The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 16, 1903, Page 6

THE SA FRA SCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 1 190 — e Che THURSDAY APRIL 16, 1903 JCEN D. SPRECKELS, Bropriefor. KE. Manager Address All Ccmmun;cu;lcrs to W. S. LEA TELEPHONE., Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. Market and Third, S. F. 217 to 221 Stevenson St. CATION OFFICE. RIAL ROOMS. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. single Coples, 5 Cents. Mail, Inciuding Postage: ing Sunday), one yea uding Sunday) Single Month Year Year One All Postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. torwarded when requested £hould be in order ir request. fes will ubscribers in ordering o give both NEW A ure a prompt and correct ange of addre: XD OLD ADDR llance with t OAKLAND 1118 Broadway ..Telephone Main 1083 BERKELEY OFFICE, 2148 Center Street.........Telephone North 77 : x C. GEORGE KROGNESS, tising, Marquette B) OFFICE. Manager Foreign Adver- uilding, Chicago. ntral 2619."") NEW STEPHEN B. ENTATIVE NEW YOR: SPONDENT . C. CARLTON. . .. . « Herald Square , 81 Union Square: el and Hoffman Hous s—= 300 Hayes, o 9:30 o'c corner of Clay, open o' clock 615 Larkin, ogen until until 10 o 2261 opest u clock. 5 Va- clock. 108 Eleventh, open untii 9 second and Kentucky, open open uutil 9 p. m BRANCH OFFICE! o open e first annual report oi eel Corporation three interest have been presented to the the publicit of given to rporation, the second the enor- 1ess done, and thir e compara- tock even after the upon both common fact o means of e poptlar confid hen creating the Department of Com- provided the establ nt i with the duty of enforcing publicity of hm of tions that come within the scope of The Steel Corporation has furnished f voluntary publicity, and the question a r the statement thus made gives the information and conforms to the standards of th al bureau the publication of the report has | ed by the public, ge corporations will be prompted at will be required by the off it may rably rece and it is prob- e business of the corporation ment excite interest by reason of dented magnitude and the extraordinary the enterprise. Expressed in round e corporztion did 2 business of about d paid wages to 168,000 men net earnings of more than $130,000,000, and lars nong upward of 60,000 share- tatistics appear more like the figures | a large city than that of a single in- company, and have naturally excited a new the future development of such indus- trade of rises int of discussion, however, is the re- declared earnings to the price at which s in the market. Preferred stock earned cent and common stock 10, and aiter setting s for depreciation, sinking fu; lared dividend of 7 sell aside ge - etc there was a dec fer per cent on pre- | k and 4 per cent on common, and a sum | | | red of more than $34,000,000 wa Upor added to the surplus. wing the ought sell at but as a matter of fact on the day aiter | to was made public the closing bids At such | | be seen the dividends amounted to percentage on investment a reviewer says: but 3.17 per cent idend is expected to double with the | declaration. But even then it will net but! 6.34 per cent, where Stee] preferred returns 87, and | there i1s no preference in Amalgamated. Sugar preri ferred nets 574 per cent, the common the same. | General Electric yields 434; Western Union Tele- | graph, 581: American Telephone, 4 Shoe Ma-| sinery preferred, 5 per cent.” | A variety of reason€ have been suggested to explain | e comparatively low price of stock paying such ! rge percentage of profits in these days when cari-; is everywhere seeking investment and interest | According to one view the stock w because the combine is so huge the public | fraid of it; or, as one authority puts it “the in tment mind has not yet grown up to it.” Apn- er view is that the statement presents an anomaly ness from the fact that it shows a billion in. 1t made to carry on a half-billion business. | s have been accustomed to invest a million do a five-million business, and accordingly l'hey are of 2 company whose capital stock and bonded in- | iebtedne I l'o make the contrast clearer, “Amalgamated Copper yields ne tes are so low hy busines The stecl corporation, by reason of its magnitude, | class by itself, and it will take the stress | rard times to demonstrate its real value to the trial world. 1f the capitalization is larger than business warrants there will be trouble when rd times come. If, on the other hand, its securi- are lcw only because the investment mind does up to it, there is sure to be a rise in the re, for the American mind expands rapidly, and it will not take it many years to understand even so g a thing as the billion dollar trust. the I John D. Rockefeller, it is said, is getting back his If be succeeds, the solitary element of his personal makeup which makes him a subject of more than passing notice will have been lost ® 30 Tribune Building | | tion of | soil anywhefe else on the planet 5 is more than twice as large as its annua[) s recently that society HE bringing of about twenty thousand East- Tern ts of the home-seeking class to this State sifice the first of the year is a fact of igrczt importance to the present and future of Cali- |iorma. Just now vast populations are