The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1902, Page 6

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N CE’upon 2 time Germany was supposed to be 2 land of beer and metaphysics; her peo- ple were believed to derive from their brew- eries and their philosophies -a disposition of grave and immovable serenity, and any such thing as a row outside of university dueling clubs was looked upon 2s about as rare in Germany as a peaceful cat in the neighborhood of Kilkenny. It was known of course that now and then some learned philosopher would write harsh words of afother, just as Schoppen- hauer called Hegel a charlatan, but it was presumed that such utterances were to be taken in a strictly transcendental sense and not as evidence of any de- sire to fight. However, it seems we muist abandon’ all those old beliefs conéerning the repose of the German mind, for now that Germany has a Parlia- ment her people are showing as large a capacity of rows and ructions as any other people on the globe. At this time the Reichstag is the liveliest show on carth. The Parliaments of Britain, France, Italy and Austria are mild in comparison. Compared with the reports from the Reichstag it may be said that in all the other Parliaments on earth there is, nothing doing. Here and there in other capitals there may be a bold, bad word or two flung into a debate, but in Berlin it is a dull day when the debates of the statesmen do not rise to the height of a tumult and suggest to the presiding officer the advisability of calling in the Kaiser. Of all parliamentary bodies on earth the Reich- stag has the least reason to disturb itself. It has so little political power that its debates are hardly more than acadensic. It cannot turn out a Ministry like the Parliaments of Britdin and of France, neither can it originate legislation and make deadlocks like our | It can, in fact, do very’ House of Representatives. Jittle more than make talk itself and furnish occa- sion for further talk from the country. Therefore it ought to be calm and philosophical, but it isn’t. We learn from our dispatches that for weeks past it has been 2 daily occurrence for the debaters to denounce one another as “dogs, hogs and scoundrels.” The presiding officer has no power to call on a sergeant- at-arms to arrest anybody, silence anybody, or expel anybody, so when the rew gets too hot he has to sus- pend the session. He has had to do that so very often of late that it is getting monotonous. The Socialists are said to be making most of the disturbance, and the report is not surprising, for ex- cessive sociability is always allied with a fondness for a fuss. Wherever there is a family there is a row. It s only the unsocial that live in peace and'are silent like clams. It appears, however, that in the Reich- stag the Socialists have been subjected to many irri- tations and are to a large extent justified in trying to raise the roof so that the eye of heaven can see how they are treated even when they are trying'to be good. An illustration of the exasperating way in which the Socialists are teased by the Government occurs in the reports of the session of Thursday. Arrange- ments were made a2 week ago for a series of social- istic mass meetings throughout the country. No less than twenty-one such meetings were to be held in Berlin. The orators of the party in the Reichstag desired to attend and to make speeches. The desire is nmatural. In fact, 2 desire to serve humanity by making 2n extempore speech to a sympathetic =au- dience is one of the instincts of the true orator, and among socialistic orators the instinct is cultivated and venerated as a conscience. Consider, therefore, how great was the provocation when on the very day of the meetings the majority of the Reichstag decided to hold a late might session and even threatened to take a vote on the tariff bill before adjournment. Compelled by such tactics to remain in the Reich- stag instead of going forth to spreadeagle at the meetings of their party, is it any wonder the Social- ists felt Jike raising Cain? Is it strange that thiere should have been vociferous illusions to hogs, dogs \and scoundrels? . In the meantime the serious work of the Reichstag is this: Last year there was a deficiency in the rev- enues of the empire amounting to nearly $135,000, and during the current year the deficit is expected to exceed $37,000000. Under such circumstances the Government naturally doesn’t feel sociable. Hence the conflict. Fortunately the rows are not very se- rious. The Kaiser lives and Germany is all right. Delaware recently permitted her penitentiary con- victs to play a game of football, and now if she would l:ger Legislature settle the torial deadlock on the gridiron all would be forgiven . - ! REFERENDUM POLITICS. ROM the fact that only 14,167 persons deemed Fit worth while to vote on the eight charter amendments submitted to the people on Thurs- day it is quite e¥ident