The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1903, Page 30

30 { IMPROVED of Great ' MAKES FOR GOOD ROADS MACHINERY Efficiency AYTOMATIC STONE = SPRLADNG MACKNE RC IN ROAD STONE-SPREADING MACHINE, AND A VIEW OF A COM- ILLUSTRATING MODERN METHODS AND RE- BUILDING IN THE UNITED STATES. it any, activity of the in the during such compar- made and work been Yet the vast that s to be but a , however, to day long stretches more sparsely set- as they have in populated which, been of making. is undertakings of this resting from the fact rovement is equally notice- » separate and distinct lines. there has been intro- of great power and effi- ich has proven an influential quality of the at the same time sived in the opera- progress in e han hinery evolution of methods s road comstruction at expenditure much lower than n »ssible chievement will be y of the sections of the sorely in need of bet- ads embrace townships and counties and and the financial esidents will not justify ment on the taxpayers. important steps, from ndpoint, has been found tion of a road roller which is A permanent good ade without the use of and yet the provision of available for but one a rather heavy ex- ew combiration outfits much as an ordi- reason of the fact nes may, by the mere in- wheels, be converted from action engines. they several purposes of crusher, hauling stone to ng the latter. has been described, tion engine, will haul { stone over an or- n desired for use as a gine in connection with a ushe imple unclutching of ng gear insures its immovability, an be secured sufficient for ary rock. Another ad- modern equipment for found in a lately devised us dump car, with an h itomatically spreading on the road any required thickness of slone or gravel. The stone is dumped #rom the crusher into the car, hauled to @ny desired point on the road by means ie roller-traction engine, and spread wer the surface undergoing improvement inuch more evenly and rapidly, as well as mmuch’ more cheaply, than would be pos- sible by the use of men and teams. The dump car may be so adjusted that the sheet of crushed stome, gravel or sand | spread upon the road will be of any de- sired thickness from one to eight inches. An engine tender with sprinkling attach- ment fastened to the tank., for use in mprinkling during the rolling process, is uded in this equipment. ble advances have been made of in the provision of compiete portable cru , inciuding not only movable re TS proper, but port- able bins on wheels. The latest achieve- m in this line is found in the rolier- bearing truck and folding elevator, in which stee] castings for frame lever and jaw of crusher reduce the weight, and roiler bearings for the truck wheels re- @uce the draught, so that a crusher having = mapacity of fully twenty tons per hour nd, much has been ac- | The impor- | ecglated when it is un- | been introduced cost | o | may be transported with ease. Such an | elevator ralses the crushed stone fifteen feet from the ground, although the high- est point when folded is less than ten feet. The convenient and economical handling of stone in up-to-date road buflding de- mands not only crushers and elevators, but storage bins as well, =o that the en- tire handling of the material may be ac- complished without the use of manual labor from the time the stone is fed into the crusher until it is discharged into the wagon or cart. For small crushing plants the portable bin on wheels is now being used almost exclusively. It has a capacity of twelve tons, but when empty welghs but 3500 pounds. It is made of seasoned lumber, the bottom being lined with steel and the stone discharged through auto- matic gates. It may, be quickly attached to the elevator; in fact, the whole outfit, consisting of crusher, elevator, screen and bin, may be set and ready for work in-| side of fifteen minutes. In such equip- ments the thirty-inch revolving screen, preferably six feet in length, is usunally used : | tomary to provide semi-pertable bins, ranging in capacity from forty to seven- ty-five tone. These bins are fastened to- gether by bolts so that they may be taken down quickly for shipment. Many other improvements have made, too, in the way of the dirt e tor, which plows up the earth and then lifts the loose red material into wagons or conveys it to the center of the road- way. been For ages antiquary after found himself baffled by a simple prob- lem at the Tower. How, In the old days, did the garrison get a supply of drinking water? The antiquary could show you the original fireplace at which William | the Conqueror warmed his hands, could | point approximately to the spot on which | the murdered Princes fell; he could lead you to the place where Henry VIII's | Queens were butchered, and to the tomb- | stones hthal collapsed upon their poor | bones: he knew the tiny dungeon in which Sir Walter Ralelgh spint twelve dread- ful years hidden from the light; and |could have you In a twinkling In the | stone dog kennel where still remains the ring to which they chalned Guy Fawkes, But how these unfortunates and their | Janitors drank, none could tell. The Thames hard