The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 20, 1903, Page 6

1 rated. Smithson planged a seed which has been care- fully tended, and the result is a marvelous growth. Honor is due to a man who so wisely and worthily THE BOOMING BOOMS. Tennyson might have HIS is boom time. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1903. LOCAL BEAUTIES CAST FRIDAY... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ?¢dress €1l Communicol e tions to W. S. LEAKE. Man ager Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. | PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. ¥. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevensom St. | Delfvered by Carriers, 15 Cen Single Coples. 5 Cen Terms by Mail, Inclgding Postage: DAILY CALL (inclading Sunday), one year DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 mont FPer Week. ..36.00 3.00 . 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. €5 EUNDAY CALL, One Year. . 150 WEEELY CALL, One Year. 100 | All Postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. 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McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin, open untfl #:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open untili 10 o clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until o'clock. 1008 Va- jencia, open until o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open untll § o clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untfl p. m THE OAKLAND CONTEST. the m nicipal contest ir becomes more and the Varren 4! also nen who are maligning BRUARY 20, 1903 } T ~-- | boom all over the country. Wherever two Populistic servative men who desire to lead Presidential boom.” monopoly. Booms and boomloids and boomlets | | Democrats or two Democratic Populists are gath-| ered together there is also a Presidential boom. At! larger banquets guests gather and start in on soup | and eat their way through to a Presidential boom. The latest of these political dinners was eaten at | Columbus, Ohio, where ex-Congressman Lentz has organized the Jefferson-Jackson-Lincoln League, for | political purposes. The dinner was cooked and caten on Lincoln’s birthday, and the digestion of the com- pany was impaired by a bitter speech made by Mr. i Bryan, in which he flayed and grilled the men who | refused to support him. Indeed, as Mr. Bryan gets | he worse he seems to feel about losing the | It seems to stay with hin and he broods over it and gets morbid. The country never expected him to take it so much to heart, and attributes it to the fact that he is a bad loser, anyway, and bad losers never make good winners. So Mr. Bryan is certify- ing the excellence of the very judgment against him | older Presidency. which he condemns | But the real occasion for the Columbus banquet d not appear until ex-Governor “Jim” Budd of ornia, somewhere between the soup and “small ’ threw his voice into the arena and'proceeded | to make Presidential nominations. This disclosed the It was | d personal design and purpose of the banquet. not to advance principles nor to cement harmony, but | best, as | to advertise somebody. “Jim” was at 3 5 i ve seen by this verbatim report of the thrilling | sentence in which he named his candidate: “I might say that I have no objection to any people asking to will be leaders who themselves, though not openly sup- g porting parties of trusts and tariff exactions, have split the ranks of their party, of their friends, and | led to a victory that ought not to have been at any | time carricd. I want them in the ranks. I want them to fight with us, but I want the banners in the hands of such men as Lentz or Bryan or Johnson or Bill Hearst of New York “Each locality has its men that it looks upon i | | | as champions, and I find that in the far East those con- | the Democraty j again are picking out their champions. But I have | g v g P not seen a name mentioned by them under whose | shirt of labor you could not strike the iron breast- plate of trusts. Not one of them.” Having felt under all other shirts with that discour- aging result, the ex-Governor returned to Hearst, | with the original remark, “I do not wish to go fur- | t for a candidate and closed | Hearst, in his hunt ther, beca at I might fare worse.” | i In can not agree with “J The banquet was further enl gram from Mr. Hear planation of his place in history: “The history of a country is really the history of a few great men,” Yes, | must be admitted that the public will im” in this. ned by a long tele- | beginning with this shy ex- | W ! weather experts to any high or low pressure due to | Appropriations that there were so many silver door | caused his removal.” Another report says the Presi- ‘ing the group with pleasing anecdotes. written, “In the spring a livelier iris lights the ’ bestowed his wealth, and it would be a gracious act Judge Parker has 10 on the part of the United States to give his remains a resting-place in a tomb at the national capital. Carter Harrison has made up his mind to run for Mayor for the fourth time, having evidently come to the conclusion that Chicago cannot get along with- | out_him and he cannot get along without the office. BINGHAM’'S REMOVAL. HEN Colonel Bingham was removed from the position of - superintendent of public buildings and grounds at Washington and sent to Buffalo nothing in the way of a seismic dis- turbance was felt on this side of the