The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 27, 1903, Page 6

€ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1903. The Es Call. ATURDAY.....cccccseeesesesessssJUNE 27, 1903 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Acdress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE. Manager. e e - TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. Market and Third, S. F. .217 to 221 Stevenson St. PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS... Delivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Cts. Per Month. Single Copies 5§ Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year.. AILY CALL AILY CALL—By { Sunday.. 4.15 Per Year Extra | Weekly.. 1.00 Per Year Extra ed to receive All Postmasters are autho subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. | subscribers in ordering change of address should be r jar to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order neure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. pa. OAKLAND OFFICE. | Telephone Main 1083 1118 Broadway..... 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This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts mnd is represented sy a local agent in the com all towns on OUR MERCHANT MARINE. [ or pro- , is reported consid- ther general ird Amer- | - been an of free I has Th Tt vocated by free ase our ocean the e uild- | d do as much, and The principle of includes at our for Conseq of exte: outside the ¢ true that one of f duties to some extent and to that a good many | port Ur | three is that of a subsidy built ps, protective wall now | but still stionably ns to American ocean both our shipbuilding | ng merchant marine | se differences of opinion are to ence prevent action on the subject at the of Congress. The imperative need of having a merchant marine needs of our rapidly expanding industry We have in thése years of prosperity f our foreign trade, and yet it With the most® | { Palmer House. { | ] | | | matter of postal appropriations. |lines, but have no justification in the text. | réasonable for a patented article? in reign commerce not only to Great , but to German d France as well The work of the committee of the New York Board of Trade comes opportunely to revive popular interest in the subject and to form a sentiment favor- able to action when Congress meets. It can add hardly iing new to a discussion that has been | before untry. The main thing is to American shipping thoroughly they can bring at the coming session sufficient to overcome the resistance of lobby has for so long a time prevented ress from enacting the desired legislation de- spite repeated platiorm pledges made by the na- tional conventions. The discussion, indeed, has be- threadbare. Popular interest in the subject now is directed solely to that of compelling Congress to act the ¢ Ce somew 3 Corvallis, Ore., has just coughed up a two-inch wire nail which he had tucked away in his throat ago. The only inconvenience he experienced was that it made him “wheezy.” He probably outgrew it and will now be looking for a size larger two years The first cable message has | to discipline unless they THE POSTOFFICE SCANDAL. HE thorough sifting of affairs in the General TPostoFfice has so far disclesed alleged corrup- tion in two officers in charge of important divi- sioms. It is with no desire to give a partisan tone to the matter that we say that both of these officers were Democrats and holdovers from the last administra- tion of that party. They both claim to be innocent of any offense and that claim must stand in law un- til they are proved guilty. President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Payne are pushing the jnquiry actively and the indicted offi- cers will soon faced in court by the testimony against them, and will meet a vigorous prosecution, as will any and all others in the department who may be found liable to legal pursuit. The thoroughness of the investigation is proven by its projection into every branch of the service and all the facts found are given to the public to receive judgment, be it of condemnation or approval Among such facts disclosed is the purchase by the Government of a device for recording the taking of mail from street letter boxes. The usaal way of putting in a space in the box a printed schedule of the time of taking the mail is defective. The print s ssoon defaced and those who desire to reach a given mail are left without information that can guide them. The new device operates automatically by the opening and closing of the box, and records the time of the carrier's next call. Whatever in- creases the convenience of use of the mails by the lic is of importance to the people and the adop- ion of devices to that end is necessary if the postal service is to keep pace with the times This new device was invented in San Francisco, i postal officers