The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 1, 1896, Page 16

16 h) THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1896. ‘AN FRANOISCO has been called | lower down flutter the quant red and one of the most picturesque cities | in the world, and our streets and byways certainly do present many | interesting ‘and attractive pi tures, varying with the seasons and in various localities, but always, in & marked degree, characteristic. Of the many picturesque phases of our | life, perhaps none is more interesting than | the amusements of those children whose | only playgrounds are the streets and hills | The hills, in particular, lend | themselves to the amusements of the | } green and yellow birds afiected hy the Japanese. ancing, pulling, swaving, sailing out over the City, they seem as really alive as are the gulls that circle and and skirl above the waters of the bay. The sight, once beleld, is something ever a’ter to be remembered with delight. The snow and ice bring many joys to Eastern children that our youngsters by the Golden Gate can ku nothing ef. Coasting, however, is not one of these. I have dared many a perilous descent in my childhood days, but neveranything half so thrilling as a plunge I saw four boys take recently down the grade from Jones to Taylor streets on Broadway. Their KITE-FLY [Sketched by a | | | | FRANCISCO HILL. | “Call artist.”] youngsters in a manner tnat would excite the envy, could they see them, of those less favored boys who live on level ground. Just now, while Eastern children are still enjoying their winter coasting, shiding and skating, the boysof San Francisco are in the midst of the kite-flying season. This is a diversion that, to the extent to which it is carried here, is almost pecu- liar to San Francisco of American cities. It is not that boys in all cities do not fly kites, but the kite season isa peculiarly interesting one in this particular City. There are several reasons for this. The steady, pleasant winds that blow at this season; the unusual advantages offered by our blessed green hills and the example set by the many Chinese and Japanese in our midst, with whom the pastime is almost national, are some of these. It has sometimes, indeed, been a matter of sur- rise to me that our amusenient-seekers have so long left th i iversi to the boys of tue City we grown-up San Franciscans, should fare forth witn-the children to fly otr kites against the brilliant February sky and to feel ourselves growing young again as we ran with them against the soft, or we strong, steady breeze. - There.is a certain jov in flving a Kite, in feeling the live, bird-like thing tugging at the sustaining string, and to exult in its -flight in which you are yourself an important factor. But whether we join in the sport or are impelled by considerations of supposed dignity to refrain from it, it is well worth the while of a lover of the beautiful to pay & visit to Rincan or Telegraph or Russian Hill, or any of the highlands that lay parkward or toward North Beach, and | there watch the boys send up- their kites. | Bometimes the air seems fairly alive with | them. There will be great white sails‘ spread out against the blue, side by side with the elaborate gilded and decorated | coaster was of a sort the most long board on what had ewvi been the roliers of a pair of tes. ich ntly rimitive, a tly once | The | boy who sat at the rear end manipuiated a | rt of sweep attached to the board and i served as brake and swept, like a small | whirlwind, with a yell and & whirring of | wheels that would have siruck terror'to | the heart of a tenderfoot.. Seeing them | one might have thought they were rushing | headlong to destruction, but the watchful | angel that seems to guard the destinies of boys was, as usual, close at hand, and the | daring quartet made the descent safely, and ruu g quietly around the corner into Taylor street just as [ had closed my evez to avoid seeing them dashed to atoms. Tae bovs who live about Telegraph and Russian hills “have a: perilous fashion of coasting on rough sleds down the sides of the cliffs, a descent sufticiently allied to | danger to render it royal sport for a boy. In the rainy season, when the ground is wet, slippery and treacherous, coasting over snowdriits is not half so exciting. It is realiy a very prettv and nerve-tingling sight to see the hittle fellows scramble u the face of an almost perpendicuiar clig and dash down again, a whole line of | them, in singie- file, in their rudely built sleds. Were the sight not close ai hand we might well:deem it worth traveling far to witness as .a picturesque exhibition of | reckless daring. | It is only among the North Beach hiils | that this sort of ‘thing is popular. The | hoys of that locality are of a more reckless nature, even in their play, than are their fellows south of Market street, for in- | stance. This may be because they are of | different nationality or because of the | greater freedom of life on the high hills that overlook the water. Whatever may be the reason, it is certain thatone sees no | such life-and - limb - endangering sport | among the dwellers on the south side. The | RANCISCE e of coasting on roller-skates, and it is an in- teresting sight to see a string of them, hand in” hand, come swinging down the steep grades of Harrison and Bryant streets. Ispent a pleasant half hour or more not long ago