The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 10, 1902, Page 4

THE SA FRANCI CO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10 1902. Thes eifon: Call ves...NOVEMBER 10, ‘xgoz MONDAY.... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprielor. ‘hddress All Communications 8 W. S. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. "h> Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third, 8. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevensom St. Delivered by Carriers, 16 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, § Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postages DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year.. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months..... DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months. All postmasters are authorised to recelve subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. all subgeribers in ordering chanze of address shculd bs particuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o imsure e prompt and correct compliance with their request. OGAKLAND OFFICE. +.1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGXNESS. Yazeger Toxelgn Aévertising, Xarguette Building, Chicago. 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HE election over and the results being favor- T able to the continuance of the prosperity which the country has enjoyed for the past four or five years, the commerce of the nation is once more in smooth waters. ing again, and the wholesale, jobbing and manufac- turing interests are reporting a healthy tone in their respective lines. Fall distribution of merchandise is liberal, the feature at the moment being the immense volume of merchandise moving from Eastern to West- ern centers: scarce, but from all parts of the country come loud complaints riously hampering the delivery of goods. This is a sign of trade activity, but most merchants would like some other sign. Locomotives are also scarce, and it seems as if the different works could not turn them | out fast enough to supply the large and growing de- mand. Collections are good, failures last week were only 148, against 191 for the same week last year, and with a single exception the liabilities in October were the smallest in ten years. The country’s bank clearings showed a gain of 10.9 per cent. over the correspond- ing week in 1901, with aggregate clearings of $2,241,- B64.000. The railway earnings in October were 4.8 per cent. larger than in October, 1901, and 14.2 per cent. lagger than in October, 1900. Prices for most commodities remain about the same, though reduced quotations for meats and fuel have made a reduction of about 1 per cent. in Dun’s index number of prices. The iron and steel trades are running along about the same. Tin plate is marked down 10 per cent., the reduction to take effect December 1. Owing to recent enlargements of plants the production of iron and steel goods has increased somewhat, which gives the market an easier tone, though premiums are be- ing paid for prompt deliveries and many works are still crowded with orders which will carry them far into the coming year. Cereals have weakened slightly at Western centers, and speculation in them is inact- ive. Up to Saturday the New York money market ruled quiet after the election, funds being in ample supply at rates which, though somewhat above the normal, are not excessive, considering the demand for cash usual at this time of the year. The Secretary of the Treasury evidently considers the pinch over, for he has announced that he will no longer receive miscel- laneous bonds from the banks as security for Govern- ment deposits. So the money market was no longer the center of commercial and financial interest, though the stock market sold off sharply on Saturday owing to the threatened railway strike at Chicago and 2 report that the barks would henceforth loan no more time money under 6 per cent. Barring this flurry on Saturday the week in-Wall street was quiet and uneventful On the Pacific Coast trade continues exceptionally good. Wheat has weakened somewhat during the past week, though prices are still high and above the parity of the European markets, while the grain itself is'as scarce as ever. The stock in California is un- usually low, while conditions up north are not much better, the Washington millers being forced to draw on Portland to keep their mills grinding. The de- mand for wheat and flour all over the coast has rarely been as heavy as at present, and, owing to the ap- proaching exhaustion of the largely overestimated Washington crop, the mills of that State are in a fair way to close down before the new year, unless sup- plies can be drawn from more easterly regions which ship to Chicago. They are already paying prices away above the export level, and this may induce Western shipments to the Pacific Coast. The decline in this market is due to the vigorous hammering of the