The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1903, Page 6

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In reading the testimony given by the | street-car men in this city one is struck by the num- | ber of them who have fdllowed a variety of occupa- | They have been farmers, mechanics, photog- raphers, lawyers, doctors and preachers. Some were sailors, soldiers, stock raisers and speculators. Every ] calling is represented in the list, and all of them say ) that out of their other occupations they had saved 1g ahead when they entered | ation for which they now HE old and solemn book in which is the wis- and the philosophy of life for all | “Seest thou a man | tions nothing and had no! the servic work. ) wer, when questioned on that point, that their present wages make a better steady | income d before, and the super- | intendent of street railroads says that they have | a long and lengthening waiting li applicants for | places in the same employment, which those who | now hold it say yields a wage insufficient for their | support. One feature is very interesting. A majority of the | single men, and ‘these testify that on} | | witnesses are their wage of $2 50 to $2 per day tk can save no money. So, also, the married men with no child- that there is no margin for saving any- | thing, and se with two children tell the same story as the man with eight, though he bravely declared | that he was able to make ends meet by his wife doing | the mending and his cobbling the shoes man with eight children and a wife can make ends meet the single man would seem to be able on the | same wage to save something against the getting of | a wife and the arrival of children. Perhaps if more | of the single men foresaw the time when ten people would be supported and ends met on the wage they | get with only themselves to care for, they would be | diligent in their business and put by something on | interest or n prudent investment. If this were done persistently and thriftily it may be that the railroad company would not have as large a waiting list com- | posed of those who cannot do as well in any other employment. Worldly wisdom pointing the way to independ- encee is something men acquire with difficulty. One need not look only in the ranks of the street-car men | for the lack of it. Everybody remembers General Coxey and his industrial army that got in Washing- ton jail for not keeping “off the grass.” He was a man of property and after his army dissolved went into business as an ironmaster and in other lines. His profits soon rose to nearly $100,000 a year. But now be is in the hands of a receiver. He may soon apply for employment on a street car. He was not content with his large profits but put thiem into spec- ulative enterprises, and now is ready to accuse some- body else, or society, or “conditions” for his losses. But we may not go so far afield as General Coxey for an example of the need of worldly wisdom. All California was startled and disquieted by the failure of Porter Bros. It was revealed that they had not ren compla Now if a | | sons were killed and 3665 seriously injured. | evening. | instead of accidents, deaths. | Cuba. been content to be diligent in their business, but had gone outside of it, to speculate in other lines of trade, and so they went like General Coxey and cannot stand before kings. It is probable that if thrift and diligence were made the rule of life by men who must work out their own independence and abstention from outside specula- tion were their rule after their period of indepen- dence began, there would be less complaints of in- sufficiency of wages and fewer established businesses in the hands of receivers. One thing is sure, the man wlo deliberately adopts labor as a profession, never trying and never expect- ing to get beyond the condition of a wage worker, is a man destined to dependence all his days and to stand before mean mep THE GLORIOUS FOURTH R have been compiled by the Chicago Tribune for 197 cities and towns. They show that in the celebration of the day in those localities 52 per- The fire loss amounted to $400,625. The list does not cover the whole country, but it is sufficiently large to direct public attention to the | folly of continuing a form of celebration which, how- ever appropriate to the early days of the republic, is no longer suitable to our time. With crowded populations in large cities it is no longer possible to indulge in a general license of fireworks and tpy pistol shooting with impunity. Stringent police regulations have been enacted in almost every city and town and yet it is impossible to have them thor- oughly enforced. Even where no regulation is vio- lated accidents happen and disasters follow. Bad as is the list of this year it is by no means so bad as many that have preceded it, or as some that are like- ly to iollow unless a change be made in the method of celebration. 