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

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. == THE ASSESSOR’S SALARY. PON the question of adopting charter amend- U ment No. 6, increasing the salary of the As- sessor from $4000 to $8000 a year, there ap- pears to be no difference of opinion among men who have given the subject the consideration it deserves. It is conceded that the proposed salary will be none too large for the office, and that the duties of the of- fice require for their proper performance a man | whose abilities are well worth the salary. The frecholders who framed the charter did not | intend to restrict the Assessor to a salary of $4000. Prior to the adoption of the charter the Assessor re- ceived commissions, which materially increased his | emoluments from the office, but under a decision of the courts he can no longer receive them. The re- sult has been a reduction of the official income of the Assessor to a point below what it should rightly be. The proposed increase of salary therefore does not mean a real enlargement of the expenses of the As- sessor's office. As a matter of fact even when the salary is raised to $8000 it will still be considerably less than the total reccived in former years from sal- ary and commissions combined. That the frecholders did not deem $4000 a year to be adequate for the Assessor's salary is made evident by the fact that eight of them signed a public declara- tion stating: “It is our belief that the salary of the Assessor as it now stands ($4000) is not a just com- pensation for the services demanded. In our opinion $8000 is no more than a fair compensation for the ability and integrity which this office demands.” The statement is signed by Lippman Sachs, Edward R. Taylor, 1. Gutte, A. Comte Jr., Jerome A. Anderson, P. H. McCarthy, Joseph O'Connor and A. W. Thompson. Where there is such a seemingly overwhelming sentiment in favor of the measure it would appear that but little argument on it is needed. Still it may be as well to point out to those who have not given the subject much thought the reasons that sustain the position of those who favor the increase. The matter is one of high importance, and it is desirable the public at large should have a clear understanding of it. To rightly fulfill the duties of the office the Asses- sor must be not only an honest and a diligent man, but he must have a clear knowledge of values of property, a fair, impartial mind, a brain capable of solving intricate problems of finance and an untiring energy in searching out the kind of property that usually evades taxation. Without just assessments there cannot be a just apportionment of taxes. A certain amount of income is required for the mainte- nance of the municipal government, and the larger part of that income is derived from the taxation of property. To provide it each man should be taxed exactly in proportion to his wealth, for if one man be | taxed too lightly another must be taxed too heavily. It is therefore imperative in the interests of common justice that the duties of Assessor should be intrusted to 2 man of known honesty and of first-class business ability. The office carries with it very little in the way of digs fame or means of providing for further po- litical or business advancement. Consequently it of- fers no inducements to men of talent and business capacity to accept it at a low salary for the sake of the prestige it gives. It is strictly a business offic€ and the salary must be graded upon business princi- ples. To get the right kind of man to accept it the office must be accompanied by the right kind of a salary. Of course it would be easy to get candidates for the office 2t a salary of $4000 or even $2000 a year. In fact, 2 certain kind of men would be willing to pay for the privilege of holding it, for it is an office in which an unscrupulous man could obtain from other unscrupulous men pretty large bribes for making low assessments of their property. The county, however, cannot afford to take risks of getting that kind of man. Good business men are in-high demand in all American communities. Big salaries await them. in private business or in the service of corporations. The public accordingly must pay them what they are worth. In a community of this size $8000 2 year is none too much for an Assessor. It is therefore to be hoped that the vote in favor of amendment No. 6 wil] be well nigh unanimous. