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T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1904 London’s Likely Widow. Epecial Correspondence ADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, HENRIETTA STRE COVENT GARD! LONDON, May 26.—Soclety here feels assured that it will not be'| 56 very long before the young and | beautiful trans-Atlantic Marchioness | of Donegal furnishes an interesting | sequel to the striking romance of her | late husband, who died the other day | n his eighty-second year, leaving her | direct line would be retained and many were the congratulations he.and the Marchioness received when a son was born to them. The history of the peer- age in recent years furnishes only one parallel case. The late Viscount Bol- ingbroke had no heir until he was 76 years of age. He married when he was 73 years old a daughter of Mr. Robert Howard, and the present Viscount, who is now 8 years of age, was born | three years later. In other respects his marriage to the | Canadian girl was a fortunate one for | the old Marquis. Besides other things that he lacked, she has a head for | { THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor .+ « « + « o+ o Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager JouN 3% ob inmern iy sanas wesiasy va vesesnesains sl e vpes THING and Misket Streets, 8. ¥- THURSDAY .......:ie CORPORATIONS AND THE PUBLIC. 1 HERE is much pessimistic talk about corporations in this country and their influence ‘in legislation. 1t is all used as water on the wheels of the advo- cates public ownership and operation of public utili- ties. It has been so often said that if the Government does not assume ownership of the property of corpora- tions the corporations will own the Government that shallow thinkers have come to assume it to be true. It is time to call for a bill of particulars. What great acts of legislation, Federal or State, have the corpora- tions secured that have been of permanent injury to the people? The beginning of the kind of legislation com- plained of was the Credit Mobilier act of Congress. In business and took the management of his property into her own hands. He | was on the point of selling the bulk of | it to his tenants, through the agency of the Irish Lgnd Court, but she fixed up the troubles over the rent with the result that the propérty has been re- | tained along with the ancient family | residence, Chichester Castle. It is un-| derstood that when the conventional | period of mourning expires the young | Marchioness will take a town house and enter soclety, in which, with her youth, vivacity, ambition and good | looks, she is likely to make something of a stir. the original Pacific Railroad bill the Government re- tained a first mortgage lien upon the bonds which it issued for the construction of the roads. The Credit Mo- bilier secured legislation to convert that first lien into a second mortgage, freeing the credit of the roads so that they borrowed private-capital secured by a lien senior to that of the Government. When the roads were finished and the country was | getting the benefit of them this matter became a politi- cal issue. It drove Oakes Ames, James Brook$ and Colfax out of public life. It entered into two Presiden- tial campaigns. It was threshed out on the stump and in the press. But in the end the United States got back cvery dollar of its loan with good interest. The second | mortgage bonds of the United States to the Central Pa- Parker's Hands. An Impressionable young magazine writer recently made a trip all the way | S OF DONBEGAL, "ESTATES AN OF B0 AND 18 NOW LEFT A WIDOW WITH HIGH A CANADIAN GIRL OF 24, WHO MAR- ! with an only sen 7 months old, who enjoys the distinction of being by a long way the youngest Marquis in Great Britain. Blessed as she is with youth and good looks, prophets of May- fair expect that the Marchioness will make a second match of great bril- fiancy eand say it will not again fake the form of a wedding between May end December. She was Miss Gertrude Violet Twin- ng of Halitax, Nova Scotia, and an orphan, when, in December, 1902, she marrfed the Marquis . of Donegal, whose family motto, it is interesting to note, is “Honor follows though un- sought.” She was 22 then and he was verging on $0. She was reputed to have a snug little fortune. He was ghort of cash and his Ifish estates were much involved, but he was rich in titlee. In addition to being the Marquis of Donegal, he was hereditary Lord High Admiral of Lough Neagh, Governor of Carickfergus Castie, Vis- count Chichester and Earl of Belfast, which made him a lord several times over. Bo, despite the disparity of fifty- eight years in their ages, it was re- garded as an eminently appropriate #nd equable match in aristocratic cir- cles. It was the Marquis’ third matrimo- nial venfure. His first wife—a Miss Oliver, 4aughter of Henry Hoilt