The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1900, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1900. _?g%.c_o‘ Qfau: JOHN D. SPRECKE LS, Proprietor. LS, farket_and Third, S. ne Press ZO1. PUBLICATION OFFIC Teleph EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Steven Telephone Press 202. Delivered hy Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 6 Cents. Terms by Mail Iuding e ] $a32 oy £ 34 postmasters are anthorized to recelw: subscriptions, Sample copies Will be forwarded when requested. ddress should be > OLD ADDRESS in order llance with thelr request. ANT sure & prom com UAKLAND OFFICE ...1118 Broadway GEORGE KROGNESS, G Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. Uwong Distance Telephone *‘Central 2613.”) CORRESPONDENT: .. Heraid Square GEORG XEW YORK C CARLTON.., WEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: EPHEN B. SMITH, 30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sbherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont Hcuse; Auditorfum Hotel. WASHINGTON C.) OF MORTON E, Wellington Hotel Correspondent. ERANCF OFFICES 27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open . ok ok 80 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'cl 633 $:30 o'elock. 1 €15 Larkin, 1 541 Missl e, unttl 10 o' clock. Market th, open until 9 o'clock 10% Valencia, . open until § o'clock. NW ¢ ucky, open until $ o'cl AMUSEMENTS, Orpheum—Vauseville. Grand Opera-house— The Middleman.™ or Sountry Girl.” mes Lectures. Mules, at lock, Horses, -Tuesday, August 14, at 1 THAT JUDICIARY SCHEME. We are The ad udicial syst bene- and a quar- before it a ne he House but fe in the er, indorse features 1f the authority of hich neither s are permitted to indulge in ith the object of enl be htening the is just as uncer much waste of time an exception udge and all being in doubt, court of last resort with a er be carried past the point of 3 at the taxpayers elect the Judges, but ate the importance to them of high vill more care- on and election of Indeed by the new litigable We do not de d to the true pri ch and addition g their chance t the people will refuse of these propositions, and it is ou: ers will be heard from in oppo- g them the people will be en- he elements of a genuine reform. sion of the State will not permit it- ected of promoting the multiplicat: on of t because it has the monopoly of fill- It is a profession specially charged with 7 to the issues between men of a science originated for the purpose of securing human rights and making property safe in its legitimate ership. Being such, it will refuse to be ranked with the mere greedy who seek their own aggrandize- ment, regardless of the public welfare. ¢ THE FRESNO PARRICIDE. HE Greeks provided no punishment for parri- ! T cide, refusing to believe that any child account- i able for its acts or comprehending them could | ever be guilty of taking the life of its parent. | There is a long stretch of history between the time [ of the Greek commonwealth and now, but it is prob- able that the records of crime furnish but little that | can go to controvert the philosophy of the Greeks. Children have taken the lives of parents in all ages and in every nation, but it is doubtfyl if the elements | of comprehension and accountability have been | present. | In the light of the researches of Lombroso and | other students of abnormal and degenerate man, it is i whether these classes, which supply a ma- jority of our criminals and recidivists of our prisons, can be held accountable for a moral comprehension of the crimes they commit. A parricide has recently been hanged at San Quentin. He was pun- ished properly, and his hanging was justified because society is not under any obligation to support and preserve the lives of monsters. But the facts in his case make it clear that he was a degenerate, in whom the primal abnormal germ had been developed by de- bauchery and vicious courses. The recent attempt of Strassman to murder his blind father is another case the same kind. His degenerate tendency has been reinforced by an abandoned and vicious life, until the element of moral responsibility had vanished The most painful of recent cases is that of the Himes children at Fresno. One of them may be dis- | missed from the discussion beca of his childish years. Children of that age have killed each other in sport, lacking the judgment to foresee the conse- quences of the acts which caused death. They have been known to play hanging and strangle to death a ! ‘mate, who willingly submi‘ted to have the noose upon his neck and be drawn up. And there have s in which children, imitating the beheading fowls, have decapitated a comrade. These are the' thoughtless acts