The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1903, Page 6

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CARLTO! ++.Herald Square 81 avenue Hotel and Hoffman House. Great Montgome: BRANCH OF" FICES—s2 corner of Clay, open 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, il 9:30 o'clock. 632 5 Larkin, open until ntil 10 o'clock. 2261 9 o'clock. 1096 Va- Union BSquare;| = | pitalit, THE PLEASURES OF LIBERTY. W ;to the probable action of the natives of the foreign ~ | enemy resident here. This was the case recently, | { when the British press discussed the probability of | our having a war with Germany over Venezuela. It | was then said that the Kaiser would be able to con- | trol public action here by using for that purpose the] | sentiment of the Germans in the United States. All | such speculation is vain. No man who has emerged | from the narrow conditions of life in Continental Eu- | rope and has enjoyed the pleasures of liberty will ever do anything to injure the institutions which fully en- franchise his manhood. The impression made by our large and regulated liberty is not confined to foreigners who come here | to stay, but is upon temporary sojoutners and trav- | elers who are with us but briefly. The freedom of | movement, the conveniences of travel, the respect shown for personal rights, the courtesy which trav- elers receive on our lines of travel, are all a part of that freedom of which this country is the only ex- ponent on earth. Foreign travelers cross this con- tinent by rail in perfect luxury and ease. Thé jour- i ney is made memorable by the attentions and cour- | tesies railroad officials. There no vexatious | delay, examination and damage of baggage The | foreign traveler is free to make notes of his journey, | to ask questions, to inquire into everything that ex- | cites his curiosity or that can be of service when he | goes. From the car porter to the superintendent of | | the road everybody is at his service, and his fellow | travelers vie with each other in sociability and hos- for his pleasure and comfort. Americans who travel on Continental railways have occasion to notice the contrast in all these respects-{ | There repression produces that form of govern-| mental cowardice which sees in every stranger a spy, | in every traveler a possible conspirator. { This system seems to have reached its intolerable HENEVER there is talk about trouble be- tween the United States and any European nation it is accompanied by speculation as | | | of is | pay the principal provided she pays the interest regu- | However, when the big claims get through the exami- agrees that Venezuela shall have plenty of time to larly. It seems that each of the powers looks upon the investment as a good one, and doubtless it is if the court of arbitration can be induced to support it. nation of the impartial adjudicators it is likely there will not be leit more than a small percentage of them for Venezuela to pay. We have had experieace with that sort of thing ourselves. There are now before our Cuban claims court bills amounting to $60,000.- 000. We shall probably squeeze about $40,000,000 out of the lot beiore we begin paying. Venezuela may have the same good fortune before the court of ar- bitration. | If the building of the Panama canal be as.vexatious | as have been the preparations for that great event| Uncle Sam will have a troubled brdin for many a year to come., In every stage of the negotiations with | Colombia we seem to risk again everything we have | A CALIFORNIA ROOSTER. won. | | ETALUMA, in Sonoma County, is the great-“ P est poultry and egg center in the United States | The climate of the region Yound abotit is espe- | cially adapted to the industry prosecuted by biddy and \ chanticleer, and the people are all rich and getting | richer by strict attention to eggs and broilers. | Being anxious to lose no time by having hens idle | they invented the Petaluma incubator, so that all the hens are required to do is to lay the eggs; the incu- bator does the rest. It is said to be the fact that the use of this machine for many generations of hens has eliminated the maternal faculty entirely, and the Petaluma hen| merely scratches gravel, lays eggs and cackles, and | never sets. There are even stories to the effect that | those hens work overtime by laying two eggs a day, | but these are not yet sufficiently authenticated. It is| | certain, however, that Petaluma hens produce eggs | and agree continuously from their pullet days till they go into bt G THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 19803. ~ e ———————— W= PEIXOTTO EXHIBITION IS ONE OF MUCH INTEREST TO THE PUBLIC HE Pcixotto exhibition, which Is to be opened to-morrow to the general public at the Vickery, Atkins & Tor- rey gallery, Is one of peculiar inter- est to San Franelscans. Six years ago Ernest Peixotto left here for New York, bly soon afterward wrate his . oon wiil 91 extreme on that section of the trans-Siberian rail- and Kentucky, °"e”l way which runs through Manchuria. Russia .uses o A B D | there in the guarding of trains and administration of | the road her surplus Cossacks who can be spared from guarding her universities and knoating their | students. These Cossacks combine ignorance and | insolence with brutality in their methods. Recently | one American gentleman who was on a train in Man- An act for the protection of | churia while writing in his notebook was struck on s of the several counties of the State | the head by one of those Cossacks and his book was ting the busine from The American puiled thereto, semblyman an flag from his pocket and proceeded to do to knock the Cossack down and recover his property. was no doubt de-| An Englishman also reports that on the $ame road | s te treated the greatest indignity by the 1aking abstracts of | Cossack guards, one of whom snatched his food from Il go far He saw the Cos- er Twenty-second %0 Fillmore, open A MISCHIEVOUS MEASURE. ER the title, nia, and for regula snatched his hand. relation small Amer h threatens It ency | he was with and wi him while he was eating luncheon. ing them blows for pay. What a diplomatic storm would be raised if such things occurred on an American railway! But they cannot occur here. With the longest and best rail- any title to ornia with- ecuted and filed with the County | d three o e good and sufficient | is the product of our system of government, and e bond is that said per-| travelers of every nation enjoy here the pleasures of 1 properly demean them- | liberty. abstracting or making certi-| The United States need have no fear of the for- | ] in no way mutilate, deface or | eigners who are domiciled and domesticated under | cords nor delay the county of- | cur flag. When man has once tasted American frec- their duties while using the | dom he will never put his hand to its destruction or ovided that the y of | abridgment. liab e bond shall be to the State of | his childhood, his affection runs to that other flag on who shall suffer loss by rea- e to records, which makes him a man, with all the rights of man secured to him and guaranteed. Instead of our foreign population being here as military colonies, ready to assist their native coun- | try in a warlike attack on our institutions, they are $150,000 in coun- | really an addition to that strength of this republic | es of the sec- | which joins its ten millions of men of fighting age The | together in a solid force ready to defend the liberty decrease with the classification of | they can nowhere else enjoy. Therefore their pres- the fifty-fourth, | ence here and their loyalty make for peace and not he amount is fixed at | for war. more populous counties| The coal shortage in the East has caused some- ill be virtually prohib- | thing worse than a mere discomfort, for the Chicago ge rw'pr:rax ons or big firms. Board of Health reports a great increase in the death | a comparatively small 'bu:iness rate among children under five years of age and bonds ranging from $75,000 | among the aged, and the board attributes the increase to a lack of warmth to any persons tracts have been made and who may of imperfection or in- red are to be , $125,000 ties of the third class. in coun of ege of doing business at all. ld engage in the work on| s could readily combine, and there would | VENEZUELA'S CREDITORS. nopoly under the act. | the present time almost any one can search the | ¢ records for titles and make abstracts if he de~fW all are agreed as to the settlement of the 5 to do so. In addition to the proiessional scarch-i Venezuela question we may be sure that ere of records a good many persons make use of the | next day there will be a report of a row in the con- privilege. It is no uncommon thing for a lawyer or | cert, and the discovery of a complication requiring a rea] estate dealer to examine records. The require- 1 a readjustment of every part the programme. firms that co HEN the diplomats announce one day that of 2 1 ment of the proposed bond would bar out all such | These complications are not due to imperial l;u]ldozx al | sacks habitually rob the Chinese of their food, giv- | ways in the world we join the freedom of action which | While he remembers fondly the flag of | In fact, the adoption of the bill would re- in closing the avenues of information as ¢o land | tles, or zt least in so hedg them mh restrictions to create confusion. Many professional search- persons. in rge 2 bond, and the public would thus be deprived ! ers of records would doubtless decline to give so| ing on the part of the Kaiser nor to pure cuss-| edness on the part of President Castro. They arise from the fact that the claims coming in from all parts of Eurcpe are of such magnitude that they threaten to leave nothing of Venezuela to distribute. Neither of the three powers who took part in the | the pot to make the toothsome fricassee. The question of adopting a city seal for that thriv- \ing town has been agitated, and it has been proposed to select for that purpose a crowing hen, an emanci- pated, new hen, who never sets. This must have been noised about among the feathered population and has !produced the usual male opposition to female pri- macy, whether among the feathered or unfeathered | bipeds. Evidence of this is found in a report made by several reputable chicken fanciers of Sonoma | County, to the effect that a rooster has appeared on llmt ‘busy scene that lays eggs regularly. He is a