watching a sturdflnd of perhaps 15 treating half a dozen little chaps to rides on his feet. He was mounted on roller - skates himself, and upon his downward trips he would take a small boy on each foot. Clinging tightly to their friend’s legs, the small chaps wriggled and screamed with delight as the queer trio buzzed along down the hill. If appearances go for anything each mem- ber of the queer coasting party was about as uncomfortable as human beings could well be, but it would have been hard to tell which was the most supremely happy. Hop-scotch seems to be a favorite diver- sion among both boys and girls south of Market street, while on the north side “‘duck-on-a-rock’’ holds first place in juy- enile esteem. Heré again topography plays an important part in determining preference. .There are stones to be had in plenty along the rocky cliffs and streets, and the cliffs themselves make jolly back- grounds against which to set up a *‘duck.” I watcned a group of boys playing this game on_Powell street, at the foot of the high bluff up which Vailejo street clambers and goes wanderiug heavenward. Quaint, foriegn-looking little fellows they were, making a pretty picture bending back and forth in their muscle-developing sport, and I caught pnrases from half a dozen different languages in their talk. French, 1talian, German, Irish, Mexican, Spanish and one negro lad were among the groun plaving this Yankee game in this most interesting of cities. It is hard to forecast what is to be the outcome of all this mix ing of races, but certainly if we are wise it should besomething good and of ultimate value. Up_ a very practicable sort of grip, and a time it i probable that this primiti car made more trips in a day and carried more passengers than did the combined rolling stock of the road’slawful owners. A favorite game among the newsboys, and which during this winter has taken a most amazing hold upon the small girls in some of the lower districts of thé City, is ‘*shooting craps.” I have seen a painfully large number of groups of girls tiris win- ter engaged in this pastime, sitting on the sidewalks at the foot of flights of steps or against convenient area-rails. The sight 1s a curious if not particularly attractive one. . The object of the game seems to be the increase of the collection of buttons which each girl makes on a long string. 1 have wondered a good deal as to how the game sprang into such wide popularity among them. The circumstance is cer- tainly one to be noted with regret. Itis something of a;izy that among our-many missions and movements and philanthropies we should not have. one with its object the teaching of pleasant and wholesome games and amusements to the children whose sole playground is the street. . There is a wide neld in San Fran- cisco for such a mission. In certain quar- | ters our streets swarm with children of all nationalities and from eve sort of unfortunate environment. ~ They follow the natural instinct' of chiidhood to play and‘ they play ugly . things, rough things, 'and stray into. ways that lead to harm, because they do not know better. - If practical philanthropy could devise some means by which this little folk could be instructed in pretty and wholesome games, 1t_would certainly have a marked and beneficial effect upon their after lives and remove from our streets the spectacle of restraied and | apathetic or mischievous, troublesome and ugly child life that is so much more com- mon than are the picturesque phases of pl,uy in our City streets. To some this suggestion may appear | fantastic and impractical, but it is made in all seriousness, and I see no reason why such a good work might not become as: feasible as our fruit and flower missions, boys’ clubs and college settlements have proven. Why could not our next woman’s con- gress, which is designed to bringabout the Immediate betterment of the whole race, | devote a little time to a discussion of how | to help the children in this regard? It could be done, perhaps, even without tne aid of the baliot. ADELINE KNaPP, FARGO'S DIVOROE INDUSTRY. It Pays the Town About a Quarter of a Million Dollars Annually. North Dakota has gained considerable notoriety throughour the East for the ease with which divorces are secured within its borders. Fargo has more fame in this direction than any other town for various | reasous. - It is most easily reached and | affords the pleasure-loving contingent greater opportunities than any city in the | State except Grand Forks. Its hotels are for ve THE GIAL WHO HAS BECOME A WRITER BY W. C. Dear Miss Scribblehard: Receipt of your letter and of marked copies of newspapers containing articles written by you is acknowledged. Your numerous questions and expressions of hope and aspirations set me a difficult and somewhat unpleasant task. I would rather you had appealed to one who makes the training of the young a business. A reading' of your contributions dis- closes many things that are familiar to the older worker with the pen—and the head. Ability- to write well is the final test of mental discipline. However bright a beginner may be, provided he is not one of those gerijuses who know things with- out having to learn them, lack of expe- rience in the writing craft must inevitably appear in his work. For that reason alone an editor who bas a wise head and a kind heart will sternly repress that consuming and altogether pitiful