The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 16, 1903, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1903 The Sl Call. vevsessa.JULY 16, 1903 THURSDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. A A A A A A A Address All Communications to W. 5. LEAKE. Manager. e A A A A A P TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS. . 217 te 221 Stevens t. DeinudbyCarflen.MCu.PuWeek."‘Ca Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Terme by Mafl, Inciuding Postage (Cash With Orden)r DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), oBe Year... $8.00 DAILY CALL @ncluding Sunday), € months DAILY CALL—By Single Month SUNDAY CALL, One Year.. WEEELY Call, One Year. Mafl subscribers 1n ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. OAKLAND OFFICE. 1118 Broadway.... ..Telephone Main 1083 BERKELEY OFFICE. £148 Cemter Street.........Telephone North 77 C. 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This paper will also be on sale at all summer is represented oy & local agent in the coast. TEE TURBINE STEAMER. PARATIVELY ntry to the recent trial trip of the British Channel d of steamship propulsion. In event has been noted as le attention was given s co Queen across the under Great cient size to carry be commercially useful. ttended the trial has been hailed the triumphs of the turbine, d that within a few be as common on the ocean as years London exchanges that the 310 feet, 2 molded breadth of of 25 feet » the ordinary channel steamer larger accommodations for pas- red mile she made a speed of She is in every re- nd it was found she could be and seven seconds, or within or two and a half times test steamers now plying s require seventy-five min- trip in the best weather. The Queen 1 ninutes, so that the a ferry over which little incon ent of the Westminster Gazette, who with the Queen on her trial, says: She has more reserve power than the old boats; she expected to prove more economical in steam and coal con ption, and the upkeep of her en- gines will be less costly in many ways than that of the existing type of engines. Those throbbing mo- tions which accompany the working of the pistons in ordinary ergines are banished, and thg turbine’s ab- sence of ill be welcome by those who dread the tos . The chiei defect in t he new engine is that of an incapacity for going backward as readily as the ex- engines. The Queen, for example, can be driven ahead at a rate of twenty-two knots, but her speed astern is only thirteen knots, and special tur- bines for reversing have to be provided even to at- tain that speed. Atlantic captains wish to be able to go ahead or astern 2t the same rate of speed, and consequently ship builders and owners have been slow in adopting the rotary method of propulsion. It is the belief of the inventor that he will be eventually able to overcome the defect complained of | and to equip a steamer with turbine engines that will drive her ahead or astern at a rate of thirty knots. The engine, indeed, is far from being per- fjected. The first “turbiner” was launched in 1897, and the craft was hardly large enough to count for more than 2 model. The British Government had two small war craft fitted with the turbine engines and they proved exceptionally fast, one of them making thirty-five and the other thirty-nine knots on trial, but both were lost at sea. There is now only one war vessel on the sea with turbine engines, and she is not dependent on them, being fitted with ordinary engines for general use, and resorting to the turbine only for exceptional cases where high speed is de- sired. Outside of the Government experiments the con- struction of steamers with the turbine engines has been limited to two small steamers plying on the Clyde and three pleasure yachts, in addition to the Queen. There is now in process of construction, however, an ocean steamer for the Atlantic trade that » /Il give the new form of propulsion a full and fair trial. She is expected to make twenty-five knots on an average across the Atlantic and to be the swiftest ocean greyhound afloat. The inventor is sanguine of even better results than that. He claims that the larger the vessel the greater will be the ad- vantage of substituting rotary for reciprocating en- gines; that there will be gains of speed, economy and evenness of motion, and that in the near future Juxurious liners with turbine engines will transport passengers across the Atlantic in four days, and pos- sibly in three. raveling 2t a 20-knot speed her | ANTIPODAL EXPERIMENTS. | EW ZEALAND acquired a world-wide repu- | N tation as the land where there were no strikes. | This was ascribed to the compulsory arbitra- tion. The arbitrators depended, immediately or proximately, on politics for appointment to their office. The system was vehemently demanded by the labor unions, whose membership included only one-third of the working people of the colony. But they were organized and formed a compact body of | voters in politics. They got their arbitration board and then immediately began aggressive demands upon it. Outside the success of these demands was taken to be evidence of the success of the system, and so- cialist and labor union writers have spread abroad the idea that New Zealand was an industrial paradise, where everything flourished. A Wellington corre- :spondcnt of the London Times joins many other ob- servers in giving the other side of the picture. The colony has only 750,000 inhabitants. Careful ob- | servers