The morning call., 1893-03-14

The faster passengers are enabled to cross
the Atlantic the higher go the fares. On
her first voyage from Liverpool to New
York. on April s, the Campania had every
berth engaged, and at more than 500 a day
the Cunard owners should reap an enormous
return. TWO berths in a parlor cabin are
stated to have been let at 5000 each, and ou
the second voyage such berths may fetch
S720 each. AT this rate three or four years
traffic will defray the whole cost of the
steamer. 1t only shows that the rich trav-
cling public will pay any price for luxurious
comfort al sea. combined with speed an
hour or two ahead Of any other vessels
record. The cost of running such steamers
Is, however, enormous. The crew of sailors,
engineers, cooks and stewards is probably
not less than 4OO and the quantity of coal
consumed on voyage would constitute a
cargo for a 2000-ton ship. The captains
salary is probably not lees than $500.
The disappearance of a saloon ordinance
at Seattle is sensation Of no great prac-
tical moment. The document had regularly
been passed and awaited approval by the
acting Mayor, but if it had reached that
official it is understood he would have
vetoed it. The supporters of the ordinance
are thus baked In whatever way they
look at the matter. But it is a much more
manly thing to express direct dIsapproval
OF regulation than to drop it into waste
paper basket or the stove. In fact the
latter course savers OF misdemeanor.
1t is now the turn of the southern
counties of California to hold a citrus fair.
Cotton has the honor OF the exhibition and
it opens on Thursday under the State Agri-
cultural Society. Undoubtedly there will
be some surprises in the display of fruit and
the general average will be high.
The almost daily shooting scene In China
town came round yesterday with punetu-
ality. This time the police have evidence
enough to prosecute and convict for the
assassin was caught red-handed and was
never lost sight of from the moment he
opened fire with a huge revolver. What the
alteration was which led to the shooting is
Of little moment The victim was un-
armed, and no provocation could justify his
assailant in dscharging seven shots at him
and emptying the last barrel into his writh-
ing body as he lay on the sidewalk. The
men belonged TO rival societies and II NAV
be supposed that conflicting interests
prompted the deed, according to the ethics
of the Chinese code. The statement of the
wounded man that he has been mistaken
for somebody else is scarcely probable As
long as a Chinaman has life and hope he
will, as rule, say nothing to involve his
countrymen in danger before ''MelicRn"
justice. 1t is, in all likelihood. another
highbinder outrage, and more will follow,
as the police are helpless to prevent these
audaclouS crimes.
Il their exhibits at the Chicago Exhibl-
ton the Essen people surely intend to
combine business with glory. The Krupp
exhibit is to cost million and a half
dollars, and of this no less than quarter of
million is for transportation. The ex-
bihtt will iuI ha l..
guns and heavy ammunition. Such pro-
duetions can never have much sale in this
county, and there is no opening at present.
Only Governments can afford the luxury of
investing In heavy ordnance But If Krupp
sends a lot of valuable machinery he NAV
find customers through his prOfuse expen-
diture. IL is said that one of his trophies
will be a monster gun of 100 tons-the
heaviest mass yet produced for the artller-
ist, and capable of hurling shot weighing
about ton. a wooden model of such a
weapon would answer al purposes of sight
seeing, but perhaps the genuine article may
excite so much surprise that some of the
South American Governments will iun In
debt to own it. No gun of this calber as
yet been produced at Washington, but If
need be the Navy Department could under
take the work.
The Southern Pacific Railroad press cliaue
will have TO take up the cudgels in the usual
mendacious fashion OF out and out justifica-
ton against an author who has dared TO
speak his mind plainly on the methods OF
the company and the men who are at the
head of it. Mr.. S. T. Van Oss of London
explains the railroad situation with en-
phasis and clearness in his work on "Ameri-
can Railroads as Investments" He de-
clares that the monopoly has been very
injurious 10 this beautiful State, and that it
would be very much more prosperous and
pODulous had IT the advantage of competing
railroads. As it is without competitors the
Southern Pacific has no inducement to paw
attention to the demands of the public. so
the State has bad service and excessive
rates. A few competing roads would break
this chain OF bonds, but the writer says that
millions OF people seem poweTlesS against
the millions of money held by the Central
and Southern Pacific owners. He finally
remarks that II Portland takes the wind out
Of the sails OF San Francisco, which he
regards as the most attractive city In the
whole country, 1t will be entirely the fault
of the Southern Pacific monopoly. Thus
the situation in California is well understood
abroad.
A rumor is in circulation that it is the
Rio Grande Western which is building a
railroad northwa from Goffs in San Ber-
nardino County toward Phoebe In Nevada
Construction is proceeding at the rate Of
three-quarters of a mile per day. But when
the gap is closed and the company crosses
the further intentlonsp 1t is coniectured
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