The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1903, Page 6

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GEORGE KROGNESS, ¥ sneger Fercign Acvertising, Margeotte Building. Chisags. (Long Distance Telephone “Central 2613.”) NEW YORK REPR ‘TEPHEN B. SMITH. INTATIVE: .30 Tribune Building XEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. €. CARLTON........0000000...Herald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Hotel: Fifth-avenue Hotel and Hoffman House. | CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Hotel; Palmer Hcuse. €berman H Trement House WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. . CRAN MORTON E. es, open untfl 9:30 o'clock. €33 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open . until s open until 10 o'ciock. 2261 Merket, cormer . open until 9 o'clock. 1088 Va- lencia, open unt k. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 k. NW. enty-second and Kentucky, open ilimore, open until p. m. at 140 The issue thus ortance, and if the re- uences will have far- )\ the oil industry but yective manufacturing in- re behooves the Super- and to note carefully result of their action. at the outset that the m¢m-| tee favoring the establith- t have no other thought than danger from explosions and ainst ssue, thereiore, may be considered first. 5 1 t ervisors to inquire ¢ gh necessary for prote 1 and nger in leaving the standard ! ple evidence is at hand. We for it nor to consult for- sel has been extensively Francisco for a cor enough at any comprehensive test of conceivable conditions of use in tories of many kinds Yet there has never the use of oil nor a single on the Progreso, and the e shows the explosion to rent from the low n her tanks. before the Fire wn by all our experience of the State Uni-| a test of 110 explosions would e were proper ventilation, while if Commit- t wit ventilat there would be danger stood a flash test of 200 free from danger if reck- nor wood possesses the but when ordinary care el with a flash test of 110 degrees th t even coal security, The large use of it in San g a time without a single disaster cient proof on that point. { have no t of increasing safety, the answer The proposed in-| quences affecting almost all of ! ndustries. At the present time | a number of competing companies offering market. These companies could not oil at the flash test of 140 degrees proposed, ause they have not the equipment for so refining t. The one company that can so refine it is the Standard Oil Company. That corporation by refin- | the oil, taking from it all the lighter oil, raises | the flash test of the residue which it offer®Nor fuel It will be seen then that the immediate effect. of the sed test would be to give the Standard Oil Com- ny 2 monopoly in our market. The smaller oil com- panies would be crushed out at once. The price of oil raising the test will s erroneous. 1 our i | | 1 be fixea absolutely by the Standard Company, | and the manufactories as well as the oil industry of the State would be made subject to the monopoly. At the present time we have bright prospects of | developing a diversified manufacturing industry in | California t will be of immense benefit and will se with the years. « We have not been able to compete with Eastern factories in the past ‘because | we have not had the cheap fuel needed for such en-| terprises. The discovery and exploitation of our ol | resources have turned the scale in our favor. Factories | have been started in considerable numbers and other ! ories have been planned. Not only local but Fastern capitalists have had their attention drawn to the potencies of California as a2 manufacturing State | ce the supply of oil fuel has been demonstrated to ample. Shall we now be so foolish as to kill the | goose that lays the golden eggs? Let it be understood that no one charges the Fire | ymmittee of complicity with the Standard Oil Com- | All that is meant is that the committee could ' ‘ot more thoroughly have served the Standard Com- | any nor more effectively worked to give it a monopoly. had it been paid to do it, than it has done | re S the smaller companies and leave the big one in ex- clusive control of the market | ‘T |its simple begianing, which should not have been | to un burden of free book {ing the generation to which the President belonged | destroy the individuality and o4 FREE TEXTBOOKS. HE proposition to furnish ree textbooks to the ' pupils in the public schools of this State has ! been often made in the Legislature and has al-i ways been defeated. It is renewed in the present| session by a bill offered by Senator Emmons of Kern County, which provides that books shall be fur- nished at the expense of the taxpayers and that they shall remain public property and shall be passed from class to class and pupil to pupil for common use until worn out. The intention of the public school system is to fur- nish schoolhouse and teacher at the public cost, and | that in all other matters the means of such education shall be provided by the parents of the pupils. In| | | so widely departed from, the purpose of the public | school was to teach the children of the peopie to read, ‘ write and speak correctly the English language, ac- | quire a sound knowledge of arithmetic, the kmnda»! tion