The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1903, Page 4

o THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16 1903. BRUARY 36, JCHN D. DIIECKEI.S Dropnelor. sedress fill Cemmunications to W S LEAKE. Managu TELEPHONE. \XU\D AY 1903 Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect | You With the Department You Wish. R PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, ¥ EDITORIAL ROOMS. . 217 to 221 Stevenson § Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Fer Week. single Copies, 5 Cents, Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DPAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Eingle Month. 66c NDAY 1.60 KLY 1.06 character- d general trade ulative ¢ were quiet the country t in good reports, pointir on of busi- were by the bank i showed a decrease of 1.2 cent e week .last year, with the aggregate own to $1,004,000,00C have sel- er racity de excellent di T e being veci. s fairly stocks still more or less ndustries ent | ployed for months ahead with the or drawback in these | ed scarcity 1a fuel and cars. | gains J 9.4 pe arge over pre-| ary exceeding those January, 1902, by cent and for ng conditions in California are the con- wh barle P Kansas, miller: he Western States to cke out their | and at , with the ship-| and the High prices naturally rule under this mn-[ Almost all farm products are well cleaned | and the same may be said of dried and | The export and domestic trade of San still actiye, :and mone; y obtainable atsormal rate: isco are is plentiful | Chere are no | i readil i times anywhere within.sight of this town, ke paper said that a delegation of jack- be an ;mprovement upon, the legis- | om San Pete County, and thereupon the | re passed a vote of censure upon the paper, | s now up to the editor to strike out the word | rabbits and reference 'to San Pete and amend h): inserting “asses” and -making it apply to the whole tive outfit The authorities at Washington are seeking to| excite an international discussion of the ratio in value between gold and silver. This seems i:%e de- fying fate itseli. William Jennings Bryan has been muzzled so | g that it seems almost a national crime to start his tongue to wagging again. Small strikes are sometimes more annoying than big ones, and that is the reason why the occupants of offices in the upper floors of Chicago skyscrapers ure raising more howls over a strike of the elevator men than they did over the great anthracite strike. DR 10l Henry James s to write a life of the sculptor Wil- Jiam Wetmore Story, but when he gets through Mr. Story will be presented not as a statuesque figure, but as a jot of remains swept up from a dissecting table. a and experiment will have closed and the new epoch | the income is being put aside every year to complete { Lw'umb;n combined, it will never be a large one. | water | efficiently | ply. RS. STANFORD'S relinquishment of ‘the M control of Stanford University will mark the close of one era in the development of the institution and the beginning of another. When the act of relinquishment has been completed the govern- ment of the university will be vested in the form de- | signed to be permanent. The days of preparation begun The change in government will be attended ere long by a change in the conditions of the university. President Jordan in speaking of the situation said: Stanford is now in its stone age. A good part of the building scheme. That age is nearly over and are almost ready to divert the money to other purposes. We know now the sort of university that |it is going to be. lh.n we With an endowment as great as of all the Atlantic seaboard universities except We i will never take more men and women than we can | handle to the Thoroughness and | not numbers will be the object at Stanford.” | Such are the conditions under which Mrs. Stan-| ford surrenders sole control of the university. | The great plan of building outlined by the founders | The university now presents one | of the most magnificent architectural groups in the worl Not even the most ancient and renowned seats of learning in the old world are housed in more stately best advantage. her carly complete. edifices and none are surrounded by gardens so ample and parks so Revenues ployed for that work in the past will in future be xtensive. em- | lpolls and do their duty, your ticket is elected by a | paign liars and slanderers, but they cannot afford to ! of the voters being too indifferent to come to the small majority, the water company will feel that if things can be carried along for two years miore there will be a prospect of electing its own creatures. Buf whatever you do, do not fail to vote for Councilmen of known integrity, intelligence and business capacity. A good Council is the first requisite for a good city government. With such a Council Oakland has everything to hope for. It will be the beginning of an era of prosperity such as the city has not known for twenty-five years.” That is the issue that confronts Oakland. Her peo- ple can well afford to treat with contempt the cam- ignore the vital importance of electing men who can