The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 23, 1903, Page 6

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A VOTING MACHINE BILL. | ENATOR K}:i;\\'L,\\tln) b Legisl roduced into the use of to be held in for ithorizing and regulations bill is a timely one, faction with people will not compel the ¥ or city, h voting w community ie purpose of placing the selection of per n thirty days a ipervision, the bill provides fter the passage oi the act the shall appoint a commission of three mem- 1 ne and make a report upon all m es kind tt 12y be submitted for inspection. - The | ssioners are to hold office for five years; and it is provided tt at “no member of said board shall have interest, directly or inc pec n one member of said bo: in any Ibea or c« apply rporati crested comm a voting to the on to ex-| s compliatice with h application the commission is required to | 1 examination and report whether in the opin- two members the machine so exam ections. 1f the report be favorable | 1 be deemed to have been approved 1ssion, and its use shall be thus author- the ine shall | e report be adverse m lable for adoption. ded further that each person or corpora- g a machine for examination shall de posit the sum of $430, penses of the commis 1 out of such sums all ex- n of whatever kind shall be | defrayed. Thus the establishment of the commission will entail no expense upon the taxpayers. The act goes on to provide: “No woting machine shall be approved uniess it be so constructed as to pro. vide facilities for voting for candidates of as many dif- | ferent parties or organizations as may make nomina- | tions for office; and for or against as many different | questions or amendments as may be submitted; nor shall any such machine be approved unless the same | will permit the voter to vote for any person for any office, although the name of the person does not ap- pear on the machine as a nominated candidate.” Other requirements provide for ample liberty of | choice in voting straight tickets or splitting them at | the option of the voter; the section closing with the requirement: “Amny machine to be approved by said board must be of such kind, style or pattern as will | permit the exercise by each voter of the full right and privilege of his elective franchise under the constitu- | tion and laws of the State” After providing for the kind of ballots to be em- ployed, authorizing any political party to adopt an emblem, other than the flag of the United States, and | prescribing the duties of the election officers, the bill | authorizesslocal governments to adopt any approved machine for use in any election. Thus while the State ! commission is vested with power to approve or con- demn any machine offered, # rests with the local gov- ernments to select which they prefer of those that have been approved. The bill has been carefully drawn, and on the whole is an excellent one, but it is not likely that all of its | details will be universally approved. Attention is | called to it therefore in order that its various pro- visions may be closely scrutinized. A better system of | balloting is urgently needed, and it is to be hopedi no mistakes will be made in adopting a new lawand a new system. | | | The Board of Supervisors is taking steps to make it illegal to leave drugs. cosmetics, antiseptics and chem- ical compounds on the doorsteps -of houses. The board might kill two birds with one stone by making it also illegal for people to break into unprotected houses, a practice which has become annoyingly fre- quent of late. In a recent debate in the Reichstag a German statesman, with prophetic eloquence, expressed the hope that his country will not seek to duplicate Na- poleon’s Mexican venture. This is like warning the { This State has a productive capacity, in the valleys o . | against them all, but our int Emperor that it would be unwise for him to thrust his head in front of an American gun as it is about to be discharged. RIVER IMPROVEMENTS. HE San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys are vi- T tally interested in the improvement of the two great rivers of the State. Their navigability is a necessity to the agriculture and commerce of the State, and the protection of their delta and bench lands from overflow in flood time will add enormously to the State’s productive power and to its taxable property. This State suffers from the inattention of the Fed eral Government to its part of the work needed to ef fect the two grand objects of river improvement, navi gation and care of the flood waters. Tens of millions are spent, and properly, in protecting the valley of the Ohio and the Mississippi. Much is also expended in fu tile work to control the vast flow