The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 14, 1900, Page 9

SATUKDAY, JULY 14, 1900 DON'T WANT T0 PAY THE TAXES LEVIED ON THEM Corporations Appear Before the Local Board of THE PROGRESS OF GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATION SA FEKANCISCUO CALL, DEMOCRATS TO HAVE A CLUB I NEXT NOVEMBER, ~ EACH DISTRICT They Will Hold Over Until|At a Meeting of the County 1903 and Vote for a Committee This Plan STATE SENATORS 10 BE ELECTED | | | | | : LITERARY REMINISCENCES BY DR. E. E. HALE. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Baton. U. 8. Senator. RS Time to Turn Down Boodlers and Railroad Hirelings Who Dis- graced the State in the Last Legislature, Ts, to be elected numbered Senato- hold office for four ature of 1903 par- ion of & United S 1 George C. Ferkins. welfare of 1 character sh Cal B nate. Men who take . ers from the ¥ ¥ t other should be 1 elect five of the b Republicans ¢ 10 wir ¢ will elect 8 el Braunhart 1 1ld easily w e 1 v w W CITIZENS URGED TO REGISTER IMMEDIATELY 1 Dunne Will Hold Natur- n ns for ion. by Reg- 1 election, do s which is niner the date of the ustice Acceptance. ittee on Public vesterday that epted in ac- *s opinion ire providing i g by the rin s. The com- 1 of Public w s for of the erk POSTUM CEREAL. “COMMONLY USED DRUG” Dr. Wood Refers to Coffee. ie Ot t ystem, may depend upon s the cause of the difficulty rug contained in coffee has a di- n the nerves, differing in The effect may show the shape of dyspepsia; person in weak eyes; in an- t of the heart; in an- bowel trouble; in an- xion or eruptions on ther, a general feeling of weakness at times. All ng list of other disturb- tly from a disturbed where the nerve matter, v substance that is con- ed he nerve centers and in the n, has been destroyed, to an extent, r aced m the food. e exact work of coffee with zed people. Such people oss of coffee for a time, unless I iven to take its place. sion of Postum Food furnishes, when prop- a delicate coffee flavor in it- carries with it the phosphate of potash and other elements required by Nature to rebuild the nervous system and reconstruct the tearing down work that has been going on from the use of “drug cofice” (We use the words irng coffee” because all regular cof- s in reality a drug, and its continued 11 will, in ninety cases out of a hun- G¥ed. bring on trouble of some kind.) Postum Food Coffee is sold by first-class grocers, not o self, but 11 B ‘ Is Adopted. Lists for the Enrollment of Members Now Open and Permanent Or- ganization Will Be Ef- fected Next Week. L T The Democratic County Committee met t at Native Sons’ Hall and dis- d means of carrying on camp 1t was dectded of orj ng district clubs t, and the following re- iittee on organization was be of be f comx mittee of the Democrath City and County of San You Club istricts, and ng harmony ¥ of action in each of mmittee appointed a tempc- +3 with authority to Jemocrats, and fur- the temporary officers that on Thursday ge enrollment of rd bearers, Wil . Stevenson, iubs will be and Tuesday ore the per- which will July 19, 1n a president, Vice ilng secre- the Democratic to participate in on August 14 was he document will be nvention to nominate Judges rt, Justices of the Jlymen will be Septemb . he convention delegates, apportioned rty-third, State convention, to be it was decided to divide mbinations of primary pre. presented by from fouf to In this crats will send 115 delegates. retary of each rict club 1s wered t da ny r to the pll 1in to him y 1y vouched he purpose will be issued J. H. Grad COMES IN LATE AND HIS BID IS REJECTED John A. Carr Files Protest With Board of Works—More Appointments representing rer's agent sterday morn rks refus rs’ and board was rvey The ompanied the required e the 13, while re the f said bids wa leges t th ard at he in any usal to open r bids pre- following appoint- Fire Department shop— pbell, George Van arpenters, at ber, $4 per Iper, il of Jus- City per Davis, side sewer ACTOR CLINTON ABLE TO APPEAR IN COURT Preliminary Examination of Ange- lina M. Abbott for Shooting Him Continued Till Tuesday. Angelina M. Abbott, the young girl who sh De Witt Clinton, the actor, several weeks ago, appeared before Judge Mogan vesterday. Clinton has recovered from his wound and was in court with his flancee, Edna Elismere, the actr at whose home he has been since the shoot- g. It was thought that he would not care to » case, but he seems determi for the purp: of clearing himself from the reflectic