The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 27, 1904, Page 8

2 T FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKELS. ..ccc0vee sasssssssssssssssssscscscce ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO . JOHN MCNAUGHT. .ccccecesmacccassancsese sessssesesseccatrs ‘slanager PUBLICATION OFFIC] .. .THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO .SEPTEMBER 27, 1904 TUESDAY .. VOTE THE OAKLAND BONDS. HE CALL has taken pains, by personal examination, to affirm T the wisdom and necessity of the improvements prqposed by the bond issue in Oakland. The opposition is on two lines. One of these conmsists of vicious misrepresentation of the features of the proposed Central Park. The various improvement committees of Oakland have shown the courage of their convictions by prqvxdmg free transportation to the park for all citizens who desire to inspect it, that they might vote “caveat emptor” on the proposition, believing their eves rather than the idle tales of malicious parties. It is to be regretted that the wet weather interfered with this popular inspec- tion, but a large number of doubters have taken advantage of the opportunity and have had their doubts resolved in favor of the pur- chase. Upon the structure of prejudice built upon these misrepresenta- | tions the second line of opposition begins. This part of the fight | against improvements has been led by Assessor Dalton. His plan | has been to point out, and impress by reiteration, the increase in tax- ation that will be imposed by the bonds. Of course all improve- | ments which bring a city up to the modern standard must be paid | for, either by immediate taxation, or in installments by the issue of | bonds. If there be validity in the arguments made by Mr. Dalton, then there should never be any public improvements in Oakland, be- | cause whenever and however made they must be paid for by taxation | of the realty and personalty of the city. There can be no other con- | clusion from his argument. If it is good as against the improvements | now proposed, it is good as against any future proposition. If Mr. | Dalton prevail the result will be that Oakland will be set down and | widely known as a city that refuses to make public improvements and decides to make no use of its great natural advantages. | Such a reputation means the retrogression of a city. It means| that it decides to stand still, and either that or a less rate of progress than its rivals show is retrogression. Los Angeles, no more fa-i limate than Oakland, and far less favored by location and | tions, paid a tax of 4 1-2 per cent to secure the class of | imp: ents which Oakland is asked to reject. Artificial watcri parks were made. Where land parks had no variety of surface hills { 1 made, and Los Angeles has been made one of the most at-| vored by cl sce were tractive cities in the Union, and the cost of it all has come back al hundredfold to her people. She had her Daltons, but they preached | non-progression in vain, and are to-day participators in the prosperity 1 that has followed rejection of their advice. No city has ever been improved to death. Frequently the effort | to begin improvement has been opposed as spelling ruin. But it has | spelled life instead of death. When Alexander Shepherd decided | that Washington City should rise out of the mud and be a beautiful | city he was opposed and abused at every step. He became an issue | in national politics, but he persisted until the national capital was | one of the most beautiful cities of the world. Then, having | ht his battle and enriched those who abused him, he retired with | his personal fortunes ruined, to recoup himself in a foreign country“ | Years afterward the city invited him to come as its guest, to be re- ceived en fete and get such an ascription of honor as has never been' given to any othet citizen of the District of Columbia, not even ex- ing Corcoran, the public spirited banker. The people of Oakland should not be blind to what is going | on. Population is on the march toward the centers of activity on this | co! The whole country from San Francisco to Palo Alto is being | m accessible by half-hour trains. It is being cut into town lots | and these are selling at prices that would make a real estate owner in Oakland turn green with envy. Everything is done to make these | new districts attractive. They are drawing a population of which | Oakland would get an appreciable percentage if she had any drawing power in the shape of public improvements to so beautify her ad- vantages as to make them irresistible. The same policy of attraction is in operation north of San Francisco, on the west side of the bay. While this is going on, does Oakland propose to stand still? Now is | her opportunity, and opportunity usually waits