The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 20, 1903, Page 4

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CONDITION OF TRADE. in business all the country, to n was called last week, was more g the past week, and it may the over apacity of a limit to even d it must be remembered at the unprecedented ad- throughout the coun- the margin of profits and increased ion from the undue in- would be simply Such ing, and a reac the past few mon a al conditions. imply a state of panic but might per- equence of abnor 1 does not necessari decrease in en a prospe the direction of a readjust- But at favor rogress rather in yrmal basis signs urther expansion » a more majority are in of i ugh for the time being the condition of the commercial wind at ron and steel trade direction of is the , ther riou are tly cuiet ctories the vol acts’ aiter as caused a jurther decline in’ the again, this time $1 per a bidding price of $20, with $21 asked e weakness is enhanced by a produc- previous and continued Against this decline and weak- heavy call for s, such as structural goods, which, all records ope material, however mater en nection W an active movement in ders e hardware building operations are stil ) lumber, glass and paints, indicates of large volume 1 over the cou n goods continue quiet, with no High prices and labor in the former, Cotton 2 act g ty. down business report smaller and = fewer orders e fo r factories” are fairly employed, but withc cessity for rushing to fill orders. Provisions are not ar all excited and at Chicago the ers often find it necessary to step in and v to keep the market from going down. The rel the suggestion to ieve the congestion yying the inferior surplus Brazilian the market for ve established a new low-price weakened 1 short supplies of cattle, sheep and meats high, but there are indica- ions in this line will work around g ess they do a few years more will see meat 2 Juxury instead of a necessity in the United States. Cold and wet weather throughout the country have retarded business of late, and both jobbers and re- tailers report less activity in their lines, though col- ections are still good. The volume of trade, as re- flected by the country’s bank clearings, fell off 18.4 cent Jast week, with the first nine cities showing The failures for the week were 212, against 261 during the corresponding week in 1902. I'he railway earnings are reported the heaviest ever ore lc It may be remarked in passing o ecrease. know this season of the year. Wa eet has been comparatively quiet during he past week. On several days there was a good iuying movement, with a buoyant feeling, but there as not much speculative snap to the market. Prices t little net variation as a rule, one day’s loss the next day’s gain, and so on. loney was fairly easy and there was nothing in sight cause any apprehension as to the future, Conditions here remain unchanged. We are having cold spring, which is keeping farm produce back- ard, but the late showers promise excellent crops, ough it s yet too early for positive assurance in i dircction. Business, both wholesale and retail, active, collections are easy, money is plentiful and wre are no large failures to occasion disquiet. As as all signs go the State is as prosperous as at any ne during the past five years ing repaired by The Macedonians have evidently determined to fight the unspeakable Turk, whatever the cost. The «uarrel should be a merry one. The rest of the world will be pleased whoever loses, and if both are crippled a distinct advantage will have been won for civili- zation. It is not true that all Boston boys of tender years read Browning. - One of them, only ten years old, has been discovered picking pockets like an expert. ‘ Hernld Square | n until velock.. 615 Larkin, open until 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 | er Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1006 Va- unttl ® o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until 9 Probably | the leading staples | ng offered at $20 per ton with no| this | THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM. HILE the North Atlantic States are watch- Wing with more or less uneasiness the swell- ing tide of immigration that is pouring into the country, the Southern 'States have begun to look upon it with eyes of expectation and favor. Only a very smail proportion of the immigrants who have been coming to this country in such large numbers | for the last sixty years have made their homes in the | South. The result has been that the North and West !