The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 14, 1903, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1903. & 4 . - o . ' 4 > The ~ZEES e @all. | WOOPASACROR ol e e o s e e | ADMIRAL DEWEY THINKS THE NORTH . 2 spread of a n conception of e pur- | c d 3 MONDAY 3 ...\'F,P‘i’ ;\[}3;;{7;1;3 T pose pol scientific fgrmry is l\)ery gratifying to ‘:I;::lt.:bns(:il::n::atis EX;:"‘;"'C’:’:’::Z;":.g lh:y;::ts;mt Z‘E ATLA N T I C F LE ET IS N OT FO R M I DA B LE mpc?mr‘ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, P cress A1l Communications to W. S. LEAKE. Manager TELEPHONE. % s THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. Market and Third, S. F. 217 to 221 Stevemson St. VUBLICATION OFFICE. UDITORIAL ROOMS. Deiivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Cts. Per Month. Bingle Copies 5 Cents. 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SMITH .80 Tribune Building P North 77 NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: CARLTON..... +++.Herald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unien Square; Murray Hill Hotel; Fifth-avenue Hotel and Hoffman House. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Mo (S cess mery, corner cf Clay. open wnti] 9:80 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. €38 MeAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open unti] 930 o clock. Marke: iencia, open until 9 o'clock. NE 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1006 Va- 106 Eleventh, open until 9 corner Church and Duncan streets, open V. corner Twenty-second and Kentueky, 2200 Filimore, open until ® o'clock clock CONDITION OF TRADE. G'.\I.l\’.\l, d nobox features trade shows few mnew ¢ of business appears smaller than last year, but it was then abnor- conversant with the drift of e at high pressure rge @ rce expected it 10 ¢ shrinkage is partially illustrated by 41.9 per cent from the n 1902, aggregate her decreased to $1,420,420,000, Another un- clear while the r several years irection is that every impor- exhibits a v except Kansas Cit York being 34.2 per cent, largely rked decrease in stock spec- Bost and Philadelphia 34 per cent respectively, while he smallest decrease, it being only n these clearings are an indica- g less business than in 1002, The the week were 172, against 205 last year, may be q as profitable in net results » large enough to attract atten- ocality ral favora jeatures last the c@untry reported a better fall retail trade others It veathe the in s the crops of the country will not e as expected along in the spring, but ong the great f staples show a serious falling & The wheat crop has steadily diminished in size e ancement of the season, and the last F: indicates a sovernmer € ssued on A e and spring wheat yield of about 120,000,0 els, against anywhere from 700,000,000 50,000,000 confidently figured on in the early pring. Prices are good, however, and more net no may be realized from the diminished crop t had been larger. The South reports excel- corn, cotton, rice and sugar. les firm and active in the West, but kets are still more or less inactive, as t yeg recovered from the sharp scare it g W hln the whole country seemed to be e or about to'go on one, and the cost and wages had advanced to a point where operations had become more or steel trades still ers are holding off, iron and n a i and some descriptions have declined still further. shown more animation at Western buy vhile Provisior ave ng centers and supplies of cattle and hogs are i plentiful and gradually increasing, quence of the boom in livestock of the during which many stock raisers have accumulated fortunes. The New York stock market continues tame and without any particular tendency in either direction. Fluctuations of late have been narrow and the public are holding aloof. No more is heard of the forma- tion of gigantic syndicates with vast capitalizations. Their day has passed for the present. New York more or five years, bankers say that the supply of undigested securities has not even yet become climinated, but it has been reduced to a point where it is no longer a serious menace to the stock market and the business interests The bankers are also pointing out that stocks as a rule are now down to a plane where they can be purchased for investment purposes with reasonaMle safety and that many of them are now positively cheap froni a dividend-paying point of view. Thus reassured, the public may again enter the market after the summer vacation, which is now in its last days Conditions on the Pacific Slope continue cheerful. Moderate crops, which are quoted above the normal prices. keep the farmers and merchants in good humor, credits excellent and the banks well supplied with funds. Nobody is complaining and everybody expects another good year. The volume of domestic and foreign trade is large, collections are as good as they have been at any time and failures are neither merous nor large. In fact, taking the whole coas: into consideration, conditions may be described as brilliant of the country. ———— It has been announced in the dispatches that Rus- ‘a and Austria may take a hand in the quarrel be- tween Bulgaria and Turkev. For the sake of hu- manity it is to be hoped that Bulgaria will be pro- tected from such friends as these and be permitted . years of trial decided to get rid of it. Unquestion- |unit in the United States, to fight out her quarrel with Turkey alone. 