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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1903 : BEGGING IN THE SCHOOLS. preservation of the old landmarks of Califor- nia there has come unexpectedly a revival of = | the bad and forbidden practice of begging for money through the public schools. We are thus threatened a renewal of an evil which has long since been DAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. KE. Manager. | "t Acdress All Communications te W. S."LEA TELEPHONE. condemned on good grounds by publi¢ opinion, and with the evasion of a law which the Board of Educa- tion ought under all circumstances to enforce with Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. the utmost strictness and impartiality. The rule forbidding begging money pupils of the public schools, or in any way using the from the .Market and Third, S. F. .217 to 221 Stevenson St. PUBLICATION OFFICE. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .. | machinery of the schools for raising money, was not adopted without good reason. Ample experience had proven the need of such a rule. There are many Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: | day) thousands of children in the charities, public monuments, civic festivals am‘l" cvery other sort of enterprise requiring money by | one year for SUNDAY CALL WEEKLY CALL, One Year All Postmasters are autborized to receive subscriptions. Eample coples will be forwarded when requested. voluntary they could get only so much as ten cents from each pupil it would amount in the aggregate to The first collections in that way | were quite profitable, and others soon followed, with | that a| counsiderable sum. Mail subscribers in ordering change of sddress ehould be g | particulgr to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order | the result that it became an established custom to to insure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr Fequest. | ;. ke such appeals to the schools on every sort and = | SAKKA TS SR pretext. In the end the practice became in- 1118 Broadway... Telephone Main 1083 lerable, and public sentiment forced the :\doption‘ | of a rule designed to put a stop to it. It is evident that if the rule is to be of value it| 1st be enforced impartially. If the Board of Edu- | use there will be speedy . BERKELEY OFFICE. 2148 Center Street. Telephome North C. GEORGE EROGNESS, Manager Foreign Adver- tising, Wfarquette Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Teler “Central 2619.”") NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: mt cation suspend it for one c; | complaint if it be not soon suspended again for an- STEPHEN B. SMITH........ 30 Tribune Bullding | other. The board cannot afford to take a position of | NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT ‘pu.x:xln,\: and no matter how warm and how wide- ©. €. CARLTON....... +22+2...Herald Square |cpread may be the popular sympathy with any given | ’ NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: movement to raise money for a public. fund, there Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unfon Sauare: | should be no deviation from the strict rule that for- | Siurray Eill Hotel; Fifth-avenue Hotel and Hoftman House. | 1.4 the solicitation of money either in the schools | CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Tremont House; Auditorium Hotel: Palmer House. or through the school machi The Call can lead the protest A | ule in the present instance with the best grace | ery Hotel 3 gainst the violation BRANCH OFFIUES—327 Montgomery, corner cf Clay, open unt] 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633. | because it has long advocated the servation of | McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open untli | 1he o]d Jandtarks associated with the history and | ©:30 oclock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 e'clock. 2261 | Market, corper Sixteenth, open until ® o'clock. 