The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1904, Page 8

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY I 1904. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . « « . . -« « . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager S s s s Sik ta IEE— ] U s in Horses. Special Correspondence. PARIS 5.—Though Edward Blanc failed in econd attéempt to win the Derby, Frenchmen are con- fident that he w vet succeed in cap | the clear conscience of a man who had | always played a square game, he left | $50,000,000 to be divided between his | two sons, Edmond and Camille. ! The great fortune he had inherited | | from his shrewd money making fath- | er was accompanied by a still rarer endowment—the ability to take care of it. The harpies who had expected to find him an easy prey could make | nothing of him. As soon as Blanc be- | came of age he got together a racing | stable, displaying rare judgment in his | selections, and purchased the Celle | St. Cloud stud farm on the heights of Suresnes, near Paris. His require- ments soon outgrew this and he began buying property on all sides. The most notable accession to his domain was made by the purchase from the ex-Empress Eugenie of the immense | park at La Celle St. Cloud. It con- ! tained a chateau in which royalty had been content to sojourn and here M. Blanc made his home for some years. M. c believes that it pays to get e best. English bred mares are numerous on his stud farms and the | most noted of his sires hail from Al-| bion. When, in 1900, the Duke of — i i | | T i H OFFEPRING IX OF THE FR! , THE MILLIO e ribbon of the turf and | Westminster d and his racing as the French g . M. Blanc bought for | teur by his famous g Fox for 0. English wiped out the bitter For Blanc has thing w kes, especially o turf, and he has set his heart on add- ing the Derby to his long list of v tories. H cent success in winning with Ajax Grand Prix, for the seventh time, has convinced his ad- mirers that his star is still in the ascendant. So phenomenal is his good fortune considered that here the man in the street swears “by the luck of Blanc himself.” Last year Blanc's winnings on the French turf, in stakes alone, amounted to $240,000—a sum never before equaled by a continental owner of race horses, and how much more he made through bets no man but himself knows. This year prom- ises to be a still more fortunate one for him on the turf, for in stakes he has already pocketed over $200,000. No theory of luck, however, will ac- count for a tithe of Blanc's successes on the race track. It is enormous wealth, allied to brains and energy, that has placed him so far ahead of all of his turf compatriots. He sticks at no money when he has made up his mind to secure a crack steed and his judgment of horseflesh is marvelous. Even as a schoolboy a stable contained far greater attractions for him than a candy shop. sion earliest mount First Love. He has owned a legion of equine loves since then, for he possesses what is reputed to be the largest breeding establish- ment for thoroughbréd horses in the world, but every one of his steeds has had an equally warm place his af- fections. He personally supervises everything connected with the man- agement of his magnificent stud farm and training quarters. Summer morn- ings find him up at 4 o’clock and un- til late in the evenings he busies him- self with the details of his vast estab- lishment. It is a labor of love with him, but it is hard nevertheless. He plays the racing game to win and iterloo. of accompl adopts the same methods that com- | mand success in any commercial pur- suit. Though Frenchmen swear by him, he is far from being a typical Frenchman. Nothing disturbs his sangfroid. Winning or losing he never displays any emotion. His tempera- ment is Anglo-Saxon rather than Gallic. Blanc is popularly credited with an income of $2,000,000 a year and the probability is that it is over rather than under that figure. The story of the origin of his millions is a familiar one here, but it may be less generally known at home. M. Blanc's father, Francis Blanc, was the actual founder of Monte Carlo as it now exists. Blanc purchased the onaco concession, which up to that had been badly managed, for what was then thought to be an excessive price—$2350,000. In his hands it proved an inexhaustible bonanza. “Red loses and black loses,” bhe said.in that celebrated pun of his, “but Blanc (white) always wins!” And, thanks to the percentage in fa- vor of the bank, Blanc kept on win- ning to such an extent that when he died about twenty-five years ago, with It was a genuine pas- | that caused him to name his| considered that _had paid for the horse much more 1 he was really worth, but M. Blanc knew wh about, as much as his did when he bought the Monaco concession, and re- marked that he would have no diffi- jculty in regaining the money as soon | as the offspring of Flying Fox should | show their speed on the track. This |is the first ar that he has been able to race of them and already they | | have recouped him for what their sire jcost. Ajax’s winnings alone now {@mount to $125,000. Gouvernant, the lcolt that lost the Derby, has $24,000 {in stakes to his credit. Profane and |La Devote have acquitted themselves | :WelL Adam, Fier, Genial, Jardy, | | Val @'Or and Saint Michel have not | |vet run, but M. Blanc expects that| they will prove fylly as worthy of| | their great sire as Ajax. With such | |a string of fiiers In his stable the pop- | | ular opinion that at 48 the most bril- | |liant period of his turf career is vet | | before him seems fully justified. | | Great as have been his successes on | | the turf, his chief ambition is to dis- | | tinguish himself by permanently im- | | proving the breed of fast horses. He | |is the most trusted adviser of the | | French Government in the matter of | |horse breeding for cavalry mounts| |#nd has made some pecuniary sacri- | ces for patriotism. After refusing | 160,000 for Vinicius, which failed to | win the Derby in 1903, he sold the | horse to the French Government for | half that sum. Quo Vadis, the win- {ner of the Grand Prix that year, he |sold to Russia for $50,000, and for | | 1 | his services to Russian horse breeding | the Czar has made him a grand officer | of the Order of St. Stanislaus. MARCEL LOISY. | A Cuba s Prophecy. To the Editor of The Sun—Sir: Below | is a translation of a letter to El Mundo | of Havana. C. E. Noxon. Rochester, June 27. “Within three or four years the United | States will find itself involved in a dis- jastrous war with Mexico, Cuba, France, | Germany and some other power, Euro. i pean or American, the name of which I am at a loss to give at present. As a consequence of this war, the United | States will lose a great deal of its ter- iritory and power; in fact, nearly haif | of that which it possesses to-day. Mex- {ico will raise itself to the front rank of |uaflonn, recovering some of its terri- tory lost to the United States—such as California, Texas and New Mexico. And Porto Rico, Hayti and Santo Do- mingo will solidify with Cuba into one nation.” l The writer is not a Mexican, as you may perhaps conjecture, but a Cuban |in full possession of his mental facul- |tion and a friend and admir- er of the Yankee people, and one who Dbelieves, although he is not a spiritualist, and for some reason | far afield for political power. | its colonies occurred one of those events that | forded unhindered by any obstruction that he cannot explain, that for a frac- tion of a moment the veil of the future Las been torn aside and enabled him to predict the events cited about. P, Havana, June 14 MORMON COLONIZATION. HILE the husbandman slept the enemy sowed Wtarcs. While the general public is sleeping off its astonishment caused by the testimony in Senator Smoot’s case the Mormon church is reaching Its colonization scheme is in the hands of the youngest of the twelve apostles, a son of the late President Woodruff, who has all the Yankee edge of his able father joined to a fanatical de- votion to polygamy and the political interests of the church. He is the son of one of a herd of wives acquired by his father, and from the Mormon standpoint deserves the religious honors that have come to him notwith- standing his youth. He is pushing colonization in Wy- oming, New Mexico and Arizona with great energy and intelligence. The church is possessed of ample eapital. Its annual receipts exceed those of the State of Utah and it uses the money for the aggrandizement of Mormon- ism everywhere. In its colonization schemes in the arid country the church treasury has been heavily drawn upon to provide irrigation works. It was found that this was so expensive that the hierarchy bégan to flinch. The first outlay was too much for the church nerve. But its ambition to control Wyoming, Idaho, the coming States of New Mexico and Arizona, and to regain Ne- vada is not to be lightly given up. In the dilemma disclosed by the cost of irrigation for is re- garded by the ch The Mormons be- lieve that Brigham Young had gulls created in midair to destroy the grasshoppers that were devouring their crops. They believe that the Lord hardened the Gen- tile heart of Buchanan to send Albert Sidney Johnston urch as miraculous. | into Utah with his force of regular troops to make a | market for their hay and grain, though it went there to exterminate the church. In the books of the faithful it will hereafter be written that the sons of God were blessed in the preservation of these ordinances by the act of the enemy, the Govern- ment of the United States, in providing at its cost the | means of watering the wilderness and the waste places | for the children of the Lord. The Federal irrigation act | will be applied almost wholly