The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 2, 1904, Page 8

— | { | Professor Finney. That record-con- : sisted of swimming 113 yards one inch | under water. The rhanagement of the baths don- sidered it presumptuous on the part of such a -youngster to aspire to any- thing approaching Finney's record, but seeing he was a stranger they agreed to allow him to test his abil- ities. He desired that the water should ‘be regulated at a temperature of 75 . Plunging in he did 112 yards | to the azement of the at- | tendant and oth who came from | other parts of the building to see him. He beat Finney's record for time at this distance. tice that while Smultzer had the water at a temperature of 75 degrees Finney’s_, record was made at 80 whieh is considered among — e — 3 as a advantage Democratic Rulers. atter. It is also point- : ed out that if the Denver lad had es- Specta respondence canl P the t from the deep instead ROME, May 15.—While thé King of lof the shallow end of the. bath he Italy was showi resident Loubet | would have beaten the world's rec- over - Rome -recently -the two heads {ord. -The fact that this feat has re- of milicns ssalle S8 polot do be exc]ctived 0o publicity - fls side is ex- tremely demotratic: but the-result was not_invariably 4ll that could have been desired. For ance, while driving #n"the Corgo, er-when the King and | plained by the circumstances that the effort was so informal and that the newspapers are by no means friendly |to American athletes. Young Smult- | zer is coming over again in the au- e OB RIRE TR IANCE AND KING NG TH S V. ICTOR EMMANUEL OF ITALY INSPECTION OF THE ROMAN HEIR 1T, | President stopped :to ‘see any of the sights of the Eternal City, the popula- tion came very o that on | occasions what the royal | party ws overheard, bul; vice. versa : The other ddy at the Roman Forum, wheré the King and President went to see the excavatioms; the royal party disturbed by an Italian and Frenchman arguing with such anima- tion- that they .evidently forgot in whose presenpe they were. .Broken “sen- was 1ences ‘wWere -ov thé King'-is,” “No, what non- sense! The Presjdent is: quite three ‘inches taller,” “No, no, watch and you will see that it is his tall hat which makes the differe i & -pigmy and but at this point some one coughed and the men were forcibly reminded . where . they were. The King, howevés, feeling for the em- barrgssment. ¢f those present, as the words.were loud and came in’a silence when .the excavations were proceed- “ing, waid with a smile to’ M. Loubet, “I think your countryman is right and -that you have & little the best-of it!™ M. Loubef smiile¢ and said, “It is sur- n importance is-attach- 10 inches in this world!” - When about to stait for Naples the President " asked Jeave of his “two littie friends,” the Fouthfui Italian Princesses, who had been suppressed by the Queen, who “ thought that Princéss Ydlanda had been. goméwhat forward." 'The . two little Princesses rushed into M. Lou- | .bet’s sittipg-room in high glee, Mafal- | ‘da Nolding out her ‘arms and her mouth | to be kissed and -Yolanda taking hold | of his hasd.' The President, after taik- | ing a minute, topk a package out of | his pocket and gave it tc the latter. | “$he thanked him prectily enough and | then ‘s3id, with a sigh, “I am syre- it is chiocolates, and” mamma will eat | . them: she will say they are bad for little girls!” M. Loubet: stifling his amusement, suggested thgt if that was the case- perhaps it would be just as well to taste them at once, whereupon | she tore gpen the paper to find, not chocolates, but tiny sweets made in all kinds of fantastic shapes. “Good!” she cried, ‘gmamma won't like these s0 they are sure to be good for babies The chocolates mentioped by the little Yolahda, howevep, gave the President an idea, and he ordered sent to the Queen an immense bdsket of them and in the center a box, alse of chocolates, written, “Good for babiés.” | you ce 5 Dn;:'er Youth's Feat. Speciai Correspondence of The Call. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, 5§ HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, May 20.—A Denver youth has performed a swim- ming feat in London that is described as sensational by those who witnessed it and came within a few inches. of beating all previous records.. The youth, whose name is F. H. Smuitzer, is 16 years of age. He has been en- Joying a holiday in England in com- pany with his father and on April 29 | he walked unpretentiously into the public path house in Endell street and esked the superintendent if he would be allowed facilities to attack a world's record made by the celebraied heard such.as, “I tell | “Why the King | permission to take | ~% | tumn to try for the under water swim- :ming record. Wine for a Gusher. A ‘correspondent from Chandler, O. sends the following to the Kansas v Journal: s Ethyl Houston, a local school- ma’'am, established a precedent when she christened the oil well which