that in this city at any rate there is not enough popular interest “in " municipal matters to make it expedient to undertake govern- mental control of public utilities or to venture far in submitting questions of legislation to the popu- lar vote. Since a combination of so many and varied amendments proposed at one eélection failed to bring to the polls more than one voter out of five, it is clear that the mass of the people are averse to mixing politics with their private business. They are willing to rouse themselves to elect a municipal government, but having elected it they desire to be bothered no further. The prevalent popular indifference to special elec- tions would be fraught with great danger were such elections to deal with ‘mgttcrs of concern to particular classes or special interests among the people. It is certain that if such were the case the parties having a direct interest in the matter would be well nigh sure of winning because the general mass of voters would let the contest go by default. A comparatively small body of men working resolutely and tirelessly for a particular end would in almost every case bring out at a special election a larger vote than the opposi- tion, even if the opposition were made up of by far the larger number of citizens. ’ Some idea of what might happen in such a case can be gathered from what is going on in Australia at this time. The state of Victoria owns and oper- ates her railroads, and 2ll railway employes are public servants, bound together by a common interest and a bond of unionism. Some time ago these employes demanded and obtained an increase of pay and a diminution in the hours of daily service. The result has been a deficit in the earnings of the roads. ‘To remedy the evil the Ministry cut wages, and imme- diately the employes struck. The legislators, fearing the voting power of the railway employes and their allies, took side with them, and the Ministry has had to meet the situation by bringing in a bill to deprive public servants of the right to vote in ordinary con- stituencies, while allowing them to elect two repre- sentatives of their own in the Assembly and one in | the State Council. The introduction of the measure has of course raised something of an uproar through- out Victoria, ahd all Australia is.reported to be more or less affected and disturbed by it. The point of interest to us in the story i§ this: Suppose we jhad undertaken\any extensive system of municipal operation of railways and had thus brought | into our politics a large body of men with a com- mon class interest, and that class_had asked special legislation of a kind requiring its submission to the | people at a special election, what would have been | the redult? Judging by the small vote of Thursday the class legislation would have been carried with compara- tively little difficulty. There would have been re- quired a majority of only a little more than 14,000 votes. To obtain such a majority would not have been hard to earnest campaigners in a city of this size, X The Call does fiot desire to press the analogy of Australian experiments too closely. It is not_in- tended the public shall believe that all the evils and disturbances that have attended governmental opera- tion of railways therc, would necessarily follow. a like undertaking here. It is certain, however, that we would have to megt all those problems of control that are inherent in the governmental system. The public employes would sooner or later become a special class among the people, having interests . of their own, and they would naturally seek to advance | those interests by political methods.” We should then have a situation which would surely be suffi- ciently like that in Victoria to make it worth while for us to study the lessons her experience is now teaching. | The people of San Francisco have shown a desire to keep politics separate from business, and they have also revealed an unwillingness to turn away from business to engage in special elections. That much has been made evident by the events of the | week. The dreams of the socialists of establishing among ‘us a system of governmental control of pub- | lic utilities and of legislating by referendum find but | little favor among the masses of our people, and we may congratulate ourselves upon it. | It is said Prince Henry of Pless wishes to come to this country as Embassador from Germany, and it will be remembered that he is reported to have told the Kaiser that he had met in this country some very intellectual men, so if he gets the position we will be glad to see him again. ——— THE DECLINE OF BRYANISM. I Democracy is advised to enter upon another cam- paign of class against class it is of interest to again review. the fate of its last campaign of.the same kind. Let it be understood that we repudiate the existence of classes in this republic. Rant as the ranters may, this is a country of equal laws and equal opportunity. All