were always cautious about accepting results | of such an experiment in a small community as evi- dence that its principles applied to large countries would produce like results. In mechanism many an inventor has produced a model that worked beauti- | fully, as a model, but failed utterly when put to a l larger, practical use. So thinkers looked on wun- | | moved at what was claimed to be the success at- | | tained by New Zealand, as a model, and felt no haste | to apply the principle to the greater work of the | !;wor'.d. Now evidence accumulates that the model has failed, as a model. Through politics organized labor succeeded so well | in its aggressions that a reaction has set in. The wages of labor have been so advanced as to make | production unprofitable. products can be imported cheaper than they can be | | made, and are closing their plants. Organized labor | |is being thrown out of employment because capital | | will not invest in enterprises and abandons those that | were established. { One effect of the system is of local interest just now. Beginning with the first arbitrary advance in | wages the cost of living rose also. When that oc- | curred a demand was made for another raise in wages | and was granted, as being necessary to level up the | purchasing power of wages with the the necessaries of life. No sooner did this succeed than | | the cost of living rose again. The erection of houses | | cost more, and rents went up. All production was ; | made more costly and it took more to live. A natural | law was in battle with artificial regulation, and nat- | ural Taw won, as it always does. At last production | ‘in many lines has become so costly that it is ceasing 5 | altogether, and labor is thrown back upon the pub- | lic works and pensions, which have to be supported | | by taxation. Again, a rise in taxes means a rise in | he cost of living, and natural law gives battle once | rise in | more to artificial device | Having abandoned the natural adjustment of pro- | duction by competition and the fitting of the cost | of necessaries to self-adjusted wages, it has at last dawned upon the people that artifice has made their condition worse than it could possibly have been had artifice been avoided in the first place. The Employ- | ers’ Association first took action and denounced the system as not beneficial but injurious. Then fol- lowed a meeting of labor unions and socialists, | which discussed the system and condemned it by vote [ When the progressive devices of New Zealand were | boasted as a solution of all social problems other countries were emboldened to persist in experiments | already in action for the application of academi theories to the affairs of life. The postal telegraph in | England had long been a Government business ac- | | tivity. The advocates of government ownership in | this country, emboldened by the seeming success of! | artificial devices in the antipodes, pushed their de- | | mands. Now it transpires that the British taxpayer is getting tired of supporting the postal telegraph. | Last year the telegraph deficit was $4,753,700. This | deficit was mostly produced by yielding to aggres- | sive demands for an increase in wages and safaries. | | The English telegraph employes have a vote and use t to coerce politicians into an increase of pay, to be ranted without regard to the quality or quantity of | heir work. With this large deficit they are asking | for more and reject the offer of the British Post- | master General to submit their demand to a com- mittee of business men, preferring to go directly to Parliament, where, by political influence, they are { sure to win, as they always have. Much has been heard about the cheapness of tele- | graphing in England. But, cheap as it is, a vast | | majority of the taxpayers make infrequent use of it, ; | or none at all. Yet by taxation they pay the bills of | those who do use it. This seems to be one of the | | evils of government ownership. It indicates that | justice requires, if such ownership is to prevail, that | all public utilities owned by Government should be bonded and interest and "current expenses should | be charged to those who use them, in the price of such use, so that the non-user will be freed of their support. As it is difficult to find a public utility that is used equally by all taxpayers, this is the only just ; | system. By this and a proper system of accounting } it will soon be demonstrated whether Government | can carry on business as successfully as an individual | or a private corporation. Government ownership has been propagated so far | exclusively upon the idea of its superior cheapness. Any degree of cheapness can.be reached when de- ficits are met by general taxation. The case may be | very different when each utility has to be maintained only by those who use it. For instance, if the Eng- lish postal telegraph had been maintained last year only by its users their telegraphing would have cost them $4.753,700 more than it did, and the burden of that deficit would not have fallen upon the tax- payer. i | Cornelius Vanderbilt entertained Emperor Williamy the other day on his superb yacht. And still wagging tongues will say that the Emperor is hard to please. THE MANCHURIAN MUDDLE. T the close of the Boxer rebellion, and after A Peking had been made safe for the foreign legations, the United States, England, Ger- many, France, Japan, Italy and Russia, which had all been represented on Chinese