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WEDNESDAY The San Francisco Call JOHN D. SPRECKELS .....Proprietor CHARLES W. HORNICK. General Manager ERNEST S. SIMPSON Managing Editor Addrms All Comßumleßftona to THE SAX FRANCISCO CAl.li Telephone "KEARXY 86" — *<ifc for TfTie Call. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish BUSINESS OFFICE end EDITORIAL. ROOMS Market and Third Streets Open Until 11 o'clock Every ICieht in the Year MAIN CITY BRANCH 1657 Fillmore Street Near Post OATCLAND OFFICE— 4€S 11th St (Bacon Block) . . I™- Sunset— Oakland lO^S f Telephone Horne — A 23 1 5 ALAMEDA OFFICE — 1435 Park Street Telephone Alameda 559 BERKELEY OFFICE— SW. Cor. Center and Oxford. . .Telephone Berkeley 77 CHICAGO OFFICE — 1634 Marquett* Blrtg. .C. Geo. Krogness, Advertising A?t NTTW YORK OFFICE — SOS Brur.stvVk Blnp. .J. C. Wilberdin*. Advertising Agt WASHINGTON' \ETTS BUREAU— Po.«t Bids Ira E. Bennett. Correspondent NEW YORK NEWS BUREAU — 51 fi Tribune Bldgr — C C. 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Poptofflce as Second Class Matter ALL POSTMASTERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS Sample Copies Will Be Forwarded When Requested Mail subscribers in orfl<*rinar change of address should be particular to give both NEW and OLD ADDRHSP in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance \u25a0with their re<ii*e«i» rHE admission made by Manager Black of the United Railroads that 100 cars are taken out of service every Sunday and kept in the barns is quite in character with the settled policy of this corporation. It is the policy of "all the traffic will bear" and squeezing the last nickel out of the traveling public, giving in re turn the minimum of service. Streetcar travel on Sundays is not ma terially less than on week da3'S, but it -follows different lines, seeking the parks and beaches and other centers of play or amusement. This condition is met by the company by taking off something like one fifth of the sen-ice on routes of minor resorts on Sundays and leav ing the congested lines to handle the crowds as best they may with the every day equipment. As the result, people riding to or from the parks and beaches are compelled to engage in a desperate and dangerous struggle to get transportation. When derrtands are made on the corporation for improved service the customary reply is that mo?e cars have been, ordered p but the manufacturers are behindhand or the railroads slow in making deliveries. It is a sort of Mexican policy of "manana" pur sued in the knowledge that every postponement and a settled policy of resistance to demands for decent service mean dividends ex tracted from the straphangers. Every little helps in the way of <delay. On Monday night the Mission Improvement association unani mously demanded better service for that important quarter, but when its delegates interview the managers they will be told that the cars are on their way. Of course they should have been here and in use long ago. The value of these excuses for delay and continued bad service may be appreciated in the light of Manager Black's confession Ihat 100 cars are taken out of service on Sundays so thaj the prevail ing level of inferior service may be maintained. It amounts to an ad mission that on the one day in the week when the company can give an adequate service it refuses to do so. There is one remedy for this established policy of the street car monopoly, and that is to reduce the price of service to the level of its quality. If the corporation insists on giving a three cent service, the fares should be cut down to that level. As things are, the traveling public of San Francisco is being plundered to pay divi dends on $80,000,000 of capitalization based on a $20,000,000 in vestment. That is the reason why the service is starved. Only One Medicine for United Railroads PROSPECTS for the recognition by congress of the claim of San Francisco to be the site for the Panama- Pacific exposi tion in 1915 appear to be fairly good. New Orleans has vir tually abandoned argument and is playing wholly for delay in the hope of postponing a settlement until the next congress meets, when the house of representatives will be democratic. The expectation is that a house of such political complexion will treat the affair on sectional and political lines, relying on the sympathy of the solid south for sup port in the democratic caucus. The argument is all on the side of San Francisco. It is un answerable and New Orleans makes no attempt to meet it, so that if the question can be forced to a vote in the present session there Should not be much doubt about the result. Doubtless there is a certain advantage attaching to tactics of delay during a brief session, and this may be regarded as'the single danger that the San Francisco people have to meet and overcome. .We are confident they will be able to do it. Taking a