The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 6, 1904, Page 8

e THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1904. REAEE THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL |} Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKELS. .ccccceee scossssscnnsssenccssesstons ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO Manager _THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO fvvri.sssseee+..SEPTEMBER 6, 1904 JOHN McNAUGHT.. PUBLICATION OFFICE. TUBSDAY .....--- IRRIGATION FANCIES. OVED by a desire to dispel illusions before their indulgence M causes loss and disappointment, we recently deprecated cer- tain harmful fancies in irrigation, indulged in by some of the responsible people in authority in the Federal irrigation enter- rise. : One of these fancies related to the service, or duty, of water, the quantity allotted to a given area of irrigable land. It had been stated‘ by one of the engineers in charge of the Federal work in Nevada that a miner’s inch would irrigate 500 acres of land. \Ve'reg_ardcd s as an unsound position and gave our reasons. Mr. Lippincott, another Federal engineer, supported our position, but doubted, in the absence of proof, that such a statement had been made. But it was made. It was not advanced as a mere theory, put forward in an academic discussion, nor was it expressed as a hope, or used | for illustrative purposes to illuminate an hypothesis. It was sworn | to as a fact, stated under oath. | As Nevada was the scene of the litigation during which this occurred, the matter is invested with some interest, because the | engineer who made the statement under oath is in charge of the| | Truckee River project for the Government in that State. The “Big Meadows” around Lovelocks, in Nevada, were brought under irri- gation and fine production, by using the water of the Humboldt| th diver. Others settled in above these first irrigators, and proposed, | by building a dam, to take all the water of the river, denying any | right thereto by the prior appropriators at Lovelocks. But the prior appropriators fought for the fertility of their fields, and in the ar-| duous litigation that followed this engineer was the expert employed by those who proposed to despoil them. the first appropriators were using more water than their land re- quired. Basing his testimony upon his own observations at Fresno, Cal., he testified that in the hot and dry climate of land. When similar litigation arose in Churchill County, Nevada, testifying against the rights of the prior appropriators there, he made the same statements. These things are remembered in Nevada, and by the attorneys in the cases, some of whom are in San Francisco. The prior appro- their cases in the Federal courts. But the testimony of expert engineer that one miner’s inch serves 500 ‘acres of land he inspiration of theoretical irrigators, and their case was hened when the engineer who verified by his oath such an linary service ‘of water was put in charge of the Govern- ment work. This is the origin of the entirely inflated expectation of the amount of land that will be irrigated in the arid region by the water supply. leisurely examination of the estimates’made by Mr. Lippin- is letter to The Call, seems to reveal in him a leaning toward » of undue expectations about the service of water. He quotes 1s at Yuma and in the Klamath district. His allowance for we understand him correctly, is 680 cubic feet of water per h is not quite three-sixteenths of an inch per acre. That thin sheet of water to spread upon land, in a region where tion is twelve or fifteen feet per year. We doubt very whether it will sustain growing crops. If he mean that a inch flowing constantly for ninety days will suffice for an 12 ha ¢ have this result: In an acre and a half are 63,340 h a miner’s inch in ninety days would cover about He allows eighteen inches at Klamath for _the crop st fiiteen inches at Yuma. But the record of thirty- all at Yuma shows an average annual precipitation por ars’ T iree and o fifty inches. Six 3 of tl three feet of water during the growing season to produce a crop. T'his is averaging all absorptive conditions of the soil and all rates evaporation. Italy, in the valley of the Po, has longestablished scientific irrigation, and the average duty of water is one cubic t per second to about sixty-six acres, in continuous flow. But taly on the same land has a rainfall of between thirty-five and forty he I enty-two inches falls in the season of growing irrigated land of Italy gets about 130 inches of irri- ter and twenty-two inches of rain, or a little over tuelve e season of crop growth. { coarse we lake Mr. Lippincott in his Vuma illustration to mean that a miner’s inch in twenty-four hours is distributed over a crop season of ninety days, or 86,400 cubic feet in three months, or fifteen inches to produce a crop. We refer to the subject again because many practical irrigators, who are aware that the world has passed the experimental stage in which many Government engineers seem to linger, take the view herein expressed, and its publication may enable explanations that will set them right, if they are wrong. As a word of caution, we have to say that it will be far wiser and safer for the