The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1903, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1903 DER-IN-CHIEF OF THE NAVY LAYS CORNERSTONE OF VALLEJO SEAMEN'S CLUB IS GIVEN A HEARTY WELCOME President Praises Women Who Provided for New Building. CHINESE ASK FOR JUSTICE gty Separate Schools Deemed a Discrimination and Illegal. In Mass Meeting They Draft an Appeal to Roosevelt. Visits Admiral Miller and | 2 Inspects the Navy ' Yard. Pays Tribute to Charac- ter of Work Done at Mare Island. Allege That Native-Born Children Are Kept Away. EPRESENTATIVES of the Chinese populati mass meeting at 920 Wask 8- ten street a few evening g for the purpose of c the matter of the exclusion from the public schools of Chinese dren born in the United States tablishment by the Board ¢ of this city of separate scho nese exclusively is feit by the M community to be an diserimination against ALLEJO, May 1t — President Roosevelt was heartily greeted by thousands of patriotic psople here to-day when he la the cornersione of the Seamen's clubhouse. He visited Mare Island Navy Yard, where he was greeted by the thunder of national salutes, and then, boarding the torpedo-boat destroyer Paul Jones, the commander in chief of vy was whirled away from us at rty-knot gait. The business portions the e city were elaborately decorated ational oolors ormamenting every flag: case of Chinese children Am staff in town, while the Vallejo Boat and birth a violation of the constitution ht Club bad the distin: ¢ dispiay Among the prominent Chinese present & B s Dbl shouse on the were Chan Chun Seen, former secretary ater front the one President’s flag to be of the consulate; Gee Gam, pastor of see Valle The sit posed Congregational church, and of the two Chinese newspapers. The f lowing communication drawr 8. Chan was signed by the c thetr parents and sent to Pr velt w st 350,000 To his Excellency, Theodore Hanscom, chairman of the lo ident of the United States signed Chinese in San Francisco, reg - mm had the grounds more than 2000 Chinese school & for the ceremony g et # asteful deco- desigred members of the arge FEY. RGNS, ey against our race as regards educationa dren, from Crockett and tages in the city of San Francisc m came up from It may surprise your Excellency to know , the Ladies’ Auxiliary that instead of being allowed to attend fthe public schools, as are the children of all ot Association lities, we are confined to one s h is b s e s. B. H. Mc no brought from the naval 5 i i S D r public schools—where we a 2 Buena several companies jearn the American language am aly C s and apprentices, The Rooseveit, the President of the United States, | of view, ihtegrity of character, the abllity tc oo cheaing pupils. How can we, W | vunderstand and to control men as well as and to direct human forces as well families are most unacquainted w American language, obtain a full knowledge towns contributed the s ot as_physical forces. iebesadon RISOSpRaRe St € THANKS THE MEN. | T o onisslon could a university of ihis difficult tongue under such clrcumstar President Pays Tribute to Mechanics solution of these Western—yes, these world- Y TW:) TfiOUéAND ILDREN - | wide problems? How well is she prepared to CH N : Attached to the Navy Yard. | fulfil this mission! With her green hills to ;o T e 2000 of your Bx after 4 o the torpedo- T! President, with e assistance of | the east, the Golden Gate to the west, Cali B -, e "u B 2 R oo estroyer P dashed into George Hanscom, then lowered the cor- i fornia inepires her sons gathered here o 85 ihoring under.the great t e the thunder of nati into place amidst tremendous | Etientific thought and research. Between snowy [0E (o acquire an Ameri w SRR A be WHIp A4 ‘cheering - Mure SOPEREEaBRe T HoNs [ Dot e has disttibuted with lavish hang lc schools among American-speaking It is this latter advantage that we a ging from your Excellency. W . dent as he came forward and addresse opportunities which it is for her sons to d pM s Virginia-street the assembly as follows b ellency. | " he ¥ cssi ~ I am glad to have the chance to take part | 30 at the present time there are difficuities. in§ a special privilege or a faver, bt wharf the Farragut Association of Na- these ceremonles, for no worthier | | The