The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1905, Page 2

[} THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT MAKES PL FOR A HIGH STANDARD OF HONOR. Leaders With Lofty Ideals Needed by the Nation, Says Chief Executive. SCORES COMMERCIAL DECEIT HE States That Decency Among the Wealthy Comes Before Philanthropy. STIRRING ADDRESS AT HARVARD | — - CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 25—Al-{ then it will with dificulty be made attractive | h -nominally celebrating with \.1;! to the ous and gifted of our Ameri- | he twer anniversary | noood teac L3 = of "80 of 1 Cniversity., | i 2oosevelt was to-day the hon-| a's most ancient | degrees of honor | as he alread FOR SCHOLARS, g which will br BETTER PAY esired change, but there is will materially help in 3 and that is to secure to scholars. t f_getting one of a few brilliant posi- ae priges if they rise to the first rank chosen career. Every such briliant sition should have as an accompaniment an dded salary, which thall help indicate how Ligh the position reaily fs: and i must be the efforts of the alumni which can | ure such ealaries for euch positl | people I think we are waking up to | the fact there must be better pay for the | n and average woman engaged in | of education. But I am not speak- | this now; I am not speaking of the Zreat though that of givin r payment to the average educator: 1 am Fo peaking of the desirability of giving to the | - & xceptional man the chance of Winning an ex g g the comme eptional prize, just as he has the chance to sident made ti > in law and business. In business at the | ot the e resent day noth: more healthy | ther immense redu the money value | 1 the exceptional pr thus 3 bat | p what is needed is the rse. | In this country we rightly ko upon the theory that it is more ant t the wel- | are of the average man th pre- | mium upon the exerti eptional. t we must not forget that the establishment { such'a premium for t tional, though of less imp ess of very great imy riant even to. the developme man, for the aver- ge of all of the awork « anic Mu n to the WORK OFFERS OWN REWARD. Ge » s¢ < It i, 1 trust, unnecessary to say that I ap- - 'j:.rpf‘»:“n ¢ {ull the fact that the high 2 e ] i Ui never be affected ¢ the Chief Marshal's ny question of : b H work which is really -best | r the nation must from the very nature bé non-Temunersiive smpared with work of the ordinary ir es and voca tions, Nor would 1t ever be possible or fesir able thet the rewards of trans cress 1 scholarship should even appr from & monetary standpoint, the rew other | vocations. But it is also trye the effect spon ambitious minds cannot but be bad if. n | 2% a peaple, we show our very slight' regard which had | for -se achi¢vement by making ne pro- | Jt was | Yisior for its reward. The chief. use of the increased money vaiue of the -scholar's | should g0 | prize would be the index thereby afforded of | though the | the in w it was popularly held. | S o'clock to- | Th entist, the American scholar, - $008. 55 ; chance at Jeast of winning S board | Huch are open to his successful g b0ard | jrother in Germany, England or Fy nce, where 2 the rewards paid for first-class ch Presid t a restful night and | achievement are as much ‘above those g i e o His tors to- | (his country as our rewards for - firs Sy e Taylor. the colored | Schievement in ingustry or law are above & he President’s washing | " “gu¢ or course what cotnts infinitely more-| ollege thén any possible outside reward is the wpirie| A akfast at thie home of | Of the worker himeelt: The prime need 1 to e Niam Lawrencé, the President | Instill into the minds of the scholart them- o s { seives a true appreciation of real es.distin- was Massac ts Hall, In} gujehea from sham success. . In, . proguctive | . hich ancient structure the ! schoiarship, In the schalarship which adds by procession wae formed. | its work to ths sum of sybstantial achieve was accompanied by Lieu- | ment with which the countr I8 to be creditad, pos wo ~regatu( s rst-class work that counts, In B, WS Tepr :‘"";' the smallest amount of really first- ) atter being Il | ciass work is worth ali the second-class work The X garbed in their be produced; and to have turesy mes with red tunics and is = itself the fullest and | . formed the Pres ¢ to the man producing i e | . ! him in evéry way to produce it. Yet all that | ater the Presidential n do is but compared to what he Secretary of War can and must do. The spirit of the | ompanied by Judge | Scholar is the vital factar in the productive | Charies J. Bonaparte | Scholarship of the countey. | v of the Navy John LUXURY DENOUNCED. | So much !r{: the first function of the