Government engincers to undere®timate the duty of water than to overestimate it. Federal irrigation is a large and serious experiment. It is in politics with the approval of both par- ties, and the failures and disappointments likely to attend it will be mitigated by moderation now T a2 wholesome effect upon politics. This is not because any- thing was needed to insure the West fer President Roosevelt, for that is settled already. But the Segretary of the Treasury, being the fiscal officer of the Government, and the one best able to speak for its revenue policy, can speak for the administration of which he is a part, to the people who want to hear. The typically American career of Secretary Shaw has put him in touch with all of his fellow citizens. He knows how public poli- cies affect the farmer, the mechanic, the laborer, the manufacturer, the merchant and the banker. He knows, also, that a right policy synchronizes all of these interests, equally distributing the benefits and the burdens of government. This is his first campaigning in California, though not his first vi He was here to meet and greet the Fifty-first lowa, as Gov- ernor, on its return from the Philippines in 1899. The Call has had frequent occasion to commend his speeches and addresses in the East on political and financial subjects. He has succeeded in reach- ing the business men of the country with the conviction that the pol hich secures such a domestic and foreign market as affords constant and well paid employment to American labor is the best policy for the country. As a champion of the business policy of his party he is strong and clear, and his visit is highly appreciated by the whole Coast. This appreciation is not confined to party lines, r thousands. in the nominal opposition, are actual supporters of the side of which Secretary S is such a clear and excellent exponent. SECRETARY SHAW'’S VISIT. HE visit of the Secretary of the Treasury to the Coast has had it If his Imperial Majesty Nicholas, Czar of all the Russias, grants a constitution and liberates political prisoners to signalize the birth of an heir, who can gauge the measure of his magnanimity when he will celebrate the cutting of the Czarevitch’s first tooth? He may even grant to the Mikado the privilege of retiring from the war with an honorable peace. ¢ A society of temperance workers in Connecticut recently sent an unavailing protest to the Navy Department against the breakin, of the proverbial cold bottle at the christening of the battleship de- signed to bear the name of their State. They may at least take com- fort in the reflection that this good wine, so sensibly spilled over a battleship’s prow, will be paid for by the builders of the vessel. We are surprised to learn that Emperor William objected to the reproduction of his children’s heads in the angel setting of a certain church’s decorative scheme. Can it be that the association of cherubic wings with 2 member of the Hohenzollern family appealed to him as another case of lese majeste? Ao He sought to show that | Fresno and on sandy land one miner’s inch efficiently irrigated 500 acres of four-tenths inches only, while at Klamath it is thirty-; “xperiments, the world over, show that land requires about ANYTHING YOU SAY, MR. PULITZER! | 11 | | | L3 ABOUT PEOPLE | | OF PROMINENCE L - It is said General Miles has made a great deal of monmey out of his Texas oil well ventures. | H. O. Havemeyer of New York, It is asserted, possesses the most costly col- | | lection of violins in the world. David R. Francis, president of the St. Louis Fair Corporation and ex-Gov- ernor of Missouri, began life as a news- boy, and to the sharpness which he ac- quired while acting in that capacity at- tributes a good deal of his success. There was a convention of newsboys at the fair the other day and President ! Francis told them some of his boyish experiences, much to their delight. Goldwin Smith has completed a mon- ograph of Mr. €ladstone, which will be published shortly. It is devoted mostly to personal recollections and to a eriti- cism of Mr. Gladstone's literary work. The Rev. Henry A. Buchtel since he i | was made chancellor of Denver Univer- | sity has cleared that institution of a | debt of more than $§250,000. For several years he was pastor of the Calvary Church, East Orange, N. J. The Mmsurance companies have quoted 50 per cent additional for insuring the life of Prince Obolensk!, who has suc- | | ceeded to the post of Governor General of Finland in the place of the late Gen- ! eral Bobrikoff, killed by an assassin. The Duke of Sutherland, who is now | touring Canada, Is said to be the largest | landholder in the British Islands, own- | ing 1,358,000 acres. H HUMOR. Alast Every cloud has a silver lining. but the trouble is clouds never come to us inside out.—Chicago Tribune. | The Hammock. “That hammock seems to be worn out.” “Well, 1t s the sole survivor of | three love affairs.”—Life. [ Where They Were Going To. | Mr. Richmond—Ah, Miss Kensing- | | ton, look at the coming storm. isn’t | | it grand, glorious, sublime and- l | | Miss Kensington—And damp. | Mr. Richmond—Only to look at ! | those beautiful black clouds; I won- | | der where they are going to? { | Miss Kensington—Why, they are going to thunder, to be sure.