The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1905, Page 8

| 1 N R iy THE SANFRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECTELS.....cccoeee cevsseresseasanssssss, . IProprietor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO _THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, BAN FRANCISCO JOHN McNAUGHT PUBLICATIO 1 WEDNESDAY. . JANUARY 25, 1905 BREAK O' DAY BY HARRISON SMITH. THE TRANSPORTATION INTERESTS. HE railroads are massing a great force in Washington to oppose Tthe policy of the President. Mr. J. J. Hill of the Great Northern seems to be the field: marshal of this well organized army. Railroad officials are active among the millions of employes, who ares} told that if the President prevail, and succeed in reducing rates, there must be a corresponding reduction in the wages of the operatives. This is intended to effect results at the polls. A majority of the operatives are voters and each voter can influence one or more other voters, and the campaign will be carried into the next Congressional clection. The railroad view of the case was put very plainly and very ‘strongly during the late Senatorial contest at Sacramento. Union of that city, in an editorial expression, declared the right of the Southern Pacific to influence the election of a Senator, on the - ground that it represented an investment of $200,000,000, that was as much entitled to a voice in that election and in shaping the policy of legislation as the farmers and manufacturers. .ment sound? That a railroad has a right to protect itself from in- justice, and defend itself against measures that have mere spoliation for their purpose, no one denies, but that it occupies the same po- _sition as rural producers and manufacturers is not true. The men who from the soil produce the food stock of the coun- try; and the fibers for its clothing, as well as most of the manufac- turers, have no power to maké the price of their product. It is prepared and sent to market, there to be subject to the law of supply and demand, and as far as its export surplus is concerned to meet _the competition of other cofintries. The only control its owners have over it ceases when it leaves their hands and goes to market. ‘The products of the soil are at the producer’s risk. He has to con- tend against wind and weather, frost, flood and drought, and when these risks are passed has no power to recoup any loss they have “caused by adding it to the price paid by the consumer. To reach a market the producer has’to use a railroad or other means of trans- portation, and his freight has to be prepaid, or no shipment. Over the freight rate'he has no cofitrol. He has produce to sell and is ‘powerless to fix its price. The railroad has transportation to sell and fixes its own price, makes its own classification and takes its own time. It does this without regard to whether the producer gets “any profit or not. It shares none of his losses, assumes no part of his risks, and is indifferent to his fate, except that it desires him to produce tonnage which it carries for any rate it chooses to fix. ow this situation is not one to quarrel about, nor to become socialistic about. It inheres in the nature of things. The power to fix a rate for transportation affects every mouthful of food the people eat, every piece of clothing they wear, every board and shingle, brick and stone that goes into the houses that shelter them, and every pourid of coal that warms them or cooks their food. The rate of transportation, then, is in the nature of a tax levied upon all of the necessaries of life, and it is seen at once that the corporations which .fix that rate occupy a totally different place, and have a totally dif- ferent relation to the public welfare and to State and national leg- islation, from the producer and manufacturer. It is entirely with- in the power of a railroad company to say where any form of pro- ‘duction shall flourish and where it shall fade. In this State the railroads can say where flour is to be made and where not. If they are getting the benefit of the long haul into California of any manu- - factured product, they can prevent the manufacture of that product - here, no matter what its benefit to the State.. To say that a power of this kind is merely on an equality with the manufacturer and with . the tiller of the soil is to do violence to common sense and misrepre- _sent the economic facts. - The foregoing statement is not made in a spirit of enmity to railroads, nor with any desire to incite enmity toward them. Its _truth is known to every railroad manager in the United States. Com- pared with the rest of the world, all railroad rates are cheap in this country, and our railroad system is an object of pride to our people --and is the wonder of foreigners. Yet the evidence is indisputable that in levying a transportation tax upon the producer there are cry- ing inequities. When that tax is rebated to favored shippers the roads confess that it is higher to the non-favored shippers than it ought to be. It is known that on this coast and in this State certain producers and certain shippers of