The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1903, Page 4

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until ® o'clock. 2200 Flilmore, open until ® p. m. ¢ Clay, open 632 615 Larkin, open until | MONEY, MERCHANDISE, WAGES. 5 HE commercial try continues satisfactory, feature worthy of special comment. nate and speculative, are running and the friction in the money and New York, fall, has w New Y situation throughout the coun- but without any new All mar- along stock | which caused so much appre- isappeared loans dropped Money is st week, and in spite of these i time and call loans With this ease in money there bo decided movement in the direc- . and those fi ciers es in the bu ss of foreign individuals and ng off their n obli- ey far beyond any e extent to wh foreig tion which \( w York banks, is viewed with and which tends is a-growing dis- to the pay- e Panama canal next.summer. osy in Wall street. But there y pronounced bull movement, erests are openly opposed at present. The powerful are maneuvering the v . tes are equally opposed to any decline in val- ues, so between them both the market is kept with- deviation from established values, one way he other. This makes the market tame, it ore ease to money, ench financial quarters invest in pation of la but it it safe and tends to inspire capital all over the country with confidence. There is probably more | good, American trade and ance to-day than at any previous time in the his- tory of the country, and as long as it continues pros- | v will doubtless The shortage of cars be a serious matter. 'lhc country is so prosperous the domestic movement of produce and merchan- | dise so immense that the railroads have not suffi- cient cars to haul the freight offered. Early in the week the Western railroads sent out notices that ow ing to the large quantities of perishable and quick-i moving merchandise offered they would be forced to | refuse the heavier and more ponderous goods, s grain, flour, iron, lumber, etc. This may answer as a | porary expedient to move perishable goods, but the heavier merchandise must be hauled some time or‘ it will seriously accumulate and restrict general busi- | ness. An instance of this occurred ten days or more | ago, when in the midst of the best flour demand for‘ many months the great mills of Minneapolis were forced to shut down because they could not get ca.rs) also keeps sound conservatism in bide with us. however, again getting to | L uch as | enough to haul away the flour sold, and for which | the buyers were clamoring. If there is such a thing as too much prosperity, this is evidently it. The different works throughout the country are turning out cars as fast as they can, but with the shortage in fuel and the vast demand for steel build- | ing material they cannot fill half their orders, and as | for prompt deliveries, nobody thinks of guaranteeing | them. The fact is, as the business community is find- | ing out, the trade and population of the United States have increased so immensely during the past few years that the railroads have been unable to keep | up with them, and as it looks at present a period of dull times zlone will enable them to meet the public demands. The case is similar to that of a lusty boy | outgrowing his clothes, and walking about with his trousers too short and his sleeves half way up to his elbows. The great staples show little change. All are in good condition. The factories and textile mills are fully employed, and the reader of newspapers is sur-l prised at the number and variety of wage advances | being made throughout the country, Indeed, this epi- | demic of advancement in wages—for it has assumed | the form of an epidemic—has spread so rapidly that it bids fair to react upon itself, and in fact it has already done so in some cases, notably the increased cost of living and the increased cost in operation of railroads and factories. The general advance in wages must be | met or dividends must cease; so the consequence is‘ as mentioned. What the final result will be is impos- i sible to forecast, but even the surface observer may’ see, with a little reflection, that eventually something | must give way. But while we are on the crest of ai - B | sentatives was not in itself sufficiently confusing, thel | trust magnates have taken part in the matter and | in the complexity of the problem and the difficulty of | trust bill provides among other things that any per- | dealt with by the States acting separately | the problem and in due time the proper legislation | will be forthcoming. { and keep out of politic | officers for California. B A BAD MUDDLE. ETWEEN the Senate and the House the ques- tion of trust regulation has been brought to a confusion out of which it is difficult for any| one to make head or tail. There have been almost | enough anti-trust bills presented during the session to paper the Capitol. In addition to the measures directly