The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 12, 1904, Page 6

THE. SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS. = 4 ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT......... FUBLICATION OFFICE............. .THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY o0 000bo00psbsrsssitsbssnbansinspsisrinBBEaIIDIN. 25, THS Tand the depression of the past several months has been suc- | ceeded by more activity and cheerfulness, especially in the E.ast. The bank clearings are making a better showing, railway earnings | are increasing, labor troubles are being settled, crop prospects have ceased to diminish, retail and jobbing trade in many sections is bet- ter, wholesale distribution of merchandise is reported larger and ex- | panding and, in brief, commercial conditions all over the country are | much brighter than for some time back. | As for the statistical situation, the bank clearings last.week were 22.6 per cent larger than for the same week last year, with all | important cities except Pittsburg and Cleveland ranged in the in-| crease column. | BUSINESS BRIGHTENING. HE country seems to have turned a corner in trade conditions| This is the best showing made by the bank clear- | ings for many months, and is highly gratifying. The gain at New | York was 33.2 per cent and at Chicago 7.4 per cent. The failures were 200, against 172 last year. Another cheerful feature is the strength shown by prices for staple commodities. According to Bradstreet's index number quota- | tions as a whole showed a small increase September 1 over August I, | the principal strength being shown by groceries and provisions, | hides, leather, fruits, oils and breadstuffs. Reports from the iron and | steel trades say that recent reductions in quotations have stimulated | demand, that consumption has again overtaken production and that | stocks of crude material are much smaller than of late. Predictions | are being freely made by New York financial leaders, who are pre- bly in close touch with the situation, that there is an impending | val in this industry, and they are placing large sums in standard {ividend-paying stocks in proof that their confidence is genuine. | rev This is having a stimulating effect on the stock market, which now wears a bullish aspect, with the general tendency in prices no | longer downward, but upward. The public, too, are regaining con- | fidence and are slowly re-enterjng the market. This in turn is| drawing on the supply of idle money so frequently mentioned during the past few weeks and which is now much less of a bugbear than | hitherto. The New York banks still report more funds on hand than needed for all visible requirements and that there is therefore no | danger of any cash shortage, even in the moving of the crops, now | | commencing. The settlement of the packing-house strike in the West is an-| other cheerful feature at the moment. It has been a sinister cloud on | all the markets of the West for two months and its disappearance | as an adverse factor cannot but be highly beneficial to business throughout two-thirds of the country. The manufacturers are also sending in better reports. Mills heretofore idle are starting up, and while no great improvement in the demand for manufactured goods is expected, all current indica- | tions point to an enlargement in the general movement. Another good sign is the return of 15,000 employes of the Pennsylvania sys- tem to full time. It will be remembered that some months ago sev- eral of the great railway systems sent a cold shiver through the country by announcing a wholesale laying off of employes and a corresponding reduction in wages, but this movement turned out to be magnified, and half of it was not realized. So this bugbear, too, has passed from the scene. i Domestic trade is making the best showing in the current ex- hibit, but the foreign commerce also seems to be improving, as the figures of the export and import movements now coming in point to | a slow and healthy expansion over a month or so ago. Conditions on this coast contipue bright. While trade in many lines shows a falling off in comparison with the past five or six years, it is still good, with almost all farm and factory products passing readily from first hands into consumption, and, with the exception of | prunes and raisins, there is no overstock of anything, while lines are showing a deficiency. Few complaints are heard, the supply of money continues abundant, labor is completely employed, | al estate and building operations are active, the crops are good' and generally bringing prices above the normal, collections are easy, and the foreign demand for our products is still’ excellent. There no trade depression anywhere on the coast, nor from prese:t in-| ons is there likely to