The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 24, 1903, Page 6

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Rents are affected by the cost of building, as rep- resented by labor and capital. Perhaps it is as well O | 1aid down to be put in a building by labor already represents the labor that has produced it. When this cost is high it goes into the price paid for the build- ing, and has to be returned to the investor by the renter. When the cost of building is high the de- mand for rentable property is greater because men of moderate means, and especially wage-workers, cannot afford to build, and the building is done by capitalists as an investment, and the heads of families who are excluded from ownership of their homes by | the high first cost of building have to rent and finally pay the enhanced cost in rent installments. It is not surprising that rents have largely ad- vanced in San Francisco. The population of the city has considerably increased, and to house it has | required much®new building. Statistics of the wages | ‘paid to union labor in the building trades show that | | San Francisco averages the highest wages in twenty | | of the leading cities of this country. The wages of | masons, structural iron setters, plasterers, lathers, plumbers, steam fitters, carpenters, painters and the other trades that affect building paid here are higher Following the brick back to the brickyard, the stone to the quarry and the lumber to the forest, it is found that our higher wages increase the cost that is upon all the material when it is ready for the building trades to put in place. The owner of the building pays it all and passes it to the renter. He in turn demands higher wages of his employer to pay the higher rent, and so the tramp goes on in a circle. A large percentage of the mechanics who exact the high wages are themselves renters, and find their excess of wages exhausted in the excess of rents, and are just where they started. 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This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented »y a local agent in the coast. g e—— all towns on | rents SOME PEDAGOGY. widely that could not agree that it { the educated over the es- road travel college is to le the double- wagons with red > required to an- ted time at your large class, what aximum at- backward or bril- ss, or a lunch- ackward or putting ck straps r light might be hid “What constitutes s on the point of view. re an ideal to be the lass shoe, brightest eyes and knowl- The old bachelor, with Solomon in e that the ideal teacher is g of the rod, and the prac- respond that it is the teacher decl | haps by the very men who are responsible for its ex- | istence. | attention by his radical unionism, in a recent address ingdividuals or groups | on the brilliant. | rule that what has already been surfaced at the mill shall pay also the cost of hand surfacing before it | will be used, and every form of exaction, finally | works its way into the rent and has to be paid, per- In some respects these additions to the cost of building which reappear in the rents are purely artifi- cial and unnecessary, but are inflicted in the supposed | interest of organizations, or classes. It 1s interesting | to find the net result pleaded as a reason why wages | should be increased | | | Th: flux. If wages are raised when rents are high, what rgument can be made against lowering wages when Mr. Clarence S. Darrow of Chicago, who was the attorney of the anthracite strikers and attracted much to the unionists of Chicago said: “The majority of trade unionists to-day devote their energies and their whole time to the raising of wages. This is a delu- sion and a snare, for a raise in wages is almost al- But that plea should be hand- { with their fern-like leaves, sometimes twenty feet in led carefully by those in whose interest it is made. | length, give an Oriental aspect that beautifies the | gs never stand still, but are always in a state of | lawns and landscapes which they enrich. |is more particular in its selection of a climate in| | which to reach its | found three principal types of dates. ! know in commerce is the soft date, containing 60 p:r“ 1 ; b |faces a deficiency annually. England is discussing additional taxation to meet her budget. Germany is struggling to make both ends meet. Italy suffers an hourly widening of the distance between income and outgo. Austria and Russia are borrowers to meet current expenses. In all those nations the peo- ple groan under the burdens of taxation, and those people, by hundreds of thousands, are putting the | burden off, deserting their country and migrating to the United States to escape taxation. Under