The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1905, Page 8

JOHN D. spmm..........,. cenenn ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO J’Y!L\' McNAUGHT. nucuno\ OFFICE rmu:cuco THE TREASURY DEFICIT. revenues of the Government have two main sources, the and internal revenue tax. These ebb and flow with the rate of consumption by the country of xmportml goods 1qsu'~ and tobacco. With no apparent reason why it should so, occur peric ds of excessive consummxon producmg a rplus in the treasury, followed by a reaction, and economizing of there nsumption, that cause a Treasury deficit. In Mr. Cleveland’s first term there was present a large surplus, | hich excited his anxiety and caused a demand for the reduction | of tariff taxation. When his second term began the reaction was in f swing a growing deficit appeared and remained as a tof- nt to 1 end of the administration. To meet it, the large sum 60,000,000 was borrowed on bonds. The situation then de- | a panic that was caused by the unsatisfactory condition The Treasury was receiving a large incre- which excited the fear that we would ¢ This also weakened the credit and impaired g power of the Government. The depression continued m of 1896 made it certain that the gold standard rtified by law. llowed a rise in consumption and an increase in the a long stay. Now there is the inevitable reaction. expenses of the Spanish war were met by an increase ue taxation, so that no impression was made upon But it seems to be apparent now. that the pro- t upon national expenses was not taken into en the war taxes were repealed. That brief expe- rtain changes in our national policy. We expanded ctions that will not for 2 long time participate in A large increase in our navy became a policy silver basis h enis I reasury. onal necessity. its acquisition and construction by the Government. backward only a little way it is easily seen that all uences of the war and making the canal a national work could in- essing n gnd demanded a rease in expenditures that be met only by s on. It is as if a man double his estate by extension es at present non-productive, and attempt to maintain 1 a revenue that barely sufficed for his original hold- epealed too soon. They were as legitimate by the war as they were for its current ere as legitimate if applied to the cost of the navy v the war as they were for the cost of its actions ago. But this was not taken into account, and e war taxes we owe the existing and increasing Ty 1 not be treated with complacency or indifference, reason for alarm. In 1893 our financial policy credit together. They were financial Siamese i Chang died also. If the increment of silver upon ilver basis and rested the public 1l private credits outstanding that were contract nk one-half also. It was n twelve years ago that caused the panic. d the point of suspension of p to the silver standard. That was e by Mr. Cleveland in a way that country’s history. Such peril is not vate credit are entirely separated, as come at any time in the future, as it hr shr and near oW slum reasury will have no connection with it Great constructive enterprises loans, like that of Japan, placed The deficit in the Treasury of anxiety to the administration > proper cc will be an increase in taxa- liar with that experience in their State hey are less familiar with it in the national use national taxation is indirect. \hcr! e people demanded the Spanish war, and upon direct appeal orsed all of its results. The Call can speak sinterested standpoint, since it strove against , while the question was open. But it is open ion of the public revenues, expressed by e taken as evidence that complete adjustment to t been effected. The lesson is obvious. What i they have. The larger estate is here, probated to r which they demanded. They must patiently assist adjustment made necessary by the expansion of responsibility. | THE WESTERN PACIFIC. ct for a new line of railway to come overland and enter by the Beckwith Pass was long in the air. Then it down tn the ground and secured terminal facilities in and Oakland, and certain rights of way. But still it a mystery in respect to its backing. Now the whole s revealed as a certainty, with the Gould ‘nterests openly 1 be speedily new tramscontinental road is naturally a matter of great in- to California, and there is in this a novelty that will excite nest expectations. It promises to provide a line, all under gement at of the other. The Atlantic terminus is said to be located at e, and the natural name of the road, “The Oakland