The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER @2 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third, . 1 Telephone Main 1565, EDITORIAL ROOMS. . 2 Telephone N n IST4. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Centas. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DALY CAL . (including Sunday), one year..$0.00 incloding Sunday), 6 months.. 3.00 . (including Sunday 1.50 G5 C. GROR KROGNESS, Manager Forelzn Advertising, Marguette Build- ing, Chicago. NEW YORK « C. C. CARLTON.... PONDENT: ORRES . «+..Herald S NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR..... 29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. 0. News Co.: Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Breatano, 31 Unie: Square; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. . Wellington Hotel J. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—3527 Montgomery street, cor. mer Clay, ope o'clock. 300 street, open un street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. : 61 Market sireet, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencia sireet, open until ® o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. AW. corner Twenty-second Kentueky streeis, open il ¥ o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—Vaudeville bia—"Why £ ‘Maritana.” Yon Yonson.* ith Left Home.™ udeville every afternoon and noert to-morrow night. AUCTION SALES. 4—This day, at 11 o'elock, Furniture, at 501 This day, Horses, at Silver avenue, o U hich he re- y to compel ar taxes, substantally aw grind slowly These a s 1808, They iollowed h Justice of the October, stley case, in whi rior Judge Troutt successively nst the tax-shirking company 2 year, however, the corporation has The courts on ly decid volous pretexts. en to the Federal M e e Then the ag 3 i out a writ on the theory that as a cc 3y e Gover: I judiciary. But Judge d this, and to the cold and cheerless rts. tax-shirker has been in part re than i e to under. cighteen of the tax. mont the paymen ts the m f bad government in of Porto Rico and the has saved $10,000 a month for eighteen the process of the courts H g been defeated at every point, courts all over t v decided that it is legally re- quired ps it places upon its re- ceipts ar being in this city con- fronted w age suits for refusing to do sc be seen what Wells, Fargo & Co. wi it still bid defiance to the | law, hopir | come to its rescue? Will it be able to discover other Judges willing to listen to its unp: pleas and assist it in further e? delaying the in A review of the history of the methods employed by Wells, Fargo & Co. in evading the payment of this tax teaches an instructive lesson. It shows that fleecing the public is easy when skillful lawyers are employed and fees are promptly paid. In these cases judgment would have gone against the corporation the moment its pleadings were submitted to court; vet by the devices of arguing, making briefs and asking for postponements, it has been enabled to shift the stamp tax upon its patrons for eighteen months. Had the soul of Wells, Fargo & Co. con- tained a single trace of patriotism it would have be- gun purchasing its own stamps immediately after the decision of the Superior Court in the Costley case. The fight for delay proves that from the start its contention as to the meaning of the law has been fraudulent. There ought to be a remedy for this sort of national turpitude. Congress in re-enacting the statute so as to make the express companies pay the tax should affix a severe penalty for the past eighfeen months of meanness, treason and dishonesty. It is said that Dunham’s head and his necktie have been found in a Mexican cave. ' It is unfortunate that the same head and a different sort of a necktie were not found some time ago under different con- | ditions and in a different place. The friends of Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia are greatly concerned over the condition of his health. He is reported as saying in a recent interview that he saw in the recent elections-nothing to give encouragement to Democrats. The leaders of the national Democracy seem to have entered a conspiracy to tarnish the well-won fame of Rear Admiral Schley. They threaten to make him a Democratic Vice Presidential nominee. @all ;(0\’E.