exporters in the pit. They must have wheat for their vessels, and the only way they can get it with- out suffering very serious loss is to depress prices in the pit, which they are now doing. The other farm staples as a rule are firm, especially hops, wool, dried fruits and raisins, wine, hides, butter and eggs, the two latter being very high and unusual- ly scarce.. Merchandise of all descriptions is moving off well, collections are good and there are no serious failures to attract attention. The year is drawing to a close under remarkably favorable conditions, The coming citrus fair at the ferry building should be made brilliant enough to get a national reputation. As it is to represent Northern California it must not look anything like a sideshow. The recent duel in Paris between two Frenchmen of prominence was almost utterly lost in tragic inter- est in view of the various reports from our football centers. Importers and exporters are breath- | COLONIAL DIFFICULTIES. HE CALL has endeavored to dir‘cct the atten- T tion of the country to a solution of colonial problems by forecasting them. Such problems are novel to our system. Our continental posses- sions, vast in their stretch from East to West and North to South, are all within the temperate zone, and the physical conditions that are common to the most widely distant parts are so nearly common that the same labor policy and the same political adminis- tration may serve them all, and give to them all a symmetrical development. What difference there is in products serves only to give to them a proper complementary and reciprocal character. The grains and meat products and manu- factures of the North complement the sugar, rice, cotton and tobacco products of the South, and the same form of labor, under the same regulations, may be domesticated in either section. When it became certain that we were to expand beyond the temperate zone and acquire possessions in the ‘tropics, this equality of conditions and of law and labor could be no longer maintained. Foreseeing this, we called the attention of our readers to the inevitable problems that would arise, making necessary an inequality of policy to meet inequality of physical conditions, if we intended to industrially develop our new holdings and nurture their unquestionably great resources into a profitable use. We ncither advocatc nor deprecate the measures that are coming into view to meet the situation. It is sufficient to say that they exist and experience must meet them or let them alone. An intelligent Filipino has recently said that it is useless to rely upon his countrymen to industrially develop their country, for they are a tropical pcople and will not work to de- velop resources that are not required by their simple needs. He joins the American Chamber of Commerce in Manila in declaring that industrial development must be sought by using the abundant and industri- ous coolie labor of China. In this view members of the first Philippine Com- mission coincide, as do all the Europeans resident on the islands f8r business purposes. The effect of the climate on white labor is destructive of its energy, as we early pointed out, and it is useless and hopeless to expect that such labor can be used. As peace has come and civil administration is instituted there, this problem, more serious than war, comes into focus. It will be slowly realized by our people at home, but they will finally awaken fully to its gravity. It will not be solved by education of the natives, since educa- tion, after all, is everywhere limited by the need of it for equipment of a people for the satisfaction of their material wants and their personal ambitions. These are easily satisfied in a tropical people, and then edu- It would be still larger were not cars so | cation ceases to be useful. In Hawaii we have the same problem. Pending the working out of the policy of annexation we fore- cast it, in a spirit of warning and exhortation to that | people, to look before they leaped. They realized 5 % | that the insufficiency of freight cars is se- | | tries. this and their leaders said that some way would be found to get the labor supply needed in their indus- But such way has not been found. The grip of legal equality for all parts of our jurisdiction is so ‘strong that all legislaticn for the Philippines and Ha- waii is dictated by it as far as labor is concerned, and nowhere appears any indication that it can soon be loosened. Two missionaries from Hawaii, speaking at the In- dian Conference at Mohonk Lake last week, brought this problem forward. Both dwelt upon the moral and industrial retrogression of the islands since an- nexation. One of them, Dr. Birnie, said the only hope for the future of the islands lies in a restricted suffrage and the introduction of Chinese labor upon the plantations. The other, Dr. Twombly, said that a limit upon the franchise is an absolute necessity, and that the danger is