The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 15, 1904, Page 8

- THE SA FRANCISCO' CALL, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER' 15, 1904. THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL| Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKELS. .cccceree accsssessssssssssssnsssancs - ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO & JOHN McNAUGHT. ...ccvvesenronssaceaccce sonnseeersennncess sanager PUBLICATION OFFIZE........ss000. . THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO SEPTEMBER 15, 1904 THE OPEN SHOP. THURSDAY .. CONOMISTS have not been unmindful of two parallel move- E ments affecting the industries of the United States. Neither has been the cause of the other. Each has proceeded 1n51c— pendently from the same cause. The one that first excited attention was promoted by capital. Its purpose was, by combination, to de- stroy commercial competition. When that purpose was effected it was foreseen that commodity values would be controlled by com- bination and would be raised or lowered, in disregard of the law of supply and demand. ! 1f this system of combination could be left free to overwhelm competition, the price of all the necessaries of life and of all the factors of development could be dictated by a few men or by one man. Of course, in the long run this system would destroy itself by so affecting general prosperity as to impair consumption. There can be no general prosperity without freedom. Leave competition free to act in conjunction with the law of supply and demand, and while there will be failures, usually as the result of bad judgment, and not all who compete in commerce will thrive, yet the far vaster number, | the consumers, will not be injured, and upon their power to consume depends the average commercial prosperity of the country. All of this was felt so keenly and was so early appreciated that legis- lation responded to the demand of public opinion. The first effort at legislation was the interstate commerce law, by which restraint was provided upon combination between rail- roads and shippers. The operations ‘of the Standard Oil Company were the main incentive to that legislation. In its campaign to de- stroy competition that company had found its most powerful in- i strument to be the rebates on its shipments, which were denied to| its competitors. The Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of the interstate commerce law, and then followed anti-trust legisla- | tion, striking at the commercial combinations. The efficiency of the | two forms of legislation waited for proof until President Roosevelt | furnished it by enforcing the faw. ] Now the way seems to be open to establish the open shop inl commerce, manufactures and transportation; in other words, to re- store reasonable competition. Judicial interpretation has now ac—[ cumulated to such an extent as to serve as a guide to further lcg—" islation, if it be needed. President Roosevelt can be relied upon to | recommend, approve and enforce such legislation. His competitor, Judge Parker, declares that the resources of the common law are | sufficient, without the use of what legislation we have or regort to | more. But it must not be forgotten that a common law remedy must | be sought by individuals who have a cause of action. against combinations and trusts must be sought by an individual, | single-handed, it will be sought in vain. i Judge Parker’s plan would be a failure. The combination is| stronger than the individual, in court and out. The Government is stronger than the combination, and it is the purpose of legislation to put the Government against the trust and the combine. It will be observed that legislation has been aimed at only one of the two parallel movements which have unfavorably affected our industries | | by destroying freedom. National and State anti-trust laws have been so framed as to exclude labor combinations from their opera- tion. As commercial combinations have enforced the closed shop in commerce, the labor combinations have enforced it in labor, and have done it by express exception from the operation of statute law. The result is that one man might be able to put a price on the necessaries of life and one man might be able to permit and to prohibit labor. It amourits to the substitution of the arbitrary will of one man| for the free action of millions. A twin system of that kind, which denies freedom of contract, and liberty to trade or to work, cannot long exist