1096 V e romance of the State; because it has urged the 1 9 o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open untll principle and the policy of such a course for many | NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open | lock. 2200 Fillmore, open until ® p. m. years, aking such recommendations again and | ag before the issue was taken up by any other | paper in the city. With such a record The Call can- | ot be suspected of indifference to the movement for | B— — | providing a fund for the preservation of any build- FOLITICAL PROSPECTS. ing or tree that is notable either for its historic e =& associations or for its romantic beauty The pro- ROOSEVELT'S renon test then runs no degree against the movement s alrea r se d fc g money for a landmarks fund. It is con- fined exclusively to the ,suspension of the rule for- bidding the solicitation of money through the pub- | \ s ( experienc San Fr ¢ 1 something = A an unrestrained em of begging from the mind the evils of the practice. Briefly are of r First, those re putting teachers into emulation and ri- two vith one another to see which can obtain the When the Board solicitation, made, ount from their classes Educ recommends such n or | be the olic to grants leave for the tion itably feel that if they would stand well | board f they would get a flattering no in the press, they must manage to induce their | # 3 pupils to give liberally | ¢ The effect of that kind of stimulus upon the teach- was in itself a gross evil and injurious to the work ools, but the second set of evils were worse The coaxing of the pupils to give to this fund | ’ : ; : or that affected very powerfully the impressionable | = A i n of the children. They were dily persuaded ; - Rt & that it would be a high honor to have a certificate, i c 1, or a button, to show that they had con- | | It s easy enough for the children of the rich to get hat monument or charity. dir or the quart required for the certificate, poor could not do so. 1es had to sit by and see but the children of the Thus | their richer | flatter Des : be the absolute | Playmates d and praised, while they them- | Bryan. They | Selves were overlooked and slighted. The mind of a | . he good or ill | child is very sensitive to slights of that kind, and the | = 1 upon the party | Wrong done to them was therefore something ®in | 5% : of profit and loss. Their ac- ature of an outrage, since it virtually amounted " & s Gor the Forits closed | to a slight inflicted upon the poor because of their | poverty party to get Let the contributions to the landmarks fund be | 5 her of them, | liberal and prompt from the men and women of the | b ot ko State. but let the school children be exempt frmu“ = ‘ solicitation. The law forbidding begging in the | » ey schools is itself a landmark of California progress, | 2 and it moreover, one that ought to be carefully D vear a suffi. | Preserved and maintained | ¢ g x make the race cx-v The Alameda Argus declared a few days ago that | the most persistent news which it could find in The Gall was that this paper intended to give away the pictures of two pups. The vision of the editor of | | went for Mec- 292. rtionment those States will cast tes that clectoral regate vote of 1 vote of 311. The seventeen | ¢ Alameda Argus appears to have been blurred | St ryan in 1900 cast 155 votes, | S01€ly by an unreasoning jealousy. Simply because U e new rule they will cast 165. Should the | 1P Call has occasionally published a photograph of | one Alameda pup surely can be no adequate reason to prevent it from publishing the pictures of other | pups, perhaps better looking. | Argus need not worry; away. t year as they did in 1900 the Repub- | ctoral College will be in-| apportionment 137 In other words, the increase | ew census has been favorable to and Democracy has a harder 1 THE STRICKEN EAST. ' The editor of the we will not give his picture from ad in the previ ortionment the Democrats | P inni at went Republic ] VER since the beginning of the year the pmplc‘ xtykar tHop e _M the East »ha\'e been afflicted by an almost ht carry New York, Delaware, Maro4 incessant series of calamities brought about by sty West Virgis Rk ;ulrir“he violeat forces of vna!nre. During the midwinter S the vote of the last election, and yet fall short | "0t @ Week passed without bringing some story of 15, as ¢ Should the Republ is likely, | PEFsOnS frozen to death and whole communities of rrv next year the Western States, Montana, ],1;}{,) | the poor suffering the effects of frightiul blizzards . that went and snowstorms. ht then carry With the first gleam of spring in the South came reports of floods along the Lower Mississippi, | sweeping away the levees and flooding wide dis- tricts of Mississippi and Louisiana. Swiitly fol- Presi. | lowed reports of an excessively dry spring in the ured a year before the election, | 0rth Atlantic States, accompanied