The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 28, 1905, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1905. THE SANFRANCISCO CALL JORN D. SPRECKEIS......000ees on- JOHN McNAUGHT... UBLICATION OFFICB. 'ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS <THIRD A} TO .Manager D MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO FOMBDAT .. . . - o0 cosomrnontass ases st sbersbar s PINEORILE B, AON5 THE SUTTER STREET TROLLEY. T greater i HE cable road was not only an improvement on the-previous method of surface transportation, but it was a suggestion of a nprovement to follow. 3 ancisco and first put in operation here, it was l‘hf: mrerunner_of: what was to be accomplished by the use of electricity as a motive When it was invented in San power. When the first cable car made its initial trip, electricity had | not passed ou of the stage of laboratory experiment. Now it has gone far beyond the laboratory, and is a practical motor in use for ter . | s purpose that requires power. But as an agent in a street car sys-| n it had to go through an experimental stage. This was the over- head era, for power wires, and is everywhere passing away. In e_lc— vated roads the trolley wire overhead has been replaced by the third | rail. underground conduit. This cannot be used on the street surface because it is danger- | ous, and on surface roads the overhead wire is being disused by the ! The advantages of this are so obvious that it is strange that any street railroad company is found to resist its use. | In Washington City the street railroads were formerly a mixed | system of pany would not change to elect rse and cable power, principally the latter. The com- ricity. One night the power-house, south of Pennsylvania avenue, near Fourteenth street, took fire and was entirely destroyed. When the alarm rang and the location of the | fire was identified the stockholders went to bed feeling poor. When they awoke in the morning there was a reversal, for their stock had advanced in value more than 25 per cent because the destruction of the power-house made it certain that the system would be changed from cable to electricity. This change followed, and taking the be- low ground cable conduit as a suggestion, the company put in an un- derground electric system, upon which all of the lines in the na- tional capital are now operated. The streets are not disfigured by poles, nor made unsafe and unsightly by overhead wires. The com- | pany has no use for an army of wires. All risk to life is removed by having no high power wires to | employes to attend to the poles and break and cross low power wires, or to fall in the street and kill | horses and human beings. In some cities street railwa y companies refuse to charge to an underground system under pretense of waiting for the invention of a | storage battery, that will make each car independent by enabling it to | carry its own power. But such a storage battery has not yet ap-| peared, and to wait for it is like continuing the old horse car till such time as the battery appear s. This issue is in focus now in San Francisco. The Sutter Street | Improvement Club wants the line on that street to give a better serv- | ice, andl this cannot be given with the existing cable. must be changed to an electric line. The United Railroads demands the right to erect ground trolley. The road The people want an under- an overhead trolley system, to which the people properly and firmly object. There is no obstacle in 1 the way of an underground system. That method is in operation in Vienna, Brussels, New York, Wash- ington, Fra of surface transportation. Expe ite th Chicago and other large hat ec enlightened railway managers, c the wisest of economy to make cconomy in operation that consideration in building tt the climbing of Promontory Poi »but every dollar will finally come bac repaid, the economy of operatio: is all profit to the stockholders. elec I'he provement Club and other citize tions of San Francisco. mc true. 3ut those very improveme Exactly the same is true of under; c power for operating street rail United Raiiroads in its answ. It refers to t r transportation facilities, and all Eastern and European cities. San sco is not a village and will not submit to village conditions rience elsewhere proves beyond dis- while the underground system costs more at first, the momy of its operation returns the excess to the corporation. All of all kinds of roads, recogni large expenditures to be o The Southern Pacific Railway was moved by 1e very costly Lucin cutoff to avoid nt. The improvement cost millions, ¢, with interest, and when it n will appear in the form of grb‘nl roads. er to the petition of the Im- ns does not come up to the expecta- 1e improvements it has made that it says in that respect is >nts led our citizens to believe that it was a modern, up-to-date corporation, which knew that the very best facilities and methods were deserved by San Francisco and were, in the long run, the most profitable The corporation does not f: for itself. ulfill the expectations of the people in this insistence upon methods that are already antiquated and ob- | solete in every progressive ci pointed its friends and placed