and Balti- | is suggestive of great things. facility for our commerce, traversing new territory, stimu- iew production and penetrating regions to which the trade of “rancisco may flow. esson. under way. w ject bankers who furnish the capital do not fear that overland roads will . consist merely of the right of way and two streaks of rust after the | ma canal is built They rwlw‘\ regard the canal as a factor in aj ure devc!opmem of this west coast that will so greatly increase | business of the transcontinental railways that more lines must lw built to carry our commerce. The canal has been a sort of spook to some railway men, who were in the habit of turning pale whenever it was mentioned. But the building of the Oakland and Baltimore line banishes the ghost of the waterway, and proves that it was an invented bogy and not the real thing. The Gould interests are strong enough to make a first- class line, and their experience in opening new country by supplying new facilities may be trusted to make this road a factor in the de- velopment of all the productive territory it will traverse. -y THE PRESS OF THE NATION 1f ehurches and colleges refuse Mr. Rockefeller's money there seems noth- ing for him to do except to use it in extending his business.—Washington Star. —_——— According to our fashion expert, jeweled hose are the correctest thing. We're from;—weil, you know where Folk is Governor.—New York Mail. i Some years ago Kentucky would have thought at least twice before ac- cording en ovation to a Republican President—Washington Star.” A et You would never guess it in the worid, but the advice, “Don't talk, it's a bad habit,” comes from Thomas W. Lawson.—Kansas City Times. P e e “Back to the people,” says Mr. Bryan. That's just where the'vaters have $ent him on two notable occasions.—Baitimore Sun. The pedple wanted the isthmian canaly and ownership, from the tidewater of one ocean: The new line will be welcome, In a larger respect the new road is an ob- | Its construction proves that railroad builders and the | Ll THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. As far as appearance goes, the bach- | elor girl who prevails at the present { time would delude the unwary into thinking that she was of the old school, says a writer in the London Telegraph. She shuns eccentricities of dress, the unbecoming masculine lines at the one | extreme, as carefully as the rough-pot ‘and high heels at the other. Her ! clothes are only a little simpler than } those of her sister in society. She does not swear or smoke cigars—although ’she reserves the right to do so if she , Wishes. Her manners ave cimple and direct. The social settlements have been a {doon to girls of this class, They form | stepping-stones between college and Bohemia. | est are other movements, in which ! bachelor girls of sentiment and educa- | tion may become twentieth-century ministering angels. One of these is the great system of organizing chari- ties employing tens of thousands of trained nurses and a third the promo- ters of economics and municipal re- forms. Literary and artisttc bachelor girls— writers, sculptors, illustrators, paint- ers and the like—also hold their devo- tion to ideals responsible for their manner of living. They are found in places as closely resembling those of the Pdris Latin Quarter as brand-new America can furnish. Similarly, women doctors, lawyers and architects and all sorts of pro- fessionals do their brothers do, asking no favers and planning independent lives in estab- lishments of their own. BOBBIE ON MAYORS. Mayors is men that runs the city the right way befoar elecshun, and the way thay please after ¢lecshun, when thay g0 out to make a speach in the cam- paign thay say Well, my deer people, if I am elected to this onorable coffis I shal do aH in my power to uphoald the morals of our community and make | 2nd to none in the whole Whatever else this city wurld. Thay also say, I do, I shal make the all nite saloons | close up and stop the slot masheens and the dance halls. then after elecshun thay talk a littel | rest befoar beginning to close the tuff | places, and while thay are taiking a | rest the men which own the tuff places git together and call on the Mayors and say If you doant be good we will chase you to the woods and yure naim will be mud. Then the Mayors’ doant know what to do so thay doant do it. We have about the nisest Mayor of them all. When he starts out to be elected again he jest tells the peeple Well, how do you like my beautiful city ent it a hot old town and doant vou have a good time nites when you are through with yure work, you bet you do. Vote for me again and I guess you will always be abel to git what you want for yure munny. Then the peeple vote for him and he goes back to the mine and says I toald you so. I wudent cair to be a Mayor, there is too many peeple asking §ou for a job, and if thay doant all git a jeb thay vote for another Mayor the next time | and then you are licked, and you can’'t git a job yourself if you have been a Mayor unless you keep it dark.