con- in statements made by the defend- the case was called, ex-Judge , who represented the 'defendant, for a continuance as he was not to proceed. Prosecuting Attorney was anxious to proceed at OnNCe it was the first continuance asked defense the Judge continued the who has been engaged € ;»ru;mux-« the case, came court’ after the continuance was granted and wanted the day changed to Wedn but day the Judge refused to ac- his request. nton’s marriage to Miss Ellsmere is apparently not far distant. Yesterday he filed suit for divorce in the Superior Court under the name of Ira De Witt Clinton from Grace Beebe Clinton of New York. The complaint alleges that they were married in Wenominee, Wis., and that Mrs. Clinton deserted her husband in Kansas City in October, 1597 —_———— Council Officers Installed Portola Council No. 470, Young Men's Institute, installed the following officers | on last Thursday evening at its hall on | Tenth street: Past president, John H. | Radford: president, Robert A. Cabala: | first vice president,’E. G. Fitzgerald; sei | ond vice president, J. J. Clancy; recording | secretary, D. T. Powers; financial secre- tary, James J. Cantlan; corresponding secretary, Jerome J. Sullivan; treasurer, John G. Steimle; marshal, Frank J. Law- lor; inside sentinel, J. J. Finn; outside sentinel, John J. Connell; medical exam-. iner, Dr. B. F. Fleming; executive com- mittee—John A. Keily, George Mayerle, W. T. Dwyer; delegates to Grand Coun- cil—Dan T. Powers and HuriHay; alter- nates to delegates—John A. Kelly and E. G. Fitzgerald | Died From Lockjaw. . | Milburn Homer Logan, a boy 13 years | of age, died at the residence of his par- | ents, 770 Oak street, Thursday from lock- Jjaw resul lnfi_l from a gunshot wound in | the palm jof his left hand. The accident | occurred In Calistoga fourteen days ago, | and the boy was removed to_his home im: | mediately for treatment. He succumbed | to the injury, although heroic efforts were made to save him. er of the apportionment of | $250 | § + 2 : ® ! * & L4 . * it ° + t + ® % ? ¢ + ‘? b t ¢ 3 . @ $ (?» ¢ $ * L4 - | & . & - @ * L 4 ; & HE general committee having charge of the Golden Jubilee celebration of “alifor! met last night in Native 1d received reports from of the a number sub-committe \ James Gallagher, J. B. Keenan and L. J. Aubert of the committee on transpo tation reported that the Southern Pacific ‘ompany and the San Fe Railroad Com- | pany promptly granted the r t of the committee that a half rate fare from all points in the State of California be estab- lished for the coming Admission day cele- br »n—that 1e regular one way fare for the trip to Francisco and return. This s the first time that such a favor- able rate has been given, and it was im- e that it must ssed upc be taken a precedent for future ordinary celebrations. railroad offi- c express themselve taking a m v interest in the su ss of the n, and state that the railroad com- ind their employes will do all in power to assist the Native Sons of lden West in making this the most ificent celebration that the State has their ever seen. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company 1 that it will g 1 trip rate. TI the other coming wee able A vot McCormick of the Southern F Bissell of the Santa Fe ted round trip fare. - committee on invitation presented Jecial form of invitation to be sent to e who are to be specially invited, and requested that each sub-committee fur- nish the names of those who are to be in- and t a ticket be inclosed for each function. The committee suggested the names of a number of officials who are to be invited. A list of such invitations will_be submitted to the general commit- tee before being sent out. The committee on bulletins suggested uance of 20,000 bulletins eight inches e and eleven inches long, to be made the it will be from them one-half r: f thanks was pa s Ho ific and to for having te to E. O burgh Jr. W. A © AT A AT A AR AR O A TSR T A TSR TR O TSR TR @ | GRAND TOTAL OF THE SWEENEY and Chief Sullivan ye ceive RO TR R ’ The following is the list: e Received by Chief Sullivan. $15,403 88 x Call subscriptions .. 647 10 [0 From other sources.... . 