The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1906, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Proprietor Manager = JOHN D. SPRECKELS. JOHN McNAUGHT PHO! OAKLAND OFFICE 1016 BROADWAY OAKLAND 1083 T MAY CONDITION OF AMERICAN TRADE. Business conditions in the United States were ebruptly changed byi sco catastrophe. The activities of the country became im- Wall street, the heart of the nation. An important aent practically wiped off the map, involving a ons of dollars. The New York stock market, »e weeks been unstable, with volcanic tendencles, stag- k of the great California blow. San Francisco had for zed s &n important financial center, but mot until was it fully realized what a factor in commer- fons in the Western metropolis had become. ts of directions. It led to a sudden liquidar of an immediately available character in order alize spot funds wherewith to meet their losses. w their collateral securities om the stock market, 4 the whole list of stocks. The rallroad stocks also at those with a large Pacific Coast traffic might e for the time being. Fears that some of the ng heavy :s in San Francisco might not “storm enhanced the weakness. Finally, the money ; it was thought at the time that vast sums would re for the rescue and rehabilitation of the ecity. This proved groundless. It was seen by a state- ar that of the $112,000,000 deposits in the , 17 per cent, or $19,000,000, was in bonds, cent was in high-class railroad bonds, 17 and pal and 10 per cent in miscellaneous bonds. er cash may be quickly obtained, so that all was soon allayed. s, too, operating to depress stocks. Chlef osed investigation of the coal roads, which placed s shares under selling pressure. Congressional ligations were other depressing fac- erse conditions attacking the market simultaneously led and the fear that the anticipated spring boom in sed, if not actually prevented, and that the San ster would be the dominant influence on the stock market to come. have to be last ap, ment made owever, however, that these unfavorable conditions Some of them have passed away and has and any be felt, n real x hat the very rich city of San Francisco s of her own and can repair many of her losses herself, rs of outside capital are at her disposal to supply ed a more reassuring tone to the market. s been directed to Wall-street stocks, the have attracted less than’the usual notice. as a rule, however, and the business of the Distributive trade is good ®verywhere. on which the prosperity of the country depends, a profitable summer and fall trade. The great ctively at work, though one of its mem- soon the people of the country will California disaster, will again direct business affairs and allow the disaster is concerned the outlook is bright. The crops ng us of excellent harvest returns, and they weeks we shall be selling our crops of 1906 for them. We have as much Pacific Ocean to h and as many railroads to the east of us as nd cars are still with us. We have the crops as we can get some of the litter and rubbish doors so that we may go in and out our business &s 2 city and a State will proceed as if there had never been any fire. —_—— A CITY OF COOKS. sent situation is, it has its opposite side. Were a end upon the undamaged residence section of San fall into the delusion that he was in a vast school see on all sides the gutters lined with cook stoves and presided over by a most motley set of male and female of the house or her servant to the well-groomed gentle- world, all engrossed with boiling the family pot. uid see, perchance, a dapper professional man making coffes in a Across the street in the opposite gutter a college professor, some med spectacles and a corncob pipe, with a smear ©f pot black on his nose, trying to poach a turnip or broil a tenderloin steak rare. A contemplating this amazing scene he might well exclaim: “What & country and what a peoplel™ If this street culsine continues a week or two longer San Franolsco will ,Be & cly of cooks—such as never was before on land or sea. OUR SANITARY CONDITION. | 15 3 source of pride to San Francisco that during the Yecent calamity tthe th of the city has been most excellent. This is due partly to our ‘wedulous attention to sanitary precautions, but more especially to our cool, tonig climate. The usual epidemics which accompany disasters of this kind ,Bave not thus far appeared. Barring several showers, which served