The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1896, Page 19

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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, UNDAY, JUNE 21, 1896. SUPREME GOURT TO BE HOUSED LIKE | ROMAN TRIBUNES, Roman tribune nor Athenian pr®tor never sat in temple justice more simply grand, more severely imposing and ma- will Justices of the Supreme Court of California when they are finally housed in their magnificent new quarters on the seventh floor of the Emporium building. ot These quarters are being rapidly put into shape for occu- ' pan né n a fo sht or so it is expected that the Su- i prenie Court remove. A mere glance at the interior of these | new quarters 1s suffici to impress one with their classical | beaut 1 gsto mind the old pictures of the Roman tem- | ples where the Diana and ( Templ With ibunes sat as magistrates in the Temple of res to ir t the law for plebeians, or in the where justice was read out to patricians. 1 disciplinarians that they were—the | acred, 1o be revered, rather than evaded, as modern times. of 15 too oft: As d their laws so they thought to dignify them by lishing .their courts in a style of simple magni- | ficenc to impress all with their grandeur and bune was usually set up in the forum during the at permitted the transaction of business out of doors. the multitudes gathered to discuss the affairs of transact their business, the tribune was ever pres- to interpret the law and settle disputes among the The tribune’s court was simplicity itself—and his de- were never questioned by those who sought his learned Here, whe citizens, clement weather the tribune held his simple court a, where the crowds repaired for shelter to talk ratters that interested them most. Here, in the lofty s where rows of towering, classic columns divided tle space rted the roof, spac: alw found for the tribune | en nuembers of the multitude, swaying to and fro, fell disputes over business transactions, they could repair at beiore the judge and seek a decision. Fr a side of the rated ym the main assembly space by columns, r projection was built, and from this the tribune | tice. was severely classic in its ornamentation, the col- umns of marble showing only carved capitals, while the frieze, | though of handsome design, was not elaborate. | With the Supreme Court of California this idea of severe t been carried out to some extent, and in many re has been followed, par- the Roman style of archite n the chambers of the greatest importance—where the It is notewort that the Emporium, a 12 as nearly to the basilica as do any of the es, was chosen as an abiding place for the court. | oor effect of the Roman summer tribunal is | in that of the Gol State, but the rooms | Jurt sits in bank has many of the appurtenances of the basili The great Emporium building, like tures the kind, is constructed with low ceil- oor occupied by the court is no exception to the vs being far from imposing, except in the classic le the fam combs or a labyrinth, and the the surroundings an air of secrecy and | airway or from the elevator on that | WHERE THE SUPREME GOURT OF GALIFORNIA WILL SIT IN BANG. bank are the first that present themselves at the end of a short hallway. From tbis‘ Several doors open out of this room on the room a door leads into the library. south side.and here the visitor is likely to become bewildered. hallway that apparently runs the entire width of the building. “No Admittance,” and still This leads to the rooms swinging door, however, bearing the ominous sien, another hallway is revealed totally different from the first. of the Commissioners, whose apartments are side by side. A A 8 Sudden!y another door labeled “Library” confronts the visitor, and on opening it end of the fldor the apartments where justice is dispensed in | more shelves of books appear, but they do not seem to be like the other ones. . One leads into a Open a silently | Another attempt to get back to the starting point takes one out of another door | intoa hallway that is totaliy unfamiliar with the impressions of the last one still fresh ; on the brain. And so it goes, winding in and out of hulls, past sumptuous chambers and majestic rooms, where stern justice is to be dispensed and everywhere and per- vading all the feeling that the handful of men who rule here are supreme, have the lives and liberties of men and their fortunes in their hands to be disposed of according to the evidence presented or after long consultation of the ponderous volumes that lire the shelves of the ibrary and contain the knowledge and deduc- | tions of Justices of the Supreme Court that have gone before. ' |SIMPLIGITY AND GRANDEUR OF THE NEW QUARTERS, The cause of this curious architectural nightmare is the de- sire of the Justices for privacy. Once the court s in possession of its quarters, which will be when the July ses-ion openson the 6th prox., the Justices in their chambers will be as isolated: from the outside world as though locked in a safe-deposit vaulte From the west elevator entrance on the seventh floor, through which only the Justices and Supreme Court Commis-' sioners can pass, a double corridor, divided in the center by a partition, runs partly across the building. From tne north or Market-street division of the coriidor open the doors