is being drilled near the town here. While there will doubtless be few young wo- men. with the' temerity which she ex- hibited in climbing the ladder and breaking a bottle of champagne across the “bar at the top of the derrick, no new oil company in the Territory start out, under auspicious stances unless this-is done. Miss Houston is a quiet, unassuming little woman and had no idea of chris- tening the well when she, followed by her classes, went to the well. Some one. suggested that the well be chris- tened before active operations were commenced and Miss Houston, spirit of banter, agreed to perform the wine. This was easily done and, true to her word, Miss Houston climbed the | 75-foot ladder and broke the bottle. | When the board of directors heard | Miss Houston was voted 2 free pass to the St. Louis exposition and to have her other expenses paid during her stay there, as well as coming from and going to the fair. i i { By Water 4cross Country. A detachment of the Jew Jersey na- val r:llitia is going to the St. Louis fair by inland ‘aters, embarking in a | cutten, and using only sails and oars. The routé wil! be from New York to Buffalo by way of the Erie canal, from Buffalo to Toledo by way of Lake Erie, | from Toledo to Cincinnati by way of the Miami-Erie canal, down the Ohio Rovéer from Cincinnati to Cairo, and | from Cairo to St. Louis on the Missis- sippl. The amateur marines will be given a camping place on the grounds, through the courtesy of the exposition management, with wharfage for their | boat. The return trip will be made by way of New Orleans, and from there by merchant vessel. Giant Locomotive. Builders of locomotive engines are { steadily exceeding past achievements and constructing titans of the ralils that excite the amazement of every behold- er. At Schenectady a colossus has been turned out for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad which surpasses anything and everything ‘seen before. This giant weights 320,000 pounds, has six pairs of driving wheels and a boiler thirty-eight feet,in length and seven feet in diam- eter. It is estimated that this locomo- tive will be 50 per cent more powerfuil than any other ever put together, Peas for Gold. The London Globe reprints the fol- lowing extract from its files of the | year 1828: “This morning, in Covent Garden. Market, green peas were ex- posed for sale, for which the price of 3 guineas per quart was asked!"” . Now at that price thé famous worthies, Gorging Jack and Guzzling Jimmy and Little Billee were rich when— ow when they got as far as the 3 #hev'd mothing left but one spiit pea. g It is also worthy of no- | in a] ceremony if some one would get the | of the act a meeting was called and | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL THURSDAY\ JUNE 2, 1904 THE SAN ERANCISCO CALL JOEI!D.SPRBGH.S.PM(«..........AMMI Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager vvevr......Third and Market Streets, S. F. ..JUNE 2, 1904 PROTECTING AMERICANS. | IDDEN among the war news from St. Petersburg | H is a little news item that is suggestive. It says that “Great Britain has collected indemnity. from Russia for the benefit of British sealers whose ships weré confiscated or interfered with by Russia while sealing in the Russian half of Bering Sea. Hardly any who read it connect it with the great international controversy the settlement of which furnished the cause of action which has enabled Great Britain to make this reclamation. Just now when our fleet has been ordered to Morocco tp protect ‘the captured Greek-American Perdicaris, the | whole subject invested with interest. When Mr. | Blaine was Secretary of State, in President Harrison’s administration, his attention was called to the seal herd | of Bering Sea. Its landintground was on the Pribilof Islands, where we had leased the privilege of taking seals. The lessees complained that their profits were abridged by pelagic sealing in the open water. Mr. Blaine conceived the idea that when we bought Alaska of Rugsia we also bought that part of Bering Sea inclosed by a line from the extremity of the Aleutian archipelago to the continent, and by the Aleutian Islands and the continental shore, and that all that water was under our exclusive jurisdiction, a mare clausum. Upon exchange of diplomatic notes with Russia that i Government joined in this claim, and Washington and | St. Petersburg agreed that we owned that part of Bering { Sea, and that Russia owned the rest, and that thus the whole water became a closed sea, subject only to the is "'| municipal law and jurisdiction of the two governments. | In pursuance of this claim, the United States for sev- | eral years seized or interfered with all sealing craft in | our half of the sea, and Russia did the same in her half. Both nations in pursuance of this policy seized, libeled and sold, or interfered with a large number of American and British sealing vessels. Great Britain demurred to this claim of a