within the region that the church covets. If the act had been entitled “An act to provide the means for extending the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to increase the political power thereoi,” it would have exactly expressed the sit- uation. The talked romancers who promoted the act in Congress of stewing millions in the city slums who would rush for these irrigated lands and establish their vine and fig tree thereon. So far there has been no movement of that kind and none, organized or unorgan- ized, except movement of the Mormons toward the the | every place where the United States is building a reser- voir or digging a ditch. The church once held Nevada, but withdrew from the Washoe Valley and from Lincoln County to the valley of the Rio Virgin because of the cost of maintaining irrigation. Now the United States is bearing the cost and toward the first region togbe ir- rigated in Churchill County the vanguard of a great Mormon colony is moving. It is safe to say that in the States and Territories where the Government is spend- ing thirty or forty millions on irrigation eight-tenths of the land will go to the Mormons. The church is never taken by surprise. It never sleeps. When the first National Irrigation Congress met in Salt Lake there were no Mormon delegates. Most of the apostles were expiating religious lechery in the Territorial penitentiary. The congress as an act of grace and courtesy invited President Woodruff and Apostle George Q. Cannon to address it and they ac- cepted. Witness the change since then. The last con- gress met at Ogden and was dominated by the Mor- mons. George Maxwell and Mr. Boothe found it neces- sary to make an alliance with them and the junct_lon of forces controlled the congress. The next meeting was located by the open dictation of Apostle John Henry Smith, and the church took charge of public opinion and policy on irrigation so far as they are influenced by the congress. The romantic irrigators whose fancy saw eighty mil- lions of people dressed in purple and fine linen and far- ing sumptuously every day on the lands irrigated by the Government did not take the trouble to think that to get prompt occupancy of these lands organization and urging are needed. Let those that roam in the forests of the State or seek pleasure, recreation and health in sylvan glades and along mossy banks sit up and take notice, for the hour of their trial and tribulation is at hand. They are now in the midst of that dangerous time in the life of country folk where even the fittest may not survive. The deer season has opened in California and expe- rience sadly teaches that more men than deer pay the penalty of the merry season. GREAT WORK NEARS COMPLETION. ITHIN a year, so it is estimated, the work upon Wth: great jetty, six and three-fourths miles long, on the Columbia River, will be completed. Portland is looking forward to the removal of the bar at the mouth of the river before the close of 1905. That alone impedes the passage of deep sea vessels. When the jetty has its full length the swift current of the channel, so runs local belief, will have sliced off the crest of the bar and have swept it into the greater depths of the open sea. The channel to the north of the jetty has steadily been gaining depth under the scouring of the river. The original Columbia River jetty was completed in 1895. A channel thirty-one feet in depth was then af- in the river's mouth. According to the Oregon Journal the unceasing action of the littoral currents gradually piled up the sand along the shore line south of the river's mouth and caused the south shore line to move seaward until it was even with Cape Disappointment on the north bank of the river. The jetty, under these conditions, no longer prevented depositing of sand on the bar, which, beginning near the outer terminus of the original jetty, curves outward and northward, lying, as the Journal says, “Like a great crescent, one point buried in the shoals south of the jetty and the other in the sands of Cape Disappoint- ment.” The westward curve of the bar lies on the verge of a sharp declivity, where the ocean bed suddenly drops off from a depth of 20 or 22 feet to 80 or 100 feet. The Government’s engineers believe that the scour of the Columbia River would be sufficient to keep the chan- acl open if it were not for the sand-depositing currents from the south. North of the jetty there is deep enough water to float the largest vessel. The channel does not begin to shoal until it passes out beyond the shelter of the jetty. Therefore it is supposed that when the jetty has beeh extended far emough to shut off the drift of sand from the south the entire problem will be solved; that thereafter the Columbia River will gouge out the channel and keep it free from obstructions. Within the past three months the jetty has been ex- tended 4374 feet and the