The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 26, 1903, Page 6

THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1903 Che 1 Zadaose ................... MARCH 26, 1903 HURSDAY Rroprietor. 5. LEAKE, Manager. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Acdress All Communications to "TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. T e Operator Will Connect You With the Departme: t You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE. . EDITORIAL ROOMS. . Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copi: Terms by Mail, Inclu ¥ CALL ug Sunday), .Market and Third, S. F. 217 to 221 Stevenson St. AL Y CALL (ncluding Sunday), DAILY CALL (n: ng Sunday), DAILY CALL—By Single Month NDAY CALL, One Year EKLY CA! One Year All postmaster nthorized to reeelve subscripti Sample coples will be for rded when requested ibers in ordering change of address should be sler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order e & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE +.1118 Breadway C. GEOR KROGNESS, Nuzager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicage Long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2619."") NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. 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ES— k er of Clay, open 9:30 o'clock. 633 613 Lerkin, open until until 10 o'clock. 2261 until § o'clock. 1098 Va- BRANCH OFFIC rom a merchant ected legislation libera given c amber of United 1d be expected here i governmental e there ocated ser, be- with orders the a prosperot nt having 2 per ¢ meet have the i wi o ary < of German steamship lines apable of How weil Wonderful size, in the Ge to nan merchant marine is the has no natural ad- ling or for ocear t not on the se German com- but on than an inclosed sea. ocean truction of ships. sch ven her na- h uses and has to be mixed re it can be made available for Tt without ad she has achieved her high place ce solely by the genius of her ho enacted fostering legislation, and the ses natural w her captains of industry, who have known ofit Germany against such.obstacles er present vast ship-building industry r-reaching steamship lines by reason of the United States with similar laws could chieve even greater results. Instead of ntage only upon a narrow sea we have on both the great oceans of the globe. In- ving to import raw materials for ship con- tion we have them in greatest abundance. An act to promote American shipping, if wisely drawn, would be followed by effects as beneficial as those that have followed protection to our other manufacturing in- and instead of having to pay tribute to ign ship-owners on mnearly all of our exports and ports we would be able to extend our commerce own ships and employ our capital and our ingmen in building them. The issue is an old one. wor It has been before the ountry for a long time. It has been submitted to the | le again and again by declarations in the Repub- n national platiorms pledging the party to pro- American merchant marine. It would ap- refore, that further argument on the subject is hardly needed. Nevertheless, foreign ship-ownérs alliance with other large interests in New York have managed thus far to defeat every bill that has been submitted to foster American shipping. It seems the desired legislation will never be given until a resolute public opinion demands it. For that rea- son the issue should be kept before the public. We see what Germany has done. Why should we not follow the example? S ——— . Harvard alumni are tb provide that university with 2 stadium on Soldiers’ Field, where the athletic games are held, and it is expected to be the finest in the country. In fact, it appears from the reports that it will constitute such an important feature of the university as to overshadow the lecture halls and give Harvard the appearance of a2 huge gymnasium. pear, th were | | | FRENCH WINE PRODUCTION. HERE are only two centers of wine production T in the world, California and France. German, Italian and Spanish wines are narrow in variety and limited in production. The wines of California and France are in great variety and of large produc- tion. Our wines have not reached yet one-tenth of our productive capacity. The extension of produc- tion proceeds with the growth of the home market } for our wines. Being the two centers of the world’s | wine production, California and France are interested lin each other. When the French crop was threat- 1cned with extermination by the phylloxera we sent | our resistant vines, the Vitis Californica, whose roots | defy that destructive insect, and the vineyards of France were renewed and a great national industry was redeemed from what had seemed to be complete destruction. The vintage of the two primates of the world’s wine is interesting, and there is no reason why California and France should not learn of each other. The use of dry wines as part of the diet is spreading. Its sani- tary value is recognized by the medical profession. It is casier now to get a pure and wholesome wine | than to get a pure and wholesome beer. The use of | wine with food is beginning to be recognized as con- | ducive to temperance, and where the custom increases the use of