The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 1, 1900, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1900. /STRIKERS USE PRODUCT FROM rades Council Gives Spe-| UR MILL SBARE e ial Privilege to a Santa Clara Shop. SRBESY Ta ncisco k of a Co-opers tive Concern cated Either in San or in g we KNIGHTS TEMPLAR GIVE \ THE RED CROSS DEGREE o ering of High Te A Bang OT BEA {iS WIFE Mad, m e som. by his new duties e Blythe Su Biyth Event. .- was publ e in the em- Masons uet Com Commandery Temiple last R TO SEE IN POVERTY e by Charles S. dent “of the for < an nment. made verformance will reto the First ark. day trans- gan of the Park _station. the P he »st efficient men in appointed- a u account of his e time ago and as- e's division. By s he ®oom won 1ors and when t the Park station t Coogan was ‘oogan wag warm- | o fellow sergeants. to-day. its Dismissed. the against actio Florence for $0,000 counsel | ne-Hinckley-Moore et al. for partition in open lished Pears’ Its least virtue is that it 5 A lasts so. Soap is for comfort; the clean are comfortable. Pears’ soap cleanliness— per: “orts of prople use i pecially araggis fect cleanliness. uil soris of stores of | 'RET | SHE HAS URNS WITH HONORS { | € < LARA KALISHER, the well-known [(§ young S Francisco . contralto, 2 who ¢ pleted her v al studies in s again visiting ome. -last year. W most “favorab: 1 song in been gre for ¢ 1s far west ‘as De- and is a favorabie im r's manager decide ngernus for his vocal- n MISS CLARA KALISHER. WON ABROAD | Consequently Miss Kalisher was left out ar West portion of. the Nevada last Janua tralto will' return to New. York to-resume her concert. work the. latter:| part of t week, and her friends have pon her to_ zive ng. dler progr ¢hronologically; y Hall next Tu mme will be beginning: with | Carissimi, . who = -wrote ,.and ranging through Songs by Schubert, - Schumann, - Mever- hms. 150 'sing com- positions of He aminade, Gra- nier, Massenet, Arthur: Foote and Liza Lehman. Dr. H. J. Stewart will pre at the piano. : TRANSACTIONS IN REALTY + D445 4640 40404040404 404 HE: deal in realty are look for- rd to a good fall market-and all a, cost itam. Plar Wilson work for a_seven 1 terra o build afldi " 4% feet forth. of Jr. with side- : Touis Slos for lron steps, Taisers a for butlding on: south-line of - Mission and » Fopplanio wi and basement line of Green Kearny, cost §2800; A. B, s Butler. for brick. gran- sughtiron work: for ore-and - office ttir street, 25 ent by th. Jine -of with: the - Iiray. Stone work, with William Plumbing, . gas-fitting. and- sewering. rlég Dunlop: for tathing and plas- tering, total cost for all these items, - $10,4 g vestment Company. with Hane Pet g ment bullding. on the = 1 and Stanyan streets, cost 3 During the week the mortgages have d - Afty-cight nd. the fotai s was $171.035. The prin- res were the following Robert Hamilton to the Hibernia Savings and 16t on mortheast corner -of Sixti 81 tne year at 6 per ode. ~to Diedrich ighth street, 10 t 6% per cent: a Savings and f Howard street 5. by 90, $7000. Hiberuin - Savings thwest corner $17,000, and D and Lo a and The week's releases number forty-t and amount to $144.6%. The larger releas were the following Fred Waulzen to the Hibernia Saciety,. lot' on north corner nd stroets, $18,000, one year erick H and Loan Soclety to Otto{ a erg, lot on morth line of Franklin, 27 §1-9, $11.500; Un Association to J. McDonald, 1o \west _corner of Parrel 1" Devisadero stres 000; Hi- »hn Me- 00, in sales tecorded s follows: Prices paid for realty during the week were te of Aps Koeh to north line_of street, 148 feet west of Polk y 12 o: Frederick V. Owen | to Frank £ Oliver and 1 J. Truman Jr,, lot | 'on southwest corner of Noe and Henry streets, 000; Callaghar . 1ot on southwest wue and H street, 24 rancisco Land Company Ilame, Jot on east line of state Company to 0 jorida street, 200 feet south of Center, 25 0, $2500; same estate to F. W t Seventeenth Fryant avenue, 100, $7250; . Walter { Thompson to Vi liams, 1ot on sout Jine of FAay street, 175 feet west of Plerce, i by 137:€, $3000; Edward J. Le Breton to Arthur Rodgers, undivided one-quarter of lot on south- | w of Si 7:6_west of Mission, 20 by 5 . Palmer et al. to Themas Shields, sonth line of Mission 200 feet east of Second, 25 by 80, $14,500; % W, John R. and Mary E. Gray to Wesley and ~ Alice ~A. Tomer, lot on south line of Minna street, 275 feet ea by 70, §8000; William' Center, Grace M., George €, Eamvel' M. and Wiiliam H. Crim Jr to the Market Street Rallway Compeny, lot on northeast corner of York and Alameda streets, 51:5 by 200, $20,000; L. T. Finn to M. Pitloek, 2ot %on wes: line of Tremont avenue. 