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WINNIPEG, Man., April 15. — J. TV. Leonard,
general superintendent of th» Canadian Pa
cific, central division, has been appointed to
succeed Thomas Tait as manager of transpor
tation of the entire system, with offices at
Montreal. Leonard will be succeeded by W.
R. Baker.
their home m San Jose> where the groom
has extensive business interests. He was
one of the most popular* chiefs of police
that ever held office in any city of this
State and has made hosts of friends. He
was chief for ten years.
WELL-KNOWN ATTORNEYS
WELL SERVE AS JUDGES
Three San Franciscans Are Selected
to Decide Merits of Inter
collegiate Debate.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. April 13.-
The judges for the intercollegiate debate
between Stanford and California have
been chosen by the intercollegiate debat
ing committee. The following three well
known San Franciscans will judge of the
merits of the forensic contest: Attorneys
Will Thomas and Peter F. Dunne and Su
pervisors Henry U. Brandenstein. The
debate will occur in the Alhambra
Theater next Saturday night.
Ovid H. Ritter '04, a member of the
debating team against the University of
Washington, has been compelled to with
draw from the team on account of sick
ness and W. C. Maloy '03, of San Jose,
a member of the Euphonia Literary So
ciety, will succeed him.
The annual freshman-sophomore debate
will be participated in by the teams of
the classes of '05 and 'C6 next Friday
night in the university chapel. The
sophomore team will be composed of B.
C. Dey of Portland. Or. : P. D. Swing of
San Bernardino and R. K. Alcott of St.
Paul, Minn. The men who will represent
the freshmen are E* A. Cunha of San
Jose, Joel Nlbley of Salt Lake City and
J. It. Maloy of San Jose.
The bride belongs to a well known pio
neer family of San Francisco. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis D.
Shea and is beautiful and accomplished.
The groom is the youngest son of Mr.
and Mrs. M. Shannon. He is in business
with his father in the well known firm
of Frank Eastman & Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Shannon left in the after>
noon for a bridal trip. Their destination
is a secret.
The bride was attired with charming
simplicity. Her silk tulle veil was caught
in ' the coiffure with a spray of orange
blossoms. She was unattended and was
presented to the groom by her father,
Dennis D. Shea.
de Paul on Stelner and Green
streets. The ceremony was performed by
the pastor. Rev. M. P. Ryan.
T^ HE marriage of Miss Elizabeth
0 I. Shea and J. Warren Shannon
took place yesterday at high noon
at^he new church of St. Vincent
Owing to the immense traffic that has
arisen due to the low colonist rate that la
now in effect the Transcontinental Pas
senger Association haa rented quarters at
17 New Montgomery street to transact its
business. The association has taken a
lease of one year on a portion of the
property, with the evident intention of lo
cating headquarters in this city pe-ma
nently.
Locates in TXevr Quarters.
Townsend'a Cal. glace fruits, 715 STrirt.*
Townsend\i California glace fruit and
candies, 50c a pound. In artistic fire-etched
boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends.
Moved from Palace Hotel building to 711
Market at., two doors above Call building •
Special information supplied dally to
business houses and public men by th«»
Press Clipping Bureau fAllen's). 230 Cali
fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. •
FORMER CHIEF OF POLICE OF SAN JOSE AND CHARMING WOMAN
WHO BECAME HIS WIFE TEST ERDAY, AND YOUNG BUSINESS
MAN OF THIS CITY AND HIS ACCOMPLISHED BRIDE.
SACRAMENTO. April 15.— C. A. Lovell a
well-known contractor and builder, dropped
dead to-day while at work on a building-. He
bad been a sufferer from heart disease.
Conservative Democrats gained a victory over the
radicals by the election of Gorman as the leader of
the party in the' Senate, but the election of Tom John
son in Cleveland and Carter Harrison in Chicago
shows that the radicals win out when the boys have a
chance to vote.
