The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 12, 1903, Page 6

. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SfEPTEMBER 12, 190 i W S wTL'ivle\‘. cesessssmessss SEPTEMBER 12, 1903 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. A A «€éress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE. Manager. e A NI INENEN TELEPHONE., Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. FUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, EDITORIAL ROOMS. 7 to 221 Stevemson Delivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Cts. Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY GALL (including Sunday), one year.. DAILY CALL (necluding Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL—-By Single Month. EUNDAY CALL, One Year. .{ Bunday. | Weekly.. 1.00 Per Year Extra All Postmasters are acthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Matl subecribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFIC 1118 Broadway.... Telephone Main 1083 BERKELEY OFFICE. 2148 Cemter Street.. Telepbone North 77 ¢ GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Adver- Using, Marguette Bullding, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone entral 2619.") WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: MORTON E. CRANE........1408 G Street, N. W. NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: ¢TEPHEN B. SMITH. 30 Tribun NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. €. CARLTON..... veesss.Herald Square S STANDS: 31 and Building NEW YORK NE Waldort-Astoris Hotel; A. Brentano, Murrey Hill Hotel; FY avenue Hotel Union Square; Hoftman House. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; reat Northern Hotel: Tremont House; Auditorium Hotel; er House. BRANCH OFFICES—S527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open entil 9:80 o'clock. 8500 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 8:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #3830 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, cormer Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1098 V: Jeocls, open until ® c'clock. 106 Eleventy, open until 9 o'clock. NE. cormer Church and Duncan streets, open § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, pr " . open until 9 o'clock Pal open wntil € ok CUTTING TELEPHONE WIRES. the strike by telephone st sight of in the crimes of son and property to which s C e resorted. When they t ican rig Itist But it is equally the e y lawiul occupation to quit work and who want to work. ion to legally, lence, compel any free man ot of a propos on sense labor by ur all the more intol- f workmen com- keep ct greater in- ns that we n who have whatever ion to the com- cutting of tele- e is 2 blow at the in the dark, at peopl tted cover s the life of in no way hese criminals and inconvenience and e issue raised betweer It cts Joss that are not felt by the telephone com- The public has borne it in grim silence and has patience with the telephone company. who aim this blow at their late rstand that their crimes have from them, and every inflicting upon them rime. magistrates, who perjure them- d violate the law by favoring these enemies nd who are brought before them red-handed, that they will not be forgotten at the polls by decent citizens, whose rights they fail to protect, in order to curry favor with oath-bound criminals. parties to t their late employer. infl3 imposes pany petrayed no i the ¢ But minals ployer zlienated decent citizen would aid at would fit their c It is well for pett selves a of manki to refle A gang of armed and drunken French soldiers at- tacked and injured some of Uncle Sam’s soldiers a few days ago in Peking and the French commander gave deeply significant interest to the affair by choos- ing to consider it of no importance. He probably will be informed by his Government that any insult or injury to the United States is now a matter of seri- ous consequence to any nation. Four desperate convicts attempted to escape a few days ago and each was dangerously wounded by the guards. It is almost unnecessary to say that the break for liberty did not take place in a C; penitentiary. ornia We have more consideration for our caged malefactors. The incident and its satisfactory conclusion took place in Alabama. An Oakland man, seduced by the alluring adver- tisement of a better way to live, issued by an enter- prising firm, tried the treatment and had one of his ribs broken. He is now asking damages, and it does seem that even in Oakland going about with broken ribs certainly is not the better way to live. Russia, it is said, is creating discord between Japan and China, that out of the row she may gain some profit. It seems idle to provoke a fight be- tween two fellows one of whom can’t quarrel and the other dare’ not. Besides, Japan is looking di- rectly to the bear for her row. A Los Angeles clerk was arrested a few days ago for criminally manipulating time checks used by his employers. There is serious reason to believe that the young man will soon be serving time with stripes, not checks, as an accompaniment to his industry. All Stanford is vibrating with suppressed excite- ment and