mare clausum, and claimed that beyond the three-mile limit Bering Sea was open water, the Same as the rest of the Pacific Ocean. After many dip- | lomatic exchanges Great Britain ands the United States agreed to arbitrate the matter by an international com- | mission to sit in Paris. The arbitrators heard the able presentation of the case and decided against the American and Russian claim of | a closed sea. This decision was against the cl that | Russia and the United States had municipal jurisdiction | beyond the three-miile limit, and made all spoliations of ! sealers on the open water unlawful, to be compensated | by indemnity. Thereupon a judicial arbitration was ar- ranged between the United States and Great Britain to ermine the indemnity we owed to the British sealers. he claims amounted to a million and a half of dollars, | and were arbitrated and paid to Great Britain by the | United States Then the United States demanded of her partner in the alleged mare ,clausum, Russia, indemnity for the American sealers who had been despoiled in the Russian half of Bering Sea. This claim was arbitrated at the Hague by Dr. Asser, who gave large indemnity to the | Americans, which was promptly paid by Russia. Now the British claim of like nature against Russia has been paid, and as an international issue the incident is closed. | Just here appears the matter of final interest. The | United States seized a large number of vessels belonging | to American scalers. The Paris arbitration decided that | such seizure was unlawiul. The Americans despoiled by their Government numbered three or four times more than the British and Americans despoiled by Rus- and the British despoiled by the United States. | | ‘ \ ‘ ‘ \ : | i [ | | de own sia Their losses were so great that the most of them were ruined outright and have since been in poverty. The majority of them are San Franciscars. But up to this time they have not been paid one penny for the unlawful seizure of their property by their own Government. It has enforced their rights against Russia, and it ‘has paid the British fealers seized under the same circumstances, and Russia has paid for seizing the British ships, but these Americans, whose ‘rights t._eir Government en- forces against another nation, have asked it in vain for the same justice from itself that it compels others to i render. | The case is very interesting and may well become the subject of study for those who desire to learn the con- stitution and functions of our Government. When is protects our citizens abroad only one brangh, the executive, | acts, and acts efficiently always. But when our Govern- | ment owes such indemnity to its own citizens injured by its own unlawful act, the executive becomes powerless. . The President can secure justice for American citizens abroad, but not at home. Herethey must appeal to the | other two co-ordinate branches, the Iegis’nxive and the | judicial, where too often, as in this case, their cry for ! justice falls upon deaf cars. : | In the relief of the American-for-convenience, Perdi- caris, we may spend twice as much as would compensate | these genuine Americans for their losses, and they, to the extent of their tax-paying power, will have to con- | are powerless to get the justice that is due from their | own Government. i The long continued deadlock in the State convention of Illinois Republicans is a reasonably safe indication to our Democratic friends that a nomination on the Re- publican State ticket is practically synonymous with an election. And this is a Presidential year with Illinois as a critical battlefield of the ballots. | F Union” The Call has re:eived a note in comment t apon our notice of the assaults and violence inci- | dent to the dispute between stable owners and their | former employes. Hef says: “These cowardly and brutal assaults are the more ag- gravated when it is considered that they are committed by organized bands, partly hired thugs, authorized and | organized by the union in secret session and with full | knowledge and consent of the Labor Council. It is to be VIOLENCE AND THE LAW. ROM “a disgusted member of the Stablemen’s country lower themselves to such beastly doings, and that they are encouraged by the city officials of our community. It is a shame and a disgrace to San Fran- cisco.” This, if truc, puts the matter in a very serious light, and we publish it to the end that steps may be taken to determine the facts. As we predicted last week, the lack of protection to property owners and their employes has compelled them to resort to self-protection. These as- saults andattacks are serious enough if they originate only in a spirit of riot and revenge cherished by individ- uals. ¥ they are deliberately and secretly procured hv ! tribute to the relief of the Greek in Morocco, but they | regretted that men and’ citizens of a free and civilized ! any organization, they take on a far more serious and threatening aspect. It