The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1903, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SATURDAY DECEMBER 26, 1903. HOLIDAY MAKERS IN LARGE NUMBERS INSPECT UNCLE SAM’S BIG CRUISER Although in the Thick of Preparations for Sailing, the New York’s Officers Accord Visitors a Cor- dial Welcome---Sightseers Crowd the Wharves ! While Equipment, Stocks and | MOTHER OF ALL THE RAILWATS Great Pennsylvania System's Total Mileage Is Now 28,300, 11,000 Within State Limits LINES COST $2,180,354,248 i SR IR Bonds and Other Assets To-| tal Nearly Four Billions | | —_—— { THe compiled report of the Bureau of | Railways of the Department of Inter- | | nal Afrairs for the year ending June | | 30, 1803, covers the operation and finan- | | cial condition of 148 operating steam | i railway, 168 subsidiary steam railway, | 91 operating telegraph and telephone, | 12 subsidiary telegraph and telephone, | 100 operating street railway and 109 Oiten bound south put in to land flanza W hnson, 3 days from Mon- Gritfith 14 “days from FRIDAY Dettmers. December Hardy Creek. shfteld down the crew Buhne —Had 8 cession of 1 for four ary launch’ 40 Angeles. 2.17 N, lon 10, Dec. ther miles per h PORTE. 3 for San and R, C Dec. 25— Schr Irene, s =% Stmr Brook! for San < Time Ball. graphic Office N., Mer Arrived Dec, 25—Stmr Umatilla, xchange Ean “al Tours from | subsidiary street rallway corporations. | In addition to these there are 191 steam railway, 494 street railway and. 14 | telegraph and telephone corporations, | | whose iines have not yet beén con- | structed. i | Compiling the reports from all these ; { railroad corporations, and considering | them as representing one railroad sys- | { tem in Pennsylvania, we present fig- | | ures which exhibit the marvelous mag- | nitude of this common carrier system that conducts the transportation of persons and commodities within the | State of Pennsylvania and the territory !ad;acem thereto. ‘ The combined amount’ of liabilities | of the several corporations which are | factors in this great transportation | system are as follows: Capital stock : ! outstanding, $1,673,526,262; funded in- ¢ debtedness, $1,533,658,571; other forms of | { indebtedness, $393,740,399, or a total ; capitalization of $3,601,225,332. This pro-} | digious sum represents the capitaliza of steam railway corporations | tion whose lines are wholly or partly within] | the State of Pennsylvania. i The properties owned by panies the com- which form thi Pennsylvania | s consist of: Cost of equipment, cash and current other a: 2 | total of assets of | STEAM RAILWAY MILEAGE. The magnitude of;'this great trans- | portation system is again exhibited in the combined total mileage of the sev- | eral railways of making .this. system, which is more than sufficient to en- e the earth, being 2 32 miles, 4.45 miles of which are within the { limits of Pennstlvania. | The capacity for moving the almost limitless products along . the lines of this transportation system is s in the fact that in th transportation service there are 13,871 locomotives, passenger 601,714 freight devoted solely to sportation comua- of cars is and 16,803 c: : use of the t The total number 0,359. The handling of this equipment and the conducting of the business of this em have given employment to 419,- persons, an industrial army of 4 winners, all engaged in the con- ! struction, maintenance and operation of transportation corporations, to whom there was paid during the year 581 brea A CALEND ART PICT FOR 1901 AR URE FREE TO READERS OF THE e “LADY IN RED.” 1014 x15 inches. A Striking Girl in Red. N NEXT S exclusive use, the richest, most expensive and mnovel feature that has ever been offered by a newspaper to “A 1904 Girl” is one of Bryson’s last productions in pastel, portraying a decidedly chic figure in dashing colors, effecting a study that bas in itself a distinct character. This will doubtless outlive this celebrated artist's former efforts, judg- ing by the opinions expressed by art critics, who all have agreed that it is one of the finest of modern studies from life. with dark background, surrounded by an artist’s sketch of the months of the coming year, being furnished on heavy paper of the best quality, size A Rich Calendar in Three Colors NDAY'S SUPPLEMENT THE CALL secured, for its The picture is panel shape New Year's readers. IMPORTANT