lumber and other articles depend for their profits upon rebate of this transportation tax. That is not a healthy nor reliable condition for business. The shipper that pros- pers under it this year may be ruined by its transfer to another next vear. It is a system that can be used for the advantage of transporta- tion only. The farmer cannot give a rebate on the price of his products to any favored consumer. He is powerless. Again, railroads can crush any form of manufacture and éobsolete it, ruin its projectors and’ damage the local community, by juggling with rates. The President proposes only that this vast power shall be sub- ject to Government control, that the levy of the transportation tax shall be subject to review, and that rates shall be for all, and not be 'secretly rebated for the benefit of a few. It will be seen that this is not a proposition to lower rates or to raise them. It is merely a ." proposijtion that this command of the welfare and condition of the people shall be put under control. It is our judgment that the transportation interests will do wisely by helping the President, and unwisely by hindering him. KLAMATH RECLAMATION SCHEME. ITH some of our worthy solons the word “recession” has | come to be such a bogey that it is shied from with fear and much frantic voicing of warnings whenever met. The matter of the Klamath Lake drainage scheme is a case in point. when the joint action of Oregon and California shall have brought about the irrigation of thousands of acres of heretofore barren bad- ‘lands, and the marshy borders of upper and lower Klamath lakes shall have been drained as a consequence, the Federal Government . will assert its title to all lands so drained, there are certain of the California Legislature who see in this a dangerbus “recession” of .. State lands to the National Government, Here again, as in the case of the Yosemite, it is necessary to " “call attention to the fact that nothing can be receded to the Federal Government which aiready helongs to it by inalienable right. The tidde cf the United States to the beds of such bodies of water as " those of the two lakes along the rorthern bjanrlary of the State is undisputed and when a portion of ‘these lake beds is exposed by dra:ning joint action of the Oregon and California Legislatures but makes formal asseveration of the Federal Gavernment's right to the e. Though Oregon’s interest in the proposed reclamation project is paramount, California has 4 great deal to gain from the successful prosecution of the work. By the lowering of the levels of upper and lower Klamath lakes vist reaches of land in Modoc and Siskiyou counties in this State and of Klamath County in the neighboring commonwealth will be turned over to irrigation and made a rich . grass country for stock. The proposed engineering works will neces- sitate the diversion of waters from one State to another. The Gov- ernment reclamation service has made provision for conducting the .work. It needs only the joint action of the two Legislatures in af- firming the Federal title to marsh lands thus drained to insure the im- mediate commencement of operations. A quibble over “recession” " should not be alldbwed to divert attention from the main ends in view. No change in the South is so great or so for lasting effect as the immigration that is gradually and steadily turning thither. The Com- missioner of Immigration has considered plans for reducing urban congestion by suggesting immigration to the South. Railroad agents are at work In the same direction. Already the process has become visible. In the growth of Southern manufacturing interests white labor is conspicuous, while in agri- cultural pursuits the presence of Italians chiefly is marked by a sufficiency of numbers to indicate the trend of development.—Indianapolis News. Y The | But is this argu- | Because | finite chagrin he discovered that those twelve motionless figures were canvas decoys, two of them with gaping sides where his shot had told. He had | wasted his ammunition on the decoys | while the ducks themselves had flown away unharmed. As the ridiculous truth flashed upon him Preston uttered a single word explosively—a short, expressive word. | In fact, he said “Damn!” and the i manner in which he said it left no doubt as to his meaning. AS he turned disgustedly from The pond a peal of merry laughter echoed from the underbrush. He made his | | | | \ | gun across her knees and tears of merriment streaming down her face. Preston stared at her in amazed help- lessness. “You here?” lously. The girl held her sides. ! he muttered incredu- way toward the sound and beheld | Miss Cuyler seated on the ground, a | Woman Clerk of j Federal’ Court. ; She Is the Onfy, | Whittell as the hostesses. | tertained | BY SALLY SHARP. ' the subject of ‘“Russla’s Grar‘x | Mujik,” by Count Leo Tolstol, was St. Francis one of the brilliant private! de‘{my Sl iy e Helen Bing balls of the winter was given with Mrs. el George Whittell and Miss Florence | . e Miss Katherine McCann and Misy der the roof ived in the | Deering, now visiting un iz tobad Aot | tree of the Kohls, will be