The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 7, 1903, Page 6

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They per- as personally doing harm to something or somebody, as indifferent to the interests of others, and as capable of cold cruelty and wrongdoing. They are works of art in delib- crate misrepresentation, and if they have any pur- pose at all it is to invite bitter and vengeful feelings against the person of No wise America Withi 1s a wholesome and mant personal fceling They are not criti sistently represent the Presider amst the s of policy at all. the President. objects to proper criticism of well understood limitations it public men . Testraining influence. When called for it is a legal and proper assertion of the rights of free speech and of a free press. Such criti- cism is not an incitement to crime. It does not sug- gest, to criminal and distorted minds, assassination a remedy for anything, but keeps before the people the ballot-box as the place to begin reforms or to overthrow policies and put other and better in their place. The Hearst style of attack is not criticism. It never reasons. It avoids facts. It distorts and de- forms, and suggests things for which murder occurs as a re as the only remedy to the class of minds to which xperience has proved that we do not lack the kind of pesple who need aply such incite- ment to become assassins. The last attempt on the life of President Roosevelt was made by a man char- itably said to be crazy. But in his home he is known jt appeals as an anarchist, a violent declaimer against govern- ever in the theory that all who represent government are the -corrupt oppressors of the people. He is insane, perhaps, in the sense in which insan- ment and a firm be ity and the power to reason never exist together. We say of an insane man that “he has lost his rea- son” without always thinking what we mean. There are men incapable of reasoning who are not classed as insane. But they are a dangerous class. They are directly appealed to by the artistically cunning and feariu unscrupulous style of attack made on the President. Such attacks put him in continual peril, and justify him in carrying weapons to be used in de- fending himseli. Yet the fact that he is armed and prepared to sell his life as dearly as possible has been made the cause of sinister suggestion, in cartoons and text, that appeals powerfully to the vicious and non- reasoning The would-be assassin who sought to reach the President on Monday, and who seriously wounded two of the White House guards, is the material that is fired by the malignity that is in such newspaper abuse as led to the murder of McKinley. For a long time after that great crime the journals which in- cited it were quiet. Now, trusting to the short mem- ory of the people, they are again in open use of the resources of publicity to direct the spirit of murder against the life of the President. It is useless to put in irons or cells the dupes of such newspapers while leaving them to feel that public sentiment does not condemn the means they use. The Democrats have completed their State ticket in Massachusetts and a band of reputable but mis- guided men of that commonwealth are on the march to defeat at the polls. Yet the affair is not as serious as it might appear. The nominees will have a little fun and a little notoriety and the rest of the State won't mind either. There are some amenities even in the lives of the minority in American politics. The socialists of Vienna have unloosed their tongues, made discordant their voices and afflicted the air with wild abuse of the Czar of Russia. What license 2 national dividing line gives to cowards. How many are the patriots whose tongues wag thou- sands of miles from the scene of danger or the place where protest should be made. There are a few such petriots in the United States. 1008 Va- | THE GEARY STREET ROAD. HE widely advertised meeting to promote the Tburdening of the taxpayers with the purchase | and administration of the Geary-street road did |mot reach the proportions promised in the advertise- |ment. Attendance was meager and the platform did not groan under the weight of the vice presidents. | The speakers dwelt upon the ills we have, as they | see them, and boldly proposed that we fly to others that we know not of. | The City Engineer filed a letter of estimates, |amending and contradicting his official figures, and one gentleman made a speech compact of humor and impassioned appeal, demanding public ownership of | the road because one time, while riding on the cars, | he swallowed a njckel which he had put in his mouth |to pay fare. We may be permitted to diverge for a | moment to be spent in advising that gentleman not | to make a purse of his mouth. It is the age of germs | and microbes, and whole colonies of these pernicious |forms inhabit nickels. It is a dirty and dangerous practice to store money in the mouth. His position | seems to have been that it will be safe to do so under { public ownership of railroads. If this needed a de- lnial we would deny it vehemently. There is nothing |in the charter which makes it the duty of the city government to scrub and scour and disinfect nickels lin order that they may be safely concealed in the {oral cavity. It is a nasty habit. Other speakers proceeded to violently despair of | the republic unless the whole city is taxed to build a ‘;railmad for a small portion of the taxpayers, but |even this melanchely prospect failed to produce the | exasperated enthusiasm of the audience.