without destroy- ing prosperity. The right to labor is the right to live, and the right to choose a commercial occupation and follow it, under no other limitation than reasonable competition, is necessary to harmonious development. A free people, desirous of remaining free, must have | the open shop in industry and commerce. Nor must the law play any favorites. A combination that destroys freedom of commerce is no more vicious than one that destroys the freedom of labor, and each must go down, under the necessity for preserving freedom and pros- perity for all. There may be some failures in competition, but no | system has yet excelled it in the affairs of the world, and it is prob- | able that none will, because it means freedom. { T President without ruffling the dignity of Japan or Russia. He gives her two months in which to make repairs and get out. and as an alternative she must go now or disarm and lie here till THE CASE OF THE LENA. HE question of the Russian warship has been settled by the If proteclion;’ | PASSED THE WORD ON TO MAINE. / Treasury Has a Tight Grip on Dast Sum Special Correspondence. LONDON, Aug. 27.—Folk in America | who believe themselves entitled to ror—i tunes in this country will be interest- ed to hear that according to retums: made during the Parliamentary ses- sion just closed there is now over $321,- | 000,000 in the hands of the British Gov- | ernment, awaiting lawful claimants. | There is small lkelihood, however, | that any considerable portion of it will | ever find its way into the pockets of | the latter. This vast sum is retained by the crown officials because those to whom it belongs have not succeeded in proving their claims to it to the | law's satisfaction, or, ignorant of| what is due them, have not put in any claims for it. To get the Government to give up money it has once got a tight grip on is a very difficult and | cestly matter. For a poor claimant | without the means of defraying the le- gal expenses the chances of obtaining | restitution are well nigh hopeless. It is, perhaps, therefore, just as well for | their peace of mind that hundreds ol‘ poor people scattered over the world have no knowledge that {n the British treasury are large fortunes to which | theéy are entitled—provided they can prove it. If they knew it and under- took to prove it in the great majority of cases it would simply result in the lawyers getting what little money they ve. Meanwhile the Government does not advertise for claimants to any por- tion of the colossal hoard in its treas- ury. | i i MILLIONS TIED UP. In the great morgue of litigation and | “expectations”—chancery—funds _and | estates aggregating in value $273,612,205 | are now tied up. But as a fund is not considered unclaimed until it has been in court undealt with for fifteen years, it is impossible to estimate the propor- | tion of this colossal sum which belongs | to missing owners. It is certain, though, | that most of them will never get a | penny of it. Funds in chancery in Ireland amount to $24,392,505, of which the same statement is equally true. All Government stock and dividends | unclaimed for ten years is transferred | to the National Debt Commissioners. | | On March 31 last the balance on this account amounted to $5,785,585, which | does not include sums previously ap- | | propriated by the Government. In 1863, | for instance, Mr. Gladstone canceled | | $15,000,000 of unclaimed stock. It is | amazing how remiss people are in| ! claiming dividends, consols and other | | Government investments. On April 3| last the dividends ‘““due and not de-| manded” amounted to nearly $600,000. | The consolidated fund holds nearly | $200,000, representing interest on South | Sea stock paid to the Chancellor of the | | Exchequer between 1845 and 1852, which | has never been claimed. i People who die intestate bring conm- | siderable money to the crown, as well | as profit to the lawyers. On Decemberi 21 last there remained in the hands of the Treasury $65. 