635 feei south of Frederick street, 25 by 15, $4000; . and- Charlotte M. Tabor to John -half of lot on northwest by Kern, lot on street and A. Roy, 7 { Thirteenth Svaet 766, morth 6, +outheast 3. south 76, : Loutsa C. Brush to Luciba E. Agard, ot on south line of Twenty-sixth street, 50 feet west of Sanchez, 80 by 114, §1442; Otto and Luclg - are The cus- il 11 ob-. a talk i ng. for turé: No large buildings have acted for : since the t real ew in this paper, contracts have been recorded Jacob Brandt, | I 5. : them. | of Sixth, 2 | 4 wost Mission streets, | $04OE 440 45 $4HDPIPO4OPUPIHIH404944 04 44004049 3+ B T + 4 R R R R S R Y ] i Kloppent & to Philip Keifer; lot on north line | east of Frank 6 by and Marie K yers. n northwest of Val-{ ioio and Tagar 0: Bastiva Oliva..tiy Jose uni “half of he- easi nf. Powell street, 87:6-south f Lombard, 22.6. by '95:6, $3000; Frank F.:and Gertrude - Peshody. to- MaryB.. Brittan,. Tot on Lie cof Brannen. strest, 300.fest east of | Balawin & Howell report the sale of two | Blocks south of the park, Nos. 654 and. G5, oth fronting ~on_H -and .1 ‘streets and | k t t et titeenth and-Eighteenth av ineteenth-avenus - boulevare th avenue. for the Callaghau | 600, These blocks are 2#x600 | f ach - and are adjoining the “black recently “subdivided and successfully sold | {'by this firm. Nineteenth- avenue: houle {vard having been opened.up -and & hand- | some entr te lden Gate placed at its head, this section.of the Sunset:1is- ftrict’ gives promise nf hecoming at-once |'a popular and populois residence: distriet a five_handsome homes-have bee there and many purchasers have sig. 1 their intention of building in the near future. The placing of. these two splendid - blocks on ' the 'markei is the initial ) toward closing the gap: be- een_ the n n beach and tw ¥ uleyard | The electrs » which runs alon; & H street renders this section of ‘the | easily ible. Streets surround- | | these blacks are heing graded:-to-the | jal line and the blocks “are “to. be'| jed. Over $£10.000 will be expended in this work G be placed in walls —are be Nineteenth avenue ing efforts of the Ni levard « and water mains are to | streets and plank- side- laid. -~ The opening of due to the unceas- ateenth Avenue Bou- ub, and the Su t Distriet Club to is now advocating the opening of H street Trom Firet to Taentioth Avenus.: BUpers| intendent McLaren a force of ‘men at work on the entranee to Golden Gate Park 1th avenie and expects. that it | hed very soon. Mrs. Benson's ence on the carner of - street and- Nineteerth avenue ig- in course. 'of| constructiori-and. will ‘be-a: handsome ad- dition 1o, this suburb. THEIR LOVE FCR OLD ENGLAND i Even Ghostly Souls Cannot Be Happy Out of the Country. Do _you know the legend of -the home- | ick “British souls? The story and ‘tha belief in it _are- certainly vears old, byt it is stated by and responsibie historran. that men ot the Dutch Breton the story. and beli it, to the present more - than' 2000 serious s a th day. It seems that the souls of Britons | that die fn foreign'lands. cannot- rest i} peace; they must refiirn to. thel oW country, - But. for the silver streak -of | water there is no re m why they should| not walk, or flit, ot fly, in ghostly fashion, and-so. get home. As'it is, they have to | ried acri in Loats, When the time comes, they assemble oii the shore and send word to the fisher- in the dead of night to arise and over. The fishermen have to take turns for the work. When a man's | turn comes around he heard outside the door, in the middle of the night, an indis- tinet voice calling him out. He obeys be- | | | cause he must. He cannot choose but rise and follow that voice, which orders him to repair to the seashore. There he finds ess, mot _his own boais, are with- | out crews; the men w e heen sum moned get in and take the oars; then, | | without their seeing anybody, they feel by filled with passengers. When the gun. wale is down to an Inch from the surface ‘nr the water the men push off and begin to row. | After an hour's work they arrive at the | shores of England. In their ow: | observe, the voyage tak | half. the sinking of the boats that they are | i a da On arriving they percelve by the | lightening of the boats that their passeng. ers are stepping ashore. Moreover, they hear a voice which announces thelr ar- rival to the souls invisible which receive | The voice pr ims thelr rank and their offices: ‘‘Caractacus, late King of the Stlures; Cassivellaunus. King of the Trinobantes: Helena, wife of Constantine the Gre: and 50 on, just like a foot- man at the door. When all have landed | the fishermen returz 2s they came, also | in_an hour. It is a curfous legend. and like to know whether anything to say to it, whether there any. explanation of the reason why t souls prefer embarking in Hoiland and in Brittany; how it is they cannot navi- gate their own ships: how it is that in- | visible and impalpable shades still pre- | serve their weight? ‘And one would much | Jike to talk with some of these fishermen | who have heard that voice beyond that | summons, and to asceértain the nameés of | the “illustrious dead who have. arrived.