that Hawaii will be put more and more into the background in the future colonial policy of the United States and subordinated to other interests which are antagonistic. These two gentlemen put the case as it is. Our continental policy as tc labor and the franchise is dic- tated by our continental position in the temperate zone. The necessity for it is so strong that it can never be breached or weakened. It positively will not yield in the least degree to the interests of any colonial holding in the tropics. Great national poli- cies never surrender to subordinate issues. When Great Britain, with conscience touched into tender- ness by Wilberforce, adopted anti-slavery as her pol- icy, the interests of her colonial planters proved powerless to’resist the impulse of freedom of man, and she calmly saw the industries of her slave-holding West Indian colonies shrivel in the sun, rather than enjoy prosperity by the use of slave labor. There is no reason to expect that the American people will differ from the English in this respect. There is the problem which we foresaw. It is on now, pressing for discussion and solution. How will it be solved? It is announced in all seriousness that the British were much impressed by the uniform of the Ameri- can soldiers who were recently in Englandv This seems to be a particularly unkind reflection upon the memory of our English cousins. RURAL POSTAL DELIVERY. HE popularity of rural delivery of mail is shown T by the filing in the last fiscal year of 12,463 peti- tions for the installation of that service. Coun- try people are not as fond of going to the postoffice as it was supposed they were when this service was proposed. Since June 3oth the petitions for this ser- vice have averaged 600 a month. When the country now uncovered is taken into the service the total number of carriers required will be over 40,000. The present cost of the service is $24,000,000 a year, result- ing in a large deficit in the postal revenues Merchants in country towns objected to this service on the ground that getting mail was an inducement to country people to come to town, and when there they always do some trading. It will be interesting to know whether business transactions have fallen off in country centers where the service is in operation. One thing seems certain, that rural mail delivery and the telephone will check the flow of population from the country to the cities. The telephone is a social convenience which relieves the monotony of country life. It is also a business convenience, and in many country towns is causing the adoption of a de- livery system by country merchants. They get orders from rural customers by telephone and deliver them by wagon or bicycle. Mail delivery and the tele- phone have in fact equalized the advantages and con- veniences of country and city life. This is a most de- sirable result. Rural life, with its strength and health, is a necessary and vital element in national strength. Young people carry their hopes and inexperience to the cities, to be lost in the murky tide of humanity that flows on the paved streets. Kept in the coun- try, with the advantages of good schools and the so- | cial uses of the telephone and more general and con- | venient intercourse, they retain the vigorous and vir- | mortalized as a benefactor of the species. tuous characteristics which make for the good of soci- ety and the strength of the state. Tt was the sense of isolation that repelled the young from the country. With isolation broken down, and instant communication over hundreds of miles of dis- tance, and a daily mail delivered at the farmhouse door, the superior advantages of country life in other respects will more plainly appear. No matter what the cost of rural mail delivery, the country is more than compensated in the long run by the benefits of it to society and the state. e — The War Department is disturbed over_ the pro- priety of permitting pugilism or any of its exhibitions in the army. Somebody ought to suggest that bear- baiting and bull-fighting offer incontestibly nobler ideals to our beloved soldiers. B current homicidal mania. It is suspected that Mr. Mason, a Harvard graduate, prominent club and business man, has been guilty of a large number of murderous attacks on women, and has fatally injured at least two of his victims, who died of their wounds. The history of his case discloses that he was confined in an asylum, after threatening his mother and brothers, but was discharged as cured, and took up his business as senior, in the music firm of Mason & Hamlin, organ manufacturers. He belonged to several clubs, and is a man of unusual intelligence, and since he was declared cured, there | has been no outward appearance of a recurrepce of his malady noticeable by his associates. If the police are correct in their conclusions, under this outward appearance.of sanity he has hidden a raging thirst for blood, and with great cunning