to cleanse | the atmosphere and flush the sewers, the weather throughout has been fine and is but another advertisement to the world of our salubrious climate. In fact, the health authorities report the health of the city unusually good. As far as sanitary conditions are concerned San Francisco is passing through its | @evere visitation with fying colors. GOOD TIMES AHEAD. thé next two or three years San Franeisco will'be the Mecca of the and even of the all-around workingman In the reconstruction of thousands of skilled artisans will be needed and no man willing to be without employment of some kind. As soon as nominal condl- present noeds are restored and the work of rebuilding, even now ell under way, there will be such bustle in San Francisco that even intense building ectlvity prevailing before the fire will be eclipsed. There- let no man go elsewhere for something to do. He will have all the work ts from now on and at good wages, too, Times are going to be good Franolsoco, As far as are gener: are not sooty urn. modern Plato, with gold- £ i - FAIR WEATHER TO CONTINUE SUNDAY, MAY 6, 1906—6 p. m. Pressure, Max. Tem., Wind, Velocity, Conditions, Rain. 3 | Ban Franoisco .... -30.02 72 W 14 PtClay 0.00 : 80.12 (1] w L] Cloudy 0.00 84 N 6 Clear 0.00 70 N 1 Cloudy weee &0 NE ¢ Clear 0.00 63 SW 12 Clear 0.00 70 NW 10 PiCldy 0.00 84 BW 4 Clear 0.00 €2 sH 6 Clear 0.00 78 SE 4 Clear 0.00 6 W 4 PtClay 0.00 " 8 10 Clear 0.00 64 Nw 12 Clear 0.04 " W $ Cloudy 0.00 68 At Clear 0.00 7% NW 4 Clear 0.00 wind SH, light, clear; snow on ground, 109 inches; same date last year, 14 inches, Forecast for San Francisco and v icinity—Fair Monday ,with light fog in morning; south wind, changing to fresh west, For Sacramento Valley—¥Fair Monday; light north wind, For Los Angeles and vicinity—Fai r Monday; light west wind, S8UN, MOON AND TIDES. ‘ater. High Water. Low Water. High Watar. Sun, PL Tims Ft Time Ft Time Pt Rige. Bet A 63 18 80 e I i 68 58 T weee 16T —08 1146 60 500 20 1104 B9 B:05 7:08 vove B48 —0F 143 49 BT 34 1L B9 5i04 708 s 0137 07 PETT I ¥ o R ¢ I R e 5108 T:00 Tigh Weter, Low Water, High Water, Low Water. 38R0 BT Ti0 —08 NPl 47 T2 81 B0 Ti10 LI 336 —04 4100 48 8:28 33 501 3 33 600 fi . Bl k2 ~01 BT 4 WORLD EVENTS OF THIS WEEK ‘ Russlan_—NationaI Assembly to Meet. Senate Likely to | Passthe Rate 5 Bill. WASHINGTON, May 6.—The Natfon- al Assembly of Russla, to which =o! many hopes for that country are! pinned, will be convened at the Tau- ride Palace in St. Petersburg on Thurs- day, May 10. The National Assembly, or Douma, was granted by the Emperor on August 19, 1905, and, according to the official | arnouncement “is established for the preliminary study and definition of leg- islative propositions,” which, according | to the fundamental laws, go up through | the council of the empire to the su- preme autocratic authority. The manifesto issued on March 6.} 1906, was an innocent looking provision, | placing beyond the jurisdiction of Par- | liament and consigning for considera- | tion to commissions of the Council of the Empire the reports of the Minister| of Finance, charges of malfeasance against officlals of the Government, the establishment of stock companies with special privileges and questions relat-! ing to entailed estates of mobllity, etc.| The Government retains the power ta| promulgate “temporary” laws, during, the recesses of Parllament, and as ths Parliament is subject to dissolution by ! imperial ukase, the Government is in a position in time of stress to rid itself of any obnoxious legislation and pro- claim such laws as it deems necessary. Three hundred and seventy-one mem- bers have been elected to the Assem- ly, of which the Constitutional Demo- crats have a clear working majority. The first and all important matter to come up will be the agrarian problem, and recent dispatches from St. Peters-| burg seem to Indicate that the Govern-| ment will work in accord with the As-| sembly in this matter by proposing ths formation of a Parliamentary commis- sion to elaborate plans for an agrarian project. This will practically mean the {acceptance of the decision of the Con- stitutional Democrats. THIS WEEK IN THE SENATE. Practically all the members of the| United States Senate agree in predict- ing that the present week will see um; end of the discussion on the railroad | rate bill. The fact that ihis provision is accepted by the conservative Sena- | torial