The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 23, 1903, Page 4

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NEW YORK REF SEXNTATIVE STEPHEN B. SMITH. .. .. 0 Tribune Building NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: (. C. CARLTON... oo . ...Herald Square NEW YORK 3 s H TANDS raldort-A o, Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel; Fifth-avenue Hotel and Hoffman House, CHICAGO NE Sherman House; P. O. News orthern Hotel; House; Palmer House. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...14068 G §t, N. W, MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. Auditortum H BRANCH OFFICES—327 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, cpen until 9:30 o'clock. €35 MoAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 6156 Larkin, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open unt k. 1006 Va- encia, open un o' clock open until 9 o'clock. NW er Twenty-s cky, open until ® o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, m. open until 9 p RADE cor cial fe: nues monotonous and without espe- It seldom is 1e year. Last week whole country and which was BLIZZARDS, PHYSICAL AND FI- all over the co NANCIAL. I g at this season of t e great blizzard which ravaged the Sierra Nevada Mounta nterest east cne of the worst in ten years, practically checked busi- by blocking passenger, freight, mail within ness for ty o day the » do business, for knee-deep in week that ne conservative regarding crat s here was no gert wild eagerness to rush into new syndicates 1901 and 1902; that the T n prototype, could not i a second meal until its predecessor had nd that the sha ets of the great sider e s been amply Wall street dicates increased capitalization bond the greedy pub- which in them- up with avidity t angerously high p: eed lower iden whereas div a prop: to create an reased bond issue even e per znd beneficial improvement of 1 ol n, but often ns shows th: erican c has come e couclusion that there are eno s on hand now without creating 1 vast corpora- Per- y more dent Roosevelt’s active camp nething to d but whether it has American pec in regard to have sc sentiment, ple The country no longer looks with pride and admira- | vast aggregations capital, but is re- n with an askant and dubious eye. This sign. It indicates conservatism, which is febrile and anti-cyclonic and keeps business on a We a more sensible people than we were a few years ago and are beginning to reveal the safe basis istics of our ancestry f comtinues tame, and the merchan- Bus: The great staples lising of the country is even tamer. ss con- t excitement with no marked fi e iron, steel, ations i any footwear and other employed except where s scarce or insufficient rolling stock hampers rail- d transportation, and many ooks to keep them running for months yet without ny new business. Inclement weather has recently hed the distribution of all kinds goods, but is merely an incident of w and will shortiy Money is easy and bids fair to continue so, e average collections are reported from all sec- The country’s bank clearings show a .small in of 42 per cent over the corresponding week in textile, ng mills are f have orders on their e 002, and the aggregate clearings last week were $2,- 176,853,000, 2 decided gain over those of the preced- week. The failures were 274, against 250 for the e week la Business on the Pacific Coast, like that throughout the rest of the country, is without especial feature. T'he demand for almost all descriptions of farm and orchard produce continues good, even at the high prices, the stock ers are getting the highest quo- tations for years, with no indications of any immediate decline, the domestic demand for merchandise is ac- tive and the export movement from this port very good. The city and country banks are abundantly supplied with money and are cheerful lenders to all solvent borrowers at moderate rates of interest. San Francisco itself continues to grow with marked rapidity, the increasing area and activity of the city being perceptible from month to month, and the next census may be a surprise to many of us. S — | economic proposition war is a destroyer. !THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE. I T readiness to give reasons for any international position that we assume are having an effect in | Europe that is in all respects satisfactory. That ei- fect is in the form of an adoption of our diplomatic methods, especially by Great Britain. The Venezuelan affair is settled now. The protocols are signed, the blockade is lifted and the only immediate interest in | the subject remaining to the United States is the iseeking of some reparation for the vicious official in- | jury and physical maltreatment of an American citizen |in Caracas at the very moment when Castro was re- | lying upon us