it hasten to abandon if it consult all cities is toward putting all e land a time xs in the United States. It has disap- self in a false position which it will its best interests. The tendency in lectric wires underground. In Oak- it has already been fixed for that process. In Eastern | s the enormous increase in street poles and overhead wires, and the increasing danger caused by the use of high power wires, has stimulated everywhere the movement to force all electric wires un- derground. This will. have to be. The result is inevitable. Cor- porations may halt and palter and parley about the cost and the in- convenience to them of the change, but the public welfare demands | that it be made and it will come. The people along the Sutter street line and the Board of Su visors shoulfstand firmly by th roads should put itself abreast o sition. of opinion. They exist by from its patronage. They favor Corporations are not like indiv per- eir contention, and the United Rail- | f the times by receding from its po- iduals in possessing the pride vor of the public and get their profits | thrive on the friendl y feeling of the people and they are injured when they lose it. We are persuaded that the people of this city are wi any reasonable privilege to the United Railroads, but this depends upon the attitude of the corporation tow festo on the overhgad trolley serious character, which should cession is perfectly easy, as suct those who do not make, but merel illing to give ard the people. Its mani is a tactical mistake of the most | be receded from at once. Such re- h mistakes occur through the zeal of y administer, the policy of the —_— BROOKLYN’S BAKER. corporation, F in. .Congress by biography .in the Con than a page. OR some inscrutable reason a Brooklyn district is represented Mr. Robert Baker, who publishes an official gressional Directory that occupies more | He tells of his achievements in the same vein in which Mr. Hearst records his in his own newspapers. This rémarkable Mr. Baker desires that the House expel him for introducing a resolution censuring the President for sending formal condolence for the assassination of Grand Duke Sergius. Mr. Baker | was very vechement against the President for this and roared and raved until some of his Democratic colleagues sat down on him and | he was -extinguished. What a Government we would have if it were run by the Bakers! - In its externalities the of the. family of nations. nor autocratic. nothing to-do, and it has nohin: ment. - In the family of nations all stand alike. United States is a sovereignty, one It is neither republican nor m i natior 1 onarchial With its domestic s ystem other sovereignties have g to do with their domestic govern- When events, es- pecially-death, and especially death by violence, affect one sovereign- ty, immemorial custom sanctions the expression of condolence by the others.- It makes no differance imp- of darkness, or an an the .etiquette of nations. But this remarkable and ba whether the Czar’s uncle were an gel of light, condolence was in accord with | wling Baker of Brooklyn proceeded to annoy the House by assuming that such formal condolence was evidence that President Roosevelt cratic system of the Russian Government. di_g‘nify him too much. He should be is in sympathy with the auto- To expel Baker would cracked by a thumb nail. ————— President Roosevelt is more likely to get satisfaction than is the for he cen take it out of the next professor of boxing that House.—Milwaukee Sentinel Senate, visits the White +By Elimination BY FORBES DWIGHT e HILLIDA was dressed in red, and Phillida in red is irresistible. Theodore Grozier, comfortably ensconced on the cushion of the huge divan, kept his eyes fixed steadily on the little ea table near the fire where Phillida struggled with an arbitrary spirit lamp which consumed quantities of alcohol and responded with a sickly blue flame. Tiusk was coming on—the kindly, ccz: dusk that engenders confldences a -\1. is particu- th smitten of elbow on his larly propitious to Eros. Grozier rested knee and smiled quictily. “Bother the tea, Phillida!” said he. “The lamp won’t burn, anyway. Let’s just talk.” v Phillida put the lamp in its bracket beneath the kettle, and sighed resign- edly. 2 “I'm afraid I can’t make it burn,”- she said. “Never mind. tea I want,” he replied. don’t you think it's about time you made a choice from the field?” “I don’t quite follow you,” sh: said. “Don’t you think it's time you let the one and only man know his happy fate?” he suggested. ‘“Let's see, how many are there, anyway—the really eligible ones, you know?” Phillida regarded him with a little frown of disapproval for a moment, but it presently gave place to a win- ning smile. . “Your impertinence does you credit, I must say,” she observed. “But since you seem to be so much Interested in the matter, I'll place the estimate roughly at six.” “8ix,” he mused thoughtfully. cluding me, Phillida?” * “Including you, of course,” she said. yYour unremitting attentions for the past four years have won you a place on the list, Teddy.” “You should make a choice,” he said gravely. “Tempus has a way of fugiting, and patience ceases to be a virtue even with a man in