TO BEAR IN MIND—That it is absolutely impossible to estimate the exact number that will bc necessary to supply the demand, covered by this report, $204,116,825. Annther evidence of the great ser Arrived De TACOMA -Stmr Leelanaw, Schr George E. Billi - . s 3 : rendered hy !ranspnrlv:nion corpora- and as these art supplements are manufactured for The Call by its Eastern e - tions is f-\m‘nl in the figures showing printing house, if you are not at present a regular subscriber, you are likely s - -Arrived 'De: the train mileage by passenger and fo be disappointed unless your newsdealer, carrier or this office Is in- s Movements of Steamers. SLAND PO reight tral the former being' 119,- structed in advance to reserve for you, as we are obliged to order in advance. T HONOLULU—Arrived D 092,411; freight trains, 155,436,094 miles, and ARRIVE | meda. hence Dec. 18 and mixed trains, 3.336,540 miles, or a s by = k T Due. | g tlied Dec. 24—U. & atm total train mileage of 277,885,054, T e IGN PORTS PASSENGERS ) FREIGHT. é = = Gty To vy TNor stmr Ti- | ppere have been carried during the i —_—— | vear 260,118,781 passengers, which being 1z Mary Buhne's Crew Nort Anxiety for Overdue Paris. Freighter Oregonian Arrives. LITTLE GIFT WANT A YEAT CALL ! . ; L\ DVERTISERS DO YOU WANT A PRETTY AND USEFUL LITTLE ARTICLE? If so, get one of THE CALL'S five-foot tape meas- ures by bringing your little want ad. to The Call for in- sertion in the New Year's edition to be issned next Sunday. Remember that this premium is given only to want advertisers and cannot be obtained in any other way. -0 G. W. Eider! Astoria & Acapuleo ot y Ports|/Jan. 1 jan. jan Jan Jan Japan York via Panama TO SAIL. Destination N ¥ o | December 27. J Humbeldt 10 am Pier 2 an Diego & Way 9§ amiPler 11 San Pedro & Way.| 9 am(Pier 11 Puget Sound Ports. 11 am|Pier 9 Humboldt 1:30 p|Pler 9 | December 28. | | N'Y. via Europ 12 m Pier 40 | 16 December 30. Seatile & Whatcom, 4 pmiPier 10 Humboldt 1:30 p/Pier 9 & Ja 1 pm(Pier 40 lie River 6 pm!Pier 2 December 31. s Diego & Way ewport & Way ..| 9 am|Pier Svdney & Way 2 pm|Pier Seatile & Tacoma. 10 am Pier . | 2 pm Pier 9 am Pier Jan: Humboldt Jan N. ¥ via Panama.12 m Pier Pugei Sound Ports |11 am[Pier Janua ity Puebla | 3. ry 3. | Portland/11 an Pler 24 FROM SEATTL Ports. | Dec. 26 sior. ... | Cooks Inlet & Way Pts|Jan. 1 Cottage City.| Skagway & Wa 1 Valencia i C 1 Faralion -1 3 Bertha | 10 | jre | Newport,_ete. | cent City. land. via Astoria 33 day Shibping Intelligence. ARRIVED. FRIDAY, December 25. Stmr Spokane, Johnson, 17 hours from Eu- ki Stmr Coos Bay Nicolson, 68 hours from Stmr Nome City, Moore, 5% days from Port- Stir Del Norte, Green 35 hours from Cres- Stmr South Coast Olsen, 16 hours from Fort Bragg {ao | ¥ Stmi Phoenix, Odland, 15 hours from Men- Stmr Oregonian, Carty, 55 days from New Stm: ork. via Loronel 20 days Stmr Westport Smith 29 beurs from Bu- reka. | of fine ducks. | telegraphic | Tawney, | him so handsomely, and there w; Goose for the Whip. Senator Quay recently had a brace So had Speaker Can- non, Payne and Dalzell of the House. Tawney of Minnesota likewise had ducks and other game. They were art of his perquisites as Republican ip, and last evening he made merry | at dinner with a party of friends calied aid in the consumption of his sions of game all came about through one of the nim- rods of the House, Representative Palmer of Pennsylvania. He finds it pleasant to tramp through the marshes waylay the ds of the s Last week Mr. Palmer journeved south to Currituck Sound, N. ( shile the Democrats were debating Cuban tariff schedules ad infinitum. As the day for voting approached Mr. Palmer indited a message to Mr. Hawney. It ply said: “Do you need me?” or words to that effect. “Not needed. send a goose,” If yofi have good luck answer. The Pennsylvania absentee turned up in Washington the next day laden with game. He had taken good care to secure a goose, and withal many fat ducks. The goose, of course, was for the whip, who had treated as a brace of ducks in the bargain, with enough left over to provide amply for the other statesmen already noted.