affecting that issue there have been similar measures added to the Interstate Commerce bill and the Department of Commerce. Elkins, Hoar, Little- field and a host of lesser lights have vied with one another in devising ways and means for subjecting the big corporations to governmental control, and as a result it is hard to tell what will be the outcome. As if the wrangling of the Senators and the Repre- have made confusion worse confounded. For a long time it has been asserted in New York that J. Pier- pont Morgan is fighting any kind of trust legislation and has been conspiring with Whitney and other Democratic leaders to organize a movement to beat Roosevelt should he be . renominated. Following| | thy reports comes the further one that John D. Rockeieller has entered the arena and roused indig pation by sending an attorney to Washington to urge Senators to defeat every attempt at trust regulation. In the meantime some acutest observers Washington have been moved to suspicion that sev- of at eral of the anti-trust bills are but cunningly devised tricks for defeating any genuine effort to provide Thus it is said that the proposed anti- | the Interstate Commerce act regulation trust amendments to | would virtually reduce the Interstate Commerce Com- | mission to the position of a bureau in the Depart- ment of Commerce, and leave the commission with even less power than it has now. On the other hand | with considerable force that the amend- | would give the adm ctly the wishes in the task of regulating commerce and putting an end to some of the greatest evils of which the people now complain We need not seek for bad motives when trying to get an understanding of the multiplicity of anti-trust bills and the coniysion that prevails among the advo- cates of them. A sufficient explanation is to be found it ment is urged ristration ex: power ncnwmq the evils that should be suppressed. | the en drawing a clear line between the good of co-operation | | and the evil of trusts. Senator Hoar is about as skilled in legislation as any of them, and yet his anti- “who shall give any direction or purpose of driving out of business any other person engaged therein. son or corporation authority to do any zct for the or who for such purpose shall, in the course of such commerze, sell any article or product at less than arket value, tomed to demand or receive t under like conditions,” or at a less price tha r its fair ma an it is ac- cu er place, shall thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall | in any other on conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding $35000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year. | Of that bill the people will naturally . how are the courts to determine whether a kb ess man i trying to drive a competitor out of business or not? | 1f one merchant offers goods lower than another, is | he trying to drive competitors out of business? How are the courts to determine what is the fair market value of any article? How are they to forbid a manu- facturer to lower prices of his products if he find it | advisable to do so? i That is | necessary to properly supervise the cnormous in-| crease of the power and activity of corporations is andoubted. Tt is also beyond dispute that the people expect something in the way of such legislation from Congr some extension of our corporation laws for the issues are too large to be adequately It is evi-| dent, however, that great care will have to be exer- | 1 cised in framing the new laws, for up to this time the | operation of trusts has not gone far enough to reveal | clearly the nature of the evils to be guarded against. | By degrees the people are beginning to understand In the meantime Mr. Morgan | and Mr. Rockefeller will do well to attend to business e R : | Governor Pardee has announced emphatically that he will oppose the creation of any more statutory If a determined effort be now made to reform the administration of some of those | we have a distinct service will be rendered to the State. i MAKE IT UNANIMOUS. RITISH taxpayers have begun writing to the papers complaining of the waste of public money in providing holiday trips for various | officials. So loud has the clamor been that it is sald that as soon as Parliament meets the Prime Min- ister will be called on to state to the Commons the cost of the vacation tours of various members of | | the Ministry on Government vessels. The straw that has broken the back of British patience on the subject is the recent departure of the Secretary of War on a Government ship for a| honeymoon cruise. It is asserted that in the old days no such thing was ever known. Gladstone was fond of sea voyaging, but he was never known even in the height of his power to take a Government ves- sel for a yacht. It is only of late that the practice of making use of the navy and the custom-house fleets for frolicking purposes has grown up and the big English public proposes