The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 4, 1903, Page 6

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The markets all over the coun- et—more indeed, than for several and eager- o, d breaking of merchandise American re e and some important ries are now reporting more sellers than e ring tor N we have a decrease from last the lion’s share of this f trade in Wall street, the loss is on itself it is 34.5 per | lysis of-these figures would tend oss is rather negative than other- that the stock market was active | ereas it is now unusually | € € n Wall street immediately cour bank cle gs, irrespective chandise; hence ade in general mer; 1 ctivity the per- pt to imply a| prevail. t reall ports from all over the coun- | nde. Cold weather g \ n red with the retail and whereas last year buyers | payments for the benefit of the now in many instances taking > terms. Mercantile pay- rly prompt, and no particular | e change. Pig iron is dull, with | finished products inued good demand but the The textile mills are no longer | mam 1t are in the running e demand for cottons and woolens The Western packers, R | provision market is| who, how- | aliies. The receipts of | rn centers are considerably this time, show year er the c nto market in larger lots. Business in all lines is little new Real estate is changing hands vanced considerably dur- The products of the farm tter than for some rs, and everything roduces is finding a ready market. are actually scarce, as the con- dowr 1 over.the coast. Nor is there coming stocks a e crop rices. T nobody actory prices are almost assured at tl harvest, but a bumper crop of anything, so satis ason is favorable to a f: expe ample supply lections are reported normal. this The shipping trade of well as that of the northern ports, is active, though there is more freight goom than at this time last when the demand for trans- portation of merchandise to foreign countries was beyond the carrying capacity of the available tonnage. Briefly, trade all over the United States is hardly as brisk as at this time last year, or even two or three months ago, but it is by no means dull port, year, Carnegie and Morgan sailed for Europe on the | same steamer, but they did not go without a warn- ing, for as they walked up the gangplank a man stood near by and cried: “Go to, now, ye rich men; weep and howl, for your misery shall come to you. Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth caten. Bewarge the war in Turkey. The drying up of the Mohammedan religion means that Jesus is com- ing. Remember, a lady in Jersey City foretold it.” The millionaires, however, went on their way, and it is now up to the lady in Jersey City to make good. Dimmick must serve an imprisonment of nine years for the thefts committed in the Mint. This trifling with the other fellow’s money, particularly when the other fellow is Uncle Sam, is somewhat hazardous and incidentally a confining business. It has been proposed to divide Alaska into two Territories, one to be called Lincoln and pne Seward, but what then will become af “Alaska”? | through the House and the Senate. | the help of a paternal Government | ing | ntry, and cattle and | year will see low | Funds are still in | he regular rates of interest and col- | GOOD ROADS CAMPAIGN. | WHEN first the suggestion was made that the United States Government should assist the | States in the construcion of good roads it was met with well nigh universal opposition. Road construction has been looked upon in this country | as strictly an affair of local governments. In fact, | most of the States refuse to take part in the work, | Jeaving it wholly in the hands of county governmerts. The promoters of the good roads movement, how l‘evcr. have been carried forward from one position to | another until they now appear to be committed to ]‘xhe programme of giving not only State but national | aid to rural highways. | Such at any rate was the position taken by the | National Good Roads Convention which has just cloked its sessions at St. Louis. Before adjournment the convention adopted resolutions which, after de-| | claring that the construction of better highways is a | ! confections, and consequently can hardly be taken as matter of paramount importance to national prosper- | ity, go on to “We recommend the hormonious | | co-operation of township, county, State and fational governments in the furtherance of this great end. | The association be!ie\"es that the appropriations here- | tofore made for the building of railroads, canals and the improvement of rivers and harbors has been wise and beneficent, but an appropriation for the improve- | ment of our common highways has now become | | necessary to extend the blessings of intelligence andi | promote a high order of citizenship among all classes | | of people and to meet the ever growing necessities of | :th: agricultural interests.” | : The adoption of such resolutions may be accepted | as the beginning of a new issue in our politics. That | | there will be a strong