university of the State is limited in her chance with other American children Veterans welcomed him with twenty- can be atriven after than the cre |* opportunities - for scientific research. _She an education which will quality us ns bullding -such &3 this—for the bene s & laboratory devoted to this exclusively; enuine and patriotic American " to whom every American owes 0 much, the e baratory bullt to solve the peculiar en- it mot unfair that this privilege should be PROCESSION STARTS. enlinted i of the Liited Btates. .1 want to Sineering _ problems that confront the West nied us, most of whom are chfldren n Sreothalon @uickly forine relate something told me vesterday by Secre- | B ione. "That such @ department may be en- the United States, while the fore e DRSS AC ormed & tary Moody, which showe the spirit that actu- | dowed In the near future it fs our hope. This Of other nationalities are enjoy ed up Virginia street in this order: aies the men of our navy. In visiting the | o I A eumity for soms philanthropio per- fits without question or limitat and several pa- hospital on Mare Island vesterday Secretary o ntabeted in the University of California _ Your Excellency will please consider that we ance, Grand Moody found that there was an annual income SnA her efforts to maintain a high place among are native-born Americans, ci o - > naval hanl TRl o e e e T tients. for | The universities of the world as a leader in Tnited States. bound to keep p RS TEST “uplar ARTOURS ur. (he wiws Of this Datients, for engineering thought her responsibilities and to fight her ey - b NG i B ted men in that hospital | ™Fhe ‘weltare of ihe State calls for the wel- need be. Is it not then the pla mtices; & company of A he'foind that that wes given by & win | fare of her university, and that we should our country, to & - now dead, who had served all his active life | | ever seek the welfare of our university is the the most favorable Rank of the Knights of [ c®t 0a Grates navy wton of Spanish-Amerl- baa saved up enough so tha ame President should be that fift ars nator Per- devoted in e Per- Jows who should nced Mayor Ly¥nch. gocretary Moody sald th en he died | income of it | h he left to be the us his fel hospital thereafter t he had not found most lasting lesson that she teaches tho Knowing vour Excell us who are to have the honor and priv and taking advantage of this oppor of calling her our alma mater. do most earnest peal to your E —_—— high sense of justice and humbly plead your Excellency will take effective action INFLUENCE ON CITIZENSHIP. irq the opening of all the institut ’ carriage wit Loeb an he President’s ec out that man's name yet. but he was going to > S e ALy e Mals to O ON eran members of Far- o8 oty e Cnd Lt SR eV he et > | Problems of Statesmanship Should children in the same way as they » the g s A. R. followed by four 2and put a stone to hia memory, if he had to more favored children of other nationalities. ted Rough Riders and the Fremont Ihe airit. of devoiion to the fg and to. Be Studied at College. Feeling confident that the ditficult positien i which we are placed will not fail to call fort Among those who rode in country, and to our fellows which the United Mr. Matthews’ address on “The College 3ot e o ov's sympathy, we have carrisges that lowed were Congress- States navy gives us A2 O Wi & tollows . e s S ;5 E ATARhs e i) onpociuNity bt tRANNAL Man as a Citizen s honor to be : TS o an V. H. Metcalf and Surgeon General (ne men who work In the navs.vard . for the | i dhadess Gi-a Awinggewey. dépends upen Your Excellency’s Loyal People Rixe quality of the work that they do. It has been the interest \n}\vh its ous:;n. mm'm s we A letter written by Tong Flve, a Chine: L first block of the line of march a vleasure to hear from Admiral Miller as we * fare. Just so far as our best people shirk the .. a4, who claims to have been born in ) echiosl ehiifire ring fags came up on t rpedo-boat of the kind of juties of citizenship, so far will this republic S . by bopronghonngy Sou 2 e ‘»g” waving flags and york done and service rendercd by those en | fall “short of completc success. Here we all San Francisco, asking that he be 4 " < songs e other SIX gaged in the 2ctual labor In the work on the it > ey sl 