The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 22, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1904 — 4 Y as the men and is regarded by her To this end mainstay of her nav subdivide: te 70 per cent of fish itself and by I forces into it the you linces fronting on her board. On the Grand h bounties equal value of the conscription Adantic sea- ks also gather shing fleets of ova Scotia and New- all the thousands squent these ocean Bar foundiand, {of trawlmen who f: ledges the lot o e French is unques- tionably the m miserable. The business at best is arduous and ven- turesome, but the crews of other na- i ies have this in their favor that agents, the arbiters of free either to join ashore, whereas the aves of the ognscrip- powerless to obtain even or- v comforts for th Ives, not to of more substar ights. Pierre, sole harbor of the Miquelen group, France maintains as ng base for the fishing fleet. except a few owned In S St the The ships, S HER E ERGIES TO POLITICS, | OF STUMPING FOR HER HUSBAND. EVEN TO THE E: wife Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton, who 1is g herself to be one of the most i and capable women of London’s mart set. Mrs. Lyttelton has, too, the distinction of being married to a clever man, her husband having been appoint- | ed to succeed Chamberlain, not through influence, but because he was regarded & the man best fitted for the billet in the ranks of the Comservative party. As her portrait shows, nature has en- dowed Mrs. Lyttelton liberally with good looks as well as brains. Society is ing with much interest the pro- h will be filled by Mrs. Patrick np It is entitied “Warp and * and has for its theme the fail- ty in its relations with the sses. As regards soclety, at voorking c! least, Mrs. seek second-hand information, for she has long been regarded as ome of its most brilliant members and as a con- versationalist is one of the few women whom the King delights to listen. And can make speeches as well as she can talk. Her talents in that direc- however, she did not discover un- r his appointment to a Cabinet ition, her husband, as required by lish law, had to stand again for *tion to Parliament. In the midst of the election fight at Leamington, much to ihe consternation of his friends, he taken ill. It was then Mrs. Lyt- telton pluckily jumped into the breach and stumped the constituency. Her ad- dresses 1o workingmen proved especiai- Iy effective, and so excellent a substi- tute did she make for her husband that it was conceded that he gained more votes than he lost by his absence. Like | her husband, Mrs. Lyttelton is an ar- dent imperialist, and as president of the Ladies’ Empire Club in fashionable Grosvenor street has done much to make that a center of feminine political activity, which counts for much in Eng- land despite the fact that women have no votes. Mr. Lyttelton is only 47 years old, and it is predicted that he will go far in politics. If the prophecy is veri- fied undoubtedly he will owe much of his success to his brilliant and charm- ing wife. Perils of the Grand Banks. The Basque and Breton fishermen sre being ferried across the ocean to begin their annual trawling campaign against the codfish on the Grand Panks and to endure six months of misery and wretchedness. - France's little colony of St. Plerre-Miquelon, to the south of this island, is the seat of her Grand Banks fishery industry, which occuples 400 vessels and 10,000 in London mext week of the| e has written, the leading role | ¥rance ,are kept there all the winter. the crews being brought out for them every spring and taken back at the end of the season. The fishermen are made auxiliaries for the warships. At 16 they are li- { able for service, putting in two years { as beach boys at St. Pierre, to handle | the fish in the drying processes, and | then three years with the trawling ! fleet on the banks. From this they are drafted to the navy, if physically fit; if rejected they continue at the | fishery. Every about the middle of March, marine conscripts as- |semble at St. Malo and after being | enrolled and inspected are herded like |so much livestock aboard the trans- ports, which convey them out to St | Pierre to be dispersed among the fish- |ing vessels in which they work for | the summer. | | During this perjod their lot is hard. | { They observe no Sabbath and enjoy {no relaxation. From daylight till; dark and oftentimes for hours after they toil without ceasing, subject to the caprice or brutality of drunken or heavy-handed skippers, and living | amid the most squalid surroundings. | | They sleep in foul smelling, ill light- | |ed quarters, without sanitation or/ cleanliness, sheaves of straw their | beds and salt bags their coverlets. | Their fare is the coarsest, their rai- | { ment the scantiest, their recompense | the smallest. . Human life is cheap on these French | bankers. The death roll of the fleet | runs into hundred annually, and it is {asserted by the American, Canadian |and Newfoundland bankers that the French skippers, in many instances, { will not trouble to search for drift- away dorymen, manifesting absolute | indifference to their fate. Certain it is that the most unsea- worthy craft is used In the fishery by them, for when vessels are condemned | by other nationalities they can be sold | at St. Pierre and are outfitted for the banks from that port. The conse- quence is that when the region is be- set by storms the losses to the French | through these crazy craft and their rotten gear is great. | Thus, when the hurricane which de- | vastated Galveston in the autumn of | year, these 1900 swept up the Atlantic board and spent its last rage on the Grand Banks the Gloucester fleet escaped with the loss of one vessel—the Cora 8. McKay—and 23 men; the Nova | Scotian fleet with three vessels and ' 41 men, and the Newfoundland fleet with two vessels and 22 men, while the French fleet lost 24 vessels and 289 men—blotted out of existence in one night.