continent. It is true there occurred about that time a sudden and very severe cold wave, but it was not attributed by, the shifting 8f Bingham. In the East, however, the removal is treated as a matter of great moment, and | in some of our exchanges consideration of it occu- | pies as much space as that given to the Venezuelan affair, It appears it is the custom of the War Department when an officer is relieved of an important post to note in the order that the relief is granted “at his request.” In the order transferring Colonel Bing- ham, however, no such note is made. It is argued, therefore, that he did not make the rtequest, and Washington people speak of his dismissal to Buffalo in much the same way that an ancient Roman talked of one sent into exile from the imperial city to some remote windy village on the coast of farthest Gaul. According to one authority the colonel goes into | exile because he spoke slightingly of the alterations made in the White House by Architect McKim. He is reported as having told the House Committee on knobs and gilt hinges to be looked after in the re- decorated mansion that additional servants would be required for the work., He also made allusions to the 2200 incandescent lafmps and the electrical dish warmer in the pantry, and spoke of the increased en- | | tertainments and the augmented laundry work of the new regime. One report says: “It was not so-much what the colonel said as his manner of saying it that dent resented the way in which the colonel spoke of the Presidential entertainments and the suggestion i that they are being carried out at the expense of the Government. A third story brings Chauncey trouble. Depew into the QHouse dinner Chauncey and a goodly company, in- | cluding several Embassadors, were in the Red Room enjoying coffee and cigars and Chau rcey was regal- There was much laughter and the Red Room rang with joyous | reverberations, when suddenly the colonel came in and requested the Senator not to make so much noise. | | | It is narrated that one evening aiter a White | | LOTS WITH ANNA HELD [OIL TANKS’ | RESIDUUM IS ' POISON TO FISH N L | | An angry protest against the pract of dumping the residuum from tank taining crude petroleum into the San Francisco is likely to islators at Sacrame oil p \ ]pames are supposed to be the greate: fernders In this regard. missioners have been lookl matter since complaints bega in from owners of sailing pleasure and alse from fishermen. Chblef Dep “harles A. Vogelsang of the F mission sald yesterday that three have been sent to different points the bay shore to learn the extent ¢ damage that pouring masses of crude 1 troleum into San Francisco Bay is ing Vessels come from down the the port of San Francisco bringing gces of crude petroleum, be -onsumed as fuel or to be refined by { of the companies having plants o ast shore of San Francisco Bay. e alongside docks to discharge. | the oil of less gravity, which natu es to the top in the ta ng into oast | | taken out, there remains i {of the tanks viscous, viie s | | slimy. threatening death t y uring damaging effects to myri | nicely painted pleasure craft e when it is dumped into the wa rs only the vile residuum is to get rid « Mly. Jt could be burned or dispo other ways, so say those whe | plaining, but it is found to be eas throw it into the bay waters LAW OF THE MATTER. From the works of the refining purpose in making this disposa t eas of on the east shore of—the bay larss amounts of er petroleum find their way into the bay. There is a law whi makes such dispo=al of er petroleum a misdemeanor, punishabie with impris onment in the County Jail for a per | not to exceed one year or by a fine r exceeding $1000, or b fine and In prisonment, for each offense. has been ¢ the statute books for time but §s seemingly a dead letter, f the nuisance is continually becom! jaurger and more constant The languafe« of the law is clear and unmistakable. It is as follows | fine not exceeding | | $1000 fine and fmprisonment | | Fishermen complain that the petroleuns ontamina the water and that the | | striped bass taste of petroleum when the are cogked. There is a general bellef that | | salmon are driven away by the im > the water by the and by others. De; Fish Commission says that there is no proof that the petroleum kills fish. . There is a law to cover the dumping of any substance deleterfous to fish into any waters in this State, which is as follows: ritles thrown know e 3 Y # > | Thereupon it is said the Senator from New Yd% de- | A to vote against good men | theTe are a few—Hearst and Budd, for instance. Mr. | . ; ; | They are not vote against good men G - | termined that the colonel should be dismissed from f the fie o | Hearst closed by advising that the party join the | g se of lie o L5 o, 5 & 4] § the White House and sent somewhere to learn man- o " iihaots satbagd Federated Trades, which he called the “organized | e y o e falsehoods published s 2 : {ners. So he goes to Buffalo. ks . o or in the mManhood of the country,” and proceeded to boycott | been exposed the water compa over again. Mr. Olney was n by the Demo Cc rinated by the Mu- col blicans, and b he and Leaguers. 