The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 2, 1906, Page 8

o ALL Proprietor | THE SAN FRANCGISCOC JOHN Djfnl‘@l(m .o TO ALL COMMUNICATIO. Manager BRILLIANT-CLOSE OF 1g05. + week in the year closed, as was predicted by the large | interests of the country, with colors flying. It looked might be serious trouble in speculative v higl rates for money on call,"but er, for the time being at.ast, and 19054 , with pyrotechnics in Wall street 3nd | | other large trading centers, as, for in- tly fluctuating copper market made Whatever may be said of the clesing could not be called dull and wninter- financia! for a day or so as if there ters over the sensation stringency wa was the great advance in call loans on the range one day being from 25 per oan at 125 per cent off the exchange. vantage of the tempting rates to emerge from ¢ $10,000,000 at from 100 per cent down 1 invalid of go years this was a pretty good recerd: jons in this direction immediately broke the rates back or 30 per cent. No two hours saw the same rate. In the 1 borrowers were scrambling for funds at Joo per cent; and t Secretary Shaw was coming-to the relief of 000,000 to deposit in the banks, made funds While all sorts of theories were ad- ce in money, the chief reasons seemed to be the t for the purpose of meeting the r cent. 1 disbt s by the b 1 al and other powerful financial interests | n in Wall ‘street, and ‘the lack of the 1 for cotton exports. Car shortage and the | 3 uthern planters have so checked the 4 he usual large foreign returns .in cotten bills | 1 this.in itself is a great factor in the finan- | -nces were apprelension over-the Russian tal exceedingly cautious, and the bank | his, which caused more or less distrust | > of the situation, and one .which caused no end ancy of the stock market, which apparently Ordinarily such a violent advance b d an immediate decline and perhaps ut the market paid no attention to it and soared like to close observers, proved almost conclusively that ket fictitious conditien, and was being held strength-by the dominating financial interests, who could let stocks go down, even if they did have to spend a oney to keep them .up..- If this theory “be true, then break in stocks before long, for no fictitious or The.resiilt of this inflation of stocks.will the turn of the year, and will be awaited. with | ry notes have been freely sounded durihg and if the general public get caught by a falling | - nobedy but themselves to-blame. ‘ s the “whole country seems-to have become-dazzled | e brilliant-commercial, agrictiltural and industrial | 11 quarters come the samé reports ol an unprete- | mand for merchar and produce.. The distributive trade | 3 ainly immense, as shown by the continued re- | le exhibit of the bank clearings, which last week were 40 per larger than those of the corresponding week in 1904,. with prac- every one of the first fifty cities on the list showing a gain,i st of them being large. The failures for the week were: 221, st exactly the same number last.year.. All the staples rule firm, | ough sonte of them, such as wool, are quiet,’but this is to be expected time of the year. Copper is rising, which causes the ‘current 1 in the copper stocks. The foreign commerce -of the country steady increase, and the year 1905 is termed a.record-| tions. Itds this phenomenal expansion in general | business which has led to the heavy-and excited trading in 'Wall street | stocks, where it has been worked for all' it is worth. It has been | -d through megaphones in Wall street and widely. proclaimed 1 money. wa was in a throughout the country until even the chronic doubters have -appar- ently come to the conclusion that it is to last for-years yet. - Optim- ism pr degree® hardly ever before witnessed in.the United | States. [ and real estate operations ¢ontinue on.an abnormal | scale, and money is being lavished right and left as.seldom before. Thus, whatever the result may be, or whatever may happen with the advent of 1906, the year 1903 has certainly been-a record-breaker in trade. . Locally the vear closed excellently. .The San:Francisco bank clearings for 1905 were $1,834,549,788, against $1,534,631,136 in-1904, a gain of $200,018,652 in 1905. This indicates a gratifying expansion in general business in this city during 1905. “The weather; td6, has turned in our favor, and watery skies.with heavy showers marked the final business day of the year. With a good soaking rainfafl now and the usual spring rains, we shall probably g6 through 1906 all right, and perhaps make that another record year. l