The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1906, Page 8

THURSDAY EDITORIAL PA ....Proprietor ..General Manager ...Managing Editor ....Business Manager JOHN D. SPRECKELS CHARLES W. HORNICK.. ERNEST S. SIMPSON Address All Communications to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. TELEPHONE—Ask for The Call. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. nd Third Streets, San Francisco v Night in the Year. Market and Third Streets .. Market 1 11 O'clock E OFF Op . ROOM BRANCH 1651 Fillmore Street, Near Post ) OFFICE—1016 Broadw ..Telephone Oakland 1083 LAMEDA OFFICE—1435 Park Street.... .Telephone Alameda 559 2148 Center Street. .Telephone Berkeley 77 —Marquette Bld KELEY OFFI C. George Krogness, Representative AGO O W YORK OFFICE—30 Tribune Bldg..Stephen B. Smith, Representative ON BUREAU—1406 G Street N. W.,AL E. Crane, Correspondént SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Per Week. 756 Cents Per Month. Cents. ng Postage (Cash With Order): 1 year .. ), 6 months Single $8.00 Per Year Extra 4.15 Per Year Extra . cesene .. 1.00 Per Year Extra States Postoffice as Second,Class Matter. AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS. Forwarded When Requested. address should be particular to give in order to insure a prompt and request. THE INSURANCE SITUATION REVIEWED. insurance si fire ders of San Francisco are beginning to know in a Roughly speaking, about one- zed to do business in California . their losses honorably on the dollar- hor A nt under threat of litigation and delay. are “welchers,” pure and simple. Some thquake clause” by way of excuse in one ecognize liability in somfe cases but not lia- t of the policy. These companies are the welchers.” They deny their liability flatly but That is to say, they pretend to offer charity. rises. they admit liability, and as a necessary con- bility it is total except where there was e to the building before the fire. In the most logical is the Austrian company, which solutely on the ground that the disaster was se is as good as any other when the in- g. There is at least nothing inconsistent in the C4\l]}liéli}'4 It is going out of business in America y-holders do their worst. f the standing of the companies, home and foreign, -igners. In the list of seventy-five-cent compa- gn and twenty-four American companies and there are ten foreign and seven American. ries make the worst showing, especially as the sies not included in the foregoing summary are rations and are said to deny any sort of liability. 1 do well to treat this excuse concerning alleged 1 to pay on the part of reinsuring companies with ] rward by the primary companies asking beg for easy terms because they were largely from the reinsuring companies. The The primary companies are the only ance concerns and any one of these that just as well go out of business at once another dollar and will besides have to ve litigation. This fairy tale about the A PICTURESQUE CANDIDACY. so stimulating in the way of picturesque politics ntion today as the campaign of Mr. Winston the novelist, in New Hampshire. Mr. Churchill iimself to the voters as an independent Republican, »peal rests on his exposures of the State-wide cor- s and press in New Hampshhire, mobilized and > Boston and Maine Railroad, which, in a political to own the State. p is working under the disability of having virtually support. It is current belief that 75 per cent of the e press is subsidized by the Boston and Maine. 1lt of this form of inspiration was put under the a speaker at one of Churchill’s meetings=*in Concord »f two editorials from weekly newspapers of that town. rs are opposed to each other in politics and in every , but their editorials concerning Churchill were identical, from title to finish. Furnished by the railroad lit- the stuff was printed in both papers simultaneously ) changing a word. The episode furnishes an example &i the useless and often dangerous activities of the corporation 1 bureau. chill is not an effective platform speaker and he is 1e use of the local newspaper columns, so that he is work- no inconsiderable handicap. Nevertheless cause have attracted so much attention in the indepen- ress all over the country and the showing he makes is so that the fight is being watched everywhere with the highest OTHING rest. CAUSE FOR SUSPICION. E hesitate to say that the delay in granting the Union-street car line a permit to electrize the road indicates a “hold-up” for coin, but the proceedipgs have a very suspicious look and the present Board of Supervisors is by no means above cion in this regard. It is alleged in excuse for the delay that re is a doubt whether the company has any subsisting and un- expired franchise. That ought to be an easy matter to determine, even if the records in the City Hall were destroyed. There are other records of such grants still in existence. But if the question cannot be definitely settled one way or the other, and speedily, the company hould have the