The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1907, Page 24

" strings attached. They break all metaphors and transcend science. 'SUNDAY The San Francisco Call JOHN D. SPRECKELS R e R oy CHARLES W. HORNICK vvveeeseen..General Manager ERNEST S. SIMPSON .......Managing Editor jeations to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Telephone, “Temporary S6"—Ask for The Call. The Operator Will Conmect You With the Department You Wish. and Third Streets, San Francisco Night in the Year. Market and Third Streets NESS OFFICE Market Open Until 11 O'clock Ever; EDITORIAL ROOMS B 1651 Fillmore Street, Near Post Telephone Oakland 1083 . Telephone Alameda 559 MAIN CITY BRANCH OAKLAND OFFICE. 1016 Broadway ALAMEDA OFFICE—1435 Park Street BERKELEY OFFT Shattuck Avenue ..Telephone Berkeley 77 2169 E—Marquette Bldg ~. George Krogness, Representative SHICAGO OFFI( NEW YORK OFFICE—30 Tribune Bldg...Stephen B. Smith, Representative Street N. W..M. E. Crane, Correspondent SUBSCRIPTION RATES Cents Per Week. 75 Cents Per Month. 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The bill contains some un- e provisions that would seriously” and injuriously siness of publishing newspapers and other periodical.\zg is one that no periodical containing more than 50 per| rtisements shall be admitted to the privileges of second- | This provision is, of course, unreasonable and unjust. | Ad-| tinct and special value to the buyers of | are peopleswho find them more interesting and | the matter in body tvpe. No comparisons need be | reason for astonishment at the state of mind g among things that ought to be discouraged ! exercise of censorship based on a frivolous objection. have di sements a There r prov n of this strange bill would lead to endless con- obably to hardship because of arbitrary rulings of bill provides that “an issue of a newspaper or| be composed of parts or sections, but all such size, form and weight of other perior parts or sections shall be made of the same gether shall form one complete and identi- | is also provided that supplements shall not be| v other substance than paper, except in the case of plans illustrative of the text. No supplement shall be| composed of or contain advertisements, “but the same shall be con-| fined to matter germane to the regular issue and supplied in order to| complete matter leit incomplete in the main body of publication.” ‘ Imagine one of the official wild asses of the Postoffice Depart-| nt set down to decide what matter is “germane” to the body of a| newspaper and what is not “germane.” Having settled that point to s own satisfaction, he might spend a useful and busy lifetime in| ding answers to the question, When is a supplement not a supple- | ent? What sort of queer censorship in this which is attenipted to be 1 the backstairs of the postoffice? The essential wickedness | g and the vicious character of the ungermane supple-| ngton would have it believed, are sapping'the manhood, | poisoning the womanhood and uprooting the* foundations of the| e and tearing asunder the family. Our last hope of safety rests | he postoffice bureaucrats fied whole. AN INEFFECTIVE BOYCOTT XY alarm that may have been felt concerning injury to our| trade owing to the Chinese boycott, so called, is allayed by a recent report of Consul General Rodgers of Shanghai, who says that the decline in business is due to other causes and uffects all foreign importations in equal degree with those from this eountry. We quote from a statement in this regard issued by the State Department Inqu: made by the Consul General has developed these facts: The! surplus of cotton piece goods which remained after the close of the year| 1905, and which was still further increased by the deliveries under contracts made in December, 1905, and January, 1906, has furnished the supply with ich Shanghai and northern China merchants have met the small and iminished ‘demand from Manchuria, a region constituting the natural ket for American cotton goods and where the boycott never existed. When the impediments to foreign trade in Manchuria owing to Japanese war occupation and other causes connected thérewith were fully understood and appreciated in Shanghai in the early spring of 1906 it became certain that there would be 2 great shrinkage in imports, not only from America,! but from other mations. To the commercial