The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 22, 1898, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1898. S STILL GROWING IN FAVOR Popular Interest Increasing in the Proposed Semi-Centennial Exposition to Mark the Fiftieth Milestone in the History of California as a State. Governor IL.ord of Oregon Approves of the Mqvement—Committees Should Be Appointed to Commence Work. nterest is daily increasing in sed semi-centennial exposition liversary of theadmission rnia into the Union. The pro- 1 meets with general approval, ere in 1900 to commemorate i prove ornia, but to all t > coast States. great value, not only to W ave already re ed assurances £ aid from neighboring Stat the t one to add words of encourage- 1t being Governor Lord of Oregon. letter received from his private tary T e is no time to the prelimina; and a half is not > the exposition a succ y to hav map out Mayor ing out the project s that he will appoint such a cc tee when he is in that the men 11 enter i spi expc with the much responsibility on the shoulders of few. d to rnor Budd will also be aske appoint a committee of p nt t 1en from the se tate, so that the in each county. appeal to xt State Legislature for an ap- aition would undoubtedly meet rompt and hearty ponse. reason why the semi-cen- ion should not be made s of the occa- UNDERTAKING VERY GREAT. Will Require a Man of Brains and Unquestioned Ability at Its Head. WENDELL STON—The the 8 1of of « idea of posed exposition, however, indertaking of such magnitude that well to give the subject uld attention before fixing upon some specific plan. The pulse of the community would, of course, indicate whether or not the support of the bus- iness interest of San Francisco could be relief upon not only to assist® in careful promoting the exposition, but to see that it is made a succes From my experience with the Mid- winter Fair 1 know that a great amount of real, hard work will be ne- SSar It will require a great deal on the part of men of ability tence to secure the money 1 to open the exposition. 2d of the exposition must be of pronounced firmness and t executi ability. In such a sition it requires both brains and na. Such a man must be found. Personally I would be more than pleased to see these proposed plans car- ried 1 I will not be backward not as a member of the committee n charge. I believe well to have a new ented in the manage- 1 hope the holding of an exposition means of uniting all inter- the newspapers as well S men. If this can be we can have a celebra- It would f an era of e ALL ARE PROUD OF CALIFORNIA The Golden Wedding to Union Should Be Propefly Commemorated. the COUNTY CLERK CURRY—By all means let us have an exposition on the lines suggested by The Call. We have ¢ reason to be proud of our State, 1d our golden wedding to the United States should be properly and fittingly celebrated. We should start the work of organization without further delay. The Native Sons have been working for months to get up a grand festival for 1900, and they would assist in carry- ing out the ex tion project. We have no time to lose. It should be a matter ate pride—yes, of coast pride, to p an exposition that will properly attention to our wonderful re- es. What benefits California bene- > Pacific Slope. We have ances of the Governors of ad- States that they will aid us in ing the movement to a successful We should start the work at for it will take months of time R R R R R R R R s tention until to-day. (z ———— et 0. Qe = W. S. Leake, Manager Call, San Francisco, Cal.—Dear Sir: Governor Lord has been absent State, so I have been unable to bring your telegram to his at- The Governor will be glad to see Cali- furnia properly celebrate the semi-centennial anniversary of her admission in the Union. in the e Respectfully Private Secretary. _February 19.. Z£98. astern part of the yours, 4454444440444+ PP PSS PP S T AR s & 2 R PP PP PPV PUPPUDUUUEE and earnest labor to arrange for an exposition that would properly com- memorate the semi-centennial anni- versary of our State’s admission into the Union. e A ARE SLOW IN ADVERTISING California’s Resources Are Not Properly Presented Before the World. HARBOR COMMISSIONER HAR- NEY—I am heartily in favor of an e position in 1900, and will cheerfully aid in making it a success. We have been too slow in advertising California to the world. The Midwinter Fair proved a grand success, and an exposition such as has been advocated by The Call will prove a far greater success. Many thousand people were attracted here by the Midwinter Fair, and many of them remained with us. Our climate and re- sources so favorably impressed them they