benefit of the doubt. This conclusion follows from the fact that an important part i the city is badly in need of such transportation as the company offers. The haste with which the Supervisors granted the United :ilroads permits of the same.tenor when contrasted with the delay in the case of the Union-street line is, we repeat, cause for grave suspicion ¢ 3 ee American corporations in the dollar-for-dollar | his candi- | San Francisco and the Stat | mocracy. orders of Herrin. and to act accordingly. by wholesale. a bad man at that. The facts, as we have |vantage of abnormal condit | designs of Ruef. It is Ruef’s undisguised purpose to make the judiciary of San Francisco subservient With that end in view he has selected Judge William P. Lawlor for He will make of Lawlor an example that will at once remove a fear- ird are haggling for compromises, in-/less Judge from the bench and at the same time terrify other members of the judi- poor mouth or any other sort of | ciary who might not be disposed to take orders from the boss. Lawlor has made him- self obnoxious to Ruef by his course on the bench. He took an important part in the |conviction of Wyman, Rebstock and Steffens, the ballot-box stuffers of the Ruef |gang. He was active in support of the Andrews Grand Jury. | tions against Ruef’s Board of Election Commissioners. Denicke should be brought to book on the charge of homicide brought against him o | for killing a harmless old man. ree their action is contradictory and inconsistent. Wherever|had to steal the representation of the whole Democratic party in San Francisco. e i Those were the orders and they were caried out to the letter. | to himself. punishment. This is not politics that | | Cali {l Overboard With b, § [ justice there will be no dispute. e from the A convention so constituted in large part owes it to itself and to the Republican party to purge its membership by the most drastic methods. The whole stolen repre- sentation of the burned districts should be cast out from the convention with ignominy. These delegates are not representatives of the Republican party, but of one man, and said, ar ions’ to 3 teal the representat Lawlor must be punishe we preach. It is simple ho R e e undisputed. Ruef and Herrin have taken ad- Finally he insisted that young The result may be, if the regular Democratic organiza- | tion fail to control the local convention, an independent ticket for Judges. It will never | do to hand over full control of the Superior bench of San Francisco to a Ruef. « = Herrin and Ruef are drunk with power. They are convinced that the people of fornia will swallow peaceably any bitter draught that may be set before them by the organization, but we-say to them that if the conventions do not purge themselves of dishonesty the people will find a remedy at the polls. | -—— Ruef and His Buccaneers. HE shameless colonization of the burned districts at the primary on Tuesday by stuffers in the service of Abe Ruef constitutes the gravest scandal that has ever dis- graced California politics. The frauds were so gross and open that they call for radical action. It rests on the honest representatives of interior districts to save grip fastened on the city by the gang that has stolen the representation of the Republican party and, possibly, that of the local De- | The facts are notorious; there is no dispute about them. Whole colonies of stuffers | registered from uninhabitable shacks and stables and they voted the orders of Ruef. |In the only district not carried by the local boss the successful ticket is under the It is a clean sweep for the “organization.” cisco will not have one representative in the Republican convention. {151 of the city delegates and Eggers, for Herrin, holds the other eight. It is the prime duty of the Republican convention to recognize these conditions In the nine burned Assembly districts of the city there is no honest representation of the Republican party. It is a scheme of blunder carried out The people of San Fran- Ruef will have ion of half San Francisco. | Why should not the Republican party as a whole officially recognize these conditions and act on them as justice demands? A refusal or neglect to act in the right line of justice and honesty cannot be construed otherwise than as a confession of cowardice. Throw them out with ignominy. San Francisco will never grumble at being de- prived of such representation. ‘ Conditions in the Democratic party are quite as bad. Though Gavin McNab still has hopes, on the face of the returns its representation was stolen by the same methods |as those that proved successful in the Republican primary, and this success was worked | by the same man, A. Ruef. The Call does not profess to offer advice to the Democracy |as to its course in dealing with these frauds, but there are some instructive features n is becoming more clear and the| 3hoyt the result of this primary and the motives that throw a searching light on the He pressed the accusa- d if in