The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1903, Page 6

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VELT'S 4 n to ca Nove t he i in ntends ers who de- pose of proc g a ratifica- treaty with Cuba, but that e the attention of settled this reciprocity, and that all aty will be he liv- two houses will t of pro- and in that contest the erence ws of ted was ad- conference, but e President during the ted in the subject and that it v action may be taken the the evils rs from t h to pro: s | statement | existin, te currency ion of the Cuban treaty, and accord on may be counted on the of those who will make the fight for prompt action Men who are in close touch with the workings of finance favor of some form The country is pros- perous, there is no danger of a panic, and yet the situation by comfortable. The wvery | abundance of the harvests that ought to promise | nothing but good to all renders the immediate future | doubtful by reason of the strain it will put upon the | banks to supply the required to handle the | It a situation that repeats itself at every crop-moving season are well-nigh unanimous in of an elastic currency no means money crops. Last year it became so menac- ing that the Secretary of the Treasury was forced to use public money to relieve the stringency in New York. It is not impossible that a similar relief may have to be undertaken again, despite the fact that neither the administration, the banks nor the public desire such a thing One of the principal bankers of St. Paul in a recent | address at the Minnesota Bankers’ Convention is said to have earnestly warned the convention and the public of the serious nature of the situation. A | report of his speech says he mentioned that he | “Jearned in Chicago a little while ago that coun- | try bank balances at that point had decreased $10,000,- | ooo within a short time. All the city banks are re- | porting much the same condition. The majority of | the country banks in Minnesota,” he said, “are tied | up for money, and their balances are lower than-for | 2 Jong time; many bankess have invested and | speculated till they regretted it. Hardly a day passes in this city (St. Paul),” he said, “but we learn i some country bank in trouble. Several have closed | their doors in the last three or four months.” He | concluded that “there was never a better time for bankers to look out a little than the present.” | Similar warnings have been heard from all parts | of the country, uttered by men of established author- | ity in the financial world. Tt is surely time for Con- gress to give heed to the facts. The country expects prompt action in a matter of such pressing import- ance and will hail with approval the decision of the President to call an extra session. T ——— It has been announced officially that the bankers of America will not give Becker, the prince of forgers, $300 a month as a sop to induce him to re- frain from the commission of new crimes. The bank- ers evidently know that it is impossible to buy honest blood in veins where honest blood does not flow. Becker will commit no more crime because he can- oot ’ | reasons | more precious by contrast. | extended every year | season. LAND AND WATER PATRIOTISM. R. SONNICHSEN, who promises to become M the Marryat of the seas and to tell over the story of Jack of these days, is authority for the statement that sailors are devoid of patriot- ism. He makes claim for them, however, that in their wide wanderings on the water they become brothers to all men, with a fraternal feeling that in- cludes races and nationalities the landsman never sees. As the writer puts it: “The sailor has lost his citi- zenship of country to gain the greater citizenship of the world.” It may be that Mr. Sonnichsen forms his judg- ment upon intercourse with the Scandinavian and other alien born sailors who man what American mer- chant ships we have. To judge fairly of the effect of blue water upon the love of country felt by an Ameri- can one has to go back to the remote time when our ships were manned by our own people, and every American sailor, whether in the navy or the merchant service, was under the spell of the legends of Paul Jones, Perry, Decatur, Lawrence and the grim sea- fighters who made Columbia the gem of the ocean. It is quite sure that the American sailors of that day were as patriotic as their fellow citizens on shore and felt no desire to exchange citizenship of this country for the greater citizenship of the world. It may be perféctly true that the aliens who have taken their places have forgotten the land where they were born without acquiring the love of any other They may have articled under so many flags that one banner is the same as another to them, and that may account for the slack allegiance to the laws of this country sometimes shown by them. But we think that patriotism is still the rule with the few real American born sailors who linger as evidence that the seafaring character of our