The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1904, Page 8

THE N FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDA OCTOBER 2 THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL, JOHN D. SPRECKELS. ICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT ¢ e PUBLICATION OFFICF s hearers a poor “sane checks in- Judice He igence of y to have employers and em- an age limit for 4 certain class Cor terpose: ployes of skilled artisans. | Wi a Congressional committee investigated the great strike | at Homestead, Pennsylvania, in 1892, one of the Democratic mem- ! bers « s return to the House expressed to that body his surprise | t the sirike was started by artisans who were receiving of from $15 to S lay, and who rode to their work in carriages. The fact is that the class of skilled artisans in iron business, upon whom the employers fix an age years, are the highest paid workmen in the world. It t that their work is not of the kind that causes physical ay. It is a matter of skilled and expert judgment, of the eye to detect by its external appearance the con- 1e metal which fits it for each process to which it is to be a limit of fort is also the fac austion or d r dition of t subjected sh says that the age limit means that men are to be he breaking point and then sent to the scrap heap.” It It means that highly paid artisans, who get more salary than a member of Congress, shall seek other avenues of activity and for the use of the competence which they acquire, if they have thrift, and make room for others, to enjoy the same op-- nity and get capital for the varied profitable uses to which it may be put. The idea of the eight-hour day is to give employment to more men. If the labor unions are right in dictating the beginning and the end of a day’s work, who shall say that the employers are wrong in applying exactly the same principle, in order to make room for more men and new men in the departments that pay the highest | wages in the world? The young men who have qualified themselves for that work and who are denied it, while employes grown rich ride to and from a steel or iron mill in their own carriages, will not sym- pathize with Mr. Livernash’s views. But, aside from this explanatory statement, suppose we grant Mr. Livernash’s declaration that an age limit so imposed upon that highly paid labor will cause our children to “inherit from our generation conditions of terrible grav- ity,” how is he going to correct it by an act of Congress? | There are all around us certain social conditions open to criti- m, but they originate in the voluntary constitution of society, and not in civil government, nor are they subject to governmental con- trol. His pretense that he can get a law of Congress that will keep a class of highly paid artisans in employment to an indefinite age is a pretense and no more. It would be legislation to keep out of t class of employment others qualified to earn its large emolu- | It would be a limitation of their rights. It is known that the age limit fixed by employers for this highly paid labor is fixed by | experience. It is put at the age at which the artisans themselves choose to retire and use their accumulated capital for profit in other lines of life. We do not recall any complaint from the artisans who are affec by the limitation, while the men who stand waiting for the places they vacate, the men who would be denied the employ-| ment by Mr, Livernash’s impossible law, have only satisfaction to express The Government itself fixes age limits. There is a limitation | of age put by law to every branch of the public civil service. There is also an age limit in the officiary of the army and navy, which does exactly what is done by the similar limit upon highly paid artisans, by furnishing promotion clear down the line. Why does not Mr. | ash inveigh against these age limitations imposed by the Gov-| ernment itself. “run to means no such thing. port cisr nents The answer is obvious. He would not get any benefit politically | by such an appeal. He represents a class and appeals to a class, in a matter which he thinks it does not understand well enough to en-| danger exposure of the motive. | Another thing is noticeable in his treatment of the subject. He | speaks always of the employers, the men of enterprise, who organize the great wage-paying industries of the country, as the enemies of labor and the destroyers of the human race. They are represented as heedless of the national welfare, desirous of destroying national growth and prosperity, monsters to be curbed while they are permit- ted to operate, and to be eliminated as soon as he can secure laws to do it! The fact is that these men whose destruction he contemp]ales" with savage pleasure nearly all came up through all the grades of | labor. He instances Andrew Carnegie as one of these offenders. | Whatever may be said of Carnegie it need not be forgotten that he started in this country as a poor, uneducated Scotch boy, with a widowed mother to support, and beginning in the lowliest employ- ment, by pursuit of a high ideal