anticipation. The junior girls have de- cided that fl;c momentous time has come for them to choose a class hat. While this vital millinery problem is unsolved everything else must wait _ |irom the port pas the crime of de- | A NEEDED INVESTIGATION. ONSIDERABLE gratification will be felt in | ‘ this city over the arrival of Robert B. Arm- strong, First Assistant Secretary of the Treas- ury, and N. N. Stranahan, Collector of the Port of New York, for the purpose of investigating at this port a number of matters of whicheghere has been a great deal of well founded complaint. A part of the work of investigation will be that of inquiring into the needs of California in the way of better provision for the safety of shipping. Upon such matters it is hardly likely there will be any con- flict of testimony or difference of opinion among ‘those whom the visiting officials may question. It is | well known there is an urgent need for an improved ‘syslem of lightships, beacons, #uoys, fog signals, etc., {ample evidence to sustain all that the city and the State have asked for in that respect. The issue with which the visit of the officials is chiefly concerned is that involved in the claim of the Collector of the Port of Honolulu to examine and |inspect at that port the baggage and personal effects | of all passengers who arrive there on their way to San Francisco. The claim has doubtless some rea- sons to justify it, and yet it is certain that however good such reasons may be they are more than offset by those which are advanced by the objectors. Hono- lulu is about 2000 miles distant from San Francisco and it is self evident that a customs inspection of bag- ‘gagc at that point cannot be made effective to pre- | vent smuggling here, while it can and invariably does jcause an immense amount of annoyance to passen- gers The inefficiency of inspection at Honolulu for the | pu | wi one who reflects upon | prol As the would-be smuggler does not intend to leave the ship at Honolulu he can remove the | dutiable articles from his baggage, secrete them about | his bed or some other place on the ship and then | pass his baggage up for inspection with impunity. As soon as the inspection is over he can replace the | dutiable articles and come to this port serene in the |assurance that he has his certificate of inspection and his permit to Jand and so can come ashore without further *roukle. pose of preventing smuggling at San Francisco be apparent to any the em. | Inspection at Honolulu is therefore advantageous to the would-be smuggler at San Francisco, but it is |a great annoyance to honest passengers. In the first | place le the ship waits at Honolulu most passen- | gers would like to be free to see the city and some of the sights of the island, but if they are detained on | »board to h prived of tk e their baggage inspected they are t pleasure. That, however, is by no tion has been made the Honolulu officers place cus- toms se: on the trunks and boxes they have in- nd thus passengers are compelled to make vage of 2000 miles without . Under any circum spected cess to their bag- such restrictions d be a nuisance, but when it is remembered that the voyage from Honolulu to San Francisco is a jour- ney nstances from the warmth of the tropics to one of the coolest and breeziest points of the temperate zone it will be seen that to exclude passengers from an op- portunity to change their clothing before arrival here subject them to risks of is tc a serious injury to health. It is hardly necessary to go over all the defects, diszdvantages, annoyances and irritations that are in- herent in any system of customs inspection 2000 miles sengers desire to enter. One might well establish the customs inspection for the Atlan- | tic Coast, not at Boston, New York or Philadelphia, | bt in Ireland. The fact that Honolulu is politically | |a rart of the United States does not affect the com- | merc.al remoteness of the port from this city, not | does it cvercome the natural effects of time and dis- llancc. Inspection at that point is too far away to | serve any good purpose, and as a result it is chiefly notable for its annoyances and for the number of pro- tests that have been sent to Washington against a | continuance of it When the high school boys of Haywards were re- il’uscd a holiday a few days ago they thereupon threw | down their books, expressed defiance and walked out ‘n( their classrooms. They seem now particularly well | situated to learn what is known in economic litera- |ture as a lockout, a very different process from a e —— PEARY AND THE POLE | walkout. OMMANDER PEARY has obtained financial ‘ backing for another voyage of Arctic ex- | ploration and the Na Department has granted him leave of absence to undertake the ven- ture. It is expected by the explorer and by his friends that he will this time complete the long quest by reaching the pole. In fact Mr. Darling, Acting | Secretary of the Navy, in granting the request for | leave, said: “The discovery of the pole should be your |main object. Nothing short of that will suffice.” | Commander Peary therefore will have not only the ;promp!mgs of ambition but those of friendly