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1902. CONFLIOTING POLICIES. HE Secretary of the Interior in his current an- nual report takes occasion to reflect the views of the Commissioner of the General Land Office ¥ |in opposition to the leasing of the grazing lands on the public domain in the arid region. As the same Land Commissioner in his report and recommenda- tions of two years ago strongly urged adopting the leasing policy, and did not change until Oregon poli- ticians saw fit to oppose leasing, when he flopped be- cause he aspires to the United States Senatorship from that State, it may pay the Secretary and the country tc discuss a range policy independently of the effect on the personal political fortunes of the Lan(} Commissioner or anybody else. Three years ago the Secretary of Agriculture, an experienced and able man in all matters relating to the soil, made a tour of the arid States in review of the work that had been long carried on by the agros- tologists of his department. After a full survey of the situation he was convinced of the rapid destruc- tion of the forage on the public range, due to its free use 1n common, and in his subsequent reports to Congress strongly recoménended just such a leasing bill as was introduced and the Secretary of the In- terior denounces. This makes a most extraordinary situation. The Agricultural Department has expended a very large amount of money in an expert scientific survey of the public ranges, and has demonstrated the disappearance of their forage, their increasing aridity and the an- nual gain of the desert on the meadow. The hydrog- raphers of the Interior Department have followed with a scientific investigation of the run-off of streams, in the denuded region, and report that the rainfall no longer enters the soil as it did-before the forage was destroyed, but runs at once into the chan- nels of streams, eroding the soil as it goes, and cut- ting the channels so deep that irrigation from them is difficult, while their flow is torrential during storms and almost ceases immediately after, because there is no longer a slow and natural delivery of water as occurred when the land had its natural vegetable cover. The official reports show that this loss of moisture by torrential run-off has increased the arid- ity of the climate and is yearly rendering the whole region less productive of wealth and less eligible to settlement. The Agricultural Department conducted all the examination of forage and also of the soils, and its division of botany took up the subject of re- seeding the destroyed ranges, but found such work impossible so long as the range is free to all, un- protected and used as commons. The cattle men, the class most concerned in what is going on on the range, concluding that all this investigation, the expenditure it required and the re- port of the Secretary of Agriculture and Land Com- missioner, meant a policy for remedying the serious evils discovered, combined in presenting a bill to protect and restore the range by a leasehold running ten years. This bill provides that every leasehold shall be open to the homestead settler, mineral pros- pector and irrigator, public or private, and that such lands as either meeds shall be canceled out of the lease. Men who know the country covered by this proposed policy know that in practice it would give up every acre of mineral land, and every acre legally fit for homestead or for irrigation, passing them to | private ownership, and that when this process had exhausted the land subject to other use than grazing there would be left about 400,000,000 acres not fit for homesteads, non-mineral and impossible of irriga- tion, to renfain as @' splendid grazing domain in pos- session of the Government, and protected as to its forage by a permanent leasing policy. The cattle men supposed they were aiding the Gov- ernment in carrying out the policy indicated by its scientific examination of the arid range, and they are somewhat surprised tc find themselves denounced with epithet and invective by the Secretary of the In- terior as making a sinister attack on the I omesteader, the mineral prospector and the irrigator. Perhaps the Secretary has not read the bill, and perhaps the Gov- ernment was just fooling when it was expending tens of thousands of public money examining the forage and water and soils of these ranges and issuing offi- cial bulletins thereof, all of which declared the pres- ent policy ruinous to the range and advised its pro- tection by a leasehold. We may say in passing that the President in his message last year pointed out with exactness the effect of overgrazing on the range and the climate, and the people of the West believe ‘that he and the Secretary of Agriculture know what they are talking about, and that the Secretary of the Interior is letting a prospective Oregon Senatorial candidacy do his talking on the same subject. 