5 A critic of the day has referred to the customary form of celebrating the Fourth as “a brutal debauch of noise and stench and fire and death.” That of course is an unfair statement, but nevertheless it describes accurately enough a phase of the celebra- tion which cannot fail to strike every observer. of snapping crackers and blazing rockets as an evi- dence of patriotic fervor and a riot of genuine Amer- icanism; the fact remains that to most people it is merely a day of noise and danger. is it that thousands of people leave the cities for the sake of getting rid of the celebration as if it were a nuisance. Surely there is neither patriotism nor reason in perpetuating a custom that has become so obnoxious to so large a percentage of the people. A reformation in the form of celebrating the great day is perhaps not so impossible as appears at first thought. method of observing the day unless we supply some- thing better to take its place, but American enter- prise and ingenuity will not find that an impossible task. The growing esthetic sense of the people ren- ders it quite feasible to substitute some form of pageant and parade accompanied by sports and games that would be more agreeable to the general | mass of the people than the present custom of pop- ping fire crackers and, so far from driving city people out of town, would have the effect of bringing out- siders to the city to share in the general holiday. The feasibility of the plan appears to have been demonstrated by what was accomplished on the re- | cent Fourth of July in Springfield, Massachusetts. In that city there has been organized a permanent “Independence Day Association,” and it has arranged a celebration which is reported to have been the most thoroughly enjoyable that city has ever known. The day began with parades, some stately and some fan- tastic, that led the people out of town to the parks, where music, orations and games were provided to | hold them not only through the day but through the Nearly the whole body of the people ap- pears to have taken part in the public celebration, and the general verdict was one of approval and com- mendation of the work and the programme of the | association. > Of course the affair was not perfect, for nothing ! of the kind can be perfected on the first attempt. A correspondent of the Republican in reviewing it says: “Experience must be the teacher here as in all ithings. We shall leave plenty of room in which the small boy can have that joy on which he so much counts, but for the hulking rowdy, who has hitherto seized upon this day to invade the rights of society, there will be a sharper and more thorough policy of suppression. To him we owe the devilment which has so wantonly distorted the day and made it so far a national reproach instead of a blessing. Those who love good order and peace and a rational cele- bration are in overwhelming majority against the | s element. law The right of the majority has been asserted this year beyond other years in Springfield, year we shall do even better along the line Much remains to and ne: of ¢ ation and good sense. be done. Why, in fact, should bedlam be let loose on the streets of a city during so many hours of the Fourth?” Springfield will have » better celebration next year than this year because her people have started on the road to reform. to improve. Other cities however will be no better | off than before, because they have not even started | to improve. It would be well therefore if we could have a general following of the Springfield example. When once begur: progress will be steadily main- | tained and by and by we, shall have a Fourth of July to delight in 2nd to be proud of, and the news- papers of the following day will be full of reports of music, oratory, recreations and healthful games disasters, fires, injuries and Only a few of our troops remain as guardians of the peace and directors of the early life of republican It will be interesting to watch how the baby will act when all the soldiers have gone and fear of the correctional lash has been removed. l stant praise of himself in his own papers is stock for constant laughter to the general public, and no doubt of grief to his judicious friends if he have any. Taking him at his own estimate he is the uni- versal regulator of things. The readers of his papers, if they believe all they get in them, must be the vic- tims of more misinformation than the heathen in his blindness. Readers of Mr. Hearst's papers are in- formed that the whole country is waiting on the tip- toe of expectancy to make him President. Wher- ever labor unions and Democratic conventicles are assembled Mr. Hearst says his name is hailed above all others as the favorite son of the republic, the prophet, seer and revelator of all things, the suc- cessor of Jefferson and Jackson and the next candi- date and the next President. Recently the Towa Democratic Convention met at Des Moines, dumped Bryan and his isms and an- nounced that the party in that State is again clothed and in its right mind. Mr. Hearst says in his Examiner that he, William Randolph Hearst, was referred to by the convention as “the great champion of Democracy to-day, of great influence, an inspiring personality and of heroic labors.” Whereupon Mr. Hearst says, “There was the