decided to make California their home. The Trans-Mississippi Congress at Omaha next summer promises to be a suc and we should emulate the good example set by Nebraska. Of course, it will take time and labor to get up the exposition, but no public- spirited citizen will be found faltering when the time comes for all to put a shoulder to the wheel. - THE BENEFITS INCALCULABLE A Permanent Exposition Should Be Maintained to Educate Visitors. LICENSE COLLECTOR BONNET— There is no doubt that an exposition in 1900 would prove of almost incalculable benefit to Califcrnia and the Pacific Coast. It would be the means of bring- ing our resources properly before the entire world. Many who have not the time or money to visit the World's Fai would visit us, as we are within easy reach of the furthermost peint in the United States. For my part, I believe that we should have a permanent ex- position, when those who come here yearly to escape the rigors of the East- ern winter would find something to in- struct as well as amuse them. The semi-centennial exposition will prove a great success. PROMPT ACTION NOW REQUIRED A Committee Should Be Ap- pointed Within a Few Days to Arrange the Details. SUPERVISOR C. A. CLINTON—An exposition on the lines suggested by The Call would prove of benefit not alone to California, but to the entire Pacific Slope. We have everything at hand that would be required to make the exposition a grand success. The fact that the World’s Fair at Paris will also be held in 1900 should not in any way deter us from carrying out the project. Every one is in favor of the movement, and no time should be lost in getting ready for the event. A com- mittee should be appointed within the next few days to take the matter in hand and arrange the preliminary de- tails. By concerted action we should be able to present an exposition that would make the semi-centennial anni- versary of California’s admission into the Union a grand historical event. SUGGESTIONS OF_INTEREST. A Hotel Man’s Ideas—Fraternal and Other Societies Should Participate. EDWARD HOLLAND, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel—The prelimin- ary course of The Call has been of in- estimable value in promoting the hold- ing of an exposition in 1900 commemo- rative of the semi-centennial of the ad- mission of California into the Union. I fully agree that the proposed plan of making the exposition a grand affair is the best way of marking the fiftieth milestone in the history of the State. I would suggest that the Governor of the State be called upon to issue invitations to the Mayors of the dif- ferent cities in California and also the chairman of the Board of Supervisors of each county, they to meet in San Francisco for the purpose of formu- lating plans of organization. The scope of the exposition should take in the whole coast, but conducted under the patronage of the State of California and should be planned broad enough to be both non-political and non-sectarian. I suggest further that all fraternal and other societies be communicated with, with a view of having them con- sider the abvisability of fixing the date of holding their annual sessions to come within a period during which the exposition will be held. This would not only aid materially in attracting many people to the exposition, but would also give the different societies an opportunity to have special days at the fair in which to make demon- strations representative of the society. To illustrate: The Masonic frater- nity could have a day, the Odd Fellows another day, the Knights of Pythias another, the Y. M. I. a day, the Na- tional Guard a day, as well as such other societies as can be induced to participate, and last but not least the ever-present, always willing and pro- gressive Native Sons would have Sep- tember 9 for their day. Upon the conclusion of the celebra- tion I would suggest that a book be compiled giving a history of the prog- ress of California. It would be a good idea to have each county compile such matter about its county as will be specially applicable to the interests represented therein, the book to con- tain no individual or corporate adver- tising. The idea of the book is to furnish reliable data regarding the resources and industries of the State and to put the same in such form that the attrac- tions of each county could easilyv be referred to. It should be a well-bound volume which would be preserved for vears to come and be placed in every public library in the world. WILL RECEIV AMPLE SUPPORT A’Large Exposition Would Draw Visitors From All Parts of the World. AN EXPOSITION FOR 1900. Merced Evening Sun. The San Francisco