must be admitted that the charge that they are so planned, procured and incited gets support from the fact that the criminals who commit them, though caught red-handed, are furnished bail and defense by the organ- ization concerned. It is this appearance of an organiza- tion widely affiliated. and politically powerful that par- alyzes the arm of justice in too many cases, when punish- ment should be prompt, heavy and exemplary. No right-minded citizen can condone such crimes, or | consider them other than interference with lawful rights of person and property, that should be promptly pun- ished to deter others from like transgression. At no period in its history could this city afford the backset that comes with a reputation for indifferent or partial | enforcement of the law, and it can afford it now less than ever. The worthy gentlemen who are employed by the municipality to teach the young idea how to shoot have | met in serious and reflective discussion and have decided : that in our night schools, where working boys and girls are taught while fighting the battle for existence, all | ornamental courses of instruction shall be eliminated. | A very excellent decision, but will some one suggest what will be left of the course of study? Wthc Russians from their heavily fortified posi- | tions on Nanshan Hill at Kinchou, and with the | subsequent movement on the part of the first Japanese | army under Kuroki to shut off possible reinforcements for Port Arthur from Kuropatkin's base at Harbin, it appears that the investment of “the Gibraltar of the | IF PORT ARTHUR FALLS. ITH the recent terrific battle and the eviction of | | to get fresh water, knowin’ there was | anything else there. East” is soon to be a matter of actuality. The Japanese | army is already within striking distance of the fortifica- | tions, siege guns and additional troops are supplementing | their forces daily, they have an open and direct commu- | nication both with Kuroki's army on the Yalu and with home ports through;the medium of their fieet on the sea. It is conceded even' by critics inimical to the interests of | Japan that Port Arthur will probably fall within three | months. | Already the question is forming in the minds of thc“ diptomats and the war ministers of the powers: What will be the effect of the fall of Port Arthur upon Russia, upon the future operations of that power in the field? Recent press dispatches from St. Petersburg declare that | the impression prevails there, even among the highest ! in the Czar's government, that the fall of Port Arthur | means the ending of the war. French military experts | add the weight of their testimony to this conclusion. | If Port Arthur falls Japan controls the key to the whole of Manchuria; it will not be to her purpose to enter upon | | a.wild chase after the retreating Russians along the northern line of the railroad. | The Czar's government will probably never admit to itself that the capture of Port Arthur means the end of the war; even if much territory is lost thereby, St. Peters- | burg eannot let Russian prestige slip away in defeat without a desperate effort to recoup. Furthermore, there are at stake all previous treaties with China where- by Russia has enriched herself enormously and builded high promise for the future. Already it is being bruited about that Japan is contemplating restoring Manchuria to its rightful owner if she wins it by force of her supe- rior arms. This means that railroad rights, mining rights, | timber rights, ail that has been wrung from China by the long continucd application of the screws of a devious | diplomacy, must go. The query remains: What can Russia do if Port Ar- | tiwr falls? Already Korea is cleared of the Muscovite. Count Ito was there, at last reports, seeing to it that | Japan's “friendly influence” was paramount in the realm. The first army of Japan is successfully clearing the lower Yalu country of Russian forces; the second army will be supreme in the Liaotung Peninsula if it encompasses the fall of Port Arthur. With that accomplished the Japan- | ese need feel no necessity of following the Russians | up into the north country and pushing the offense. It | will remain for the Russians themselves to assume the | offensive and bring their desperate rally to bear upon the ! brown men when and where the latter please. This is an | outlook gray enough for that greatly feared Adam Zad | of half a year-ago, the terrible unknown of the northland. | It is becoming apparent to the shrewd observers'and | caretakers of state at Washington that for political and trade purposes Germany wants a slice of Morocco. Our | German friends must permit us to suggest that Morocco by her generally annoying conduct has given us the | right to choose and take the first slice of her unlovely | land. We might be induced, however, to sell our | potential interest at a figure that Germany must con- sider reasonable. ————— A physician, employed by the