by fires that not seem, indeed, as if the best thing Democracy | 001y devastated the woods, but ‘'in many cases could next year would be to mdorse Roosevelt | burned farmhouses, lumber camps and mills, and al- and give the country the satisfaction of electing 5 | Most destroyed whole villages. Later came news of President without the cost of a useless and fruitless | the disastrous floods in Kansas, Missouri and Towa; |and even while they were still furnishing fresh re- | ports of losses there came the culpinating horror of The Dawson district, wild, desperate and lawless, |2 cyclone in Northern Georgia, wrecking . two has contributed twelve tragedies to the world’s record | towns, destroying several mills, and in a single lo- of crime in a few weeks. Some of our Southern bor. | cality killing more than 100 people within ten min- der States could do better tham (hfl and plead noth- | utes. ' ing more serious than pastime. Out of these disasters there have come two mani- —_— festations of which as Americans we may be justly Human eyes appear to be cheap in this cit: A |proud. The first is the promptness with which aid man who knocked one out of another fellow’s head | for the stricken localities was offered from every the other day was sentenced in punishment simply | quarter, and the second was-the equal promptness to an imprisonment of six months, ‘with which each locality announced that it could take! and Nevad for Bryan in 1900, t} e Demo- even such 3 combination of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Con- and Indiana and still be defeated there never a tin.e since the s of Monroe when the succession to the as probably so well a campaign UT of the movement to raise money for the | hools, and solicitors | maintained a people can ‘meet any kind of calamity contribution were not long in perceiving | locked. The calamities that now startle us are not | | Hague court. | claims of Sala & Co. of New York against the re- | public of San Domingo; care of its own and had no seed for ottsitte - aid. The latest instance is reported - from Kansas City, where. in response to numerous offers of assistance, | the Mayor, after conference with the commercial | bodies of the city, télegraphed: “Our business men 1and citizens generally have subscribed very liberally and we confidently hope to be fully able to meet the | situation. The people of Kansas City will always | gratefully remember the many tenders of assistance from various parts of the country, all of which have been thankfully declined.” We as a people have a right to be proud of these | manifestations of liberality on the one side and of | independence on the other. They are significant at once of the genuine brotherhood of American com- | munities and of the: sturdy seli-confidence of each. Where such sympathy and such independence are without being appalled. | One feature of ghe situation is not to be over- unusual. Every year brings a somewhat similar tale of distress caused by the mighty winds and storms that sweep over the East. It is not in the power of man to abate them, and consequently, as the popu- lation becomes denser, the destruction of life and property will becume‘ greater. Men will thus be forced to take notice of the vast superiority of this | side of the continent‘as a place of residence. Here we have neither‘blizzards, floods, cyclones nor sun- strokes. Here, too, we have room and verge enough to provide homes for millions. It is, then, only rea- sonable to expect that as the yearly tale of destruc- | tion in the East becomes more and more portentous and afflicting there will be an increasing exodus to | this coast. There is of course a certain admiration | due to the sturdy bravery of those who will remain | in the blizzard region to begin anew the upbuilding | f a home, but there will be also a good deal of re- for those who have sense enough to come to California and get out of the v of destruction. e ———rc officials bristling with “ex- their trains As usual, the “explanatien” does not Some of these days there may be adopted | which will pardon no destruction of property ss of life through the wrecking of a railroad train. Riding on a train in these days is more haz- ardous than going to wa ‘INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION arbitration is quiet ONTROVERSY is noisy and compels at- ‘ tention from everybody; and often passes unnoted even by those who} have