\(BER 22, 1899 to 221 Stevenson St. ge Morrow of the United | therefore, entitled to | ney it should have | the | FIN@NCciaL LEGISLATION. "‘l‘HE statement is made that the contemplated legislation to affirm the gold standard and to base thereon the credit of the Government will |p:|ts and become the law before the holidays in De- cember. In his speech at Cedar Falls, Iowa, the President qu said: “We are on a gold basis and we mean to stay { there.” TI declaration, added to the utterances of Senator Aliison at Cedar Rapids and of the next Speaker, Henderson, at Waterloo, seems to put the matter beyond doubt. Allison will probably be chair- | man of the Senate Finance Committee, and Speaker | Henderson will appoint the House Committee on | Banking and Currency. The bill may originate w either of these committees, and their probable con- stitution s reassuring. It is expected that the bill will provide for the en- tire refunding of the national debt on a gold pay- ment basis at a lower rate of interest. It will be re- membered that Mr. Cleveland, when compelled to i sue bonds to maintain the gold reserve and keep | the treasury from slumping to a silver basis, asked Congress to do practically what is now contemplated | by making the bonds payable in gold, and that he pointed out that the saving in interest would amount to a great many millions of dollars. The legislation on standard and refunding of course stands by itself. It is fundamental. It is the begin. ning of reform in our whole body of financial legis- lation, which is a confused result of either partisan or national emergencies. The country will be gratified if Congress will follow the gold standard and re- funding bill with the enactment of the banking and currency legislation recommended by the commission elected by the Indianapolis Monetary Conference. It must be remembered that while the standard is of prime importance as the foundation, the country will ill suffer for an adequate and well guarded banking vhich will furnish a safe currency and by its y will distribute the surplus capital, the loan fund of the country, where it be as accessible to the farmer and planter as it now is to the merchant and 1 f It is an old and wise saying that any good bu: nan can always use profitably more money than he owns. For this reason the boi- | rowers of the country are always its most enterprising men, who make money by the use of their credit. | When a nter has to use his credit in an irect and roundabout way he is hampered and hurt. | Through the tendency now to send surplus funds from cour into the financial centers of the produced a famine of the loan fund with a glut in the cities. | | | a system, w flexib turer. siness farmer or 1 ¢ compelled to do it by grace at y merchant indemnifies ing the price of his goods to rs to the wholesaler or jobber ity the risk he is assuming. Thus a d and is insured by the jobber ng the price of what he sells to the coun- hant. The wholesaler or jobber then goes to d transi his bank and uses the accumulated credit to borrow | money on which to conduct his business. It will his method of using credit is burden- sastrous. Every wholesaler and retailer h the percentage on prices thrown off which is the difference between the normal and the raised price required by this unscientific use e first credit required by the farmer. It will be seen that the whole accumulation of two raises in price and the final interest paid to the bank by the wholesaler flows back to the farmer, who has it to pay when he liquidates his debt at the country store. We ! should have a system of banking that would discour- | age such a wasteful use of credit. If the farmer had ac- cess to the to pay store the country merchant could pay cash to the wholesaler, and in each trans- fer of the mi andise the discount off for cash would appear and there would be no margin of raised prices for the farmer to pay. His credit would cost him only the one interest charge at the bank which accommo- | dated him. As the credit would be used at the right nstead of the wrong end of the series of transactions, the city wholesaler would less frequently resort to the loan fund in the city bank, and that fund would flow to the country where the farmer’s necessity for credit | offered a use for it. | The present accumulation of money in the finan- centers is conducive to its speculative use in such ters, and the speculation thus stimulated is one of es of currency panics. Of this we have just d an illustration in New York City, where specula- 1 in the stocks of the many trusts recently organ- ized produced