city under the direction of the Board of Health, has made vigorous defense against the accusation that he neglected a patitnt even to the point of death. Eliminating the merits of this particular controversy the inquiry still remains promi- nent in the public mind whether or not our much hoasted, modern hospital system is being refined into a very dangerous scheme of too much science and no care for the sick. ; An intrepid but impolitic ex-member of the Reichstag has made public suggestion that it will be of distinct advantage to the people of Germany for Emperor William to remain home long enough to become ac- quainted with his subjects. There is evidently one man in the Kaiser's dominion who believes that residence in jail under sentence is preferable to that freedom of movement which is dignified under the name of liberty. —_— Honolulu is engaged in the very worthy task of house- cleaning, and with plans and purposes well defined is driving out the evil and worthless characters that infest the town. Most of the criminal loafers are coming our way, and against this we must protest. We already have more than our share and although our breeding ground for rascals is notoriously large and fertile it is now more than generously cultivated. The silly season of local sports is again at its height. Two pluguglies, candidates for the coin of the public, -are preparing for a heavyweight “contest” in which the cnly thing at stake is the contents of the box-office. Gudgeons are fanning interest into enthusiasm, thousands of dollars will be paid for seats, and then will follow the customary realization that again the public has been i o i bad.” | A dead calm comes on. | our last chance.’ We gets one of those {to stern and beam accordin’. | sea. | landed us at the ship's side. i got out of it was a cussin’ for lo: Harlem call “Flipper Mike,” is the { champion bootblack of the world. He won the title a short time sin¢e in o Another Frue Story. “Did you ever hear of the Galapa- gos Islands, -down in the South Pa- cific?” queried a weather beaten old “peach comber” as he squinted from under a pair of bushy eyebrows at the half dozen loungers gathered on the sunny side of the dock. Not waiting for reply, the veteran continued: “Me and a shipmate was stranded there once and If it hadn't 'a’ been for one of them monster turtles that in- habits those rock piles I wouldn't 'a’ been here to-day to tell about it. It was this way. “We was in a little trading brig and had run short of water. The ‘old man’ got benfl&n on the Galapagos and he runs in there. Me and my mate was sent ashore in a small boat with casks plenty on the islands. Fact is, om’- side of turtles and rocks there isn't “We made fast the boat after.hit- ting the beach and unioaded -our casks. But before we got back to the beach from the fresh water pools it comes on to blow a gale. The small boat went adrift and before our eyes we see the brig under heads’l and a 1 11 OVERBOARD WE FLOPS THE BIG CRITTER AND HEADS ‘HIM TO SEA. double reefed tops't’ plowing out tod sea. | “Says I to my mate, ‘This looks So we camps under the lea of | some bowlders and waits. Next morn- | as to what to do with him. | menting upon — rush was made to rig up a ring. Then the shadow of Ireland loomed again in the doorway.and there Wwas nothing doing. Flipper Mike fled with his medal, while Billy hurled chal- lenges after him all the way to Fifty- eighth street. Tony and the $12 left early.—New York Sun. Kuropatkin to Nicholas. PORT ARTHUR, .- May 24.—Please find inclosed a rumor to the effect that we made a strong sortie and killed 75.- 000 Japanese. This fumor will not be confirmed. I just made it up myself. But I thought it best to send you some cheering news even if I had to manu- facture it. Now don’t say all my re- ports are discouraging. Last night I got busy and brought fn eleven train- loads of provisions, and would have had the twelfth one ip, only I woke up. If you know any new games, Nick, please send them to us. I wish there were some way of sending a plog-pong set by wireless. But the name. of the game sounds so much like the Chinese towns about here that the Japs would be sure to seize the game and occupy it if any other method of tramsporta- tion were resorted to. Yesterday I was out looking over my horse. I am considerably puzzled I bad my veterinary show me just where to cut into him (the horse, not the veterinary) to find the - porterhouse steak. My quandary is as to whether I bad better eat him before he gets so poor from | eating rice straw and the labels from soup cans that he isn’t fit to eat, or to hold him and take chances on getting away some time. I would rather chew him than some other brands of plug I know. That's the best joke I've sprung since the Japanese shut me up. And another thing, Nick: XNext time youy | start a war start it with some nation we can whip. This under-dog stunt is worse than that of heavy villain in a cheap play. It makes me