The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1897, Page 30

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, S DAY, AUGUST 13y 15, S el \F o=l TN e (¢ (G Ve y" | They are whooping up things at all the | summer resorts that are within a day's travel from this group of merry islands. | Oh, the very atmosphere has taken on a | pink tinge of delightful promises. We l?e- : guile ourselves into ignoring the intermit- | tent showers that ever and anon spatter our Jight midsummer raiment with dusty blotches and cause our straw hatsto lop over the ears and sink down in the top of | the crown. Of course we can’t all be in the gilt-edged swim at Newport, where everybody who isanybody owns hisown vacht and his own. motor carriage. Neither can we all be *‘dead game sports’’ | and “play the horses” and other exciting games of chance at Saratoga. Dear old sleepy Saratoga! It only wakes up about twice a year, rubs its shiny little eyes, laughs and chatters and dances a bit, then back to sleep it drops while the cute little medicinal springs go on gurgling and wasting their wonder- fully ve properties on the carth from whence they spring. 1 overheard a well-known raciag man tell a friend of his the other evening that | not for twenty rs has Saratoga been so lLively ssnow. Notonly is it crowded with guests from every partof America, but the money that has changed hands at the | track and over the gaming tables, is mar- | velous tothink of. Itisestimated thaton | Wednesday ana Thursday nights, at least | $50,000 changed hands the Saratoga | Club House alone. Talk about the Klon- di Well, if I were a man—and, of course, a wealthy one—I'd swoop down on curat Saratoga and try my luck as a “slunger” — (Is that what theycall it?). They claim that outside of the famous gambling pal- ace of Monte Carlo, the Saratoga Club House is the largest, swellest and most costly place of the kind in the world. Some folks areinclined todeclare that it far out- shines Monte Carlo. 1 haven’t heard of any Californians making a fortune there yet, but if I do, T'll try hard to find out just how it hap- pened, and to whom. ¢“Lucky” J. Baldwin and R. L. Rose have been reasonably fortunate with their stables this season. “Lucky” Baldwin | seems to have a splendid goer in La | Goleta, who, as a two-year-old, has sucs cessfully carried off a number of good | races. Itlooks as thongh La Goleta has a | brilliant future, and if properly handled | will make good money for her owner. ‘‘Archduke,” R. L. Rose’s thoroughbred colt, astonished the bookmakers and the | immense crowd of spectators at Saratoga on Saturday when he bounded under the | wire a sh head in advance of J. L. Madden’s champion colt Hambun It was a grand victory and little Taral, | the levelest-beaded jockey on the turf, | | used commendable discretion in driving Archduke in first. Already Archduke is | being vicked out as a good candidate for the Futurity. “Horse-racing is the sport of kings, therefore the masses engross themselves with baseball, cricket, rowing and bi- cycling. James J. Corbett has ceased fcr ‘hie nonce to nuse his educated fists, and stead is aeveloving his manly cai the bicycle. He entered a handicap race | with Harry Maadox at Asbury Park, N. J., afew days ago and Harry, his opponent, foolishly gave him thestart. Corbett won the half-mile dash easily, amid the ex- ultant shouts of an admiring multitude. Corbett is apparently quite happy in the role of ex-champion, for is he not admired, applauded, and beloved throughout the East and West? He has never looked as well as he does now. and really is a good example for modern athletes, for be doesn’t drink to excess and 1s a very moderate smoker. Enough of Corbett. D. J. Davis, the popular Eastern repre- sentative for Murphy, Grant & Co., has been inside the imits for several days. Mr. Davis is a very busy man, and as “‘business before asure’”’ is his motto his little group of cronies are complaining that they do not see him often enough. At the Hotel Vendome is but one Cali- fornian, L. Liebes of San Francisco, who | errived on Wednesday. Mrs. E. B. Crocker and maid were reg- istered at the Fifth-avenne Ho'el u couple of days lsst week. She started for the | south on Fricay. D. Loanberger, well known in San Francisco, arrived at the Savoy on last Monday and sailed for Eurove on Thurs- day tc be gone several months. Mrs. B. Howell and Mrs. G. Thompson are guests at the Everett, having arrived on August 5. 