— Washington Post. —— e Forests and Human Vitality. One has but to look back through | history to see how closely related is the forest to human vitality. It was in the forests of Thessaly that the early Greeks received their energy that Jater flowered into genius. It was the forest dwellers of Germany that con- quered decadent Rome and later gave to Spain the vigor that swept back the Moor and brought under her flag al-! most the whole known world. But to- day what is Greece, what is Italy, what is Spain? They have been stripped of their forests, those nurseries of vigor, and their decay has set in. Every- where .the law holds good. It is in the forest that the manhood is nour- ished which builds up great civiliza- tions. But cities arise, trees are swept away, and the inevitable decline sets in. Forests once destroyed cannot re- turn, and over all the sites of ancient civilization are blowing the desert sands.—New York Times. ————— Shirt-sieeves diplomacy is hardly the last phase. If equal suffrage is coming on as fast us some say, shirtwaist di- plomacy can't be far off.—Puck ° sim- | was Tawney’s laconic | reduced to a mileage basis is an equiva- nt of having carried 6,469,371,275 per- ons one mile. { Of freight, the number of tons car- ried as products of agriculture was 36,913,410; products of animals, 10,656 | 552; products of mines 13; prod- ucts of forests, ¥ 37; products of manufactories, 105,161,904; merchandise, 15, miscellaheous shipments, 30, 099,624, or a total tonnage of 566,189,530. | This tonnage, reduced to a single mile | basis, is equivalent to having carried 6 663,391 tons one mile. These fig- | indicate the immensity of the pro- ductions of this State in a most re- narkable manner. { The c ing of passengers has pro- duced an income of $14 653; freight | earnings, $423,6 other ~earnings from operation, or a tot earnings from operation of $592, Other income from dividends on stock: interest on bonds owned, etc., was $62,- | | 168,034, or a total earnings and income | of $654,588,61 | EXPENS] AND DIVIDENDS. In maintaining this railway system, ! | in betterments and improvements and |in operation the following amounts have been expended during the year: | | Maintenance of way and structures, | | $75,646,164; maintenance of equipment, | | $85,160,879; conducting transportation, | 295,443; general expenses, $12,6 | 660; total operating expenses, $396,774,- | 146; other expenses, $171,957,484; total | expenses, $568,731,630. From the receipts and income the stockholders have received dividends during the year amounting to $50,124,- | 433, { In all the classification of shipments, | !‘m the tables indicating the ]hbililles| |and assets, the mileage, the persons employed and their compensation, the | number of passengers and tons of | freight carried; in the earnings and in- | come and in the expenses of mainte- nance and operation, there is the most unassailable and irrefutable evidence of the prosperity of the industries lo- | cated along the great arteries of the commerce of this Pennsylvania system of transportation. The mavorabie con- ditions which exist among the miners, the mechanics, the bankers, the profes- | sional men, the merchants, the artisans and laborers of all classifications are seen also in the increase of al!l the sal- ient features, financial operations and business transactions of this great common carrier system. For increase of business in the way of transporta- tion means that the conditicns of all business enterprises are favorable. RAILWAY CAPITALIZATION. In the capitalization of railways there has been an increase during the year of $364,008,739. THere has been ‘an increase 99, Read The Daily Call—Greater San Francisco’s Greatest Paper.. in the assets of these comvanies by money devoted to the construction and betterments amounting to $3717,190,863. There has been an increase in mileage of 25 miles. The increase in the number of locomotives is 903, and the increase in the number of cars in the railway service is 34,319. increase this year in the number of employes of 41,783, and in the compen- 36 | sation paid them of $38,153,547. In train mileage the increase during the year is 9,291,623, P engers carried the increase is 16.