a loss of confidence which very nearly | caused a panic, that was only averted by the Treas- | ury offering to buy $25,000,000 of unmatured bonds. The iriends of the gold standard see very clearly that until the whole system of financial reform is es- ‘mh:i‘hc-l the danger remains that the uneven distri- | bution of the loan fund may bring on conditions which the unsound money cult will teach the people self. r cash, c | to believe are due to the standard | The Americans seem to have captured everything belonging to Aguinaldo except his reputation. They have his private sccretary, his Secretary of State, his | printing press and his wife’s wardrobe. Out of sheer | good nature he may give his pursuers himself with- | out further trouble. R THE FIGHT BEFORE US. EPORTS of the plans of the promoters of the project for obtaining appropriations from the National Government to provide irrigation for the arid regions of the West have gone East, and the | press of that section has begun to express opinions | on the subject. These opinions are what might have extent, at any rate, wiil oppose all efforts to provide for any comprehensive scheme of irrigation, and it | is clear we are to have a hard fight and probably a long fight before we win. The Baltimore American, in speaking of the plan, | calls it a project for wasting money, and says: “N»> | matter has been more carefully worked up than this firrigation crusade. Congress has managed thus far | to resist the onslaught upon the treasury, but these men are very persistent. They are well organized | 211 through the arid West and Southwest, and in some |plns that mre not arid. They ask that the Govern- | ment shall build waterworks at an enormous expense | to irrigate large desert tracts and convert them into | productive farms. No proposition like it has been made to any Government in modern times.” The peo- ple who settled the East and made it blossom as a rose never thought of asking the Government to grub up the stumps or put up fencing or to do any other | thing that would contribute to the profit or security | of farming, nor did the people who went from the East to settle the mighty West ask their Government to stake them.” Such is the attitude of a_large proportion of the Eastern people toward the movement for national irrigation. It is regarded there as a scheme to tax I d to secure what heneeded inorder | been expected. The Eastern people, to a considerable | the East for the benefit of the West. It will be seen have been captured by our troops, that we must at once undertake a campaign of edu- cation on the subject and prosecute it vigorously. Atfter all it may be found that it would be cheaper for us in California to undertake water storage for our- selves rather than wait until the East has been brought to, understand the enterprise and co-operate with it fl miral Schiey a house. Other giits to the herces of the Spanish and Philippine wars are contemplated. It is to be hoped that these projects will be abandoned. As far as is known none of the GIFTS TO HEROES. MOVEMENT is on foot to present Rear Ad- originate in the desire of some one to achieve no- toriety on money gotten by appeals to patriotism or to the ever-present sentiment of hero worship. Men trained to arms enter with deliberation a pro- fession in which they are set apart from the masses of their countrymen, in order that in martial emer- | gencies they may do their duty. It is to them an | injustice to make it appear to the world that their ents. The eight Boers who made a new Ther- mopylae on the blear veldt of South Africa, by stand- ing their ground as a target for British bullets in or- der to give a large body of their comrades in arms a chance to reach safety in the hills, probably had no than that they were doing their duty, and no hope nor expectation of any after reward had place in their they had and all they hoped for. An American feels uneasy at the first results of the giving of gifts. Admiral Dewey was given a ready- made house by his admiring countrymen. As he quaintly said, he wanted a house all ready, where he could go at once and hang up his hat. At that time it was not known that there was a lady in the case, who also had a hat to hang up. But there was, and in a honeymoon exuberance the admiral has given the house to his wife. The result is a most remarkable reversal of public feeling that illustrates the exceeding volatility of our people. Ten days