The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 2, 1903, Page 6

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SUIlER Cal} wesidence during the eir paper l.r'\;r‘e‘ by mail resses by motifyl aper will also be on sale at all resorts and s represented .y = local .gut in #il towns on the coast. mmer months can have to their mew in- ¢ lead and flag in its rank ion of e g.Pa!m{ interest The city arer thaa the health against fire asd ‘pro- | to them: ignorance, for Naturally trusted to find responsibilities d in the more ; ted trusted behind at the Republi a n ) ticket, to be " sup- power of the organization, be- ke best that is.in the party If t should.not be nominated not du(r\e support. ind such material and- cannot with ev idence of that high character t the syr 1p4fl§ and membership of | ‘-'l'l semts cannot tc 1paign as a party. roll znd take a eandidate from passing ‘of-political gypsies \nll be to mix disgrace some defeat Let vhe foving “palmists. and horse- traders go hemselves in polmc , with. their ap- peals ss |calou=le‘ and mmterésts’ Thaf is their right, and ail the jargon chatterers may iollow them. But those who talk plain sense -and straight will re- joice if the Republican party of San Francisco look among ifs. own battalions and from its captains of | tens and its captains of hundreds select those northy to jus and honesx]y administer the city affairs, to the end that the Republican prosperity which has | come to our people may find its expression in.a local government of which every citizen'may be proud. et T—— The statemeit that the trusts in New York city will back some Defnocrat against Roosevelt' and carry New York for himi must be taken under re- consideration. Just at present the trusts are having too hard a time carrying themselves to undertake anything else. Alameda has the novelty of a church with a gym- easium and bath attachment, thus exemplifying the doctrine that cleanliness is next to godliness 3 subscribers comtemwlating s change of | a i to find in its | ican clements it would -better stay out- To go outside jts own } NEW LEADERS AND OLD. T is given out, apparently by authority, that Sen- I ator Hanna will resign the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee and .leadership of the party next year. This is to be a wholly volun- | tary act on his part, and the organization will have the benefit of his experience and his continued inter- est in the coming campaign. The Senator’s career in politics has many remark- able features. Long a close personal friend of Major McKinley, and a believer in his star, he was unknown | in politics during all the years in which his friend was { achieving a career in Congress and making himself known as one of the strong men to whom the coun- | try would likely turn in an emergency. In the na- | tional convention of 1896 he had charge of the Mc- Kinley forces at the beginning of the deliberations of | that body, and at the end his friend was the party | candidate for President and he was general in chief ! e campaign. | He was the first to perceive the direction of pub- | lic sentiment to be toward the currency issue, and he | immediate, y put the party upon high ground on that | { question. In this it is known that he actéd against ‘lhc advice of men older in leadership than he. They | trembled and turned pale at the threat of Senator Teller to lead a bolt if the party declared for the gold standard. But he wanted Teller and those who him to bolt. The Republican party had been turned so far toward free silver and unsound | stood with | money that it needed the affirmation of its sound | money position by just such a bolt | Looking back at that time of trial one sees now very . clearly that the Teller bolt caused the Gold | Democratic organization and created the bond of llowship that joined all the sound money men of the | country “together. { like’ men, not always trusted when they shout their own virtug but sure to be when others call those | virtu and go -forth to accuse. When others [ wanted th paign merely campaign made on the tariff hq made it education the money question, win, but to keep promises after win- of on ning No such seen before, nor will e perspective in which ose days are seen now it is perfectly plain that Mr. Bryan would have been elected if Mr. Hanna had permitted the ignoring of the silver issue and rhade tariffi campaign. His was great generalship. It i the effect of turning the fight upon him person- leader has been as much abused. n New York went far be- wallowed into libel of the campaign was ever ke be In t seen again | paper abuse and grossest sort, in