to stop it. Partly by way of explanation and partly by way of defense it is stated that the British Ministers are | doing only what the high customs of Europe make compulsory. German and French officials disport themselves in Government boats and thus have pres- tige wherever they go. It is argued that British offi- cials must conform to the custom or else they will be looked upon as minor dignitaries and be held of no account in foreign lands. It is gratifying that the defenders of the practice | looked to continental Europe rather than to this country to find precedents for the practice of what they call “holiday touring at the expense of the Gov- ernment.” We call it “junketing,” and had the Brit- ish looked our way they would have found it de- veloped to such an extent that no one ever dares to kick against it except for the sake of a temporary demonstration. Think of a committee calling upon the President of the United States to send down a statement of the cost of Senato.ial junkets! Think of a Governor being asked for an itemized account of legislative junkets! Clearly there is no hope of reform beginning here, | the outset of | they perity of all classes of our people. of fuel come upon us in the years of tariff tinkering. retary of War pay for his honeymoon trip. When | that has been done conspicuously before the world it will be time for others to act, and in this country there will be a prompt move to make it unanimous among the nations. Congress seems favorably inclined to legislate large salaries for Federal Judges. And even after the pro- posed increased salaries are awarded the learned and conscientious men who interpret our laws will not receive as much a year as successful jockeys. AN EXAGGERATED EVIL. UT of the general clamor against the coal O trust, and the loud denunciations of the high price of coal m Eastern cities, there comes a | clear voice with the definite statement that the evil has been greatly exaggerated, and that the suffering, save for the first few weeks of the stringency, has not: been great. The general prosperity of the country is such that despite the increased price of fuel there have been work and wages for all and sufficient means for | obtaining all the necessaries of life. These encouraging reports come {rom charity or- ganizations in twenty-five of the largest cities of the‘ East. They show an almost unprecedented demand for Tabor in all the cities, and a well-nigh universal employment of all who are able and wiliing to work. | As 2 consequence there has been but little increase in the demand for charity on account of the coal short- age. A summary of the statements from the various cit- ies says the effects of the shortage have been most se- vere in those cities where the poorer classes have been in the habit of using anthracite, and where, at the high prices, they had neither thc' knowledge nor utensils for making use ot substitutes. In four out of the twenty-five cities reporting, there has been an actual decrease this winter in the number | of applications for relief. In nine the demand is on the average for former years. In seven the in- crease is but slight, so that only in five cities has there been any marked evidence of an increased need of relief brought about by the coal shortage. It is noted, further, that all cities that promptly and | systematically provided distributing centers where' coal could be bought in small quantities succeeded in their efforts to relieve the situation, while those that est and most experienced among the authors \ relied for relief largely, or even partly, on public ap- | | of cp\]v meastres have not been able to devise a 1,,1] propriation failed. To illustrate, the comfortable con- | | dition of Bostonians, who had fuel sold to them by the bagful from the beginning of the stress, is com pared with the suffering in Chicago, where an attempt | was made to supply the poor by public distribution. | These reports, of course, do not serve in any way to condone the disorder in the anthracite regions that brought about the shortage in the fuel supply, but are gratifying illustrations of the prevalent pros- Had this shortage when the mills were shut down and thousands of workingmen had no employment, the distress would have Leen terrible. As it is the protective system by furnishing work and wages has enabled the people to gh the crisis with comparatively little suf- | pass throu fering. Recent international events indicate that the nation which wants to keep up to the times must not only sharpen its wits but its sword, and ourgwn statesmen appear to be doing both. Uncle Sam is evidently de- | termined not to put much faith in lip friendship. Hence it follows that O 3 is an invariable rule. Once upon a time a man bought | a cheese. When he took it home his wife reminded him that there was no cheese knife in the family. He bought one, and it then became necessary to get a new set of knives and forks to match