The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1904, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL TUESDAY, MARCH & 1904. PRIVATE CARS | ARE PROFITABLE Startling Figures Are Pro- duced to Show Power of “Beef Trust” in Shipping HARRIMAN-: IS STUDYING | SFaRR RS Railroad Men Growers Seek Release From Fnthrallment of Monoply VAR TIIN Epecial Correspondence of The Call. MAHA, Nebr., Feb. 20.—The name J. W. Midgley of Chicago is one conjure with among the owners of private car lines. Midgley for some | me has been conducting what Is med a car mileage bureau, and it s en his business to inquire into these lines commonly termed the “beet | dgley is said to be in the oy of E. H. Harriman, J. J. Hill P. Morgan, and his duties are these gentlemen various ways expenses of conducting their an be reduced. g been known among rail- at the private car line is st “grafts” known to d r transferring the oads to the pockets A number of these existence, the income enormous. The owners nes get what is term- greate tnust and is se of the equip- This mileage amounts to three- ver mile on freezers, rs. A number of s ay as high as 1 s—that is, these h mile the car e lines of the s nd is paid by the comg over whose line the be: trav pay mile rate fact the , it is every triy be fact road to high as that It do could cut In the plan private equip- t it is a vers make rebates ers and at the rebates appear tood that un- front the pri- he near future, an argument should be in onill used v paid low- ENRICHING THE PACKERS. net income of one of the great g ! from his refrigerator e, or verage, about $25 per d This we e the he monthly income varies number of miles ut it ranges from high as $45, and the v »r the whole num- would be about th to pe the car about 1000, ew cost accord & th ial market cted for. He his equipmnt year variation in t ng the average cost it quite will high, the inves pply as e country. The owners of rai nterest in the mat- The above figures are easy, however, wher se of the earnings tinental fruit lines. Two and Armour, own prac- it refrigerators in thie All the fruit hauled from Cal- the East is loaded in these and the cars are operated under ntracts with the Western railroads. For the use of one of these cars ia iling a load of fruit from California Chicago the owner of the car re- m the railroad over which it cent per mile in most cases, t never less than three-quarters of a The rate is paid both ways by ads and amounts for the round California to Chicago to it $50 per car. In addition to this e er of the fruit pays what is compared to tho he railro m ADVERTISEMENTS. STOMAC B FTERS The only way to improve the gen- eral health is to first put the stomtach For this spe- highly in- n 2 normal condition. duty the Bitters is dorsed. Try a bottle and test it for your- self. It also cures Dyspepsia, Indi- gestion, Constipation, La Grippe, Colds or Malaria. cial and Fruit | ASK THAT LAW BE REPEALED to President and Congress NEW STATUTE OUTLINED | Recommendation Is Made | Favor of Homesteaders | mission appointed October 12, 1903, by | ards, Commissioner of Land Office; Gifford Pinchot, | forester of the Department of Agricul- of the reclamation service, | mends the repeal of the timber and stone act and the substitution of suit- able provisions for selling, after ap- praisal, the timber on public lands that for industrial purposes. repeal of the law permitting assign- to those provisions relating to obtain- | ply. |entry act, where such entries are lo- cated within forest reserves, or where he land is chiefiy valuable for timber. It suggests the outlines for a law per- | mitting homestead entries upon agri- | cultural land within forest reserves and {"the survey and description of such ag- ricultural lands by metes and bounds, rather than by the regular system, thus permitting the agricultural lands to be | selected along the valleys and to em- | brace the good tillable land without taking in extensive tracts of sidehill. The recommendation also is made that when lands are ored to entry after temporary segregation ample time should be allowed homesteaders to ex- e their rights, giving them the rence over persons who may wish to select the land by or other form of entry. it 3 own as the refrigeration charge ich amounts to $90 per car from Cal- nia to Chicago, and $115 per car if shipment goes east of Chicago. This th refrigeration charge is for icing and aring for shipment of fruit while on its long journey to the East. The fruit shippers have been trying