The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1904, Page 8

g i HEADQUAR 8 HENRIETTA GARDEN, LONDON, Jun terprising nobleman, Baron Alfred e ‘e\'oning, at one prominent West End | theater, not only were no seats paid |for but not even a programme was sold. | Yet in the very midst of this awful | slump there is one bright exception. | America sent over a song, a lilting, ‘ catchy song. It sent over also the way to sing it, the way to bring down the house and to make a rattling success | of whatever piece it happened to be | given in. | The scng is “Samniy” and it is re- | sponsible for the extraordinary state lof things that exists at the Adelphi | Theater, where it is sung in “The Earl |and the Girl.” All day long and half the night through theater ticket agencies all over town are being rung up while the in- quiry made: “What will T | pay for the ‘Sammy’ box at the Adel- phi to-night?” Fashlonable folk drive | up to the theater entrance, messenger I boys arrive and servants in livery— | the questicn is always the sam “What price the ‘Sammy” box for to- night?” * | It is only the highest bidder that | gets this particular box at the Adelphi, ) o PSS OL —je ' « T HAS BEEN ADDED | LORI IENT DEPARTMENT | | M PARK i o g o = -3 de Rothschild, for some time has pos- | which, by the way, is the @ress circle sessed his co place in Buck- '©One on the “prompt” side. And the | inghamshire fire department of his | 7®ason is that at the beginning of “The | T s sk sty Earl and the Girl's” run three officers | Ithy neighbors, but r plemented it by the motor fire engine and he has by long nd efficient tha 1s the most )-date priv department in the United Kingc To-a the engine—which cost $5000—and its capable crew are housed at Tring Park ready to extin- guish ng from a fire among Walter Rothschild's pet fleas to a seri- ous blaze in the great mansion so famous throughout England as the place where the “week end” was in- The men ing picture, wearing the uniform of tive London Metropolitan Fire Brigade, made the official test of the apparatus before shipped to Tring. vented in the accomps w3 The engine is bullt for hard service with the minimum of wear and tear. With running gear of the best known | to automobile construction, it can | carry eight men and a good supply of nose thirty hour on the road, and when the energy of the powerful es ar motor is turned upon the pumps 300 gallons of water per minute pour from the nozzies. It is no wonder that the Baron bought the best he could, for, besides the palace in which he lives, he has to protect the greatest private natura history collection in the world, which is the special hobby, of his only son, Walter. animal above or below the earth of which Walter Rothschild has no speci- men, the member of Parliament con- centrates most of his gpare time and a large share of his income on birds and—his fleas. Only last August he offered a reward of $5000.for a perfect specimen of the flea which makes life | interesting for the Arctic fox. So far as known, however, that particular flea is still at large. Nor is this the only part of the col- lection in which fire would mean ruin. Besides his numberless cabinets of dead specimens in quarters of Special construction, animals of every sort abound, many of them too wild to roam about the park, and an outbreak of fire in this “zo0” unless promptly controlled would soon unde the work of more than twenty-five years. Another Coon Song Hit. Special Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, 5 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, June 14.—If you read that all is well in the London theatrical world, don’t belieye it. The fact is that seldom on this side of the water has there been such a wholesale slump in play-going as the metrdpolis now is experiencing. Failure has fol- lowed feilure—one of the latest at this writing being “Cynthia,” in which Ethel Barrymore opened at Wynd- ham’'s. Wyndham himself, Beerbohm Tree and other managers almost as well known are resorting to short re- vivalg to help things on. And this in June, when the town is filling and the season is getting into full swing. I em told that on the first night of “Cynthia,” out of all the folk who oc- cupied the “pit” three only had paid for their seats and that, on another Although there is hardly an! of the fashionable “Guards” Regiment | | toolk the box on speculation for a period | jof six months at a rental of $15 a| | night and since have been charging | | practically what they like for its use {on such evenings as they are not oc- | cupying the place themselves. Forty, | forty-five and fifty dollars has been | paid by outsiders thus far for the | “Sammy” box, with the result that the | “three Guardsmen” are flush. And | for some time they have been utilizing | no small part of their gains in acquir- | ing attractive novelties, which—on the i nights whep