The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 14, 1896, Page 32

2 3 SUNDAY, JALL, JUNE 14, 1896 FIRST CONVENTION OF SINGLE-TAXERS To Be Held in This City When Judge Maguire Returns. WORK TO DO THIS FALL. Constitution to Be Amended to Grant Local Option in Taxation. REFORMERS ALREADY ACTIVE. The Proposed Amendment to Be Advo- cated in the Democratic Platform. Local single-tax advocates are working for a convention of representative singie- taxers from all over the State, to be held in this City. The large number of those who believe in this reform, as evidenced by the thousands of signatures to the single-tax petition which bas been circu- lated throughout the State, make it ad- vantageous to the reformers to have some sort of meeting and reunion, from which they may derive mutual encouragement and devise means of best prosecuting the campaign for the adoption of the constitu- tional amendment for local option in mat- ters of taxation. Definite plans for the convention have not as vet been made. Soon after the re- turn to this City of Congressman Maguire and Dr. Law, a prominent and wealthy single-taxer, who has been actively en- gaged in the Delaware campaign, a call wilt in all probability be issued for the convention. The gathering is sure to be of acom- ite character, as the single tax in- des workers of all classes, 1n all parts of the State. This City and Oakland will, of course, be well represented. Los An- geles has a great many single-taxers and should be well represented. The zealous work of prominent workers in the cause in various parts of the State—James E. Mills in Plumas and other mining counties, Al- fred Cridge in the San Joaquin Valley and a host of others scattered all over the State—should result in strong representa- tion from these localities. The constitutional amendment, to effect the passage of which will be the primary object of the convention, will undoubteaiy be advocated in a plank of the Democratic platiorm, to be adopted next week. In spite of the general disagreement between the two warring factions of the local Democracy, tne prevailing sentiment in each seems to favor the insertion in the State platform of the plank that is being urged by the single-tax advocates. Repre- sentatives of both the Junta and Buckley branches of the party will work for the adoption of the same plank, so that which- ever delegation is seated the resultin re- gard to the ‘‘single-tax plank” will be the same. And if both delegations should be seated and tbe members of both factions ¢! be allowed a half vote each, itis under- | stood that in this matter they will stand together and vote as a unit. The plank, which has been formulated mainly by James S. Reynolds, a prominent single-tax advocate, and ex-president of the Single-tax Society of this City, pro- vides for local option in taxation. Single- tax advocates regard it as practically a single tax-plank. There are various localities at present where a majority of the voters would be in favor of at least giving the system a trial, but the present constitutional pro- vision precludes such a course. Given the single tax in operation in one commu- nity, say the advocates of the reform, and the prosperity and business activity neces- sarily consequent would compei neigh- boring communities to likewise acopt the system 1n order to maintain themselves in the competition of industry. Single-taxers therefore take an unusual interest in this measure, which they be- lieve must and will be the opening wedge in the reform. The plank, or, rather, the planks, which will in all probability be in- corporated in the platform are as follows: In accordance with the teachings of our democratic fathers, that power should be re- served to and distributed among the people, we favor the amendment of our State con- stitution on revenue and taxation in such manner that the Legislature shall have power todetermine how public revenues shall be raised, and may authorize the political sub- divisions of the State to determine by a vote of their electors how revenues for the support of their local government shall be raised. Our candidates for the State Legislature are pledged to advocate such amendment. A polltax is an illogical and undemocratic tax. It falls chiefly on wage-earners, out of whose wages it is withheld, while other classes of citizens generally escape from or evade it. Therefore wé demand that section 12 of the article on revenue and taxation in our State constitution