The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1903, Page 4

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CONSERVATISM RULES C URRENT conditions in trade continue cheer- The feeling of pessimism throughout the pronounced during the past few had begun to unduly affect busi- i e country | to get fright- | othing in sight onservatism has asserted itseli and ng feature all over the land. perturbation. Wall street after the great banking inter- only leit alone to develop on ' a c ce began to be restored. We ce N erd for several years. Dun's week ¢ e situation hits it exactly when g contrast is shown when com- h the corresponding week of last were then tending upward in , new business was coming activity and high es W Later events have demonstrate on was unhealthy ative e been followed [ 2 n stment Conservatism wa en the it is now the rule. Pr and gai their maintenance nder the present system. Legitimate busi- es tinue to suffer from speculation and the gh r exchange will militate against indus- tri but in the long run a larger degree cautic i prove benefici he g res of the past week were more | p developments, less talk of a coming ar ney in the regular fall movement to Pr moving the crops and a visible ex- | par trade. With the exception of the cottor ron industrics, the manufacturing lines orders sufficient to keep the mills well em- Lower prices have checked the production and a larger crop of cotton than lower prices for this important ered buy s cautious ve lately unsettled that mar- nd the East, but the latter markets car factories of New England hough hides and leather are g kept uncertain by some labor reports a firm lumber market rade of the Pacific Coast is active, ospects for continuing so season in railroading has only just commenced of car scarcity and congested and the railway i points, f 9.3 per cent over 1902 and 17.4 per must be borne in mind, however, reased wages and cost of material cut down the net earnings considerably from the gross showing. The great markets all report the influx of large b which would not be the case business The bank clearings show from last year, but all the York and Baltimore ex- runmng as high 2s 209 per ceht at The aggregate clearings, curiously enough, earn- er 1901 were all dull 11.2 per cent s except New hibit Ct gains 1iCagC ctand at about the returns of a week ago, being s 650.000,000. It will be remembered that there was sudden drop in these aggregate clearings during | the preceding week and they have not yet recovered, ough there is no further shrinkage. The failures or the week were 191, against 200 last year, and | were chiefly confined to small financial institutions and wufacturers. A good sign was a recovery in | ago provision market toward the close of ing being larger and of a better quality while more confidence in the future of prices was free- Iy expressed s one of the best indicators for trade we have. An- other good sign was a sudden urgent demand for wheat for milling purposes all over the country, which was so marked that on Friday all Western markets were higher than Chicago. The Hungarian Minis- a recognized authority on the the world, estimates that this vear's crop the world over will fall about 11 per cent under that of last year, and he also reports that last | ear's supply was all eaten wp. If his conclusions | and there is no reason to doubt them, a vod year in wheat is to be expected and this means ood times for the farmers for another period. To summarize: Times are still good; we are con- cervative where we were reckless; money is not trained amywhere; the crops are excellent and bringv ing remunerative prices; manufactories a rule are well employed and labor is receiving high wages: general merchandise markets report the movement of | 200ds active and there is no mercantile disturbance | either in Furope or the United States. These con- itions constitute what is known as “zood times ” Agricuiture, conditions ter of wheat of are correct. 1.00 Per Year Extra | commercial public that condi- | Labor strikes | vith a demand sufficient to absorb | Although the | The tendency of the provision market | LABOR'S GREAT DAY. MERICA'S great Labor day will be celebrated this year under the fairest of auspices and amid the most propitious surroundings. It is rue that the year has had its struggles and its trials %A for strife are felt even at this time in many localities; but when the conditions of labor are compared with those |of former years the advantage is aith the present, |and those who have been earnestly engaged in the | | task of advancing the welfare of labor and of bring- | ing about a complete harmony between the employer ‘and the employe can note with satisfaction that much ! has been accomplished and that a distinct movement | has been made toward