broader view of the matter, the southern members and the Mississippi valley delegations will pursue a fatal policy if they insist on treating this question on lines of sectional prejudice. The Pacific coast states are' growing in population and influence faster than any other of the great political divisions, and this growth is certain to accelerate in the next ten years. The Mississippi valley on the other hand is shown by the census to" have fallen behind the rate of progress in the states on either coast. But the valley has in mind great national projects, .asking for appropriations that will run into hundreds of millions. These projects should be considered on their merits, but if the people most interested insist on treating Pa cmc coast demands in a sectional spirit they. need not complain if Xhey are given back measure for measure. Prospects of the Exposition Controversy THE unfortunate history of the <l boy scout" movement in Amer ica supplies another example of the invincible hoodoo that Hearst mitsn n everything he touches in the line of politics or pretended public service. It is Hearst's practice to seize on anything that looks like a popular movement and seek to use it for the promo tion of his personal ambitions and aims. He is . afflicted with a chronic political ailment and «* i,^,^v,».. ~wv. overmastering desire for office— any office— for-he does not appear to be at all particular. If he can not be president he would not mind being pound master, but in spite of his industry in seeking office he will never be either. * Xow the "boy scour' movement seemed to offer advancement for something in the line of his chronic ambitions. If he could" be come commander in chief of an army of boys who would presently be voters that would be a great step gained. But the hoodoo was not long about putting .in its. customary appearance. Hearst at once set his agents at work to do politics within" the corps so that he might control its machinery. Now when he has discovered that he can not run the movement as a political machine officered by his agents, he turns on it and prints stones concerning its officials that Hearst's Invin cible Hoodoo Again at Work I ii r 1— — * I X ****S 1 V i/^a. g r fl • M^WaJi. Si ;-r; -r %»s/. 1 111 » I, i, r \L^/^\ ' f The Yuletide Abroad he may be compelled to prove in court as defendant in a number of libel suits. He is now seeking to give a black eye to the movement that at first he hoped to turn to his personal advantage as, political and ad vertising capital. THE San Jose electric railroad, which is understood to be a Southern Pacific subsidiary corporation, is reported as en gaged in a serious conflict with the municipality wherein its principal business is done. If the reports are true they disclose a condition of lawlessness on the part of this corporation not dissimilar to that which the Southern Pacific company recently set up in Sacramento, where a pub lic thoroughfare was blocked by force and arms.-inviting a state of civil war. In San Jose, as the report runs, the electric railway company refuses to obey the municipal ordinance regulating the grade of the principal thoroughfare so that in the center of the street where the railway runs 'the tracks rise about a foot above the level of the roadway as graded in accord with the ordinance. This obstruction, of course, makes the street practically impassable. Further, the com pany is charged with refusing to lay the quality of rails which its franchise stipulates. It is natural that these tactics should be re garded as creating an intolerable .condition. The affair is further complicated by the fact that the company agreed to begin lowering its tracks. to grade, and part of the work was done but left incomplete so that in one part of the street there is a ditch in the center where formerly there was an elevation. This is merely another form of obstruction, and as the whole dispute has since been thrown into court the people of San Jose may be com pelled to await the conclusion of a tedious lawsuit before they can get their principal thoroughfare put in' "condition for traffic. " Lawlessness of a San Jose Corporation NOTE AND COMMENT We shall soon learn whether or not the bathtub trust manufactures immunity tubs. . There will be a lot of people interested in insurance while the supply of 1911 calendars lasts. , If Senator Aldrich had only known he owned stock in the rubber trust hed have stretched the tariff to a 50 per cent increase. *i*n£i ie S i\ a r te * )Oard . of health computes that the average man of 30 is worth 51o,(XXJ. We hope it wont waste any state money taking options at that figure. x GOSSIP OF RAILWAY MEN -\u25a0' ~ — \u25a0 — - — . FOR more than a month L. A. Bell, district freight and passenger agent of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake road, has failed to increase the deposits in his small savings bank more- than 