distilled liquors declines. The beverage | with the minimum of alcohol drives out that with the | maximum. | In pne particular California wine men may learn }from the French, and that is in the accuracy and their ; viticultural The | study of these statistics is of interest to our wine {trade. They are published in the Moniteur Vinicole, officially prepared by the Commissioners. In 1902 France had 4,333,345 dcres planted in.grape vines, which was a decrease of 5000 acres in one year. The total yield of was 878,721,702 gallons, or 207 ons per acre, being 0o gallons per acre less than lin 1901. The decreasc in total gallons on the product of 1901 was 403,466,270, which is surely a startling de- cline in production. The total value of the grape crop is put at £34,000,000. The exports of wines for the year were only 4 ,000 gallons, while France im- ported 83,700,000 gallons, or nearly double her ex- port | There is another very interesting fact to be found While the imports were larger than for 1901 they have often been exceeded, their highest point in the decade being in 1891, when the imports were 243,830,000 and the exports 42,078,- The figures for 1900, the largest year of instructive; the production completeness of statistics. vine in the Moniteur’s statistics. oo gallons. he decade, are was 1,520,202,500, the imports 117,382,500, and the exports | p 42,862,500 gallons. It is evident that French maximumithey fail to supply the home demand, which | req It is evident from a study of these figures that Cali- | fornia vintners may look to France, their rival in pro- for a market es an imported supply. duction of Europe, outside of France, are, in the order of their | product, Italy, Spain, Austro-Hungary, Portugal, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Switzerland and Servia. Italy produced in 1902 765,000,000 and Germany 51,750,000 gallons. It is teresting that Mahometan Turkey, where the Koran forbids wine bibbing, produced 40,500,000 gallons. The countries of Europe that produce no wine are Great Britain, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway and But these all produce either malt or distilled spirits, which’ take the place oi wine. The statistics show that in France there has been ady increase in the tax on spirituous liquors, which w yields £17,000,000 per year. A study of these._ statistics seems to indicate that there is a de- ided future for the California vintage, and that by attention to the care of our wines and obser- Roumar Russia, a, Sweden proper vance of the principles of commercial honor we may | expect to greatly extend the quantity, quality and profit of cur output Recently the construction of -an important law in turned the significance a great Wall street \‘]‘l'\‘fl]atim in railway stock depended for success upon the effcct of a comma in the articles of incor- Massachusetts of Next it was stated that upon comma poration of the company whose stock was involved in the deal. It is now announced that the right of a New Yorker to hold a seat on the ‘Board of Alder- | men is dependent upon the meaning of a comma. Under the circumstances it would seem worth while for somebody to organize a comma insurance com- pany and guarantee States, railroads and -office- holders irom the consequences of misplaced points | of punctuation. CANAL AND CURRENCY. INCE the Senate has ratified the Panama canal treaty, and it seems assured the Colombian Congress will make no objection, financiers have begun again to count the cost of construction and es- timate ways and means for carrying it out. There is of course no doubt of the ability of the Government to raise the money, but it has been intimated in some quarters that the immediate payments required by the treaty will drain the treasury to such an extent that it would not be possible for the Government to give relief in case it should be called for next fall by a monetary stringency similar to that which occurred last year. | Under the treaty’ we are to pay $40,000,000 to the | Panama Company and $10,000,000 to Colombia for | the right of way. Congress has furthermore appro- priated $10,000,000 for immediate use in the work of construction, which of course will be paid out as | called for. Further appropriations were made for sums agregating $135,000,000, but those are not for immediate use, and, moreover, an issue of 2 per cent bonds is authorized to raise the money whenever it may be required. The object in making the whole appropriation at once was to conform to the recom- mendation of President Roosevelt that' “the work should be carried out as a continuing policy without regard to change of administration, and it should be begun under circumstances which will make it a mat- ter of pride for all administrations to continue ' the policy.” : ; The immediate expenditures, therefore, are con- fined to the $10,000,000 payable to the Colombian Government, the $40,000,000 due to the Panama Com- pany, and the $10,000,000 which may be called for to finance the beginning of the work. The total amount ($60,000,000) is mot large when compared with the revenues of the United States, but it-is large when compared with the amount of money available in the treasury for immediate uses, and hence the fear