- , and the increase in the tonnage of freight carried is 41,460, The in- ase in the earnings and income is 70,031, The increase in the total ex- penses $54,630,696. N UNPARALLELED RECORD. It weuid be difficult to find anywhere in the development of industrial affairs a parallel where there has been such a marvelous advance all along the'lines of commerce as is indicated by the fig- ures showing the increases, as above stated, during the year. Indeed, viewing these matters from | any point desired, this great common carrier gystem, in all that pertains to transportation, is the most formidable one in the world. In the perfection of facilities, com- forts, conveniences, promptitude of ser- vice, reasonableness of charges, our railroads are par excellence. tory in these United States or else- where in which there exist such won- derful and almost limitless lines of in- | dustries and such inexhaustible mate- rial interests as are found along these great highways of commerce, these transportation lines that make up the railroad system of the State of Penn- sylvania.—Philadeiphia Public Ledger. ——e————— Servants in Sofia. “Twice a year, on April 23 and Oc- tober 26, writes a young Bulgarian woman living in Sofia, “our streets are full of servants, and people bargain with them for service. During the winter season they are very cheap, as the peasants send all their girls to the city to be hired, they having no work for them at home.. The price paid dif- fers. One can get a girl for her board or pay up to 20 lusor ($4) a month for one who cooks, washes and irons. Girls are often thankful to enter a good family for their board. For the men there is very little work, and the papers are full of suicides on account during the dull seasons of starvation.” —London Globe Thare is an | In the number of | So, too, | may it be said that there is no terri- | BIBLES REACH ~INTO MILLIONS, | the | | ',R«,nml'lmhle Output of ! Neriptures by the Famous| British and Foreign Society | | i e T To show its apprecfation of the part | being taken by Canada in the celebra- | tion of the centenary of the British | and Foreign Bible Society, three of its | ablest and most eloquent supporters | are in Canada delegates. | They are the Venerable Archdeacon Madden of Liverpool, the Rev. G. H. | Bondfield, the society's representive in | | China, and Sir Algernon Coote, pre- | mier baronet of Ireland and one of the f society’s vice presidents. Sunday evening Archdeacon Madden | spoke in the Church of the Epiphany, | | saying that tthe Bible Society during | the hundred years of its existence had | | distributed throughout the world 180,- | 000,000 Bibles, printed in 370 different languages. Last year it gave out 6,000,- | | 000 Bibles and .portions of Bibles. The enormous work of this scciety was apparent when it was known that a| | century ago only 4,000,000 copies of the book were in existence. Now there are 200,000,000 copies of it in the world. The Rev. G. H. Bondfield spoke at | the Metropolitan Church and at West- minster Presbyterian Church. Among the significant facts he presented was that notwithstanding the 370 languages in which the Bible is circulated, there are in India 102 languages into which no part of the scriptures has been translated. In the South Seas, out of 127 languages the Bible has been trans- lated into only 46 of them. Similar conditions were true of China, South America, where there are 300 Indian dfalects, and of other portions of the world.—Toronto Mail and Express. as special ———— “I tell you, T'll be boss of my own house when I'm a man!” said little Bennie. “That’s what your father thought when he was your age, Bennie,” replied the little boy’s mother.”"—Yonkers Statesman. The Present King of Siam. The King of Siam, whose Jjubilee is being celebrated with unprecedented magnificence in Bangkok, is only &5 vears of age, for he ascended the throne at 15. Mrs. Leonowen, an Eng- lish governess, whose pupil he for six years, described him as an scholar, handsome, affectionate and generous, with lofty ideals. Chula- longkorn has verified that character by progressive rule. He has given Siam an enlightened government, and was apt | yet zealously guarded native customs and institutions. Hence, while build- ing canals, railways, lighthouses and hospitals, he still serves as a priest in the Buddhist temple. He has or- ganized his army on the German model, but his bodyguard is still com- posed of Amazons—400 daughters of his nobles. He has also abolished the second King, who exercised one-third of the royal power, and has establish- ed instead a legisiative council of nobles. At these cabinet councils one of the sacred white elephants is al- ways present.—London Daily Chron- PLACE YOUR ORDERS EARLY T"-20th GENTURY|