8. F. Hanna of San Fraucisco passed | through the city on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. A. W.Kinney, prominent in Los Angeles, came into town a lew days ago and engaged apartments at the Imperial. Business will detain them here but a short time. | Hon. Edward R. Cullom has recently | returned from a jolly onting on the north- eastern coasts, and the islands of St. Lawrence. He isip excellent health, and whenever one sees him he is surronnded by a group of prominent men, as jovial and entertaining as himself. it has been whispered that Mr. Callom is planning a regular system of scientific banting. He anticipates starting to California within a week, and from certain indications he has some plan in regard to the Kilondike boom. It is the popular fad just now, and Klondicitis is a gooa name for it. I came across the following lines a few days ago which are apropos of the present condition of affai “Th chinch-bug fierce has settled on the prairies of the West; the South kicks on the lightning-bug which lets noboday rest; the East complains of myriads of bugs, bothh great and smal the North is swarmed with goid-bugs, but it doesn’t kick at all.” One of the most important Kiondike ex- ploring companies formed lately is the Klondike-Alaska Gold Company, which was incorporated Friday, July 30, in Tren- ton, N. J. Its officers are Thomas P. Daniels of Porter & Daniels, New York; H. P. Whitaker, the popular and wealthy proprietor of the hotels Imperial and Netkerland; F. A. Brown of the Notting- nham Manufactur ng Company of America, England and Germany, and Ralph Me- Kee of the Times Building, who will be the company’s treaburer. Anong the directors is the genial and dignitied manager of the Hotel Imperial, Robert T. Dunlap, who leaves New York 1his Wednes1ay for San Francisco, where he will consult with a number of promi- nent husiness men, who are interested in the New York company. Mr. Dunlap will make the Palace Hotel his headquarters during his stay in San Francisco. He declares he will continue on to Alaska as soon as possible, as the | ments at the Hotel Jefferson. | town, after a short vacation in the coun- | gifted young woman and a graduate of | gust days in Saratoga. | eourt: | Baseball ut Central company is sending a corps of expen:m_;ed mining engineers and experts, togeter with representatives of the stockholders, | whose purpose it will be to purchase from | original discoverers the best and most promising ‘mining claims. The capital stock of this company is named at $1,000,- 000, non-assessable. F. B. Peck of San Francisco-is at the Manhattan. i V. R. Ullman, of the Brenner-Ullman Co. of San Francisco, is a very busy man | these waning summer days. His head- quarters are away downtown at 34 Leonard street. Mrs. J. C. Quinn has but recently ar- rived from California and has taken apart- | T. M. McFariane is a guest at the busy little St. Denis down on Broadway. C. 8. Wyman, a prominent citizen of Los Angeles, came over on business Jast | week, anticipating an early return to the land of orange and pomegranate groves. | Martin Lehman, who for many years was associated with the leading theaters of Los Angeles as manager and business representative, made a flying visit to Gotham the early part of last week. Mr. Lehman came on from Chicago for the express purpase of meeting Manager | Walte-s of the Orpheum Theater, who ar- rived from Europe on Wednesday morn- ing by way of Hoboken, N. . Manager | Walters, it is said, has a splend‘d list of attractions carefully tucked away in his | inside vest pocket, consequently San Franciscans may prepare to see novelties the coming season. | 3. C. Godtrey has been at the Hotel Im- | L abou. a week. G. W. Denman is in town for a couple | of we-ks on important business. | | per F. C. Robson, direct from San Francisco, is a guest at the Grand. Mrs. Clara 8. Foltz, looking the picture of heaith and energy, has returned to try. Mrs. Foliz spent part of her time at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson. fornians who are promi- | nent in New York and who are meeting with marked success and flattering atten- tion is Mrs. Helen M. Scoville, who has been teaching here several years. Mrs. Scoville was for seven years a teacher at Mills Seminary, beloved by every one who knew her. 3 For about four years sha Las been con- nected with the classical school for girls | on Fifth avenue, near Mount Morris | Park, as instructress in literature, art and sociology. | Mrs. Scoville has recently assumed tha manacement of the school in company | with Miss Edith L. Cooper, who is a Wellesley. The classical school for young girls has for many vears been under the manage- ment of Miss Eiizabeth Getty and Miss th Gregory. It is now entering upon the fifreenth vear of its existence and has among its patrons some of the most prominent people in the East. Mrs. Scoville is a lady of such refinement | and unusual intelligence that her success | in this new venture is really assured in advance. To look at her one would scarcely be- lieve that she is the mother of two young girls verging on womanhood. She is very | proud of them and they are deeply de- voted to her. They graduate in a few months and are already forming plans for the future. Miss Helen will in all probability enter Smith College for a couple of years, and | Miss Amy hesitates to make any definite | plans until next year, though her one am- bition is to continue her musical studies. Mr=. Scoville is still a loyal Californian, ; and if it were not for her business inter- | ests here she declares no place outside of the rugged coast line and sunny foothills of the Golden State could claim her alle- | giance. Another Californian who has won some distinction among the brainy folk who have transplanted their talents to these Eastern coasts is Mrs. Pailip Carpenter (farmerly Fannie Halleck Rouse). Sheis practicing law with her husband, having been admitted to the New York bar about two months ago. Her many friends are confident that she will prove herself a most successful attorney, as she is a close student and an ambitious woman. Miss Lucille, a popular milliner ef San Francisco, is here on a short visit in re- gard to business. She is a guestat the Imperial. Hon. Thomas Fitch has closed his law offices down on Broadway, and at present be and Mrs. Firch are spending the Au- Mr. Fitch does | not enthuse over the circumlocutory | methed of practicing law in New York He will probably discontinue | practice here. J. W. Fiynn and Frank F. Barlow ar- rived on the 3d inst., and registered at the | Hotel Cadillac. Next week a number of the very swag- ger modistes and swell importers give their private fali opening to invited cus- | tomers. Ihavea number of invitations from personal friends, so depend on it that if there are alot of pretiy and unique styles (o be seen I'll tell you all about tbem, soyou will know as much as the chosen few here and be ahead of the gen- erai public, who are not invited until a week later. The seasons seem to crowd one on the other this year, and 1n a few weeks more we will be gathering autumn leaves and cooking Thanksgiving dinners and planning for Christmas bolidays and —but why borrow trouble? *‘This yvear is not next year; to-morrow has no more to say to yesterday.” TrELLA ForTz TOLAND 34 Park Row. RELIANCE VS. RIVERSIDE, Park—The Local Team Wins, . There was a ball game at Central Park yesterday afternoon betweer: the Reliance of Oakland and the Riverside nine from the orange-beit. The game was void of any real enthusi- asm excepling that evinced in the sixth inning, when Riverside made the credit- abie showing of $1x home runs. The Oaklanders added one more tally to their record for the trophy, while River- side will have two lost games 10 add 10 1ts margin of losses for the same period. The score stood at the end of tbe ninth in- ning: Reliance Riverside . 5 6 The same teams will contest this after- noon at Central Park, T T e To Recover an Assessment. 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Such = dear little lotter as I raceived last week. 1 just wish that every boy and girl and every grown-up person in San Francisco who is the least bit indif- ferent, or careless, or slow, or selfish about sending in a coniribution to the Children’s Washington Statue Fund might see it, and read it, and realize, as 1 do. how much it really means. The boy who sent it to me isa very lit- tle boy-—scarcely more than a baby—so small, in fact, that he could not even print a message for himself, but coaxed some kind friend—his mother, or his grandn:other, or his aunt—to write it for him. And itsaid just this: Inclosed please find 6 cents from Laurence Garein, 6 vears old. for the Washington statue fund. He earned the money picking apples— 1 cent for an apple, Think of that, will you, you litue folks who get a nickel from papa or mamma or somebody every morning of your lives, without bothering your heads about earn- ing it, or, in fact, about how it is earnea at all, and spend it for chewing-gum or taffy-on-a-stick, or something of that kind. And think of that, you grown peo- ple with money cbinking in your pockets, or hidden away in your purses where it isn’t doing anybody the least bit of good in the world, and see if you don’t feel just an atom or so ashamed atfhaving a tiny boy get ahead of you in honoring the memory of George Washington. And earning the money to do it with with his own dear l:ttle chubby bands at that! That child believes, with me, in ‘‘deeds, not words.”” 