235495 4 Grana total.. $18,405 91 ¢ [ ] A SE AT OA AR S AR SRR TSRS DISHONEST TEAMSTER IS LANDED IN JAIL From Cases Given to Him to Deliver. Thomas Doyle, a teamster for Willlam Wolff & Co., was arrested yesterday after- noon by Detectives Ryan and O'Dea and Special Agent Patrick Kindelon of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and booked at the City Prison on three charges of misdemeanor embezzlement. For the past eight months the raflroad company has received numerous com- plaints from the merchants of this city eharging that cases of merchandise de- livered by the company had been tam- sered with and in manw instances goods ad been removed. The merchants de- clared that their country customers made similar complaints to them. C. C. Crowley, chief detective for the raiiroad, took charge of the case and Jearned that L. Elkus of 20 Battery street was a heavy sufferer. A watch was put on the teamster, with the result that Doyle was seen to abstract goods from cases on the way to the ferry and dispose of them in a second-hand store on Mission Street. On his return he would do_the same to the cases directed to the firm. Elkus & Co. and Rosenthal & Feder, shoe dealers at 11 Sansome street, swore to the | complaint against Dovle. ' Other team- | sters are under surveillance. —————————— ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN CHANGES HIS PLANS Decides to Remain Another Week in Chicago—Will Visit Salt Lake City. Archbishop Riordan will not arrive in this city to-day. He has changed his plans_and will not leave Chicago until next Wednesday, remaining in that city a week longer than he originally intended. He will not come directly througn, but will stop several days in Salt Lake City. This information was received last even- ing in a dispatch from Chicago. LEWIS MAYER OF COMPANY F, THIRD UNITED STATES AR- TILLERY, WHO CAME TO CALIFORNIA ON THE LEX- INGTON IN 1846 AND HELPED FIRE THE FIRST NATION- AL SALUTE AT MONTEREY. of the heroic fireman, John Edward Sweeney, terday gave out the grand total of the money re- , which amounts to $18,405 91. the generosity of the public and their admiration for a heroic deed. The Chief received yesterday contributions of $542 75, being the proceeds of the meetings at the Union Coursing Park last Saturday and Sunday, and $10 from Rev. Father Yorke, and these are included in the total received by him. C()NTRIB(’TI(INS to the fund for the benefit of the widow and children R S e S S e R e B et e e ] up of twenty-four pages, these to contain such informatic may be interested. The souvenir button and badge which has been recommended by the special commities and described in The Call were adopted. The entertainment committee reported the Harbor Commissioners are heart and soul with the committee in any move- ment in reference to the use of the ferr: building in connection with the celebra- | tion. The Commissioners will erect two | band stands and prepare the building for | a prome t reported that a sub-postof b established at the pavilion mmittee recommended that it be ized to make arrange- | ments for f the 10th and 1ith | of September imittee’s propos tion for a bullshead breakfast was re jected. The committee on decoration and illu- mination reported that it had received a number of plans for illumination, but there being such a divergence as to prices |and designs it asked for one week's fur- ther time to consider. The electrical illu- mination, it was stated, will cost not less than $17.000, without the amount required for power. W. J. Martin, business manager of The Call, was male an honorary member of the general committee. He was added to the decoration committee. The committees of publicity and general {information have bheen consolidated as the committee on general information. The new committes Is now composed of L. M. Bannon, James O’'Gara, H. Faure, J. H. Roxburgh, R. H. Morse and A. Mocker. The Foreste of Americ: about 2500 men and a float. Winters Parlor No. 163 of Yolo County has notifled the grand marshal that it ex- pects to be represented in the parade by twenty members on horseback. A letter has been sent to Secretary Long asking for the loan of two modern guns to be placed on a float so they may appear in will parade 1848, rule. Brooklyn Parlor will turn out seventy- five men in a neat uniform. when the State was under Mexican ¢ * RELIEF FUND; are practically closed, Such a response speaks volumes for O T HT AR T A TR A | INFERIOR GOODS FOR ‘ CITY INSTITUTIONS | i Thomas Doyle Is Caught Stealing Milk-Dealer Throws Up Contract n,ndi His Bond Is Declared Forfeited. | Superintendent Sussdorf of the City and | County Hospital informed the Supervi- sors' Health and Hospital Committee yes- terday that the cotton batting and shaker | flannel suppiied to the hospital by Mur | phy, Grant & Co. were unfit for use. | J. Lavin, represénting the contracting | firm, stated that goods of the character | specified In the schedule were delivered | and were unsatisfactory. Temporarily he substituted the best brand in the house, but does not desire the board to force him to continue to supply the superior article | when a figure was not given on it. He | asked that the matter be adjusted so that | the firm would not lose monéy on the con< iract. Consideration of the matter was postponed. 