The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1903, Page 6

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CHICAGO N Sherman House; P. » Tremont House: Auditoriu BRANCH OFF until 9:30 ¢ v, corner of Clay, open intil 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open untll 11 10 o'clock. 226! oben un o'clock. 1098 Va- 106 Eleventh, open untll § r Twenty-second and Kentucky, open Fillmore, open until ® p. m. . open i xteenth, clock Mark: TOR HOAR'S bill providing for the reg- of sts has been carefully prepared. ator Inmseli has given the subject long has consulted with ancluding Attorney 1d, moreover, the questic Knox has been submitted s safe to say that thgse who expected most of it 2re greatly disappointed. en cagerly awaite now Ser at will legislation which business enator Hoar is ‘not 3 He he an lator. lone } inexperien » manner as to render it effective for n oducing it to the h I have prepared is and moderate. It will work t the Attors General = ) may in reirain from proceeding to obtain a »solutely prevent the continuance ociation against which any civil ituted if in his judgment the tion of business will cause serious public loss tement, intended by the Senator to reas- e business interests of the country, will in it- rise to . for sinice the Attorney Gen- have the option of deciding when and anxi 1e law shall be enforced, with the right action when he deems advisable, it is the rations of the country not under the reg- v but the regulation of the Attorney clear e passage of the act would place ger corpc 1 ula of General Another feature of the bill which reveals the diffi- culty of dealing with the problem is found in section 4, which provides: “That every person, corpora- tion, joint stock company or other association en- gaged in commerce with foreign nations or imong the several States who shall enter into any contract, combination or conspiracy, or who shall give any direction or authority to do any act for the purpose of driving out of business any other person engaged therein, or who for such purpose shall in the course of such commerce sell any article or product at less than its fair market value or at a less price than it is accustomed to demand or receive therefor in any other place under like conditions, or who shall sell any article upon a condition, contract or undertaking that it shall not be sold again by the purchaser, or restrain such sale by the purchaser, shall be' deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5000, or by imprisonment not to exceed one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.” It is safe to say that section will be well nigh im- possible of enforcement, and if enforced will do much more harm than good. Who is to determine when a corporation is selling the products of its nanufacture at a “faif price”? Who is to determine when the reduction of the ‘price is designed to drive a competitor Qut of business? How can a corpora- tion be prevented from selling an article or product “at a less price than it is accustomed to demand or receive therefor in any other place under like con- ditions”? How are “like conditions” to be deter- mined? Suppose one corporation by making larger pur- chases manages to get its raw materials cheaper than a rival; suppose by better mapagement it manufac- tures them more economically; suppose by the ex- ercise of greater business tact it disposes of them mere advantageously; suppose that by reason of the larger capital invested the members of the corpora- | are content with a smaller percentage of profits 1 the rival company—would it be fair under such circumstances to farbid the corporation to undersell the rival? Should it continue such underselling would it be liable to prosécytion for attempting to drive the rival out of buiinj? < Questions of that kind are bound to come up if the Hoar bill be enacted. The Attorney General in his efforts to meet them will be called upon at every step to discriminate between parties who have vir- tually acted in the same way. We shall have govern- ment by a man instead of government by law, and in the end the bill will doubtless be found to work very serious injury to what Senator Hoar calls “lawful and bonorable business.” < best to devise his act of regu-1 THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. i OVERNOR PARDEE in his inaugural mes- | G sage properly nfeasured the final cause of | American primacy in the world of industry, | production and progress. It is in the high average | | of intelligence acquired by our people in the public | I schools. The theory of our school system is lh;ll‘ | education must be for the purposes of the state.| i Free government can exist only among a pcopl_c_whu have a common training for the duties of citizen- | $hip,~ The ancient commonwealths, which had not discqyered this principie, permitted education to be in | other hands and for other purposes than those of :lhe state, with the result that the people were uudcr‘ {a double allegiance, and that to the state was the | weaker. Governor Pardee says forcibly and truly: “Edu- cation is the greatest interest with the care of which the State stands charged. Fully one-hali the rev- | enues raised by the Stute government is expended for | education, in one form or another, and in this Cali-| fornia is merely yielding to the strongly marked ten- dency in all governments, which, where they once grudgingly gave a small pittance for the education of the people, are now content to see it become one of the largest of the State and local and even national lMptmlimres. New