such circumstances how idle it is to attempt to make Federal taxatian a political issue! The instincts of man furnish the test as to the burdens of government. If ours were excessive immigration would cease, and instead of receiving three-quarters of a million an- nually of new citizens our own people would be de- serting their country and seeking the more favorable conditions and lighter taxation offered elsewhere. It should be, and is, the subject of congratulation that we close the fiscal year with a large surplus, and ready withcut borrowing money or incurring taxes to begin the task of cutting out a waterway between the great oceans to facilitate the commerce of the world, add to the value of all American property and en- hance the fortunes of every American citizen. We may all be very sure that when Federal taxa- tion comes to be felt as a burden Congress will hear from the people, in a demand for a decrease, and that demand will be heeded. Just at present the | people everywhere want more money spent, and as they are the sole source of supply their wishes will continue to be heeded by their Government. CALIFORNIA DATES. ment to begin in earnest the installation of the date among the fruit crops of California is of great interest to our people. The date palm is perhaps the oldest of the domesticated fruit trees. Its cultivation in the valley of the Euphrates has a| record reaching back four thousand years. Without it vast regions in Northern Africa would not sup- | port human life. It furnishes material for houses | and for many domestic purposes for which we use | wood and fiber, and it furnishes a protective shade in which many other fruits and field crops are grown. There are fully as many varieties of the date as of the peach. Some of them bear a fruit with a thin pulp surrounding the hard seed, and, as a rule, these | have a wider climatic range in which they flourish. | They are an excellent fruit, however, and the tree is | so exquisitely ornamental that it is grown regard- | less of the economic value of the product. All over San Francisco and other cities on the coast and in the valleys of this State the date palm is a feature as an ornamental plant. The Phoenix Canariensis and Phoenix dactylifera, grown to a great height, THE determination of the Agricultural Depart- But the date of dates, the finest fruit of the palm, | perfect state. The one we | cent of sugar, which preserves them from decay. | They candy in ripening on the tree, and the remain- | ing uncandied syrup is frequently present in such | quantity that it has to be drained off before the fruit can be shipped. These dates are a delicious food, | ways followed by a rise in the price of the necessaries | and everywhere in California where they are eaten | of I This may be important, coming from a doctrinaire. French soldiers must be contemplating another | massacre of Chinese and another grab of Chinese Dispatches from the Orient carry the se- | territory ctive information that the frequent rioting of‘ is very annoying to France. It is not difficult to trace cause and effect from this dispatch. NATIONAL FINANCES ing the eleven months ending May 31 were | | $30,000,000 in expenditures. | This excess will be increased to nearly $50,000,000 by the end of the fiscal year. We.always hear much about the large appropriations made by each Con- | gre | make set speeches at the close of Congress arraign- ing the for extravagance. These speeches al- | ways deal with the burdens of government, repre- THE receipts of the United States treasury dur- | excess of the , and members of the party of the “outs” always “ins” sented by taxation of the people, to bear the expen- | ditures, which they characterize as extravagant. the people secem hardly conscious of any burden at But | and the seeds thrown on the ground they germinate, | | and the small date palms, chance planted in that | way, are common along our sidewalks. The second | sort of the fruit has less sugar, does not dry readily | and, lacking the antiseptic saccharine, does not keep. , | It is eaten as a fresh fruit and is not exported. The third kind is called the dry date. It is not soft nor sticky and is so hard as to require as much chewing | as ship bread. It keeps for years, if protected from | the weevil, and is a nutritious substitute for bread. | These two last varieties will grow and perfect their | | fruit ‘all over the San Joaquin and Sacramento and | tributary valleys, and the first sort will flourish in practically the same locality. I But the date of dates is seldom seen in this country. It is exported in small quantities by the French from Algiers in ornamental cartons, is a delicate amber in color, with