ex- pressed that thestreasury would not be able to afford relief shquld a sudden emergency arise. At is not pretended that there is anything in the situation to' occasion alarm. The bankers of the country -are ‘well aware that they will be called upon S wines | | find their greatest matket at home, and that at their | The wine producing countries | Turkey, | for large sums of money when the crop-moving sea- son begins and will of course make preparations to meet it. The only trouble will be that of shortening the supply of money in New York during that sea- son. Thus in its last analysis the issue presents an- other argument for the adoption of an.elastic system of currency. One of the arguments made for the Fowler bill and the Aldrich bill at the recent session of Congress was that provision should be made by which the banks could provide for moving the crops without having to resort to the treasury for help. Should the expenditures for the canal Tesult in pre- venting the treasury from going to the assistance of Wall street this fall the advocates of the currency bills would have a strong temptation to say “I told you so.” Sooner or later we must have a currency system suited to the needs of our expanding industry and commerce. At the present time our money system is very much like our transportation system—it is | straified to its utmost in ordinary times, and when | the rush comes for means to move the crops there is | no reserve to be drawn upon. The campaign of edu- | cation op the subject will go on during the summer, : and it may be that an impressive object lesson will be furnished to help it along. Meantime financiers | will have to do the best they can to prepare for what | they know is coming. Should it prove true that the treasury will be unable to help, the country will not | be altogether displeased, for as a matter of fact the national treasury should not be looked upon as a reservoir to help out private business. e . e o Yachting experts are now busy explaining to the | public that Shamrock 1T, being constructed thus and | so, will win if the wind should be so and thus; but | the Reliance, being constructed somewhat differently, will win if circumstances should be somewhat differ- | | ent from the so and thus. The public, after reading | the opinion of each in turn, is supposed to look wise and know how to bet with the feeling of having a| sure ‘thing. | | PURE FOOD LAWS. ) i £ . | EPRESENTATIVE HEPBURN of Iowa is | R reported to have stated recently -that among | the ill effects of the dilatory tactics of the Sen- ate during the last session of Congress was the de- feat of the pure food bill. The report goes on to| quote him as saying he is satisfied the bill would have been passed by a good majority could it have bccn‘ | | | | | brought to a vote. | Taking that view of the defeat of the measure there is no reason why its advocates should be discour- aged. The issue will be kept before the people dur- ing the summer, and when the next Congress meets earnest efforts will be made to have it taken up at| once. It is stated that Senator McCumber of .\'onhi Dakota will present a pure food bill in the Senate and Mr. Hepburn will introduce one in the House. The. two bills will be yirtually the same. The plan of ac- tion agreed upon is that Senator McCumber shall get his bill reported from the Committee on Manufac- tures as speedily as possible and will then take the | first opportunity to get it before the Senate. Should the Hepburn bill' reach the Senate, however, before he can get his bill taken up, Senator McCumber will | at once take the House bill as a basis for Senatorial | action. In that way it is believed the measure can | | be brought to a vote in both houses before the | | session closes. |~ The prospects disclosed by, those statements will be | gratifying to the country. A law providing against frauds committed by the adulterations and imitations iOf foods and medicines has become an urgent need of the time. It is not the consumer only who is ask- ing for such a law. The legitimate producer or man- ufacturer of honest goods is as muah interested in the suppression of frauds as is the consumer. The bill | that was before Congress at the last session had the support of manufacturers of foods, drugs and bev- erages in all parts of the Union, and it is not likely there will be any weakening on their part when a: similar measure comes up for action next winter. | California has a very large interest in the proposed legislation. Almost all of our fruit, wine and oil products are forced to meet the competition of dis- honest adulterations. that the adulterations are not hafmful to the con- sumerg and in a certain sense the assertion is doubt- less true. Neither food nor wine nor drugs are often adulterated with poisonous substances, but none the less such adulterations are fraudulent, and to that extent work an injury on the public. - Cottonseed oil sold under the name of olive oil may not injure the health of the consumer, but it certainly defrauds him. Cheap drugs sold under false names may not be poisonous, and yet they may be utterly unfitted to | serve the purpose for which the genuine drug is | used in medicine, and therefore cause serious