— | | Chicago News. | ————————— London waiters and waitresses have or- | one would has is the folkiore | ganized themselves into a sort of union | | and now demand 25 cents an hour for reg- ular work, 35 cents an hour for all aover | eight hours and 5 cents an hour between | |1 and 6 o'clock In the mornMg, and no | | waiter to work over ten hours a day. An | ultimatum protests against ‘“‘the degrad- | ing and demoralizing system of tips, upon | which the waiters have to depend. It is a vstem of cadging which destroys our ‘imanhood. is an unfair tax upon the public | and places the poor man at a g!ud- i vantage in public places.” Minehan ard - O’Brien are among the young . contingent-that ‘are at the fair early and:do much to make the affair a Success. Mrs. McCann and Mrs. Morrison, {'who - preside -over Holly ' Park booth, have tresh dcnations to their stall each night; = th have somé very - handsome lat | get | London Express. HATHER BRA JUBILINT OVER B FIANCES St. John's Bazaar Booms More Every Day to Big- ger Business. ——— Father Cullen Presided Over the ‘Wheel of Fortune Last Night and Helped the Good Cause. G . People came early last night and stayed | lute at St. John's Bazaar out at old St. Mary's College. “There was no concert, but the: evening’s: fun was furnished: by Father Cullen of Sacred Heart parish, who- presided over the wheel of fortune. He had such a persuasive way. that at the end of the evening he turned over to Father Brady a very neat sum. To-night will be the great night of the fair; a number of the prominent citizens have signified their. intention of coming. There will be & concert and an impromptu “hop,” to. close the evening’s good time. So - great has been the success- of .the fair and genial Father Brady has had so many reguests to nue the fair into next week that he said last night he was seriously thinking of doing so. ' Should | that be the -case or not, any one who | would -like to see the fair at ‘its 'best should come to-night. The Misses Lynn, Tace imported from the -old: coun- . they - yesterday, which 11d- Tike ell at a very reason- abla figure. That Military Band Trouble. Not yards but furlongs-of red tape has | been unwound bhetween San Francisco nd Washington over that military band of the Third: Artiilery stationed at the | Presidfo; - This band . undertook: to play | for a private elub at one of its summer | tings. This was:objectionable to the local - musicians, who - started “in to un- wind e pe. which found its-way. into | President - McKinley's private office, -the | War Department, the Senate -and House of Represenitatives, eventually winding up with. Colonel ‘Rawles of the Third Ar- tillery, who has informed:the secretary of the “Tabor -Council . that' henceforth’ and | for ‘ever-more the uniformed niusicians will charge -union rates -when ~blowing music for oiitside parties Secretary. Rosenberg announced - that arrangements had been made by the City Street. Paving, Company - that in - the fiture: the eight -hour-schedule of ‘work | ill be observed. e comumittea having charge. of the Labor . day . celebration reported that evorvihing -has been. arranged . satisfac- toritly: for -a: grand day’s. entertainment | Central Park, — e Abused His Wife. On learning .that his wife ‘had com- menced -proceedings - against -him for a divorce, James Higgins, a . middle-aged man, last night went to her home- at 35§ Harriet street and after threatening to make her a subject for . the. Coroner, struck her “in the face, knoeking her down. - He then started to Kick her; but | as she scréamed lustily he threatened to a revolver and silence - her: :cries. | While he was {rying to procure & pistol | the woman ran. from the nouse and noti- fied a policem The-policeman. prompt- | Iy arrested Higgins and chaiged him with battery and threats agaist life. WHAT THE NATIONS SMOKE. | Tastes of Leading European Peoples In the Way of Tobacco. | We frequently ~hear . remonstrances | against the gmoking . public .of:-England. | Only a short time ago.a vigorous protest | was _entered by - non-smoKers - against those who wished. to cnjoy ah after-din-| ner cigar. 