order to do so Ruef nesty, and of its truth and 5 +* HE wedding of Miss Dorothy Eells and the Rev. Henry Sloane | Coffin of New York, which will take place at the chapel in Ross Val- ley on Wednesday afternoon, Septem- ber 5, the Rev. Frederick Clampett of Trinity Church, this city, officiating, will be a very quiet affair, only rgla- |tives and intimate friends Dbeing present. The maid of honor and the | bride’s only attendant will be Miss | Natalie Coffin, a cousin of the groom {and a connecwmon of the bride’s family | as well, her sister, Miss Marion Coffin, | having married the bride’s brother, John Shepard Eells several years since. William Coffin, the groom’s | brother, will come from New York to |act as best man and John Shepard | Eells and John Ki'nle \:/ill be ushers. * A pleasant bit of news is the fact tbat Mrs. MacArthur, the wife of ‘General Arthur MacArthur, U. S. A, | who has so recently returned from -a | year's stay in the Orient, will resume | her Thursdays at home at her home | at Fort Mason and will then receive her friends as in former times. Mrs. MacArthur has always been very | popular in San Francisco, her charm- | ing, gracious manner winning her | many friends, and she is being gladly welcomed back. * . The latest news in r‘cgard to the| movements of Mr. and Mrs. William | Irwin and Miss Helene Irwin is that they will return here from Europe in the fall, reaching San Francisco early in October, as they had originally planned. They were all in Europe at the time of the fire and Mr. Irwin returned at once to California, going from here to Honolulu for a brief trip. | * |2 3 Nefi Laws Pass_e—d by Canada’s Parliament. o — Disturbance in Russia HE Canadian Parliament, which | I recently closed its session, is re- ceiving criticism from opposition newspapers, although they acknowl- edge that it did some very good | work. 5 The law granting pensions to ex- Cabinet Ministers was repealed, but the law, much criticised, increasing the “indemnity” or pay of members of Parliament was not repealed. Very | little tariff legistation was enacted during the session. Worn rails sent | by Canadian railway companies to | the United States to be rerolled must | in the future pay a duty on re-enter- ing Canada of 25 per cent of the cost of rerolling. A law was passed pro- viding a penalty for members of Parliament who take compensation for services rendered in connection with any matter before e'ther house or before any committee of either house. But this does not apply to | ments. The United States law applies | in both such cases. One very popular act was that giv- ing to the Railroad Commission power to control express rates, and also giving the commission power over telephone companies and pro- viding for the compulsory exchange of long-distance telephone messages. lecgislation was passed to set aside large forest reserves, which is greatly commended. Another act excludes paupers, criminals and those mentally or physically insane and all persons ! likely to become a charge on the | public from being received as immi- grants. . An act which caused much discus- sion regulates work on Sunday. This law goes into effect March 1 next. It provides that no person shall sell, or offer for sale, or purchase any goods, chattels or other property, or transact any business on the Sabbath day. Persons may do acts of mercy and attend to religious work, receive and transmit telegraph and telephone messages, and do certain necessary work, and even move trains and ves- sels and transport passengers on-the Sabbath. But no employe is to work { | such work before the public depart-| Affects Trade. - % | o— HE British Consul General at y Odessa in a recent report gave some idea of the dislocation of business in Russia caused by the political and other disturbances there during the past year. The export of grain, the most im- portant of the commercial interest in -that' district, shrank considerably, partially through poor crops and partially through the lack of trans- port services. There was also a great talling off in the shipments of sugar, | much of this being due to the closing of the markets of Western Europe against Russian sugar by the action of the Brussels convention. The numerous strikes interfered to an alarming extent with industrial de- | velopment, and ordinary commercial operations were considerably im- peded by the consequent restriction of financial and other credit facilities. In every class of séciety has the stress been felt. The crops this year should the outlook in other respects improve the district may recover much of its prosperity before the end of the season. But the Consul is by no means overoptimistic. “Durin 1906,” he remarks, ‘“business wi probably be very anxious. The haf- vest is likely to surpass anything yet known.