for years to get these private car line owners to re- duce the refrigeration charge, but they have steadily refused to make any re- duction, saying the charge was as low as they could handle the business In icing transcontinental shipments for other packers, which shipments consist of f and other meats going from Chicago to the Pacific Coast, Armour and Swift charge competitors | in the packing business $15 per car for the service, which is than the fruit shipper pays for the same service. MONOPOLY IS INTRENCHED. But it is asked, “Why don’t the fruit shippers build a car line of their own?"” The reason is given that it would re- quire all the car shops which are equip- ped for building refrigerators two three years to number of cars in addition to ness from the coast If a fruit grower should make the mistake of placing an order for a num- ber of refrigerators he would be re- fused the use of the private line cars and after he succeeded in getting his equipment he icing facilities along the lines of rail- road, and through their great influ- ence with the Western roads the pack- ers would see to it that his cars were dela in transit and that no icing tions were established,” says gentleman “The Western railroads are not anx- ious to enter into a fight against the ve getting their regular rate of freight out of the shipments and if Swift and Armour pulied off their equipment the railroads would be without anything to haul the fruit in and consequently weuld be out their freight for a couple of years while.they were getting equip- | ment built to handle it.” Two years ago the Atchison gave it out that contracts with the private car lines would not be renewed by that road, but when the matter was laid before the Atchison officials in the proper manner by the representatives of the private lines the management soon retracted the statement and the contract was asain remewed by the Atchison with the contingent privilege of a renewal for two years longer when the contract ran out, provided the pri- | vate car lines wished such renewal. The income from these private car when it is stated that Armour owns That Act Be Amended in WASHINGTON, March 7.—The com- | | the President, consisting of'W. A. Rich- | the General | chief ture, and F. H. Newell, chief engineer to make suggestions regarding revision of the { laws relating to public lands, has made a partial report to the President, which | was sent to Congress to-day. It recom- is needed In large or small quantities The committee also recommends the ment of entries under the desert land law and urges the importance of a more careful administration of law, especially ing an adequate permanent water sup- It advocates the restricting of the | commutation clause of the homestead the use of scrip or turn out a sufficient their other business to handle the fruit busi- would still be short of the private line owners because they are lines may be estimated in a rough way | MAKES A PLEA FOR THE NAVY Public Lands Commission Senator Patterson Speaks | Presents a Partial Report | of America’s Sea Prowess Before Passage of Bill NEED FOR WAR VESSELS | | Appropriation Measure Pro- viding for the Army Being Read in the Upper House WASHINGTON, March 7.—The Sen- ate to-day passed the naval appropria- tion bill, which has been befcre it for the last four or five days, and then took | The principal ques- up the army bill. tion debated in connection with the naval bill related to the price and methed of supplying armor plate for battleships, and it grew out of an amendment suggested by Mr. *Patter- son providing for a Government armor | the | plant. He ultimately withdrew amendment, but offered several others, all of which were laid on the table. The reading of the army appropria- tion bill had not been concluded when the SBenate adjourned. In speaking of the continued growth of the navy, Patterson said the com- pletion of the naval programme would place the United States ahead of Ger- many and Russia in actual tonnage and ahead of France and next to Great Britain in effective fighting tonnage. “And my judgment,” he continued, ! “ig that American sentiment will not permit the United States at any time in the future to fall behind in naval power any nation that it has passed. American sentiment not only will jus- tify but it will require the United States to continue second to Great Brit- ain.” Patterson said that while he did not | believe in holding the Philippines he was of the opinion that the majority of the people was against