of mud in the Mis souri, which does no permanent good to navigation the two 1ivers, of the most interesting variety, volume | and value, and gets but little. It is estimated by experts that an expenditure of $750,000 will put the lower reaches of both rivers in a | navigation will be opened even to deep water ships as far as Stockton and peyond Sacramento. The small jetties already placed in the Sacramento have so sccured the channel where subjected to their influence that tidal action has been extended. Before the jetties it ceased at Walnut Grove, but is now ex- tended up stream a distance of twelve miles, past Vor- den, Courtland and Richland. This has made it possi- le for boats of deeper draught to land at Sacramento even in the lowest stage of the river. It is true that the channel was filled with mining slickens, to its damage, but it is also true that the flood waters, if confined to the channel, will, with the extension of tidal action, scour out this obstruction. The waters of the Sacramento are held back and | States and Germany to the latter power, at ghe PI’CS"‘,‘ thrown out of banks by the meanders in the lower | €Nt stage of her naval development, it wouldlbe worth ' me | river, and by the presence of the islands which choke the flow. The extent of this obstruction is shown by Antioch and Collinsville marked two-tenths of a foot per mile, and demonstrating the blocking of the | stréam by restriction of the channel, which piled up the waters above. It seems obvious, as an engineering proposition, that this obstructed water acts as a dam to the flood | behind it, forcing it over the banks to flood Yolo basin, and permanently disable a vast tract of fine land which might be reduced to tillage if the waters were carried in the channel, which they would rapidly scour to a depths sufficient for their carriage. The most valuable lands are always the delta lands, The delta of the Nile was noted for its production be- fore the pyramids were built, or the Sphinx reared its great and questioning face to gaze across the land of the shepherd kings. The fat delta of the Mississippi perspires the most valuable crops of the South, and the delta lands of the Sdtramento and San Joaquin rivers can feed the popu- lation of kingdoms. Compared with the results pos- sible of achievement by proper attention to river rec- tification, its cost i lost in a decimal. No object of State and national action relating to California is of greater interest than this. The State and nation can well afford to share between them the cost, for both will gain when the work is accomplished. When done, far Colusa will become a seaport, if she wish, and the wheat of the Sacramento Valley may be load- ed directly upon deep water ships, whose spars are in sight of the fields that produce it. In the case of the Mississippi and control of its | loods many States and millions of people combine in interest and influence; Califgrnia is but one State c’i(‘fl! in what we have and want is vital. What seems to be needed is some member of Congress who will abstain from many non-essentials and make this river improvement an essential and a specialty. If the present session of the Legisiature take it up with the whole purpose of forc- | ing it upon national attention, and meantime giving resources for entry upon the work, the best results may be anticipated from the effect upon Congress of a determined attitudz here. This is not a matter of politics, of which we have toc much in legislation, but of the material better- ment &f a company of interests of the utmost im portance to California. R — Reports indicate that Wall street has succumbed to President Roosevelt and that anti-trust legislation, practically as outlined, will become the law of the land. Still, it is not in the slightest degree improba- ble that the veracious correspondents afe talking in their sleep. D view of OUR FOREIGN TRADE. ECEMBER feports of foreign trade, issued by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, make a re- markable showing for the month, while a re- e whole foreign trade for a series of years shows that, while our-exports diminished from the | | high figures of the two previous years, and the im- | ports increased, yet there remained a good balance of | for the trade in cur favor, in fzct a larger balance than we had | in any year previous to 1898, The figures for the moath show cxports of mer- chandise amounting to $148,006,823 and imports | amounting to $94,307,204. The exports amounted to a gain of 23,000,000 over the month of November and of $11,000,000 over the previous December. The im- ports were the largest for any one month except those tof April, 1897, when the total reached the sum of $101,000,000. They exceeded the imports of the pre- vious December by upward of $14,000,000. The statistics of the totals of exports and i;nports| | for a series of years from 1807 is given in the follow ing table: Calendar Excess of | year. Exports. Im; 18, 502 696,355 $566.570.000 301 456543 1901 375,80 S0 584,955,950 130 113 829,149 796, : 798,967 41 476,500, 1898 .546.. 