1 When the late Samuel J. Randall led the protec- tion wing of the Democratic party in the House and Mr. Morrison the free trade wing the two became so antagonistic that one would voté with the Republi- can minority rather than with the other. One day, however, the Democracy united and became again the | majority. Randall, who« was Speaker, remarked to ! the Republican side: “You see what the two \v‘ings can do when they flop together.” Western men would like to see the two wings of the Cabinet flop together on this range question, if possible. v ——— The Eastern apple crop this year is reported to be a record-breaker, the supply being estimated at 43,000,000 barrels, while last year it was but 27,000,000. That means lots of dried apples this winter for those who haven’t sense enough to prefer prunes. THE SHORT SESSION. EFORE the coming short session of Congress B is over the people of the United States are going to-have new proofs of the desirability of &hanging the date of the terminations of Congresses and the inaugurations of Presidents. March 4 is a bad time for inauguration ceremonies, but it isa worse time for putting an end to the term of a House of Representatives. Congress does not meet until De- cember. It takes about two weeks off for the holi- days. That leaves before the day - of adjournment ation bills, and a great deal of very urgent legisla- tion has to go over to the assembling of the next Congress. The operation of the present constitutional provi- to a single term for general legislation and a short meeting afterward to.do routine work. - By changing the date of the inauguration to May, as has been pro- posed, there would be added two months of active work to the life of each Congress, and the results would be much better. Moreover, a prolongation of A} e ——— Silver appears determined to go down and down unti] its name in the market is. thirty cents, and it may even get to be known as mud. the present short term would enable Congress to more equally divide its work and we would not haye rof India exceeds hardly time enough to attend to the routine appropri-- ¢ { Congressmen could get away from the capital during the dog days. Of the present Congress the country expected cur- rency reform, immigration restriction, a merchant ma- rine bill, a revision of the mining laws of Alaska, an improved interstate commerce law and the admission of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma to statehood. It is now doubtful if any of those things will be achieved. Should anything occur to delay the routine appropriation bills it is well nigh certain that much highly desired legislation will have to be postponed. It is for that reason an extra session of Congress is now expected, but the calling together of the new Congress will but inadequately suffice to make up for the termination of the present one just at this junc- ture, for the new cannot take up the work just where the old leaves it off. There are said to be fifty-four cooks in the Kansa penitentiary, and if there is any other State that has a better use for penitentiaries or a safer place for cooks it is time to speak up. - A EPORTS from India concerning the prepara- tions for the approaching durbar at Delhi in verge of what Western people have come to regard as habitual orieptal exaggeration and extravagance. THE DURBAR AT DELHIL R honor of the coronation run very close to the If they are to be accepted as accurate the Indian celebration will be far more magnifi- cent than the real show in London. In fact, just so far as Edward’s position as Emperor his constitutional _limitations as King of England will the Indian display exceed the royal show that was to have been played out in England had not the sudden illness of the King pre- vented. We are informed that Indian potentates of every grade are vying with one another in making prepara- tions for the occasion. Everything which their courts and their fortunes can procure to make a rich and gorgeous spectacle will be provided. From jewels to elephants each Prince and Rajah will make the best showing he can. There will be retinues of servants to follow their masters, and each will be as brilliant as silk and a fantastic art can make him. From all the many millions of that populous country there will go to Delhi the best and gayest and proudest that the people know from the Himalayas to Ceylon. In fact, if we may credit the reports the scene is tl) be a reali- zation of the most splendid dreams of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments and will combine all that modern luxury has been able to add to the sumptuous tastes, arts and pageantries that have surviyed from the old glories and magnificences of the court of the Grand Mogul. By reason of the great crowds of Princes that are to throng the city the price of lodgings has already risen high enough to make J. Pierpont Morgan patise before he would undertake to organize a syndicate to hire the town.. We arc told that every building of value in the city has been already engaged and