-have outstripped the South in population, diversity of wndustry, magnitude of wealth and political power. | The South has now been stirred with a keen ambition | to rival the rest of the Union and accordingly she | is making an earnest effort to draw to her fields and | ber cities a fair share at least of the incoming home- | seekérs. It is not at all improbable that there may be a large | drift of immigration southward in the near future. | The conditions that deterred immigration in the past | no longer prevail. So long as the South was &iven | over almost wholly to the cultivation of tobacco, cot- | ton or cane there was little inducement to a working- | man to settle there, and thus very little immigration | turned south. The new South is building up a !diversificd industry. There are increasing numbers | of small farms devoted to orchards, vineyards or ;'truck gardens., There are factories in the cities and | mills and shops in the country towns. The South, in | fact, is prepared to offer a variety of work to the in- "‘\'(‘rmerfi and to afford nearly every class of workers | a good opportunity to make a home and accummulate | an independence. | Another feature of the situation encouraging to | Southern hope is the change in the character of the | immigration itself. In former years the great bulk | of the migration to this country was from Northern Europe and the climate of the Southern States was not attractive to it. Of late, however, we have | been receiving an increasingly large proportion of the whole number from Southern Europe. Such people will find in the Southern States climatic conditions similar to those of their native lands and accordingly be easily inclined to settle there. In the South every issue is discussed with relation to its probable effect upon the negro problem, and this is no exception to the rule. It is believed by | some that a large immigration of Italians, skilled in | the rhanagement of cmall farms, will serve to stimu- | late and to educate the negro farmer. The native | white of the South, knowing nothing beyond the free and easy farming of the big plantations, has not been uble to help the darky solve the problem of making a living out of a few acres. The newcomers would thus perform something of the ‘task of educators in practical work and would be doubly valuable to the communities where they made their new homes. Another benefit would probably result to the South and to the Union by an extensive immigration into those States. The would carry with them minds unaffected by the racial and political | prejudices that have survived slavery. They would | materially help the South in developing a new and a | better tone of public,sentiment. It would, of course, | take years to do the work, but little by little the | infusian of new ideas would follow in the wake of the | coming of new races of men to confront Southern | conditio The social results might therefore be as | beneficial as the industrial. The issue is one of sufficient magnitude to interest | the whole country. The South is but sparsely set- tled in comparison with the North and there is room | for millions of industrious and +thrifty immigrants. | The immigrants on the other hand are coming in settlers new numbers large enough to make it reasonable to ex- pect a speedy improvement in the South should they be turned in that direction. It is stated that since 1845 no -less than 20,000,000 have corhe into the United States to make their homes. They are coming now at a rate never surpassed. It is, in fact, expected that this year's immigration will break the record. A few years of such immigration would carry into the South several millions of men and women. The new blood would tell in every direction. Some of the most serious problem¢ of the ‘country would then solve themselves and there would be benefit all around. It is therefore gratifying to note the eagerness of the Southern people to attract the immigration that has long since become a perplexing problem to the North. Auditor Baehr has emphatically declined to audit a bill oi expense incurred in the publication of a, | | pamphlet published by the Board of Education and denouncing him. The Auditor should have accepted | the denunciation as fame; anything or anybody which the Board of Education does not like is probably | entitled to praise and consideration. THE BAGDAD RAILWAY. Y the recent announcement that Germany, B Great Britain and France are to co-operate in the construction of the much discussed rail- way across Asia Minor to Bagdad and thence to the | Persian Gulf, something oi a flutter has been. oc- casioned in London 2nd a good deal of surprise in other parts of the world. The proposed railway has long been one of the strategic features of world poli- tics. For years the rivalry of the nations was so great that neither could obtain a concession for its construction, and now there is much curiosity to_ know what the allies purpose to do with respect to it. The National Review of London declares the ar- rangement to be another triumph of Germany over Great Britain and argues that the British will gain nothing by the road. It publishes a map of the terri- tory showing that the Russian lines are now much nearer the Persian Gulf than the lines which the allies are to push forward and maintains that