wrong | to the purchaser, There is, in fact, no defense to be made of the prac- tice of selling either foods, wines or beverages under false names. Investigations made by experts em—j ployed by the National and by, State governments | | have disclosed the fact that the sale of such adultera- tions is very widesprcad and that it is by no means | possible for the general public to guard against the frauds by personal carefulness. It is not to be ex- | pected that every man will have a sufficient knowledge | of chemistry to analyze every particle of food or drink that he buys. Governmental supervision is required to suppress evils of that kind, and it is pleasing to learn there is a bright prospect of legislation to that end within another year. e o————— During the regular session of Congress the Senate | could not take a vote on a single measure of impor- tance; but when the extra session was called and the Senators were eager to get home they managed to vote on two treaties about as promptly as Tom Reed himself could have wished. The record is sufficiently impressive to create a public desire that every session of the Senate be treated as an extra. | | | | | It is asserted in many instances " A movement has been started in New York to get women to adopt a permanent form of frock for gen- | eral use so that it will not be necessary for working girls to be always changing their garments to follow the fashions., It is safe to say that if adopted no woman would ever wear it, for none of them would like to advertise herseli in that way as a woman who works for a living. g The investigation into the extent to which bribery is practiced in Rhode Island is said to have disclosed that the average price of votes is $2; but it must be remembered that the State offices are small and there’ !is no inducement to extravagance by any excessive competitions among candidates. It is announced that Cleveland is to take a trip westward as far as Denver, and now the \Bryanites are going to do their best to make it seem to him \ like “the enemy's country.” \ R | nora, is at the Palace. THEATRICAL EVENTS OF THE WEEK — AT THE SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSES ISS EFFIE ELLSLER has achieved a grand wiumph in | the great play “When Knight- | hood Was in Flower,” which opened at the Columbia Thea- ter last Monday night. This talented ac- tress has made herself a‘big favorite with | the theatergoers by her original styic of interpreting her meaning in every passage of the play, and her success for the next ten days of her engagement is already as- sured. &7 20 "Robeuplgrre." with Emm(:!t Corrigan | and Miss Maude Odell in the leading | roles, is pleasing vast “crowds at the | Grand Opera-house this week and hus been a great success since opening nisht. ““More .Than Queen,’” the spectacular drama of Napoleon and Josephine, will be | presented at. the Grand . beginning. next Monday night. Bty e “The Husbands of Leontine” is the | funniest thing that has been put on the boards of the Alcazar Theater for a long | time. Next K Monday night . the: Alcazar | stock company will produce “Lady Hunt- worth's Experiment.” Ernest Hastings will again appear as leading man, and Miss Bertha Crelghton will make her bow to local theatergoers. oAl - Ben Hendricks, the ever popular Swe- | dish comedian, is pleasing big houses nightly at the California in- the quaint comedy ‘“‘Ole Olsen.” 3 Miss Rose Coghlan, famed as one of the | most striking women on the American | stage, will return to this city and open at the Californla Theater on Sunday night | | after an absence of many years. Miss Coghlan is to appear in “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray.” s ““Hoity - Toity" is still doing business at Fischer's Theater and seems to be more popular than eve rbefore. A.new one eil- titled “‘Helter Skelter,” another of Weber | and Fields’, is now belng rehearsed ahd | will be put on shortly. | This afternoon the first series of pro- | fessfonal concerts by the pupils of | Paul Gerson's school of acting will be given at Fischer's. ' A fine programme las | been selected for the occasfon. Mark | Hambourg, the great planist, will give re- | citals at Fischer's on Tuesday and | Wednesday of next week. The sale of | seats will commence at Kohler & Chase’s | music store this morning at 9 o'clock o “Fallen Among Thieves” continues to | pack the Central ThL.ater nightly, and the highly dramatic features of the play | scem to create a most favorable impres- sion. Next week ““The Smugglers,” a new melodrama by Arnold Woiford, will be presented by the stock company. ' Tlg e “Pinafare” commenced its third week at the Tivoli Opera-house last Monday night, and the artistic production Is as popular as it was years ago when fist seen in this city at the same house. e The Orpheum offers a bill of high grade vaudeville this week, and the house is packed every night to the doors. Lilllan Burkhart and her company in ‘“The Salt | Cellar” make a big hit with the crowd and is one of the cleverest skits that has been seen at the Orpheum for a long time. s ine . The minstrel show at the Theater Re- public is drawing good houses, and the “Chop Suey” girls are still attracting at- tention. | | FlscmER> ACTRESS, MED