situation in Manchuria was| added that of all northern China, and especially the Yangtse Valley, where the surplus goods of all kinds, imported principally by speculators who hoped to run the blockade in the north, were worked off at prices favorable to the Chinese, thus overstocking the country for a time when the Chinese through crop failures and high prices had little money for luxuries or even necessities a . There is one exception to the Consul's statement and that is of considerable impgrtance to Pacific Coast merchants. He says that the flour trade entering China through Hongkong has been in some degree diminished by the boycott. In metals and machinery America has gained on England, and the trade in American kero- sene, at which the boycott was chiefly directed, is greater than ever before SENATOR WOLFE'S GOOD INTENTIONS i ENATOR WOLFE'S good intentions are welcome even al-| though belated. Mr. Wolfe, with a new-born seli-denial, desires | to remove one foot from the trough—not yet but soon. Two% vears after date he will turn over a new leaf. He would limit | patronage in the gift of the next Legislature to $500 a day. That | seems a very liberal estimate for the work to be done, but compared “with the methods of contemporary treasury-rakers it shows gleams of decency. . Thereiore we wish for Mr. Wolie's good intentions all the pros- perity they deserve. We hope they may not fall by the wayside. Mr. Wolfe is not yet a just man made perfect, but he has hopes of his own reformation. He ha¢ given his promissory note. For the present he fulfills the function of a2 Great Moral Idea. We cherish a hope’that he may becdme-a Great Moral Fact, transfigured to the guise of a monument in brass. We observe with congratulation that Mr. Wolfe's moral idea professes to have no strings on it. It is the metaphysical property of legislative ideas, moral as well as immoral, that they often have A statesman’s idea is like the snake in the road. Whether it is | degraded moral tone that *characterizes the present Legislature. i .- zeal. { bad “Ring Out the OId,? Ring ‘In the New!” ; "‘“,wésmems ) : — —ST. PAUL DISPATCH. * with mo sort of backeaction to it. He not only designs to cut the patronage. but declines to ask for more pay for himself. Possibly all this patronage scandal is small business, hot worthy of the atten- tion that has been given to it. Of course, in one sense it is a small affair, but in another it is large, because it is evidence of the It is not a small matter that representatives of the commonwealth should so debase themselves as to engage in an industry very slightly superior to robbing a henroost. 7 LAW IN OFFICE HOURS ONLY : i HICAGO is for the moment undergoing a humorous and in- structive experience in officialism whereby the conflict of law and some other things are joyously illustrated. The city has an ordinance designed to curb the effusion of soit coal smoke, which, unrestrained, would paint the town black and make the citi- zen swallow the paint. Now, when the official charged with enforce- | wait for weeks for ment of this admirable law was reproached with neglect of duty be- cause certain unruly householders and manufacturers were defiling| the atmosphere at early morn and dewy eve—both black in Chica‘goi —he urged for all apology and excuse that his inspectors worked | only in office hours. That should settle it. The law takes a half-| holiday on Saturday and keeps the Sabbath wholly®® It goes into re-| cess an hour before sundown for fear of catching cold, and goes! home in the rush hours. The law is a straphanger in Chicago. I All this is highly interesting. It illustrates the official mind, the lack of initiative, the attachment for the well-worn groove. It is the frame of mind described with admiration as “being on to your job.” It runs the gamut of officialism and finds its highest expression in the famous Embassador who warned his attaches agaipst “too much | Therefore Chicago, misquoting Hamlet in actordance with a | abit and wiping the soot off her lovely nose, declares, “There | is more smoke in heaven, Horatio, than was dreamt of in your phi- | Gossip of the Doing‘s of Railroad Men “The dual ownership of the North-1 western Pacific is not exactly pleasing to the people along that railroad,” sa a contracting freight agent yesterday. “Santa Rosa is the great trading market | for Sonoma and Mendocino counties, | and many carloads are shipped from| that city. The shipper now complains strenuously against being obliged to cars, especially | when demurrage isy charged after the cars have been four days away from the Southern Pacific rails, regardiess of whether the delay in loading is caused by the Northwestern Pacific or not. No foreign cars originate on the system, but all must be ordered through the Southern Pacific and must all be delivered by -that line to the North- western Pacific at Schellville. This seems singular in view of the fact that the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe both occupy joint y4rds with the North- western Pacific in San Francisco.” . . He is a resourceful conductor and he' worRs on the Southern Pacific between | Sacramento and Oakland. His train/ was deadheading a car from the capital city on Friday, but the brakeman | thoughtlessly left the car door open and | J. V. McGill of the Rock Island and Jay Adams of the Nickel Plate pro- | ceeded to make themselves comfortable. Their example was followed by others, and finally the car was well filled. Each woman had a seat for herself and an- other for her bundles. “This car is being deadheaded,” shouted the conductor, “and none can ride in it.” ; The women smiled and spread their skirts. The men laughed. The con- ductor went away. Then he returned . | losophy of law.” The device of working men in shifts is not included in that philosophy. !and bellowed: “I want to tell you all | that this car is quarantined. It had a | man in it with the smallpox, and it is |Being taken to Oakland to get fumi- {ing the certification of architects { ment are evidently trying to make it H sald association. Io.flcerl and this same ;Ol‘nlnlfltrie di;a sire to be frozen out. This feeling is | so strong among the majority of the | In the Joke World l outsiders that they have banded them- (g = | { Protests Against Measure | Framed by Architects: | i DITOR of The Call—Sir: . There|selves, We cannot blame them for has been some discussion in the| Iflshn:]g to retain control of the patron- | papers within the last few|oo that | sition they assume. days concerning the bill now)toward concentration, consideration by the Legis- vern- &rtistic class of buildings from an| to amend the law go °I | architectural standpoint and a safer | - one. from an engineering ' standpoint. | parties who are! We hardly think that the charter proposed amend- members of the Architectural Associa- | |tion of California are Justly entjtled { to any pre-eminence. At a great cost to the taxpayers our municipal legis- | lators have evolved a set of ordinances | that govern the erection of buildings, {and the public pays for the main- tenance of inspectors to see that these and passed by 2 body of men who de- ordinances are faithfully carried out | sire to build a parrier around this pro- | by every builder. ~ fession that weuld practically exclude| Symmin - all but a favored few agd would create | dent on (ho fars op 1t (hat. 2'.:;:"' bf,",', what might be termed an “archi-|of men have gathered themselves to- tectural trust” Electing themselves | gether, formulated an examination charter members, they prepared an ex- e S luntion which sl oue of Sheks GO bes o o i - e have passed at the time they elected | rivals out from any participation® in themselves charter members of lhe“h@ Jarge amount 'of bisineas that is {to be don s A great injustice has alreadt “been \Angelesoaleon{; ;.::efi::::hco o on done to & number of experienced and il oy PRIV | competent architects, who justly fm‘mm“ s fls‘r’:m‘ln - W“l’{&“"!::;l great resentment over the action of a | the absolute unconttitutionality of the certain few who have gathered tos hem®|3ct Will be demonstrated amd the ither and elscted from REionk {BEm- | .., jyvectural ‘close. COMBOLRLIGE™ To selves officers and an examining com- ;dls!oh‘ed mittee which is to pass upen the ; capability of those whom these same | A LOVER OF FAIR PLAY. B P PSS Y% — This tendency however, is un- | avoidable. and it really evolves a more | under lature The this California. manipulating impossible for any man to build any sort of a structure without requiring him to secure the services of a regular architect. Those who understand” the facts in the case realize only too well that the original bill was formulated selves together, I understand, for the S SO e v purpose of testing the constitutionality | “He is perfectly lovely—so different ©of the original bill providing that the ' from any man I ever met.” architect must possess a certificate. 