—Mil- waukee Sentinel. T00 LITTLE READING. According to our observation, says the Century, there is vastly too little reading done, rather than too much; and we think it fortunate that Presi- dent Roosevelt’s example has been set forth as an illustration of what can be accomplished, in the most occupied of lives, to broaden the intellectual out- look. His example will serve every- where as a stimulus. And the slow reader should not be discouraged, but encouraged rather, for if he has the “disposition” to read, the ! | year's end, under whatever difficulties, j will give him, also, a list of readings i accomplished which will shame the in- | different and vastly increase his own intellectual wealth. Reading for the THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL THE SANFRANCISCO CALL |BACHELOR GIRLS Allied to this sort of inter- | work as their | really | bxlltatm eim old times ut barefoo 8. SR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1905. hke P"’fi"cfi? enelheyseem ea dream- f‘hear laughm on ahea havg Copyvight 1993, The Bevre Wervih Compuny AVIGATING THE AlR. To the Editor of The Call: If I had the money necessary for the practical demonstratien of my idea ¥ could, I think, solve the prob- lem of aerial navigation in the man- ner herein set forth: I would have bulit, according with the latest designs of gas engines, one of enormous power with the least pos- sible weight. That I would sccom- plish by having it made as a shotgun barrel is made, by winding threads of the best steel around a core at right angles to the length of the cylinder. In this manner I would get the maxi- mum of power with the minimum of weight. I would have constructed a steel boat, very narrow, and with most of its weight at ihe pottom, At the bot- tom I would place the engine. BEx- relief of troubled thoughts, as a mere | tending below the boat there would be sedative, is immeasurably valuable, as {a false keel, many an overwrought brain has found, | and so is reading for the highest forms of pleasure, for healthy enjoyment as well as for desired information, for new outlooks, for the broadening of | row views, for culture—above all, | inspiration. Fo i LR R | Townsenda's Cala. Glace Fruits. n ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. 10 Kearny st and new store now open, 767 Market st. ¢ BT S e | gpectal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 30 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, for ! The average man has a mania for posing as his own hero. — several feet in extent, through which would extend the mechanism that would work the pro- peller. My idea is to have, for ex- | perimental purposes a boat say twenty o c . feet long th: v v I'he bonds for construction have been placed and the !sympathies and the correction of nar- | &.fhat would deg e Hye ach o water and would have her propeller at starting ten feet below the surface. Above the boat, say seven feet, I would have the aeroplanes, solid but mobile, slightly curved downward and slightly tilted upward in front. Bach (of the two) would be about thirty | feet long and five feet wide. My idea is that gs the boat neared the maximum of speed possible with the driving power the slightly inclined aeroplanes would elevate the boat | (acting as a kite acts) and would | LABOR-SAVING. Starboarder—I've been delegat- ed by the boarders, ma'am, to kick about the steak. Mrs. Hashley—All right, that'll- save me the trouble of pound- ing 1t. The Comedian—The Russians ‘are going to send 30,000 chickens to the seat of war. . _The Soubrette—What for? The lay for thereby decrease the resistance of the water, and consequently there would be greater speed attained with the same expenditure of power. As the speed increased the holding power of the aeroplanes on the atmosphere would become greater, and, in conse- quence, a further elevation of the boat and a lessening of the resistance of the water. Should the boat be lifted almost out of the water, or, indeed, aetually clear of it, the experimenter ! would have the only feasible