him and that therefore the day was far dis- tant when the people of that archipel- ago would be given freedom. Teller said the United States should |have a navy adequate to the protec- tion of our national interests, but he failed to see the urgent need of the extensive additions, and expressed the opinion that no more ships should be ! ordered until we completed those process of construction. Bacon did not accept the view of Patterson as tc the retention of the in | Philippines, saying that he hoped the cc science of the American peopie would be aroused over the injustice of the present situation. Allison said that the appropriation for armor and armament in the pend- ing bill did net apply to the ships authorized by the bill, but was a gen- eral provision applying to vessels al- ready authorized. Patterson said he had no disposition to interfere with the provision for arm- or for the ships now building, and he withdrew his amendment and sub- stituted another in the language of the naval appropriation act of 1900, pro- viding that if armor could not be se- | cured at just and reasonable rates the Government should erect an armor fac- tory at a cost nct to exceed $4,000,000. On motion of Hale the amendment was laid on the table. Patterson then moved amendments limiting the price to be paid for armor to $400 per ton, prohibiting purchase of armor from trusts and fixing an eight- hour day for work on the armor pro- vided for. All of them were laid on the table. The bill was then passed and the army appropriation bill taken up. While the bill was being read for the committee amendments there was a discussion of the usefulness of the pro- visiopal regiment of infantry in Porto Rico. Messrs, Foraker and Quarles said that the committee had considered that | the Porto Ricans, being acclimated, had been especially fitted for service on the isthmus of Panama. Teller, who had started the discus- sion, replied that it would not be fair to use the Porto Ricans for a duty considered too hazardous for native Americans. At the request of Spooner the amendment was passed over for further consideration. Without completing the reading of the bill the Senate at 5:24 o'clock went into executive session and adjourned at 5:28 p. m. — e Pierc Successor Chosen. LOS ANGELES, March 7.—Dr. J. T. Millspaugh of the Winona State Normal School of Minnesota was to- | day chosen president of the Los An- geles State Normal School by the board of trustees to succeed Edward Pierce, resigned. ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE! WHAT FAINE'S CELERY COMPOUND. OUTLINES WORK | o cosventioy TIRED—WEAK— President W. H. Moore of the R U N . D Ow N National Good Roads Asso- ! ciation Arrives in This City | But.—Lifted Now to Health and Strength—With Thousands of Others She Sends, From Her Heart,, Her Earnest. Praise for LEGISLATION IS NEEDED PAINE’S CELERY COMPOUND State Meeting to Name Dele- The Celebrated Nerve Vitalizer and Tonic—Epoch-Making Discovery of Dart-~ mouth’s Great, Physician—Prof. Edward E. Pheips. gates for Session to Be Held in St. Louis in 1905 SRR St W. H. Moore, president of the Na- tional Good Roads Association, arrived | from Los Angeles yesterday and isf registered at the Palace Hotel. He has come to this city in connection with the proposed State convention, to be held either in Los Angeles or San Francisco between April 12 and 15, pre- [ liminary to the national and interna- StoP fluttering. | tional good roads convention to be held | “I Was a particularly hearty, active in St. Louis in May, 1905. | girl, but my health left me suddenly and “We hope to have the people of Cali- | I began to grow weaker. I used to think | fornia represented at the State con- | that if I grew so weak in such a short | vention by between 2500 and 3000 dele- | time it would only be a little time longer ! gates,” said hes last evening. ‘“The, before I would be on my bed, perhaps Governor will be asked to name one ' dying. | delegate from each county and a cer-| “I remember the day I took my first | tain number of delegdtes at large. The | dose of Paine's Celery Compound. While commercial bodies of each city will al80 _ visiting a friend's house I had a weak | be represented by from threegyto five gpel) The medicine did me so much | delegates, and the Mayors of the cities good that on my way home I bought a 1and towns and the various railroadvm(ue. The relief was great. companies will likewlse send repre-: ... j.cigea I would keep on taking lit- sentatives to the meeting. To-day