Oliver of Western Priory, Somerset—he mar- ried in 1859, He was then merely Cap- tain Chichester, a fine figure of a man with a bendsome face, but slender prospects. An unexpected turn in for- tune’s wheel, however, placed him in possession of the ancient titles and what remained of the ancient property. At one time it embraced a large por- tion of the county of Donegal and al- most the entire site of the prosperous city of Belfast, but the early Chiches- ters were great spendthrifts and made sad inroads on their once large posses- sions. The first rriage of the Mar- gquis did pot tu t well. There were seme qQueer circumstances connected with it—what they were were never fully disclosed—but they sufficed to procure an annulment of the marriage four years after it had taken place, and the first Marchioness was set #drift. Old and feeble, friendiess and destitute, she turned up some thirty- five years later at a London workhouse and ate her Christmas dinner there. Ehe vanished again soon afterward and Is supposed to have found rest and ob- livion in & pauper’s grave somewhere. The Marquis married his second wife in 31865, She died in 1801, childless, leaving the Marquis’ only brother, Lord Henry FhzWarrine, heir to the time that the successfon in the -+ to Esopus, in the State of New York, for the purpose of writing at close range a character sketch of Judge Al- ton B. Parker, the overeager but silent candidate for the Presidential nom- ination on the Democratic ticket. The result of his observation was given in a recent number of a Wash- ington publication. In the course of his narrative the writer makes the re- markable statement that the hair on the back of Judge Parker’s hands has been “burnished a bright gold” by hav- ing £o long been kissed by the sun dur- { ing the Judge's extended rambles over his extensive farm. | Another interesting and important statement is made to the effect that while Judge ParXer's hair and mus- tache are red, whether burnished or not the author does not say, his eyes are black. ‘r The gamblers in Washington say' that such a combination as this is sure to win and Parker’s stock has gone up | accordingly in political betting cireles. Among other things the journalist no- ticed was that the Judge's trousers were much rumpled, a condition of things which he ascribed to the candi- | date’s agility and vigorous movements. | Vegetable Caterpillars. The so-called vegetable caterpillar of | New Zealand is attracung much atten- | tion at present, says Nature, of Lon- don. Fungoid parasites are common in all parts of the world, but not gener- ally conspicuous enough to be noticed by any but naturalists. Many of lhe‘ largest apnd most remarkable moths of | fthe Ausfralian region are known to be | !infested by various parasite fungi, which cenvert the whole substance of the caterpillar into a woody substance and then sprout from it to the height of several inches. The caterpillars (which are usually about four inches long when fully grown) live until they |are ready to asume the pupa state, | when they bury themselves in the ground, die, and the fungus sprouts upward, generally from the neck of the llar, sometimes acquiring a length of-pearly a foot, and sprouting |up from the ground above the cater- pillar. Very rarely two or even three road cific road amounted to $25000,000. To get the money for construction that issue was sold by the corporation | for $18000,000. But the Government was finally paid $67,000,000 for its issue of $25,000,000, and the corpora- | tion paid back $49,000,000 more than it got for the | bonds. 1 Did the people suffer any loss in that transaction? The corporation lost heavily. Had it borrowed $18,000,- oco of private capital at the high rate of interest which it paid the Government in 1863-4 it could have refunded | the debt at a much reduced rate. But it had to stand | the loss of $7,000,000 discount on the bonds and pay high interest on $25000,000. It was a losing investment for the corporation but a good one for the treasury of the United States. So it came about that in the first trans- La(nnn which politicians said proved that a corporation | owned the Government the Government made money | and the corporation lost. | Since then there has been no law of Congress that can be honestly said to have put the Government in the power of corporations or worked to the disadvantage of the people. On the other hand we have the interstate { commerce law, which is the broadest assertion of the command of transportation corporations by the Govern- ment; and the Sherman anti-trust law, which extends the same principle to all manufactures and commerce. The courts have responded clearly and closely to the spirit of such legislation, and we have the highest ju- dicial decisions in every case brought by direction of | President Roosevelt up to that which dissolves the