method of studying how to control his aero- planes. Assuming that the true keel of the boat rose above the surface of the water, the propeller would still be five feet below it, and by lessening the up- ward inclination of the aeroplanes the engineer could easily immerse his real keel to any desired extent. A little practice at this would enable him to sink his craft to the gunwales, or float in on top of the water, at will. Having achieved that much he could make more actual discoveries in a week than all the mathematicians could deduce in a decade. That the aeroplane as the true prin- ciple underlying the problem of aerial flight has long been accepted is known to everybody who reads of the scien- tists and their work, but the successful application of the well-known prin- ciple remains for a man of the future, The balloons of the present day, which are called “flying mdchines,” are but a small improvement of the idea of the Montgolfier hrothers, demonstrated five generations ago. Bring the creations of the best of the | who presided Miss Helen Speyer, yesterday at a luncheon at her home on Jackson street, made the affair one of additional pleasure and surprise by the news of an engagement. Miss Bthel McCormick announced - her betrothal to Napier Mearns Crosett, receiving the warm expressions of happiness from all the young guests, of whom u:m were Eenrly a score. . Amid the mnt and bloom of St. Joseph lilies, still sweet and fresh from Easter morn, stood a winsome bride last evening, Miss Eugenie Hawes, to plight troth with Rev. David Crab- tree. At 8:30, in Grace Church, the bridal party passed to the altar, where Rev. David Evans performed the mar- riage service. The bride, of charming personality, was unusually lovely in her robes of white satin, chiffon, lace yeil and wreath. Attending her were Mrs. Charles Fickert, matron of honor, and Miss Jessie McNab, Miss Bisa Draper, Miss Claudine Cotton, Miss Anita Wieland, bridesmaids. with petite Miss Carol Tripp as flower sirl. Mr. Crabtree was served by Mr. Bled- gett, Robert A. Dean, William Cole, Roy Phelps and Willlam P. Carpenter acting as ushers. The bride is the daughter of the late Horace Hawes and Mrs. J. B. Schroeder. Many friends of the young couple witnessed the ceremony, after which a reception was held at the Pleasan- ton, to which only the bridal party and relatives were bidden. Mr. and Mrs. Crabtree will live at Redwood City, where Mr. Crabtree is rector of the Episcopal church. « o+ s To-night the Sequoia Club will make its_formal bow to members and guests within the precincts of its own first home, 504 Sutier street. The event is hatled with gladness by all who have come to know Sequoia, its hospitality and bonhomie and greetings warm will bestow themselves upon all who cross the new threshhold to-night. ‘THE SMART. SET BY SALLY SHARP Charles Warren Stoddard is the fa- vored guest and will be in the gracious hands of these hostesses: Mrs. Albert Gerberding, Mrs. H. E. Huntington, Mrs. A. E. Graupner, Mrs. Fernando Pingst, Mrs. Russell H. Cool, Mrs. Mark Gerstle, Mrs. Norris, Mrs. B. F. Older, Mrs. Linda Bryan, Mrs. Frank Deering, Miss Lalla Wenzelburger, Miss Ednah Robinson and Miss Mary Bell. To-night but ten guests have been asked to the christening of the new home—a practice to be followed in the future at all club “at homes.” pegipnil The Van Ness Seminary Alumnae gave its annual luncheon yesterday at the St. Francis. Miss Henrietta Stadt- muller, president, was hostess, con- ducting the affair most efficiently. Sev- eral of our well-known society women are graduates of this well-known alma mater, now known as Miss Hamiin's School. Retrospective speeches and toasts were filled with the incidents of school days, but in addition thers ‘were remarks concerning “Prognostica- tions” that were richly colored with wit and wiselles. A merry time it was for those who gathered,” among whom were: Miss Helen Bristol, Miss H. C. Tilden, Mrs. W. Cluness, Mrs. Winslow Anderson, Mrs. Clark Burnham, Miss Gotea Do- zier, Mrs, Livingston Jenks, Miss Ida Voorman, Mrs. David Erskine Allison, Mrs. Charles Bandmann, Miss Grace Boyd, Mrs. C. U. Martin, Mrs. Clar- ence Martin Mann, Mrs. Frederick Hood, Mrs. Van Arsdale, Miss Belle Willlams, Mrs. Charles Hill, Mrs. T. J. Morton and Miss Henrietta Stadt- muller. The oficers of the club are: Miss Bristol, honorary president; Miss Stadtmauller, president; Miss Dosier, vice president; Mrs. Jenks, secretary. Miss Sadler, fecording secretary, and Mrs. Burnham. trm The weadmx of m- Su—n Gray Le Count