gal- takes himseli to seclusion and lays eggs. Standing | by the ancient prerogative of his sex, when his useful task is accomplished, instead of cackling he flaps his | wings and crows. | In Sonoma County lives the wizard of botany, as marvelous as they are useful. It may well be that do with this duality of function. Added to the eman- | | cackling sex, this influence may have added immeas- urably to the egg-producing capacity of Petaluma. | this tendency is | spread, and the voting population of Sonoma County ‘_is asking, “Where are we at, and where are we likely I'to be?” IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS. W HILE Congress hesitates to enact an ef- fective immigration restriction act, the Brit- ish Government has taken the subject under consideration, and it is not at all improbable that ‘I’arliament may soon enact a law which, while pro- | tecting Great Britain against undesirable immigrants, will have #he effect of turning to this country the mass of aliens rejected there. Our conditions then | will be worse than at present, and we shall have our | larger cities swarming with immigrants, whose pres- ence will be a distinct menace to public welfare. | It is well known that for a long time the despotic | powers of Europe have been shipping te other lands | a considerable proportion of the riffraff of their popu- | lations, The consequence is that the immigrants into | the United States and Great Britain from those lands have not been animated solely by a desire for civil liberty, personal protection | | | able proportion of them have been helpless paupers, idlers and criminals. Their going has been a benefit to the country they left, and their arrival has been | an injury to the lands to which they migrated. As the facilities of travel have increased and the ;expcnsc lessened the drift of the human flotsam of | Europe to Great Britain and the United States has increased to serious proportions, We have noted it of the services of a body of experienced and able men | peaceful blockade and the peaceful bombardment of | fora long time, but it is only recently that the swarm- n that line of work. In short, the restrictions would | seriously interfere with an important branch of the work of the community, ompensating advantage would result. If it be said that the bond will be a security for will be asked why there should not be a similar large bond to assure the public against incompetent doctors and architects. We would not re- young man to put up a bond of $150,000 be- fore we permit him to practice law or medicine or en- yers, u re gage in the construction of buildings, and why then| should we require it of him if he wish to set up a cher of records? In that profession as in any d excellence of his work, and that law is a better for the public against incompetency than any a statute can provide. The fi argument that the bill would assure the records against mutilation of records is equally It is the duty of the custodian of the county 1 ir records to see that they ‘are safely kept, and there | re sufficient laws now to punish any one who muti- lates them. but one sure result—that of driving the smaller firms out of tHe business and transferring it to 2 monopoly. lowever well it may have been intended, -the effects 1 be mischievous to the ‘public and beneficial to y a few large firms or corporitions engaged in the searching of records and the making -of abstracts. ———— The Utah students who recently went on strike be- cause their evident desire to be blackguards was re- sented have evidently mistaken their vocation in life. Nature certainly meant them to illustrate to the rest of us just what we should not be. and it is not easy to see what | e public against incompetent searchers of records | her a man’s success depends upon the reliability | a! In short, the bill if enacted would have | the ports of Venezuela have officially announced how ‘,much in the way of damages they are asking for their citizens, nor how much in the way of indemnity and | costs of collection. The other powers who are now | coming to the front and demanding equal shares in more explicit and definite. They have put in specific | bills in some instances and thereby have made it evi- | dent that they really wish not Vene#iela but the earth. Up to date France has presented claims for $13,000,- 000, Belgium for $11,000,000. Other not powers, Iso has some claims, and as among her claimants is | | an asphalt trust there is no' telling how big the total | bill will be when the whole is summed up. We may confidently expect, however, that it will be about all the traffic will bear. It is under such circumstances that the powers | which tock no part in the demonstrations that brought about Castro’s consent to arbitration have | asked that all claims be treated equally and that the allies have insisted on having their *demands segregated from thevothers. It is to be borne in mind that neither Germany, Great Britain nor Italy jnsists that her claims shall have precedence over those of any other nation. The contention is solely for a separate arrangement. Diplomacy sees a wide dis- tinction between the two things—that is, British, German and Italian diplomatists see the