love.,” “You merely -state your views in the . It's talk more than “In- matter,” said she. “I fancy I voice the sentiments of the fiel he remarked. “It's a very grave mattavr,” she said kingly; “one requiring time.” “You've taken time enough eady to make a score of choosings,” said he. “Now, really, I want to help you in the matter. T don’t want to see you delay until all your suitors are married or dead.” 3 “Thanks.” said she. “Your adcice will be invaluable. Now, knowing these men quite as well as I do, which one would you suggest as the most suitable husband?” Grozier held up a deprecating hand. “Excessive modesty forbids me to state, madam,” said he. » Philltda laughed gayly. “You wear your excessive modesty m awkwardly. Evidently it's new,” she asserted. “It seems to me,” said Grozier, wrinkling his brow thoughtfully, “that the best method to reach the desired result is by a process of elimination. Let’s take them in order. Now young Cartwright first; he's a fine chap, an exceptionally fine chap; but he has no money. Isn't that so, Phillida?” She nodded. ‘Exit Mr. Cartwright,” said he. “Now let's take a look at Garrison. Mighty fine fellow, this Garrison, but a trifie too sportive of tendency. wouldn’t want to marry a man who follows every ring contest and plays the races heavily, would you?” “N—o,” she said slowly. “Stilt Mr. Garrison—" “Exit Mr. Garrison,” he went on hastily. “Porter next. The only thing against poor old Porter is his age. Money—barrels of it, and steady as an eightday clock, but old undenia- bly old. He’'s getting rather ‘bald and about the temples he's decidedly gray. Age is a very great disadvantage in a suitor, don’t you think so?” “Possibly,” she said doubtfully. “Good-by, Mr. Porter,” said he. “We have duly considered your prop- osition and find at present we are in no position to take it up. Now then for Dracut.” “Phillida, ! You | intend to—er— abide by the regult?” “Do you k3 “He's not on the list,” she said de- murely. “Well, Brownlow, then. Brownlow is lacking in tact. He says the wrong thing in_the right place and vice- { versa. Wouldn't you be apt to find urself making continual excuses for g ery probably,” she admitted. “Next we'll take Partridge and Cov- ington jointly. Too young—alas! too young! People would say you were robbing the cradle. You must make some concession to public opinion, you know.” Phillida was silent. A mocking smile curved the corners of her mouth. “Well,” said he, “I'm the only one 1ert “Let me hear of your fallings,” she | said. “I haven't any,” he replied meekly. “Save excessive modesty,” she rompted. “But if you'd like me better with a | few trivial faults I'll try to cultivate ! some,” he said hopefully. “Your method of elimjnation is very impressive,” she observed. “I hope so,” said he. “Do you in- tend to—er—abide by the result, Phil- lida 2" She looked at him archly and broke into a peal of merry laughter. “Teddy, vou dear, stupid boy,” she said, ‘“there never has been but one really eligible man on the list, | sume, has never broached the sub- | jeet.” “Then you do abide by the result?” he asked. “All the others were eliminated {long ago without your help,” she said | softly.—(Copyright, 1905, by T. C. Mc- |WORLD’S COAL AND IRON Tt is stated in a scientific journal of recent date that the United States, | Great Britain and Germany together | produce approximately 80 per cent of | the coal and iron of the world; and it | the industrial importance of the ma- | terials be considered the supreme test, | these countries would necessarily he | adjudged the leading mining countries of te-day. Their pre-eminence would probably be even imore marked it complete " statistics coverigg the pro- duction of cement, clay, stone and other nonmetallic resources were available., o o large pearl buckle. A smart, dressy frock of light gray mun's veiling, trimmed - with shirring of gray silk and.bands of white lace insertion. The girdle is of folded white silk, fastening behind with & FASHION'S MIRROR | . and | he, through excessive modesty, I pre- | FACTS ABOUT COLDS The common theory that all colds are the result of exposure of some sort is a greafit mistake. Exposure is not the direct cause of the disease. Scien- tists: tell us that colds are caused by a hostile microbe, which gains a foot- hold when our vitality is lowered by ! exposure, and that if we inure our- selves to exposure we have an effec- tive remedy against the microbe of cold,”as well as many others. There are many evidences to prove this theory. There are many places where it is impossible to catch cold, because there is no cold to catch. We | have not yet forgotten that Nansen | 'and his men, during the three years they spent in the Arctic regions, were immune from cold, though they were constantly enduring exposure of every kind. They passed day after | day In clothes so saturated with per- | spirdtion that by day they froze into a | solid mass, so that they cut into the | flesh. And at night, in their sleeping bags the first hour was spent in thaw- ing out. They returned to civilization none the worse in health, but soon contracted severe colds upon reach- ing there. | Then there is the remarkable in- ! stance of St. Kilda, that