be counted on to do their duty in office and who will have the confidence of the great mass of the tax- payers and the people. — —— A Democratic party under the leadership of Bryan and Tom Johnson was holding a pow- TILDEN DEMOCRACY. wow under the conjoined names of Jefferson, Jack- son and Lincoln a group of conservatives gathered in New York to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Tilden—and incidentally to apply Tilden principles to the solution of the problems of the day. A notable array of old-time Democrats was pres- ent and 150 stalwarts sat down to the banquet. The speeches were few, and only one was sufficiently notable to be reported at any length. It was deliv- ered by Charles S. Hamlin of Boston, former Assist- BOUT the time the Populistic branch of the available for new uses. It has been Mrs. Stanford’s good fortuhe to live to | the great design her husband and herseh': 1t out into a superb realit the glories | She has survived all the old antagonisms | and buginess that surrounded Leland | rd in the hard battles through which he made | ictc to and to the highest | fornia have to bestow and | of see , one of of fortune us way rs the people of Ca lives serenely among a people who hold her in} a1l honor for her work and reverence for her! nhood. She deserves hute of | every - | respect that can be given her in private and in public | pressed a belief that a majority of Democrats agree should be taken by the Legislature or by | the gratitude | accomplished. to manifest work she 1 1y when her retirement actua takes place ot be left unmark sh onstration of some kind, even th yrd herself < of gratitude and honor until those to whom Something in the way of | g the popular y of love and honor | Stanford has done something more | ons to California has given | ayer sagacity to its| ieved foundation and the | ne of the greatest institutions in the | but right that Californians should in | 1own to the world that they kmmi how to appreciate the work and do honor to the | worker WARREN W \i\MA\UI\I\ OLNEY S ADDRESS. ! | in his address to tl\c peo- ! | ple of Oakland on Saturday contemptuously: disposed of the charge that he and his| rters in this contest are but tools of the tnmmi er Company by g of the yellow| started the lie: “That paper has the gall | to its subscribers in Oakland that practically | well known, the respectable, the industrious, | ying portion of the community have made a | the taxy combination in the interests of the Contra Costa | ter Company to elect a municipal gu\e'rnnl(‘m‘] will fasten the collar of the corporation still | tighter round our necks. For my part, I don’t be- | eve the men who «um(ku the labor unions can be fooled by such stuff We are told that when the speaker referred to :Iu-j charge some one in the audience promptly shouted: \e t believe it It is not surprising that such 1uld have greeted the As bitterest statement a mat The op Olney in this fight are the water com- one believes it ponents of Mr | and the Examiner. but even the one of them | that started the lic doesn’t believe it far as the | intelligent voters of Oakland are concerned, tha \ eature of the contest may well be dismissed al- There is another phase of it, however, that merits | the ful consideration of all Oakland voters, and | itis one with which Mr. Olney dealt with carefully and thoroughly. Lz all campaign | personal slanders and yellow ravings, there re aside ng roorbacks, lies, mains for the people of Oakland, who recognize the | essential honesty of the leaders and their followers on both sides, to consider which of the opposing | { sets of candidates is the better fitted to solve the |z problem and to ry out_economically and | That is a very sericus question, and it affects | all classes of people. It will be of. very little good | for Oakland to vote for the right policy unless she | also votes for the right men to carry out the polic Upon that phase of the issue Mr. Olney ‘said: “If I have no doubt that the xpayers cient confidence in us to raise money issue for the purpose of making gvml‘ municipal improvements, and especially for axquxrmg‘ a water supply. we are elected, will have suffi by a bon If we are not elected, it is as cer-| tain as that the sun will rise to-morrow that no bond | election can be carried, either for water supply or for anything else. To carry a bond election two-thirds those who vote must vote in favor of it. That means that the taxpayers will control any election for a bond issue, and they never will vote for such | an issue unless the men who have the handling of the money are well known to them, not only as honest men, but as capable and experienced men,” No sane man will dispute that proposition, and | of those voters of Oakland who for any reason have | been opposed to Mr. Olney must confront it. To achieve a victory that will be of any benefit the peo- ple of Oakland must win by a majority large enough | to assure the adoption of a reform programme. The' election of a ticket of inexperienced men by a bare | majority would be a barren victory. The victors at | the polls would indeed get the