Call has taken up the matter of holding a semi-centen- nial exposition in San Francisco in 1900, to commemorate the admission of California into the Union. It is to be on the style of the Midwinter Fair, but more extensive. “this proposition should and no doubt will receive sup- port from every section of the State. Several little cne-horse celebrations have been held in San Francisco during the past few years, all designedtodraw suckers in from the country to boom business in the city for a few days. But the proposition of holding a fair or exposition in 1900 on such a large scale as would attract people from all over the United States will be looked upon with favor by the country people of California. While the Mid- winter Fair was a great thing for San Francisco, it was also a great thing for the whole State, and brought many thousands of Easterners to the Pacific Coast. Something of the same sort in 1900 would be the means of brining many people and much capital to the State permanently, and every section of the State would be benefited. SOME OF GEORGE GREEN'S FANCY BLOWS AND GUARDS. = s E ) INTHEACT OF HITTING INTHE CLiNCH W!TH CNEARRM FREE RIGHT HAND BODY PUNCH RIGHT HaND CROSSCOUNTER The Crack Welter-Weight Gives an Exhibition With Choynski Before Members of the Olympic Club George Green, the champion welter- the gymnasium of the Olympic Club. and “a right-hand cross-counter.” weight pugilist of California, who will meet Tommy Ryan, the crack welter- weight of New York, in Woodward's Pavillon on Friday evening, boxed yes- terday afternoon with Joe Choynski in Green’s pet blocws, as may be seen by a glance at the pictures herewith rep- resented, are “left lead for the body,” a “right at body in a clinch with one arm free,” “left-hand swing for head” Green expects to enter the ring at 154 pounds. He will handicap Ryan by about six pounds in weight. With his stockings on Green stands 5 feet 7l inches, and Ryan's height is 5 feet 7%. The men have agreed to fight at satch- weights and hit in a clinch with one arm free. umpire, or the “Hon.” Hiram Cook will be selected to referee the fistic game. SHALL WE FORGIVE HER?” Maudlin Melodrama That | Quite Unfor- givable. Is Miss Marie Wainwright, Too, Is Very Much to Be Regretted. A Real Comic Opera at the Tivoli. Timely Sensation at Morosco’s. Vaudeville. Miss Marie Wainwright appeared at the Columbia last night as the wronged heroine of a play by the inquisitive title )f “Shall We Forgive Her?” The piece a maudlin English melodrama, anonymous and rankly unforgivable. In the lobby Its authorship was vaguely attributed to Frank Harvey, who, if gullty, is to be congratulated that his name does not figure in the play bill. I thought that after the weeks and weeks and weeks we have had of noth- ing but farce, vaudeville and Jjingle, anything - in the nature of a serjous nlay would be as a tonic—but this one is four acts too many for me. Of all the pleas that dramatists have made for the lady with the stained past, “Shall We Forgive Her?” is the worst that I can.put on record. It has not even the merit of unconscious humor. It is an endless orgie of tears and moans. aggravated by spasms of funereal “‘comic relief.” Grace, the heroine, is left an orphan and goes to her sweetheart in the wilds of Queensland. He neglects the formal- ity of marriage, and when she thwarts his attempts to rob a young engineer to whom she had given shelter, he pub- licly insults her in the presence of his companions, whereupon she flies back to London. There she marries a vir- tuous and uninteresting person who knows nothing of her past. But the villain still pursues her, exacts hush money, and the transaction is over- heard by hubby's housekeeper, who gives the whole thing away. As a climax the husband goes indignantly blind. And this results in another act in which the tearful heroine resorts to literature as a means of secretly sus- taining blind popper and their child. And then—forgiveness and melancholy felicity. The acting calls for no comment. ‘With the exception of Henry Naplie who contrives to secure several m ments of humanness in the part of the young engineer, the company deserves the plece. . Miss Wainwright has seen better days, but there was nothing to suggest the fact in her monotonous work of last night. She rubbed in the atrocities of the concealed author. ASHTON STEVENS. Baldwin. The Bostonians commenced the second week of “The Serenade” with every pros- pect of duplicatiig the immense patron- age of last week. “Robin Hood” is in preparation for next Monday. Alcazar. “Charley’s Aunt” entered the last of three successful weeks. “False Shame” | is the