reason to be interested in it. Hence it is that{ the progress made of recent years in the dirgction | of settling international disputes by arbitration fully understood only by those who have carefully studied it from year to year and kept a record of the Such a record | spect f Railroad are again anations” of the latest wreck of one of in this State I in. is various steps taken in that direction. was submitted to the Conference on International | at Lake Mohonk, and | forms quite an encouraging evidence of the advance toward the attainment of world-wide peace. submitted by Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood in a paper on “Another Year's Progress in Arbitration.” It showed that during the year fol- lowing the last conference The Hague court has decided the controversy between the United States and Mexico over the “pious fund,” and arrangements have been made to submit to the same court a con- troversy between Japan, oft the one hand, and Great Arbitration, recently held The record was Britain, France and Germany on the other, con- cerning certain claims of those nations against Japan; also the claims of Great Britain, German and Italy against certain | claims of Venezuela, and, finally, ‘rance against Guatemala. Arbitration, however, is not confined to The | In quite a number of cases other| tribunals have been established to act as arbitrators. Of suth cases submitted during the year Dr. True- blood presents the following list: “The controversy Bolivia and Peru; the controversy between Italian emigrants; the question of claims of citizens | of France against Venezuela; the boundary dispute between Bolivia and Peru; the controversy between | the United States and San Domingo oxer the claims | between of the San Domingo Improvement Company; the | Great Britain and Portugal of any difficulties that may arise in locating their colo- | nial boundaries in South Africa; question between the question of the | the Alaskan boundary dis- pute between the United States and Great Britain, which has been referred to a new mixed commis- sion.” During the year quite a number of international disputes, referred to arbitration before The Hague court was constituted, were brought to a close and | should be included in the year’s record. The most important of these are the long pending boundary disputes between Chile and the Argentine Republic, involving an area of 80,000 square miles; the con- troversy between the United States and Russia over the seizure of American sealing vessels in Bering a; the Samoan claims question between the United States, Great Britain and Germany and citi- zens of those countries; the controversies between Great Britain and = France—the “Waima” affair and the “Sergent-Malamine” dispute; the El Triunfo case between the United States and Salvador, out of the decision of which has grown great dissatisfac- tion on the part of the latter country. While most of the cases thus enumerated are small and would hardly have led to war under any circumstances, it is nevertheless gratifying to find them peacefully settled and got out of the way, so that they no longer remain as causes of irritation be- tween the people of diffefent nations. Moreover, small as the separate cases are, the list makes up quite an imposing aggregate and serves to show that arbitration has become a factor in international politics of "first rate magnitude. Perhaps the American spirit of indomitable cour- age and seli-reliance was never better demonstrated than when the people who are suffering untold agonies from the Kansas floods declared heroically that they need no help from the rest of the nation, bat will meet this visitation of fate themselves and recover from it through their own resources. General Joe Wheeler created something of a sen- sation by appearing at the recent reunion of Con- federate veterans wearing the wniform of a general in the Federal army.” However, the veterans recog- nized that the thing was all right, and “Fighting Joe” got an ovation. —_— 1t is reported that during the month of March the guaranty bond companies of the United States had to make good defalcations amounting to $534,063. Of that sum only $80,000 was taken from Federal, State or municipal governments, The rest was from ori O T vate business, A | company. &iends. T15 MUSICAL COMEDY SCORES [ SUCCESS AT THE GRAND FOR RALLY e Claus Spreckels heads | | list for the fund for the