be. | | a THE NIHILIST TERROR. | ________ | ISPATCHES from Helsingfors, the capital of the Russian | D Grand Duchy of Finland, state that Prince Obolensky, the successor of the assassinated General Bobrikoff, has entered upon his tenure of office as Governor of that turbulent district of the Czar's realm. The advices further add the significant fact that already the new Governor has received threats that he would not be in Finland a week before being made the victim of an attack ilar to that which removed his predecessor from office so violently. I'he new lientenant of Nicholas, therefore, like the successor of Minister von Plehwe, goes into office with his eyes open to the ele- nt of personal danger which intervenes to complicate the dis- charge of his already difficult task. The series of assassinations that have struck down officers of the Czar’s Government, first in Armenia, then in Finland and finally at the very seat of authority in St. Petersburg itself, is grave portent f t is to come to Russia, now staggering under the weight of the Far East. Those terrible spirits of unrest and disorder that are classed under the generic term of Nihilists need only a tremor to manifest itself in the stern outward mask of the Govern- | ment to push their fanatical creed to bloody consummation. When now they find that the hand which was wont to weigh upon them| so mightily is paralvzed by the blows of an armed enemy the repres- | sion that comes with fear is dissipated, and undaunted they pursue | their tenets of murder and revolution. It is to be observed by a study of the nihilist movement in Rus- sia that war and terrorism go hand in hand in that unhappy land. Paul I, who held the throne during the early stages of the Napoleonic regime, allowed the country to be dragged into a coalition against the French and was stricken by the hand of an assassin on March 23, 1801. Alexander I, the visionary who divided the world with Bonaparte on the raft at Tilsit and lived to cnter Paris at the| heels of the broken Emperor, narrowly escaped death at the hands . of his people so many times that near the end of his life he lived like | a hunted beast and died broken-hearted. Alexander II, of emanci- | pation fame, suffered a revolution of the Poles and forced his realm into the Turkish war of 1877-78. On March 13, 1881, a nihilist bomb snuffed out his life. : Difficult it is for us of the republic to conceive of the animus | that fires the hearts of these reactionaries of the great despotism. In the cases of the majority of them that blind adoration of things re- ligious, which is the characteristic of the Russian people, is wholly displaced by an equally slavish adherence to the principles of revo- lution. Nihilism is a religion no less than the orthodox Greek | creed. Its votaries court martyrdom with a zeal as fanatical as that of the Christians under Nero; they preach death as no ante-Nicene father preached life immortal. Now that war has again brought the terror to Russia, who is to prophesy what the events that are to befall and what the ending? | | | m i His Sublimity, the Negus of Abyssinia, has fixed the penalty for cutting down telegraph poles at being buried alive. Here is 2 good chance for an agitation in behalf of underground wires—less work for the undertaker in ordinary to His Inperiousness. A church picnic party in New Jersey recently made off with a half dozen silver spoons, the property of an ice cream parlor, and then indignantly declared them to 'be souvenirs, when the arm of the law intervened. —_—,— Alas for San Francisco’s greatness—another prizefighter has tponed indefinitely his appearance in the local mauling mill and E‘no may at last usarp our laurels as the pugs’ paradise. | to jine th' {iv Morchuary {ielpexg. . T ,,’// THE SHADOW ON THE WALL. ey R DO HAS HIS S_AY ABOUT. . THE LABOR TROUBLES | il N o BY F. P. DUNNE. (Copyright, 1904, by McClure, Phillips & Co.) SEE th' sthrike has been I had a good year. (Cheers.) I h R called off,” said Mr. Hennes- 66§ = “Which wan?” asked Mr. Dooley. “I can’t keep thrack iv thim. Somebody is sthrikin’ all th’ time. Wan day th’' horseshoers is out an’' another day th’ teamsters. Th’ Brotherhood iv Molasses Candy Pull- ers sthrikes an’ th’ Amalgymated Un- ion iv Pickle Sorters quits in sympa- thy. Th' carpinter that has been put- tin’ up a chicken coop f'r Hogan knocked off wurruk whin he found that Hogan was shavin’ himsilf without a. carrd fr'm th' Barbers’ Union. Hogan fixed it up with th’ waikin’ dillygate iv th’ barbers an’ th' carpinter quit wurruk because he found Hogan was wearin’ a pair iv non-union pants. Ho- gan wint down town an’ had his pants unionized an’ come home to find that th' carpenter had sthruck because Ho- gans' hins was layin’ eggs without th’ union label. Hogan injooced