has slaked it by attacking with a bludgeon defenseless women, for whom he lay in wait at night. The { outwardly calm and .respectablc business man by day, by night was a murderous misogynist. If cor- rectly accused he more than casts in real life the fic- titious character of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and his case will prove that in some of the subtle mala- dies of the mind the conclusions of the professional alienists are not to be trusted. Indeed there is every reason for believing that the homicidal and suicidal ! manias, when once fully developed and confirmed by attempts to carry them out, are never cured. Charles Lamb’s sister had homicidal mania, and was pronounced cured, but she afterward killed her own mother. | The case of Mr. Mason will attract wide attention of the legal and medical professions, and if he prove guilty but irresponsible of the homicides and homi- cidal attacks of which he is accused there will be a reversal of some of the cheerful verdicts of the alienists upon the sufficiency of the cures they claim to have 1ade. The affair will have its lesson, too, for people of. both sexes, who will have to more carefully consider their safety when abrcad at night or in lonely loca- tions where a maniac bent on murder may lie in wait to satiate his permanent or momentary mania for murder. In several of our large cities many murder- ous assaults are made upon unattended women, ap- parently with no other purpose than murder without | { other motive than an uncontrollable desire to take life. In Denver there have been a number of such murders in the last two years, and many murderous attacks that have not resulted fatally. Though many suspects have been arrested, the proofs have not been sufficient to secure conviction, probably for the reason that the officers of the law have predicated motive and sanity in the murderer. If Mr. Mason be proved guilty the lesson will be useful to the officers of the law, who may then proceed upon the legal theory that they have to deal with a person void of moral re- sponsibility, and need not prove a motive that would actuate one who is sane. e ————— A story is going the rounds that Mascagni received | an order from an American committee to compose an | ode for the Dewey reception, but before it was ready | the Dewey excitement was over and the order was can- celed. Mascagni then tried to sell the ode to Spain for use on the coronation of Alfonso, but failed. It is now believed he will try to work it off on the St. Louis exposition. No one appears to have heard the ode, and it may be a great thing, despite the ill luck ! that has attended it. Many a good thing has had to wait a long time before getting a hearing. English observers are expressing considerable con- cern over what they consider to be a great scarcity of ready money in Great Britain. They have not yet indicated whether they esteem this a distinction or a disadvantage in reference to the rest of us. . HOMICIDAL MANIA. OSTON is just now interested in a case of re- Colombian impudence is fast reaching a point where Uncle Sam will be forced to take notice of it if for no other reason than to save himself from con- tempt of himself. Our insolent southern friend, per- haps, is looking for chastisement. Calamity howlers may as well cease their whine over the alleged degeneracy of New York. An auto- mobile fiend was sentenced there the other day to six months’ imprisonment for acting as an advance agent for death. : Because of a number of accidents caused by foot- ball the public school authorities of Frankfort, Ky., forbade the game and substituted croquet, and now | a pupil has been killed in that game by an accidental stroke from a mallet. : If the march of reform continues much longer San Francisco will be unable to recognize herself as the reckless representative of the wild and woolly West. Even our firemen have ‘been ordered to keep out of politics. Sir Thomas Lipton says he intends to exercise a beneficent, active interest in the affairs of the St. Louis exposition. The solicitude which Sir Thomas is displaying in our affairs is becoming painfully ex- citing. —_— A distinguished embezzler in the East attributes his downfall to New York stock gambling and a New Jersey woman, and surely a man who would try to carry on two such games at the same time deserves to fall. S o The Denver woman who tried to vote three times and suffered the humiliation of ' being caught will probably feel aggrieved at an unwarranted assault upon that privilege of her sex to do as she pleases. P 5 Now that the results of the election are known it is highly entertaining to hear what a marvelously dif- { ferent opinion some of the recent candidates hold of the boasted intelligence of American voters. st g The local legislator who suggested a municipal ordinance insisting that all bicyclists must provide their machines with warning bells deserves to be im- [ FRENCH EXPERIMENT