1sequen his water company it must be that n t the water atural for r company and its convention that Olney has been pre- land Enquirer by Dr. W. he Fifth Ward delegation f the Democratic Central Committee M n the nomination of 2 letter to the C chairman of t It his letter he says: “The Examiner i d that Mr. Warren Olney is supported by a few Democrats,” when it is a matter of public hat he was the unanimous choice of the Dem- icipal Mayor of Oakland, aving been no other name placed before that ention for the office of Mayor. The Examiner hat Mr. Olney is the candidate of the Contra Costa Water Company, when it has been known for vears that he has been and is opposed to that and other corporations that oppress the people.” )r. Anderson goes on to say: “The men who com- e Democratic convention did not assemble nselves together to engage in a partisan battle. ey went there determined to support the best and le men for the various positions r political beliefs, and it is a matter of has said re- & al remy that in so doing the Democratic party i more to elevate the cause of Democracy in our t than all else the party has done in the past ten Dr. Anderson says for the Democratic con- on can be said as well of the Republicans and e Municipal Leaguers. They met for the pur- pose of putting in nomination candidates for office pon whom the people can rely. They made no mis- e. In fact, the nomination of Mr. Olney is one exceptional excellence, and the people of Oakland are to be congratulated upon the opportunity of ob-| taining in the office of Mayor the services of so good: a citizen, so sterling a man and so able a lawyer. Mr. Olney is one of those self-made men of whom | Americans are so justly proud; one of the Civil War veterans whom all delight to honor—that is to say, except the yellow journals and the slandermon- His parents were poor and he began his career as a wage-earner at the age of 10. From that time on he worked by day and studied by night, rising at the age of 17 to the position of a school teacher, When the Civil War broke out he entered the army in the | spring of 1861 and served until its close, retiring from service in August, 1865, with the rank of captain, won by arduous service in the field. That is the early record of the man whom the Examiner is accusing of conspiring with the water company and making a campaign of hypocrisy and lies. After the war Mr. Olney came to California and began the practice of law. In 1872 he settled in Oak- land. In that city he is not an unknown man. He has served as member of the Board of Freecholders that framed the present charter, as a member of a committee selected to promote public improvements, znd of a committee of five to report on the water problem. That is the public record of the man whom the people of Oakland know, and that is why the lics of the liars are futile. | gers It is not always best to be without allies, but the charges so | | should be made to bring the remains to this country | repute as a scientist and a philanthropist, | the natural son of the third Duke of Northumberland, 2l Presidential candidates except himself. All of this twaddle and tawdry counterieit of en- | thusiasm and feeling, this sordid pretense, merely | shows how Mr. Bryan's two nominations cheapened that honor and ensmalled it down to such dimension ‘ that “Jim” Budd can nominate “Bill” Hearst and be | taken seriously by so-called Democrats met in the capital of Ohio, the State of McCleilan, Pendleton, | Thurman, Allen, Hoadley and Sam Medary! The | drivel in which this expression was dressed was also a part of the stigmata of degeneration that were upon the occasion and upon the party. The squalid intel- | lectual manifestation failed to clothe and cover the equally sgualid personal purpose to use the great | | Presidency and the great thoughts that impinge upon it as a billboard on which to advertise three yel- low newspapers and their owner. Down to that level | the party has dragged its conception of the Presi- dency! Next! Bring on the next banquet, and now | let some “Mose” nominate “Pete” somebody for the Presidency, in behalf of the party of Jefferson, ‘We are promised that during the coming months California will reteive many desirable settlers. It is gratifying to be able to congratulate people who are to share with us the greatest country on earth, JAMES SMITHSON. ROM Genoa comes the report that the develop- F ment of a quarry near that city will lead to the removal of an old cemetery, and among those whose bones wiil be thus disturbed is James Smith- son, the founder of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. Such being the case arrangements | for interment at the national capital. The United States owes much to the institution he founded and it is but right that it should provide an honor- able resting-place for his body. Smithson was in his day a man of considerable He was and in his childhood was known as James Lewis Macie. On attaining manhood he took the family name of his father. He graduated from Oxford with a high reputation as a chemist, and during his life devoted himself mainly to travel throughout con- tinental Europe and to scientific research. He at- tained sufficient eminence to become a member of the Royal Society of Great Britain and of the Institute of France. For a variety of reasons his feelings toward his own country were by no means warm, and on his death he bequeathed his fortune, which t amounted to £125,000, to a nephew for life, with’the provision that upon his death it ‘should go fo the United States to erect at Washington an institution “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” The amount of money