15 cents. Bell, for several months, has maintained that he would have the $10 required to. fill the bank by Christmas. At the rate he has been going for the last month or six weeks he will not have the required sum for another six months. Be«l has promised to tak^-the entire railroad row out when he has filled the bank, and every mouth has been watering for months. Clyde Colby of the Erie has become so discouraged that he embarked last night on one of the river boats at Sacramento for this city. \u25a0 The Chicago, Milwaukee and 'fit. Paul will soon establish a thorough mer chandise freight car service from Chi cago to this city and interior California points. This will enable shippers to ship small lots of merchandise all the way from Chicago without having the car broken open at Intermediate points. It is reported in the Vast that R. S. Stubbs, general freight and passenger agent of the Southern Pacific lines In Arizona, is to succeed L. J. Spence as general eastern freight agent of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific system. with office at New York. A. M. Ardery has been elected vice president and general manager of the Virginia and Truckee. with office at Carson City, Nev., vice H. M.' Yerington, deceased. -V- :: '. V Effective a week ago today, Dr. S. S. Warren is appointed acting: chief sur geon of the. Southern Pacific lines in Arizona, with office at ' Empaine, : suc ceeding the * late Dr. George Good fellow. E.E. Calvin, vlceVpresident and gen eral manager of the- Southern Pacific returned to San Francisco late ; Mon ENGLAND'S PROSPECT FOR A MERRIE CHRISTMAS day evening, aftsr conducting- Julius Kruttschnitt to the end of the Calvin jurisdiction. In response to a complaint, the in terstate commerce commission has or dered an inquiry and investigation, as to the reasonableness of the regula tions of the American railway associa tion for the transportation of inflam mable articles and acids and such simi lar regulations established by the car riers. The hearing will be held Janu ary 13 in Washington. President Frank K. Bun of the Mid land Continental railroad, constructing a line through North Dakota, enters the railroad field with no uncertain step. As president of the J. I. Chase thrashing machine company of Racine, wis.. Bull has an intimate knowledge of the shipper's viewpoint and has giv en a great deal. of study to the, science of railroad building and operation. He takes friendly yet positive issue with President A. J. Earling of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.: Paul on the latter's recently quoted prophecy that there \u25a0would be no further railroad construc tion in the northwest,' probably for a year, until the entire rate situation becomes clear, "While we are not yet running trains, 1 ' says President Bull, "our first SO miles between Edgely on the St. Faul and Jamestown on the ' Northern Pacific are graded, and we intetnd lay ing rails and initiating tonnage, record* before next summer. At this "time an independent north and south system through the United States may im press some of our most careful think ing authorities on j the railroad situation as the happy: solution of so many dis agreeable and complicated rate entan glements. . i . . -.; .' Tapping, feeding and being fed by the great east ; and west trunk lines, wherever we build, our line offers every advantage in rate adjustment :and serves as the most: welcome Inlet, out-" let and auxiliary route. You'll see the Midland- Continental figuring.^ In :,- the most ; important before 'any of U3 are much- older." " — Chicago News. 1 Answers to Queries SPEAK T*O 'HTM— Subscriber. Oak land, wants to know if any reader can inform him in what publication he will find a poem in which are the following lines: Speak to him. for he hears. And spirit and spirit can meet. Closer Is he than breathing. Nearer than hands and feet. -* • • . HERO MKDAT.S— A. 8.. City. Does the United States alve a medal to one who rescues another from drowning? Congress, on special occasions, has voted a medal to some individual who was particularly deserving for heroism, but it does not vote a medal in ordi nary cases. GEXERAI, MILES— T. S.. City. How old was General Miles, U. R. A., when he took his fa mons 90 mile test ridp? What time did he make and between what points did he ride? He was 64 years of age and rode from Fort Sill. I. T., to Fort Reno. Okla., in nine hours and 10 minutes. TEACHER— O. W. M.. Gross Berkel. Ger many. Would like to go to America to continue studies for the higher branches of teaching. What would be the expense and what is the salary pald'tenchers? n America is a large place and it is im possible to answer your question spe cifically. AREA— B. V. X., City. What is the area of California. Honduras, Texas and the Nether lands nnd colonies? California, 158.360, square miles; Hon duras, 500,114; Texas, 265,750, and Neth erlands and colonies, 41,347,182. CHEESE MAKING— F. W..