univer- | e the coursé of his | Sity. the sending forth of a small number of T e Poecidont. a trans. | fcholets of the highest rank who will do pro ductive work of the first class. the second, and what may function -of the coliege, ng out cach year many hall possexs the trained 1ly the characte hold high the renow, of learning by doing us tion. It i Bot my purposs to length what shiould be done in Hervard to pro- duce the right spifit among the men wha go out of Harvard, but rather to speak of what this spirit should be. Nor shall I speak of the exceptions, the men to whom. college is a Now turn to g as follows: be called the nor. the function of | hundreds of men and sur republic and and justice in alumnius_ of atte telligence, a Wirh of ng the -helm CABLEGRAM ke, he aof the biting re eon y cultteation.” Of { eers. The Presi- 1 universits training ould make Dimselr | (aRte for 1a | make himselfl | t5ineq effort | ratulatory | or & sense o | « Three | world of i e Sor inson, | work. th indfvidual | { in such » abiding ve amounted to m ége_training nor.an the mu good »> the man of wRoosevelt” ol The r o o the man with & twist in his w2 a i { moral or inteiiectual make-up. But the aver- | through the college | (0™, Tl oriauzte bas enough ehbustness. of | e ¥ lain Club, where he enough capacity for enthusiasm and unche ! to make it:wors to turn to dent went to the home of| that i i ctapping on the way at| There are, however, two points in the | " scum, after. which he |wndergrmduate life of Harvarl about | . & cablegragn: | which ! think we have a right to feel ” \peror., Rer. | ome Jittle concern. One is the srowth Loz ar Harvara | of luxury in the university. I do not c Mugeum, the kmow whether anything we can my‘! " largely owe 0| will have much effect on this point, but T e AT ioy TaT% | just mo far as the alumni have weight, | e Slihect which in recent | I hope to see that welght felt in serious | « brought closer togeiher mnd sustained effort against the grow- | 3 - American peoples. This | jug tendency to luxury, and in faver of endship between the two natiol weltare of man. | !l that makes for democratic con- ditions. or the future wish t k you personally for | 3 have made to foster it One of our mumber—the one whom I _thinlk THEODORE ROOSEVELT. the rest of us most dclight to honor—Colonel At Memorial Hall the President spoke | Higginson—has given to our alma mater the as follows 1o the members of the Alumni | Harvard Union, than which no better gift, no Association g1ft meeting a more vital need, could have been given to the university. It is neither possible | nor desirable to try to take away all ecclal dif- | ferences from’the student fife: but it is a good { thing to show how unimportant these aiffe ences are compared to the differences of real , achiovement, and compared also to the bonds mall number of el WhE. B Sekinict N’_g; vhich should unite together all the men who e fret class The second tasto send out | Sre in auy degree cammble of uch real achiev . Wit & Wy B d ment; bonds, moreover, which should also knit e number of men | these' capable men to their brethren who need a achieve. 0 o nof 1a achfeve, and who ought not | {et® CABW ve, such & position In the fleid . bur whose energles are to be EVILS OF COLLEGE SPORT. other form of activity; and who | The second point upon which 1 wish to spen #houl from our doors with the bal- | ig the matter of sport. Now I shall not e anced development of body, of mind, and, above | pected of tendency unduly to minimize the ail, of character, which shall fit them to @0 | importance of sport. 1 believe heartily in sport. work both bonorahis nf efflclellflv e 1 believe in outdoor games, and I do not mind D O e O A e o tie of | 1 the least that they are rough games, or that unetion, thet of developing men capable of | those who take part in them are occasionally preductive scholarship. as distinguished from | injured. I bave mo sympathy whatevqr with e The eonfokic | the overwrought sentimentality « which' would [ St e u e keep a young man in cotton wool, and I have a he law school and medical 8chool 40 | pegrty contempt for Mm if he counts a broken B 3] !Mt!ll:x_;';*“ f;r" !