soil by troops and in her waters by warships, agreed with each other and with China to evacuate the country at fixed dates. This agreement was a formal international treaty be- tween its signatories. They have all kept faith ex- cept Russia. She is still in Manchuria, where she was when she gave her word to leave. She has used her position there to coerce China into granting to her permanent occupancy and control of North China, and she has lied about it to the powers that took her word to evacuate. If the armies of the other signatories were still | within recall they would be justified in attacking her and driving her across the Yalu River. But they are not there. She astutely figured on getting them out of the way and succeeded. Having been foiled in her scheme for forcing China to part permanently with Manchuria, she now demands that all other foreign- ers be excluded from that province for six years, promising that at the end of that time they may be admitted. This is an impudent and insufferable prop- osition. It means, even if kept in good faith, and there is every reason to doubt that it would be, that Russia shall have six years in which to entrench her trade and military position and Russianize the prov- ince. It is to be hoped that Japan will feel able to take the initiative against this Muscovite iniquity, and all the rest of the world will rejoice if she give the brutal bear the drubbing he has earned. It is un- likely that the United States will have occasion to interfere. But if our hand become necessary in such a war, there is no nation that ought to feel its weight more than Russia. In all the relationships of life it is conceded that one good turn deserves another. This may remind Fire Commissioner Parry that since Mayor Schmitz had temerity enough to whitewash him when the operation was necessary in the cause of public de- cency, Commissioner Parry ought now in the same worthy cause to apply the whitening brush to Mayor Schmitz. AN OMITTED “DON'T." UR Eastern fellow countrymen are sweltering through a heated spell that is not only tor- rid, but horrid, and our Eastern exchanges Manufacturers find that | are daily advising them to keep cool, and occasion- | ally publishing a long list of “don’ts” intended to in- duce them to abstain from things, thoughts and ac- tions that tend to superheat the blood and produce prostration. A specimen illustration of the weather reports of that section of the country and of the editorial com- ment upon it is furnished in a recent issue of the New York Tribune. In its news columns it headed a long array of names of persons killed or pros- trated on the streets the day before by saying: “It was intensely hot yesterday. It was the hottest day of the year. The temperature ranged between 71 degrees at 6 a. m. and 94 at 4 p. m. The record for the year previous to yesterday was g1 degrees, re- corded on May 20. Ten deaths and thirty-six pros- trations were reported. According to the Weather Bureau there is relief in sight to-day. The forecast made public last night was as follows: ‘Friday, fair, followed by thunder showers in the afternoon or night. Saturday, showers and cooler. Variable winds." The deaths and prostrations follow.” The deaths and prostrations that follow make a fearful list for a single day in a single city. It is worse than a battle during the Spanish war. Edi- torially on the same day the Tribune began a long list of “don’ts” by saying: “Don’t hurry; don't walk on the sunny side of the street; don't wear a heavy black hat and thick, stuffy clothes; don't drink al- coholic liquors, or beverages rich with sugary syrups, or ice-cold water; don’t wear a high, tight collar; don’t fill your stomach with rich, highly spiced carbona- ceous food; don’'t worry; don't swear at the weather forecaster—he is doing his best.” Thus the advice runs trippingly on from “don’t” to “don’t.”” The list is long, varied, glittering, learned, incisive, picturesque, ascetic, charitable, pitiful, pro- voking and slightly fatiguing. Indeed, when read in the sweltering heat of New York it must have been | very fatiguing, and one can readily conceive a reader saying with a gasp for breath, “This makes me tired.” Despite the'length and the variety of the list, how- ever, it is by no means comprehensive. The most im- portant “don’t” to believe that the writer himself was prostrated be- fore he completed his article. The omitted “don’t” is just this: “Don’t stay in the Eait; Go West. Don't swelter in New York. Go to San Francisco and get vigorous.” If our Eastern exchanges would impress that “don’t” upon their readers there would be less suffering over there and more happy people over here. William Jennings Bryan is authority for the as- sertion that the reappearance and present activity of | Grover Cleveland in American politics are simply a comedy. It was probably for personal reasons | that William Jennings did not say farce, as he in- sists upon his own monopoly of that phase of Amer- can public life. A BEER CONCENTRATE. T compounding or concentrating articles of food or drink is reported from London, and con- sists of a “beer concentrate,” recently submitted for inspection at a meeting of the British brewers. The invention is not quite equal to a beer tablet which a man could carry around ifl his pocket, but it is the next thing to that and may eventually lead to it. In describing the invention the Westminster Ga- zette says: “Shorn of all technical detail, concen- trated