The Philadelphia Record is trying to prove that a
panic is not i necessary to enable the Democrats to
carry the next Presidential election. When it finishes
with that branch of tHe subject it should turn its at
tention to the question whether a Democratic success
is necessary to make a panic.
Mascagni, having been welcomed by us, generously,
sympathetically and with the true understanding of a
promising interpreter of musical art, explains our
enthusiasm by saying we are void of artistic educa
tion. It is a pity that he should construe our toler
ance of his shortcomings into ignorance of them.
China has decided to place at the head of her For
eign Office an aged man whose feeble frame and fad
ing faculties argue little for a wise discussion of for
eign complications. Perhaps the Chinese have
reached the conclusion that the shrewdest diplomacy
in the world will not avail against the cannon of the
rapacious Occidentals."
SKTJLL AND KEYS SOCIETY
, GIVES ANNUAL FABCE
"Captain Backet" Presented by the
Members of tho University
Organization.
OAKLAND, April 15.— The annual farce
of the Skull and Keys Society was given
at the Macdonough > Theater this evening.
This is one of the important events of
the college year and Is given exclusively
by the society,' which Invites its guests
for the occasion. The name of the farce
and those of the performers are always
kept secret until the night of the play.
The farce for this year was "Captain
Racket," and was presented by the fol
lowing cast:
Captain Robert Racket— of the National
Guard. A lawyer when ne has noth
ing else to do. and a liar all the time..
Walter Bundschu
Obadiah Dawson — his uncle, from Japan,
"where they make tea" Jack Geary
Timothy Tolman— his friend, who mar
ried for money, and is sorry for It....
, Benjamin Harwood
Mr. Dalroy — his father-in-law, a jolly
cove Eugene Sheffield
Hobson — a waiter from the "Cafe " Glor
iana." Sam Stow
Clarice — the captain's pretty wife, out for
a lark Carleton Curtis
Mrs. Tolman— a lady with a temper, who
finds her Timothy a vexation of spirit. '
' Fletcher Hamilton
Katy — a mischievous maid. .William Kamsaur
Tootsy — the "Kid,". Tim's olive branch
By Himself
The members of the Skull and Keys So
ciety are: . , .
Seniors — Bryan Bell. Traylor W. Bell. George
Martin Boemmel. Walter Lyman Brown. Wal
ter Barber Bundschu Harry G. Butler, An
thony Gregory Cadogen. Logan Bertram
Chandler, Allen Ralston Curtis. John Eaxon
More. Alfred Dixon Plaw. Edward P. Robln-
Bon. Bosworth Dunne Sawyer, R. S. Springer
and. Leslie W. Symmes.
Juniors — Carleton A! Curtis, Robert J.
Dumpiiy. John W. Geary. Fletcher McN. Ham
ilton.' Benjamin Harwood, Leo K. Kennedy,
Drummond MaoGavln, Herbert H. Minor, Or
val Overall W. H. liamsaur, Eusene A Shef
field, Roy J. - Somers. Samuel M. Stow and
John C. Whipple Jr.
John D. Rockefeller, it is said, is getting back his
hair. If he succeeds, the solitary element of his
personal n.akeup which makes him a subject of more
than passing notice will have been lost *
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S letter advocat
ing marriage and children and denouncing
single blessedness and childless marriages as
"race suicide" has profoundly stirred New York and
Chicago. We have had no reports of agitations on
the subject in other cities, but in the two that lead
the nation ' the disturbance has been sufficiently
great to flutter Columbia University in the one and
the Social Economic Club in the other.
At Columbia there has been formed an "Anti-Race
Suicide Club," the members whereof are pledged to
marry; and with the exuberance of young men ani
mated by bright ideals and stimulated by football
they added a further resolution that each marriage
shall result in not less than five children. The
Economic Club has been wiser. It has contented it
self with approving the Columbia movement in a
general way, but has not given indorsement to the
specifications. Instead of adopting glowing resolu
tions in favor of marriage and five* children, the
Economic Club, with a genuine Chicago acuteness,
undertakes to provide ways and means for encour
aging matrimony. To that end it has published a
set of rules showing how any girl can* get married,
it being the evident belief of the club that the only
reason why a Chicago girl doesn't marry is that she
doesn't know how.