of immaturity, due, probably, to a lack of parental caution and instruction which would have admonished them of the danger of such things. The case of the elder Himes boy, however, presents the features of degeneracy. He desired to ownership of his father's team and wagon, planned a | use of the property profitable to himself, and nego- tiated a partnership with his cousin, who had pro- ided part of the capital necessary for the venture. His abnormal mind seems to have been completel occupied by a precocious scheme that was to benefit imself, he never morally considered the awful ub! c of an. by which he was to achieve it. His the way. His removal seemed to be a t He broached it to his you ger brother and n the material adv: i would be to them all to own the team and ea § 5 b 1ing to his persu ey thougl t would be a d the two brothers thereupon took crim- means, by the theft of junk, to raise the few cents ; the poison. The elder brother ex- cious qualities. With the most re- rve he administered the first dose of poi- t ed to give it to his suffering and un- When the exposure came he had o give another than the real reason, de- Iated and abused him. His ght told him that such a plea would favorably afect those who were to judge him. The mind, in a boy of hi such a pl age, which could conceive and carry out n and cunningly devise such mitigating in- cidents when exposed is at once seen to be abnormal and degenerate. not presented as the murder of his father, but the pos- session of property which he co He did not regard himself as a parricide, for he ¢ taking step to make himseli the owner of a team to be vsed for his own benefit. Had the scheme succeeded, | he would no doubt later on have killed his young part- T in order that he might be the sole owner of the propert , and would have felt no moral compunction, e to his degenerate conceptions the prospec mself was the greatest consideration. cult problem for the tion of him. The sent recoils from hanging a child of his tenc To put him in one of the State schools the proper thing, for it would introduce him to the society of many who are the victims of circum- stances and bad training, and who have the capacity for complete reform and good citizenship. There see to solve is the in a prison, where he and his crime will-be forgotten. B TIME TO COME WEST. Africa EPORTS from the East concerning the weather are almost as fearful as those which tell of i the Philippines, or even in South later days. The summer has been ur issippi, and of late the heat has been intensified e hot waves, originating evi- at spells by success dently in hades, and sweeping impartially over the | crowded cities and the summer resorts, so that those who stay at home and those who seck the seaside or the mountains get an equal treatment. In New York on Thursday there was a combina~ tion of heat and humidity that made a record almost unparaileled in that city. Only one death from sun- stroke occurred during the day, but several persons were prostrated by the heat and nearly all business s suspended. In the city of Philadelphia there were three deaths and twenty prostrations during the and in the suburban towns the record was fully as In the manufacturing city of Chester the big mills shut down and 2ll work as stopped. In the cities of the Upper Mississippi Valley the record Reports of deaths and prostrations come from Cleve- land, Detroit and Milwaukee, but the worst effects of the hot wave appear in Chicago. From that city it is learned that in one day there were four deaths and twenty-nine prostrations, three of which are expected to result fatally. The total number of deaths due directly to the heat for the week is seventeen, and it is estimated that indirectly the heat has caused during the week the deaths of upward of 100 persons. Gangs of workingmen are laid off every afternoon, and the cffect upon the business of the city is reported as | being “extremely serious.” | Of course the reports that tell of prostrations and deaths on the streets do not by any means make up the full record of the cffects of the heat. Hundreds of persons are stricken in their homes whose names | do not become known to the public. In all the | Eastern cities it is noted that the death rate is mount- ing rapidly since the hot waves began, and in Chicago it is estimated the number of deaths for the week will | reach 600, while in the previous week it was 463. We are fond of boasting of our glorious California climate, but it is doubtful if we fully appreciate its | value until some such contrast as that afforded by | the reports from the East is brought to public atten- | tion. California should be widely advertised for its semmer weather. Thousands of persons