1 Let the anti-tobacconist - eongratulate: | himself:that he lives in England, for, if he follows this: article -he ‘will See - that | among the important nations: of Turope. | « Britain is one of the smalest con- sumers of tobacco. | To our taste:the tobaceo of ‘the conti- | Ours thies are entirely consime less ‘of fon than the peos pean natior numiber, roughly, 100.000; ~and -they anly -consume about | 180.000:000" pounds - of - the fragrant . (a £) weed per annum, which amounts nent s vile, villainous of any -othe The: people of- Ry 10 twenty-¢ight oun: Individuail. Germany, however, Iways had: the | reputation of. being, the home of-mokers, and_yet; it _comes. third- in the list of| smoking countr 1 hF‘ population - of | the German empire at the latest censu; \ W, at arn s returned 5 L the | car they consumed 77,267 tons of tobacco. in | This amounts to about fifty-three ounces | | per inhabitant. Ausiriaboasts of 51000000 peopls as its popilation, and between them they #ge to get through a little over 108,000,000 { pounds of tobacco a.year. -Haeh Aus- | rjan; therefore, would -be able to: have | 1wu pounds. ten ounce of tobacco to 1 t | him a year if all the inhabitants smoked. | In Tance, however, where the con- sumiption of tobacco Is mostly in the form | of - very- bad cigarettes, each. inhabitant | could smoke only two pounds two ounces:| | 1 man- of tobucco. Judging from the quality of : French tobacco, we wonder:how they smoke even that amount. With- greater inducements in the shaps | of better and cheaper tobacco, the inhab- itants of England smoke miore tobacco per ’ than -~ their . near = mneighbors, the | ench. - If we take the last census we | find .that the people of England number abont -39,000,000,. - and; allowing -~ for -the | vearly increase, they now certainly num- ber a good many mor 1f all of these smoked the amount of tol o doled out to each on the 1st of Jan v to last for the year would only amount io one pound five ounces. This 18 about what a heavy smoker wolid consume in a month. Tak- ing, however, the approximate number ot adult es in the kingdom at 9,750,000, we | get an average of 144 ounces per man, | Which is about what the average smoker | gets through. Yet we are not a nation | much addicted to tobacco. | For really colossal smokers von must go to Relgium and Holland. The population | of Belgium is a little larger than the pop- | ulation of London, being about §.2:0.00. | | | | One would think from the returns that the Relgian infants were reared on tobacco. If we consider every soul In Belgium as a | smoker, we get the astounding average ces per soul each year. When, . we reduce the population to the 1o’ census of males of an age to , we get an average amount of 2 pounds a year per man, or a weekly cc sumption of 7% ounces. Holland, with its 000 inhabitants, | comes second in the smoking world. Thera is, however, some excuse for the Dutch | sthoking so much, for their tobacco 1s very mild and of a pleasant flavor. Nev- | ertheless, a yearly average of seventy | ounces man must be considered ab normal, and the English a has every reason to rejo s ot live under Queen Wilhelmina What do all these people smoke? putting it_roughl sumption of to- | bacco in France i€ chiefly in the shape of cigarettes and cigars. In Russia the cf- arette is also, unfortunately, too popu- ar. No one in Holland or Belgium would | thank you for the paper-covered car- tridges which the British soldier desig- nates as “two puffs and a spit.” The pipe predominates in Germany, Holland and | Belgium. _Austria_and Iingland are im- | wa, | partial. The cigarette appeals to some, the cigar to the wealthy and the pipe maintains its popularity. During the past six years the consumption of cigarettes | has almost doubled, and this is not good for the nation at large, though it may be | for_the revenue and the tobacconists.— | = 1 e e | Long Trips With Deposit Slips. Queen Christina of Spain is in the habit of sending a confidential messenger all the way from Madrid to London for the pur- ose of depositing her wealth, which she | ceps in the Bank of England. Although | Queen Christina is entitled to draw from the Spanish treasury $200.000 a vear, she has not, owing to the straitened circum- stances jof Spain, drawn a_ cent of this money. : | | goog i for PARISHIONERS OF SAINT PATRICK'S WILL CELEBRATE They Will Take an Outing at Schuetzen Park on Monday Next. Father Cummings Assures Every One an Enjoyable Day and No Effort Will Be Spared to Make the Affair a Success. i e There ' i& every promise 'that St. rick’s parish pienle, ‘which Is to be held at. Schuetzen. Park on Monday, Labor day, wil be one of the most successful social affairs ever held in the history of the parish. The various committees have about concluded their labors and are sat-| isfled that their work has been most suc- cessfully accomplished. Thé games com- mittee has prepared an attractive pro- gramme of