support of any scheme to get | appropriations from the national treasury for the im- | | provement of highways goes without saying. Nearly | every member of Congress goes there in the expecta- | tion of getting some sort of an appropriation for his | district. Hitherto there has been no chance of get- ting an appropriation for a local public road, but there is now a possibility that such a chance will be | | afforded, and it is a foregone conclusion that many !a Congressman will be found eager to grasp it | Experience with river and harbor bills shows that | | appropriations of that kind are not made with an eye | | single to the welfare of the nation, but with argus | s of every buncombe district | & ves fixed on the poli in the Union. The bills have been made up by a| process of log-rolling since the early days of the | | Union. The ablest statesmen Have not been able to | prevent the worst kind of jobbery in such measures. Even Henry Clay, in the height of his power in Con- gress, was forced to accept such appropriations, and‘f he once did so with the declaration, “I take this bill | as I did my for better or On | many occasions such bills have been so filled with harbors and useless wife, for worse.” appropriations for worthless that the passage has amounted to a public| nve! scandal & From that experience it was easy to draw conclu- sions of what will result from opening the national | treasury to demands for appropriations for public highway Log-rolling will be carried on'to a greater | extent than ever. From every section of the Union there will come demands for road money, and the committee in charge will be compelled to consent to great many wasteful appropriations for the sake of getting votes enough to carry good appropriations | It is, moreover, doubtiul whether the grant of such aid by the national Government would be bene- | ficial to the country. The effect would be to discour- age local initiative and enterprise. Local boards: | would be expected to postpone road improvements | until Congress or the State could be induced to help, | nd thus the progress of road improvement would be | | retarded rather than isted Highway improvement is indeed a matter of great | | importance, but it is best to leave it to local govern- | ments. There is nothing to be gained by encourag- ing backward committees to shift the burdens of road work upon either State or nation. To do so would certainly not tend to promote a high order of citizen- | ship. On the contrary, it would tend to weaken citi- | zenship and induce men to rely more and more upon i Richard | reper A dramatic report from Chicago Mansfield dropped “Julius Caesar” from toire in that city and appeared in a series “of his bet ter known and better plays.” It looks as if those C cago university professors had taken to :1 amatic | criticism for a change. | JAM, JELLY AND SUGAR. | says RECENT report from London explaining the keen interest taken by the British in the sugar | production of the world pointed out that a | | considerable number of important industries in lhe! | United Kingdom are dependent upon the use of { sugar and conseque: are vitally affected by the | | supply and the price. Among the other industries | 4<-|mmcra|wl was that of the production of jams and | iellies. It was stated that the products of that indu try alone last year exceeded in value the sum of | $50,000,000. | { The item is of interest to California. Great Britain | | has very little in the way of domestic production to | contribute to the raw materials of the jam and jelly industry. sugar. She obtains them mainly from France and Spain, but considerable quantities are brought from | such far-off countries as India, Australia and the | United States. In all probability some of the raw ! products that help to serve this British industry are | obtained from California herseli. In short, the world | contributes the raw material and Great Britain reaps the reward of working it up into products of the highest market value. The goods thus manufactured are sold everywhere | that British commerce can reach. Even in the United | States, despite the tariff designed to protect the home manufacturer, British jams and jellies find a market. They are to in San Francisco and throughout California, so that we are presented with a trade that gathers fruits from California orchards, | carries them to Great Britain, where they are pre- | served with French or German sugar, and then sent back to be sold for ten times their original cost to people living in the neighborhood of the very or- chard where the fruit was grown. An industry that yields products valued at $30,000,- 000 a year is worth working for, and it would seem that California could easily manage to establish it within her borders if her people set about it in the right way. We have both the fruit and sugar as prod- ucts of our own soil. In 1892 the fresh deciduous fruit shipments from the State amounted to 100,301 tons and the citrus fruit shipments were 223,669 tons, while the canned fruit