they are in possession of the box—they throw or hand down to the singers on the stage. Bouquets of costly flowers are the least exfrava- | | gant of these tokens. Dainty, fluffy are among the more lasting | At Eastertide twenty-six eggs of satin containing beautiful | sents were passed over to the sing- prez ers, and once a small pet monkey was <ent clambering down from the box to the stage as a gift. Even this was sur- passed, however, one night when, let | down by ropes, came a huge dog ken- {nel made of Parma violets in which | sat a valuable bulldog. The “Sammy” box is as interesting | | to the audience as it is to the singers. | | Three days before Eton reopened re- | cently the box was taken by ten! | vouthful Ttonlans, who had succeed- | | ed in outbidding all other competitors. | | “Sammy,” it may be remembered, | | began its history in America, when | Blanche Ring sang it in a piece called the “Defender,” which had been built {up mround the yacht race, and on| the night when Sir Thomas Lipton went to see the piece addressed the sorg to the box in which he sat. Last November Miss Ring sang “Sammy” | | at the Palace Theater in London, and | when the Savoy Theater opened with | “The Love Birds'" she sang it again, | and on the second night of the piece | |two men were so enthralled with | | “Sammy” that they leaped from their | box to the stage. In “The Earl and the Girl” Louise Pounds sings “Sammy” surrounded by | a whole bevy of charming girls, Since the recent virulent outbrezks of “booing” from the gallery gods a first performance of a play in London | has become more a trying affair than ever. And when the actor-manager | has a brand-new author into the bar- gain he can be pardoned for dropping | a good many liness now and then through nervousness, The -production of “The Edge of the Storms” meant a good deal tp Forbes Robertson at the Duke of York's Theater this week, for luck has not always been with him of late; but it looks as if he could count on a fair amount of success for this venture. There was no “hoo” and there was much real enthusiasm for Margaret Young’s melodrama. The plot deals with the effort of a fiery Hungarian girl to avenge the death of her father at the hands of a young Englishman, whom she had rescued after her father had condemned him to execution. She traces the supposed murderer to India and then gets mar- ried to him without knowing that he is the man who killed her father. But at the moment of the dread discovery she learns that the deed had been com- mitted unawares, and love conquers [ ) | there had been an eight-hour day for ten | furnished 1SCO CALL, WEDNESDA THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proptictor . . . . ... ... Address All Communications to JOEN McNAUGHT, Manager DRI OB.1" 12 <o ainvrch nis SoeseRgnn i sihans o . weeiitiseissrse-n....Third and Market Streets, 8. F. WEDNESDAY .. vessss...JUNE 29, 1903 THE COLORADO CASE. HE Examiner devotes editorial space to the civil disturbances in Colorado. It is to be regretted that it leaves unanswered our question, “What was the duty of the State government in Colorado?” The Examiner sums the situation up by saying: "It is government by special interests, for special interests, carried to its logical conclusion, that is on exhibition.” The examination of the record will illuminate that declaration. In the mining regions there was local gov- ernment. In our complex system the local government is the first to touch the citizen. It is in first contact. The local government is charged with the protection of the rights of person and property, and the punishment of all who violate them. It must protect the peace of all. It must make every man secure in the right of private contract, the fundamental property right. It must make it safe for every man to earn his living in a lawful vo- cation. It must make the use of streets and highways safe for the use of every citizen, on his way to work It must enforce the law in these re- spects against all who violate it. These are the fundamental purposes of local govern- ment. Were they fulfilled in the disturbed districts in Colorado? Was every man safe in the performance of his private contract? Were the ‘rights of person and property respected? :Were the streets and highways safe for the use of all'on lawful errand; The answer by the record is no. ~«The Miners’ Federa- tion disrespected the rights of person and property. It made the streets and highways unsafe. It denied the right of private contract and enforced its denial by the 1t arrested and deported from the dis- and to his home. death penalty trict, under circumstances of exceptional inhumanity, over a hundred citizens, murdering several in the pro- cess, whose offense consisted in standing upon their right of private contract. It forbade any one to do any | form of business in the district except under its dictation and