ambition of tyros to sign their work.. Possibly there lives here and there a knave of an editor who real- izes that by tickling a fledgling’s vanity by vermitting the signature he can secure passable work for little or no cash pay- ment. There are indubitably cases.in which the editor, both wise and kind, per- mits the signature with'aknowledge of the fact that the indulgence will encourage a very sensitive, fine-grained and ambitious beginner to put forth extraordinary ef- forts and thus advance all the more rapidly in the art. Even in such cases the editor must suf- fer a pang to reflect that in the.time to come, when the beginner has developed 1nto an able and sure craftsman, a glanee through the old scrapbook will bring many a flaming blush to the cheek of its compiler. Writers, particuiarly those who | are original and imaginative, are unhap- pily a sensitive crowd, and this fact stays the tongues of those whose criticism would be valuable. Unhappily, also, it is those dull, floundering blunderers devoid of critical ability who are the freest with their criticism, and its very stupidity ana obtrusive ignorance merely offend with- out improving. The qualities which make a signature valuable are various, but as they are not to be looked for in the work of a beginner it is hardly necessary to discuss them here. It is curious, however, to note the differ- ence between young women and young me:1 in this regard. As a rule the boy is a new and up to date and there are numer- ous private boarding-houses that cater es- pecially to those who are here to end their | marital troubles. The cable iines afford some odd amuse- ments to the boys. A single roller-skate | and a long bent wire were the equipment | with which I some time ago saw a daring | little scamp have a perfectiy glorious time | on Union street. The wire was bent in | | some way, so that when thrust tbrough | the slot it caught the cable, and, standing | The modus operandi is simple. In nine caes out of ten the defendant in the suit | is as willing that a decree should be se- cured as the plaintiff, and aids in every possible way by accepting service and em- | ploying a local legal light to look after his | interests. In such cases the decree is oiten secured within ten days after the ninety- | T THE CABLE FURNISHES THE [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] j | i MOTIVE POWER. upon one foot, the other swinging free, the amateur gripman was sailing into paradise on an even keel, when a stony-hearted policeman saw and summarily ended his | enjoyment. efore the trolle;' superseded the cable or: the Mountain View road in Oakland the boys living along that line had a con- trivance on a similar Erinciple. but on a more elaborate scale, that for a long time was a source of endless joy to them and unbounded terror io gnstinz horses. Their contrivance consisted of a rude platform on four very small truck wheels, Some creation of some Chinese kite-maker,while | boys about Rincon Hill have a pretty way l mechanical geniusamong them had rigged | been referred to as a North Dakota in- PLAYING AT (Eketched by a *“ Call” artist.] DUCK ON A ROCK. | live here under assumed names and do day probation has expired. In fact it has sometimes occurred that the divorce was | granted within ninety-one days after the | applicant arrived in Fargo. In these cases, of course, personal service was secured, and there was no contest in the way of alimony. In cases of desertion, or in others, where the residence of the defendant is unknown, six weeks additional is required for the pu cation of summons. The attorney’s fee varies from $30 to any higher amount with the trouble necessary to secure the decree and the ability of the plaintiff to pav. The colony includes people in ail walks of life. Even laboring men come here and work while establishing their residence. These are the exception, however. The seekers after single blessednessare, as a rule, well supplied with funds and able to pay liberally for what they get. Some dig- tinguished people have been temporary residents of the State and are men and women in all walks of Ife, and titled foreigners are not an exception. The divorce business has frequently dustry, ana is really to be regarded as such. A canvass of the hotels and private boarding-houses shows that there are to- day about 150 members in the local divorce colony. This means from $3000 to $5000 a month for the hotel men of the city. It also means from $5000 to $10,000 for the local attorneys. In addition to these ex- penditures the stores receive directly, perhaps, $2000 a month in the way of divorce trade. The sentiment of " the citizens is entirely in favor of the “in- dustry.” The matter is looked at purely from a business standpoint and 1s advo- cated on all sides. oS Another noticeable feature is the haste with which some of the plaintiffs again rush headlong into> matrimony after hav- ing been granted a divorce. One case is on record where a trip was-made directly from the Judge’s, chambers to the license-room and return and the second marriage performed by the kindly court in fifteen minutes after the decree had been granted and befere the ink used in signing the divorce papers had time to dry. Indeed the majority marry again within six months after being divorced. All kinds of schemes are worked to avoid publicity. Members of the colony often everything possible to keep correspondents of Eastern papers from learning thelr his- tory. To deceive their friends thecontin- gent sometimes yent boxes in the Moor- head Postoffice across the river in Minne- sota, so Eastern friends won’t know what they are doing out West.