made his way. He secured wealth, but what man in all history has given of it more liberally for (he! benefit of all men? In his youth poverty denied to him schools and | books, and he made a vow that if fortune came to him he would use it in putting books within reach of those like himself. So he has given more than $100,000,000 to libraries and to learning. His pos- session of a great fortune may be criticized, but nothing should rob him of the credit of the use to which it is put. The limitation of fortunes, and revolutionary interference by ar- bitrary law with the social concerns of men, may make a campaign argument that appeals to some men, but the candidate who promises | these things must know that he promises the impossible, and is in- | flaming class hatred for his own purposes. Tanarchists and extremists. Attempts to tamper with the army | have been discovered, and labor strikes have been provoked for | the purpose of cloaking the far deeper designs of the reactionaries. | The Government has taken extraordinary precautions, and so far has | succeeded in holding local insurrections in check. Still, it is ap- | parent that if the several centers of disorder could be put under com- | mand of a leader with the boldness to risk it the disturbance would develop into an attempt to subvert the national Government. | The Parliament, assembled in extraordinary session, has received | the programme of the Ministry. This includes the enlargement of | educational facilities and reforms in taxation. The system of tax-| ation in Italy is the most varied and vicious in the world, not cx~'] cepting that of Turkey. Different methods prevail in the extremes of | the kingdom, but all are grossly oppressive and unequal. Among | other inexcusable inequalities it is the law in some parts of Italy to tax a team that pulls a plow or a farm cart, while exempting a team | that draws a carriage! In like manner the property and processes of | industrial utility are burdened by high taxes, while the property and | processes of luxury and leisure are in whole or in great part exempt. What Italy needs is a utilitarian statesman, free from the in- fluence of wealth and class, with a profound economic training, to revise taxation by sweeping away entirely the existing system and substituting for it the methods of modern states. It is surprising that the burdens imposed in feudal times in many cases remain un- changed. The various public exactions imposed in the Grand Duchies | have been undisturbed, though the rule of the Grand Drukes ‘s long* bygone. Italian statesmanship was long occupied with the unnica- tion of the kingdom, and since that was effected has been engaged with sectiring uniformity of jurisprudence, and has been too much diverted to ill-starred military adventures in Ethiopia. Now the time has come to exercise the greatest functien of government, lightening ! and equalizing the burden of taxation. If Italy do this well, it mayi yet be well with Italy, S : | | | THE CONDITION OF ITALY. HE Italian Government stands in fear of a revolution, led by . Proprietor | | | mines at Statsturt. 1 SUCH A The Fortune Teller: “You Are Contemtlating a,Trip to Washington, Judge; You Won't Take It.” \s ovc—‘//..;ti——— | COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WITH THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. DISAPPOINTMENT! S RUFFLED FRONT. Caps are certainly coming into fash- ion both for outdoor and indoor wear. By “caps” is meant what used to be called by our grandmothers fronts, when in the form of ruches and ruffles they filled in the wide brim of a coal scuttle bonnet or nestled demurely be- neath a mushroom hat. The brim of a straw hat now looks far too hard as the framework of a face if it is not softened with a babyish looking ruffle of lawn or lace, or with a lace scarf arfanged as a flounce. Girls are wear- ing sun bonnets made of old fashioned lilee and pink print, or of pure white lawn. An Automatic Salt Train. Germany possesses a miniature but most useful railway to which no par- | allel is found in this country, says the New York Tribune. that its trains have ne drivers. It Is used for carrying salt from the salt The trains con- sist of thirty trucks, each carrying half a ton of salt. The engines are electric, of 24-horsepower each. As it ap- proaches a station, of which there are five along the line, the train automati- cally rings a bell and the station at- tendant turns a switch to receive it. He is able to stop it at any moment. To start it again he stands on the lo- comotive, switches the current and then descends again before the engine has gained speed. Its peculiarity is GOOD AUTHORITY. Knicker—I heard you are going to move. Bocker—Who told you that? Knicker—Your landlord. = .l: HIS ADVICE. Wickham (sickly)—I'm all run down. Jickam (an automobilist)~Why don’t you get an automobile and run the other fellows down? =] SPARK OF INDEPENDENCE MAKES YOU BETTER WIFE She has been married six years and it is an open secret that she is an ex- ceptionally happy wife and her hus- band a thoroughly contented