and | official urging to impel him to make a supreme effort | this time to crown the long work of Arctic explora- tion by making his way to the pole if it be humanly | possible to do so. The plan upor’ which the new adventure is to be !camed out promises well so far as it can be judged | by the public, and it will be accepted with confidence coming as it does from one so experienced and so successful in Arctic exploration as Commander Peary. Under its terms the expedition will start next April and go direct to Cape York at the southeast | extremity of Greenland, where a number of Eskimos will be taken on board, and the company will then proceed to Cape Columbia, a point about 400 miles distant from the pole, where a permanent camp will | be established as a base of supplies for the various expeditions that may be made in the direction of the | pole itself. The line of advance proposed is based upon a con- iviction of Commander Peary that while the travel immediately after leaving Cape Columbia will be ex- | ceedingly rough it will become less and less difficult as | one advances. Peary says: “It is my theory that the ‘funher one gets across the ice and away from the {land the smoother the ice will be and that finally the 'traveling will be comparatively easy.” In making the advance every care will be taken to safeguard the explorers against the dangers of the north. As far as practicable caches containing sup- plies of all kinds will Pe established at frequent inter- vals along the route.| It is the expectation that by starting in April the 'explorers will be able to force their way to Cape Columbia before being compelled to fix winter quarters. With the earliest return of light in the spring an expedition will set out for the pole. In his letter of application for leave of absence | Commander Peary in outlining his plan said of that Ighase of the exploration: “I should expect to accom- ! berries, sugar and cream,” St along the coast, and the investigators will readily find | cans the end of their trouble, for when the inspec- | plish the distance to the pole and return in about 100 days or a little more, an average travel of about ten miles a day. Returning, I should break the ship out late in the season and return home. If ice conditions the first year were such as to prevent reaching the northern shore of Grant Land I should winter as far north as practicable and force the ship to the desired location the following year. In this event the expedi- | tion would be gone two years.” The expedition, while it involves danger and hard- ship, is by no means such a perilous undertaking as | Arctic voyaging was in the days of Sir John Franklin | and his immediate successors. Experience has taught how to avoid many of the difficulties that beset early explorers and science and invention have devised and constructed many appliances that lessen the work of exploration. The new enterprise therefore has a rea- sonable basis for the hopes of those who undertake it, and it may be we shall have the satisfaction of in- cluding among the triumphs of our republic that of the discovery of the pole for which so many heroes have sought in vain Commander Peary is making preparations to haz- ard the perils of the north once more in search of the north pole. After all we can admire the persist- ence with which a man pursues a determined purpose | even if we may not applaud his object. | KSv:hnfll Director Woodward made a visit 1 of Inspection | Fremont, Pacific |SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS THE HAIR—C. B. K., ¢ o duce the result in t JAGHAORYY Or. Sept. 1.—The| . . .onsuit some hair artist. Much may i Gold Hill dam across the Rogue RIVer. | jepend upon the condition of the hair DAM BUILDERS DISCOVER GOLD IN ROGUE RIVER SRS BEE | TEACHERS MUST BE PAID FIRST, SAYS AUDITOR Auditor Baehr yesterday refused to audit demands on the school fund, aggre- gating some $1700, and passed by the Board of Educatin, on the ground that Special Dispatch to The Call. built to conserve the water for power e 23 the amount pamed would be an overdraft | Lo o co. “pag revealed a bar of placer| COLOR DECORATION—A., Jamestown on the fund under the one-twelfth Provi- | o1 in the bed of the stream whichds | C In decorating with b 1§ in the slon of the charter. Baehr decided 10| .o cq to contain $260,00. Alexander| United States the colors d be re withhold payment of the demands untily orme, foreman of dam construction, Was | white and blue, the red on ton It U after all the teachers and laborers in the ! ji . ‘erer of the gold-bearing gravel. | blue is on top that is U“r' ";' 7 School Department had been pald and he He panned out $100 In two and a half | color—Dblue, \~l.v im-lu:‘r; el e | ordered the demands to be sent back t0 |} oure but as soon as the fact that gold | rating 1“;"'."“",31?