under the badge of submission to it. In enforcing this policy it killed half a hundred men. Mine owners and superintendents were assassinated. Mine workers were shot down, going from their homes to their work, or from their work to their homes. There was present all of the machinery of local gov- ernment. That government was charged with the duty of enforcing equality of right and equality of safety. But its officers were either members of the Miners’ Fed- eration or were elected by it and subservient to it. It simply recorded the decrees of that federation and gov- erned for it and for none other. The federation was a special interest. The local government, in the language of the aminer, was “government by a special inter- est and for a special interest carried to a logical conclu- sion,” by holding all rights that special interest alone and denying all rights to everybody else. Now it is pleaded in extenuation of this collapse of local government that the Legislature failed to pass an eight-hour law under the dictate of a referendum. The article Ray Stannard Baker, in McClure's, on the subject has misled the country as to the validity of that The record fact is that in that district years, and in most of the smelters for five years. If theLegislature had passed an eight-hour law neither the mine owners nor the Miners’ Federation would have been in the jeast affected by it, for they had it already, and had had it for years. Nor was any question of wages in issue. The only issue was the right of the Miners’ Federation to replace civil government, strike down the right of con- tract, and destroy the guarantees of the constitution, State a district divorced for of provocation. and maintain in an American and separated from its system of civil law, where right of civil liberty was permitted. On the record made by the federation and the State no other issue appears. The list of black crimes committed in the establish- ment of that form of government is of indelible record. 1f the State had remained supine, then the mining re- gion of Colorado would have been in fact permanently separated from the State government. It would have ceased to be governed by the laws of the State, or of the United States. It would have been a civic mon- strosity, a place with no law but the arbitrary will of the secret circle of the Miners’ Federation. Again, we ask the critics of Governor Peabody to say what he should have done under the circumstances. If they say that he should have done nothing, then they advocate the overthrow of civil liberty and stand in denial of the right of a State to prevent it. The course of Governor Peabody is not without precedent. When the Mormon community at Nauvoo became a law unto itself, exactly like the Miners’ Federation in Colo- rado, local government failed. The Governor of Illi- nois, using the militia, deported the whole Mormon com- munity, sent them out of the State and forbade their re- turn. It is not to the question that this deportation crying inhumanity. No one questioned the right of the Governor to use the only remedy in his hands to get rid of people who had sepa- rated themselves from the civil Statc and erected a theocracy in its place. By authority of the Board of Supervisors San Fran- no instances of cisco will be lighted all night every night of the next fiscal year. This is a boon, graciously granted by the municipality, for which we should be deeply thankiul. Those of us that of necessity have to travel the streets | to jail for a month. .of samples of aiter nightfall may be able occasionally to see in the fitful glare of a street lamp the strange figure of a police- man on patrol. > r torial lecture for calling it “the organ of the great financial combines.” The Journal says: “The ‘great financial combines’ is a phrase the mean- ing of which is not entirely clear. We assume, how- ever, that it is intended to mean the principal financial interests of Wall street; that is, those people who are engaged principally in the practice of finance, which consists essentially in selling securities to the public. Of course, when a sale is made of anything by one person to another, the assumption is that each is, satis- fied with his bargain and that each derives benefit thereirom. Many of the securities manufactured and sold by the great financial interests are good securities and sold to the public at a fair price, so that the public has received benefit from their purchase. It would be, however, the duty of the organ of the ‘great financial combines,” if there were such a thing, to do all in its power to indukce the public to buy any and all securities offered by these people, regardless of merit. Such a newspaper would be false to its trust in doing so. It is the duty of a.newspaper dealing with financial matters to consult first the interests of its readers in all such ABOUT ORGANS. HE Wall Street Journal