The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 26, 1903, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ATURDAY.............. .SEPTEMBER 26, 1903 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. £ddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager . Ask for THE CALI:—The Operator Will Connect, You With the Department You Wish. Third, §. F. tevenson St. PUBLICATION OFFICE. EDITORIAL ROOMS. . Delivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Ot‘l. Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Terms by Mafl, Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 8. DAILY CALL @ncluding Sunday) DAILY CALL—By Single Month EUNDAY CALL, One Year, WEEKLY CALL, One Year. . $8.80 Per Year Extra 4.15 Per Year Extra 1.00 Per Year Extra uthorized to receive subscriptions. will be forwarded when requested. FOREIGN POSTAGE. Sample coples Mall subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o insure & prompt and correct compliance With their request. 1118 Broadway.. .Telephone Main 1083 BERKELEY OFFICE. 2148 Center Street. ..Telephone North 77 €. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Adver- tising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.) WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: MORTON E. CRANE. 406 G Street, N. W. NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH.... 30 Tribune Building NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. ... R .....Herald Square BRANCH OFFICES— until 9:30 o'cl Montgomery, corner cf Clay, open 300 Huyes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 ntil 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1098 Va- leacia, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 ock k o'clock. NW open until ® o'clock corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 o'clock. THE NEW SEWERS. HE CALL invites careful study of its dissec- of the proposed sewer system for which | The | 1 of the city makes imperative this enlargement | | | gr bond issue of $7,250,000 asked. of our drainage facilities. It is no less imperative, however, that the new system shall be perfect, else the people will be worse off than they are now. As | the proposed issue is predicated on the plans of the | Board of Works it is highly necessary that those plans be understood. By use of the map we have | published, and informed by the accompanying text, | the whole situation is revealed. | The plan proposes that the whole drainage of the | city be dropped to zero, that is to say to a level that | To do this the | carry off the lowest drainage. whole discharge is dropped so far below the datum line of ghe city that the entire flow will be obstructed | by the tides entering the sewer and flowing to the | If they met there only the lowest drain- ; age the situation would not be so acute. But they | wil the whole outflow of the city, ‘ When | a high tide in the sewers, the sewage itseli and the | zero points. 1 meet, practically, from the highest as well as the lowest levels. storm water from the surface all meet, as they will in the rainy season, there will be a condition that tolerable. Every connection will be backed full in- of sewage, pipes will burst and basements will be flooded by the unpleasant fluid combination. We call attention to this in time in order that the city may not make an immense expenditure that will harm instead of help. We have tried to make the matter so plain that every man can study it for him- seli. Tt is competent for engineers and experts to | give the public the benefit of their opinions and sug- that will avert the quences of what now appears to be a great mistake. gest remedies serious conse- EVERY INCH A KING. | ING EDWARD continues to surprise the world by new exhibitions of a determination to assert every royal prerogative that belongs From the day he ascended the throne he made it plain to all that he did not intend to be a figurehead an opportunity K to him each new occasion has offered him to manifest his will in the Govern- ment he has been prompt to take advantage of it, and so sagaciously has he managed to combine firm- ness with suavity that the British public, ever jealous of aggressions on the part of the crown, have greeted cach successive move with a burst of genuine ap- proval. It now appears that the King has assumed a large share in the direction of foreign affairs and that his tours abroad, with visits to Portugal, Italy, France and Austria, were not mere matters of royal cere- mony. So, too, the Irish visit was an affair of high | politics and not a h6liday jaunt. The most remark- able evidence, however, of the King’s determination to