The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 29, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL D MARKET STREDTS, S8AN FRANCISCO _.JULY 29, 1905 EATURDAY. THE CANTON-HANKOW RAILROAD. ELEGRAM from London announces that King Leopold of | gium has had an interview with ]. Pierpont Morgan, | which his Majesty strongly advised against the surrender anton-Hankow Railroad by the American-Chinese Develop- | any. Incidentally it is mentioned that the King is a stockholder in the company. He regards retention of this ion as determining the whole future of the white race in s surrender “under the scarce hidden in- atal step. | cession is forfeited.under its own | ith its conditions. China has the right | mmediately take possession of the part | onstructed. It is probable that Belgium, | Government would do this promptly. | g upon her rights, proposes to pay a | ompany, though it has forfeited all of | Majesty can see in this a “scarcely | i * is not explained 'h N 4 suc el is not explained. The company upon such part | Our feet by many a turning, of its ished ex d Chinese from access to-all parts Throu, s of peace or paths of of its provided “Jim Crow” cars of a poor quality for = I ided “Jim Crow ¢ tar quality f Where war's red flame was burn= | We are of the opinion that if the Japanese line ing, ns steamers to San Francisco should compel all American to travel in the steerage, the ships would not be very ng enter our ports. The case of the railroad is much | | { | By A. J. Waterhouse , .L__——__.x. rests on erican soil, where it will 'henceforth remain.) Grim captain of battles past, "Twas a long, long day that you But home you have come at last. The Bon Homme\Richard long ago And they say that she sails in the depths below, But you fought the fight as a brave man must, AR, long have you slept with the heed- less dust, And we give vou greeting, our brave John Paul, OCCIDENTAL (The body of John Paul Jones now H O, admiral bold of the days of old, stayed away, Went down to the mermen’'s reaim, With a skeleton at the helm; And you kept the faith we ken— Yet home have you turned again. We of your debtors, both one and all; | We give you greeting, then turn away; | Thus to the God of us all to pray: God of our fathers, who hast led Behold, we bow in reverence deep side the bier of one asi i for our children’s More of his kind to der a concession from 111(? GO\"c‘rnx:-wnt whose | Ho, admiral bold of the days of old, 1 th insulting inequality on its trains. May your sleep be sweet as long, d that Ch charged nothing for the concession, | P “‘!':_":”;;‘,gg";[“‘c fEnCOr e W 1 indemnity it offers for the forfeited privilege reim-| And you- throttled the sceptered rses the company for al e money it | s i is 2 i, s company for all the money it has spent in the enterprise. | qy.re were scant three millions to no proposition from Mr. Morgan nor his royal part- | anything for a renewal of the forfeited concession. hey seem busy misinforming the world as to the| f case. The United States had some experience in railroad concessions n the building of the Central and Union Pacific. And it is recent history that it exacted the pound of flesh from both of those corpor- tions, its policy being q ferent from that of China, which of- ers indemnity to a corporation that has defaulted in its undertaking. We hope the t gone by when white men and their Gov- ernments could do as they pleased in China, regardless of the prin- | e and the requirements of right. The future of the race in China, as far as it has any business in that empire, i depend upon the record it makes for honesty and fair deal- Inder the circ tances Mr. Morgan and his associates have tervention by the United States. They Their concession has not been taken and there is nothing in their situation any other Government they would upon their default. They have nc athy in this country and Europe. | China and have defaulted on it. That | with their performance of their y annulled the concession. It would | rior power to coerce China under | ia treated China as a weakling, forced ssession of Port Arthur, Dalny and all | 1 has been punished for her injustice and ra;')acity h)" prestige. ve United States set an example of fair dealing and| ng Morgan and Leopold work out their own salvation | t they will be wise to take the indemnity that | ey are in defau China is just as capable of ilroads as Japan has been, and we have no ild them, and that they will become as much. s commerce as if they were operated by Mr. rebates to