ago every Ameri- can boy born into this world was marked to bear the name of Dewey at his christening. That name to conjure with was adopted into commerce as a trade- mark for many things. But now it is regarded with a different feeling, and the hero’s picture is hissed when shown in the kinetoscope. Scores of sub- scribers to the fund are rather indelicately worrying the committee for a return of the money, and an ei- fervescent enthusiasm has been turned into the spirit of carping and criticism. The event is calculated | to subject Americans to ridicule and to take the fine bloom off the feeling that pervaded the country and sought expression in the welcome given to the great admiral. But it seems that the country felt that Mrs. Dewey, a very rich woman, was not in need of a house, and draws a distinction between giving him a mansion in which his wife and family are sheltered under his ownership and giving Mrs. Dewey a house in which the admiral hangs up his hat on her suffer- ance. To put it squarely, the country seems to feel that the lady had a large lot of luck in getting the foremost man in the world for a husband, and should not have had a giit house thrown in. As a consola- tion to the angry donors who want their money back | we beg to suggest that they may find comfort in that scripture which saith that it is more blessed to give than receive. They gave the house and grounds | and hatrack and pantry, and, we hope, a well-stocked cellar, and have already received the blessing with | which they would part if their money were refunded. In that respect they cannot eat their cake and keep | it. Then, really, it is unfair to demand that the com- mittee give back the money, for the only recourse | they have is to pay it out of their own pockets or to | ask Mrs. Dewey to sell her house and return the prics to them. We hope the donors will see how embar- | rassing this will be to the committee. It will be bet- ‘;ler to proceed now to raise the $100,000 required to | carry out the proposition to have the Dewey Arch in New ¥ork City made a permanent structure by reproducing it in marble. That will perpetuate the his wife, the country will possess an inalienable me- morial of the battle of Manila Bay. THE DEATH OF HOBART. | AMERICAN Vice President Hobart. The feeling of sor- row, moreover, will be due wholly to personal respect for the man and for the family which he leaves to mourn his loss. Mr. Hobart had but a small part in the politics of sympathy will be profoundly election he has of course accomplished nothing in political affairs, for the office affords no opportunities for doing so. The reputation he has achieved in office has been the result of his tact and courtesy in | social life, in presiding over the Senate, and in the deeds which made up the routine of life in official station at Washington. Few Vice Presidents have been more highly es- | teemed or have more justly merited the honors con- ferred upon them. As a rule a Vice-President is for- gotten almost as soon as elected, and is recalled to public attention only when there is some danger to the life of the President. It has not been so with Mr. Hobart. He did not live obscurely at the na- | tional capital, but made himseli felt there as a per- sonal influence which had to be counted as a potent factor in social life and to some extent in the Senate. Notwithstanding his success in the office he found it uncongenial, and it is well known he would not | have been a candidate for re-election. He was vir- tually out of politics before his long illness began, | and his death, therefore, makes no change whatever in the political situation. The nation mourns the loss not of an office-holder but of a citizen of the highest rank and the truest patriotism. Such duties, public or private, as devolved upon him were fulfilled with a fidelity that entitles him to the honor of his coun- | trymen, and it is with that feeling the people receive | the news of his death and extend their sympathies to | all who were near and dear to him. A veracious correspondent from the Philippines says ‘that the Sultan of Sulu has a deep-seated an- jects to a change in his religion. the hide of the good shepherd is very often sus- piciously like that of the wolf. The Prince of Wales has subscribed £262 to the Transvaal war fund. That odd two puns makes it look as though the Prince had dug down into his small change pocket. Active operations still continue in the Philippines. Twelve barrels of the wardrobe of Senora Aguinaldo stirred by the announcement of the death of | [ | | tipathy to Christian dogs. The Sultan evidently ob- | sisst ; Miicizan, 1 The operations of the local “religious” general, | 1 Uehisan. who is at present under a police cloud, indicate that | 15, lowa, 184, Dec | Cal. 1899. DEWEY'S SON HOW |70 RESIGN FROM N SALVAGE FRON GETS THE HOME| - DENTAL BOARD Th CHARLESTON Second Transfer of the Gift House. ol Spectal Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Nov.2L.