people is not entirely lost This subject was discussed much during the Civil | War, attention having been called to it by Mr. Hale's { book, “The Man Without a Count examination of the power of patriotism over land and | sea it was found that a far larger percentage of army | officers, educated at West Point, deserted their flag During that and fought against it, than of navy officers educated at Annapolis. In the discussion for discovery of for this the conclusion was that deep water cruising had on an American sailor an effect exactly opposite to that stated by Mr. Son nichsen. reached ship in one country for a greater citizenship of the world he held it closer and dearer, and the flag that he had seen streaming on far waters, where other | banners were given to the winds, became to him So the sailors of the nte-war time not sectionalists were | knew no North, no South, and the flag represented |to them one whole, entire and unbroken | Hence it was found that while army officers from the | nation Southern States left their commands and went into { the Confederate service in great numbers, navy of- ficers from the same States stood by the flag, because | they felt the national instinct stronger than the lands- men. We incline to the opinion that if our merchant fleets were manned by natives, as they were once, it would be found that increased rather than diminished their patriotic love of their own country. sailing many seas The inquiry becomes of interest in view of the effort to increase our merchant marine and the steady enlargement of the navy. The heroic Lawrence, whose tomb and tablet, inscribed “Don’t give up the ship,” are within a few feet of the throng | n Broadway, New York, went out to battle with misgivings because his hastily gathered crew were | mostly aliens and not Americans, er native or alien born, who feel that the citizenship of the republic is greater than that of the world. Starvation and solitary confinement are two of the new forms of torture which Russia has determined to inflict upon the inmates of her prisons. Whatever else may be said of Russia she certainly does more | to give us a realistic reproduction of the barbarities of the Middle Ages than all the horror books in ex- istence. T PROFIT IN FRUIT. HE report of the State Board of Trade on the profits of fruit culture in California is timely and useful. commercial instinct or experience which will enable him to get his fruit price in cash. This experience is becoming more and covers more of the fruit product. By and by every pound of it will be han- dled wisely and profitably. To show what may be done in seeking far abroad for a market, one of our most enterprising fruit growers last year shipped to London throughout the He sent peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums and pears to that far market, all honestly selected and securely packed, and on the whole season’s ship- ments cleared a profit of $100 per ton. Now, it goes | without saying that if a California fruit grower can | clear that profit on as distant a market as London, no one need fear the future of the fruit industry here. Our climate produces such a variety of fruit that there can gever be a total failure. Every grower | can so arrange his plantation as to have something for market. Those who have been: pessimistic about California fruit growing should recall what seems to be an | economic law, by which the characteristic product of every part of the earth is converted into the sup- port and often into the wealth of the pecple. The corn crop of the upper Mississippi Valley did not cease because sometimes the growers burned it for fuel in the winter. It has remained the mainstay of that vast region, and whether distilled into highwines or digested into pork and beef, has enriched the farmers of the prairie States beyond the wealth of any other class of the people. Given the natural conditions for the best produc- tion of fruit which exist in California and only a failure of the commercial instinct can prevent the fruit crop doing for the California fruit planter just what corn has done for the prairie corn planter. Recent experiences point to certain needs of the business. All crop farming everywhere is attended by two incidents—the crop mortgage and cash ad- vance on a future harvest at high interest. When Porter Brothers failed it was found that the firm had several hundred thousand dollars out as advances to the fruit growers. This is the wrong way and the co-tliest way to extend credit to that industry. What is needed is a California fruit growers’ bank to handle the fruit growers’ deposits and extend their credits economically and safely. It is not a new idea to have a bank especially to handle the cash and credits of an industry. The Hide and Leather and Instead of exchanging his sense of citizen- | They really | We want on our | | warships, not citizens of the world, but those, wheth As we have often tried to impress | | our readers, what a