by was not the source, they were sure. Organized search was vain. | Then there came a thick-headed, unimag- | inative mason, to whom and his fellows | the work of converting certain of the his- | toric dungeons Into storehousés for war | material meant ninepence-halfpenny an hour and no more. His pick struck through the flooring of | the corridor from which the prisoners | used to enter their cells. Behind these |latter and corresponding with the main | one, ran, and still remains, the little se- cret corridor along which eavesdropping { officers tiptoed to listen to conversations between captives, for the purposes of evidence. A few blows from the pick | brought to light the mouth of a pit. | Bixty feet down was water—thirty feet of it. The mason had happened upon the historic well f8r which search had been made in vain for centurfes! It was as perfect as the day that the Conqueror sunk it. To-day it still carries its thirty feet of sweet spring water, and should ever the Tower be beleaguered, its gar- rieon would still be independent of out- side supply. We have our holy wells, our miracle-working wells, and wells of medicinal waters. If this historic old shaft which the mason brought to ljght were distant 10,00 miles, Londoners would make pligrimages to drink its waters. —_———— antiquary Townsend's California glace fruits ana candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg. * —_—— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 231 Calli. street. Telephone Main 102 44— When a larger storage capacity for crushed stone is required, it is now cus- | eva- | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 235, 19083, . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. | JOBN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . + + '+ + . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager BONBAY ., L0 . i L e e i T SRR aa 2003 LANE AND A NEW RAILROAD. THE SAN FRANCISCO OALL, Public-tion Office ....e.... +e...Third and Market Streets, S. F. CPTERPRTr | HE Examiner finds it necessary to change the drift of business men to Mr. Crocker by claiming that if he is elected the Western Pacific Railroad cannot build into San Francisco, but will be | shut out by the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe. On the other hand, Mr. William Randolph Hearst declares that if Lane is elected the Western Pacific will come sailing in on the wings of the wind. . The Western Pacific has been one of the permanent railroad mysteries for a long time. It is { abundantly equipped with money and has secured terminal facilities on Oakland harbor and is seated in | other points of vantage and its line is pretty definitely known. Whenever there has been any unwilling- | ness to endow it with right of way or franchises it has been due to the lack of certainty of the bona fides of the project, giving rise to a suspicion that it may be only a jobbing operation, projected to be bought |off. In this view, however, those with the most knowledge of its affairs do not concur. Such men | have reached what is believed to be the right conclusion as to its ownership by a process of cancellation of the parties suspected of owning it, but who have, one by one, entered such public denials as to leave no doubt of their good faith. This process and certain facts make it entirely sure that the backer of the road is John D. Rockefeller. Since he became associated with Gould in the attempt to get control of the Pennsylvania line and oust Mr. Cassatt from its presidency it has been held as probable that he and Gould are together in this | far Western project.” The great advantage to the coast of such a combination is easily apparent. We have now no continuous through line to the Atlantic coast under a single management and ownership. , Pos- sessed of the Pennsylvania line from New York to Chicago, and the Gould lines westerly from Chicago, the proposed Western Pacific in Mr. Rockefeller's ownership will join the two oceans by an unbroken rail. The Standard Dil Cc ympany has interests stretching clear across the continent and its own trans- | portation line becomes a necessary part of its business. With such a line Mr. Rockefeller can promote the interests of the Standard in a variety of wa: | But what a spectacle we have in Mr. William Randolph Hearst pleading for the election of a | Democratic Mayor of San Francisco in the interest of Mr. John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil { Company! Mr. Hearst’s associated organs of sweetness and light in San Francisco, Chicago and New York have established his reputation and made him a candidate for the Presidency, by .persistent lam-| pooning ef John D. Rockefeller and all his works and ways, and of all those whose works and ways are | like unto He has been represented as blighting all that he touches for the use of others in order to convert it to his own purposes. Hearst has attacked William C. Whitney and libeled members of his family because he was the son-in-law of Senator Payne of Ohio, an associate of Rockefeller. The | celebrated cartoons of the trusts, representing them with the paunch of a cow and