men are not equal in ability to take N view of the fact that the discouraged and misled ability any more than statutes can equalize those other natural differences of stature, color of eyes and hair, and physical strength or mental individuality. opportunity. Foreign agitators have labosed with- out ceasing to create a permanent labor class, antag- onistic to all other interests, into which men: shall die. -But this classification is unAmerican and in, the next dependence of the Democracy is to be on this artificial and anti-American classification, it is interesting to note the public judgment which has class prejudice and disfinciiong the ten States of Colorado, Ivdz'lio, Kansas, Montana, " Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, Washington in Nevada is indicative of the return of that State also to the Republican fold; for Bryanism was only 1000. From this may be drawn the lesson that the Ameri- | spondents will suggest that our dear cousin is looking ? cans are American, They recognize and value the |for trouble iq South Africa ; [ advantage of opportunity, but no.law can equalize ‘When an act to amend an act can make all men write the poetry of Tennyson or Longfellow, or sing like the masters of vocal melody, then such a statute can equalize natural ability of all men to see.and seize be born and whence they shall not escape until they imical to all our national ideals. As it is evident that soberly condemned the last appeal.of that-party .to In 1896 Bryan carried, west of the Missouri R{v?_r,f and Wyoming by an aggregate majority of 280,369. In 1900 he carried of that group only Colorado, Idaho, | Montana and Nevada, by an aggregate majority of 34,548, though four years before the same States gave him an aggregate majority of 190,232. In 1902 the -whole group except Nevada is Republican. The fall 'equality of opportunity in this republic. They repu- diate" the theqry that statutes can equalize unequal | individual, menta]l and moral qualities, and they re- ject as anti-American the theory that all men must be leveled down to the least capable. Theréfore they stand against all attempts to artificially classify so- | ciety and make such unnatural classification perma- nent. The next class campaign will begin in the face of these American principles. It will carry some States, as did the last campaign, but it will not carry the country, and the States which it temporarily wins will in the sober, second thought desert it, as have nine of the ten in the cis-Missouri group which fol- lowed it in 1896. ; 3 Those literary fellows who have been picturing the evidently made a bad impression, for a fashionable minister in that city is reported to have recently de- clared that it would be better for society if all the | authors were rounded up and killed. ! THE ViRGINIA CASE. ROM present prospects the suit brought by F negroes in Virginia to test the constitutionality of the law by which they have been disfran- chiged promises to be one of the most notable cases that ever went to the Supreme Court. It is stated that nothing quite so sweeping as this suit has ever before been known in. the records of American law, and so numerous are the petitions which it is the in- tention to file that the docket of every court in-Vir- ginia having jurisdiction in the matter is expected to be filled with them for months to come. The chief counsel in the case is John S. Wise, and associated wi‘h him is John G.> Carlisle. Both are men of Southern birth and both are Democrats. Their selection was probably due to a desire to rid the issue of any appearance of party politics, dnd in that respect the choice is fortunate. In a recent interview on the subject Mr. Wise said: “Politics has nothing to do with the suits. They necessarily involve the nature and origin of suffrage and the extent and character of delegated powers possessed by constitutional conventions. They in- volve above all the questions whether any convention/ without expressly delegated power can impose its work upon the people as the organic law, without first submitting it for ratification or rejection. This issue was bound to arise after the proclaiming of the con- stitution on issues involving the right of the people to vote in Federal elections. The Federal Supreme Court has recei“ly decided that the right to vote for members of Congress is a right derived not only from the constitution of the State but from the con- stitution of the United States. On the merits of the | case I do not think the action of the Virginia Con- | stitutional Convention can be sustained for a moment. It was a violation of the plighted faith of the com- monwealth when she applied for her readmission to her rights in the Union. This is a matter of record.” In each case the bill of complaint against Governor Montague and sundry members of the constitutional convention in these individual suits alleges conspiracy on the part of these members to