in this city are interested in its manufacture. They say that it has been made the subject of international patent right and that sales have been made to several foreign governments. If true, this is an indisputable indorsement of its use- fulness; and if well made and sold at a reasonable | price, there is no scandal in the interest held in it by 1 and they are not amenable have violated some regula- ocal postal officer tion of the department, of which so far there is no evidence Under these circumstances the haste some newspapers have hurried into head lines to attack ex-Congressman in the matter must be taken as a survival of their bitter opposition to that gentleman in the past, although professing to be Republican papers. During Mr. Loud’s incum- bency of the chairmanship of the House Committee on and Postroads, invention and device for facilitating the collection and delivery of the mails has properly been brought to his attention It was his right— ndeed his duty—to have an opinion as to their with which Loud Postoffices every and submitted to his judgment. and merits, since his committee had to pass upon posta] appropriations and its judgment was effective in the If he approved this San Francisco invention, his right to do equal to his right to disapprove it. « As it apparently had merit deserving of its adoption by the Govern- ment, he would certainly have acted short of his duty if he disapproved it because it came from his The attacks upon him roar in the head The Postmaster and the Superintendent here are not his r as appears are any of the gen- in er s no point in the ownership of stock in the by postal employes, who have the right to est their money where they please. The case attempted to be made against Mr. Loud and the Postmaster and Superintendent has an exact Hon. John Daggett, Superinten- the Mint during the last Cleveland adminis- Mr. Dagge the the SO was own town. appointees, nor as device. tlemen concerned the collection There conce regi parallel in that of dent of became owner of ficers and employes of the Mint bought the liticians and newspapers of his own party, ndly to Mr. Daggett, attempted to build a great on the Santa Rosalia mine. smelted here and the bullion went to the Mint, and there was a great outcry and Daggett’s removal was To this the administration paid no at- tention, as it was not apparent that either law, regu- scandal The ore was jemanded. lations or propriety had been violated Rosalia proved to be a marvelously rich mine and the Mint employes who bought the stock represented and who s the victims of coercion, only wished they had been coerced some more In this postal matter two issues o: the device adopted on its merit Was is its price y appear: and If these are an- swered affirmatively, the loud outcry now made will be found to have as little reason as had that made | against the Superintendent of the Mint. Word comes from Marseilles, France, that Astron- omer Borelly has just discovered a comet, but the story seems to la It s but a few days ago that the Lick Observatory announced the discovery by it of a comet with ail being 16,000,000 miles long, and at last acounts it was still growing. These foreigners are slow. e —— NO KENTUCKY PRIZE FIGHTS. only one tail. two tails, one HE Governor and the courts of Kentucky have determined to prevent prize fights and boxing exhibitiogs on “the dark and bloody ground.” mmercial resources in the world, we are | NO ring can be staked off in that State and professors of the manly art must practice it elsewhere, or be subjected to the severest penalties. The high-minded virtue manifest in this decision commands wide ap- proval, and it is expected that there will be a large immigration to Kentuc! of those who abhor the immoralities of the prize ring. Without attempting to make an argument in favor | of prize fighting one is able to declare that in ex- cluding it from her borders Kentucky is refusing 10 take a step forward and begin a needed reform. Prize fighting may be bad, but it is a vast improve- ment on gun fighting, and to be hammered in the ring for half of the gate money is much better than to be shot in the back by a deputy sheriff whose | allegiance to his party in a feud is greater than his loyalty to the law as a peace officer. Then the man who is shot in the back is usually shot dead by a dead shot. and there is no gate money, and frequently his family is afraid to remove his body and bury it. If the corcner is on one side of the feud he is apt to find that the deceased went hence by apoplexy or colic and the affair is regarded as being in the natural Kentucky order of things. To say that prize fighting is an improvement on this is merely to prefer being mauled rather than murdered. The militia does not have to be called just been received | out at a prize fight, and after it is over nobody from Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean, thus | burns the house of the referee, or the bottle-holder, advi g us that the electric belt that is being con- | 2nd the spectators pay their bets in disappointment structed for the old earth is almost completed and | but in peace. ready to wear. Now all this is not saying that prize fighting is a ia mine in Mexico and a large number | k interest, since the visitor has | step in advance everywhere, but if it would teach the feudists of Breathitt and the other vendetta counties of Kentucky to fight with their fists, the | militia would get a rest and justice would not have such frequent occasion to blush in a painful man- ner. e It is with a deep feeling of sorrow that the people of this country will read that the light which so lifting and betterment of others has gone out for- ever. It is to be earnestly hoped that the peace and fortitude that he was the means of bringing to so many may be his in his affliction. S ginger into the Democratic brew by suggest- ing Joseph W. Folk of St. Louis as a Demo; cratic candidate for the Presidency next year. Mr. Folk is hardly Presidential size, but in that respect he is no worse off than a good many other aspirants in his party and has a better local record than any of them. As a consequence his nomination by the Courier-Journal was quite a notable event, and it seems has been taken up in more or less earnest by his friends. In presenting him as a candidate, Mr. Watterson | said: “The last ‘dark horse’ to edge his way, as it | were, into the paddock has still a year before him to make a record. Neither Mr. Tilden nor Mr. Cleve- land had much more. If the Hon. Joseph ‘W. Folk THE FOLK BOOM. OME time ago Henry Watterson shook a little |crats to the Governorship of Missouri, he will | occupy very much the position occupied by Mr. Til- %dcn in 1876. Whether Mr. Folk himself is another | Tilden, or even_approximately up to the Presidential | altitude, is a question we have no means yet of de- |ciding. But in the prevailing chaos it is con- | ceivable that he may come to be in the running, even | without a nomination and election as Governor of | | Missouri. Mr. Folk is to be Tammany’s orator the | coming Fourth of July. If he makes a good im- | possibilities. | what a year may bring forth.” In that way the boom was started. It appears to have become so potent in Missouri that the Dem- ocratic bosses in the State have organized to head it off. Now there comes a report that if the bosses triumph, the Folk men will nominate him as an in- dependent candidate and the Republicans will indorse | him, | Joy of St. Louis is reported to have stated recently | in Washington: | “It is proposed that the Republicans shall keep | quiet just now, at least until nominations are made | by the bosses who control the Democratic organiza- | tion. Then the independent Democrats, those who | condemn the looting by the St. Louis gang and the | audacious action of the boodlers of the Legislature, ‘will nominate Circuit Attorney Folk for Governor, | elected. The Prohibitionists have several thousand | of Mr. Folk. I really believe he will be elected.” | as an independent candidate in Missouri cannot be judged at this time. make a record run, and if he succeeded would place | him well in front of his other Democratic competi- tors. There is unquestionably a growing need of such men in office. Folk has shown that the law is | strong enough to bring the most powerful criminals tice when its enforcement is in the hands of a strong and honest man. He has done much as | Circuit Attorney, and as Governor might do much | more and prove himself a man of first-class caliber. ;' The St. Louis Globe-Democrat in commenting if)n his boom sa: “The best use the Democratic party can make of Folk is to nominate him for Governor of Missouri. 1f eldcted, he would clean out one of the most cor- 1rupt machines that ever cursed any State. His ser- | vices ‘as Governor would doubtless advance him to | the Presidential line in the better elements of his party. Folk is a Tennesseean by birth, born since | the war, and if the South should decide to furnish | the head of the Democratic ticket, he is as good a iman as it could select. But next year will not be | Democratic presidentially. Folk for Governor would | be more to the purpose.” | With such expressions coming from political op- | ponents, it will be seen that Folk’s hour of oppor- | tunity is at hand. He is in a position that makes him a figure of n will have to take him into account in estimating the chdnces of the next Democratic national convention. | ‘ TARIFF LITERATURE. OR the purpose of forming in the minds of | young voters correct ideas of the importance of protection in our industrial system, the | American Protective Tariff League has undertaken {a campaign of education in advance of the Presiden- | tial campaign