and vegetable shipments combined amounted to but 80,635 tons. Canned fruit is but a comparatively low form of fitting fruit for use. It does not produce a product cqual in value to jams and jellies, to say nothing of the finer forms of fruit = She imports the fruit and she imports the be obtained F | various quarters of the conservative camp there have | England invective | or more people tha | tographed for the purpose of noting what changes | | tures can be made out. a compensation for the lack of such industries. In a list of some of the products of California compiled by the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association, the output of preserves and jellies is not included, probably because it is not sufficiently large to make good showing. We have, therefore, an evidence of our neglect of an important field of industry in which our advantages are manifold. It will be worth while for enterprising men who are seeking investments for capital and employment for their encrgies to give attention to the subject. There is a chance here of working up our fruit prod- ‘cts to such an extent that they will yield many times the revenue we now obtain from them. e s It is asserttd in Boston that the Attorney General of Massachusetts has a hybrid plant that produces potatoes under the ground and tomatoes above it. There is ane more river to cross. be perfect until it can produce watermelons on the side. THE WORM TURNS. OR a long time the attitude of conservative Democrats toward Bryan has been that of the | father toward the Prodigal Son. held out hands to him and offered to slay nearly any cali in the pasture if he would come into camp and | be good. To win him over to the support of any sort of a conservative candidate the language of con- | ciliation has been carried very close to the language of subserviency, and it looked at one time as if Bryan | might have dictated the next nominee of the party and been thanked for doing it. Of late the situation has changed. Bryan may not| be a parsnip, but he has proven that he cannot be That plant won't | They have | PROF. AND MME. CURIE, DISCOVERERS OF RADIUM, A VALUABLE MINERAL, |5 buttered by soft words. He has met cvery effort’ at| conciliation with derision and contempt, and, more-| over, he has taken special pains to denounce every | conservative candidate who has been even so much as suggested as a possible Presidential nominee. The | conservatives have at last been stung beyond l'urlher} endurance, and instead of words of gentle meaning | they are now discussing him in language t is more suggestive of a rough house than a harmony banquet It is evident he is not to be leit to fling insults round the land and get no answer back. Whether it is be- | cause they have grown bolder or because they deem it more expedient ‘to fight than to submit to be! kicked with impunity does not appear: but from come of late some very direct challenges oi Bryan's leadership, accompanied by straight-out denunciations of his present course. The first significant utterance of this kind came | from the Gorman faction, and was taken as an evi- dence that Gorman js for war. To other conserva- tive camps it came as a signal for action, and each | in turn has entered the fight. Bryan is now getting | a roast almost daily. A good example of the manner | in which his course is treated is furnished by a state- ment of the Boston Herald, which, aiter contrasting Bryan's political career with that of Cleveland, say “And this man, who has._practically ruined and| nearly wrecked the Democratic party, and has been | compelled to retire from its leadership in acknowl- edged defeat, is now occupying his time in abusing | and attempting to ostracize that other man who had ! previously put it on its feet and placed it in the at-| mosphere of victory! Could anything be more gro- tesquely absurd? It might be characterized as the acme of impudence if this was not too dignified lan- | guage in which to express its ridiculousnes: To say of a man that his course is grotesque, ab- | surd and ridiculous is the superlative worst of New Consequently we may take it for granted that the Olney men of Boston are to“ join the Gorman men in the hunt for Bryan's scalp. | The situation is thus made mpch more interesting | than it was. A one-sided fight is never good for ! much, but now it seems we are to have both side in the arena with hatchets in hand and their knives | unsheathed. | | An English philanthropist who has been studying the darker side of American cities “In Lon- don the areas of destitution are larger and bad con- ditions are greater than in Washington, but I have seen in the latter city buildings occupied by a dozen in London would be torn down by the authorities and not permitted to stand even as the habitation of a coster’s donke: been the belief that Washington is a well kept city, and it cer- | tainly should be, for it'is not overcrowded and does not attract unemployed persons looking for work. If the Washington authorities would pay less attention to