fleeing from floods in the East or are wading back to take pos- | session of their wasted homes and water-logged lands. Those who have escaped the waters are being {Ham by the winds, and their homes and barns are i going up in splinters. Villages are blown from the face of the earth by cyclones that spare nothing in their path. In other places snowstorms and bliz- zards come untimely to blight the vegetation that has been coaxed out by a few warm days, and seed- | time is put off by a recurrence of winter weather. While the President was addressing audiences that stood in the falling snow in Dakota California was the balmiest, land on the planet. We had none of tou: | midcontinental regions, nor the snows nor cyclones. The presence of some thousands of Eastern people in the State at a time when they can read of the con- vulsions and destruction due to the weather in the land induce here. ., They possibilities | added to what they see, they may have a basis for should have their attention called to the properly estimating what they may expect if make homes here. Nothing than the coming uses of electricity. In the East the use of electricity is limited by the cost of producing it by steam While there are some great | hydraulic powers, like Niagara, the general distribu- water power is lacking, and the cost of gen- electricity is always to be affected by the use sther fuel in the process, mountain streams, from one end of the other, furnish the greatest combined Measured per horse- power. | erating of coal Here State to the hydraulic power in the world. | power we have more force at our command than is accessible to any other population. It will not be long before ranchers all over this State will pump water for irrigation by electricity. I s use for lighting country homes will be as common | as candles were in the days of our grandfathers. It will be used to run churns and other dairy machin- will be lighted with it, stationary operations on machinery will use elec and our country roads streets. All of the 1ay be done by ity for power. Its use, combined with the tele- phone, will largely cancel out the difference between city and country life. The labor and social isolation which have heretofore made rural existence intoler- able to the and have driven them to seek city life with all its perils to the inexperienced, will no longer outweigh the wholesome features of the | ery, like ¢ young, count This State will soon become singular for inducements offered to a rural population, and it will have a greater preponderance of rural people than any of the Eastern States. It will be readily seen that when such advantages are added to our climate, our scenery, our vast va- ty B productions, California will be the paradise of the farmer, and men will live in comfort and grow rich on tracts of land that elsewhere would yield them stence by hard toil. This is to be the place for the little farm well tilled, which is the dream of all rural people. Such advantages cannot be elsewhere enjoyed, and that thousands will seek them here means small holdings, ideal homes and a unknown to of the Now is the time th = only a bare su condition of comfort tillers for our rural counties to put themselves in the focus of attention. formation; they must be protected against land sharks, many of whom always follow in the wake of By good faith and intelligent advertising California can add half m of desirable settlers to her population in immigration to speculate and cheat a mil the next five years. We have heard a good deal of late of the superior- ity of the American workingmen over the British | workers, but now comes an Englishman who says the workers of the old country are better than the American, but the American managers are far su- | perior to the British managers, and get more work out of their men, Perhaps there is some truth in that view of it. There is nothing like looking at things from all sides P RACE SUICIDE. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S letter advocat- ing marriage and children and denouncing single blessedness and childless marriages as were | «race suicide” has profoundly stirred New York and | ; o) Chicago. We have Lad no reports of agitations on the subject in other cities, but in the two that lead the nation the disturbance has been suffi¢iently great to flutter Columbia University in the one and | | the Social Economic Club in the other. At Columbia there has been formed an “Anti-Race Suicide Club,” the members whereof are pledged to marry; and with the exuberance of young men ani- mated by bright ideals and stimulated by football | they added a further resolution that each marriage shall result in not less than five children. The Fconomic Club has been wiser. It has contented it- seli with approving the Columbia movement in a general way, but has not given indorsement to the specifications. Instead of adopting glowing resolu- tions in favor of marriage and five children, the Economic Club, with a genuine Chicago acuteness, undertakes to provide ways and mnteans for encour- aging matrimony. To that end it has published a ! set of rules showing how any girl can.get married, it being the evident belief of the club that the only reason why a Chicago girl doesn’t marry is that she doesn’t know how. | The