the hope to provoke a damage suit, | order to pose as a martyr. But Mr. Hanna had work than per: punishment of liars, and, usual keen pe of the reality of rew that to w the proper way to dis- rnalistic brutes who have no higher cs than as a game of deception. sin rtune to not onl which ion of politi Mr Hanna had the , but la be regarded a reward, party wearing as a badge of honor he opposition, his literary unknown, , and no one sure:that he nd t8lk his feet. He w nown only s man who- had been from b the of men. But in the Senate he s th the and has presented not merely an interesting but an engaging personality, has sustained himself ing debates and has highly uttered the politi- cal principles fostered by him when his leadership was young. He has retained to a remarkable degree fidence of the sound money men of the coun- h whom: he allied in 1896. In 1900 he did not ¢ to conjure them into new activity. They came as volunte The part choose his succe n- run the con from whom to be f srce, amiability and the power to enter into .- the hopes and the sy able many men or, but none wi pathies of his coun- The commijtee for the Fourth of July celebration in this city/has decided that there will be no poem read at the exercises this year for the very good reason that there is no poet.. The Call’s spring crop’ of verse is pretty well but if the committee can spare the time we shall be pleased to literary in at present, submit a supply from some of our “steadies. MONEY IN THE WEST. 1 AST year the country began about this time to i L be disturbed by that driiting of money from New York to the West and South that even- tually produced a money stringency in Wall street and brought.about a condition that forced the Sec- | retary of the Treasury to use the money of the na- tion to relieve private business. When the flurry was over last fall we were told it would notshappen again, that the bankers would take proper precau- tions, and everything would go smoothly in future. | Reassurances of that kind were given last winter when Congress failed to enact the desired currency legiclation, and all through the spring they were re- peated with equal emphasis from Washington and from New York; but now that the crop moving sea- son is at hand we get another story. Only a short time ago the Chicago Tribune stated that Chicago banks had prepared for the Western démand for money by withdrawing upward of $20.- 000,000 of their deposits from New York banks, and went on to say: | last fall and since that time have not been returned, 'and when the money firmness arrives this fall the | Eastern “institutions will be saved withdrawals to | the amount mentioned. At the same time Chicago banks are building their reserves to a higher point | | than they were at this time last year, and are expect- xng to go into the autumn demand with 30 per cent of cash. While Chicago has drawn on its New York balances, country correspondents of Chicago | institutions have been doing the same thing here, | and the West now has its surplus funds well® dis- | tributed.” | A similarly cheerful view was presented a short time ago by the Omaha Bee, which in a review of the l‘imaticm said: “It appears from the last report of the Comptroller of the Currency that the chief finan- cial centers represeiting the West—that is, the finan- cial region this side of the Central States—have on deposit almost $£220,000,000, a figure which New York would have not much more than matched only a few years ago. It therefore appears that money is plen- tiful in the West, and, according to the statistics, is being used to goad profit, since the banks which aré made the basis of comparison report unusual in- dividual profits.” Such reports are excellent, but unfortunately the Eastern reports do not confirm the cheerful outiook sof the West. A recent despatch from Chicago to Mr. Hanna knew that parties are | chairmen | entered the Sen- | und to excel | “The funds taken from the East | ! the New York Evening Post stated that there are more borrowers seeking money than money seeking borrowers in Chicago, and that a like condition pre- vails in most of the Western centers. It is further stated that while the reports oi the Comptroller = of the Currency show that in Chicago bank reserves were larger in percentages on June 9 than in April, they were less than“in July last year. In St Louis they were larger than at either date, but the excess over last July was very slight. In Detroit the percentage of reserve was only a trifle larger than it was last July. In Kansas City, Kans, it was less. In Cedar Rapids and St. Joseph the percentage of reserves