—New York Sun ’ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL OHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . . . . . + o+« + Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Tublication Office _Third and Market Streets, S. P law. tion :DNESDAY . EW YORK has protested against Judge Parker. ovated on lis appearance and it must be said that from It is plain to every political observer that Judge Par- forcing the David B. Hill is playing the game them to join ballots in electing him to be the actual he has taken up the fight of speculative Wall street and reet for them because of the subsidence of specula- Mr. Bryan gave the country one surprise in his the world wonders what he would do if he let himself 1 ‘nwvu policy of the Republican party, though Mr. THE TROUBLED DEMOCRACY. N I'he protest was made by a delegated meeting in Cooper Union and Mr. Bryan did it. He was his standpoint he made a strong presentation, but the facts he made use of are of common knowledge. ker is the candidate of the disgruntled trusts which seek to avenge themselves upon President Roosevelt for en- which The Call predicted. He winks one eye at the Socialists and the other at the capitalists and expects President with Parker as an automaton. Mr. Hearst sees this game and is trying to play it himself. Recently has announced editorially the sad plight of the specula- tive brokers who complain that no pickings are left in But for all that Mr. Bryan evidently inclines toward Hearst as an alternative to Judge Parker. speech. He said that while he felt deeply he always restrained himself in the expression of his feelings. All ut if his past course has been the result of restraint! e platform adopted by the meeting denounces the ex- n is responsible for the ratification of the treaty of h is the foundation of the policy complained Paris w of The amazing and confusing divisions of the party ap- pear in the indorsement by one wing of Judge Gray of Delaware, who helped make the Paris treaty as commis- sioger and voted for it as Senator, and the favor in which Olr is held in New England, though his remark- able letter advising that the United States go forward as a world power was the strongest expansion document that has been printed. No doubt the national platform will condemn expansion, though Mr. Hearst will be in the n ber of instructed delegates and his 188 s Nail the-flag to the Philippines” is yet among the noise made by the Spanish war. In all of our political history there is not another case of such hypocr or folly as this attempt to impeach the Re- publican party for a policy that had its radix in a Demo- cratic demand. Mr. Bryan gof down to cases when he charged Judge second ! Parker’s backers with buying delegations and cited the purchase of the Cincinnati convention in proof. This direct charge of corruption is the most serious thing in his speech. The country does not want a candidate for whom State delegations have been bought. Mr. Bryan holds a conspicuous position. He has been twice the candidate of his party for the Presidency and has been its unquestioned leader since 1896. The candidate of a great party for the Presidency is invested with a certain dignity and responsibilty although he has been defeated. The country will be loth to believe that Mr. Bryan is a deliberate liar and prefers to think that he tells the truth when he charges the managers of Judge Parker with trying to secure his nomination by corruption and bribery. This charge, then, must stand until it is disproved. It leaves the leading candidate in a very bad position and puts him outside the sympathy and support of citizens who will not permit degradation in the scramble for the first office of the republic. On the other hand are the charges of the same kigd of corruption against Mr. Hearst, who is at this time the second choice of the party if the number of instructed delegates measure the party’s preference. This charge is not made on as high zuthority as Mr. Bryan, but it is in the air in every State in which Hearst’s managers have made a showing. In California as good authority as General Green advised every delegate to the State convention who voted to in- struct for Hearst to get a price equal to the value of his reputation. In Milwaukee a man has brought a personal suit against Hearst for a sum of money promised him for his influence, and if it be tried soon there wiil be added an interesting chapter to the history of Demo- cratic demoralization. These incidents measure the fall of a great party. The decline of the party began in 1896 and has been progres- sive until its two leading candidates for the Presidency stand accused of trying to buy the nomination. Under such circumstances the platform declarations of policy and denunciations of the Republican party will have an empty sound. The record raises an issue of morals that is of more importance than contentions over finance and tariff. The party stands self-accused of corrupting it- self. How' idle then is the claim that a party which moves on a nomination with a hand full of bribes can purify public administration! No American rejoices that this record is made, but every self-respecting