The rules prescribed for catching husbands are
these: 'Cut loose from the matinee and the matinee
idol.
"Lay down your novels.
"Try to revive the church social; then attend the
church social.
"Really think about something.
"Don't expect too much of men.
"Don't try to enslave them; treat them as rational
The dispatches add that if any young woman will
follow those rules .-.trictly for a year the club will
guarantee a happy marriage. The issue therefore
appears to be settled so far as Chicago is concerned.
The situation in New York, however, is doubtful."
The Columbia Club is but a small one at best and is
confined to a narrow class of men. It will probably
result in nothing more than the production of- a
club yell. Moreover, it appears that society in New
York is hardly conducive to matrimony.' One of the
popular preachers in. that city is reported as saying
recently that society "13 like a gigantic pie in which
RACE SUICIDE.
We have heard a good deal of late of the superior
ity of the American workingmen over the British
workers, but now comes an Englishman who says
the workers of the old country are better than the
American, but the American managers are far su
perior to the British managers, and get more work
out of their men. Perhaps there is some truth in that
view of it. There is nothing like looking at things
from all sides.
AFTER the reports of widespread disasters
along the Lower- Mississippi caused by the
breaking of the levees and the flooding of
plantations it is gratifying to learn from what appears
to be an authoritative source that the damage done
down to April 1 was by no means so great as the
first reports indicated. It is probable that reports
of later crevasses have been as much exaggerated as
those of the earlier ones, and accordingly we may
conclude that while the damage has been large and
many communities have suffered a veritable disaster,
yet counting the river region as a whole the injury
was nothing like so great as the reports indicated. 1
One feature of the later reports is distinctly en
couraging. The levee system of restraining the
floods of the great river has cost the Government
upward of $50,000,000, and has at all times been sub
ject to keen criticism. Consequently when the early
reports came of crevasses at numerous points it ap
peared that the river itself had demonstrated the fu
tility of all attempts to curb its force by, embankments
and that some other means would have to be devised
to guard against floods. That would have meant the
virtual loss of nearly all the labor of constructing the
levees, and would also have implied the- necessity
of large expenditures for some other method of deal
ing with the problem. '
. New Orleans authorities state that down to April
1 only a mile and a half of the embankment had given
way before the rush of the swollen waters. As the
total length of the levees is more than 1400 miles, it
will be seen that the damage, however great to par
ticular localities, is very far from demonstrating a
weakness in the embankment system. It is added
that the levees are in better condition than ever be
fore and are rapidly approaching perfection, so far
as the purpose for which they were designed is con
cerned.
It i3 further pointed out that the experiences of the
spring have been unprecedented for twenty years.
The winter was one of the wettest on record, and
the snows on the upper river melted nearly a month
earlier than usual. The two factors combined sub
jected the as yet incomplete levees to an unusually
severe strain and the authorities claim that the
test has been decidedly favorable to the system.
THE MISSISSIPPI LEVEES.
The owners of the farm on which Daniel Webster
was born have offered to give it to the State
of New Hampshire to'"be kept as a memorial,
but the thrifty citizens of the State are hesi
tating about accepting it. Webster is no more
and .they do not know why the place should
be kept for him forever. They prefer to leave it as
a farm in the hope it will produce another Daniel
and pay taxes in the meantime.
A SIMPLE wedding was celebrated
at 1160 Page street last night, the
contracting parties being James A.
Kidward, former Chief of Police
of San Jose, and' Miss May Edith
Cottle, who is connected with one of the
oldest and best known families in Santa
Clara County. The ceremony was per
formed by Judge Hebbard at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John Sroufe, old-time
friends of the bride. The decorations at
the house were in pink and green and
were very pretty. Only the immediate
friends and members of the family were
invited. •
The bride's gown was white crepe over
white taffeta and trimmed with fine old
point lace. The bride was the recipient of
many costly presents from different parts
of the country.