most 4 drawing-room adjoining the ballroom,l eyt GRriie i ey where great bunches of carnatlons\&mv. stood about in brass vases. Fair, in T\here {s nothing more promising | all truth, was the young hostess in aiip. social forecast than the dance fetching frock of white chiffon satin|pe given by Mrs. Frederick Kohl and gold, displaying a superb POISe, | Fepruary 3 to the two fair New Yo gained, of course, from the big out-of-| opg | doors—wherein Miss Whittell spends 4 - - most of her waking hours. Miss Marie Wells entertained at dir The guests, numbering about one|ner yesterday in honor of Miss Gr hundred, arrived at the late hour, re- | Hecht. cently established as good form. And it was not until nearly midnight that the ball was in full swing. Preceding the dance the hostess en- thirty friends at dinner, mostly of the Burlingame set. As at| In the white and gold ballroom of the ETER Mrs. Willlam Weir was hostess at large card party yesterday afternc . A Mme. Fabbri-Mueller’s concert morrow night will be largely attend by our society folk and art lovers | “I made an' early start for black | duck, t0o,” she explained, “and ‘while | | I was waiting for the flock to come in nearer, you came stalking along and —and—" She went into another spasm of merriment. | “I came—I saw—and oh! I heard!” she gasped, breathless from laughter. | | “You heard?" Preston said in dismay. | “I dldn’te really intend to say that. !ti | slipped out before I thought. | | -“I see,” she said mockingly. “You'd L‘bsner get the punt and fish out those damaged decoys or the story of your adventure may get around.” Preston turned to her questioningly. “Aren’t you going to tell the story to the camp?” he asked. | “No,” she said smilingly. | He looked at her with undisguised relief. “You are a trump!” he sald emphati- cally. She laughed lightly. “So long as I've frightened all the ducks out *f the vicinity with my can- nonading, I suppose we may as well go back to camp for breakfast,” he sug- gested. He helped her to her feet and they trudged back through the underbrush. Preston noted that she was doubly pretty with her short skirt and shoot- ing jacket and the frosty air bringing out the color in her cheeks. And, of course, he told himself bitterly, it must needs be before her, of all women in the world, that he had made an idiot of himself. Half way back to camp turned to him impulsively. “I'm going to make a confession,” she said. They paused under a tall pine. The first rays of the sun were lighting the tree tops. “You didn’t blow holes in both those decoys,” she said. “I fixed the first one just as vou did, an hour before you came. It was very dark then, you see,” she added by way of extenuation. “You took a shot at the decoys, too?" | he cr‘i, 1 She odded slowly. | “You are very generous to tell .me that,” he said with considerable warmth. “It's only fair to tell you,” she said, and then added, “You looked so funny and it would make such a beautiful story to tell the camp! Now you have a story on me equally as good. That will hold my tongue in check.” | Preston looked at her gratefully. | “T'll tell you what let's do,” he said suddenly. “Let's pool our secrets.” “Our duck secrets?’ she asked. “All our secrets,” he said, taking her hand and drawing her to him. ‘“Lets establish a community of interests— for two.” The girl’s glance dropped. “If—if you think best—" she began. “'do,” he declared earnestly. “Now we'll go back to camp and announce it. It will make almost as good a story as the one they will never hear.” (Copyright, 1905, by T. C. McClure.) ¥ f He made his way toward the sound and beheld Miss Cuyler. | HEN Preston stepped out | into the gray November' morning the camp was wrap- ped in silence. Far away to the east a streak of gold her- alded the coming day. He paused for a moment to watch a flock of geese high above hik head, winging their way southward and listening to their | hoarse drifting down .through the still morning ajr. | The giant pines stood grim and black against the sky and the little | group of log shelters seemed timid pygmies nestling beneath them- for protection. There was a touch of frost in the air which set the man's teeth chattering. He picked up his gun and strode briskly through the underbrush toward the little pond some rods back of the camp. It was an ideal morning for black duck, and unless he was vastly mis- taken, he told himself, there should be quite a flock of them paddlj about the pond. He jammed a shell into either barrel of the gum and snapping the breech shut, he began to move cautiously through the woods, carefully avoiding the broken twigs lest the noise of his footsteps should alarm his quarry. The last few yards between the camp and the pond he covered on his hands and knees, creeping silently for- ward and pausing now and then to peer through the half light and listen intently. | When finally he reached the pond the band of gold along the eastern horizon had widened and the light was considerably stronger. There were the ducks, just as he .had expected. In the middle of the pond was a large flock, while close at hand a dozen black figures