the goal which both the capi- | | talist and the laborer desire to reach | The very fact that such a festival as this is now | observed and honored throughout the Union attests the advance that has been made in the cause of labor. | | The time is not so very far in the past when the oraise given to labor was hardly more than a tribute of words. Men delighted to recite “labor, labor, | honest labor,” but outside of oratory, poetry and ser- {mons there was but little recognition of the import- | ant part the worker occupies in the social organism. | To-day the tribute which will be paid to the workers 1 The statesman as well |as the politician, the student of sociology as well as | the demagogue, now recognizes the power of the workers and honors it as one of the most potent of will be sincere and earnest the social forces that are slowly but surely develop- ing a new civilization that will be better than the old. | The onward march of humanity must be always ac- companied by more or less of strife, for we live world where the equilibrium of things is maintained by the balance of mutually opposing forces. Where the advance is made through the medium of human energy, there must aiso be errors and blunders as well as conflicts, for to err is human. It would | therefore be absurd to review our industrial march | without taking note of the fact that there have been | mistakes eommitted both by those who uphold and those who oppose the activities of organized labor. ‘Conced\ng the occurrence of such errors we can, note with satisfaction -that the sound common sense of our people has been able to correct errors when once they have been clearly seen to be ina | however, errors, and consequentiy each year sees us as a peo- | ple nearer to the attainment of a fair degree of har- | mony in the social order, so that progress can go on more swiitly and more safely than in the past. It needs but little familiarity with the history ofq American labor to see that however serious may be the evils that still the whole are vastly better than they were in the days of our fathers. Labor in the America of to-day not only better paid, better fed, better clothed, bet- | ter housed and better provided with all forms of ma- terial good than it ever was before, but it also better educated. better trained, better led. The men who are now presiding over some of the greater labor organizations are men of rfirst-class ability and of the highest character. ica can, and does, point to them with as much pride as she feels in her greatest statesmen or her fore- They and the masses of harass our industries, affairs on is most captains of industry the w | cans in heart and hand and btfain, and on this their festal day the applause of the whole people will be with them because the sympathies of the people are with the cause they represent and serve In a special degree this year has been a year of labor and industrial achievement. The ringing music of shop and forge, of mill and engine, has been continuous from the beginning to the close of every working day all over the land. In our ow: | State and in our own city the outward evidences of successful the tirel of energy of the workers are to be seen in the marvelous array of new buildings that adorn our ‘streets and in the preparations now under way for other buildings yet to be erected. It is probable that a greater amount of structural work has been done in America this year than other land, or in any previous year in the history of this land. in any When so many new offices, factories, shops, stores, hotels, churches, schools, homes and edifices of all kinds are demanded to supply the growing needs of | the people, we may be sure that all lines of industry | are prosperous, and that the workers have been deing their full duty to their country and to the world. Such being the case a labor festival is in order. If {there were no such day already appointed it would | have been proper to make one this year to fit the present gocd of the social order and to hail the | promise of greater good to come. So to-day all classes of Americans will remember that they are | workers and join most cordially in the celebration of our national Labor day. e e | One thousand of the troops of the Sultan of Mo- | rocco were ambushed a few days ago and slain. And | still we insist that the human race makes its progress ;throu h the world“in a vastly different manner from | the beasts of the forest. The survival of the fittest as stern and 2s inexorable a law to men as it is to | animals. RADIUM AS A CURE | OME days ago thcrc came from Eurgpe a story of a partially H blindness by the use of radium, and shortly 'ahernzrd a much more elaborate story was reported |of a similar experiment in New York. The New | York test was said in the early dispatches to