2201 | n last year. and more favorable | -t those who pioneered the cause in this country. The Eastern press has recently made quite a specialty | of forestry, with the result that former timber lands ;nox fit for agriculture are now considered of value | for raising timber and are being planted for wood as « crop. | The hill country and mountains of New England and the Middle States, once timbered but now bare, |are being put into white and yellow pine, black wal- | nut and even oak, the slowest growing of all. In | the South it is probable that the eucalyptus will flour- lich and it is evident tha we are not yet aware of the | economic value of many of the varieties of that tree. | It flourishes in California and makes a rapid growth and has been found of value for fuel. There are about forty varieties of this tree and in Australia | many of them are used for piling and for dimension |timber. "The leaves and bark are rich in essential oil |that has been found of therapeutic value and enters into many medicinal preparations useful in diseases of | the respiratory system. The Philadelphia Record is urging replanting of the slopes of the Alleghany Mountains in that State. Lumbering and fire have stripped them and the ef- fect on mojsture and the climate is disastrous. The |1and that has been laid bare is uscless for agriculture !and useful only for arboriculture. Actual experiment | has shown that much of this denuded land will in | twenty years produce a merchantable crop of black i walnut yielding $1000 per acre or a value of $25 per year for the time employed in producing the crop. For about ten years of that tjme a nut crop is pro- | duced that will pay interest on the investment. If | planted thirty feet apart each acre will bear fifty trees. As the crop approaches maturity another may | be planted on the same land, so that the yield is made Large walnut timber in the natural forest | | constant. | now sells at $3000 per acre, and there is no prospect that this timber will decrease in value. Mr. Gifiord Pinchot has been urging the replanting ! of our denuded forest lands in California. He is one {of the foremost authorities on forestry in the world, land California will get much of value from his in- | struction. There are two policies of vast importance lto the present and future of this State in which he | can assist us. One is the prevention of forest fires, | which destroy the standing crop and the forest-pro- ducing character of the land and the other is the re- planting of lands that have been stripped. In our foothills and mountains are millions of acres, once timbered and now covered with chemisal, manzanita and coffee bush, useless for agriculture and horticul- | ture, which can be made to bear timber. If Mr. Pinchot succeed in getting the work of replanting at some point where it serves as an object lesson the owners of these lands will be induced to replant them. True. it may be said that the crop is of slow growth and the man who plants may not harvest. But as soon as the growth of the crop is established the | lands have value, and this will increase until the crop is ready to cut. The soil is especially fitted for the growth of coniferous trees and the yellow and sugar | pine grow here more rapidly than elsewhere, so that we have the best conditions for reforesting and a prospect of the quickest return But the planting of trees for a forest crop is a new thing with our people. planting for crops which our lands produce, but this As soon as they are instructed they may be | depended upon to take it up with enthusiasm and intelligence. A school the university would be of material benefit in this matter, and Mr. | Pinchot’s promotion of that foundation is highly ap- prec The forests of the continent are making their, last | stand here. Here therefore should be concentrated | the efforts of the friends of the forest to preserve what we have and begin the creation of more, for not elsewhere in the world is the forest as important | to every material interest of the people is novel forestry in ated An American who killed his partner in Mexico was | sentenced a few days ago by a Mexican court to serve { an imprisonment of sixteen months for criminal care- | lessness. This ought to suggest itself as a valuable { addition to the Penal Code of California to cover the cases of that extremely dangerous element known as | deer hunters. | o o e e PROHIBITION IN THE SOUTH. | INCE New Hampshire and Vermont have aban- | S doned their ancient policy of total prohibition and have entered upon a trial of license and local option, the stalwart and stern prohibitionists have turned their hopes to the South. In those States where once the Puritan was derided there now seems to be more of the spirit of Puritanism than in New England itself. At any rate, the progress of | prohibition in the South has become one of the salient features of the times and is sufficiently remark- able tc attract general attention. According to a prohibition “The +New | Voice,” published in Chicago, there are now more saloons in the State of New York alone than in the | entire eleven States of the South. It is said that in | Texas 136 counties have total prohibition, 62 partial, |and in 46 the sale of liquors is unrestricted. Ten- nessee has 5500 towns and cities; in only eight of | them is there unrestricted sale; in only 12 of the 96 counties can liquor be sold legally. In Kentucky 47 ! counties have total prohibition, 54 partial and in 18 | free sale is permitted. Arkansas has 44 teetotal coun- | ties, while 29 can sell as they like, with no legal re- strictions. Georgia has moprohibitiun counties, with ‘only 37 the other way. | Various causes are assigned for the popular sup- ‘port given to prohibition in these States. In the first | place there are in the South very few foreigners ac- | customed to the free use of wine or beer, and as the “older elements of the American population are gen- | erally averse to the liquor traffic, it is natural thgre should be stronger sentiment of that kind in Sie | South than in other sections where the foreign ele- | ment is larger. In the next place the fear that the |negro population might become demoralized if | whisky were easily obtainable has inclined the rural | counties to go almost solidly for prohibition. Finally, it is said that in Texas the liguor men undertook to | evade the license laws and to run politics, with the result of rousing an antagonism that has pretty well suppressed the trade throughout the State. The results of the experiment with prohibition in the South will doubtless be similar to those that fol- |lowed in New England. For a time the zeal of the reformers will enable the State and county officers to enforce the law. but gradually the weakening will eome, and then there will be a repetition of the prac- | tices that made prohibition in New Hampshire and | Vermont such a scandal that the people after fifty' organ, | | They know all other sorts of | | Southern life. | It is seldom that we hear from old Tuolumne, but when we do the news is well worth the reading. She now is bubbling with excitement over a duel, a trag- edy and a mystery all binched in one. Any one of | these incidental affairs of community life, much less the three, weuld be enough to set San Francisco agog for a day. |THE GOOSE AND THE GOLD EGG. | HE only cloud above the financial horizon is | i T the prospective withdrawal of capital from | constructive enterprises. ; ! Construction of railroads and buildings is a form | | of production. It goes back to the raw material, the : ore, flux and fuel to produce metal and the stone and the clay; to the lead and the flax plant that com- bine in paint, and to the various pigments used; to the silica and soda for glass, and to the timber in its various forms that enters into construction and to | ithe skilled processes by which each is reduced to use- | i ful form. When construction is planned it promotes all activities clear back to the primitive forms of all the materials used. When construction ceases those activities cease, and then is the paralysis of non use. | | That paralysis we call “hard times.” Its effects fall | | first and hardest upon labor, for construction, being }a form of production that stimulates all other forms | | by its consumption of them, is the goose that lays !the golden egg for labor. ' Therefore labor should be | advised not to kill that goose, for it is now chasing ;her around the national barnyard, ax in hand, to cut | off her head and rip her open: | Already the railroads of the United States have |announced their abapdonment of construction planned for next year that called for the payment of $180,000,- 000, giving as a reason the burdens laid upon such production by the labor situation. In New York buildings® planned for erection next' year at a cost of $60,000,000 and buildings in Chicago to cost $70,- | 000,000 are abandoned for the same reason. Owners of such prospective buildings and contractors for their erection find it unsafe to proceed, for they don't know when they may touch a live wire in the labor situation. ¥ The proceedings of Murphy, Parks and the other walking delegates who have been sentenced to the penitentiary in New York for bribery and extortion | have revealed a labor situation in which no investor is safe. The calling of strikes to extort money for the pocket of the walking delegate has inflicted enor- | mous losses upon contractors and property owners. ‘Ther: is a universal law which dominates all produc- ' tion. It is exterminated utterly whenever it has put | {upon it greater burdens than it can bear. When rail- roads charge a freight upon any article so high that lits value is exhausted in passing from producer to | | { | consumer that production ceases. Union labor hav- | can bear, that form of production ceases. It is not only the planned $310,000,000 of railroad | construction and building in New York and Chicago that will be exterminated, but the blight will fall upon construction everywhere and in every city. In | | Chicago the owner of a building under construction | was notified by the labor unions concerned to change contractors and take one that the unions dictated | when the work was half finished. This exaction was submitted to. Then the owner was compelled to pay to the unions a fine of $1 per thousand on the ! brick that had been used in the building and the work | was suspended until this exaction was submitted to. There were no reasons given beyond an exhibit of | the power to enforce the demands made. In this way the cost of construction has been increased and its progress hampered until investors and contractors | are tired of the risk and so they will quit. Investors in business buildings in cities arrange | their leases in advance. Their prospective tenants in turn arrange to give up their present quarters and the landlord in his turn arranges for new lessees In countless cases these erratic interruptions of con- | struction so drag out the completion of buildings that the time limit of the leases expires, but the prospective lessees have agreed to give up their pres- ent quarters and their successors are