—Phil- adelphia Telegraph. | } Sinking of Rev. Blank. ' Down in a Virginia town the aged pastor of one of the churches feil ill He was beloved by all and a constant friends rang the es. The nurse in | intelligent negro | | woman and she decided to issue bul- i | letins at frequent intervals. She wrote ‘: them herself and pinned them to the not long ago. | | the neighborhood | | stream of anxio bell to make inqui | charge was an | front door, and this is the way they | read as they appeared successively: | “Rev. Blank am very sick.” i| “Later—Rev. Blank am worse | “Night—Rev. Blank am sinking.” | | | “Morning—Rev. Blank have sunk.” | —Washington Post. KINDNESS. Over a winding, wayside wall, ™ Ragged and rough and gray, | There crept a tender, clinging vine, Tireless day by day. At last its mantle of softest tint Covered each jagged seam. The straggling wall half broken down Became with that leafy, tinted crown, Fair as the artist’'s dream. | O for the kindness that clings and twines Over life's broken wall, COPYRIGHT NG MAIL. ! That blossoms above the scars of pain, A . 1 Striving to hold them all. - g e L e et 5 %" | O for the helpful, ministering hands, | Beneficent, willing feet. | IThat spread rich mantles of tender B thought | O'er life's hara places, till time has ’ | wrought : . | Its healing—divine, complets! - 5 T s AT R SR = RS * yo —Christian Advocate. [ | AUTOMOBILE SUITS. { The newest automobile suits are of | leather—that is, those costumes have | bcen recently imported from Paris. A leather suit certainly seems more sen- sible for the purpose than anything | else yet thought of, for not only will |leather keep out the sharp wind, but | it is also absoluiely dustproof. | Most of these leather costumes are lined with heavy flannel or cloth, or again of silk or satin warmly inter- lined with chamois or flannel. For the summer, however, a silk lining | would be all sufficient. | The coats are long, or coming just a rifie below the hi Many are made | !with the full box back and loose front, | {but the rather tight-fitting Norfolk | Jacket, belted in at the waist, is per-| | haps more sensible. Whatever style is | | followed, the collar is always buttoned {tightly at the throat, and the sleeves should be fastened with a cuff at the wrist. For the Norfolk jacket straps | of leather are used just as the cloth | | straps on a coat of that material. | T {FOR THE HOUSEWIFE, The waxed lining paper to cracker | boxes is excellent to wrap around | small cakes and loaves of bread. It is {fine to clean flatirons with also. To prevent tomato soup from curd- | ling add the tomato before the milk is put in, and remember to strain the temato juice before turning it over the flour and butter. Roll jelly cake can be more easily rolled if the edges of the cake are carefully trimmed off, as they being stiffer cause the cake to break on the edge. BELT HINTS. The vogue in crush leather belts is as great as ever. Black and colored suede are espe- cially popular. The handkerchief point is the fashionable belt and finish. FOR THE SWEET TOOTH The stuffed dates bought of most con- fectioners are always in demand and To Man She May Marry Smart Girt Doesn’t Reveal Secret of Little Cost | of Her Pretty Home-Made Clothes “When that brother of mine gives a gown honorable mention,” the girl was saying, “I always feel very sure of myself whenever I | wear it. That's why I take solid comfort in this outfit. | “I rode downtown with Joe the other morning and he astonished me by saying all sorts ¢f nice things about my clothes. The funny part of it is that he is always such a stickler for buying swell things - at high-priced shops that I got off two stations out of my way for fear | 1'd tell him the whole story and humiliate him by letting him know how he had been fooled into praising my little inexpensive home-imade gown. | “Yes, 1 made it myself and it was only 9 cents a yvard at that. It's fine chambray, too, and such a pretty soft blue, don’t you taink? “Then I had the piece of nice linen insertion I had yedrs ago on something else, and it was just the thing for the front of my shirt waist. | The turnover collar and cuffs T made of a scrap of linen serim. Serim : is cheap, anyway, and haif a yard makes stacks of collars and cuffs, so0 they cost next to nothing—call it 5 cents a set. “There’s 95 cents for the gown with collars and cuffs. Oh, of course, I had to buy a pattern to make it by. That was 20 cents; so there's $1 15. “My hat I picRed up on a bargain counter the other day. There was a pile of them, and by taking the trouble to hunt a little I found just the shape I wanted in this rough black straw—all for 25 cents. “At the ribbon counter they made me the big black taffeta bow— four yards, at 19 cents a yard, which is all the trimming the hat needs | —sg0 there's my millinery for $1 01 “My belt is a 50-cent one. A yard and a half of neck ribbon was 25 cents. So there you are, exactly $3 66 for the entire rig of hat, gown and accessories. 