have been completely successful, but later there came re- ports that a good many experts were doubtful of the genuineness of the test, and it was intimated that experimenters should be careful in exposing the { more delicate parts of the human body to the power- ful influences of radio activity. An emphatic second is given to the warning by Thomas A. Edison, who is reported as saying that {there is danger more harm than good may be ! done by the use of radium in the treatment of blind- ness or disease by inexperienced practitioners. Edi- |son has had experience, for he has not only suf- fered himseli, but has had some of his severely ¥njured by exposure to the rays. interview he is quoted as saying: | “Besides nearly iosing my sight I am suffering ter- ribly from my stomach. The powerful X-rays and the rays from the radium with which I experimented ! have caused big knots to form in my gastric regions and no physician seems to know exactly what they 1 have consuited many specialists, but they all | admit they are puzzled. I have been unable to get | any relief because no one can diagnose my case. | This is only an instance of what fluorescents can do to a man. The rays work in some mysterious way, and we can’t tell what harm they are gomg to do be- | cause we don’t know how they will do it.” Benjamin S. Baker in a recent review of some of the wild expectations which human credulity has built {upon the ‘reports of radium energies savs: “Radium workmen In a recent are. labor and for capital alike, the stress and strain of | is |as better inspired and | Amer- | rkers who support them are genuine Ameri-{ uccessful effort to overcome total | has a powerful effect in causing substances on which its radiations fall to become radio active in their tyrn. This result was notably shown throughout Becquerel’s experiments, the metal fittings of his lab- | oratory acquiring a strong induced radio activity. The {effect on Becquerel's own body was so pronounced +hat for days after some of his more prolonged tests | { of radium he could not go near his delicate electrical measuring instruments without their showing the dis- | turbing influences of the induced radiations from him. Such action has been commonly noted by those | who have used X-ray machines for various purposes.” The object of those who are giving these words of | | warning is not to discourage experiment, but to im- | | press upon rash experimenters the need of great caution in applying the strange force to the human | system. It appears that the same force that improves one man may injure another. Edison tells of a case | |in which the X-ray acted as a curative to the person {to whom it was applied, but so injuriously affected | ;Edimn’s assistant who handled the rays that he has {lost one arm and is in danger of losing the other. | | Such being the results thus far nmcd it is evident !tha( it will be well to proceed slowiy with radium as J |a curative force until something more is known of | the method of its work and its effects on the human | systemn. | e e A Michigan man mistook his child for a crow a | few days ago and killed her. It is such incidents as i is that make us wonder why the directors of our | civilization, who have given us€much to protect us | against criminals, have done nothing to guard us | |against fools. The silly season has driited into a | :continuous performance in the United States. | SEEp—— | SOME MINOR NEW» ITEMS. HILE the attention oi the public has been | W given with more or less impatience during | | the last ten days to reports of the contests | | between the two white winged drifting machines off | Sandy Hook, a good many realfy lively things have :thpencd and passed unheeded. It is but right that | | some note be made of the more remarkable of these | minor items, for since we live in a mutable world | | we should watch the mutations. iver since the victory of the |among the people of New York, | Mayor Low and the retirement of Boss Croker to | F_ngl.-md. it has been believed that the Tammany I tiger is sic indeed more than once he has been | | cartooned as a dying tiger by local artists making | | sketches as it were in the very lair of the beast. Well, last week Tammany had a picnic for a portion, or rather for a faction, of its braves. \What are known “Haffen's Jeffersonians,” 8000 strong. went for a feast, and the reports tell us that they consumed 26,000 ears of corn, 20,000 pounds of beef, 1800 pounds of butter, 8000 pounds of fish, 10,000 pounds of chicken, 3000 loaves of bread, 30,000 plates of ice | | cream and 26,000 cigars. Without taking the trouble | ito figure accurately what was the per capita con- | sumption of the braves at that feast, it will be per- | ceived they are not sick tigers by any means, are they suffering from anything that tends