I Vi ~ & | tle doses regularly until my system was was in conference with Mr. McCormick | built up, and I aid so for three or four of the Southern Pacific Company and ' ;;,ning” Occasionally I take a dose of Mr. Bissell of the Santa Fe road, both pjine's Celery Compound now when the of whom gave me assurance of their strain has been a little too much for me. hearty support of the undertaking and | “But I never feel the awful smother- promised the delegates the cheapest ing and heart fluttering that I used to possible rate. The main purpose of have, and it is only very seldom now this convention at this particular time that T really feel tired. I sleep and eat is to get the State in line, for she has well and my health is excellent.”—Miss been a bit backward in this matter, Beatrice = Darlington, 36 Washington and have her.people select delegates; Sauare. New York, Jan. 5, 1904. -peo; y To-day Miss Darlington is well and ‘;l‘:'e b‘gtcona‘:f,‘“"“ to be held in St i\, 0" Her exquisite, clear complexion uis next year. | is a delight to the eye. Her run down, f NATIONAL CONVENTION. tired feeling is gone forever. 4 She is buoyant with health and vital- | 1t was explained by President Moore | . = %] I'that thie ides 16 b Mive, at the uatioal | 1t7: For Paine's Celery Compound has convention, all the States and Terri- | glven to her the same vital strength and ¥ cheery health that it gives to every tired | | tories unite on various lines of legisla- | tion for the promotion of the good man and woman who relies upon it. roads projects in the future. In thirty-| two States, not including California, | good roads organizations already exist and the hope of the national body is cures the REAL CAUSE. Treating to soon have the other States in line.| § symptoms, pimples, eruptions, is Next year the Legislatures in thirty-! ¢ mere waste of time. The Cause of i S v d blood im- cight States will hold sesstons, and the ! nearly all disease an: plan is to have them all adopt the | § Purity and pain is in the INNER same measures relating to good roads. 'E‘PY:IS Bl e R President Moore continued: i S 3 Ly LL.D., of Dartmouth University — At the St. Louis convention there will be | ':‘ll“"u.( Discoverer of Paine's Celery (hree important measures specially considered. | ¢ Compound. One is for the appointment in every State of a hihway commission, simitar to the one in § this State, which wiil have the supervision of nstruction of roads and their mainte- | A second measure will be the adop- | | States of what iy commonly known | fate aid bill, under which the Stats | | joins with the county and the property owner | whose land lles contiguous to the lines of the vosed roads in paying the expenses of the truction work, Under this plan Massa- etts has bullt already more than 700 miles | | of roads and New York State has spent in the | Same way more than $2,000,000, while Penn-| syivania has approgriated $6,600,000 to be used for road construction in three Years. FAVORS CONVICT LABOR. The third measure to be discussed at the | convention provides for State legislation that will teke convicts out of contract labor and ! permit their services to be applied almost en- tirely to the improvement of highways. There are at present in the jails of our country, | cordinz to ouvr latest statistics, 54.000 con- | victs, of which between 42,000 and 45,000 are | able-bodied men. whose labor can be utilized | to a great advantage. Those interested in the | z00d roads movement believe that the labor | Of all convicts, together with that of the va- grant and per class, should be utilized by i serving terms of | imprisonment or receivine afd. The records | will show you that in the United States there | i being spent annually in promiscuous charity more than $100,000,000. Last year there were arrested 'n this country 987,000 persons charzed with criminal offenses and the cost of handling them was $75,000,000. The sdod roads neople figure that a large proportion »f this tremendous expense could he saved, or recovered, If every State would adopt and rigidly enforce the vagrancy law, such as is | now operative in several States. GOVERNMENT 1S ASSISTING. At the St | jocts will be caretully tikely ates will follow. FEvery Stat: and Territory will be represented at this convention, and we | hope for a larze representation from the for- | elgn countries, of which thirty-three have been invited to particivate. Belgium, Austria ‘uml Germany have already accepted and we | | | | | | | “Last spring I was