enter- prising speculators are putting up temporary edifices in the suburbs to accommodate the belatéd ones who have not yet arranged for rooms: As to the probable price of seeing the show one re- port says: “It will cost two persons with two ser- vants $3000 in traveling expenses alone. The cost of the stay of visitors at Delhi cannot be fully estimated. The hotels there are already charging eight times their usual tariff, and the available houses of the town have all been quickly hired at from $30,000 to $35,000 apiece. Owing to the scarcity of houses some rude huts have been built among the camps, and though they will only contain fireplaces and a few simple comforts extravagant prices are demanded for them. They will be of three classes. The first will cost $100 daily for board and lodging for each person, and $100 will be charged daily for carriage hire.” It will be seen that if these reports be true India intends to show Great Britain that there are some things she can do better than the Western world, and that imperial coronations is one of them. Edward will not be there to receive the crown, but that will make no difference. To a race of people so accus- tomed to symbolism of all kinds from idols that stand for gods down to pinchbeck jewels that stand for any- thing from immortality to good luck, any sort of substitute for the Emperor will do just as well as the real person. The kow-tow and the salaams will be made just as reverently and just as deeply as if Ed- ward were to be there to receive thefn, and the West- ern visitor will get a splendid show for his money. ——— WU TO THE MERCHANTS. N his address at the reception given to him by the I Chamber of Commerce ex-Minister Wu went di- 4 rectly to the actualities of commerce. What he said was just what The Call has long urged—the close study of the oriental peoples, with whom this coast must find the trade that our Atlantic coast finds with the peoples of Europe. Mr. Wu warned Americans commercial men the hard and fast rules which are applied to the people of the Western nations. He said: “The word of a Chinese merchant is his word and is never broken; therefore when a Chinese gives | you his word accept it.” The truth of this is borne out by all commercial and business experience with the Chinese of all classes. They are a most remarkable people in one respect, performance of their promise and fidelity to their contract. The lesson drawn from this is ob- vious. In extending our trade in China we must our- selves observe the strictest rules of commercial honor. What exchanges we establish with those people must sustain the character of the sample by which the exchange is effected. No doubt the oppor- tunity of California trade lies in China, and to make the most of it we need a freer reciprocal association between this coast and Chinese merchants. Upon this proposition. Mr. Wu's advice to the commercial bodies was exactly wise. He begged of our mer- chants not to look entirely to him to create trade as his country’s Minister of Commerce, but to enter the field themselves, secure the presence here of Chinese traders and resort to China themselves to study con- ditions there. He said that so far American foreign traders hgd held aloof from China, while Chinese mer- chants are under such restrictions here that their en- try is difficult, and in’ some respects so humiliating sion is to virtually reduce the activities of Congress. that they will not come. i Altogether Mr. Wu's address will repay the study /| of our merchants and, producers, and may be consid- | ered somewhat, also, by our politicians with benefit, ——— In digging in one of our streets the other day sev- eral laborers struck gold. This ought to_be enough for another flood of novels of the wild and woolly West. v the long session drawn out through the hot summer | St. Louis desires the country to take notice that in Washington and important business either hur- ried through inconsiderately or else shelved. so that even after She boodler trials are over she will have several millionaires at large for the exposition year. against applying to Chinese commerce and Chinese | SUPERB CITRUS . EXHIBIT IN THE i FERRY NAVE The tower of the ferry building is illu- minated at night to tell the people, resi- dent and transient, that a citrus fair at Thanksgiving tide is one of the achieve- ments of California. The fair is open for all in the grand nave of the building at the foot of Market street. The region of country tributary to the valleys of the 8an Joaquin and Sacramento is the only place in the world where an immense ex- hibition of ripened citrus fruits can be produced at this season of the year. Sec- tions here and there in especially favored nooks can show small collections of oranges in November, and in a small hall ordinary pyramids of oranges and lemons would be classed as creditable exhibits. In the ferry building the display by its vastness fitly represents the celebrated citrus zones of Northern and Central Cal ifornia. The quantity is shown. The qual ity is on exhibition. It is more than a beauty show. The fruits are exhibited in boxes ready for shipment, so that an ob- Ject lesson in the commercial possibilities may be studied. MANY SUPERB EXHIBITS. The fair is being held under the aus- Dpices of the State Board of Trade. The counties represented in the ample collec- tion ‘of fruits are Tulare, Placer, Kern, Fresno, Butte, San Joaquin, Sacmmento.