_P:C_ll'lu Pty | arm or collar bone as of serlous consequence, Smines 15 the Etacdeie wehoo) any | When balanced againet the chance of showing 2 Goes the college wroper. the eor, | that he possesses hardihood, physical address " naersratustens: e tacal tor the | and courage. " But whenthesé infuries are in- graduate school and for those undergraduates | ficted by °m"",°m’°' T SOy 08 Sutite: who ere to go into it must be the ideal of | 416D We ate oonironted by the question, not of bigh scholarly proguction. which is to be dls- | SAIAER 10 TTR, IMAE Rody. but of damage to unguished in the sharpest fashion from the | the other WMADS Clavecter Brutality in play. mere wansmittal of ready-made knowledge | I0€ 8 E3TO SOV awaken the heastiest and without adding to it If America is to con- | most plainly By e ey e player ibute its fuil share. to the progress not | Eullty of it: espectally it this brutality s S P et e hen, %€ | VIR Feking chught 1y the gtit 1 Hore mt ver-| em) on uni- ol 10 see both graduate and undergraduate opinion come to_scorn such a man as one gullty of base SPE "H OF THE PRESIDENT. e has two es- oduce a - emal of schola rank, pecia number | more lege of | the surplus of their fortunes in philan- | throny. | vent the law 18 doing nll that iu hi; | liew. to euncournge the growth in. this | | of businese, the werk of the professions. versity work done along the lines of the grad- © school. We can best help the growth of American scholarship by seeing that as a ca- | and dishonorable action, who has no place In er 1t is put more on @ level with the other | the regard of gallant and upright men. wers open 1o oUr young men. It ie & bad thing for any college man to grow The gencral opinion of the community 1s | to regard eport as the serious business of Iife. bound 1o bave a4 Very great effect even upon | It is a bad thing to permit sensationalism and its most vigorous and independent minds. If | hysteria to shape the development o, our sporte.” ‘And finally it is a much worse thing to permit college to become In any or way or by so much as in the public mind the career of the scholar J regirded as of lnsignificant value when tainted by professionalism, compsred with thut of & glorified pawnbroker, . S PLEA In the comrse of his ‘address at Harvard University yesterday President Roosevelt said: ‘ ; “This nation never stoodin greater need thap now of . having among its leaders men of lofty ideals, which they try to live up to and not merely to talk of.” In referring to the wealthy, he said: “It is.far more important that they should conduct their business affairs decently than that they should spend-the sur- | ! plus of their fortunes in philanthropy.” + =9 the slightest suspicion of money-making: and | they combine the high resolve to-work for this is especially. true it the professionalism s = what s best cnd most ennobling with the no furti if the boy or man violates the spirit . less resolute purpose to do their work ‘in such of the Tule while striving to keep within the | fashion that when the-end of their days comed Jetter. Professional sport is all. right in its , they shall reel that they have actually achieved way. 1 am glad to say that amopg my friends | results apnd_not mersly ialked ©f -achieving | I number prolessional boxérs® and = wrestlers, | them. carsmen and baceball men, whose regard I value, | RE Gl @ whom in turn I regard as thoroughly 500d | HARVAR? MEN CHOOSE CHOATE. citizens. But the colicge undergraduate who, in furtive fashion, becomes & semi-professional is an unmitigated curse, and that not alone to | Seleet Him as President of the Alumni university Wfe and to-the cause,of amaieur | Aksbelatiog. sport; for the college graduate Gught in after ‘ s 1o take the lead in putting tie business | CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 28.—Jo- iy ot this country on'a propar plane, and | seph H. Choate of the class of ‘52, late i not do 1t i€ in his own college care-l | Bmbagsador to Great Britain. was | e e Nhleh "puts so | elected president of the Assoclation of | The oo bie work as to produce | the Alumni of Harvard College to-day. yrofeesicnal 1.:11 i unhvx]:h;‘." e 7 He sucdeeds Bishon William Lawrence I wish 10 see Harvard win.a reasonable pro- ! of Boston. The vice presidents chosen sortion of the contests in which it enters, and ety i ;h 1A, b hr-':rlll,\' Shamed of every Harvard included President Roosevelt. lete who did not spend every ounce there AR TG was in Lim in the effort to win, provided only he does it in honorable und manly fashion. But I think our effort shouid be to m(n(mlzt:_ ather than to increase that. kind of love of o hletics which manifests itse}f, not in-joining in the athletic sports, but In crowding by tens tiousands to see other people indulge. in | them. 1t is a far better thing for our colleges 1o have the average siudent interested in some | form of athletics than to have them ali gather in a mass to sce other peopie do their atnletics | for them | STRONG LEADERS NEEDED. ! the undergraduates. N EOICT [SSUED So much for ¢ aumni, the men whu are at Work ou PPV o great world. Of course the man's| o patch to The Cali duty is to himeelt “and “to those