Congress and more to their own city we should | not have an intelligent traveler making such a criti- cism on the sanitary regulations, or rather on the jack of them. ays: It has been decided that the Declaration of Inde- pendence shall no more be placed on exhibition, as | the light is causing the ink to fade out. It is to be; photographed and then locked up in a dark vault. | Once in ten years it is to be taken out and repho- have taken place. At the present time most of the text is still legible, but only one or two of the signa- The only way to save it is to hide it from sight, which is equivalent to aying that the only means of keeping the writing visible is to put it where it will be invisible. A dread report comes from Florida that a promi- nent citizen cbtained a package of breakfast food by mail, ate it one morning, and died next day. It is now probable that the manufacturers will publish a photograph of the citizen, accompanied by an affi- davit from his family, that one dish of that food is enough for a lifetime. The Barber Examiners, a State institution of re- cent and unlamented memory in California, turned into the treasury $104 48 out of $11,400 which in the variety of its affairs it had collected. This astounding generosity seems almost incredible. It assaults the reputation of most of our public institutions. Investigation of an alleged case of cruelty to a little girl by 2 showman led to a disclosure of the fact that the child had been sold to him by her mother for one dollar; and the showman is kicking because the law expects him to pay big damages for doing injury to such cheap property. A wife who in this city is suing her husband, a maker of pickles, for divorce, claims her spouse hit her on the head with a bottle of catsup. This strenu- ous introduction of one’s business ideas into domes- tic affairs cannot be too emphatically discouraged. —_— A project is on foot in this city to induce Califor- nians to invade Japan with the products of our fields, | adjutor, | correspondent of the New Y | hemia, ! ia the most in: HE most striking and interesting personages at the present moment in Paris are Professor Plerre (' and his wife, his invaluable who have devoted the last their lives to astonishing T vears of an the Puaris ork Tribunc M. and Mme, Curie have prévided s with & new and most powerful we The mineral, which has become the talk of the day, was discovered by M. and Mme. Curie, who after and complicated chemicai r ceeded in extracting from pitehb ende mineral of Joachinistal, in i - two decigrams of radfum operation cost over $2000, which is ate of $10,000 a gram, or $10,000.00) a ki gram. Professor Plerre Curie, whom it been my good fortune to meet on sev occasions, both at his littie cotts Gentilly and in the laboratorie Sorbonne, where he works, impressive individuality. There is sistible fascination in the soft but trating glance of his large hazel which seem to emit rays of int akin to those of the mysterious which he and his talented wife have d covered. M. Curle is 40 years old, ¢ and well formed. He dresses witi artistic negligence that is often to the sclentific world, says has ral is a ‘man of frre- pene- teristic of men of genius. H hafr are luxuriant, and his j E sion of beatitude, together - antique lines of his head and face, s gest the portraits of Christ as depicted in the paintings of Albert Durer. Fro- fessor Curie disdains worldiy lives high up in the clou theories of his mystic rapt radium He and his wife are by no means i fluent circumstances. They live in a cottage with a green lawn and fruit t ible south distric overlooking the Tfortifications, from the Latin quart nd of Paris, a long distance from the intellectual and | trips through the fashionable centers of the fessor Curie is an early ri e S capital. F At 7 o'clock HE Navy with the problem of appropriate naming the two training ships the brig authorized by the la and of the bureau Con- chie gress, one has suggested the names of Hornet, P .eock and Boxer. There have been four The Hornets in the United States navy. first Hornet, bullt in 1773, blew the second, purchased in 1804, was 1806; the third, built in 1805, was 1 Tampico in 1829, drowning all hands; the fourth, purchased in 1813, was sold in 1820, The record of the Third Hornet was p.ai- ticularly ‘brilliant in the war of : and her name should be perpetuated in a regular fighting or training vessel rather than in the present namesake, formerly the yacht Alicia, purchased in 18%8. Two vessels have borne the name of Peacock, the first, naméd after an English war brig, sunk in a fight with the Hornet, was bullt in 1813 and captured the British brigs Epervier and Nautilus. She was broken up in 1825, and the second Pea- cock, built in 1828, was lost in 1841. There have been four Boxers—the first, a brig, captured in 1813; the second, built in 1815 and lost in 1S17; the third, built in 1531 and sold in 1845, and the fourth, a small paddle steamer formerly called the Tris- tam Shandy, purchased during the Civil ‘War