lay quietly on the sur- face of the water. Very cautiously he raised the gun, took a long, caol aim at the nearest birds and pulled the left barrel. To his unbounded amazement not a bird rose from the nearest group; the large flock in the middle of the pond rose with a great flapping of wings and hoarse croaks of alarm. He fired at them with the right barrel, but the distance was too great for the shot to inflict any apparent damage on the retreating flock. He jumped to his feet and stood staring at the dozen black dots still motionless on the water. To his in- cries the girl . | THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE | — h | { | | HOW IT LOOKED TO HIM. | She (at the opera)—Mrs. Newriche POOR MAN. | puts on lots of style, doesn’t she? Smith—Is your wife’s mother with | He—Judging from the way she|you? looks that's about all she’s got on. Jones—No, she’s always against me. 1 ‘Wenneck—Why do you call your PROOF POSITIVE. wife a dream? ‘Wiggs—How do you know that you Henpeck—Dreams always go by | were never in love? contraries, 1~ Wiggs—I got married. | expression. 5 2 MISS CARRIE DAVISON. | B = — ISS CARRIE DAVISON, daughter of the late Darius J. | Davison of Detroit, who has just been appointed clerk of the United States District Court at Detroit, is the only woman in the United States honored with such an office. Her appointment by Judge Swan comes as a reward for her meritorious services and follows her work as deputy clerk of the court. Miss Davison first entered the office as a clerk for her father in 1899, and the following year she was appointed a deputy. WHIST AND THE WOMAN “I knew when I first heard the case There w a woman in it! i Oh, Mr. Brown, is that your ace? I'll play in just a minute. Poor boy! I don't know what he'll do. It seems a dreadful scandal! 1 Oh, dear! T've dropped a card or two. They are so hard to handle! “Oh, thank you, thank you, Mr. Brown! I fear you got a bump, sir! | It seems 'tis known all over town! What did you say was trump, sir? ‘Was that your ace? Oh, well, then I Will change the card I'm playing; Oh, yes, you did it, Mrs. Bly! Let's see—what was I saying. “Dear, dear! What was it that you led? I wish that I were able To keep the cards all in my head! It fell beneath the table 1 think— it's right over there! How careless 'twas to let it Slip from my hand. Oh, Mr. Dare! How good of vou to get it! “My lead? Oh, pardon me! I thought You tdok the trick—that last one. Has diamonds been led or not? How these things do slip past one! Oh, Amy, did you hear that Sue ‘Was coming for a visit? ‘What! Did I take that club trick, too? Oh! That's trump signal, is it? “Oh, pshaw! I've lost my king! Dear, dear! How stupid 'twas to lose it! I thought that ace was played—back here! Pray, Mr. Brown, excuse it! i They get the odd! I thought we had! | Some one reneged, I'm certain! Oh, Mr. Brown, that is too bad! I'm awful sorr; (Curtain.) | —J. W. Foley in New York Times. THEIR FIRST "QUARREL. | Of course, everybody in the Pull- man knew they were bride and groom. But, just to show that they were, not, he went forward to the smoking com- partment. Suddenly the train shot into a tun- nel and as it emerged he came rushing down the aisle toward her. His look of chagrin was met by hers of resent- ment. He tried to explain, but she lovked steadily out the window and suid in that icy tone of finality, which is an offended woman's last weapon: “But you have been over the road be- fore.” He pleaded in vain and finally went back to smoke. No sooner had he gone than the train entered another tunnel. He nearly reached her this time, but daylight caught him again. Everybody else in the car Jaughed. They both looked around in Surprise. Then the humor of it dawned on them and they laughed, too. He decided not to smoke.—Pacific Monthly for Jan- TO KEEP YOUNG: Keep in the sunlight; nothing beau- tiful or sweet grows or ripens in the | darkness. : Avoid fear in all its varied forms of It is the greatest enemy of the human race. | Avold excesses of all kinds; they are | injurious. The long lite must be a | temperate, regular life. | Don’t live to eat, but eat to live. Many of our ills aré due to overeating, to eating the wrong things and to ir- regular eating. | Don’t allow yourself to think on your birthday that you are a year older and so much nearer the end. | Never look on the dark side; take, sunny views-of everything; a sunny thought drives away the shadows. | Be a child; live simply and naturally and keep clear of entangling alliances | and complications of all kinds. Cultivate the spirit of contentment; all discontent and dissatisfaction bring age furrows prematurely to the face. Form a habit of throwing off before going to bed at night all the cares and anxieties of the day—everything which can possibly cause mental wear and tear or deprive you of rest.