5 from intestates’ | estates, of which the crown's share| amounted to over $75,000. : { TAKEN BY THE CROWN. ’ Some people .are still seeking to get | a share of the property left by Mrs. | | Helen Blake, who died intestate in 1873. ; Ir: addition to considerable real estate | she left personalty of the value of| 720,000 For the benefit of such claim- | Shop Girl Has Her Say About Women Buyers “How many women who shop give a thought to the girl behind the counter, except to take offense if she does not} wait vpon them quickly enough?” ex- claimed a shop girl in a recent burst of cenfidence to a New York representative, | The girl in question can hardly be | A Bass Solo. The Basso Pr-r-rofundo, in evening dress, He tackles the ro-ho-ho-ho-ling sea, Boom, boom! | And in subway staccato attempts to| express The mar-r-riner's ag-o-nee, 7 Boom, boom! "Tis the song of the anvil, asleep in the ants it should be stated that they have | not the ghost of a chance of getting anything, for by an order of the court, dated 1888, the crown was declared en- titled to the estates and appropriated them. In Scotland intestates’ estates await- ing claimants amount to over $175,000, of which the crown has a grip on $75,- Market Parties Still Prevail in | the Fair City A New York woman who recently re- Telegram | 0o doptis of the “I stayed with one of the old famil-| ies,” she said, “and the first morning! after my arrival one of the young| v Z. | 000. i ac-r-rk br-r-rown, minor-r-r key, | turned tror\z St. Louis, where she went| ;. jaimed dividends on bankrupts’ And hnfl:"\w:f.s fi‘sgéu sings, and he sings | ¢4 gee the World's Fair, relates this €X-| estates amount to $5,785,000, and such To the depths, ' perience: | assurance is felt that claims to the bulk of it will never be advanced and substantiated thdét much of the money bhas been appropriated to pay for the erection of the bankruptcy offices. Wanted:=-. Manto Fill Only Nineteen Jobs It is doubtful if the Monson Railroad Company of Maine ever will ind a man to fill the place of W. L. Estabrooke, who died recently. Search is being made for a successor, but as yet no one has been discovered who ‘can hold so many posts simultaneously as Esta- brooke. These are nineteen in number, and the new employe must be general man- ager, superintendent, general ticket agent, general freight agent, general baggage agent, lost freight agent, claim agent, purchasing agent, roadmaster, superintendent of bridges, train dis- patcher, station agent, telegraph oper- ator, conductor, engineer, baggagemas- ter, brakeman, express messenger, mall clerk. The Monson Railroad Company oper- ates a line eight miles long, extending from Monson, a slate quarry village in Piscataquis County, to Monson Junc- tion, on the line of the Bangor and Aroostook railway. It has never had an accident. Humor. Une’s Opinion. “Which is the luckiest day to be married, Uncle Joe?" “Matrimony knows no lucky day.” —Houston Post. - Had Enough. Mrs. Jawworker—So you are going to leave me, Bridget; haven't I treated vou as one of the family? Bridget—Indade you have, mum, an’ Oi've shtood it as long as Oi'm gein’ to.—Albany Journal. Sporting Note. Bookie—So y'see, if the "orse starts at 15 to 1 you get 15 quid, 10 to 1 you get 10 quid, 5 to 1 five. D'y'see? The Innocent—Oh, yes, I see per- fectly. But what do I get If the horse starts at 1 o'clock exactly—Illustrated Bits, ‘His Hat. A number of Philadelphia salesmen were discussing the subject of travel- ing through the South. “I have often wondered,” sald one of them, “how those boys who take your hats in the dining-rooms of Southern hotels and place them in a rack without checks know which hat to give to you. I thought I would try and fool one. One day when I had finished lunch and the boy had handed me my¥ hat I tried it on and pretended it was a misfit. “ “This is not my hat,’ I said, but he was ready with his answer. “‘Dat may not be youah hat, sah’ he replied calmly, ‘but it am de hat what you gib me when you come in.” ™ —Philadelphia Ledger. A Word From the Baroness. The beautiful Baroness Hayashi, the I\-.'ile of the Japanese Embassador to recently a dinner Lendon, attended party where a Frenchman held the table spellbound for an hour by an extraordinary dissertation om Japan. He described the Japanese mode of bathing, the Japanese dress, the Jap- anese religion and form of marriage proposal, the geisha's manner of mak- ing up her lips and eyes and nafls— in a word, the most intimate secrets of Japan were exposed and minutely de- scribed by this Frenchman. He departed early. He had made a great success. After he was gone a voung stock broker said in a reverent tone: “What a wonderful man! He seems to know something about everything.”™ “Except Japan,” commented the Baroness Hayashl quietly.