visit the southern part of the State in the winter to escape the day ieve the | To his conscience the scheme was | ent of the com- | no alternative hut his lifelong confinement | wsually severe all over the country east of the | even worse than on the Atlantic coast. | rigors of that season of the East, but comparatively few come to escape the hot waves of the summer. The bracing breeziness of a San Francisco summer is not understood in the East as it should be, other- wise every midsummer would find thousands of men and women from that section enjoying here a com- plete immunity from the prostrating and debilitating effects of hot waves. H which he was sentenced for contempt of court in refusing to answer questions in the Chretien case, Attorney James Taylor Rogers is once more at liberty. The questions asked him remain unanswered, and it remains to be seen what the court will do should he again show himself in contempt if the ques- tions be repeated. The principles involved in the case are too impor- tant for the public to permit the affair to be set aside without further proceedings on the part of the court, the Grand Jury and the Bar Association. Rogers is under suspicion of offenses far worse than contempt of court, and the suspicions are founded largely upon his own testimony. He swore in court that he had neither received any money nor been promised any to consent to the dismissal of the objections he had filed against the distribution of the estate of Joseph Sullivan to the alleged heir Chretien had brought forward. That | testimony has been contradicted by witnesses who de- clare he did receive money for that express considera- tion. Furthermore, Rogers, when before the Grand Jury and when before the court after the evidence 2gainst him had been made known, refused to answer questions concerning the case, and based his refusal upon the ground that he cannot be required to incriminate himself. Rogers is liable to indictment for conspiracy to loot the estate of Szllivan and for committing per- ju What he has been guilty of in the way of con- tempt of court is therefore but a minor incident in the case. »The offenses of which his own testimony and the records of the court tend to convict him are among the most serious of which an attorney can be ilty. That they should be committed constitutes in itself a serious scandal upon the administration of | justice in our probate courts and the reputation of the bar, but if they be permitted to go unpunished the | scandal will become a thousandfold worse. The courts | and the bar will be themselves suspected of conniving that kind of crime, and possibly of participating lin it I'he Bar Association has in this matter a duty not | less important than that which rests upon the Grand Jury and the cou: The public asks not only why Rogers is not indicted for conspiracy with Chretien and for perjury, but why the Bar Association has taken no steps to disbar the guilty attorneys. Is a | seli-confessed criminal like Chretien fit to hold the privilege of practicing at the California bar? Is a man like Rogers, who refuses to answer questions for fear that his answers would convict him of crime, fit to continue the practice of law? Are these two men to retain their membership in an honorable profes- siom, or are the people to understand that the profes- sion is not honorable? By the delay to tzke action upon the offenses, which have now been amply proven, there attaches a disgrace to the Bar Association, in which the most 1espected of its members share. Why should the abler and more influential lawyers of the association be silent in an emergency of this kind? Are they | 2fraid to begin? Is there no one in the association vho dares to start a movement to purgg it of rascals? Here is the situation as it stands: A conspiracy was formed to obtain fraudulent possession of the es- tate of Joseph Sullivan. The Call exposed the con- spiracy and furnished so much evidence against the guilty parties that one of them, Chretien, confessed, and another of them, Rogers, declines to answer questions on the ground that he ¢annot be required to incriminate himself. All the facts are matters of com- mon notoriety, and still the Bar Association does nothi How long is the inaction to continue? THE CASE OF ROGERS, AVING served the five days' imprisonment to < THE JUBILEE CELEBRATION. N this day of rest from the engrossing pursuits : O of business every citizen of fair means and public spirit should give some thought to the issues concerned in making the celebration of Admis- | ston day a festival of such surpassing magnificence that it will attract the attention of the whole Union tc the high degree of prosperity California has at- tained. A