distinctionf | quite clearly, but up to date the representatives of the other powers have not been able to see it. Herce the unseem]y wrangle. An interesting feature in the situation is that no one is asking Castro to pay up at once. Everybody ' the division of the spoils have, however, been a little | ounting the three allies, have claims amounting in | the agregate to $14,000,000. Then the United Statcs‘ ing of the penniless into the United Kingdom has | alarmed the British. Of late, however, they have noted that the applications for relief to the | public authorities and to charitable associations have come largely from persons of foreign birth, and steps have been taken to fnquire into the extent of the im- migration and the best means of checking it. A royal commission appointed to investigate the evil made a report sogie time ago, and since then the | subject has attracted a good deal of public attention. !’A summary of the conclusions of the commission | states that unrestricted immigration is objectionable for seven reasons. First—It depresses Englishmen’s standard of comfort. Second—It impairs their phy- | sical efficiency. Third—It exposes them to a compe- | tition for which they are unsuited, either by diet or housing customs. Fourth—It lowers the wages of | unskilled women and laborers. Fifth—It raises rents. Sixth—It feeds the sweating system. = Seventh—It leads to the importation of criminals, money lenders, forgers, coiners and mendicants. It is asserted furgler that a very large percentage of the crowds that have been parading London under the title of the “unemployed” are foreigners. = They swell the ranks of the discontented as well as those | of the beggars. They are to be found among mobs as well as in poorhouses, and many of them are known as dangerous criminals. It has been recommended that Great Britain fo‘low the example of her colanies and of the chief conti- | nental nations by establishing a careful watch over Jthe immigrants who seek her shores. When that i is done the number of persons seeking admission to the United States will be larger than ever before. Tt therefore behooves Congress to adapt a proper im- migration bill at this session Luther Burbank, who crosses trees and vines, breeds | | the pits out of prunes and has done- wonders that are | | the atmosphere he has created has had something to | | cipation of the hen from maternal duties and the am- | ion of the rooster to be outdone in nothing by the | What interests the county now is the question whether | apt to be catching and likely to | and an opportunity to | advance themselves by honest industry. A consider- | name among the “arrived” of Gotham. | Bvery one is now familiar with the fi- lustrations of the young Californian | through the pages of Scribner's, Harper's | and other well-known publications. Of these possibly the best known are the pictures made for Henry Cabot Lodge's tory of the Revolution,” published in ibner's, and for which the artist had the happy experience of a fourteen months’ wandering over the historical arena of '76. Practically the same expe- rience came to Mr. Peixotto in his illus- trative journeying for Roosevelt's “Oliver Cromwell,” and his later Italian and Frénch travel has been also richly pro- ductive. Another interest attaches to his | 1ant, red-combed, long-tailed and fully spurred!!latest published work, that appeared in 2 g i 4 | month's Harper's, in that it is the ‘roo.\ler, who cuts fhc pigeon wing among the hens Tatton of B chataring Ukils Teelian and curruckataws in the poultry yard, fights and by Mrs. Peixotto, the wife of the | whips all the other roosters, and then covertly be- This will be the first local oppor- tunity to see the otto work since the artist's exile to New York six years ago, and will undoubtedly be widely taken ad- vantage of by art lovers. Chief in interest in the singularly rich and graceful archi- tectural studies, that form the larger part of the <h and pen and Ink subjects. Possibly the “Cathedral at Amiens” is most characteristic of the Peixotto qual- ity, with its subtle sympathy for the | genlus of architecture, its elegance, fin- ish and a delicate elaborateness that de- | tracts not a whif from its fine simplicity of plan. The “High Street, Lincoln,” with Lincoln Cathedral, is another drawing of much the same happy character. Yet an- other altogether delightful exampie of Mr. Peixotto’s work is “Camogli,” with | its broadly-handled group of fishing-boats in the background and a middle distance of quaint Italian skyscrapers sheering off irto a delicate outline of heaven-kissing hills. A problem in values, attacked, is undertaken in the drawing of Milan Cathedral, with its distant cobweb- by spires and lace-like decorations con- trasted with the near strength of an in- rvening tower. In the highly effective drawing entitled “Walis of Carcassone” the artist’s facility ia the handling of wash is splendidly il- lustrated, as in “Nervi,” “Portofino” and many others. “A Street in Vitre” must not be forgotten, with its frank, sponta- neous treatment and a particular grace of composition. REALTY TRANSACTIONS REACH HUGE FIGURES All Records for San Francisco Are Broken by the Deals of January. According to