leaders on the one hand and by | |the President on the olher renders it| practically certain that the amendment} will in the end be accepted as a party measure and that it will receive most | if not all of the votes of Republican| Senators. The Democrats probably will| content themselves with expressing surprise that the bill should be trans- formed into a party measure, and then, after chaffing thelr opponents, will let the votes be taken, each man voting according to his own perszonal views. The consideration of tne bill will pro- ceed in accordance with the unanimous agreement, the measure being consid- ered section by sectlon and each sec- tion disposed of in order. The pro- ceedings last Friday, the only day on which the Senate has been In session |under the agreement, indicated that | there is little prospect of any general change in the measure. At this time it seems probable that changes may be made giving the com- mission power to compel trunk lines to make connections with other lines and | prohibiting the transportation compa- nies from engaging in the production of commodities. Amendments for the | accomplishent of both these purposes, | will be urged, and so far comparatively iume opposition to them has been de-| | veloped. | Opinions differ as to the length of time that may be required for the con-' clusion of the work on the bill and es- timates vary all the way from Wednes- day until Saturday. The principal de-' bate will be on the question of court' review, which will probably be reached by Tuesday. After that {s disposed of there will be little heart left for any-| thing else, and whatever may be of- fered will most likely be acted upon: after comparativey little discussion. } The discussion of the nomination of | | Mr. ‘Barnes, assistant secretary to the | President, as postmaster of Washing-| | ton, will proceed when oppertunity of- | fers. [ PROGRAMME OF HOUSE. | The National House of Representa- |tives will complete the naval appro-| priation bill this week. If the foreighn affairs committee can get the diplo- matic and consular appropriation bill | | ready in time action also may be taken . on that measure. The reading of the nava bill {5 ex-| peoted to occupy the House on Tues- day, Wednesday and possibly Thurs- | day, Bhould there be an unoccupied | time, however, there are two special | orders already on the calendar, and the | | Immigration bill is to constitute the | third, it the present plan succeeds to glve it that status by the passage of a resolution today. Pure food legisla-| /tion has the right of way after appro- priation bills, and next ghe bill-creat- ing & uniform system of naturalization, The Interstite Commerce Commis-| sion will begin on May 10 one of the. most thorough inquiries that has ever been Instituted into the relations be-| | tween the rallroads and the Standard ' | Ofl Company, Bpecial counsel has been | |engaged and hundreds of subpenas have heen issued. Independent oll re-| finers have been summoned and the: | commission will make, as drastic an jn- vestigation as possible, The eccleslastical court which tried Dr. Algernon 8, Crapsey of Rochester, N. Y., for heresy wili reassemble in ox- |} - | ecutive session at the parlsn house of | refined of T E AN FRANCISCO CALL . I | i rman =, enwe +—~FROM THE NEW YORK EVENING TELEGRAM. JAPAN'S NAVY T0 BE INCREASED BY 90,000 1085 DURING YEAR LEAVES HER JEWELRY BIT RESEUES SHALL BOX OF SWEETHENTS Two Monster Battleships Just Com-| Mrs, Fred H. Chase, Believing She Is pleted in the Shipyards of England. VICTORIA, B. C.,, May 6.—Advices were received by the steamship Athen- Placed in the haste of moving and then| Bl o from lost in the mad rush of the flames (T2Vel—Drivate cars, palatial yachts, ian, which arrived last night Japan and China, of the retirement of Saving Gems, Carries Away Parcel of t:amly.~ | Five Other War Vessels of Large| Husband Discovers Mistake After He Type, and Many Destroyers, . and Family Find Refuge | Will Be Added. I From the Fire. Viscount ' Kodama Succeeds Ficldln'“"“““" and Trinkets Worth Hun- Marshal Oyama as Chief of dreds of Dollars Are Lost by the Army Staff. f an Auctioneer. | The pathetie stories of valuables mis- through the city’s streets are being told DUSE FREDERICK ARD DUCHESS MARIE PUBLIC BANKRUPTS | Have Piled Up Debts Amounting to | 7 $1,125000 and Can Borrow No More. Income of $20,000 a Year Not Suffi- cient for the Luxury-Loving Couple, i ! Lose Control of Estate and Will Have to Settle Down to the Simple Life. | Special Dispatch to The Call BERLIN, May 7.