to a loss ( of appetite. While Haffen's Jeffersonians were getting away | with everything in sight at the picnic, a Rochester | man was making a still remarkable record, | though on a different line. He is the father of a fam- {ily of nine children. Near him lived a neighbor with eleven children. | He fell in love with his neighbor's \wife and she lovingly responded. Thereupon he | eloped with her and took the whole twenty children | lalong, thus breaking the elopement record and dis- | tancing all competitors. | In “dear old London” a man was brought imo! court the other day for failing to pay the license which the city requires of those who keep men em- | ploved as household servants. | cused was that the man was a “housemaid” and did | nothing but housemaid’s work. Investigation dis- | closed that the housegirl has become so impossible in London there is an increasing tendency to em- ploy men for such work. The defense was not per- mitted to stand in the courts, but the incident serves to show that when women crowd men out of |he]w shops and factories men can retaliate by invading the | domain of housework and driving the girls from what was once looked upon as woman's stronghold. At the recent universal peace convention the com- mittee on pla(form instead of drawmg up a series of “resolutions” recommended the adoption of a num- ber of doctrines as the “convictions” of the congress. The change from the customary word has been well received by those who have paid it any attention. To | declare a conviction that white is black is much more modest than to “resolve” that white is black, and since modesty is becoming more and more a charac- teristic of Americans in convention, perhaps the con- | ventional word will be eliminated altogether before the close of the century and we shall have a nation full of politicians standing by their convictions in- reform elements | the election of | nor | more The plea of the ac- | stead of asserting their resolutions. e i e The wholesale slaughter of women and children in the Balkans. both by Turks and revolutionists, places the savage combatants beyond the pale of human | mpathy. Americans surely can have no other in- | terest in the barbaric warfare except a horror of its unspeakable atrocities and a determined purpose to protect those who should stand in the shadow of | our flag. Although our consular representative was not even threatened, the American naval demonstra- tion served as a splendid purpose in showing a readi- ness to guard our own or visit swift vengeance upon assassins. Traveling by rail in the Balkans, even under pres- ent conditions, is a pleasure excursion in comparison to the way they are now doing things in Montana. A train proceeded through the State a few days ago | attended by a small army of detectives and protected by forty horses, saddled and bridled for use, and a Gatling gun in the baggage car ahead. It is thus | that we pay tribute to the enterprising genius of our | | highwaymen. San Francisco can probably boast of having the most unique administration of its municipal affairs | of any city in the United States. But while we have had many startling local laws forcéd upon us and many freakish oddities of official duty presented to us, the latest wonder of bureaucratic detail must be awarded the palm. A member of the Board of Pub- lic Werks has refused to agree to an increase in the salaries of useless subordinates. —_— Lord Roberts, the distinguished British soldier, has found it necessary to postpone indefinitely his prom- ised visit to us. And we wanted so much to show him the gilded glories of that non-combatant element of our population lovingly known by us as the gen- erals of the National Guard. - The generals will keep, however, and we can wait, since we must, for the coming of Lord Roberts. | ized at the Norfolk navy | have a speed of 22 knots, an advantage TWO INTERESTING FIGURES WELL-KNOW LIFORNIA PIONE! WIFE AND WILL PA ER AND OND ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR MARRIAGE HIS WHO TO-DAY WILL RTICIPATE IN TH ATST.HELENA'SCELEBRATION = S 4 CELEBRATE THE SIXTY-SEC- PROGRAMME OF FESTIV- | grated west and settled in Dade County. Sonoma entrusted York and Sam Kelsey ITIES AT ST. HELENA IN HONOR OF THE STATE'S NATAL DAY - 2 - A i ;5 ¥ ot ik B WS - T. HELENA, Sept. 6.—An interest- | Lafayette County, Missouri | at his these two brave S ing feature of the Admission d On _\m;!]l-'), L‘<} I.\lr. York m.:vr.