IN LAUNCHING A CRUISER PROVES DISASTROU L3 — + CZAR'S NAVY. RUSSIAN PORPEDO BOAT SENDING UP A SEA SCOUT IN A “FLYING DRAGCN.” THIS CLEVER METHOD OF SPYING OUT THE SHIPS OF AN ENEMY IN TIME OF WAR WILL SOON BE IN EXTENSIVE USE IN THE i DISASTROUS and expensive experiment was made in France in launching the armored cruiser Kleber, 7709 tons, with its guns on board and otherwise practically completed. The strain upon the hull from the weights of ordnance, armor and other appurtenances has seriously in- Jjured the ship and strained it to such an extent as to make it doubtful whether the vessel can be repaired to fulfill its requirements. The old French battleship Requin, built in 1885, has been re- armored and otherwise modernized. The two 16%-inch guns have been removed and two 1l-inch substituted, new boilers installed and the horsepower increased from 6000 to 70%0. The speed shows an increase from 14.5 knots to 15% knots and the armor belt, heretofore having its top at the water line, is now 2!z feet above water. HRELES Fifty-seven vessels are to be stricken from the effective list of the British navy. This does not imply that that num- ber of ships will be sold out of the service, but that they will, to a large extent, be transferred to harbor and coast service. Quite a number are battleships, armored and unarmored cruls- ers, torpedo gunboats and gunboats that have become obsolete and the vain effort to keep them in an efficient condition is very expensive. With the proceeds from the sales of useless vessels, added to the repair expenses thereby saved, probably two 15,000-ton battleships could be added to the navy. . e o . The Russlan battleship Oslabya, 12,674 tons and 14,500 horse- power, has passed through a suecessful six-hour steam trial. The contract speed of 18 knots was exceeded by .33 knots, but the coal consumption was rather excessive, being over 3 pounds per unit of horsepower against the stipulated quantity of 2.44 pounds. F The Kniaz Suvaroff, battleship launched September 25 from the Baltic works at St. Petersburg, is of somewhat different dimensions from those given in Brassey's Annual. The ship is 367.4 feet in length, 76 feet beam and displaces 13,516 tons on 26 feet draught. The motive power is of 15800 hofsepower, in- tended to give a speed of 18 knots. The vessel was 70 per cent completed when launched. The Russian cruiser Almaz, building at the Baltic works, St. Petersburg, is likewise a different ship from that described in Brassey's. It is of only 2385 tons, 7500 horsepower and 19 knots, and not 3200 tons, 18,000 horsepower and 25 knots speed. She will carry a battery of 14-pounders and 3-pounders and is altogether a unique sort of a warship in these respects that it has but a moderate speed and but little gun power and does S intendents. There is no work in the navy of greater import- ance than the manufacture of guns and accessories .and in order to secure the best ordnance and a judicious expenditure of the large sums Involved, the best talent should be placed in charge. The expenditures during the past fiscal year at the ‘Washington gun foundry were $3,869,212, represented in 234 guns completed, varying in calibers and weights from 13 inches down to 6-pounders, besides a large number of mounts and repair work. The average number of men employed was 2115. The value of the machinery plant is about $2,500,000 and must of necessity be increased and improved yearly with the growth and requirements of the navy. The Navy Department will recommend that two ecivillans be appointed under the Bureau of Ordnance; one designated as ordnance engineer, mechanical draughtsman and computer and the other as superintendent of the gun foundry, each at a salary of 33000, The recent incumbent, a captain in the navy, received a total of $4470, including salary and other emoluments. Owing to the urgent need of junior officers the Navy Depart- ment has decided to reduce the academic course at .Annapolis from four to three years, and the entire first class of midship- men of fifty-two members will be examined next February and sent to sea. Section 1520 of the Revised Statutes prescribes that “the academic course of naval cadets shall be six years.’” but there is no law fixing the time to be spent at the Academy or at sea. Prior to 1573 the course was four years and the additional two years are now given to service at sea, at the completion of which final graduation and promotion to ensign takes place. The Board of Construction has settled its controversy about the two armored cruisers, the Tennessee and Washington, and has decided to reduce the horsepower from 25,000 to 23,000, mak- ing a corresponding decrease in speed from 22 knots to 21.7 knots, according to Engineer-in-Chief Melville’s calculation. The weight of the machinery is reduced from 2250 tons to 2060 tons and the protective deck has been increased from 3 inches and 1% inches to 4 inches and 2 inches, the total displacement remaining as originally intended, 14,500 tons. Chief Constructor Bowles contended that 23,000 horsepower would drive the ship 22 knots, which statement, by a singular coincidence, appears to be exactly the power required by the Drake class of cruisers to make 22 knots, and Melville’s demand for a surplus of 2000 horsepower in order that the machinery should have a reserve power to enable a speed of 22 knots under all conditions was voted down. The accompanying table gives a general idea of the chief characteristics of British and American types of armored cruisers of approximate same displacement: BRITISH. AMERICAN. Drake Class, Sutlej Class. California Class. Tennessee Class. Number of ship: ! 