of next year. | It is the desire of the officers of the League to obtain the name and address of each voter who is to cast his first Presidential ballot next year, so that documents dealing with the tariff issue can be for- warded to them. The work is of considerable im- | portance and Republican organizations throughout the country should cordially co-operate in it. i In acircular on the subject the League says: “The | voters who passed through the hard times of Grover | | Cleveland and the Wilson free trade tariff learned | | their lesson, but the first voters of 1904 certainly need to have information placed in their hands on the benefits of the protective policy. A great num- ber of young men do not look upon protection as of vital interest to themselves and their country. | No time should be lost in placing in the hands of such young voters a series of protection literature especially adapted. This feature of campaign work when it is less effective than now.” Persons desiring the literature can obtain it by addressing the American Protective Tariff League, 135 West Twenty-third street. New York. All who are willing to co-operate in this programme of polit- ical education should send in the names of first voters so that the documents can be promptly for- warded. ———— The “passing of the buck” was illustrated yesterday morning when the crew of.a freight train discovered a couple of deer on the right of way near Willits that butted themselves insensible against a fence in an endeavor to escape, and were in consequence eas- ily captured. _— Berkeley furnishes a young man honored by the name of Dewey who has loved himself into the Stockton asylum because of his infatuation for a fair daughter of the former town. The Berkeley girls are lall right, but they should be careful in exercising | their fascinations not to go too far. long shone in Evangelist Sankey’s eyes for the up- | of St. Louis be nominated and elected by the Demo- | | pression, count him thereafter as one at least of the | In American. politics nobody can tell In outlining the programme, Representative | the Republicans will indorse him, and he will ibe | | votes in the State and have already declared in favor | Just what would be the effect of putting up Folk | It would give him a chance to | ional importance, and politicians | is generally neglected until the heat of the campaign, | IMPERIAL COMMISSIONER ARRIVES | | i i i | | | | | i IN CITY EN ROUTE TO EXPOSITION e 3 - CHINESE IMPERIAL WHO ARRIVED YESTERDAY HIS WIFE TION COMPANIED BY VICE COMMISSIONER TO THE ST AND A LARGE RETIN LOUIS EXPOSI- MARU, AC- ON THE HONGKO %74 i TV BB AEIL e e o + ~i I8 Excellency Wong Kal Kah,| H imperial vice commissioner for | China to the St. Louls Exposi- tion, arrived yesterday morning | lon the steamship Hongkong Maru| with his wife, Madam Wong, and their children—Wong Veng Loong, aged 15 | years; Miss Wong Jing Yin, aged 11; Miss | Wong Jing Yug, § Veng T g, aged 5. Excellency’s son-in-law, party. Besides his family his Excellency has accompanying him as attaches Tong Suh | Yu, Chong Yaw Tong, Li Foh Hung, Yu Kit Men, and he has also with him thir- teen first-class painters, carpenters and | carvers, whose services In erecting the royal palace on the exposition grounds he hopes to utllize without outside interfer- rears of age, and Wons | Sar Foh Kyiun, his is also in the | ence, “for,” ‘says his Excellency, *“while i | @il lodeiedeld @ i PERSONAL MENTION. | | Attorney W. H. Hatton of Modesto is at the Lick. The Rev. 8. H. Jones of Jacksonville is at the Occidental. Edward Porter, a Brown, Is at the Lick. A. Weed, a lumber man of Sisson, is stopping at the Lick. Charles T. Grimes, a mining man of Tonopah, is at the Lick. Dr. D. Murray Chester of Philadelphia | is registered at the Occidental. | Dr. W. E. Hibbard and wife of Pasa- dena are registered at the Occidental. F. B. Hartman of the Home for Feeble- | minded at Eldridge is at the California. | Charles Monti and A. Allen, French| tourists, are registered at the Palace. | They have come from the Orient. | M. H. McManus of Bare Brothers, fur-| | niture dealers of this city, has departed | for the East on an extensive business trip. He will be gone about six weeks. A. Corbin, head of the big lock firm | which bears his name, and wife arrived | from China yesterday and registered at| | the Palace. He left here for the Orient on a pleasure tour several months ago. Baroness von Rietzenstein, wife of the | Chancellor to the King of Wurtemberg | 4nd daughter of Von Hallberger, the| wealthiest banker of Stuttgart, is regis- tered at the Palace, having arrived from Japan yesterday. Joseph Mecllroy, for the last ten years traveling passenger agent for tife South- | ern Pacific Company, has been appointed | Pacific Coast agent for the Missouri, Kan- {sas and Texas Pacific Railway, with| headquarters in this city. Among the latest arrivals at the Palace are Sir Colon Scott-Moncrieff, Lady | Scott-Moncrieff and their daughter. The| gentleman was formerly British Under | | Secretary to Scotland and is one of the | survivors of the Indian mutiny. He | served in the Bengal engineer corps as a second lieutenant in 1856 and retired in 1883 with the rank of colonel, after re- celving a medal of honor. —_———— Cardinal Vaughan Buried. LONDON, June 2.