n- s - tely deperdent upon him. Unles Pt s United States Min- | jis own welght he must be content to re- | ROAKhIN has succeeded in getting JUNE 29, 1905. | are securities in promoting | which the firm undertook to fldat. - | siderable of the Habilities are notes. for LIBILITES ACREGAT 53000000 i Failure of Knight, Donnelly & Co., the Chicago Grain, and Stock ~Brokers, As-| sumes Great Proportions | TR DUE TO INVESTMENT | IN LOSING VENTURES, -— Notes of Hand Given for! Loans From Friends and | Business Associations May | Total the Sum of $500,000 CHICAGO, June ‘The failure of | he grain and stock brokerage firm of | Knight, Donnelly & Co., which occurred | several days ago, hés assumed gigantic | proportions. Although Receiver Porter | has not finished the éxamination of the | books of the concern, ¢nough has been ascertained to approximate the labil- | ities. These will aggregate not far | from $3.000,000. The assets may sum up $2.500,000, though these may dwindle éonsiderably, owing to 'the character of | tany. of-the loans made by the firm. | | The asséts are made up largely of stocks, hany “of them not listed. Some schemes, such as gas companies in small towns,| Con money borrewed from’triends and busi: Main a paseenger all his iife, But we have the Chinfse Government to issue a proc- 5 Tight to expect that the men who come out | lamation intended to quiet the agitation Harvard will - dy s<::::x'r“l‘(x|s w:r-m\!rljd:: zainst the parehasc of Amerfean goods, sprely D). sl owg L A, ave 2 18 the negotiation of a_new treaty. | ight to expect that they wili ant as | 1 PIWVASE y | itive forces for the betterment of their iellow- | ASHINGTON, June 28 —The State | couptrymen: and they can’ thus counl iy | Department has not bean informed, of | i they combine the power of devatign o a | Ministey "Rockhill's ‘suceess in procurin: | b SEH, - Dvie on ssmse in 3 = . REQCUNInG [ oty ";dr‘a‘? r\»‘a‘ww‘:u:: j‘_aiam“‘ L8 o | the ;-‘m‘ of the Chinese, ‘Government in | Thie® mation never stood In greater need | SLODping’ the'Anti-Amefican movement in| than now of having among its leac men of | China. Mr. Rockhill has had. instruotions | lotty ided which they try to live up to s:'l;‘ | for some time—ever since hé reached k of & en with | pa, FRE 3 o O e mesd them | PeKINg. -in fact—to- do all that he could i basiness And in such a pro- | t0 pacify the Chinese commiercial the law. We can by statute estab- | izatior those exceedingly rough linés of V. the overpassing of which means that man is in ‘jeopardy of ,the constable of i criff. But the nauon is badly off if, | tion to this, there is not a vefy mach | standard nduct, - & standard im- | tively establish by statute, | organ- e | ISEL | | the NEVADA WANTS MORE CHIN Thus Declares Governor Sparks Benver Interview. | 7 which the community (“‘*fl“, ole, DENV Jure “S,—Governor John 1y the real [eaders o e com- | oo a -a.4); > y I Y. Take -such-a- question as the | :r_‘;'rk if Netada, the “cowboy Gov- | T ment of the law, It is of course, ele- | €¥NOL" vas in Denver this morning en | méntars to day that s Is the Nirit reaitisite | route from Texas to his ome In Reno, | in civilization: at all. But a great many | Nev. [{¢ stopped until he could cateh | apile 5t ranks of 1ite from e Toat | @ tratn the West at '§ é'clock | college men rawn seem to forgel e iy % v ¢ ther shotld condemn with equal severity_ those President Roosevelt is right in giv- . 2k the law by committing rlm:s ing the Chines> more léverage,” 3sald | of mob vio.ence and those who evade the | Goyernor Sparks. “We hiven't enough v. or who act v b , but so . : 4 it = 3 ik it ie abE Y st Chinese in the West, and as long as erimes they commit being not those of physical | the President is cautious in letting the outrage, but those of greed and craft on the | Celesti into this country it is all | larzest ‘scale. right. We neéd more Chinese to pick CRAFTY MAGNATE A MENACE. hope and fruit and to do washing. Wa The very rich man who.conducts his busi-| haven't enouzh. I wish. there were ness as if he believed that he were a law | more of them in Nevada. unto_himself, thereby immenscly Icreases e the difficuity of the rask of ‘uphotding orde: z ;. en the -disorder fe @ ‘menace to men of METCALF TO REMAIN. perty; for -1 the.community feels that s rich, men . disregard the, Jaw where it affects & : e iy " 4a e 1o | Demles Jteport That He, Will Retize assume the dangerous and unwholesome at- - ¥From the Cabinet. titude of condoning crimes of \'le;lv;’nwi w\y:;- w ASHIm"l’O June 28.