beer, which is of the consistency of treacle, is a pure and unadulterated hopwort produced by the mashing of hops and malt. No sugar whatever is added. The concentrate when ready is poured into tins or drums and hermetically sealed, in which form it is proof against all climatic changes.” From 56 pounds of the concentrate there can be made 36 gallons of “sparkling light pale ale.” All the pur- chaser has to do is to add to the concentrate a quan- tity of water in proportion to the strength which he prefers in his beer, put in the yeast, which is shipped with the concentrate, and allow time for fermenta- tion. It is claimed that a good beer can be furnished in that way at a cost of not exceeding twenty-five cents a gallen even in the wilds of South Africa. The story is a pleasing one and the reference to light sparkling pale ale is enticing, but despite the assurances that the mixture is pure and unadulter- ated, the chances are that we have here another one of those cheap and easy ways of manufacturing arti- cles for food and for drink which have become such an abomination in our markets. Recently the author- ities of Minnesota are reported to have found men making strawberry jam out of hay seed with an ad- mixture of glucose and a little coloring and flavor- ing material. That mixture was also called “pure.” It had nothing in it but genuine vegetable substances. No consumer, however, likes to be fed on hay seed when he asks for strawberries and pays for them. The “beer concentrate” is of no great importance in itself, but it is another step in the direction of the wholesale “sophistication” of all sérts of food and drink, so that in the end we may yet see man- kind throwing fine fruit and grapes to hogs, while HE latest novelty, or deviltry, in the way of | converting hay seed and refuse into desserts and wines for themselves. of all is omitted, which inclines one | LOBEL IS SANGUINE OVER PROJECT FO | S, ‘WO years wlill be all that is 6 6 necessary to complete the tunneling of Bering Stralts and withinsix years the rall- road that will connect two great hemispheres will be in full opera- tion."” Loicq de Lobel, the French geographer, who has formulated extravagant plans forsees the realization of his gigantic the waters that separate the Stberian and Alaskan shores, was in a most sanguine | mood when seen yesterday in his apart-| ments at the Palace. Other than In a | general way he had little to add to what was told in yesterday's Call of his great project, which, in fact, has as its most enterprising and interesting feature the proposed tunnel under the Straits of Ber- ing, a distance of thirty-seven miles, which he does not regard as a very dif- | | ficult task or one that will involve a | period of labor of more than two years. | It is mainly to the ingeunity of Amer- ican engineers that De Lobel looks for the solution of the problem as to which will | be the best means of carrying out his| | plans insofar as they apply to the Ber- | | ing Straits portion of his undertaking. | The American, he argues, is capable of accomplishing the work which many have been pleased to refer to as a difficult feat, | but which he regards as being no more difficult than the construction of a great tunnel beneath the channel from Dover to Calais, a proposition which has been pro- nounced perfectly feasible. A FEASIBLE PROJECT. In discussing this subject yesterday De Lobel sald: We purpose to have a large and airy tunnel, possibly two and, if necessary, three. The d tance to undermine is thirty-seven miles and we have fhoroughly acquainted ourselves with the condition of the bottom of the waters un- der which we intend to operate. It is of a granite formation and just the sort that will best serve our purposes, in that it will,be a @ it @ PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. F. B. Jones and family are guests at the Lick. R. M. Green, a2 mining man of Oroville, is at the Lick. Dr. D. E. Blackburn of Halfmoon Bay t the Grand. C. B. Andross, a merchant of Marys- ville, is at the Lick. Assemblyman F. E. Dunlap of Stock- ton is at the Lick. J. Ross Trayner, a business man of for beiting the globe with steel ralls and | scheme, which involves a route beneath | | PROJECTOR OF ALASKAN- || SIBERIAN RAILWAY, AND || MAP OF PROPOSED ROUTE. i -+ | safeguard against leakage and most formidable in resisting the great pressure that will have to be contended with. The larger of the two Diomede islands will be used probably for a compressed air station and repair shops. We | have taken soundings of the entire breadth of | the straits and find that the average depth of the water is 150 feet. WIith these facts before us, our engineers have estimated that it will | cost in the neighborhood of $65,000,000 to bufld the tunnels and their connections. Referring to his maps, De Lobel showed | where it was purposed to enter into traffic | arrangements with the transcontinental lines of the United States for the trans- portation of passengers across the coun- try from New York to San Franecisco and | then northward to Seattle, from whence his own company will build still farther northward to Bering Straits, by way of Juneau, penetrating the various rich min- eral districts of the northern possession, which he figures will in ten years’ time be thickly populated and be ylelding enor- mous quantities of tin, gold, copper and other metals and eventually developing into one of the greatest agricultural places in the world. From