rules prescribed for catching husbands are these: “Cut loose from the matinee and the matinee idol. “Lay down your novels. “Try to revive the church social; then attend the | church social. “Really think about something. “Don't expect too much of men. “Don't try to enslave them; treat them as rational | human beings.” The dispatches add that if any young Wwoman will | follow those rules strictly for a year the club will | guarantee a happy marriage. The issue therefore | appears to be settled so far as Chicago is concerned. | The situation in New York, however, is doubtful: | The Columbia Club is but a small one at best and is | confined to a narrow class of men, It will probably result in nothing more than the production of a club yell. Moreover, it appears that society in New York is hardly conducive to matrimony. One of the popular preachers in that city is reported as saying is like a gigantic pie in which the tornadoes of the tropics, nor the floods of lhe} places they left must make a profound impression | numbers of them to permanently locate ! which they do not see in order that, | they | s more interesting as a future facility | The Eastern people want accurate in- | ! the upper crust is steeped in ¢hampagne, the bottom layer soggy with beer and the middle portion soaked in cocktails.” What maiden fair would give up mati- nees and novels to catch a husband out of such a pie as that? B —— A queer “union label” fight has broken out in Win- | sted, Conn. The bakers’ union forced the trade to stamp a union label on every loaf of bread sold, and | for a time all went well; but lately the women have | raised the question, “Who licks the label?” It is asserted that the labels are printed on sticky paper and do not have to be licked, but the women refuse to be comforted; and it looks as if the label would have to go or the women will take to home-made bread. CENTRAL AMERICAN MANNERS. { THE small and unstable states of Latin-America clainf privileges and do things affecting inter- national relations that none of the strong pow- |ers of the world would think of. If any European | state had made such a record as Venezuela has since the time of Guzman Blanco it would-be wiped off the map., The same may be said of nearly a dozen of those states, which rob, humiliate, maltreat and op- | press foreigners with impunity because they think the | guardianship of the United States, under the Mon- | roe doctrine, absolves them from international re- sponsibility. Honduras has just gone over the Ven- ezuelan limit by arresting a foreign ship on the high | seas, menacing her with a gunboat and putting Hon- | | duran soldiers on board, who compelled her captain | 'to sail out of his course and proceed to an anchorages | which they dictated. | This is a high-handed act. | If dorie by the United | States to any European flag, or by any European | | nation to ours, it would mean instant reparation and | |apology or war. But Arias, the de facto President | | of Honduras, who is shut up and besieged in Tegu® FORMER CHIEF OF SAN JOSE IS CAUGHT IN C | cigalpa, his capital, arrogates the power to do an act | that would stagger the Kaiser himself. | Those countries are the world’s open powder keg, ! and their revolutionary rulers sit on the keg and, carelessly smoke cigarettes, endangering an explo-' on that may well involve the United States in pro- | | longed and costly trouble. | It is time that our Government, by enforcing (hc! | rights of its own citizens in that quarter, let them know how a spanking feels as an inducement to make { |them remember their international obligations and | stop their buccaneering conduct. | Lieutenant Hobson, in his youthful enthusiasm | wants us to extend the Monroe doctrine all over the | world, whatever that may mean. We will do wd]i to keep that doctrine in working order in this hem- 1 isphere, in view of the truculence and folly of the | Latin-American states, who understand the dnct'inc‘ itself as little as they do the policy of civil stability. | | Clara County. | The owners of the farm on which Daniel \\'ebstcr% was born have offered to give it to the State of New Hampshire to be kept as a memorial, | but the thrifty citizens of the State are hesi- tating about accepting it. Webster no more and they do not know why the place should | be kept for him forever. They prefer to leave it as a farm in the hope it will produce another Daniel and pay taxes in the meantime. is { THE MISSISSIPPI LEVEES. FTER the reports A along the Lower Mississippi caused by the| | breaking of the levees and the flooding of | | plantations it is gratifying to learn from what appears | to be an authoritative source that the damage done | down to April 1 was by no means so great as the | | first reports indicated. It is probable that reports | of later crevasses have been as much exaggerated as those of the carlier ones, and accordingly we may | | conclude that while the damage has been large a.nd; many communities have suffered a veritable disaster, | yet counting the river region as a whole the injury | was nothing like so great as the reports indicated.” | One feature of the later reports is distinctly en- | couraging. The levee system of restraining the | floods of the great river has cost the Govcrnmcm‘ upward of $50,000,000, and