634, m.fllr?l} 42 357,113,816 It will be seen that, while in 1900 we had a balance of trade amounting to more than $648,000,000, the bal- ance for the last year was but little more than $301,- 000,000, or a decrease of something like $260,000,000. The change has been the subject of a good deal of dis- cussion, but it appears to have been due mainly to the comparatively bad times in Europe, which restricted the purchase of American goods, while, on the other hand, our own abundant prosperity enabied us to pur- chase largely ofYoreign goods, One of the interesting features of the report is the chowing of the comparative values of our exports of agricultural goods as compared with the value of manufactured exports. There was a time when most of our exports were of raw material or foodstuffs, but at the present time manufactured exports are nearly equal in n.noni. Thus in 1901 our agricultural ex- ports were valued at $864,000,000, while in 1902 they fell to $732,000,000. On the other hand, the manufac- tured exports, which in 1901 were $601,000,000, rose last year to the sum of $628,000,000. Reyiewing the general progress of our foreign trade we have every reason to be satisfied. A summary of !the totals shows that in 1870 our total ex- | ports aggregated ‘but $403,000,000, and as they amounted to $1,360,000000 last year we have gain of about 237 per cent for the period i thirty-two years. Meantime our imports in- reased something like 127 per cent. We have there- ore a remarkably good showing of increased trade | during the whole period. The revival of good times }in Europe would immediately increase our exports, while the continuapce of prosperity here will enable | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1903. BRILLIANT RECEPTION AT THE NEW HOME O NE of the most delightful recep- tions of the season was given by Mrs. Joseph M. Masten yesterday at her new home on Washington street. The hours were 4 to 6 o’clock and about 400 callers were hos- pitably entertained. The drawing-rooms were made artistic with a profusion of bamboo, red berries and foliage. The dining-room was in red, including the cut flowers and candeiabra with red leather shades. The ceillngs were hung with feathery garlands of asparagus fern. Mrs. Masten wore an exquisite gown of heavy us to continue our‘large purchases of foreign goods. We have therefore reason to be satisfied with the situ- ! Uncle Sam is now tke happy possessor of a gun that doubly interesting from the fact that nothing smaller than a fairly sized island can be seen twenty miles | B | away. | EUROPEAN MISTAKES. HE London National Review, which joins other T English papers in deprecating any uniriendli-’ ness to the United States as a result of the con- ! cert with Germany in®the Venezuela matter, says: ; “By inveigling us into ‘joint action’ in a part of the world within the purview of the Monroe doctrine Germany had ‘everything to gain and little to lose; we everything to lose and nothing to gain; because important as are good relations between the United { her while to risk a certain amount of American ill- will if she could thereby make sure of effecting a | the fact that in March, 1902, the river at low tide at breach in Anglo-American relations. Although it is not yet recognized eithér in Washington or in Lon- | above zero, or mean low tide, while at the same time | don, the Kaiser has reason to regard his political po- | at Rio Vista, fourteen miles up the riser, the water | ition in the Lmte_d States as a strong one. | was fourteen feet above zero, showing a fall of a foot lieves that the German vote, which is being steadily He be- | organized by the German Embassy in Washington, through the medium of the German-American press will ultimately constitute an imperium in imperio of { such a formidable character that no American Presi- | dent will care to jeopardize party prospects by alienat- | | ing it.” However correct this may be as an estimate of the | | ulterior designs of Germany, it is wide of the mark as a correct judgment of the feeling of the citizens of the | United States of German blood. They have affection | for the fatherland, but it runs to the people, and ex- | tends to the Government only as a present represen- | tative of the people. | Germaus in this country are not believers in the | divine right of monarchs, and would be the last of all our