American will be moved to vindi- cate the purity and decency of politics by smiting into deserved obscurity a party that accuses itself of these sins against the body politic. The Board of Health has sounded a warning against the flying dust raised by careless and thoughtless street sweepers on the public thoroughfares, and a threat of ar- rest is made with sufficient emphasis to indicate that it is sincere. The warning is timely and should be heeded. Violations of the very necessary injunction should be promptly and severely punished. The dust of a great city contains germs of deadly and easily contracted dis- ease, and no precaution may reasonably be considered unnecessary. THE BUSINESS MAN. HE ministers composing the Presbyterian Union in T this city have discussed the business man and reached very uncomplimentary conclusions about him. He does not go to church because business and religion are incompatible. He finds it necessary to do things that he ought to leave undone and to leave un- done those things that he ought to do. When reminded of his shortcomings in the sermon he feels uncomforta- ble and therefore he stays out of earshot and the ser- mons do not reach him. One minister said: “I would like to think of him as honest, true and upright, not trying to do up his fellow men.” This is a quite serious matter. The charges are made in order to account for the lack of business men in the Sunday congregations. But does it account for it? It is the money of business men that builds the churches and pays the salaries of the preachers. The same money works meércy in the construction and equipment of hos- pitals and orphan asylums and homes for old people. Hundreds of millions of the money of business men go | into these mercies and charities. Let us believe that it goes there not to purchase insurance from eternal tor- ments in another life, but is devoted to such uses from a | genuine and Christian care for those who need. Do the clergy find no need of introspection, of self- examination? There is a growing belief that the congre- gations would be larger if the preaching were better. No man is so concerned about his soul that he will de- vote his Sunday to listening to an uninteresting, badly delivered and prosy sermon. We are of the opinion that if a Beecher, or Collier, or Elias Hicks, or Chapin, or Talmadge had a pulpit in San Francisco he would not complain of a small Sunday congregation. While preachers qf the established church in London read the service to but a few hearers Spurgeon filled his taber- nacle at every service, and he was noted for not sparing the feelings or glossing over the sins of business men or anybody else. In ancient Jewry the prophets had audiences and their great voices sound sonorously over centuries of time. They were not preaching doctrines but conduct, and it is evident that in their day business men had as many faults as they have now. But the messages that reached them from the preacher were invested with a power that was irresistible. The clergy are no doubt faithful and devoted. If men are running away from their ministra- tions, per automobile or regalar train, it is their business not to complain of it but to bring them back Superior Judge Dunne “has expressed the emphatic opinion that he wants to try no more cases in which the testimony of Chinese is involved, the evidence of coolies having been demonstrated to be of the most un- reliable character. It is unfortunate that the great imi- tative faculty of the Chinese and their acquaintance with courts have made them such adepts in imitation of Occi- dental methods. COMING OF THE SHIPPING COMMITTEE. N EWS comes from the East that the Congressional Shipping Committee, appointed at the last session the upbuilding of the American merchant marine, is to to make investigations and report upon plans for conclude its labors by a visit to our own city. in San Francisco about July 15 this committee of legisla- tors from both housés of Congress purposes to devote | a week to the study of existing phases of commerce as exemplified by the present status of ocean trade with Hawaii, the Philippines and the Far East that is made manifest by the shipping records of our harbor. The coming of the Shipping Committee means much to San Francisco; it means much to the advocates of an enlarged merchant marine throughout the country. Since the impetus given Pacific Coast trade by the ac- | quisition of the Philippines and the opening up of China this is the first direct recognition of our growing impor- tance as the gateway to the Orient given us by the na- tional legislative body. By their coming to this port for statistics and advice upon the conditions of the Pacific merchant marine the Congressional committee acknowl- edges that its deliberations would be incomplete without a thorough investigation into conditions extant in this the chief base for a coming era of commercial activity. This is San Francisco's opportunity to make a direct bid for the prosperity of the future. All should be in readiness for expediting the labors of | the committee’s members. We have commercial bodies whose statistics are direct evidence of the growing ac- tivity of the Pacific trade. the Chamber of Commerce have it incumbent upon all of them to bring before the eyes of the Congressional vis- itors the present condition and future prospects of the tide of commerce that sweeps through the Golden Gate out to the West. Certainly no proof of the needs of San Francisco for a merchant marine flying the stars and stripes is lacking; we have only to display them con- vincingly. 