of all mathematics, and of geography. | Gradually this excellent curriculum has been added | 1 it embraces branches that are not only un- necessary to a common school education, but hinderl its proper acquirement. The school system now costs nearly half the taxes paid by the people, but this i cheerfully borne and is not considered an exacl’l | To this cost it is now proposed to add that of fur-| nishing free school books, an unnecessary and dam- | ng addition to the expense, which will simply play | nto the hands of enemies of the public schools. | i | If the proposition to add te the burden of the sys- tem in the direction of increasing the pay | of teachers it would have good ground to stand on, | h desirable and many necessary, but what hope can teachers have of such | the taxpayers are loaded with the ? One effect would be absolutely | sure. The taxpayers, feeling the need of economizingi somewhere, to meet the added expense, would surely | resort to a cut in teachers’ samries as the readiest| i lightening the load. | But for the worst effect of the proposed change | we must look to the pupils themselves. Children get | their first lesson in cwnership from the possession | of their school books and their first lesson : in economy from the necessity of their preservation. | Secretary Hay. in his splendid oration in memoriam at the Congressional obsequies in honor of President McKinley, describ- were for incr se is in cases | increase when ns Such ownership goes further. said: “They received their lessons in pure literature and in patriotism from the splendid school readers of fi ears ago.” The school books were then generally, as they are | to-day to a less extent, the nucleus of the library, and frequently for a time in every were that library entire. They were treasured for | their inhcrent excellence and for the associations which clung to them. Parents prized the books that | their children had used, and they were among the| family treasures kept and guarded by that affection which is the sweetest and most enduring element in y life. Now ifor this it is proposed to substitute books at b of the family family g no sense of ownership, that are not a part 1ily possessions, that have no place in the| memory and carry no associations incident to human} affection. All sentiment is to be barred out of that| period of life when it should be inculcated, and the| school books are to be public property, to pass irr:mE ol n to unclean and back, the disseminators of dis- something to be treated with aversion, | rather than be the object of care and the represen- tative of senitiment. ease and Besides all this, the proposed law will imprint in the spirit of the children of the State the sense of dependence and pauperism. It will teach them the| bad t in material things the State must | provide. The first lesson of their early life will be| that the State must take care of them, when our| whole political system has as its basis the duty of the | citizen 1o, take care of the State. It is proposed, | therefore, that the taxpayers shall bear an additional | burden for the purpose of unfitting the people for | self-government and independence. There are in California of school age ,000 chil- If the annual expenditure for books for each is $35, the addition to our taxation will be $1,250,000, to increase indefinitely as the school children increase | in number. Do the taxpayers wish such an addition? Should friends of the public schools not rather seek | to economize expendi{ures and increase the compen- sation of teachers instead of secking novel ways to make the schools more costly and less efficient in the training they are intended to give? | There is no end to the ingenuity of the demagogue politician, the professional friend of the people, who if let alone will end in devising ways and means to independence of the lesson dren. { S community. This free textbook proposition is of | control the production, manufacture or sale thereof | |in any particular locality by discriminating in prices, that character and should meet the stern obposition of all friends of the schools and of all believers in the manliness of the American character. The State | provides lavishly for its defective classes, and this provision is approved by humanity and public policy. | But Senator Emmons’ bill is calculated to wipe out the line between the helpless and defective cIasses‘f and the public school children and put them all| together as beneficiaries of public charity. Every righteous American feeling revolts against it as*un- inimical wise, unnecessary and to schools. the common Among the flood of bills introduced at Sadramento is one providing for the appointment of an expert on bugs. It is unfortunate that such an officer cannot be appointed and begin at once his searching among the measures of legislation suggested by the solons now ruling in the Capitol. THE POSTER NUISANCE. UT of the campaign of education in the East O against the poster nuisance there promises to come this winter something in the way of leg- islation to mitigate if not wholly suppress the evil. In New York there has already been presented to the Legislature a bill which is strongly backed and has a good prospect of passage. Success there would of course lead to