deprive the plaintiffs of their right to vote, and Governor Montague is made a party to the conspiracy, in that he called upon the people of Virginia to obey and respect the constitution. It further relates.that the defendants knew they were not a lawful body, but, despite that fact, went ahead and deprived the plaintiffs of their rights. The bill ends by asking $5000 damages in each case. One phase of the question that is interesting many is that of the costs of the numerous suits. The whites are wondering where the negroes are to raise money enough to pay the fees in so many cases. * It appears that Wise and.Carlisle are not alarmed on that point, for they go right ahead. | Evidence in several recent English divorce cases in high life indicates that domestic infelicities fqund their inspiration on the hunting fiéld. Our English friends should be more particular in reference to the character of the game they chase, e—r——— THE PRINCE AND THE MAYOR. ORTLAND is unduly . excited because the P Crown Prince of Siam did not respond to a public .demonstration prepared for him there, and did not receive the-Mayor of that city as part of an official function. There is no reason why Portland should kick at vanishing royalty on that account. He did not meet the Mayor of San Francisco. While here his entertainment wagp entirely private. He partook of private hospitalig, like any gentleman, and was received in the clubs. For the rest of the time he was left to enjoy himself in his own way, and did it like a sensible man. He took recreation in Golden Gate Park, visited the Cliff House, had ;delightiul day at Stanford University, saw our shipyards, docks and business places, and when it was all over admitted that in San Francisco he had the time of his life. Yet there were no addresses made of fustian and replies made of fatigue. His Royal Highness was treated as an ind telligent, self-respecting gentleman, with a youthful sense of pleastire and a desire to mingle enjoyment with'the acquisition of information. The officers of his father’s court who guarded him did the dignity act and exuded responsibility and formality, as they would if set to watch any one of his ninety-two brpihera who compose his father’s-/ fine family of boys. e Portland was too ponderous and formal for him. Her notion of Siam seems to have been founded on the late and lamented Siamese tyvins,- who came to us from the land of the white elephant and interested two generations of Americans. But Siam is no longer the land of Eng and Chang. It has railroads, elec- tricity, Milwaukee beer and all those things that go to make up a civilized state, and the Prince himself talks as good English as the Portland papers print. He went away with the sweet savor‘:?an Francisco in his mouth and the opalescent visi6n of California scenery in his eye, the odors of our Araby in his nos- trils- and the diapason of our cataracts in his ears. ‘Naturally he did not wish to mix these with the frigid charms of the northern city. Art critics in the East are wondering why Ve- restchagin, who won fame by painting battle pictures of Napoleonic wars, should have come to this country to pnigt\not the scenes of our great Civil War but those of the Spanish war, such as the battle of Za- pote Bridge and tfiq battle of Caloocan., It is quite possible, however, the astute Russian is working us Four Hundred of New York as a vicious set have: for coin and not for art, and when he returns to in 1896 it gave Bryan‘ 6439 majority, in 1900 2498, and in 1902 its majority Europe will mock at us. England, it is said, is preparing for war in the Orient. Not even the most mendacious of corre- | DISCUSS MEASURES TO PREVENT Y DESTRUCTION OF OUR FORESTS HE imminent destruction of the forests of California and measures to prevent such destruction formed the theme which engaged the at- tention of the California Water which met in Palace Hotel. Part of the day Chief Justice Beatty presided. At other times William Thomas or N. P. CMipman was in the and Forest Association, convention - yesterday -at the chair, ‘William Thomas submitted a report as president of the association for the past. He called attention to the passage year. of the Newlands bill, by which the Fed- eral Government committed itself to the pelicy of national aid to irrigation. He said that in order to secure for this Statc the expenditure of its fair quota of the mioney to be disbursed under the Dbill, “feasible irrigation projects,” as they are described in the bill, should be called to the attention of the Secretary of the In- terior. The State, he said, should co- cperate in the work and this co-operation would secure California her quota. Thomas said that the reservoir site tak- ing its supply from the San Joaquin and Kings rivers was too expensive for the Present, as the amount now available for use in California was less than $2,000,000. It was hoped that he Legislature at its next session would re-enact