has at all times been sub- | ject to keen criticism. Consequently when the earlyl | reports came of crevasses at numerous points it ap- | peared that the river itself had demonstrated the fu- | tility of all attempts to curb its force by embankments | and that some other means would have to be devised to guard sgainst floods. That would have meant the virtual loss of nearly all the labor of constructing the | of widespread disasters | of large expenditures for some other method of deal- ing with the problem. | New Orleans authorities state that down to April | y a mile and a half of the embankment had given &way before the rush of the swollen waters. As (hci | total length of the levees is more than 1400 miles, it | | will be seen that the damage, however great to par- | ticular localities, is very far from demonstrating a weakness in the embankment system. It is added that the levees are in better condition than ever be- fore and are rapidly approaching perfection, so far as the purpose for which they were designed is con- cerned. It is further pointed out that the experiences of the spring have been unprecedented for twenty years. The winter was one of the wettest on record, and the snows on the upper river melted nearly a month earlier than usual. The two factors combined sub- jected the as yet incomplete levees to an unusually severe strain and the authorities claim that the test has been decidedly favorable to the system. China has decided to place at the head of her For- eign Office an aged man whose feeble frame and fad- ing faculties argue little for a wise discussion of for- eign complications. Perhaps the Chinese have reached the conclusion that the shrewdest diplomacy in the world will not avail against the cannon of the rapacious Occidentals. Mascagni, having been welcomed by us, generously, sympathetically and with the true understanding of a promising interpreter of musical art, explains our enthusiasm by saying we are void of artistic educa- tion. Tt is a pity that he should construe our toler- ance of his shortcomings into ignorance of them. The Philadelphia Record is trying to prove that a panic is not necessary to enable the Democrats to carry the next Presidential election. When it finishes with that branch of the subject it should turn its at- tention to the question whether a Democratic success is necessary to make a panic, Conservative Democrats gained a victory over the levees, and would also have implied the necessity | Ferce, SIMPLE wedding was celebrated at 1160 Page street last night, the contracting parties being James A, Kidward, former Chief of Police of San Jose, and’ Miss May Edith Cottle, who is connected with one of the | oldest and best known families in Santa The ceremony was per- formed by Judge Hebbard at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Sroufe, old-time friends of the bride. The decorations at the house were in pink and green and were very pretty. Only the immediate friends and members of the family were invited. The bride’s gown was white crepe over | white taffeta and trimmed with fine old | point lace. The bride was the reciplent of | many costly presents from different parts of the country. The hgppy couple will spend their hon- eymoon in Southern California and Mexi- | co. After their return they will make | | “THIRD ANGEL” AND HIS DISCIPLES ARE FREED Adventists Request Dismissal of Cases, Their Conference Be- ing at an End. OAKLAND, April 15.—After a three days; session the California State confer- ence of the Seventh Day Adventists was concluded to-day by the election of the | following officers and committees: President, A. T. Jones; vice president, A. Kellogg; secretary, M. H. Brown; treasurer, Pacific Press Publishing Company; executive committee—A. T. Jones, A. S. Keliogs, M. Wilcox, M. H. Brown, H. G._ Thurston, M s Cady, J. 8. Osborne, C. N. Martin, Dr. T. J. Evans, D. F. Fero: board of trustées—M. H. Brown, C. H. Jones E. A. Chapman, E. BE. Parlin, C. W. Mills, R. P. Gray, B. G.. Fultor ate missionary secretary, A. Boftrdeau; ate Sabbath-school secretary, Mrs. Carrie R. King; auditor, J. J. Ireland; secretary young people’s work, W. S. Sadler. Credentials and licenses were issued to the following named: M. H. Brown, J. W. Bagby, A. Brosser. M. E. Cady, D. F. Fero, C. M. Gordon, J. S. Har- mon, E. G. Kibbard, B. 8. Howe, M. C. Israel, A. J. Kellogg, C. N. Martin, N. C. McClure, J. Morrison, J. Rice, B. F. Rickards, W. S. . Jobn, C.'S. Taylor, H Y. Thurston, A. J. Osborne, J. N. Loughborough, M. C. Wilcox, . W. Beardslee. 