The happy couple will spend their hon
eymoon in Southern California and Mexi
co. After their return they will make
"THIBD ANGEL" ANI> HIS
DISCIPLES ABE FREED
Adventists Bequest Dismissal of
Cases, Their Conference Be
ing at an End.
OAKLAND, April 15.— After a three
days* session the California State confer
ence of the Seventh Day Adventists was
concluded to-day by the election of the
following officers and committees:
President, A. T. Jones; vice president. A, S.
Kellogg; secretary, M.' H. Brown; treasurer.
Pacific Press Publishing Company; executive
committee — A. T. Jones, A. S. Kellogg, M. C.
Wllcox. It. H. Brown, H. G. Thurston. M. E.
Cady. J. S. Osborne, C. X. Martin, I>r. T. J.
Vivaris, D. F. Kero; board of trustees — M. II.
Brown. C. H. Jones E. A. Chapman, E. B.
Parlin, C. \V. Mills, R. P. Gray. B. G. v Fulton;
State missionary secretary, A. J. Botrrdeau;
State Sabbath-school secretary. Mrs. Carrie R.
King; auditor, J. J. Ireland; secretary young
people's work. W. S. Sadler.
Credentials and licenses were issued to
the following named:
M. H. Brown, J. W. Bagby, A. Brosser. M.
E. Cady, D. F. Fero, C. M. Gordon. J. S. Har
mon. E. p. Klbbard, B. S. Howe. M. C. Israel.
A. J. Kellogg, C. N. Martin, N. C. McCluro. J.
Morrison. J. D. Rice. B. F. Rickards, W. S.
Sadler. II. A. St. John, C. S. Taylor, H. T.
Thurston. A. J. Osborne, J. N. Lou&hboroush.
M. C. Wllcox. J. W. BearUslee. S. W. Walker,
Carrie R. King, Mrs. E. E. Parlin. Mrs. W.
S. Sadler, Mrs. J. D. Rice, Dr. H. E. Brlgsr
house. M. H. St. John. C. G. Marchus, C. N.
Miller, Mrs. A. C. Bambridge.
In the Police Court this morning the
cases of H. T. Nelson. F. O. Hedlund and
Oscar L/und, charged with various dis
turbances during the Adventists' confer
ence, were dismissed by Police Judge
Smith by request of Attorney Sam Bell
McKee, representing the men who caused
the arrests. Attorney McKee said *he
arrests were caused to Insure the peace
of the conference and that the sessions
having adjourned there was no desire to
prosecute the men.
BY the publication of the first annual report of
the United States Steel Corporation three
point? of interest have been presented to the
people. The first is" that of the publicity given to
the atfcirs of -the corporation, the second the cnor-
uious total of business done, and third the compara
tively low seliing price of the stock even after the
declaration of high dividends upon both common
iind preferred.
Interest in the first point is due mainly to the fact
that publicity has been agreed upon by many re-»
formers as the best means of curbing trusts. So
widespread is the popular confidence in the effect of
publicity that when creating the Department of Com
merce Congress provided for the establishment of
a bureau charged with the duty of enforcing publicity
upon all corporations that come within the scope of
iis activities. The Steel Corporation has furnished
Ml example of voluntary publicity, and the question
do* arises whether the statement thus made gives
all the information and conforms to the standards of
publicity that will be required by the official bureau.
Be that as it may. the publication of the report has
been favorably received by the public, and it is prob
able that other large corporations will be prompted
to follow the example.
Statistics of the business of the corporation ex
hibited in the statement excite interest by reason of
their unprecedented magnitude and the extraordinary
earning power of the enterprise. Expressed in round
numbers the corporation did a business of about
half a billion dollars, paid wages to 168,000 men,
tleared net earnings of more than $130,000,000, and
tff^tributed dividends among upward of 60,000 share
holders. Such statistics appear more like the figures
of the trade of a large city than that of a single in
dustrial company, and have naturally excited a new
wonder as to the, future development of such indus
trial enterprises.