lonely, rocky island, which was visited by Dr. John- son when he and Boswell were mak- ing their famous tour of the Hebrides. There are about one hundred inhabi- tants on the island. The coasts are so precipitous that for eight months in the year it is practically inacces- ! sible. Several vessels from the main- land call there during the summer. And, strange to say, whenever a ship reaches the island from the mainland every inhabitant, even to the infants, are seized with colds. This fact has been known for more than two hun- dred years, and was of great interest | to Dr. Johnson, who was skeptical concerning it. | The question of this St. Kilda cold long puzzled men, who never dreamed | that it was an infectious disease and that without the possibidity of infec- ;tlon it is impossible to catch it, no { matter what the exposure may be. | That is to say, it is due to a micro- organism, and without the presence of this micro-organism the disease can- not be contracted. | THE MODERN NOVEL CHAPTER I The Prettiest Girl you ever saw. CHAPTER IL The young man interviews her pa. CHAPTER III A wedding grand without a flaw. CHAPTER 1IV. An oath—a tear—a lot of jaw. CHAPTER V. “I'm going back home to my ma!” CHAPTER VI Her maiden name restored by law. —The Editor. IN A. D. 2000. . Give me a spoon of oleo, ma, And the sodium alkailf, For I'm going to make a'pie, mammal! I'm going to make a pie. For John will be hungry and tired, ma, And his tissues will decompose; So give me a gram of phosphate, And the carbon and cellulose. Now give me a chunk of caseine, ma, To shorten the, thermic fat. And give me the oxygen bottle, ma, And look at the thermostat. And if the electric oven is cold Just turn it on half an ohm, For I want to have the supper ready As soon as John comes home. —Cleveland Leader. THE MODERN GEORGE W. Hearing a noise in the pantry Mrs. Jerrums opened the door softly and | went in. | Her youngest son was standing on a chair, with his back to her, helping himself to the contents of a glass jar. | “What are you doing, Clifford?” she asked. Clifford turned around. His face was smeared from chin to cheekbone with something deeply and darkly red, but the light of truth shone in his blue eyes. “I cannot tell a lie, mamma,” he said, Tribune. NO MORE OF THAT A young man in Winfield who has not been married long remarked at the dinner table the other day: “My dear, I wish you could make bread such. as mother used to .make.” The: bride did not tremble: ‘“Well, dear, I wish you could make the dough that father used to make.” The bread and dough question hasn’t come up for family dis- cussion since.—Winfield (Kans.) Trib- une. NECKLACES OF ANTS The chief adornment of the women of New Guinea is & necklace made of black ants. When a native girl finds an ant in the garden she bites off and swallows the lower end of its body, throws away the head and threads the thorax. A chief’s bride wears a neck- lace eleven feet long, on which are the bodies of 1800 ants. DID SHE DO “I am so grateful,” sald an Atchison ‘| young lady to her escort upon reach- ing home after a particularly good at- traction at the theater, “that I could eat you up.” 2 “I would hate to have you do that,” ke replied, “but you might take one bite.”—Atchison Globe. —_—— Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, in ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. 10 Kearny st. * —_——— ‘What has become of the old-fash- ioned woman who made floating island and a marble cake when she expected company for supper? —_—— ‘We are selling agents for “Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen” and sole agents "rnemu:ir-mu:l'fl'thm.'gfoo !mltl'lt:?.l: e wor! 41 Market street. L S —_— o Special information supplied da! to mln-sj houses and public men b';’m 1a Press’ Bu - “I'm eating raspberry jam.”—Chicago | smiled and answered in a-voice that | The Smart Set: BY SALLY SHARP L That Buckley-Thunder wedding came as a shock to the set in which ‘the clever young woman moved. It was suspected that Mr. Thunder was mightily interested in one of Dr: C. F. Buckley’s daughters, but until very | lately the true state of affairs was not revealed. And now the whole inter- esting story’s out. Quietly the coy pair were wedded at noon yesterday at St. Mary's Cathe- dral, just over the way from the Hotel a few relatives who had been let into the secret as witnesses. Although the wedding was celebrated without the ! usual embellishments of society nup- tials, few brides have looked fairer than she in her smart gown and hat of pale blue. Mr. Thunder is a local business man, who had the good fortune to meet Miss Buckley abroad. These meetings of San Franciscans abroad usually do produce results. After a brief post-nuptial trip Mr. and Mrs. Thunder will take apart- ments at the Colonial. . . Miss Ethel Wallace, whose marriage to Charles Fickert will take place to- | morrow afternoon, was the guest of | honor at a tea given yesterday by Mrs. | George Forrest Richardson. The rooms were luxuriant with flowers, quince blossoms filling the dining- | rcom, while Bridesmaid roses and { ferns adorned the reception room. As- sisting Mrs. Richardson in recelving | were Miss Ethel Wallace, Miss Jessie | Fillmore, Miss