similar legislation elsewhere, and ac- cordingly the movement is one of concern to every | city in the country. According to the report that comes to us the bill seeks to limit the evil first by requiring any person en- gaged in that kind of advertising to take out a license, and second by prescribing what kind of bill posting | shall be permitted under the license. Upon the first point the bill declares it shall be un- lawful for any person, firm or corporation to conduct the business of display advertising, or to post adver- tising bills or paint advertisements upon any fence, license shall first have been issued to the person, firm | tal or corporation transacting such business. For cities ' of the first class the license fee is $2500, and it is also stipulated that 2 cents for every square foot of space used shall be paid annually. Upon the second point the report says: “Certain classes of advertisements are proscribed, and it is also made unlawful to erect in cities of the first and sec- | ond class, to be used for advertising purposes, any fence more than six feet in height, or to erect any sign upon any roof more than two feet in height from the top of the roof to the top of the sign, or to paint upon any wall or other structure any sign containing more than fifty square feet in area.” The advocates of the measure assert that certain parts of New York and other large cities in the State have been rendered almost hideous by the huge, flar- ing, glaring and often vulgar advertising posters that have been put up along the streets. This is said to be especially true of the Brooklyn bridge district, and a report says: “One can hardly enjoy the beauties of the river and bay on a trip over the bridge because of the multitude of staring billboards covered with advertisements, some of which ob- trude suggestions that are far from romantic, to say the least.” As New Yotk is a bigger city than San Francisco we may concede that poster advertising has become a | bigger nuisance there than here; but it is not at all | likely that it is any larger in proportion to popula- tion. Union from here to Boston to suppress the evil, but so far the success has not been great. In the mean- time Paris and London have managed to regulate the poster busin in such a way as to make it pay a good revenue and at the same time rid it of some of the worst features which are so conspicuous in Ameri- The movement for reform is therefore not can cities. without good precedents ta follow and eventual suc- cess is certain. The New York bill appears to deal with the subject in a satisfactory -manner, and it is to be hoped it will be enacted into law not only for the good of New York, but as an object lesson to other States. The thrifty, pleasure seeking, industrious State leg- islator is not to be robbed after n}l of that cheap per- quisite of his temporary glory and profit—the junket- ing trip. With his family and his family’s friends he | will tour the State, look wise, enjoy an entertainment which others pay for, and resb consciously gratified in receiving something he does not deserve. This is one of the amenities of public life. THE ANTI-TRUST BILL. T substantially as already discussed in The Call. It is said that the principal objection to it is its provision for publicity. There is a valid reason against legal enforcement of publicity of the neces- sary confidences of business, which when exposed furnish information for rivals, either home or foreign. But it is very doubtful whether this can occur under the proposed law. The first section of the bill provides for publicity. A close examination of it discloses the fact that nothing is required that does not belong to the public. The United States Steel Corporation, the largest of all the trusts, in its nual report to its 50,000 stockholders, furnishes just the information required by the bill. It reports the number of corporations incorporated in its name, the value of their several properties, the price at which they are taken over, the productive capacity of each and their aggregate carning power and the gross and net proceeds of the annual business. The bill only provides further that the trusts shall cite the laws under which they are organized and their rules and regulations and an explanation of their preferred and common stock, with the legal basis and privileges of each. It is quite difficuit to conceive that this proper publicity discloses anything that may serve our foreign rivals. A trust may own patents or secret pro- cesses which economize its production, or it may pursue methods of business made possible by or ganization which enable it to enter foreign markets and extend our export trade, but so lohg as these d not include preferential freight rates and unlawful re. culated to preserve in them whatever is good, while purging them of what is bad. The powers of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission are enriched by this bill, and its capacity to enforce its decrees through the courts is definitely declared. Section 6 is of especial utility and impost- ance. It provides: “That no corporation engaged in the production, manufacture or sale of any article of commerce, \‘iolat'i;? any of the provisions of sec- tion 5 of this act attempting to monopolize ‘or or