and subsequently sold. ' The naval construction corps is to be increased from the present number of 42 to 71 within the next six years. Among the numerous applicants for the position of assistant naval constructor is Mid- shipman Richard D. Gatewood, at present serving on the battleship Wisconsin, who recently graduated from the Naval Acad- emy. He desires to be transferred from the line corps for the reason of inability to go to sea on account of seasickness, and his application is indorsed by the Chief of Bureau of Construction, but is opposed by the Bureau of Navigation. Gatewood is a son of the late Naval Con- structor Gatewood, who died in 18%. The members of that family were unusually accomplished men in their several pro- fessions and it is just possible that Rich- ard D. Gatewood Jr. may have inherited the skill as a constructor from his father. His inability to 80 to sea because of sea- sickness, however, is in itself not a good reason for his transfer to tae naval con- structor’'s corps, and it s somewhat strange that he was permitted to remain in the service, from which his chronie complaint should have forced his resig- nation at least two years ago. The battleship Illinois is to be docked at Norfolk instead of at New Orleans, as first intended. The cominandant at the latter station has advised against the docking of the ship at Algiers, as recent floods have caused the channel of the farms and orchards. Tt is such campaigus as this that make the peoples of the world better, mare closely united and more gencrous in rivalry. Mississippi to fill up and the Burcaus of Construction and Navigation have report- ed against risking the Illinois in the river at this time. It is rather a serious em- | brilliant series of experiments in the ex- | | traction and isolation of radium, the most | | | mysterious and most costly metal known | |t N MADAME MOUS :SSOR AND TWO in the mornin er having given his little da sson in arithmetie, he and pedals b ory of the > Cuvler, near the J to the aboratory de Physiqu T the A I'Homand, behind the Panth in the latter laboratory t Curie held before me a small glass te e containing a grayish white powder rcsembling table salt and said, “You | lium!” The professor, to 1ilus- fact that carrying radium about produces flesh burns or wounds, good- raturedly bared his left arm and showed {me a deep wound that had been four months healing. The professor is extremely fond of his little cottage, with lawn and fruit trees | band with wondro and Kiteh rden. 1t in his little | wa garden that he received me last Sunday, | n and p nted me to his talented and in- dustrious wife, who is of Polish birth. Mme. Curie has studied in Paris for twelve vears and works beside her hus- intelligence and en- | { ergy. Radium is their work, their dre and their goal in lifs. Mme. Curle, like band, is great bic le rider, and | | 'NAMING OF NEW TRAINING FOR THE OFFICIALS OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT Department is wrestling j barrassment to the | spoils, they should both be abandoned and mak ing the vacations interesting | ivergne region, always | with a lingering idea of finding some min- | eral deposit from which M‘l e avy Department to | have a naval station and dock which | cannot be utili ing dock was ed with | 300,000 has been ex- | for this naval | station which now proves unsafe. It is not improbable that the Algiers site will as much of a failure as that at Royal, which is to be abandoned | after an expenditure of upward of $3.0 000. The at that station is cav serves the purpose only a resort for the monster catfish and | other specimens of the finny tsibe of the | Gulf of Mexico and Broad River. It is alleged that a naval officer owned a large | located there : the Illinois. tract -of land on which the Port Royal station site was located and it is within he bounds of possibility that similar | causes may have worked in the adoption of the Algie elther locality is | suited for a station and, having | served the purpose of a distribution of | no more money wasted in an effort to keep up their appearance as dockyards. | A general inspection of all the battle- ships and some of the cruisers of our navy is to be made with a view of ascer- taining if they are liable to the same ac- cidents as have recently happened to some of the larger ships. The Maine is the most serious case and three boards of naval officers who are experts in particu- lar branches are to examine and report her condition with recommendations as to making good the defects. Perry, Car- raga and Baliley, engineer officers, are to look into the condition of the boilers, a | board consisting of naval constructors will examine the hull and a third board of ordnance experts will report on the ugns and turrets. An accldent similar to that on the Mas- sachusetts was narrowly escaped by the Kearsarge while at target practice at Pensacola, on April 19. One of the eight- fach guns in the after superimposed tur- rets was fired by electricity, but the charge falled to expiode. Ensign