celebration of that kind will of course be much more than a season of gayety and pleasure. It will be a demonstration of the rich resources of the | State, and will go far toward bringing home-seekers and capitalists here to assist in making the develop- | ment of the future even more rapid and remarkable | than that of the past. Ample preparations have been made for just such | a celebration as the most patriotic Californian can | desire. The whole State is to take part in it, and every county will have a brilliant representation in the display arranged by its Native Sons and the en- terprising and progressive men of the community who help them. The one thing for San Franciscans to do is to prepare for their share in the celebration on a scale worthy of the metropolitan rank of the city. To attain that there is needed money. The committee in charge of the celebration asks of the city $30,000, and in view of the large sums of money { that will be brought here by the visitors and put into circulation through the channels of trade, that sum is certainly none too large. If you have not yet contributed to the fund, think the matter over to-day and make up your mind to do so. Up to this time the subscriptions have been lib- cral, but it is desirable that the whole $30,000 should be contributed before the close of the coming week. The date of the celebration is rapidly approaching, and there is no time to spare in making preparations for the elaborate adornments designed for the occa- sion. Promptness is therefore as important at this time as liberality. Make up your mind to-day, and put up your coin to-morrow. It is to be an accom- plishment in the way of a jubilee celebration that the whole State will be proud of, and you should have the satisfaction of knawing that in proportion to your means you helped to make it so. A few more protests from angry citizens may con- vince the Board of Education that it has not been delegated to govern the School Department as a pri- vate reservation in which the public has neither in- terest nor right. The firebug who set.fire to a Third-street lodging- house because his company was not wanted is likely to find before his career is much longer that there are some places where he can secure a permanent resi dence. - An Oakland benedict has shed new light on the cquities of domestic life. He insists that when his wife hits him on the head with a pair of heavy shoes he has a constitutional right to return the compliment in kind. . § g 4 HE Life Publishing Company of New York has brought out in most at- tractive form Clyde Fitch’s four-act tragedy, ‘‘Barbara Frietchie, the Frederick Girl.” In spite of some crudities, this play is one on which Mr. Fitch is to be congratulated, for it marks a decided advance from the medi- ocritles of “Beau Brummel” and the atro- cities of “The Moth and the Flame.” Although it is now, I think, generally acknowledged that the story of Barbara Frietchie is as much a myth as is that ot Tell and the apple or of George Washing- ton and the cherry tree, it is equally cer- tain that Whittier’s fine poem has crys- tallized forever the popular conception of R e o e e ot I o S o S S A S A S L4 B A B R e S S e e e S S R e SRS her character. In that poem she is spoken of as “old Barbara Frietchie, bowed with her fourscore years and ten’; she is also called “Dame’” Barbara, and there is ref- erence to her *“old gray head.” This being 80, It is ;nther startling to be told by Mr. Fitch that “Barbara is a ravishing young creature, who has more or less willingly ‘upset’ most of the youth of the town. A loose, delightful curl of her wavy dark hair lies on her white neck, held in place by a red pink camellia.” (This really means that her neck was held in place.) ‘“‘Her eyes are large and beautiful, and she does what she likes with them. Her soul is awakening within her, however, and her coquetry has seen its best days. She is dressed in a billowy mass of blue gauzi- ness, bare neck, save for a blue cameo, and bare arms, save for two lovely dim- ple: (Does this mean that the dimples were not bare? If so, how were they clothed?) ¢ * Now, such a Barbara TFrietchie is certainly not the image called up to most people’s minds by the mention of that name: that Mr. Fitch could run counter to a preconcelved historical asso- ciation, could give his play an unhappy ending, could load it up with yards of duil writing and could yet score with it a suc- cess—all this implies some excellency in the.treatment, for which he is entitled to much credit. This excellency—this single excellency—he has. and it is b: r the most important for the playwright. That workman may not be on-good terms with the grammar of his own language, he