* The demand fors machinery may be correspondingly clamorous. But want of money and of credit, or, perhaps I should say ratker, the cir- cumstances which have brought about these wants, make business unusually risky. It is probable that the best harvest will be that reaped by the money lender.” — on Sunday unless allowed twenty- promise to be very abundant and| (f four hours’ rest in the next six days. Games, meetings, etc., are not al- lowed where a fee is charged. One provision states that “no Sunday newspaper can be brought in for sale on Sunday.” That seems to be aimed at American newspapers. —_— e T e dlaont,w-d; st = He left here about the first of Jul for New York and went from (i’lcf{ directly abroad to joint Mrs. Irwin and Miss Helene. They are all travel- ing on the Continent now and Mr.| Irwin will certainly come back in| October and probably the rest of the family will accompany him. This would be indeed a weicome state of aifairs, as Mrs. Irwin is one of those who will be greatly missed should she not return, and Miss Helene would be one of the most popular debutantes of the season. * * Mrs. Horatio Hellman, who is at present staying at her home on Gough street, will return to her summer home in Belvedere in a day or two. £ w = Mrs. T. W. M. Draper and the Misses Elsa and Dorothy Draper, who have been East for several weeks, are now at Green's Inn, Narragansett Pier, where they are spending this month. They are having a very de- lightful sojourn in the East, but like all San Franciscans are very home- sick for this city. * * * Miss Lizzie Blanchard, who is so| well known here, but who has made | her home in Santa Barbara for the past few years, has recently been the guest of friends and relatives here, in Berkeley and in Belvedere for sev- eral weeks. She has now returned to Santa Barbara, accompanied by Miss Anita Mailliard, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mailliard; Miss Clara Allen, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. J. M. Allen, and one or two other of the belles of a few years hence, who will attend Miss Blanchard's school in the south for the next year. Miss Blanchard and Miss Mary Gamble, who is also well known and very popular here, are associated in this school. * * * Mrs. William S. Porter of this city and Mr. and Mrs. Granville Mac- Gowan of Los Angeles, who are traveling abroad, were in London when last heard from. % * * * Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Wright ormerly Miss Linda Hamilton) are rejoicing in the birth of a little daugh- ter a fortnight since. B Mr. and Mrs. James Steel Reid (for- merly Miss Alberta Bancroft) are re- ceiving the congratulations of their friends on the advent of a small daughter. ! * * * Dr. and Mrs. Henry Stirwalt have returned to town after a stay of three weeks at the Tahoe resorts. e DL S TR ...Answers to 7 ST S PUBLIC DOCUMENTS—M., Ofty. It does not matter that the Representa- tive from your district was not present at the time that certain public docu- ments were issued by Congress. Write to him and he will proeure such for you. DEED—D. & T., City. that a man who saved 'cr:y during The advantage his deed to prop- the recent fire is, that i | GE AUGUST 16,1906 Steps on Muck Rake to His Sorrow —TACOMA NEWS. +_Consul Writes Inferestingly of Port of Mazatflan. & C an ONSUL LOUIS KAISER of]| Mazatlan in a report to the de- partment at Washington sends instructive account of the sur- roundings and trade opportunities of the Mexican port. Following is an! extract from the report: “The city has over 21,000 inhabit- ants, all of whom seem to be fairly prosperous, and all who desire to work can find plenty to do. The American colony is not very numer- ous, and it does not exceed fifty per-| sons, all of whom are making more than a living. The city, for a tropical country, is very healthy, and it is said to be the cleanest city on the west coast of Mexico. It is the com- mercial center and distributing point for the west coast and has extensive wholesale houses in all the different branches of trade. The State of Sinaloa is very rich, its sources being mining, agriculture and stock raising. We have three important banks here, which pay annually from 8 to 21 per cent dividends, and failures of banks| are unknown here. The city is also| the military headquarters of the state, and a regiment of infantry is sta-{ tioned here. “Americans desiring to locate here and engage in any business must be| able to speak, read and write the Spahish language, and a large capital is imperatively necessary, as all of the larger houses here are branches of German or Spanish houses and command an almost unlimited capital. | Goods are sold on six months’ time, | with the privilege of another six months’ extension, on which they! charge 10 to 12 per cent interest per annum. There are some good open- ings in manufacturing enterprises here, such as soap, crackers, candy, glass, paper, rope, sash and blinds, | fis_||1l and fruit canning and flouring miil. “Owing to the building of the ex- tension of the Southern Pacific Rail- road ‘to Guadalajara, by way of Mazatlan, real estate has advanced to a price at which it is very risky