for invitation and,‘w i goes on, not to return. | { | p not getting it The individual knocker is not a citizen whom others wish to have for a neighbor. The man who inveighs against his neighbors, who questions their motives, who is envious of the prosperity of others, who declares the dishonesty of all men except himself, is not | welcome in any company. When a'whole city becomes a knocker | people avoid it. Oakland marvels that Los Angeles has overtaken | and passed her. When Oakland was the best known city in Califor- nia after San Francisco Los Angeles was an adobe fown, dust cov- ered and forlorn. But it soon became a town where knockers were not heeded, and now has its reward. We cannot believe that Oakland will refuse this opportunity. ! Her people should remember that the whole scheme of improvements | is a complete structure. One depends for its effect upon all the others. They should not hack the scheme into pieces, but vote it all, and not one will regret that he helped to knock the knockers. | | O —— ! . TRANS-MISSISSIPPI CONGRESS. | SPECIAL interest attaches to the coming fifteenth session of | A the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, to be held at St.| Louis during the last week in October, because of the fact that | the States and Territories represented therein are those whose gen- | eral interests are typified by the exposition. The twenty-four com-| monwealths of the West whose delegates meet to discuss matters of | commen import are those that give to the fair its character as an ex- | position of Western progress and Western spirit and this congress | will be the expression of those elements in terms of practical value. Besides questions of direct local import to the individual States repredented the Congress will busy itself with the investigation of | measures having a broad significance for all sections represented. Many of the issues of the coming Presidential campaign which have immediate interest to the whole West are scheduled for considera- | tion. The Panama canal, the merchant marine, reclamation of the | semi-arid lands by Government works, the construction of the Pacific cable and the improvement of the consular service—these issues touch all of the units represented in the convention. Reciprocity be- tween this country and Canada, Mexico and South American repub- lics will find place in the programme; railroad transportation rates and steamship facilities will be brought before the delegates; forest preservation and the Government control of ranges and grazing lands also are billed for attention. The Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress is able to point to successful results of its deliberations in the past. As an expression | of the common will of the great West it has had weight with Con- gressional deliberations in the past and has enjoyed the confidence of all of the constituent States and Territories in these efforts at the direction of legislative action. The coming session will probably be as productive of happy results as any of the others. —— An Ohio Judge has delivered himself of the opinion that many | wives drive their husbands to drink. This judicial confirmation of a | notion popular among certain classes will not serve to elevate the general conception of the conjugal relation. —_—— Since Colonel Henry Watterson has tabooed the “pert para- graph” in editorial writing a certain prominent Parker organ in Louisville must now confine itself to ponderous philippics instead of indulging in the light thrust of. satire In these days of many expositions it is not to be forgotten that South Africa is soon to have an industrial fair of her own at Cape Town. The Chinese workingman may be given the place of star attraction. It is not probable that Judge Parker’s injunction that no mud- slinging should appear in the Democratic campaign book was in- spired by David B. Hill. ’ | ing, ORI T S st COPYRIGHT, 1804, BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WITH THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. | | WHY NOT BEGIN AT HOME? John Sharp Williams Has a Ballot Box for the Igorrote, but None for the M ississippi Negro. g SHE SEWS UP E TROUSERS THAT DOGGIE TORE N. J. Hibbard, 75 years of age, Nestor | of New York letter-carriers, who was appointed a carrier in May, 1867, after his return from the Civil War, went on Tuesday to the West End Hotel, in Fort ‘Washington Park, to deliver a letter to Mrs. Vincent Waters, says the New York World. As the veteran carrier | was mounting the stairs to the hotel | Mrs. Waters’ fox terrier sprang at him and imbedded its teeth in the right leg of his trousers above the knee, Hibbard jumped aslde as the dog went for him again, but the animal dug its teeth into his trousers a sec- ond time, tearing them much and