in the strug- | gle for superiority the Russians will be first to reach | the Persian frontier and will then be able to, obtain | from the Shah exclusive rights to a port on the gulf. | Even shonld it be otherwise, the Review insists that Great Britain will gain nothing, for she has little in- terest in the road. In fact, says the Review, Ger= many, finding that she was about to cross the path of Russia, has induced Britain to help her in the struggle, and thus Britain is brought into an en- tanglement where she should have kept her hands iree. The well-known anti-German bias of the Review prevents that view of the case from being accepted without confirmation from other authorities. Upon | the face of it the arrangement for joint control ! of the road appears to be highly beneficial to all the | powers concerned. A road constructed from the Bosphorus to Bagdad would end virtually in a desert. To render it an efficient line for the world's com- merce it is essential that it reach the seaboard at some point, and the Persian Gulf is the only point available. The Germans have no influence ini Persia and can bring no direct inflience to bear upon the Shah. Great Britain on the other hand has already a post at Koweit, on the gulf, and can thus give Ger- many a seaport for her road and assure its safety. Therefore, even should Russia make her way.through the dominions of the Shah, she would not have ex- FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1903 THE SAN BRITISH ADMIRALTY IS EXPERIMENTING 'cllu'we rights in the gulf, for Getmany and Britain would be there to confront her. '\ The strategic value of the road lies in the fact that it will open a South Asian route in competition with the Russian lines. The plan is for Britain to extend her Indian lines westward to connect with the Anatolian road somewhere on the Persian Gulf. Then there will be an eastward extension to connect the Indian lines with the French line in South China, and eventually with the British lines in Middle China. In that way an all rail route will be provided from Paris to Peking as a competitor for the Siberian line. Such a project can hardly be deemed disadvan- tageous to Britain, and while it is true she will have to help the Germans d;velop their trade in Syria, she will none the less put them in a position where they will have to act with her in checking Russias de- signs on Persia. Taken altogether, the arrangement for the construction of the road by the three powers seems an excellent one despite the judgment of those who look upon every move of the Kaiser as some- thing hostile to the welfare of the world. Commerce at any rate will profit by the new line, and in our time commerce counts for more than war. | e s e 5 President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon church unloosed his tongue in savage adjectives the other day and raked the opponents of his religious com- munity. If language may be' considered an indict- ment, it might be well for Mr. Smith to close his HARASSING CHINA. EPORTS that the - Eurgpean powers have damage done to European interests by insurrections in the empire are - followed by an announcement two reports are apparently accurate and taken to- gether they form a striking fllistration of the way the mouth and thus defend his faith with silence. s R served notice upon'the Government at Peking that China will be held responsible for any that the Russian M/in}aer has. protested against sale of arms by Americans'to Chinese purchasers. The. Chinese empire is being harassed by the powers. If the Chinese Government is“to maintain peace empire it is absolutely essential that it have a large, well equipped and well disciplined army. 'The Rus: sian Government certainly would not undertake to maintain itself without an army, nor would that of Germany. Even the United States finds it advisable to maintain a well armed National Guard. nying China the right to import arms for the equip- ment of her troops the powers are denying to her establish order. It is a clear case of imposing the performance of a difficult task while denying the use of the tools needed to perform it. i The Russian protest against the sale of American arms is based upon the convention which China not to import arms. States signed the convention along with those of the other powers and consequently the protest has a valid foundation. Our Government is doubtless bound to respect it. Nevertheless, events occurring in China prove that the convention is in that particular now | would not be at all grieved if the whole thing were set aside. The issue is made the more irritating because Russia has herselfi set aside the terms of theconven- tion as far as she has thought good to do so. It was agreed that she should evacuate Manchuria, but she has not done so nor is it at all probable that she wiil. Having placed her garrisons in a Chinese province is now seeking on the one hand to find an occasion for