*Santa Rosa. What is put in skimmed milk, used for making cheese, that prevents the ohpeee from becoming hard and makes It more palatable? Consult books on the subject in the Santa Rosa free library. INDIANS— H. M., -City. Do Indians pay taxes? t If your question refers to California the "answer is that some do and some do not. * COLORED CHILDREN— C. D., City. How many colored children of school age were there in San Francisco according to the last school census? Fifty-eight, 35 boys and 23 girls. BOUNDING— A. S.. City: Can a state be bounded by a range of mountains as well as by the lines of another state or a body of water? Yes,«in.a loose sense, if the range of mountains is on the boundary line. WATER— A Render, City. How can I ascer tain the amount of water pressure on an ordi nary house tap? By having the water company make a test and paying for the same. JURY DUTY— A. C. R.. Monterey, nas regis tration anything to do with eligibility or liabil ity to serve on a Jury in the state of California? .The law concerning jurors is silent as to registration. MOVING PICTURES — A Reader. An answer to your question about moving pictures would amount to an advertise ment, which this department will not give. .-.V -:- MONEY — A. M. R., Oakland. If you will advise this department on what you base your statement in regard to Abe Martin SpeakinVo'th'. -tendency :.f cheapen things, ;th' "Dolly Varden" used f be a fairly good campaign se-gar. 'Bout th* only, feller, that's makin'Cboth ends meet these !days:is a contortionist' - Uncle Walt The P'o c t Philosopher! I like the man who digs a grave and plants his neighbors in his garden, who gayly kills them with an ax, and doesn't even beg their pardon. I knew a per fect gentleman who took a gun and killed his cousin; a much beloved old friend of mine once ran amuck and slew a dozen. A man may do as Crippen did, and slay a lady in the cellar, and still deserve our confidence as being quite a decent feller. I read the murder yarns each day appearing in the daily papers : there always is some good excuse for all these homicidal capers. When gentlemen take knives or guns and*. « MANKILLERS butcher citizens around them, you may be sure that things con spired to bullyrag them and confound them. But oh. those cold and cautious knaves, who do their murdering for money ! Who dope the food the people eat. and take in' wealth and think it funny! For them the pillory should stand, for them the leathern lash should whistle ! Their souls are built of boiler iron — what hearts they have are made of gristle ! ftnwimi, //s . The Morning Chit-Chat HAVE j'ou got it done yet, as you really ought to have, or are you in the midst of it, as you prob ably are, or have you it all still to do? vVhat? — why your Christmas shopping ,of course, who on the earth or off it — wonder if they have Christ mas in the inhabited planets — is thinking of anything else at this time of the year? If you haven't got the subject of Christmas along with your Christmas presents neatly done up in white paper, tied with red ribbon and put away in your bureau drawer, here are a few disjointed dos-and-don'ts on the subject. Don't make up a list planning what you are going to spend on each person, be cajoled by attractive show ings at the stores into spending "just a little more" on each gift, and then be amazed that the sum total is so astonishingly in excess of your original appropriation. f(I do it every year so I can warn you with much feelincr ) * * * Don't be afraid to give people things they sometimes make them selves. Last year an aunt of mine who at one time or another has knitted bedroom slippers for almost everybody in Christendom, had a pair of bedroom slippers given her by -the only friend who doesn't know her slipper knitting proclivities. \Ye thought she would be disappointed but she was delighted. "My dears," she said, "I've been using the most dilapidated slippers for the last three years because I knit so many to give away that I just didn't have time to make any for myself.". Take that hint and don't be afraid to give embroidery to some friend who embroiders. Ten to one, she either doesn't have time or doesn't like If you have some friend who has hard work to make both ends meet, don't invariably say, "I must give her something useful." and deluge her with homely useful things, but occasionally vary the monotony by giving her some pretty, dainty, frivolous gift. There are heart needs as' well as body needs and by giving her a dainty jabot or pretty pin you may satisfy a craving for something pretty, as imperative as the craving for food or drink. Don't forget the red cross stamps. The postoffice issued an edict last year that these stamps should not be placed on the front of letters or packages because of the confusion that this causes in the postoffice depart ment, but you may put