Senate bill No. 7, with slight modifications, and that, with the co-operation of the. national Government, the. construction. of storage reservoirs might soon be commenced. He said: SEEK CO-OPERATION. It has been the policy of the Federal Gov- ernment to offer & premium for co-operation, consisting in_ the expenditure within the State co-operating, of a sum larger 4han its natural and proper quota. In this work the Federal Government will look with paculiar interest on our State. On account of its climate and and unique character of its water supply the results of national frrigation will be (he mors pronounced and more successful than any other State. co-operation ever existed it still existg We do not want to permit any of the fundp derived from the sale of public lands in Calffornia to be expended in any other semi-arid State or Territory. Co-operation through the expendi- ture of a small amount of money would pre- vent the diversion of our quota. So far as pus- sible this assoclation co-operated in the passage of the Newlands bill and has received the warm thaaks of its frkends. The California delegation in Congress has been especially cordial .n giving us more credit than we pos- sy deserve. Both of the leading State adopted planks which we advocated These planks of course pledge the representatives of the two Houses in the State Legislature to carry tue planks into practical effect. If these pledges are ob- served Senate bill No. 7 will become a_law at the mext session of the Legislature. I ex- pect the hearty co-operation of the Governor- clect. He knows that we have mo private axes to grind and that we are working simply for the good of Lhe State. Even if he dis- agrees with us on the detalls of the legisia- tion_groposed, I feel sure that he will state his objections. Mention was made by Thomas of the appeintment of the commission to frame & measure to present to the Legislature embedying a new code of irrigation laws, the ccmmission being headed by Chief Justice Beatty. Announcement was mado that open criticisms of the bill have been invited and that such criticisms will be discussed by the commission at a meet- ing to be held during the present month. Concerning the merits of th,e bill, Thomas sald: . This bill, though radical, is, in an admirable one, and should pass. golitioal parties in this lavorable to the caure opinion, It is cer- tainly in direct compliance with the suggestion contained in President Roosevelt's message December, 1901, that national ald can be eg pected only by those States which ‘‘by thel legislation and administration show them- seives fit to receive it It is certalniy one of the “Teeded reforms in the State laws and regulations governing _irrigation,” which ke speaks of as necessary in order to secure the assistance of the Federal Government. FOREST RESERVES. Concerning the Federalfforent reserves, Thomas had the following to report: Under the repeated attacks of this associn- tlon, assisted by other o zations, the De- partment of the Interlor withdrew from sale on October 25 some 6,000,000 acres of public lands for the purpose of investigating them and determining what part of the area with- drawn should be ultimately converted into a forest reservation. In November your presi- dent and secretary applied personally to Presi. dent Roosevelt seeking further withdrawals of a like character. -Our personal Interview con- vinced us that the President of the United soil If the necessity or advisability of ts of this association. m matter his p:mml lg:nuan and tl romise he bas kept, as Sorrespondence with the Interior Department based upon our interview with him. impressed with the fact of those men who forsets feel confident that we will favorably from our interview. llt;le things, and establishment of a State forestry system the California ing for $50,000 t ance and beautification of the park. tions from which co-operation is h“e are the California Miners’ Associ: n, the California Club, West. gation bill; the important planks in the two State political platforms; the with- drawal from sale of a large area of férest land, and the promise of co-operation by the Native Sons. SPEAKS OF VANDALISM. Chief Justice Beatty was elected presi- dent upon the nomination of Willlam ‘Thomas, the retiring president; William Thomas was elected first vice president; Arthur R. Briggs and J. B. Lippincott, respectively, sécond and third vice presi- dents; T. C. Friedlander secretary; F. W. Dohrmann _treasurer. = General N. P. Chipman spoke in favor of. having the forest lands in a large area reserved by the national Govern- ment from sale. T. C. Friedlander said that the associa- tion was already on record in favor of protecting the forests to preserve the headwaters of the rivers of California. ‘W. H. Mills made an extended speech, just before the noon recess, in which he exhaustively reviewed the legal and oth- er conditions relating to the forests of California