the Standard Oil try The consider- | to see China develop her own system of in- | n on modern lines, and operate it for the benefit | for whatever benefits them helps the world’s | 10t interferec t capriciou her own REID IN ENGLAND. our diplomatic representative to Great | rank from a Minister Plenipotentiary to | rent tone has entered into his official and | rst Embassador was Mr. Bayard. Having | ROM the time that Britain was raised 1 Embassador a exchanges. Our Qccasion to do it, he accounted for his country and his countrymen | by g telling rit ar the English that “Americans are too independent of | too self-willed to be governed by any power but them- | Embassadors have since been on easy terms with the Government and people, and in all their utterances there ite note of that self-will described by Bayard. Mr. White- | ; who has just succeeded Mr. Choate as Embassador, is | a Californian, since it has long been his habit to come to| yrnia to recover the health he loses in New York. ‘ At Embassador Reid’s first state dinner in London Mr. Bal- | , the Pri nister, spoke at some length about what ought to be between the two countries. Replying, Mr. Reid said: “Oi{ course we ought to be on good terms—why not? Let us put it a | praise you then; There are eighty millions now, As you come to the land of your love again, Such dust as the gods allow. | But a hero once is a hero still Though the centuries fade away, And the glory won may the spirit thrill Long after the form is clay. S0 we give you our greeting, our brave | John Paul. Laurel and cypress entwined shall fall O'er the grave of your sleeping, and sometimes there Through motionless lips shall rise this prayer: God of our fathers, as he fought The battle of strong endeavor, Holding the clutch of the foe as naught, And knowing surrender never; So for ourselves and our halting kind, Fearing the cross that the Right may bind; en for ourselves and our own we pray, e of his kind to-day—to-day. MAN AND WO- M THE THOUGHTFUL MEN ¢¢\/OU remember,” sald the thought- ful man, “whéh Rev. Anna B. Shaw found a perfect man right | anyboty The as it. here in California, little might have suspected when Miss Shaw mentioned it right out In meeting a burst of merriment went from .the newspaper offices of the State. You might have thought that hilarity was genuine, but it was not. It was caused by the corroding canker of envy. The editors heard Miss Shaw's pronouncement, and first they sort of turned pale, and then they went over | to see Professor Griggs. The most of them never had met the perfect gentle- man, but they would stand off at a dis- tance and inspect him then would say, ‘What, that!’ and after that they would go home and hunt up a mirror. At length they would turn away from the mirror with a long sigh and s “Well, she never met me. Al- most anybody could understand it Still the canker corroded, and so they would give orders to have the bursts | of merriment continued. “However, this is reminiscent, and the subject has been recalled to my mind | by the fact that Miss Shaw again is in | she has said some- | town, and again thing worthy of note, as she always does, Her most recent remark that struck me forcibly was this: ““What a joy sitting on anything would be to some poor women I know! “You bet it is! I know some of those poor women, too, and it is' surprising how well they like to sit on something. 1 recall such a woman-now. Her spe- cialty was sitting on her husband. Sometimes she would sit down on him real hard. She was a little bit of a woman, and he was about six feet tall and built accordingly, but after she had sat on him as she knew how, he would look as if He thought he might crawl out through the keyhoie. Oh, she was a poor | man’s name was Professor Griggs, and | carefully and | ROM Corfu comes the news that it F is proposed to acquire the palace which for a time was the home of the unfortunate Empress Elizabeth of Austria, and open it as a casino, says the London Graphic. The villa itself may, in many ways, be suited for such| a purpose, but on sentimental grounds many will object to the transformation of a house so inseparably surrounded by tragic and sorrowful memories, into a house of playing, dancing and general merriment. It was at one of the saddest periods In her career that the late Em- press of Austria—a wanderer on the face of the earth—*first became enamored of lovely Corfu.”