of the Commissioners, while on the south side, looking off across the roofs of the City to South San Francisco, are the chambers of! the Justices. Doors bearing the words ‘‘No admittance” confront the: visitor at each attempt to reach the Justices’ chambers, and{ should any disappointed litigant take it into his nead to hunt! up a Justice for the purpose of wreaking personal vengeance he would find it hard to reach his intended victim, for massive locks back up the ominous signs and only the Justices and! attaches have the keys. The entrance for the public is at the east end of the floor, and the arrangements for the convepience of the public there are remarkably good. Immediately on leaving the elevator the clerk’s office is encountered. Here every effort has been made to facilitate the transaction of business. Labor-saving devices are on every hand, and every modern appliance has been brought into requisition to aid in carrying out the dictates of the law.. The library is one of the most remarkable apartments now_beingi fitted up for the use of the court. The collection of lawbooks+ and records owned by the court is very large, and takes up a great deal of space, but with “the arrangements made for it will. be compressed into a very small area. In addition to the shelves! on the floor a gailery has been constructed close to the ceiling where a large number of books can be accommodated. When finished and ready for occupancy the apartment in bank will be the most imposing one in the building, though not of large size. Entering the door from the east and the visitor is confronted by the bench, placed on a slightly raised platform that extends entirely across the west end of the room. Two massive piliars flank the bench on either end, giving a severe and imposing impression of the whole, and making it re semble, to a great degree, the tribunes of the Roman basilicas. The room is massively square, and a great skylight lets in the rays of the sun, rendered less brilliant, however, by passing through ground glass. All about the skylight the classic style of ornamentation has been carried out, the frieze being particularly handsome. Walls, | pillars, ceiling and architectural ornaments being of pure white, the effect is chaste and remarkably severe. Comfort more than judicial severity of appearance has been consulted in fitting up the Justices’ chambers, where handsome furniture, luxurious carpets and easy-chairs abound. The Com- missioners’ rooms, too, are cozy and comfortable and fitted up with a considerable degree of elegance. The arrangement of the rooms and corridors was made es« pecially for the benefit of the court, which has taken a five years’ lease of the floor at $600 per month, the court being located on the top floor of the building. A wagnificent view of the sur rounding buildings and the higher portions of the City is ob- tained. To the north the magnificent residences of Nob Hill rear themselves against the sky, while to the east glimpses of the bay are obtained. From the windows that open to the south the Potrero and South San Francisco are seen spread out like a map. As the Gonductor Sees It] e Glimbed Off Backward.” Josiah Allen’s wife says we will that almost everything has iwo different sides if we only take the trouble to walk mind-reader. find | for it—because the conductor was not a both hands. E During the embryo riots caused by the checks for transfers the carmen were banged from both sides. The company’s orders were to throw off those who failed to obey the rules. The passenger’s ambi- tion was to smash the conductor and vin- dicate his rights. Over and over, the pro- testinz check-holders were men who knew just what they were doing, and did it with unnecessary impudence. It brought the company around all right, but sometimes it was hard lines for the conductor and the gripman. Ido not say that the street service of San Francisco is good. Every one knows that the cars are miserably equinped, and that they arz run with strict regard for Mr. Huntington’s famous statement; still Idosay and repeat thatconductors and grip and motor men would like to avoid operate with them to the extent of taking just common precautions, there would be fewer victims and fewer charges of man- slaughter. O11ve HEYDEN. Where Ice Is Costly. “Merciful heaven, can it be?’ With eyes that fairly started from their sockets the cliemist contemplated the glittering crystal his art had produced. With hands that trembled violently he apnlied toe final test. “It isice!” he yelled, “and the very best job is something to be hung on to with‘ accidents, and that if the public would co- | around to the back and view it: During the recent streetcar wrangle I took occa- sion to walk around to the back. Asa matter of course I object to Mr. Vining and the “octopus.” That is in the air of San Francisco. We accept them with the same pathetic patience we give to the bad paving and the turning off of ligh We bave been educated not to expect to have a thing just because we pay for it. A reader of papers, I was ready to take | my little check to the transfer-man, tell | him where I was going, woat I meant to do when I got there and mention the hour | of my return. I was also prepared to tell, | if necessary, my age and occupation, or explain at length why I preferred skirts