The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 22, 1907, Page 6

FRIDAY The San Francisco Call JOHN D. SPRECKELS....................Proprietor CHARLES W. HORNICK........co0ennnnnn .General Manager ERNEST S. SIMPSON .....Managing Editor Address All Communications to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Telephone, “Temporary S6"—Ask for The C The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. I————— BUSINESS OFFICE Open Until 11 O'clock EDITORIAL ROOMS Market and Third Streets, San Francisco ery Night in the Year, Market and Third Streets ....1651 Fillmore Street, Near Post ...Telephone Oakland 1083 ..Telephone Alameda 559 MAIN CITY BRANCH.. OAKLAND OFFICE—1016 Broadway EDA OFFICE—1435 Park Str AL BERKELEY OFFICE —2169 Shattuck Avenue Telephone Berkeley 77 CHICAGO OFFICE—Marquette Bldg George Krogness, Representative Stephen B. Smith, Representative .Ira E. Bennett NEW YORK OFFICE—30 Tribune Bldg WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT SUBSCRIPTION RATES 20 C Per Week. 75 Cents Per Month. Copies 5 Cents. ge (Cash With Order): Delivered by Carrier. Single Terms by Mail DATLY CAL DAILY CAL ng Po 1 Ine’ $5.00 $4.00 75¢ 2.50 - 1.00 .$8.00 Per Year Extra .. 4.15 Per Year Extra : . 1.00 Per Year Extra s Postoffice as Second Class Matter. UTHORIZED TO RECEIVE ‘SUBSCRIPTIONS. Be Forwarded When Requested. ' address should be particular to order to insure a prompt — FOREIG? POSTAG ALL POSTMASTERS ARE Sample Coples Ma subs: Y SHONTS MAKES A LAME DEFENSE said in these columns of the exagger- ad and financial circles lest the bogie call Theodore Roosevelt should devour them fa 1 Indeed, Mr. Thomas F. 1. the big traction monopolist of New York and principal owner | ssurance Company, the other day visited the| A report had got about that the| discharge an incendiary message on the As Mr. Ryan has achieved, on behalf < tractic 1wonopoly, the greatest triumph of stock | to history, he may have felt that he was right| Now comes Mr. Theodore P. Shonts, who, having | canal, has become Mr. Ryan’s hired man in New | fi R one hile they slept. hin New known s defense of watered stocks. If the railroads| e wrong in past, why, then, the milk is spilled, and | he best g to do is to forget it. That is the Shonts line of rea»‘ soning. To quote from Mr. Shonts: ‘ the build these properties things wrong; but because disturbed, what is the use of ured except to furnish material intensify class bitterne state or municipal, permits any simply because they are corporations, of proper or improper motives, the real 1l investor. ble and the mosrt practicable. ling up of , whett ne. to corpo nise o avai! t us compre the b Let mum of publicity and 2 minimum of legislation. Let emin neciers and captains of industry co-operate with the President to bring| about better corporate practice The argument sounds familiar. The mischief has been done i i seek to catch the mischief-makers you find that they and left behind them only the “widows| ies is any watering of stocks To quote again: testion of securities are watered or not| watered stock we mean that the | d in at their par value, then! 3 poration are to a greater or less extent the situation from the point of view that none| systems of the country can be duplicated for the 1 their securities represent, then to a large extent r in outstanding OCKs l\\A’\E If it were as Mr. Shonts states, that the railroads could not be duplicated ic of their capitalization, there would | be little sense in raising objections; but it is not true. It is a| ridiculous and absurd statement. Take the Central Pacific, for in- stance. That road is capitalized for more than $200,000 a mile. It could be duplicated for much less than $50,000 a mile. The Texas Railroad Commission some years ago employed a competent en- gineer to estimate the cost of construction of the trunk roads in that | r the s S¢ State, and after a searching examination he found that it was about | $15,000 a mile. In other words, the roads had been built for the money raised on bonds and the stock was all water. The same con- | dition applies to every railroad in the West and South. As far as the President is concerned in this matter, the only| possible action open to him is to order the Interstate Commerce | Commission to make an official valuation of all railroads, following the example of the Texas State Commission. If the assertion made by Shonts be true, the railroads should have nothing to fear from such an investigation. “TRIUMPHANT DIPLOMACY” HE tripartite agreement relative to Japanese immigration is| described as “a triumph of delicate diplomacy.” One easily | recognizes the diplomacy, but the question whether it is| diplomacy triumphant must be left to the test of experience.