eventually received by our Government under the will of Smithson was a little more than $508,000, and with it the famous institute at Washington was founded. It has long since out- grown the comparatively modest endowment and is now one of the foremost institutions of the kind in the world. It is to be borne ip mind, however, that while a donation of $500,000 does not count as any great or uncommon thing in our time it was a very notable gift when made, and it served as a nucleus around which there has been built up an array of scientific museums, gardens and bureaus at Wash- ington which would hardly have been undertaken at all had not the Smithson endowment awakened pub- rouble Great Britain and Germany have had in act- ing together on the Venczuelan question was enough lic interest in scientific matters. It will be seen then that the good conferred upon to make us thankful that Uncle Sam had nothing to | the United States and-the whole world for that mat- do but play his own hand in his own way, . Lter far exceeds the yalue of the money actually do- The whole storm appears from this distance to be | | not much more than a tempest in a teapot. As a mat- | ter of fact “Superintendent of Public Buildings and | Grounds” is a democratic title used in Washington to signify an official who performs the functions of Lord High Chamberlain of the White House. is master of ceremonies at all functions, and at formal receptions stands at the right hand of the President. Under such circumstances it is clear the President should pick a man whom he likes'for the job. Former Presidents have done o, and there is no reason why Roosevelt should not follow their example. Colonel Bingham's removal, then, need not disturb the coun- try. Washington and Buffalo can fight it out be- tween themselves whether the fransfer means he has been “banished or set free.” e s e Of the Commissioners appointed to represent the United States at the Alaskan boundary conference it iz safe to say they will stand pat. THE VALENTINE TRADE. HATEVER may have been the causes that W led to the celebration of St. Valentine's day as a day of love-making by the merry peo- ple of the middle ages it appears that commercial en- terprise is the sole cause of the American method of observing it. We did not invent the original val- entine missive. That was something too crude for us, and, moreover, there was no money in it, for in the old form every swain wrote his own valentine, We are the people who devised the commercial val- entine and made it a thing of coin, furnishing the dul- lard with money a means of addressing his lady-love on St. Valentine’s day with more style than the most gifted poet that ever loved in earnest and sang it forth in rhyme. The Springfield Republican says the Invention and early development of the modern valentine is due to a Massachusetts girl, Miss Howland, a graduate of Mount Holyoke Seminary and daughter of a book- binder, who was also the keeper of a bookstore. It occurred to the lady that she could make a good busi- ness by supplying the young men of Worcester with pretty valentines for their girls. The Republican says: “Miss Howland took stiff letter paper, scalloped and fringed the edges, cut heart-shaped holes in the cor- ners, glued colored pictures that came with raisins and tea and such things on this, put borders of lace paper that was used on the inside edges of fancy boxes then as to-day around the pictures and hand-painted little verses on them. The valentines found ready purchas- s, and soon business men in New York and other cities began to order them for the next year. Four girls were hired to assist in making the valentines. Pictures and embossed paper were bought, paper lace, tinsel and other things were secured and a big sup- ply was made up. Enameled pigtures from Germany were procured and original designs invented and or- dered printed. The scissors were put aside for dies, which cut out designs with one blow.” St. Valentine was a bachelor, and Miss Howland lived a maid to the day of her death, which occurred only about ten years ago. So it is evident valentines have not much efficacy as promoters of matrimony. Worcester continues to be the biggest center of valen- tine manufacture in the United States, but strangely enough Europeans have learncd our fondness for the fancy article and manufacture them in larger numbers than ourselves. , A writer for the Toronto Mail says Berlin manufactures large numbers of valentines, though the Germans never send them, while London has the largest valentine manufacturer in the world. This year the business has been exceptionally good, and it is noted that a single shipment carried to Chi- cago 1,362,000 valentines, packed in 4000 cases and filling four freight cars, o He | OFHUSZY o TWO HANDSOME SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS WHO HAVE BEEN GAGED BY MANAGER ZIEGFELD FOR PANY, WHICH IS NOW PLAYING IN THIS CITY EN- THE A A HELD COM- | P 1SS PEARL ROBINSON and Miss Evelyn Ormsby, two of San Francisco's- fairest and most charming girls, have decided to cast their lots with Anna Held, and last night they became full-fledged Sadie girls. Both are possessed of beauty and talent in plenty, and it is only a mat- ter of a short time ere they become shin- ing lights In the theatrical fifmament. Manager Ziegfeld has been on the look- out for two promising young women to annex to the Sadie girl staff and he