thoomers. If I wasin a hurry and saw car after car slide by as I waited, I never my temper out loud, knowing how h one may accomplish by bumping s head against a wall. te one But about tte other side. little tussle Witnessing a 1e day, and feeling sure that w all abont the check to see what be could do, the thought me that a conductor’s place 1s not all joy and peace. With the | company on one side and the belligerent | publicon the other, he is between the | devil and the deep sea. I began riding often on the different lines, and instead of keeping my eye on | the conductor’s faults I watched the pub- | lic as it rode. The recklessness of the av- erave crowd is appalling. Were it not for jence that watches over fools, | traveling public would be dead. | al effect of Irish ancestry.) | sion car oneday I saw a woman » conductor, and, when the car | climbed off backward with the passen and was onl nod stopped, she the usual grace of a woman in heavy skirts, | which so suggestive of a cow coming down & ladder, and in turning she waiked up ber dress a few steps and fell. The con- | tor immediately asked for the address gentleman standing on the platform. | my verdant innocence I wondered if c thought the gentleman bed the woman off. So 1 asked. “Why, | a’am,”’ saia the knight of the punch, “‘we | have to do that for protection. Thkat wo- | man may bring a suit for damages, claim- | ing that the carstarted too soon and threw | luvr‘dm\u,aml I must have a witness | ready. of a In the nductor her if she beli body would do such | a thin Geary-street | sence of mind at full speed, witho conductor. | across the bay. 4 ‘ that boy’s mother only to be told to mind I told the story to the Girl and asked | his own businesss. and the Girl told how, on the {and the demented—all must be' watchea a woman in a fit of ab- | for and protected by the conductor and the _ (a disease sometimes motorman, despite poor brakes, slippery chronic) got up and walked off a car going | tracks and a crowded time-table. If the ven looking at the | compary says one man must do the work The natural result was that | of a man and a half he has it to do or lose I asked the carmen themselves if they minded accidents or if tkey found them exhilarating, Strange to say, they don’t like the sensation of grinding folks. They say the public believes that they take a malicious delight in the spilling of blood. And they feel that the hand of the public is always lifted against them. “Oh, yes,” said one, bitterly, “I like it. I sleep better when I have mangled a child or two.”¢ Doubtless familiarity does breed some carelessness on the part of the carmen. It surely breeds contempt for an ever-present danger on the part of the crowd. A rapid street service is demandedina large city. Those who rave most over the danger are the ones who want to speed to and fro with the greatest velocity. Ifit be conceded that the streetcar is a necessity the public must make up its mind to take in a great degree care of itself. Each one must appoint himself a committee of one to look after his indivi dual safety. Ifitis left to a conductor and the gripman to watch every one of a large crowd, there is zoing to be a smash. Instances of criminal carelessnesson the vart of parents result in charges of man- slaughter against a carman, whose whole life must be darkened by the memory of a tiny bl oodstained body drawn from under his car. Think of a mother from the country sending two little tots who know not that the jangling bell is a warning of fearful danger to cross Kearny street alone! Think of parents leaving a child of four playing on the sidewalk while they visited 1f these pictures were put in the papers and marked “gross careless- ness on the part of parents” it would be only truth. In the residence districts the boys have a habit of jumping on the platform, riding until the conductor starts for them, and then jumping. Nice habit, that. There are too many boys of a certain kind in the ! world, and a surer method of thinning them out could rot be found. Still it is hard on the conductor if he sees one of them ground beneath the wheels. I know a curve in Oakland and a boy who jumps on and off the car there until often I think Satan must be taking care of | nis own or he would be killed a hundred times over. The conductor has gone to The deaf and the lame and the blind she broke her head and sued the company | his job, and in this day of hard timesa I expected to make was a diamond.”” When they found him he was insane with joy. His mind was a blank. The se- cret was lost, even in the moment that it was found.