rail- road merger, So, as far as the Federal Government is concerned, there is a total lack of evidence that the corporations The pessimists and advocates of public ownership are therefore driven badk upon State legis- lation for proof of their jeremiads. Where is it? Take our own Stdte, for example. The great ques- tion that for years kept our politics in a stew was the issue of taxation of the railroads. The Federal decision in the San Mateo case vitiated the assessment of rail- road property. Every clear-headed layman, to say nothing of lawyers, knew the assessment was legally void. The railroad did just as individuals#do when sub- | ject to illegal assessment. It fought payment in the courts and won. Then of its own motion it asked the Legislature to give the necessary authority for a retro- active assessment and openly introduced its own bill for | that purpose. Immediately this was denounced as a | railroad measure and a bill representing the anti-corpo- | | | control it | ration party was substituted for it and passed. When the assessment was made under it the discovery resulted that the road would have paid a much larger sum in taxes under its own bill than it did under the anti-rail- substitute. So that incident closed. But while it was a vital issue it was put in evidence to prove that the corporation owned the State. The fact is that our Legislatures have shown more vigor than wisdom in demonstrating their virtue and independence of corpo- rate control. No one questions that corporations have to resist mere cinch bills and use what in England was called a Parlia- mentary fund in doing it. Under the English system, however, has arisen a method superior to any so far reached here. The great financiers, railroad builders and owners and other representatives of corporations are members of Parliament. If they want legislation they must ask for it, frame it and give reasons for it. It will be seen that this secures the greatest publicity for such legislation and its purpose. Here our methods of party management practically outlaw the presidents of corporations from public life. The only instance which we recall in which one has been sent to Congress was the election of Governor Stanford to the Senate while he was president of the Southern Pacific. It is quite worth while to give some study to the sug- gestion that this decree of outlawry be rescinded, ang that men at the head of great interests be permitted to appear as legislators. It might take all the strain out of the relation of corporations to the public. If Gould, ! Harriman, Ripley or Rockefeller had to stand up in the of these fllaments may sprout from a single caterpillar. The New Zealander’s names for this plant-caterpillar are hotete and anuhe. The natives eat the plants, which, when fresn, have the flavor of a nut, and also use them, when burnt, as coloring matter for their tattooing, rubbing the- powder into the wounds, in which state it has & strong animal smell. House or Senate and give reasons for or against legis- lation they would be brought face to face with the people, instead of being suspected of staying in the back- ground and inspiring a covert advocacy or opposition in regard to proposed legislation. A SALT WATER SUPPLY. HE Grand Jury, which was discharged on Monday T after five months of continuous work in the inter- ests of the city, embodied in its final repo/rt some suggestions and counsel on matters pertaining to muni- cipal affairs thlt are delervin() of marked attention. Particularly instructive and suggestive of possible appli- cation are the projects, therein set forth, which have to do with the establishment of a salt water supply to be used as an auxiliary system in case of dangerous fires and for sewer flushing and street cleaning at all times. “The need of an auxiliary salt water system for the ,city is highly apparent,” reads the report of the Grand Jury, “and immediate provision should be made for the installation of this improvement. The storage system recommended by the Board of Fire Commissioners, with a reservoir at Twin Peaks, seems to be the most practical H l ..JUNE o, 1904 plan, as it would afford a high pressure to all parts of the city.” Continuing, the report declares that “the salt water could be used for domestic purposes and for other muni- cipal uses, such as flushing sewers, etc. It would render our city safe from such calamities as have befallen Chi- cago, Boston and Baltimore.” This confirmation of the eminently practical scheme of the Board of Fire Commissioners should give weight to the consideration of the project and lead the Supervi- sors to make investigations as to the practicability of its details. Although instances are few in the records of the Fire Department, of late years at least, where a lack of an adcqhate water supply stultified the efforts of the fire fighters, we cannot err too far