8. W. Walker, Carrie R, Kin . E. E. Parlin, Mrs. W . Sadler, Mrs. J. D. Rice, Dr. H. B. Brigg- M. H. §t. John, C. G. Marchus, C. N. Bambridge. In the Police Court this morning the cases of H. T. Nelson, F. O. Hedlund and Oscar Lund, charged with various dis- turbances during the Adventists' confer- were dismissed by Police Judge Smith by request of Aftorney Sam Bell McKee, representing the men who caused the arrests. Attorney McKee said she arrests were caused to Insure the peace of the conference and that the sessions having adjourned there ¥as ro desire to | prosecute the —————————— SKULL AND KEYS SOCIETY GIVES ANNUAL FARCE “Captain Racket” Presented by the Members of the University Organization. OAKLAND, April 15—The annual farce of the Skull and Keys Soclety was given at the Macdonough Theater this evening. This is one of the important events of the college year and is given exclusively by the soclety, which invites its guests for the occasion. The name of the farce and those of the performers are alwa kept secret until the night of the play. The farce for this year was “Captain Racket,” and was presented by the fol- lowing cast: Captain Robert Racket—of the National Guard. A lawyer when ne has noth- ing else to do, and a liar all the time. . Walter Bundschu Obadiah Dawson—his uncie, from Japun, “‘where they make tea’ ...Jack Geary Timothy Tolman—his friend, Who mar- ried for money, and is sorry for it .Henjamin Harwood n-law, Bus father-i UPID'S NET T O LR T TARRE §%- FORMER CHIEF OF POLICE OF SAN JOSE AND CHARMING WHO BECAME HIS WIFE YEST ERDAY, | MAN OF THIS CITY AND HIS A C i WOMAN | AND YOUNG BUSINESS 'COMPLISHED BRIDE. their home fn San Josey where the groom has extensive business interests. He was one of the most popular chiefs of police that ever held office in any city of this | State and has made hosts of friends. He | was chief for ten years. o WELL-ENOWN ATTORNEYS WILL SERVE AS JUDGES Three San Franciscans Are Selected) to Decide Merits of Inter- | collegiate Debate. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, April 15.— The judges for the intercollegiate debate between Stanford and California have been chosen by the intercoliegiate debat- ing committee. The following three well- known San Franciscans will judge of the merits of the forensic contest: Attorneys Will Thomas and Peter F. Dunne and Su- pervisors Henry U. Brandenstein. The debate will occur in the Alhambra Theater next Saturday night. Ovid H. Ritter '4, a member of the debating team against the University of ‘Wasbington, has been compelled to with- draw from the team on account of sick- ness and W. C. Maloy '03, of San Jose, a member of the Euphonia Literary So- clety, will succeed him. The annual freshman-sophomore debate will be participated in by the teams of the classes of '05 and ‘06 next Friday night in the umiversity chapel. The sophomore team will be composed of B. C. Dey of Portland, Or.;: P. D. Swing of San Bernardino and R. K. Alcott of St. Paul, Minn. The men who will represent the freshmen are E. A. Cunha of San Jose, Joel Nibley of Salt Lake City and J. L. Maloy of San Jose. St s etk WINNIPEG, Man., April 15.—J. W. Leonard, general superintendént of the Canadian Pa- cific, central division, has been appointed to succeed Thomas Tait as manager of transpor- tation of the entire system, with offices at Montreal. Leonard will be succeeded by W. R. Bake HE marriage of Miss o 1. Shea and J. Warren Sha took place yesterday at high noon at"the new church of St Vincen de Paul on Steiner and Greer streets. The ceremony was performed the pastor, Rev. M. P. Ryan. The bride was attired with charming simplicity. Her silk tulle veil was caught in'the coiffure with a spray of orange blossoms. She was unattended and was presented to the groom by her father, Dennis D. Shea. Mr. and Mrs. Shannon left in the after- noon for a bridal trip: Their destination is a secret. The bride belongs to a well known pio- neer family of San Francisco. She is the daughter of Mr., and Mrs. Dennis D. Shea and is beautiful and accomplished. The groom is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Shannon. He is in business with his father in the well known firm of Frank Eastman & Co. Locates in New Quarters. Owing to the immense traffic that has arisen due to the low colonist rate that is now in effect the Transcontinental Pas- senger Association has rented quarters at 17 New Montgomery street to transact its business. The association has taken a lease of one year on a portion of the property, with the evident intention of lo- cating headquarters in this city parma- nently. ———— Townsend’s Cal. glace fruits, 715 Mrkt.* —_—— Townsend's California glace fruft and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. Moved from Palacé Hotel building to 713 Market st., two doors above Call bullding.* ——————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Calf- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 R don Stage, My MRS, C. emper, vexation of spirit. Fletcher Hamilton -Willlam Ramsaur Tim's olive branch.... - By Himself ‘The members of the Skull and Keys So- ciety are: Senlors—Bryan Bell, Traylor W. Bell, George Martin Boemmel, Waiter Lyman Brown, Wi ter Barber Bundschu Harry G. Butier, An- thony ~Gregory Cadogen. = Logan Bertram Chandler, Allen Ralston Curtls, John Raxon More, Alfred Dixon Plaw, Edward P. Robin- son, Bosworth Dunne Sawyer, R. 8. Springer and Leslie W, Symmes, Juniors—Carleton A. Curtis, Robert J. Dumphy, John W. Geary, Fletchér McN. Ham- ilton, Benjamin Harwood, Leo Drummond MacGavin, Herbert H. Minor, Or- Katy—a mischievous Tootsy—the “'Kid, radicals by the election of Gorman as the leader of the party in the Senate, but the election of Tom John- son in Cleveland and Carter Harrison in Chicago shows that the radicals win out when the boys have a | well-known contractor and buflder, | chance to vote. val Overall W, H. Ramsaur, ne A, Shef. field, Roy J. Somers, Samuel M. Stow and John C. 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