very much run down, and s~ weak that the slightest ex- ertion exhausted me so that I would | have to sit down and wait until I could catch my breath and for my heart to “The only Real Cure is that which i TRICE DARLINGTON. +ssssesssssssssssns Miss BEA' sesesssscssscsssecas BE WELL THIS SPRING. e s008 00 00rs 0 et Ire Ie It teIeeetrtstEe tereees et eeteteteeesssssesesesresee | | § | | | Learn how much better you can feel—Go to your Druggist To-Day—G&et one bottle—Feel just ONCE that abundant new nerve force made by Paine’s Celery Compound—You will NEVER AGAIN ba contented with low spirits and poor health. ) the States in which they are Louis convention all these sub- considered and very important legislation in the _various EXCELS ALL OTHERS A CALIFORNIA TRIUMPH CURES DANDRUFF have received nssurance of representatives [ from . where, by the way, notwithstand- CURES ITCHING SCALP iing the fact we are annually sending large sums of money to that country for mis- | sionary purposes, they have 900 miles of the | finest roads in the world. Good roads mean * the future salvation of the whale country, and | California_needs many miles of them. ' The | Government is rendering ou association great | aid, not in a direct way, but in the way of | co-operation. In the fitfy-ninth session of | Congrees wé expect to have a bill introduced CURES SCALY ERUPTIONS STOPS FALLING HAIR GROWS VIGOROUS HAIR RESTORES HAIR PRESERVES THE HAIR MAKES SOFT, SILKY HAIR This Tonic is the greatest of all discoveries for the restoration and preservation of the hair. , Jt positively cures Dandruff, Itching Scalp, Scaly Eruptions, Hair Turning Gray, Dead Looking Condition and Hair Falling Out and never falls to promote a Vigorous Glossy Growth. It remained for a Californian to surpars; the best éfforts of the world in the production of hair preparations. Werner's Hair Tonic is the result of twenty years’ careful, scientific study, laboratory work and practical experience as a hair and scalp specialist by Prof. Charles Werner, under whose personal supervision every bottle of it is manufactured. In hundreds of seemingly hopeless cases this tonic has quickly produced a thick growth of hair, and one has yet to be found which has not been visibly benefited from the first application. At the California State Fair of 1903 its merits were officially recognized by expert judges and it was awarded first prize for best hair restorative. © " At Druggists’, 50c a bottle. providing for financial assistancs for the asso- ciation. s legislation in favor of free rural mail delivety has dene much to stimulate pub- | lic sentiment in reference to kood roads, for | one of the conditions demanded by the Gvern- | ment is that the dt. ts in which this service is instelled =hall contain at least twenty-five miles of road, adjacent to not less than 100 | families. and that the roads shall b of a nature to permit travel all the year round. An_appropriation for rural mail delivery now under consideration provides for $25,000,000 for a distriet a million miles square; in which are | estimated to be about 42,000,000 people. . President Moore will confer with representatives of the local commer- cial bodies this morning regarding the holding of the State convention in this | l city and he will return to Los Angeles to-morrow, and from there will an- nounce his choice between that and! this city as a meeting place for the convention. The railroad officials yes- | terday expressed the opinion that San Dear Strs: It gives me pleasure to certify that your treatment with Wer- g ner’s Hair Tonic and Werner's Sham- poo has stopped my hair from falling out and kas grown an abundance of new, luxuriant hair. The terrible itching of my scalp has disappeared entirely. MISS F. ERWIN, 820 K Street, Sacramento. @ For free Sample, send 10¢ to eover postage to Werner Manufscturing Co., Sacramento, Cal. ;cars of other fruits, at present about 18,000 cars and Swift | about 8000. The Cudahy Packing Com- pany in South Omaha has about 1000. It requires about thirty days for one of these cars to make the round trip from California to Chicago. This year | it is estimated there will be 30,000 cars | of oranges shipped from California to the East, all of which will go in Swift and Armour cars, with possibly a few exceptions. This is of oranges alone and does not include several thousand which probably will bring the total up to over 50,000 | | cars. Every orange or plum eaten in the East pays tribute to these two | packers. But it is said