1t | _“He must have proposed to you'— is to be hoped that this test will be Fliegende Blaetter. Fe b.;“‘h‘ = ‘nhl”“e- ho has Bill—Wh : : any an architect who has been suc- —Where did you buy your watch? cessfully practicing for “vears and| JUl—In Washington. i p whose standard of technical da} “What sort of time does 1t keep?” equal if not superior to that those at | Capital time”—Yonkers Statesman. id - - “Dear friends,” began the lecturer, “I f:ld‘l you ‘:u.r friends’; I won't call you ‘es and gentlemen, . You see, I know vou all so well."—Life. . - - , going in or coming out you cannot say. Mr. Wolfe, on the other | tion ana hand, declares mthmm&ewfiwbfi_@ and their flatears are gated.” and he ran from the car. There was a shout and a scream. ‘Worhen fled, leaving their bundles be- hind them. Men, too, made a dash for the door—all except Adams and Me- Gill. “Tt may have carrfed a man with the smallpox, the bubonic plague, measles, scarletina and every other disease un- der heaven, but we won't budge!” they both exclaimed. McGjH and Adams are sorry for hav- ing repeated the story at home, as their families insisted on their being fumigated because the conductor might have told the truth. . . . “’A peculiar situation has followed the development of the oil fields in the southern part of the State,” remarked a railroad man. “Formerly the Stand- ard Oil Company loaded west from Whiting, Ind., a large number of com- bination cars with oil in bulk con- tained in the tanks and oil in cases in Verses Current in - Country’s Press WHILE WE MAY The hands are such dear hands; They are so full; they turn at our de- mands So often; they reach out With trifies scarcely thought about So many times; they do So many things for me, for you— 1t their fond wills mistake. We may well bend, not breal. They are such fond, frail lips That speak to us. Pray, If love strips Them of discretion many times, Or if they speak too slow or quick, such crimes We may pass by, for we may see Days not far off_when those small words may be Held not as slow, or quick, or out of place, but dear, Because the lips that spoke are no more here. They are such dear, familiar feet that go Along the path with ours—feet fast/or slow, And trying to keep pace—if they mis- take Or tread upon some flower that we would take Upon our brea$t, or bruise some reed, Or crush poor hope until it bleed, ‘We may be mute. Not turning quickly to impute Grave fauit; for they and we Have such a little way to go—can be Together such a little while along the way, We will be patient while we may. So many little faults we find, ‘We see them; for not blind 1= love. We see them; but if youandI Perhaps remember them some by and by, They will not be me, But just 0dd ways—ymistakes, or even leas — \ Remembrances to 'bless. Days change s0 many hours: ‘We see so differently in sun and show- things—yes, ers. . . Mistaken words tonight light, We will be patient, for we know There’s such a little way to go. —George Klingle. OCTAVES L The audience, alas, how few— Perchance I only sing to you: Yet were my auditors a throng, Perchance they would not love the song. O, therefore. you, my gentle friend, Listen, I pray, until the end. Than that a million clap the hand. IL Somewhere Jn balmy Tennessee, A bird is dreaming now Of one far northern naked tree And of his homing bough. And somewhere in the great tree's heart, ; There, too, is thought of him, A thought that bids the sap to start And dower the barren imb. IIL Tears in thelr gentle flow, Like rivers where they go, Awake the heart to bloom And bear away the gloom. See where the desert lies, Dreaming of Paradise; The sun-but burns it deep Because it cannot weep. V. I would not be the topmost leaf That scorches in the sun, Nor, near the earth, would I be chief Of the protected ones; % But I, midway, would live my day Anear the robin’s nest. Thrill to his song, and all night long Lie close against his breast. —C. G. Blanden. in Chicago Post. WHICH WAY? - I There's a way to the right and a way to the wrong. A way for the weak and a way for th strong. = And on which of these ways will your banner be shown When the new year has come and the old year has flown? 