The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL| JOHN SPRECKELS JOHN MceNAU STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO . THIRD AND MARKI PUBLICATION OFFIC EATL:RIYA\:. THE TYPOTHETAE AND THE PRINTERS. ....JUNE 3, 1906 —— i NCIDENT to the general movement for shortening the working lay,-the employing printers of this city and their employes en- into a sliding scale agreement which reached equilibrium n eight-hour day and $20 per week minimum wage. This ad-| g process began at a nine-hour day and $18 minimum wage. The employers explain. in “A Plain Statement of Facts,” which we publish in another column, that when this adjusting process be- in 1903 it was expected by them that their Eastern competitors and complete a similar adjustment with their em-| ployes, so that the commercial printing trade in the whole country vould be upon an equality in wages and hours. As is shown, this has not been done, and as a result their Eastern competitors have an advantage of 25 per cent in the cost of output.. This situation has caused a discussion of a readjustment back to equality of con- itibns with Eastern employers. is conceded by economists that the former long day for labor, by which we do not mean the nine-hour day merely, but the much onger day which preceded it, caused a limitation of output through #s-moral and physical injury to workingmen. The long day by no ans meant a long output, nor did it thean the highest excellence I As the day was shortened a distinct economic gain f more importance, there was a gain in the physique | lahpr. We believe there is no dispute of these r Lj., All systems go to judgment on their t upon the welfare of man. Hence it is that the | ied and that it has come to stay. Between it and there is a flexible space, a ground for discussion and work, in such trades as can be subjected toj product piec need not be discussed here. s short day is justified by results, and takes on the nature | hose rms that do not go backward, .t is a cause for anxiet he 11 expectation of our employing printers that it ) ¢ eneral has not so far been realized, and that their | s o it gives to their competitors an advantage. Employ- g [ rs are both highly intelligent. Contact with e intelligence required to embark in it. The their part in the agreement of adjustment to feel an interest in the prosperity of the employers, for 1s opportunity to them. On the other hand, the employers be interested in the welfare and good will of their Is fidelity, excellence of work and trade pride. yproves the eight-hour day, especially when | about by the very sane and business-like agreement | h achie it here. If all adjustments between employer and were reached by similar steps, society would be spared and chedness that unfortunately characterize too Having been accomplished by manly and mutual concessions, it will be the verdict ot | 1 is existing adjustment shall stand. As each to it is part of a national organization, the obligation is the eight-hour day to the Eastern plants. If there wding that this should be done, those responsible ding have a duty in the matter that should busy brought ves de. These run from literature to magnum posters. A ver the issue of backward adjustment of hours will be felt. In view of the intelligence of the two parties to the f their highly mutual interests, we are persuaded that toward a settlement that will put the trade in San cisco in the honorable position of pioneering the short day and until other cities follow and equality between all is is conclusion will be aided by temperance of speech All such elements as pride of power and desire to show i - ated by both sides, and as there is nothing in except the reason that is in it, and only what is reasonable we invite the parties to consider. carefully the highly le adjustment to which both have been parties, and let it It was reached not by threat or violence, but by mutual | ng and compromise. In the spirit that made it let it be per- manent. 