in- flicting a slight flesh wound. The car- rier was angry and the mistress of the dog mortified. Mrs. Waters apologized to Hibbard and begged for permission to sew the trousers. Hibbard bilushed. He wouldn’t think of such a thing! Mrs. Waters is a very attractive-looking woman. She insisted that he allow her to sew the torn uniform, and Hibbard, still blush- yielded. He asked whether he should retire and send the trousers by a bellboy, but Mrs. Waters sald that | formality was not necessary; she would sew up the tear while the trousers were still on him. So Hibbard knelt down and Mrs. Waters sewed up the trousers neatly. When the job was completed Hibbard thanked her and forgave the dog. Charitable English Woman. Louisa, Lady Ashburton, is sald to be, next to Lady Burdett-Coutts, the richest woman in England, and owns many choice works of art. She is very religious and opens her ome to meet- ings. She is also most gharitable and has given a seamen’s home at the East India docks, and a school for the train- ing of servant girls. + CAPTAIN MARY GREENE IS Captain Mary Becker Greene is the only woman steamboat master plying | the waters of the Mississippi .and Ohio. She’s the only woman pilot. There’s not a river man along that stream who does not know and ad- mire Captain Mary Greene. Nor is there a merchant or a farmer at any of the upper Ohio landings who does not favor her in his shipments and wish her well. She has won the respect of them all by her business tact and skill. They like the way she has stuck by her husband and helped make his business go. She enjoys the river life—she revels in it—and nothing affords her such keen delight as to pass an evening with her husband in the pilot house where the fresh breezes blow. So attached to the life and to her| husband’s business had she become | ihat in-1895 she tried for and was suc- WANT TO GET RID OF COMIC VALENTINES Members of the Friday Club of Hillsboro, Ohio, ask club women the world over to assist the movement they have inaugurated to suppress the comic valentine in its present dis- graceful form, which poisons the pure atmosphere of childhood and teaches a false conception of humor. The women of that town have already ap- pealed to all shops dealing in valen- tines and many proprietors have prom- ised co-operation. It seems that most of the comic valentines are bought by children, who distribute them among themselves. A club woman was recently inter- viewed about the matter and she said that the pictures were very disgrace- ful and she could not see why they are not forbidden circulation by the Board of Education. She was certain that St. Valentine's day was not meant to teach children to make fun of one another and be spiteful. “Such valentines teach no one any good and are of no possible use,” said this woman. “I don’t see why they were ever put on sale. They ought, at any rate, not to be sold to children. 1 have see youngsters buy them by the dozen, inclose them in envelopes and send them to their friends. It causes a great deal of ill-feeling among the sensitive children and will bear no good fruits. The sooner that these valentines are banished from the stores the better, I hope that club women will take some steps in regard to the matter.” Few. Prayers,—Yern—Now, if all men would only vote as they pray, this would truly be a happy world. Dern—But if that should ever hap- pen you wouldn’'t get the average man to the polls once in ten years—Catho- lic Standard. cessful in securing a master’s license, at which her husband, then a strug- ling river captain, decided to make her his business partner, and bought for her a controlling interest in the steamer Argand, of which for more than a year she was sole master, plying the Ohio frem Wheeling to Parkersburg, and winning the approbation and the busi- ness of all the shippers along those landings. And in all that time, she proudly declares, the Argand made but one losing trip. .. It was Mrs. Greene who conceived and put up the new and elegant Green- land, and who proposed the startling scheme for reopening the old Pitts- burg-St. Louis passenger boat service that had been driven out of existence by the railroads a score of years be- fore. \ The plan was a daring one, but Cap- tain Gordon G. Greene had never yet GIRL PUNISHES MASHER WITH A NEWSPFPAFPER In the presence of a crowd of passen- gers a new version of “Beauty and the Beast” was rehearsed on a Third Ave- nue Elevated Railroad car in New York the other morning. On a train was an exceedingly pretty girl, tastefully dressed, and with a wealth of naturally blonde hair. She occupied a corner of one of the cross seats and was absorbed in a news- paper. At One Hundred and Twenty- fifth street the Beast entered and took a seat igmediately facing Beauty. He was evidently of foreign