greatest demonstration of the day at the men- tion of William Randolph Hearst” Now we- have had the report of that convention in a half dozen Democratic papers of Iowa, some of them the larger country press and some of them dailies published in the larzer cities of the State. and none of them men- IS HE DAFT? S HEARST crazy with self-esteem? The con- EVISED figures of Fourth of July casualties | It | | is all well enough to speak of the licensed uproar | So disagreeable | It is true we cannot abolish the existing | Experience will teach them how | ! tions Hearst, nor does his name appear in their de- tailed reports of the convention. The Associated Press report of the convention makes no mention of | his name having been heard. Assuming that the Democratic press of Iowa would not fail to note the | “greatest demonstration of the day” at mention of | Mr. Hearst’s “inspiring personality,” we are led to | the conclusion that he was not mentioned at all and | that his report of his high ‘qualities in his own paper is a hypodermic revery. o ——— Our irrepressible and pugnacious friends the Ven- | ezuelans have added another item of stupidity to | their record by seizing several American trading boats. Some of these days they may have occasion to look at the map of South America and find that they are not on it ——— A SOUTHERN PROBLEM. CONSIDERABLE number of Southern A sociologists have been discussing with more or less pessimism the migration of white men from the South to the Northern and the Western States. The migration is large enough to constitute a serious drain upon the country and the effect is the more hurtful because those who migrate are in many instances members of the most progressive and enterprising element of the population. Those who take a gloomy view of this white migration believe that it will leave the South at last in the hands of | a white race too weak numerically and industrially | to bear the burden of the black race with patience | and srccess. Of the serious extent of the migration there can be no doubt. The census of 1000 shows that in that | year upward of 1,500,000 white persons of Southern | birth were living in the Northern and Western States, | while only 750,000 persons from the North and West | were living in the South. Moreover the South had | only 350,000 persons of foreign nativity within her confines at that time. Thus the South had lost a ! balance of about 400,000 of her white people by the Of course a sparsely settled country like | migration. | the Southern States cannot lose so large a percent- | age of its more intelligent population without suf- fering, and Southern thinkers are wondering how the migration can be checked and what will happen | if it continue in the future as in the past. The evil is probably not so bad as the Southerners | deem it. The South has no large cities, and, as a | consequence, men who prefer a metropolitan life | must of necessity leave those States. Secondly, she | has had in times past hardly more than a single in- dustry, and men not content to be planters or pro- | fessional men have had to go North or West in search of a field suitable to their talents or their jtasttsA Those conditions are rapidly changing. f There is indeed no city in the South so located from | a commercial point of view as to justify any expec- | tation that it will ever be a metropolis like the larger cities of the North and West, but the development of manufacturing industries gives assurance that there will be in the South many considerable indus- trial centers capable of not only holding their own youth, but of attracting immigrants from other States. The percentage of migration is therefore likely to be much smaller in the immediate future than in the past; and it is not improbable that at a | future not very remote, the balance of migration may turn the other way and show in the South a number of white immigrants in excess of the number of white Southerners who have gone elsewhere. The extent of the recent industrial progress of the South was recently summed up by the statement: “Between 1880 and 1900 the value of Southern farm property increased by 72 per cent, against 62 per | cent for the whole Union; of farm products nearly | 100 per cent, though the increase in population was only 44 per cent. Its capital invested in manufac- | turing increased 348 per cent, against a gain for the | whole Union of 2352 per cent, and the value of the | manufactured products 219 per cent, against only 142 for the whole Union. From a production of | 397,000 tons of pig iron in 1880 the South had in- 1crcascd to more than 3,000,000 tons in 1902; from | 6,000,000 tons of coal in 18% to 60,000,000 in 1902.” With progress like that going on the young South- erner will soon find work and wages enough at home to render him content and he will not have to wan- der off in search of employment or of a career. There | is in fact no justification for the gloomy views which | some persons are taking of the white migration from the South. We are a migratory people. Young | men are leaving Massachusetts and New York as well