1don’t believe that he ever “saluted the flag’” in his life, biess his dear little heart! and I don’t believe that he ever yet fired off a pistol or a toy can- non on Fourth of July. But just as soon as he heard that some money wads needed with which to prove in some small degree our love for the man who did so much for us he went right to work to earn his share of 1t like the brave and earnest little pa- triot that he is. I wish with all my heart that I had the time to go over .to San Kafael and give that precious boy a regular “bear hug’ and tell him what I think of him and. teil his mother just how proud I'should bhe of him if be belonged o me. Butaithough, as my dear oid teacher used to tell me, I “have all the time there is,”’ I find that I haven’t any more than just enough to attena to the business in hend right here in the City. 1In the first place, there is the mail to be ttended to, and that pleasing duty would fill up a good share of the time of almost any able-boaied woman. Thereare letters of all kinds coming in addressed to the Children’s Washington Statue Fund— letters containing contrioutions, ques- tions, advice, suggestions ani congratula- tions. And all these letters have to be | opened, read, filed and answered 1n one way oranother. Some of the writers must be replied to by mail; some must be seen personally. Some, however, who just write to tell us how glad they are that Tre CALL has taken this matter up and bow much they hope that the bigfolks and the little folks of San Francisco will justify my faith in them and their patriotism, I musi—because I am only one woman, and there are only just so many working hours in a day—answer right here with a “‘thank you for vour good wishes, and nowdo, please, start right in and do your very best to make those wishes of yours come true.” Among the letters was a most delightful one from no less a personage than Mrs, A. 8. Hubbard, who is the coast organizer of the Societies of the Daughters and Chil- dren of the American Revolution and pres- ident of tne Valentine Holt Society of the last mentioned order. Mrs. Hubbard is a patriot clear through, and her letter is fall of encouragement and heipfully practical suggestions. She saysin part: I have read with much interest the several articles that have ap- peared in THE CarL relating to the George Washington'statue, and Iam glad to learn that there is a movement on foot to re- store it to a position of honor. “That the children are taking the initia- tive in this work I am pleased to learn. It is certainly an evidence of their loyalty, and is proof positive that ‘patriotic day’ in the publ'ic schools of the City, with its patriotic features, is an excellent idea, and that the lessons inculcated by the teachers in love of country and the duties of American citizenship have not fallen apon barren ground. . “Would it not be well to bring this sub- ject Lo the attention of the hereditary pa- triotic societies of this City—the Califor- nia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution and the Valentine Holt Society of the Children of the American Revolution? They are sure to fall into line, _nnd will, no doubt, furnish substan- tial aid, for these societies, organized to perpetuate the memory and spirit of those who achieved American indepena- | their utmost to assist in the opportuaity to carry out these aims.” Now, isn’t that a charming letter? To my mind it is quite as charming in its own wayv as was that of little Laurence, for it means the same thing—love of our country, love of 1s preserver, and an earnest desire to help along in the good work of placing his negiected monument in a situation which will reflect no dis- credit on us as a loyal people. Of course the excellent sugzgestions made by Mrs. Hubbard are to be acted upon withoutdelay, for certainly societies whose | constitution states that among their ob- | jrctsare the perpetuation of “the memory | and spirit of the men and women who | achieved American 1ndependence,” and the fostering of ‘“‘true patriotism and love of country,” can be depended upon to do the good work | which we have undertaken. The Valentine Holu Society is the first one to be appealed to, for that is a chil: dren’s society, and this is a children’s fund—which will be helped out, of course, by the grown-up people who love the children and want to see them grow up to be good citizens of this glorious republic with hearts and hands ready to carry out | the principles for which our forefathers iought so long and nobly and trium- phantly. ' This society is composed of fifty mem- bers, ranging in age from 6 months to 18 years, and every one of these members is descended in direct Iline from patriotic ancestors, who helped to plant or to per- petunate this country in the colonies, or in the Revolutionary War, or in some other way. Already these practical young pa- triots have a heavy task on their hands, for they are helping to raise a fund for another purpose—to help take care of the grounds surrounding the Mary Washington monu- mert in Fredericksburz. Notwithstand- ing this, however, they have signified their desire to help in doing honor to Mary Washington’s son here in our City, and a litue bird tells me that at their very next meeling the matter is to come up for dis- cussion, and that there is no doubt that s sum from their treasury—the very lareest that they can afford-—will be sent to swell the Washington statue fund and show tbat they are living up to their constitu- tion in very truth, Just as soon as I can manage itI am going to see the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution, too, and