—Fargo Corre. spondent Minneapolis Journal. ————————— You can g;v, | expands he realiz | waves that tower about him. | easily falls contentedly into the position great deal more modest than tne girl. In the beginning he is dismayed by a sugges- tion that he sign his work. He seems to realize that outside the little group of per- sons with whom he works there lies a vast world of shrewd, sharp, able intellects ready to scoff at mistakes and treat imma- turity and ignorance with contempt. He desires to try his legs at walking before he essays a race with expert runners. Much of his timidity is pure bashfulaess, an awkward quality that seems foreign to the composition of the average girl. As his experience ripens and his range of vision izes more and more the stupendous magnitude of the task which he has assailed and the hopelessuess of proving able to lift his head above the Thus he too of a newspaper hack, and grinds out his life in a dreary round of detail. Not so the ambitious young woman. Nothing appalls her. Not being bashful she may also not be modest. But as self- assurance is a necessary element of suc- | cess it is'exceedingly valuable where it is | not self-destructive. The one safe rule in | writing is to sign nothing whatever, ex- | cept, possibly, stories, unless it be on the earnest suggestion of a competent ecritic; | and the best of all is the editor. He will | make such a request if he deems it right. | That is a very different matter from wheedling him into consent. He is the quickest of all critics to discover a new or ariginal quality in a beginner’s work. Comparing your letter with your pub- lished work I observe a number of .curious differences and easily discern in thear- ticles the veiled hand of both the editor and the copy-reader. I notice that the | editor, for a number of conceivable rea- sons and from one or more possible mo- tives, has left ruinous errors of form, taste and information in your work. He has permitted your mixed “metaphors to zo limping without splints, your infinitives to remain with their parts divorced, your squinting clauses to ‘look two ways at once without shame, your “onlys” to keep improper company, and in general has let your lack of a study of the English language, particylarly that branch of it which concerns constraction, to be merci- lessly proclaimed. In the absence of an intelligent effort on the part of your schoolteachers to saturate you with an understanding of what ‘“style”” means,your editor has apparently left it to Providence and time to cure you of the use of commonplaces aud of hack- neyed phrases and quotations. He has permitted you to indulge the use of French words, possibly trusting that as you grow older you will learn that this practice invites the scorn of the judicious. He has let you try the hopeless task ot transforrcing the English into an epigram- matical language by the employment in some of your articles of a choppy, frisky and jerky style that is exceedingly un- pleasant. Iam not blaming the unhappy editor for these things. If he is deserving of punishment there is a special world set apart for that function, and I have no jurisdiction there. The copy-reader has been much kinder to you, though you seem utterly deaf to the hints that he has been giving you these last months. His diligent pencil has read you a sharp lesson in every article that you sent me, and yet your let- ter shows that you have been blina snd deaf to his instruction. It is true that copy-readers have duties additional to the correction of errors in punctuation, spell- ing, capitalization and the like, but it is true also that the greater part of their ard labor is devoted .to those matters. hat such revision should be needed is a reproach more to the schools of this cous try than to the newspapers. It is the duty of schools, not of editors, to teach children the art of reading and writing, for you must bear in mina the fact that no one can read intelligently and not write accurately. The expectation of copy- readers to find none but defective manu- seripts is so firmly anchored in experience, and they have become to believe so strongly In the infallibility of their own system of details, that they are unwilling to pass even a fnished product without stamping their individual ideas upon it. This is said with due allowance forthe fact that every newspaper has its own rules with reference to the minor details of composition and that in the necessary haste of newspaper writing inadvertent errors will appear. The point here made is that the writer can be instructed by the copy-reader’s revisions, and he who is either too dull_or too indifferent to accept the benefit will never become a finished ‘rench moreen skirt with deep rufile for 85¢ Joe Rosenberg’s,40-42 Geary. * | writer. I am grieved to see you insisting on | the sky like a delf plate, with puffs of MORROW. YV UUUUUSNY calling yourselfa “‘newspaper woman” and a ‘“‘newspaper writer” and casting slurs upon those who ‘“‘pompously proclaim themselves- journalists.” That is not modesty on your part. Iam aware that even some sensible writers ridicule the use of the word “‘journalist” as