waiting to take them; so it occurs that men are thrown out of busi- ness and have to sacrifice their stock and suffer great joss and in some cases ruin, all by reason of the in- terference of the walking delegate with construction. men a new and profitable scheme with which to cheat the exclusion law. It has been very apparent for some time that there should be a few more lawyers in San Quentin. The profession is not adequately represented in the penitentiary. ing put upon construction a greater burden than it | | ol s neuvers of this vear.” be heralded to the world by ignorant journalists as a force able to cope with any fleet afloat, and a few of the irre- sponsible writers will think of comparing it with the evolu- cruiser; G, B., gunboa S5 Com~mienTED ‘Sos ¥ assembled on the coast of Maine for tlie summer ma- The admiral goes on to say: “It will tionary squadrons of Great Britain, France and Germany. Following 15 a list of the ships in the North Atlantic fleet referred to by Admiral Dewey: It is a case of putting upon that form of production 2 g b | a greater burden than it will bear, and the loss goes | ~am®, 5|2 iy ' Hatter back and blights all dependent forms of production, : E |: so hard times begin. — > e e e b iy and so hard o Alabama . S. 7 13-inch; 14 6-inch It was hoped that union labor would be admon- | Inols . S. ! 14 6-inch ished by the exposure of Murphy, Parks and other | iniiama’ g walking delegates. But instead of that the unions | jiaseachu & | y y . | Olymnja . C. ha.ve .\oted to them .the same confiden'ce and' Ieade'r | Qiymage, - Y ship in convict stripes that they enjoyed in plain ; :’lfin‘awr t clothes, and this has been the determining cause of P-ntrh:rA C. the canceling of $310,000,000 in contracts for con- | yenkee A g : Newport .....| G. B. structive production. Scorpion . G. B. | 6 6-pounders — 2 G. B. | 1896 4 6-pounders Local dealers in live Chinese stock have discovered 2% o et in the substitution of old, decrepit men for young =8 & snen battleship; P. C.. protected ; D, B., dispatch boat; cruiser; C., T. §., training ship. In addition to the above vessels there were also five de- stroyers, three tugs, eight coilliers and supply vessels, mak- ing a total of thirty-six craft of all kinds. e - - ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, WHO WAS NOT FAVORABLY IMPRESSED BY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC FLEET THAT RECENTLY ENGAGED IN SUMMER MANEUVERS OFF THE COAST OF MAINE. ) . 2 DMIRAL DEWEY, in a letter published in the Navy| with the rank and three-fourths of the sea pay of the next League Journal, calls attention to the list of American | higher grade.” Nineteen officers who entered the Naval naval vessels “which with some difficulty have been | Academy during 1864 will be eligible for retirement as rear admirals even if the last one of these—J. A. H. Nickeis, who retires January 12, 1911—does mot reach the higher grade prior to his retirement. The vy Department has ruled that a midshipman on probation, rving on one of the ecruising vessels of the -Naval Academy, was performing war service, and under this liberal construction of the law some have already been retired with the highest rank and pay, placing them on the same footing as such bona fide war veterans as Gherardl, Benham, Ramsay, Walker and many others. The sallors and marines on the battleship Maine are not desirous of serving on that ship and resort to all sorts of methods to get out of “Old Heine,” as they have nicknamed it. More than 200 sailors are reported to have deserted since the ship came to Philadelphia five months ago for repairs, and not one answered to the call for volunteers posted up at League Island. Sailors seem to think that the “hoodoo™ on the Texas has been transferred to the Maine or that there are now two hoodoo ships in the navy. The case of the Texas is one to upset the nerves of such susceptible peo- ple as sailors. Faulty construction necessitated a new bot- tom and new gun deck and a continued series of accidents due to mismanagement made ‘the sallors shy of the ship. But the defects in the Maine are due to causes that have been remedied and it is somewhat premature to stigmatize the ship as a “hoodco.” The cigarette habit among the youngsters on board the training ships at Portland, England, has spread to such an extent as to cause the officer in charge to resort to drastic measures. He has closed up a number of tobacco shops and threatened other stores with similar method of stopping the supply of cigarettes to the boys of the six training ships located in the harbor, besides three others making Portland their headquarters at the end of their crulses. As in the case of Bremerton, on this coast, the business men of Port- land will have to comply with the request of the naval au- ::onue: or lose the profitable trade of 3000 officers, men and ¥S. The British Admiralty recently sent a circular letter to the the nation they may ment of the offenders. and successful train-wreckers. Stanford football eleven. contest. It seems strange and wonderfully encouraging to witness the strenuous efforts with which our fel- low citizens of Hawaii are striving to show that they deserve to shine as a great and sympathetic At their recent primary i If nothing else laudatory may be said of the schem- ers who have precipitated the postal scandal upon e commended for the thor- oughness with which they operated and the wide range within which they worked. It is to be hoped that the Federal authorities will pursue the affair