and Rev. David Evans will be celebrated at noon to-day by Bishop Nichols in Grace Church. —_— JONAH AND THE WHALLE C PLASH! and Jonah was over- bboard. Just what happened with- in the next minute or two Jonah could not explain, but presently he was discovered in an Interior finished in pale pink. The decorations were peculiaf, not to say bizarre, but Jo- nah was a traveling man and was not surprised at anything he had to put up with or at. “Where am I at?” he exclaimed as soon as he recovered his breath suf- ficiently to use it in articulating. No response being made to this inquiry, he proceeded to look around for a button to press. “By gravy,” he said to himself, as he slippea shivering about in the pale pink gloom hunting the missing but- ton, “this must be a flat and the jan- itor is economizing on steam.” “Button, button, where's the but- ton?"” he cried presently, and none be- ing at hand, he began to kick, for Jo- nah was a natural born kicker. If he had not been he would have been else- where. About the seventh time his foot hit the wall where he thought the door ought to be—seven being a lucky number—a voice, smothered and in pain, came in from some point be- yond. “Say,” it growled, “let up on that.” “What's the matter with you?” Jo- nah carromed on the voice. “Haven't you got aw’ annunciator in this joint?" “No I haven" t. nor no telephone neither.” “How in thunder am I going to communicate with the office?” “What do you want?” “Can you send me up a cocktail? I'm feeling rocky?” “No, can’t send up anything.” “Send it down then.” There was no response to this phil- osophic request. “Say,” called Jonah, after a min- ¥ el aeronauts of to-day to perfection and vyou have—what? An expensively built machine that will carry one or pos- sibly two men a prescribed distance and then bring them back. The machine of commercial value must fly the air as the birds do. And the birds are not balloons; they are just as heavy flesh and blood as men are. All scientists are agreed that the road to success is by way of the aeroplane. The thousands that Pro- fessor Langley spent in his experi- ments might have been productive of some knowledge had they been ex- pended along the lines above sug- gested. E. D. MULCAHY. City, April 24. ute’s waiting, “haven’t you got an ele- vator?” “No “It's easy enough getting down, as you may have noticed, but how am I going to get up?” “Oh, I'll attend to that,” and Jonah could hear a gurgling somewhere on the floor above him apparently. “What have you got for breakfast?” he asked after a few minutes’ pound- ing around. “Pish.” “This ain’t Friday, s it?” “Nos* “Then I want something else.” “Well, look around and see if you can’t find a bit of liver somewhere.” There wasn’t any visible, and Jonah began kicking again. “Aw, go -to sleep and forget it,” came the voice grufily, as though down a rubber tube. “Where'll I sleep?” “There ain't any bed.” “What's the matter floor 2™ “There ain’t any carpet on ig" laughed Jonah, as though it were a joke. “There will be before you get a bed in there.” “That’s all right,” Jonah shouted back. “T'll sleep in the bathtub.” “Oh, will you,” chuckled the voice thickly. This was not very satistying to the guest, and he was quiet for a time. Pretty soon he was busy again. “Oh, say, you,” he shouted, “can't you send me a pitcher of ice water?” “No, I can’t. What do you take this place for?" “I thought it was a hotel, but I guess it is a cold storage warehouse.” There was a gurgling chuckle above and Jonah began kicking against the ‘walls promiscuously. “Let up on that, I tell you,” came the voice threateningly. “What are you going to do about 1t?” snorted Jonah. “I'll throw you out.” “All right, you throw me out if you want to, and I'll show up your darned old shebang in the Nineveh papers. Do you know who I am?™ “Well, I guess yes,” came the voice with a chuckling gurgle that sounded like pouring molasses down a stand pipe. “Then throw me out,” Jonah in- he asked. with the ed. “You wait till about day after to- morrow and I will” came the voice. with firmness and decision. Jonah waited and it came to pass. WILLIAM J. LAMPTON. He's very attentive to her. Rev. Goodleigh (reading war news absent-mindedly)—Yes; I'm . afraid a severe engagement is imminent. —— » & » [HECSINNC SOE Of LIFE @ - DOWN THERE, TOO! ‘His Satanie ml—see here! ‘Why ave all these fires m out? Chief Stoker—That Wall-street man that came last week has organized a trust in sulphur. IN HIGH SOCIETY. First Burglar—I've been in the very best houses in town. Second Burglar—I am much