} The immediate triumph appears to be that everybody concerned | was permitted to “save his face.” Mr. Roosevelt has seen the error of his first message on the subject. He is no longer the ardent Japanophite who wanted the rights of citizenship extended | to his friends. He has even come to see that exclusion of Asiatic| immigrants may become desirable—not yet, but soon. Triumphant diplomacy makes exclusion depend on the President’s state of mind. If he thinks that Japanese immigration acts to “the detriment of labor conditions in the United States,” he is empowered to stop it. He offers the Root amendment as a guaranty of a change of heart. Mayor Schmitz, on his part, is convinced that his recognition as embassador from California in the tripartite negotiations will work some kind of rehabilitation for a damaged reputation, and hopes that history for him will take a fresh start from a day certain il this month of February. All previous starts were false. He, too, has saved his face. Lastly, there is the Emperor of Japan, on whom diplomacy has chiefly worked its thoroughly reliable triumph. In these negotia- tions the Emperor has been handled as a man of sensibility, with the object of stepping on his toes without letting him know. It is pointed out that the Root amendment nowhere mentions Japan ’ + if diplomacy were compelled to rely for its triumphs on a mental |%—— The Mikado can save his face by turning his back. squint. Thus we find ourselves on one hand’ committed to the discre- tion of Mr. Roosevelt, who has not always been noted for dis-| cretion, and on the other hand to the pleasure of the sensitive! Emperor. That monarch may at any moment take his administra- tion out of the category that now obliquely describes the course of Japanese emigration. He may agers lay aside all subterfuge and come out in the opefi. Let|Straight to the continental territory of the United States. issue passports to laborers coming In a eft | word, the triumph of diplomacy relies for ultimate success on the permanence of two states of mind—one in Washington and the other in Tokio. While so much depends on the moral hazard, one feels that diplomacy mights have gone a little farther in the same general direction. The state of mind of the California small boy has not been consulted. Let us hope that it will not interfere to upset the triumphs of diplomacy, which, indeed, are shaky enough with- out strewing tacks in their uncertain way. We sHall be kept busy watching Mr. Roosevelt’s state of mind. It has already within three months executed a complete revolution on this vexatious question. Between whirls we are treated to a triumph of diplomacy, compounded in equal parts of make-believe and makeshift. ¢ A NEW PLEA FOR STATE DIVISION HE rather shopworn agitation which comes up as a kind of serial story, south of Tehachapi, demanding a division of the State, has made its regular biennial appearance in curiously amended shape. This time it is the indignation that Los Angelenos feel over the corrupt conduct of the Legislature that inspires the desire to secede. It is an entertaining plea. If there is any more corrupt and | boss-ridden delegation in the present Legislature than that from Los Angeles it has not been discovered. The Los Angeles mem- | to six weeks. or the Japanese. Of course, we all understand that Japan and no other country is meant, but the diplomats wink when they explain that the Emperor cannot take offense because his people .are not mentioned*by name. There is no insulting or injurious discrimina- bers are quite the equals in subsi city. Walter Parker is the Leg ervience of Ruef’s gang from this islature from Southern California, and he does business at the sign of the canvasback duck. Southern California distinctly depresses the moral average of the present Legislature and makes the Hon. Grove L. Johnson blush behind his-whiskers. The only safety for the south lies in holding on tight to the skirts of the north. 