sidered by Commissioner General Sargent to constitute a -prob- lem of public economy so great that all our others sink into comparative insignificance beside it. * His annual report gives tire alien arrivals as 1,026,629, which is-an increase over the preceding wear of 213,629.: This million figure has been long ‘predicted, and we have be srepared for it in expectation, but not with any policy to either decisively prevent it or to reconcile otirselves to it as in- evitable? Some time last fall 2 feature of the problem- worth looking into was brought out by a minister who, sitting by the side of the com- missioner, made a study of the cases of immigrants whose rights to enter our country were held to be doubtful, The conglusion i al- most forced upon one from that glimpse of Ellis Island that the personal equation counts for so much.in the matter of admitting immigrants it must be very difficult to frame any general rules that do at the same time justice to the pleaders for American citizenship and to ourselves. It almost seems as if it would be wise economy in the long run to have a sufficient forcg of intelligent and sympathetic but firmly just agents to give attention to and pass a judgment upon cach individual case. Failing in this we may oftén miss getting good raw material out of which we could manufacture a fine American— which human product would be more to our moral credit and our witimate enrichivent than the very best our crafts can do in mere material manufacture. On the other hand, by alloying multitudes 1o enter on a general rule system we may let in much fntractable or atterly shoddy raw material that we never can manufacture into anything worth the trouble. s : While it is generally believed that we are holding the door cpen to a flood of aliens so great. that we cannot hope to #ssimilate them and mold them into effective sympathy with American ideals. nevertheless there are reports nwhich show that a rightly-selected immigration is still much needed for the developnfent of qur coun- try. It has been stated by New England papers that the farmers of that region are very badly in need of help, both indbors and out, jor at least mine months i the' year. When we Consider the im- mense immigration that is pouring in, this seems almost incredible, and the answer must be either that the incoming crowd are unwill- ing or incapable of doing hard farm work, or else this is so much a bigger country than even our conceit pictures it that a million or more of new workers coming every year need not get on our neryes IMMIGRATION INCREASES: MMIGRATION. to the extent of over 1,000,000 per year.is con- [ — in the least. It may just mean more industrial development, and |better than punching co COME ON THERE, MISTER CQMIC WAITING ON YOU. WE WANT TaDAY, FUNNY! UNDERSTAND?, 1 GET UP A GOOD JOKES OF YOURS THAT I'M TEMPTED 10 FIRE YOU, GET AN ALMANAC! GO TQ. A LIBRARY AND DIG UP ANY THING! LONG AS ITS FUNI THIS (SNT A THE PEOPLE ~—. WANT 10 LAUGH YOU ARE PAID BY US,TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH. -|You CANT DO IT DRAWING THAT SIUFE YOU'VE BEEN SCRAWLING) VUl N ON SINCE YOU CAME <HERE . WAKE UPL SMOKE ‘UP! JOLT YOURSELF! || |GET ARQUND! GET FUNNY! { | |yest AND GET FUNNY QuicK! T00, IF You WANT : T0 STAY AROUND . ERE . MEAN FT7 IF YOU DONT STIR UP A LIV €OMIC. TO DAY, QUT - YOU GO 'INTO THE COLD. 0LD.-WORLD: NOW,. STRETCH YOYR SELF YQUNG MAN, AND LETS HAVE A W THE I1DEA CAME TO ME_ALL AT ONCE MDO“ IRE EVENWG INO! ONLY GIVING ME A°NIGHT MARE, OH! o 5 f [4 & «# OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS +# By A:J, Waf[erhpuse.' S < The first of these, my eastles fair, ‘Was builded unto Hope, And though the day.may bring despair, No, less.its portals ope, " - ¥ The garments of its queen are bright - With irldescént sheen, : S And - where shz walks there comes né - - night, T Ao . And Sorrow neer is seen. . " And so when twilight hours beguile . “I.turn me to the glvaming, And sit with Hope a little while, : Nor ever would be reaming. A_eastle smaller than the rest Was buildéd unto Faith, iy The faith that once my.soul bossessed— Doubt’ came, the gloomy wraith, ‘Ahd stormed it, battlement and tower Yet, shattered though it be, - Its towers stand unto this_ hour, . And still’ they beckon me. * .