1 Joseph Kennell threw up his contra, { (urnisg milk to the City and County g}a‘: | pital at 11 1-3 cents a gallon, as he said it was a losing proposition. Kennell's bond in the form of a certified check for $400 was declared forfeited. Two other con- tractors who bid at the same time as Kennell, but whose bids were rejected were invited by the committee to furnish the milk at the figures submitted by them but they refused. Joseph Fassler had bid 124 cents a pallon and W. C. Miller 121 cents, and the committee decided to re- advertise for bids. —_——— Two Noted Singers Arrive. Signora Repetto, known as the Itallan Melba, and her husband, Signor Ferrari, the famous barytone, arrived from the East last night and are at the Commer- clal Hotel. They have come to sing at the Tivoll during the grand opera season, which will open on the 20th inst. Neither is stranger to the music-loving public of this city, for they were both members of the Lambardl Opera Company that was here last summer and lnlmlleg them- :gxeel; a8 xfn”"fi"“} thte%s t'l‘he)t'hwere mar- n this cf jus ‘ore the! To Ttaly.. Thelr openin e this SorErn will be “Lucia,” in which they made a tremendous hit during their last engage- ment in Ban F‘rlnmg. X n as will guide those who | comparison with two old cannons_used in | P | Equalization. S g S Spring Valley, Standard 0il, Wells- Fargo and the Powder Works Moaning Over Their Burdens. SRR e There were three incidents of interest, if not three of importance, at the meeting of the Board of Equalization yesterday af- ternoon. One was the demand of E. S. ments be canceled on the ground that franchise assessments are illegal anyway and should not be levied; the second was the peculiar foundation of the water com- pany’s demand that its franchise be low- ered over $2,000,000, and the third was the inability of Isaac Cohn to find a two-by- four pocketbook, of the advertising kind, in which he kept track of several hun- dred thousand dollars’ worth of busines Mr. Pillsbury represented the Standare 0il Company, Wells, Fargo & Ce. and the California Powder Works. It was on the assessment of the powder works that he | based his argument. The franchise of the powder works is assessed at $250,000, and this he shed | stricken out ultogether. He raised the same questions regarding the taxation of raised since franchises were t . and he su | mitted figures to show that if the powder company were tgxed a quarter of a million for its franchise it would endanger its ex- istence In this State Some figures prepaged by the A showed that the mark®t va of the corporation was pays taxes as follows: In Santa County $4295, in Contra Costa County 3 in San Francisco County in other 20, a total of $11,825; this is on ment of $654.8M, leaving an un- assessed valuation of $1506,106. The yearly dividends are $180,000, or equal to $12 a share, and the franchise tax would amount to $14,000, which would reduce this divi- dend to $11 74 a share a year. The matter | of canceling the assessments was taken under advisement. In the case of the Spring Valley Water Company Mr. Kellogg made the contention that when the Board of Supervisors fixed the water rates last February they made franchises that have been Cruz counties | a certain allowance for the taxes the com- pany would have to pay, and that allow- ance was made on the basis of an assess- ment of 000 on the franchie. The company was wiiling to pay this, he said. but in the meantime the As: sor had | raised the assessment to $ 3, which meant an increase in (he taxes of $34000. l\\'hrn the board fixed the rates at a figure the company operatng sle profit’ besides " they fixed it on a anchise of $3500,00, and by raising ssment in- | crease the s $34.000 they just | that much away from the stockholde | The company had figured on a certain t Mr. Kellogg argved, and when the t ra that tax it reduced the divide of stockholders. He asked that the sessment on the franchise be lowered to what it was a yea 0— 0.000. The board seemed to View the proposition with avor, but