to preserve the integrity of his sov- | ereignty and territory and protect him against a ! for stealing and then HE frankness of American diplomacy and our thrice deserved punishment lying about it. | | are of more pleasant interest than this which relates ! to a viperous ingrate. ; | The British Premier, Balfour, on the same day on which the protocols were signed in Washington made a speech to the Conservative Club, in Liverpool, in which he declares that the Monroe doctrine has no | enemies in Great Britain, but “it would be a great | gain to civilization if the United States would more | | actively concern itself with arrangements to prevent | the difficulties between the i European powers and the South American Govern- ments by getting the latter to observe the principles of international courtesy That is a perfectly just observation. The beginning of such discipline must be in compelling those Govern- | ments to be courteous to us. They have for years spat | upon our citizens, robbed, imprisoned and flogged them | without being called to account. Naturally that which | they do with impunity to us, a near neighbor, they | do with greater freedom and feeling of security to | Europeans, whose Governments are farther away. Continuing, Mr. Balfour accounted for the Euro- pean concert in a perfectly natural manner and for a reason which is just as highly appreciated in the United S constantly recurring tes as in Europe. Declaring international animosities are a source of international weakness, he | said: “Great Britain greatly 1dzshked on the Continent, but no country is any | stronger for its dislike of Great Britain. Nor would was supposed to be | Great Britain be made any stronger by reciprocating | | animosity. If the peace of Europe is to be preserved | and the cause of civilization to go forward without fatal shocks, | European powers. The European concert was clumsy, but it was better than isolated action.” He | finally implored public opinion to avoid the easy task | of embittering - the relations between nations by | jealousies so easy to create and so difficult to allay. All sengible Americans realize that a peaceful con- | cert in Europe is better than the war that is inevitable from individual action. Shallow thinkers in this coun- rom zero to | try often say that we make profit out of a European war, therefore we should encourage one. As an , and the loss it inflicts is finally distributed to all nations, whether participants in it or not. for supplies furnished to Governments at war, but the exhaustion of combat decrecases the consuming power of their people, and we lose a market and its profits for a long period after peace comes. Better that the sudden profits of a time of war were dis- tributed over a long period which permits an increase | in the consuming power of the country. While the United States stands seli-sufficient, needing and desiring no concert with any other coun- try, our interests run to a peaceful concert in Europe, are the purveyors of food and clothing to that Therefore Balfour’s in- r grand division of the globe. we dorsement of the Monroe doctrine and tacit admis- sion th X and is desirable not for the purpose of war abroad, a ropean concert is powerless to attack it, but for peace at home, will be well received in our ciplomatic circles and as well by the whole American reople. We have gone through the trying Venezuela ather wet, and our prestige is without 2 nci greatly advanced by what we have done and equally | Now we can turn to the discipline of Latin-America, by example, if that will suffic by what we abstained from doing. and can respect the position of Europe, as Europe respects ours. It is now stated that Embassador McCormick’s rich and glorious dress of green adorned with gold lace, of which' so much fuss has been made lately, is, after all, sian court, so McCormick is merely living up to the style of his hosts. The defense is all right, but if the Embassador should by any chance be sent to the | court” of China, it is dollars to doughnuts he would | not array himself in Chinese garb. AN AMERICAN FACULTY. UR American facnity of improvising govern- ment under any and all conceivable condi- tions has long been a subject of admiration to | philosophical students of our national characteristics. More than once foreigners have expre: ed surprise at the ease with which delegates gathering from the four quarters of a great continent could assemble in a national convention to nominate candidates for so potent an office as President of the United States, proceed at once, almost without friction, to organiz a self-governed assembly and set to work in an or- derly manner, notwithstanding the uproar going on around them In an even more remarkable degree the faculty has manifested itself by the organization of governments