11 rule THE CZAR'S PROMISES. inister of the Interior, Bulighin, has issued a | ming that discussions about modifying the form | sian Government are not warranted by the ukase of , granting to the people the privilege of petition. Presuming 1at ukase, the conference of delegates from all the zemstvos, which has been in session in Moscow, has tried to form a plan of | representative institutions which would be best adapted to their try. It assumed that the right of petition would carry with it the right to meet and discuss and formulate the subjects i on about. The action of the Czar’s Minister defeats the ject of getting a collective petition in such shape as would rep- sesent ‘the definite wishes of a large body of his subjects, and so virtually ‘takes away with one hand what was given with the other. e gagging of the conference looks suspiciously like a proof that fer of partial freedom to the people was only a temporary expedient of conciliation. Either that, or else the Czar can pract: cally be balked of his good intentions by the schemes of his Min- isters The interpretation of the ukase according to the Minister is that it granted the right of petition only to individuals. Organized institutions are told they must confine themselves to the local ques- tions over which they have jurisdiction. By this restriction of the ht of petition, the chance of getting a forceful request, that showed on its face to be representative of popular desire, brought to the attention of the Emperor is taken away; and taking that as a sample of the way things are done by the Government in Russia, it is easy to infer that several other nominally granted reforms may prove to be empty promises, given out because the Emperor was nervous, and the Ministers wanted the revolutionary inclined to be kept calm for a little while, until the Government’s powers of coercion were more to be/ depended upon HE CALL recently gave the facts about the very interesting Ttechnira] schools of France. This country is far behind our . * sister republic in respect to such schools, and the limitations upon apprenticeship here make us yearly more dependent upon the importation of skilled labor. It is true that we have some schools of the hamdicraits, but they are incapable of filling the demand for trained mechanics. Their graduates also find themselves under cer- | tain disabilities respecting employment, caused by imported labor | which has monopolistic tendencies that it is able to make effective throfgh organization. Mr. Carnegie has determined to apply part of his wealth to the creation of 2 technical school at Pittsburg that is intended to be the greatest in the world. He has already devoted $25,000,000 to that purpose. In the school every branch of science as applied to the arts will be equipped. The first buildings erected will be de- voted to the mechanical trades and scientific laboratories necessary. This school will be open to both sexes. Boys may enter at the age of 16. It will be a day and night school, and it is intended to be tge great American institute of mechanics. As in all his benefactions Mr. Carnegie is on original lines in this foundation. There has been an enormous flow of wealth into colleges and universities, while only a narrow stream has tricklea into these technical institutions. He sets now the example of turn- ing wealth to the training of youth in the trades and handicrafts. His plans are laid for completion very promptly, as he desires to wee the whole school in operation. It may be expected that this will M ot March 3 On thc CARNEGIE’S TECHNICAL SCHOOLS. ;. e st bl i THE FIRST STRAW. How James Felt When He Put on That Sum- | mer Hat.—n~Ew YORK HERALD. = = —t A CONGRESS OF FATHERS BY W. J. LAMPTON. 6 AN there not be called together And all the helpless children C a congress of fathers made up Will have a hard time when of representative men who will Their mammas cannot flourish compare favorably in personnel “with As Mother Congressmen. the Congress of Mothers, and Who will earnestly discuss thgir duties as parents?’—Mrs. Lillie Devereaux Blake, president of the New York City Mothers' Club. Of course there cannot, madam, Because the men have got To hustle like the dickens To swipe the shekels. What? To make the money needed By women who combine In queer consolidations Whose objects are benign. The men are not discussing Parental duties in The public halls at meetings Convened to conquer sin; They think that such discussions Are best at home, and they Are slow at comprehending The modern mother way. But don’t let that disturb you, Oh, mothers of this land! Some people may be stupid, But some can understand, And these know that the fathers Would rather pay the bills Than mix up with a congress Of furbelows and frills. Unless the husbands hustle, Their wives can’t have the spuds To organize for morals And combinate for duds, MIRROR OF FASHION 4 SMART SIMPLICITY FOR SUMMER FROCK. Any of the sheer, wash goods, the Swisses, organdies, plumetis, cot- ton grenadines and vofles and the like will make