“:'-,-_: s 2 ropr the Board of Education without his ap- | cyisteq in the bar became known the ts the American flag, and in that case | proval. The latter body sent the demands Condon Power Company, to whom the * blue gO e head back to Bachr with a request that he give S il Ll s gpriens £ his reasons in writing for refusing to | dam belongs, refused to allow £ e = V. City. © affix his signature thereto. The required | mining operations. tensive prepara- THE AL ROC )\_> . SRY. information will bé forthcoming from | are being made to work the DProp-| the 4th of April, 1867, Congress gran Baehr to-day. ! Baehr stated that he would sign the | demand of L. J. Weish as concrete in- spector astsoon as the Board of Educa- | tion drew it on the proper fund. | Superintendent 6f Schools Langdon and | e CHff House to tF isco in trv ave been placed The dam, which holds back the | the seal rocks « waters of Rogue River at this point, | city and count and the same since then under the care of the Board of Park Commis rs. The seals that Inhabit the rocks and immediate vicinity | are protected by law. There was | | caused the formation of a gravel bar, and | it is in this that the placer gold has been found. It evidently came down the river and lodged within easy reach of those who have spent thousands of dollars in perfecting the dam in order that electri- cal power might be supplied to the sur- rounding country. The bed of Rogue River adjacent to the | dam is being thoroughly prospected, and other large gold deposits are expected to be found. ———————— sterday to the Everett, | Heights and Sherman schools, and as a result the Board of | Education has decided that no addi- | tional ciasses will be formed in the schools named. It was reported to the board that the classes wera rather over- | crowded, but the Everett School was the bridge that at one time connected th Clift House under the Foster management It was a wooden erncon of April 6, fifteen per mischievous with one of the rocks structure. On 1584, while ther sons on that boys commenced the structurs the were about me br THE GEARY STREET BONDS. STATEMENT is published that bears upon | A the arguments made in favor of making all taxpayers furnish capital to invest in the | Geary-street Railroad. As the figures are traceable to the public reports, that should be in the hands of | the Board of Works, their verification is easy. The | statement quotes the report of the City Engineer on | the estimated earnings of the proposed street rail- | road as follows: Operating expenses .. | Maintenance of plant Interest account Sinking fund. POARE o5y ed 56 $220,550 | Estimated earnings 20,00 Anunl Thas.. 25 S R i 320,550 | This, however, is not the total loss which will fall | on the taxpayers if the bonds are made a lien on the city. The road owned by a private corporation | would pay tax, royalty and license as follows annually: | | Taxes . -$10,000 | License . 450 | Royalty Total ,.55. This added to the loss between receipts and expendi- tures makes an apparent annual loss of $39,400. This official showing detracts somewhat from the | rosy tinting given to the proposition by its support- | ers and puts them in the attitude of trying to induce the taxpayers to contribute capital for a non-paying vestment. If the official figures be correct and a | inet loss be in prospect it is in every view wrong to extort the capital for such an investment from all the payers of the city. the other hand, the laim that the business will yield great grofit be true | tax If, on |c |the enterprise can raise its own capital and should | ‘carry its own bonds. So in the one case making the | bonds a lien on the city is an outrage upon the tax- | payers and in the other it is unnecessary. i The Australian colonies are verging on bankruptcy, | caused in great part by building railroads bonded | {upon all the taxpayers instead of upon the plants themselves. Those colonies have populations ex- | ceeding a million people in each. But the insidious system proposed here has grown into a burden | greater than they can bear. The people of San Francisco should insist that {such a mistake be not made here. It is useless to say that if the bonds are a lien on the road alone no one will buy them. That will simply show the enmity of wicked and predatory capital. Mr. William Ran- | dolph Hearst will buy them with his benevolent and philanthropic millions, devoted so freely to the shep- | herding of the human race. But if he will not buy them, based on the road alone, why not? He has a newspaper here in which to answer the question. WOMEN AS FARM HANDS. F late we have heard comparatively little of the O once loud complaining over the abandoned farms of New England. It appears the farms are being once more occupied and cultivated and there is no longer any fear that the rural districts will revert to the wilderness. Now, however, there comes a new complaint. The incoming occupants of the farms are not of the old type of farmers. Some are rich people of the cities, who use the land for summer homes or for game parks, while others are foreigners, who are cultivating them by methods quite different from anything to which New England has been accus- tomed. Possessing little or no capital and largely ignorant of the uses of farm machinery, the incoming peasants from Europe are working the lands of their New England homes in the way to which they were accus- tomed in the Old World, and as a result the “hired man,” once so familiar in the country, is