being pompous and pedantic. They are sorely in error. A journalist is a person who publishes, edits or writes for a journal, and a journal isa newspaper. Itisan honestand intelligent word, and its employment is a recognition of the dignity of the profession. Your expressed hope that your *‘news- paper work” will be a ‘“stepping-stone to higher achievements in literature’ betrays a grievous but common error into which young writers for the transient press com- monly fall. If there is a relation between journalism and literature it is too weak to be of use in this letter. *'Literature” isa vague and indefinite term, and the only sensible relation that journalism bears to it is that of form. So far as substance is concerned, each produces its own mental habit and these are not mutually inspiring. ‘Without troubling about the numerous exceptions of journalists who produce ex- cellent literary work, it is sufficient to say that as a rule the person who is eminent in one of these professions is not in the other. Moreover, the question of adaptability must not be ignored. The “newspaper in- stinet” is a thing of itself. It is true that many journalists cherish the belief that their wide observation ard their acquired ease in writing and thinking fit them for the production of a wonderful novel, which, had they only time to write it, would make them famous and rich. It should be evident that if it were in them to write such a novel nothing under the sun could restrain them. It should be equally evident that they have uncon- sciously fallen so profoundly under the spell of journalism as to pe slaves to its al- lurements. That undoubtedly explains why they are successful as journalists. It oiten happens that a writer abandons jour- nalism for literature, but rarely after he |. has proved conspicuously successful asa journalist. This brings us back to the matter of signing what is published. The indi- vidual in literature, as in all other kinds of pure art, is a necessary part of his product. Itis notsoin journalism, because a newspaper, instead of being the product of un individual, is that of a number of per- sons working in harmony and dominated by a guiding hand. It is this combination of intelligences that makes it valuable and strong. The true journalistis but one of the wheels in & mighty machine, There- fore, it is contrary to the spirit of journal- ism to give it that personal quality which a signature represents. It is common and right, however, to leaven the practice of anonymity with signed articles produced by writers who have special qualities more valuable in in- dividual dress than as a combined and level product. But itis evident that the individual product must bave a distinctive and strongly personal quality, and that by reason of that fact the signature is valua- ble to the reader as well as the publisher. Hence it requires a prodigious hardinood on the part of the young writer to assume that his work possesses such a value. T believe that as you grow older and ac- quire more experience you will become a successful journalist; but I insist that if you are aiming to make journalism but a “stepping-stone to higher achievements in literature”’ the sooner you drop. journal- ism and take up literature the better litterateur you may hope to become. The pressure brought to bear upon newspaper editors by girls who are ambitious to become writers is beyond | comprehension. For every untried male applicant for a position there are probably ten female. Perhaps it is because the op- portunities open to girls are much more restricted, but this does not alter two im- portant facts: First, that comparatively few women are in journalism, and second, that the work is exceedingly laboriousand wearing. INA GREBK OATE. ¥Fare Was Atrocious, Charges Were Regal. Neither was Mahmoud with me when I went to the Greek Fair, within a mile of the Sweet Waters, the beautiful fountain and the more beautiful houris whose eyes shone large ang Inminous through their thin veils. This day the air was delicious, The but the white clouds in high relief. For hours I watched the merry-go-rounds and the jug- glers on their mats, untii I grew hungry enough for even a Greek cafe—and it is a brave and reckless appetite that dares an Oriental kitchen. This cafe was under a tree, with a few pine boards for a table, the galley being within handing distance, with a charcoal fire blazing. The abominations of stew and fry and toastings were intolerable; | in getting a box | but I succeeded of sardines .and half a pint of native wine, a loaf of bread, and some raw | tomatoes and salt, with" a bit of onion, which I gathered up and spread out on the pine boards. When the. combination of chef, head waiter and provrietor, all cov- ered by one fez, presented his bill, it amounted to a sum that would have sup- ported an Oriental and his family for a month. 3 There are occasions when your individ- ual pantomime is more effective than' the closest translation of your spoken words. Mine to mine host ended in an abrupt turning on_my heel, with hands tightly clenched. When the crowd began to take sides with the Greek and matters assumed an ugly look, I threw upon the ground a silver coin equal to one-fourth of the charge. This turned the tide. The by- standers considered the sum too lpnnfi ingly large even for a Greek fair !—F. 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