take an important part in the government of his kingdom and his empire is noted in the attitude he has taken toward the reconstruction of the Balfour Cabinet. The Prime Minister has been summoned to the presence of the King at Balmoral, and it is in the royal palace that the issues at stake have been most earnestly discussed and the comparative merits of available candidates for the Cabinet most care- fully studied. This unexpected revival of kingcraft in Britain is due mainly to the abnormal condition of the politics of the kingdom. There is neither a strong Ministry nor a strong opposition. Neither in the Lords nor in the Commons is there a man who has the confidence of the country or even of Parliament to a degree sui- ficient to emable him to govern without the favor of the King. Indeed it is quite probable that at the present moment the British people have more confi- dence in the King than in his Ministers and are heartily glad to have him undertake the direction of affairs. ™ Edward has tact, experience and a fine capacity for saying and doing the riht sort of thing at the right time. His prompt dismissal of the guard in Ireland was a striking illustration of his quickness to seize an opportunity for making friends. This capacity serves him well, and as a consequence he is rapidly becoming a real as well as a titular King. It may even be that circumstances will so shape themselves in Great Britain that a King's party will grow up and make him in fact as well as in name the ruler of } the realm, x 2 NE. comner Church and Duncan streets, open | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 PUBLIC UTILITY BONDS. HE policy of public ownership of utilities is T brought sharply before the taxpayers of San | Francisco in the proposition to make the Geary-street Railroad bonds a lien upon the city, to be paid by the taxpayers, instead of a lien upon the road itself, to be paid by those who need the use of it. As far as the latter are concerned they have the road now and enjoy its use at the same fare they | would pay were it owned by the city, and the pri- vate stockholders have to stand the losses incurred in its operation, if there be any. 3 The Call has voiced the sentiments of the wise ad- vocates of public ownership who desire that honesty and business principles shall be enforced in the ad- ministration of business plants under such owner- ship by insisting that®*no bonds therefor be made a lien on the city, but that they shall be made a lien on the plant alone. It is so plain a business proposition | that no one has attempted to answer it. The Ex- aminer glows with descriptions of the plant the city will put in, which is to furnish all the luxuries of travel and many of the comforts of home, but it has not ventured to say that the city cannot do all these things equally as well if the bonds are a lien on the road only, Supporting our contention we have the experienge of every city and of every country in the world that experimented with public ownership. Whether the Government be strongly bureaucratic, has Esrnta(i\'c democracy, like our American cities, or a | self-governing colony of Great Britain, like Australia |and New Zealand, the result has been the same. In 1888 the colony of New South Wales, in Aus- | tralia, went into the railroad business. The Minister | of Rdilways soon began complaining of the ineffi- | ciency and disloyalty of the employes and the public |of the decreased efficiency and the increased cost of the service. An attempt was made to have the administration of the public railways non-political, j under civil service. This policy, though required by | law, was frustrated by the influence of the employes {upon members & Parliament, who required their votes. Mr. Shiels, Minister of Railways, said that an | expert manager brought out from England found the | railroads of Victoria disorganized, the administration |torn by internal jealousies, and was finally com- pelled to abandon hope of making things better and resigned and went home. In the Victorian Parliament the employes pro- moted a measure to greatly increase their wages, and during the debate a member, Mr. Bennett, said: “I know there are thousands of men who are far worse off than those whose pay we are asked to in- crease; and I know the country cannot 'stand the ex- penditure, but still I am not going to be a fool, and if this raise go to a division I will vote for it.” This meant that he desired to retain seat in Parliament and his place in-politics, and to do so must seek votes by supporting a measure that he admitted was inimical to the interests of the coun- try! he golony bonds