—Secretary mitted against the interests which in _the L of "Commerde and” Libor Metealf™ has povular mind these cich iew ropresent. ThM [ has given out a statément that he has st attitude s . $ so is e 4 ) ):\l) v which produces dt. . We bave a right | N0 Inténijon of ‘resigning his place in to appeal to the aiumni of Harvard, and tq | the Cabinet. A revort that he was to the alumni of every institution of learning | retire cailed forth a denial. this land. to db thelr part in creating’ a | pubiic s ment “whieh shall demand of all PPyt | mien_of means, and gpecialiy: of the men ‘ot Decide to Join in the Boyeott. i vast” fortune, that -they - set an, example 5200 . their less fortunate brethren by paying scrupu- FENA Stralts Settlement, June 28. | lous ‘heed not o the letter! but to tha| A larze mecting of the leading Chi- it of the laws, and by a(‘kn‘nwl;tlllx(nxl in merchants hiere to-day decided to artiest fashion the moral obligations | co-gperate L. o, 28 cit cannot, be expressed in law. but wiich | perate with the Chinese of Singa- | pore and Shanghai in boycotting Amer- ican products jending the withdrawal of the Chinese exclusion aet. T ST E L CONFEDERATE COMMANDER THE GUEST 0¥ THE G. A. R. Generanl Stephen D. Lee of Vicksburg Entertained by Veterans of the Union Army. i { CHICAGO, June 28.—For the second time in its history, Columbia. Post No. | 706, Grand Army of the Republic, has | given a campfire in honor of General | Stephen D. Lee of Vicksburg, com- mander of the Confederate Veterans of the South. All of the Confederate or- | ganizations of the city joined in the event. Addresses of welcome were de- | livered by General John Corson Smith, | the department commander of the | Grand_Army of the Republic for Iili- public the of great wealth. .{ nois; Junior Commander Patton of the Now, the great Jawyer who employs | National Grand Army of the Republic, his talent and his learning in the highly | and by other prominent veterans. The remuncrative task of enmabling a very | feature of ..e bivouac wag an appeal wealthy client to overrule or circum-| by the Southern soldier for the return of the tattered flags and banners that adorn Grand Army trophy rooms to the men from. whom they were won during the struggle of the war. Iy referring to the recent action of Cengress vroviding for the return of the flags now in_the War Offices at Washington to the .Confederate -sol- diers, General Lee said: “I am glad the wound has healed so that the flags can be returngd before those that.loved them and bled for them are.all under the s0d. ; —_———— " Specinl Rates for the Holidays. On the California Northwestern Rail- way tickets will be sold at greatly re- duced rates on'July 1, 2, 3 and 4, with return limit July &. EXTRA SERVICE JULY 4TH.—On Tuesday, July 4th, a special train_will leaye Camp Vacation for San Frantisco at 7:00 p. m, stopping in transit at Rus- sian River Heights, Guernewood Park, Guerneville and all intermediate points. From Glen Ellen, a special will leave at 8:15 'p, m., stopping at Agua Caliente | Springs, Boyes Hot Springs, Verano, Sonoma, Buena Vista, Vineburg and all intermediate points. At 11:00 p. m. o special train will leave Napa for San Francisco. $ ot ————— Steel Trust Buys Ralilroad, PITTSBURG, Pa., June 28.—Thé Lake | Erie and Pittsburg Rallroad, now in course of construction between Lo- rain, Ohio, and Pittsburg, has been pur- chased ‘by thé United States Steel cor- stand back of and above all law It ix far more important that they should conduct their business affairs decently than that they should spend Much been given to these men and we to demand much of them in f:- man of great wealth who runs cynical contempt for those v which by hired cunning . 18 a menace tp our community is not to be ed if it does not develop a spirit which frowns on and discountenances him. he great profession of the law shouid be that whose members ought to take the lead in the creation of § a -spirit. We all know s things actually are, many of the most al and most highly remunerated mem- cgnter of wealth make work out hold and i very wealthy idual or .corporat n evade the are made to regi in the inter- prohibition: can escape laws Wil est of th country of n spirit of dumb anger| against all laws and of disbelief In their. efficacy. 