on the side of safety in the matter of such emergencies. To be forefended against possible disaster-in this matter is to enjoy by just that degree freedom from constant uneasiness. San Francisco is a city of wood. Probably there is not another one of the large cities of the country so generally constructed of wood as our- own. Balti- more, whose main streets of steel-framed buildings were gutted by the great fire of February, wbuld have seemed not half so ready a victim for the flames as our own city, built on the hills and wind swept every day in the year. Now, after disaster has, visited Baltimore, plans are being | made there for the utiiization of salt water after the same manner as that recommended by the Board of Fire Com- missioners and seconded by the Grand Jury here. We of San Francisco, seemingly immune as we may be with our excellent fire department and its' very efficient equip- ment, cannot tell the day nor the hour when a Balti- more or a Rochester disaster will strike on the city by the Golden Gate. The establishment of an auxiliary salt water reserve supply would be a very valuable means of prevention. = O dairies have been conducted in San Mateo, San Francisco and Marin counties has awakened the men who su;)ply milk to this city to the necessity for the exercise of a greater degree of ‘cleanliness and more care in their work. No sane head of a family would buy impure milk, for by it the lives of himself and of those who are his natural care would be endangered. At the best, if milk that is open to suspicion is used, there is realization that health is imperiled unnecessarily and that a good article is not given in return for good money. Little childrcn suffer most, for milk is a great part of their food. When suspicion concerning the supply is entertained less milk is consumed and,conscqucmly less is purchased. in having the public believe that he is dealing fairly. The opposite opinion, generally held, is certain to in- terfere with dairy income. There is full appreciation of what popular disfavor means irom the purely .business point of view. The Marin County Tocsin makes some suggestions for the REFORMING THE DAIRIES. FFICIAL criticism of the manner in which benefi® of Marin County dairymen that are applicable | to the methods of all parties concerned as milk pro- ducers and milk handlers, The Tocsin combats every statement that matters are | not, on the whole, satisfactory among the dairies of | Marin, but comes to the conclusion that it is wiser, admitting that there are some cases for which no excuse is possible, to have abuses attended to at home. Foliow- ing this up, it is recommended that the Marin County Board of Supervisors adopt an ordinance regulating not only the conduct of dairies engaged in the production and shipping of milk for the market, but of all others. A certain standard of cleanliness, including a proper supply of pure water for the stock, ought to be main- tained by ordinance. To accomplish this a system of inspection by some competent person is necessary. The advantage of having it known, of all the counties from which milk %tomes into San Francisco as an article of diet, that proper precautions are enforced locally to restrict marketing to the product that is fit to be con- sumed. is evident. The Tocsin says it would be satisfactory to have it understood that those parties who have brought re- proach upon the dairy industry must reform or go out of business. The Board of Health of San Francisco must maintain its interest in what is going on relating to the food supply originating in surrounding counties. It is the duty of the members of this board to know all that can be learned concerning such supply. Vigil- ance ought never to be relaxed. The local authorities in the neighboring counties have also a duty to perform. The, sooner responsibility in the premises is understood and the best possible methods are applied by all duly qualified persons, the better it will be. T sole legend “The Union.” At the time of the ad- mission of Oregon as a State the bonds of the Union had ‘been weakened in partisan controversy and the paramount allegiance of millions of our countrymen was unsettled. Oregon, of her own act, set upon her seal her great purpose to abide by the Union. Her voice was uttered by her great Senator Baker and from her position taken in that time of testing and trial she has not swerved. Her election is the first one of the year, and she records her verdict for the side represented by Baker and Williams and stands steadfastly by the Re- publican party and President Roosevelt. The majority is significantly large. Oregon is typical of the great West. Within her borders are nearly all the industries that are peculiar to the country between the Pacific and the Missouri Valley. Her material inter- ests are common to all that territory, and the genius of her