—George Good- win Deway, Admiral Dewey’'s only son, is now the owner of the residence pre- intended recipients are in want. As a rule the projects | sented to the admiral by the American people. Papers were prepared and signed early to-day by which Mrs. Mil- dred McLean Dewey transferred all rights and title to the pmpeng‘- known as 1747 Rhode Island avenue, this city, to George Goodwin Dewey. This is the property which yesterday Admiral Dewey transferred to Mrs. Dewey. The papers making the new transfer probably will be placed orn file to-morrow morning. In explanation of the transaction prac- tically completed to-day, a relative of the Dewey family made this statement to the duty is done in the expectation of substantial pres- | Assoclated Fress: ‘Admiral and Mrs. Dewey have trans- ferred to the former’s son, George Good- win Dewey, the title to the home pre- sented to the admiral by the people of this country. It will continue to be the home of the admiral and Mrs. Dewey so Iv:n? as he may live. “It may be desirable now to say that it was the wish of both the admiral and other thought as they faced the guns of a brigade | Mrs. Dewey to provide for a proper suc- cession to the property. The transfer of to-day completes the transaction begun yesterday and is the carrying out only of the original intention of both :he admiral thought. The approval of their heroic souls was all ;md Mrs. Dewey. By all those interested n the matter the method of transfer made was considered the best and safest that could have been adopted. It s to be considered naturally that the trans- fer was to be the act of Mrs. Dewey as well as of the admiral. It was her de- sire that she should release any claim she might have to thé property through her marriage to the admiral and to do this | the transfer was made through her to the admiral’s scn as soon as was prac- ticable. Through the methcd adonted no dispute ever can arise over the dispo- sition of the propert AROCUND THE CORRIDORS E. M. Carr, a wealthy contractor of Pinole, s a guest at the Grand. Dr. Whitelock, one of the leading med- | fcal men of Merced, {s a guest at the Grand. Thomas Flint Jr. has come up from his home in San Juan and is registered at the Palace. Franklin Ballon, a wealthy mine owner of Leadville, Colo., is among the recent errivals at the Palace. M. Goldsmith, one of the leading mer- chants of Stockton, is registered for a short stay at the Grand. J. J. Shoate of the United States Mail Service arrived from Los Angeles yester- day and went to the Occidental. B. T. McCullough, the millionaire rancher, of Grows Landing, Is a guest at the Lick. He is here on a flying business trip. L. H. de Friese, a traveler from London, who Is visiting the coast on pleasure bent, is among the arrivals of yesterday at the Palace. Congressmen De Vries and Kahn have left the city to be present at the opening of Congress on the first Monday of De- cember. Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Dawson, two well known society people of Portland, Or., are at the Grand on a short pleasure trip to this city. F. W. Angier, traveling passenger agent of the Union Pacific. is in this city, where he arrived on business connected with his position. He is staying at the Occldental. Ernest Hochmeyer, a merchaut of Guatemala, is at the Palace, where he ar- rived yesterday to meet his brother Ed- win, who arrived from Hamburg. They are both registered at the same hotel. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON. Nov. tive Needham's family arrived from Mo- desto, Cal., to-day and is at the Riggs House. J. C. Whitacre of San Francisco is at the Willards. e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS BASEBALL—C. A. D., city. In 1557 the rule of baseball was for a time five balls hero's memory, and, as he cannot deed the arch to | and four strikes, as the game was played in this city. ANSWERS THE DESCRIPTION-F. R., Oakland, Cal. The description given in the letter of inquiry tallies with that of the individual inquired about. CORN STARCH—C. B. D, city. Corn starch, like any other flour, is not intend- | ed to be eaten raw, whether taken for the “purpese of beautifying the complexio: or for any other purpose. In that cond tion it is not easlly digested and is very likely to distress the one eating it. THE IOWA—A. and J. 8, city. The cost of the Iowa of the United States navy was $3,010,000. It is impossible to ive the ‘“‘cost of guns and everything on oard,” as these figures are to be obtain- the country. Before his nomination for the Vice | ed only after an examination of the books | Presidency he had no national fame, and since his | of the Navy Department at Washington and then comparing the cost of each arti- gle v;l.m an inventory of “everything on oard.”” KILLED IN BATTLE—A. B., Antioch, Sulla, the rival of Marius, at Cheronea B. C. 8§) destroyed 300000 men in each of three battles. The Persians are said to have lost 230,000 men at Platea (B. C. 479, September 22). Second Chronicles xiti:17, records §,000 slain on one side. Kings xx:26 gives 100,000 destroyed in one day. PAPAL TIARA-K. M, city. The Pa- pal tlara Is the tripie crown of the Pope, symbolical of his temporal as the keys are of his spiritual authority. It is com- posed of a high cap of gold cloth, en- circled by three coronets, with a mound and cross of gold on top. From the ca hang two pendants, embroidered an. fringed at the end, and semee of crosses of gold. The original Papal crown con- sisted of the cap alone and was first used v Pope Damasus II, 145, The cap was surrounded with a high coronet by Pope Boniface VIII, 1205; the second coronet was added in 133 by Pope Benedict XII; the third by Pope John IIT, in 1411, STATES AND TERRITORIES—A. B., Antioch, Cal. The thirteen original States became part of the Union upon ratifica- tion of the constitution. The following gives the names of these States and the order in which they ratified it: 1, Dela- ware, 1787, December 7; 2, Pennsylvania, 1787, December 12; 3, New Jersey, 1787, D cember 1S; 4, Georgia, 1788, January 2; 5, Connecticut, 178, January $: 6, Massachu- setts, 1758, F'ebrul% 6; 7, Maryland, 1788, April 28; 8, South Carolina, 1788, May 23; §, New Hampshire, 1188, June 21; 10, Vir- nia, 1788, June 25; 11, New_ York, 1788, uly %; 1%, North Carolina, 1789, Novem: r 217 13, Rhode Island, 179, May 29. The following gives the dates on which the other States were admitted: 1, Ver- mont, 1791, i 2. Kentucky, June 1; 3, Tennessee, 179, June 1; I. 1802, November 29, 5, Louisiana, 1812 ;5 Indiana, 1818, ' December '11; 7, i, 1817, mber 10; 8, Illinois, 1818, December 3; 9, Alabama, 1519, D 14: 10, Maine, 1530, March' 15; 11, Miseoort, 1821 ; 12, , 1836, June 15; 1837, January 26: 14, Florida, h 3; 15, Texas, . December 29; i . 3 ember ; 17, Wi 1sis, May 20 18, California, 185, prembas $; 19, Min Ma; 188, Eeb 25, Revida, 1564, October 1 24 Nobreais: 187, March 1; 25, Colorado, 1576, August 1 2, North ota, 1589, November 2: 27, B By pber 2 8, Mont ana, ., vem) L 23, 1889, ‘November 11; 3, 1 o areD: 31, Wyoming, 1890, Ji ; & 3. Wyoming, 18, July 11; i, Utah, The ¥er'rl!orlu organi: lowa: New )(exl'c:’.‘m. Bem:‘;. Arizona, g'l'l. February 24; ) 1834, B B T ARk Sl L lahoma, 185, Ma PESCHE O, 21 —Representa- | It is asserted that the greatest num- | ber ofr men killed in battle was when ! Dr. Metcalf Disgusted With Proceedings. BEeBlias Spectal Dispatch to The Call. Nov. 2L.—The story in | concerning the in- State Board of | SACRAMENTO, this morning’s L';ll 5 ternal troubles of the b hid Dental Examiners was read with gr.:t‘ interest here and the knowing -‘mcs“le“ni pressed the bellef that the true (uni :j 2 of affairs had been very accurately de i *PRE H. Metcalf would not omsent to | be interviewed at this time, bmh r' i other sources it was ascertained t ata"x:‘ {s disgusted with the whole business and | will tender his resignation to G r"i"-i Gage on the latter's return o = ‘ur mento about a week hence. ._\sv(urA n} F. F. Tebbets, x_hz mg-nx:"..:‘ro:\g“::u\lsrt)"\ ‘”d | charges baa been made, he profess :‘oiebtlkl\'i that he has been (u\-u’(‘df ‘A‘X“vl\! a complete vindication by bis e!u. members. After he had read the rat nzr taus’tlgc sm:emf‘;u. of Dr. T. Cranz, Dr. Tebbets said: ““The board held an examination 'uL;On\ the charges -preferred against me by