bought or built the roads, and the loss in running them was charged off to the taxpayers, so that the thousands of men who were his | worse off than the employes whose wages were raised by legislation had to stand further burdens in in- creased taxation. By 1899 the railroad amounted to $17,830,000. Yet the service was poor and its cost, to those who used it, higher than on the railroads of the United States. In New South Wales the railroad administration reported a surplus of $160,000 for the year 1897-98, But an expert examination showed a deficit for the ar of $040,000, which had been charged off to the taxpayers. The effect of such management of the ustralian roads has been to largely increase wages in the less skilled departments, where the voting employes are numerous, and to reduce the pay of | the skilled and especially of the expert managers. The result is a poor service at a high cost. First- class men in administration cannot be had in the positions that tell in management, and those that do hold them are permitted to conceal their failures by putting deficits on the shoulders of the taxpayers. Now it is to ptevent this that we demand that it be made impossible to put any burden incident to the business of street railroading in this city upon the taxpayers. Jf the city is to go into that business compel it to do so just as a private owner would, by making the plant support the cost of its acquisition and administration. It is the only guarantee the people can have that the business will be properly administered. The Examiner admits that the cost of public administration will be greater than under private or corporate management of the same busi- ness. If this admitted increase in cost cause a de- | ficit it should not be put upon the taxpayers of the whole city, but should be borne by the road and met cither by increasing fares or economizing expenses, or by the issue of more bonds, just as a private owner would meet it. It is a cold business proposition. The city pro- poses to go into business, and the taxpayers should compel it to do so in a purely business way. All of the fervid talk about the good example it will set to the private roads has no application to the matter after all. If it set such an example it will be only by starting right and making the city’s railroad busi- ness carry its own cost without putting any upon the taxpayers. Venturesome promoters have on hand a scheme to induce American farmers to emigrate to Cuba. One would think that the American farmer has troubles enough of his own without seeking to force upon him an environment that will make life altogether unbear- able. E culture Secretary Wilson has sought to bring about such a development of our rural indus- tries as would enable us to produce at home every commodity possible to the temperate zone that is now imported from abroad. To that end he has again and again suggested to American farmers the expediency of undertaking the raising of goats. At his request Secretary Cortelyou of the Department of Commerce and Labor has had statistics compiled showing the extent . ¢ our imports of goat skins and the amount of profit that might be obtained by men who would raise the goats at home. The showing is to the effect that we are now annually importing goat skins to the value of $25,000,000. A statement upon the subject recently issued by the Bureau of Statistics shows that importers are ransacking the four quarters of the earth to obtain the skins needed for mhnufacture. They are brought in large quantities from India, China, Arabia and Russia. The skins are used not only for the manu- facture of gloves, but for a certain style of shoes MORE GOATS WANTED. VER since he entered the Department of Agri- | which are coming more and more,into use in this | like Germany; autocratic, like Russia, or a repre- | country. By reason of the enlarging demand the in- crease of the importation of skins has been very rapid of late years. Thus the statistics show that in 1885 the value of goatskins imported was about $4,000,000; by 1890 it had grown to $0,000,000, by 1808 it was $15,000,000, in 1900 it was $22,000,000 and in 1903 $25,000,000 in round numbers. To meet the increasing demand American farmers are doing very little. A summary of the report of the bureau says: “The census of 1900 showed the total number of goats in the United States to be less than 2,000,000 in number, and when it is understood that the skins of probably 20,000,000 goats were re- quired to make the $25,000,000 worth imported last year it would be seen that the supply from the United States could have formed but a small share of the total