AS ONE OF MO STRIKING WOMEN ON AMERI | CAN STAGE, WHO WILL APPEAR HE SUNDAY NIGHT, AND SAN FRANCISCO GIRL, WHO WILL APPEAR IN BURLESQUE PERSONAL MENTION. Louis Cain, a merchant of Newman, is at the Lick. W. 1. Hupp, a mining man of Folsom, is at the Lick. C. C. Webb, a mining man of Montague, is at the Grand. G. S. Babcack of the Hotel Coronado is at the Palace. Dr. Andrew Eaton and wite of Pitts- burg are at the Russ. Senator C. B. Greenwell of Santa Bar- bara is at the Grand. F. S. McComber, a manufacturer of So- W. H. Balfrey, a publisher of Etna! Mills, is at the Palace. C. Motzen, lighthouse-keeper at Point Reyes, is at the Grand. H. B. Muir, proprietor of a hotel at Willits, is at the Grand. John Bunce, an insurance man of Hart- ford, Conn., is at the Grand. George Standart, a mining man of Plumas County, is at the Lick. Dr. and Mrs. W. Nelscn Jackson of Bur-| lington, Vt., are at the Palace. S. T. Black of the State Normal School | in San Diego is registered at the Lick. Homer F. Robinson, business manager of the Salt Lake Tribune, is in the city. E. S. McClatehy, business manager of the Sacramento Bee, is at the Californi S. S. Sharp, president of the Penn N: tional Bank of Philadephla, is at the Pal-! ace. R. B. Burns, master mechanic of the Santa Fe road at Los Angeles, is at the Grand. | programme will be repeated on Saturday £ fro o - -+ MRS. RHODES’ IANSWERS TO QUERIES. LECTURE WINS [coo hemesd awart sdsr, maimassy: [ beet root APPRECIATION| pokeweed berries and pernam- buco are used to artfffcially color ¢laret QUARTZ—J. C. J., Dathon, it you desire information about certain quartz you have discovered you can obtain the same by ling a semple to the Stat Mining Bureau in the Ferry building, San Francisco or. An attractive lecture “Bayreuth” and “Parsifal,” lavishly fllustrated by handsome colored sterecpticon views, was given last night at the Alhambra Theater on ser by Mrs. Charles W with effee- | S | tive musical illustration by Adolf Glose ,FL'A(E?Sll;f\ FURCIANE P. 1 The lecture was comprehensive in scope | | ¢ oadsden purchase is the name appl to the land bought by the United from Mexico in 1853, because the transfer was negotiated by General James Gads and the lecturer is pos: some stage presence and ed of a hand- charming de- livery. Running a lttle overmuch to ! den, who was United States Minister to metaphysics, there is much "interesting | Mexico when the purchase was made. fact in Mrs. Rhodes’ talk, particularly | Includes a strip of land extending fr the Rio Grande del Norte near EI westward about 500 miles to the Coi and_the border of Lower California, that part of it which relates to Wagner's » connection with mad Ludwig of Bavaria. and e Plctures of ing Ludwigs castles. |from the Gila' River to the border fixed with their ‘‘Lohengrin” and “Tann- |, s 1% hauser” decorations, are exceptionally | o3 the treaty. Its greatest breadth is 1 miles and its area is 4, C s | square miles fine, though, indeed. the illustrations are | w5 20 " o 0 hel ber 30, 185 alone worth seeing. The Bayreuth rs B - .o | theater &nd the little surroundihg vil- | and the amount pald by the United States lage' are also freely pletured, and |fOT the land was §10,000.000. A copy of fr scenes from “The Ring of the Nibe.i| featy can be seen in the reference room lungen” and “Parsifal’ are offergi in |O°f the Free Public Library. generous measure. A speaking tralt I A a7 of Frau Wagner is among the pictorial Mr. Glose, In his plano arrangements | Townsend's California giace fruit and of the “Ring” scenes and his “Lohen, SS281%%, STt Boocs Tor Eastern rrcads. g:’n:ldgr:::‘l’ge.ni:;:\spllshr;xe:t and - atae| TRt o, Tuies FREN heeng s Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. > | Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's * -— afternoon. H. P. Kremer, a capitalist and large | manufaclirer of Philadelphia, is at the Palace. J. A. Mudd of the United States Geo- logical Survey in Washington is at the Occidental. C. D. Norton, an anthracite coal mag- nate of Pennsylvania and proprietor of the Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia, is | at the Palace. J. A. Monroe, freight traffic manager of the Union Pacific road, and Thomas A. Schumacher, acting traffic manager of the Oregon Short Line, left last night for Portland. Caleb B. Wick, a large property holder in Youngstown, ©hio, who, with his broth- er, organized the National Steel Com- pany, which was eventually sold to the | steel trust, is a guest at the Palace. L. T. Brown of Pittsburg, general su- perintendent of the city mills of the Car- negie Steel Company and one of the orig- inal thirty-two men who formed a part- nership. with the millionaire, is at the Palace., Mr. Brown and his wife have| been touring the State for pleasure, and it is his opinion that both Andrew Car- negie and the general manager of the United States Steel Company, Charles Schwab, will visit the State next year. | Mr. Carnegie was seriously thinking of ‘coming 'to California this year, but was finally persuaded to visit his sister in Florida. H. C. Frick, who formerly op- posed Carnegie in the steel trust, will be in San Francisco In a few days. 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