rock work has been done for that distance. Congress will probably be asked next winter to appropriate $1,500,000, which will provide for the completion of the south jetty. The plans of the en- gineers include the construction, also, of a north jetty, but it is not likely that any appropriation will be asked for that work at the next session of Congress, because the necessity for its construction is still undetermined. | The cost of the entire enterprise, including the north | jetty, is estimated at $3,465000, of which $2,260,000 is for the extension of the south jetty. Since April more than 100,000 tons of rock have been placed. A force of 225 men, I1 engines and 100 cars is constantly employed and will be engaged in the work until the weather pre- vents. The Board of Public Works has issued peremptory or- | ders that the streets and walks of the city in and out of | the business district must be cleared of their obstructions | to vehicles and pedestrians. What a strange feeling of | reckless confidence will take possession of us if the or- | der is obeyed and we will be able to travel about the town without imminent danger to our neck or nervous system. The usurpation of public streets for private purposes has become chronic in San Francisco. Rbefore him in the writing of his letter of accept- | ance than Judge Parker has at this juncture. He is him- | self supposed to be a conservative Democrat, the plat- | form given him by the St. Louis convention is virtually l | | | | PARKER AND HIS TASK. ARELY in our history has a Presidential candi- | date had a more interesting or a more delicate task | made up of Republican planks out of which the native strength has been carefully exhausted, while the party to whose voters he must appeal is made up mainly of | radicals who object not only to the weakness of the plat- form declarations, but to the conservatism of the candi- | date himself. To frame a letter that will serve to dissi- pate objections, harmonize the discordant and enthuse the indifferent is certainly a task sufficient to tax all that | any statesman ever had of courage, diplomacy and lead- ership. Popular interest in the expected letter is of course great, but it is an interest inspired mainly by curiosity. To every sort of student of politics there is something | notable and amusing in the situation, and naturally : enough every one awaits with some eagerness to see how the hitherto silent man of Esopus will meet the problem. There is a general belief that the famous telegram to the | St. Lounis convention, which forced the silver men to | virtually adopt a gold platform, was not original with | the Judge himself, but was inspired and perhaps actually ! written by Hill or Belmont. One of the things there- | fore which the public expects of the letter is some sort of revelation of whit manner of man Judge Parker is. Up to this time it is not clear whether he is a real man, with a man’s convictions on political issyes, or only a dummy. i The Judge, in fact, can no longer play the part of a sphinx. His letter of acceptance must reveal something, | for even should he strive to avoid dealing clearly with the points of controversy in the ranks of his party, the mere fact of his dodging them would be a revelation. At a recent Sunday picnic, according to sworn testi- mony following a tragedy, the fighting of the merry- makers continued from 9 o'clock in the morning until | 9 o'clock at night, the festivities reaching an appar- | ently and certainly logical conclusion in a murder. This | incident seemingly removes Sunday picnics as a bone of ! contention for many of our worthy fellow citizens. Re- creation at the cost of one’s life is rather a stiff price to pay. A Kruger looked his last upon this world and folded his hands in the last sleep. In the territory of the H Orange Free State and that of the Transvaal Republic | Great Britain has the material for a.South African efn- pire. But it was taken from wild men and the wilder- ness by other hands than hers. Of all who wrought in | that mighty conquest none bore a higher par’t than Paul Kruger. He was a heroic figure from his infancy. As a child he marched by his father’s side in the great trek of | 1835, and by his father’s side twelve years later he fought at Boomplatz in 1847 against the British, who had followed the Boers into their solitude where they had sought liberty. So from his cradle he heard around him the aspirations for freedom, ard was a part of that most wonderful of all companies of men who sought it in the wild country and founded there its institutions and ordinances. This old South African was among the great men of his time. He had not the benefit of courts and capitals and colleges. His wisdom was primitive in its derivation. It was native. In diplomacy and states- manship he was a match for any public man of his time. In courage he was