—Love of luxurious high-power motor-cars, princely hotel accommodations—have made it neces- Marquis Oyama from the post of Field and retold wherever the refugees gather sary for the royal authorities of the Marshal and chief of the Japanese headquarters staff, he being succeeded by Viscount Kodama, recently pro- | moted from a baronetcy and lieu- tenant-general. ~Admiral Togo will shortly be made a count because of his service during the war. Viscount Ko- about their camp fires. Fred H. Chase, the auctioneer, has one of the hard luck tales to tell. Some weeks sinee he took a diamond sun- burst valued at more than $400, a dia- mond pin, a watch and some rings of a | Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |to declare Duke Frederick and his | wife, the Duchess Marie, public bank- | rupts and appoint a comservator for the future handling of their money | matters. Announcement of this fact, | while not a surprise in German aristo- dama will be further promoted and be total valuation of "$2500 and placed | cratic circles, where the Duke and made a count. Count Nodzu will be- them in a eandy box ywith some money Duchess' high«flying propensities have come a marquis, and Generals Kuroki, | Oku, Nogi and Kawamura, who were recently appointed to command the Tokio district, will be created vis- | counts. An assemblage of leutenant-gen- ‘erals in command of divisions of the i Japanese army has been convened by the Minister of War to discuss pro- posed army reforms. The Tokio Jiji Shimi outlines the Japanese reforms in the field and mountain artillery the transport | corps and changes of cavalry and ar- tillery, including the organization of horse artillery. Other reforms ex- | pected are the building of railways in Korea and Manchuria, increase of arse- nals, increase of railway corps and or- ganizing of a balloon corps. The Nichi Nichi says the organiza- tion of mounted infantry will be dis- cussed, although approval is uncertain; as the training of troops for this ser- vice could not be accomplished in the shortened period now fixed for ser- vice. 3 The third period of Japanese naval expansion now commenced will result in increasing the Japanese navy by 90,000 tons before the end of this ygar. The third programme of expansion started with the building of the 18,000~ ton battleships Katori and Kashima, just completed in England, and the armored cruisers Tsukuba and Ikoma, 1 of 14,000 tons, just launched in Japan; the Kurama, ready in August; the Ikubi, soon to be laid down, and the 19,000-ton battleship Aki shortly to be ordered. Four dispatch boats and twenty-eight destroyers will be or- dered, The Japanese courts, now closed, confiscated forty-nine ships, thirty- belonging to his children. On the day before the earthquake he won on a nickel-in-the-slot machine and was paid in cigars and one box of ean- dy. He took the eandy home. was at its height.the Chase family had to move. Mrs. Chase took the box 'she supposed contained her jewelry and packed it safely in her trunk. The fam- {ily moved out to the Presidio and pre- pared to ecamp out. | Mr. Chase made a hasty examination ;of the trunk and learned quickly that ( his wife had paved the box of candy and had left behind the hox of jewelry. He did not have the heart to tell his wife and at last accounts she was still congratulating herself that she had saved her diamonds out of the wreck. —_——— An Excellent Juror. The judge had his patience sorely tried by lawyers who wished to talk and by men who tried to evade jury service. Between hypothetical ques- never would get to the actual trial of the case. So when the puzzled little German who had been accepted by both sides jumped up the judge was exasperated. “Shudge!” eried the German. “What is i{t?"’ demanded the judge. “I tink 1 like to go home to my wife,” said the German. “You can't,” retorted the judge. “Sit down.” “But, shudge,” persisted the Ger- man, “I don’t t'ink I make a good shuror.” % “You're the best in the box,” said three with cargoes, five with part car-| the fudge. “Sit down.” goes and eleven without cargoes. Fif- teen ships have been ordered sold and spirited bidding is promised from four Japanese and several foreign shipping companies, “What box?” said the German. “Jury box,” sald the judge. “Oh, I