for a stranger to invest. Government land can be denounced (located) at 1.20 pesos (60 cents) per hectare (equal 10 2.471 acres), while nearly all tim- rer lands are in the hands of specula- | ors and are held for higher prices. “From November to the latter part| of June the climate is all that a per-| | are completed and in operation. — son could wish for, during which time three is no cloudy or stormy weather; mneither have we here the cold, chilly rains so often encountered in the United States; neither does it ever freeze here; hence livestock of any kind does well during the entire year. “The rainy season usually begins the latter part of June and continues until the end of October. The rain pours down almost daily, making it dangerous to travel either by land or | sea, and the local steamers as well as stages discontinue their operations, as the roads become impassable and the rivers spread out of their banks, which makes traveling not alone un- pleasant but often dangerous. “The Pacific Mail Steamship Com- pany has three steamers per month calling at this port, going sough to Panama and three going north to San Francisco, making six steamers per month for this company. “The Pacific Coast Steamship Com- pany’s steamer Curacao makes bi- monthly trips to this port and Lower California from San Francisco. Cia. Naviera del Pacifico is a local com- pany and is operating tem steamer: north and south. The Occidental | Railroad is the only completed rail- road in the state and is forty-five miles long. 1t was built b English capital and is much neglected, as the roadbed and rolling stock are very old and in bad condition. The Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad is | now in operation from Topolobampe, a small seaport to the north of this’ city, to Fuerte, a distance of about seventy-five miles, and when com- pleted to Kansas City will shorten the distance between New York and Mexico over 500 milés. The South- ern Pacific Railroad is being extended from Guaymas, Somora, to this port and from here to Guadalajara, a dis- tance of over 1000 miles, and the first forty miles, from Guaymas to Torin, It is expected to reach Mazatlan the lat- ter part of nmext year, and this will be one of the most important events in the commercial history of this city. “Firms or individuals contemplat- ing making investments here should under all circumstances make a per- sonal inspection and study the con- ditions and resources, and at a com- paratively small outlay could obtain mformation which it would be im- possible to obtain otherwise.” "Grear Audiences Pav Tribute | fo Talented ECORD - BREAKING business | at the Orpheum this week may | be attributed to a combination of glorious weather and rare stage| talent. All the newcomers are more | than “making good,” while the best of | the holdovers have no reason to com- | plain of comparative unappreciation. | Gardner and Vincent, in their clever | fantasy; [Edith Helena, with her| R their bicycle work; the Reiff brothers, | artistic singers and dancers; Edward Clark and his half-dozen alleged widows; Billy Van, the Lucania acro-| bats, Carter and Bluford—all con- tribute to one of the brightest bills ever presented in the' big vaudeville house. | For next week are announced May | fioley,. comedienne; Mary Norman, | manolo%:' Terley, modeler, and Arthur ming, blackface comedian. B Will R. Walling, Jane Kelton and| Oza Waldrop are making “The New South” well worth visiting the Central Theater to witness. This is not said in disparagement of the remainder of the cast or of the scenic investiture, | + he has the best evidence of ownership. LAWS—C., Brentwood, Cal. If you cannot, through a first class book house, obtain laws of the State of California or of the State of Nevada, communicate direct with the Secretary of each State PR Thespians. both of which are entirely ad But the three players nam:d h:vqe“:t::e leading roles and upon them largely depends the task of preserving the atmosphere which is so essential to = gg:::te production of the pretty Clay Greene’s melodrama, “The Plunger,” is underlined for next week and on Monday and Tuesday evenings‘ the theater will be the mecca of Na- | rangy soprano; the six Proveanis, in | tive Sons and Daughters, for Ei Do- rado Parlor of the first mentioned or- ganization will be the beneficiary of the pecuniary returns. - - “Fiddle-Dee-Dee” its final week at th is_rounding out e Lavis and che | size of the audiences almost make it a shame to withdraw t traction. . “Whirl-i-Gig,” another Weber-Field- ian success, that scored heavily when first produced here; is to be staged next Monday evening for an indefinite run. All the principals are to be well placed and Ha James announces that the chorus be greater both in quantity and quality than the aggregation of vocal and physical ex- cellence. he favorite at- him what laws you desir advised of the cost. T —_— “Brown Betty” Teapots. “Brown and tell will be For ver design. N Fleld, Van Ness ave., st