the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian road at Irkutusk, on the other side, to the coast, northward at a point directly opposite the Marysville, is at the Lick. J. G. Scott, a paper manufacturer of Agnews, is at the California. R. L. Holman, a merchant of Pacific Grove, is registered at the Grand. C. L. Splivalo, a capitalist of Belmont, and Mrs. Splivalo are stopping at the Palace. Mark L. McDonald Jr., son of the well known Santa Rosa capitalist, was among vesterday’s arrivals at the California. James A. Wilder, son of the late 8. G. ‘Wilder of Honolulu, who was president of the steamship company that bears his name, arrived from Paris yesterday and is registered at the Occidental. He is re- turning to his old home on the islands. Wager Swayne of New York, son of a former Justice of the United States Su- preme Court, has been a guest at the Palace for several days. To-day, accom- panied by his aunt, Mrs. Parsons, a wealthy woman of Washington, he wiil leave for Honolulu on the steamer So- noma. He is connected with the United States Steel Company. —_————— Pictures and Frames. Everybody likes nicely framed pictures, and everybody can have them nicely framed if they will let us do the (r&mlng. New moldings, new mat boards and bind- ing papers just received. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Mark treet. L ——————————— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 15.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—A. A. Levy and Miss Kendall, at the St. Denis; Dr. T. E. Moore, at the Vendome; Mrs. J. Cone and J. Otis, at the Manhattan; J. W. Culbert and G. Flamm, at the Herald Square; F. A. McFarland, at the Bartholdi; J. W. Spirker, at the Victoria; Mrs. G. Stallard, at the Broad- way Central; W. G. Dodd, at the Gilsey; P. F. Dundon, at the New Amsterdam; B. 8. Hubbard, at the Imperial; F. 8. Spright, at the Empire. Los Angeles—J. M. Johnston, at the H. 8. Bear, W. C. ankowski and A. F. Herald Square. Grand Union; NO MORE DANDRUFF. Newbro’s Herpicide Destroys the Pes- tiferous Cause of Annoying Dandruff. Does_your head itch? Is your coat or dress full of white flakes dn-!z in spots? Are you, o{n a measly little ied in _no er_hair ratio carth but Newbro's Herpiclde. Try it and g; convinced. delightful ‘}De o Sold tum to The Herpicide point on the Alaskan shore where the tunnel is to begin, the company in which De Lobel is interested purposes to also build a road and he says that an under- standing has already been had with the Russian officials that the Siberian road will be joined in the all-rail project, with a view of developing the eastern coun- try of the Czar’'s domain. TO EXPEND MILLIONS. Of these plans De Lobel sald yesterday: Simultanecusly with the beginning of the construction work on the proposed road from Seattle northward to the strait, we will,begin the undermining of the strait and the laying of our rails northeastward from Irkutusk, with R RAILROAD AROUND THE WORLD | | | } | | | a view of completing the three undertakings about the same time. Our plans for the en- tire work call for an expenditure of about $200,000,000 and of this amount we have al- ready been guaranteed nearly $50,000,000 in France. Our company there is composed of some of the most representative men in that country. In Russia, where the principle of the project has already been approved by the ister of Finance and his guaranty of amp concessions made, we have assurance from the | greatest of men of finance of liberal support. A. that is needed now is co-operation of American capital. Captain J. J. Healey of the North American Transportation Company. Who is working with me in this country, and to whom I am Indebted for much assistance in the securing of data regarding the conditions of the country through which we are to build on this coast, has already interested several wealthy and Influential men in the East in the project and I have reason to belleve that among them is John D. Rockefelier. FROM NEW YORK TO PARIS. We hope to have an American company « ganized within a year by which time our re- port, mow on its way to St. Petersburg, w have been passed upon by the Czar's officials and as soon as the Russian Government gives the word, the companies organized in Europe will be merged mto the American corporation and the directors of the latter, representing the capital of all the countries that contrfbute. | will be asked to select a man of the United States to accept the presidency of the concern. It has been our understanding with the Rus- sian officials that the work should be under- taken by an American company and that the president of the latter shall be an America With the road and tunnel completed and the numerous traffic arrangements with other roads of the United States and Eu- rope effected, De Lobel declares that the people of the world will be afforded an all-rail route from New York to Paris, a distance that will be traversed in the most comfortable and modern tralns in- side of seventeen days. De Lobel says the development of the Territory of Alaska will in the end repay the amount expended in the construction of the Trans-Alaskan-Siberian Railwayandbring to its builders an enormous revenue from the sale of lands for mineral and agri- cultural purposes. Look out for 81 Fourth (front of barber, grocer); best eyeglasses, specs, 2c to 30c.* ——— e Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a etched boxes. 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