being crowded out by women workers in the fields. In most cases the women who work the fields are mem- bers of the family owning or at least occupying the land, but it is not always so. It has been found that the employment of women in the fields is in many cases more economical than that of men, and they are being substituted extensively in truck farms around Boston. Commenting upon the change the Boston: Globe says: “It will mean a new race of farmers in New England. It will mean a regeneration of the deserted farm, but it will also mean a new social element in New England life that sooner or later will make itself felt and heard in the councils of State and nation. In the long run wealth inheres in the soil. The Ameri- can boy may go to the city, dress well and apparently help form a certain social upper crust, but the for- eigner who puts his whole family into the field, man, woman and child, is slowly amassing the wealth. If his children seem rude now they will be polished later. Ignorance is not natural to any race.” The Globe predicts that at a not distant future the West will imitate New England and substitute women for men in nearly all rural industries, but the opinion will not be shared by the people of the West. The soil of New England is so barren that it cannot sup- port a family living up to the normal American stand- ard, and so it passes to the foreigner immigrant who | sets his wife and daughters to work; but that kind of soil doesn’t prevail west of the Hudson. It will be a long time before the United States as a whole is af- fected by economic conditions that now exist in New England, and vntil that time comes the Western man will continue to run the farm machinery from gang plow to hay rake, while his wife and daughters “sit |in the parlor, sew a fine seam and live upon straw- | the son and the daughter of from side to side and in a few moments only one in which such was found to be | it broke and the people were precipitated v the case. Some of the classes had five| Lovers Parted by Angry Parents. pupils and others three in exc of the| Miss Rosa Pimentall, who eloped from |in the ocean. None was .nuwr;od. bu Tegular number and it was not deemed with Charles Pelletier, was | seven of them were badly bruise { advisable to form a new class, as it would ack home by her father | P <oc s be difficult to classify pupils of so many ¢ morning. Pelletierw | LADIES CARDS-—J. A L.. Ctv = A | different grades. at the City Prison till word 18 received | lady’s card should have t prefix Mrs. In the other schools it s found that a | from the girl's father as to whether he | or Miss. eldest married daughter number of pupils on the waiting list | will prosecute him for abduction. Pelle-| ¢ g fam read could not be accommodated at the p ent time and some arrangement will made whereby they wiil be able to attend other schools in the vicinity act not crimi- the girl and ad not been | of her father. —_——————— Many Children Are Aided. monthly meeting Prevention of Cruelt held vesterday, Secretary W ti Miss asserts that his stmpls TWO BIG, BALLOONS. Vosmer and Mlle. Aneti Sunday afte n the much t balloon race wiil take place Island, near Cli.. House, in- at C between pend if fessor Vosmer and Mlle. Anet, to deei maids. The the championship of the world for a were placed cards her purse c . . and 3 were x Miss. It L m—————— ! would, und ‘Will of Andrew Hussey Is Filed. ette, be entitled to use The will of Andrew Hussey was filed name. for probate yesterday. He bequeaths to t sama family nam s California sister Nellle of Tu g6, %o & pound. | does r a member of he to the son and th ughter ¢ S Gt A WS, Drana i . | brother’s amily, and if she ceased brother Patrick, also FHends. TS Market at. above Ca A : be the eldest )t the family of is entire property. to be divided T A P I hich her, br s a direct member more, his entire property. to be divided | goocio) Tnformation which her s a ct member among them, share & Pat e she sho > I g card i rick Cahill of th pointed e aives 1 as the ¢ ck Cahil s pointed ex- | Press Clipping Bureau v ceutor without t | fornta streat. Teleph est ¢ p ABEAUTIFUL “SARONY” CK, WHITE AND RED |- » 5 MEDITATION. TRAIN NEWS AGENTS AND ALL NEWSDEALERS SELL THE CALL Price 5 Cents. Price 5 Cents. Price 5 Cents. THEY ARE FRAMING THE CALL ART SUPPLEMENTS The Following Art Dealers Are Making a Specialty of Framing Call Art Supplements: SACRAMENTO—Hevener, Mier & street; Gage's art store, 509 East SAN DIEGO—W, Co. 615 J street; C. N. Davis, book Main street; Webers art store, 435 71 F street = o store, 817 K street. East Main street. FRESNO—Sronce & Dick. MP%T%%J;,MA—-E S. Gutermute, J. Bod:!}(l&l"lbl.&-f Wk Hall. REDDING—W. H. Bergh, “Bergh g ND—] . Saake, 13 Tele- Furniture Company”: T. J. Houstoi SAN JOSE—George Denue, M. Len- ph avenue; A. A. Barlow, 369 Houston Furniture Company. A ‘welfth street. REDWOOD CITY—W. L. Kline. ALAMEDA—C. P. Magagnos, 1358 SANTA CRUZ—H. E. Irish, Cooke Park street. Bros., F. R. Hew, George Hoban. CHICO—Fetters & Williams. JACKSON—E. G. Freeman Co. zen & Son. STOCKTON—Morris Bros.' book store, 20 North El Dorado street; Stockton Racket store, 711 East Main