1L The way to the right is a way that is hard, £ By many a troublesome wall it is barred; 5 But out at the end of it, over the hill, There is honor that all may share proudly who will. 1L The way to the wrong is a broad, easy ‘way, Where the ribald go rollicking day er day, ‘Where the dolt and the sneering at fame, And it ‘ends in a bog that is scummy with shame. laggard go to the wrong. A way for the weak and a way for the strong, . And on which of these ways will your shadow be cast ‘When the new year begins and the old vear is past? —S. E. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald. A FACE IN A CROWD 1 spent an hour in idleness p the middles of the cars. The develop- ment in the south, however, and the erection of the refineries have caused an almost total cessation of the move- ment of combination cars westbound. There are a number of linseed ofl and cocoanut ofl producers around the ba: who have been using the tanks of these combination cars on return trips to carry their products East and compete with Eastern manufacturers. The with- drawal is forcing shippers to load their commodities In barrels in boxcars, and the price of cooperage is so high as to nullify any profit.” . o J. D. MeGill, iveling freight agent of the Rock !sh:l‘aystem. ‘who has just returned from a trip through the north- ern part of the State, said yesterday: “It will pay any ‘one to see what is being done by the Northern Electric line in that part of the country. They are running their trains into and are g ahead the work so as to lose time in reaching Sacramento. Their trains are doing a good deal of local business and it 1is sald the line has been a paying property from the very commencement. They intend to have as fine a road as there is anywhere in the State, luling from rocks to be used for nly. know One little hour I mmn! E 1 Journal. Because a bright face glanced at me, alf shy, half sweet disdainfulness, ‘Where radiant eyes of mystery, Where radiant lights of morning played Discerning, deep and unafraid. I saw a gleam of white-gloved hands, A shining cloud of willful hair That thrilled me with a dream of lands To be desired, and very fair; A veil, that hid but partially The light from Love's ar(fl{ery. And, in a dream. we spoke. and kissed, And ventured by untrodden ways Where aw;rple rocks threw foam and m From billows of enchanted bays.. And there, with shaded eyes, we scanned The distant coasts of Fairyland. This was my dream, O Heart's Desire— Thou canst not. tell me what was thine: Maybe Love's sweet, mysterious fire ltnn thy wistful heart to mine; I only » howe'er it be, Faults then—grave faults—to you and | May be so cherished by tomorrow’s 'Tis more than one should understand, ! There's a way to the right and a way | ; EDIT ORIAL P A GE FEBRUARY 10, 1907 ’.!__:_____————4———‘5 (% I Transvaal a Field for || American Brewers ONSUL GENERAL JOHN H. SNODGRASS of Pretorta has been interrogated recently Dby two large brewing companies n the United States that requested informa- tion as to the probability of an exten- | sion of their busines in the Transvaal, ‘xo which he responds: T | The following facts and figures In re- | 1ation to the beer trade of this pagt of | Africa perhaps may be a surprise, and may be the means of bringing Amer- fcan brewers into closer relation with this trade. Although there are less | than 300,000 white people in the Trans- | vaal, it was peossible for them in the year 1905 to consume 418.652 gallons of | ale and beer, valued at $298,930, a fall- | ing off from the previous year of $3775, | but a gain over 1303 of $46.000. Of this }amount the United Kingdom furnished /146,613 gallons, valued at $151.450, Germany following with an exportation | of 43,500 gallons, valued at $34.210. The | brewers of South Africa produced and sold in the Transvaal during that period | 224,993 ~galions, thus keeping in cir. | culatfon i the home market $110.890, | The United States made a slight gain | over 1904 by dispogifiz of 2149 gallons, valued at $1585, the previous year ths | Agures being 2003 gallons, of a valus | of $1350. Holland, Denmark, Belgium, | Austria 'and Australia combined, only | disposed of 1267 gallons. | Comparing 1305 with the previous | year, the United Kingdom sustained a |loss of 3147 gallons, valued at $4760. | and