man. For this reason it was meet that every woman in the little circle should | listen with close attention when she opened her mouth and spoke on the subject of domestic felicity: “What do I regard as essentials on the wife’s part to happy married life? Well, first, I think I should say ind pendence.” No woman can hold man's love by groxeling. “Second, sympathy. Have sympathy for him in all things and let him know NEW FAD IN RINGS. “The latest novelty,” said the jeweler, “is a ring of unique design much in de- susceptible girls. It Is a flat band, the surface being embossed in the form of a bar of music. There are the notes d, e and a, and then comes a rest. You see this makes the word ‘“dear- est.” Some of them are set with jewels and are very expensive, while others are simply the gold bands. The latter, of course, have the greatest sale, but there is also quite a demand for the higher priced ones.””—Philadeiphia Rec- ord. A Refined Compliment. mand among young swains as a gift to | Last night at 8 o'clock, in St. Mary's Cathedral, Miss Romilda Sbarboro, | | daughter of Andrea Sbarboro, president | | of the Itallan-American Bank, was | | united in marriage to Guido Musto. Father Ramm performed the ceremony, | | after which a reception was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sbarboro on | Washington street. In the bridal party | were Mrs. Henry Sartori, who was| matron of honor, Miss Bessie Bates serving as maid of honor, and the| bridesmaids were; Miss Leonora Musto, Miss Elizabeth Dufficy of San Rafael, Miss Marion Godfrey and Miss Mar- | gherita de Vecchi. The groom was | served by Romolo Sbarboro as best man, the ushers being Willlam Wilson, Dr. A. Gianinni, George Panario, Reno | Sbarboro. The decorations, beautiful | and unusual in character, were brought | from the Asti vineyards of the Italian- Swiss colony, the location of the Sbar- boro's Pompeiian villa, their magnifi- cent country home. Olive branches, grape vines and bamboo, draped and entwined all about the dining hall, | | gave almost an outdoor appearance, | and the suggesting whiff of country air | | was a refreshing comparison to the | heavy perfume of exotics. | At the wedding supper each guest | was the recipient of a souvenir flnls~; tically original, bearing a faithfully | | portrayed likeness of the bride in her | wedding gown. | Mr. and Mrs. Musto, after a wedding journey, will live in a pretty home a | 2312 Van Ness avenue. e | | Arthur B. Watson, who has been suf- | | fering severely from an operation oc | casioned by serious ear trouble, is rap | idly improving and was moved yester- | day from the Railroad Hospital to the !hume of his brother, Douglas Watson. | W : Miss Adah Howell and Charles Wil- | | liams were married yesterday in Mis- | | sissippi, where the bride’s father, Cap- | tain Howell, is stationed. Miss Howell | | was a great favorite here in society | !and army circles. When Captain | Howell was transferred to an Eastern | station, taking his family with him, there was much disappointment in Miss Adah’s realm of admirers. Then | came the news of her engagement to Mr. Williams, who is reputed to be elegible and wealthy, and now. the wedding bells have rung for them. | Across the continent have sped the | sincerest congratulations to this young | couple whose happiness is an upper- most wish in the thoughts of many San Franciscans. . * Miss Marie Wells was the cynosure of all eyes at the Sequoia Club on | Tuesday evening. A vision in red, | cap-a-pie, she was indeed a plcture. (oo S Miss Stelfa Peck is with her father, | - THE SMART SET + BY SALLY SHARP. | ana coffee planter at Hilo. TR Philip Peck. at the. California Hotel, Philip Peck is a well-known banker nT., where his plantations are extensive, Miss Peck, who is a San Franciscan, will be the guest of Mrs. Henry Hy- man. &9 Lieutenant Albert Woodruff, son of General and Mrs. C. A. Woodruff, was married to Miss Daisy Hubbell in Pen- sacola, Fla., last week. Lieatenant Woodruff g well known here and served in the Philippines for a term. His bride is the daughter of Major Hubbell. Claude Terry Hamilten will live at the Cosmos Club this winter. He has just returned from an outing at Sau- salito. - . Mrs. W. P. Buckingham will give her first costume recital of “Macbeth” at Lyric Hall on Tuesday evening. October 25, repeating the reading on Saturday afternoon, October 29. This is the debut, as a professional reader, of Mrs. Buckingham, who is the founder of the Papyrus Club and well known among club women. These two af- fairs, which have the patronage of many society and club women, will be among the prominent events of the season. . S e e Mr. and Mrs. Simon Baruch an- ounce the engagement of their daugh- | ter, Carolyn, to Dr. Albert Cohen. The Sequoia Club “at home” on Tuesday evening enticed many hand- some gowns, which could not escape the comment of beauty lovers. Mrs. Thomas Morffew presented a striking appearance in black chiffon and Irish point lace, the creation befitting her wonderfully. Mrs. Kirkham Wright, with her two daughters, Miss Marion