J. W. Clement, in charge of the guns, waited five minutes before opening the breech- block, and, looking in, saw smoke issving from the primer. He hurriedly closed the llrgech, Just as the charge exploded, and averted the awful results of a rear ex- plosion. Electricity as a means of firing Buns appears to be unreliable and more dangerous to the firing ship than to the vessel aimed at. Five minutes, or even a much shorter delay, in exploding the charge reduces gunnery to mere acci- dental hitting, and during an engagement, when seconds may be counted for min- utes, it will be exceedingly hazardous to ascertain the cause of a miss fire without endangering the lives of those in the. tur- ret or in the vicinity of the gun. e o The new British naval establishment at St. Margaret's Hope, Scotland, will, with- in ten years, create a town of 30,000 in- HIPS A P | than five thousand seamen woul | | | | | extracted. Mme. € is an exceedingly attractive woman icate blonde wit fair, blue eyes. In addition to her expe ments in the I tions and classifications of duced by their je earches, Curie gives le the Normal § s at Sevres. Curie is av rth, winter anc at an early hour on her bicyels to the daily work at the normal school five s distant e's father looks after the mod; cottage, and a pictures yrman maid provides for the family and Mme. Curie have a brigh old, whose bir us with t 2 1 whose n 2 was born in Par veral foreign languages with is English fluently, but does not ver ture to speak it. He a great reader of books on varied subje ., and is an enthu slastic admirer of the" grand and yp cal scale on which scientific men ir United States carry out their theories put them in shape. As I was ab take leave modest family not refra T he thought that lived in the United States the probably be lodged in a flne house. a instead of bicycles would be supplied w automobiles or pairs of speedy trotte: nd would be the idols of soclety, of versity men and of the scientific world The professor retained me with a smile and said: “Why don’t some of your e terprising get sam S 1 American - re vast beds ¢ mineral “olorado containing notite, vanadium and uranium which would r to the ton two or three centigrammes of radium. Already ir Germany H Giessl, who manages a quinine factory near Brunswick, has tracted from the mineral deposits the several grammes of radium. At pre we are all working in theory, for the ¢ of radium is at present far too great t permit its being put to practical indus trial tests. But the potentiality of radi enormous_ reaching far beyond of hum »n, and American sc 1 and scientific women have a id oforiginal investigation and ch open to them. grand rese BLEM RO kabitants in the vicinity of yard. The Earl of Elgin, in ¢ | With the Dunfermline district committee, determined make preparations for an dequate wa above n stated au for a inha town itants. that ne ve on ation, for the families which dwellings would be provided well as for the workmen in the do vara. Professor James Alfred Ewing has heen red the position of director of naval education by the Admiralty, the salary of which is 3000 a Mr ving is attached Cambridge University, and is an engineer by profession. His repu tation as a tutor is high and his abi In imparting theoretical and practical in- with rl the ships at as vear. | formation largely\ influenced the Ad- miralty in its cheice. Twenty-one vessels of all classes wera struck off the effective list of the Brit navy 192, thus proportionately modernizing the fleet. Excepting in such vessels as are utilized as coast guard and barbor-ships there are no ships now sed as effective on which the bat of antiquated patterns consist- of smoothbores and muzzle-loading rifled guns. The naval intelligence department of the British navy has a staff of twelve naval officers, six marine officers and ten civilians, drawing agsregate pay of $61.155 a year. In our navy the Bureau of Naval Intelligence, which, in 1880, carried a staft of thirteen officers and four civilians now reduced to five officers and seve n civillans. The impertance of this depart- ment has grown with that of the devel- opment of the navy, yet the foree is en- tirely inadequate for the purpose of gath- ering and segregating information regard- ing foreign ravies. There is, of course v scarcity of officers, but some could be spared from less important duty. The work in this bureau is espeeially suited for younger officers and as a school for specialists. The retiring chief, Captain Sigsbee, nas carried on the work with much earnestness and efficiency, because he has taken an interest in it and had the requisite qualifications. His successor, Commander Seaton Schroeder, recently Governor of Guam, will find it a difficuit task to accomplish much with an inex- perienced and numerically inadequate stafr. —— Townsend's Cal. glace fruits, 715 Mrkt.* —_——— Townsend's California glace fruit ana candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etchei boxes. 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