that this great “graft” of modern business is about to enter upon a decline. It has been called to the attention of Messrs. Harriman, Hill {and Morgan by their faithful lieuten- ant, Midgley, and it is believed they have decided they need the money and will devise ways and means to get it, or a portion of it at least. —— e Falls Into the Bay. Hans Heingran, a sailor on the schooner Charles R. Wilson, while making some repairs to the vessel yes- terday fell into the bay. He was taken out by shipmates and treated at the Emergency Hospital. He will re- cover. The... Scotchman WILL DO ON MARCH 12th Wait and read the SCOTCH PLAID TAILOR'S ) Grand Opening Ads In all the daily papers Thurs- | day and Friday, March 10th and 11th. % 1009 MARKET STREET OXE PRICE—ONE SINGLE PROFIT From Mill fo Man Direct, v Francisco is the more preferable, and President Moore said last evening that he was of the same opinion. — e RADIUM. This Remarkable Mineral on Exhibi- tion at the Regal Shoe Store. There is on exhibition at the Regal shoe store a small tube of the marvelous mineral Radium, which is doing so much to upset theorfes- of medicine, chemistry and physics. This little tube s only about an inch long and is placed in"a hanfisome jewel box. An announcement on a card says shat it is worth £8,000,000 a pound. This is at the rate of $20,000 a gramme. This is the second scientific discovery that e 1 Shoe Company has used to attract tention to their windows, the first being the Cooper Hewit: Light, which for several weeks ve forth at night from the windows of the Fegal stores its weird green brilllancy. ‘The specimen of Radium exhibited was im- ported for the Ro{d Shoe Company from the Paris laboratory of Madame Sklodowska Curle, the discoverer of Radium. g There are also exhibited with the Radium a radiograph of a lion which was taken by the light given off by a tube-of the substance, and two specimens of mineral, one Bohemiar itchbiende, which is the oné Wwhich idium comes; other, willimite, from New Jersey, which is illuminated in the dark ‘when under the influence of Rag Probably few mugeums of the ‘boast of m“fllum display as is made by the Regal Company and whi every its windows. The exhibited ‘for a week or two longer. SAN JOSE, March 7.—Among the passen- gers who will sall from York to-morrow delega to the 's as Sunday-school Congrast xt Jerusalem s the Rev. T. 3. Youk | nwured for-$85.000, ELMIRA FIRE CAUSED DAMAGE OF $200,000 . LA Two Theaters Are Destroyed and In- dications Point to the Work of an Incendiary. ELMIRA, N. Y., March 7.—The fire that was discovered in a cigar factory under the Lyceum Theater last night did damage of $200,000. At 12:30 o'clock the Lyceum Theater had been entirely gutted and the blaze had spread to the adjoining buildings. Flying sparks spread the flames to the Realty building, in which is located the Auditorium Theater, and this, too, proved a total loss. b The fire is said to have been started by an explosion of natural gas in the Lyceum Theater building, but accord- ing to another report a burning rag was found on the Auditorium stage, and this has given rise to the suspicion that both theaters were set on fire by an incendiary. In response to a re- quest from the local Fire Department country can [aid was sent trom the Elmira State Reformatory, Elmira Heights and ‘Raaium will be | Horseheads and at daybreak the fire was under control. D. C. Robinson, owner of the Lyceum Theater, is the heaviest loser, his damage being esti- mated at $70,000. The theater was Conductor Charles Schoemaker, Brake- man Frank Nevis and Charles Weyant were killed. —_———— Hon. Reginald Ward Dies. LONDON, March 7.—Captain the Hon. Reginald Ward, the well known amateur rider and brother of the Earl of Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ire- land, died to-day as the result of an operation for appendicitis. Fatal Collision in Missouri. JEFFERSON, Mo., March 7.—A lo- cal freight on the Missouri Pacific Railway collided to-day with a through freight on the same road, four miles east of Jefferson City. The local freight was but slightly damaged and the crew escaped. The caboose and several cars of the through freight were piled in a heap and caught fire. ORDER FOR THE GREAT TWENTIETH CENTURY COOK BOOK. Mall This Order to The San Franoisco Call With 7Se. ers to the daily and Sunday paper, and to prepay shipping charges. r (T e S PR S STREET ccicercccccmumencocossssssssan veosssansnssssnmnnnn / ssssee BevwrenesssvEssmEnen L s A At el A I, ML . S A