be repealed. Our candidates for the State Legislature are pledged to advocate such amendment. ADDIE LIESEN MISSING. Her Sister Thinks She Has Been Ab- ducted, but Others Believe She Has Joined a Theatrical Company. The mysterious disappearance of Addie Liesen, 16 years of age, was reported to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chiidren yesterday. She is a handsome girl, remarkably well developed for her years, tall and graceful, and a decided blonde. She lived with her sister, Mrs. Lottie Herzog, at 116 Turk street, until three weeks ago, when she decided to.visit her grandparents at Sac- ramento. She promised her sister that she would return in about ten days. She went to Sacramento and stopped with her grandparents for a week, and then, giving her $10, they saw her safely on the train for this City. When the ten days had expired Mrs. Herzog wrote to Sacramento, and was surprised to receive word that Addie had left several days before. The trainmen were questioned about_her, but none remembered seeing her. Mrs. Herzog waited in the hope that she would return, but yesterday notified the society. Mrs. Herzog was informed yesterday that a girt answering Addie’s description had been seen at Santa Cruz and that she was in training there as a maid of honor to the queen at the approaching water carnival. The society wired to the Chief of Police at Santa Cruz asking him to 1in- vestigate. Mrs. Herzog is under the im- pression that her sister has been abducted, but others believe that she has joined a theatrical company domng the interior towns, as she had a fondness for the stage. M SILKS AND BLACK FIGURED TAFFETA, | 21 inches, large and small | designs, guaranteed all pure i silk, worth 75c. We will "() 1 Sell 1t this week, special 990 | price. ... Yard| | —_— | BLACK _FIGURED GROS | GRAIN, in swell new de- 7/ | signs. A very special value P14 at. 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Xard Very special this week HIE R Y = BUTTER-COLORED LACE COLLARS— ALL SILK BABY RIBEOX, picotedze, QO Another new arrival, plenty of sizes OBC ‘ assorted colors, the 16¢ kind; a good- and patterns, worth 50c, lace-week 1) by price Boit special. . Each ‘“ 76x84 inches, very heavy, $1o ON THE AMERICAN PLAN How Mrs. Fong Fung Regulated Her Nephew’s Wedding Feast. A Unique Chinese Marriage Cele- brated at the Methodist Mission. The Methodist Mission, on Washington street, was the scene of a unique Chinese wedding last night. Ngan Kuk was the bride. Five years ago she was rescued from slavery and brought into the home, and since that time, little by little, she has . learned Western ways and has abjured her idols, her ancestors and her heathen customs. But, however much a Chinese girl may become Christianized there are generally severnl points of Mongolian etiquette which she expects to observe rigidly at her wedding. On that occasion if on no other she will paint her face, adorn her head and put on attire more gorgeous than a peacock’s tail. She will also refuse the dainties of the marriage feast and re- frain from casting even a sidelong glance at the bridegroom. When Ngan Kuk accepted the hand ana haart of Chan Hay, a convert of the mission, she expected that her wedding feast would be asregal as the circumstances of the groom would permit, but fate, in the shape of the gentleman’s aunt, willed otherwise. It is a Chinese cusiom that when a man who is about to get married has a mother she shall manage and con- trol all the arrangements for his wedding. There are so few mothers-in-law in China. | town that this custom has almost fallen | into abeyance. | Chan Hay had no mother, but he had | an sunt—Mrs. Fong Fung—who has al- | ways been to him asa parent, and this | lady made her presence felt at 1ast night’s | wedding. She is the wife of a well-to-do | Chinese merchant, and has been a consist- ent member of the Methodist Episcopal church for six years. She disapproves of frivolity in dress or deportment, and she considers Chinese custom and etiquette little short of sinful. It was owing to Mrs. Fong Fung’s reli- gious scruples that the bride wore no finery last night, and was simply arrayed in a blue blouse and a black shirt, with neat but not gaudy embroidery. The | groom’s attire was marked by the same | absence of extravagance in dress, ana as for Mrs. Fong Fung herself nothing could have been simpler than her attire. She | was almost a Chinese tailor-made Jady. | Rey. Dr. Masters, the head of the mis. | sion, performed the ceremony and throughout the whole proceedings were conducted on the American plan, without the least particle of heathen custom or eti- quette. There were about 150 American and Chinese visitors present and at the feast which followed the wedding, they all, the bride included, sat down in the big schoolroom of the mission to prettily | decorated tables and partook of light re- freshments prepared in American style. People declared it was the most unique Chinese wedding they had ever witnessed. .