consumption. Yet the fact that a large share of our supply of this important import comes from India, China, France and Mexico suggests that there are large areas in the United States which might produce goats successfully and in sufficiently large numbers to supply the entire home demand.” EMINENT P A very wise Judge of Alaska has decided that in the frozen domain of Uncle Sam in the north a dog is distinctly and noticeably a piece of valuable prop- erty. Tt is strange how something that is emphat- ically a dangerous nuisance in one place may become | an article of value in another. San Francisco would | willingly make dogs a part of the export trade to Alaska. | EMPIRE AND BSACRIFICE. HILE British statesmen and the public generally have been discussing the imposi- | tion of a protective duty upon foreign goods at British ports as a matter of economics, and have 1903, JURIST IS SUMMONED BLENHEIM DUKE MAY BE CHOSEN | BONDS FOR A PUBLIC SERVICE ARE DANGEROUS e The discussion of municipal ownership of public utilities Is at this time oppor- tune. The editorial comment on the ques- tion which follows was made by Public Policy, a high-class journal of Chicago, | which devotes itself to a correct under- standing of public questions and to the | development of good citizenship. The com- | ment of Public Policy is based upon an | editorial in The Call and &vas published | on September 19, 1903, as follows: PUBLIC UTILITY BONDS. 1 Under the title of ““Taxation Without Bene- fit" there is in this lssue a very able discussion by the editor of The Call of San Francisco of the policy of mortgaging all property In a city for the purpose of a public utility that can supply the needs of but a comparatively small portion of the city. After calling at tion to the elastic meaning of the term “pub- le utilitles,” {llustrated by the experience of New Zealand, and, we may add, of old Eng- land, the article shows that the so called ad- | vantages of municipal ownership are deceptive | and mostly due to unbusinesslike or partial aceounting. In this respect, the article fully | sustains our contentlon that a correct analysis | of the accounts of any publicly owned and operated industry will show that no economic gain whatever has been made that is due to | such ownership end. operation. When such | gains appear they are the resuit of fallure to | charge fully all costs of ownership and opera- | tion and relleving the utility from charges and | | exactions which are imposed upon the privately owned and operated utilities with which com- | parisons are made. After making these statements the editor of | { The Call discusses the policy of mortgaging | |all the property of a city for the purpose of owning and operating a utility that can ben- | efit but a small portion of the city. In doing | this the point is made that such a policy must lead to “confiscatory taxation.”” In this con- nmection the statements are made that ‘‘the taxation of one man only for & bemefit he does not share, nor need to share, is a violation of his rights, which, tolerated, may in other mat- ters be indefinitely extended so that large | ate argument in favor of undertaking the sacrifice as a part of the necessary cost of empire. He says Mr. | Called by Dea:h at Ripe deficit | Chamberlain’s policy is but a phase in a movement which definitely announced itself not merely in indi- vidual politicians but in the English race toward the close of the eighteenth century. The movement was | an outgrewth of protest against the folly which had led to the loss of the Americanscolonies, and con- sisted in a steady progression toward the establish- ment of the vast empire which now “exists. Cham- berlain’s programme simply continues the imperial movement, but the movement has passed from an unconscious to a conscious stage of existence, or, as | the professor puts it: “From the state of seli- consciousness as a nation Britain is passing into a !stagc of self-consciousness as an empir: He adds that Chamberlain's proposition is “his way of answer- ing the problem whether the twentieth century will in its course knit more closely the ties of sentiment | which bind England and her colonies by adding to | those bonds the bonds of mutual interest and mu- tual fears.” After declaring that the future of the world is to the empires of the world, and that the surrender at | Yorktown is the greatest disaster in British history, and, rightly understood, the greatest disaster in ! America’s history, he goes on to show that empire | can be obtained only by sacrifice. He says: “The same power which three years ago made Pretoria | within easy striking distance