recer | Grand Army of the Republic tribution of $1000. | tion by Mr. Spreckels gives the executive and finance c the citizens of tribute $50,000 to tt fund. A few of the finance e | | William R. Shafter, mander, Grand Army chairman of the & management, thirty campment, paid a Claus Spreckels. The propose the Grand Army in San Fr gust became Spreckels exp This San Franc nation: al € Sbarbor Ma depart and ( ral A mmittee days,ago {in the forthcoming ynal | the soldiers and sailors of the | | for the preservation of the asked the committee to proc scription book. Mr. Sbarborc the committee had not bro thereupon Mr. Spreckels the chairman call again Sb oro | Last Monday Mr. Mr. Spreckels and th lball' with the donatio | The announcement la | executive comm! p of th ! greeted with tribution was plause. | The further announcm Y | | that the committee had : dore B s to the positi secretary and authorized I canvassers to receive donati fund. 8 » systema with gene ne |PREPARATIONS OF GRAND ARMY subse ytion 3 > wi ncam book. | LIBERAL DONATION. wait site amount of money 1 |ghas re-established y which was cfeated r his direction to provide funds for ption of Presi | dent McK nt Roosevel ‘he appropriated |of the | posts of | tributed $50 ampment an Francisco have 0 will be | campment and we > Ea | ors with the same pitality that mad of the Grand A | 1886 famous thro Ther | night on ; | | decoration and il e | | son, chairman. ¥ | the report: MONG other things to be seen at present in the cit lar musical comedy “In Washing- | ton.” It has been a long time since there was such a production here and the local theater-goers seem to fully appreciate this as the Grand Opera-house has been crowded to the every night sinée the new show was ushered in. Nothing has been left undone to | make the show up-to-date and pleasing. | | o e e is the popu- door: The Daly Company in A Runaway Girl " continues to receive its full share | | of patronage at the California despite the | | fact that this is the last week of the | | . tuneful comedy. The I performance ;’ | NANCE ONEIL.K of “A Runaway Girl” will be given on | | g Weu|THERTER EPUBL Sunday night. 1 Pum, e 1 Justin McCarthy’s romantic drama, “If | | I Were King,’ seems to have taken a | firm hold upon the audiences of the Co- o+ lumbia Theater and at every performance | | the play brings forth more favorable | | SOME OF AVHO WIL! : ‘comment. | | AMUSE THE THEATERGOERS 1% e || THIS W The Alcazar Theater this week presents that delightful comedy, “A Tyranny of Tears,” of the great productions that | helped make John Drew’'s name famous. Drew and his company could hardly give more pleasure with the piece than do White Whittlesey and the Alcazar stock From the first to the last act the play pleases. - — DUNN FAILS TO MAKE HIS APPEARANCE IN COURT Mrs. Irene Y;@é D;mands an Im- mediate Hearing, but Case Is Continued. H YRACE . . acted so ugly about it she says she intends to | keep it This is the last week of the only dle Dee Dee,” and it is needless to that Fischer's Theater is not big enough to hold the crowds at the farewell per- Fid- e regarding the expenditure of tion fund. To Study Fishes of Alaskan Waters. Grand WILL BE NO DEFICIENCY. Army eady con- m of $50,- ain the en- stern visit- hos- WILS N The new programme is crowding the| Mrs. Irene Young. the dashing brunette | & WES UG SO SO G RO S Orpheum at every performance. Next Sun- | who was arrested by Policemen R Tiner | 1B Sbpuotng St B e e Georgia Welles and Kate Long, in ““The omiieint of 1 e b or o e o g i o By il Hnnlmn’ panéu'\ gty L cimeowe g | would afford illuminations and decora- e company and other clever vaude- | valued at $150, appearec e Police Judge [ FOU B po i 'T“m(' S | Conlan yesterday. She was represented b - | tions of surpassi y and mag ville acts. 3 o e | tude. The t as a whole may be 2 . 1| , Dunn failed to make his appearance in court. | adopted at next meeting. Sureiy a R Lol & Clia | Ayoeney Mack mediate hear-| opposition will be removed If the finan el R ot o e - oot | committee presents a gratifying repert try,” has proved one of the strongest | fair defendant’s innoc ie request | COmmittee presents a g et ot T aEt he stage at the Central | Of Assistant District r the case | progress in the collection of money. The bills et put 8 the BIABE B on acked | ¥as continued till ter Mrs. Young | Grand Army men have resolved that Theater. The hnusedhan ; e p' C ‘wnsm been instructed s L her rights, | there shall be no deficiencies. Moreover, ¢ and the crowds are Increasing at| Mrs Young does not deny the possession of sh, ; e mfd.rmuncc the Fing. but says Dunn presented it to her | @ complete statement of disbursements every perfc S | while they were at supper. ow that he has | will be submitted to the public from time to time, so that citizens may be informed the recep- e ———— Robbers Kill Conductor. 