Jessie McNab, Miss Pearl Seeley of Los Angeles, Miss | Mary Small, Miss Lalla Wenzelburger, | Miss Laura Farnsworth, Miss McFar- !1and, Miss Erna Hermann, Mrs. Arthur | Wallace, Mrs. J. H. Wallace, Mrs. C. R. Drake of Los Angeles, Mrs. W. D. Fennimore, Mrs. Howard Holmes, Mrs. Charles Wilson, Mrs. Charles Lathrop, THE PRO To the Editor of The Call: I consider the bill proposed by the joint committee on building and loan associations simply infamous. If it were found to be legal, which I doubt very much, it would destroy all the meritorious, honest local building and loan associations in the State and build up a system of get-rich-quick affairs which promise heaven and earth and give little or nothing. I cannot conceive how five members of the Legislature should have been 80 hoodwinked by designing schemers to propose such new law regulating building and loan .associations. In. plain language it simply encourages the dishonest and abolishes the hon- est building and loan associations. Even the only good article in the bill. which was proposed 5y The local building and loan associations, “that all members of butlding and loan as- sociations upon withdrawal at any time should ‘receive at least the full amount paid into such association,” seems to have been juggled out of the bill. This leaves it in the hands of dis- honest associations to pay their re- tiring members little or nothing as they please upon the withdrawal of their members. There are many thou- sands of people in this State who have lost a portion of the money which thev have invested in dishonest build- ing and loan associations who will Baltimore, the home of the bride, with | join me in condemning this dishonest practice. JUST A JEST. - Boarder (at breakfast)—Eggs and coffee! It's always the same. Haven't you anything outside of eggs? Landlady—Yes. A Boarder—What? i * Landlady—Shells. to do with it will make a fine pole for him, o through. Mrs. Charles R. Havens, Mrs. Lilllan Miller, Mrs. McFarland, Mrs. George M. Franks, Mrs. George Klink. e e Miss Florence Balley, whose mar- riage to William Frederick Mohr will take place on March 15, has announced her attendants to be the following: Miss Grace Spreckels, maid of honor; bridesmaids, Miss Frieda Mohr of New York, Miss Bessie Wilson, Miss Helen de Young, Miss Constance de Young, Miss Lucie King, Miss Edith Simpson. . Miss Edith Muir was the guest of honor at a tea given yesterday by Mrs. Charles Dougherty and Mrs. Jabish Clement at the Hotel Pleasanton. e e Mr. and Mrs: W. Ford Thomas will hold a reception to-morrow evening in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. Cards have been fs- sued to 400 guests, the affair to take place at the home of Mrs. H. C. Sheets, 515 Shrader street. L SR Last night Miss Amparo Loaiza, daughter of the late W. Loalza, the well-known commission merchant, be- came the bride of Jose Gutierrez of Santa Cruz, the grandson of the Gov- ernor of Colima, Mexico. The cere- mony was performed at the Spanish church on Broadway. ¥ it Mrs. Austin was a luncheon hostess recently, entertaining a dozen guests, among whom was Mrs. Charles H. Blinn, who has just returned from Sac- ramento. i T Mrs. Gertrude Atherton was the guest of honor at a reception held yesterday by the Pacific Coast Wo- men’'s Press Assoclation in Century HallL o The several women's clubs will give a reception to-morrow afternoom in honor of Miss Adele Block at the Pal- ace Hotel. —— e ————— POSED BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION BILL I do not believe that the Legisla- ture will pass this bill and if it should I do not believe that the Governor will sign it. The honest building and loan associations in California have helped thousands of people to pro- cure homes for their families on pay- men* of small sponthly installments who to-day without the aid of such associations would not have a shingle over their heads. They have, in ad- dition, induced many thousands of wage earners to save part of their monthly salaries and thus build a foundation for future independence. Our State requires such a merito- rious institution to help build our sparsely settled State, both in the city and in the country, and I cannot con- ceive how any sane person can ap- prove of the destruction of such truly meritorious institutions. I know whereof I speak, having been continuously connected with the local building and loan associations since 1875 and being the oldest building and loan association secre- tary in the State of California. The preseént building and loan asso- clation laws require to be amended so as to give full protection to stockhold- ers, but the bill proposed, while it revolutionizes the whole bullding and loan association system, in its present "’ state does a great deal more harm than good to the very people for whom it is intended to safely protect their investment. A. SBARBORO. San Francisco, Feb. 27 LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE Clerk—No rooms left, sir. We're fuil. Guest—Where's the proprietor? Clerk—Sorry, sir, but he's in the same Jones—I've had a terrible time to- day at the office and I am mad clear Jones—Well, llgn,-."qug'@'!ni’ '@ good time for you to beat. the carpet?