fi.r. | Cranz. There was no evidence to sub-| | stantiate the charges. Dr. Cranz was | present at the investigation and heard .u? | own witnesses deny the things Pe selc they would testify to. Those witnesses | were supposed to testify that I had prom- |ised to pass them for a consideration—| | that is, they were supposed to testify to that, according to the charges made by Dr. Cranz; but they did nothing of the kind, and ‘the board, Dr. Cranz being present, voted unanimously to dismiss the charges. I mean by this that there was an aye and no voie on the propo- ]slllon, and nobody voted no. don't know' what the other members of the | board may see fit to do about resigning, but for my part I shall hold on to my | position. The others may do they see | fit. It is no concern of min FUNNY SITUATIONS AT ALCAZAR THEATER The true significance of a funny situa- tion may only be appreciated when the author of a play has solved the great| problem of presenting his idea without literary frescoes. It {s therefore often | apparent that a pantomimic joke has far | | more rapid effect than a joke clothed in | | fine literary apparel. The great secret of the fun in “My Friend From India” is | | | (although there are | | comical dialogues) as in the silent hum that flows through some of its scenes. | The situations, in faot, are the br'n:nt} | background of this play upon which scme humorous characters go through a gro- tesque episode. The Alcazar company gi comedy an excellent pl';r(r' this this bit of | We have | P as the leaders in Stockwell and whose shoulders part. ‘The former is an & experience whose acquaintan: vy side of character work in creating a laugh. Mr. Ormonde is in the delivery of his lines than zation, In f. with alds Lim Stockwell it is nearly all his looks, while | with Ormonde it is the execut which is the most comical Both are very clever. Juliet Crosbiedoes the female comedy work and proves herself very | efficient. Truly Miss Crosby is a very versatile actress. Any artiste who can | play one week the Queen of France in | “The Musketeers" d the follow! week Tilly in “My end Fro India”™ | i | | | | | | | as Miss l'rosb{ has done, is entitled to| nd ver- tie scm- | dorsement, Such is the evidenge of artis inbor: le: the highest satility erament and | Montaine has not very much to do, but | that little he does with his well known | | faithfulness to detail. Miss Gertrude | Foster in the leading role makes a \'ory} charming Marian Hayste. The beauty | about Miss Foster's work may be sought | in its unaffected quality. There i= no restraint about her acting and no desire | to overact. The manner in which she imitates a society dame does not bear any | traces of affectation, but is exactly what it ought 10 be—a humorous imitation of | an existing human weakness. This bit| | alone ought to bring Miss Foster the ap- | proval of her audiences. | Marie Howe is another character wko | | lends luster to the performance. Besides | her striking personality Miss Howe is | always fetching. Her work never lacks esprit and there is a certain air of dash | surrounding her action which one must necessarily admire. . 'SECOND RECITAL OF THE HOLMES QUARTET The Holmes quartet gave {its second concert at Century Hall yesterday after- noon. The feature of the programme was Brahms' piano quintet in F minor, Arthur Fickenscher acting as pianist. While I | belleve Mr. Fickenscher to be a soloist of | | considerable ability—particularly in the | technical line—I hardly think he is fit for ensemble work. His attack is too vigor- ous and the various shadings are there- fore not brought cut strikingly enough. | Brahms requires_delicacy and emotional | execution,which Mr. Fickenscher unfortu- nately lacks. Ensemble work is a gift by | itself and must be inborn rather than ac- | quired by practice. Henry Holmes him- | self Is a splendid executant and seems to discover the epirit of the composer. Thus | outside of the plano part this quartet re- 4 ceived a good rendition, although at times | the ensemble work was not quite as clean | as it ought to have been. | But the quartet redeemed itself in the Beethoven quartet in C. The allegro molto movement was executed with a dash and power inspiring in its fervor. This was, according to my idea, the best | work done by the quartet so far. It did not only show that the members of this | body are musicians but that they are | | absorbing with effect the healthy ideas of their