was smaller on June g than in April, and in the last-named city it was less than in July last. It thus appears that we are likely to have another proof of the importance of providing an elastic cur- rency to meet the requirements.of our annual crop- moving season. There is no' danger of a serious stringency, but there will be some pressure upon the banks, and were it not for the prosperous condi- tion of the country the pressure might be harmidl. As we cannot count on prosperity all the time, pru- dence dictates that we take.advantage of the present season to put our currency system in proper shape to resist disaster when it comes. e e Another amusement has been added to the already long list of summer attractions ‘of Monterey Coupty. In the San Lucas mountains some campers discovered a lion which, after whipping their dogs, attacked one of their own number. The dispatch says the man wa, armed with an antiquated revolver and that “when the lion rushed upon him he shoved the weapon down its throat, but as he had not cocked in the excitement it did not go off.” At this junc- ture the man’s companions, probably wishing to save the revolver, slew the lion and extracted the pistol from its threatened oblivion. S No Fourth of July celebration has ever been | marked within our confines by any conflagra- | tion big enough to be called calamity. Conse- quently we approach the great holiday with little or none of that anxiety that is felt in almost every big city in the East. It is nevertheless worth our while to give some heed to the issue and exercise precau- tion against probable dangers. We have good ordinances regulating the sale and the use of fireworks of all kinds during the holiday; TIME FOR PRECAUTION. i | | | | { T ] AN FRANCISCO has never had a great fire. | a obeyed and a good Fire Department to meet any emergency that arises. We rightfully enough repose confidence in what has been done in that way by the authorities to prevent the occurrence of any ch disaster as some that have well nigh swept away towns and cities in the East. The however, cannot do everything. The citizen should do some- | thing. A little carefulness on the part’ of every householder during the next few days will not entail much of work or trouble upon any one, and yet it may be the means of avoiding serious fires. It may be that at some date in the far distant future the people of the United States will devise some fitter and more worthy means of celebrating the glorious | Fourth, but the change is not likely to come in our ‘ With us the day will remain chiefly a day for the glory of the smalli boy. The orations, the pa- rades and the poems will count as but decorative | features of a theater mainly occupied by a host of | patriotic and exuberant boys exulting in the roar of firecrackers. So we must do our best to make that form of celebration as safe as it is joyous. If every householder will but take care of his own premises there will be do danger for the cit; It will not be | difficult to exercise the simple precautions required | for such care, and it is to be hoped they will be duly observed by all. cit; | city, | time An out-oi-town paper recently announced in an “The remains together with a number of intimate friends will be taken to San Francisco for cremation.” I lines propose a rate war on steerage tickets from Europe. The low rate already charged, which is about $8 from Hamburg, has greatly influenced the enormous and unwelcome immigration to this country from Southeastern Europe. To make a lower rate will simply make it easier fer Europe to sewer upon this country the crime, disease, disorder and lawlessness of the. continent. Time was, when the tillable land on the public domain was open to set- tlement, that we were benefited by the coming of immigrants. from Northern Europe, who were intel- ligently attached to our free institutions and were | willing to go into the fertile wilderness and make | farms and assimilate with us. That immigration put a strong and useful strain into our blood, and those descended from it are now among the best of our citizens. Bat those lands on the public domaia are all taken. The immigration we are _eceiving now adds pain- fully to the congestion of our great cities, packs the tenement quarters beyond the possibility of proper anitation, and festers in the vices of an overcrowded population. While this is going on Americans are going by thousands into the Northwest Territory of | Canada, taking up good farming and grazing lands | and doing for the Dominion what the immigration irom Northern Europe did a half century ago for the | United States. { It