of London will in the immediate future place Wellington and Sydney iwithin easy striking distance of Berlin or St. Peters- | burg, Washington or Tokio. But for two -or three | generations to come it means suffering, it means self- sacrifice, it means daring—such self-sacrifice as in the | time of Frederick Prussia underwent in order to es- tablish her claim to be a nation—it means sacrifice {and it means daring, unless the empire is to sink to the rank of such protected, if interesting, nationali- ties as Belgium or Servia, and, sundering, accept in its isolated fragments freedom as a dole from another ! which in the game of empire has better known how | to dare. It is as useless to appeal to the gallant lit- tle England which scattered Philip’s few lumbering ships as to appeal to the England of Eadwine. The empire which ceases to advance has begun to decline; the empire which resedes is dead already.” Looking at it from the standpoint of a philosophy of history, Professor Cramb maintains that the issue of protection or free trade in Britain at this juncture involves the larger historic issue of the continuance ‘of the empire. He sees no reason to be sanguine that the outcome will be in accord with the desires of patriots, for, as he notes, the British people, when conironted during the Boer war with the clearest cvidence of the inefficiency of their army, refused even to listen to a proposition to put it on an effec- tive basis by resorting to conscription. He closes by saying: “To the nation stern and high destiny then { widely felt in the just administration of | of Indiana. presented a draft headed ‘Conscription.” The nation refused to indorse it; but, undeluded by our phantom army corps, the same stern and high messenger, re- turning, presents the same bill, but headed now, ‘Bread Tax.' Four years ago we answered in effect: “Let us have not conscription, but a quasi-conscrip- tion.” If we answer now, ‘Tax anything, but not bread’; if we hugger-mugger once more and say, ‘Not protection, but quasi-protection,’ in what shape do we imagine the messenger of fate will next re- turn?” . The argument may have no effect upon the Cob- denite who can see nothing in politics but the vir- tues of free trade, and who would willingly sur- render everything rather than his much-prized theory of trade and industry; but there can be no question of its essential soundness. If Britain is to maintain fer empire she must base it on something more than a sentimental loyalty. She must provide a mutual interest throughout all parts of the empire, and that can bq done only by the adoption of some such policy as that which has been propounded by Chamberlain, ——— To the ordinary observer who follows the bloody course of Russian atrocities perpetrated upon the Jews it seems self-evident that Russia, gross, semi- civilized and uncouth, is simply brutal in her crimes, sweeping her victims tG death in savage rage. Yet in another field the criminals of the Czar offer a still more dreadful suggestion in the refinement of fiend- ishness which has prompted them to use poison, the weapon of the cunning and cowardly. The horror of a recent case attracted the world. g While performing a critical operation a few days ago a Kansas physician dropped dead at his task. One can hardly conceive of a more dreadful, awe- inspiring lesson of the uncertainties of life than this told of a man battling for another's life and being robbed of his own A I3 Send 10c in stamps Herpi Old Age. Sa i HE HONORABLE NOBLE HAM- | ILTON, one of the foremost of the | pioneer jurists of California, died at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home, 1513 Washington street, in this city. Last Saturday he was suddenly stricken with an attack of heart failure and succeeding pneumonia, added | to his advanced age, caused his death, which was painless. This passed one of the veterans of the California bench whose influence was the laws of the State. Born near Law- renceburg, Dearborn County, Indlana, on | February 14, 1822, Judge Hamilton ob- tained his education in the schodls of his native State and was admitted to the bar in 186. His father, Willilam Hamilton, | had moved| to Indiana from Greensburg, | Pennsylvania, in 1812, during the war with | Great Britain, and there married Helen | Frances Sparks, daughter of Elijah | Sparks, famous through the middle west | as a ploneer jurist and Methodist circuit | rider. Through the Sparks family Judgev Hamilton was related to Governor Durbin | When the war with Mexico | was declared Noble Hamilton promptly | enlisted, and was commissioned a second | leutenant In Company K, Fourth Indiana | Volunteers. He served under General Winfleld Scott in the march from Vera | Cruz and in the fierce fighting around the | City of Mexico, filling the position of | quartermaster and being glven the title | of major, though never formally ap- pointed to that office. On returning from the war in 1850 he was elected treasurer and tax collector | of Dearborn County. In 182 he was se- lected as a delegate to the National Dem- ocratic convention at Baltimore and par- | ticipated in the nomination of Franklin | Pierce. When his term of office expired he started for the Pacific Coast, leaving New | York on July 15, 1553. Coming by way of | the isthmus he reached California in Au- | gust. Though he had the position of clerk { of the Washington Territory Circuit Court | he decided to remain here. After making a tour of the mines he settled in Alvara- | do, then the county seat of Alameda | County, and there began the practice of the law, first in partnership with Joseph Combs und then with J. B. Townsend. He was married in December, 1854, to | Miss Lydia D. Marston, daughter of Cap- | tain Jotham Sewell Marston of Maine. Seven children were born of this union, three of whom survive, In 1859 Judge Hamilton moved to San | Leandr6, which had become the county | seat, and in 1863 Governor ;Leland Stan- ford appointed him County Judge, to suc- | ceed Judge John A. Lent, deceased. At | the succeeding election Judge Hamilton | was duly eiected to his place on the bench as the candidate of the Union party. He resigned, however, before his term ex-| pired and engaged in mining and the prac- | tice of his profession. He followed the county seat to Oakland in 1871, and in 1881 Governor George C. Perkins appointed him Superior Judge. The next year he was nominated for the position by the Republicans without oppo- sition, and though it was the year of the ! famous Democratic tidal wave and though Governor Stoneman carried Alameda County by nearly 400, Judge Hamilton was elected by 2800 majority. In 188 he was Republican candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court, but was defeated by Jackson Temble. Refusing a renomination as Superior Judge, he came to San Francisco in 1888, He had been on the bench 14 years and in all that time but two of his decisions had been reversed by the Supreme Court. The last years of his life were spent in this city in the practice of his profession. He retained his mental vigor to the last. On ‘Wednesday Governor Pardee appointed him a notary public, but the commission | did not reach him during life. He was a member of Live Oak Lodge of Masons. So passed a man who had a host of friends all up and down the State. Sur- viving him are his widow, a son, William B. Hamilton, Deputy Collector of Cus- toms, and two daughters, Mrs..Edward H. Hamilton and Mis§ Nettle Hamiltoh. The funeral will be held at 1:30 o’clock to-mor- row afternoon from the late home. The interment will be in the family plat at Mountain View Cemetery. e —— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. SPLIT, BRITTLE, DULL HAIR. All Come From Dandruff, Which Is Caused by a Germ. Split hair, hard hair, lusterless hair, brittle hair, falling hair, all owe their origin to dandruff, which is caused by a measly little microbe that burrows into the scalp, throwing up the cuticle into dandruff scales and sapping the vitality of nns hair fx the root, ca thy = eral conditions of the nr.lll'lflit 1s out. Modern science has dis- S S L i G ety IC] erpicide, delighttul halr dresthoe the t Allays ftching instantly and makes hair ft as silk. bstitute: Ty b R or The cide Co,. Detroit, Mich. | opposed or supported it according as they deemed | ¥ masses of taxpayers may be involved in con- | - =3 i 2 5 = s | fiscation. The independence of our people be- : ) | it expedient or inexpedient from a monetary point o 4|80 in & protest against taxation without rep- | | YOUNG NOBLE WHO MAY BE- | | of view, a considerable class of British patriots have | %~ G the Dossibllicy of beneAt. ax bad, or worse COME MEMBER OF BRITISH ! N . . TINGT - - W 0 ond ecity for | o] A . defended the proposed policy as a matter of patriot- | | DIEENGLI e g I e ot Al O bondig, ot ity %= | GABI N H - shi a £ ik ASSED AWAY IN THIS CITY | |only an improper use of the taxing power, but | ;- ‘l;m t\cn] Mu}]]e conccdu}fig that it might demand of YESTERDAY. 