leader. This last quartet alons established for this organization a posi- | | tion which will give it prominence in the musical fleld. The vocalists on this occa- sion were Misses Beulah George and Zueletta Geery, and FFn"d Maurer acted | as accompanis METZGER. The first installation of the officers of Olive Branch Chapter of the Order of tha | | Eastern Star took place last night in the { upper hall of the Golden Gate Asylum, in | | the presence of many members of the or- der and a number of strangers. The | beautiful ceremony was conducted hy Grand Patron George L. Darling, assisted | by Mrs. Mary E. Partridge, past most | worthy matron of the United tates, the capacity of charges to lge grand marshal. that work may have | ualed but has never been excelled. b’le‘;;g | elected officers who were inducted inty | thelr respective stations are: Melissa Gordon McConkey, worthy matron: Dr. Albert Miles Taylor, worthy patron; An- nie Luella Arper, associate matron; Eva | Scheeline, secretary; Salena Ciprico, treasurer; Margaret' Fitch, conductress. and Rose Pistolesl, associate conductress. | The appointed officers installed are | Theresa ~ Fredericks, e McConkey, | Anita Campbell, Lizzie Atwood and Har riette Lafferty, who respectively represent the five points of the central star, Adah, Ruth, Esther, Martha and Electa: Eliza. beth Kitchen, warder; M; Lewis, ser ary n- tinel; Dr. T. Byron de Witt, cha, H Jom.h marshal, and Emma Ro%lr.;:éhlg:. OTII it fter the officers had been installed in accordance with lh.p m‘m the order Dr. Taylor, the patron, deliv- ered a very interesting address to the members. and then paid a glowing compli- ment to Mrs. Plrtrlcl"e for her services to the ugzlwwr. she having acted as worthy matron and 1’:"?"' eft for C. P. M 5 ris, France. In the wor:r:Ir. presiding of the chapter she over the deliberations was assisted by the grand pat; closing the speaker, on be??:llm:i nl|: chapter, presented to Mrs. Partrid, beautiful crystal berry bowl, 5 the new matron, l{rlz on'he:{‘l;ro‘f' :;: chapter, presented to the grand patron silver matchbox, e presents being < u‘f’f love and esteem and in recog: m'o: w:n the recipients had done for After joumme:otnfon m‘%‘:.‘ Wwas dancing until midnight, to t I | guin for shelter until the 19th. Gunboat Helena Picks Up the Crew. —— Special Dispatch to The Call. MANILA, Nov. 2L.—The United States gunboat Helena arrived at Camaguin dur- ing the night of November 12. The watcl ers of the wrecked cruiser Charleston saw her lights and thought there was a 1 upon a near-by island, whereupon t began to take steps to help those er gered, but as the searchilghts of Helena communicated her® presence village where the men of the Charlesioa were located rang with cheers, A party from the Helena and Charles- ton visited the stranded vessel on Neveta- ber 13. It was found that her bows were clear and that her after-bridge was sub- merged, making it doubtful whether an thing can be salvaged. The Helena for Rampaguin November 14, but heavy weather obliged her to return to Cama- She sig- naled the Baltimore at Lingayen last ight. ' cpew of the Charleston was first lflx‘n’l--«l ':n a small island, near a small town, not knowing what kind of a recep- tion they would get from the natives. When the Americans learned the natives were friendly they occupied the town, nnil the {nhabitants supplied them _with beeves, rice and fruits. In order to guard against possible attack from the maln- land detachments of the Charleston's crew patrolled m‘; jsland and a post was blished on a hill. "l[xfl flew of them expenonced.u;lellh: at- cks of fever owing 1o expo e u’rte court of inquiry will be appointed to inquire into the loss of the Charleston, subsequent action will depend the and any he fixing of the responsibility for the 3;;;9191'. which is dependent on the court’s findings. HURLEY IS FREED. Charge of Bribery Against Him Is Dismissed. o NAPA, Nov. 21.—The charge of bribery against Patrick H. Hurley was dismissed by Judge Ham In the Superior Court here to-day on motion of the District Attorney. Hurley was convicted last April of the bribery of a candidate at SlA«ll{:len in epte £ 1898, and sentenc 0 serve § f;r;:hoetr r?ns year in San Quentin. His attorneys appealed the case to the Su- preme Court and. were granted a new trial. Hurley is a veteran and resides at the home in Yountville and is quite a olitd . 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