requires no wizard to see what will happen to f this country if we continue these two processes. The | spring that loses clean water and gains dirty water | steadily soons becomes a ‘foul fountain. Tt is a com- mon experience to read of great bodies of non-Eng- lish speaking foreigners, in some part of the coun: try, who are banded together in labor strikes and | are defying the law, destroying property and com- mitting murder, and who can be controlled only by the strong military arm of the Government. They fill the places in all occupations that should be occu- pied by our own oncoming generations, and are a nterely physical increment, dangerous to the peace of the country. If the Atlantic steamer lines propose to lure more of them by cheaper rates, there ought to be American statesmanship enough in Congress to narrow the gate through which this unwelcome stream is pouring, and check it until digestion and assimilation have got through with the overload that we have already taken i ° President’s Roosevelt's enthusiasm over his visit to the West has so affected a number of the ~most prominent diplomats in Washington -that thej are shortly coming out here on a visit themselves. Among those contemplating such a trip are the Em- bassadors from Italy, Germany and France, and the Ianten from Spain and China. LOW STEERAGE RATES. | Tis i~ FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY we have a good police force to see that the law is | article on the obsequies over a deceased citizen that: | not pleasant to read that the Atlantic steamer | o - 1903 GRIDIRON HERO TAKES HEIRESS FOR A WIFE - + | { . MRS WILLIAM WESLEY BUR- | i NETT. WHOSE WEDDING | WAS ONE OF NOTE. i - L 4 UPID'S latest triumph in local cir- cles is thé marriage of Miss Viola Piercy, heiress to three millions, and Willlam Wesley Burnett, Stanford’s famous center tackle of the ' 9 and 1900 teams. Their romance began In picturesque Yosemite three years ago and followed the happy couple to the classic halls of Stanford, where they were co-attendants, and led to the altar in this city vester- day. The event was a surprise to many friends of the young couple. The nuptial knot was tied yesterday at the home of the bride's grandmother, Mrs. C. U.Dunphy, on Washington street, | Rev. Father Cottle officiating. | The engagement was kept a close se- cret and it was intended that the wed- ding should be -a- surprisé, but this part | of the plan failed. Definite news of the | intended ailiance leaked out the day be- | fore the ceremony and was at once the subject of much interesting discussion among the friends of the parties to the contract. | None but relatives were present at the | marriage, which occurred at 5 o'clock in | the afternoon. The bride had fio attend- | ants. She was gowned in. white chiffon over satin, with tulle veil and the conven- | tional shower bouquet. The bride is a daughter of the late. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Piercy and a niece o( | Miss Jennie Dunphy. She has a charm- | | ing personality and an affable manner. | By this marriage soclety loses one of its | most fascinating eligibles. | Wiliam Burnett !s best known as | “Babe” Burnett. He entered Stan-. {ford in 18% with the class of 19, and ] during his sophomere year was president of his class. In 1897 this young athiete | immortalized himself and carried off the ! honors in the 28 to 0 game with California. Ever an enthusiastic worker, Burnett or- | ganized a company of cowboys at the be- | ginning of the Spanish-American war, but when he found they would not be needed in the Philippines he enlisted as a private in the Utah Light Artillery and served sixteen months in the islands. Both bride and groom-are universal fa- vorites, and many good wishes for a life of happiness are showered upon them, Mr. and Mrs. Burnett left last evening for Yellowstone Park, where they will | spend a month of their honeymoon. They have not yvet decided whether they will make their home in San Euis Obispo or San Francisco. | and | | | I | Miss Marcelline Louise Blais and Harvey Yeaman were married by the Dr. William Kirk Guthrie of the First Presbyterian Church on Tuesday even- ing, June 3. The bride, a daughter of.| Mr. and Mrs. George N. Blais of Mokel- umne Hill, Ca)., is a handsome and ac- | complished young woman. She has been | spending some months in San Francisco. where she first met Mr. Yeaman last Sep- tember. She was to have returned to her | | home on Tuesday but was persuaded to | remain in San Francisco and become Mrs. Yeaman, hence the informal iwedding. | | there being no objections. The wires were kept busy sending telegrams to.the pa- rents of both parties, and congratulations | have been received. b Mr. Yeaman is a voung lawver, asso- | ciated with a well-known Sanseme street {law firm. He is the son of Hon.