- And’sq when twilight calls to ms, And.care and doubt ate banished, Its crumbled minarets L'see, © . And know the faith that vanished. -. ‘But fairést of my ‘castles all s 1s where sweef Love doth dwell; The toil of day may hold me thrall, And Worry toll ‘her knéll; . But still my ‘16ve, my love #s there, And’ still her grace 1§ mine, And none need ever know despair Who feels her spell divine. - ° And e'er,when night doth clofe me in, And but its shades are near me, I sit remote from care apd dir, i While love, sweet love; doth cheer me: “flute ) “Than other castles be. Aw ‘so at eve°I'sit me down . ith my castles splendid, Still rich though all my skies may frown, — ¢ (~ OME men,” said John D. Rocke- S feller Jr., in an address in New York, “‘use the law to do harm | % with, instead of to do good. They MY CASTLES. & resemble a member of one of our well Y castles stand in’ Phantomland, known ciubs. s And fair are they, and tall,”. * “This man sat in the club dining-room Thelr architects’the elfin. band at lunch when a Dill collector, having | That -comés at Fancy’s call somehow tluded the attendants in the A Bach minaret's a single gém hail, walked up to him and laid on' the | That sparkles in the sun; table his overdue account. L el “The clubman glared at the ac 3 5 Hiadark Embeties 4o S ais T{.‘efif"éfif- And W;'e" the- night comes creeping emnly and indignantly, he h ez : g Pabes back o the cotlectar, | oct 1%, Ana aay's'fletce toll is ended, “‘How dare you,’ he said, -‘Infringe | 1 leave the turmoil-of the town, on the riles of my club in this manner? | = To seek my castles splendid. Don’t you know that a man’s club is like his home? Don't you know I can have. vou forcibly ejected for -coming in -here without a card of membership or an in- troduction? - The rules of this ¢lub re- quire ‘that, if you have yusiness .with a | member, you wait fu the hall while an attendant brings fa your mame, Now,. -l demand that you go out into the hall im- mediately; taking this bill .with you, and that you send in your card to me in .the proper way.' F LA “The collector, -red tn -the face, but hopeful on the whole,- complied. - ‘He,_ re- tired to the hall and sent In’his card with all formalfity. . S ey 1 “The clubman, eating steadily, received the card on a silver salver. He studied it gravely. Then he said to the-waiter:. * ‘Not at home.""—Chicago Inter Ocean. e 3 \a m e NEW NAME FOR POPULAR DISH. A lady reports to the Washington Post @ new and clever name for a well known and highly esteemed American dish:® . An Englishnian and his wife sat near me 4na cafeon the avenue day.before yester- day. 1 knew they were English as ston as I saw his coat and her hair. The-man was ordering luncheon. 5 “I don't see it on the bill of fare”. he gaid to the waiter, “but bring me some fiyte cormif you have it.” B “Flute corn?’ repeated the walter, in surprise. “¥es,” . sald the Englishman, corn.” e The waiter still hestiated. o 1 “*Why,"” went on the Engl an, ‘“‘don’t. F : that.one eats Mke playing the fiute. | For Hope is much, and Faith 1s more, And as a delicate-cuphemism for corn|™ a4 Tiove is best of earth: on the cob<I think “flute corn” can hardly | ,1.q he is rich beyond gompare be surpassed. Who owns these castles three, o m_ AR, More wondrous brignt, and much .more “Hand over yer money, an’ be q about :’t.!"ksu:‘ ‘I:.i robl dto the cashier. The bank officlal sneered coldly. "My dear sir;” he suid, “liow camIgive| Still slad thoush carc-attended. yofi any money when you haven't been |- o Y \aentinedr & . CREATION OF THE RACES. Pierced to the marrow by the chill pro-| The Almighty said, “Now that the low- fesslonal manner, the footpad slunk gullt- | ¢r animals are created, I will make maf.” 1y sway.—clwamd:mer. So He mede the Ethioplan, and after — e e that we ean give profitable employment to labor which less resource- fiil Europe has to throw away. £ . o e The commissioner calls attention to the lack of sympathy with the restrictive laws. He says the,laws are believed to have been forced on Congress rathér through fear of organized labor than a belief that the laws are just. Thus the bureau is looked upon as being-the agent of a class rather than-acting for the whole Amerjcan people. That impression is to be regretted; but still organized labor is right to insiSt on some selective restriction. It is absurd to talk of protection being a benefit to American workmen'by guard- ing them against cheap foreign labor if the cheap labor is brought over bodily and wholesale to compete with them .on their own ground. 3 \ . —_——— e B Mr. Lawsop of Boston admits that if he goes broke he will deserve no sympathy, but in the same breath he announcescthat he will go on fight- ing with his pen. It will be the public that deserves sympathy.