( Yolo, Colusa, Mendocino, Sonoma, Shasta, Napa, San Mateo and Alameda. Over the Placer exhibit is this sign: ‘“Placer Coun- ty shipped first oranges in the market this year.” The early oranges came from lt[he orchard of J. Parker Whitney, Rock- in. Tulare County maintains a superb ex- hibit in the south end-of the nave. Major J. W. Davis is the superintending genfus. The big basket of the Tulare collection holds forty boxes of oranges. The oranges arc there just as they came from the tree. The Tulare exhibit embraces dates, pome- granates, tangerines, grape frult, sweet limes, Mexican limes, figs, olives, apples, peaches and persimmons. The cotton belt as well as the citrus belt of Tulare 1s. represented in the display. The great citrus fair will be formally cpened Thanksgiving evening. The Stock- ton Boys' Band, of thirty-two pieces, will play this afternoon, this evening and to- morrow (Thanksgiving) afternoon and evening. There will be a few remarks to-morrow evening on the occasion of the formal opening. J. A. Filcher, manager of the State Board of Trade, will ask the attention of visitors so that he may brief- 1y explain to them the significance of the exhibition and how it may demonstrate the citrus possibilities of Northern and | Central California. FAVORED CITRUS REGION. Filcher is convinced that San Francisco is the’ one place in the world where a great citrus fair can be held at this time | of the year. He has facts, figures and material examples to prove that the fa- vored citrus region of the universe may be found in the country adjacent to the valleys of California north of the Tehach- api range of mountains. - Manager Filcher will not do all the talking. Acting Mayor Brandenstein will be glven an inning before Mayor Schmitz returns to the city. C. M. Wooster, chair- man of the exhibit, and Arthur M. Briggs, spokesman of the growers, will con- tribute some remarks. The fair will not close until Saturday of next week. As it stands now it is an excellent, attractive .exhibition, and it will grow in variety and volume as the days go by. Apart from the magnificent collection of oranges ' and lemons the show presents many other, interesting features. PERSONAL MENTION. Admiral Rodgers, U. 8. N, is at the Palace. Captain J. H. Roberts of Sacramento is at the Lick. G W. Harvey, Mayor of Marysville, is at the Grand. George D. Allman, proprietor of a stage line from Cazadero, is at the Lick. Leo Peterson, editor of the Commercial Review of Portland, Or., is here on a short. visit. W. F. Maggard, a well-known resident of Corning, is at the Grand, accompanied | by his wife. Robert W. Wilcox, delegate to Congress from the Territory of Hawaii, is at the Occidental. George C. Mellott. of Seattle, who re- cently found valuable mines at Dawson, is at the California. SRS SR Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 2%.—The following | Californians have arrived: San Fran- cisco—Mrs, Cottrell, Mrs. M. C. Smith, P. S. Baker, at the Park Avenue; R. J. Rose, at the Marlborough; C. F. Mallett, E. F. Medlicott, at the Continental; Mrs. ‘W. P. Morgan, at the Holland; W. H. Eaton, at the Grand Union; Mrs. J. S. Hamilton, at the St. George; E. Hyams and wife, at the Savoy; D. Magee, at the | Victoria; Miss R. Tobzel, at the Astor; Mrs. J. Welland, Miss Weiland, at the St. Denis. Los Angeles—C. 'B. Wing, Broadway Central. Sacramento—M. J. Ruhtz, at the Piaza. Bl SRk kil Sudden Death of Louis E. Lake. | Leuis E. Lake, president of the firm of Lake & Co., died suddenly yesterday af- | ternoon in his office at 221228 Battery street. The decedent had been attended for a long. time by Dr. Worth, who was treating him for heart disease, Lake re- sided with his family at 1714 Octavia strcet. He was a native of Massachusetts and 65 years old. ———— Cashin’s Injuries Prove Fatal. James Cashin died in the City and County Hospital yesterday from the ef- fects of injuries received November 16 when he was run over by a car of the Presidio and Ferries line. Cashin lived e p———— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CAUSE OF FALLING HAIR. Dandruff, Which Is a Germ Disease— Kill the Germ. Fallicg hair is caused by