-and Mrs. Malcolmn Yeaman of Henderson, Ky., an i old Southern family. having in its ranks | a number of lawyérs and ministers of | prominence. | As soon as Mr. Yeaman can arrange to | leave his office a “short ‘visit will be made lto the parents of the bride. ihe young | couple will then be at home at 625 Hyde street in this cjty. —_— e Building Permit Fees Charged. The Board of Public Works yesterday decided that all who desire to make alter- atlons or improvements in buildings, when such work shall exceed the sum of $0, shall pay a fee for that privilege. Section 5 has been amended to read as follows: The applicant or applicants for such build- ing permit shall pay to the of Public Works the sum of $1 if the estimated cost of | said building or structure or alteration shall be more than $50 and less than $500; and in sums above $500 the same graduated lclle of fees will remaln as heretofore. } Townsend's California glace fruits IM candies, 50c a pound, in artistic etched boxes. A nice present for l:n-n friends. above Cali bldg.* Special information ‘supplied duly to Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 230 fornia street. Telephone 2! H e fu +, £ fi A young negro recentiy applied for. a phuce in the Treasury Department. b “What can you do?” llkvd one of Lho secretaries. - *Anything. sah, anything. “What State are vou from?" He drew himself up proudly. the first State in the Union, sah.” ‘New York?” “No, sah; Alabama, sah “But Alabama isn't the first State in Union.™ - g ‘Alphabetically speaking. alphabetically speaking.”"—Washington Star. 5 o from Pyrography outfits. ’cameras, photo ulhfl- and booh on phot. in Vail k Co.. 41 lllw street. [ be got out of the way. time. _seen (hrough a night: glas | gotiablé paper.. bills 6f-exéhange,. prom SERVIANS WILL MAKE MERRY ' AT >CHUETZEN CAPTURE WILD MAN AND LAND HIM IN PRlSON G ek | 5 REDDING, July 1.—The wild man, who ' has been terrorizing residents east of the river from Redding, has- been captured and now occupies a cell in the County Jail. His name is J. S. Tratler. When | found he was lying in a hole bepeath the | overhanging vines on the bank of the river and from all appearances he had been there several days and had sub- sisted entirely on fruit. He talks in a rambling way. When asked why he left Keswick be said that they were trying to | throw him into the molten slag on thé slag dump. He sald that there were mare , than 200 men buried beneath the molten slag and that they were thrown there to Tratier is insane on_the subject.of elec- tricity and imagines ihat flashes of elec- tricity fly from the hairs of bis head and from the points of his fipgers. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. Guthrié McConnell of Philadelphia = | is at the California. E. C. Johnson, a raacher of Eagle Tree is at the Occidental. Dr. T. R. Heintz of Redding is regls- tered at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. Aifred Bailey of Suisun are at the Occidental. Dr. and Mrs. Solomgn ot Germany are registered at-the Palace. C. A. Chisfiolm, a minlng man of Den- ver, is at the Occidental. Arthur L. Levinsky, an’ aftorfiey ‘of Stockton, is at the Palace. F. H. Kennedy, a hardware merchant of Stockton, is at_the Californja. H. Silver, the néwly appointed Bank' Commissioner, of Eos Angeles is at the Palace. . - i The Rev. E. J. Copaty of Grand.Forks. N. D., brother. of Bishop Conaty of: Los | | Angeles, is & guey at the Palace, having come West fg sce the country The members of the local Italian colony are making preparations fot welcoming the Itallan Embasador at Washington, | | Signor Mayor des Planches, whi has started on a- Western téur and is expect- ed to-arrive here' in about two- weeks’ Californians in New York. NEW. YORK, -Jul$ '1—United States Senator.George C. Perkips and daughter are at the Waldorf. From San ‘Francisco. —G. P. Bennett and, Mrs. C. C.- Kennet, at the Hoffman; C. C. Boylin and T. E” Dunne, at the Rossmore; ex-Congressman E. F. Loud, at the Herald.Square; the Misses Schlund, at the Grand: F. Cock and wife, at the Grand Union;, V. 5. Hush | . and L. A."Shadburne, at the, Manhattan; I J. E. Kelly, at the Earlington; Mrs. 