3 g s a spirit may breed the demand that rall be made even more drdstic agaist I, or else it may manifest itself in - to all laws. urely Harvard "has “the | expect from her sons a high standard) shether: their paths lead”| inte public life, into business, or into it profession of the law, whose mem- re 0. potent in shaping the growth of ational ul, DUTY TO THE NATION. * But-in addition to having high ideals it can- not too often be said to'a body such as is gathered here to-day, that together with de- votion to what s right must go practical effl- clency in striving for what I8 right, .. This is n rough, workaday, practical world,” and It in it we are 1o do the work best worth doing, we must approach that work In a.spirit re- mote from ihat cf themere visionary, and remote from that of the visionary aspirations after good find exprestidn in the shape of scolding and complathing. it #hall not help-us if we ayold the Scylla: of baseness of motlve, only to be wrecked on the Charybdis of wrongheéadedness,, of - feeble- and inefficlency. SR There can be nothing worse for the ¢om: munity than to have the men who profess lofty ideals shuw themselves so. foolish, narrow, so impracticable, as to cut themseives off from comihunion with the. men . who are actual ablc io do the work of gGverning, the Work. | T ¥ a sad and evil thing if the men with a moral sense group themselves as Impractical zealots, while the men of activn gradually grow to dis- card and laugh at all moral senss as an evi- | dence of impractical -~ weakness, Macaumy, whose eminently sane and wholesome spirit re- volted not only at weakness, but at the cen- applied niora nem | covered at'n |.tors to-day. NEW DIRECTORS | ling is a member of the famous family | ness associates. These fiotes of hahd! hay aggregalte $509,000, 5 i The magsitude of the failure. was dis- eeting of thié pank éredi- “Upon. camparison of the ounts theé total was found to far exceed ail! preVvious estimates: ~ failure.. was . precipitated by | speculative operations. The character | of many of the securities on hand was such that quick reatization was impos- sible. to be a remarkable’ shrinkage. { Newell C. Knight; the senior partner | Gt the firm, returned from Colorado to- day and was closeted with the receiver and the creditors’-attorneys. “Run” Forces TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 2 Vigo County National Bank, on w as been a “~Tun’ for the last two | . closed its doors this morning. | FOR EQUITARLE NEW YORK, Jine 25.—Grover Cleve- nd, Morgan J. O'Brien and George | Westinghouse, the trustees of the ma- Jority stock of thexiqultable Assurance Society, took the first step in' the reor- ganization of the soclety to-day by ac- cepting the resignations of all the di- rectors who had tendered them and in | forwarding to the board of directors the | nzmes of nine prominent citizens, repre- | senting the intetests of the stockholders, with the recommendation that they be at once elected. The recommendation of the trustees was immediately complied with and the following men bécame members of the directorate: E. B. Thomas, F. G. Bourne, J. E. Schmidlapp, Frederick | Roebling, Willlam Whitman, E. W. Blcomingdal¢, E. W. Robertson, Joseph Bryan and J. J. Albright. i All of the new men hold policies of va- | rious amounts in the Equitable Society, and their names were submitted in large part by the society's general agents. E. B. Thomas is president of the Le- | high Valley Raiircad Company; F. G. | Bourne is one of the largest if not the largest stockhclder in the Singer Sewing Machine Company; J. E. Schmidlapp is a capitalist of Cincinnati; Frederick Roeb- | of bridge builders, and lives at Trenton, N. J.; William Whitman is & paper man- ufacturer of Beston; E. W. Bloomingdale | is one of the proprietors of a department | store in this city and was a member of the so-called Crimmins committee of | Equitable policy hoiders; E. W. Robert- | son is a prominefit South Carolina man | whose name was presented to the Equit- } able trustees by thel general agents and | policy holders of that section of the coun- try; Joseoh Bryan is a capitalist and rep- resentative citizen of Richmond, Va.; J. J. Albright is one of Buffalo’s best known | financiers. } The election of these men increases the. | board from thirty-one to forty members. | It is understood that the trustees will recommend the names of other directors | shortly and o'far as may be feasible | the "additiondl directors will be taken ; from among the soclety’'s large policy | holders. | The board also accepted the resigna- ' tions of ail but one of the directors who had resigned, the one exception being James B. Forgan, who withdrew his res- | ignation, which'is held in abevance. The | other twenty-one directors whose resig- nations were accepted were: Cornelius N. Bliss, George H. Squire, Charles S. Smith, Brayton Ives, M. E. Ingalls, A. J. Cas- satt, E. H. Harriman, Jacob H. Schifr, | James J. HIM, T. 