—Chicago News. — Italy’s Population Grows. In Italy there are 172,000 skilled work- men engaged in the manufacture of silk. In 1902 800,000 of her people emi- grated. More than 3,000,000 of her peo- ple have left their country during the last ten years, yet there is a gradual increase in population. et Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* Special. infogmation supplied datly. to business hou: and public men by the Press Clipring Burcau (Allen's); 30 Call- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. the ball, the dinner was a gay affair— and superb in appointments. American beauty roses and a wildwood of fern graced the table, with a sweet witchery of light falling from ruby shades. Mme. Francisca will sing the ma scene from ‘‘Hamlet.” . wa Mrs. George Pope entertained severa | dinner last evening prior to i bly is the Whittell affair|&uests at ! ,h?f,::r&flzlr’o, the week__almost of | attending the Whittell ball at the St Francis. the month. A S PR A Jarge bridge party was given yes- Buttercups and daisies, baby-blue-| |, g,y by pirs. Gerrift Livingston Lan eyes and whispering grasses, all fresh oing in her apartments at the st from the warm breast of nature, % bobbed and bowed a welcome to the | DuUnstan: F R two fair visitors to California, Miss| nygq Christine Pomeroy gave o Katherine McCann and Miss May | yncheon to ten of the most interesting Deering, who gathered yesterday about| ., jety maids on Monday in the paim the luncheon board as the guests .o! garden of the Palace Hotel. Miss Jehnie Blair. PR A wise thought, this—introducing to| wfrs. Charles Dougherty and Mrs. visitors from frozen-up Gotham these ' Japieh Clement entertained on Monday blossoms that grow wild and unheeded .4 5 “telephone” tea in Mrs. Dough- on the hills about the bay. ThiS eryy'g apartment in the Pleasanton. voiceless tribute to the prodigality of PRET et our climate will impress the wanderers | nicc Dorothy Bells, who leaves on as no words could or would. Thursday with her mother, Mrs. Among those who lunched as MIss cpayjes Parmelee Eells, for the East, Blair's guests were: Miss Katherine coioptoineq informally at tea yester- McCann, Miss May Deering of New g,y making this an occasion of fare- York, Miss Constance Crimmins, MisS o)l to her friends. 5 Anita Harvey, Miss Margaret Hyde-| o e e Smith, Miss Charlotte Wilson, Miss| . 4 Mre Frank L. Johnson of Grace Spreckels, Miss Lily Spreckels, : San Rafael are closing their home there Mrs. C. Fred Kohl, Mrs. Henry Foster for a time, to spend & few months in Dutton and Mrs, George McAneny. | town. CE N Mrs. Gertrude McCauley and George | Mr. and Mrs. Richard Walton Tully S. Field will e married to-morrow | have arrived from New York and are evening -at the Pleasanton. Mrs. J.|temporarily visiting in Berkeley. Af- | E. McNeill will be matron of homor; | ter an absence of a year and a half, the groom is to be served by Frank | Mr. and Mrs. Tully will remain in Cali- Owen as best man. | fornia several months. Mrs. Tully's A very few friends of the happy pair | new book is completed and will soon will be present at the ceremony. On appear serially. Latterly it will be Tuesday night Charles H. White, | dramatized. Mr. Tully is under con- father of the bride, arrived from Col- | tract for two plays, upon which he is orado Springs to attend the wedding. | working with fine zeal. During their LA stay the Tullys will build & home here, The Comme il Faut Club of San|showing their loyalty for California Rafael, recently organized, held an in- |and the probability of a ‘continuous teresting meeting on January 17, when | residence on this coast. THOSE WET STREET CAR SEATS. Editor The Call: In line with the The mxm.ber of cars run is not suf- agitation toward improvement of the |ficient to provide inside seats for all streetcars of this city a suggestion is | passengers, even though they are djs- offered to the United Railroads, which, | posed to ride inside, and they are th¥s if carried. out in these showery days, | confronted with the alternative of sit- will add greatly to the convenience if [ting on a wet and sloppy Seat or not to the health of the traveling com- | of standing. In the case of the cable munity. |cars if passengers elect to stand they So far as is apparent no provision | have the added annoyance of having is made by the corporation to remove their collars serve as drain pipes for the rain which falls on the outside what Is left of the latest shower. seats of its cars, that very necessary The matter could be very easily duty being left entirely to the absorp- remedied by the company’s instructing tion and natural heat provided by the the car employes to clean the seats tired citizen, who chooses a temporary after each rainfall. Failure to do so rest at the expense of a possible cold as at present is simple neglect and and pneumonia. The concave forma- does not show the attention to the tion of the seats is peculiarly fitted for rights of a traveler that it is incum- holding the water and about half of bent upon a common carrier to fur- the seating capacity of the car is ex- nish. GEORGE DALY RIDER. * posed to the weather, San Francisco, January 23. MIRROR OF DAME FASHION & f— A zibeline top coat in very dark gray, lined with satin several shades lighter. A box pleat extending from the collar to the bottom at the back finishes the necessary fullness and stylish flare toward the hem. 1