Magee's Real Estate Cir- cular, the sales of realty in San Francisco during the month of January, 1903, reach- cd the highest total of any month in the history of San Francis | ing $5,451,118. The highest previous month | was April, 1902, when the sales aggrega- l | ted $5,329,010. In an analysis of the large business of January the Real Estate Cir- cular says: ‘The unusually high figures in the hundre | vara section, amounting to §1,431,36 | counted for by the recording of Cunningham properties, corner of Mar Second streets, and corner Second and Steve £630,000 and the latter at $236,000. I lmfln(h occasioned by the transfer of cd blocks jn the Potrero to the Unlon Oil Com-~ pany for $250,000. The sales in the fifty-vara section continue as usual in numbers, high In | totals and varicusiy distributed as ‘to loca- | tion. The sale of East street water front | property last month for $100,000, the ccrner | of Sansome and Commercial for $75, 000, the cor- ner of Kearny street and Montgomery avenue for $150,000 and the corner of Sutter and Stock- ton for $130,600, all In the fifty-vara section, indicate the wide range covered by investors lmmlmems in the husiness section paying | 0 5 per cent net are becoming very scarce, % the Tesult that prices advance In Bro: portion. As soon as prices become inflated in any one section it is noticed that huyers seek other sections for the investment of their funds. This tendency has an equalizing effect on values throughout the business section and is noted as a wholesome condition of affairs. —_—ee——— Will of Lewis Simon Is Filed. ‘The figu n the Potrero section are also hi*h the wholesale house of Steln, Simon & Co., who died in this city on January 27, 1903, was filed for probate yesterday. The value of the setate is not given, but it is understood that it is about $300,000. The following bequests are made: To Mrs. Lionel Heyneman, a sis- ter, $30,000; to Anna Simon, a sister, $25,000; to Alfred Simon, a brother, $20,- 000; to George and Paul Heyneman, nephews, $3000 each; to Pauline and Catherine Heyneman, nieces, $3000 each; to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, $1000; ‘Eureka Benevolent Society, $500; Chil- dren’s Hospital, $500; Occidental Kin- dergarten, $500; to Henrietta and Jean Kauftman, of Paris, France, 5000 francs each. The residue is pequeathed to Mrs. L. Heyneman, Anna and Alfred Simon. e Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* ——— Townsend’s California glace frult and clndul. 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes, A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * e business houses and public men Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s) fornia street. Telephone Maln —_————————— canal connectlnx the Mediterranean wnh the Red sea existed as early as 600 years betnre the Christian era. Its length ‘was 92 miles. ] As a dressing and color restorer, Parker's Hair Balsam never fails to satisfy. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15cts. | the exhibition are very deftly | But in all will be found | L e o 0 I e el o, the figures be- | 1| ideal shattered when it is only sprained. The will of the late Lewis Simon of | Speclal information supplied daily to a0 calle o2 e ol B R o B 5 S i { | |t 1 o+ much to admire, to charm, to interest, and conclusive evidence that Mr. Peixotto | is of the first rank of American illus-| trators. As a painter, though the artist shows | | some very interesting specimens of his brush, he has not perhaps vet quite reached his illustrative level | | The work has not quite the fullness of | | distini n, character and authority of the drawings yet, though it has every promise of their early achlevement. It i o 1 THE DOGES' PALACE AND THE CAMPANILE,” AND ITS PAINTER. | [ PANAMA CANAL TREATY | REPORTED TO SENATE| Senator Cullom Introduces Measure | and Senator Morgan’s Amend- | ments Also Offered. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The Panama | canal treaty was reported to the Senate | in executive session to-day by Senator Cullom, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. He did not make an | effort to secure consideration of the treaty, but stated that the committee had | agreed to report it unamended. Senator ! Morgan offered in the Senate the amend- ments to the treaty which he had offered in committee. They were ordered print- | ed without being read. _ After marriage many ‘a girl thinks her - in short, younger work. Yellow,” that in the Paris ambitious and by “The Lady in s honorably mentioned lon of 191, is the most example from ths artist's brush, tone, warm Dbrowns and yellows, singularly pleasing, and ! the_handling of the various textures—no- tably the yellow satin gown of the wom- an—is thoroughly effective and alme: Meissonier-like in its detalled fineness. “The Doges Palace and Campanile” will be very interesting from the fact of the | recent fall of the Campanile as well as for its own sturdy value. There are also some Martigny subjects—one in particu- | lar, “A Gray Affernoon”—of much charm, | and some strong studies of the grand canal at Venice. Its | | Can Women Make ZEEXZIZIZIEZZEZN 600080800098 Next Sunday’s Call (Second Arlicle of a New and Interesting Series)