The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 17, 1903, Page 6

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FUBLIC OWNERSHIP BONDS. y which gave its -street Railroad e whole city and a bur- taxpayers takes up the question of the ien upc in San a character that it is » use it and will ultimately de- the organ proceeds to advise g a water supply for both from r that purpose burdening all ther they use the water or not a statement about the ter supply of these two that the water non-potable to such t true I 1. To say that it ling the people who use it is ay to induce people it, inflict irreparable injury | 1 and >a:| I'mmiscu iness view of the water supply, the water runs to cost and not 8 from catchment | being carry a certain element of since a river is much more exposed to pollu- In cholera epidemics 8s exposure is in the use€ of river e of ent supply. cost onily remains uncanceled of a supply under private owner- ership the same inflexible busi- at was enforged by us in the case Keep business bonds on the plant they 3 n and support it out of the income the rate payers who use the water. Of eet road water urse the cities will become rate payers for the sup- ply of 1 buildings, parks and fire extinguishing. | Those uses affect the whole people and all should for them, and so far the city is a rate payer to its 1 just the same as a private individual. nd San Francisco hope for cheaper water they can get it under public ownership, or at it, only by doing business as busi- least can try to get ness and not Another element in the problem must be discussed. The advocates ¢ public ownership continually point to the success as they see it of municipal trading in Bri When the British advocates of that system are consulted they cite the first element nec- essary to success to be the acquisition of all private Great competing plants. h municipal trading is carried on requires this, so 2ll private plants are appraised, paid for and en over into public ownership and there is no com- This is also the law of Massachusetts. Such a law is in accordance with a principle regarded as the foundation of public ownership. In discussing it the reason for it will appear in such clear detail as to leave no doubt of the propriefy and necessity of the legal requirements enforced in Great Britain and Massachusetts It that these matters be discussed without prejudice and uninfluenced by any feeling justifisble or otherwise against the present owners of the water supply. It is a law in the psychology of public action that when influenced by prejudice and not is sure to result in economic loss. Neither Oakland nor San Francisco wishes loss to follow a change in the method and ownership of their water supply and their people will cast out prejudice and resort to reason when called to consider such petition necessary reason it change. Ttalian newspapers express great regret that the Czar of Russia has seen fit to reconsider his proposed visit to Rome, and they express a fear that the Czar was not quite sure that he would be protected from listic demonstrations while in the Eternal City. While it is true that the Czar may have troubles enough without looking for more, it may be that not fear, keeps him in St. Petersburg. Japan is very annoying these days to the Bear. Bt i BOC necessity, So the Federal inquiry into the postal scandals is not over after all. President Roosevelt has ordered the investigation to continue until the department has been ‘scrutinized from the top to the very bot- tom and every offender has been dragged from his hole. And it was only a short time ago that a sigh of relief went up from many a guilty breast. Uncle Sam is a hard customer to play tricks with, in erdering change of sddrses should be | Francisco | water now sup- | is depopu- | to come here. | y such as prefer to take a virulent | nd politics | The law of England under | the | been with scarcely VENEZUELA AND ARBITRATION entered into treaties of arbitration with the missions were provided and their members were | trations proceeded, according to the terms of the sev- { {ican claims. After | made in legal form. Immediately the officers of the | upon the Spanish Minister. He was accused of cor- :hr has found himself compelled to ask the interven- | attacked less vigor and venom. | Mexico have been furnished a casus belli if they limited by and if she would C ASTRO, the bandn President of Venczuela, countries whose nationals had been robbed 1by his Government. Under these treaties mixed com- | selected and agreed to by Castro and the other Goy~ |ernments. concemed all in proper form. The arbi- !eral protocols, at Caracas, which was agreed upon as | the Jocation of the arbitration. | The first case to be concluded is that of the Mex- | In that case the Spanish Minister to i Venezuela was the chief arbitrator or umpire. | patient examination award of indemnity was Venezuelan Government and the press, inspired by | Castro, broke out into the most infamous attacks ruption. Gross and libelous caricatures of him were | circulated. His personal safety was threatened and tion of his Government to protect