| No one ex- plained why it is necessary to put a lien on the whole city in order to let the politicians run a street rail- ]rcad that is running already, carrying everybody that 1wams to use it, and charging for the service the | same rate that the politicians will charge. If the proposition were to build a new road where none |exists, as a convenience to people who have not | lalready such a facility, and the bonds were to be | | placed entirely on the new plant and not made a lien {on the city, there would be in it an element of busi- |ness sense that would deserve a degree of respect. The president of the meeting said that public ser- vants were the tools of corporations, who “betrayed | the city and branded their souls”; he even intimated | that they were like unto Judas, and raised his voice {to a great altitude in asking for a remedy “for the deplorable state of affairs in our city,” and in an- ! swering his question by prescribing public ownership 10|’ public utilities. He did not take the pains to ex- | plain how the medicine would work. The evidence | seems to be beyond dispute that where public owner- ship is tried it alone produces no betterment in pub- lic administration. New York City has owned her | water works for nearly a century, and Tammany has run the city most of the time and made its admin- | | tration so noisome that carrion-eating buzzards fly away to the garbage pile for fresh air. Philadelphia | for years owned and ran water and gas works, and | the public administration has been so corrupt as often {to make Tammany ashamed of its moderation. The gentleman who prescribed public ownership | here as a remedy for “branded souls” is a physician, |and would be forbidden by professional ethics to practice in medicine the quackery he practices in ! politics. When the city administration has reached |ultimate efficiency in discharging the essential du- | ties of government it will be time to consider the policy of charging it with the responsibility of run- ning a business, Speakers who impeach govern- ment of neglect or corruption in the discharge of its purely pelitical functions and want to give it nore to do before it does well what it already has lare so illogical as to deserve censure. [ The example of municipal trading, public ownership is called in England, was cited and is being lusev! by the newspapers in this city which. want to jincrczsc taxes by making the Geary-street road bonds as |a lien on the taxpayers. has investigated public ownership in Great Britain, “It is very tiresome for the British taxpayer !to hear so much about the profits of municipal | ownership when throughout the kingdom year aiter | vear surely and steadily the municipal tax rate is in- creasing. {112 per cent.” The London Times has exhaustively and expertly | examined municipal ownership in Great Britain, and | declares that it has been instituted and is being used “by the socialists as a stepping-stone to “collectiv- {ism.” Toward this end the British socialists are working. Their allies are the well-meaning people | who, having no plans of their own, follow the lead | of those who are working a2 well planned scheme. | The Times adds that, once create large municipal ;stafis. bring together large bodies of men accustomed ;'(n light work and to fixing their own compensation at |the expense of the taxpayer, put down plants and | erect buildings and purchase land; create vested in- | terests with subtle ramifigations, and it will not be | possible without heroic measures to rectify a series |of mistakes. And, gravest uncertainty of all, there is a question whether the purity, such as it is, of mu- nicipal government will be maintained if it exercises a multitude of duties, touches finance at many points {and makes politics and business almost synonymous. Great Britain has been going into public owner- ship for a quarter of a century, and these deliberate conclusions as to results are of weight now. R T /T ST W | says: All colleges in Oregon have united upon a deci- sion to restrict materially the time given by students to football. This curtailing of one of the most thor- | oughly pursued departments of collegiate education, while reducing the records of violent deaths in Ore- gon's seats of learning, will also rob the public of what it has come to consider an annual season of sensational and unnecessary college disasters. THE MAN AND THE WORK FTER the meeting of the biisiness men of the A city on Monday evening and their emphatic indorsement of Mr. Crocker and the Repub- lican ticket generally, the grand ratification meeting which is to be held on Saturday evening will vir- tually be an assembly of citizens to congratulate one another on the assurance of a victory which will mean not only a party success, but an era of good government and of efficient administration for the municipality. As was