among American mining camps. In far-off Alaska a crowd of adventurous men find themselves gath- cred in a region supposed to be rich with gold. They have no previous acquaintance with one another. They know not if their partner on the trail of to-day was a horse thief or a preacher in the State where he came from. They are all eager for gold and greedy | to get it quick and get more than any one else. Nev- | ertheless inside of thirty days they have a government | sufficient for the needs of the camp. | A curious illustration of how this faculty meets | every kind of emergency is afforded at this time in the little Mississippi town of Indianola. Tt will be re- membered that a lawless gang in the neighborhood forced the retirement of the colored woman who held | the position of postmistress, and how the President | thereupon decided to close the postoffice at that point | and keep it closed until the local authorities should | bring the offenders to justice. | In any other land, among any other people, such a decree on the part of the Government would have SAN FFRANCISCO CALL Other incidents in the closing scenes of that case | must be by co-operation between the | We might get much profit | e, and by something stronger if necessary, | The censorious critics of the East are now sneer- | sorely disturbed the inhabitants of the community. ing at Secretary Shaw's metaphor describing the es- { There would have been spasmodic efforts to comply tablishment of liberty in Cuba. The Secretary is| with the law, or petitions for redress, or mass- accused of saying: “The President gave the order, | meetings and public clamor. Nothing of the kind “Hoist away,’ and a new flag fresh from the womb | happened at Indianola. The people of the community ,of liberty sprang forth.” may not be the best Americans in the world. but they are Americans, nevertheless, and they know how to run a government of their own when the big Gov- ernment fails, and that is just what they have done in this case. Indianola has no postoffice so far as the Unita States Goverument knows, but none the less it has just as good a postoffice service as it ever had. The thing has been accomplished very simply. The peo- ple have raised by local taxation a sum of money suf- ficient to employ a carrier to bring all the mail of the community over from the: postoffice where the Gov- ernment delivers it. A local official is employed to | distribute it at Indianola. The operation is a little bit more costly than of old, but the service is said to be excellent. Once more, then, it has been demon- strated that the American can look out for himself. Among such people a paternal government would have a mighty hard time if it should try to carry pa- ternal discipline too far, Chicago has asked the Illinois Legislature to au- thorize cities to acquire and operate gas and electric plants and street railways, and should the request be granted the country will probably see in the Windy City an experiment in municipal ownership on a large scale and have a lesson to shudder at. OO AT A T A A BEAUTIFUL CHICAGO. HICAGO has long been famous for its stock- | ‘ yards, its skyscrapers and its bustle. Of late ! H it has been striving after a higher reputation. Ever since the marvels of the “White City” at the Co- | lumbian Exposition revealed to the people the artistic | possibilities of their city, there has been a steady movement toward beautifyingsthe whole. Parks, mu- | seums and universities have added to the attractions | of the place until now Chicago is much more than a | i mere place of business and extravagance. | | i Not content with what has been achieved, the pro- | gressive spirits of the city are engaging in still further | enterprises in the way of beauty and adornment. Not | long ago it was announced that Mr. Field will give | the city $10,000,000 for a museum, thus enabling Chi- cago to house her artistic treasures in one ot the state- liest palaces of art in the world, and now a new move- ment in the way of public improvement promises a transformation scene that will convert the lake front | | into a veritable Venice with all the additional splen- | dors that modern architectural and engineering skill | can devise. | The designer of the improvement is Mr. Burnham !of the World's Fair fame. In describing it the Inter | | Ocean says: “The plan of Mr. Burnham is to first | “bulld nearest the lake after it has been filled in suffi- | | ciently a broad driveway or esplanade which is to fol- | low the shore line of the lake. Not far from the water | ‘il is to be so paved that perfect driving may be en- joyed. West of the driveway it will be sodded and Um&hcs‘ shrubbery, flowers and trees will be grown. | | This will slope gradually down to a wide lagoon which will be made deep enough for fairly large boats. | Across