4 § ) )i : April, 1809 October, 1898 May, 1902 To comblete . .| January, 1903 Completed January, 1905 January, 1905 Tons ..... 14,100 12,000 13,680 14,500 Dimensions 500x71x26 440x69.5x26.25 502x69.5x24.5 B502x72. 8x25 Horsepower 30,857 21.261 23,000 13,000 Speed . 23.05 2i.77 £+ Duratic 8 hours 8 heurs 4 hours 4 hou Coal, tons, normal 2 900 900 Coal, tons, capacit Armament, main. 2,600 2 9-in.; 16 6-in. Armor belt, inches. 64 2,000 4 8-In.; 14 6-In, 4 10-in.; 18 tfi? [ 5%-3 Gun_ protection, inches s H [ Turrets, incl 3 H H e%-0 Erotective decks 3 e /R 42 4114 eight of mac J 500 tons 1,800. tons : Weight of hull and §.500 tons 7,840 tons oot Hull ....... Not _sheathed heathed ‘Not sheathed Bstimated cost 106,000 3,669, e not fill the requirements of an ordinary dispatch vessel or scout. A novel method of scouting at sea Is in use in the Russian ‘navy. Torpedo boats have been provided with aeroplanes, known as “Flylng Dragons,” which can support a man high in the air. With these huge kites, bound together, the captain of a torpedo boat can send one of the crew skyward, and will thus be more casily able to discover the enemy’'s ships than heretofore. . The Chief of Bureau of Ordnance recommends the appoint- ment of a civilian sup2rintendent of the gun factory at the Washington Navy Yard and the Secretary of the Navy will lay the matter before Congress. Under the present system naval officers are assigned for that duty for a term of three years and are then sent to sea for a cruise. The chief realizes that such a system is not conducive to satisfactory resuits anq that there are but few naval officers competent to act as super- D e e e 3 ANSWERS TO QUERIES. VERTU—Enquirer, Alameda, Cal. The | giconc ‘word used to designate objects of artistic w“l;‘e unch"ad value, antiquarian curiosities, etc., is | that it is im spelled both vertu and virtu. of Nuremberg, ——————— SPANISH LINEAL MEASURE—M. J. | Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* g o iy D., City. The Spanish pie is equal to Townsend’s C: 11% inches and the legua to 4% English candies, 30c a Do:']"s‘t‘m' glace fruit and ;o’xel. A nice presen Market st., Palace Hotel building. miles. One stado' is two varas and cne vara three pies, equal to 33% inches. KASPER HAUSER—A. O. S, City. Like the “Man in the Iron Mask,” the Special informatios has formed the s much curious speculation, To lh: ?:::e:: day the mystery of his origin remains un- the whole affair is beset nomalies and contradictions nossible to form even grounded conjecture on the lubkct.l by t for Eastern friends. n suppl business houses and pubiie en o (1o identity of Kasper Hauser, the foundling g:‘nfi?&?:‘l&‘l’:;;:n?“fi?: )lfl;‘m b The Tennessee and Washington it will be noted from table have the armament of battleships, and as such lu:!::;: any armored cruisers buflt. Their speed is sufficient to over- take and engage most of the vessels In any navy or to decline a fight with a ship superfor in gun power by keeping out of range. On the other nand their armor protection appears to be somewhat disproportionate to the armament carried, as the armor protecting the 6-inch guns may be pene!n!e:l by a 4-inch shell at 2000 yards, and the 9-inch turrets are not proot against the British 9.2 gun at 3000 yards. It does not seem rational to place battleship batteries on lightly protected hulls as they are too weak to erdure the fire from an opposing bat. tleship ond therefore not likely to engage in an unequal fight. On the other hand, $-inch guns are quite sufficlent fn power g penetrate the hest armor of any armored cruiser afloat at 3000 yards, and in this respect the Californila type of eruisers carrying the latter’ caliber, are apparently less wasteful in Bun power than the newly designed ships. e @ A CHANCE TO SMILE.- Georgle—Paw, what is a philanthropist ? Father—An easy mark, State Journal. Bt it The most uncomfortable people” in~the world are those, who think only of their own comfort.—Chi » artistic fire-etched N P, The shopping woman has a rather poor opinion of the saleslady; but the sales- lady has an equally poor opinion of the shopping woman. So it is an even thing. Perhaps both are justified in their opin- lens.—Boston Transeript. men by the .lla