thought it vas a bad box that people gets in somedimes.” “No,” said the judge, “the bad box When the excitement over the fire| tions and excuses it seemed as if they | long been common gossip, has caused {a painful impression in imperial and | royal circles, for nothing is so well calculated to diminish the prestige of “majesty” and the monarchical idea as such shortcomings upon the part of | blue, bloods to whom loyal subjects of | the Kaiser are compelled to look up | In reverential awe. These royal spendthrifts—uncle and aunt of the German Crown Prince and Crown Princess, the future Kaiser and Kaiserin of Germany—have been sort of black sheep in the Teuton monarch- ‘ial list, owing to the scandal their i marriage provoked in 1881. When he | decided to marry the Duchess Marie, | who was then a Princess of the Aus- | trian house of Windisch-Graetz, it be- came necessary for the Duke to re- nounce Lutheranism and become a Catholic. He did so, but thereby not only forfeited his right to the succes- sion of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin throne, but was put out of the Prussian army by command of old Emperor Wiliam I., who was an unbending re; ligious as well as military martiget. His court and military career thus checked, Duke Frederick Paul chose to travel, but his allowance of $20,000 a year proved penurious in the ex- treme, for he and his wife developed millionaire tastes for which that stipend | prcved utterly inadequate. Frequent trips to Monte Carlo, Paris, St. Petersburg, Vienna and London, in which big suites of servants always participated, cut gaping holes in the couple’s income, which even frequent porrowings from fellow-royalties and private bankers were not able to make good. Things came to such a pass -early this year that the reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the spendthrift couple’s nephew, found it necessary to call a halt and the compt- roller of the Schwerin royal house- hold was officially named to manage the Duke’s future spendings. His debts amounted to $1,125,000. SEERSTOROLD FOREIRA TRADE Commercial Mu- seum Reopens Its Offices. Director to Aid in the Work of Re- building. The Pacific Commercial Museum I reopened its old offices in th_e Mer- ‘chants' Exchange Building in this citr. The executive board at a meeting heid | recently decided upon a plan of ac | and will put forth every effort to pre- | vent the diversion of our foreign trade |to other points. The ‘directors have | a large surplus fund in bank, and thev | will draw on this money to further tho | work of preserving our trade with for- | | eign countries. out to the wholesale merchants: “The Pacific Commercial Museum is | again open for business. { “Dues have been suspended until { further notice and all members as weil |as San Francisco business interests | generally are invited to make use of Hits facilities. “While the features pertaining to ex- | port trade will receive the same atten- !tion as formerly, other departments {bhave been organized to deal with | questions arising through the present local conditions. | “Al matters relating to local or other trade and commerce will be | given special attention, and every Sap | Francisco firm is requested to submit !its own individual problems for ad- i vice and assistance. “Steps have already been takenm to | provide facilities at the offices in the | Merchants’ Exchange Building, where- {by the Consuls from those counmtries | which demand consular invoices may be found at stipulated hours to certify | to such papers as may need attention. This will save much delay and worry to our shippers as well as to our for- leign Consuls, | “A bi-weekly paper will be issued in | which corrected lists of San Francisco ! business houses wil be pubished, a3 {well as such commereial information |as is timely and pertinent. “The translation bureau is freely at | the disposal of all San Francisco busi- | ness men. “The latest tariff revisioms, postal changes, etc., will be on flle in the offices, as well as all other informatfon of a general character relative to com- mercial matters. : “The director will be pleased to re- ceive any suggestions relative to ways in which the Pacific Commercial Mu- seum may be of service in the upbuild- ing of the trade and commerce of the new and greater San Francisco. “All communications should be ad- dressed to the Merchants’ Exchange Building, San Franeisco. “Executive