action was pestponed until next nday at 10 o'clock. In reply to the ar- gument of Mr. Kellogg it was 556 that the rates of the company figured on so hich a valuation that there is ample 1 to e for the increase in the as The c " Standard Oil C the franchise of which is valued and_that of Wells-Fargo. which | at $750,000, were both submitted Pillsbury on the showing in the powder works case, the contention in all three be- ing the same. Isaac Cohn furnished the only bit of humor of the afternoon. He declared he had $900 in the worth $7,000, a few outstapding note some other things not worth much. ssor Dodge had heard of 300,000 held by Cohn, but Col member it. He said he disec many of his notes at the banks, but when he was asked what notes he discounted he could not remember. He said he kept no books, and finally when Mr. Tobin pinned | him down to the fact that he sometimes made a memorandum he was ordered to | bring it before the board. The board had | experience with Mr. Cohn before, and it was freely wagered around the table that bank, real e | he would never: produ the book. And, sure enough, when at 5 o'clock, the time he was to be present with his book, he turned up it was to say that he could not find his book and therefore could not pro- duce it. Mr. Cohn could not remember how much he had discounted in notes nor how many notes he had sold. All he could as thlzl\l he had $%00 in the bank and all. Mr. Cohn is assessed for $100.000 on per- sonal property and $37,000 on re he | does not produce a satisfactory statement before the board adjourns his assessment will remain a: Abe Ruef wus re the board to have reduced several assessments on real es- His applications were all taken un- The Contra Costa Water Compar represented by Mr. McCutcheon. He ed a franch E sment for knocked off. that 0,000 by ordinance the Council of Oakland had fixed rates to allow the company 5 per cent on $3,000,000, He said | and he declared that the company is now trying to pay 5 o st on an in. debtedness of $3.500, view of that fact, he said, and also because the fran- | chise of the com pretty well as- sessed in Oakland already, he asked that the assessment be canceléd W. E. Mighell filed a petition with the Board of Equalization yesterday in which | it is alleged that he is erroneously as- sessed the Assessor for the following | named vessels and er craft: Carroll- | ton, $6250; Charmer, $2 : Fiorence, $3500; | General _Fairchild, $6: Jabez Howes, $11.000: James Nesmith, $16000: J. B. | Brown, $6750: Oregon, $9000; Rufus | Wood, '$6500; Wachusett, $10.500, and El- | well, $6750. The petition says that the vessels named are required by law to be registered, and they were not enroiled or licensed in the port of San Francisco, but they are regis- tered out of the State of California and plying out of the waters of this State. Bartlett Doe wants the assessment of $93.550 on his personal property reduced to $20550, the difference being the value as assessed of Blue Lake bonds at $63,000, which bonds are claimed to be not assess. able and valued in the market at only $47,250. $ The Sanitary Reduction Works asks for a reduction from $60.000 to $20.000 on real estate at the northwest corner of Seven- teenth and De Haro streets. Picture-Framing a Fine Art. | We can please the most fastidious with the many new styles of moldings in their varieties of widths, shapes and finishes to barmonize with all _stvles and tones of pictures. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. ————————— | DELEGATES ENJOY A CRUISE ON THE BAY Drive Through the Park and Theater Party Part of Yesterday’s Programme. Yesterday was one long day of pleasure for the Grand Council of the Young La- dies’ Institute. There was a short morn- ing session at Loyola Hall, which was de- voted entirely to amending the constitu- tion. The following committee on forms and blanks was appointed: Miss_Sadie Garvin of No. 49, Stockton: Mrs. Devine of No. 20, San Francisco Miss Driscoll of No. 1, San Francisco: Miss Donevan of No. 2, San Francisco; Mrs. Stone of No. 47, Merced. In the afternoon the delegates enjoyed 2 cruise on the bay on the tug Governor Markham, and on their return they were taken for a drive through the park. Last evening the Grand Council was the guest of Institute No. 2 at a theater party at the Grand Opera-house. —_— ee—— ‘We save money for amateurs, We loan you a kodak. Backus Studlo, 11 Geary st.; supplies. Pillsbury that three biR framchise assess- | VL 1 I first met Whittler when I was a very | young man in a night ride in a stage coach. I did not know his name. Twenty years afterward I made his acquaintance in a way which I like to describe to young people. I had been teaching in rather a forlorn way in a place rather forlorn. To meet | my home engagements the next day I had to rise and dress before daylight, to eat a very poor breakfast and to hurry to a very early train. All this before sun- Once in the car I nestled down In a dark “Now, at Iau(i corner and sald to myself I can finish my night's sleep.” 