~ Park Music To-Day. The following attractive programme has been arranged for the open-air concert in Golden Gate Park to-day: “Capital City March”. ..Laura 8 Hartman Overture, “Poet ana Peasant” (by request) Grand selection, “La Juive”.... Horn s0io, #Song Without Werds Performed by E. Schl Caprice, “The Awakening of the Lion" Overture, “The Flyiog Dutchman”, Waltz, “Thousand and One Nights' Selection, “The Boh emian Girl” Patrol, “The Blue and Gray” Cicch e Ciaceh, “Galop alla Cacciatora’”, E. ———————— ‘Young men or old should not fail Lo read Thomas Slater's advertisement on page 8. . Dalbey Ricordi Saturday next will see the beginning of the greatest gatheringof whist-players the world has ever known. The executive committee of the American Whist League as well as the tournament and other com- mittees will meet at the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, L. I, and formulate every plan and detail for the grand suc- cess of the Sixth American Whist Con- gress that will convene the following Mon- day. There is no doubt but this meeting will go down into the annals of the league as the whist wonder of the nineteenth centurv. We can give no better idea of what this congress will be, or the great celebrities who will be there, than to quote the following from the Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia of June 1: With the advent of June the thoughts of all whisters naturally turn to the Brooklyn Con- gress, which is unquestionably destined to be the greatest event in the annals of the game, In the matter of attendance it will be unpre- cedented in point of numbers, but the quality will be even more attractive than the quantity. Among the noted whisters who will positively be on hand in addition to the contestants in the trophy contests are: Henry Jones (Cavendish), who will make a special trip to this country in order to be present. Colonel A. 8. Burt, who, under the nom de plume of “The Colonel,” is well known to the whist-reading world by reason of his many attractive whist “skits.” He will journey from far-off Fort Missoula, in Montana, where he is in command, in order to meet the many friends he has made but neyer seen. “Uncle Dick’” Allen of Milwaukee, whose fame as & player who cau fool adversaries and partner alike with unusual ability is whist- world wide. This will be his first whist ap- earance outside of his native city, and he as just written to Chairman Weems that at the congress he expects to be as near heaven as & mortal ever gets. N. B. Trist, the oflfinlwr of the system of American leads, will journey from New Or- leans to add his genial presence to the de- lights of the oc on. Miss Kate Wheelock, “the Whist Queen,” | will of course be on hand. No congress would be complete without her and no American whister but will be glad of the chance of meeting the woman who unquestionably is responsible in a much greater degree than any one else for the high standard of whist now being played by the women of America. The officials of the league will of course at- tend in force, President Theodore Schwariz of Chicago will preside at the meeting of the congress. Vice-President Walter H. Barney, the prominent Providence barrister, will be on hand in case the work with the gavel proves too exhausting for his superior officer. An- other prominent attorney ready to give legal aid in the deliberations will be Bertram D. Kribben of St. Louis, the re- cording secretary. Robert H. Weems of Brooklyn, the corresponding _secretary, will, during that week, be the most busy man in the country. He is chairman of the congress committee, chairman of the tournament committee, and, in short, car- the entire burden of management upon his shoulders. Had the League searched tne country with & microscope, however, it could not have found & more competent man for the position, and every one who knows Mr.Weems without any hesitancy predicts perfect ar- rangements as the result of his having the