origin. From the moment he sat down he never took his gray eyes from the face of the girl. Although she kept her eyes fixed on her newspaper it was evident that Beauty keenly felt the in- sult. At the Twenty-third street station Beauty, who had been nervously squeezing her newspaper into a hard club, suddenly arose with cheeks aflame and struck the Beast across the face. Again and again did she strike him, on the right cheek, then on the left, while he cowered and tried to ward off the blows with his arms. Then he, too, rose, crying out, “The woman’s crazy.” For an instant he seemed about to strike the Beauty, but every man in the car was on his feet, and the Beast thought better of it. Dashing down the aisle he reached the open gate, jumped to the station plat- form and sprinted down the stairs to the street. Negro Woman a Lawyer. For he first time in the history of Kentucky a negro woman has been ad- mitted as a member of the bar and li- censed to practice law. She was exam- ined before the Circuit Court and passed. She is Mrs. 8. J. 8. Wite of Louisville. THE ONLY: - MISSISSIPPI PILOT OF HER SEX made a mistake by listening to the counsels of his good wife and business partner, and the Greenland was built especially for-the World's Fair service. In 1902, at Gallipolis, O., she had been granted a new license for five years as master and pilot, and was de- termined to help her husband in every way with the novel plan of reviving the old-fashioned river service and fighting the railroads. Already she has seen his business grow till he had come 11to possession of the Greenwood, the Evergreen, the Cricket and the Greenland. Now for success with the latest addition to the Greene line fleet! The Greenland was launched at Ma- rietta, O., August 5, 1903, and on May 23 started from Pittsburg on its first trip to the World’s Fair, the first st-h voyage since 1884. The distance is a total of 2300 miles round trip, and the | 11 | | | | | | | | ! FEW POINTERS TO WOMAN FAIR ABOUT HER AGE | | The woman who constantly scans the mirror for wrinkles will be cer-| tain to discover them soon. A few women worry so much about old age that they never get a chance‘ to enjoy youth. H On the shady side of 35 a woman can do lots of things she wouldn't dare to before. Many a woman who can make men tremble is tyrannized over by a little piece of glass with quicksilver behind it. hink of the relief of no longer | having to move heaven and earth to| look young and captivating. Up to a certain age soft gray and} pale mauves make a woman look old- | er than she is; after that they make | her look younger. | | The best face wash is a smile, and a cheerful heart will longest defer the traces of old age. If you have grown old in spinster- hood, consider the rascal you may have escaped marrying. Age is not wrinkles and gray hair; it is shriveled heart, dead hopes and | withered affections, which not time | but our own folly brings us. ‘Woman Agriculturist. "Mrs. Fanny N. Berthe, who superin- tends the bee and honey exhibit at| the St. Louis exposition, is one of the most successful agriculturists in the world. She has an apiary in Winona, | Minnesota, and for three years has| filled the office of treasurer to the bee raigsers’ association of that State. | _— westbound and seven days on the re- | turn from St. Louis, down the Missis- | sippi and up the Ohio.to Pittsburs. It is Captain Mary Greene to whom must go such of the credit for reviv- | ing the old river passenger service and | for bringing people from all along the Ohio River to the World’s Fair, when | perhaps the railroads might' have | tempted them. It was Captain Mary ¢ reene, master on “any Western or Southern river,” she who has never known an accident in the fourteen years of her life as a pilot and river captain. It was she who to-day is master of the trim craft Greenland when her husband steps ashore, she who is the lawful captain when her hushand takes the place of a pilot who is sick, she who fllls the law’s requirement by standing a mate’s watch when all is not well aboard.—St. Louis Post-Dis- ‘traveling time is five and one-half days | patch. | musie teacher. MISS FLORENCE WAS, INDEED, RIGHT. The mention of the common name of Smith causes one woman in Chicago a thrill of horror in the memory of a very embarrassing situation in which her haste in jumping to a conclusion placed her, says the Journal of that city. She and her daughter were going West for the summer. When they reached the depot the rain was coming | down in torrents and she immediately retired to the Pullman. Just five min- utes before the time for the train to leave her daughter remembered a tele- gram to be sent. Her father had just gone to the platform and she hurried after him. A man with a satchel rushed past them into the mext car. Her father | stopped him with a demand to know where he was going. “San Francisco,” was the reply. “I'm awfully glad you're going to be {on the train, old man.” “I'm sorry I'm mot. My wife and daughter are going. My daughter, Mr. Smith.” Just then the train began to move. The girl went intq one car, the ‘'man to another. Two hours afterward he passed through the car where she and her mother were trying to while away the tedium of an overland journey. The girl smiled and the man nodded. Her mother saw the latter. She turned sharply to her daughter. “Florence,” she said, “do you know that man?” Why Florence did it she cannot ex- plain. It was the only prospect of fun in the three days’ journey. “Well—not exactly,” she replied. “Did you bow to him?"” “Well, yes.” “Florence, I am ashamed that a daughter of mine should descend to such cheapness. It grieves me. 1 never thought you would flirt. You must promise me never to do anything of the kind again.” For an hour she discoursed upon her indignation at the thought. Florence listened dutifully and with apparent penitence. At Omaha she took care to walk past the window where her mother sat after she had managed to meet Mr. Smith on the platform. An- other lecture lasted as far as Denver. The climax came when at Denver Florence met Mr. Smith at the door of the car and went out of the station with him. When she returned her mother transfixed her with an angry stare. “You are never to speak to that man again,” she announced. The man was standing within ear- shot. “But mother”"—the girl began to think she had carried the joke far enough— “he is a friend of father's. Father in- troduced him to me at the depot. His name is Smith.” “I did not think that with your other faults you would descend to falsehood. Smith! He does not look like the kind of man who would be a friend of your father. You cannot expect me to be- Heve such a tale.” All through the West she kept Flor- ence under a surveillance that would have done credit to a duenna. When they returned last week her husband telephoned that he would bring a friend to dinner. With her most gracious manner she | advanced to the library to meet—Mr. Smith. ALLIANCE NEEDS NO SPECIAL ORGAN. Editor The Call: Persistent rumors bave been running that the Citizens’ | Alliance intends starting a newspaper, | daily or otherwise, as its organ in San Francisco. To set such rumors at rest, I wish to say that the Alliance has not and never had such Intention. The purpose of the Alliance is to enforce the law in industrial matters against all violators; to protect all labor in the | proper pursuit of its vocation and the | peaceable use of the streets and the highways on its way to and from its toil; to protect every business man and taxpayer in the exercise of his lawful rights, and the profitable use of his property, and to enfranchise all labor, non-union as well as unton, and liber- ate every man from bondage to the ar- | bitrary will of another and put him in full enjoyment of civil liberty. The Alliance is well assured that these purposes, so necessary to indus- trial prosperity, have tne sympathy, and when needed will have the support of the press of this city, and it needs no organ of its own through which to support a policy so necéssary to the good of the whole community and se entirely in line with true Americanism. Like all organizations, as it has shown its strength, as it has successfully in- voked the law in defense of the rights of person and property, as it has curb- ed lawlessness and made the city freer than it has been for years, parasites appear who try to get some personal prestige or profit by soliciting advan- tages In its name. To them must the origin of such rumors be attributed. They merely demonstrate that the Al- lance is something that must be reck- oned with, and the public will soon learn to discriminate between its au- thorized and its pretended representa- tives. The Alliance is fulfilling its mission. It is among the permanent forces nec- essary to the industrial equilibrium upon which the peace and prosperity of all must depend. It is in no more need of a special organ than is the principle of morality or the spirit of liberty. HERBERT GEORGE, President. Her Piano in the Woods. Miss Claude Elydia Burkhalter of Peoria, Ill., has had her piano carried into the woods a mile and a half from the nearest house and placed under the spreading boughs of a large oak tree, where she can play with the songs of the birds as an accompaniment and be next to nature, from which she hopes to get inspiration. Miss Burkhalter is a She has improvised a cottage in the woods and lives near her piano. Townsend's California Glace fruits In artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.® ——————— Special information plied dally to ifornia street. Tmllh)hfl. i