The morning call., 1892-09-25


New York continues to rejoice at its good
fortune in practical escape from cholera,
but Gothamites might show their sympathy
for the harassed and afflicted passengers of
the NOTmannia, who have just been per-
mtted to land. Personally these passen-
gers have been subjected to great discom-
fort and privation, but all this was neces-
sary in the interests of a whole people.
But in addition to this suffering the passen-
gers now greve over the ruin OF their
clothes. The disinfecting process Is said to
have rendered their baggage worthless.
Awful must be the rage and despair among
the ladies as they contemplate trunks full
or Worth dresses, and millinery and laces,
and gewgaws enough for hall dozen sea-
sons, all destroyed or rendered nauseous by
those vile fluids and gases used in fumi-
eating. There Is no remedy unless the bag
gage has been insured, and even then dis
pute may arise as TO liability. Victims who
have lost few thousand dollars in clothes
have reason to remembers quarantine expe-
riences with horror
1t is reported that the steamer Esperanto
arrived at Hull from Manchester yesterday,
and that her captain has been taken to hos
pital with cholera. AS the Manchester
canal is not yet open, and Manchester is not
a seaport, u is not easy TO understand how
this voyage was performed, unless the
EsperanZa is small scow engaged in the
highly dangerous storm beset traffic Of the
ancient canals. across the locks OF which
man might almost jump.
The recent news of Cabinet changes at
Honolulu appears to have stirred the De-
partment of State at Washington. There
is said to be anxiety about the effect Vi on
American interests. and the desire is to see
that we ara adequately secured under
new treaty in course OF preparation. 1t Is
certainly urgent that we should have
naval station and coaling depot such as
Pearl Harb0r is capable OF being made. and
no delay should be permitted in making the
bargain with Hawaii clear and absolute.
AS the navy grows and American commerce
spreads we shall need more Of these sta
lions.
During thousands of years the H0aDg-Ho,
or Yellow River, has overlooked periodic
ally and has devastated vast tracts of coun-
Try and killed off millions by drowning or
starvation. Only few years ago there was
terrible bursting away from the bed and
the overflow OF great area. A famine
followed among millions, and the crisis was
SO awful that all ChristendOm was appealed
TO for aid. 'China's Sorrow" as the river
is called, has again broken bounds aud the
usual misery is inevita5 bic, No remedy for
these disasters can be found save by en-
trusting the work of removing distractions,
cutting new channels and building up fresh
banks to competent engineers, either Amer
lean or European. The Hoang- Ho could be
converted into China's Joy if the Chinese
Government would act. but that it will not
do, although it has got advice enough.
Chinese officials display genius in the art of
dawdllng and procrastlnatioD, and the loss
of million or two of lives seems to be
lightly felt.
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have taken seriously the statement that
Washington lawyer named C0gley had
picked out the fifth on Of Jupiter through
five-inch telescope, and he has written an
article for an astronomical periodical which
will effectuallY dispose OF the Cogley claim.
| But the most cruel thing for the taT-gaZing
| lawyer is that the moon has not yet been
| sighted by the biggest telescopes of other
| observatories. II is so small as to require
| the big 36-inch retractOr OF the Lick OBJ
seryatory to bring it under vision. What
| then is the value of a fye-inch instrument
| save in the hands OF Mr.. Cogley?
| very neat reioinder is made to Mr.. Hun
| tington's assertion that the San Francisco
and Great Salt Lake Railroad cannot be
| built for less than $50. 200, O0O-a preposter-
Gus estimate. as everybody knows. The
| rejoinder takes the shape of quotation
| ;
railroad magnate himself when before
committee of Congress. 1t then suited him
to say on oath: II don't like to talk about
| it. but if obliged 10. the Central Pacific could
| build line connecting with the Union
! Pacific and replace the subsidized section at
| one-quarter the cost of that section, and
without Government aid." Phew! There
| is a man who blows hot and cold. AT one
! quarter the cost! And without Government
| aid Why, then, should the San Francisco
and Great Salt Lake road not be built on the
same economical scale? Dir. Huntingdon,
| of course, now argues from another point of
| view, but his aim is the same-his own self
| ish interests and utter indifference as to
what goes down in his path.
| In another matter MIR. Huntington Is
under warm fire of exposure to which he
cannot reply. 1t is the habit of the South
ern Pacific to discriminate against Ameri-
can commerce and American merchants in
| favor Of European and Asatic commerce
| and merchants. Special rates are given to
| foreigners at New Orleans for over fifty
| leading descriptions of goods coming from
! Europe for transit over the company's lines
| and the rates of goods from New York,
| Chicago and other Eastern points for the
| same transit are very much higher. What
| Is this but unblushing discrimination?
| Similarly the rates from the Orient to East
| ern points are much lower than shipments
| from San Francisco to the same points.
| This Is done TO keep traffic for the COM
| paDy's steamers and to keep San Francisco
and California down. Hence we have high
| local rates to feed the Unsuitable stomach Of
| this octopus corporation. A competing rail-
| road to Great Salt Lake will change all this
| by giving our merchants fair rates and by
enabling them To ioiD in the 0ceaoie trada