population to-give any support to the empire in aggressions uniriendly to the United States. Our | American Germans have tasted the larger liberty and | the fuller opportunity of this land of refuge, and they | realize that what they enjoy here is the fruit of our| | liberal institutions, and they have no spirit other than ! of opposition to the extension to this hemisphere of | that absolutism which hedges in the German people | at home, | The spirit of the English press is highly appreciated | in this country, but it errs in supposing that German- Americans can be made an imperium in imperio to | further plots or aid plans to the annoyance or danger | of this republic. When Prince Henry came here the | Germans joined in bidding him welcome, as a Ger- man of the ancient house and dynasty. But if Prince Henry came again in the attitude of an enemy to this | refuge for the best and most enterprising of the Ger- | man race, he would find every German hand that for- | merly reached out in welcome full weaponed to Rnlitc; | him for attacking institutions, opportunities and in- | | fluences that have made our German immigrants ree | men, sharers of our birthright and participants in our | | prosperity and happiness | A State Senator, now unloosing his tongue at Sac- | ramento, says that Santa Clara, which he is supposed | to represent, wants no reform. Is it possible that the | | county is so utterly | 1 —— | SWORDS AND BANNERS. | OLONEL WAGNER, chiei umpire of the re- 1‘ cent maneuvers at Fort Riley, has reported | that “In many cases the first indication uf[ the opposing forces was given by the flashing of a | bright scabbard in the sunlight.” The statement | " means that the sword has become more danperous to | the man who carries it in modern war than to the| | foe. It is of no use as a weapon, but the sparkle of it draws attention to the wearer, and a watchiul sharp- shooter snipes him from a distance. That is not the worst of the evil, for in addition to exposing the man who carries it the flashing blade or scabbard also giv the enemy notice of the position of the force that is opposing him. ted that when the British troops embarked in South Africa they left their regimental flags behind them. Even the red tape officials of the [ War Office knew that it would have been absurd to { send men into battle in these days with a gorgeous | banner floating above them. The man who carried it | would have been doonied to almost instant death, and | the heroism that would have prompted others to | snatch the patriot emblem from his dying hands would | have served no other purpose than that of providing | other victims for the deadly sharpshooter blazing raway with smokeless powder from a safe place of | concealment. | The “battle flag” and the “battle blade” are obso- | lete. Hereafter the banner and the falchion will be | emblems of peace. When we see them displayed we shall know that war is not in sight. The soldier of the future will say to his beloved: “I must put away the sword and go to war, hind will sing of the coming of the happy time when “My soldier brave returns to h(s home and girds on his sword again,” Othello’s lament that the return of peace had put an end “to the pomp and circumstance of glorious war” will have to be accompanied by foot notes to explain to future generations that in bygone times war had a great deal of pomp in the way of bright uni- forms, splendid banners and glittering arms. So also the preachers of the future in expounding the text | Itwast | can throw a projectile weighing twenty-four hundred | condition to carry off the flood waters, scour out the = pounds a distance of twenty miles. This possession is | | channel and extend the tidal influence so far that and the girl he leaves be-i white lace over light blue, and received the guests with charming cordiality. She | ation, and may even expect the present year to bring | was assisted by: | us a trade that will break all records. | Stovel, Mre Ei) Hutchinson, Mrs, Julian Sonn- Mrs. Louis Martel, Joseph Charles_ rall, Mrs. Charles Wood, Mrs. Leroy Nickel, Villlam Willis, Mrs. Joseph Spear, Mrs. Wellington Gregs. Mrs. Charles Band- Clement Bennett, Mrs, Willlam s Adele Martel, ‘Miss Carmelita Warner, Mies Julia n, Miss Viola Plercy | tag, Mrs. James Irvine, Mrs, George J, Buck- rs. James Stewart, Mrs, Linda H. Bryan, Mrs James Wvatt Oates, M Isabella_Brittain, Mre. M Mrs. mann, Perkinz au, | ‘) Mrs. Edwin Dimond was hostess at an elaborate luncheon vesterday at the { | versity Ciub. Covers were laid for forty- four and the merry guests were seated at three tables. The decorations were unu- sually pret nd attractive. One table was in vell affodile and gehdeiabra of the same color. Another was in