offices, but‘the water company would hold the field, for the city govern-| ment would be too weak to undertake any compre- hensive system of remedial measures. Finally it will be well to repeat the earnest words | with which Mr. Olney closed his address: “I hegf to impress upon the people of Oakland the absolute | necessity of turning out to vote. If your candidates have behind them a tremendous popular majority | not sufficiently o to justify a State appropriation to | come to determine whether the Philippines are to be { cragic plea against the extension of Federal power. | He declared the Republican policy of dealing with trusts | tion scheme is. L& hatever remedy it may be decided to ap-| T | pany should be along their private road, but the route | other parties. ant Secretary of the Treasury under Cleveland. It is scarcely necessary to say it was moderate with respect to language, but wild with respect to policies. Mr. Hamlin proposed to attack the Republican party first on the Philippine question, second on the regulation of trusts, third on the tariff and fourth on extravagance and corruption in office. Concern- ing the first ue, Mr. Hamlin says the time has| governed as Territories, admitted as a State or es- tablished in independence to govern themselves. He declared in favor of complete independence and ex- with him. On the trust question he took up the ultra Demo- by the General Government “would § to such control over State corporations as to wipe out | ally amount ate lines and establish a centralized form of K”\-j ernment not unlike that of France. We therefore, be careful not to invoke the tremendous power the the National | Government in such a way as to destroy the autonomy | of the State: 1 Conceding that something should be the efforts porations to raise prices so as to pay watered stocks, Mr. Hamlin suggested the search by means of tariff reforms. On that “I believe the first step should be to review our tariff taxa- end that competition may come in to take the place of that domestic competi- tion which being should, vested by constitution in | done to pro- | tect cor- consumer against the of giant dividends on | for a remedy point he said: radically system of to the foreign is destroyed. Then by ining the effect of foreign competition we shall soon find what additional legislation is needed to control | monopolies. Meanwhile the Federal Government should enforce existing law and provide new legis | | exam- | i lation to secure information as to what those com- We error, the an cngine binations are doing. fall point, should certainly strive not from the Democrati taxing power of the of destruction into the using | Government to stand- National | of State | of as property, as has been proposed in numerous bills. I view much theory advanced that all trust-controlled products should be placed on the free list. will be better Nor can with enthusiasm the I believe in the long run it! calmly to lay down certain broad gen- | eral principles in accordance \\x(h which radical low ering of taxation may take plac The langua all that servative one does not at first note how wiid the whole | ge of is _so con- | genuinely To give up the Philippines, to abstain all efforts to regulate trusts by thority, to radically from Federal revise the tariff in the direction Bryan never put forth a wilder policy. | To do Mr. Hamlin justice he was undertaking to do no more than - of free trade! almly lay down broad general principles” and it must be admitted he succeeded. He was calm 4‘||¢1|X|z|| and his principles are broad enough, but they lack a whole lot of being pra al politics. THE COGGINS ROAD BILL. CCORDING to 1” reports that come to us the “oggins road bill is one of the measures now before the Legislature that ought to be sum- marily killed. It provides that the State shall ap- 5,000 for the construction of a road from point on the California and Oregon Railway, near mouth of Slate Creek, in Shasta County, to| inity Center. It appears from evidence submitted | by opponents of the bill that the proposed appropria- exclusively for the benefit of private parties moreover, the projected road would practically parzllel another road now in pro- cess of construction and so near completion that it is expected to be open m its entire length by next August, The facts submitted are these: In 1900 there was incorporated in Trinity County an organization known as the Northern Trinity Road Company for the pur- pose of constructing and operating a wagon toll road from some point above Redding. on the line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, to Trinity Center. In fix- ing upon the route of the road it was found that at Delta there is already a county road extending five miles westerly and at Slatonis a private road con- structed by Coggins Bros., running about five miles into timber lands owned by them. The firm desired that the route of the Northern Trinity Road Com- propriate $1 the tion would be almost and, by the county road from Delta was adopted as the more practicable. The work of construction was car- ried steadily iorward and upward