reads The Call an edi- things, and such a newspaper could not be called an ‘organ of the combines."” This is rather enigmatical. A vast volume of securi- ties manufactured by the great financial combines were not valid securities. That is to say, they were not based upon productive assets capable of returning to the buy- ers the profit in dividends that was reasonably expected when they bought. The newspapers which speak “for the combines charge this lack of profit to the buyer upon President Roosevelt, because he enforced the law against the combines that manufactured securities. . Of course good securities suffered by impingement upon the bad. But that is no reason for the argument that the President did wrong in enforcing the law. It was because we saw in the Journal evidences of enmity to the President that could havg no other cause than his enforcement of the law that we call it an “organ.” Tt denies that it is an “organ,” and we leave | it to say just what sort of an instrument plays the tune in which it so often indulges. A A Police Judge of Portland seems to have discov- ered a punishment that fairly fits the crime, of that par- ticularly offensive brute, the wife-beater. When one of the degrading species appeared in court the other day the Judge ordered a police officer to choke him. This was well done, and then the beater of women was sent | The choking process should be | made a matter of ‘daily routine for the fellow while he | is a prisoner. AN ASTONISHING CONFESSION. ISPLLAYED under large headlines the Seattle D Times makes a confession of a most astonishing sort. The headlines are as follows, shorn of symmetrical spacing and variegated samples of type: "Boidrd abandons plan to clean dairies; Bacteri- clogical investigation falls through before it is started; Citizens in petitions complain of two unclean milk barns.” The Seattle City Board of Health proposed not long ago, possibly stimulated by the stir in this city relative | to the furnishing of poliuted milk to the people of San | Francisco, to make general bacteriological examinations The purpose was to determine whether the milk is in- fected from unsanitary barns in the county to the extent that would cause a spread of disease. On the face of this the proposition would seem to be meritorious. The lives of the children of Seattle are un- questionably precious and the general health of the milk- drinking community is not less so. It appears that the Kings County Medical Society receives $1 a month from the city under contract to furnish an analytical and bacteriological laboratory where all needed work is to be performed. But the society, so says the Times, “considers the work too large an undertaking and the local Board of Health, which gave the contract to the society, is not urging, therefore, that it shall be done.” Two numerously signed petitions have been presented by citizens of Seattle within a fortnight, requesting im- mediate action, but without result, except in a small way. One dairyman was ordered to open a clgsed sewer un- der a milk barn and to whitewash the interior of the barn, and another dairyman has been compelied to put his dairy in a sanitary condition. results from several public hearings to.date, so far as disclosed by the columns of the Times. According to the same authority the State of Wash- ington is also tied up and unable to afford relief by mak- | ing the necessary analyses because it has no laboratory. Charges are confined to specific instances by the Times which say: “The Board of Health and dairies will be allowed to continue in their own way while children and ! invalids drink milk known in one instance to come from an unsanitary dairy and in another charged with being unclean.” The confession of the impotency of Seattle to protect itself ‘against a manifest danger of grave size, that the Times makes, accompanies other interesting statements to the effect that it has been notorious that the governing the conduct of dairies has not been observed; that this has been generally and publicly discussed and not denied; and that Seattle made a mistake when it let the contract for making bacteriological investiga- tions to a body that fails to work when it is most needed. It is gratifving that the Board of Health in this city law is doing better work than its associated body in Seattle, | but- there should be no relaxation in its endeavors. Every person who dies in San Francisco by reason of bad milk, which might easily have been kept from him by the duly constituted authorities, and every person whose health is undermined by bad milk, constitutes an accusing witness against all who are responsible either through negligence or greed. The trustees of the Napa Asylum for the Insane have been brought to the bar of inquiry on the old and fami- liar charge that they have discriminated against the lowest bidders in the purchase of