th' hens union. But wan lv thim laid an egg two days in succissyon an’ th’ others sthruck, th' rule iv th’ union bein’ that no hen shall lay more eggs than’ th’ most reluctant hen in th' bunch. “It's th’ same ivrywhere. I haven’t bad a sandwich £'r a year because ivry time I've asked f'r wan, ayether th’' butchers or th’.bakers has been out on sthrike. mornin’, lt's‘elght to wan I walk back at night. A man I knowed had his un- cle in th' house much longer than aye- ther iv thim had intended on account return f'r his fidelity he got a turkey ivry year. At Chrig'mas time capital gathered his happy fam’ly around him an' in th’ prisince iv th' ladies iv th’ neighborhood give thim a short ora- ticn. "Me brave la-ads,’ says he, ‘we've ave made e If T go down in a car in th’' |& millvon dollars. (Sinsation.) I at- thribute this to me supeeryor skill, aid- ed be ve'er arnest efforts at th’ bench an’' at th’ forge. (Sobs.) Ye have done so well that we won't nced so manny iv us as we did. (Long an’' continyous $1 <} | th’ constichoochion. 1 | |arrived jus’ asih’ conference was be- ran’ a merry wan; a brick in th’ hand | sthruck ivry time they thought iv it. « They sthruck on th’ clightest provo- They conferred with capital. Capital used to weep over thim. Ivry wanst in a while a railroad prisidint wud grow red in th’ face an’ burst into song ‘nhout thim. They were a body that th’ pation might well be proud iv. If | he had a son who asked f'r no betther fate, he wud ask f'r no betther fate f'r him thin to be a Brotherhood iv Locy- motive Ingineers. Ivrybody looked up to thim an’ they looked down on ivrybody, but mostly ons th’ bricklayers. Th'i bricklayers were niver th’ bulwarks iv They niver con- ferred with capital. Th' polis always ginnin’. Their motto was a long life is worth two on th' wall. They cation an’ whin they weren't provoked | at all. If a band wint by, they climbed down th' laddhers "an’ fol- lowed it, carryin® banners with th’ wurruds: ‘Give us bread or we starve,’ an' walked till they were almost hungry. Ivry Saturdah night they held a dance to protist. again their wrongs. In th' summer time th’ wails iv th" oppressed bricklayers wint up fr'm countless picnics. They sthruck in sympathy with annybody. Th' union wint out as wan man because they was a rumor that th’ superintind- ent iv th' rollin' mills was not nice to his wife. Wanst they sthruck because Poland was not free. “What was th’ raysult? Their un- raisoning demands fin'lly enraged capital. To-day ye can go into a brick- layer's house an' niver gee a capital- ist but th' bricklayer hlm.lll!. Fnrtyl years ago a bricklayer was certain iv twilye hours’ wurruk a day, or two hours more thin a convicted burglar. [ do an’ won't do that. They ar-re out iv wurruk nearly all th' time an' at i - iv a sthrike iv th’ Frindly Brotherhood | cheerin’.) Those iv us who can do two got a permit fr'm th’ waikin’ dillygate an’ th’ remains was carried away un- dher a profusion iv floral imblims with a union labed on each iv. thim, th’ coortege was stopped at ivry corner be a picket, who first punched th’ mourn- ers an’ thin examined their cridintials. Me frind says to me: ‘Uncle Bill wud've been proud. He was very fond iv long fun'rals an' this wan was th’ longest Iiver attinded. It took eight hours an’ was much more riochous goin' out thin comn’ back,’ he says. “It was diff’rent whin I was a young man, Hinnissy. In thim days capital an’ labor was friendly, or labor was. Capital was like a father to labor, giv- in' it its boord an’ lodgin’s. Nayether | intherfered with th’ other. Capital wint on capitalizin’ an’ labor wint on labor- in’. In thim goolden days a wurrukin’ man was an honest artisan. That's what what he was proud to be called. | therested in thim?" says I Th' week befure iliction he had his | l00ked bether in ye'er life’ says I pitcher in th’ funny pa-apers. He wore fiver felt betther,” he says. a square paper cap an’ a leather apron, out-iv-dure life,’ he says. After they'd | men's wurruk will remain, an’ if possi- ble do four. Our other faithful sar- vints,’ he savs, ‘can come back in th' spring,” he says, ‘if alive,’ he says. An’ the dold artisans tossed their paper caps in th' air an’ give three cheers f'r capital. They wurruked till oI’ age crept on thim, an' thin retired to live on th' wish bones an’ kind wurruds they had accumylated. “Nowadays ’tis far differant. The unions has desthroyed all individjool effort. Y be year th' hours iv th' misguided wurrukin’ man has been cut lown till now it takes a split-sicond tch to time him as he goes through th’ day’s wurruk. I have a gintleman plastherer frind who tells me he basn’t put in a full day in a year. He goes to his desk ivry mornin’ at tin an’ sthrikes punchooly at iliven. ‘Th' wrongs iv th’ wurrukin’ men mus’ be redhressed,” says