people is kin to that of the other twelve States in the Western group. ~ The political preference of her people is dictated by motives common to them all, and the re- sult of her election y be taken as an indication of public sentiment in tHem all. The drift of the country is Republican. Oregon votes first. Vermont and Maine come next, and evidence of that drift will be as plain in the result in the East as it is in the West. The people see no reason for a change now. No one pretends that one party must rule all the time, but the OREGON LEADS. HE great seal of the State of Oregon bears as its people know what the Republican party stands for. The ] Democratic party does not itself know what it stands for or what it will do to get power. Even Democrats who will support their party again when it gets out of the insane asylum and ceases to see spooks and hide from imaginary pursuers are this year for Roosevelt and the sane and vigorous Americanism for which he stands. The votes of such Democrats have gone to swell the Oregon majority and will be given td the same cause in every Northern State, : The dairyman has therefore an interest | TALK OF . Mark Twain’s Joke. Before Mark Twain made his name famous in his first production of “The Ingocents Abroad” he was attached to the staff of the old Alta California. It was while there that he perpetrated one of his jokes, which at that time had no more significance than that of an ordinary wag who enjoyed a little fun at another's expense. But since Mark has made his name known to the reading world the joke will bear re- peating. It was one of those hot summer 8ays that occasionally visit San Frantisco that Mr. Woodward, one of the propri- etors of the Alta, stepped into the ed- itorial room and there found Clemens drawing on the end of a brier root pipe. | Woodward mopped his brow and when he cooled down he began to deliver himself forcibly. “I'm disgusted,” said Woodward, “at what I jyst saw on the street as 1 passed by the carriage way leading into Wells, Fargo & Co.’s yard down at California and Montgomery. Sitting on a chicken coop, either drunk or knocked out by the heat of the sun, is | a police officgprfast asleep.” “Let us take a look at the animal,”™ said Clemens, getting up from his| desk and walking out. . On his way down to the corner he | THE TOWN small box to San Francisco?” he asked. “What?” “I have a box I want to send,” the visitor began agaln. There was @ snicker from the table in front, whera another patron was writing a mes- sage. The counter boy disappeared into the rear of the office, wearing a broad grin. He wanted instructions. The man with the box stood waiting for an answer to his question, He proposed to get the box to’ San an- cisco without delay and was game for any reasonable price. The boy returned with several rub- bernecks behind him, all anxious for a glimpse of the extraordinary customer. “We don’t handle boxes, only mes- sages,” was the disappointing reply, and the stranger left, convinced that the company was a most unenterpris- ing concern. Still Ugly. She is a Woman's College sophomore and was returning from a visit to New Haven and transferring by street car from the station in New Yark. She took the only available seat in the car and just opposite two young men. Sudden- ly there entered a ladylike, plainly gowned girl. “Why don’t you offer her your place?” said the first man, nudg- ing his companion. “She is too ugly,” responded the other in a low voice, but the wind carried his remark to the sophomore and she looked quickly to see if it had reached the other girl. Apparently it had not. That young person was clinging to a strap in total | unconsciousness that she was a sub- ject for unfavorable criticism. At the mext corner a festive maiden, | elaborately costumed, entered, and the first man bounded from his seat, which the new-comer graclousty accepted. | | This Jeft the second man at something | of a ‘disadvantage. He arose also and | | proffered his place to the girl who had | first entered the car. She surveyed” | him coldly. “Thank you, no,” she said in a clear | voice, “T am still just as ugly as I was a few minutes ago.” And the Baltimore | girl longed to embrace her and give the college yell at the top of her youth- | & e x | ful lungs. ! MARK TWAIN PROCEEDED TO | | FAN THE COP WITH THE CAB- | BAGE EAF. — | | stepped into the California Market and, | going up to a vegetable stall, he pluck- | ed a large leaf from a head of cabbage. { When he arrived at the place where | the big, fat policeman was fast asleep the humorist proceeded to fan him with the cabbage leaf. This amusing | scene soon attracted a crowd, which | inside of ten minutes had swelled into hundreds and California street was | blocked to traffic. To add to the excitement, some one had run to the old City Hall and in- { formed Captain Douglass that there { had