sports, which is in itself a sufficient- -inducement for the old and young to'avail themselves of the oppor- tunity of engaging in contests for many valuable: prizes which have been donated by generous. friends. The ' best ‘band music in the city has been engaged and in addition Professor McCarthy ‘and “a union piper will be in attendance. Prizes will be awarded for the best jig and reel dancers, who will Step to the music of the bagpipes. Boats will leave the ferry at 9, 11, 12:35 and 3:30 and returning trains will leave ‘the park at 6:30 ‘o’clock. - Tickets can be procured at the ferry. The band will go over on the 9 o'clock boat. The following are the officers of the general committee: Eugene F..Lacy, chairman; David Barry, sec- retary: Rev..F. Heshn, treasurer. Committee - of- arrangement Hllam T. Flvnn,. John Rowe, ' W. A. Breslin, John Hughes, J. J: O'Brien, Thomas Conlan, Michael | Brown, J. McDevitt, J. Long, M. Tierney, T. Cleary, M. P. Ward,,' Thomas L. Doran, James « P. McNamee, E. Fitzgerald, E. Me- 3 James ‘Hughes, : F. 1iv Daniel C. Regan; T. Leach, MoDeyitt, John Coftee, John Quinn, ‘James Lamey, J. Griffin, W. Fitzgerald, C: G, Dougherty, M. Corridan,: Johni Allen, Tomalty, J. Cro- nan, John: Killéen, Sweeny, J. J. Shee- . Lonnors, T. Kussick, J. McGinl G. O'Connor, J. M. Kussick, P. Prunty Maurice Corridan McNamee, - James Lame: Rowe, F: McDbevitt, John Coffee. E j0d;: John Hughes, John s “Hughes, Miss yland, Miss - Nell comm P 3. c. ronan, G._Sullivan, Miss M, O'Brien, Miss Kate Kussi Lyne, Miss Mary se _Anthony, , Mies M. McDermott, Miss: Franc Mies. hort, - Miss Roge - Kell s - Emily -Shirley, ‘Miss Ella Cronan, Mits M. Beden, :Miss - Lena. Holden; Irs.J. Hughes, Mré: shue. Miss Frances MeDévitt, Mrs. Butters, iie Byrnes, Mies Marguer mie Flood," Mrs. Sullivan, Mr . Bres- }n, Mrs: "B, Mis, Mrs: nning, Miss Sarah_Do- s K. Cantwell, M Miss - Netlie € Burns, Miss E. erty, Mrs.' R.. Lacy, Kate~ Delury, Mrs.. Cal nors, ‘Miss Tessie Dora Willlam ¢ nors; Miss Kate Doran, N Slizabeth Fuller, Mrs. ‘H, Dhue, Miss Atine. Donohue, Miss Agi tha Glover, Mr Mise Jannie Glynn; Mrs.M.:McLaughiin, Miss Hannah Griffin, Miss Agries Gately, Mrs. Mi negan, Miss Gertrude Hailllnan, Mis . Miss Marion Harkins; igs L. Brooks, Miss. M irs. Intash, Miss Gertie McCarthy, Miss Mary ALM 1. Secord, Pratf Games “committee—W ¢nn (chAlrman), TFhomas L. Doran. Michael: Browm, John Allen; William: Fit John' Coffee. I Griffin; “assistant floor "Tiernay. ommittes—Williim’ A, Breslin, Thomas citt, €. Reggn; James O’ Brien P FAMOUS SINGER TO REAPPEAR AT TIVOLI Barron Berthald, the Wagnerian Tenor, to Be Heard in Role of “Tannhauser.” it is “an ill’wind that blows no is once more proven-hy. the indis- position of Signor Avedano, ‘the ‘famous Italian tenor of the Tivoli Opera-house, thé unfortuniate cecurrénce-also. re- ilts - in’ music ‘lovers ‘having: an oppor- tunity of -hearing ;Barron: Berthald, the jdéal Wagnerian tenor, - his great role of “Tannhauser, which he: will sing at the matinee to-day and-also at the per- formance to-morrow . night. Last Saturday when the physicians in attendance on Signor -Avedane decided Hesiin That that lie must have a few days' rest; the | Tivoli management’ at once. Kept' the wires busy with messages to:New York, and instructions were sent fo_the. Eastern nts of the theater to.find Barron Ber- {hald and haye him in- this ity in_ time to. €ing.in “Tannhauser” -on ‘Thursday Jast. ~The message reached New York Saturday, - afternoon, but: Berthald was enjoying the breezes of Atlantic City; Finding he was too:late to. reach New York in time to catch'the overland: train which left on Sunday morning, a special train was chartered,and in the. early hours of the Sabbath the singer reached Gotham. With but three hours to pack his trunks, Berthald caught the overland and speeded to the Pacific ‘Coast. All along: the line the. Tivoli had tele- grams waiting for' the singer with posi- tive injunctfons to be-in San Francisco to sing on Thursday_ last. was on time until Ogden was reached, and there the rallroad officials upset the plans of the Tivoli by holding the section of the overland on which Berthald was until the fecond section -with the mailbags arrived. | Three. hours -of valuable time were thus lost and Berthald arrived in this city last Thursday night ‘after 9 e'clock, too late for: the performance, although he was willing to go on and sing in the last act of ‘“Tannhauser. The:cast of the Wagner opera at the matinee to-day and to-morrow night will be - remarkable one, for Berthald will cing his great role of the Minstrel Knight: Salassa, the princely barytone, wiil once again be heard as Wolfram and Schuster Wil be the Landgrave, Frances Graham Will sing