*The author of “The Mar- tyrdom of an Empress,” who appears to have accompanied the unfortunate lady in her exile, gives the following descrip- tion of the house in which Elizabeth sought “the consolation usually brought by beautiful scenery, coupled with per- fect rest and estrangement from all social noise and turmofl”: “The attention of the Empress had been directed to the classical spot where the villa now stands,” writes the author, “by the late Freiherr von Warsberg, the great authority on the landscape scenery of the Odyssey. Within the incredibly short time of a little more tnan one and a half vears the modest Villa Braila, on the Gasturi Hill in the island of Corfu, long known for'its enchanting position, | was replaced, under the direction of the Italian architect, Rafael Charito, by a palace, conceived and carried out in the spirit of ancient Greece. The eastern | slope of the hill, facing toward the sea, 1s covered with olive plantations, while | the opposite incline has been lald out as | a beautiful park, on wide terraces. | principal ent The nce is on the south front, | which, with its projecting porch, its log- { | | President has been made public. | | { sitfer all right, and, to adopt Miss Shaw’s | words, she evidently found great joy in ‘sitting on anything’ or anybody. A person might suggest a plan for the pub- lic entertainment—she'd sit down on fit. Her husband might mention that would sit down on the plan and him, too. Oh, she was a great sitter! “I don't know why this subject as I have; only, I think that when anybody says a good and._true thing, as Miss Shaw has in this instance, little differently. We are on good terms.. Why not? What con- | gomebody ought to say, ‘Amen! and cet le reason is there now why our two great branches of the | that's what I'm shouting dow. You bet English- d ily - % | there are women who find joy In sitting English-speaking family should not be, as they are, actually- en- cthing or anybody—some of us joving the friendly relations we are told it is our duty to bring about. That is their normal state—that has been increasingly for a good many years their historical state.” i After-dinner orators may regret that a theme has been done to death by this simple statement of fact. Mr. Reid says in effect, “Yes, we are full grown, equal and on easy and friendly | terms with you, o let’s quit talking about doing something to | create what alréady exists, and see if there is something for us to do in advancing the peace of the world and promoting justice among men. It was a needed declaration, well put, and made the impression that an original thing always makes. THE PRESS OF THE N;\TION. “I understand,” says the Hon. “Big Tim” Sullivan, speaking in Lon- don, “that the King is a great fellow. He sticks to his friends, and that is the test.” This is the Bowery's first open indorsement of the. Britisih brone. It should promote measurably the broadening of the Anglo- American era of good-feeling—New York World. PRESIEPG % We are interested to note that yet another minister has gone on the stage because he feels that he will do more good there than in the pulpit; also that he has had no previous experience as an actor.—Boston Trans- cript. —_— Any man who hopes to be a Presidential candidate in 1008 is overlook- ing 2 bet if he is not trying to shape things so that he will be the “logical candidate” on an anti-graft platiorm.—Chicago News. L 2 N Of course Peary realizes that the North Pole isn’t impatiently awaiting him. A delay of a month or two will not affect the grand old landmark to any degree—Cleveland Plain Dealer. y iy ks The Kentucky feud microbes have been on the rampage again, and as a result the Coroner will have to work overtime for several days.—Des Moines Capital. _ H And some Wi eisting that hendsome is &s ‘db‘." %, HE HOED HIS ROW. He hoed his row the best that he knew, | And I guess that's as well as a man can do, | Though I'm free to state 'twas a poor, dull hoe, And a somewhat short and unsightly row; But he still kept hoeing through sun or shade, And he kept right on while the rest of us played. Though the rains might beat or the winds might blow, He hoed his row. Well, somehow we noticed, or soon or late, Though his hoe wasn't sharp that his row got straight, v he aaded a hill or two, While the rest of us played, as we liked to do; And summing it all up, now that it's done, He had us all beat in the final run, And I've stated the reason above, you know: He hoed his row. This isn’t a sermon. I could not preach, For I haven't a license dim truth to teach; ¥ But a fact is a fact, and T've noticed ere, ‘While treating my row in