4 Gossip in Railway Circles | The meeting of the Transcontinental Association on March 4 in Chicago promises to be one of the most im- portant in the history of that organ- ization and will last from one .month All the high officjals in the traffic departments of the Western lines will be present and it is reported that several San Francisco merchants will wait upon the railroad men and try to secure a reduction in the tariff. Applications for a lower rate will be made on evervthing—from a gasoline engine to carbide of calcium, but the requests for lower rates which will be most seriously considered will be those for hardware, furniture, machinery and building material. continental’ tarif, in fact, will be ar- ranged and though there will. be no general change in the rates, it is un- derstood that there will be a reduction in the rate on all shipments that will aid to the rehabilitation of San Fran- cisco. The new tariff will be issued to the merchants not later than May. The assoclation will pass on the regu- lar docket, which has been under con- sideration for the last five or six months, and will also take up the rul- ings and instructions received from the Interstate Commerce Commission since the passage of the Hepburn bill. The' railroad men who will attend the meeting from the West will be Edward Chambers and W. C. Donnelly of Santa Fe; George W. Luce of Southern Pacific and his secretary, Fred Gough: the San Pedro, Los An- geles and Salt Lake line will be repre- sented by F. A. Wann, trafic man- ager; the Northern ific by General !l:rdtht A?M J. B . orthern by General Freight Agen ‘W. W. Broughton; the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company by R. B. iller and the Union Pacific by J. A unroe. ’ 5 - tion. The Japanese are not classed with the Chmese It seems as| quy m‘;‘ MM‘M o A new trans-, the Southern Pacific has severed his | connection with the company and will | enter on the practice of law in Reno, Nev. Mr. Shoup is regarded as one |of the ablest of the younger lawyers {in the Southern Pacific and leaves with the hearty regrets of his associates. | Shoup has formed a partnership with Judge Mack of Reno. ® Tt e W. F. Herrin left for the southern part of the State on Wednesday. . S E. M. Pomeroy of the Starr-Union line returned yesterday from a trip through the northern part of the State and reports that the prospects of busi- ness from the Sacramento Valley for the ensuing season are better than he has known for several years. 8 hiidhe Sl One hundred Elks belonging to Lodge No. 3 left last night to be the guests of Los Angeles Lodge No. 99. They will return on Sunday night. W. W. Webster of the Pennsylvania, Ed- ward Twiggs of the Union Pacific and Fred Shoup of the Southern Pacific are going along to see that the herd does not get off the right track. oo gty J. C. Stubbs islat present in Arizona and will be back on Monda: - . o C. E. Wanf land t for the Union Pacific, arrived in this city ves- terday and will leave for Los in a day or so. Wantland makes his home in Denver. : X 2 [_John W. Brock, president of the Tonopah Railroad, arrived in this yesterday. : i Harry A T e, & ‘4 The Smart Set OHN M. YOUNG is the host at a i very delightful affair -over the | holiday on Mount Tamalpais. He took a party of friends to the mountain top yesterday afternoon, and | they spent the night there.. They will return to town this afternoon. His guests are: Mr. and Mrs. J. Brockway Metcalf, Mr. and Mrs. J. Otis Burrage, Miss Marjon Huntington, Miss Jessie Wright, Miss Loulse Redington, Dr. A. W. Hewlett, Philip Paschel and William T. Goldsborough. . . . L | Mrs. Francis J. Carolan will be the hostess at a luncheon at the Bur- lingame Club in honor of Miss Katrina Page-Brown today. . . . . Mrs. James C. Jordan and Mrs. Richard Derby were the hostesses at the second of their bridge tourna- ments yesterday afternoon and a great success it proved to be. The house was beautifully decorated for the oc- casion, boughs of oranges and greens being used in the hall with a screen of tall ferns tied with lovers’ knots of red. Behind this were the Hawalian musicians, who added much to the gayety of the affair. In the drawing tooms were peach and apple blossoms and pale pink carnations; the dining room was gay with red carnations and roses and Dbeautiful silver filagree candelabra. Mrs. Jordan was gowned in a black lace and cloth of gold, and her jewels were diamonds,and pearls. Mrs. Derby wore white satin and lace. The finals were played in the tournament be- tween the prize-winners at the former games and those who won yesterday. The prizes yesterday were twin drink- ing cups in silver, which were very hamdsome and unique. The grand prize was an exquisite silver filagree vase, which was played for by Miss Ella Bender, Mrs. Albert Sutton, Mrs. Deering and Mrs. E. B. Stone, the four who had the highest scores. It was won by Mrs. Sutton. Among the other bridge players were: Mrs. William Henshaw of Oak- land, Mrs. John A. Britton, Mrs. Ynez Shorb White, Mrs. M. P. Huntington, Mrs. Z. P. Reynolds. Mrs. James H. Bull, Mrs. D. A. Bender, Miss Margaret Bender, Miss Florence Ives, Mrs. Eli Liewelling, Miss Adelalde