by giving special privileges or rebates or other- wise in order to destroy competition therein in such locality, shall use, either directly or indirectly, any of the facilities or instrumentalities of interstate com- merce, or in any way engage in interstate commerce for the purpose of uiding or facilitating, either di- rectly or indirectly, such production, manufacture or sale with such intent: nor shall any other person or corporation use any of the facilities or instrumen- ies of interstate commerce, or in any way engage in interstate commerce, in buying, selling or dispos- ing, of any such article of commerce for the purpose of enabling such first mentioned corporation to en- gage or to continue to engage in such production, manufacture or sale or control with such intent. Every corporation or person violating the pro-| visions of this section shall be punished, on convic- tion, by a fine of not less than $500 and not exceed- ing $5000.” This will be recognized as a drastic remedy for a: much-complained-of evil and will be favorably re- ceived by the country, as it works practical outlawry of the offending organization. —— Jn expressing admiration for the great painting ‘‘Love and Life,” which hangs in the White Housef and over which the Women's Temperance Union has | Lady | gone into spasms of maidenly indignation, Henry Somerset has lifted a weight of sorrow from American minds. We were beginning to think that | cisco; Arthur Brigg: devotion to temperance involved all forms of idiocy. Efforts have been made in every city in the; HE anti-trust bill is reported and is on lines} . JANUARY 24, 1903. — PRETTY FIGURES ARE DANCED IN NEW - BALLROOM BY ENTRE NOUS COTILLON & Ao % i [ THREE OF TRE ATTRACTIVE AND EXTREMELY POPULAR YOUNG MEMBERS OF SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY | 1 WHO DANCED IN THE FIRST SET AT THE ENJOYABLE BALL GIVEN LAST NIGHT BY THE ENTRE ! NOUS COTILLON CLUB. NE of the most enjoyable balls of | a charming dinner last evening. The Breeze, Will S Moore, Percy h k was the fourth bly | spacious dining room at the Herrin resi- | K& Ralph Crowell. BT the week was the fourth assembly pacio d 3 - ton, Reddick Duperu Pt Penn, Howar and german given last evening | dence, Broadway and Scott streets, was | Veeder, Allen Wrigh rge Whipple, Frank by the members of the Entre i Nous Cotillon in the new bali- | room of the Palace Hotel. The ballroom and reception rooms were lavishly dee- orated with palms and flowers. There was a large .attendance. 2 Five pretty and original figures were danced under the leadership of Sanford G. Lewald, assisted by Miss Evelyn G. | Sresovich. ' The following members par- | ticipated in the leading sets: Misses Adeleine Smith, Pauline E. Ryder, Pearl C. Haas, Virginla Ryder, Frances Rop ers, Elizabeth’ Baker, May Smith, Bdma L. Mohr, Ida Purlenky, Mae Fraser, Edna Thode, | Virginia M. Pottes, Lillian “Lubben, Genevieve | Browders, Carrie Haker, lda Wizhtman, Kath- | ryn Meyer, Emma Hahn, Lily Hohfeld. Flor- | ence Kustel, Kate MecDonald, Belle Herzer, | Lulu Bergez, Linda Priber, Giadys H. Dell | zelle, Kate Carroll, Kathleen Lynch, Lillian | Curley, Florence A. Marinovich, Mabel Fra- , Letty Conne: Alice L. Dunne, E Mamie Gladding, . and Mrs. Merritt D. Robinson; 5 F. Cunningham, William F. | Hooke, Dr. T. E. Moore, Lewis Black, Edward Gordon, E. J. Breiling, John A. Percy H. Jessen, Arthur H. Meussdorfler, H. T m, Fred W. Gray, M. Vincent Politeo, | mann, Frank H. Percy WANTS EXHIBIT CONTROLLED BY STATE BOARD Editor The Cali: | The proper body to | take charge of the exhibition at St. | Louis, in 1004, is the State Board of { Trade. I venture to state that the board could have made the exhibitions, both at Paris | and at Chicago, for ane-half they cost the State. The present manager of the | State Board of Trade, Mr. J. A. Filcher, | has entire charge of the State exhibit at Hamburg at a cost, including salaries, of only %000 and of the board's exhibit at | Atlanta, Ga., and conjointly. represent- | ing the State Board, with Willlam H. | Mills of the Southern Pacific Company, | had charge of the company’s exhibit at Buftalo, N. Y.. and Paris. All sich exhibitions should be under the control of one administrative mind. Experience has shown that by this means dissensions are avoided, large salarics {are eliminated and sectional jealousies | are prevented. | The State Board has facilities not en- joyed by any other body or .person for collecting materials. The present bill before the Legisla- | ture provides for three commissioners at a salary for each of $3000, and they must be selected from the different sections | of the State and be of large experience in exhibitions. Ore commissioner wi.l | lead, while the other two draw $3600 for nothing, and the secretary will do the larger part of the work, as is the case generally experience shows with com- | misstons appointed by the State. There {can be no discrimination against see- tions of the State by the State Board, | as its members are appointed by the Supervisors of counties, ranging from | Los Angeles to Tehama County. Instead of three commissioners there will be twenty or more members of the board, who will guard the interests of each section. I suggest that the committee to which | the bill was referred