dandruff, which is a germ disease. The germ in burrowing in to the root of the hair, where it destroys the vitality of the hair, causing the hair to fall out, digs up the cuticle in little scales, called dandruff or scurf. You can't stop the falling hair without curing the dandruff, and you can't | cure the dandruff without killing the dan- | druff germ. “Destroy the cause, you re- | move the effect.” Newbro's Herpicide is | the only hair preparation that kills the | dandruff germ. rpicide is also a de- | lightful hair dressing. Sold by all drug- ste, Send 10 cents in stamps for sam- ple to the Herpicide Co., Detroit, Mich. REGULAR STEAMER SEWVI_E “From— NEW YORK to SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE, . TACOMA and POl D. —BExtra Sailing— The Magnificent New Twin-Screw Express Steamship - SIBERIA. Length, 580 feet. Speed, 20 knots. P torty-fiv Day Passag . Sailing from New York about December 10th from Company's Covered Pler, Forty-<ccend | street, South Brooklyn, N. Y. For rates of freight, rvations and -ther | particulars a to the Company or its | agents, who alone are euthoriged to name rates, ' AanCAN-fiWAXIAN . 8. COMPANY. | WILLIAMS, DIMOND & CO., General Asents Coast, 202 Market o oA st., Sen Fran- DEARBORN & LAPHAM, General Agent: X Rrides n.* ru&g’gfdfl. New York t‘fuv; at the for ———— UNCLE SAM HOLDS UP ALL LAND ENTRIES WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—All entries of public lands in California, Washington and Oregon, under what is known as the timber and stone act, have been held up by the Government on account of alleged whelesale speculative frauds and a rig- ia investigaticn will be mage. There are some hundreds of thousands of acres involved in these entries. The Interior Department has received many reports charging the existence of frauds in the entries and Secretary Hitchcock will urge upon Congress the necessity of prempt action in amending the law to protect the public domain from despoilers. At some local land offices tarloads of entrymen arrive simultaneously and make timber and stone act entries and the cir- cumstances indicate that the cash re- uired to exploit the entries originate from some other source. The cost of an entry of 160 acres under that act, with the increase of incidental commissions, is $415, and as many as five memters of one family, according to of- ficiai reports, who never before had the necessary amount, have walked into a land office and paid tHe price of the land &nd ccmmissions. 4 Unscyupulous speculators, also, it is claimed, have obtained timber upon thelr unreserved timber lands by making so- called mining claims under the placer mining laws. The department proposes to institute rigid inquiries into the bona fide nature of these entries and when the latter are found to have been made in the interests of those other than the en- trymen the entry will, in every case, be canceled and criminal proceedings begun. All local land offices in the section in- volved have been directed to immediately suspend action on all timber and stone entrles. OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Changes Made in the Postal Service and More New Pensions -Granted. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. %.—The Postoffice: Department to-day announced: Fourth-class postmasters appointed: Cal- ifornia—Samuel W. Phillips, McCloud, Sis- | kiyou County, vice Charles C. Smith, re- signed. Oregon—Eliza May Hedgpeth, Anlauf, Douglas County, vice James A. Sterling, resigned; Annie Ingles, Delena, Columbia County, vice Lillie R. Meserve, resigned. These pensions were granted: Califor- nia—Original—Henry Delong, Middletown, $6 (war with Spain). Increase, reissue, etc.—Silas G. Hickok, Healdsburg, $12; Frank Morris, Soldiers’ Home, Los An- geles, $8; John Garnier, Manton, $10. Oregon—Original — Alexander Campbell, Bay City, $8. Increase, reissue, etc.—Al- bert A. Mead, Greenville, $10; John M. S. Smith, Cove, #12. An army ‘order says Captain William F. Lewlis assistant surgeon, upon being relieved at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, by Major William H. Corbusier, will pro- ceed to San Francisco, thence to the Phil- ippines. These patents were issued to-day: Cali- fornia: Edwin M. Barnes, assignor one- half to R. Graham and E. R. M. Pierce, Sacramento, truing device for triple cylin- ders of alrbrakes; Mason Bradfield, Los Angeles, conveyor; same, conveyor appa- ratus; Edgar J. Bryan, assignor one-half to A. W. Miller, Riverside, hand truck; George C. Carson, assignor two-thirds to Miller, Redding, and F. H. Rush, Washington, D. C., converter; same, treating metal; same, continuous con- verter; Milton A. Fesler, Visalla, crude il burner; Clark Hendricks, Riverside, in- ternal combustion engine; White W. M. Hickey, San Francisco, mop