very thick and tender pulp. It | is called the “Deglet noor,” or “date of the light.” It is the product of the oases on the Western Sahara, and when we get it, costs from fiity to seventy-five cents per pound. Its pulp is translucent, and though sugary is not sticky. | This is the date that is to be introduced upon the | deserts of California. It requires a hot sun and all. Indeed, it is probable that if all Federal taxation | plenty of water and a long scason for ripening. The | In Arabia are |} COMEDIANS WILL CONTINUE TO APPEAR AT THE GRAND O A T C T S Ay Dr. Albert J. Atkins has returned from the East. J. Haslacher, is at the Palace. T. T. C. Gregory, of Suisun is staylng at the Occidental. Dr. W. M. Shearer, of Santa Rosa, Is a guest at the Lick. G. W. Campbell, an attorney of San Jose, at the Grand. F. B. Chandler, a fruit grower of Vaca- | ville, is at the Lick. J. C. Campbell, a mining man of Nevada City, is at the Grand. J. H. Edwards, a cattleman of Newman is registered at the Lick. Oscar C. Schuize, a Dixon merchant is staying at the California W. L. Burckhalter, a prominent chant of Truckee, is at the Lick Jackson Hatch, an attorney o S::dj‘«;r, is staying at the Palace. a merchant of Oakdal J. J. McSorley, a well known mining man of Calaveras, is staying at ¢*s Cali- fornia. T, W. Hintzelman, master mechanic of | the Southern Pacific Company, is at the | Grand. g George H. Pratt, a prominent lumber man of Cantara, is staying at the Cali fornia. Henry C. Bunker, chief grain inspector of the Merchants’ Exchange, has return from a vacation trip to Alaska A. S. J. Holt, who represents the P | sylvania lines in the Northwest, is down from Seattle on business and is registered at the Palace. H. H. Baring, one of Lon;’luns largest s. who is touring the coast for gl’l‘;fl're. accompanied by Mrs. Blearing left for the East last night by way of Portland. | Rabbi Jacob Nieto left yesterday ing to attend the Rabbinical | in Detroit on the 2th. Dr. Nie visit the principal eastern cities he returns. G. 8. Gilbert, a member of the [ States Geological Survey, is regis the Occidental. He is here to Sterra Club, which leaves on its outing shortly. —_———— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, June 2.—The fo Californians are in New York: From S: Francisco—F. B. Burnell, I. Goldman and S. J. Sternberg, at the Herald Square; J. G. Spaulding, at the Imperifal; C. Ar smith, at the Everett; W. Bethune, at the Westminster; Miss A. Craft and A. E. Willsher and wife, at the Broadway Central; C. A. Elwood, at the Netherland; | | w. H. Livingston, at the Grenoble; L. MacDermott, at the Manhattan; Mrs. L. B. Miller, at the Park Avenue; Mrs. M. E. Spencer, Miss Reld, Mrs. M. Reid and M. J. Reid, at the Holland; W. M. Sims, at the Hoffman, and G. W. Wheeler, at the Empire. From Los Angeles—Mrs. M. J. Orme, a the Earlington, and C. Munroe, at t Manhattan. —e——————— Many Friends Witness the Wedding. LONDON, June 23.—The Guards’ Chapel | | at Wellington Barracks was erowded with distinguished persons to-day to witness the wedding of Lieutenant Marshall O. Roberts of the Scots Guards, son of Mrs. Ralph Vivian, formerly Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts of New York, to Miss Irene Helen Murray, daughter of Sir George Murr: The Archbishop of Armagh officiated. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ANOTHER WONDER OF SCIENCE. { | | Biology Has Proved That Dandruff ; Is Caused by a Germ. Science is doing wonders these days in + | medicine as well as in mechanics. Since Adam delved, the human race has been | | troubled with dandruff, for which ne hair | | preparation has heretofore proved a suc- cessful cure until Newbro's Herpicide | | was put on the market. It is a scientific | | preparation that kills the germ that | | makes dandruft or scurt by digging into the scalp to get at the root of the hair, { | where it saps the vitality, causing itch- ! | ing scalp, falling hair_and finally bald- | | ness. “"Without dandruft hair must grow luxuriantly. Herpicide at all druggists’. It is the only destroyer of dandruff. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpi- cide Co., Detroit, Mich. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of > P POPULAR ACTRESS WHO WILL BE ONE OF THE ATTRACTIONS OF “IN CENTRAL PARK,” WHICH WILL BE PUT ON AT THE GRAND OPERA-HOUSE NEXT WEEK. [ ACCOMPLISHMENT COMBINED. SOCIETY DANCING MADE EASY. — girls, during which Cheridah Simpson will appear and sing “The Music of the Mili- tary Band." The scenery will be new and the cos- tumes magnificent. EXT Sunday night the fascinating musigal comedy “In Central Park"” will receive its initial pro- duction in this city at the Grand Opera-house. The production will at ety Dancing. Culture of Graces, Hy- gienic Exercises. WALTZING A SP) CIALTY. Reception daily. 