managerial reins. Among the other officials will be Treasurer Benjamin L. Richsrds of Rock Rapids, Iowa, nd “‘Past Masters” Eugene L. Elliott of Mil- waukee and John M. Walton of this City. Most of the whist writers of the country will be in evidence, among the number being C. D. P. Hamilton of Easton, Charles E. Coffin of Indiacapolis, John M. Mitchell of Chicago, George L. Bunn of St. Paul, John H. Briggs of Minneapolis, P. J. Tormey of San_Francisco, Cassius M. Paine of Milwaukee, R.F. Foster of New York, and Mrs. Margaretta Wetherill Wal- 1ace of Staten Island. “CAVENDISH” ON “THE CALL'S” WHIST ARTICLES. The letter we give below from “*Caven- dish,” known by every whist-player liv- ing as the “Master,”” pays us a very high compliment. When we started our Whist Column a few weeksago we never dreamed we could or would interest any but the beginner. The little knowledge we pas- sess of the game—and it is very little—we acquired by close application and study of the master’s writings, demonsiurated to WITH THE WHIST-PLAYERS. us by one of the master’s greatest ad- mirers, no less a personage than our little Whist Queen, Miss Kate Wheelock. We humbly accept the compliment, and it is a pleasure i0 pass it on to her majesty, where it rightfully belongs. The letter is as follows: 22 ALBION STREET, HYDE PARK, W. Loxpox, May 22, 1896. My dear Thanks for your cuttings from the San Francisco CALL. You would much oblige me if, when sending them, you would also send a cutting of the printed head- line with date at top of page. When I have cuttings like yours that I care to preserve I stick them in ‘an album, with name and date attop. * * * Now as to Brooklyn. Ihave decided to go if I feel well enough. ~1need not trouble you with my ailments, but I may say I am hardly fit to undergo much iatigue, and I believe you Americans want to kill me with hospitality, etc.; and Iam not the man I used to be. However, Weeins was so horribly kind tome and will be so disappointed if I do not cross the pond that [ must make an effort. * * * Whether I cross or not there’s no rea- son you and your party should not come to the mountain., I’ll promise you & good time so far as lies in my power. Socome. Yours always, HENRY JON “Cayendish” will contribute a very in- teresting article to the special whist edition of Harper’s Weekly that will be published next week. Two interesting Point! of the game will be discussed. The ead from ace and four others not holding king or queen or jack and the lead from king, jack, ten and one other. Mr. and Mrs. H. Payot of the San Fran- cisco Whist Club_have been doing Europe for over a year. They are expected to ar- rive in New York during the congressional week. It would certainly be acrowning event to their trip to attend the whist congress. The second round in the ladies’ trophy match in the San Francisco Whist Club was played last Saturday afternoon. The team that won the first round came out victorious in the second, The winners were Mrs. J. Curtis, Mrs. Bates, Mrs. Bell and Miss Jenkins. It wasa tight squeeze for a victory, a gain_of two tricks only. G. A. Singer of the Trist Club conducted the match and everything passed over very nicely, except the keeping of a private score. Doing so in a league match the team or player guilty of such an act is immediately required to withdraw from the game. ANSWERS TO QUERIES, ‘We have several inquiries how to play a match game club against club. John T. Mitchell, father of duplicate whist, is the one we always go to for such information. He advises a modification of the ‘*‘pro- gressive fours” game, as follows. The Trist Club conduct all their games this | way: The players of club No. 1sit north-south at the odd numbere d tables, east-west at the even, while the players of No. 2 club sit east-west at the odd tables, north-south at the even. No. 1 club sits still during the game, while the players of No. 2 move from each pair of tables to the next higher numbered pair of tables after playing eight hands, and the boards or trays con- taining the hands are passed to the next lower numbered two tables. Four original hands are dealt at each table, and are passed from the odad numbered tables to the next higher even, and from the even numbers to the next lower odd, pefore be- ing passed to the next lower two tables. 