a manmer queer, That the man who hoes on through thick and through thin S Is the chap who is certaln at last to win; 2 . So if xou'd get a prize in the earthly show, Just hoe your row. “Is Miss DeSmythe good looking?'" ““Well, of course you realize that opin- fons might differ. about that.” “But what do vou think?" “Oh, my taste is no good, but she is one of these girls who are always in- he | | would like to wear his other suit—she 1 have dwelt on | 14 | { ml and balconies, presents an exceed- The vestibule i ingly picturesque aspect. is connected with a large, sumptuously decorated salon, upon the cellings of which. Paliotti hag represented the four I P —————————————— BEAUTIFUL PALACE OF FORMER EMPRESS | THE SMART SET T0 BE TRANSFORMED INTO A By Sally Sharp —_— Mr. and Mrs. Antoine Borel will open their new Washington-street home early o+ CASINO| | this fall with a large ball given in homor | | of their youngest daughter, Miss Lupita. Soon after the event, Mr. and Mrs. Borel with their family will leave for | Europe to spend several months, chiefly in Switzerland; so society will not see | Miss Lupita this winter. Mr. and Mrs. Bovet will remain fn San VFraneisco. | > e Edward Pond, who bhas Deen | | Mrs | spending the summer at San Rafael, en- | tertained a score of guests yesterday at i luncheon. | | The later hours of the afternoon wers devoted to brid which outlasts every | other form of amusement, whether the season be lazy summer or gay winter Mrs. Pond included both San Franciscans and San Rafaelites in her cozy gathering, which was a really delightful affair. | L | Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook Blinn will be the honovred guests at a reception given | by the Sequoia Club next Wednesday evening. | PRI Mrs. HayTey Bennet of Little Rock, | | Arkansas, was the guest of homor at a | | luncheon given yesterday by Mrs. Charles | | Lyman Bent at her homse in Alameda. g o Miss Anita Harvey, who until recently | was summering at Lake Tahoe, the guest | of Mr. andyMrs. Frederick Kohi, distin- | guisned herseif among the expert fisher- g il Z L FORMER PALACE OF AUSTRIAN EMPRESS AT CORFU. - % T seasons. To the-right is the chapel, car- they are given in “The Martyrdom of an rled out in pure Byzantine style; to the left the dining-room, Pompe.an to | Empress,” neither have we space to do | men by landing a ten-pound trout. | Miss Harvey's endeavors lasted over | an hour, but by bringing into play the the | more than mention the magnificence of | several necessary tacties this werthy minutest detail. A marble staircase, with | the gardens and park by which it is sur- | finny specimen succumbed, Miss Har- bronse balustrades, leads to the“second story, where the apartments of the Em- press were situated. The central salon opens on the Centaur terrace, and has empire decorations, with frescoes of Aurcra on the celling, painted, also, by Pallottl.” \ 1t is fmpossible here to give a full de- scription of the beauties of the palace as rounded. We are told that in the villa there are one hundred and twenty-eight | { rooms, and that this truly imperial abode |cost over forty million florins. It is | hardly a matter for wonder that the | guide-books should describe this as “the | great show-place of the island.” Tt | seems almost a pity that it cannot remain i “a show-place” pure and simple. _ " CAPTURED AMERICAN FRIGATE, PRESIDENT, IS NOW AN ENGLISH RECEIVING SHIP >l e YING in the river Thames is a L frigate captured by the British from America in 1815. Its pame is the President. Few persons knew of the existence of this old vessel until the other day, when Lord Charles Beresford, commander in chief of the Mediterranean hoisted his flag at her peak to signify that he had assumed his new charge. The story of how the President came to be a British prize is interesting. She was surrendered to overwhelming odds by Captain Stephen Decatur outside Sandy Hook, having been cut to pieces in a battle with a superior vessel and then surrounded by four others. Escape was utterly out of the question, and so her flag was hauled down. “Hands Across the Sea” rude shock now that may get a There may be, however, a way to save the jar by persuading England to hand back the captured frigate. She was a splendid ship when -built and might now be able to come across under proper convoy and care. Friends of Lord Charles Beresford who have heard him in his “blood is thicker than water” speeches here may not like the idea of his flag flying from an Amer- fcan prize yessel, but “Conder Charlie” would be the first to voice the opinion | that she might be returned if possible. The President was one of the largest of the American frigates, rating forty- four guns and carrying a large crew. Her first affair of importance was her en- counter with the British sloop-of-war Little Belt, in command of Captain Bing- ham, off the Capes, on May 16, 1811. President was then commanded by Com- modore Rogers, and, while none of her crew was killed and only one—a boy— wounded, the British sloop lost thirteen killed and nineteen wounded. The surrender to the British of the President took place on January 16, 1815. Two days before, under command of Captain Stephen Decatur, the President‘ had dropped down from the ¢€ity to Sandy Hook. During the night she made an attempt to cross the bar and put to sea. From some cause never explained the pilot missed the channel and ran the ship on one of the shoals which ob- struct the harbor, and for five hours she was detained. As a squadron of British ships had been blocking the harbor for several weeks and had been blown off by a gale, the opportunity to run the President outgide had been seized by Captain De- catur. The mishap caused by the pilot was therefore particularly unfortunate, resulting as it probably did in the loss to America of the fine frigate. Early on the morning of January 15, while Captain Decatur was heading southeast by east, he made out three strange sail, all within shot and all di- rectly ahead of the President. The American vessel then was hauled up and passed to the northward, three miles distant. 5 ‘When the day came it was found that there were four ships in pursuit of the President. Two were astern and one on either quarters The nearest ship was only three miles away. Decatur had on board a large quan- | tity of stores for use on a long cruise squadron, | the case of the| The | 2% n il Wl (i il | ' &n‘ktr:;fl b @ oL EVIDENCE. __ Percy—Does he come of good family? Harold—Yes; they parted their names in middle for years. . have the o -+ ~ ! RIGATE TAKEN FROM AMERICA BY BRITISH IN 1815 and he at once took steps to lighten his ship. Anchors were cut away, water casks emptied, provisions, cables, spars, boats and all other articles that could | be spared were thrown overboard. From the royals down the sails were kept wet, but as the wind was light and elusive the pursuers gained stead- ily: At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the nearest ship was close enough and At 5 opened fire with her bow guns o'clock, having won a place within half point blank shot distance, she was able to bring into use all her guns, but nefther those at the stern nor on the quarter of the President could be brought to bear. \ For nearly an hour the President en- dured the galling fire, each shot carry- ing away some of her rigging. Then Captain Decatur determined to act and his crew cheerfully agreed with him. The President's heim was put up and her course changed so that she could | get In close guarters with her oppo- nent. scheme of Decatur and kept off, the ships meantime coming abeam and each delivering a broadside. Then for two and a half/ hours the combatants, a cuarter of a mile apart, ran dead ahead. but whenever the President made an attempt to close in the enemy sheered off, so that the ac- tion was altogether with the heavy guns. Spars and rigging were aimed at on either side, but the President's marksmen appear to have been the bet- ter, as at 8 o'clock the stranger was dismantled, “her sails belng cut from her yards,” as Decatur afterward re- ported. The damaged ship then fell astern, while the President made an effort to repair the damage done and to shake off the three other pursuers, which by this time had been joined by a brig, The Englishman understood the | and all of them were gaining rapidly | on the American frigate. | When the four ships had come within gunshot at 11 o'clock the Pomona, one of them, at once began battle within musket shot distance, while the Tene- | dos, within two cable lengths, and the Majestic and the Despatch, even closer | astern, all opened fire. Surrounded by a force vastly superior to his own and with one-fifth of his crew either dead or crippled, and his ship in such condition that to sail away was impossible, Captain Decatur de- cided that it was his duty to surren- der, which he did by hoisting a light to | indicate his purpose. The President’s torce was thirty-two long twenty-four pound guns, one twenty-four pound howitzer, twenty forty-two pound