The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 23, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL FORN D. EPRECKELS. ....czsuas o-osssunssssassssssessssePraptinjor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO sesesssscesissesesscvese.iis....... Manager JOHN McNAUGHT 5 - THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLICATION OFF] UESI THE PRIVATE CAR LINES. OGDEN ARMOUR continues his defense of the pri- car lines, having reference especially to the Armour ator cars, used in long haul shipment of fruit and His arguments are supported to a degree by the or- t growers of the St. Jo, Michigan, peach region and by e South. of the statements combined, it appears that the Armour not only the refrigeration of the cars, which it appears to an excellent system, but they also control the routing , with an eye to the even distribution of the perishable s not to glut any one market and depress the price. In of this instances are cited in which the destination of 1, en' route, by deflectings them from the point to first billed, in order to find a better market. It is t this system has brought producer and buyer face he grower now gets his cash or check for his fruit rding point, and thereafter is saved all risk n in transi¢ or fluctuation in the market. s true, it is cheerfully conceded that benefits have ur method. The fruit and vegetable producers of whether, in their case, it is true or not. It has n necessary to the prosperity of the fruit industry that uld ship f. o. b. and get the price of his product In that respect he should be on an equality at grower and the live stock breeder, all over the coun- se may get cash at the shipping point, unless they want to ices by holding at home or in transit, taking the risk ket. We hope to hear from the producers in Califor- facts in their case. We would like to know whether that a private car line corporation shall in- and the transportation companies, and it is impossible to do for themselves what the to do for them. nt made by Mr. Armour in behalf of his system The ground, minus the refrigerating feature, has Formerly a considerable part of all the s carried by freight cars belonging to | ants in the East, if not here, remember | Blue Line,” “The Red Line,” “The White Star | 1 star” lines. The owners of those lines | at Mr. Armour claims now, to route and t. There was such a marked contrast | r transit between given points in their | ordinary freight cars that a large part of the| he private lines and they took a premium over the linary cars. That premium of course was vate car companies and was a tax on commerce ar freight rate. ne evident that it was the policy of the railroads n ordinary freight cars precarious, in order to ivate lines. Thereupon the system was sub-| nd it was found that railroad officials were e private lines, and used their power to make nary freight cars so as to force shipment by private profit. By that system two wrongs | stockholders of the railroad suffered because ved a rebate in the form of lower rates per car | the shippers suffered by the intervention of n and the transportation companies. recame known the system fell into disuse, s entirely disappeared. Yet in its palmy 1ercial benefit, just as it is claimed are beneficial to the fruit and vegetable es have done all that is claimed for them, ded the zone for marketing the perishable property- take the winter fruits and vegetables of California | the East at a season when local production | are the best. But they claim immunity 1 that they are not common carriers. status? They must be either common lines, or producers’ agents. It would be an y have no legal status. ey can route cars. The producing shippers ly complained that the railroads deny them r complaint has been made to the T n. Why should the railroads give e routing right, which they denied to the owners gec t necessary T i before. ord 1€ ible for a newspaper, or for one not concerned ishable property carried by these private lines, t ne the equities involved. On the face of it a posed between the producer and the carrier of the necessary that that extra profit shall be taken out property? We notice that the California Fruit ial organ of that industry in this State, publishes 1ent favorable to the Armour lines made by the Michigan , but offers no comment. What have the producers to e private car lines now any more a necessity than were es for general freight, which have been obsoleted? You WiLL AGREE ME \ Ay \ HEA{?HEM J°k’ EVE RAISE To ME AGAIN, bers of the professor's family con- sidered the new