Venus and Effie Stewart will | ender Elizabeth. T he best of the grand operas will follow at_the Tivoli in rapid order. Next week YErnani” ana “Carmen” will _be given. and the following week the offering will be “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “I Pag- liacel”” With the acquisition of Barron Berthald and with the near reappearanc of Avedano the Tivoll grand opera com- pany stands as the best “all-round” com- bination that has ever been heard In rand opera in this city. Next season Sarron Berthald joins the Grau grand opera compariy, which is a worthy tribute to his artistic abilities. \ B e — Slight Earthquake Shock. A slight earthquake shock was felt in this city at 7:25 o'clock last night. vibrations were from east to west. No damage has been reported. Santa Cruz and Halfmoon Bay were treated to a sim- | ilar shakeup. P Closed Labor Day. The San Francisco office of Wells-Far- go Express Company will be closed on Labor day, September 3, at 12 o'clock, in ursuance of orders ‘o that effect issued y John J. Valentine, president of the company. e e Ethical Institute Lecture. Benjamin Fay Mills will deliver a lec- ture at Metropolithn Temple to-morrow night on “The Morals of San Francisco.” The lecture will be under the auspices of the. Ethical Institute of San Francisco. —_————— Admission Day Visitors. We secure your rooms in advance, so avold delay. Send $1 to Admission day In- formation Bureau, 850 Market st., 8. F.* e Newlywed—Does your wife ever threaten to qo home to her mother? Oldboy—Why, my boy, I wouldn't con- ._._ Asider that a threai.—The Smart Set, Pat- | o' Connor, | | M.. Kerr,. Miss: Kate Fuller, The overland | The | STUDY OF POE: BY XIIIL Half a century has elapsed since Edgar Allan ‘Poe passed out from the “fever “drank of the river ** Over his dead bedy friend and foe have fought flercely singiy, but even to-day the story life remains to be told. Accuracy and sympathy, the two indispensable pre- rcquisites of the bivgrapher, have never yet been united in a blography of this most unfortunate of American poets. Shortly after the deliberate malignity of a clerical hack sought to avenge an old quarrel by a base betrayal of the trust committed to him and this treachery proved only too successful, for “Gris- wold’s Memolr,” for the most part false as to fact and always rancorous as to epirit, has served as the basis for the common conception of Poe. It was in vain that the dead poet's friends protested at the time against the savage caricature. The world is always ready to belleve the worst of a man of genius and there was unfortunately much in Poe's life to lend credibility to the assertions of his ma- { ligner. Since then other writers, foreign- | ers for the most part—to our shame be it | said—have attempted to present the char- acter of Poe in a more favorable light and to-day there i{s no country but our own where his fate is not pitied and his achievement in prose and verse acknowl- edged. But with us the latest biographies, & EDGAR ALLAN POE. *® éven when correcting earlier misstate- ments, have been characterized by such a spirit 'of foolish patronage or pharisaical | readiness to fling the stone as to prove that the poet, like the prophet of old, is | still without hanor in his own country. A brief skétch of Poe's life, based upon material much of which has been made serve to-correct some widespread errors | as to fact and furnish a basis for a mare syvmpathetic appreciation of his charac- | Edgar Poe was born in Boston January 19. 1809, the second son of David Poe, a Baltimore gentleman who had abandoned | the bar for the stage and married a young | English actress. David Poe died, appa- { rently in 1810, and his wife passed away | a year later insutter destitution, leaving three young children. Edgar, then nearly three years of age, was adopted by a Mr. Allan, a wealthy merchant of Richmond, whose young and | childless wife seems to have been an ad- | mirer of the unfortunate actre The boy was given the name of his adopted parents, treated as an only child and ap- arently spolled in the good old Southern ashion. When six years old he was taken | to Engiand by the Allans and spent five years in a London school, a vivid picture of which he has preserved for us in ““Wil- On his return he continued his studies in Richmond and in 182§ en- | tered the University of Virginia. Here e spent but one term. The general tes- timony of his schoolmates is that he was { a lonely and moody lad, plunging at times {fhto the dissipations of the college boys, | but by no means neglecting his studies— | he took the highest honors in French and Latin—and devoting much time to litera- ture. At the end of the term Mr. Allan visited Charlottesville and paid the large bills which the boy had run up, but re- | fused to acknowledge his ‘debts of | honor* and angrily withdrew him from the university. Griswold’s statement that Poe was expelled is an absolute falsehood; he was never even censured by the fac- | uity, and though drinking and gambling are not exactly commendable habits in a Doy of 16, they were at least the vices of a Southern gentleman. 