4 s gl e id = et upon common ground. No matter what criminated against by being e to ks traversed by the President and his yard. I want here to emphasize what we can | NAVY YARD, WHERE HE PARTICIPATED IN CEREMONIES AND | G0 cupation or position in life_whether we attend a public school to whic ¥ rt were densely lined with the mem- never cveremphasize, that the credit for any | HAD A VIEW OF THE STATION FOR WARSHIPS. | are ‘scientists, engineers, laborers or profes- & I G Bl o mitted, was also sent bers of socleties and citizens, YiCtory must lie exactly as much with those | | sional men—we are unworthy Americans unless & ‘ . g s iy DS who prepare for it as with those who win it. (Sat g e 4 e devote a portion of our time and our the President w he v as the chief executive (Appiause.) ; > thought to the conduct of Government forfreftoieel by bowing and smiling his acknow To-day 1 have dedicated a monument to But there is a more special demand for the those who won s. There was an immense con- PRE et PP nse CON- monument Is in reality dedicated just as much a th people at the dedication site |, the men who in any degree heiped to make that the men who are best qualified to govern nolER MU HIg, d the stands were all well filled. The seady the shine for- thas L s A e A el LI resident was greeted by Captain Mc- gressmen who voted hatte o wain way st THE PRESIDENT AT STATE UNIVERSITY goryices of coteas men, D Democracy Betds serious problems, of 1t ES - o ¢ attle, to the Con- e e i b § % postions o Castern States he can. and 1avé the Government in the hands of men 4.\ cqatle a reality. Th ppropriation, and Continued From Page 3, Column 6. settled portions of the Eastern States he can- JA% Vave (00 SV e Mecessary intelligence nor * 08¢ FAVIC N TECn T compiished by m alla and introduced to some of the peo- those who did not, by the way, have no right rot but find himself speculating on the anom- , e e e T o e, o0~ &o'any share whaievar in the credit attaching ————— ui% of surplus people. in one place and sur. Intearity—men whose working theory of EORCrT: stamp to the mation for that day. And to the Con- pius land in another—on the stern fact of a et B T8 W HUNT, Soie Tt is proves STATE SHOULD BE SERVED. | training station played *Hail Columbia” gressmen who voted that ant T R o e oD Soross {16 resion of ‘landless men and a reglon of mar appropriation, to the em. Prayer was Cabinet cfficials and their subordinates, to the the immense amount of ineffective and coBi- gnort time ago a great reform was accom / land,”” both under the same flag. In the e s v A A. McAllister, the Presl: cwners of the Drivate shipping Sards and iy Combetent hack drivers and cilizens who &y~ (uies and Tereifories between the Missouri {radictory \eleimtion, oL 1ROy PO~ plished in one of our large The g dent bowing his head during the invoca- {Pe men who Wwork in the private shipping Vathized h them. This bridge brought to- Riter and the Pacific Ocean there are at the litical corruption that flourishes in some locall- Jriment had been golng irom bad {0 worse. I " tior aeds and io the men whe wontte, "HPPINE yether the tracks from Ohio and Philadelphiu: o/l *time about five million souls, rot more tlew particularly 'n, out wroar SUCS ea seemed as If there were not an homest ma T A D e i men who ok In the ma- [*'prought them together, but could mot jein Presert,tine SUCH SV M ONGR JOCqu t0" mlle, Standard of Cpoltlenl e e politician loft among the officials of the clty. AL last 4 ——— did his part at any stage in preparing the (hem: for the Pennsylvania State Leglslaturs , jyihorities have estimated that there is room fallen 50 low that the very nAme ‘polticiatle Lhe batter sort determined that the di Y WELCOMES THE PRESIDENT. huls encines armors and guns 'of Uad ordained (bat che gauges should be dit 'for Gne mundred million people in this vast in‘one of its chier missions i it does not do- S100" M ot Grciared war against oo ¥ > those ships, and to all vho rent, ck of loct on. But before our Western soll can sup- v > led to sha chose a leader, and deciabec e ins . Chi b e iy ML men who ompanies might wander out of sight and Iose TtEIL i population many Droblems in en- owbrmmme Those e thres things th the men who had despoiled their city. Ti & Mrs. McCalla Greets Chief Executive oo mer ' the enmioeBom Mana Tene" 409 jiself, Compare conditions then with conditions Linlofing must be solved. Our arid lands— Seats demands These are three things that & gie was flerce, but the reformers had > as “Soldier and Bailor, Too.” At the gune for service. to mll allke, some por. MOW. Fifty years ago engineering could more Toi"gurs alone, but the farm of a whole na- 1. A devotion to her interests Doty B A A . The ot s - B o e 1o . Ay ko Some DOT. correctly be called an art than a_sclence. 