of $30,000 expended when work was 'stopped by the coming of the winter season. The Coggins bill is then an effort to obtain State aid on behalf of one set of men to enable them to parallel and compete with a toll road constructed by It is clear that unless that statement of facts can be refuted the Coggins bill is absolutely without merit. The rcad now in process of construc- tion will meet all the needs of the district for years to come, consequently the proposed Coggins road would benefit no one except the Coggins interests. Those interests may be quite important, but they are the water company will understand that it must come to terms: but if on account of factions or on account ! promote them. The bill is an indefensible one and ought to be promptly defeated. i | the ships are FATHER IS ORGANIZER OF TR WHICH DAUGHTER SCORES IN BOOE USTS MRS. OF TRUSTS, WHO, IN GERTRUDE POTTER DANIELS, A NEW BOOK DAU OF ORRIN W D TITL ESHEK. THE OPPRE POTTER SSEOR CAPI LIST AND VIGOROUSLY PROMOTER CHAMPIONS | THE CAUSE OF THE SMALL OWNERS AGAINST THE COMBINATIONS. et Ty G SOk R T T e - GERTRUDE POTTER DANIE taken up boys to whom the struggle for existence is keen and cruel M the hattle against the trusts, says the ( ago Chron- Her knowledge of that struggle, as her knowledge of the boy fcle. She has published a third book, “Eshek, the Op- himself, is apparently unlimited. Her boys are brave, fine fei- pressor.” in which the individual is pitted against the lows, and she has gone to some length to gain for them public organization, with all sympathy for the individual. sympathy and,approbatic ek is decidedly like he Warners,” which appeared =Although she i years Dusiete has Ned an under Mrs, Daniels’ name a year ago. The main difference be- extensive and al career is the sister of Margaret tween the iwo is that the Iatter is the better. To know Mrs. Horton Potter, now Mrs. Black considered by people Daniels’ own story and to know the stories she has writte whao know of better literary already some | to make one wonder. The similarity is such as to neces: it celebrated sister. S fus Clarke Dan remark. The daughter of Orrin W. Potter, a capitalist hom she was secretly married some years before their trust organizer. Mrs. Danlels, with an evident knowledge of n took plac The first ceremc was gone throug! the Inner workings of things, undertakes to champion the cause assumed names and was therefore declared illegal. It of the small owner iu his fight against the trust. Her trust , "i‘-‘rl“";‘...‘,,‘,L"'.‘i,';:;; by r“{m‘-.sl ‘}.!':- flr_‘-aw‘.::"hr,: organizers and magnates are oppressors who go to any lensth Bl B T N T to gain their point. They burn and murder and there is abPAT- Juthor admires her father, the trust promoter, and the problem ently no limit to their capacity for wrongdoing. For her of her doctrine becomes ali the more interesting on this a heroes in both books Mrs. Daniels has chosen street waifs, count @ il e oo NP, FOUR CRUISERS OF THE DRAKE CLASS ARE A FAlLURE ACCORDING TO AN EXPERT CRITIC OF BRITISH JOURNAL HE LONDON ENGINEER criti-) cizes the four armored cruisers of | the Drake class and charscterizes | them as failures. ductions on the reports val officers on the Hope during her recent voyage, and identical in all particulars It bas made by behavior of the Good as they are all failur No fault is found with the work done on the ships; the trouble lies in the design and can, there fore, not be remedied. The ships are | crank and wet and the main deck case- | mate guns cannot be fought in a seaway. The ventilating system Is defecuve to | such an extent as to make life below | decks extremely uncomfortable. The ap- proximate cost of each of these 14.100-ton | ships is $5,000,000, and in addition to the | incurable defects in lines of huil the trial speed of 23 knots has fallen off greatly un- | der service conditions. i 1 | The British torpedo-gunboat Salaman- der, of 735 tons, built in 1888-91, is to be fitted with new machinery and generally | overhauled at a cost of $200,00. The work | will be given to a private yard. Her orig- inal cost was $289,555, but like the other | ten vessels of the same type, never came | up to the intended speed of 20 knots. The Gossamer, a sister craft, has recently | been fitted with new machinery and Bab- | cock and Wilcox bollers. Exhaustive trials of the latter covering several months demonstrated the superiority of the Amer- fean water-tube boiler over all others and led to its adoption for the two armored | cruisers now in course of construction. | The high free-board monitor Thunderer, of 9330 tons, has been struck from the ef- fective list of the British navy. She was | built at Pembroke in IST7 at a cost of $2,213,035, and -her repairs since then amount to $1,506,760. The vessel has been utilized for harbor service only and oces sionally for gunnery training. The Thun- | derer has had several serious accidents occurring to machinery and guns, giving | her the reputation of being an unlucky | ship. Only two ships of the monitor type remain on the effective list, namely, the Devastation of 9330 tons, built in 