—Cincinnat! Engquirer. Heard in Oakland. Mayor Thomas Rickard of Berkeley tells of a dialogue heard last Tuesday the close of the war. Of course she will disarm and rock ingloriously | s3id to have been complaining. She | Seel a ship 1 dis-tr-r-ress, with tattered | ladies of the family asked me it I| " grmy prize money still undivided | when the members of Oakland Com- on the bay until peace comes. > ;;‘as luo‘ u_sod mdbtelng‘:dv:zrluuke:cfin: Is l,,m,,(, who will su-hu-hu-hu-cor | Would like to join a market party. | amounted on March 31, 1903, to $363,- | mandery, Knights Templar, in the full > s ‘ 2 | human being and tread as a mu ring? “Sh ¢ th: 2 he dark d | 960, and that the great bulk of it wil it 4 On e Sanhdds it Sl b v £ { 2 ANC i . B, 5 She saw that I was in the dark, and | 3¢, and tha 3 glory of gorgeous uniforms awaited gr e regretted that her Government does | for whom constant grinding was a ang. okl explained that in St. Louis it was an| be retained by the Treasury may be |the command to march. The speakers not-accept the two months’ time for repairs. She could be patched ! up and coaled in that time, and then Japan would have a cruiser | waiting for her outside the three-mile limit, and when they met| there would be a sea fight right off our western water front. There would be standing room only on the hills from Mount Tamalpais to the Twin Peaks. The Cliff House would look like a bee hive about to swarm and there would be lively betting on the rounds. It would ! be a sight worth seeing, and if the Lena’s sailing date were set long enough 2head San Francisco would have a bigger crowd than came for the Knights Templar. It is many 3 long year since hostile pow: der has been burned near our coasts, except in the Civil War, and such 2 fight as might be here would have the zest of novelty, with the additional pleasure that we could see the show without costing us & cent in men or ships or powder. Japan would be willing to do her part in the spectacle, and if Russia had any regard for the feelings of our people and the Czar had a spark of the genuine circus spirit in him, he would say the word “go” and furnish us some real sport 5 A dispatch from the State of Washington states that a provi- dential windstorm recently moved a church intact from the property upon which it had disputed right to a neighboring site which was owned by the congregation. Who can now complain of the per- versity of inanimate things? From Texas comes the cry that all of the ants imported from Guatemala to destroy the boll weevil have disappeared. The Texans should take into consideration the upbringing of these ants and be- lieve that possibly they have gone south to assist in the annual fail revolution. A young lady of this city dislocated her shoulder by violently throwing her arms around the neck of a girl friend. If girls would put their arms only where they belong they woul@ gain more sym- pathy in the event of overdoing thipgs and incidentally make men’s lives happier. SRS S In an Illinois town of esthetic atmosphere a man was arrested for painting his favorite dobbin a royal purple and driving him to church so glorified. Thus do we see the constant clash of the schools ir art. The man was probably an impressionist. —_— Now that the Paraguayan revolutionists have everlastingly licked the government, who, in the natural order of things South American, is going to lick the revolutionists? A New York Judge has rendered the decree that one cannot be disorderly in a saloon. “N’York for me” is now the cry of all the gentry of the cocktail territory. i —_—— - An Ohio farmer has named his baby Roosevelt Parker—probably necessary treatment. She simply spoke because she felt the sympathy of the person on the other side of the counter. “I comea here at 8 o’clock in the morn- ing,” said she, “and stay until 6 at night. [ must look pleasant and be obliging all that time, no matter how | tired T may be or how ill I may feel i Mighty few women customers ever seem to consider either of thefe condi- | tions. Their minds are on the goods ! they want to buy, or worse still, wish | only to leok at. { i a girl has to meet. I'd speak my mind | to one of them sometimes and I didn't | know T'd be reported and lose my place. | 1 can’t afford to do that, for there’s not | a goul in the world to look out for me. But I just wish you would watch one of these women some day. I'll give you | the tip when you're in. “Of course they’re all women! No man would have the face to ask a girl to take things out of glass cases and to lift down awkward bexes when he did not intend to make a purchase. I can usually tell whether a woman really But, after all, I can’t tell whether she may or may not be