up admirably in this simple but extremely smart design. There is a feather-boned lining of firm lawn, this cut out beneath the lace yoke, and a backing of fine ; white provided. Two shirred ruffies of the goods are posed around the yoke, and a double strapping of velvet ribbon, each one tying in a quaint little bow exactly in the center, makes a very charming touch. The girdle is a smart design, being in white China silk, showing a deep point in the front and shirred into a knot in the back, from which hang frilled sash ends. The velvet ribbon edges the girdle likewise, and those odd looking little bows are placed just as on the yoke. The skirt is a circular model, shirred at the hips, and the arrangement of the flounces is a new one. Just above the knee is a medium-sized flounce, with the top shirred so as to forin a heading, and just beneath this is one of half the depth, the top one overlapping the under. This same idea is repeated at the foot in the disposal of three flounces, the top one with a shirred heading, and the two succeeding ones of but halt that depth, and each overlapping the other. | not long remain the only institution of the kind, but that other men of fortune will in all parts of the country promote-and endow similar foundations. Secretary Taft playfully regrets that he w:fll be forever pictured in the American mind as holding down “the d.” Clieer up. There are others who will always be | as under it.—New York Herald. ————— e Naturally, the Supreme Court Justices could not be expected to declare speeulation unlawful. There's moré or less of it in judicial opinions.—Washing- ton Post. = PR | 3 Atter all, extortionate monopoliel are better game for any Presideat than fierce wild beasts.—Cleveland Leader. -, % g T be as old as he feels, but he is seldom as rich as he looks. A young man may —~Chicago News. JUNE 3, 1905 After Their | Honeymoon| ‘Westons, Jack and Mollie, forgot that there was such a thing as a striké in Chicago when they left the town for their honeymoon. In fact, the strike was just beginning then and had assumed no alarming proportions. During their sojourn in the sunny south they read nothing so commonplace as newspapers, preferring Browning and Swinburne to the account of what had interested the world that day or the day betore. ‘When they came back to earth and Chi- PR THE SMART SET : i By Cards are out for the wedding Cornelia Dean Gordon and Oliver isaac Upham, to take place June 21 at 8 o'clock in St. Paul's Epflco!nl Church. . . The hoproom at the Presidio. which l-as been in &isuse of late, was the scene last evening of much brightness and pleasure. | hill. The navy folk were given honor by the officers and ladies of the artillery medical corps, several guests from town also being invited. The enjoyment was keeger, for the lapse cago they found that during their ab- sence soms things had happened that were of immediate Interest to them. Mrs. ‘Weston’s mother met them at the depot. ‘When she had promised to attend to the arrangement of her daughter's new home she had not counted on the strike of the delivery men. They thought that her agi- tation was due to her joy at seeing them :llllll until she rudely dispelled the illu- lon. “If you had only stayed away until this strike is over,” she sighed. . “Is there danger?” asked Weston. *‘Oh, no, not personal danger,” sald his mother-in-law. “It's worse.” . “What is worse, mother?” asked Mrs. ‘Weston. But her mother evaded the answer. “You'd better come home with me,” she said. *‘Has the house burned down?" demand- ed Jack. “No; but it might as well have. There is no furniture there and there ig not a dish or a cooking utensil in the place.” “Oh, Is that all?”” said Jack in relief. "1 think it is enough,” said his mother- in-law. ‘*“What shall we do?” he asked Mollie. “‘OR, we'll 2o to our own house,”” she de- clded. “There is no necessity for us go- ing home with mother. I know that there are three chairs in the parlor and one of them is a Morris chair.” Mrs. Weston's mother looked disgusted when Jack suggested that when two callers came Mollie and he could .occupy one chair. ““We don't mind if there are no rugs, do we?' asked Mollle. Of course, they did not. “And we can get our meals somewhere if there is nothing to cook in the house?” Of course, they would. Mrs. ‘Weston's mother left them with a sniff of disdain for thefr absolute ignorance of | | and ndifference to good housekeeping + methods. 