the face of a baboon, would be lacking in even Hearst’s conception of a point if Rockefeller and Standard Vil were not | prominent. ¥ ! | If he has been telling the truth about Rockefeller, instead of gladly beckoning his railroad to San | = B & % 3 S | Francisco the Examiner should be pledging Lane to keep it out, by the use of the police and all of the| power of the city government. Instead of the sumptuous picture of prosperity, rise in real estate, rapid | increase to half a million of people, and the vision of expanding commerce, as a result of the coming of r. Rockefeller with a railroad in his trousers pocket to fling at our feet, rails, right of way, terminals, ! Pullman coaches, dining cars and all, the Examiner should warn its readers of the sinister designs of the Standard Oil Company, which is coming to turn their bread into a stone and their fish into serpents. | When did the Examiner get converted to the benefit of railroads to a city? Only a few days ago] { it was upholding certain Socialists in Alameda in the attempt to drive from that town the one road it| | has. It sided gleefully with the proposition that Alameda would be better off with no road at all. Then, | by what sorcery is it now convinced that every new road built to San Francisco is a source of abundantl prosperity? Now its campaign cry is: “More railroads; up with Lane and Rockefeller, Hearst and | | Standard Oil!” | Every sensible man knows that there is no opposition here to the entry of the Western Pacific, '\\'hen Mr. Rockefeller is ready to come, unless, when he is ready, Mr. Hearst turns the other side of his Janus face, and trusting to the short memory of the people, proceeds to lampoon the Western Pacific, | | daughter of the Archbishop of Armagh 1s | as he has every constructive enterprise in the State, The Beckwith Pass is the best gateway for a railroad over the mountains, and there is a_vast| unoccupied country on both sides of the Sierra Nevada range to be developed by a railroad. But if the| Examiner policy had become the law of the State, no rail could be laid in Beckwith Pass. Only a few| vears ago it advocated a law forbidding a California corporation to build a railroad across the line to| get out of the State, and also forbidding an outside corporation to build across the line to get into the| State! It made that law a test of Democracy and read out of the party every man who opposed it. Now | its test of Democracy is approval of Rockefeller’s railroad and support of the Standard Oil Company. INCREASED IMMIGRATION. R. SARGENT, the Commissioner of Immigration, reports an increase of nearly one-third| in this year’s immigration over that of last year, which broke all previous records. 1 Of the 021,315 aliens who came in last year 572,726 were from Southern and South- eastern Europe. Mr. Sargent sees no menace in this alien flood, except that these immi- grants form themselves into non-English speaking colonies in our large cities, where, he admits, they| endanger the “physical, moral and political security of the country.” In order to cure them of what he! calls their “radical theories of government and individual rights,” he proposes that the Government! | assist them in diffusion over the country and in the acquisition of homes, when, he thinks, they “will be- come conservative supporters in theory and practice” of our institutions. It may occur to others that it would be wiser to exclude this mass of ignorance and disease en- | tirely, rather than incur the expense of inoculating the whole country with it, in the expectation that the "blister will burn less if spread thinner. The population we have, by natural increase, rises by several | millions a year of native-born Americans. Mr: Sargent’s proposition that by Government agency the { vacant land of the country be put into the hands of immigrants in order to soothe them into support of | our institutions leaves these natives a cold prospect. How will he soothe their discontent when they ‘ find their inheritance given to the stranger, in order to pacify him toward a country that he has sought | voluntarily, and to which nobody invited him? The Federal Government is embarking upon the investment of many millions to irrigate land that [ will provide homes for three millions and a half of people in order to relieve the congested population of our great cities. None of this irrigated land will be ready for occupancy within three years, and dur- ing that time at the present rate at which Europe is vomiting its “moral, physical and governmental” disease and discontent upon us, we will add more aliens to our population than the number of our own people who hope for homes founded upon irrigation. What we want is not the laws for benevolent dif- | fusion proposed by Mr. Sargent, but a law to shut off the supply of aliens until we digest what we have. 1f this is not done the country will have something-worse on its stomach than undigested trust stocks. An Oakland Judge, sanguine, intrepid, daring, has risen in his might to the solution of a prob- | lem of national moment. He has decidéd, without an if or an and, that all