on the public domain. He said that the forests ought all to be reserved from sale by the Government. This was a very different proposition from the creation of forest reserves, and there has been misapprehension throughout the State concerning the distinction between the two. Under the control of the Gov- ernment the forests would be forever a gource of prosperity to California; private ownership meant private greed and de- struction to the forests. Denuded and desert mountains would look down upon deserts in the valleys and. in place of smiling agricultural lands there would be only a vast arid waste. Mills next . spoke of the vandalism which s .destroying "the forests on the west flank of the Sierras. the crime ®f ignorance and the brutality of barbarism,” he sald, “to continue this policy.” Mills paid some attention to the move- ment in Plumas County of certain par- ties to have the forests pass into the hands of private owners because they thought that private ownership would bring the establishment of industries by 1 am that ‘he is Dot 9n¢ | tcdy of the forest. iear further and Notice was given of the bills that the asgociation will present-to the Legisla- tiire. These include measures for the for the reservation of all denuded lands purchased by the State for delinquent taxes and for the annual purchiase of de- nuded-lands. Thomas expresséd the opin- ion that State ownership and maintenance of a forest reserve is the only way to off- | set the rapid denudation of timber lands held in private ownership. Bills will be presented to the Legislature by other bodies as follows: By the California Club— Asking for an appropriation of $25,000 to. establish_ and maintain a school of for- estry in the University of California; by ners’ Association—Ask- establish a forest fire patrol; by the California Water and For- est Asseciation—Providing for an' annual | appropriation of at least $50,000 exclusive | of the salaries and expenses of the en- gineers provided for in the irrigation bill; | possibly by those infersted in the Big | Basin Park—to provide for the mainten- In view of these many prospective ap- propriations the appointment of a com- mittee of three was urged to meet com- mittees of other organizations which have the same objects in view to agree, before January 1, upon some bill or bills that will further the joint interest of all and ‘which wul;:i reasonable in the demands upon - the te treasury. The organiza-| d the Sempervirens Club and the Native Sons of the Golden In concluding his report Thomas said that the proofs that the Water and Forest | Association had not wasted its time were found in the passage of the national frri- “It_would be which the County would be benefited. “If States is in hearty co-operation with the ob- ) the people of Plumas County would inves- He promised to 11;,: tigate for themselves,” said Mills, “they have since had ‘would wish to have the Government take , | ¢charge of the forests. Private owner- ship is not to be trusted with the cus- Private ownership means private greed and rapacity. Whe- ever controls the forests of California .controls its future and destiny.” SEIZING LANDS. Some attention was paid by Mills to the »'| extent to which the forests of this State are passing into private ownership. A few years ago, he said, locators came into California in large numbers. The ‘wealthier ones had from twenty to forty timber cruisers in their train. Onme of these men is now credited with the own- ership of 1,000,000 acres of forests in Cali- fornfa. er men haye 20,000,000 acres. The purpode of the majority of the timber men is to take from California the raw timber to have it Worked up in the East, thus carrying a great amount of wealth away from the State. Eight men in one day located 242 quarter sec- tions of timber land in Plumas County as placer claims. They thus acquired 136,000 acres of timber. They represented that they were going to mine on the north fork of the Feather River, in Plumas County, and transport the gr: to Oroville to be washed. The Gove ment has sent an agent to investigate this and other matters. Speaking or the way in which the min- ers may have suffered by the placing of timber locations over their claims, Mills said that he believed, after investigation, that mineral lands had been covered by the timber locators and that timber lands had been taken up as mineral claims. The Secretary of the Interior had withdrawn five large bodies of land in California in order that he might have a chance to in- vestigate and find out whether frauds had been committed. The agents sent out to investigate for the Government would probably recommend that all lands be reserved until they can learn all the facts. It would be useless to anpoint a commit- tee, he said, to tell the investigators what the California Water and Forest Asso- ciation desire, for they would reply that they have only to investigate and -have nothing to do with the