a shoplifter, so I have to keep my eyes in the back of my head while I'm moving about. |a shopper, too. I have to reach a cer- tain rate of sales, and I've no time nor | energy to waste on persons who don’'t | wish to buy. When I don’t see through them of course I do my best to per- suade them to purchase and it's very wearying to put out useless vitality in this way. “Just about as bad as the woman who doesn’t buy is the woman who won't buy until she has looked over all of your firm’s and every other firm's stock. She is the bargain hunter. I always shift her on another girl if I can. The instir>t -f self-preservation is strong in us all, you know. “Yes, I do get tired of standing, but there’s no time to sit down even with seats, for the stock must be looked over and kept in order, and besides this is a place where a girl is expected ‘to be. busy.” Ao Her Retort. A woman wishing to get off a trolley { body talks of and scarce anybody\hath this morning pulled the strap to stop | =een. AV ot s S, “What did you ring both ends for?" to make manifest his uncertain holding to the Bryan wing of Dome- | i Saw; soth ends to ston,” ‘was.the racy, withering retort.—Boston Record. . . e ‘!There‘s many a br-r-rave, br-r-rave, gal- “These are the most trying customers means to buy or is only getting styles. | “Think of the time I lose over such | But the stor surf beats loud— While the Basso continues:to sing, . boom! sel r-r-reels and is sinking vks long, and the 5 o-ca-list, what cares he? { For he wrowns as they drown, and they drown as he frowns, In the deoths, In the depths of the Y i z. lant soul, Who sank with a gur-hur-hur-hur- gling throat, Z Boom, boom In the cr-r-ruel, er-r-ruel sur-r-rge and deadly roll Of the Basso's lower note, Boom, boom! He's the Stor-r-rm King's pal, and he laughs ha! ha! His mur-r-rderous wor-r-rk to see— Let them howl as he growls, let him growl as they howl, % In the depths, In the depths of the : 3 Z. Oh, u'fflP‘“o Profundo is r-r-reckless of| o ‘When he sings on the cohoho-honcert stage. Boem, boom! Yet he's xind to his childr-r-ren meek to his wife ‘When he asks for his weekly wage, Boom, boom! And It's str-r-range that this happy, do- mestic man Such a ter-r-rible flend can be, ‘When he growls as they howl, and they howl as he growls, To the depths, To the depths of the " ana s % 0 Z. WALLACE IRWIN in New York Sun. Budget of Maxims. Rather than say nothing, men are content to speak ill of themselves. A proud man can never be a loser; no, not even when he renounces his bride. It is much less for a man’s honor to distrust his friends than to be deceived by them. G Few people have the wisdom to like reproofs that would do them good bet- ter than praises that do them hurt. It is with true love, as with and' apparitions, a -thing that every- The most disinterested love is, after antebellum custom for the mother of | inferred from the fact that during the the family to do her own marketing. | year preceding this date only $365 was They still have the old-fashioned mar- | paid to soldiers or their represeéntatives | kets there where you can buy any-|out of this sum. Since 1884 the un- thing for the table from "a chicken liver to a quarter of beef or a leg of mutton. The bpurchaser was always accompanied by her servant, who car- ried a huge basket, into which the articles were placed. “My friend informed me that the old | custom was again in vogue Iin St Louis, except tbat the daughters, in- stead of the mothers, now dé the buy- ing. H “Well, I submitted, of course, and | we started. On the way we were joined by others and by the time we reached the market place the procession was a block long. “I asked why they didn't telephone their orders or have a boy call for them, as we do In New York. They said that was obsolete in 8t. Louis. Thkey preferred to make their own se- lections, - the chief reason being that it was.a revival of a tradition, and St. Louis revels in tradition. “And then, i this ,way they always knew what the, - neighbors were going to have for dinner, so that if they were invited ‘out they would know whether | to accept or decline.” Washing Ribbons. ‘Wash-silk waists and ribbons, it should be remembered, by no means stand careless laundering. For white Sk waists the last rinsing water should ‘be very slightly blued, and no ‘waists or ribbons ever washed in very hot water. Make a lather of tepid ‘water, rubbing no soap directly on the fabric. If the garment is much soiled, soak it first in a little borax