with 14,000 horsepower. She was laid down the L’Orient dockyard Ncvember 15, 1807, and Jaunched June 26, 1899, and will, therefore, have been over five years under construction by the time the ship is ready for service. The calculated speed is 23 Kknots with 17,000 horsepower, but her recent performance does not promise a realization of this high speed. The ship is fitted with triple screw engines and the hull is sheathed with wood and coppered. ORI A new drydock was opened at Kobe last July. It has a capacity for a 5000-ton cruiser and is 408 feet in length with 24 feet draught of water over the sill. It was begun six years ago and the cost complete is $800,000. The docking facilities of Japan are rapidly Increasing, five new Goyernment docks being under construction which when completed will give Japan twenty-six docks besides several large patent slips. e Great improvements of the harbor of St. Petersburg are planned, a commission having recommended the deepening of the Neva to 30 feet as far down as Kronstadt. The work will extend over seven years, and cost about $10,000,000. —— Two Russian torpedo-boat-destroyers built at Havre had serious mishaps on their voyage from France to Russia. When the vessels were well out at sea boller tubes on both crafts gave out, badly scalding two men, and with boi disabled the vessels were in great danger of capsizing. lers In consequence of this unsatisfactory behavior of these boats it is stated that no more contracts for warships will be gi to foreign firms. iven, An article appears In the Sviet critlcizing Russfa’s naval position in the far East. It points out that the Russian squadron in the Pacific Ocean’ is completely at the mercy of Japan which can blockadge the Russians at Vliadivostok Port Arthur. The facilities for coaling, provisioning and and re- pairs at these two naval stations are inadequate, and Vladi- vostok is almost inaccessible five months of the year. Port Arthur there is not sufficient depth of water in inner basin and the outer basin is dangerously exposed every wind. At the to In times of peace Russian ships winter in Jap- anese ports, but in the event of war they would be forced to lay up at Port Arthur and Vladivostok. In view of thesa many and sinister possibilitles the Sviet considers it neces- sary that Russia should acquire a new port, for which purpose Masampo in Korea secms to meet all requirements. One of the 25-knot cruisers of 3200 tons and 18,000 horse- power, building at St. Petersburg, will be attached to Pacific squadron as a scout and dispatch vessel. the It will carry a complement of 400 and will also be used by the Gevernor of Kwantung when necessary to make sea voyages. & ale The last five of the monitors built in 1862 have been struck off the effective list of the United States navy will be sold as old material. They rendered good service during the Civil ‘War, but have been of no use whatever since the close of that war, except furnishing work for contractors to raise the sides and otherwise improve these vessels. Their orig- inal cost ranged from $023000 to $414,000, with several unsettled claims by the builders still pending in the Court of Clai ms. The cost of subsequent alterations, repairs and care-taking exceeds the original cost considera™ly. In 1888 several of these antiquated crafts were provided with water-tube boil- ers at a cost of about $400,000, and repairs involving an outlay of nearly $600,000. It was money wasted, as their speed did not exceed five knots, and their guns and armor were obso- lete. of the remaining flve monitors will not exceed a total $75,000. % When finally disposed of the sum realized fromy the sale of Wilson Huy, who dled September 10 at Hampton, Va., is sald to have supervised the construction of the Confederate ram Merrimac in 1$61-62, at Norfolk. This vessel, it will be remembered, was wxlgiraly the (wited States steam frigats Merrimac, which was partly saen s the Norfolk yard. transformed into an ironclad. The credit for the idea never been definitely fixed, but is shared between Lieuten: John M. Brooke and Naval Constructor John L. Porter, b. formerly in the United States navy. wad sunk April, 1861, The vessel was subsequently raised an has ant oth It is probable that Lieu- tenant Brooke conceived the idea, and it is &ertain that Porter carried it into execution and produced a novel) craft that considerable damage and excited great apprehension in North during its brief existence of usefulness. Wilson F daid the Tuy was probably the master carpenter, but neither he nor Brooke nor Porter received as much substantial benefit out of the work as one of the obscure workmen who, while professing to be an ardent ‘“reb,” was in regular communication with the Navy Department in Washington. The latter was kept fully posted on all the details and progress of the Virginia or former Merrimac, and when the war ended the aforesail workman was rewarded with a foreman's position in the Nor- folk Navy Yard and as a further recognition of his services his son was made a warrant officer In the navy and has the rank of chief carpenter at the present time. D o X S R NS -I-:-;'Z'l il e e e e e e e foff il @ Thomas J. Donovan, a merchant of Ven- tura, is at the Grand. Sol Loorya, a merchant of Arbuckle, is a guest at the Grand. panied by his wife. PERSONAL MENTION. Bakersfield, is at the California, accom- iy SRR RS Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_—— Townsend's California Glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched QUEEN NEAR TQ DEAT BRUSSELS, Sept. 14.—The Soir says condition of Marie Henrfetta, Queen H. the of the Belgians, is hopeless and that King Leopold probably will be obliged to short- Colonel A. B. Hotchkiss and wife of | boxes. A nice present for Eastern en his visit to Bagneres de Luchon, Los Angeles are at the Grand. €39 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding.’ | France, in consequence. P. B. Fraser, a banker of Stockton, is at the Palace for a brief stay. The purity of Japanese copper obtains | Queen Marie Henrietta has long been L A. Van Nuys, a capitalist of Los| for it a market all over the world, it |1l With a malady of the heart. She is Angeles, is registered at the Palace. having the highest known electrical con- | &t Spa. and it was reported from there L. Gotthelmer, a merchant of Dixon, is a recent arrival at the California. Gustav Sutro and wife have returned from their honeymoon and are registered at E. procurable. the Palace. . Conde Jomes, an oil speculator of ductivity of any specimens of this metal —_——— Special information supplied dally to business houu-nlnd public men by the Press Clipp! ureau X Torsia Street " Telegnone e iamy S seized by a severe attack of asthma. —_—— “They had to wait two hours for bridegroom last night.” ““Where was h losa last Thursday that the Queen had been the P “Playing pingpo t '8 — ng at the best man’s. > -