—Detroit Tribune, ONLY THE FEMALE MOSQUITO STINGS YOU. She Has Five Sharp Needles Which Serve as a Tube With Which to Suck | Human Blood. This is the season when the pestiferous mosquito gets in its deadly work. No scientist has ever been able to discover a single virtue in the insect, but we all know its faults. Besides making mankind mis- erable during the summer, there is no doubt that mosquitoes carry and propagate disease. There is every reason to believe that they spread yellow fever. It has been ob- | served that this dreadful fever comes with | them and departs when they go. Where they are most plentitul it flourishes, but where they are scarce very few cases ap- | pear. Malaria is also supposed to be | propagated by these pests, but this charge | has not been proven. There are about 150 species of mosqui- toes in the world, and at least twenty-oue are native to North America. New Jer- sey alone has four species, one succeeding | another so that it is kept well supplied all | summer. The largest varieties occur in | the tropics. The female does all the biting. Tne[ | male never enters the house unless by ac- cident, its only object in life being to per- petuate the species. The natural food of the female. is the juices of plants. It is not known why she likes human blood. | If she drinks her fill once she never | troubles mankind again. Her sting con- sists of five very sharp needles, two of them being barbed. They unite and form an awl, which, having made the puncture, serves a3 a tube to suck the biood through. When Mrs. Mosquito is ready to lay her eggs she selects some still water near by. Here she deposits them in a boat-shaped mass on the surface. She lays about 100 at a sitting. From these the larve are hatched. These larve are called “‘wrig- glers.” When the wriggler is ready to emerge into an insect he comes to the sur- face and sheds his skin, which servesas a raft for him to stand npon. If there is any wind his raft may be upset and he be drowned. However, if nothing happens, he stands on it a minute or two until his | wings are dry and then flies away to tor- ment unfortunate persons. or four weeks for the exgs to develop into | full-fledged mosquitoes. In [ocalities where there are swamps or ditches the nuisance may be mitigated by | covering the waters with petroleum. A | single drop of oil will spread over quite a | | large surface, and the thinnest film is said to be death to the larvee. It isestimated that 500 acres of water surface can be cov- ered with crude oil for §3. If such surfaces were covered five times during the sum- mer no mosquitoes could possibly propa- gatein them. A mosquito will produce hundreds of generations in a single sum- | mer. -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-00 Bits of Irish Humor. FrOM THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE. “You should get your ears lopped, Bryan,” said a “smart’’ tourist to an Irish peas- ant whom he was quizzing; “‘they’re too large for a man.” *‘An’ bedad,” replied the Hibernian, I was just thinkin’ yours would want to be made larger; sure they’'re too small for an ass.” Tk i S D o e e “Barney” was a noted cardriver at a well-known Irish watering-place. He held that the *‘salt wather’’ was vastly improved by a mixture with a *‘drop of the cray- thur,” but would not commit himself to the opinion that the latter element gained anything by the combination. He sometimes drank more of it ‘‘neat” than was wise or well for the father of his weak family. One hot day, after a long drive and aliberal fare, Barney turned into the best bar in town and asked for a “sprinkle, just to keep down the dust.” would rather have other customers than poor Barney, came in as the latter was rais-. ing the glass. The proprietor, who “Barney,” he said, “‘I'd rather you wouldn’t be drinking, my boy. You know you were sorry for it before, and I suppose you’ll be sorry for this, too.”” for not takin’ it.”’ air. W e Rl T “‘Begorra, I might,” replied Barney, “but, sure, it's safer to be sorry for takin’ it than In a certain Irish college the student at his oral examination has to give his an- swers from a pulpit before the Board of Examiners. Once a student, wo had no mean opinion of his attainments, ascended the pulpit with a rather self-satisfied and hopeful The examiner, determined to “lower” him a little, plied him with a series of “stiff” interrogaions. Haraly a single correct answer was given, and when his time TR s 5 kel S -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 bad expired he descended and returned to his place crestfallen and humiliated. “Now,” said the victorious examiner when he caught the eye of his victim again, “if you had gone up as you came down you’d have comedown as you went up.” The Bishop of C-— was taking a walk into the country, when he met a little boy leading a somewhat troublesome goat by a rope. low, but noticed that he got no salute from him. “Why don’t you raise your cap to salute me, my good boy ? '’ queried the Bishop. “If you hold the geat for me, 1 will,” replied the urchin. He stopped to talk to the little fel- Excited Over Pontius Pilate. “Ha!” said Mr. Barber, the joker of the State Bureau of Mininig, as a very fat vis- itor waddled from the elevator to the reg- isterand there inscribed his name. “That’s Pontius Pilate.” How's that?” “Why, any one can see that he is paunch-us.” *‘How gbout the Pilate?” “If he had not been a pilot he never could have steered himself up here, and that is all there is about it.” Mr. Barker whisked his feather duster - over a showease and sent a remnant of the paleozoic age whirling in the direc- tion of the glass sarcopbagus in which repose the brass-ferruled umbrella once carried by Benjamin Franklin and the flintlock musket owned by Daniel Boone. But his aim was bad and he sighed relief as the flinty fragment came to a pause under a remnant of a petrified brakebeam. It takes three | The Very Newest Woman The Unconscious Bicycle Attitude. And the way she carries her parasol— that’s the