adornment with be- l ting in . his luxuriously appoint- ed office, and his dome-like coming pride, while the younger ones viewed it with awe. The professor one evening was enter- taining a number of guests with a harrowing tale. “My nerves were un- strung,” he narrated. “It was mid- night when I reached the bank build- ing, and just as I passed the entrance a black object glided softly across my path and made every one of my hairs stand on end.” 5 Little George contemplated his father's long locks for a few seconds, and then interrupted the curdling ex- perience. “Say, papa,” he declared, innocently, brow was furrowed by the wrinkles of care as he studied the company’s quarterly report, which lay before him. “But ten million dollars to the good this quarter,” he muttered to himself. “That is hard on the company's pa- trons. In what sort of shape will it leave them? Let me see—there is at | least a million dollars that I need, $300,000 apiece to my two sons, 8200,vl 000 to each of my three sons-in-law, $125,000 aplece to my seven nephews, $50,000 apiece to my' wife's five neph- ews, $40,000 apiece to the husbands of nine nleces, $550,000 to fifty-five poor “vou must have had on your high hat hat night e Philadelphia North Amer- | Telatives, maintenance of this office ican.” $180,000, maintenance of—I wonder what these necessary expenses will * already foot up.” T The magnate seized his pencil and figured for a few moments. “Four million four hundred and ten thousand dollars,” he then resumed, “and this is but a cursory and incom- plete summing of the items. Alas, It is a wearying thing to have a family on one's hands! There will be a scant two million dollars for our clients. It devolves upon me to do something about it.” 8o the magnate seized his pen and wrote an order limiting the number of deaths among the policy-holders with- in the next three months. Thus was a crisis averted through the genius of one great, family-loving man. Fashion’s Mirror ALFALFA PHILOSOPHY. BARBARISM IN CITIES. HE horrible crimes recently committed in Chicago, and the frequency of such crimes in cities, those of this State not ex- cepted, in which women are the victims, reveal the barbarism that n cities. It is time to rouse public opinion to the necessity of tick and severe punishment of such offenses. Complaisant or per- jured j s, or fool juries, if that is any better, should be made to feel the heavy hand of public reprobation when they fail to do their duty. Weeping parents, trying tears on a jury to move it to acquit a miscreant, should understand that public opinion puts upon them a share of the responsibility for the degeneracy of their sons. There is no more startling form of crime than this, upon which too many men look with indifference. It was formerly the justified boast of Americans that here a woman was safe from insult and attack, everywhere and under all circumstances. But that time has gone by, and its passing may make it necessary to amend the law and punish these crimes more severely than ever. Courts should be wary about permitting lax views of such offenses uttered from the bench. Such utterances affect not only the case at bar, but influence future juries, and, worse than that, have a tendency to make the miscreants who commit such crimes feel justified in their bestial acts. It should not be left to women to quicken the public conscience in this matter. Men should do it, and every man should feel himself,.everywhere, commissioned by his manhood to do his might in punishment of the vilest crime in all the catalogue of transgression. Twinter. The snow melts, the frozen ground thaws, winter clothes become a burden. The roads get muddy, and an occa- sional green blade shows in the btown sod. Then boreal blasts come howling out of the north. The roads freeze solid, rough side up. The temperature falls from 40 to 6o degrees in a few hours, croup and influenza, catarrh and pnetmonia do a brisk business, and sun dogs chase the sun all day. More snow follows. The groundhog comes out on the 2d of February and crawls back into his hole to live on his summer fat, and for six weeks more winter howls and whistles. The present January thaw is pronounced, the temperature going 1 THE JANUARY THAW. HE January thaw is one of the fixed features of the Eastern | It's easy 'mough fer crushed an’ tromped-on Capital to prove 'at it's got to pertect itself, but w'en it goes ter Saratogy or Monaco to do it, it allers seems ter me 'at its figgers might need revisin’ a leetle. ‘W'en a man says they ain’t no sech thing es good women an’ men