fruit grower here needs is the in market and get the market | Vservice of the industries indicated by their title. They were sound banks and the industries which they served profited by their existence. Other forms of business have required special banks. The Wells- Fargo Bank and its many branches were instituted to do the business of that great express company. The commission man or corporation, like Porter Brothers, should not be the fruit grower's banker nor handle-his credit. Such a corporation should neither bank nor speculate, and Porter Brothers did both. When there is a fruit growers’ bank the industry will have another guaranty of prosperity. A London man is soon to be tried in a court of justice because he attempted to commit suicide. If it is the intention of the prosecutors to persuade the fellow that his life is of some value they are creating in his mind an absurdly exaggerated opinion of his | worth. P as President of Mexico, has just been nomi- | nated for a seventh term by a convention of what is known as the National Liberal party. Vir- | tually it was a convention of the Diaz party and it | | practically settles the question of succession. / There | will be no opposition. The National Liberals have spoken and the rest of the country will make it unan- imous. The one feature of interest in the proceedings | leading up to the renomination 6f the President was the statement of Senor Bulnes in making the nomina- tion speech that no nation of which it can be said that the Presidency of any one man is a national necessity can be rightly called a republic. Such a statement made on such an occasion is evidence that | the followers of Diaz are by no means satisfied with existing conditions. Bulnes is reported as saying: “The country is constantly hearing just praises of the work of General Diaz, but it would like to know whether the work is precarious, or permanent; a work that will prove ephemeral, or a labor of definite salvation.” He went on to point out that a nation cannot be based upon an individual, however saga- A nation must be based on law. shed loyalty, not to Diaz but to constitutional principles | assuring equal rights, which will preserve at once the strength of government and the liberties of the people. It appears that up to this time the most patriotic of Mexicans believe they cannot get along without Diaz in the Presidency, and the belief is not without | its justification, at least so far as appearances go. | Diaz has worked wonders for his country, but when DIAZ AND MEXICO. RESIDENT DIAZ, now serving his sixth term i ‘ | cious and patriotic he may be. What Mexico needs is an estab! he is gone his example will serve as a precedent to | encourage less fit men to strive to hold the Presi- | dency, term after term, for life. Great as may be the | need of Mexico just now for a strong man at the | | head of affairs, it is questionable whether Diaz can { serve his country so well in office as he could by | imitatipg Washington and setting an example of vol- | untary retirement as a proof that the republic does not depend upon any one man. Mexican patriots, of | covrse, understand their country and their country- | men better than outsiders can do, and they believe Diaz to be a necessity of the time. It is, therefore, up to them to hasten the establishment of law and the infusion of sound principles among the_ people; so that when Diaz departs in the natural order of human events the republic may survive him and go | on its way in peace and prosperity. —— Mexico has again girded herself for battle and in- tends with every possible avowal of determined pur- | pose to wipe the Yaquis, off the face of the earth. We will probably soon see one of those “I regret to report” messages from some Mexican general. A American people, and incidentally of their increasing extravagance also, is furnished by | statistics just published by the Department of Com- | merce showing the importation of diamonds and inthcr precious stones. The advance in the value of | the annual importations has been rapid, and marks a similar advance in the ostentation of the leaders of our fashionable world. A summary of the report of the Bureau of Sta- | tistics says: “Prior to 1887 the total value of dia- ! monds and other precious stones imported in a single | | year never exceeded $7,000,000 per annum. During | | the prosperous years from 1887 to the panic year of | 1893 the total gradually increased until it reached $16,000,000. Then there was a sudden drop to $5,500,000 in the fiscal year 1894, and in 1806 the total value of importations was only $2,200,000. Since that ! date, with a growth of prosperity there has been a steady increase, until in 1901 the total value of the diamonds and precious stones imported was $20,000,- 000; in 1902 the total was $23,000,000, and when the final returns from all ports for the fiscal year which | ended on June 30 this year have been received the IMPORTS OF JEWELS. N illustration of the