unequaled. Whether going single handed against a savage lion or leading an inferior force in battle against superior numbers, he was the incarna- tion of cool headed and steady handed and stout hearted courage. Let men of all nations pause in their occupa- tions and pray that the spirits kindred to Paul Kruger may be always found upon the earth. THE DEATH OF OOM PAUL. HERO and great man passed away when Paul Germany is exercising every endeavor of national au- thority to convict the bands of anarchists that have made their headquarters in leading German cities to operate their schemes of death against Russia. This effort of the Government of Emperor William must meet with applause from every civilized people. How- | ever nations may differ in their theory and practice of national development they must be one against the an- archist—the common and cowardly enemy of them all. e A New York convict recently released returned the other day to his prison home and begged a haven of | shame because after long imprisonment and the brand of the malefactor upon him he found that in the world of free people he must either steal or starve. Is this an indictment of our charity and oar civilization or another lesson of that terrible law of cause and effect which operates as well in the moral world as in the physical? TALK AND, TOWN “Brick” Morse’s Bluff. The foliowing touching story, truth- fully told, has to exploit the sterling resourcefulness of one Clinton B. Morse, | known as “Brick” in the early days of his hair by students at Berkeley for ten years past. He is bald now but his tact is as ready as in the palmiest days of his hirsute florescence. The University of California Glee Club, which has had so flattering a re- ception at St. Louis this summer, was touring the mnorth not a great while back with such wonderful success that a $1000 deficit marked the apogee of its brilliant musical orbit. Morse was then musical director of the club besides being general dispenser of liv- ening anecdote and uproarious buffoon- ery as was his wont. When the musi- | cal youths, arriving on the wharf of i New Whatcom, Washington, found that their enterprising advance agent had left that town entirely out of his itin- erary, that the opera-house had not been hired, bills not distributed and no word passed that there was even such an institution as the University of - = — — | hear of the immense popularity of that candidate for United States Senator. | He is popular and conspicuous not be- cause of any great ability or particu- lar fitness for the office, but because of his peculiar industry in working for the office—not because the people want him, but because he wants the office. This game has been played, especial- ly in the country counties, until it has become sickening and disgusting. It has been the means of pushing men to | the front who would never have got there by reason of any special fitness for the positions which they have pro- cured by this most objectionable and | even contemptible political trick. It is | time this kind of political work was | condemned, and that any man who re- | sorts to it should be promptly retired | to private life. | We want men to represent us in the United States Senate who have correct |and broad ideas, and who have the ability and courage to express them. And the man who cannot stand up openly and independently before our people and show them that he is pos- sessed of these essential characteris- tics has no right to ask this great free people to place him in a position where we require, and have a right to ex- pect, the exhibition and use of that ability which he does not possess. We should choose men for the Legis- lature who have intelligence, discretion and homor to select the very best ma- terial we have for the high office of United States Senator, and should e “BR! WA TEN ICK” MADE A DASH FOR THE DESPERATION WRIT- HIS COUNTENANCE. SR B MRS California, even “Brick” was downcast for the instant. | Then standing there in the midst of | the dejected group on the wharf, Clin- | ton’s presence of mind suddenly flick- ered into a glow. With tears in his eyes he addressed the crowd: | “Boys, you have all been my friends and I thank you for your kind sup- port to me on this-hard trip. But one failure after another has not failed to have its effect upon me. against the hardest kind of luck and I have felt it more keenly than you | al.” Morse’'s voice shook as he wiped his eyes. “You young men I have brought up here to nothing but defeat. Here we | are, a thousand miles from home and kind parents and upon me falls the responsibility for this blight upon all your young lives. I cannot stand it; it is too much—too-0o much!