Government pol- fcy. At the afternoon session a serfes of resolutions were adopted. These were to ask Congress: to appropriate $75,000 for the irrigation investigations carried on by the Department of Agriculture; pledging the support of the association to the Call- fornia Club’s bill for the establishment of a school of forestry in the State Univer-, sity; asking the Secretary of the Interior to haye a definite determination made of the ldnds under the proposed storage , reservoir.in Clear Lake, Lake County, for the reclamation of arid Iands, and that the Secretary of the Interior be also requested to inform the association what lines to proceed upon that the district may organize and enjoy thé benefits of the law for the reclamation of arid land. The following resolutions were also adoptea: Resolved, that the executive committee of this association shall elect a committee of thres from among its members whose duty it shall be to gather facts and present them to the Government commission With a view to laying before such commission the relation of the forested area of the northern portion of the State to the valley or agricultural portion thereof. and to illustrate the vital importance to the agricultural portions of the State, of the absolute preservation of the forest areas, not only of the Sierra Nevadaand Siskiyou moun- tains, but also of the Coast Range, especially the eastern slope of the latter. Resolved further, -that in the judgment of this association a 'withdrawal of ‘the forested lands of the State from private entry would ac- complish the objects had in view without the objections which are being urged to the with- drawal by means of the Focest Reservation ct. By a rising vote the association thanked the California Federation of Women's Clubs for work in co-overation with the association and indorsed the samie, and the efforts of the California Club in the direction of the preservation of the Cala- veras Big Irees was commended. The executive commitiee was instructed to co- operate with the California Club. Mrs. Lemon addressed the association concern- ing the work of the women for forest preservation. To-day the convention will take up the proposed irrigation law for discussion. L o e e ) CALIFORNIA PROMOTION COMMITTEE IN SESSION Meeting Is Held to Make Arrange- ments for Reception to Pacific Cable Company Officers. The members of the California Promo- tion Committee held a special meeting at the Palace Hotel yesterday afternoon in order to arrange for a public reception; which will be tendered to the officers and men of the cable steamer Silvertown, now in this port. A reception will be given next Thursday at the Palace Hotel to the officers of the Pacific Cable Company. The following committees were appoint- ed yesterday to take charge of both re- ceptions: Irving M. Scott, president Pacific Commercial Museum; George A. Newhall, president San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; A, A, Wat- kins, president San Francisco Board of Trade; George W. McNeat, president Merchants' Ex- change; F. H. Wheelan, secofid vice president Merchants’ Association; A. Sbarboro, president Manugacturers’ _and _Producers’ Assoclation; Jamgf Rolph Jr., president Shipowners' As- sociation of the Pacific Coast: Rufus P. Jen- nings, executive officer California promotion committee; James K. Lynch, president Cali- fornia State Bankers' Association; N. P. Chip- man, president California State Board of Trade, Committee on_arrangements—A. Frank Hess, secretary California promotion committee; Robert S, Clarke, secretary Shipowners’ clation; Robert M. Welch, secretary California State Bankers' Association. Committee on invitations—B, Scott, secre- tary San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; Eugene Goodwin, secretary Pacific Commercial Museum; J, A. Filcher, secretary California State Board of Commitiee on s retary Merchants’ = Assoclation; T. lander, secretary Merchants’ Exchange; Charles E. Bancroft, secretary Manufacturers’ and Producers’ 'Association; H. L. Smith, secre- tary San Francisco Board of Trade. —_—————————— To Mark Historic Sites. The California Promotion Committee and the landmarks’ committee held a peakers—L. M. ‘King, sec- C. Fried- joint meeting yesterday at the rooms of when the |. movement to place tablets on the city’s histcric sites was considered. The meet- ing adjourned to hear further information the first named committee, cn a future date. There were present A. ‘Sbarboro, W. H. Mills, Rufus P. Jen- ‘nings, and Mrs. Laura Bride Powers. —————————— Customs Appointments. J. H. Dawson was appointed by the Collector of the Port yesterday as tem- |° porary examiner of teas, vice Cornelius Toohey, who is on a two months’ vaca- | tion. . D. G. Lewis was appointed a Cus- tom House janitor at a salary of $60 per month. —— NIP IT IN THE BUD. First Appearance of Dandruff a Fore- runner of Future Baldness. That such is the case has been conclu- sively