attraction to follow. | California. | A fair audience seemed to justify the extra week devoted to Black Patti's Troubadours. Hogan, as usual, was the hit of the performan Chutes. This Is positively the next to the last week of Chiquita. A big vaudeville bill is the attraction at the free theater, Tivoli. Millocker's tuneful opera is on for a week at the Tivoll, and when the com- pany gets more into the swing and go of the action and more at home with the music it will present a performance that is up to the standard of the house. It 1s a little odd, these days, to see Stev- ens in a comedy role that is not gro- tesque, for In the “Vice Admiral” he suggests his younger days in the more legitimate comic operas. As Don Mira- bolante he has not his usual monopoly, Eut quite enough for an admirable evi- ence of versatility. Raffael and Tillle Salinger were especially acceptable to the audlence. Leary, as the Donna Quesada, rather forces the comedy. That *“The Geisha” will be glven a sumptuous revival next week will be good news for many. Orpheum. Five new acts entertain Orpheum goers this week. Lima Pantzer, the high wire artist, does some remarkable feats which are new. The Carl Damman acrobatic troupe, and M. C. Lawrence with his bicycle tricks, present novelties in their lines which are good, and George W. Day does a monologue skit that is out of the ordinary. The sketch of Matthews and Harris is very laughable. Moresco's. The sensation of the hour was turned to profitable account last night by Man- ager Morosco, who presented for the first | Stevens. time here ‘“The Last Stroke,” a melo- drama written in glorification of the Cuban struggle and involving much Am- erican valor and patriotism. There is a | scene in which an American citizen, Mor- timer Snow, would be burned to death by the foreign villains but for the timely in- terference of Fred Butler and Landers And there {s another scene in which a ship is blown up that drives the audience into a fr of applause. Harry Mainhall is the Spanish villain this week, and his impersonation is complimented by many hisses. Landers Stevens is the good padre, and his speech. about the freeing of Cuba Is the signal for hearty applause. | Butler is the United States Consul, and is loyally received, and Mortimer Snow | is a rather subdued civilian of the same nationality. Maud Edna Hall, Julia Blanc and Queen Pursell are prominent among the feminine characters. The scenery does particularly well this week. —_—— Landaus, wagonettes, traps and drags of the latest designs at O'Brien & Sons’, Golden Gate avenue and Polk street. * —_———— Senator Sharon’s Nepaew. C. H. Davis, nephew of the late Senator Sharon, and Ned Foster, charged with petty larceny in obtalning $50 from the manz?er of the St. Nicholas Hotel on a worthless check, were arraigned in Judge Joachimsen's court yesterday morning. The defendants asked «for a continuance ‘gllmfimgrr"ttw:é and "t was granted. By that time expected every be smoothed over. e d erery l‘hlng i —_————— No Robbery Proved. Henry Harris, night bartender in the saloon in the What Cheer House on Sac- ramento street, charged with robbery by T. J. McCormick of Sacramento, had his. case dismissed by Judge Low yesterday. McCormick swore positively that Harrls forcibly held him and took his purse, con- taining $21, out of his pocket, but several witnesses for the defense swore that they were in_the saloon at the time and noth- ing of the kind occurred. Harris was de- fended by Attorney Treadwell. —_—————— The ‘“Koh-I-Noor” lead pencil will out- last three others. Try it. L Jim McDonald, the baseball | PRIMARY LAW ON APPEAL Question Carried From Tulare County to the Supreme Court. T. V. Cator Attacks Its Consti- tutionality, but Is Defeated. F. S. Stratton, Who Framed the Law, | Appears in Its Defense and Argues Forcibly. | | The case of Charles A. Spier vs. Rob- ert Baker et al. was submitted in the Supreme Court yesterday, and its de- cisicn will settle the fate of the new primary law passed in the Legislature | last year. | T. V. Cator appeared for the appel- lant and F. S. Stratton, father of the | 1aw, appeared as amicus curiae. The act, Mr. Cator said, aside from being in conflict with several provi- sions of the constitution, was an ex- tensive burden upon the people, and was also a law well devised to assist political trickery, to disfranchise vot- ers and promote political despotism: The provision that in 1898 and every four years thereafter there shall be a general primary election for the selec- tion of delegates to the State and dis- trict conventions to nominate candi- | dates to be voted for at the next gen- | eral