to have been expected, the tone of the meeting was essentially that of business men dis- cussing measures involving the administration of large affairs. The speeches were not given up to fer- vid oratory, but to the discussion of things practical. Very naturally the expenditure of the large sums provided by the bond issue voted for public improve- ments occupied much of the thoughts of the speak- ers, and taxpayers will note with satisfaction that the |sentiment of the meeting was emphatically that of % Mr. Robert P. Porter, who | This increase between 1875 and 1900 was | business men resolved to get full value for all money expended and to pay fair and good wages for all work done. Congressman Kahn presented the subject in his opening address in the emphatic words: “The people of this city are interested in seeing these improve- ments properly executed. They wish the money they have voted for public improvements put into public improvements. They wish to know that the various commissions that will have these moneys to expend will expend them honestly for the desired improve- ments.” % Other speakers at the meeting followed the lines laid down by the opening address and gave renewed | evidence of the earnestness of the people on that score. It was therefore with profound satisfaction that the pledge of Mr. Crocker to give the city an efficient, businesslike administration was heard. That pledge constitutes the keynote of the campaign. Mr. Crocker said: “I pledge myself that if elected I will be the Mayor of all the people of San Fran- cisco. When I came in this evening from the out- lying district that is proud to be called the boundary iof San Francisco I could see that the desire of the people is that the money they have voted shall be | honestly spent. I don't mean to say that I can di- {rect that work any better than any one else, but I Isurely want to be elected Mayor of San Francisco, "and if T am I can say here that if it comes within | my province to say howethis money shall be spent, | | the workingmen of San Francisco shall receive every i dollar they are entitled to. But I shall take as much | pains to see that the taxpayers and the people who ;ha\'c voted this enormous sum for the improvement | of greater San Francisco shall receive every particle | of result from that labor.” No better pledge on this issue of so much impor- tance to the people can be asked for or given. It is, moreover, a pledge of some value, since it comes from a business man’ of first-class -ability and of sound honor. The thing that Henry J. Crocker St promises is the thing that hec will do. Men of business have been counting on him in igreat enterprises for years and have always found him true to his word, and now the pcople] can count on him in politics. That they will ac- cept him and his colleagues on the strength of these businesslike pledges and assurances oi godd gov. | ment will be made evident at the ratification meeting on Saturday. It will be something more than a par- |tisan affair, and will make a new record in the way of popular demonstrations in San Francisco politics. A Minnesota town was wiped out, root and branch, the other day by a tornado. The people were left destitute, hungry, homeless and helpless to the dread hazard of exposure. This is one of the advertise- ments which no California town has ever sent out to | the world. We can look, fortunately, upon the cy- clone cellar as an exhibit in the category of curiosi- ties. HY “Try the Experiment?” [ W The only answer so far made to the ‘ many arguments against the municipal ownership of the Geary-street road is, “Try the | experiment.” 1f it be urged that the official fig- ures show that the city will lose $40,000 a year, the reply is, “Suppose that it be true, try the ex- periment.” If it be shcgwn that the city officials, and especially the Board ofyPublic Works, will| I have probably more work (h*'they “can perform | in constructing the ne¥ improvements and main- | | taining the old ones, the only feply is, “Concede | | that be true, try the experiment. If' it be ad-! vanced that no city in the United States has yet | | attempted to operate a street railroad, and that 'jlhose American cities that have operated any pub- | lic utilities have failed, the only reply is, “Admit | such to be the case, try the experiment.” . | 1f Charles Francis Adams be quoted as saying, “rlease don't talk to of doing business through government machinery; it is one colos- \snl exhibition of waste, extravagance and incom- | | petence,” the only reply is, “What if he be cnr-! rect? Try the experiment.” 