'C. PROMINENT . SERVIANS WHO Lane and Mrs. F. Ollver at -the .New. ARE: PREPARING FOR Amsterdam. . CIETY'S ANNCUAL OU. ANSWERS " TO QL’ERlES. - : ’ g | viam-Maontenegrin Litéras TO MOOSA—S., City. The.distance trom - San Francisco to Moosa, San Diego Coun- ty. Cal, is miles by- rail and eleven miles additional by stage. . TARIFF—Subsc Oakland, Cal. ‘A tariff £ venue" tariff imposed e aid ih the: support of the Government:- tariff for protection™ ‘is for r\Jrrm of protecting industries of various king of a country against the cheap mw pra- of .other countties. THE MILKY. WA¥-J, B: B milky way oWes its p to the blended "light of myriads “The following members will have chargs of the, affair stars, too small to be individualy recog: % iR & S nised with the naked ‘eye, but which are . MATeR3 Caddeteie: aiidcn 5. seen in their true chatactér by means of. Marsha o - o Stanisich: |a !Q\ewuf\e of moderate power. | ovieh: -8 . FUEL BOATS— = ton of the Board of.Harbor mmlumnr | ers of San Francisco provides that “v Gerunovich. S E- J._Gudel); 3 anisich. and “John. K ika- | fuel oil shall rot be allowed whes . empty |- to haul or lie alongside any -vessel, dock, < pier or whatf, and vessels after ha discharged eil - must mmedxneh away from \e:pl or structure. 3 R SIS SRR SIS “Vote of Thanks to Chaneellor. he regular eting. of the. Board .of lution ‘was . Fasher Pairick of the archdio- ridered to. that -, the. rer-u‘ of NIGHT GLASSES—W. F.. City. :As it 1s a’ principle in optics that it is impos- sible by any optical arrangement.what- ever to obtain an image whose brightest part shall- surpass the brightest ‘part of the object,”. it is obvious' that ‘nothing even in the clearest night, can appear as d‘lstm t as’ in daylight adopted Scanlan oh NATIONAL HOLIDAY—A~ O. S, -Ci There is.nothing In the statutes .of "the United. States on the subject of pational holidays; but they providge that as to ne- sory notes, etc., the effect of July. % - Thanksgiving day and December.2 shal; - be: the same ds that of Sunday, or the first day of the wee : 3 { POSTOFFICE—J. D. 8.; City. The fol- lowing figures ‘sheaw the- revenue and ex- penditure of the Postoffice Department of the United States for:the five fiscal years ending June, 1%2: In 1%98—revenpe, $89.- 012,618; expenditures, $98,083523. In 18%4— 95,021,384, $101,682,150:. 1900—$102,254.579, $107.- | 1901—$111,631.193, $115,554,920; " 1902 $124,785.697. " Since 157 there are . but'two years when the revenue exéeeded. - the expenses of the department; that was | in 1565 a,nd 1882, e CURVATURE ol-‘ THE E\RTH—G S. City. The curvature of the earth's sur- . face cannot be perceived by the eye in | merely- gazing upen if from an slévation; this is because the vision i not ;apabié & of the comparison of height, etc.. neces- sary to perceive this-ciirved surface. ‘But camparison of the height. of objects at va- | ricus distances will prove .the' fact . of curvature plainly. For a statute mile the curvaturs is 6.9 inches; for a geographi- cal or nautical mile it is 7.682 inches. Its effect upon the visibility of bbjects may * be thus fllustrated: " If a page of glass is held-against a globe the gbjects will touch only at.one point, the globe’surface con- tinually falling away, from the glass. Sup- pose the ocean to be calm and frozen and a great level sheet of glass be:laid upon it. At one mile from the tangent point the.ocean falls nearly eight inches below | the glass: at three miles, six feet: at nine | miles. more than fifty-four feet,'and so | on.- The number of feet of depression is | equil to ‘two-thirds of the square of the | number of miles for any observable- dis-. | tance. But in estimating .the visibility of | objects it must be .noticed that this de- | pression is partially canceled: by the- phe« nomena of refraction, ‘which cause ob- jects to appear higher than they would if there was no atmosphere. Careful meas- uremenis have shown that. the. errors from refractién average rather more than’ one-seventh of that’ ffom curvature. The rule, therefore, commonly used for carrec- tion of curvature and. refraction is: Square the n»mber of niiles .and take’ four-sevenths of it for the correction in feet. . Thus, if an object is visible at a distance of five miles, we may know that its height is about fourteen and one-third feet. Or, if the height of a visible object is' known—say 100 feet—take one-fourth of this, multiply by 7. and take the square root of this product, which gives the dis- taice of the object, in.this case'a frac- tion. more: than thirteen miles. The error frequently made in computations® of this kind is that there is not taken mnté ac- count the elevation of the observer as weil as of the mo:s-ei observed. “A man MITIMORE - ha:hallen; dflu'mmflth 3 - world to shaw a better whiskey - than itself in. mAhrlIy. purity. -quality, flavor.” A none befter Is. heigh twenty-six miles distant.