York State, counting State and | local outiays, spends $30,000,000 annually upon her1 | public sckools; and California, with a record of | more than $7,000,000 & year, is, in proportion to her popuiation, equally liberal. ' The cost of our public schpnls is not far from §5 for every man, woman and child in California; but the object is a noble one, and no “taxes are paid more cheerfully.” | In effect that expenditure is for the maintenance in- | tact of the very foundations of the State. If only one geperation of Americans were deprived of public | school ‘education the republic would go rapidly into decadence. What education would then be attain- | able wonld be intensely class in its character, and, whether intentionally so or not, would be adverse tp the purposes of the state. Government is secular and not theoctatic, and education ceases the subordination of the state begins. where secular The Governor advises an amendment to the law | for investing the permanent school fund, of which‘ there is now idle in the treasury $1,000,000. The lawi | limits iss investment to national, State and county | bonds. The first bear such low interest and high pre- | | mium as to bar investment in them. All State bondsf | now belorg to the fund, and the counties are so in- | dependent of debt that this surplus lies idle with | no investment in sight. Therefore the Governor | recommends that the law be amended to permit in- | vestment in municipal bonds. This | should be done, and, when it is done, the amend- school and Ever since it was announced that the | ment should carry such regulations as will prevent | increasing consumption Mr. Fernow says: “An es- | r would present such a bill its appearance has | spoliation of the fund in the interest of private spec- | timate of the present stand of virgin timber in the | d. It ulators, such as has characterized its management by | the proxy members of the Board of Examiners. Under this head of public education the inaugural | he bill gerves to show more plainly than ever how | message passes to a consideration of the needs of | increasing demand for another thirty years under the universi y, with a deserved ascription to the past | vils of the trust system without interier- | work of that institution and a well put statement of | orest area of 500,000,000 acres were supposedly fully { the part played by university training as an equip- ment for all the duties of life. He puts it well in saying that: “Science and practical business are | coming every day mere into touch, and the univer- | sity graduate is no longer looked upon as an imprac-‘ ticable, useless member of any community.” | Calling attention to the 2400 students now entered | | | any lawful and honorable busi- | at Berkeley he tells the Legislature that which should | @ Sense of the iviportance. of bcg:nn{ng St once '°i ve taken pains to put into the | startie it into action, that they are compressed into | Préserve our remaining forests, California at least accommodations that were prepared for one-half that number! _ ‘ It goes without saying that such a condition im- | plies impairment of results. E of knowledge seekers is entitled to receive the bene- | fit of the best conditions, in equipment, professional | talent and class and it is easy to see that they are all deprived of this, which is one of their birthrights as children of the State, to be educated for its secular purpose as a commonwealth. The report of President Wheeler is so specific | that no detail recommendation by the Governor was | necessary, and his duty is well done by calling at- tention to conditions and needs\and exhorting the | Legislature to refpond in a liberal spirit. | he educational division of the inaugural message will intensely gratify the people of California. They feel that education is no longer for the purpose of equipping a small guild of Greeks to keep alive and | transmit the classics, but that it is for furnishing the | State a large guild of men and women with tmincd; | minds, capable of applying science to art in the de- velopment of everything upon which the life of the | State and the prosperity of the Now, and in our immediate future, | this State needs such a guild. New ! tended trade and expanded opportunity confront us. | Upon their solution depends the future of California. | Let the elect. ch of that throng| room, is people depend. more than ever, problems of ex-| people hear and heed the counsel of their | England and Germany, it is reported, may demand Chinese territory in lieu of the promised indemnity of the Celestial Empire. What a source of genuine pleasure it must be to London and Berlin that the Monroe doctrine does not cover the earth. — | | RAILROAD BUILDING. i { i RELIMINARY estimates made by various | P authorities are said to lead to the conclusion | that during the past year there were con- | structed in the United States upward of 6026 miles of steam railway. The figures do not include second tracks, sidings nor any electric railways. Rebuilt mileage is also excluded except where the work in- | volved such extensive changes as to virtually amount | to a new alignment of route. | Railroad building was carried on to a greater or less extent in almost every State and every Terri- !tory. Oklahoma headed the list last year with 570 miles of new line and Texas was second with 406 | miles. Arkansas, Indian Territory and Gedrgia laid | each more than 300 miles of new track, while fiiteen | other States, including California, are credited with | | constructing more than 100 miles of new