the Grand Army people and the Native Sonsand Daugh- ters, in fact I wish it were possible for me to personally interview every one of San Francisco’s 350,000 inhabitants; but it really isn’t, for, as I said before, I am oniy one woman and there are only just so many working hours in a day.. But I am going to do my best and I am sure I shall get lots of help just assoon as my big and lnttle friends realizs that I need it. If every boy and girl among my readers who is in the habit of spending money daily for unnecessary and sometimes hurt- ful dainties will deny himself or herself for a time and send the money thus saved to the fund it will help along wonderiuiiy. And then those young folks, with whom the money market is a bit ““tight’’ just at the present, must take courage and follow the example of little Laurence. You can earn money in lots of funny ways if you once set your mind to it. Just the resuits. Boys are always very indus- trious during the weeks immediately pre- ceding the Fourth of July—ants are regu= lar lazybones in comparison with them— and the proudest-spirited of them will do anything but beg or steal toobtain enough nickels und dimes to fittingly observe the anniversary of American independence. Are those same enterprising youngsters going to let the-only monument in this City to the man who gave them Fourth of July to celebrate fall to pieces in a back vard for lack of money to moveit to a place where it can be viewed with pride by us ail? No, indeed; I won't believe any such thing. 1 believe the San Francisco boys are go- ing to do their part, and do it nobly, just as the girls are going to. And, by the way, those of you who are brave enough and earnest enough to earn the contribution that you send, do please { let us know how vou earned it. We should juat like to know how you thought your way out of the difficulty of being *‘short” on cash, and perhaps your experiences aund suggestions might help out others who are quite as earnest, but not quite as quick-witted and practical in their ideas. During the past week 1 visited a num- ber of our schoo!s and had a little talk with over 600 of the school-children about their favorite books. I went to schools south of Marke: street and north of Mar- ket street, in the Latin quarter, at North Beach, at the Presidio, in the Western Addition and in other parts of the City, and it did my heart good to hear children in every school declare that the ‘Life of ‘Washington’ and the ‘“Life of Lincokn” wereamong their favorite volumes. Surely we can safely leave the destiny of our Na- tion in the handsof little ones who have so early learned tolove and honor its heroes. And right here | want to say just one word about these same SanFrancisco school children. Brighter, prettier, neater and better-mannered children I never saw in all my life anywhere. And as for pen- manship—well, some of these little mites, “knee-high to a grasshopper,”” as my nurse used to say, write in a way to put to shame many of us grown-up folks who earn our livings by writing all the time, and they all write with the greatest neat- ness and legibility, and, moreover, under- stand what they are writing about. I didn’t say anything to these children about our efforts in benalf of the poor- neglectea memorialof Washington overon Mission street, for I had not the timeat my disposal to do the subject justice. This coming week, however, the teachers are going to take the matter in hand and tell the children all about it. A letter has been written to the princi- pats of the different schools—aad there are seventy- five dav and ten evening schools in this City—asking them to re- quest their teachers to give a little talk on Washington and the American citizen owes to him before the d fferent classes from the lowest primary grade to the highest in the high schools, and tell the pupiis beside what Tug CALL has undertaken to do and why. And I hope to =oon have something very special to tell you about this. I wonder how many have been out to see that beautitul site in the park. I wish every one who is interested in the work art yeur bright young, braine to work- in hand would go out there and look at ence, have, right here in San Francisco, | ing on the subject and I have no fear o that loveiy, natural niche, and come back debt that every | to town twice as interested as before, and wice as eager to see the grand old bust— which all San Francisco people ought to love, both for what it is, a relicof the City’s earlier days, and for what it repre- sents, the man who was “first in war and first in peace,” and should be ever ‘‘first in the hearts of his countrymen’ —fit- tingly placed therein. Remember to send your contributions to the children’s Washington statue iund, care C. R. C., CaLL Ofhice, and don’t forget what I told you last week. 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