1f it be proven that | under the charter the road could not be sold or | | leased, and that the victims of the city’s negli-| gence in the operation of its cars will have! {against the city no redress for their injuries,: { the only reply is, “What matters all that? Try the] lexperiment.” If it be made clear that the acquisition of this | road will be the entering wedge of socialism, that there is no more dangerous enemy to American prosperity than socialism, that socialism is the re- source of the incompetent and a dead weight ! around the necks of the competent, that as one! drop of ink will discolor a bucket of water so a small socialistic beginning will affect the whole fabric of government, the only reply is, “Try the experiment.” But,.,why try this experiment? We hear 1o complaints about our street rail- road service. The fare is as low as elsewhere in the United States, as well as in Glasgow when you compare the wages in the two cities. There is no pretense that a railroad is to be constructed where now mnone exists. The city is not so rich that it can afford to throw away $700,000. We have not so many schools, hospitals, parks, nor are our sewers and streets so perfect that we kngw not how to spend our income except inJ making experiments for which there is no public demand. i The common sense, the business sense, the horse sense of the people of the United States has so far in the main kept them from wasting their money and jeopardizing their prosperity by un- dertaking socialistic experiments. We advise the people of this city to vote against trying this ex- periment. It is good policy to make haste slowly. Beau- tify the city, make its streects smooth and clean, its sewers the means of preserving health and not of fostering disease, its schoolhouses safe and ;iu- cious, because these are all civic necessities. Do not waste your money or your officials’ time and labor in trying to anticipate what is now neither a civic nor a private necessity, but admittedly a doubtful and most certainly a dangerous experi- ment. S —— Some surprise has been expressed that the pro- gressive citizens of Oakland have organized them- selves in an aggressive movement for “cleanest Oak- land.” We all thought that Oakland, being godly, necessarily is cleanly, and a new mdvement in either direction would be as if striving to paint the lily. We are sorry that San Francisco, either in theory or practice, cannot offer a valuable positive suggestion to the new crusaders. We might, however, pose as a horrible example. : WHY EXPERIMENT. me | pears, | committes to appoint an executive com- FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1903. FRUIT GROWERS’ COUNT OF VOTES BE PROTECTED| BOND ELECTION L IS 2 A resolution was adopted by the State S The Board of Election Commissioners Board of Trade yesterday instructing the | yesterday completed the official eount of manager of the board to inquire and re- | the votes cast at the recent bond election port concerning the practicability of ln-! stituting a general inquiry into the fruit market, foreign and domestic, with ref-| erence to the ascertainment of all the | facts relating to such market, and es-| pecially with reference to the amount re- | turned from the reported sales of fruit and the actual amount obtained from such sales, to the end that the price paid to the fruit grower of this State shall more nearly correspond to the price at which the fruit reaches the consumer. The manager was requested to report to the board at its next meeting the practic- ability and cost of such inquiry. This resolution was introduced by W. H. Mills. During the discussion that pre- ceded its adoption many statements were made, all tending to show that the fruit growers of California bave been subjected | to the grossest frauds on the part of Eastern fruit auction men, commission men and dealers In fruit in Europe. { President N. P. Chipman sald that the | reports of Amerfean Consuis abroad, made in September fast, show that the market prices for French prunes at Bor- deaux range from 6 to 14 cents per pound and the prices quoted in California for the corresponding quality of fruit grown in Californta are not more than one-third of the rates in France. Every year deal- ers sell short at low prices in New York, unjustly making a low figure for Cali- fornia prunes for the purpose of holding down the price as against tae producer. Considering the fact that California an- nually ships out about 16,000,000 pounds | of dried fruit this is a serious matter. | Mr. Mills suggested that an agent be | sent to Chicago and New York to see| exactly how California goods are handled. | He had heard that the method had been pursued in Chicago, in reference to green for instance, of putting out for samples only the fruit that had been | damaged. The car price of the carload was fixed in this way very low and the Eastern men got the fruit for their own price. ‘““Was that true? Was such the | practice? -Had the marketing of the great | California fruit output been conducted | in that way?" Mr. Mills asked. WOOSTER SEES SALE. C. M. Wooster related something con- cerning his personal observations in Chi- | cago. Twenty-two Armenians, three Italians and one person concerning whose nationality he was In doubt were the only | bidders on two carloads of California | fruit that he saw. Every box of fruit, that was found to be Injured was dis- | played as a sample; every box of good fruit was put under the other hoxes and | kept out of sight. There was an evident | understanding among those present. The buyers did not bid against one another. | He Inquired If this was the customary way of selling California fruit in Chicago and was answered in the affirmative. He saw pears that would sell for $15 per box easlly in San Francisco going for 75 