sick. Trusting you are the same, I am yours erampedly, K 3 —Baltimore American. A Cat With No Delicacy. N. Y., Observer - feline intelligence ob- The Utica, com- ing the gale had blowed itself out. We waits for a sign of the brig, but | nary a sign. Another day and out on | the horizon she looms up, but instead | of heading In shore she squares aw: Says I, “That's turtles, which is eight feet from stem | board we flops the critter and with good hold on its back the pair of us, marooned ones heads the big fellow to | In an hour's-time that turtle had All we 5 the small boat. The ‘old man’ had forgotten he sent us ashore, and when that gale came up he was off. “Well, I'm here, ain't I?" he wound up his tale, as some of the hearers’ faces beamed incredulously. The Champion. Michele Scaglione, whom the boys of strenuous competition with Billy, the champion; Michele Luperto, who wields a skillful brush In Harlem; Bridge Street Tony, Luigi Riccitelli, the artist of Madison Square, and Pasquale di Napoli, who says he is a Count fallen upon evil days. For his reward Flipper Mike got a gold medal and a variety of curses in three dialects. Incidentally, there was $12 at stake. Tony Bastone, president of the Shoe Polishers’ Union, got that. For the furtherance of art<the union | ordered the contest. It was held at Billy’s place, Ninth avenue and Ffty- first street. The preliminaries were in- teresting. Tony Bastone made an ad- dress which sounded like Rienzi's to the Romans. He alluded to the art of Michaelangelo, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Lippo Lippi, Raphael and Ben- venuto Ceilini. Bootblacking was 'forgotten while Flipper Mike and Pete Savine of Tenth ‘avenue settled a little difference which came out of a heated argument as to the superiority of Michaelangelo over Raphael. A cop appeared in the door- ‘ way and growled. It yez dagoes don’t ring off I'll run in the boonch.” The critics of brush and paste shut up until the barbarian had moved on his way, but would have been a hot cop if he could have heard the “brutta bestias,” the “canaglias,” the stupidos” and the *‘accidentes” that were fired after him. H Then the artists got down to busi- | ness. Billy, the champion, had a try. Then the Count, then Luigi, then Har- lem Mike. & Flipper Mike came last, and there showed his headwork. All the polish- ing had been done on one pair of shoes, and when it came the Flipper's turn his rivals had put a layer of polish on the shoes that made it a cinch for him. ‘When he received the medal there was a pretty row. Pedple came running for blocks along Nintfhavenue. Billy, the deposed champion, who once shook hands with Joe Grim, wanted to figh it out in the back room. The crowd bailed thé challenge with glee, and a - serves that the theater cat is always obtruding its presence on the stage when it is least wanted, but the feline | which keeps Chasg’s Theater in that | eity free of rats has a particularly er- roneous idea of the eternal fitness of Over- | things. It was wlien the stack company was playing “Othello” that the. cat rendered itself conspicuous., and there- fore greatly disliked by its friends, the actors, Desdemona was dead, and all’ the other characters-«were dead that could conveniently die and were stretched on the stage In various post mortem atti- tudes, when the theater cat suddenly made her way daintily upon the stage. She paused at the first prostrate body she came to, and apparently said to herself, “Ha, how is_this?” Then she looked at the body hard and went up and sniffed delicately at its face to see if she could render any assistance. The body opened one eye and emit- ted something very like a giggle; so the cat went on. No first aid to the wound- ed was needed there, at any rate. The next body was also suspiciously warm and smiling. > It did seem to this theatrical cat as if grown humans ought to be able to find something better to do than to lie rigidly on a draughty floor while-a man held the center of the stage and .talked. The cat moved on to another body, and was just about to mibble the ear of ‘this one in a spirit of sportiveness—for it was breathing, too—when some one said soiething in a hoarse . whisper, and the curtain went down amid a chorus of laughs. S Answers to Queries. THE GOLDEN A3E—S, City. The steamer Golden. Age, dne of the: old time steamers that ran between .Sam Francisco and Panama, wad wrecked April 29, 1T~ at a point 27 miles above Panama. % 3 A POEM—A Subscriber, City. This correspondent wants to know where a copy' of a poem entitled “What Christ- mas Brought to Jim" can be obtained. The first ling is, “He came to the sta- ble at sunset.” VALUE OF FOOD—Subscriber, City. “The Nutritive' Value of Food,” by Professor Atwater, was published by the Government and was issued from the Government printing ‘ofMice at ‘Washington, D. C., about eight years ELECTRIC ROAD—E. W. L. City. The United Railroads has not decided to change the California street road