1573, ana the Dreadnought, 10,820 tons, built in 1875, and they are likely to be relegated to the ship-breakers’ yard as they have become obsoléte as warships. . . The Chilean battleship Libertad, which was launched at Vickers' yard, Barrow, | | ment is ready for delivery. cn Janvary 15, is practically a duplicate of laid Apri delivery of the ship in eighteen months, but the governments of Argentina and | Chile baving agreed on a disarmament policy the ships will not be required o early as originally intended. Both sels a however, in such a forward that they could be delivered within tract time if desired. Machinery is r for placing on board: the side armor and barbettes are on the ships and the arma- | } - . . ¥ in German ship- ’ There Is great ac rds building or the navy, in- mhmz six ps. three armored destroyers. It Is expected that four of the battleships will be launched within six months and completed at the end of 1904, Besides this new work several of the oid- time armored vessels are being modern- ized, making them as effective as if newly bullt. | cruisers, six crulsers, one gunboat and six | | . The battleship Messondiyeh is the only effective ship in the Turkish navy at the present time and likely to be so for an indifinte perifod notwithstanding repea reports of the construction of that navy. She was taken in hand by the Ansaldo firm at Genoa 'two years ago and com- | pletely transformed. The old engines had rusted away and the boilers were sieves. | When built in 1574 her speed was only 13 knots, now she easily makes 17 knots. The | | old battery of twelve 10-inch and three b~| inch muzzle-loaders have given way for | two 9.2-inch, twelve 6-inch and ten M- | pounders of modern pattern. Strange to ay the hull, built of iron, was found in good condition, which goes to prove the excellent quality of material and work-J manship put into ships thirty years ago— | proof, even against ravages of Turkish | neglect, while modern-built steel vessels | are alleged to be in dangerous conditions, | notwithstanding carefu! attention to their preservation. This difference between | iron and steel ships is mainly due to the | fact, as Chlef Constructor Hichborn has contended, that the scantlings of modern | steel ships are too light as compared with iron ships. a s . Smoking is not allowed in navy-vards outside of the officers’ quarters, except by the commandant's permission, and if that official is not a smoker the regula- tion is strictly enforced, barring. of course, the smithy, foundry boiler and machine shops, where workmen congre- gate during the noon hour. In the Bos- ton navy-yard a novel feature is being the Constitucion, launched at Elswick |introduced by Naval Constructor W. J. January 4. The keel of the Libertad was Baxter, who is having two disused build- The contract stipulated | i { attached | master generals [* The board of directors of the San Fr s fitted up with smoking and lunch for the workmen. There will be stoves and boilers for the preparation of | coffee and warming of food. lockers and | shelves for clothes and provision boxes tables and seats where the men may eat heir lunch in comfort, n these buildings will be permitted. Simf conveniences are provided in most of the European dockyards, but it is a novelt in this country. Constructor Baxter w to the Mare Island navy-yard 9 and was deservedly popular. This consideration for the wants of working- men in the Boston yard will no doubt re- sult in stmilar action at other yards and will be appreciated by the workmen. The Treasury Department has proposed a change in the Government salary tables, which is vigorously opposed by the pay- of the army and navy Under the present system, payments are made on a basis of a thirty-day month, regardless whether the month has twenty- eight, thirty or thirty-one days, and has proved satisfactory. but the Treasury officials now insigt that a year shouid be divided into 365 Or 36 days, and that salarfes for fractions of years should take into consideration the actual number of days involved. The contention as to ab- solute correctness is, of course, indis- putable, but the adoption of such a sys- tem in the army and navy would involve an immense amount of extra work, cause great delays in making out payrolis, set- tling claims or calculating checkages, be- sides leading to vexatious errors, ——e— Foundling Asylum Officers. and smoking with- cisco Foundling and Lying-In Asylum held its annual meeting and election of officers last saturday at the asylum, 913 Golden Gate avenue. The reports of the president, secretary and board of di- rectors were read, and the following of- ficers and board of directors were elected for the coming year: William Plerson, president: E. C. Sutliffe, secretary; Jo- seph Hutchinson, treasurer;: Sheldon | Kellogg, Charles Murdock, John Elllott, | J. W. Ellsworth and George T. Hawley, directors. ——— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* —— e [ Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 30c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. 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