1)l %1%t b’ Watered by vast networks of 5 Moral NoResty. ste. rupt administration was overthrown, the cit / Mrs. McCalla then stepped forward and here what T eaid this morning. Iam giad that \itD the exception of some elementary math- . jrrigating canals and the construction of these 3 Aoty o was cleaned. The man who led that fight and [ \ n a graceful speech told something of we have the chance of erecting a monument CTacics but little sclentific knowledge was re- wijl tax the best thought of our clvil engineers. 3 WL R UAE & SRS M | ) quired. To-day the horizon is vastly wider.\ oy mining engineer must solve his problem MAKES GOOD CITIZENS. This university has a mission. It is great center of education of the West. More- b ate more justly de- gver, it is a State institution, supported ¥ Ve | what w expected of the new enterprise, to commemorate the naval victory of th United States, and let us mee to it that our Yrom crude methods of ‘cut and try,' en- o ypust unearth our precious metals by more gineering has developed iInto an exact sclence. oconomical processes. Our railroad engineer She sa And of whom can the S e s “Suiuiinn ot 2 children have the chance to erect a similar S d these fes than ’of the graduates of people. > people have a right t ho bave established the maval cigh. MOTUment, (hat is in other words, let us se¢ or compass and tape the engineer has passed (Ui fiTCa iy Tmay Be more directly trans: eted . the weifare of his Stater If not: he \nts thoir Mues to the services of the W g ookiyn. X. T, we now assemble fogioo s repnark of DUIGINS UP the United into reaims of mechanics, mining, chemistry, Dored. Our electrical engincer must sUll is'an Unproftable and unsratetul son. Te That service may not always he amreeabis.. I ! e for ettty aol ey 1n Tt . Jaae) shipbullding. and he now faces the problems furner dévelop his system of transmisslon— must also be homest: the tenaency of collegs R Biive & sAcrNice of Beiumar peah o¢ . Mg P g m’”m"c Marines. And now T thank those who have provided Y hgt il already the longest in the world—in order to life in general shouid be to make a man open personal pleasure. Hut the opportunity is vast the enterpri & Rt T When one makes his first visit to the Pa- e o - o (o5 iplendid siccess of the enterorise oD for the building of this institution. When the o the Pa- ouppiy power for our mires and power for the and straightforward in all his dealings. But and the duty is clear. What greate s an arzument beyond cavil for a titution here D ies T fhink the heavier task and burde Cifi¢ Coast from some of the more thickly pumps which’are to keep our irrigation ditches these qualities are of no civic value unless could one have than that it should be Ta 1aid Upon the women Whose sons and hus. @ defeiiefeieirinimiuiiniuiririuieduiuinilf-@ UNCINE, The marine engineer must be able there be coupled with them ‘ability.’ Now pim: “No man has been more true bands and fathers and lovers go forth than to construct vessels of greater tonnage and 1 would not have you understand me to say ideals of his univers No man v ideals of miversity. No man has and to its ocean as o vast theater of he great republic’'s Jance of power’” Applause.) of tattleshioe. & Dlace of temporary rest (0r home, with the bread winner gone, to face the dial wiloame and 1 Geairs (o exbress our great STIANde—e Penama cansl our shipyards will But It s a (act that the wniveralty BOne e ARRIVAL OF PRESIDENT recelve another, even greater impetus. the ability that is in a mapn. FEducation iS Then came thres cheers for Mrs 4 . hardships as well as the anxiety for his safety. gp; i Y + enuous life.”” A new . »! 