supplies for the in- stitution. The customary programme of a State scan- dal, with crimination and recrimination and an ultimate clouding of the whole issue, is now in order. We haven't had one of these diverting incidents of State public life for some time. . ———— The War Department of the United States has rather tardily demonstrated to a grinning nation that it actu- ally possesses a sense of the ludicrous. After a deal of unnecessary and absurd clatter it has decided that the love affairs of Lieutenant Colonel Pitcher ate no con- cern of the grizzled warriors of Washington or any- where else, and the threatened court-martial will never be. Cupid has no right of complaint in the court of Mars. A French scientist has startled the world by the an- nouncement that old age is due to a germ that finds un- welcome lodging in poor unfortunate man. We will probably soon receive the same information in reference to this death-dealing intruder that has been vouchsafed to us in regard to every other disease-breeding, life- taking microbe; it cannot be removed from the human body without destroying the patient. An Oakland jurist has reached the interesting con- clusion, framed in a decision from the bench, that a sane man may commit suicide.” We still have the privi- lege, however, of refusing to accept the decree either as a valuable acquisition to sociology or as a permanent modification of Christian ethics until we know whether cor not the learned judge has lived anywhere except in Oakland, job | all milk sold from dairy wagons in Seattle. | These are the only | Presence of Mind. While chatting with a few of his acquaintances a few nights since over the bravery of Hoseman August En- gelke, who risked his life to save the little child, Laurie Massa, on June 1L acting Chief of the Fire Department John Dougherty gave some amusing reminiscences ©of his experience with persons who become dazed when con- fronted with danger from fire. To give Chief Dougherty’s own words in reciting these occurrences: “I recol- lect a fire on Powell street,”” sald he, “one night about seven years ago when a lady, on finding her premises on fire, | seized a little mangy-looking poodle dog, wrapped it up in a lace shawl, | carefully put it under her arm, and was on her way downstairs with no other garment to cover her but a flimsy nightgown. After assuring ber that there was no immediate danger I coaxed her back to her room, and to my astonishment I found a baby boy, aged, 1 should say, two years, lying snugly asleep in a little crib. I drew her attention to her forgtfulness in leaving the baby behind and taking the HE HELD A BOX OF TOOTH POW- | DER, TOOTH BRUSH. AND BATHING SPONGE. TOWEL +* mistake | | C poodle. When she saw her she simply fell in a fainting fit. | “Another case I recollect happened in one of the big hotels where an alarm | of fire was given. On going through the rooms to locate the source of the fire I caught sight of a portly gentle- man just as he was rushing from his | room in his night dress and in his hands he held a box of tooth powder, | a tooth brush, a towel and a bathing | sponge. 1 also on this occasion as-| sured the frightened man that there | was no danger and advised him to re-| turn. He did so, but asked me to step into his room. I complied, and to my astonishment, lying on the bureau| 'within sight was a gold watch, diamond cuff and shirt studs and about $400 in | paper and coin. And yet that man | was leaving all that behind and hold- | ing on to a worthless lot of stuff. | “Nowy” continued the Chief, “it is !not so much courage as presenc of ! mind that does these wonderful acts/ of bravery that we read of in the papers. Presence of mind every time, courage will follow.” | Between the Worlds. ! | | Thous hast gone on so far I cannot find | thee— Above the golden stair to the great light— Old dreams. old hopes, all thou didst leave behind thee, Forgotten, as the day forgets the ! night. | Oh, must it be that when I follow | after— Vagrant among the millions of the stars— i | The scoraful worlds will mock with . careless laughter My lonely strife to reach heaven's sundering bars? | Dia time and space, stern foes, have power to sever The hearts that used, we thought, to 1 beat as one; | And thou and I say our good-by for- eyer, \'\‘hen‘ thou did'st take that path be- vond the sun? —Louise Chandler Moulton, in the July Scribner’s. Skulls. Ordinary folks may be pardoned if i they fail to appreciate the kind of archaeological Dacoity which sets store by the possession of the skulls of cel- iebta!ed individuals. Recently the oft told story of Cromwell's skull—how it came into the possession of its pres- ent owner, how carefully he preserves it, and the reasons why it should be | regarded as a genuine relic—has been | again ‘“discovered.” It is said that the |skull of Richelieu likewise lacks a | decent burial. Just as the remains of the great 'Protector were disin- terred and subjected to every kind of posthumous indignity at the restora- tion, so, during the reign of terror, the grave of the mighty Cardinal was desecrated and the head severed from the trunk, to be exposed to public scorn. In after years the French Gov- ernment tried on several occasions to | ascertain the whereabouts of Riche- lieu's skull, but without success and | it is supposed that to this day some ' TALK OF THE TOWN | could they appear in the print? | than thirteen pecullarities of | photographs,” among them | “spirit faces” | private museum contains it.