-d in | r g )» {,;::s;{‘ ml‘,;hvkp,.. i ‘1l b | Captain John Grigsby's company of more | formec the fall of 1846 Mr. York re- gejebrtiop’ in St Helens, will be| 3 . oo hifn O s ccons Ths plains to | ture his ranch at Calistoga, where the presence of “Uncle Jack 'York| i jisormia, arriving at Johnson's R e remained until 145, when upon the dis- | and wite, who to-morrow will observe | o Gotaber 15, With three other men of re moved his family to the sixty-second anniversary of their|the party he ¢ontinued his jour: began operations below marriage surrounded by their children, | Napa County. arriving at Calistog: e there for two grandchildren and great-grandehildren. | known as the Hot Springs, in November ded to Hangtown John York was born in Granger County, | He resided in Calistoga until the Bear mined until Sep- Tennessee, June 15, 1820, and is a son of | Flag war in June 1846, when for protection cess, after Bnoch and Nancy Hill York. When 13| he removed his family to Sonoma » his Napa County ars old with his parents he moved to| Lieutenant Pevere, in command of a ed to the mines Warren County, Tennessee, where the | Government vessel -at San Francisco family resided until 1841, He then emi-|upon taking command of the forces at ears Mr. and Mrs. *ir present home Missouri, where he engaged in farming | with the important duty of carrying the n and are now en- | until 1854. On September 5. 1841, he was | American flag from Sonoma to Sacra- good health in spite of their ad- married to Lucinda Hudson, a native of | mento and deliver it to Capta Sutter age and many hardships. e e e S Y ‘DISCREPANCIES IN BUILDERS’ FIGURES AS TO COST OF SHEATHING WARSHIPS HE armored cruiser Pennsylvania, launched August 22 last at Cramp's vard, Philadelphia, is the third vessel in the United States navy bearing that name. The original | Pennsylvania was a battleship plerced | for 126 guns, and carried sixteen | 8-inch and one hundred and four | 32 pounders on three decks. The | keel was laid at the Philadel- phia navy yard in 1822, but the launching did not take place until July, 1537, Commo- dore Biddle performing the ceremony of | naming the ship, by breaking a bottle of | grog on the stern as the vessel moved down the ways. The Pennsylvania was | a glant of those days, with a tonnage of 3241, a lower deck length of 220 feet, s)} feet extreme breadth, her main yard 110 feet in length and a s=ail area of 18341 yards. Her total cost was $634,500 and the | complement of officers ana crew 1100. Her | annual expense of commission was $3s2,- 432, but barring a few short crulses the ship had no active service and was util- yard as a re- celving ship, where she was burned with | other naval vessels April, 1861. The sec- | ond Pennsylvania, originally named Ke- wayden, was a screw steamer of 4000 tons | displacement and was built at the Boston | navy yard during the Civil War. Th9| ship was never launched and was broken | up on the stocks in 1884, realizing about $15,000 for the old material of hull and machinery, upon which nearly $1,000,000 had been expended in construction. The steam trial last week of the cruiser Cleveland, one of six vessels under con- struction since December, 1899, is rather disappointing. It was confidently antici- | pated that a speed of 17 knots would be | reached, but it fell below 16% as required by contract. It is possible that with im- proved propellers the speed may be in- creased, but even at 17 knots these ships do not compare favorably with similar types in the German navy. The latter somewhat offset by carrying only ten 4- inch guns, whereas the American ships carry ten 5-inch guns, but a difference of five to six knots is, however, a very im-| portant factor. The Navy Department and shipbuilders have been struggling for seventeen months with the problem determining the contract cost of three battieships and three armoréd cruisers now under con- struction, On December 7, 1900, bids were opened for building five battleships and six armored cruisers, and in January and February following contracts were awarded to six successful bidders. Three of the battleships and three of the ar- mored cruisers were to be wood-sheathed and coppered, while the remainder were to be unsheathed. The several bidders had graded their prices accordingly, vary- ing in their estimates of extra cost of gheathed and coppered ships from $36,600 to $175,000. By act of Congress of March 38, 1901, it was left discretionary with the Secretary of the Navy to have the ves- sels sheathed and coppered, and upon rec- ommendation of the board of bureau chiefs and the several contractors, he consented to the simpler and less costly | six shi | cost of coppering, which may class of ships. The question then arose | as to the amount of reduction which the builders were to make. The latter claim ; that only about $400,000 should be deduct- | ed from the original contract price of the i while the Navy Department's estimate is about $1,500,000. The variance | in bids on the several ships identical as | to classes and differing only as to sheath- ing and coppering or unsheathed is shown i in appended table, the sheathed ships be- ing indicated by a star: CONTRACTS FOR_BATTLRSHIPS ame of ship. Contract Bath Iron Moran Bros Newport New Fore River.. Fore River Virginta. New Jersey Rhode Island. Name of ship. *West Virginia.