increasing wealth of the total will amount to the enormous sum of ;$3o,ooo,ooo." | Vast as is the amount of money thus shown to { have been expended for diamonds during the past | fiscal year, the whole tale has not been told by the treasury statistics. It is a comparatively easy thing to smuggle precious stones, and it is very well known that large numbers are brought into the country in that way. In fact, the ease of smuggling is so great that the Government dare not impose a heavy duty upon imported gems, as experience has proven that such duties are hardly more than bounties paid for the encouragement of smugglers. It was for the purpose of ridding the treasury of the expense of trying to catch and punish sich smugglers that the framers of the Wilson tariff put diamonds on the free list. Every now and then some man or woman of wealth and of high social station is detected smug- gling gems of one kind or another, and of course the number of those discovered is but a fraction of the | total number of persons who bring back with them from Europe more or less jewelry that is never de- clared at the custom-house. It has been noted in New York that boom times on Wall street are always followed by a boom in the jewelry trade. The average American who clears up a big winning on the street celebrates his luck by buying diamonds for somebody, and during the high prosperity of the last two years such purchases have been enormous. In fact, diamonds are becoming so common in New York that a gala night at the grand opera is like a universal exposition of gems and jewelry. In the near future the American dame who wishes to distinguish herself will have to put dia- monds on her chambermaid, diamonds on her coach- man, diamonds on her pet poodle, and then go her- self in unadorned elegance, free of gem or jewel of .4 Chemical banks of New York were founded for the |any kind. PHOTOGRAPH OF THE COMET BORRELLY IS TAKEN AT THE LICK OBSERVATORY+ - p EUAATEE L 2 e SR NEW HEAVENLY VISITOR WHICH WAS CAUGHT WITH A PHOTOGRAPHIC - s SERVATORY OF WEDNESDAY LAST BY MESSRS. CURTISS AND ALBRECHT, FELLOWS IN THE LICK OBSERVA ON MOUNT HAMILTON, AS IT WAS DRIVING THROUGH SPACE. TELESCOPE ON THE EVENING oo L3 By W. W. Campbell. Director of Lick Observatory. ICK OBSERVATORY, July 17.—The L accompanying illustration is a copy of a photogravph of the comet Bor- relly, made with the Plerson photo- graphic telescope on the ning of Wednesday, July 15, by Me Curtiss and Albrecht, fellows in the Lick Obser- vatory. The exposure was one hour in length. The tail of the comet is recorded on the original negative to a distance of fully 7 degrees from the head; in other words, in length equal to about fourteen | | times the moon’s dlameter. The difficulty of copying and reproducing the delicate structure of the tail is very great, and the published results probably will rep- resent it as much shorter than this. The very numerous straight lines on the photograph, each about a half inch | in tength, are the t made by the | neighboring stars. telescope was constantly shifted in position to follow the comet in its rapid motion through the caused to trail on the plate. The rapid, at present being about 5 degrees daily northwest he head of the comet is a fairly conspicuous object in the even- | ing sky, be somewhat brighter than a fourth magnitude star. have no difficulty in seeing it if know where to look. In the clear, skies of Mount Hamiltor be seen projecting from the F direction opposite that of the sun. photographic plate is so much more effi- cient, however, in recording faint obj of this kind that we make no attempt secure visual observations of the tail. The structure of the tail changes from night Observers will they dark to night. It is probable that the atten- uated matter composing it is a into space and lost, to be repls w L an entirely | twenty-four hours new | tail. On Saturday evening, after the sky is | thorougkly dark, ob ind the comet easlly by drawir from the pole star to Vega, ti y bright | a little northeast of the zenith, ing about 4 ces west of the middle point of this imaginary line. On sky. The fixed stars in consequence were the evening of the 23d the comet o 3 oottt el e @ PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. G. L. Talt of Los Gatos is at the | Occidental. D. O. Harris, a fruit man of Moneta, is | at the Russ C. R. Davis. a fuel man of Portland, is | at the Grand. H. C. Steele, a mining man of Reward, is at the Lick. : ; Postmaster G. M. Francis of Napa is at the Occldental W. D. Pennycook, publisher of Vallejo, is at the Occidental. Charles Shafus, a merchant of Diego, is at the Russ. James Gates, one of Tonopah's mining men, is at the Grand. J. F. Condon, a lumber merchant of Verdi, is at the Grand. F. Leonard, a mining man of Sutro, Nev., is at the Palace. ¥. O. Wyman, a lime merchant of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. 