'Jefferson Coolidge, | John Jacob Astor, Marvin Hughitt, Hen-| | changes, which have been made in the | Labolished b: | command | In consequence there is expected |. { misslon’ that ‘indicates his office, | that alt officers of the mnavy | aadressed offiefally | Samuel Cahn, | Benjamin, who will be sent to Fort Me- | | James H. Hyde, replying to the strictures CREAT POWERS ~ NEARLY DROWNS “FOR NAVY BOARD SAVING CHILD Made in | Babe Falls Into Water From Small Skiff and Father Plunges After Offspring UNABLE TO REACH BOAT ishing Party Goes to -the Rescue and Reaches Pair Niek of Time Important Changes \ Regard to the Control of | Sea Forces- of the Nation RULES FOR OFFICERS: Definite Regulations for:F Assignment of Commands and Titles in the Bureaus 1IN the Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, June 28—In an effort to save his infant son from drowning, P. A. Sulier, a Santa Fe engineer whoss home Is at Las Vegas, N. M. narrowly escaped death himself in Avalon Bay this afternoon. Both were saved in the nick of time. Sulier went for a row, taking his two youngest children with him. He rowed out a mile or so when the younger of the children fell overboard. Sulier leap-. ed after it but when they came t6 the* surface he found they were quite &-dis- tance from the skiff, and he was unable to reach it, being barely able to keep himself and child afloat, while ‘the boat was floating farther away. Suller ex- hausted himself in desperate attempts to recover tha skiff and them found there was nothing to do but await the inevit- able unless help appeared from someé un- expected source. It happened that Captain I O." Donald- son in his launch was cruising abotit with a fishing party. Thraugh his glasses he saw- what appeared to be -a derelict boat " WASHINGTON, June 28.—Important | naval regulations by the Bureau of Navigation with the approval of ihe President and Seeretary of the Navy, were made public at the Navy Depart- ment to-day. The general board of the navy is to have a membership of seven, as at present, with the admiral of the navy at its head. | The duties of the board, as given, are to devise measures and plans for the effective preparation and maintenance of the fleet for war: to advise the Sec- retary of the Navy as to its disposition | and distribution, and of the reinforce- ments of ships, officers and men of the navy and marine corps; to prepare and submit to the Secretary plans of cam- paign, including co-operation with the army, and the employment of all ele- ments of naval defense, such plans to be constantly revised in aecordance with the latest information received. It is also required to co-ordinate the work | of the naval war college, office of naval intelligence and board of inspection and he started after it - Nearing yx‘t _he and survey, and to report on naval | saw it was occupied by.a child ar . s operations, maneuverings. tactics, or- |ling on all speed, hastened to the recus: ganization, training- and such other There wds.a cry for hf!v-‘rrnm l;";‘r‘"fl': subjects as the -Secréfary. may lay be-’| Th ‘thé water, and ta him they dir f,"’;‘, fore- it.. - - their- course. They found him so nédrly exhausted thaf he could no longer keep the ehild’s* hend above water. He, was holding .on to the umconscious body when he -and.the child were dragged aboatd the ‘rescuing lainch. . The wearing of swords aboard ship on ordinary siohs has been practically new regulations: . The :ships té which captains may be . érdei'ed in command are limited fo bat- ; —_— e nips and armored cruisers. . while z 0 : CAGH une 28.—The ctors of dommanders have had - thein duties | CHICAGO. June 25008 Breciors B0 afloat extended to the command of Pro- | chance July & and 3. < s tected cruisers .of the first rate, and licutenants ara made eligible for' the of ‘destroyer or torpedo | flotillas. | Articles defining, the rank and titles ot officers of the line and staff of the navy have undergone revision. New provisions made in this connec- tion require that “except when othe - FEEL BLUE? | stion is the foe to all happiness e nith, It the stomach is wealk the entire system is affected. Your appetite is poor, sleep restless and bowels cos wise praovided by jJaw or regulation, | tive. No wonder you “feel blue.” Make every commissioned officer of the navy | the stqwach strong and healthy by tak- when designated by title shall be given | ing a few doses of 3 ’ Hostetter’s the title borne on the face of his com- i Stomach and | shall be | by the titles pre- scribed.in .tiie regulations. The new regulations provide that an | officer below .the rank. of rear admiral, | filling the office of chief of a bureau, shall, while holding such office, have the rank and, except when otherwise provided by law or organization, the le of rear admiral. They also pre- seribe that the chiefs of the bureaus of medicine and surgery, supplies and ac- counts, steam engineering and con- struction and repair, while holding