a new quarrel with China and on the other hand to prevent China from arming her troops either to preserve domestic order or to guard against a for- eign foe. As the matter stands it appears that the powers have virtually decreed the doom of the Chinese em- pire. Every movement tends m-'hasten the catastro- phe. No independent nation can justly be denied the ;right of importing arms for the equipment of her | troops and no other Government has so imperative ?a need for that right as has the Government of China. Harassed by Russian aggression on the north, by that of France in the south, with Great Britain and Germany watching for chances to grab new provinces 1along the coast, while various factions of di tented subjects are planning insurrections and rebel- | lion inthe interior of the country, the Chinese Gov- | ernment has urgent need for a strong and well armed force. The action of the powers, therefore, is clearly a wrong of the first magnitude, and since so many other clauses of the famous convention have been ig- nored, it would seem that our Government might as well ignore that relating to the sale of arms. - When a treaty has been virtually torn to -pieces by the | stronger parties to it, there is neither justice nor { common sense in holding it binding on the weaker. e e e e It is stated that since he took office as Secretary of the Navy about a year ago, Mr. Moody has not been at his desk more than six weeks. Most of his time is passed in cruising around, and it isclear that he intends to stay with the navy and see what it is like. He can do desk work when he gets out of office. on Since Congress has adjourned and the President is away, the only thing Washington correspondents can do is to criticize something, and as a consequence we are now learning that the famous Washington monu- ment may be high enough as a column, but lacks a whole lot of beingghigh art. hic Massachusetts has got into line and adopted the mountain laurel as the State flower, thus giving the mayflower the cold shake and leading some people to fear that after all the Mayflower is a myth and that the original pilgrims reached Plymouth in a boat. w il Y ————— * New explanations of the cause of the recall of Efibassador Holleben continue to come in, but not e Kaiser makes a sworn and signed statement until th gflle subject will it be possible for the world to believe that it really knows anything about the matter. Tt is announced that William Waldori Astor has bought the castle of Anne Boleyn at a cost of $18s,- 000. That is cheap for an Astor and it would seem he has gone to England to live economically in any kind of an out-of-date house. It is said of George Wyndham, the author of the bill that promises relief to Ireland, that he is the handsomest man in the House of Commons, and as he is also doing the handsome, he may be set down as,a fine fellow. VL ———— Hobson, he who tried to kiss the ladies of the na- tion, says he regrets his osculatory campaign and wants it to be forgotten. As we are all his friends we hope so, too. Better men have made worse mis- takes. throughout that wide extended and greatly disturbed | In de-| almost the only means by which her Government can | bound | The envoy of the United | an outrage and public sentim=ut in this country | and massed a considerable army on the frontier, she | ROYER — WITH NEW TORPEDO-BOAT DEST . UNITED STATES, WHILE ITS RUSSIAN ARMORED CRUISER VARIAG THAT PROVED IT3S SUPERIORITY IN ENDURANCE AT ITS BUILD- ER’S TRIAL OVER TWO VESSELS OF THE SAME CLASS. THIS CRAFT WAS PRODUCT OF EUROPEA COMPETITORS ARE THE CONSTRUCTED IN THE SHIPYARDS. o HE tugbine torpedo-boat destroyer Eden was launched at the yard of Hawthorne, Leslie & Co., Hepburn- on-Tyne, last month. This boat is unique in-that it is to be fitted with two setssof engines, one for the highest speed and one for the lower speeds. The main vropelling machinery consists of three compound steam turbines; each turbine drives a separate propeller shaft, and there are three shafts and six screws in all. The boat is building for the Parsons Turbine Company, contingent upon ac- | ceptance by the British Admiralty if the | vessel comes up to the requirements. The Admiralty has bought an additional traet of 200 acres at St. Margarets Hope, mdking 1100 acres in all and giving the | new naval base complete control of th bay. It is estimated that an outlay of $12,500,000 will be required to establish a dockyard on the site, and the place is to follow as nearly as practicable the gen- eral arrangement of the Pembroke dock- yard. ‘Wages of mechanics in British dock- vards are lower than in private yards, and a deputation of the Trade Union Cor- gress recently called on Lord Selborne with ‘a view of obtaining an increase to botlermakers and joiners. Men of these trades. receive/from $9 to $10 16, an a age of $9 58 a week, at the yards at rcw, Belfast and on the Clyde, while the | average pay in the dockyards is