Germany, in comparison with other | countries, received a greater shock by | dropping off 8442 gallons, of value |$7650. The South African brewers | made a large gain, for the reason, as it {is asserted in cofimerctal circles here, ithat they are producing a much su- | perior quality of beer than in former years, and in addition iLue trust formed in the early part of 1905. which has practically put out of business all the little companies, has secured predomi- | nanee in the fleld and is pushing its lines with remewed vigor. They are | brewing here now the light lager beer which is so popular.in Germany and America, and the heavy English ale is not called for as in former years. The effect of this is to increase the sales of the home product and to cut out the import trade from Great Britain and Germany. The bottled beer is not among the denizens of the and it is doubtful, therefore, whether It will be possible. for the American | brewers to inerease their sales here un- less they shall place salesmen upon | the ground and go after part of the |trade now enjoyed by England and™ Germany. The mere selection of a | general agent here and the appointment | of subagents in the various cities will not profit much, as competition Is keen and the local trust is binding up all the public houses possible through | money loans, etc., thus retaining abso- lute control of tb® majority of sales | places. called “tof Transvaal. {¥ % || Italy Wants Shells } {| From America | “{’— ISSISSIPPI shells” are : 66 . ported into Italy in erable numbers, c | to a report made by Consul James E. Dunning. of Milan. ;‘ Milan, Naples and Turin e prin- cipal Italian centers of the pefir! button trade of the peninsula, and. though {there is a considérable list of makers {in small places in the country, it is in | the larger enterprises of the great cit- fes that the American exporters of ells will find an opportunity to cap- ure new trade. The Italian button trade is good, and there is a consider- able export business, which, however, | does not extend in any important val- ume to the United States. The Milan | consular district shipped only $1700 {worth of such goods to American ports during the year ending with June 30, | 1906, but the proportions of the domes- jtic market are sufficlent to encour- |age the bellef that American export- ers of “shells,” which in the raw s |carry no import duty, can thus find a { larger ueld for their output. Several of | the larger Italian button factories are | already under comtract to handle. and |are so handling, the shells shipped | them from New York and other Ameri- | can ports, but the demand is brisk, and information which reaches the consu- late from a number of authentic | sources indicate that there is plenty of | opportunity for the enterprising ex- | porter of this class of goods. | Additional information in detailed form wiil be furnished to meet the ex- plicitly stated wants of inquiring ex- porters, who will receive prompt at- tention if they write to the Mian con- | sulate. Interested correspgndents ‘would assist the consul if they closed return postage, in American stamps, | with letters requiring an answer. r-—— | Personal Mention | ] — s J. E. Poingdestre of Marysville is at the Palace. Dr. H. T. Hoople of New York Is at the Jefferson. Dr. 8 W. McGibbon of Mexico City is at the Majestic. V. R. Hull and Mrs. Hull of Dawson are at the Jefferson. Ira Ellison is registered at the Dor- chester from New York. E. B Rich and Mrs. Rich are at the Jefferson from Pacific Grove. | € N. Davis and Mrs. Davis of Cama- | nea, Mexico, are at the St. Fraacis. E. C, Merrill, a banker of Santa Rosa, is registered at the St. Francis. l George C. Brandon and Mrs. Brandon jare at the St. Francis from Long Beach. R. Cariton Knight and Mrs. Knight of Los Angeles are registered at the Pal- ace. J. E. Chilberg. s banker of Seattle, and Scott Calhoun are at the St. Fran- cis. = C. D. Fenn of the Metropolitan Syn- {dicate Press of Chicago is at the Palace. . Jeff McRae and Mrs. McRae of Buf- falo. Wyo., are u‘hnrfil“l the Jef- ferson. el R E. Gibson and Mrs. Gibson young t, leaves for Europe today om usiness trip. < G. E. Bittinger, vice president of the First National Bank of Los Angeles. is registered at the St. Franecis. J. Bacom, a i merchant . i of i : 5 i i H i i i i | i i ¢ 852 | fz i : f £ 3