pink, fucluding azaleas and fruit blossoms, ! with candelabra to match, and the third tuble was in snowdrops interspersed with | white violets and candelabra, also in white. Music proved a delightful accom- paniment to the a ated conversation ard added much pleasure to the luncheon. Mrs. Spencer Buckbee received yeste ¢y at her home on C street comp ary to her s , Mrs. Alfred Hol- man of Portland, Or. The drawing-room | was prettily decorated with foliage and {cut flowers and many callers were de- lightfully entertained during the aftel noon. Mrs. Buckbee was assisted in r ceiving by Mrs. Holman. R ! Cards are out for the marriage of Miss | Elizabeth Richards Robely and Wililam Walter Richards at Church next Thursday evening. As M Robeiy is very popular and Mr, Richards is a well- { known timber dealer, the wedding will be | attended by many friends. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Pope enter- tained a number of friends at dinner last evening. Among those present were Mr. James W. Byrne, Mrs. Gus Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Mountford Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Blanchard Chas e e. . A delightful “at home” w terday by Mrs. George Powers and M Catherine Powers at their home on street. Flowers of every available variet added bright touches of tistie rooms. A dinner eptios The ho: PERSONAL MENTION. . Hendrlckeon of Sargent is at the the r abie. L | | | i | Dr. Merritt Hill of Los Angelés is at the Palace. George H. Shinn, a stage owner of Ulkdah, is at the Ru | John Sherrett, a_hotel proprietor of Truckee, is at the Russ. Lee A. Phillips, a well-known atiorney | ckton, is at the Palace. J. Miley, a well-known ofl man of | McKittrick, Is at the California | H. Hunke, an extensive fruit grower of | Fresno, Is registered at the Rus: | R. Bancroft, manager of a al Merced, is registered at the K. C. C. Brackin, a mine owner of Nevada, is among the arrivals at the Grand. . Stowe, a busimess man of Stock- ton, is res ed at the California. Henry Fuhrman, a well-known real es-| tate dealer of Seattle, is at the Palace. S. Oppenheimer, a wholesale merchant | of registercd at the Grand. W. J. Frederickson, superintende orange groves at Palermo, is at the O dentai. F. S. Hall, a hardware merchant Fortland, Or., is among the arrivals at, the Occidental. ] Manager James Agler returned yester- | the day from an inspection trip over Coast line of the Southern Pacific. Ollie Morosco, manager of the Burbank | Theater at Los Angeles. who has just r turncg from an extended Eastern tri is at the California. H. 8. Babcock, assistant eral traffic | manager of the Denver un?u;zla Grande Rallroad, is at the Palace. His headquar- | ters are at Salt Lake. t ERESET Californians in New York. | NEW YORK, Jan. 22—Californians m | w York: San Francisco—W. Rister part, at Imperial; D. A. Barnes, E. C. Byram, a¢ Murray Hi riff, A. P. Flagler, H. Hadenfelder | and wité, at Netheria H. Hermann, al Gregorfan; L. B. Pe at Empire; D. | Talt, at Park Avenue. Los Angeles—Miss L. Norton, at Ash- land. der [« AL | Californians in Washington. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Hotel arrivals | --Riggs, Captain E. B. Payson, San Fran- cisco; St. James, Mr. and Mrs. Curtla, Pasadena; New Willard, N. C. Ray and wife, San Francleco. — e RICHMOND RESIDENTS WANT SATISFACTORY CAR SERVICE Committee Has Been Appointed to Take Up the Matter With the i Management. | The residents of the Richmond district | are up in arms over the unsatisfactory | car service on the Sutro branch of the | United Railroads. At the last meeting of the Point Lobos Improvement Club the | mutter was one of the topics of discus- sion and a committee, conélsting of George R. Fletcher and J. J. Cassidy, was appofrited to take up the matter witn the superintendent of the line and re-| quest Detter service. | The complaint of the patrons is that the irregularity with which the cars are run necessitates much unnecessary wait- ing. The committee, it is understood, will urge upon the railway company the ad- vigability of converting the Sutter-street road into an electric line and run the cars from Market street direct to the Clff House. The executive committee of the club have also been finstructed to urge upon the Board of Works the necessity for paving Fulton street from Seventh to Tenth avenues. —_—— Lecture on Food. The second lecture of the regular course of Lane lectures will be given this even- ing at the Cooper Medical College. The speaker for the occasion is Dr. William y ! ! about beating the sword into a pruning hook will have to explein that once the sword was a weapon of battle and not a parade ornament of military dress, | EX. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's. The world changes rapidiy, but in nothing is the change more notable than in the way men dress and | gandles, e a pound, In artistic fire-etched equip themselves when they go forth to fight for lib- | 639 Market st.. Palace Hotel building. pravisk S B oo o erty or empire. Khaki is the only wear, and the best * side of a ballroom or a golf 'liuk. soldier is he who makes himself least conspicuous out- mn-g houses and public Ophulus and his theme is ‘“Poisonous Food.” N —_————— Townsend's California glace fruit and nice present for Eastern friends. Special information supplied daily to lipping Bureau (Allen’: Cali- | Torats straok” Telephone Mars wa = i \ X | the happy idea of collec I M MASTEN F MRS. JOSEPH M. » CHARMING SOCIETY WOMAN WHO WAS THE HOSTESS AT A BRIL- L I RECEPTION HELD IN HER NEW WASHINGTON-STREET HOME YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. — Janet Bruce, Miss Bertle Bruce. Miss Harvey Anthony and Miss Cornelia Campbell. I ANSWERS TO QUERIES. GOSSIP LONDON WORLD | LAMP LIGHTER-M. E. D., City. Dia it ever oe to you that the proper place jto apply for a position as city lamp lighter is the office of the gas company ‘(:L’at supplies the city with light? OF LETTERS One of the most interesting literary | nctes of which I hear this week is that ng into a vol- Los Angeles, ‘e stains produced by indel- k on linen steep the stained article 11 a little chlorine water for half an hour. bl vme all the verse written by Charles | ., ywash in ammonia water, which wili Dickens has been concelved by a weli-| gLliterate the stain: them wash in clear known Dickens student and admirer, F. water. G. Kitton. Hitherto these fragmentsi —— been scattered about in a hundrea | SILV WEDDING—A Reader, Dixon, <. Much of the material has not| Cal It is not customary, nor is it nec- essary for a couple who celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary to be married anew. To have one who has mot the ai- thority to perform the marriage cere- many, “marry the couple on such an oc- casion, to make a farce of the affair. The marriage vow of twenty-five years before holds good until death or the di= vorce court parts the couple. been available at all. There are, for ex- ample, the comic satirical poems and the se Dickens contributed . to The volume ge Coqueties,” and his prologiie to Wil- Collins' theatrical plece, ““The Frozen ¢hich Dickens himself played a n acter. The book will be pub- lished in dainty n by the firm so emi- with_ Dickens, nently associated Messrs. | Chapman. tion of rather long short stories, to which Sidney Lee leaves England next| no name has yet been assigned. Wednesday for the Urited States to give | the lectures which he has been invited to | rare and interesting. Mr. and Mrs. Castls deliver on “Great Englishmen of the Six- | plan out their work together, talk it over teenth Century™ at the Lowell Institute, | thoroughly and finally write it in unison, Boston, and other places. so it is almost impossible in the emnd to Egerton Castle, who now reckoned | decide with whom any particular jdea one of England's foremdst@riters of ro-| originally started. The authors never mance and who usually. collaborates with | write of places or peoples they do not Castle, will publish in the spring a | know familiarly. Castle states that he novel which is at present running serially "‘never begins to write a romance until it called “The Star of Comfort,” but in the | has become complete in his mind as dis- beok form will be rechristened “The/Star | cussed and elaborated with his wife for reamer.” Mr. and Mrs. Castle have|a very long time. It is only when both also completed a romance entitled “The | character and incident and the reeiprocal Incomparable Bellairs,” which deals with | infiluence of one on the other have be- Collaboration by hynsband and wife is | sundry episodes in the life of a lively lit- | come familiar that the story is begun. tle widow who was the principal figure | After that writing goes fast enough at in “A Bath Comedy.” by the same au-|an average of two thousand words a day. thors. In addition they are at work upon | the writing being done in the mofning a new novel of modern life of romantic | and the revising at odd moments of the cast which is to be called “The Rose of | day. Thus a long novel will be written in the World.” Egerton Castle, who is one | three months, but of course the period of the busiest of men, has still another | from its conception is much longer, gen- book on the stocks. This will be a collec- ' erally a year or more. “When Knighthood Was in Flower” By Charles Major Completed in This Issue The Great New York Dra- matic Critic Makes His Debut as a Writer for The Sunday Call February 1.