and Miss Jen- nie, has gone to St. Louis. Mr. Wright will meet the party in New York short- ly and all will leave for Europe some time in December. PigE Mr. and Mrs. Horace Hill are ex- pected home very soon from their Eu- ropean trip. . . Carey Van Fleet has returned from New York. - dir erte Mr. and Mrs. James Snook have taken apartments at the St. Francis for the winter, having leased their Broadway home. Judge and Mrs. Erskine M. Ross of Los Angeles have secured their regular apartments at the Palace for the win- ter. -+ K LADY FINGERS. Beat the yolks of three eggs and| | stir in one-quarter pound of powdered | sugar. Beat the whites of three eggs | stiff and add also one-half cup of flour, measured after sifting, and then sifted three times maore. Fill the sec- tions of a lady finger pan and bake in a moderate oven fifteen minutes. FUNNY WAYS. Funny way de worl’ go Underneath de sun, Po’ man got sixteen chillun, Rich man ain’t got none! Oh, believers, Pis yer worl’ is strange; Won't know nottin’ "hout it ‘Twel we make de glory change! that you have his welfare at heart; that in you he has his stanchest friend and most faithful counselor. “Third, common sense. Men have no patience with a silly, giggling, senseless woman. If you let him see that you have brains he will soon rec- At the instant Queen Elizabeth of England alighted at Kenilworth, on a vigit to Leicester, all the clocks in the castle were stopped, and by a delicate attention the hands continued to point tcward the moment of her arrival, since no one was to take note of time | simple than the usual method: Grate Funny way de worl’ go; W'en it's heaven ter win, Rich man squeeze thoo' de needle eye— Po’' man walk right in! ORANGE MARMALADE. This rule for marmalade is more | Oh, believers, Dis yer worl’ is strange! in't gwine on’erstan’ it n the thin vellow rind from one and "Twel we make de glory change! ognize that fact, and it will make him think of you as actually an equal, quite werthy of his confidence. In theory the twentieth century man has to re- gard his wife as an equal, of course; but in his secret heart he often re- tains the feeling that she isn't. Noth- ing, but brains on the woman’s part will bring that theory into every-day practice and make them comrades. “A wife who has trained herself in those three requirements will find that the smaller things in married life will shape themselves accordingly. Gain yeur husband’s admiration. Independ- ence, sympathy and brains will do it. Then if your natures are at all con- genial, you will be happy. “One thing,” she added, with a lit- tle smile, “don’t make your husband think that he and his likes and dis- likes are of more importance than yours, for they are not.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. USE OF BLACK AND WHITE. Black -and white is always popular and it is seldom that the combination is missing In an exhibition of hand- some gowns. One of these is of black.| velvet, with a petticoat front of white chiffon and Irish lace. The bodice is charming, cut out a little below the throat at the back and only a little lower in the front—a charming style for the woman who can wear it. At the back is the Directoire train from the waist, leaving exposed the broad petticoat front of chiffon and lace. The train is outlined with morning glories embroid- ered In tones of lavender; the sleeves are finished similarly. A WATERFROOF HAT. An inventive Austrian has designed a waterproof hat for women that is a wonder in its way. He has prepared celluloid in a special manner, permit- ting of its being woven into imitations | | . of the most delicate straw and modeled | | Into the most natural flowers. These | hats are being worn to a con-lderuble' extent in this city and are impervious to the heaviest downpour of rain. | KEEPING RIBBONS. The fastidious girl secures a number of wide pasteboard ribbon rolls from the dry goods store and keeps her neck and belt ribbons smoothly rolled over them. during the royal sojourn there. Motor Torpedo-Boat. M. P. Chauchard, the well-known French motorist, announces that he has succeeded in adapting the tor- pedo tube to motor-boats. With great speed and small size, the vessel scouting. . Extension of British Museum. Fourteen large houses in Blooms- bury, London, have been demolished for the British Museum extension. HIS IDEA. The Minister—It's very sad to think that every man has his price. The Politician—Yes, but it's sadder to think that most of the time he can't get it. Standard Time for India. Indla is soon to receive the benefits of standard time, and it Is proposed to adopt in that country, for the use of the railways and telegraph lines, a time standard exactly five and a halt hours earlier than that of Greenwich, says Harper's Weekly. Burmah, which lies still farther to the east, will have for the same purpose a stan- dard of six and a half hours earlier than Greenwich. The proposition is also being considered by the Govern- ment of India to use standard time generall - A SECRET ORDER. “What do the women do at the secret | of a battle?” soclety your