bicycle habit fastened on her. She doesn’t know it. Her thoughts are not on her bloomers and her wheel —far from it. That’s the action of her sub- consciousness getting in its work. Itisn’t | necessary to say any more, is it? The | artist seems to have done his work well. He has merely caught the bicycle pose and expression of the very newest young woman as she is coming out of church. x o x o» It is not the “new” woman, but the gracious lady whom, in moments of an- tique tenderness, the head of the house- hold chooses to designate—though only to intimates—as the ‘“old woman,” whom the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has crowned with the glory of a de- fensive decision. The ‘“‘old woman,” the “lady of the house,” as a more refined recognition would entitle her, has at last, in these unromantic and material days, won a legal definition in a court to whose jurisdiction all good citizens bow. The man may be—and it does not throw any great doubt on the possibility—the actual head of his family in the abstract, the woman, his wife, is the supreme authority thwart, oppose or attempt to reduce to a secondary place before the servants. The decision is sound in common sense, as well as in law. The home is the empire of the wife and mother. She bears the re- sponsibility for its government by virtue ot her own express qualifications for gov- erning it. Man is a slovenly, untidy, in- exact domestic animal, who needs to feel the strong hand of order and economy in his nostrile, and only woman—gentle, firm, generous, patient, tidy, economic, careful, thoughtful, considerate woman— can direct him aright. Intelligent man in all ages has confessed the fact when he surrendered control of his button processes and the tears in his artificial integument, but intelligent man is not universal man, the proof whereof lies in the fact that the Supreme Court has been called on to ad- judicate his place in the universe. Now he knows. it, at jeast in New York. At home the wife is not only her Excellency, but ber Majesty beyond appeal. An appeal, if such were possible, from this decision to all true men would insure its sustentation without a dissenting voice. But all this, of course, does not necessarily limit woman’s sphere of use- fulness. Appellate Division declares that while the | in matters domestic, whom it is not only | bad form but ‘bad law to controvert, | | for you you'll The Very Newest Woman! Have you iy Kl o - seen her? Oh, yes; sheischic; still beau- ‘We'll not spit upon the street, | tiful—all that. But have vou seen her fa- In cars nor public places, | cial expression when in repose? Have you T}‘,{;‘,,“L’:",;"l’:,fl.ilo",fie"&'l‘ze,. | viewed her curves critically when she is And disease is spread about unconscious and meditative? Take her as By such selfish doing. she comes out of church this morning. ‘We will try to put to rout That is not religious zeal in her eyes— | Socking, spitios, Ohe wing: that’s the bicycle stare. Itis not from ‘‘Mother Goose.” Lewis Carroll didn’t write it. You may search the “‘Bab Ballads” through without com- g upon the original, says the New York Sun. In factitis not to be found within the realm of nonsense at all. This noble jeweiof sentiment as fittingly set in the pure gold of sweet poesy is deadly earnest. It is the battle cry of the Woman’s Health Protective Association of Brooklyn, and was sung to the tune of “Yankee Doodle’® at the annual meeting held yesterday afternoon in.the grounds of Mrs. Jere Johnson Jr. at 168 Hancock street by six little girls from the South Cougregational Mission Chapel, clad in appropriate cos- tumes and carrying National flags and “‘Health and Happiness’’ banners. There is more of the song, but this is the vital part. In fact the main part of the entire meeting was devoted to the denunciation of the process mentioned in the verse. For the better knowledge of those who are so lost in depths of ignorance as not to know what the Woman’s Health Protec- tive Association is, itsobjects are explained here by quotations from the address of its secretary, read yesterday : “To inspire the women of Brooklyn with a realization of their municipal obliga- tions; to promote the health of the people oi Brooklyn and the cleanliness of the city by taking such action from time to timeas may secure the enforcement of existing | sanitary laws, and to procure the amend- ment of such laws and regulations when they shall be found insufficient for the pre- vention of acts injurious to the public health or the cleanliness of the city." * * o ox The girl seemed ill at ease, and every time he took a seat near her she moved away. “My dearest,” hé said, “you seem wor- ried. Let me chase those tears away.” “Nary a chase to-night,” she returned quickly, *and if you know what is good keep away from me. Papa is sitting in the next room reading.” “‘But the door is closed,” he protested, “and we can hear him if he makes the slightest move.” “But you can’v hear him turn on the X. rays,”’ she answered, “and you can’'t tell when he will take it into his head to do it, either.” Keep your hand on your pocketbook when you hear a2 man insisting that “busi- ness is business.”’ iamo e Thomas Slater has & message for every man on page 82, Don’t fall to read it

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