8he was not at all surprised when Mol- | Just think, a half-furnisned house and no dishes! Isn't it awful?” lie called her up on the telephone the other afternoon. Mollle’s voice was dis- | But her mother laughed so immoderate- turbed. “I have a letter from some peo- | ly at the fun of the situation that Mrs. ple-‘that we met down at Pass Christian,” | Weston rang off in disgust with a sob- “If you Bad only stayed away” | Said Mollle. *“They were lovely peoplg |bing-declaration that she had not ex- and Jack and I asked them to stay with | pected such treatment from her own us a few days when they were going | mother. home to St. Paul. to-night. And they will be here ‘What are ws going to do? Practice the Cheer Habit | You Can Free Yourself From Consciousness of Care and Be Untouched by Sorrows. BY ANGELA MORGAN. P13 OW can a woman of many cares ttll‘m her age and practice your philoso- H phy of youth and cheerfulness?’ asks a correspondent. “If It were not for our trials and sorrows, our worries and annoyances, we might all do it. 1 can see that it is not the number of years we have lived that makes s old, but it is our experiences that leave their mark. Then how are we to escape our experiences?” We can not escape them. We can not avold the problems and difficulties that furnish the object lessons in life, nor the sorrows and frials that seem to be a part of the scheme of evolution. ¢ But we can escape their wearing, marring effects if we will only learn to get the whole view of life and of ourselves instead of the partial view most of us maintain. It is possible to get such a deep, clear consciousness of our vaster truer selves that the troubles and hard experiences of existence serve us as aids to growth, yet leave no blighting effect upon us. It is possible to s6 live that troubles need not penetrate and leave their record of misery to be reflected in the body. Here is a statement that will help you to do this: “It is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.” This is a statement that really means something. It is a thought to live by, not a theory to muse over as poetically beautiful or to speculate upon as meta- physically interesting. It has a meaning for you—for every living soul. Emerson expressed it, but no matter whose utterance it is, if you just get the vital truth of it and apply it to your own life. There is nothing vague or intangible about it. On the contrary, it 1s something very positive and real—and a principle you can use every day of our life. % “It Is only the finite that has wrought and suffered.” That means the finite self of you—the surface, personal seif. It is only that self that has been trou- bled and grieved and harassed by the hundred experiences you so deplore. Away down In the clear depths of your being you are calm, peaceful, untrou- bled by the calamities that have overwhelmed your surface self. In your deeper self you are utterly unharmed and untouched—serene and beautiful. Get this thought well into your mind. Let your consciousness sink into that still place and be made happy, young and free from care. Every night before you go to sleep do this. In the morning when you awaken call that statement to your d again and make it a part of your thinking. “It is only the finite that has wrought and'suffered. I am untouched. I am serene.” ‘When onee you have really obtained this cohcept of yourself you will find your cares assuming astonishingly meager proportions. You will feel so much greater than your cares, so superior to your troubles, that they will not leave the customary traces upon you. ~ Your body faithfully records your dominant mental states. If you thus free yourself from the consciousness of care, you free your body from its impressions. And so you are able, even though a woman of many' cares, to practice the cheer habit and the youth habit. You have never been touched by your sorrows. 4 — | SHE FELT A BIT FAINT And her mother wonders how she is en- tertaining the visitors. Br‘l"-—(!h'll are queer things, aren't they? Griggs—Very. But what makes you say so? Briggs—I was thinking of Miss Redbud. 1 happened to meet her yesterday about noon, and, being inspired by her new tailor-pade gown, I asked her into a restaurant to lunch. Griggs—Did she accept? . Bri, At first she didn’t care for anything, and then she said she be- lieved she did feel a little faint. Tell me, old man, did you ever take a girl out to lunch when she felt a little faint? Griggs—No. 