cents | per box, under this system, in Chicago. Colonel Yohn P. Irish said that in Pla- cer County his neighbors had told him of their troubles at the hands of the com- | mission men. Fruit that passed exami- nation at the platform at the station was paid for by check: fruit that failed to passed the examination went out on a commission basis. At the beginning of the season his nelghbors were happy. At the end of the season he found that they were much depresged. In some instances the fruit growers were represented as in debt to the commission men and the lat- ! ter were actually pressing them for crop mortgages on the erop of the ensuing year -to make up the difference. On in- Vestigation Colonel Irish discovered that | the commission men had charged the growers-broken carload rates of ‘freight, | whereas the cars went ont full and the commission men really had paid only the carload rate, or about a half what they had charged in making up their returns to the California fruit growers. The dif- ference on the freights alone would have | g}{\-en to the producers a profit. Colonel | Itish also related a personal experience in the East, where he traced fruit that| he had shipped. He found out to a cer- tainty that the prices patd by the retail dealers and the prices returned by the commission men as having been paid by retailers were far apart. FRAUDS IN ENGLAND. ‘W. H. Mil's told of a pamphlet that had been issued by British Consul Ben- nett, in which attention was called to the fact that there had been a falling off in the shipments of California canned goods to England. A California fruit shipper went to London and arrived ahead of his | goods and saw them set aside as “blown,” or “blowed,” as thev were described in England. He demonstrated that the goods were all right and every case was then restored and was found to be marketable. After these somewhat startling revela- tions concerning the various methods em- ployed to rob the California fruit grower had been made the Mills resolution for an inquiry’ went through with a rush. The committee to see the Merchants' | Association relative to having a special | exhibit at St. Louis representative of the | commercial and other advantages of San | Francisco made a report throcugh W. H. | Mills. The plan suggested by the Mer-| chants’ Association was to have a com- | mittee of fifty members, embracing ten representatives from each of the commer- clal organizations of San Francisco, this mittee of ten members to see that San Francisco was represented. lLos Angeles, Seattle and Eastern cities have arranged to have their advantages thoroughly ad- vertised at St. Louis. George A. Denison, after receiving many compliments at the hands of the hoard, was elected assistant seeretary. Luther | Burbank promised to assist in making a | collection of the varieties of fruits and | vegetables to which he has given origin. | The board will visit his home at Santa | Rosa at the proper time. Resolutions were adopted in respect to the memory of Elizabeth Shields, who was long a member of the hoard. | It was voted to entertaln the American | Bankers’ Association one day at the board rooms during the visit of the bankers this month. i | 5 paid S Cruiser Protet Arrives at Honolulu. HONOLULU, Oct. 6. — The French cruiser Protet has arrived here. e — NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A POSSIBILITY. That Became a Fact and Pleases J Many People. A. R, Lewis, M. D, in a lengthy article in the columns of the American Journal of Health, says concerning hair: “Its deterioration is a constant source of wor- riment to humanity, consequently bald people readily deceived by ‘fake’ hair restoratives. The wish that a hair prep- aration will ‘fill the bill" is father to the fancy that it is likely to do-so. A rare case in point is that of Newbro's Herpi- cide, which actually does ‘fill the bill’ It destroys the parasite that attacks the hair root, and prevents dandruff, f: “ge%‘dldl':“l': stam; 2 saihple &5 erpicide Co., Del i - The Kid You Hava Aiways Bought for the construction of public fmprove- ments. The corrected figures showed some changes, but not sufficient to affect the original resnlt. The revised figures for the Telegraph Hill project are 7,82 for and 8187 against, and, though showing an increase in favor of the proposition of 142 votes, still it failed to receive 18,205 votes, or two-thirds of 27,308, the total number of electors voting at the special election, as required by a charter amend- ment. The supporters of the project claim that It received more than two-thirds of the vote cast for it in particular and on that account has carried. The Election Commission transmitted | the returns to the Board of Supervisors, | who will in all likelihood ask advice from the City Attorney as to whether the Tele- graph Hill project received the required number of votes. The St. Mary’s Square ! and Twin Peaks projects were defeated. The following is the corrected count: Against. City and County Hospital. 457 Sewer gystem . 