—The body of Cardi- nal Vaughan was transferred td-day from the cathedral at Westminster. where it had been lying in state, to St. Joseph's Coliege. There it was recelved by the! priests and students and after the cele- bration of a high requiem mass was in- terred in the presence of a large gather- ing. capitalist of Fort ————— Fountain Pens. ‘We are selling agents for several foun- | tain pens, including the “Waterman,” the | “Swan” and the “Marshall,” the best $1 fountain pen ever made. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. s, | in our buil the I fully appreciate the clever workman- | ship of the United States,” said, by the in the clearest and purest of Eng- ‘the workmen here could not do the carving, nor could they do the painting and they would fall short in the decora- tive ornamentation required in c ing out the architecture of the royal palace.” His Excellency did not wish it to be thought that he did not intend to avail himself of the skilled laborer of this coun- try, for whom he expressed a strong re- gard, for his Excellency Wong Kal Kah knows well the capability of the Amer- ican artisan, having received his early education at Hartford, Conn., and also having been a student at Yale University some twenty years ago or more. AMERICANS TO AID IN WORK. “I intend that the skeleton of the build- ing shall be built by the American work- continued his Excellency, “but the | tlc touches, which are indispensable gs, must naturally be de by those who understand the architec-| tural and decorative methods of my | land.” [ Chung Pao Shi, Consul General at this port, was introduced to his Excellency by Owyang King, the Consul's secretary, and after a warm exchange of greetings and congratulations his Excellency ex- plained the sort of building which it 1s | intended shall represent his imperial master's abode on United States soil. | “The building,"” said he, ‘“will be one| which I am sure will please the visitors | to the great exposition, which it gives me so much pleasure to anticipate. The plans | are in one of my trunks and will be d patched at once to St. Louis for the ap-| proval of Mr. Francls and, I presume, | Government architect. The ground, I understand, has already been appor- tioned off for my country and is close to the Administration bulding, which, I am informed, is to be something very beautiful and stately. When I reach St. Louis, which will be in a few days, I may make modifications in the plans or I may enlarge on the ideas thus far submitted. “To give some idea of our buflding, I may say that there will be a commodious | | Hartford, Conn. reception-room to be used exclusively t his Highness Prince Pu Lun, the Emper or's nephew. Prince Pu will arrive he a month in advance of the opening of exposition. PALACE TO BE ELABORATE. “Then there is to be a courtyard in a . e outside within the grar approach to the palace there will be tw miniature lakes, each in the form of a haifmoon, and an arch of characteristic design.” Upon the arrival of the steamer it was boarded by customs officials and all gave his Excellency a cordial welcome to these e i 4 His attendants continuously nto smoothness the distinguish- cock feather, which the winds, re- of etiquette, began to toss and | rufle. Wong Veng Loong, his 15-year-old sen, was particularly anxious that the feather should not meet with harm and stood at the back of his distinguished parent ready, should the breezes loosen 1 cap, to make a grab for its owner. On arriving at the wharf the Wong family held an informal reception, Madam Wong winning friends instantly through her gracious manner. His Excellency first came to the United States when he was 12 years of age and remained in care of David Bartlett, a Scotchman, and his family, then living in He studied at the gram- that city, later taking high school and subse- quently graduating from Yale, class of 'S3. His EXcellency is a Cantonese and his wife, the daughter of Lee Kee Zer, is a native of Shanghai. —_———————— Special _information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1043 b mar school in ccurses in the Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg.* SUNDAY SUMMER FICTION NUMBER It’s a Startler. star characters in the book. You ments. Three Full Msminated Pages Short Stories “The King of the Foxes,” “The Siwash,” “The Wiper's Story,” By A. Conan Doyle. of Photographs. 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