—St. Louis Republic. = 4 Y o If the Colorado cowboy who roped a wildcat ;rill drop a postal to ToR., Washington, D. C., he willno doubt be put in line for son [ neighbor could and should' be iniproved. ‘I “What did you -swear.off?"" 3 ’ .| daughter® Hope, but Smith objected.” cad He was done He said, ““That is more or less like the idea, but I judge that I had better, try again.” 5 Then He made the Indian, and He said, “Well, it might be worse, but there is great :oom for improvement, and it shall be made.” . % The third time He trted He madé the Majay, and said,’ ‘“Practice improves, and betterment is noticeable, but this is not quite thé thing.” After that. the Mongolian was ~made, and the-Almighty said, “Yes, thisis bet- ter, but look at its tail and eyes! Once more.” Tl s Lastly ‘the Caucasian -was made, and just .then the seventh day’ came along, and the. Almighty -said, “After this job I consider it advisable to take:a rest.” So the Almighty rested, and man was left to perfect -himself. .~ And, of coufse, this is the reason twhy| you can'see so many points wherein your “Doés he accept the Scfiptures as his guide?” “Well, .very much.as‘the rest of us do.” ““How-do you mean?”’ 3 “Why, he follows them when' they say what he thinks they ought to say.” *Did you swear Off on_New Year's day, Bjenkims?". " = “Sure!’” - #All my vices."” "“That was rather wholesale, What made you do it?” | . *For the fun-of agauing in again.” “Mrs. Smith wanted to name thelr ninth *On what ground?" “He said he qjdn’t Yeel’any. So they compromised on Faith.” “The life insurarite company’refused to insure De Browne.” o -“That-was unusual, at least. On what ground did it base such a decision?” “Claimed that he intended to commit swicide.” .. “Besh! What proof did it offer?” “Showed tifat “he had bought an auto-, mobile.” . © & SHOT WITH THE REST. I-wish to fire my musket, § “With the pickets down the line, Against the dreadful system That is grinding us so ‘fine; And I searcely need to tell you, © For the thought is In your pates, That this wicked, wicked system 1s the system of rebates. Ho, all sharpshooters in the squad, Be sure your powder’s dry, And fire both bullet and the wad, And likewise fire will I— But kindly do not mention, For the truth we Sometimes hate, That, like the other shooters, I have nothing 'to rebate. , DIFFERENCEIN VOICES. “Willle!” The small boy who was playing marbles beyond the high fence knuckled lower and said not a word. It was his “Wille-e-e!” It was more of his mother’s- voice and he answered not, for his hearing must have been slightly defective. “Wille-e-e-e-e-e!” : It was the most of his mother’s volce, and when that is said all is said, for none but a woman could emit it. Still the small boy answered not. He must o mar] de- T y will be ked by two very iightful events, one of which is the larl‘e bridge party to be given by Mrs. Charles Josselyn, while Mrs. Charles Milton Pray will be at home hostessing a large tea in her apartments at the Hotel Plymouth. This will be one of the elaborate affairs of the week, Mrs. Fray to be assisted .ua receiving by these matrons and maids: Mrs. A. B. Pray, Mrs. Ynez Shorb hite, Mrs. Thomas Benton Darragh, rs. W. W. Van Arsdale, Mrs. Reginald Kright Smith, Mrs. Charles Baneroft, Mrs., Gustavus Browge, Mrs. Frederick Wilson Kimble, Mrs. Willlam R. Cluness Jr., Mrs. Ross Eckhardt, Mrs. Edward Goodricn, Mrs. S. H. Willey, Miss Fran- ces Stewart, Miss Pray, Miss Goodriche, Miss Boothe, Miss Frances Hobbs and Mrs.” Georgia Flett. R .. Three dances are to emphasize the jol- lity of New Year's week, all eventful and eagerly awalted. To-morrow night the Galety Club, Miss Helen Percy Chese- brough president, will offer its second af- fair at Century Hall, on which occasion Miss Emilie Parrott is to be hostess. PR Mr. and Mrs. FredericR M. Pickering will give the younger set of beaus and belles a very happy evening on Thursday, the event to honor and formally intro- duce their two attractive daughters, Miss Marie and Miss Rhoda Pickering. v e e The Palace ballrgom will be filled with a merry contingent Friday evening at the bidding of the Friday Cotillon Club, over which Mrs. Ynez Shorb White so gra- ciously presides. % . Soclety was most energetic‘yesterday, calling at the various homes of which so lavge a number offered New Year's hos- pitality. Among those following the wel- come precedent of open house were Mrs. Eleanor Martin, Mrs. Alfred Hunter Voor- hies, Mrs. Ynez Shorb White, Miss Beat- rice Fife, Miss Grace Llewellyn Jones and Miss Elsa Draver. . - Of last evening's events in honer of the New Year none was more thoroughly hospitable and pleasurable than the