5 Of course the Shipping Committee does not come forearmed with instructions to determine the practica- bility or otherwise of the ship subsidy bill. That measure is still pending in Congress under all manner of obstructions and the creation of the present committee is in the nature of a compromise to the strife now being | waged anent the subject. But the Congressional Com- mittee will arrive in San Francisco after the Republican National Convention has incorporated in its platform a strong expression in favor of the re-creation of our mer- chant marine. The Foraker bill providing for such by the adoption of the ship subsidy policy must gain great strength from the fiat of the Republican party platform. We of San Francisco must urge it upon our visiting Con- gressmen that not until the Government shall have adopted the measures which are now making Germany a close rival of England on the seas can we hope for an American merchant marine that can compete with its rivals on even terms. General Porter, the United States Embassador to France, has been offered the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, a courtesy without parallel in the history of the great French society. Sodistinguished an evidence of the good will of France to us and to our representa- tive should be accepted in the generous spirit in which it is made, and Congress can offer no violence to our tra- ditions or our principles in authorizing General Porter to accept the grateful distinction. The importance and dignity of the hen in the domestic economy of Alameda County was demonstrated with fearsome illustration the other day when an Oakland Judge sentenced a chicken thief to twelve years’ im- prisonment in Folsom penitentiary. The light-fingered gentry operating among the homes of California’s states- men and scholars better return to the hot stove as a vehicle for ill-gotten gain and leave the hens to the tranquillity of their roosts. With nothing present of prospective worth fighting for the Democrats of the State have raised a merry row for the possession of their “organization,” and antagon- isms, which years of conciliation will not soothe, have been created. If our Democratic friends will quarrel like this f‘or nothing the imagination shrinks from the con- templation of what they would do if they had even a remote chance for the loaves and fishes of pol.iti:al war- fare. ————————— The Board of Regents of the University of California have decided that the next secretary of the institution must receive a salary commensurate with the import- ance of his position. While it is absurd to believe that any one may be bought to be honest, it is of the essence of reason to conclude that a man is strengthened in the path of duty by an environment which is worthy of his efforts and won by them. A Salt Sea Yarn. Never yet was sailor man who could not outdo Munchausen and here is a reeking tale of the sea that proves | the assertion. Said the old beach- | comber: “We were off the coast of Labrador | in the brig Jane the winter of '68 when ! "twas cold enough to freeze the smoke from the” galley pipe. 'Long about seven bells in the morning watch I | was pacing the narrow runway abreast ! the foc's'le when all of a sudden there | was a terrible crash and the brig seem- ed to drop out from under me. “For a few minutes the smashing of | ! timbers and the rain of top hamper that fell aroynd me made me think it | TALK OF THE TOWN was all off with me. Then I found myself tossed Itke a chip and thrown into the air like a bullet from a gun. | | “When I came to my senses I looked about. It was just daybreak. I could make out a great white mass all strewn [ with Wreckage. I saw a piece of the galley nestling into a crevice in the fceberg, for that was what I was on. | | Well, to shorten sail a bit on this yarn, -+ 1 it | | la | New York. | stories high. | curbing to the cornice is 336 feet, et} Lambert. It is also called the hydro- plane and represents an eptirely new innovation in marine transportation By a series of planes, against which the water imp es as the machine proceeds, the boat is gradually iifted out of the water until only the serew is submerged. It has thus very lttie resistance to overcome, a5d skiss along the surface at a very bigh speed It is raised on precisely the sgme prin- ciple as a kite rises when dragged against the wind by s siring. the method being that which has been adopted in many attempted Sying ma- chines., Owing to the small resistance. 14-horse power produces a speed which, In an ordinary motor boat, would require an engine M-horse power. of Like Another Babel. The tallest inhabited building In the world is the Park Row building in It covers about 15,000 ground and is thirty The distance from the square feet of Arriving | | to the top of the towers 390 feet, to the top of the flagstaft 447; the depth | of the foundations below curbing is 75 | feet, making a total distance from the | foundations to the top of the flagstaff | 1552 feet. Some 9000 tons of steel was “usnd in the frame, the weight of the | structure is about 20,000 tons and with | the live load it is estimated to be about ; firm that a plumb line fails to show the | irm that a plumbine fails to show the | slightest tremor, even during the high- Our Board of Trade, the | Harbor Commissioners, the Merchants’ Exchange and | | | let me tell you that the brig had been ; stove on a monster pinnacle of ice. | Ana I was the only one left alive of | the crew of ten men, forrard and aft. | l“’hat does I do? I just gets myself to- gether enough stuff for