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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
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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
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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.
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. 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 )
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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; ; •
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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.
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H, D. DILLON, furniture inspector of the treas
ury department, is among the recent arrivals
at the Palace. : '- i .£f
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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.
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DELOS A. CAMPBELL, a mining engineer of
Denver, is registered at the St. Francis.
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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.
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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