2 E. M. Hirshfelder, a merchant of Ven- tura, is stopping at the Lick. J. M. Peart, a contractor and builder of College City, Is at the Grand. Allen B. Lemmon, a_newspaper man of Santa Rosa, is at the Occidental. W. T. Brown, a hardware merchant of Prescott, is stopping at the Grand. W. G. Holbrook, a prominent business man of Syracuse, is at the California. C. A. Horton, who is engaged in the lumber .milling business, is at the the Grand. J. 8. Moulton, head of a big creamery establishment of Ripon, is registered at the Lick. R. H. Hussey, who is connected with a large general merchandise store in Ba- kersfleld, s at the Russ. Ira H. Carpenter, a wealthy resident of New Rochester, who is making a tour of the West, is at the California. Theodore Hardee, assistant secretary of the St. Louis Exposition Company, has arrived in the city and is registered at the Palace. T. H. Goodman of the Southern Pacific Company yesterday received a telegram from Truckee stating that Dr. Brigham's condition was much improved. Judge Beatty of the United States Su- preme Court and wife and Judge J. A. Marshall of the Circuit Court of Utah are among the latest arrivals at the Occi- dental. Nat C. Goodwin, the comedian, ana a party of friends, including Miss Julia Deane and Manager Woodthorpe, started yesterday on a trip into the Yosemite Valley. Frederick S. Fish of South Bend, Ind., arrived from the East yesterday and is registered at the Palace. He is connected with the firm of Studebaker Bros. & Co. and has come to the city to investigate the recent losses of the firm by fire, A. B. Urmston of Chihuahua, Mexico, one of the best known cattlemen in the Southwest, is at the Palace. He is re- turning from Canada, whither he recent- ly delivered 6000 head of cattle, which wepe driven across the United States in bond from Mexico to Canada. L et Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 17.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—L. Leszynsky, A. Rothschild, at the Winsonia; J. J. Havi- side Jr., at the Bartholdi; A. Liebenthal, at the Hoffman; H. O. Palen, at the A]- San bert; Mrs. J. Ruestloye, at the Belvedere; P. Escalin, at the Westminster; Le Field, at the Murray Hill; W. B. Fowler, at the Broadway Central; R. Keating, W. | Robertson, at the Grand Union; H Long- | field, L. J. Mar: d wife, at the Herald | Square: Mrs. MacGrath, at the St. Denis; | D. A. McDonald, at the Kensington; F. F. | at the Ashland. From Los Angeles—C. | at the Imperial; L. J | Manhattan; R. H. W | borough. From San Jose—J. Nathan, at the Cad- inac. W. Hincheliffe C. Spruance, at the alker, at the Marl- Californians in Washington. | WASHINGTON, July 17.—The following | are here from California: At the New Willard—H. T. Jones, Oroville; dt the Ar- lington—George Wittmann, wife and daughter, San Francisco. ————— WASHINGTON, July 17.—The Secretary of | War has directed that all officials who have | been on detached duty for a perlod of four | years must return to their regiments or com- panies, motion of this comet is unusually | Strong, at the Manhattan; W. W. Treat, | Alpha Draconis degrees from between about 2 | will be nearly and the pole star, the former. On the 25th it will be in the Big Dip- per, a little above the star Delta, at the junction of the bowl ndle. On the 20th it wil ar the star Gamma. n ht in con te nts presented by st THREE MILLION MILES LONG. Yale Observers Sa;the Comet Is the Brightest Since Smith’s. NEW HAVEN, July —Accordi rements of met E based on photograph en by Yale ob- servers, the the comet is at least r Wil- Yale Ob- long. Pro tor of the ee mil Elkin, said t vatory, the only import eight years, wh ered. It the Smith's, about one seen in the p: Ror¢ e was brightest comet twelve years ago. Here we shall not make any study of . as we do not have a great deal to do with comets. It will be at its brightest discov- n is since from now on until July 21, when it will begin to grow dim it gets nearer to the sun. Tt proba be visible for the | next couple of weess, and just now s just ! as brigh the polar star. It the sun on August 21 hen it about thirty-one million miles dis- | tant from that body. The photographs taken last night show a long tail to the comet which is not visible to the eye. | The negative shows this tail to be divided in the middle, really making two tails. | According to the observations of people who have made a speeial study of this comet it is about twenty-six million | miles from the earth at present and is rapidly traveling away.” —_———— 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 bidg.* —_— Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping_Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 . This Is the First of a Series of Pastels in CHRIS COX’S STRANGE CHINATOWN EXPERIENCES WATSON'S « Whisper t0 Your Lady Love SOMETHING NEW—SOMETHING FASCINATING Ode to the Summer Girl BY MARY E. WILKINS Appreciations by Famous Authors, Which Are Just as Good for the Bashful Swain as the Ardent Suitor. 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