a cabin, and I | built a comfortable hut on the iceberg. I found plenty of provisions and the | galley stove was in good order. For | four months through the winter I lved | in solitude on the berg. Warm weather | came along and with the drifting south in the warm Gulf Stream the berg slowly melted. One day I felt the big ice cake trembling. Then I got me | one’of the ship's boats, stocked it with grub and water, and off I started. A week later I was picked up. The berg disappeared with all that was left of the Jane.” Time to Quit. Patriotism is a noble emotion which lends itself easily to the ridiculous. A Boston woman has carried the fad | for ancestry societies to its legitimate conclusion by heading a movement to consolidate the grandchildren of the war veterans of 1861-5. Her society should have at least the merit of vol- uminous enrollment. It has already led to suggestions for aunts of the he- roes of San Juan Hill, brothers-in- law of conscripts of the sixties and first cousins once removed of Filipino exterminators. Anything which is ! snobbery masquerading as historic in-| terest of patriotism deserves bur-| lesque. Patriotism, according to Dr. Johnson, is the last refuge of a scoun- drel. Socially it is rather the last ref- uge of a fool. Perhaps we can get beyond the wars and organize all the relatives of Carnegie hefoes. A heroic race needs no hero fund. A race of patriots needs no patriotic gossip par- | | ties. ‘Historical societies should bel composed of historians. Snobbishness, | pedantry and their kindred vices con- | sist in putting an over-emphasis on! some one possession or distinction, | and the smaller the trait celebrated | the pettier the vice. Pedantry, which is, the vanity of knowledge, is there- fore a step or two above snobbishness, which is the vanity of class. The sin- | gular fertility shown by the gene-| | alogy societies in devices for making l themselves ridiculous is to be explain- ! |ed by the absurdity of the motives on which they are founded. Lavinia | I, queen of the Holland Dames, and ' her theatrical career were a natu.rali | outcome of the pseudo-patriotic move- ment. In organizations flimsily found- ed, flimsy people get to the top. The Boston woman and her new burlesque will be well employed if they hasten | the end of queems, daughters and. | dames. Our librarians are kept busy furnishing books to es who wish | to dig up remote ance: for social | glamor.—Collier's Weekly. The Gliding Boat. mukmnummid!ng beat is the recent invention of Comte de | $318,000. est gales. The number of offices in the build- ing is 950, windows 2180, doors 1770, electric lights 7500, tenants 3500. By actual count the ten elevator cars travel sixteen miles an hour and carry in ten hours §140 passengers. It is said that one of the car starters knows each tenant and clerk and the floor and room in which each is located. The cost of the bullding was about $3,500.- 000 and the rentals each year are The expenses, including in- terest, are $281,235 and the surplus is $36,765. Progress of Printing. Recent statistics show that printing has recently made large gains in the numbers of those engaged in it, capi- tal invested and in value of product. As an Industry it is now estimated to rank as fifth. Not oanly has this In- crease been marked in books and peri- odicals, the making of which is prin- cipally confined to large cities, but the | industry is developing in all large man- ufacturing centers. This Is because circulars, catalogues, and other forms of advertising have become the mod- ern business medium. It is estimated that there are now In the United States thirty-five thousand establishments de- voted to engraving, printing and allled industries. Furthermore, printing has become of personal interest to manu- facturers and retallers whe have te make increased use of it in the cen- duct of business. Answers to Queries. from stationers for a very small sum. ENLISTING—A. O. S, City. In the matter of first enlistment in'the States army the act of 188 that “In time of peace no cept an Indian) who is not the United States or who a legal declaration of his to become a citizen of the United States, or who cannot speak, read & citizen of first enlistment in the army.” TREES— H. F., Rohnerville,Cal.If A and B own land adjolning and A plants on his land very close to the division line a pine tree hedge, he is permitted to let that grow as h'~» as the tree will grow. If overhanging branches stretch over B's land and be- come a nuisance, B is at liberty to cut off such branches up to the line of his property. FILIPINOS—M. H., Tiburon, Cal. Un- der the law as it now exists the natives of the Philippines are not citizens of the United States. The treaty of peace with Spain, signed in Paris December 10, 1898, provides that the status of the inhabitants of the Philippines shall be left to enactment by the Congress of | the United States. Congress has pro- vided that “all inhabitants of the Phil- ippine Islands continuing to reside therein who were Spanish subjects on the 11th day of April, 1899, and then resided in said islands, and their chil- dren born subsequent thereto, shall be deemed and held to be citizens of the Philippine Islands, and as such entitled to the protection of the United States, except such’ as shall have elected to preserve their allegiance to the crown of Spain, in accordance with the pgo- visions of the treaty of peace betw: the United States and Spain.” —— e ——— Good specs. eyeglasses, 15¢-50c. 79 4th st., front of Key's Ceol. 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