as Georgia and Virginia. In the fullness of time, | when the population becomes settled, there will be no section of the Union that will not have within its confines a population sufficiently numerous and ‘sufliciently strong to develop its resources and as- sure its civilization. ——————— In the splendid reception which our fighting sail- ors have received in England there is certainly no element except that of gratification. While courte- sies between nations involve stupendous issues and results, they have still the fine flavor and the grace of friendly intercourse between individuals. Veracious and indefatigable correspondents are again busy with our relations with Russia, and the pen and ink horizon is darkening with the ominous clouds of war. Meanwhile Russia and the United States are living in peace and with feelings of the completest friendship toward each other. Jackson, Ky., has at last found a man brave enough or incomprehensibly reckless enough to agree to become the Town Marshal. Possibly he feels that in some manner distinction will cling to the victim of assassination, or he may have taken this unique way in which to commit suicide. The conference of Muscovite officials at Port Ar- thur ought to be proof positive of Russian aggression that even he who runs may read. The Russian bear is not easily frightened from his prey and it may be that he would not object in his meal to a slice of Japanese territory. The stage robber is again abroad in the land and another stageful of summer excursionists has been relieved of money and jewelry. The highwayman probably feels that he has a vested right to a divi- sion of the spoils intended for the keepers of sum- mer resorts. It is announced that the Panama Canal treaty is gaining friends in Colombia. This seems to be an ominous developmert in the case, as Uncle Sam has already made provision to handle the enemies of the treaty and hardly expected to be compelled to subdue its friends as well. One of our esteemed fellow citizens appealed to the courts the other day for the privilege of changing his name on the 2o\md that his friends made fun of it. | His friends doubtless associated his qualities with i his name. ¢ SATURDAY, CITY ENGINEER COMPLETES PLANS FOR SPLENDID SCHOOL BUILDINGS ULY 11. 1903. | | | | | | | | | i | | [ 1 PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. L S. Hill of Pittsburg is at the Occidental. v C. F. Schmidt is at the Grand. W. P. Johnson, a druggist of Los Ga- tos, is at the Grand. J. Grover, a hardware merchant of Co- lusa, is at the Grand. M. J. Nightingale, a merchant of Oak- dale, s at the Palace. J. E. McCaffey, a merchant of Paso| Robles, is at the Russ. H. Boynton, a lumber merchant of Sui- sun, is stopping at the Occidental. | | H. Mallock, superintendent of the| | Marysville Woolen Mills, is at the Grand. H. F. Siewald, a mining man and mer- chant of White Horse, Alaska, is at the | Russ. { J. A. Neu, a business man of Fresno, is among the latest arrivals at the Occl- dental. E. Hockmeyer, a wealthy young coffee planter of Northern Guatemala, is at the Palace. Patrick Clark, a millionaire mining man of Spokane, and family are registered at | the Palace. | Dr. W. 8. Taylor of Livermore is spend- | ing a few days in the city and is stop- | ping at the Palace. 8. L. Aggers, a member of one of the leading produce firms of Seattle, is reg- istered at the Russ. ‘Walter James, superintendent of an ir-| rigation company at Bakersfield, is a guest at the Occidental. | Baron Hocker von Schwartzenfeldt, who was recently relieved as German Charge d’Affaires in the city of Guate- mala, and German Consul Henry Payen of the same place arrived from Central America yesterday and are registered at the Palace. They are on their way to Germany. Advices received by steamer from the south yesterday were to the effect that Mme. Algerie Regina Barrios, widow of Guatemala's late President, boarded the vessel at Panama and was a passenger as far as San Jose de Guatemala. She was returning to her old home from Paris, where she resided several years| after her visit to this country and her | fallure to arrange for a theatrical en- gagement in New York. a merchant of Orland, Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 10.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: From San Francisco—M. B. Longnel, at the Herald Square; J. Crager, at the Rossmore; D. M. Morris, at the Imperial; A. V. Scheppelman, at the Union Square; J. G. Webb, at the Grand Union; S. V. Strong, at the Grand; A. Hanford and Mrs. J. Wilson, at the Everett. From Los Angeles—J. H. Attig and wife, at the Albert; O. Horner and Mrs, Free- man, at the Broadway Central; C. F. Pate and wife, at the Grand Union; M. H. Wells, at the Hoffman. From San Diego—F. S. Wines, at the Broadway Central. ——————— Estee Settles Up. Ry the payment of $2000 by M. M. Estee, Unjted States District Judge of Hawaii and who was at one time a candidate for gubernatorial honors in this State, he has secured a flling of a satisfaction of the judgment for $10.650 obtained against him in February, 192, by Isaac Trumbo. It was filed