wife belongs to?” “Swap secrets, I guess.” the | is expected to render great service in | one-half oranges, then add the juice | of six oranges and cut the pulp into small pieces, discarding the fiber and | seeds. Cover with three quarts of i cold water and let stand twenty-four | hours. Then add three pounds of sugar and simmer slowly until reduced | one-half, which will make enough marmalade to fill six tumblers. APPLE FRITTERS. Pare and core tart apples and cut them in slices about one-third of an | inch thick, leaving the round opening in the center. Dip the slices in frit- ter batter made of one pint of milk, | three eggs, a little salt and a pint of flour. A teaspoonful of baking pow- der is sometimes mixed with the flour. Beat the eggs well, adding first | part of the milk and salt, then the | flour and the rest of the milk, alter- nately. Beat the batter together | quickly and add the apples imme- | diately. SPICED TOMATOES. Put into a preserving pan four | pounds of good even size red tomatoes | with two pounds of brown sugar, one pint of good vinegar and one-half ounce each of cloves and stick cinna- mon. Stew this all together very gently till the tomatoes are cooked, but not broken; then lift them out and set aside to cool. Continue sim- mering the syrup very slowly till it is quite thick. When the tomatoes are | quite cold reheat them gently in the syrup, and again lift them out, pack- ing when perfectly cold in jars, pour- ing the thick syrup, also quite cold, | over them, and cover down with | bladder. TOMATO CHOW-CHOW. | Cut up two quarts of green toma- | toes, one large cabbage, seven cor Ajei'ht onions and twelve or thirteen cucumbers. Mix these well, put them i into a bowl in layers, with salt be- | tween, and let them stand for twelve ; hours; then drain off the brine, | cover with vinegar and water, and | again let stand for another (velnl | hours. Meanwhile boil three quarts of vinegar for a few minutes with one good teacupful of grated horse- radish. four ounces of mustard seed, one-half ounce of celery seed, three ounces of ground pepper, the same| of turmeric, rather less of ground | cinnamon and two pounds of brown ! sugar. Drain the first vinegar from _the vegetables and cover the latter with the above, scalding hot. Let it all stand till perfectly cold, then add one teacupful of salad oil and about three ounces of ground mustard. Mix | it all thoroughly and store in jars. Will Be Buckled Later. “1 wonder why she wears that army belt so ostentatiously. Is it a souvenir “Yes, an engagement with an army officer.”"—Boston Globe. —aAtlanta Constitution. SHE 60T THE CHECK. A check three feet long and nineteen inches wide was received at the West Branch National Bank, Willlamsport, Pa., the other day. It was for only $10 and was from J. W. Manchester of Bristol, R. 1., in faver of his daughter, Annie W. Manchester, who is visiting friends there. The check, while valid and regularly accepted and paid by the bank, was a practical joke played on Miss Manchester by her father. She had written to him asking that he send her a “big check.” HIS SILVERY LOCKS. An aged clergyman with silvery halr was the reciplent of several simultane- ous requests from young ladies for a lock of his hair. The requests were complied with, the clergyman being pleased to fulfill wishes which seemed founded on a sen- timent of respect and all went well until his wife received this note: “Dear Mrs. —:. Won't you please ask your husband to send me a little lock of his hair? We have all been taking les- song in making hair flowers. So many of the other girls asked him and he sent it to them that I thought I would rather ask you to get it for me. Won't you please do this for me? It Is so hard to get white hair for lilies of the val- ley.” ANSWERS TO QUERIES. NEUTRAL PORT—A Subseriber,City. The recent action of the United States in the case of the Russian cruiser Lena, which came into the port of San Francisco to have repairs made to her boilers, is the best answer this depart- ment can give as to “whether a battle- - ship belonging to a beiligerent nation can receive any assistance whatever in a neutral port.” Consult the flles of The Call for the action taken. NATIONALITY—C. M. City. A child is a native of the country in which born. One born in Mexico is a Mexi- can. Ome born in California is a na- tive of the United States, no matter what the npationality of the parents may be. Citizenship is different. A child born of Chinese parents or of white and Chinese parents is a native of the country in which born, but when that child reaches majority, 18 for fe- males generally and 21 for males, it may elect, by the performance of some act, to adopt the citizenship of the father. e ———— G ——— e Finest eyeglasses. 15¢ to 50c. 79 4th st., front of Key's Celebrated Oyster Bolu‘g ————— e . p Spectal information supplied daily tal ness houses and public men a Press Clipping Bureas (Allen's). 225 cal ifornia street. Telephone Main 1042. * ————— Townsend's California Glace fruits t‘ artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.