had to travel all the way to this city before he could find a pair who could capably fill the bill. As soon as he saw Miss Rob- inson and Miss Ormsby he decided that they were just the girls he wanted and lost no time in engaging them to go with “The Little Duchess” Company. More than fifty young and pretty girls, 1 PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. D. G. Marvin of Agnew is at the ] eager to bask in the glare of the bewil- dering footlights, applied to Mr. Ziegfeld as soon as it became known that he was on the lookout for talent. Mr. Zlegfeld carefully surveyed the beauties, and when he had seen them all selected Miss Robinson and Miss Ormsby. Both young ladfes made their initial ap- pearance last night, and 23 soon as they were recognized on the stage they came in for applause. They acted their parts very well, and barring a slight show of nervousness one would hardly guess that they were appearing as Sadle girls for the first time in their lives. Miss Ormsby has been on the stage be- fore and is deemed quite an artist. Miss Robinson appeared before the footlights for the first time last night, and it must be sald that she showed up very well, and if her first appearance counts she has a bright future before her. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 19—The following Californfans have arrived in New York: { From San Francisco—J. H. Moran, at the Grand. | St. Dents: H. H. Schell, at the Rossmore; slag, sawdust, sl g9, slabs, edgings, | or factory refuse; or any substance deleterio | to fish, is gullty of & misdemeanon and is pun ishalie by a flue of not less than 3380, or b | imprisonment I the County Ja!l m the county, | not less than 130 days, or by beth such fine and imprisonment. COMMISSION’S STATUS. The Fish Commission may prosecute some offender when the petroleum is traced to its dumping place and there is a good chance to fix the responsibility legal proceedings. Vogelsang says that there is sufficient evidence available the Fish Commissioners will undoubtedly prosecute. In the meantime any person can bring the matter before the legal authorities of any county bordering on the bay under the sections that are al- ready quoted in this article. A corre- spondent of The Call details his expert- ence, and his account furnishes an in- teresting chapter, It being illustrative of the customary experience of many evemg day. He sa; It is fouling everything. hing In shaps of a boat is smeared over the sides #ix to eight inches high abo water lines. Every plece of wood floating is covered as with tar, but the defiling substance is crude petro- leum. It is very disagreeabls to a boat owner Who takes the trouble and incurs the sxpenss of cleaning up and painting his ecraft in pretty color to find it. just after Be laumches it, to be covered with this fiith. I have a boat now on the banks of Ounkiand Creek, near the California Clubhouse, painted handsomely for the summer season. When the tide was at its height recently I surveyed the shore 1 near me and could not find a place whers stuff did not extend for at least ten to Ar feet in & solid maes. The petroleum is ki the fish and is detrimental to ail water P . B R ) and wife and Mrs. S. B. Schioss, at the Manhattan; C. A. Rosenthal, at the Sa- voy. From Los Angeles—R. Waring and J. Clapp, at the Gilsey. = Judge S. 8. Holl of Bacramento is In the city. Judge John E. Raker of Alturas is at the Russ. | E. E. Bush, an ofl man of Hanford, is | at the Lick. Rev, Willam H. Stoy of Marysville is at the Occidental. J. F. Quill, ex-City Councilman of Eu- | reka, is in this city. Charles O'Nelll, a lawyer of Dublin, Ire- land, is at the Palace. Rev. Father J. W. Horgan of Woodland is registered at the Russ. "A. W. Simpson, a lumber man of Stock- ton, is at the Occidental. E. A. Strout, a capitalist of Seattle, and hi# family are at the Occidental. W. P. Lynch of Oroville, who is largely interested in orange growing, is at the Lick, L. P. Hunt, a newspaper man of Man- kato, Minn., anfl wife are at the Occi- dental. ‘Whiting G. Press, who bas a large shin- gle factory at Eureka, is at the Oeccl- dental. F. M. Clough and J. B. Robinson, well known fruit men of Chico, are at the Palace, George L. Carr, the Trinity County miner after whom Carrville was named, is at the Russ. A. H. Breyman, who is enAged in the wholesale leather business at Portland, is at the Occldental. State Printer W. W. Shannon and wite are down from Sacramento and registered at the California. M. Thompson of Seattle, a capitalist who 1s identified with numerous industries in the Northwest, is at the Grand. Isaac Minor, the pioneer lumber man of Humboldt, is at the Lick. He is nego- tlating with several Eastern capitalists for the sale of valuable timber lands in Humboldt County. Ex. strong hoarhound gandy. Townsend's.* ——— season; glasses now; genuine specs, 20c um‘{:“«n-t.mzmmm_. Fi. Abrams, at the Herald Square: F. From San Jose—H. G. Kukendall Clark, at the Netherlands; M. Meyerfeid the Lincoin; J. E. Levi, at the Earlin e Leopard’s Spo By THOMAS DIXON JR. IN NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL FEBRUARY 22— The'l'udacst.bdbnm&lonkdthgm _ N WHO 00 - KOT APPRECIATE. - By Kate Thyson Marr. WHY THE GREATEST SCIENTISTS IN THE WORLD ARE WATCHING BERKELEY, By Dr. Frederick W. &'Evelyn. Read The “Colonel Kate” Papers. THEBLUE STOCKING BIRL | WOME By Bertha Runkle, Author of the ‘“Helmet of Navarre.” e e