the cheese knife. New knives do not look well with old dishes nor new dishes with old furniture, so the man had to build a new house and furnish it to fit his cheese, HOW THINGS GROW. F old it was known and said that one good turn deserves another, one good expenditure entails another. but in the meantime he had eaten the original cheese, | so he had to buy another one. Something of that kind is going on in Washing- ton. Once we had a President with a salary of $25,- 000 a year living in a White House that was com- | modious togthat salary. In moment of liberality | Congress increased the pay to $50,000, and thereupon it was immediately found that the White House was too small for the occupant. An'appropriation was made and the White House was extended and em- | bellished. Moreover, an o..ice structure was erected |in order that the President might have a place of business as well as one of residence and hospitality. That much having been done in the way of ex- | penditure, it is now found necessary to raise the Pres- | ident’s salary again to make it fit the bigger house ! and moreover there are needed larger appropriations for maintenance. A bill is before Congress for that purpose and Colonel Bingham, Superintendent of | Public Buildings and Grounds, is reported to have | stated to the committee: “The recent changes in the 1\\'h:l: House have resulted in a building far more | expensive to maintain than formerly. The character | of the new fittings and new furnishings is such that repairs and replacing will be more expensive than be- i fore and it will be more expensive to replace specially designed silver door knobs and escutcheons, silver and gilt hinges, etc. Hardwood floors and tiling will re- | quire extra labor to keep in order. More help will | which occupies the White House and the large amount of entertaining done.” After the proper setting up of the building there will be an imperative need of improving the grounds. In the end it may be necessary to tear the city down and build a new one to fit the White House and raise the salary of the occupant to something like a high old income. Redmond, the Irish statesman, had at least the merit of consistency when, on being released the other day from prison with only one-half of his term served, he declared that he had nothing for which to thank the Government and still clung to the opinions which put him in jail. Life in an Irish jail possibly recreation. It is noted that the fight against the statehood bill has brought to the front a good mary Senators who have hitherto been silent. The critics say, however, that when they come to the front they cannot be said to make speeches—they merely hold the floor. Judging from the list of proposed national appropri- ations already announced it looks as if Congress in- wave of prosperity such as has never before been and therefore it is gratifying that the British have cast ! tends to be pretty good to us. And we can assure the seen we are mot apt to see much of anything, espe- | their eye for attack on continental Europe. Let them very wise money distributors of Washmg!on that cially if it be a little pessimistic. | call down the Prime Minister and make the Sec-! nothing on earth is too good for California. ‘ | be needed in the laundry, owing to the large family | | possesses certain desirable features of relaxation and | ANDROMEDA S 1 | i LO HE British cruiser Andromeda, 11,000 tons and 16,500 horsepower, return- ed last month to England from the Mediterranean where she had been stationed since October, 18%. Prior to being pald off, the ship made the usual trial, | ing, and the Andromeda’srun excels all rec- ords by any vessel in the navy. Her speed was 21.8 knots, exceeding that of her com- mission trial three years ago by 1.4 knots. t is not unusual for ships to improve on their first steam trials, when the ma- | chinery has got down to its bearings, but there are circumstances connected with the late trial which make it rather re- markable. In the first place the Belle- ! ville boilers appear to have been properly handled and well taken care of; the en- tire expense of repairs during three years being about $16,000 and that of the ma- chinery only $300, while the repairs to the other six ships of the same class ranged from $21.000 to $120,000; secondly the sk had not been docked for e:ghteen months and was consequently hampered with a foul bottom. Fifteen new ships in the British navy passed through their series of under one-fiftth power, speeds of the 15.000-ton battleships were calculated to reach 18 knots, that of the other battleships 19 knots; -the armored | cruisers 23 knots; the Spartiate (launched in 1808) 20.75 | knots. The official speed results were | those taken by log, which instrument is not reliable and does not give the speed with the accuracy as a measured course run in a given time. would, therefore, appear that only the | Russell and the armored cruisers of the | Drake class exceeded the requirements and that the Kent was a failure. Follow- ing are the results of the trials | | ] [Coal per NAME. IL ass. Tons. H. P. \Elpted . p. in ’ ; pounds. Ltmdon cen 1.87 \enerable .3 2.14 Duncan 9w Russell . 