™ Then the gaping crowd of townsfolk which had gathered about the orator was stunned to see him suddenly throw off his coat and hat and dash for the edge of the wharf, desperation writ large on his countenance. Before he could reach the water, however, Dick Tully and Milt Schwartz seized him and cried loudly to him to desist from his attempt at self destruction. For several minutes Morse was begging to be released that he might end all in the sound. Then by degrees he became’ mollified. That night the crowd at the perform- ance had to be turned away an hour before the doors cpened. Concerning Pledges. SUSANVILLE, July 15 Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: I see by your paper that George A. Knight is a candidate for United States Sen- ator; and what is more important than the fact of his candidacy is the state- ment made by him that he is opposed to the pledging of candidates for the Legislature to any particular candi- date for United States Senator. would have all members of the Legis- lature free when they come together to select the best man for the high honor of representing this great people in that greatest legislative assembly of the world. For this position taken by Mr. Knight I want to pat him on the back and say “Good man that you are.” have seen a few of those conventions in which men are nominated for the Legislature and are instructed to vote for a particular candidate for United States Senator, and the trick is usually played in this way. The man who is hunting for the office arranges to have one or two special friends in the con- vention, who at the most appropriate time. jump up and move that the can- didate be instructed, if elected, to vote for a named candidate for United States Senator. The other friend see- onds the motion, and Trather than to raise a controversy, or to oppose the motion, the balance of the convention is silent, the motion is put and a few say aye. The majority of the con- vention, who have no candidate selected and, perhaps, have mot thought of the matter, sit in silence and the motion is carried. The candi- date is instructed, and straightway we { ‘We have been | He | I leave them free to make such selection. If they fail in this great responsibility, they should be retired at the first op- portunity as unfit for legisiative honors. E. V. SPENCER. | | PR e | Heroes of Stumps. | You ask for manliest martial deeds? Go back to Ohio’'s natal morn— Go back to Kentuckie's flelds of corm ust weeds and stumps and stumps and weeds' | ¥ | | Just red men blazing from stump and | e | buckskin'd prophets ‘midst i strife and stress ' Came crying, came dying in the wil- | derness, | That hard, first, cruel half-century! What psalms they sang! what prayers they said, l Cabin_or camp, as the wheels rolled Fest; Silently leaving their bravest. best— Paving a nation's path with their dead’ | What unnamed battles! what thumps and | bumps! What saber slashes with the broad, bright hoe! What weeds in phalanx! what stumps | in row! What rank vines fortressed in rows of | stumps! And the saying grew, as sayings will i grow From hard endeavor and bangs and bumps | “He got in a mighty hard row for stumps; But he tried, and died trying to hoe his row." O brighter and better that tem-pound o€, Thlrlx brightest broad saber of Water- A Nor ever fell soldier more truly true | Than he who died trying to hoe his row. | The weeds are gone and the stumps are gone— The huge hop-toad and the copperhead, And a million bent sabers flash tri- umph instead From stately, clean corn in the diamond- sown dawn, But the heroes have vanished, save here and there, Far out and afleld like riven tree, Leans a last survivor of Thermopylae, { Leafless and desolate. lone and bare. Joaquin Miller, in Harper's Weekly. some storm- to Queries. WATER—E. 8. J, City. Water is densest or heaviest at 4 degrees centi- grade. Answe POWER OF ATTORNEY—R., City. This department cannot answer the question relative to a power of attor- ney without khowing the terms of the document. CAPITALIZING—Subscriber, City. In writing “him"™ with the idea of con- veying reference to the Deity the word should be capitalized; as, for instance, if one were to write, “In all her trou- bles this good lady never failed to ex- press her confidence in the care of him in whom she had put her trust.™ the meaning might be doubtful; “him™ ! might refer to some humane relative | or to the superintendent of the alms- house; but if written, “This good lady | never failed to express her confidence | in the care of Him in whom,” etc, the meaning that the Deity is intended be- comes clear. THE SHIPTON PROPHECY—Sub- scriber, Vallejo, Cal. What was | palmed on the public as the prophecy | of Mother Shipton, who lived 143s- 1560, was written by one Charles Hindley and put in circulation in 1862. It is as follows: Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* ——— e ———. Special information supplied daily ‘o business houses and public men the Press 'Du-n’(All.' ). 230 Cal~ ifornia street. 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