9 to 13 m. 1t 8p m Phone Hiack 3738 | were withdrawn the people would hardly notice the | Agricultural Department is not proceeding precipi- | release from that which they are told is an exaction. | tately in the matter of its introduction. Mr. Swingle The distribution of Federal taxation is so scientifi- | of that department, the most experienced agricultural | cally adjusted. and secms to rest so evenly, that in- | and horticultural expert and explorer in the world, | B stead of finding the people clamoring for less taxes | has conducted a series of climatic observations on | e the same as that of If”‘.‘”i s they are found everywhere asking for more expen- | our deserts, covering a sufficient number of seasons m;h‘::‘f;t;b;}d:al ISI:),C?G,?:‘;,' a couple ditures for Federal purposes. In every Congressional | to prove the permanence of conditions. These he | of Germans who came to this country in district they are practically organized to secure ap- | finds to tally with the physical features of the princi- | search of wealthy heiresses for wives and | propriations for Federal buildings, for the creation of | pal home of the Deglet noor in the oases inhabited | Who fall into the hands of an unscrupu- | i i i i 3 o . | lous matrimonial agent, who fleeced them | more judicial districts, for the improvement of riv- | by the Mozambiques in the Sahara. He has visited | of a large sum of money, Informing them ers and harbors, for better coast defenses, for more | and lived among those people, and already has made | that he had purchased with it for them | 1 i i { . i Central Park, New York. Many amusing | lighthouses, lightships and buoys on the coast to | one shipment of the palms to Arizona. complications are the result. | Geary st.. room PRIVATE INSTRUCTIONS in lozal- ; ired to discuss the ways and g the ildren of that grade usually have too on. They imagine that school is a = teacher a jailer. They imagine a population in the dark, and go to the sheet pulled over their heads. Child- 1 tion. It is the earliest developed Children imagine their dolls into living things. and people the day with Imagination is imagination in primary grades. The ¢ much i | BANNER EDITIO fairy forms | the night with specters. con- |lessen the risk of loss to marine commerce, for | Already we have in this State, in the Wolfskill or-| The play is in three acts and represents OF T HE YE AR verted into superstition, and the weird tales of many | more and better and costlier warships, for increase in | chard in Winters, date palms which fully ripen valua- | ifi:?“,,}ge,f"& Tk:le‘r'\r\/n:;‘(i‘:rlf‘;‘li:;l}; e ’ an old nurse work out into hysteria, ncurasthenia, | the personnel of the navy. In fact, the people know | ble fruit, and situated the farthest north of any| Central Park. The latter scene will be rickets and cholera in later life. If the query had | that we have a big country, and they want in each | made particularly effective by the intro- olling the childish imagination, that it might ther purpose of giving grace and charm mon things of life, it would have had proper place in such an investigation They were also required to tell what feelings good g awaken in the pupils. As a rule t wal s the feeling that history is a lie. General Boynton of the School Board of Washington City has prepared a list of the direct errors in the standard histories of the United States. An examination of it proves that, taking the major and capital facts n our school histories, more of them are false than are true. This is not confined by any means to our remote history, but is also found in the story of times, relating to events that are within the memory of the living. It appears that history is rgely written to give mankind a decent excuse for the questionable acts of individuals and nations, and thag it most strongly appeals to patriotism to secure approval of that which was the least creditable. Scanning the whole list of questions, one is in- clined to go back and rest contentedly with the old idea of free, common school education—the same being that it should give the pupils all a sound and working knowledge of reading, priting and arith- metic, leaving the training of imagination and the ef- fect of that which requires judgment and discrimina- tion to the maturer period when the mind is capable of analysis. to the co history teac! our addressed to the best means for curbing and | | community as many evidences of the existence of a | great Federal Government as can be secured by | spending money for buildings and other expressions of that greatness. The only complaints