been a robbery at \Vells, Fargo & Co.'s, as the place was surrounded by armed men. Douglass summoned every | available cop on‘his force, which at the time counted less than a dozen, and ‘brushlng the crowd to one side, he en- | tered the gateway and there found | Clemens whirling the cabbage leaf as | though nothing unusual had occurred | about him. To say that Captain Doug- | 1ass was mortified would be but a mild | expression. The drowsy cop lost his star and Clemens enjoyed the joke. Don’t Borrow Trouble. Don't borrow trouble Or if it does not, it comes of itself, all the better for you. The care of to-morrow let’s lay on the shelf, For Worry's an ugly and petulant shrew. g Don't borrow trouble; the debt must be paid. 3 And, ©h, but the payment is heartache ®and wreck. After all, when the cards have been shuflied and played, Four aces, you'll find, were allowed to your deck. Don't borrow trouble; the care of to-day Is easy to meet and easy to rout; It's only the trouble from over the way 'It's as easy to smile as to weep and re- ne, And the former, you'll find, is an in- finite gain. Don't borrow trouble. We worry and fret, Then find In the end that we've wor- ried for naught. ‘We build mighty hills in our pathway to s et, Then find the obstruction was child of our thought. You'll find on reflection that half of your care Is a son of :&rmorrow that merely has strayed. The load of to-day is sufficient to bear; So don"ll.tbgcrrow trouble—the debt m! pals ~—Alfred J. Waterhouse in Sunset Mag- azine for June. A Box by Cable. The latest freak customer for a sub- marine cable company has developed in Honolulu. A gentleman called at the office of the Commercial Pacific Cable Company there desirlmg to send “a small box” to San Francisco. The re- quest almost put the office force out of business for a few moments. The caller was a white man and appeared tp be all right. 'He was waited on by one of the counter boys. “What are the rates on cabling a | be much larger. Baltimore Sun. Soldiers’ Banker. Your Uncle Samuel is becoming quite a banker for the American sol- | diers. For the year ended June 30, 1903, there was deposited by soldiers | $1,888,014, and it is understood that | the amount for the fis I year which will end the last of this month will The enlisted men of the United States are allowed to leave | their money in the hands of paymas- | ters, taking a certificate for it, and the | Government pays the men interest at the rate of 4 per cent a year. | Many soldiers largely increase their | earnings by leaving their money on {.deposit as long as | is really a very good savings bank for | them. | rushed to the place designated. After| pessible, and it The year before the Spanish war the amount deposited was less than one-third of that deposited in 1903. The enlisted strength of the army has been increased since then, and is now about double what it was before the Spanish war, but the amount left on deposit is three times as great as it was when the army was smaller. Possibly service in the Orient and the establishment of large posts have been conducive to saving on the part of troops. At all events, officers of the War Department look upon the increase as being an indication of thriftiness upon the part of the Amer- ican soldiers. On several occasions at- tempts have been made in Congress to allow officers of the army the same privilege of leaving their money on deposit, but such a bill has been de- feated every time.—Washington Post. Answers to Queries. TOBACCO—A. G. V. City. The yleld of tobacco in the Unitea States, ac- cording to the latest figures furnished That lsaves us the victims of terror | yne Department of Agriculture, was It's as casy to say “To-morrow ‘twill | 821,823 pounds during the year shine,” 1902. As to moaningly mutter, “I'm sure it will rain'’: INHERITANCE—F. G., Alameda, Cal. In the case of a person dying without having made a will, kindred of the half blood in California inherit equally with those of the full bleod in the same degree, unless the inheri- tance came to the intestate by de- scent,, devise or gift of some of his ancestors, in which case all those who are not of the whole blood of such ancestors must be excluded from such inheritance. TO ADJOURN LONGRESS—Read- er, City. The power of the President to adjourn Congress is found in article iii, section 3 of the constitution, which reads as follows: “He (the President) shall from time to time give to Clon- gress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their conm- sideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, con- vene both houses or either of them, and, in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of ad- journment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper.” —_————— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —_—— Speetal information supplied g::t— and public men filnhm.