send for Mr. Fil- | cher, General N. P. ipman, San Fran- Fresno; C. M. ‘Wooster, San Jose, or any other mem- ber of the board, and take their testi- mony as to the cost of the above named | San Francisco is preparing to receive worthily the | exhibitions arnd the facilities posseseed lessening hosts of the Grand Army of the Republic. No better cause could receive a heartier support. It City, January 23. will be the last visit of the old soldiers to us, and | when they leave we will have but a sacred memory | of what they did in sacrifice and patriotism for the preservation of the nation. " A measure designed to make less easy the escape of the ; g d n wa]l'c:r other object or structure, or to distribute ad- criminals from justice has been introduced in the State | by proposing a test for oil fuel that will crush out vertising matter in the State of New York, unless a' Legislature. Strangely enough, it makes no sugges- tion for the improvement of the normal intelligence of police officers. | by the board for collecting the material ! for the exhibition. E. W. MASLIN. S PERSONAL MENTION. M. Baechtel, a capitalist of Niles, is at the Grand. T. L. Oddie of Tonopah is a guest at Palace. Ex-Superfor Judge J. M. Mannon of - Uklah is at the Lick, ! H. L. Price, an attorney Russ. of Portland, lOr-. is a guest at the 3 | Mr. | trude Jos Senator J. B. Curtin 15 down from Sac- ' elaborately decorated for the occasion, red being the color chosen exclusively. Red carnatiops and candelabra with shades of the corresponding color were éffectively arranged for table decoration. Covers were laid for sixteen. The young hostess wore an exquisite gown of pink satin and extended delightful hospitality t6 her guests. Those present were: Miss Herrin, Miss Thornton, Miss Pearl Landers, Miss Gertrude Josselyn, Miss Lurline Spreckels, Miss Emily Wilson, Miss Elena Rdbinson, Mrs. Salisbury, Cadwallader, Knox Maddox, Percy King, B. Cornwall, Capt. Johnston, Lieu- tenant Perry \and Lieutenant Fortnightly. The fourth dance of the Friday Fort- | nightly Club was held last evening at Cotillon Hall and was largely atended by the younger set. Many pretty gown were worn by the debutantes and their chaperons and the scene was a pretty one. in the first set were: Miss_Florence Josselyn, Miss Maud Bourn, Miss Olive Holbrook, Miss Frances McKins- ramento and is registered at the Califor- nia. George 8. Nixon, a banker of Winne- mucca, Nev., is at the Palace. F. J. Battimer, a salmon packer of Van- couver, B. C., is at the Grand. 8. H. Knapp, a well known pining man of Tonopah, is at the Occidental. G. W. McConnell, a merchant of Hol- lister, is among the arrivals at the Russ. J. Wahrlich, a Salinas merchant, is here on a short business trin and has made his headquarters at the Russ. ARSI T | Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* Kuznik. | After dinner the guests proceeded to the | The cotillon was led by Miss Ger- | elyn and Robert Eyre. Those | Mrs. Henriette Zeile evening at another of lightful dinners at her residence ifornia street was hostess last her series of de- 1717 Cal- Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Martin gave a dinner last evening at the Scott resi- dence, complimentary to Miss Marie Oge and “Truxtun Beale. . Mrs. Mee and her debutante daughter, Miss Margaret Mee, were “at home’” yes- terday at their residence on Broadway. They were assisted in receiving their friends by Miss Marion Hall of Alameda. < ¢ '@ | | Mr. and Mrs. Jack Casserly have re- | turned to their home in San Mateo. amin Thomas held | reception yesterday | entertaining callers b: Mullin and Mrs. Jam dic's Mrs. Stephen S. Rau, accompanied by her brother, Mr. E. Magnin, has left for New York for a six weeks' stay. Mrs. B last sted in Lathan Me- dy. her and was assis Mrs. s AP : 3 5 s Yo s ? re. S aly he Misse: bates, their disclosure is not compulsory under the | David . Dr. A W. B e o | e e e e e [law. It seems to provide needed remedies at every| " Spreckels. Miss Allen, Miss Ethel Cooper. Mise | ¢, the Gramada and will be at home om point where complaint has lodged against the policy | Miss Catherine Herrin was hostess at | Eelis, Knox Maddox, Robert Eyre, Tom | Mondays. of these great business combinations and to be €al- | @ qeutufufufoiufufetutnintueotototodoiutedrinieimbriofufefufbeimfuimininieind defrfeieieieilufimleieiinieim it O Deaf Mutes Will Marry. Jose Santa Cruz and Mrs. America Kel- lcgg, both deaf mutes, will be married next Sunday at 868 Lombard street, ha ing secured a marriage license yesterday. Mrs. Kellogg was divorced from Marvin Kellogg on October 19, 1901 —_— Townsend's California glace fruft and | candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched | boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, | 639 Market st.. Palace Hotel bullding. * — e ee— | Speelal information supplied daily to | business houses and public men by the | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali- | fornja street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢ | “When Knighthood Was ~in Flower” By Charles Major " Completed in This Issue matic | “The Striker’s Story” Best Railtoad Story Ever Written The The Great New York Dra- Makes His Debut as 2 Writer for The Sunday Call Febroary 1. Critic Out 25 -