water. After rinsing in several waters it should be wrapped in a soft cloth, the moisture to be pressed, not wrung, out of it. It can be ironed at once while still wet, but a piece of thin muslin must be put between the iron and the ‘silk, so long as a bit of moisture re- mains in it, otherwise the iron will streak the fabric in a way that is dif- ficult’ to remove. When the silk is ‘quite dry and fairly smooth, it may be ‘finally ironed over lightly without the firmness silk, a tea- to a quart 3 last claimed effects of soldiers who have died while serving their country have | reached the large total of $692,000. Na- | val prize money undistributed because unclaimed foets up $1,350,000. It has been suggested that an annual return should be issued giving full par- ticulars of all unclaimed sums of 250 pounds and upward in the various Gov- ernment departments. If thls were done and advertised there is little deoubt that much of the money would be promptly claimed. But the British Government is hardly likely to take any action that will deprive it of such a considerable source of revenue. A Prize Tomato. To suoply nine persons possessed of healthy appetites with sufficient sliced tomatoes from one tomato was the feat performed by Mrs. Joshua J. W. Shock- ley, the wife of one of the round ser- geants of the Western district, last Sun- day at her home, 1937 Harlem avenue. And the tomato which assisted so ma- terially in appeasing the appetites of Sergeant and Mrs. Shockley, their fam- {ly and guests was plucked from a vine in their yard. It weighed just twenty- two and a2 half ounces and measured a | little over eighteen inches in circum- ference. The slices numbered about thirty and filled two good-sized bowls. The vine from which the remarkable vegetable was plucked was set out on June 22 by Mrs. Shockley and was one of a number that had been cultivated earlier in the season by her husband. There are still sixteen tomatoes on! the vine, most of them unusually large, but none as large as the one used last Sunday, which was the first to be picked from that vine.—Baltimore Sun. PEARL FISHING IN KANSAS. A number of professional pearl hunt- ers are now at Ottawa, Kas., for the purpose of making a systematic hunt of the Marais des Cygnes for pearl- bearing clams. It is not generally known that some beautiful pearls have been taken from Kansas waters. Usu- ally they are found by boys in swim- ming or wading, and it is not known that they have ever been professionally searched for. Not I since a boy near found )&l’\‘fll& sold for are | . Special information B Siooine . | itornie street” were two small gamins. One of them | exclaimed: “Hullo, Jimmy, see de soldlers?” “Dem ain’t no soldiers,” replied Jimmy with lofty disdain, “Dem's gen- erals!™ Answers. WHAT CHEER HOUSE—Reader, City. What was known as the What Cheer House on Sacramento street, in the early days of San Francisco, was opened in 1852 by R. B. Woodward. TARWEED—W. M., City. The best way to have tarweed removed from woolen goods is to give the article to a professional cleaner. It will In the end save time, trouble and the goods, for the reason that what might be good for ome class of woolen goods might be detrimental to another. CLUBS—M. F., City. “The Club” on iginally consisted of a small number of persons of kindred tastes and pur- suits, who met together at stated times. The first club In England of which there is a record was the Rota, a political one, organized in 1659. The first civil and professional club was es- tablished in 1669, the first literary the Kit-Cat, in 1700, and the lme‘flnn': arts club, the Dilettanti, In 1734. ELECTRICITY —Subscriber, Brent- wood, Cal. An electrician is one who studies electricity and investigates its properties by experiment and observa- tion; one Who is versed in the science of electricity; one who is engaged in the making or supplying of electrical apparatus and appliances. Electrical engineering is the science and art of utilizing electricity, the production of light, heat and: ve po;nr in the transmission of e and its application to a great variety processes. It also includes the .ch-:: and art of the ‘erection and main- bl e of telegraph and electric rail- way systems, signals, etc. \The pensaticn is regulated ‘Mz:; andthglmo\mtolwwkm..m_ formed. R Townsend's California Glace artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 —_—————— Finest eveglasses. 15¢ to 50c. st. front of Key's Celebrated Oyster h‘. supplied daily to fruits tn ate