1f it 18 desired that each team of one club should play against every team of the other club only two boards are started originally at each table, and after four boards have been played the east-west pl“i’“ of the moving fours change places with the north-south plul{arl at the next higher table, and then play the other four boards of the set. Players at the last two tables move to the first boards as the first two tables are passed to the last. In answer to the questions in regard to whist instructions in San_ Francisco we will state that the Whist Editor of THE CALL has been tendered the use of the Trist Club rooms for a course of free lec- tures on whist to all readers of this paper who love the game. The lectures will be given once a week, and will be given as soon as the summer vacations are over. The rooms will hold but a limited num- ber,and as it will be necessary to have whist play to demonstrate the beauties of the game, the first to signify their desire to accept this offer will be placed on the list, and complimentary tickets will be sent them by the club. Sir Charles Russell, Lord Chief Justice of England, has been invited to attend the Whist Congress. It was stated in the “Literary Digest” some time ago, in a sketch of Sir Charles, that he was so fond of whist that he would walk ten miles on a stormy night to join in a good rubber. ‘We are asked if Trist ever wrote a book on whist, and also when the American leads were first introduced. Our answer to the first question is: No! Mr. Trist has never tavored the whist world with a book, but he has written enough to fill a dozen, but no compilation of his writings has ever been made, Great effort is being made just now to attain that end. To the second question we will say the “American leads” were first introduced to the whist players of the wcrld by “‘Caven- dish,” in his Whist Developnients, pub- lished in the year 1885, This book was dedicated to Nicholas Browse Trist by the author. WHISTLETS. The Milgitu ‘Whist Club boys thought it sounded very funny to say the ‘‘eight spot” or ‘“nine spot” when we spoke of certain cards we glaied. the time they walloped us so, and t! suggested that we use the phrase the ‘‘queen spot’’ and the “'king spot,” that it would be just as ood sense. The Milpitas boys are right. e never thought how ‘‘vulgar’” it sounded. A. H. Martin of the Golden Rule Bazaar and one of the founders of the Trist Du- plicate Whist left for New York and the Brooklyn Congress last evening. The big cyclone in St. Louis wiped out the whist column in the Globe-Democrat. 1t is to be regretted that such is the case. Alfred Weiller has done noble work for the cause of whist while in St. Louis. We will try and follow him to his new field of labor.” His whist writings have always been bright and sparkling, and will be missed by all the readers of the Globe- Democrat. Howells’ new work called “Whist Openings” wi!l be out in a few days—the poor printer is the one that is blamed now. This is the season of whist fads, and Howells’ book will give usa few new ones. Whist for May gives us a new whist term: - ‘West—Mr. South, your lead was utterly unjustifiable. I thought you never led from a sneak! South (meekly)—It wasn’t a sneak; I had two cards of the suit! ‘West (irascibly)—Well, then it was a sub-sneak! The worst case we know of on record of “kicking at your pariner’ occurred in the Trist Club rooms one evening last week. One of the gentlemen played “‘dummy.” When the play of one deal was finished he growled, grumbled and kicked because his partner “would not lead him & trump after calling twice.” The following letter speaks for itself. It is taken from Whist for May: PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL WHIST MATCH — A GENEROUS OFFER. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., May 7, 1896. Editor of Whist: Considerable has been said in the columns of Whist, and in “whist columns” generally, about an international whist match—England vs. United States. It is mnearly & year since the writer first started in to try and arouse suffi- cient interest . to muake such a thing ossible. It was not our intention to et it flash in the pan,” or die out, and if we cannot coax or induce & whist team across the Atlantic to meet us at the Brooklyn Congress, Jet us send one to England—and beard the lion in his den. To further such an idea, the Owl Drug Company of this City, who are all great whist enthusiasts, will pay the entire expenses of one member of such a team, and sug- gests the idea of sending the team that wins the Hamilton trophy. If we can only get started once on these interna- tional matches we can have one every year. Very truly yours, P. J. TORMEY. Mrs. Sitton of Portland, Or., wins one year’s subscription to Whist. Out of many replies we have received the best one comes from Mrs. L. W. Sit- ton, Portland. Or. Mrs. Sitton is president of the Kate Wheelock Club of that city and deserves a very high compliment. Every one of her answers is correct. The nearest one to her made eight errors. In Tue CaLn of May 24 we published a | table of questions kindly farnished us by Mrs. F. H. Atwater o{ Petaluma, and agreed to give one year’s subscription to Whist for the best answer to them. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. 1. (@) From K, Q, 10, 6, 3 lead Q. (b) From K, 10, 6,3 in trumps lead Q. @ ‘With A, K, 10, 5, second hand,dplny 10 ed. (b)) With K, J, 10, 2, second hand, play 10 on 4 led. . (@) With Q, J, 4, 3, second hflnd.&)lu*v 3on 6 led. (b) With J, 10, 4, second hand, play 10 on 6 led. 4. (a) With 10, 9, 8, 6, third hand, play 8 on Q led. (b) With , 4,2, third hand, play 2 on 10 led. 5. (@) With A, 6, third hand, play A on J led. (b) With A, 6, third hand, play 6 on Q led. 6. (a) With' A, K, 6,3 play A, return K. third hand,glny A, return 10. 7. (a) Q, 10,4, 3. third hand, play 3 on 8 . () Q, 10, 4, 3, third hand, play Q on 7 led. 8. (a) When he takes a force willingly. (b) When he neither leads trumps nor forces you. 9. When you hold the commanding card, and when you hold 2 only of his suit; also re- turn an honor to ptevent blocking. 10. (a) When strength in trumps is against you discard from strongest suit. (b) When Strength in trumps is in your favor, and ordi- narily, discard from weakest suit. 11 {a) With K, Q, 5, 4 in trumps lead Q, then K to show 4 in suit. (b)) With Q, 4,3 in re- sponse to signal lead Q, then 4 if Q wins. 12. (a) If partner led A, then 9, he should have left Q, 10, and one or more low or J, 10, and one or more low. () If partner led J he should have both K and Q, and at least two lower, or if A forced lead two lower. 13. The playing of two hands as one. A DEAL AT WHIST. The following deal Is from John T. Mitchell of duplicate whist fame. It is very interesting, as there was a variation , trumps, third hand, (b) With A, 10, 5, trumps, of seven tricks between the scores made on it at table 1and table 2in a two-table duplicate match. The lead from each ta- ble was the same—four of hearts: From John T, Mitchell. A—4,10,3 0—J.'10 *—K,Q.7,10,7,2 0—10,6 #-K 9,85 4,2 0—Q, 8, 0-9,7,5,4,3,3 &—6,5 &—A, 3 ©0—8,4,3,2 0—-K, 9,5 57 Bix of diamonds trumps. East to lead, FOR FREE SILVER. Anticipating the Withdrawal of Itg Champions From the Convention, The following letter is self-explanatorys SAN FraNcCIsco, Cal., June 13, 1896, Hon. Fred T. DuBois, Republican National Convention, St. Louis, Mo.—DEAR SIR: In case of withdrawal of the free silver men from the Republican National Convention they should take prompt and decisive action by the ime mediate nomination of Senator Teller or some other well-known champion of the white metal. With Teller as our candidate we can carry the Pacific and North Mississipi States, and, if necessary, throw the election of President into the House of Representatives, This would insure his election, for he woula divide the Republican Congressmen into two bodies, known as the ‘“free silver caucus” and the *‘gold standard caucus,” and after & limited number of ballots had been taken on party lines in the House of Representatives he would be elected President. Two-thirds of the States in the Union are free silver in sentiment and their Representa« tives dare not sell their constituencies into.in« dustrial slaveri. Give us Teller immediately so we can forthwith organize Teller clubs in every precinct where the free silver senti. ment exists, Delays are dangerous and une necessary. In thisState nine men out of every ten want to vote for the free coinage of silver in some form or other, notwithstanding the repre. sentations of the gold standard men to ‘the contrary. Immigrant laborers from silver- using nations work here and by sending their earnings fn silver to their own country get twice as much for their labor as our own work- men; and silver-using countries get twice as much for their cereals as the producers of our own caumrf. This means a condition worse than chattel slavery for our own people. Very respectinlly yours, ALVA UDELL, Secretary. NEW TO-DAY. FREE N7 5 AMERICA'S ADING RSETS W. B. 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