Kinney, Miss Winona Derby, Mrs. J. E. Berming- ham 'and Mrs. Johnson. About 100 guests came in later for tea. . . . Mrs. Horace Davis was the hostess at the closing meeting of her bridge lelub yesterday afternoon, and it proved a very enjoyable occasion. Among the members of the club are Mrs. L. L. Baker, Mrs. Timothy Hop- kins, Mrs. W. R. Smedberg, Mrs. Ogden Hoffman, Mrs. Emma Butler, Mrs. Henry L. Dodfe and Mrs. Gale. . B Mrs. Frederick Charles Morgan has sent out cards for a tea which she will gfve at her home, 2206 California street, on Thursday, February 28, in honor of her niece, Miss Ruth Morton, whose engagement was recently an- nounced. ety Mr. and Mrs. William G. Irwin and Miss Helene Irwin will leave a week from today for Coronado for the polo week. . . Miss Eleanor Davehport will return in a day or two from a week's stay at Byron Bpfllll; H 3 Mrs. Phoebe Hearst has recently gone from her home in Paris to Italy for a briet trip, being accompanied by Miss Helen Wheeler, who is her guest for several months, and Miss Virginia Vas- sault, who returned to Paris last month after a short visit l‘n America. . . Mr. and Mrs. Francis Carolan and Miss Katrina Page-Brown will go to Coronado late next week to attend the palo tournament. A Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Chenery left yesterday for Del Monte, where they ‘will remain un.t-fl londay next. Ly e TR te day, e { | |Uses ofa Watchman | ata Seminary By Edward F. Cahill HE real function and purpose of a night watchman have ever been a subject of mystery, and counsel in this field is even made more dark by the diplomacy of the male nocturnal guardian of a girls’ seminary recently invaded by burglars. Possibly Sister Mills, who watches with the eye of a Gorgon—a polite and parlia- mentary Gorgon in petticoats—the um- brageous groves of Academe beyond the bay might shed some light on the mystery. When Sister Mills, for exam- ple, engaged her night watchman, what services did she expect from this func- tionary? It may be that a watchman for a young ladies’ seminary is like those books that no gentleman's library should be without but nobody uses. He might be some night blooming flower, expected to blush unseen and by stealth. A watchman of manly beauty and athletic build seen by daylight or in the gloaming might rouse unruly emotions in the breast of the immature fair. Obviously, the night watchman for a fashionable seminary should be heard and not seen. He might be well seasoned and,somewhat blustery, a sort of rude Boreas tamed to the conditions of drawing-room etiquette. The point whether a red nose is desirable in the seminary watchman has been debated with earnestness and even acrimony. would nét be likely to inflame the femi- nine imagination; but, on the other hand, his highly {lluminated organ might cast injurious reflection on the quality of entertainment provided by Sister Mills. It is obviously a difficult question, but it may be stated that the night watchman at Mills Seminary who glars did not have a red nose. grounds, nor yet to pose as a nocturnal single Adam in a gardenful of Eves, conjecture wanders in the quest for what metaphysicians might call his final cause. What was he for, anyhow? watchman's job is the best cure for in- somnia, and we know the proverb, “He sleeps like a night watchman,” but that does not explain the known facts. The seminary watchman was doubtless as vigilant as the mythological person with a hundred eyes of whom the young ladies know if they are permit- ted a peep in that fascinating volume, the classical dictionary. But he per- mon fifty-cent necktie and was igno- miniously dumped in the shrubbery while the black-browed villains with dark lanterns and masks fulfilled their nefarious purpose. He did not even scream or threaten to tell Mrs. Mills. The purpose of a night watchman for a girls’ seminary remains a proble: of distressing complexity. No man might solve it save Professor Howison, | and at that none would understand the | acres of land in the district solution, least of all Professor Howi- son. If we examine the problem from the watchman's posnt of view it is quite clear that he rejected any idea sonal combat with marauding men, who, in fact, had no business to be within those chaste and sacred pre- cincts after dark and against all the rules. Further, he cheerfully acqui- esced in the robbers’ injunction not to make a noise that might alarm the young ladies out of their beauty sleep —a most accommodating watchman, warranted kind and gentle. We reject at once the theory that the watchman was employed by way of moral support because, in fact, Sister