yesterday by J. M. Lewis, to whom the judgment was assigned by Trumbo. The judgment was obtained on a suit on a promissory note executed by Estee. ——— Opposes Public Administrator. An opposition to the petition for let- ters of administration on the estate of Samuel Gilmore, filed by the Public Ad- ministrator, was instituted yesterday by Virginia Gilmore. Gilmore died last March, leaving a widow and several rel- atives. They object to the administra- tion handling the estate and the widow authorized the contestant to file a coun- ter application. The estate is valued at ————— Petitions in Bankruptey. Petitions in bankruptcy were filed yes- terday in the United States District Court as follows: J. F. Murphy, clerk, San Francisco, liabilities $637, no assets; W. A. Grimmell, boarding-house keeper, San | Mateo, liabilities $1315, no assets; John Gottstein, grocer, San Francisco, liabili- ties $3309, no assets. —_———— Townsend's California glace fruits and | LANS and specifications for the proposed new grammar schools and the in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern riends. P! 715 Market' st., above Call bldg. e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the ?."- Clipping_Bureau (e.ll-n 's), 230 c..u' new polytechnic high school were made public yesterday by City Engineer Grunsky. The electors will soon decide if these build- irgs shall be erected by casting their votes on the bond issue. The polytechnic school is to be erected on the south side of Plne street, west of Larkin, while the grammar schools are to be located at Washington and Masen, Carl and Stanyan and Union and Mont- gomery streets. ‘The estimated cost of the polytechnic high school is $375.000, and the plans for the building describe it as follows: This buiiding, which is aiso to be used as an | evening technical school of architecture and | naval design, is planned to be a brick struc- | ture faced with pressed brick and trimmed with sandstone. It is to be in part two, part three and in part four stories high. An entrance vestibule flanked by Doric columns will lead to the first floor. On the first floor will be a reception room, a room for the principal, a library room, six class rooms, a room for mechanical drawing. a woodworking shop, lumber and finishing rooms and waste, locker and toilet rooms. ROOMS FOR THE ARTS. On the second floor will be five class rooms, a freehand drawing and color room, a room for instruction in woodcarving, another for in- struction in clay modeling, besides waste, locker and tollet rooms, also rooms intended for_sewing and cooking. The third floor is to be used for the evening school, space being provided for mechanical engineering, for architectural drawing. for electrical and marine engineering and mathe- matics. On this floor there will also be a library and model room and an assembly hall with a seating capacity of 1200. Space above the assembly hall is to be utilized as a room in | + | | | | | | | | | ol | | | PRoFo/ED | r FoLyTeCHNMS I Hiad fenool. | - — B | PLANS PREPARED BY CITY ENGINEER FOR NEW SCHOOL BUILD- | INGS WHICH WILL BE ERECTED PROVIDED THE CITIZENS OF | | SAN FRANCISCO FAVOR THE BOND ISSUE. | | : S e e § models | for, preparing templatis and patterns. and the I'ke, and other rooms remain availabic for instruction in architecture and mining. Space for iron shops, smithy and foundry fs provided on the ground floor, aiso for emgines and boilers, for chemical and physical labora tories and for a heating and ventilating plant The estimated cost of the new grammar schools is $108,000 for each building. The plans describe the proposed schoolhouses | as follows: These school buildings are to be finished in the French Renaissance style of architecture. They are to be practically four stories high. The bases of the structures are to be finished in granite, the first stories in gray sandstone, the rest of the buildings in buff-colored pressed | brick with terra cotta trimmings. ELABORATE ENTRANCES. The main entances, including columns, cor- nices and balustrades, are planned to be sand- | stone. The stairways are to be made fire- | proot and inciosed by fireproof walls. 107, ihe ground floors there will be the assem- | bly hall two large manual training rooms, | laboratorfes, rooms of the janitor, a kitchen | for the teachers and dressing-rooms. The as- | sembly halls will be a special feature of these hool buildings. They will be elliptical in ape, with stages. asbestos curtains, oms, private boxes and inclined main floors and Inclined entrance approaches. On the first floor will be seven and on the second eight classrooms, besides smail rooms for various purposes, as shown in the draw- ings. On the third floor or attic of each building is to be the gymnasium, with running track Tnd modern appliances, bathrooms, and the ike. The roofs of these buildings will be slate The buuz]flnn 'm to be well ventilated and heated, plants for this purpose to be locat: the basements. . —_——— The elephant has a trunk. Have you? If not. buy on._rh-om Leibold Harness Co., st. 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