it don't prove nothin’ 'cept that he's prob’ly il i been dern unforchunit in his 'soclates. Hlteet They's two main reasona why I IR b'lfeve In'’ternal life. The first is be- o cause they’'s some souls 'at's too good PLAIN T. SHIRT ter be destroyed, an’ the other is ‘cause W, " they’s some 'at ain’t wuth the trouble. P I l};? thln_khll would be milhtf‘d’*kl’ PLAID mohair -makes this couragin’ an' humiliatin® to some folks smartly simple design, the :;l;u::lglvkunt they have to sleep with lines of the pattern being in dark blue upor a pale blue ground, and following & bias design. The shoulder seams are broad rather kS long, and the front is pleated _into this, the pleats stitched down as far as the bust and then re- Ef I had a boy ’at hadn't any mis- chief in him I sh'd look to his future with dark forbodin’s. Ef your child goes wrong, 'bout the firs' thing you orto do is to set down an’ try to figger out how you did it. I don’t b'lieve ’'at the man or woman 'at don’'t make a little heaven round him or her here, has any call to ’spect to jump Inter a big heaven jest es soon es he gits done livin’. : The charity 'at can’t be wrenched out of a man er women 'cept by a ball may help the poor, but I don’t b'lieve it'll stand much braggin' 'bout. A BRIGHTER DAY COMING. There Is rain upon the meadows, there £-- is rain upon "the hills, % D S RS up nearly to 9o on the crest of the warm waves. { “pride, it ggeth before a fall. Last Sunday at several Ea‘ste:\“! m‘:.y::edg'hn in twelve hours was 40 and 6o degrees. We take occasion to call attention to the- superior equability of our California climate. On the same day the maximum temperature in San Francisco was 50 and the minimum 42 degrees, a diurnal fluctuation of 8 degrees only. It was a brisk and pleasant day, just zesty enough to make outdoor exercise enjoyable, and roses, heliotrope, geraniums, fuchsias and lilies were in full bloom on our lawns and borders, The contrast warrants us in singing to the Eastern people, “Come ye disconso- late,” who are gripped by a diurnal fluctuation of 6o degrees in tem- lp;erature, come to California and grow up with the climate and be apPY. . b 4 a and concealed under a box pleat of medium width. The sleeve Is the usual shirt design, but with a long- er and more closely fitting cuff than last season’s blouses dis- The collar is of the mo- little featherbones in the back, sides and front. THE TIME AM! 530 ME UP AND AWAY. 1 VoW L CUT 0 CHEESE TIE THOUGH AFTER THIS OH' OH! > A t A Roomy H: ' ' ' | oomy Hat Occtdental Accidentals. PROFESSOR of miusic had pub- A lished a successful composition, B_}/ A, c]. I’L aterfiou.re. and the revenues and honors were 2 sufficient to warrant him in wear- | INSURANCE MAGNATE'S. DILEMMA.| And the brooks are mighty rivers, and ing a high silk hat. The elder mem- HE insurance magnate was sit- the springs are rushing rills. Bvery gully bears a torrent past this valle§ home of mine, And"the sun has quite forgotten, in its coyness. how to shine. Every day the cloud-fleets gather on the sky's tempestuous sea, And Dame Nature’s brow is darkered by a frown for you and me. E'en the breezes, heaven's vagrants, in the branches moan and sigh— But a brighter day is coming in a gold- en by and by. Ay, & brighter day is coming, in the future’s meshes caught, For the sunshine of the morrows on the forge of Now is wrought. Every teardrop from the heavens in the future shall be seen, Smiling in the snow of blossoms, laugh- ing in the fields of green; And the dull. incessant patter bears a promise for us all: “There shall come the bloom of sprin; timeamd the fruitage of the fal Heart of mine, the gloom is o'er us, yet we will not pine or sigh, For a brighter day is coming in a golden by and by. “Would he break his word, do you think?” “Well, not exactly, but I have an idea that it would be badly warped by the time he got done with it.” “What would you say was the basic principle in all religions—the founda- tion, so to speak, without which they could not exist?” “Well, just for an offhand answer, I should say that women were.” “It is unspeakably terrible to find oneself in such a torrid climate as this, is it not?” remarked the soul on the first brimstone wave. ““Oh, I don't know,” the soul on the second wave replied; “after what I have had It seems rather comfortable, peace- ful and tranquilizing to me.” The first soul paused to inform a little, red imp that the furnace down that way was in good condition; then he resumed: “That is strange,” he observed: “I should not suppose that you possibly could enjoy it. Who were