these offices, shall have respectively the titles of ;. surgeon general, paymaster 'gengral, engineer in chief and chief | constructor. staft officer serving as chief of the eau of Docks and Yards | will retain_his title in the corps te which he*bélongs, and the judge advo- 1te general -will have the rank and title of captain in the navy or celonel in the marine corps. Officers retiring while serving #s chiefs of bureaus or as judge advocates will'retain the rank how your blues™ will disappear. Every bottle is backed by a 50 years’ record of cures and can therefore be relied on. It also cures HOWWD LS 3 LLia accept substitute. Tusist and titles held while ‘serving. Staft officers on the retired list have the titles .appropriate to the corps from which retired | partale SUSERIE S | ARMY ORDERS. | WASHINGTON, June 28.—Army or-| ders: Post Quartermaster Sergeant Fort McDowell. will be sent to Bolse Barracks., Idaho, report- | ing to the commanding officer to relieve Post Quartermaster Sergeant Michael | Dowell for duty. Private Frederick Wilson, Company B, Ninth Infantry, American Legation Guard at Peking, China, upon arrival at the Presidio at San Francisco will be discharged from | the army on account of being disquali- fled for the service through his own | misconduct. —ee———— New Rural Route. WASHINGTON, June 23.—Additional rural free delivery service in California | has been established as follows: Routfe | ®o. 4, Modesto, Stanislaus County, | length of route twenty-seven miles. Hind Quarter Mutton ... Fote Quarter Mautton Corned Beef, ] ... eperlh - Acperlh SHENSON'’S = : —+|159 Sixth St. Zhone South 936 ry C. Frick, M. Hartley Dodge, John A. | eni: Gt S Stewart, Alfred V. Vanderbilt. August | Belmont, D. O. Mills, Robert T. Lincoln, | John Sloane and Joseph T. Lowe. | The names of President J. W. Alexan- | der and Vice President James H. Hyde and Tarbell, Wilson and Mcintyre are not in the list of the resigned directors, they having only resigned as officers of | the society. | All of the new directors are to serve | out unexpired terms of the directors | | e Uricsol 4 'Rheumatic Specific later just whom they succeed. The new directors constitute the first nine mem-| Kidney and Liver Stimulant. The bers to be el>cted out of twenty-eight by | most successful remedy before the the policy holders, the others to be elect- | public. Does not injure the stom- ,sd' by the stockholders of the wdetyi ach. Drop postal for Free Booklet later. 1 5 b The trustees also issued a long, state- | . T r“tgmfll‘:tkiggo?‘lflcéoé\d{%f\‘; ment to the policy holders urgently invit..| Matism to LS L, ing their co-operation in the work of re- CS‘- 23Cd lmd Grand Ave., Los An- geles, Cal vt ¥ organization. A long statement from For Sale by All Druggists. whom they succeed, the trustees to name conveyed in the report of State Superin- tendent of Insurance Hendricks, was read t the theeting of the directors. Evenings and sorious folly which masquerddes as virtue, de- scribes the condition of Scotland at the end of the seventeenth century in a passage which every sinccre reformer should keep constant- 1y_before him. ook “It is A remarkable circumstance that the same. country should . have produced - in - t same age the most wonderful specimens of extremes of human nature. Even in_things’ indifferent, the Scotch Puritan would hear of no compromise: and he was but too ready to consider all who recommended prudence and charity as traitors to the cause of truth. On the other hand, the Scotchmen of that genera- a figurein Parllament were the most. dishonest and _unblushing _time-serve That the world Nas ever seen. Perhaps it Is natural that the most callous and dent vice should” be found in the near. of unreasonable and , 1 poration at a“‘cost of $7,000,000. F —————— 2 Kilauen Again Active. HONOLULU, May 7.—There is marked activ- ity in the'Voleano of ‘Kilauea. The flow of lava ‘{s Increasing and a risihg fn the crater glves indications that there may be an over- flow. Reduced firsi-class ticket to Honolulu, steamer Alameda, sailing July 8; $125 found trip. Full information 653 Market * C ——————— WASHINGTON, June 28.—It was stated at-the War Department to-day that a two months’ leave of absence had o, sangble And, m; i %m:te: to ln‘.ju:d gen;:ll Leonard here enthusi or , who has arrivi n San Francis- for triflés F g;n:vmu‘;m:g T e nmnm‘ co from thg Philippines. . that the very name of .consclence should byword of. contempt to cool . shre SOULA,. . men 10 e 4 i . mn_w:‘rn of Am’f“l;- h;rmmw night, t-u'nu-r.mt can show thelr gratitude to E{- ima matey | The et R is hy doing their full duty to placed i ‘whele M‘uqe,pip,‘nhtfl!d'w, . by DISEASES OF MEN