him. | The representative of Mexico in Caracas has also | The award is repudiated by Castro, who agreed to {abide by it and treat it as final, and both Spain and | choose to act upon it. It is to be hoped that Mexico ill accept the chailenge, for she is not impeded nor give Venezuela a good thrashing it would be a ser- vice to modern civilization. the Monroe doctrine, Arbitration is a substitute for war. But it is a use- if nations which agree to it repudiate its If there be no means of enforcement the international courts is usel The pace for Latin-America was set by the so-called republiic of El Salvador. the United | less device | judgments, | expense of s. States she demanded arbitration, which our Government conceded. The treaty was entered mnto and ratified. Of the three arbitrators El Salva- dor herself chose two, a Salvadorean and the umpire, who was the eminent Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Dominion of Canada, a member of the | Privy Council of the British empire and one of the { most learned jurists in the world The case was arbitrated at W | the United States who had been robbed by Salvador. That country throughout the trial practiced duplicity and finally secret conferences of the court under pretense of being interpreter for the Salvadorean arbitrator, an | act sufficient to cause a break in dipJomatic relations | between the two countries As soon as the award was made the President of Salvador and her Foreign | Minister inspired the same sort of attacks upon the { umpire, Sir Henry Strong, and Hon. Don M. Dickin- won the American arbitrator, as have been aimed at ‘thc Spanish Minister in Caracas. Regardless of the | demands of official decency and national amity these gentlemen were lampooned, ¢artooned, abused and lied about by the Government only a small part of | whose "prey had been snatched from its rapacious jaws by their righteous decision. | Fortunately the arbitration was held in Washing- ton. Had it been in Salvador the officers and agents | of that Government would have no doubt added phy- | sical indignity and perhaps assassination to their graphic and printed insults. The falsehoods {about the umpire and the American arbitrator and the offensive cartcons were mailed to the Foreign Offices of other governments under the seal of the | Foreign Minister of El Salvador, and as they have | been so exactly copied in the treatment of the Span- ish Minister to Caracas they no doubt inspired the monkey of the Andes, Castro, in his treatment of that gentleman. The arbitrators in the Salvador case were not | officers or representatives of the United States and | our Government could not notice anything that oc- | curred after they became functus officio. The case of | the diplomatic representatives of Spain and Mexico to | Venezuela is different. | verbal, ‘ironts to their Governments and may be noticed in ’such a way as to check the barbarism of Castro. ! Unfortunately citizens of the United States are to blame for much of this truculence of Venezuela. Min- | ister Bowen has said things here and in Europe that diplomat and untrue in fact, and Hon. Wayne MacVeagh in his plea to the Hague court went outside the professional limits to insult the civilization of Europe and encourage the barbar- ism of Venezuela. Finally public opinion in this country needs enlightenment by the press in regard to what we call our “sister republics” in Latin- America. which mostly are absolute autocracies, ruled by bandits strong enough to rob and murder their way to power. were unbecoming in The British statesmen who, in preferential tariffs and the incidental taxing of foods to English con- sumers, are seeking to cement a gigantic cgmmercial union with the colonies, out of which will rise a | Greater Britain, should not forget that a tax on a glass of beer once cost a powerful ‘\hmstr) its power and a great party its life A line lies the growing city of Reno, whose hori- | zon is rosy with the dawn of a day of greaier prosperity than it has ever known. One sympton of its awakening is an earnest discussion of its public needs. President Stubbs of the University of Ne- vada, L. H. Taylor, the State hydographer, and other leading citizens took part in a public discus- sion of this topic recently at a meeting called by the Reno Chamber of Commerce. Much that was said on that occasion, as reported by the Reno Evening Gazette, is of interest to the outsider who looks with sympathetic gaze on the promotion of Nevada. Particular importance will be attached to the rep- resentations made by the State hydographer. Under the irrigation system devised for the betterment of the arid !ands of Nevada, he said, 375000 acres of land will be cui up into small holdings. That area will easily support 20,000 families. These families will be able, in turn, to support 20,000 to 25,000 more in the villages and towns. The irrigation work on hand includes the building of a canal thirty-one miles long, from the Truckee River to the sink of the Carson in Churchill County. A reservoir will be constructed about the.Carson sink, embracing an area of more than 8000 acres, which, when