you when you were on earth?” “I was the Czar,” was the low-spoken response. “To what charity has Mr. Rockefeller been giving money recently?” “I don’t know; what makes you think he has?” “The price of oil has gone up.” —_———— Use for _0id Shoes. Janitors collect the shoes cast away by tenants and send them to auction rooms, where they are sorted into piles marked, “Men,” “Women,” “Children.” poor people made fair bids, but the auctioneer did not seem eager to sell. Tinally a red-faced man pushed his way through the crowd and offered 10 cents aplece for the whole lot. His bid was suceessful. “I was killing time with talk for that fellow,” sald the .mmmm afterward. “He always pays high for these shoes, and he does not want them “He wants to beat them out for the leather in them. He gets what material there 1s, puts it through a process and ‘mles| mh m‘l‘n:m leather novel- es, such as . bags, pocket- books, penknife holders and even chair and choicest candles el o o mhave: 191 e T ha o iy Speclal information supplied daily siness houses and S & & The Smart Set % % By Sally Sharp. To-night marks the close of the Green- D. C.. for which there is much re- | Dorothy Dustan’s | Buest of honor y way dances, gret, and the attendance at the Palace Hotel this evening will represent nearly the full quota of members. As usual with these affairs the decora- tions will be elaborate and artistic. s e . Miss Josephine Hannigan is numbered among to-day’s hostesses, having issued cards for a tea in honor of Miss Ruth Foster, who is being extensively enter- tained during her short stay in this city. Miss Hannigan will not make her for- mal bow till next winter, but is well known among the younger set, many of whom wlill gather at the home. of the young hostess on Van Ness avenue to- day. Miss Elsie Tallant will be hol!ess of the Galety Club dance next Friday evening, which will take place in Century Club Hall. u et e The wedding of Miss Elizabeth Hunt- ington and John Brockway Metcalf will be an event of next month, immediately after which Mrs. H. E. Huntington and Miss Marion Huntington will prepare for | & tour through China and Japan. ey Mrs. Isadore Lowenberg will entertain at a luncheon at the Palace on Friday, this to be the first of a series at which Mrs. Lowenberg will be hostesa: & & Miss Ruth Foster will again be the honored guest on Wednesday at & tea to be given by Mrs. M. H. Sherman and Miss Sherman at their home on Valiejo street. Several invitations have been extended and the Southern California maid will recetve many gatherings and felicitations upon her recently announced engagement to Robert Sherman. FaTR X Mrs. David Montgomery Crabtree wilt hold a large reception at the St. Francis next Friday afternoon, the affair having Qeen deferred from January 12. AR e Miss Josephine Smith of Washington, who has come to be one of Miss bridesmaids, was the esterday afternoon at an informal tea given by Mrs. Ehilip Ban- croft in her apartments at St. Dunstan's. Mrs. Bancroft is a cousin of the young Eastern visitor, whose stay will be short, for she ledves soon after the wedding for Southern California and wiil spend part of the winter with Mrs. Baneroft's moth- er, Mrs. Eldred, at Coronado. e B Despite continued accident the kating Club continues vigorous and ent! siastie, a large attendance being on rollers last evening. Three more meetings still awalt the experts. . . Miss Elsa Draper was hostess at one of her very delightful informal teas on Sunday afterncon. The affair was held for Miss Dorothy Dustan, who is being feted on every side before her wedding, which takes place to-morrow night. Among those who spent a very happy afternoon were Miss Dustan, Miss Jo- sephine Smith of Washington, Miss Fran- ces Stewart, Miss Helen Ballley. Miss Susan and Miss Mary Ertz, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bancroft, Lieutenant Rollo Ander- son and Frederick Greenwood. & 3o 8 The dancing folk at the Presidio have named January 31 for their next hop. and this bids fair to convene the usual number of townpeople, who thoroughly enjoy the dances at this very popular post. il i Mrs. Willlam Baggett and Miss Nell Rose Baggett have discontinued their days at home for the season and will re- ceive informally at their apartments at St. Dunstan’s. . o Mrs. Berry and Miss Edith Berry bave taken apartments at the Hotel Baltimore on Van Ness avenue for the remainder of the season. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Armstrong Dean are entertaining Mrs. David Montgomery Crabtree as their house guest for several days. A Little Lesson in Adversity. T may be told. Lincoln himself once said that there was not even the incentive for education in the Indiana distriet where he was raised until he reached early man- Any one who knew Latin who came into the district was looked on as the possessor of some In the midst of such surround- ings as these the boy Lincoln conceived his great hood. sort of witcheraft. ideals, his great ambitions, his great knowledge that he was to satisfy later by difficult Work. The story of how Lincoln studied after the hours of work after he had removed to Illinois, of how he secured books with which he might study, is too well known for repetition. The old picture of Lin- coln studying by the light of a candle is familiar to nearly every schoolboy. Perhaps no one, however, will ever really know just how hard it was for the overgro::’, awkward time recreations that other boys of his age were enjoy- ing. If his reward was great, his work was greater. No group of men who have suffered adversity can be recalled without bong led by the name of Abra- strive as he boy to work and of the for himself none ham Lincoln. HE story of Abraham Lincoln is so familiar to every American that he stands pre-eminently as the type of American manhood who has risen above adversity. And yet the story of Lincoln is never without interest, often though it longing for such leaving for the ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Answers to Various Quertes. ! GOVERNOR—Inquirer, City. Theodore Rooscvelt was Governor of the State of New York, 1399-1900. KINDERGARTEN—Stranger, City. For such information as you desire about Kin- dergarten work call at the office of Annie M. Stovall, normal instructor, 50 Union street. NONSENSE—W. F. C,, City. The quo- tation asked for is: A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the best of men. The works on quotations say: “This is anonymous.” CIVIL SERVICE—S., City. Apply to the civil service clerk in the Postoffice Department or to the clerk in the Cus- tom-house for information and blanks for application in either under civil service rules. BANK COMMISSIONERS—F. V. B, Alameda, Cal. The office of the State Bank Commissioners s at 530 California street, San Francisco. Call there for such information as vou desire, it being of a personal nature. BEN FRANKLIN-—P. 8., Ci There was a statue of Benjamin F in over a fountain erected by the late Dr. Cogs- well at the intersection of Montgomery avenue and Kearny street, but it was taken down some time ago. RATS—M. G., City. If you desire to know the address of a man who trains cats to catch rats and cannot find his name in the city directory, advertise for him in The Call. This department does not advertise private enterprises. MOUNTAIN—Subseriber, Larkspur, Cal. If you were at the highest point on a mountain it would be proper to say either: I am on the top of \the mountain, or I am on ths mountain top. When on any portion of a mountain it would be proper to say: I am on the mountain. NAPOLEON—S., Presidio, Cal. At the age of 10 Napoleon Bonaparte entered the military school at Brienne, in the depart- ment of Aube, France, as a king’s pen- gioner. He remained there from 1799 to 1784, and it was there that he first learned Not on His Mind.: public men by the Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 3u Calj- “Telephone Main 104a "+ | FS SN French. He then entered the military school in Paris, where he completed his military education. At the first named school he showed great aptitude for mathematics, history and geography, but indifference to merely verbat and literary studies. Keep Your Griz. Hang on! Cling on! they say. Push on! Sing on! your way. sitting down and whining never heipe a t; Best way to get there is by keeplng up your grit. No matter what Things will come Don’t give up hoping when the ship goes down; Grab a spar or something—just refuse to drown. Don’t think you're dying just because you're hit. Smile in face of danger and hang v your grit. Folks die too easy—they sort of fade away; Make a little error, and give up In dis- may. Kind of man tha¥'s needed is the man of ready wit To laugh at pain and trouble and keep his grit. —Louis E. Thayer in Woman's Home Companion. f ——— o fore eating time to-day. on the corner by the Na- tional Bank for an hour and a half this a fternoon: A pedestrian slipped on = a banana peel of the year ago this morning the thermom- registered 50 at 8 o'clock. At the hour this morning it registecred 40 e e Me church st :1":” good weather.—Ionia (Mich.) lu: nel Inconsistent.-