| $3.583.000 Contraet. Newport News Newport News Maryland 00 Cramps 7 *Pennsyivania.] 3,590,000 Cramps g Colorado. 50,000 Union Iron Works..| *California 3,800,000 | Union Iron Works..| South Dakota. | 3.750,000 | Cramps’ bid of $3,890,000 for the armored | cruilser Pennsylvania did not include the | be set at | $15,000, including dockage, making a dif- ference of $155,000 in the contract price of | the sheathed and unsheathed ships. On the Nebraska the difference was gnly $36,600, Fore River estimated the e cost of battleships at $150,000 and $' on the armored cruisers, while the New- | port News gave the.cofresponding figures | at $50,00 and $110,000.° The Union Iron Works submittéd $60,000 as the excess in cost of an armored ¢rulser sheathed. The board of construction, com- | posed of the bureau ®hiefs, were not agreed on the sheathed ship proposition, only one member, Chief Constructor | Hichborn, being in favor of it and the other four vigorously opposing. Mr. Hichborn, however, carried his point with the Senate and House, and contracts | were made for the ships as shown in the tables. On March 4, 1901, Hichborn was retired, having reached the retirement age of 62 years, and was succeeded by Bowles, the designer and builder of the Texas. Bowles does not favor sheathed ships, and the board of construction be- ing thus unanimous against this mode of construction Congress repealed its former | act and the Secretary modified contracts | already entered into. The question of cost was one of the objections raised against sheathed ships. Hichborn, who was the only practical shipbuilder on the board, estimated the extra cost of sheathing at $141512 for the battleships and $128,880 for the armored cruisers. The other bureau chiefs, not having any per- sonal knowledge on the subject, obtained estimates from a prominent Philadelphia shipbuilder, who gave the figures at $243,750 for battleships and $279,250 for ar- mored cruisers. The board, having ac- cepted and quoted the latter estimates, must. in all consistency, base its reduc- tions on these figures, and it will be some- | which | tion nails. | water between the planking and the steel | skins, | destroy the steel. | ing | when | 81 Fourth st. what difficult ior the Philadeiphia ship- builder to explain the discrepancy be- tween his estimat $279,250 and $155,000. To these unfamiliar with the terms “sheathed” and “unsheathed” ships, the difference may be briefly explained as fol- lows: A sheathed sel is one on which the bottom plating is covered with woed planking. teak or pine, fastened to the skin by means of naval brass screw boits This planking after being thoroughly | calked is covered with felt sheets upon copner sheeting elght pounds per square foot fastened to the wood skin with composi- The lower half of the stern and stern post are made of bronze and great care has (o be taken in order to in- sure tight work and preventing access weighing about is lald and which would set up galvanic action owing to the copper sheathing, and thus This mode of construc- tion is of course expensive and requir good workmanship, but if properly done compensates for the 1 increased eost in reducing the coal bills, ability to keep at sea without frequent docking and maintaining its initial speed, whereas the unsheathed ship with a painted botfom rapidly accumulates Marine growth, thereby decreasing its speed and increas- its coal consumption unless docked three times a year. The sheathed ship is always ready when wanted for the ser- vice it- was built for. while the un- sheathed vessel can only be counted upon Just out of dock. —_——————— The new method of sewage disposal by bacteria} treatment in a septic tank Is not altogether free from danger. In this process the sewage is stored M closed [ tanks for a variable period, during which time it is acted upon and dissolved by the agency of the bacteria present. Probabiy marsh gas and other gases are gemerated. which become explosive wien mixed with oxygen and fired. ——r e Going abroad. Sell below cost best eye- glasses, specs, 15c to S0c. Look out for front of barber. —_——————— Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, iIn artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg. * —— - Speeial information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 142 * P e — THE CALL'S GREAT ATLAS OFFER Will close on September 24, 1903, and all holders of Atlas Coupons are requested to pre- sent them imthediately, as this great opportunity to securs one of these splendid Atlases at The Call’s premium rates will be brought to a close on Septem- ber 24. A e —