The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1899, Page 23

and Whese ollectic about 1 ‘we r century d there r them the sple who ha tad for editions are o s an th men whose names appear in local eociety column alifornia have lived a Mf g of work and the women have lived a life of play, but they e thelr literary Intervals o late Adolph Sutro collected before his death a quarter of a million + They ranged, shelf upon shelf, in the ibrary of the big house on the neights. Mr. Sutro used to betak whiskered self there late at duties of the capitalist been lald aside. As he p more closely to old favorites, 1ls death he read any bound books except Dickens' Any one coming upon him at late hours would find him in tha big leather-covered chair, or sometimes upon the floor, like any boy, chuckling over Mr. Micawber or Miss Haversham. “Poor Micawber! Walting for some- thing to turn up! T'd like to have given him 2 pointer on business,’ he Wa§ say- vear or 8o before z aloud when somebody found him. 1gs don't up. Get out and turn them. You were a Jolly old fool, Micawber,” he went on. *“Turn up, in- He took a childish delight In the story of Little Nell and t he called “her her's junk shop.” Now and then he uld wander from Dickens and go rom with Scott, but it was never | long before he returned. Thackeray he considered unchivalrous. New novelists did not appeal to him, although he con- tinued to buy their books and sample their wares, bound to give every man a fair chance. But they were all unwhole- some, he sald. “Dickens always saw to it that the right fellow married .ne right 23 pftermost end of Broadway. Here his awaits brown cordu k boc or r you? he 4000 re volumes In gowned in oth, and show w Bestdes and flat upon the — i, 1 the peonle inro b Dick-ns < how to do t s up In pr shape, He never let characters ahead of him.” Of the Imes, many floor against table legs, And every book were worth! nadly ‘miscel- rding to the text of thelr owner, Janeous for books now 1 lie gloor soxed in a town busi- of Henry Hanks alarmed mo ness buil The story books are a good deal. Its ranks number even unto handled are and reverence, but 000, and they are griml uncompromis- without the famillarity of good fellowship ingly technical. Tt that they once knew and mineralo; Many George H. Buckingham carries on a real of t ed in the tight- e and investment business the uniform of the down on time and Montgomery goes home street in the at 6 o'clock T > reports in this case. A cal travels and historical works are the flippancies of Mr. Hanks' collec- tlon. And the man himself wouldn’t hurt His broad chin vouches for the fact. One can never tell. “Geology has always interested me,” he said, pointing to a case of speciimens which supplement the books. “I've been after rocks ever since I can remember. I used to leave boys playing marbles or tying a can to a dog just to Investigate some specimen.”” One of San Francisco’s millionaire bachelors ers books to young ladies. He has 13,000 of the former. Ten thou- sand of these are law books that line the walls of his Nevada block offices with buff and scarlet. “I don’t know anything about them except that they're here,” Mr. Lloyd said. ‘*Ask that young ma he's the one that knows."” Mr. Lloyd retired once more to the sanctum, little, old white ghost that he is He is, however, a very up-to-date ghost ‘““The law library is rare only because of its numbers,” said the proxy. “It is merely an extra big collection of law books. There are some valuable Masonic books here, too.” The library that Mr. Lloyd himself wades In is in the Folsom s It is made up of voyag Californian literature, Pe history. He has a ta umes as well as curios trated volume upon the Q home. There is an hology. Perched queer carved thing vention P. Hotali miscell ] up 100 are 1 nd poems : and reference hooks. ingham S good bindings to those who rofession—liv with 10 much my e when I used ith Captain le to read be- have a great many California’ h he went on. ‘‘Ban- croft and Hittell and 1 r lights. The history of our State is one of the most fascinating that s ever been written The mixture of Spanish life throws a light of romance over the whole. It is the history of little it over « and f homeward- is d- book- Irish and me. The n and Books list ateur of the are about the best friends we have,” he says. “They do all the talking and don't expect to be entertained as some people do, no matter what one’s mood may be. Books give all and ask nothing but silent sympathy.” There is one curfous lfbrary in town which s largely made up of works on grapes and w It belongs to pad Haraszthy apropos of his busi- all ther to know of his classical side of his whole history of wine down— before Bible tim. You know wine was invented some time before or even prin hy the making of it in- and I don't know but he's But his literary tastes do not stop at wine history. He has travels and philo- logical works ar ries besides. He owns 5000 volumes Mr. Bigelow That is is a lover of art. :n_he is m Mr. B hours he is almost the street car line The one rec se companions. ‘“They see. 1 not only led with- m. It is ) was also upon a_paint- What we know of Thorwaldsen is part of his sculpture “There are mapy histories and travels in my library. They help to explain art i ubjective life of a nation speaks through its art.’ Dr. Mec. utt has a large medical library, together with a literary one, for his office and his home are together. “I'm afraid you wouldn’t be interested in the names of some of my treasures,” he remarked. don’t mean much out ssion, but I have a iscians dropping in, old Young ones, to refer to some of the medi- cal books. I collect odd volumes as well as standards, and some of these queer old musty ones are not found every day. There are often things to be learned from them modern sclence. In ex of modern sclence devoted to classical nglish literaturs, Al- are 4000 books on his is good about letting them , but he has firm ideas in regard 1rnha eto is a the is politician Crystal b He biograpny r the sun every na- to_confer received 1poleon’s el and Mr her nam pictures Francisco does " eaid a 1 PEARL FISHERIES THE SULUS. rowd X they are, SR nting hue, thin- . broad- Continued from Page Twenty-two. ¢ h ougl hete S stron e S i s, in on the allens in the Moro country who are pro- EIOunGs; o e future, tected by law against the religious Mo- Prone upcn the na % comfort- hammedan fanatic who runs amuck, pur- #bly lounging with backs t the chase most of the pearls and ship them to koo cture of the out pufl- Chinese ports. It is sald that it s impos. IN8 palm-wrapped clgarettes. or with sible to buy pearls from these shre mouths filled with the betel nut, let the tradesmen among the Moros at a less flg- Seductive zephyrs blow them onward to a ure than they will bring in New York. short day of labor. They are wonderrul judges of the worth _ Later in the day a line of boats two of pearls, estimating by the eye and touch mi long and several hundred in num- within a few dollars of a large specimen. ber—for they have been augmented by ar- Native Moro divers are far more inter- rivals from Tapul and Lugus islands—are »sting and picturesque in their avocation anchored over the fishing ground. The | than the machine-covered men who go men stand nude upon the gunwales of the | down to greater depths. Stories are told boats, ready for the dive, perhaps with a of how naked natives swim down a sheer corded basket at the wrist and a shor hundred feet beneath the waves, stay heavy Knife, with which to fight shark clinging shell from 1 deep sense of and fishes, or pry som there five minutes and finally come up its hiding place. ()n‘w with a pair of fine flat shells in each hand. eels a Such tales are gross exaggerations, but disappointment at finding that they jump | their actual performances are sufficiently feet first Into the limpid water, instead of marvelous to appeal to any reasonable going down with graceful, headlong lover of sensation, plunges. Any clear morning at Maibun, the Sul- _There ne goes! The bubbles obscure him tan’s capital, when the breezes just rip- for a moment and then you see him, not ple the open expanses of blue waters and feet first now, but head downward, swim- the distant islands of green rise ahove the ming toward the bottom, with bold full sea in mirage, one may see a gaudy fleet arm strokes. His body, strangc.y fore- of a hundred small boats,put out, one by shortened through the vell of water, slow- one, or in groups, from the little land- ly fades from view, and you watch for locked harbor. The square sails of red his reappearance. One minute has gon and brown and yellow create bizarre com- it seems five. Two minutes are past, and your heart throbs in your breast with ex- citement as mental pictures of desperate with unknown monsters in those are conjured up. Y water, anxiously, expec life come 1 to sink again for- T Two minutes hing Mor pointi seconds and your evident d fir through at an object ri slowly the waters. It Is the man, not coming up like a cannon ball, u thought he would, but swimming 1, as if it were a difficuit task tc fresh alr once more The ¥ € reach beneath the water and grasp him, pulling him into the b y main strength. He lies there, panting for breath, and with bloodsnot yves, while his « npanions take from his basket three large pearl shells and some strange coral forms, brought up for the edification of the white men. The man's prostration is evidence enough of the fearful physical strain he has undergone; without the air of heaven rly three minutes, fifty feet under ng mass of water, which star: eyepalls from sockets p the 1 breaking his ear drums and the water out of his lungs While the native is supposed to give the Sultan or bis own dato the largest pearls he finds, as a matter of fact he has iost the loyalty of the past in his desire for gain, and the ever present moneved Chi- namen secretly buys the pearis, often for a tenth of their real value. In Jolo it is possible to accumulate & few good pearls from the Moros at nominal ices after the learn to trust you, but e transfer is always made in private. An attempt befcre said ket figures. Most ¢ nary poli ands for results in | nese, as straight ° bamboo, nature = wi filled through the c a blemish only ing the si néxt und to ruin a fishing— shells In wisely s at a time, s to swell in Amerfcan or other forei kes part in delving for tI able pear! shells the fight for gold will outweigh the con- sclences of the projectors to such an ex- tent that, unless stringent laws can be passed and enforced, it will not be many- vears before the pearl shell fisheries of the South Sea Islands will be & story of the past,