0,3“ Schoolhouses . :.3"2 Repaving accepted stri 4362 New County Jall :-‘“ Public Library 4 Children’s playgrout 6. Extenston Golden Ge 7.648 Teiegraph Hiil Park 81187 Twin Peaks Park . gfi §t. Mary's Square . L{ Missfon Park ..... —————————— NATIVE SONS’ MEMORIAL DAY WILL BE OBSERVED Grand President McNoble Issues Circular Letter to the Various Parlors of State. Grand President H. R. McNoble of the | Native Sons of the Golden West has is-| sued the following circular letter in re- lation to the memorial day of the order to all parlors in this State: Dear Sirs and Brothers: The second Sun- day In October, which falls this year upon the 11th, is Native Sons’ Memorfal day. No words should be necessary to impress upon the mem- | ternity the duty which we, the our dead. Wherever there is & parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West let its members and friends on that day gather within lodgeroom or public hall to hold Sich services as will manifest the love and reverence which we bear for the memory of the departed, and let us turn for a few hours with softened hearts from the pleasures and the cares of life to drop the gentle tear of recollection at the grave of our brother and weave a garland of flowers for his tomb. We love to think of our fraternity as one bers of our fi living, owe t whose tender solicitude for its members ends | 0t whes e vy loses over them, but leads B e h words, of consolation to the stricken Breeide and knits the mystic cords of memory that bind the Living to every act of virtue and of gentleness that in life characterized the dead. . Wheraver, therefore, the sons of California. touched by the silent reaper, have lald down | to rest, whether beneath the giant redwoods | of the north, in the ravines and canyons and under the whispering pines of the Sierras, upon | the broad plains of the Sacramento and San Joaquin, by the perfumed orange groves of the south, or where the broad Pacific chants cternal requiem, let the love of our fraternity upon Memorlal day seek and find them and gariand their graves with flo‘!r.l. the unaf- fected offerings of the heart. So that many a fond mother may say: *“1 am pgor and desolate and far from the lonely hillside where my boy was laid to rest, but 1 know that to-day his brothers of the fra- ternity of the Native Sons of the Golden West. Whose loyalty to country He shared and by whose friendship he was blessed, will seek out that lonely but fondly cherished spot and lay their token of remembrance upon my son's— their brv(her’kn;‘le;;e" And let us, my brothers, der worda of remembrance have been uttered and the last flowers strewn, turn from the grave of the dead with softened feelings to Renceforth discharge in a higher spirit of friendship, loyalty and charity our duty to the Hving. — e Norton Receives the Appointment. TOPEKA, Kans, Oect. 6=It is an- nounced here to-day from the Santa Fe offices that T. J. Norton has been made the general solicitor of the system for California and Arizona when the last ten- MINING BUREAU INTERESTS WILL | CAST AT RECENT | TRUSTEES ARE TO RESUME WORK The trustees of the State Mining Bu- reau arrived at a decision yesetrday that will prove to be of importance to severa: | counties individually and to the mining interests of the State as a whole. This was to resume fleld work at once, pre- paratory to getting together the data necessary for the issuance of new regis | ters and maps. This work was suspended some months ago under the former board of trustees and, as one unexpected result several thousand dollars that had been appropriated for the State Mining Bu- reau had to be covered back into the State treasury. This was not the only serious feature of the case. Counties that were at a disadvantage as compared to others by reason of being unable to pre- | sent to inquirers official data relative to their resources were the sufferers. | “The situation has been made plain to | the new board of trustees and they took prompt action yesterday. It was re- solved to send the field men into Mari- | posa County first. Every mine and every mining claim in that county, together with facts concerning each mine and | clatm, will figure on the map and register | to be prepared. Every road and trail will be depicted carefully. The map and reg- ister together will form a key to the whole county, geographically and miner- 4 addition to providing for the field work for the henefit of the counties, it was determined to have a bulletin pre- pared relative to the uses of California | petroleum and fts fuel value and also to | @evote attention to collecting information | concerning the structural materials pro- | duced from quarries, clays, etc.. iIn Cal- | ifornia. The miners will be requested by the trustees to assist the bureau in pre- paring a representative exhibit of Cali- fornia's mining resources to be sent to the St. Louis exposition. [———— Male Teachers Wanted. The United States Civil Service Com- mission announces that an examination for the position of teacher (male only) in the Philippine service will be held in this city October 19. This examination will be to supply 150 teachers, with salarfes as follows: Twenty-five at $1200, seventy at $1000 and fifty-flye at $300 per annum. Those appointed will be eligible for pro- motion to the higher grades in the ser- vice, ranging from $%0 to $2000 for teach- ers and 3150 to 32500 for