carronades and five small pieces in her tops. ! On the President twenty-four men were killed and fifty-six wounded. The Endymion lost eleven killed and four- | teen wounded. ‘There were no casual- ties on the other ships. e Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, in ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. New store now open, 767 Market street. . ——r—— Special Information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 30 Call- fornia street Telephone Maln 1042. * —_—————— Peter Henry Chevantier, who made a fortune In toy balloons, is sald to be in poverty, and has joined a street-cleaning gang in New Jersey. ———— A Delicate Chocolate Cream. Exquisite bits of milk chocolate and cream in orange, almond and vanilla— Milk Chocolate Creams at Haas' Candy | Stores, Phelan building and James Flood building. . A CORRECT DIAGNOSIS. Dr. Pillem—I believe that your husband’s nervousness is due to gastric troubles. Mre. Uptowne—I’ shouldn't wonder. He almost has a fit # :iv}el;'y time he gets the gas JUST A MINUTE WITH THE BUSY FUN-MAKERS A MESALLIANCE. “The man who gets on at Forty-second street is going to marry the girl who takes the train at Twenty-third street.” “He won't be happy.” “Why not?” “A man is never happy who marries below his station. { tractive sight with | vey fishing from the Kohl-yacht. e Mr, and Mrs. Edward Greenfleld have | been guests this summer at Long Island, spending many pleasant weeks. Their home is established in Pitts- burg, where Mr. Greenfield is in busi- | ness, and Mrs. Greenfield devotes much time to musie. . .« . Miss Mabel de Noon, with her sister, |Mrs. Ed de Noon Lewis, expects to | leave for Southern California August 1. il | | Miss Gertrude Macfarlane, with her mother, Mrs. Everett Grimhes, is mak- ing a trip through Southern California. Before returning to San Francidco they will visit Yosemite. . . . Mrs. J. C. Noonan of Sierra Madre Villa is entertaining Dr. Henry Walter Gibbens of this city, who is the flance | of Miss Mabel Noonan. Mrs. Harr Wagner (Madge Morris) is visiting in Stockten. . . . Miss Gertrude Joliffe is one of the recent arrivals at Del Monte. . . . Mrs. Henry Wetherbee of Fruitvale is entertajning Mrs. L. G. Runkle. . - . Dr. and Mrs. Muir (Ethel Fitch) have apartments at the Empire . . . Mrs. Victor Blue, wife of Lieutenant | Blue, U. S. N, was a passenger on the transport Warren, which arrived from Honolulu yesterday. Dr. Blue came down from Mare Island Hospital to meet her. He will return at once to the hospital, as he is still suffering from his attack of ap- pendicitis. Mrs. Blue will go to the island and be the guest of Mrs. Ly- mons. - . . Mr. and Mrs. John Dickinson Sten- wood have gone to Del Monte to spepd Sunday. - . - Miss Frances Stewart, daughter of H. J. Stewart, was hostess at a dinmer Thursday evening, the occasion being her eighteenth birthday. The guests were bidden to gather in the private dining-room of the Hotel | Cecil. the table presenting a very at- its decoration of pink carnations. Among those attending were Captain and Mrs. Lawrence B. Stmonds, Miss Edith Downing. Miss Bonnie Downing, Miss Elizabeth Morris, Miss Febrigue, Lieutenant B. C. Long, John Lewis, Arthur Fennimore, Dr. Hale and H. J. Stewart. ———— SALTON FLOOD | —_ To the Editor of The Call: The newspaper accounts ‘of the flood- ing of the Salton region have been “interesting reading” for me. I have been through that section and have an opinion of its present condition that wouldn't look well in print, but fsn't nature trying to do a thing that might make a livable country of what fs now one of the dreariest wastes in the world? Away back in the early 70's French engineers tried to promote a plan for letting the ocean into the Sa- hara, thinking that by the creation of a large shallow inland sea from which there would be a great evaporation a favorable climatic condition could bde brought about. The Sahara presents the same pe- culiarity of topography as our desert, namely, a minus altitude of from 0 to 200 feet. The fertile land {8 all above sea level, the depressions being alkaline, as they are in all old sea bot- toms. The French plan was given up because of difficulty in dealing with the na‘:lv. tribes and the more favorable scheme presented by the digzing the Suez Canal % With us nature will do the work if we leave her alone. The flooding can only damage some of the borax flelds if properly regulated. It might per- form one of those miracles in chaug- ing the mold of the earth for which we )