he. - ‘Ar-re ye in- ‘Ye niver b 1 “It's th® ‘I haven't an’ he had his ar-rm ar-round capitai, missed a baseball game this summer," a rosy, binivolint ol’ guy, with a plug | he says. ‘But’ he says, ‘I need exer- hat an’ eyeglasses. They were goin’ to|Cise. I wish Labor day wud come th’ polls together to vote f'r simple oI’ | around. Th' boys has choose me to capital. Capital an’ labor walked ar-rm | CArry a life size model iv th' Masonie in ar-rm, instead iv havin’ both hands | Temple in th’ parade,’ he says. free, as at prisint. Capital was contint| “If I was a wurrukin’ I'd sigh to be capital, an’ labor was used to be- | f'r th’ good ol' days whin labor and in’ labor. Capital came ar-round an’|capital was frinds. Those who lived felt th’ ar-rm iv labor wanst in awhile, | through thim did. In thim times th’ an’ fvry year Mrs. Capital called on|arrystocracy iv labor was th' la-ads Mrs. Labor an’ lated her on|who r-run th' railroad injines. They her score. Th' pride {v ivry artisan was | were a proud race. It was a boast to to wurruk as long at his task as th’ | have wan iv thim in a fam'ly. They hoss cud afford to pay th’ gas bill. niver sthruck, 'Twas again their rules. i | pay anny man who is buildin’ a house | to sind thim what money he has be mail an’ go live in a tent. “An’ all this time, how about th’ arrystocracy iv labor, th' knights iv th' throttle? Have they been de- prived iv anny hours iv labor? On th’ conthry, they have steadily increased, ontil to-day there is not a knight iv th’ throttle who hasn't more hours iv wurruk in a day thin he can use in a week. In th' arly mornin’ whin he takes his ir'n horse out iv th’ stall he meets th' onforchnit, misguided brick- layer comin’ home in a cab fr'm sthrike meetin’. Hardly a year passes that he can’t say to his wife: ‘Mother, I've had an increase’ ‘In wages?' ‘No, in hours.” It's th' ol' story iv th’' ant an’ th’ grasshopper—th’ ant that ye can step on an’ th' grasshop- | | per ye can't eateh. “Well, it's too bad that th' goolden days has passed, Hinnissy. Capital still pats labor on th’ back, but on'y with an ax. Labor rayfuses to be threated as a frind. It wants to be threated as an inimy. It thinks it gets more that way. They ar-re still a happy fam'ly, but it's more like an English fam'ly. They don't speak. What do I think iv it all? Ah, sure, I don’t know. ] belong to th’ onforchnit middile class. I wurruk hard an’ have no money. They come in here undher me hosbital roof an’ I fur- nish thim with cards, checks, refrish- mints an’ money. ‘Let’s play without a limit,’ says Labor; ‘it's Dooley's money.' ‘Go as far as ye like with Dooley's money,’” says Capital. ‘What have ve got? ‘I've got a sthraight to Roosevelt,” says Labor. ‘T've got ye beat,” sayvs Capital; Tve got a § preeme Coort full on injunctions.’ Manetime I've pawned me watch to pay f'r th’ game, an’ I have to go to th' joolrv store on th' cornmer to buy a To-day hé has practically nawthin' to | pound iv beef or a seuttle iv coal. No| wan iver sthrikes in sympathy with me.¥ “They ought to get together,” said Mr. Hennessy. “How cud they get anny closer to- gether thin their prisint clinch?” asked Mr. Dooley. “They're so close together now that those that ar-re between thim ar-re crushed to death.” TELEPHONE IN WAR. While the Japanese are greatly skilled | in the visual system of communication —the time-honored wigwag and helio- ! graph—yet in the present conflict they have clearly deménstrated the supe- riority of the telephone and the tele-f graph as a’' means of transmitting in- formation .from point to peint. Unlike the heliograph and flag systems, the electrical means of communication operates irrespective of weather, dis- tance and topographical conditions. It has the further advantage of being ab- ! solutely and entirely concealed from the enemy. It is shrouded in mystery, and there is no chance for the enemy to gain an advantage by reading sig- nals, as has often happened in the past. The character of the country in which operations are being conducted effect upon present military maneuvers. a| no ‘Where bullock carts cannot penetrate the Japanese have discovered that it is very easy to transport wire by having men carry it coiled upon their should ers. These men advance the line at a rate of three miles or more an hour.' ¥ ¥ g —= | The telephones are constructed of parts | th' seashore. Jus' as often as ye |similar to those of commercial instru- read ‘Newport colony fillin' up,’ ye | ments, but are housed in boxes, which redd, ‘Bricklayers strike again’ Ye|make them more easily portable.