as many as you like on the back of letters and pack ages and use them as stickers, and in this way you may help furnish the sinews of war for one of the greatest fights that ever was waged the battle against the great white plague in America. Do, if you can keep it, sign this pledge. It was circulated by some enthusiastic young reformers and called "Yours for a courageous, "sincere and Christly Christmas" — "I will give no gift which I can not afford. "I will give no gift which has not love behind it. "I will give some gifts which shall not be exchange gifts at all but genuine generosity to some one to whom it will mean very much." the amount of money In the United States, possibly an answer can be given. DOCTOR CRONIN— A. I. R.. City. What was the dare of the mysterious disappearance of Dr. P. H. Cronln, a physician of Chicago, and that of the subsequent discovery of his body in a sewer catch basin? He disappeared on the night of May 4, ISB9. and his body was found Slay 22 of the same year. GLADSTONE— E. H. G.. City. When and where did William E. Gladstone, the English statesman, die? Did he die suddenly? At Harwarden, May 19. 189S, after several months of illness. THE FARALLONES — An Inquirer. City. What is the distance from the Cliff house to th« Farallones? Twenty-eight miles. ADMIRALS— M. M.. City. Hoc many ad tntrals of the United States navy have been created by act of congress? Three — Farragut, Porter and Dewey. TAFT— A. S. M.. City. When did President Taft visit San Francisco? October 6, 1909:. FIVE HUNDRED — A Player. City. Who counts first on the last deal In a game of fly* hundred when each player has enough to go out? The latest edition of Hoyle says: PERSONS IN THE NEWS H. F. SCHOENDORK, chief engineer in the revenue cutter serriee, who has been on a fur lough in Los Angeles for several weeks, passed through this city yesterday on his way to Port Townsend, vhere he will report for W. B. CLAPP of the United States geological survey Is rrtekfng the Argonaut his headquar ters while In this city, -i; ; • • • • J. B. DALY of Fresno. J. F. Nash of Chleo and J. Stephens of Vallejo are among the recent arrivals at the Manx. CAPTAIN L. F. LONG, chef special agent of the Tonopab and Goldfield railroad, is staying at the Palace. • • • H, D. DILLON, furniture inspector of the treas ury department, is among the recent arrivals at the Palace. : '- i .£f • • a LEON BLT, secretary of the Tehama 'light and water power company, is staying at the Stewart. • • • FRANK PANTEH, a mining man of Shasta coonty, is at the Union Square with Mrs. Panter. THEODOBE SUMMEBLA2TD, railroad commis sioner, of Los Angeles, ii a guest at the GEOEGE P. CASTLE, a planter of Honolulu, is among' the recent arrivals at the Fairmont. • » • DELOS A. CAMPBELL, a mining engineer of Denver, is registered at the St. Francis. •-« • • H. C. BABBOLL, a banker of Pasadena, is among the recent arrivals at the Palace. • ': • , * EABL H. CLAFP of the United States forest service Is a guest at the Stewart. B. L. POLK, publisher of trip Milwaukee direct ory, is staying at the Palace. DECEMBER 14, IQIO WATT MASON RTXTH CJLMESON "The bidder has the first -count and he may go out first, even if his ad versary has -won tricks enough to reach 500." TWO STATES-T. S-. City. Which of the WO . Sta i es - Mont ' lna ™ Washington, was first admitted into this union. Montana. November 8, ISS9. and Washington, November 11. 18S9. Jn 1810. The Pessimist— Confound It. Malachi! The well's froze up. we can't find the tallow candles, provisions are 'most gone, and it will be a week before we can get a path shoveled through to town! The Optimist — Cheer up. Nehemiah! Just think that 100 years from now. when our great-great-grandchildren have grown up to be novelists, drama tists and artists, they will picture these days as the "good old times!"— Puck. Their Punishment Mrs. X — When my husband stays out all night I refuse to get him any break fast. Mrs. V. — When my husband stays out all night he never wants any. — Boston Transcript. JAMES A. KDTCTEDY, president of the Inter island narigttlon corapany of Honolulu, is registered at the Palace. E. M. SHEEHA2T, wbo 131 3 Interested in the icine Industry of the state. Is at the. Palace, regis tered from Sacramento. DS. and MBS. H. B. ELLIOTT of Hilo are suests at the Union Square. SAM PAEKES, a capitalist of Honolulu. U registered at the Stewart. P. OLIYZS, a real estate maa from Klamatb. Ore., is at the Stanford... M. G. CHTLDEBS, a mine operator of Fresno, is staying at the Argonaut. • • • chablzs^lindsaV « n * d wt > e> fcom New rorftt BISHOP W. H. MOEELAXD*of Sacramento Is a W ; s T at^LEY. I merchant* from Lo. Angles.. *. J. BHOWJT. a merchant from New Tor* to J - T. NOLAJT, a businessman from Sai-eat, la •t tiie Bellevue. 'th^Co^' * traTeUne maa frMa Chlcasov UjW; T "r^irS BXraY of ' Xeir Vo * k is sta7!as '* toe * b * nker from London is at the