'Did she eat anything? Briggs—Did she eat anything! Well, sir, that girl grabbed the menu, took a lightning glance at it, said@ she wasn’t feeling very hungry, and then she ordered—— i Griggs—Well, what dld she order? Briggs (impressively)—She ordered oysters and boullion, lobster cutlet, sweetbreads and peas, chicken a la Maryland, shrimp salad, biscuit glace, macaroons, coffee and a creme de menthe. Great Scot! It cost me §8! Griggs (thoughtfully)—Well, old fellow, you ought to be glad. Briggs—Glad! What for? Grigge—Why, glad that she waén’'t hungry.—Chicago Journal. ANSWERS 'TO QUERIES. WANDERING JEW—B., On the Bos- ton, U. 8. N. “The Wandering Jew” is riot the name of any play written by Shakespeate. been able to discover any account of the British war vessel “Powerful” making the run from Hongkong to Manila, 628 miles, in twenty-three hours. Her speed is given in Brassey's Annual as twent g- knots and legend speed as twenty-two ots. g EAGLE—Subscriber, City. The or-bald eagle was given offictal by the act of ress, June 2, 1783, 1t was ordered W‘uflqmnflufioumm tes. ST. PATRICK'S DAY—Index, City. St Patrick's day in 1861 fell on a Sunday. The celebration was on the day. At the literary exercises held in Platt's Hall, General James Shields was the ora- tor of the day. E Thomas Jefferson; two more In 1837, ad- m.uunhuon mvu Buren, and a ninth in 1863, under administra - ition of —_— OCEAN BOULEVARD—A. R, City. The distance along the Ocean boule- vard, San Francisco, from the Cliff House to the point south where it con- nects with the road for Ingleside is just a fraction more than three miles— ambout 150 feet more. \ that has ensued between dances at (his| | l | of Mr. and Mrs. Leopoid Weil Sally Sharp. | of Miss [ army post and the regular hops will not be revived until next season. Y The marriage of Miss Anna 1. Munro and Redick McKee Duperu will take plac. June 7 at Calvary Presb an Church, the service to be read by Dr. Hemp- and | Another wedding for next Wednesday will be that of Miss Paula Weil Henry Jacobs. The bride is the daughter Details for the ceremony are not yet decided, al- though the original plans bespeak a largs affair to take place at the St. Francis. ® . & e Mrs, Frederick Funston held her frst “at home” yesterday at the new quarters near Fort Point. Carriages conveyed the guests, of whom there were many, from the cars. . .. The wedding of Miss Amy Furlong and Mr. Short will take place this evening in San Rafael. The ceremony will be Jer- formed om the grounds of the Furlong home. . . Miss Helen Hyde is soan to arrive from Japan, where she has been touring and . 7| sketching for several months. Miss Hyde's work is of the highest order and her col- ored etchings of late creation will be on view. During her stay in town Mis Hyde will be the guest of her aunt, Mrs. David Bixler. N S Mrs. Eleanor Martin leaves to-uay for Portland, where she will remain for a few weeks visiting the exposition. CER e - Mrs. Gilbert McKee Allen, - who has been the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Kent, for some months, expects to leave for the Philippines in August, where Lieutenant Allen is stationed. « e . Colonel Charles H. Blinn, Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook Blinn and Miss Cathleen Sher- man left on Tuesday for a trip to Yosem- ite, where they will remain for two or three weeks. o Mr. and Mrs. Fulton G.. Berry of Fresno have taken apartments at the Palace. . e An exhibit of sketches by W. E. Rol- lins will be held in the club rooms of 4 [ Tha Palette, Lyre and Pen, Oakland, Be- ginning to-day and continuing until next Wednesday. The subjects deal with the | Hopi Indians of Arizona. . Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Block announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Maude Ackerman, to Dr. William C. Voor- sanger, son of Dr. and Mrs. Jacob Veor- sanger. « = Look out for 81 Fourth st.. near barber; best eyeglasses, specs, 13¢ to B0e. . —_————— Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, in ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. New store now open, 767 Market street. . Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 30 Cali~ fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. * N e SMILES GOT EVEN. Porter on Pullman Car—Beg pardon, sah; but dis yere half dollar you gave me‘has a hole in it. sah. Passenger—So had the blan- ket you gave me last night. HAD BEEN THERE HIMSELF, First Russian Soldier (la St. Petersburg)—My proudest boast is that I was one of the men Grandpa—Tommy. name some fmportant things that exist to- day. but were unknown 100 years ago. Tommy—You and me.