Board—E. R. Lilienthal, president; Edward Everett, first vice- president; Charles Holbrook, second vice president; T. Rickard, third vice president; Milton H. Cook, treasurer; Herbert W. Furlong, director. “Hours—9 to 10 a. m., 12:30 to p- m., and by appointment. “C. W. Sturtevant, manager Spanish- American Department.” Washington’s Architecture. Washington, the capital of the na- tion, offers to architects unusual op- portunities for artistie expression. Ity wide streets and stately avenues fur- nish not only long wistas but dignified settings; its ample stretches of un- broken sky, its abundant foliage and universal parking, lend it color and picturesqueness, and its’ official func- tion gives it both ind distinction. It is a peculiar ecity, oughly cosmopolitan and yet at tha same time provincial. In spite of the fact that it is the seat of the Federal Government and that its population is drawn from every State in the Union, as well as the world at large, it is in truth neither more nor less than an overgrown village veneered in places with urban sophistry. It is es- sentially Southern and yet thorough- 1y non-partisan—neither conservative nor progressive. For these reasons it affords, architecturally, uncommonly ; The following circular has been sent wide latitude, and suffers proportion- Its ately from a multiplicity of styles. public buildings are for the most classie in type, but its private dences and business structures con- form neither to rule nor tradition. ‘When a Federal legislalor wishes to inaugurate in his own State some rad- ical measures, he habitually tries it first upon the unoffending District of Columbia.—Architectural Record. unmarried son of twenty-one is a lieu- tenant in the army. The Cerman Crown Princess Cecilie, of course, is a blood niece of the royal bankrupts, her late father being Duke Frederick Paul's brother. The Duke is said to have made strenuous efforts to avoid the conservator scandal, but his highly placed kinsmen d kinswomen de- clared his eredit with them exhausted and they decided matters must go to the extreme. It is understood Duke Frederick and his wife will sqttle down {to the simple life imn Mecklenburs- Schwerin at their pretty country seat | and try to worry along on the $20,000 PRECARER R Red Cross Establish Home. The Red Cross Soclety at the Pre- 18 the prisoners’ box.” “But, shudge,” persisted the little In taking the drastic step of depriv-| income which, it is reported, will con- ing his uncle of the control of his own | tinue to be allowed. The plain burgers property the Grand Duke is acting| of the Grand Duchy, out of wheose sidio has established a home for the cld people in one of the barracks on the reservation and placed it in charge of two trained nurses who recently ar-| rived from Tacoma, Fourteen old people have been gathered up in the camps and placed in the home, where they are well cared for. : St. James Church, Batavia, May 9, to examine the evidence and dceide on a verdict, —————0- The best l:lul.dfl refinement is to be German, “I don’t speak good English.” “You don't have to speak any at all,” said the judge. “Sit down.” The little German pointed at the lawyers to make his last desperate i plea. it “Shudge,” he said, “I can’t make noddings of what these fellers say.” it was the judge’s chance to get even for many annoyances. efther can any one else,” he said. “With 2 sigh the little German sat ; l‘Aowq.—m‘qg_pen Bag. . - within his rights. German sovereigns, by thejr family statutes, have extraor- : dinary powers over their relations. Not only can they regulate their ex- penditures, but they can divorce them without recourse to the tiresome ma- chinery of the law! The stern and virtuous nephew is irty years | younger than his scapegrace uncle. | Duke Frederick Paul is fifty-four years cld and the Duchess fifty. Their un- married daughter of twenty-two, the Duchess Marie Antoinette, was Ger- many’s candidate for the hand and Spain. An heart of King Alfonso of pockets the stipend cemes, are up in arms, however, and there is an under- current of protest and imsistence that the Duke be made to go to-work for his living. —_—— Byron Hot Springs. Hotel uninjured and in first-class condition; 21 hours from city; 4 trains dally each way. Business men whose familles are there ean visitsthe Springs daily if they wish. Can leava cltyntt:lowtp.m..;ndntwn arrive In San Francisco at 10:23 a -