may be quite incapable of getting any crisp- ness or finish into his dialogue, he may find it ever beyond his power to advance from the sketching of type to the etching of character, but if he has an eye for a situation he may write a hugely success- ful play and laugh at the critics. This is what. Mr. Fitch has done in “Barbara Frietchie.” The setting of the first act is charming— a street in Frederick, Maryland, with its | Corinthian- | quaint old colonial houses, pillared and honeysuckle-bedecked. Three Southern girls—"rather thoughtless young creatures, but sweet-tempered and warm- hearted"—are chatting on the stoop. Bar- bara within is playing the plano and singing. To her enters Jack Negley, a hot-headed young Marylander, who soon exits, rejected of Barbara. The lovemak- ing begins early in this play, you notice, and continues fast and furious—such are the exigencles of a bright-twinkling star (Miss Marlowe), for whom the play was written. Exits then the villain and en- ters then the hero, a Northern officer, of course (Captain Trumbull), who quickly wooes and wins the lovely Barbara. Parental malediction, based on Southern prejudice, descends upon the lovers, who | are separated, but not without a whis- pered promise from Barbara that she will meet the captain on the morrow and marry him. On the morrow (act II) they meet in the minister's house at Hagerstown; but, alas, before the knot can be tled Trumbull ] ] 2 ¢ z s ¢ 2 ¢ % #A Consideration of =— —= Clyde Fitch’s New pPlay By L. Du Pont Syle. P D N N e e e R e s = S Bt is summoned to join his company. The Confederates are advaneing; soon their sharpshooters occupy the house and the very room where Barbara is left forlorn. A deserter from Captain Trumbull's com- pany, one Gelivex, seizes a colgn of van- tage behind a shutter and draws a bead on him as he comes charging up the street at the head of his rallied men. Barbara en- treats, implores Gelivex not to shoot. refuses and is about to fire, when Bar- the time. A good situation! | Fitch! Immense applause as the curtain descends on act IL | | f | i : H@M—;“O-O B O e AR SRCE SRS SO SO SCENE FROM “Listen ! at noon. I know the Lutheran bara’s home at Frederick. Captain Trum- shot fired by Barbara's brother, a Con- federate officer. His wound is bound with | & little old Union flag (mark this!) which | Barbara has given him. Brother and sis- ter unite to conceal the wounded man in Barbara’'s room. During the rest of the act (the best-written in the play) the in- terest of the audience is admirably held | by keeping them guessing as to whether Barbara will be able to preserve her lover concealed from the many enemies who seek his life. A Confederate search gang | Is stopped by the timely arrival of an or- | der from Stonewall Jackson. Barbara's father is won over by his daughter's pleadings for her captain, and Jack Neg- ley, now going crazy from the excitement of war and the pang of rejected love (a little weak, Mr. Fitch)—Jack Negley is )subdupd by—well, the lines tell you noth- ing as to the means and all I can make out from the stage direction Is that it is by the remarkable beauty of Miss Mar- lowe’s eyes. Quite possible. The fourth act is awkwardly cut up into PERSONAL MENTION. Judge Silent and son of Los Angeles are at the Palace. G. H. Edwards, a banker of Flagstaff, is registered at the Occidental. Mark R. Plaisted of the Fresno Demo- crat is registered at the California. E. O. Miller, a prominent oil speculator of Fresno, Is registered at the Palace. He has just returned from Paris. John McDérmott, the popular night clerk of the Palace, has gone into the mountains north of Ukiah in the pursult of fish and game. He will be absent two ‘weeks. C. W. Pruett, wife and three children, arrived from China yesterday and are stopping at the Occidental. Mr. Pruett is a missionary who was located near Chefu. When the Boxers posted their notices he departed for civilization and saw none of the reported violence. TR SN AR f CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ASHINGTON, Aug. 1L.—W. H. Mur- nyot m%um%:’-nmaax}'{- House. 4 i ——— Enough gutta percha is mafle it balls every year to insulate ‘numn.xglc FOR CALL READERS. The sum of $10,000 was raised recently in London for the erection of a statue to General Gordon at Khartoum. It will take the form of a replica In bronze on a camel, which was executed in 1860 by E. Onslow Ford, R. A., and which s now in the Crystal palace at Sydenham. 