only $7 48 a week, a difference not explained away by the fact that the working hours in “these private yards were 3 4-7 how's per week more. Lord Selborne admitted that Jower wages prevailed in the Govern- | ment yards, but he pointed out that there | was a compensating advantage of cc tdinty of constant employment, a | tuity and no fluctuation of work. promised, however, to study the figures submitted with the closest attention. The British battleship Corn , 14,000 | tecns and 18,000 horsepower, has concluded | the usual serles of steam trials prior to | acceptance, and although the speed of | nineteen knots was not attained the shin | has been accepted. The data of the eight | ihours' full power trial are as follows | Steam in boilers, 286 pounds; revolutions, | starboard 120.6, port 121.8; collective horse- | power, 18, pounds of coal per unit of | horsepower, 1.89; speed by log, 18.9 kno | On four runs over the measured mile | course the speed ave: ed 1898 kn During the thirty hou continuous tria under three-quarter power the engines leveloped 13,693 horsepower and an avei- age speed of 17.7 knots. | H. F. Wyatt, special representative of | the Navy League in Great Britain, has | arrived in YokoHama, where he will en-| deavor to -establish a navy league. Hea left England in September last, procecd- ing to Canada, where he organized eleven branches of the league, and will also per- | 1 | PER;ONAL MENTION. | George A. Pratt, a lumberman of Can- ara, is at the California. Railroad Commissioner Marysville is at the Lick. J. R. Foster, proprietor of a hotel of | Marysville, is at the Lick. Colonel E. A. Forbes, an attorney of Marysville, is at the Grand. W. G. L. Behr, a merchant of London, England, and his family are at the Cali- fornia. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Du Pont, wealthy residents of Wilmington, Dela., are reg- istered at the Palace. A. P. Davis of the United States Geo- detic Survey Department of Washington is registered at the Palace. The Rev. George F. Bovard of Los An- geles is in the city in the interest of the raising of funds for the comng Meiho- dist convention in the south. W. V. 8. Thorne, assistant to the presi- dent of the Southern Pacific Company, who has been here for several weeks con- ferring with various heads of the road, left yesterday for the south, where he will remain for a week. Judge J. H. Carroll, who is connacted with the legal department of the Bur- lington road at St. Joseph, Mo., and a party of eleven arrived from the East last night and are registered at the Oc- cidental. In the party are Judge Carroli's wife and children and W. “E. Barnes, editor of the St. Louis Lumberman, and his wife. —_———— ANSWERS TO*CORRESPONDENTS. OCTOPUS—Inquirer, City. Octopus is pronounced ok-to-pus, with the accent on the first syllable, and o in the secand syl- lable pronounced as o in note and poke. TOBACCO—G. 8., City. Tobacco is raised iIn. varlous parts of the State of California, but the most notable tobacco raising sections are San Felipe, Russian | Valley and San Diego. MEAL HOUR-V. V. D., Redwood City, | Cal. There is a law in California which says that persons employed in lumber | mills shall be allowed one hour at noon for meals. This by an act passed in 1901. OLD NEWSPAPERS-N. K. South San Frencisco, San Mateo County, Cal. A copy of the Maryland Journal and Bal- timore Advocate of May 20, 1773, is worth just what any one is willing to give for it as a curiosity, or whatever price the holder places upon it. There is no one in San Francisco who is making a collec- tion of old newspapers. A. C. Irwin of ececcccccceny | | | | el Townsend's Cal. glace fruits, 715 Mrkt.* —_———— Notice—Best eyeglases, specs, 15c to 5c; | 24.15 knots under 2 form similar work in Australla, New Zea- land and South Africa. The social stand- ing of the members of the British Navy League, the thorough familiarity with the defects and needs of the navy and the earnestness with which it has advocaied improv in the British navy, notwithstanding the censervatism of older officers of the s.r- vice and the reluctance of the Admiralt to adopt new ide: Announcement w made about three months ago of the for- mation of an American Navy League n New York, but it is apparently not grow- ing to any considerable extent, as nothing has since been heard of its subsequent operations. Much attention has recently been paid to gunnery practice in the several navies, d some remarkably good records have cen made, notably in the British a American navies. It is to be noted, how ever, that while publicity is given to ¢ ceptionally good shooting nothing is of the instances in which the practice was poor, and amiong the latter are such as the British torpedo gunboat Speedy, which at a recent prize contest fired twen- ty-three rounds with her 4.7-inch guns and never hit the target. This was af a commission of three years. The battle ship Vengeance fired forty-four rounds with