wringer; John Hoey, San Francisco, bed couch; Gustav F. Leurke, San Francisco, coin depositing apparatus; Jesse V. Matteson, San Francisco, bag machine; Charles T. Meredith, San Diego, music chart; Louis A. Pfeiffer and L. D. Staples, San Fran- cisco, oil burner; Glenn W. Thurston, Kern City, automatic oiling device; Albert ‘W. Weaver, El Verano, pump. ‘Washington—James Dorey, Seattle, hod; Abraham W. Johnson, assignor. one-half to C. S. Young, Seattle, combined shoul- der brace and suspender; Willlam Shel- ton, means for sealing preserving jars. g SCIENTISTS ARE SURE VOLCANO IS RESTIVE Government Officials in Mexico Ready With a Report on Colima’s Condition. GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Nov. 25.—The Government scientists who were instruet- ed to ipvestigate the situation as to the prespects of an eruption of Colima vol- cano have completed their work. They will make a report to the effect that there is no immediate danger of an ervption and that the recent agitation and threatening aspect of the volcano was doubtless due to a subterranean con- nection which it has had with the Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala. EDITOR SCORES THE GUNMAKER OF GERMANY BERLIN, Nov. %.—The Socialist organ Vorwaerfs in a page and a half to-day deals with what it calls the “Hypocrisy of Idealizing Herr Krupp as a Benevolent Genius.” The paper does not touch on the immediate charges which it brought against the deceased, but analyzes the pension system of the Krupp firm, which it says is a “species of refined swind- ling,” adding: ; “;'rhs enof-mous so-called benevolent funds. have been built up by compulsory contributions from the employes, Who | could be arbitrarily deprived of participa- tion in the advantages. They are requirerd to contribute 2% per cent of their wages for twenty years before they are eligible to a penmsion upon disability. In the meantime if an employe is discharged or resigns he loses ;;\; he had contributed, xceedin, . romically terrorized, and must in humil- ity accept every petty regulation of the firm’s officials or lose 2% per cent of what they have earned in the firm's service. This terrorism is applied to political opin- jons when they become known. The num- ! ber of men leaving or discharged during the past three years averaged 7000 to 3009 yearly. The employes found the system S0 unsatisfactory that five great meetings were held this year for the purpose of al redress.” se’:‘:len‘v?rswuru cites an instance of a labor representative on the advisory com- mittee of the benevolent pension fund who mildly criticized the management and who several days later, having in the meantime paid his annual dues, was dis- missed. The paper also quotes the German bud- get committee proceedings as show- that the Krupp works have been charg- ing the navy $100 per ton above what the United States pays for nickel steel plates, amounting yearly to $750,000 for Herr Krupp and the Stumm works. The at- tacks on Herr Krupp and the intense sen- sation which they have created have caused a furious political discussion, the Soclalists calling attention to the degen- erating influence of great wealth and the Conservatives pointing out “the desperats character of the Socialist attack upon the existing order of soclety.” —_— STATE WINS A FIGHT AGAINST A IAD INDIANAPOLS, Ind., Nov. ~The State won the long-fought ‘case against the Vandalia Rallroad in the Supreme Court to-day and the school fund, unless an appeal should be taken to the United States Supreme Court and the State Su- preme Court be reversed, will receive an addition of $685,424. The Marion Superior Court decision is affirmed and the Vanda- lia must pay the judgment of $813,905. Of this sum W. A. Kacham, former Attorney General, and other attorneys empioyed by him, will receive 25 per cent. The suit was brought for money alleged to be due the school fund under the charter to the road in 1847 The Brooklyn Eagle Prospers The Brooklyn /Eagle of the 19th inst. makes public announcement of the fact that it is preparing again to move into larger quarters to meet the demands of its large and fast increasing business. It runs the pictures of the eight several homes it has occupled since its founda- tion in 1841, and the series tells a force- ful story of the enterprise and good man- agement that has carried it step by step from a sma!l beginning to its present grand proportions. The plcture (front elevation) of itS new home, the cornerstone of which was lald on the 19th inst., shows a finely propor- tioned structure of modern design, which, while its height is not so great as many of the buildings of the New York. dailies, has a width that will give it a floor space equal to if not greater than most of them. 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