Mills needs none such. Fortified by the consciousness of her own rectitude, stronger than triple brass or nickel plated armor, she flouts any suggested need of moral support such as a mere man might furnish. By this process of elimination we discover that a night watchman is not for ornament, not for fight, not for illumination and not for moral sup- port. That bundle of negatives sounds like a description of the secretary to the State Railroad Commission, Mr. Judson Brusie, whose lonely affirmative comes on payday. Sk | Answers to Queries | | B NELW YORK PARK—K., City. One authority says that Central Park in New York City is a parallelogram two and a half miles long and over half a mile wide and that acres. The World Almanac for 1907 says that “Central, the great park of New York, extends from Fifty-ninth street to One Hundred and Tenth, be- ing over two and a half miles long, Al watchman brilliantly gifted in that v\-ay“ was ignominiously tied up by the bur- | Not being employed to illuminate the | bird of paradise where he was the| It has been suggested that a night| mitted himself to be bound with & com- | that he was paid to engage In per- it contains 862 | | | Progress of the State Noted by Press HE Mammoth Copper Company is rushing work with a vim along the route of its mew railroad from Central Spur to the Quartz Hill mine In Old Diggings. O 150 men are now at work an | the Old Diggings section never presented a more active appear ance than it docs today. The right of way has been brushed out for the er tire distance and actual work of grad- ing for the roadbed is being rushed along at a lvely rate. There are two crews at work, one at each end. Be- sides this there are two crews of bridge men at work on the new bridge across the Sacramento River at Central Spu There are twenty-five men on each s The excavations for the bridge - | about completed and the piers will be | Set in a very short time. This bridge | will connect the new railroad with the | Southern Pacific, and in order to m the connection the banks of the cut that point will have to be dug awa This is being done as fast as men ar shovels can do it. Trains will be run ning over the new railroad early in tI coming year—Redding Courler-Fres Press. Notwithstanding the fact that only | a few years 4go there were no oranges grown in this country, there is at the | present time a large acreage planted to the golden fruit, and from statistics recently prepared by the Board of | Supervisors it Is shown that 10,500 acres of oranges are now being grown in this county and 423 acres of lemons. | Tuis is a remarkable showing when |1t is taken Into consideration that where the orange and lemon trees ars now growing and where citrus fruits are raised to perfection, only a few years ago there was nothing but bare lands, and at that time it was not known that the golden fruit could | be raised to such perfection as it is being now produced. *-* * Many | acres of citrus fruit are being planted | yearly and it will only be a matter of time until Tulare County recognized as the greatest orangse raising section in the State of Cali- fornia and, in fact, in the United States.—Visalla Delta. . . . What will be the greatest reclam | tion district in the State, If the pla; | ot temn prominent capitalists York, Sacramento and San Francisco do not miscarry, is shortly to be formed in Saecramento County. t to the | north of Sacramento, and 30,000 acres of land which is now practically valueless for agricultural purposes, will be | but which will be worth probably not med | less than $10,000,000 when re | will be brought under a syster dikes and levees which will insur | perpetual use. * * * The district | will be about eight miles long and ranging in width from four to se >n | miles. The company promoters already purchased more than and landowners possessing sever sands of acres have agreed to formation of the district, so tha majority of the acreage is al pledged to the reclamation pr | as it is thought there will be I position on the part of other I | owners whose land may come wit | the borders, there seems to be no ob- | stacle in the way of an early summation of the desired results.— Benicia Herald. . - Lively times in a town denote pros- perity and that being a crit Por- terville is suffering to the fullest extent from that malady. Lands are changing hands and are being gut up into smail tracts and new people coming in; m: | is pouring into the treasury and being {aistributed for labor, property and produce. The season for every industry has been good and the banks today are | loaded with money. aggregating three- | quarters of a million dollars. No more | prosperous community exists anywhere in the State than here and with the prospects of many buildings, new- comers, land developments. plaating of hundreds of acres to oranges, more | dairying undertakings and many new industries ahead for the coming year everything indeed looks most encour- aging and bright.