full, will have a maximum depth of 110+ feet. It is further proposed to store‘the waters of the Truckee River in six or seven reservoirs. The work that has been begun carnes an expenditure of $900,000. P. L. Flanigan told the cifizens that a local reser- voir will be constructed by an existing company, SPIRIT OF RENO. SHORT distance east of the California State In a case affecting the nationals of | shington long and | | patiently and an award was given to the citigens of | smuggled one of her attorneys into thc: The insults to them are af- | which will raise the water 220 feet above the level of the present water storage works for Reno. This company, so said Mr. Flanigan, is ready to contract for the building of a reservoir that will be 220 feet above the Washoe County Bank building and that will hold 30,000,000 gallons of water. With such a reservoir the insurance rates in Reno will be one- third less. The Reno Gazette says that better streets were also discussed. Dr. Stubbs predicted that Nevada will be sought for homes. “It will soon be settled with sturdy men and women and we will soon have a population of 100,000 instead of 40,000 to 50.000. One enthusiastic speaker described Reno as “the flower of the country.” The spirit of the city, as represented by the speeches at the Chamber of Com- merce meeting, is decidedly progressive. The Dowieites, fierce of mouth and loud of pur- pose and armed with clamorous tongue, have leit Chicago to assault the “breastworks of sin” in New York. This is one of those fortunate movements of people where one city is given a distinct diversion and another a spell of relief. s e e e POEFULISM AGAIN. HEN a committee of Western® Populists W hreaded by William V. Allen of Nebraska an- | nounced that the stalwarts of the party in- tended to again take the middle of the road and run a candidate for the Presidency in 1904 the announce- ment was treated with but scant courtesy. It was in fact looked upon as nothing more than an effort on |the part of a number of discarded politicians to get }aumhvr hearing frcm the public and possibly a’chance to make a bargain with Democracy in a few States where fusion might resuit in at least a partial suc- cess. | Since the statement of Allen’s committee there i have, however, been further declarations from former Populist leaders in different parts of the country, and it would appear thérefore as if a concerted movement were under way to revive Populism in time to make it a factor in the next Presidential election. One of the most conspicuous of the advocates of the new move- | ment i Butler of North Carolina, who like Allen was formerly 2 member of the United States Senate and {longs to return if he can. Butler declares that Popu- lism stronger in the South than ever before and that if the conservative Democrats carry the next | Presidential convention and nominate a gold candi- date for the Presidency the Bryanites of the South s it a formidable strength in several of the Southern States. {is the platform upon which it is designed to make the coming fight. Instead of scattering over nearly the whole field of current political issues and fads as for- mer Populist platforms did it is the intention of the leaders of the movement to make the fight virtually on a single issue. As Mr. Butler expressed it, the | dominant feature of the platiorm will-be a plank “in | faver of the national ownership of the means of carry- |ing on commerce, the Government ownership of rail- roads and the facilitics for the transmission of intelli- gence.” Of course that means the new Populism is to be therefore seek fusion with Socialists rather than with Democrats. To what extent the combination will be | able to affect the struggle between the two old par- ties is at this time merely a matter of conjecture. The strength of Socialism is in New England, but it is not at 2ll likely that any defection it may cause from the Republicans of that section will be sufficient to give the Democrats a chance to carry a single New England State. So the strength of the Populist movement seems now to be in the South, but no one 'ingines it will be strong enough there to endanger | the supremacy of the Democrats. The only prospects | therefore of the new movement having any practical effect upon politics next year are to be looked for in doubtful States like Illinois and Indiana. It is of course very improbable that a big vote will be cast for the new movement, but it is none the less start- | ing out under circumstances that render it interestimg. SHASTA’S GOAT INDUSTRY. A light to the fact that in Shasta County, as dis- closed by the County Assessor’s books, there {are 10,316 goats. That number is half as many as the sheep in the county. The sheep, to be exact, count up 20,505. “Goats-are gaining on sheep in number.” says the Searchlight, “the ratio between the two varieties of stock favoring goats.” Several considerations are urged in justification for giving the goats the preference in Shasta County. It is said that goats are more easily cared for than sheep and will live and thrive where the sheep can eke out but a bare existence. taken