3. Svpraciation of tha AoRor yail ks S0 18 by es th blems which await the power. ms_to develop a capacity for doi \Pg 24 i ing of lustitations of thie kind, T do not kow your sterling American character, and in behalt [rdient themselves in our forelgn possessions. sympathies more wide. It teaches him to dis- audience with a will This little compli- he commander in chief of the United States wiich was better work than that done by Mis val citizens of this city I present to Yiawail, Alaska and the Philippines must de- criminate—to appreciate the merits of meas- ment has become a regular tribute to ti ¥ has consented to lay our cornerstone. A v Miss you this golden trowel. 1 thank you for the 4 S AT raee 4 ite to the ornerstone has very rarely be Helen Gould in erecting a building simflar to interest which you have taks b pend mostly upon our California engineers for . 2 3 lady at each commencement. These hac a r 040 1008 B9 - tuie i 20 Mew Toek yuinl, - And T am gl to > en in’ laying the {}.solution of their problems. In recent years _ Again, the graduate of a State university .. o= had ler of such national and international Ly \re chence of laying the cornerstome of SiimCmione for this noble entérprise, given by China and the Orient have called many of our Sshould certainly have some trainihg along lines hardly died away when the whistles at fame in everv feld of arts and arms that he Neee,the chance of laying the cornerstone of Mra. McCall and her able assistants. I alo peet men, and It is & fact that even tn far- that it him to meet the problems of statesman. the depot announced that the President has yet sssayed. (Applause.) this bulding to-day. 1 thank you for coming wish to extend to you our best wishes for the o South Africa there are more mining en- Ship. He should know at least the olements had arrived, and but a few moments re- o Jith grateful jovous hearis we welcome him radep of the Spanish-Américan War, those Who :}x:‘{"::z’d‘n“h"“ has done you 80 much Per- gineers from the University of California than f history, sconomics, law and political science. mained to complete the routine of the o-da as soldier and sallor, too. 0 . - e should now the reasons for the successes ou e o h . : o his war and those by whose exam- from any other institution. . porot i Mr. President, s chairman of this associa- [CUSPt In t E s and fallures of past governments. But, no Commencement. Governor Pardee arose e e et of ihls Ass0cia- ple we profited, the men of the great war, the At § o'clock President Roosevelt and THOROUGH TRAINING NEEDED. matter how extensive his social knowledge ‘may and announced “As Governor of the State i A 3 e en who 0 this country a heritage party visited M I Y Ve - - ee of the Young Men's Christian Associs. M7, Who have left to ti 8 are Island navy yard, = be, he is powerless uniess he has learned to or- of C: ] i - tion, 1 have the homor of anmouncing your ©°f S10T¥ and honor forever. Where the nation's chief was recelved aith . This In short ie tne fleld which awaits our ganize his ideas and present them effectively .r{ alifornia and Commander in Chief resence. (Applause.) At the conclusion of his speech Mayor full naval honors. The Presid engineering graduates. 1t Is not difficult to o others. In order to make a work count he o the National Guard I now award . resident spent pick out the kind of men necessary to COpe must avail himself of the opportunities offered these commissions and make you officers Your gracious act will gladden the hearts P. B. Lynch presented President Roose- about half an hour our 4 % he. . B. Ly s at the naval station with and solve these stupendous problems of- {0 this end. i Na Stat {1 heroes and be ax inspiration (0 our labors velt with a gold trowel, beantifully made With Admiral Miller, and as he departed fered by this field, nor s it ditficult to recog- 2R S09 e lone i b5 whin. it wam A~ Thon savecer rearnry of the State ‘An sxpectani_audience wwaits the Voice or And artistically engraved, the gift of the on the Paul Jones for San T'rancieco na- A i ey o S B0 % poamipaiien es Shet the ot e " firet citizen of the republic—Theodore Citizens of Vallejo. The Mayor said: tional salutes were again fired. the future must have sound judgment, breadth of air castles and not fitted to grapple with the Continued on Page 7, Column 1.