2 H‘!tnflcl%l Ell'afgng amous school of Brooklyn, which was erected In 178, Is to be torn down. Ales: ander Hamiltcn and Aaron Burr contrib- uted $10 each toward th the bullding. S ha R Hall, in its day a ‘The American “V‘fle now boasts a Her- bert Standing, a 11 Risi a Wiltiam gflg !;sn. Cuma Running :n‘d a Charles London M“MK' are now prohibited :::Jm yelling forth the contents of their In the lvate schools of China a_ teach- er is paid about one halfpenny a day for each pupil.. Germany is tting a t: 1 beer to h{lp n?“coverl;l ::eoanvl.'sg new warships. g an ateend Rilmer SIRE % TRNS construction. rted the He | | bara, desperate, shoots him through the | right arm and thus saves her lover for | Bravo, Mr. | Thé third act takes us back to Bar-| “BARBARA FRIETCHIE." Il marry you, all the same!" bull is brought in severely wounded by a | ENE SN SN ST e e e N two scenes. In the first Trumbull dles: Barbara bends over the bed and slowly [ drags away from Trumbull's body the blood-stained, ragged flag she had given him; clasping it to her bosom, breathing with difficulty and suppressing her sobs, she goes across and out of the room. In the second scene (the street of act ) Stonewall Jackson comes riding by and Barbara raises the flag that had bound her love wound, crying to the angry crowd: “Shoot! You've taken a life al- ready dearer to me than my own. Shoot {and T'll thank you, but spare your flag.” | Jackson then utters his historic saying; | hardly said, when Jack Negley (quite mad) shoots Barbara, and is himseif or- dered to be shot by his own father. 'Tis a most unhappy and a most beauti~ fully logical ending. Mr. Fitch, I salute you for having the courage not to writa a most beautifully illogical, happy end- ing, just to please the audience, as you did in “The Moth and the Flame.” In tha way you are now going lies all the success worth having, apropos of which I com- mend to you this story of Scribe and Al- fred de Musset. Said Scribe one day to De Musset: “How do you manage it? I write with no idea but to amuse the peo— ple, and yet I cannot make them laugh as you do.” *“Ah,” replied De Musset, “but I write to amuse myself.” S A R A e Those interested in studying the evolu+ tion of evidence should read the states ment concerning Barbara Frietchie pube lished by her nephew and administratory Valerfus Egbert, in the Southern Historiy cal Soclety’s papers, volume VII, page Mr. Fitch should really have printed thi: as a motto on his programme; the audi~ ence would then have found in his worlg an element of humor which is now somes what lacking. Writing from Frederick o the 2Tth of August, 1575, Mr. Egbert sayss “Truth requires me to say that Stonewall Jackson, with his troops, did not pass Barbara Frietchie’s residence at all, but passed up what is popularly called ‘the Mill alley,” about 300 yards above her resis dence. * * * The poem by Whittlep represents our venerable relative (then 9§ years of age) as nimbly ascending to hem attic window and waving her small Fed- eral flag deflantly In the face of Stonewall Jackson's troops. Now, what are the facts at this point? Dame Barbara was at the moment of the passing of that dis- tinguished general and his forces through Frederick bed-ridden and helpless and had lost the power of locomotion. She minister there! I'll be at his house B T B S o o R R S R e e e R R R R R | i l could at this period only move as she wag moved by the help of her attendants.” As I was some fifteen miles from Fred- erick upon the day referred to I cannot pretend to decide between Mr. Whitti and Mr. Egbert. All I can say s that the incident didn't ha Rave, for it is so exceedingly ‘D‘!cgw Cal. glace fruit 50c per I at Townsend's.* —_—— Special . Information supplied dally ta business houses and public men th Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 ont: gomery st. Telephone Main 1042, b e S S—— Balloons are used for drying ltnen Paris laundries. Bamboo frames are lg tached to a ug!lve balloon and the clothes are attached to them. The bale loon makes six ascents daily to a height of about 100 feet. ———— Do You Enjoy Comfort When you travel? If you do. buy your tickef via the Northern Pacific R'y and ride on the “North Coast Ltinited,” the most - pointed train in Amerfca. Solid vestibuled ang lghted with Incandescent electric lights, ob. servation car with a large parlor for ladies, tourist sleeping car finished In o upholstered in olive green leather. The oniy Iine selling tickets direct into Yellowstone Park. Tickets to all points north and east at the lows est rates. T. K. STATELER, Gen. Agt, &3 Market st.. S. F. —————— The Santa Fe will sell tickets to Chicags and return on August 21 and 22 at the very low rate of §72 30, good for sixty days. This is a very low rate and Is open for all. will tell you all about it at 628 Market street. LOANS ON DEFINITE CONTRACT. INSTALLMENT PLAN. 6 a month pays up a loan oy rs" 00 in s Years. o = ® Ciizens’ @lm and Loan MONTGOMERY ST. DR. MCNUL