this lagoon at intervals of one mile will be | | constructed beautiful Italian bridges carved with Ori- ental figures at each end. On the side of the lagoon | nearest the tracks will be another bank, not so wide | as the first, but higher. This will also be wooded and splendid gardens will be laid out. Benches may be | placed, sylvan nooks created ang curving pathways | | laid among the shrubbery. It is not only the desire of | the club to have such a lagoon and such an esplanade i extend irom Lake Front Park to Jackson Park, but it | is their aim later to continue it north to Lincoln Park | thus furnishing an unbroken driveway along the lake where rich and poor alike may seek recreation.” Vast as is the enterprise, it appears it is by no| means an impracticable one. Earth sufficient for the construction of the proposed driveway is already at | hand along the banks of the great drainage canal. There has been a good deal of discussion as to the best means of getting rid of the unsightly piles of | this earth. and now the Burnham plan provides for| converting it to artistic uses. The movement is strongly backed. The Merchants’ Club has had drawn a bill on the subject for presen- tation to the Legislature, and the park boards of the f city have given it their approval. At a recent public | “mcetiug to discuss the project one of the speakers said: “We have seven miles of lake front in Chicago and yet there is hardly a place along it where a man | may even so much as wash his hands. We are proud of the lake and we should make the shore of it beau- | tiful.” . ; ¢ . | The cnterprkc will be one of the most important | | undertakings in the way of municipal adornment in| ions are certainly undergoing nothing more than the regulation dress of the Rus- | the history of the country. Should it be carried out, | the effect will be to give a further stimulus to similar | | enterprises elsewhere, and in the end every city in| | the Union will be more or less benefited by it. At the | present time our people go abroad to see beautiful | cities, but in the near future we may have people from | Europe visiting America to see what a modern city | J should be in the way of beauty and delight. } It is reported that a Swiss inventor has devised an i automatic nurse for babies. The automaton is placed , near the cradle, and when the baby cries the air waves | set in operation a delicate mechanism that starts a phonograph to singing a lullaby, while another ma- | chine rocks the cradle. Should the iftvention catch | on the factory that constructs it might rightly demand protection as an infant industry After all the stories that have been told about the cloping Crown Princess of Saxony, it is interesting to | learn that a Boston lady who met her at Geneva says the most beautiful, charming, fascinating Evidently that is what Giron | she is woman she ever saw. thought, and yet no one would have suspected him of having Boston ideas. | | | In seeking for a clew to the identity of robbers | | who recently drove their victims intd an ice chest the ! | Chicago police appear to have overlooked a palpable deduction. The thieves must have been connected in some way with the coal trust and were acting along lines of the least resistance. PSR United States Senator Morgan, who has accused | his associates of treachery and a diplomatic repre- sentative of an offense equally serious, seems to be | passing through the customary phases of a public § disturber. He was first amusing, then annoying, and |is now a nuisance. I It seems that Colonel Bryan has finally decided to get out of the way of Populistic candidates aspiring for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, but will stand near enough the track to interfere with any fellow of the conservative stripe’ who appears likely to get it. Our Eastern exchanges are already containing no- tices of the appearance of robins and other spring and summer birds as far north as Massachusetts; so it would seem that winter resorts in the South are get- ting too high even for the birds that rich folks throw their money at. : | guests for the danc: i L. T | six 9.2-inch guns. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1903 MARDI GRAS WILL BE MADE - EVENT OF CLOSING SEASON s HE event of the week—I might sa | of the season—will be the Mardi Gras ball to-morrow night at the Hopkins Institute of Soci for and Those v will be well represented, one is busy talking abou preparations for the affair. > do | not wish to vostume are taking boxes and inviting jolly littlé parties to look on witi | them. The costumes will be particularly fine this season, as both men and women are vying with each other to produce go~- geous effects. To be sure, not onegof the fair sex will confide to you what s going to wear, but this much may certain of: that her particular costume simply delightful. You wiil know the res on Tuesday night. Because of the usual erness of the it has been decided al court speeches The proce: the Sear! to do away with the us and songs on this oc 1c sion will form and march into galiery, headed by the band. He gay revelers will march and cc march under bright colored calcium entered the When all hav nal will be g lead of Ceremonies Greenw who will the march. Among those who have taken boxes are: James D. Phelan, Miss Flood, Chauncey R Winslow, J. D. Spreckels, Mrs. Henrietta Zeile, F. F. Hodgdon, Willis E. Davis, Horace Hill, George W. Gibbs, Irving M. Scott, E R, Dimond, Mrs. Probert, J. P. Currier, Henry Payot, Dr. Shiels and M. H. de Young. Mr. and Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt will attend the Mardi Gras ball and wil! spend the remainder of the week more quietly, as Mrs. Vanderbilt is in need of a rest. PO Miss Bertha Runkle, author of “The Helmet of Navarre.” has been extensively entertalned since her arrival from New @ il GREAT BRITAIN’S e - i AUTHORESS AMONG DA GRAS, WHO WILL BE | ERS AT MARDI | + < N I and ast alwa s a right to accept ss she serve ligently, and is Wi ts of her individual women should have a moral r al matters in ged clud ] e of a minute and khat — of ome late me - is reprehensible. York some weeks ago ana has been pre- Why should im- vailed upon to lengthen out her stay to % the Miss nsideration for others, in le is mask, n ablic )semblies. | enter into the spirit of the fun from star to finish. The young authoress has won many frien here with her charming. unaffected manners and lova- ble nature and her departure for Japan in March will be much regretted. Mrs. Robert J. Burdette, who is vice president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs and associated with our State Sunshine Society, in addition to oth- er club interests, is doing widespread good with her “Club Creed” that cannot be ex- ceeded by her regular work in organiza- tions for women. Mrs. Burdette wrots the “Creed” for the needs in her local club, but it has been passed from one club NEW BATTLESHIPS TO BE THE MOST g the seat farthest from e are others to come, and, 2 front seats firs mbers should restrain ring or the rustling of lub sessions. x A seek or use offi- t sggrandizement, or club epping-stones omly, but that e her opportunit the s for haracter and good name of ember of the club should be ed by all other members as mily, and that the use of al methods in club life for ne death knell of pure, woman- dual y guard Iy organizations. 1 beliove the Golden Rule for club women should be—Do right unto others, regardiess of what others do unto you. ALLY SHARP. FORMIDABLE OF ANY IN THE NAVIES OF THE WORLD HE British Admiralty’s programme } 04 is said to include three | ships and six armored cruis- The battleships are to be of | 18,000 tons displacement, which exceeds | that of the two now under construction by 1630 tons, and to have a speed of 19| knots. The armament will be the heavi- est yet put on any vessel and surpass the American battleships of the New Jer- sey type, and will be composed of four | ers. | 12-inch, eight 9.2-inch (all in turrets) and ten 6-inch guns. The armored cruisers are to have a displucement of 13.000 tons, 22 | knots speed and carry a main battery of | The latter gun is con- | ve one, as it carries | a 350-pound projec capable of penetrat- ing 91 inches of Krupp armor at 3000 | yards, and it can be fired two or three | times a minute. Two third-class cruisers of the Gem | class, named Diamond and Sapphire, are | being bullt by Laird & Palmer at Birken- | head and Jarrow-on-Tyne. They are of | 3000 tons, 9800 horsepower, 21.75 knots speed | and will present some innovations in their | machinery. The thirty hours’. consumption trial of the armored cruiser Euryalus realized 14.5 | knots on less than two pounds of coal per | unit of horsepower and passed off with- out a hitch. The battleship Albemarle, however, was not so fortunate, and had to discontinue her trial on account of | heated bearings, which necessitated going to a dockyard for overhauling of machin- ery and repairs of defects. There is some danger of the naval reor- ganization scheme in the British navy be- | ing greatly modified, owing to dissensions in the Admiralty. The opposition to gliv- ing rank to engineers and otherwise rec- ognizing the importance of this branch of the naval service comes from non-progres- sive line officers, who still cling to the traditions and usages of fifty years ago. Admiral Fisher, who isgan advocate of the new scheme, has relinquished his post in the Admiralty afld some lively oppo: tlon to reorganization in its present form will be developed in Parliament. i T The submarine boat is still in high favor sidered a very effec in France and one out