pains to get good stock claim that they can make more money and casier money than if they had invested the same amount in cattle and sheep. Therefore the goat-raising industry is steadily grow- ing, particularly in the mountainous districts. To encourage the goat raisers the Searchlight makes a digest of the various official recommenda- tions and gathers facts bearing on the commercial side of the consideration. Secretary Wilson, it i pointed out, has frequently suggested the expediency of raising goats. The imports of goat skins into the United States represent annually the tidy sum of $25,000,000. This might just as well be earned at home, so reasons the Searchlight. Importers are ransacking the four corners of thz earth to get goat skins for manufactures. They are brought in from India, China, Arabia and Russia. The skins are turned into shoes largely. In 1900 there were only 2,000,000 goats in the United States. At least 20,000,000 forcign grown goats wére required to supply the $25,000,000 worth of goat skins last year imported into this country. f The increasing imports reveal the growing demand for goat skins. In 1885 the total value of the import was but $4,000,000. In 18p it had grown to $9,000,- 000. By 1898 it was $15,000,000. In 1900 the total was $22,000,000 and in 1903 in round numbers $23,- 000,000. In other words in thirteen years the impor- tation has been nearly trebled. For years the goat has been the sport of the comic writers for the press. That valorous and combative animal has been pictured as subsisting principally upon a diet of discarded tomato cans and deriving therefrom sufficient nutriment to keep its spirit always | ¥ up to the fighting point. Divested of the humorous view the goat appears cndowed with many quali- ties such as make it commercially valuable. Its food need cost little. Its hardihood enables it to seek pasturage #in places inaccessible to other animals. Shasta’s goat raising for profit will attract the atten- tion of the people of California, who will watch the statistics supplied by the Assessors’ books from year | will go over in large numbers to Populism and give | The most significant feature of the new movement | virtually a socialistic movement and the party will | TTENTION is called by the Redding Search- | Goat raisers who have | ( | | | | | | | ito year as a barometer telling ?ow the industry, fares. HE SAN FERANCIS O.CALL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1903, SANTA CLARA COLLEGE OBSERVATORY IS DOING GOOD ASTRONOMICAL WORK St e PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. A. C. Winn of Tomales is at the Grand. Arthur L. Levinsky, an Stockton, is at the Palace. W. O. Edmunds, a merchant of Upper Lake, is at the Occidental. A. H. Cowan, a business man of Pacific Grove, is at the Occidental. Editor V. S. McClatchey of the Sacra- mento Be is at the California. George R. Stewart, a stockman Crows Landing, Is at the Grand. D. A. Hamburger, a merchant of Lod Angeles, is registered at the Palace. F. J. Thomas, an attorney and mining man of Grass Valley, is at the Lick. W. D. Tillotson, an attorney of Red- ding, registered at the Grand yesterday. 8. Keith Evans, representing the New attorney of of York ening Post, arrived at the Palace | yesterday. F. H. Kennedy, a prominent business man of Stockton, and his wife are guests at the California. Frank L. Miller, district passenger agent of the Rock Island road at Los An- geles, is in the city. Robert Mitchell, a mining man of Los Angeleg, arrived from the South yester- day and is registered at the Palace. United States Marshal H. Z. Osborne of Los Angeles is at the Palace, en route to | his mining properties in Trinity County. | The specjal Rock Island train bearing | the Chicago delegation of bankers that is | to attend the local con\enllon will arrive | here this evening. R. B. Burns of Los Angeles chief en- gineer of the western system of the Santa Fe road, arrived® from the south yester- day and is at Grand. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Oct. lo-Cnlilornlans New York: From San Francisco—Miss Kohl, Mrs. W. Kohl, at the Holland; W. McDermott, in at the New Amsterdam; S. Xano, at the | Brown and wife, Miss J. Gaylord, H. L. Continental Hotel at the Normandie; Gaylord and wife, at the Everett; S. Haines, at the Continental; at the Holland House; M. Schwab, at the Union Square; D. Dimond, at the Herald Square; F. McQuad, at the Hoffman. From Los Angeles—H. Laughlin Jr., at the Herald Square. —_———— SOLDIER CONTRIBUTES _TO McKINNON FUND Sends $25 to Show His Respect for the Memory of Beloved Priest. A letter has been received by the Father W. D. MeKinnon memorial com- mittee in this city from General James F. Smith, Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, in which was inclosed a contribution of $25 to the fund. The contribution was sent to Justice Smith by Charles H. Burritt, formerly ueuten- ant in the Eleventh United States Vol- unteer Cavalry, “who wished to show that he was among the many who knew, honored and respected Father McKin- non.” The committee also received a com- munication from