election was taken up, and Mr. Cator said that as such a convention could only be held once in four years, and in the intermediate Presidential | years, the State conventions could only | nominate Congressmen and district | nominees. There was no method of nominating a Justice of the Supreme Court or any State officer in Presiden- tial years. The question of compelling election officers to serve without remuneration, he claimed, was depriving a man of his property without due process of law, as a man's time was equal to his prop- erty. This error he dwelt on at con- siderable length. He wound up by de- claring that it was not in the power of the State to donate public moneys to provide ways to help persons to nomi- | nation to office. Attorney Stratton, for the constitu- tionality of the act, met every argu- ment advanced by Mr. Cator, and after dealing with the general scope of the law as provided in the act, he took up Mr. Cator’s constitutional points seri- atim and argued them at length. As to the point which has caused more public criticism than any other, perhaps, namely, that the labeling of the boxes destroys the secrecy of the ballot, Mr. Stratton declares that the act of vet- ing at a Republican or Democratic box no more stamps a man as a Republican or Democrat than the act of voting at a Republican or Democratic primary on separate days. In either case the voter indicates his politics, and the new law no more violates the secrecy of the bal- lot than the old. In a general line of argument sweep- ing in its force the objections ad- vanced by Cator were brushed aside as being trifling in their character as against the good that would follow the law as contemplated by the Legislature when passing the bill. At 4 o'clock the case was submitted. ———— SAD CASE OF INSANITY. Mrs. Allie Ogilvie Sent to the Asy- lum at Napa the Second Time Mrs. Allie Ogilvie, niece of the late Dr. Luke Robinson, who resided at the Fair- mount Hotel, was committed to the asy- lum for the insane at Napa yesterda: The case of Mrs. Ogilvie is in many r spects a sad one. She imagines that she is the victim of a conspiracy to get her | out of the way, and in the strange con- dition of her mind her suffering is as intense as though enemies were in fact plotting against her liberty and her life, When told that she had been committed the patient wept bitterly and protested against the action of the Insanity Com- missioners. Mrs. Ogllvie has been in the asylum before, and It is now thought that her delusion will result in a com- plete breaking down of her mind, and will forbid her release during this life. —_————— In the Divorce Courts. Nancy G. Leon was granted a divorce from her husband, George Leon, vester- day on the ground of willful desertion. The plaintiff was allowed to resume her maiden name, Nancy G. Gray. Sarah M. Connell was granted a decree of divorce from W. B. Connell on the ground of in- temperance. The action of Samuel A. Wells against Alma M. Wells is now on trial before Judge awell, and a decision is expected to-day. Mrs. Wells appeared in court yesterday with her children, five | in number, and made many charges of cruelty against her husband as a de- | fense to his allegation. 1 . PINCHED HER ARMS. T. R. Simpson was arrested yesterday on a warrant charging him with battery. The complaining witness is his wife, Theresa, who alleges that on Sunday af- ternoon her husband met her on Geary street and insulted her by pinching her |arms and almost tearing her cape from her shoulders. She had been married two years, but owing to her husband's con- duct she left him about two months ago and has since been living with her mother at 8§23 Pine street. Simpson is a son of the late Dr. James Simpson, and through his father's death fell heir to considerable propert; nies the assault upon his wife, and say it Is a case of spitework. He was releas on his own recognizance by Judge Conlan. TR oo g m g Red Men to Banquet. James A. Filcher, secretary of the Board of Trade, will deliver an oration at a banquet to be given to-night by the Red Men in their hall on Post street, and other prominent members of the order will speak. James Fowzer, Porter L. Bliss and Charles A. Reynolds are in charge of the arrangements, and they promise a very pleasant time. ADVERTISEMENTS. a an happy because 0000 HAPPY OLD MEN! Men Who Have Preserved Their Power, £ Vitality is such a boon! It makes it fills his heart with gladness, his nerves with fire and his blood with that vigorous force of energy that de- notes the presence of fulsome, manly power. GET BACK YOUR OLD VIGOR. 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