1 adjust hat, shawl and curtaln for the most com fort and closed my ey But_not my ears! For a voice saluted me: “It is Mr. Hale, I belleve.” “Could I not even sleep in my own car?" This was my mental ejaculation. It was met, T am glad to sa right repiy of my decent conscience »u fool, Who ‘ou that you cannot speak to a fellow- ler?” 1 simulated cordiality. The or never knew how cross I was as [ 1 him my hand and a seat, and lo! the de T.W traveler was the poet Whit- tler. He was charming in the fifty-mile ride which followed, and was I not glad that T had not been curt or rude—that [ had, indeed, met him more than half wz Dear, sweet saint, child of God who knew his Father by ht, as the pure in heart do, he never meant to force him- Qeeoveseseseiedeieteseieteig T § f i s D e S S S S S S AP P P e o self on any one—and he never did. at any moment the world needed a cry here was the herald trumpe here was the at with no All men kr then tha epare themselv ching He wrote one of “The Songs of Degrees,’ as the book of Psalms calls them—for the Kansas emi- of 1554, 1855 i 1556, the men who showed the courage of t fons 4n those trying day Womer convict Ark of Old ur van the truth of God Against one of the battle ynegs which And this sung by those who were ing. O often the emigrant parties sing it as Waited for trains or gathered on decks of steamboats, Without at t moment saying any- thing more of V ttier, to w m I will, per! 48, return again, I will ask some of teaders of these papers to do a litt waiting week for a year 1 wiil do it m literary job for which the world is If I éver have eight days in the self. For the present I confide the necessity to him who reads. work carefully and make up the ort Do the the s Lon, ; add about from Mr. h of America_ irom hoems of Whittier, Eme {olmes and Lowell. Yc twenty more from Mr Burgess and other people spired. The collection Dr. Holmes' splendid appeal the reply to the arrogance which meant to destroy the dear old frigate Constitu- tion, the “Ironsides’ of New England en thusiasm Ay and it may end—somewhere within twen- ty years of to-day. Howe i with which was tear her tattered ensign down In writing of these pcets I am not going to try to analyze their work nor in any ¢ to criticize their poetry. I shall be glad if I can_make the reader feel how unaffected and simple and human each of them was. There was nothing of the rolling up of the eyes, of the fluttering hair, of the loose necktie or open shirt front in any of them. Their manners were perfectly simple and in each case very cordial, though I might say of Whittier, perhaps, that he was a little shy in expected Interviews or in talking with those who were new to him. I suppose I had seen Emerson in the pulpit, but of this I have no re tion. T do remember perfectly hear him lecture on Mahomet when he was 28 years old and I was 10. And I remember that the lecture interested me. The sub- ! stance of it was afterward printed as an article in. the North American Review. But it_was ten years before I spoke to him. The interview was characteristic, so I will describe it in detail. It was in the college chapel at Cam. bridge, the occasion being what we called the junior exhibition. In itself this was not unlike other school exhibitions, but for undergraduates it had the special in- terest that on this occasion the parts were taken by the young men who had proved themselves to be the first scholars of their in the first three years of college .~ As it happened, the first scholar was a dear friend of mine and a near relative of Waldo Emerson. His “oration” was the last part of the exhibition, so that as soon as he closed the co ny broke up into groups and there good cceasion for congratulations. saw Mr. Emerson 1 standing alone. T joined him and spoke in high terms of his cousin’s bearing and | address. “‘Yes aid the philosopher with a_gravity which seemed to me a little oracular, “I did not know what a fine | young cousin I had. Now, if only some- thing can go amiss, if his father can be bankrupt, or if he should be unpopular here and the boys perhaps send him to Coventry, all will be well—all will be wel I was young enough to be very indig- nant. though I did not sa . 