her six-inch guns and hit the target | twice, while another battleship, the For- midable, made only one hit out of twenty- seven rounds, although the ship had been eight months in commission. o e The Russian cruiser, Bogatyr. built at the Vulean works, Stettin, has been the subject of a series of illustrated articles in the London Engineer, the study o which are commended to naval architects and marine engineers. The contract ap- pears to have been satisfactorily complied th in its main essentials as to displace- ment, speed and coal consumption, and the stipulations were exacting. Three ships of this type were contracted for in 1888, one of which, the Askold, was built at the Germania yard, Kiel; the Bogatyr at Stettin and the Variag by Cramps, Philadelphia. They carry an identical bat- tery of twely ch and twelve four- teen-pounders and their speed was to be wenty-three knots under a full power trial of six hours. It was left to the builders to obtain this speed in their own way, and the main points of differences lie in types of boilers and mode of propul- n. The results summed up are as fol- The Bogatyr, fitted with Normand boil- ers and two screws, made an average of lo pounds of coal per unit of horsepower. The Askold, on a displacement of 5981 tons, ‘and fitted with Schulz boilers and three screws, averaged 20,017 horsepower and 23.357 knots on a measured mile run of four miles. | | 1 R The Lady produced by any process. It is truly extraordinary. Place your order with once and insure delivery Art Supplements. Any news agent wil “THE CALL.” Order now. =NE e e e ettt ettt sttt et titteetteeteeesesteseeses ments has effected many reforms ! 3 horsepower, on a | | displacement of 6730 tons, consuming 1.43 | BY BRYSON. This is the most wonderful colored supplement ever re- beautiful girl in a clinging gown of flaming red, who combines in her pose all the seductiveness of Carmen with the illusive mystery and charm of Faust. When it is given away—FREE— with THE SUNDAY CALL it will be more talked about than any picture ever seen in the West. illusion suggested in every line of the fi; This beautiful Art Supplement is issued free with every copy of NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. The Variag, on 600 tons displacement, with Niclausse boilers and two screws averaged knots with about 17.000 | horsepower on a twelve-hours' trial under ht American-built ship gave the best evidence of ability for long endurance, and while apparently not so speedy as the i Bogatyr, is by far much superior to the Askold. It i= to be noted in this cor { nection that three cruisers built at St | Petersburg dur the same period, and | which were « to steam twent> knots, have the requireme 300 desertions | States navy during March, which rate of 13 per cent of the entire force. The desertions for 1901-2 were 14 per e« and the Navy Department estimates th the losses to the service from this ca will exceed 15 per cent for 1902-3. It is chiefly to the large number of enlistments of landsmen, many of whom become tired of the routine work. discipline and smail amount of shore liberty. As an offset to this prediction of increase in deser- tions, the introduction of sport and prizes There were r | for athletic champions is certain to re- men from taking “French | leave,” as more shore liberty will be given in order to cultivate football and | baseball, for which the deck of a ship is | iy adapted. Examinations for admission | Naval A:cademy will be held throughout | the country on April 21. Out of the possi- { ble 500 nominations to appointments only | 200 had been made up to April 5, leaving | 300 nominations unfilled. A second ex- | amination will be held at Washington | May 12, and the third and crucial test for | admission comes off at the Naval Acad- | emy in June. | Experiments with double rudders have | been made on the torpedo boats Dahlgren |and Craven and are said to have been | successful. The additional rudder is placed | forward, and trials carried on at New- port show that the boats have acquired better maneuvering qualities, in that the tactical diameter of turning is reduced | considerably. The speed will, as a mat- | ter of course, be slightly reduced. strain many The government of Cuba has advertised for bids for the removal of the wrecks of the Maine at Havana, the Alfonso XII. at Mariel a the othet Spanish warships sunk off Santiago and Manzanillo. Ever) thing found in the wrecks will belong to the contractors. The tenders may be for the removal of all or part of the wrecks, the method of removal must be stated and the bidders are to state what they will pay for the privilege of doing the work | Explosives must not be used to removs the Maine. As a guarantee the successful bidders must deposit $2500 for the Maine, $1000 for the Alfonso XII and $500 each | for the others. The bids will be opened | June 1. | | | i . ART.. 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