the ante-election promises and buncombe indulged in by candidates cannot be held against them after election for geod or evil. | While we knew this all the time, it is particularly consoling at the present time to have a judicial opin- | ion upon it. —_— Huntington and Harriman are again at war in the railroad field in Southern California, FEach is projecting competitive improvements and the financial atmospheére is thick with flying rumors of what |is to be done to advance the rival interests. The greatest element of compensation in the entire situa- | tion is that whatever the railroad magnates may do in this kind of warfare the public reaps an advantage. Abeaicn om0k The Mayor of San Francisco who will be elected on November 3 will have the appointment of eleven Commissioners endowed with immense authority in the government of the city. Let the desires of every voter regarding the character and qualifications of these Commissioners dictate his vote for Mayor. The past is a splendid guide of what not to desire. — e Watsonville is the first community of California to send an exhibit to the St. Louis Exposition. She is in the lead in a very worthy cause and her promptness and activity should be a spur to the rest of the State. We can afford to leave nothing undone that may contribute to our standing at the fair when it is thrown open to the world. : s P ROBERT BARR FINISHES Task of Rounding Out | NOVEL LEFT BY CRANE | - — AUTHOR WHO HAS JUST FINISHED, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE NOVELIST'S WISH, THE COMPLETION OF THE BOOK LEFT BY STEPHEN CRANE, CALLED “THE O'RUDDY.” —t ONDON, Oct. 24—Robert Barr has, | I believe, just finished the rather | difficult task of completing the novel which the late Stephen Crane left at the time of his death. It an Irish story, called “The O'Ruddy. Crane himself expresed the wish that Barr should finish it did he not live to do fit, so he and Barr thoroughly discussed the story and its completion. ., 3% That a book should be written by the an example of the law of heredity. Both the Primate of All Ireland and his wife are well known as writers of verse. This excursion of literature by Miss Eleanor | Alexander will be awaited with interest. The booky Is called “Lady Ance's Walk.” | *:. 0. In the hands of Edward Arnold for pub- | lication before long there will be another novel by Mrs. Violet Jacob, who wrote | “The Sheep Stealers,” the scene of which lay on the borderland of England and ‘Wales. Mrs. Jacob, who is herself Scot- | tish, takes Scotland for the setting of her new novel. In a talk I had with one of the leading booksellers yesterday about the outlook for the book trade this season he shook | his head and said things were not bright- ening much yet, if at all, the fact being that everybody is now suffering more or less from ‘“fiscalities,” which is the name given to the excitement created by Cham- berlain’s fiscal campaign. Whatever bene- fit tn trade the country may be expected to gain from the carrying out of this pol- icy, England cannot expect, in any crisis in the book trade, any help from the col- onfes. For instance, the taste for litera- ture in South Africa is lamentably poor. Kipling, Corelll and Anthony Hope sell well, but others are nowhere. Only novels of fast life find much popularity in South Africa. Then Canada depends more on the United States for literature than on the mother country. Hitherto Australia has been England's best customer among the colonies, but even Australia is now taking more kindly to American literature, chief- ly novels. Though the soclety novel .is the most favored form of fiction in Aus- tralia, American authors who can write well on travel, big game shooting and | sport in which there is some excitement can look for a good circle of readers in Australia. They get too few such books from England, but continued depression does not seem to prevent the launching of new publishing firms. One called the “Primrose Press” has just been founded by two authors—Allen Upward and L. Cranmer Byng. e Harry Furniss is striking out in what, for him, is rather a new line. He is en- gaged in writing and f{llustrating a love story, which, he says, will describe the psychological development of the hero under some most curious phases of the conditions of modern life. ——— To-Day’s Park Concert. The following programme will be ren- | dered by the band jn Golden Gate Park to-day: Part I—“Star-Spangled Banner,” na- tional anthem (the audlience is requested to rise and remain standing during the rendition of this number); march, “Di- rector” (Callaghan); overture, ‘“Bronze Horse” (Auber): waltz, “Santiago” (Cor- bin); solo for barytone, selected, Walter Calverd; grand selection, “Robert le Dia~ ble” (Meyerbeer). Part I1I—Overture, “Orpheus” (Offen- bach); (a) melody in F (Rubenstein), (b) ballet, “Copelia” (Dellebes); descriptive, “The Forge In the Forest” (Michaelis); Schubert’s “‘Serenade” (Horst); selection, “Bohemian Girl" (Balfe); *“America.” ——————— All things come to those who stop wait. ing and go after them. ADVERTISELENTS. 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