The chief point of discussion, however, is the re
lation of the declared earnings to the price at which
the stock sells in the market. Preferred stock earned
lS per cent and common stock 10, and after setting
aside large sums for depreciation, sinking fund, etc.,
there was a declared dividend of 7 per cent on pre
ferred stock and 4 per cent on common, and a sum
of more than $34,000,000 was added to the surplus.
Upon such a showing the stock ought to sell at
least at par. but as a matter of fact on the day after
the report was made public the closing bids were
35 for common and 85 for preferred stock. At such
prices it will be seen the dividends amounted to a
\ery hij?h percentage on investment.
To make the contrast clearer, a reviewer says:
*' Amalgamated Copper yields but 3.17 per cent,
though its dividend is expected to double with the
next declaration. But even then it will net but
6.34 per cent, where Steel preferred Teturns R%, and
there is no preference in Amalgamated. Sugar pre
ferred nets $H per cent, the common the same.
<ienrral Electric yields 4^; Western Union Tele
graph. 5.81: American Telephone, 4.85; Shoe Ma
chinery preferred, 5 per cent." ~-
A variety of reasons have been suggested to explain
the comparatively low price of stock paying such
large percentage of profits in these days when capi
tal is everywhere seeking investment and interest
rates are so low. According to one view the stock
rrlif. low because the combine is so huge the public
i* afraid of it; or, as one authority puts it. "the in
vestment mind has not yet grown up to it." An
othrr view is that the statement presents an anomaly
iri business from the fact that it shows a billion in
vestment made to carry on a half-billion business.
Capitalists have been accustomed to invest a million
i'< do a five-million business, and accordingly they are
>,hy of a company whose capital stock and bonded in
debtedness is more thin twice as large as its annual
business.
The steel corporation, by reason of its magnitude,
-lands in a class by itself, and it will take the stress
of hard times to demonstrate its real value to the
industrial world. If the capitalization is larger than
the business warrants there will be trouble when
hard times come. If, on the other hand, its securi
ties are lew only because the investment mind does
rot grow up to it. there is sure to be a rise in the
future, for the American mind expands rapidly, and
it uill not take it many years to understand even so
b-gia thing as the billion dollar trusL
THE STEEL CORPORATION.
THE small and unstable states of Latin-America
clainf privileges and do things affecting inter
national relations that none of the strong pow
ers of the world would think of. If any European
state had made such a record as Venezuela has since
the time of Guzman Blanco it would-be wiped off the
map. The same may be said of nearly a dozen of
those states, which rob, humiliate, maltreat and op
press foreigners with impunity because they think the
guardianship of the United States, under the Mon
roe doctrine, absolves them from international re
sponsibility. Honduras has just gone over the Ven
ezuelan limit by arresting a" foreign ship on the high
seas, menacing her with a gunboat and putting Hon
duran soldiers on board, who compelled her captain
to sail out of his course and proceed to an anchorage
which they dictated.
This is a high-handed act. If done by the United
States to any European flag, or by any European
nation to ours, it would mean instant reparation and
apology or war. But Arias, the de facto President
of Honduras, who is shut up and besieged in Tegu*
cigalpa, his capital, arrogates the power to do an act
that would stagger the Kaiser himself.
Those countries are the world's open powder keg,
and their revolutionary rulers sit on the keg and
carelessly smoke cigarettes, endangering an
sion that may well involve the United States in pro
longed and costly trouble.
It is time that our Government, by enforcing the
rights of its own citizens in that quarter, let them
know how a spanking feels as an inducement to make
them remember their international obligations and
stop their buccaneering conduct.
Lieutenant Hobson, in his youthful enthusiasm,
wants us to extend the Monroe doctrine all over the
world, whatever that may mean. We will do well
to keep that doctrine in working order in this hem
isphere, in view of the truculence and folly of the
Latin-American states, who understand the doctrine
itself as little as they do the policy of civil stability.