tracks each. | Along with the construction of additional railwaysi there was a vast business done in the way of increas- ing railway equipments. Something like 164,574 cars | were built in shops other than, railroad shops. Thz:| ' figuges do not include cars built for street railroads. A report says: “Of the cars recorded approximately | 162,509 are for freight service and 1048 for passenger service; 161,747 are for domestic use and 2800 are for export. Last year the total number of cars built was 144,267, which exceeded by 20,161 the recorded out- put fonthe year 1900. The 1901 figures included also 5262 street cars. During the year 4070 locomotives were ~l}uilt in the various locomotive plants in the country, as against 3384 last year.” i i The prospects for the present year are bright. It is | announced that the Pennsylvania Railroad will under- A . . 1 lin that statement, for it has been made over and| | a scientific and comprehensive system of forestry. It take work whose cost is estimated at more than $50,- 000,000. Much of the sum will be used for providing | terminal facilities in New York. The Baltimore and | Ohio will engage in improvements and ex!cn;ions‘; estimated to cost not less than $30,000,000. The New | York Central is to expend $25,000,000 on improve- ments. The Southern Pacific Company is put down for expenditures amounting to $40,000,000 during the | vear. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe will ex- | pend $20,000,000 in extensions and improvements. Such are some of the estimates made in New York of the probable railway work of the year. The lesser lines of the country will also make considerable ex- | penditures, so that the aggregate will be much larger than is given in the above estimates. In short there appears every reason to believe that the total railway work of the year will exceed even the big figures of | 1902, ! The unusual has again happened in the affairs of the | Southern Pacific Company. Ther: has not been a wreck on the Livermore local for several days, and passengers have that strange fecling that they have‘ missed something. OUR TIMBER SUPPLY. T the recent meeting of the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science Profes- | sor Fernow, director of the- college of ior-f estry at Cornell University, reviewed the statistics of | wood consumption, in this country and pointed out | that the time when we shall reach something like a | timber famine is not far distant unless immcdiatej steps be taken to provide for renewing and con-| tinuing the supply. There is of course nothing novel | over again by competent authorities, but until the | Federal and the State governments are roused to action on the subject it cannot be too often repeated. One feature of the statistics cited by Mr. Fernow is worth noting. There has been a belief that be- cause of the increased use of coal and oil in place of wood as fuel, and of iron and steel for constructive purposes where wood ‘was formerly used, the con- sumption of whbod has been proportionately diminished. That belief is erroneous. Statistics show that in spite of the substitution of other mate- rials in place of wood for many purposes the con-| sumption of wood has increased rapidly among all | civilized nations. The consumption, he says, “has increased constantly during the last forty years and greatly in excess of the increase of population. The annual consumption of wood in this country is | now about 25000,000,000 cubic feet annually, of | which over 7,000,000,000 is log size material.” Referring to the sources of supply for this rapidly‘} United States, ready to supply the demand for lum- | ber, although admittedly on slender basis, brings out the improbability, if not impossibility, of meeting the | present methods of utilization. Even if the entire stocked with the average stand per acre, as reported | by the census in the holdings of lumbermen—an ab- surd proposition—the stock on hand would be ex- hausted within that period.” A statement of that kind coming from a first-class authority and based upon carefully compiled statis- tics ought to be sufficient to impress legislators with | should not delay longer in adopting and enforcing will be none too early now. be too late and we shall have to pay a big price for | replanting the wasted woodlands. In a short time it will | Mrs. Stanislaus Spychalsky of Toledo became the mother of four babies the other day. It is to be hoped in the.interest of humanity that most of the youngsters are girls, so they may have a reasonable chance of changing that name. THE PROBLEM IN AFRICA. R. CHAMBERLAIN is said to have been cor- M dially welcomed in South Africa by both! Britons and Boers. He has been ban-! queted at Pretoria and the occasion was made notable | by the appearance of many of the most stalwart of the | Boer leaders and by the evident willingness on both | sides to forget the quarrels of the past and work to-E gether for the future good of the country. Mr. | Chamberlain on his part is reported to be displaying | a high degree of tact and skillful diplomacy, so the | British are sanguine that aiter all they are going to | see daylight at last through thé South African gloom. | In the meantime, however, the progress of de- | veloping the conquered territory is not going forward | - | either so rapidly or so.economically as was expected. | Or., is at the Grand, accompanied by his It was very easy to talk of constructing railways‘ \ncross the country to open it up for settlement and | commerce, but the task has proven to be far more | Lick. formidable than was supposed. The original esti- | mates of the lines now in process of construction have been gr!atly exceeded, and the prospects are that the exploitation of the region is going to be almost as costly as the war to obtain it | Just before the adjournment of Parliament the Ministry had to ask for a grant of about $3,000,000 for the purpose of prosecuting the work on the Uganda railway. In presenting the question it was explained that the cost of labor has been far greater than was anticipated and that the engineering problems are hard to evercome. Moreover, the cost of materials has been much larger than was expected. The line is to be about 600 miles long and the cost is now estimated at $45,000 a mile, but the Ministers refused to state that it could be completed at that sum and intimated that they might have to ask fur- ther grants from Parliament. l Upon that showing it is clear the British have not made a very rich conquest. Without railways South Africa can never be firmly secured to the em- | pirg, and railway building is going to be expensive. | Mr. Chamberlain is doubtless enjoying his visit and showing himself skillful in making friends among the Boers; but all the banquets in the world are not going to open up the country. It takes money to | carry out such enterprises, and the British taxpayer is getting tired of putting up the coin. R Miss Janet Achurch, an English actress who has beery lecturing in London, is reported as maintaining in her lectures that no woman is happy until she is 4o; and now we know why so few women admit being perfectly happy even when they are having a good time. The Pope appears té take unkindly to one of the most innocent and certainly least dangerous of the diversions in which the gentlemen of France find amusement. His Holiness has issued an encyclical against dueling. | rvary | in | of the yellow metal, he says, but lost it DISASTER ATTENDS LONG CHASE AFIER FORTUNE {John S. Hendridkson, Who Left Here a Year Ago to Seek Gold in South America, Returns as a Workaway on the s San Jose, His Partners Dead and His Own Health Gon e ! | e ~P | YESTERDAY AFTER SURVIVING C o LOS ANGELES MAN WHO ARRIVED ON THE STEAMSHIP SAN JOSE THE WILDS OF SOUTH AMERICA SEARCHING FOR GOLD. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE IN \‘ | L o — OHN S. HENDRICKSON, a Los Angeles man, who left here last February with $3500, two com- panions and bright hopes of a golden fortune in the sands of the upper reaches of the Amazon River, re- turned yesterday, a workaway on the Pa- cific Mall Company’s steamship San Jose. His companions are dead. His own health is shattered. He brings back one gold nugget worth about $5, a dress suit case, and a rusty shotgun. Hendrickson, in company with W. J. Doyer and Willlam Fisher, left here Feb- 2 last year. They went to the nerthern part of Brazil and traversed some 500 miles of the country drained by the upper reaches of the Amazon River. Hendrickson claims to have found gold plenty and worth more than $20 an ouncg. They secured a comfortable pile through the capsizing of a raft. They explored a country inhabited by a race of almost white natives with can- @ il el ik @ PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. C. W. Evans of Modesto is at the Lick. . 5 Dr. Chester Rowell of Fresno is at the rand. . Willlam Hemley, a cattle dealer of Burr, Or., is at the Lick. F. D. Nichol, a well known attorney of Stockton, is at the Lick. Lieutenant Commander R. F. Lopez, U. S. N,, is at the Occldental. V. F. Langford, a mining man of Acampo, is registered at the Lick. William Dunlap, superintendent of the Crocker mine at Tonopah, is at the Russ, W. D. Tupper, an attorney of Fresno, is among the arrivals at the California. E. Wittenberg, a merchant of Portland, G wife. A. Clark, a mining man who makes his hcadquarters at Forest Hill, is at the J. E. Stackpole, a rancher and exten- sive land owner of Lathrop, is at the Russ. 0. J. Woodward, the well known bank- er of Fresno, is among the arrivals at the Lick. - H. D. Noonan, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is at the California, accompanied by his wife. E. F. Stearns, a flour mill superinten- dent at Stockton, is at the Russ, accom- panied by his wife. D. Ray, who conducts a general mer- chandise store at Galt, is in the city for a few days and is registered at the Lick. Edgar Painter, secretary of the North Central Improvement Association, left last evening for an extended tour of the East. . Hancock Banning, one of the owners of Catalina Island, and a most popufar mil- lionaire of Southern California, is at the Occidental. Herbert Klaber of Tacoma, formerly a well known business man of this city, will leave New York on the 20th inst. for an extended tour of Europe. AR CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 8-—The following Californians have arrived: San Francisco—A. H. Reichling, at the Hoffman; E. Brittingham, at the Murray Hill; J. M. Lane, at the Astor; A. Brandt, J. R. Forest and wife, J. N. D. Werer and wife, at the Grand Unfon; G. L. King, J. Kruttschnitt, at the Holland; F. ‘W. Warren, at the Manhattan, Los Angeles—Miss Llewellyn, Holland. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. TRAMP—S., City. “Only a Tramp,” a poem, can be found in No. $ Standard Recitations. It was written by G. H, Cheever. at the REGISTRY—O. S., City. The law of th United States provides that “‘vessels are entitled to United States registry so long as they are owned by United States citi- zens and commanded by a citizen of the United States. Officers of vessels shall in &ll cases be citizens of the United States.” nibalistic tendencies. These natives were expert marksmen with blowguns and as | their sole ammunition consisted of poi- | soned darts Hendrickson and his com- panions avolded their company as much as possible. Hendrickson thinks he would have suc- ceeded in bringing home a fortune but for the climate, which undermined the health of all three. ber 10 and Fisher was dead or dying in the hospital at Paramaribo when Hen- drickson left. Hendrickson himself was in the hos- pital down with dysentery and malarial fever. The doctors told him that his only chance of safety’ was to get out of the country. “I packed up the few things I had and boarded the British mail steamship Ta- gus,” he said yesterday. “That skipper a brick and I'll never forget his Kindness as long as I live. “‘I'm an Ameriean,” I told him. ‘I'm broke and I'm sick. I want to get back to Californta.’ That British sailorman never asked another question. dered the steward to fix up a room for me. He had the doctor attend me and treated me in every way as if I had been a first class passenger. Everybody was kind to me and to the nursing I got on thc Tagus I believe I owe my life.” Hendrickson reached Panama and made arrangements to work his passage to San i'rancisco on the San Jose. He 1s still a sick man and in need of more of the kind nursing he got on the Tagus, but the grit that erabled him to outlast his compan- fons in the South American swamps helped him to earn his way from Panama to God's country. Doyer died on Oeto- | He or-| 8 THE S FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1903. 5 —.—————————————————M MODESTY MARKS THE APPEARANCE OF MACDOWELL RN nee of Everything from the first appear | Eaward A. MacDowell to the reappear- {ance of Mr. Steindorff in concert, from the Smetana overture, “The Barter l to the MacDowell “Indian Suite. combined to make the first of the Stein- dorft serles of “novelty concerts” a truly le affair. The Tivelli was filled in honmor of the event anu during of Eride,” ¥ the utmost enthusiasm prevailed Chief in interest, nce of the “dear as these of the Uuw’ell, in the double the aftermoon. T jast call y role of compe and pianist, though there was a welcome only second to his for Mr. Steindorff. The orchestra gatl- ered together is a quite good one, noth s in the strings, and sufficient little weaknes3s ahiy everywhere, save for a in the *brass. A homogeneous tone, sensi- tive shading and quick rhythmie response Gistinguished the work that was alto- gether remarkable, considering the new- of the organization and reflects large dit on both the leader and his men. na's ovecture, “The Bartered opened the programme and came as a very agreeable. preface to its chief feature. Original, picturesque, piguant in theme and ingenious in form, the over- ture proved to be decidedly attractive and was given in spirited and careful fashion. And then came cDowell, to the tune str merican took his place at the piano as innocent of pose as a child. So is his playing, so also his writing, deeply genuine, truly musical throughout. It is indeed difficult to realize that the concerto given (D minor, op. 23) was written by the composer when only 19! It is so astonishingly mature, so assured in line, so full in color and so masterly in its poetic grasp. It leans to the wide, free north in feeling, its poetry that of the skald rather than of the troubadour. Andrew Lang has intimately voiced its atmosphere in those lines of his famous scnnet, where he speaks of one That for a wegry space has lain Lulled by the sohg of Circe and her wine, As such an one were glad to know the h":M Salt on his lips and the large air again. MacDowell has “felt the large air" and the “free, shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers” in this work and plays the thing with incomparable dash and brilli One can imagine the pianist more at his ease with an older or- t in spite of some little lack rk, the atmosphere was ldly preserved. In response tent encore Mr. MacDowell oncert Etude” with admirable ful Almost equal in interest with the con- certo was the MacDowell “Indian Suite™ for orchestra, given yesterday for the first time in its entirety here. The suite for basis some of the a n melodies and is richly ch: of its source. “In War-Time, | vivid, picturesque barbarism, and a noble Dirge” are possibly the most intere: & numbers of the suite, though the cloc- ing movement, “Village Festival,” with a touch of savage diablerfe in its humor, comes up closely ugh. There was a shout for the composer at its close and a separate shout and a wreath for Mr. Steindorff—who had fully des d both for the lively sympathy and i of his reading. Mr. Steindorft | quite make up his mind that the wreath | belonged to him and his hesitation as he | looked at the card attached aroused an- other delighted shout. The rather labored and stodgy “Kaiser- marsch” of Wagner, moreover rather “logy” In its rendering, came somewhat | as an anticlimax to the best orchestral | programme of recent local days. BLANCHE PARTINGTON. | P —— A CHANCE TO SMILE. | She—Hair is very strong. A single hair | will bear a weight of 1150 grains. Heé—Yes; and I've known one to raise & terrible row in a family.—Yonkers States- mang | “Yes,” sald the returned fisherman, “I | got a lot of big bites while I was gone.” “Fish, snake or mosquito?” infuired the | cynical chap. — Cineinnat! Commercial | Tribune. Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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