division superin- tendents. Age limit, 20 to 40 years. Ap- ply to the secretary of the Consclidated Beard of Examiners, 301 Jackson street, San Francisco, or to the Civil Service | Corumission. Washington, ,D. C.. for ap- rleation forms 2 and 375, which should be properly executed and filed with the commission at Washington. ———————— | Portola Council Entertainment. Portola Council of the Young Men's In- stitute has appointed Danfel T. Powers, | Eugene Fitzgerald, Willlam Riordan, Wil- Ham Fahey, W. Henty Murphy, Robert A. Cahalan and Willlam Pratt a com- mittee to arrange for an entertainment and dance to be given during the latter part of the current month. Admission to this function will be by invitation only. —_—————————— Cuneo Estate Distributed. The final account of Mary Cuneo as ad- ministratrix of the estate of her late hus- band, Joseph Cuneo, was approved by | Judge Troutt yesterday and her petition for distribution granted. The estate Is valued at §70,000. One-third of it goes to | the widow and the other two-thirds to her ten children. — Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg.-* ————————— !A Special information supplied daily to | business houses and public men by the | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. * ADVERTISEMENTS. P e UNITED STATES BRANCH. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE CALEDONIAN INSURANCE COMPANY F EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, on the 3lst day of December, A. D. 1002, and for the vear ending on that day, as made to the In- turance Commissioner of the State of Califor- nia, pursuant to the provisions of Sections 610 and 611 _of the Political Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Commissioner. ASSETS. Real Estate owned by Company.. $427,854 07 Cash Market Value of all Stocks und Bonds owned by Company.. 077,223 00 Cash in Company's lce . . .. Cash in Banks ... 102,589 55 ce an 10,337 49 167,519 74 Bills 3 taken for Fire and lllrln? Ki‘l‘il 348 08 Due from other Companies for Re- Insurance on losses aiready paid. 6,108 00 Total Assets LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpald Losses in process of Adj or in Suspense Losses resisted, incl Gross premiums on Fire Risks run- ning one year or less, $753,166 59; reinsurance 50 per cent. Gross premiums on Pire Risks run- ning more than one year, $827, 467 08; reinsurance pro rata. All other Mabilities . Total Liabilitles ...... ceeeeees.$1,605,411 27 INCOME. Net cash actually received for Fire premiums Received for interest and dividends tocks, Loans and Received for Rents Received for profits on realization oOf INVEStMENtS .....c...iiaaies 3.396 37 Total Income ................$1,108,611 37 EXPENDITURES. B Net amount vaid for Fire Losses (including $156,551 19, losses of previous years) .. $596,600 44 Paid or allowed for Commission or BroKerage «....oocooiiiiiiiiiins 239,144 27 Paid for Salaries, Fees and other charges for officers, clerks, etc.. 82,085 57 Paid for State, National Local Prog ST TP E e = Total Expenditures .... +..$1,007,881 82 Losses incurred during the year.. $341.178 01 Premiums, — e ST BET A Suligee ST STE RN PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT. THOS. J. CONROY, s Manager, GEO. . BROOKS, Assistant K mm%curgmia co., UNITED STATES BRANCH. 'STATEMENT ~——OF THE—— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS ~—OF THE— ASSURANCE COMPANY F MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, ON THE 31st day of December, A. D. 1802 and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California, pursuant to the provisions of Sec- tions 610 and 611 of the Poiitical Code, con- densed as per biank furnished by the Com- missioner. Real Estate owned by Company.. $4,300 00 Cash Market Value of all Stocks and Bonds owned by Company. 1,326,660 00 Cash in Company's Office.... 2,158 34 nks 215,854 52 and accrued on all Stocks and Loans 8.324 17 Premiums in due Cou: lection os 278,989 02 Bills _receivable, not taken for Fire and Marine Risks. 198 40 Total Assets ........ LIABILITIES, Losses adjusted and unpald »»»»»» $34,254 10 Losses in process of Adjustment or in Suspense 52.128 76 ST.345 30 Losses resisted, including expenses. Gross premiums on Fire Risks run- ning one year or less, $1.000,- S71 83; reinsurance 50 per cent.. 287 24; rei All other labilities ...... Fire premiums .. < oo -$1,360,144 89 Recefved for imterest and dividends on Bonds, Stocks, Loans and from ail other sources . 59 Total Income ...... BXPENDITURES. -1 f o (incl 022 81, losses P g 900 81 n Pl e i Ve rone . Tee st 1o charge mome' n':'.-mn ete. 112,357 13 Pald for State, National and Local Lo AT g Al othe: expendi- Losses incurred during the year...$741.381 10 Tisks and Premiums| Fire Risks. | Premiume. Net_amount of Risks) written during thel 174,901, 4480 2,008,701 36 176,979,924| 2,080.130 09 GEO. 8. A. YOUNG, U. 8. Manager. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 29th day of January, 1903. Commisitonsy fie Catitoraia Ty New Foon. PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT, 323 CALIFORNIA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. BALFOUR, GUTHRIE & CO. Pacific Coast Directors. 'l‘ll‘I.!‘ CALL, $1.00 PER YEAR.