1 was very fond of the “fine young cousin,” and 1 thousht this a very brutal way to wel- come his successful entrance into life. I even thought that it was affected, that Mr. Emerson was posing as a philosopher ’and wanted to say something out of the way. | . But afterward I came to see how un- | just I had been and how foolish. He was | never affected. When 1 found in one of | his essays the words *“Good Is a good | teacher. but bad is a better.” I saw_that | he had learncd that great lesson of life before 1 heard him express it in the col- lege chapel. And when I came to read between the lines in his blography, when I saw that he took the drudgery and petty economies of life so sweetly as he did, I could imagine him going back to his ow college career. ‘“‘President's freshman he was—that he might save to his mother the rent of his college room—and after- ward all along he was eager to relieve her of any cost or charge in the burden which was upon her in the training of all those fatherless boys whose lives re- flect such honor upon her management of them. After he abandoned the regular duty of the ministry he threw himself on the world, so far as what men call a “lving’ oes. He had to maintain in_his af- fairs the most rigid economy. But you will search in vain In his essays or in his | letters for any syllable of complaint. Such annoyances were no more of a hardship | to him than a summer shower when he | should have been glad to have it clear, | The“pubhsher of “English Traits,” the | late Mr. Phillips, told me that when in | 1850 or thereabouts he paid Emerson a | check for the royalties on the first six | months’ sales of that book, he did not know how to indorse or cash a check, and he told Mr. Phillips that this was the | first money he had ever received from the | sale of any of his books. He owned many | stereotype plates and many copies of the ‘Essays,” but money from the sale of | n EMERSON'S HOME AT CONCORD, MASS. R S o o S e But if LITERARY TALKS AND REMINISCENCES. them he had never received until that time. Lowell calls him the Yankee Plato and Holmes calls him the Buddha of the West. Both phrases are admirably cho- sen. But he had a steady touch with daily life which is more like Socrates than Plato, and which_you look for in vain in the traditions of Buddha. Fortunately for us, this touch is re led very distinetly in his letters and in Mr. Cabot's admira- ble biography, and perhaps evem more distinctly in the “Reminiscences,” by Dr. Edward Emerson, his_distinguished son He was a ord_in his sin le New gland as he was n Karnak or in speaking before a chosen audience in London. He would go down early to the village in Concord for his atl, that he might stand on the side- alk with the market garden men r with other neighbors, to discuss pelitics or to get the latest points in the village ize what I think ] ar untry Club" in Boston he ‘was the wo nter of the party, who wanted a con- ywn_people e who had siept in town, cet umbrella. or take “a 2, s * Alas! we of that crowd were “beaten out of our boots” by larger crowd of eranks who wanted to ers” which nobody wanted to roh peapie are the bane and mis- ery of all elubs. In this case they rallie in’ such numb: voted and de rs that they entirely the rated and died before born. But + we down fighting to the last, ent llantly ¢ overwhelmed by @ hordes of cranks, and ¢ In_every defeat we rallied round _the Lite plume of Em 4 erson, ‘our common- sense leader. I 1 do hink that & Emerson had met Longfellow before the summer of 1836, when Longfellow came to Cambrid. hardly 30 years of a mith profes: modern of ] gauge In this post Long W suceeed- 4 ed Ticknor, whos & Studtes of ' Span { literature are weil known. Longfellow 46303+ @ and Emerson became Their intimate friemnds. similar, thoug med’ different, )W was but tastes were ir methods s ger tr o in colle en Longfellow ap His coming had been await 1 a good deal of interest by us boy brother, Samuel Ls anc were intimate personal S0t his arrival meant more to me than it did to most undergraduates. But to all of us there was a summer-day feeling when thi young man, fresh from Franc 1 Germany and Italy. with very latest tidings of the literature a ion_and social life of pe, like a h of sunshine in