im- placably to its inevitable conclusion—to the punish- —_— California has done much to demonstrate. its ability in the developme'nt of abnormalities in children, but it must present something worse than anything yet offered or yield the badge of disgrace to Colorado. In the latter State a few days ago two children who had been arrested confessed that they are painstaking A young man bearing the unusual but significant name of Crutches is a candidate for a place on the If the boys can now only secure somebody named Stretcher to ‘enter the lists the team ought to go upon the gridiron formidably and most appropriately named for the November The above fleet is remarkable only because of its non- homogeneity. Only three of the battleships could be depended upon to set the pace at fifteen knots. The five battleships and two protected cruisers constituted the sole fighting force, as the four cruisers are converted merchant steamers, any oue of which may be sunk by a fourteen-pound shell fired at a distance of one mile. Of the four gunboats, the Newport is the only bona fide navy vessel, the Topeka being rather an- tiquated, and the other two are converted yachts. The ap- pellation of dispatch-boat to the Dolphin, of thirteen knots, is a misnomer, and the three training ships are built of wood and of no possible. use in a naval engagement. This list of twenty named vessels closes with the salling ship Monon- gahela. Admiral Dewey should have no fear that any ir- responsible writer would ever think of comparing'the above fleet with those of foreign navies, for there is a limit to a reporter’s imagination as well as to the credulity of the pub- lic. In two years hence, however, we may be able to make as good a showing as Germany. TR ‘William Mackabee, an inmate of the Naval Home in Phil- adelphia, cclebrated his 100th birthday September 5 last. He was born in Baltimore in 1503 and entered the navy at the age of 14 years, serving as an apprentice on the Constitution. He was always before the mast and entcred the home about thirty-five years ago. Mackabee is the oldest veteran of the American navy. The engineer officers in the United States navy are rap- idly diminishing, the loss since July, 1888, being sixty-nine. Five years ago there were 210 and on July 1 last there were only 141. The available number for sea duty is now 125 whereas 1t was 199 in 1808. In the course of ten years there will be only about fifty officers in the former engineer corps for sea service and the deficiency will have to be supplied from the regular line officers, who have a superficial knowl- edge of marine engineering, and from the warrant machin- ists’ corps. There are 136 officers in the navy eligible for retirement as rear admirals during the ten years up to 194. Of this number twenty-four are rear admirals, seventy-four captains, thirty-one commanders, one medical director and six pay directors. The personnel law of March 3, 1899, provided: “That any officer of the navy a creditable record, who |ably, however, it is of advantage to the rural South | election they did everything except commit murder. | served during the Civil War, shall, when retired, be retired several dockyards and shore stations, requesting the views of those in authority as to the practicability of employing women as copyists, flagmakers, upholsterers, etc. The ma- jority of the replies were not favorable to the employment of women on work done by men. The tactical exercises of the British fleet off Lagos Bay began August 183 and continued six days. The fleet, comsist- ing of twenty-five battleships, thirty-eight cruisers and all of the Mediterranean torpedo flotilla, was divided in divis- fons under the command of one .admiral, two vice admirals and five rear admirals. The purpose of these operations has been to enable each of the admirals to have the opportunity of handling the great force in tactical evolutions In order to illustrate their individual qualities. Incidentally, but not less important, was the severe test to which each ship/was put in steaming at full speed a distance of 500 miles. T T The annual naval maneuvers of the German navy began August 15 and were to terminate September 15. Fifty-four vessels of all types are participating in the exercises, whicn include sham battles and a long distance run from Wilheim- ;E-;fLen around Skagerak into the Baltic and terminating at The French armored cruiser Jules Ferry, building in dock at Cherbourg, was to be floated on August 25. Five vessels of this type, identical in all particulars, are being built in dockyards and are making good progress. Each of these cruisers is to be 182.29 feet in length, 7213 feet beam and 12.600 tons displacement on a draught aft of 26.9 feet, on which the normal coal carried is 1320 tons. The triple-screw engines are to develop 27,600 horsepower, to give a speed of 22 knots. The armor belt, extending all around the ship, is to have a max imum thickness of 6.9 Inches, tapering to & inches at the ends, and the armored deck is to be L77 inches on the flat. The armament will consist of four 7.6-inch, sixteen 6.4-inch, twenty 3-pounders, four l-pounders and five toperdo tubes, two of which latter are submerged. The average cost of these ships is estimated at $5,875,000. The Jules Ferry is to receive her armor from a float alongside the ship Instead of by the usual method of putting it on while on the stocks im dock, the chief advantage being that it makes the dock available for other uses not less than six months ahead of the usuai release