2 Mr. Allan placed Poe in his counting- house, but he did not stay there long. ™ | the spring of the following year, 1827, w | fina him in Boston arranging for the pub- | lication of a volume of verse, the product | of his school and college days. This was | “Tamerlane and Other Poems. by a Bos- | tonian,” now one of the rarest of Ameri- can books. Even before it appeared Poe probably at his wits' end for money, ei listed in the United States army as a pri | vate under the name of Edgar A. Perr; Hle served for two vears, was promotéd for merit and at his discharge received high testimonials from his commanding | officers. Poe seems to have been ashamed | of this episode, and in the account he was accustomed to give of his life filled up these years with a_fictitious expedition to aid the cause of Greek freedom. Shortly | before his discharge Mrs. Allan died. and | her widower's one thought seems now to | have been to rid himself as decently as | possible of the lad who',?hh" had adopted | and reared as his only ¢hild and heir. In | & letter to the Secretary of War asking | for a cadet’s post at West Point for Poe. he expressly disclaims all relationship and ranks the boy among the numerous ob- | jects of Bis charity. | While waiting for his appointment Poe published a second volume of poetry, “Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems.” this time under his own name. In®July 1830, he entered West Point. and in Oci ber of the same year Mr. Ailan married a | secona_time. Poe probably looked upon this step as practically disinheriting him, and feeling that he was left to make his | own way in the world he determined to leave the miltary academy and devoie himself to literature. Mr. Allan refused to sanction his resignation from West Point, { liam Wilson.” procure his discharge by means of a court- mertial. He neglected all military duties and was in consequence dismissed in the | spring of 1831, ieaving the post, it Is said, | with ony 12 cents in his pocket. | "Poe's stay at West Point was by no | means the round of dissipation that it has been represented. Some work he must have dene. for he stood third in French and seventeenth in mathematics out of a | class of eighty-seven. His neglect of arade and roll call—the charge on which ae was dismissed—was the result of his determination to escape from the army in the only way that was open to him. Even at this time it is hard to imagine Poe, with his wild fancies, quick artistic in- | stinets and thirst for poetic fame, bound { down in the shackles of military routine. His mistake, one would think. was not in leaving but in ever entering West Point. The next two vears of Poe's life are al- most a blank. Supported by, the subserip- tion of his cadet friends h& brought out a third volume of verse, in which for the first In:e x’e tcam:h the note“ot lthu haunt- ng lyric that was so peculiarly his own. Fo Helen,” *“The City in the Sea and “Jsrafel,” which appeared for the first time in this volume. were and are unique contributions to American literature. seems to have spent the greater part of these years In abject poverty in Balti- more. He received, it apears, a scanty annuity from Mr. Alan, but when he emerges from that period of obscurity he L public only within the last few vears, may | and he was in _consequence compelled to | DR. T. M. PARROTT. | Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. ! LITERARY TALKS AND REMINISCENCES. —_— is on the point of starvation and unable | to accept an invitation dinner for lack of a decent coat. But his poverty is not to be attributed, as is so frequently done, | to intemperance. Wilmer, who knew him intimately at the ¢ pe i, saw | no sign of bad habits in Poe except that on one occasion the aunt witl »m_he lived upbraided but as though it Were a rare occurre; for having take too much at a tavern dinner. Cast off by Mr. Allan, who was rapidly begetting a family of his own, and hout aid_or sympathy from his father's relatives, Poe | set himself steadily to perfect a new form of art which might perhaps bring him in the pittance needed for his daily bread. This was the short story, and it was by this that he firat came into prominence. In the autumn of 1833 the Baltimore Sat- urday Visitor offered a prize of $1000 f the best prose story and another of $0 for the