of three experi- mental Boats is to be laid down at Cher- dbourg. It has been designed by Romazot- L ti, the builder of the Gustav Zede and the Morse. She will be the largest under-wa- | ana was signed October 15 of last year, ter vessel ever built, being 147 feet in | delivery of the ship to be made April length, 12 feet beam and 7 feet draught | 13¢5, which in this one instance is Uk hen afloat and displacing over 33 tons when submerged. The boat will be driven | on the surface by an internal dombination engine and when under water by electric accumulators. She will have twin screws, carry two torpedo tubes and comple- ment of two officers and eigh¥en men. The surface speed is calculated at 11 knots and under water speed § knots. The largest submarine boat hitherto built the Gustav Zede, of 266 tons when ready for work under water: the Lutin and Morse are 155 and 144 tons respective- ly. One, named the Espadon, building at Fonlow, is of 206 tons. The boats of the United States and Great Britain, which are of the Holland type, have a displace- ment of only 120 tons. Forty-nine new vessels for the French mavy are to be begun during the present vear. They are, however, all small ves- sels. with one exception, and consist of destroyers, torpedo-boats and submarine boats. The dockyards are to build four destroyers, one cqlonial torpedo-boat, one large submersible boat and eighteen sub- marine boats. Private yards have been given contracts for one armored cruiser of 13562 tons, named Ernest Renaw, and for twenty-four first-class torpedo-boats. Torpedo-boat No. 268, one of the eleven boats building at Bordeaux, has exceeded her contract speed of 24 knots by 1.17 knots, earning a premium for the builders of $10.- | 000. The boats are 121.4 feet in length, 13.2 feet beam and displace 8 tons on 3.7 feet draught. The single screw engine Is of 1300 hosepower. There are 102 boats of this type in the French navy, ranging from 80 to 6 tons, which have been built since 1883. They have no exact counter- parts in the United States navy, the near- est comparison being the Mackenzie and McKee, of 65 tons and 20 knots speed. e The keel of the battleship Loulsiana, building at Newport News, was laid Feb- | ruary 7, and work will be rushed in order | to make a record. At the New York navy vard, where the sister ship Cosnecticut is under construction, preparations are still In progress, the building slip is nearly completed, material for hull and machin- ery and several requisite tools have been ordered and molds for the hull parts have | been made. The contract for the Louisi- to be on time. In the case of the Kear- sarge and Kentucky, buflt at Newport v (1596-08), there was an interval of 172 days between the signing of the con- tract and laying of the keel, and the ships were behind d y 38 and 31 days, re- spectively. The Louisiana’s keel was laid 115 days after the contract was sigmed. showing a gain in time of sixty-four days on the prior record. In the case of | the Missouri the contract was signed | October 11, 1598, but the keel was not laid | until Febru 7. 1300—an interval of 484 days, and the ship, which was to be de- livered August 30, 1901, is still in the hands of the builders and will not be ready for commission until some time | during the latter half of the present year It is, of course, a foregone conclusion that | the New York navy ‘yard will be unabis to make as good a record in rapidity of building, handicapped as it is with anti- quated business methods of the Navy De- partment, but thé building of one ship in a Government yard will be an incentive for private yards to make better progress with navy work than has hitherto been the practice. The navy chaplains have failed to sc- cure the relief so vigorously led for during the present seasion of Con: ihe corps asked for an increase in | ber from twenty-four to thirty-fou | that their pay be based on that of the . which is that of line officers in th ravy. The chaplains further contend | that having the rank of line officers | shopld also have the pay of the latter, | which would increase the pay of the | nlor chaplain from $2500 to $4500 and reduc: !lhr junior chaplain from $19% to 31652 e EXx. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* ———————— Notice!—There is no sale for glasses fn windy season; get glasses now: genuine specs, 200 to 80c. 81 4th st front barber and grocer. * —— e Townsend's California glace fruit and candles, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etchen boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, 69 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * ——— e —— Special information suppiled datly to business houses and public mem by the Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 330 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 106 .