the well retreats of what our presjde used to call “the seminary." duty of the Smith professor had been unc ood to be a general superin- ndence modern of the of that who were was w ow to oversee ork and to n such general ots as_h lating to the literature of modern pe. Longfellow Intimated at once that in should_have a class of his own man. He thought he could teach man by plunging right into the la with less detall than was then usual. to this class of sophomores taught b; was my g¢ fortune to belong > us commit to memory a good ms erman ballads. We learned only simplest s an [ A him He ny the erbs. inflections of nouns So to speak, we pitched into the language and then paddled about in it as well as we could, much as little boys do who are learning to swim. Tt did not require such association to put us on good terms with Longfellow. From the beginning he was on easy terms. [ think, with everybody in college. Certain- Iy with all those in the three upper classes, all of whom were required to study some modern language. You could go to walk with him. You could call upon him. You could play whist with him when making an evening visit. He was older than we were, but he did not hold himself in the least aloof from us. And when I look back over sixty years upon Harvard College I am apt to think that Longfellow's arrival and such freedom of his intercourse with the hoys_almost marks an epoch in the college. I think it had a great deal to do with the establishment of those cordial re- lations between teachers and pupils which give a special charm to the Harvard life of_to-day. His lifo and letters, as edited by his brother Samuel, give a charming picture of the successful work of a kind-hearted man who loved work, who succeeded In his own line and who worked resolutely for mankind while he was satisfled with no standard less than the highest of lit- erary excellence. But I have thought that from a sort of modesty innate in the vounger Longfellow he did not say what he might have done as to Henry Longfel. low's broad and generous Ilbernlilg to- ward all the children of sorrow. Yy a certain divine law, of which the reader ean guess the origin, every traveling tramp in America who had the slightest claim to a connection with literature found his way to Longfellow’s hospitabie door. Rus- sian, Pole, Moldavian, Bulgarian, Greek or Hungaria Swedish, Norwegian or Icelandic, German, Dutch, Flemish, French or Spanish, Portuguese or Italian, black or white, brown or red, barbarian, Scythian, bond or free, all came to conflde their penury to him and to be relieved. Had he not translated Bishop Tegner? Had he not written of the St. Gothard in the eleventh century? Had he not written the “Spanish Student”? Indeed, indeed he had And with his own self-forgetting cordial- ity he welcomed them all. And they al- ways left richer in pocket, more cheerful of_spirit, less hungry and better clothed. He lived through all his Cambridge life in the old Washington house, as we loved to call it, because there was Washington's headquarters in the beginning of the rev- olutionary war. The doors of that house were always open. To the youngest liter- ary aspirant he was as cordial as to the most distinguished traveler. And no one ever asked for his criticism or advice but was glad he had asked. and went away happy from the interview. EDWARD E. HALE. Roxbury, Mass. DOWN A RUSSIAN HILL EMBANKMENT Edna Cline, a Little Girl, Falls About Ten Feet and Is Seriously Injured. Edna Cline, a pretty girl 10 years of age living on Hyde street between Jackson and Pactfic sireets, met With a serlous ac- cldent yesterday afterncon. She went to Russian Hill with her little brother and nephew and while she stood on the top of a rocky embankment facing Taylor street she slipped and rolled to the bot- tom, a distance of about ten feet. She was picked up in an unconscious condition and taken to the Receiving Hos- pital in the ambulance. It was found that she was suffering from concussion of the brain and possible fracture of the skull and internal injuries. Beyond that there :u only a slight abrasion on her left nee. The girl's father s employed in a ware- house ‘on Californta and Front streets. His wife died recently and left him with t}ldreet young children, Edna being the oldest. George Bonny’s Estate. The inventory and appraisement of the estate of the late George Bonny was flled yesterday. The appraisers find the estate consists of stocks and bonds and other rsonal properties and are valued at