at- home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Duggan in their residence on Pacific avenue, P Mr. and"Mrs. E. W. Crellin were among the New Year's entertainers, giving a dinner last evening at the Embvire in honor of Senator and Mrs Herbert Hol- man of Portland, Ore. P Mrs, Donzel Stoner entertained at a small dinner last evening in her Spruce street home. N Two hundrgd callers responded to the cards Issued by Mrs. William P. Reding- ton for a tea yesterday afternoonm, her gyest of honor being Mrs. Walter Gib- Mrs. Redington was assisted in the re- ception of her guests by Miss Louise Redington, Mrs. Gibbons, Miss Margaret Wilson, Miss Roma Paxton, Miss Edith Berry, Miss Ruth Allen, Miss Elizabeth Allen, Miss Mary Bailey, Miss Jessio Wright, Miss Elizabeth Huntington and Miss Marian Bundnxton.. ' g Mrs, Augustus Boyer was a hostess of yesterday, entertaining a large number of callers at an eggnog party at her Vallejo-street h.ome. Mrs David Montgomery Crabtree has set the date of her large tea at the St. Francis for Friday, fsnufn 12 . Mrs. Joseph Charles Myerstein will be one of mext week's hostesses, entertain- ing at bridge on the 10th at her home on Octavia street. P Miss Georgle Spleker will entertain at a luncheon in her Devisadero-street home next ) week in honor of Miss Lysbeth Painfer, whose wgdding to George Engle- hardt is to be a Janu.ary :rvum. . Mrs. Edward Barron will entertain at a large luncheon next Saturday at her home on Broadway, having issued cards for 1 o'clock. Miss Gertrude Palmer will be one of next week’s hostesses, having issued cards forsa bridge party to take place at her home on Jackson street, J_u.nuz.ry 9% P Miss Bell Lathrop, whose engagement to Norman Wright was announced during the fall has named her wedding day for February, the event to be one of social import to San B‘.nnclsco_ s s Mrs. J. N. Teal and Miss Ruth Teal of Portland, Or., are at the St. Francis. ! Mrs. Teal is a daughter of the late Gov- | ernor D. P. Thompsen, formerly Minister to Turkey, from whom she inherited an | tmmense fortune. Mrs. Teal is very pop- | ulam in the leading social contingent in | the city on the Willamette. iy Gl Mrs. Charles Hart of Chicago is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Maurice Block, - and will receive to-morrow, January 3, at 3032 Washington street. . e - Mrs. Mansfleld Lovell and Misg Lovell will be at home Fridays in January at 1948 Webster street. B Captain and Mrs. Haldimand Putnam Young are expected on the Sth for several weeks' visit with Dr. and Mrs, A. H. 1 Voorhies. T son's effects, with the ruched ribbons, and run to her loving arms. For thjs, again, is the difference. have been stone deaf. The careworn woman turned again into the house, at the same time mut- tering to herself, “He myst have gone into the next county"—for she knew the reaching qualitics of her voice, Ten minutes later there was another 11: The small boy dropped his marbles immediately. “I've got to go, fellers— pa’s calling,” he said. And you bet he Th ' little Willie's hearing ‘& ,““s. this (“.fl, it . MIRROR OF DAME -FASHION k DAINTY DESIGN FOR A LACE BLOUSE. HOSE all-over net laces are among the prettiest of the mew sea- and when the old-fashioned Richelien they are of ribbon in the gaintiest and most delicgle of effects, and are making for themselves a perfect furor things—are added the result is modish ir the extreme. Fastening in the back is imperative in the later styles, and the blouse pictured follows this mode. The lace is shirred at the shoulders so that the fullness follows a bretelle line in both back and front. cately finted taffetas, boned and fitted, and fancily shaped. Encrusta- tions of the lace are laid in an Irregular yoke style, each plece edged The sleeve is a simple double puff, strapped at elbow and euft with the Richelleu pleatings oa either edge, and the high collar is finished with the same. that boy, now a man, could hear his mother calling, as he hears her never- more, he' would leave all things of life I dreamed that I walked in the rosebud garden of girls, and one after another the beautiful creatures came to me and told me their names. There were Ethyl, Mae, Edyth, Mabyl, Alyce, Clarysa, Dorya, B e e pleatings— in the present scheme of The lining is of deli- , Annye, Faythe, Hazyl— I heard no more, for just then—in my dream, you understand—I went crazy. — . Towhsend’s California glace fruits and choicest candies in fire- etched boxes. 2:: store, 767 Market. * x a'm:l Jntormation supplied datly to u: uses and pul ‘men the Press Clij Fress Clopiaw e iental s oal