1 | mat i Rl ammecestary:ueh e wnder: +* . d the people 2 vy sa ki taking should be handled purely as a business : 2 SRIOpCA ay mut # 3| proposition: 1t the property, "1ts ‘rranchice | Marlborough Likely to Be One of that class of thinkers, Professar Cramb, has grant of power to use n'l\abllc Tights of e = . o . come, etc., is not sufficlent security for the ( recently contributed to the London Mail an elabor- Ex-Judge Noble Hamilton Is | vonds to te issued on account of the utility it Named as Secretary is not a sound business proposition and should | not be undertaken. A correct construction of the right to exercise the power of taxatlo will forbid its exercise for an unnecessary pu pose, or for the purpose of establishing an in- dustry that must be sustained by taxation in order to enable private users of its services to | obtain the same at less thap their entire and | true cost. When an industry is self-sustaining its property, franchises and Income will fur- | nish ample security for all the funds requ for its ownership and operation. If bonds so | secured cannot be sold to advantage a govern- ment relabses into a tyranny, pure and sim- ple, when it exercises its soverelgn power to compel the taxpayers to make investments that | sound business sagacity rejects as unsound. | This is the point at which the shoe pinches. | Municipal ownership advocates are too shrewd | 10 rest their case upon its merits as a business proposition. They know full well that the kind of estimates and spread-eagle talk, such as have recently been used in Cleveland to induce | voters to vote bonds for a municipal electr lighting_vplant, would not entitle them to a moment's serious consideration by men whose bustness it is to know the value of t ties offered when credit is asked. pub vate. To decline to make utility self-contained and _self-sustained limiting its obligations to the securities ereated | B ot -4 3, I 5101 by its own organization and operation is to | GERMAN ORIENTALISTS for Colonies. ONDON, Sept. 25.—The Assoclated Press is able to state definitely that Lord Milner, the British High Commissioper in South Af- who is now at Carlsbad, has been offered and has declined the Colo- rial Secretaryship. Further pressure is being brought to bear on him, urging him to reconsider his determination, but if the forecast of his friends s correet, he will not acce Brodrick has accepted tiie Secretaryship for India and in the event of Lord Milner not yielding to the pressure the Duke of Marlborough, who now Under Secretary for the Colonies, offered the Secretaryship for the Coionies. No definite announcement of th> composition of the Cabinet is expect- by | ed before Monday at the earllest. or pri- a public service tion. and thus furnish an unanswerable re why the power of taxation should not be exer- Cised for its creation or support Declare Concession to Americans Is Under the terms of its charter, the Board) of Supervisors of San Francisco has full Net Really in the North of power, when authorized by a vote of the peo- Babylon. ple, to condemn and take over for BERLIN, Sept. 5.—The German Orlen- operated public. uillities, When ¢ tal Society says the concession granted to was granted by the Legislature its SRR - hailed with joy by all municipal ownership ad- Americans at El Ibrahim, “amid the rfilna vocates, and predictions were freely made that | of Babylon, as the Americans assert,” is oon San’ Framcisco would furnish examples | £ ssful municipal ownership that would | . b o & - - further trips to Glaegow unneces | at another place of the same name north: that the Board of Supervisors has other busi- | avers that it holds the Sultan’'s firman, ness to do besides acquiring and operating | granting it exclusive excavating rights in public service utilities. They are critically ex- | tho city of Babylon, smining the business capacity shown in the | management of the business with which the b PR R T board is already burdened, and, finding it in- Welcome to Royalty. competent to handle thet business efficlently, | o o on nrCgent a5 ne Czar, the as a' gocd argument for intrusting the board | Czarina and their children arrived here with additional resnonsibilities, and are with- Dolding their authorization to dertake e | from the Grand Duke Ernst of Hesse- ownership and operation for public a | s o Cza any of the public service utilities. The city of Darm.mf!r, brother of the Czarina, and Cleveland appears to be the only place where | the public. ers are judged to be sufficiently under co —_—— Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire- | etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern confess it to be an unsound business proposi- | CLAIM EXCLUSIVE RIGHT count any or all of the privately not really in the north of Babylon, but But the peoplé of San Francisco are rvnllzm’x east of Babylon. The German Society the people do not regard proven inefficien to-day