—London | Globe. * * A Rod in Pickle. Four-fifths of the principals of the public schools of New York are said to be in favor of reviving corporal punishment for refractory pupils and for six ‘months past many of them have been urging their views on the Board of Education, a committee of which is now considering the subject. Corporal punishment ws abolished in the schools of New York about thirty years ago and when the boards ©f education of the different boroughs i L -+ were consolidated the prohibition was extended in a by-law. Meantime | schools other than public whipping of the pupils has passed entirely out of vogue. In families also it has fallen into disuse.—New York Sun. Christian Science Compared. Editor The Call: According to a re- port in your valued paper the Rev. Jefferson E. Scott gave an address be- fore the members of the Methodist Mir isters’ Association on the subject “Unveiled Hinduism,” and in reply to questions undertook to compare Chris- tian Science with the Vedant philoso- phy. While Dr. Scott may be familiar with Hinduism, it is certain that his knowledge of Christian Science is very limited, for what he calls the * larity between them' does not exist The teaching “that by mental ab- straction and Yogi practices there may be entire exemption from all human ills” has no place in Christian Science, and the explanation that a Yogi “is one who seeks to entirely obliterate all his faculties and senses by acts of pen- ance” indicates the great difference be- tween such practice and that of Chris- tian Science. Christian Sclence is the spiritual un- derstanding of Christianity as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus and has nothing in common with the licen- tious rites and practices which Dr. Scott attributes to Hinduism. Our Master said to his disciples, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” and it is only through knowing this truth concerning God and man's true relation to Him and obedi- ence to God's spiritual law that exemp- tion from human ills can be obtained. The practice of Yogism is as repugnant to Christian Scientists as it is to other Christians and has no connection what- ever with Christian Science. Sincereiy yours, FRANK W. GALE. San Francisco, Cal., June 28, 1904, Spirit Photographs. 9 Spiritualism we have always with us, but every now and then it crops up with peculiar intensity, generally as a result of some wonderful manifesta- tion which puzzies the multitude. Among these manifestations spirit photographs are especially powerful, for, as the unskilled in photography say, if the spirits were not there how on this subject an expert has written a most interesting article in “Pho- tography,” purely from a professional standpoint. He points out no fewer “spirit that the “spirit form” is in many cases “lit” from the opposite side to the sitter, and that the “spiritual” part of these photographs characterized by peculiar degradation of tone values well known to and ily recognized by photographers . as resulting from copying a photograph: and that many bear unmistakable evi- dence of the interpesition at some stage of the proc of a half-tone screen. The result of these and other considerations is summed up by the writer in the statement that the judi- cially skentical investigator can have no hesitation in his decision that some- where or other in the production of these photographs there has been de- liberate, intentional and very clumsy trickery. Answers to Queries. PARTNERSHIP—A. D. S, City. The rule in partnershin concerns is that a new partner coming into an existing firm is not liable in respect to the debts contracted by the firm previous to his entering it, unless he expressly as- sumes them. < is the NUEVO LEON—A. L. O. M. Nuevo Lecn is one of the interior Mexican States, having an area of 23,635 square miles, It is intersected by numerous branches of the Rio Grande, but there are no navigable streams within Its ~ confines. The State has extensive val- leys, which consist of forests, pasture lands and cultivated flelds. The soil is generally fertile, but needs irriga- tion. The chief products are sugar cane and maize, three crops of the ldt- ter being raised annually. But little wheat is raised. 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