4 10 Exmouth . -8 ) 2.117 Good Hope 05 1.91 King Alr'd. 65 1.81 Drake .. 05| 1.82 Leviathin 28| Lod Pedford LR AT Kent . 7| Ls Spnrlii(! B " 1.65 | Merlin | 3. 1.64 | Qdin ..o [ 1050 1t \sml 1.53 | Fantome ... 1,070{ 1,448] 13.63 1.86 i All the uhlp-. except the Odin and Fan- | tome, are fitted with Belleville boilers. The Odin, with Babcock and Wilcox bofl- iau, gave the most economical results. ‘.-H'H-H—X—H-H—H-H-H—I-H-I-HO FRANCISCAN FATHERS | TO HOLD A CONFERENCE ,wm Assemble in Rome to Elect a Superior General of the Order. CINCINNATI, Feb. 8 —The Franciscan Fathers have recelved a call from Rome announcing that a unsversal chapter of the entire Franciscan order will be held in that city on Pentecost Sunday for the purpose of electing a superior general of the order to succeed the late Father Aloysius Laur. In this country the Fran- ciscans have five provinces and the fol- lowing provinclals will attend the general chapter and participate in the election: | Very Rev. Louls Haverbeck, representing the Cincinnat! province; Hugolins Storff, representing the St. Louls province; A. Buttell, representing the New York prov- ince; Edward Blecke, representing the New Jersey province, and Stanislaus Jeka, representing the Polish province. It is probable that the new superior general of the Franciscans will be Rev. Peter Baptiste Englert, 0. F. M., former professor at the Cincinnati Franciscan College and for six years Provincial of the Cincinnati province. Father Peter has been the representative in Rome of all the American Franciscans since the or, ganization of the friars minor by the Pope about four years ago. MERCHANTS OF UTAH EN ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA Will Come Here With a View to Ad- vertising the Resources of Their State. SALT LAKE, Utah, Feb. 8.—Through the courtesy of the Oregon Short line and Southern Pacific, 2 numver of members of the Utah Jobbers’ Association, includ- ing some of the heaviest wholesalers of the BState, are en route to the Pacific Coast. The trip will be extended to Los | Angeles and other points in Southern Cali- fornla. Acting Traffic Manager Schum- | acher of the Harriman lines accompanied the party. The Utah jobbers are making the trip with a view to advertising the resources of the State, especially in South- ern California, in anticipation of the bullding of the S8an Pedro and Short Line rqu- betwgen Salt Lake and Los An- geles, British Steamer Is Stranded. CAPE HENRY, Va., Feb. 8.—The Brit- ish steamer Garlands, bound from New London for Wilmington, N. C., is stranded one and a half miles north of Big Kinnett, water, but is In good condition. Her crew of eighteen were rescued in a breeches buoy. CH OF BRITISH CRUISER SU which all returning ships have to | make before taken in hand for overhaul- | steam | trials last year. The trials were 30 hours | 30 hours with | four-fifths and eight hours full power. The knots and the sloops 13.25 | From the table it | N. C. Bhe is inside the bar far from deep | BREAKS ALL IN THE NAVY OF GREAT B RECORDS RITAI e Fantome had Niclausse boilers. Another battleship, the Montague of 15,000 | tons, did not complete her steam trials. Four new British ships are to have their ! steam trials during the present month, namely the battleships Albemarle and Montague and the armored cruisers Euryalus and Essex. The full power | ince gave last out, November when her boilers and since then 223 elements of newed. The Admiralty has decided upon stand- ardizing the machinery parts of the two armored cruisers Duke of Edinburgh and recently been awarded to Hawthorne and Leslie and to the Thames Iron Works. The hull and engines of the Black Prince will be built at the latter yard and the hull of the Duke of Edinburgh at the | Pembroke dockyard. The machinery will | consist of two four-cylinder triple ex- | pansion engines with cylinders of 43} 69, T inc diameter by 42 inches stroke, and the boilers will number eix cylindrical and twenty Babcock and Wii- cox water-tube (American type) to de- velop 23500 horsepower. The advantage of having parts of the machinery identical and able to interchange is quite obvious, but in order to make such a system prac- ticable the engines, if built at one es- tablishment, would greatly lessen the chances of deviation in dimensions and final £nish. Recent steam trials of French v«arsh!ps appear to have been quite successful, both as to power and economy in fuel con- sumption. The Jeanne d'Arc made 19.97 | knots with 20,000 horsepower on a con- horsepower, and is confidently expected | to reach 23 knots with the maximum power of 0. The battleship Mars laise reached 15.5 knots with 14,000 hors power and is likely to come up to the cal- | culated