CENTRAL AMERICAN MANNERS.
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A queer "union label" fight has broken out in Win
sted, Conn. , The bakers' union forced the trade to
stamp a union label on every loaf of bread so'ld, and
for a time all went well; but lately the women have
raised the question, "Who licks the label?" It is
asserted that the labels are "printed on sticky paper
and do not have to be licked, but the women refuse
to be comforted; and it looks as if the label would
have to go or the women will take to home-made
bread.
THE bringing of about twenty thousand East
ern tourists of the home-seeking class to this
State since the first of the year is a fact of
great importance to the present and future of Cali
fornia. Just now vast populations are fleeing from
floods in the East or are wading back to take pos
session of their wasted homes and water-logged
lands. Those who have escaped the waters are being
slain by the winds, and their homes and barns are
going up in splinters. Villages are blown from the
face of the earth by cyclones that spare nothing in
their path. In other places snowstorms and bliz
zards come untimely to blight the vegetation that
has been coaxed out by a few warm days, and seed
time is put off by a recurrence of winter weather.
While the President was addressing audiences that
stood in the falling snow in Dakota California was
the balmiest, land on the planet. We had none of
the tornadoes of the tropics, nor the floods of the
midcontinental regions, nor the snows nor cyclones.
The presence of some thousands of Eastern people
in the State at a time when they can read of the con
vulsions and destruction due to the weather in- the
. places they left must make a profound impression
and induce numbers of them to permanently locate
here. . They should have their attention called to the
possibilities which they do not see in order that,
added to what they see, they may have a basis for
properly estimating what they may expect if they
make homes here.
Nothing is more interesting as a future facility
than the coming uses of electricity. In the East the
use of electricity is limited by the cost of producing
it by steam power. While there are some great
hydraulic powers, like Niagara, the general distribu
tion of water power is lacking, and the cost of gen
erating electricity is always to be affected by the use
of coal or other fuel in the process.
Here our mountain streams, from one end of the
State to the other, furnish the greatest combined
hydraulic power in the world. Measured per horse
power we have more force at our command than is
accessible to any other population.
It will not be long before ranchers all over this
State will pump water for irrigation by electricity.
Its use for lighting country homes will be as common
as candles were in the days of our grandfathers. It
will be used to run churns and other dairy machin
ery, and our country roads will be lighted with it,
like city streets. All of the stationary operations on
ranches that may be done by machinery will use elec
tricity for power. Its use, combined with the tele
phone, will largely cancel out the difference between
city and country life. The labor and social isolation
which have heretofore made rural existence intoler
able to the young, and have driven them to seek
city life with all its perils to the inexperienced, will
no longer outweigh the wholesome features of the
country. This State will soon become singular for
the inducements offered to a rural population, and
it will have a greater preponderance of rural people
than any of the Eastern States.
It will be readily seen that when such advantages
are added to our climate, our scenery, our vast va
riety productions, California will be the paradise
of the farmer,' and men will live in comfort and grow
rich on tracts of land that elsewhere would yield them
only a bare subsistence by hard toil. This is to be
the place for the little farm well tilled, which is the
dream of all rural people. Such advantages cannot
be elsewhere enjoyed, and .that thousands will seek
them here means small holdings, ideal homes and a
condition of comfort unknown to tillers of the
soil anywhere else on the planet. Now is the time
for our rural counties to put themselves in the focus
of attention. The Eastern people want accurate in
formation; they must be protected against land
sharks, many of whom always follow in the wake of
immigration to speculate and cheat. By good faith
and intelligent advertising California can add half
a million of desirable settlers to her population in
the next five years.
CALIFORNIA AND THE EAST.
the upper crust is steeped in champagne, the bottom
layer soggy with beer and the middle portion soaked
in cocktails." What maiden fair would give up mati
nees and novels to catch . a husband out of such a
FORMER CHIEF OF SAN JOSE
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