heard are | of failure to secure such expression. In California | we want more than we get spent on our rivers and | harbors. The test of the public wish in the matter of | expenditure will be made when any candidate for Congress goes before the electors pledging himself | to stand for economy and less taxation by opposing | appropriations for his own district. Such a candi- date will be listed in the returns among those who “also ran.” If politicians will fully accept the fact that the pecple run this Government, and that its expendi- tures and cost are of such measure as the people dictate, we will hear less flamboyant talk about eco- | nomy in the case of those public expenditures which the people demand, and for which no Congress would dare appropriate in the absence of such a de- mand. It is especially gratifying now that this" fiscal year leaves a treasury surplus of $50,000,000. It may well be that in the first half of the next fiscal year work will begin on the isthmian canal, and the treasury surplus will be in hand to meet the needed expendi- ture. What other nation could begin such a colossal work with ready money to meet its cost? While we show a surplus over the year’s budget every sother nation is agonizing over a deficiency. France | bearing dates in the world. These palms are in lati- tude 3R degrees 32 minutes north. An investigation | shows that the same dates may be successfully grown | | as far north as Orland, Corning, Tehama, Vina, Red | Bluff and Redding. This fact is of very great im- . portance, for that means that we may produce a good soft date in this State in latitude 40 degrees! 30 minutes, or nearly the latitude of Chicago, with a ! season of requisite length and no frost to interfere with the tree. Nothing can show forth more plainly | the clemency of Northern California than this. With | these valuable short season dates flourishing in Northern California and the long season Deglet noor succeeding on the Colorado desert, we will have a valuable and important addition to the variety of our fruit crops and such witnesses to the marvelous quality of our climate as no other part of the earth can show. During the next few years $6,500,000 will be spent in new buildings at the Military Academy at West Point, which will make that {institution equal in its architectural features, dormitory conveniences, lecture rooms, laboratories and other buildings to any of the great universities of the world. —_— Diamonds and other precious $2.422,000 were imported in May. This is greater than in any previous month. More than $50,000,000 worth of Jdiamonds and other gems have been im- stones worth | song, ported since the great May panic of 1901, One-sixth of the land-owners in Great Britain are oman. ¥ £ duction of carriages, horses, automobiles and bicycles. The company will be strengthened by the addition of Camille Walling, an ac- complished actress with a fine soprano voice, and Kitty Kirwin, an exceptionally clever character actress. Among the noveity specialties will be | new parodies by Raymond and Caverly; a | trio, “Rosalie, My Royal Rosy,” by Cherl- | dah Simpson, Raymond and Caverly; “Duchess of Central Park,” by Ca- miile Walling; coster song, ‘‘Father Wants the Cradle Back,” and ballad, “There's Nobody Just Like You,” by Harold Crane; | song and dance, “You Have Such Beauti- ful Dreams,” and a Japanese serenade entitled “Kijo,” by Budd Ross and Anna Wilks; song, “Matrimonial Agent,” by Herbert Sears, and a song, “The Girl You'd Just Like to Kno by Loutse Moore. The crowning feature wiil be a grand new military Venus march, invent- ed for the occasion by Charles H. Jones, which will be executed by forty beautiful @ iliiniieiiefeivle il @ Seamen’s Head Tax Abolished. E. T. Chamberlain, Commissioner of Navigation, has rendered a decision to the effect that it s not lawful to impose a head tax of $2 on alien seamen. Such tax has been collected heretofore by direction of the Commissioner General of Immigra- tion.. —_———— Special _information supplied dally’ to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, . Townsend's California glace frults and candies, f0c ‘a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern Zriends. 715 Market st., above Cail bldz.* | &8 TOROSROROACH OROBORORCICRCHOL! KR0S KNORCHORD: KBORBOADHC ECHOBEI ORCHORO ICRORCHCK CECHORORORCS ICRCRCACEONO SUNDAY CALL SUMMER FICTION NUMBER == = It's a Startler. “BETWEEN TWO FIRES” Author of “The Mystery Box,” “Tainted Gold,” ete,, both published in The Sunday Call. It’sa thrilling mystery story in the author’s best vein, told in a positively unique way, by five different star characters in the book. 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