1 feel comfortably proud of the style that at that price can win compliments from such a superior order of being as my fastidious brother.” i “1 should think you would,” replied the girl's companion. “If I had been in your place I would have gloried in telling him how cheaply I had done it all. They do say, you know, that the reason so many men stay single nowadays is because we girls are so extravagant. Now, perhaps, we ought to let them Into the secret of how little pretty clothes cost sometimes. It would be a sort of encouragement for -them to marry.” . “Not much!” replied the girl in the scrim and chambray. “In that case I'd have to know what encouragement there would be for us. Marry a man who expects you to dress on $3 66! Never! You'll be wise if you never let him know it can be done.”"—Chicago Journal. T N T T T S R S A, T TR 3. O R T O e, yet are not nearly so good as may be, as they can be stuffed with finély chop- de at home, as one girl has discov- | ped walnut meats, rolling the sticky ered for herself, more to the benefit of | fruit afterward in the meats until no her friends, possibly, than of herself, | more will adhere to it. It is then again since their manufacture keeps her busy for all candy-making seasops. ' After pitting the dates she fills them as full F course, she was talking clothes, and the woman who sat just in front of her couldn’t help overhearing and finding the remarks ready for packing into boxes. i | | | la lightweight quality and the short little jacketawas handsomely trimmed rolied in granulated sugar, over and |fered for house wear, over, and by this time may be caued |from white satin hand embroidered to | PRETTY LINEN DRESS.| Here is the description of a particu- larly pretty linen gown which was noticeable for some distinctive features as regards construction. It was car- | ried out in natural colored voile of the openwork etamine weave and of quite ANSWERS TO QUERIES, CRIBBAGE—Novice, City. In ecrib- bage no combination of cards will maks 19, 25, 26 and 27. WRESTLING—J. S, City. In order to be counted out in a wrestling bout both shoulders must be down on the carpet at the same time, fair and with a very heavy make of ecru lace | square. of openwork design, the pattern being | picked eut in white thread. As to the | Jjupe it was quite a complicated affair and well worthy of description. It was quite short, as is always the invariable | rule with the linen gowns of to-day, . and reached to about four inches above | the waist line, describing thereby what | is known as a corslet skirt, and the! TURNING TO BLOOD—Constant upper part was adorned with rows and A Reader, City. There is nothing in the rows of gathers, which were introduced | Bible that refers to the sun turning to i reality on a species of yoke. Below | blood on the last day. You probably ihis the skirt formed itself into deep | want to know about what appears in pleats on either side, which were Revelation, vi:12: “And I beheld when stitched securely down half way. | he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, —_— | there was a great earthquake; and the - TAN SHOE POPULAR | sun became black as sackcloth of hair " |and the moon became as blood.” The tan shoe in all shadings lrom% FOURTH OF JULY—Subscriber, lightest pongee to darkest brown is City. While it is true that July 4, Xn- ruling monarch. and to accompany it | gependence day, is cele ed in every are tan stockings exactly matching all | gtate of the American Uniom, in the the leather shades. The long vamp | pistriet of Columbia and in ail the low shoes laced with wide, heavy | rerritories, also in the insular posses- grosgrain ribbon to match the leather | gions, it is nct, In the strict semsa, a are first favorites for walking shoes, | national holiday, for the reason that POPULATION—E. G., Birds Landing, Cal. In April, 1904, the population of the United States was estimated by the Census Bureau at 79,900,389, or 3,709,354 more than the figures of the census of 1500. but the tan pumps with extension | Congress has not declared it such. soles and flat, stiff bows are new and | There are no legal holidays in (ha tremendously popular even for out-! United States. door wear. 7 | [ — PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS — | Subseriber, City. Congress was given | poweér to determine when the States | should choose €Tectors and appoint a H day on which these electors should away by a simple home-made remedy, > 4 - as follows: Half pint milk. the juice | ¢3¢ their votes. —The constitution of a lemon, one teaspoonful brandy, | stipulates only that the day shall be boiled together. Skim | the same in all the States. Under this thoroughly. | power Congress fixed a date in 179 boiled one dram . Lo When boiled add rock alum. | pen elections should be held, but in The oily skin is to be bathed with the ¥ following mixture: One quart camphor | } $43: Januaty 23, the law was amend- water, one ounce glycerin, half ounce | ¢ 2nd the time fixed as the first pulverized borax. Use talcam powder Lucsday after the first Monday In instead of ordinary face powder when | OYember on which to hold a general the ‘perspiration is excessive, | election. SUMMER FRECKLES, Sur.mer freckles can be driven — s, ‘Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* ittt it Special I-M-t‘tl:n supplied dally to | Most decorative and dainty mulls, a part of the Louis XVI revival, are of- in everything ss houses public men ths plain colored kids in all shades, " Iote wtrests Tehptocs Moo