—From very sildom see a bricklayer nowa- | “How the Japanese Communicate in days in th' city. They live mostly in|Battle,”” by M. C. Sullivan, in the th’ counthry an' on’y come into town | American Monthly Review of Reviews to be bribed to go to ‘wurruk. It wud | for September. i l | igornia — | OB THB PAIR SEX I THE MAN AND THE PURSE. Rumor clatms that a Washington belle hroke her engagement with a cer- tain Washington clubman “just be- cause he carried his money in a purse,” says the Washington Post. “I can’t abide,” she is quoted as say- ing, “a man who carries his change in it, he is simply beyond hope, and it’s sure to follow that the man with the little purse will be close about everything. You may net notice it dur- ! ing your engagement, but be sure it will come later. “Fancy asking a man for money and have him extract a miserable little purse and begin digging down into it, half the time the littie plece of leather not being capable of holding the amount that one would ordinarily pay for a simple frock.” And the matron to whom the young belle confided the cause of the broken ergagement was heard to remark after- ward that she thought there was con- siderable truth and much wisdom in the girl's idea of the thing. FOR THE TABLE. Molasses sauce for puddings—Cook together for five minutes ome cup of molasses and one rounding tablespoon of butter. When taken from the fire add two tablespoons of lemon juice. Chocolate layer cake—Cream one-half cup of butter and two cups of sugar, add the beaten yolks of five eggs and beat again, then add one cup of cold water, one teaspoon of vanilla flavor- ing and three cups of flour siftad with four level teaspoons of baking powder, one-quarter teaspoon of salt and the whites of three eggs beaten stiff. Bake in layers.” PERFUME FOR THE BOW-WOWS. One of the affectations among fashion- able women nowadays is to have some distinctive note about their dress or coiffure or little accessories of ward- robe, even if it be only some special perfume which they endeavor to asso- clate with their note paper, their visit- ing cards or their carriages, as well as their dress. One would fain think this is enough, but according to the latest advices some women even perfume | their pet dogs, and their aim is to dis- | cover some unique perfume and guard its name as a jealous secret. BEAD FRINGE. Fringe of crystal or iridescent beads, | sometimes interspersed with chenille or | silk threads, is effectively employed on | evening gowns. A tulle gown whose flounces shaded from palest yellow to jorange had between the flounces lines of bead fringe repeating the same | tones. | COATS, TAFFETA AND LACE. A prevailing autumnal fashion will be the closely fitting walstcoats. They | are now shown in delicately embroid- | ered muslins and cambrics. As the sea- | son advances silk and brocade will I | seen in conjunction with smart little | cutaway coats. SHAMROCK ‘GOWN. A Brooklyn woman wears with much pride a gown made from the sails of Shamrock IL It is a yachting suit, made with a bit of embroidery here and there, shamrocks in shaded green silk being the design. The costume is a very attractive omne. | | The taffeta gown is an indispensable change from the muslins and laces of | summer. Everybody has at least one of | these dresses in her wardrobe. The owner of even a bit of real lace is nowadays making the most of her possession, for scarcely any costume is seen without some lace decoration. | A ECKLACE OF LOVE - 1 No rubies of red for my lady— { " No jewel that glitters and charms, | But the light of the skies In a little one's | eyes | And a necklace of two little arms. | Of two little arms that arc'cllnx!n‘ (Oh, ne'er was a necklace like this!) | And this wealth o' the world and love's sweetness impearled In the joy of a little one’s kiss. A necklace of love for my lady. That was linked by the angels above. No other but this—and the sweet tender kiss That sealeth a little one’s love. —Frank L. Stanton, in Home Chat. T b or mu | new nurse. Papa—What is she, son? or German? “I don't know, broken English.’ As Classified. Gentleman (in library)—Where can I find the book entitled “Man, th@ Ruler of the World,” please? Lady attendant—You will probably find it just across the hall in the fiction department, sir.—Chicago Dally News. | French papa. I think she's —Life. Misplaced. | Lady—I found fly in the bread yesterday: that was a mistake, wasn't it? Baker boy—Yes, mum; it had oughter 'ave been put into the buns. | —Ally Sloper. Cutting No Ice. Bacon—1 sece the Southern States are producing half the lumber cut in | America. Egbert—And yet there is no Presi- Ldenunl timber coming from that way! | -—Yonkers Statesrhan. Wedlock’s Blisters. Miggles—There are Jimes when it is advisable to listen to a fool's ad- vice. Mrs. Miggles—Well, go ahead, my dear; I'm listening.—Chicago Daily | News. —_———— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —_———— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clippin Allen’; E t.‘ > u (. 8), I’m 1042,