speed of 21 knots with 20,500 horse- power. The French battleship Devastation, 10,700 tons, built in 1879, has been recon- structed at great expense, in the substi- tutlon of lighter hull armor of improved quality, new triple expansion engines and Belleville boilers of less weight but of the same power as the machinery taken out. The entire battery and gun protection has been much improved and the displacement | lightened to the extent of 200 tons. The armament now consists of four 10.8 inch, | two 9.4 inch and ten 4 inch guns, all of the latest model. The old engines had devel- oped £320 horsepower and about 14 knots speed and the trial of the new machinery gave $460 horsepower and 14.93 knots speed. It was ascertained during the steam trial that with 8§18 horsepower the speed realized was 14,256 knots and that an increase of 274 horsepower augmented the speed by .697 knots. The Devastation is one of the most picturesque ships in the French navy, possessing all the pecu- Marities of French naval architecture and greatly resembles the Duquesne, a fre- quent caller at this port. Her great beam of 67 feet at the water line is reduced to about 45 feet on the upper deck. By this peculiarity of design the weight of guns is carried well toward the center line of the ship and Insures a steadler gun plat- form, in that the rolling is greatly dimin- ished. The United States armored cruiser Brooklyn is on a similar plan in modified form. The Chateaurnealt, a new French eruls- trial of the Montague has been postponed | her twenty Belleville boilers have been re- | Black Prince, for which contracts have | sumption of only 134 pounds per unit of | T i | x3 FOLK AT PORTSMOUTH ON JANUARY 15. THE VESSEL 1S 40 FEET | G, 66 FEET BEAM, %00 TONS DISPLACEMENT AND 22,000 HORSEPOWER. SHE WILL CARRY FOUR- TEEN 6-INCH GUNS, EIGHT 12-POUNDERS AND THREE 3-POUNDER QUICK-FIRING. - jer of 8000 tons, was recently dispatched from Toulon for Singapore and was ex- | pected to make the voyage of 6800 miles at an average speed of 14 knots without cos ing at intermediate ports. Her normal coal capacity of 1400 tons was calculated to be sufficient for 7500 miles, inasmuch as the consumption at her steam trials was figured at only 148 pounds per unit | of horsepower at a speed of 21 knots. Tn | actual practice the pesults came out somewhat different, for the ship got no | further than Colombo, where additional | coal had to be taken on board in order to | reach Singapore, about 1600 miles distant i R . system of promotion in the Ttalian . In force since 1858, has been | changed. All sub-lieutenants are to promoted by seniority, for promotion commanders one-quarter are to be by se- lection and to captains one-third by selec tion and the others according to senio “ There are some incomprehensible fncon- sistencies in the salaries of United States naval office The higher grade officers | receive smaller sala; eign navies whiie paid much holding the pay, and impor: appears to be ent of salaries. The ck | communication to service rende ignored in the ra ging from ors are not to $288 naval construe ceipt of such commut lowance for fuel. N the rank of captain And e ceive, respectively, $845 and $576, less pay than officers of corresponding rank in the when performing shore duty of the comstructors are by importa At seven na» 1 of the latter expended ¢ {line corps, yet the serv | far the mo yards si $6.600,000 :!urmz the past fiscal year and ten constructors and assistants super tended the building of forty-nine vessels at private yards, involving an expendijure of mnearly $7,000,000. the seven navy vards 4.2 per cent of the working force Wwas under the charge of naval construc tors, while the re: maining 50.3 per cent was distributed among seven other depart- ments. Private establishments pay tw and three times as much for similar ser- and th disc in salary a ent resignations. Rank uniforms have naturally a great att tion for men in the | those of maturer years, are quite ready to forfeit rank. stripes and buttons, to forego the retired p: reaching the age of 62 and even to fice the pension of $30 a month to th.h surviving widow, when offers are made to them of a yearly pay twice or three times greater than they receive in the navy. —_————————— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* —_————————— Townsend's California glace fruit and candtes, 8c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern frienda, 639 Market st.. Palace Hotel bullding. * —_—— Spenser, from first to last. consumed four years of tolerabiy steady iabor in the preparation of the “Faerie Queene.” —_———————— flush of youth, but and with families Spectal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s) fornia street. Telepbone IN THE | ~ SUNDAY I Read The “Colonel Kate™ he Leopard’s Spots By THOMAS DIXON JR. SUNDAY CALL —MARCH 1—— This sensational problem play complete in three issues of the CALL March 1Ist, 8th and 15th. Papers.