and met with a hearty reception ot ‘municipal ownership oratory to be e pected to accept want of time as a valid e cuse for blunders in a department the head of which is devoting much time and energy in proving to the people that he has not enough | friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg. * to do, and therefore Is perfectly competent to —_———— manage a manicival electric Mghting plant in | grecial information supplied daily to itfon to his dugles as superintendent of the waterworks. n private business an in- | Dusiness houses and public men by the Piess Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 < — et———— The latest cure for internal cancer re- ported in England is a tablespoonful of molasses four or five times a day. Crease In the responsibilities of an fncompetent or overburdened manager is an unknown prop- sition. But then, private business must be staining or discontinued. It cannot ex- act support from taxpayers. This accounts for the lack of sound business methods in public work. gm;hc Only Thmg That - Inlerests Everybody 1D you ever stop to realize what it is in life that really interests D you the most—outside of eating, sleeping and being merry, of course? Is it the mock heroics, the polished gentility of a dead and gone age, or isn't it life itseli—tense, eager, puisating life—the very things that the other fellow does that you do yourseli? Just take note of the following: o “The job of front-end brakeman on a mountain division is no great stake for a man ordinarily, but it was one for me just then. We knew when we went into the superintendent’s office that somebody was to get fired; the only questior was who—the train crew or the operator? Our engine crew were out of it; it was up to the conductor and to me. Had the operator displayed red signals? The conductor said no, I said no, the operator said yes, but he lied. We couldn’t prove it; we could only put our word against his; and, what made it the worse for me. my con- ductor was something of a liar himself. “I stood beading in a cold sweat, for I could see with half an eye it was going against us. The superintendent, an up and up railroad man every inch and all business, but suspicious, was leaning the operator's way the strongest kind. * “There wasn’t another soul in the little room as the stood before the superintendent’s desk.” There's a situation which at first blush might seem ordinary enough, but—is it? Perhaps you've been in the same fix yourself. It is not new, but it always will be to the man who has the experience for the first time, and oh, what awful possibilities it portends. It is a situation that every man who works constantly stands in awe of. Can you guess how it came out? No. But you want to know. Of. course you want to know. That is the curiosity—sympathy—or what you will that makes the lives of those about us—the real flesh and blood men and women we_ all know—the most absorbing subject imaginable. You may deny this if you will, but there is not the shadow of a doubt that you will look first for Frank H. Spearman’s thrilling two-page narrative of 24 Trainmaster's Story” in the next Sunday Call. It is the sccond in ¢ remarkable series. i Of course you're reading “Lees and Leaven,” by E. W. Townsend, the famous author of “Chimmie Fadden,” which is nothing shert of a ten strike even in the Sunday Call's comprehensive literary policy of giv- ing you the best novels of the day by the very best writers in_the world. And then thgre are the two full pages of “Hali-Hour Storiettes.” the most fascinating literary craze of the hour. And there is also “The “Philanthropic Whisper.,” by Edwin Lefevre. And of course you're reading Thomas Fitch’s “Recollections and Reflections of the Bonanza Kings Who Put a Girdle of Gold Around the World,” and the “Letters of a Seli-made Merchant to His Son” and the “Oracle of Mulberry Center” and“Why Good Men Go Wrong.” by “The Parson,” and the “Dainty Maid.” by Colonel Kate, and “When a Bach- elor Girl Marries,” by Madge Moore, and “Talks to Parents on the Train- ing of Children,” by William J. Sherer. A. M., Ph.D.. and “Preferential Tariffs,” by Sir Henry Seton-Karr, C. M. G., M. P., and “The Victories of Peace,” by George A. Maxwell, chairman of the National Irrigation As- sociation, that has just held its convention in Ogden, Utah, and the three of us HOHORORS OO0 CROHORCE ORI QIO RO I DN CHORHLEHY D0 HORCEOID (TRt " “Fables for the Foolish.” etc.. etc. seen the cats? Funny. aren’t they? There's more of Don’t miss those “Me-ows of a Kitty.” And have you them next Sunday. ORCH IORCHOACH IOBCHORCHCHO! (CEOSOHONCHOICH OOROICHOI OROICH CHORONCEH