best short pocm. Poe seized the | opportunity and presented ome of his beautifully written manuscripts contain- ing six stories and a poem | 8lven currency to the silly tale careless committee awarded the prize to | “the first of geniuses who had written :l-glhl}.' One had but to compare the simple, lucid style, the amazing realism and the wild imagination of ‘The MS. Found in a Bottle” with the feeble insip- idity of the average magazine story to concur in the unanimous decision of the committee. His poem also would have re- ceived the prize had it not for some rea- son been thought Injudicious to give both | awards to one competitor. | _Poe’s life as a man of letters reaily be- gins with the winning of this prize. All | hope of inheriting a portion of Mr. Allan's estate was cut short or the death of that gentleman, who, shortly before his de- cease, had 'driven Poe from his house with threats of personal violence. The young writer was taken up, however, by John Kennedy, one of the who ~had awarded him the prize rimself a man of letters. Through his pd offic Poa obtained some employment on the Satur day Visitor and later a position on the editorial staff of the Southern Literarv Messenger, a monthly magazine just started at Richmond. Here Poa remained for something oy r a year, filling his post with such success that he raised the cir- culation of the magazine from 700 to | over 5000 subscribers. He contributed both prose and poetry and atfracted particu- lar attention by the brilliancy, indepen- dence and severity of his literary eriti- | cism. Such a dissection of a popular novel as Poe inflicted on Fay's “Norman Les- lie,” the best “puffed” book of the da had never been seen in America before During his stay in Richmond Poe mar- ried secrefl though with her mothers consent, his little cousin, Clemm, a child of 13. Tt was some months befora che and her moth to live with him at Richmond, and ng this time he | seems to have given repeatedly to the craving for drink—a family failing, If | we may judge from a letter of his cousin William Poe. Years afterward Poe, w denying the habi of this period I certainly did give way at long Intervals to the temptation held out on all sides by the epirit of Southern conviviality. My sensitive temperament could not stand an excitement which was an everyday matter to my compan- fons. In short, sometimes happened that I was completely intoxicated. For some days after each excess I was invariably conflned to bed | But Griswold's statement that Pos was dismissed for drunkenness is quite u true. A letter from the proprietor of the Messenger remonstrating with Poe for his lack of self-control was written, an- Griswald knew that_it was written, Lefore Poe assumed his editorial functions. The orobable truth is that Poe was at once desirous to enter the broader flelds of | fournalism in New York and to quit a city where his numerous acauaintances and the “spirlt of Southern conviviality' multiplied temotation. any rate quitted Richmond in the spring of 1837. Note—This study, by Dr. T. M. Parrott of Princeton University, will be concluded on Saturday next. When They Are Married. This is a year before marriage. making her a call. ringing for her. ha He s He is at the front door He has been thinking all day of her. These are his boots newly blacked, collar spotless, his form dittn outside, his gloves drawn on for the first time, his hair newly parted and oiled, his face newly shaven: his heart palpitates for her; his nerves are nervous for her; he fears she may be out, or that her parents may object, or, worse than that, fome other fellow may be there with her Then the door ovens. She is there and alone. He Is happy This is a year after marriage. He Is ringing at the door. His face 1§ un- shaven, his collar much worn, his boots unblacked, his hair unbrushed. He rings again in exactly ten seconds. He gives the bell a short, petulant pull. He Is thinking of her. He is grumbling that she doesn’t answer it sooner. He has not all day been thinking of her. He has gone further. maybe. and fared worse. Now she opens it. He pushes past her and re- mar Takes you forever to answer that bell.” His unbrushed boots sound sullen as he ascends the stairs. She follows meekly after. He dashes into the room and around the house, and sings out: “Isn't dinner ready yet?” She bids him to be patient for a moment. But he won't Because dinner isn't ready within one minute after he gets home. Because this is the one vear after marriage. Because the bloom is off the rye. the down rubbed off the peach, and varfous other consid- erations. Because it's the way of the world, of man, of matrimony. O Tem- lrnléltn Mores! 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