Presidio Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West. With it was a check for $8430, the amount raised by the members of the parlor to help the fund. Many of the members of the par- lor served with Father McKinnon. —_——————— College Settlement Concert. The monthly concert held at the South Park college settlement last night was largely attended and the musical num- bers were received with appreciation. Hother Wismer, the violinist, rendered violin solos from Schumann, Godard and Sphor. Miss Wheeler gave vocal solos, which included “The Green Bonnet,” by Guy d’Hardelet, and “Love Me If 1 Dle." by Lyle C. True. A solo by F. Gilchrist completed the programme. —_——————— New Firehouse Wanted. The residents of the Southern Heights (Scatch Hill) district have petitioned the Fire Commissioners for an engine com- pany in their part of the city. Harry wnnm a real estate man, o!lm a lot for the use of the department for twenty years free of charge. The matter has been n!mfll to the Board of ors. / r H. J. Morton, | SUR-IPOT AS SEEN THROUGH THE 8° EQUATORIAI | | | I > VALUABLE TELESCOPE 1IN | | | USE AT SANTA CLARA COL- i LEGE OBSERVATORY, | — — ANTA CLARA, Oct. 16.—In 1805 an eight-inch equatorial was presented to Santa Clara College by John B. McNamara in the name of Peter J. | Donahue. Through lack of funds to erect a suitable covering for the instrument it remained unused till late in the y when it was placed under a movable )Y‘ouae in an open space about 400 feet | south of the quadrangle. Another smaller | glass (four-inch) still remains unused. The | glass of the elght-inch equatorial is by the elder Clarke, who looked upon it as | one of his best finished products. The | equatorial mounting is by Fauth & Co. of "Vashlngton. D. C., and is very graceful in style, doing away with the old clumsy brick pier. It is supplied with an elec- | trical system, by means ol which diminu- "l‘\e incandescent lamps" throw subdued { light on the verniers of the declination and hour circles, the cross wires of the transit eye plece and the reticule of the position micrometer. Part of the same system enables the astronomer to estab- lish . synchronism between the driving clock and the sidereal clock. Dr. John Montgomery supervised the work of setting the telescope in the meridian and elevating its polar axis to the altitude of the pole. These adjust- | ments have been astronomjically verified by Father Jerome Ricard, now In charge of the observatory. The instrument is equipped with a bat- tery of six ordinary eyepleces, positive and negative, a neutral tint shade and a diagonal eyeplece. Other facilities have + ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ETIQUETTE-J., Any first-class book seller can fu you “the latest and best books on parlor and dining-room eitquette.” City. MARRYAT—C FLORENCE E.. City. Florence Marryat (Mrs. Francis Lean), the novelist, died in London, England, October 27, 1599, DESERTION: City. The fact that an apprentice in the United States navy has a good record for two years does not bar him for punishment for desertion. CHILLED IRON—Subseriber, City Chilled iron is iron which by sudden cool- ing has undergone a change of crystal- lization near the surface, which greatly increases its hardness. A very thick iron mold is used for the cooling and it is called a chill. —_———— Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, In artistic fired etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bidg. * Special information supplied dally te business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), :m lll- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 been added from time to time as funds were secured. Thus in 1902 a sidereal clock was pro- cured from George Saegmuller of Wash- ington, for which a house of double con- struction was erected, especial care being taken to guard the instrument against changes of temperature and corroding hu- midity, owing to its extreme delicacy and sensitiveness., After being in place one year it begins to come under full control, its rate and error being noted each day by means of noon signals from the Lick Observatory, received on a highly sensi- tive relay in the clock room. There is likewise a new filar micrometer, which Saegmuller had on exhibition at the Pan- American Exposition. During the compar- atively brief time since the observatory was established it has done good service, both in the line of instruction and in ad- vancement of science. A serious impe: ment to more extensive work is the tem- porary shelter of the eight-inch equato- rial, which is difficult to move and when moved leaves the delicate parts of the mounting and the highly polished lenses exposed to the inclemency of the weather. T ever fresh among us. MAIN CHANCE is a notable novel of e middle West of to-day, well planned and well written. Meredith Nicholson, the author, is a realist with an eye for the romantic that blossoms is a story of youth and love and of worldly success. honestly won and is American to the core. It will beread by all who begin it, and commended by them when they have finished.—»7, Y. Mail and Express. Illustras