1 STANFORD UNIVERSITY, June o8 | ‘harles 3ilbert. head c s The high class spegialty show and mov- | for Seattle, where he will !al: on boarded ‘:- suburban r:.— run:i;\x‘ !v“tn from vi president Roosevelt | Commercial Company vessel for Brist t St. Louis early to-day. robbe owee, ing Dlogioe smw('m?]fufl‘:: this city are | Alaska, to engage in United States F the motorman, and killed the conductor, John during his recent visit tc e | misston work during the summ. s N. Keith, who went to the motorman’s as- pleasing the Chutes patrons every after-| vegtigations at Bristol Bay Dr. Gilbert will ance. There were only a few passengers noon and evening this week. | have charge of a small party which will make | in the car. but they could not Interfere. The - e e a thorough study of the fishes of that vicinity. | robbers jumped from the car and escaped The vaudeville programme at Grau- man's Theater is well appreciated by the | Phtrons of the Seventh and Market streets | 1 CHCRIROBOROHIRCR0 ROt R0RCRS RRORCHORRCROHOOCEOIORCY X ORORORCHORs CHOSORORCHD) TRCRCRCHCEDY house this week. Begining next Mon- day, one long show, instead of two short ones, will be given every evening, with | the customary matinee every day. — KINGSBURY RECEIVES ANOTHER APPOINTMENT | Ex-Deputy Supe;mi;&ent of Schools Is Given a Secretaryship by Board of Education. W. L. Kingsbury, ex-Deputy Superintendant of Public Schools, was, upon recommendation of Superintendent Langdon, appointed assis- tant secretary of the Board of Education by the directors yesterday. He is to hold office from June 1 to July 15, 1903, at a total salary of $250 and has been assigned to the office of the Superintendent of Schools to close up the books of the City Board of Ex- amination and to prepare the report of the Secretary of the Commission. Kingsbury sent in his resignation as Deputy Superintendent of Schools. The following resolutions were adopted by the board: Resolved, That the leave of absence of Miss Eleanor McEwen be extended to September 1, France and America Two Centuries Ago. TORCBOHCROCS OHORCRCBORORC! IORCROACACHCE IORCROBORCHCEYRCRORORCHC! BORCROROROY ORORORCHCRORORCHORORONC CROBOBORCACHO ORORORCHONCY Mary Connynge when they left Lady Cath- arine Knollys fainting in Newgat'e Prison, in the second instalilment in e isolved, That ' in accordance with an opinfon of the City and County Attorney the President and Secretary of the board be authorized to award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder for 1ighting the public school buildings; Resolved, That a leave of absence be granted Mrs., Florence Bachman from July 20 to October 20, 1908. e Keerl Is Found Guilty. HELENA, Mont., June 8.—James S. Keerl, one of the best known civil and mining engin- cers in the Northwest, was: found guilty to- day of murder in the second degree for kill- ing Thomas Crybtal, = a’barkeeper, meveral months ago. Keerl had been on a. protracted spree and after quarreling with Crystal shot the latter, who died shortly afterward. In- sanity was Keerl's defense. £ Amusing. Yuma in a Boat Explorer James’ second ar- ticle on the mysteries of the Colorado River. berry Center funny articles on mod- ern politics. ‘Note—Best eyeglasses, specs, 20c to 30c. Look out for 81 4th, front of barber & gro.s ————— Special information supplied daily to buslnecu ho.ule-B-nd "p}lfl:c m)enmhy the In; urea en's) Ci Toraia Street. Telephone Main ioia. “%" e —— Townsend's Callfornia glace fruits and cnnl:ll; 50c IAWnI;nd. in ::;um: fire- etched boxes. ice present for Eastern Market st. above Call blda. * Puzzle § § 5 The Mississippi Bubble| Emerson Hough’s Remarkable Novel of England, Read what strange things befell John Law and i Watch for the Half-Hour Storiettes omething New, Crisp, Weird, Thrilling, Fascinating, From Needles to] The Oracle of Mul- S. E. Kiser's screechingly Don't Miss the Eagle Eyed Ostrich Fable ROROR0 CHORORROREORO SEOTRCRCHOIOI0 RO CIOHCH0Y DROROMCHORCHOLCCHOHOSOMOICHOHCE OICEQRC! CHCHCHC! 080!