proven by scientific research. Pro- fessor Urna, the noted European skin specialist, declares that dandruff is the burrowed-up cuticle of the scalp, caused | by parasites destroying the vitality in the hair bulb, The hair becomes lifeless and in time falls out: This can be prevented. ewbro’s Herpicide kills this dandruff germ and restores ‘the hair te its natural o Crotelge s mow. uscd by thousands ot e e . people—all satisfied that hair preparation on the market enaien BAR T dmf.'::':le"h'na - ps for sam) er- plcide Co., Detrolt, Mich. d Lermen, Joseph R. Knowlard VAUDEVILLE PERFORMANCE IN AID OF WORTHY CAUSE Colonial Minstrels Will Render Mu- sical Programme for Benefit of Maria Kip Orphanage. The Colonial Minstrels will give a grand benefit entertainment in aid of the Maria Kip Orphanage on Monday night at Gold- en Gate Hall, 625 Sutter street. A splen- did programme has been arranged, and as the show is for a worthy cause a large crowd is expected to be present. No pains have been spared by those who have the affair in charge to make it a big financial success. A splendid array of talent has been se- cured for the occasion, including some of the cleverest artists in the city. Tom Dobson, the boy soprano of St. Luke's Church, will sing, gs will also Mr. Smith of the Tivoli opera company. The Colo- The Sunday Call I! Iscariot,” by Aaron Dwight It is stronger than “Ben Hur,” and by far superior to any of th the whole eight pages of the first story is ure that nated in the West before. by Father John A. Lally of All Choir Boy’s Last Christmas Solo,” liam Rader, Third Con, Slums,” by Colonel George Frenc: Division of the Salvation Army, Then there is a | real life, that will a; donnas.” A “San Francisco’s Bump\ot Benevolence,” Nichols, Right Reverend Bishop of California; “Nyanza, a Christ- mas Tale of the Thirtieth Century,” by Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger of - the Emanu-El Church; “The Redemption of the Masked Marauder,” T vuey. Mo, gl & San every or. young, “Santa Claus Discovered.” A full page of pictures of “National ',.l‘y'pe- of Ma- ¢ study called “The Christmas Star.” A full page of society girls in Christmas “Mother Song” living pictures— They are all San girls—just watch that page. nial Male Quartet will render a few sed lections and a “Florodora™ sextet, com- posed of clever juvenile talent, will do the famous song and dance. —_——— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's* R Townsend’s California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, 639 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * hwln hmlomltlon supplied daily te usiness houses and public men by the Press Cli) Bureau (Allen’s), Cally fornia mp.gtng Telenh:ne IA.I:' -~ . One of the highest shot-towers in the world ¥to be found at Villach, in Carin- thia, where there is a fall of 249 feet. Loss of hair, which often mars the prettlest face, prevented by Parker’s Hair Balsam, Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 13cts, ChriStmas Edition. HE most talked of book of the year is “The Gospel of Judas Baldwin. It has created a tremend- ous literary and religious furor both in Europe and America. meore thrilling than “Quo Vadis,” e great modern books that tell of the flerce struggle between the Christians and the Romans. “The Gospel of Judas Iscariot” throws a new light on the strange life of this, the most bitterly execrated, the most despised man in either biblical or profane history of all ages. The Suhday Call has not dnly secured the exclusive rights to this literary treasure for publication as an extra section—absolutely free—with the Christmas Call out December 14, but has illustrated ‘installment with half-tone and color reproductions of art masterpieces of the life and scemes of Christ and the Romans, by the most famous painters in the world. Then there is the big special fiction section, wherein c—lttm by a prominent San Francisco aivine. This is a feat- absolutely unique. Nothing like it has ever been origi- by William Ford Saints Church, Haywards; “The by Father Herbert Parrish, Church of the Advent; “The Carols of San Francisco de Asis,” by Rev. Wil- gregational Church; “The Red Devil of the h, Command:r of the Pacific Coast e : photographed from, it is the most | Then there are “The Colonel Kate Papers.” Who is ‘Kate? Do you know? Well, there is the mystery, and therein, tao, lies a big surprise. The first article is “The Beautiful Woman Who Enows It AlL” Then thefe are two pages of Christmas Menus by leading San Francisco chefs—good page by the best waiter in the Palace Hotel, telling you how to arrange the Christmas table. Two more pages, edited by the Ladies of the Woman’s where, how and what to buy for Christmas—espe- change, tell cially the presents. But this is only a small part of THE SUNDAY CALLS lve Teci) Colonel how to prepare them, and a NUMBER OF 32 SPECIAL PAGES OUT DECEM- CHRISTMAS ; BER 14. Don't.forget the date. |