—Porterville Enter- prise. Stockton can boast of the largest and | | best equipped glass factory in the West |and the many improvements recently * | installed at the local plant in addition | to the buildings represent an expendi- | ture of more than $40,000. Many more | blowers and assistants are expected to jarrive next week and when the plant is in full operation it will employ about 225 men. At present there are 160 men engaged at the works and the weekly | payroll amounts to nearly $5000. Ev- | erything pertaining to the plant has | been purchased in California and the and from Fifth avenue to Eighth, being | over half a mile wide. It covers $43 | acres, of which 185 are in lakes and | reservoirs and 400 in forest wherein | over half a million trees and shrubs have been planted. There are 9 miles of roads, 5% miles of bridle paths and 28% miles of walks. IS AN AMERICAN—P. 8., Point Rich- mond, Cal. This correspondent writes: “A male child is born to American parents aboard of an American ship ‘n fereign waters. The father is an American citizen. They land in Eng- land and live there for several years. The father never renounces his citizen- ship. They return to the United States. ‘When the child has grown to manhood is he or is he not an American citizen without declaration of intention?" The answer is that such a child 1s an American citizen, for a vessel sail- ing under the American flag is always . American territory, wherever it may be. In the case cited, the child on reaching majority would not have to make a declaration of intentlon, being an American by birth. THREE DOLLAR PIECES—Sub- scriber, City. The coinage of $3 gold| pleces was discontinued in 1889. i A A A A A s Shoobert went to Santa Cruz a day or | two ago to Yilll frl:nd. for a few days. | . Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Allen went to Del Monte on Wednesday, to remain | for a week. Mr. and Mrs. B. Avery McCarthy of Los Angeles, who are so well known here, are at preseént spending two or three weeks in Santa Barbara. s . . Mrs. Patton and Miss Marion Chen- ery, who went abroad several months ago, are now in Ttaly and pect to spend the summer in Europe. . . . Miss Marguerite Gros will go to San Rafael today or tomorrow to spend a week or two as the guest of friends who came to California from Paris some months ago to look after their property interests here, expect to re- turn to Europe about the end of April, although their plans are not definite because of the uncertainty of the ar- rangements for the Mrs. Whitney of Santa Barbara, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. ma‘i« R S there. Miss Gros and Madame Gros, | business special grade of sand whiclt has hereto- fore been taken from Monterey will after the first of the year be secured from Tesla, so it is safe to say that the factory is now in every sense an abso- lutely local affair.—Stockton Indepen- dent. Personal Mention J. F. Condon of Goldfleld is at the Jefferson. Judge John E. Raker.of Alturas is at the Imperial Herbert E. Cook, a banker of Gold- fleld, is at the Savoy. Thomas W. Pike, a banker of Fresno, is at the St. Francis. J. C. Lagier, cashier of the Bank of Gonzales, is at the Imperial W. F. Burbank of San Jose is reg- istered at the Hotel Congress. L. W. Burris, a Santa Rosa banker, and his wife are at the Hotel Congress. J. H. Steinmetz, who is Interested in railroading in Mexico, is at the St Francis. E. J. Summerville, a capitalist of Portland, Ore., and his wife are at the | Baltimore. Among the recent arrivals at the Hamiim are F. J. Cox and wife from Melbourne. F. H. Poston, prominent in railroad circles at Washington, D. C., is at the St. Francis. D. W. Deane, manager of the Hotel Savoy. has returned from a trip to Los Angeles. J. H. Murphy and wife of Atlanta, Ga., who are touring the State, are at the Imperial. Edgar Hofer, a leading fruitgrower of Medford, Ore., and his wife are at the St. Franeis. Willlam M. Mayers and wife are registered at the Hamlin from Phoe- nix, Ariz, where he is a well-known E. A. Smith, M. E. Lyons and Frank Gavin of Concord, Contra Costa County, are at the Baltimore attending the au- tomobile show. J. F. Slaughter and F. H. Pond, that | #ttle business men who are spendin. « a few days in the city, are at the Hamlin.