The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 2, 1900, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDA ", SEPTEMBER 1900. 2, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ) D ddress A mmunica ions to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE.....0ts Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICI..Market and Third. S. F. T one Press 2 EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevem st. Telephone Press 202. 15 Cenin Per Weelk. 5 Cents. clading Postage: Deltvered b Carriers. Stngle Copie by Matl, Terms hange of « with their requeet VARLAND OFFICE L1118 Bromdway ace uilding, Chicago. ) C C.C N Heraid Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: TEPHEN B SMITH.. . .30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS ETANDS: o7 -Astoria Hotel, A Brestano, 81 Unsion Square: CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Elerman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hote! Hcuse: Auditortum Hotel GTON CaO nzton Hote! ON E -t o oFrFIcES " - THE .-‘\ANSHRD ROOF JOB. rison are e re hai t ple space o the job if the people per- t e the money will be for ce m b. It is to be taken out 4 the revenues of e€re are serious eds for every department of rr secen the stre hey are still bad There is need kled t B t ngs and for better sewers, there is ra P g. In fact, there are but there is one thing s a mansard roof on the City improvement clubs of the city should ) to s job at once, for it is safe to say Hall it will new series of jobs that will to the taxpavers in f the City - past Some adverse comment has been made that the King Hu convicted and ntenced in undue haste in a single day. The critics ek h which the murderer accom- mbert was triec ste w hed his crime. e attorney who was called a perjurer and several mplimeéntary things by the Judge of a e Court the other day may doubt the justice of he certainly cannot question his em- the accused murderer, says he owes his arrest the prowess of Mis captors, but to a train of cir- stances. That is a new way of telling how it felt ok into the business end of a shotgun. The Keswick man who was digging for water and | nd gold is not likely to kick on the score that he s cheated out of what he was looking fe THE CITY: into a deplorable condition. caused widespri rsest favoritism., and t to the ¢ enced tea the departme and exper hers, by inju room is made for schools, I'he wishes of parents are insulti re unheeded, incompatible with good work. s the pets of the board. d teachers go to ti SCHOOLS. ANY plain signs are abroad that the public schools of San Francisco are lapsing The introduction of the worst evils of patronage into the School Board has 1 alarm among the teachers. Sinister devices Tyros in teaching are elevated over expert ; abolition sts of the schools are not con- consolidation of The intere classes and ignored. rly are used for subjecting of The requests of organizations of ir daily tasks with that uncertainty of tenure @ e s . HE most Tarpey's study of the English dra- matists of to-day (the Critic for August) is Mr. A. W. Pinero. Mr. Tarpey's article des lusively with Mr. Pinero’s literary work. To acquire some knowiedge of the man we must supplement this with blographjcal details given us by Mr. Pinero himself in his open ‘‘Letter to William pe Iv necessary to the most efficient teaching that the teacher shall be free | Archer” (January 6, 159%). ¢ ¥ faets At eIt 3 o .| Mr Pinero was born, he tells us, just care and anxie hich arise in this state of unc inty. I'be board has fos-|outside the Waverley railway station, ! A : : 7 5 Kdinboro, on a melancholy, mysterfous, ed a system of envy. revenge and self-seeking, of tattling and backbiting, which is highlv | humia night in the month of June, one 3 d £ 4 e blic | thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. den I . 1f this strange board had taken a contract to discredit the public | The place impre as odd and the 1 : : - -oak | time as impe » we re schoo em, to make it deserve all that its enemies say against it and to finally brea ‘k“:n,n Pk Skl —rn‘:‘\m..rr;:’-'f?:: a e S ; P TE T eTRe Harr i ough old|most powerful English problem play of be exj le. We have had hoards before, and “t the century—w. 1in 1892, when, ac- boa 00, but all of their corruption, ignorance and venality put together has not in- |cordirg to the tement. the author d : 3 : have be vears of age. To re e scheols to the extent to whi are being damaged now. | relieve our per Mr. Pinero hastens S : 3 .. | o assure us that when he says “born” he I'he law set the tenure of a te: .and the courts | many times sustained it, | means “born into the theatsieal world,” : RGN £ i it was at the time and place - to great intage of the department. I'raining the young is a task of gre lelicacy | tioned, at the age of 1y, that he e hin ind C It is of vast importance. of the co The law. therefore, to te their employment, of which they 1 o secure the menial an ¢ d has 1 all It concerns the future of the individual and has gone far in the direction of giving a vested right cannot be deprived without cause. This I nervous equipoise needful to the best work in the schoolroom. all this by its cunningly devised schemes of oppression, by which best teachers are easily victims of the very worst and most unscrupulous. If the board were acting under the advice and guidance of the most inveterate enemy of the I system, it could not do more injury to that system than it is doing. rocess of consolidation to make away with teachers of experie: and event- ce for raw favorites of the members of the board, another injury has onge ikes the ils directly. The curricnlum has been ed into the conf The course of study needs reducing and simplifying—not increase 1 ( l¢ I'his process of overloading is the common vice of the wh system, espe in cities, and is rapidly aj aching a climax here. Instead of reform in that t the present hoard > m S17 1e whole pupils. T 1 quired juir e board ms. Under its system th its faculties . system is a constant strain upon the memory e brain on fire. \phasia developed aculties that have velous ir ma to this ining lop-brair velopment of the mind, l¢ the aves - system would be sound and sz If mental decay do follow to be found in the grasp of some of the an army of enemies to human welfare, which life But what does this School Board ¢ to play its favorites and squeeze Wort teachers ma not move the sympathy of the combination does this club-roosting board ¢ re burdens, borne for no useful end > victims of unnatural Wh What at does it cz does it care for the taxpayers ging such mug- clined to vote McKin- to vote for Bryan because of elds and gficld Republican nt to prove that Crokers wl has care- yorate arg Id be good a very | what les that the question of 1an- be intelli- it can be answered in a way satisfactory to the gence of the country The Rep s men as A . Sulzer, Tillman n Id not be likely to be found in the list net ap ' and adds: “It is only fair to say this be sons exist why those n Mr. Alt- not be ¢ sitions. e ot s a nervous and physical "w' disposed of one Mr. Bryan, more- s ewd man in politics; < bitterest enemies now concede he has some and Mr. Bryan not the one to take into his Cabinet who have acquired notoriety to a us degree for eccentrici B eness or edness.” a string of brave assertions, not one can snuv‘ by the Republican. There is nothing in Bryan's career to show that he would exclude rattle-headed fellows from Cabinet and otherwise. have been mainly with men of that character. Moreover, mainly to bi his he be clected he will owe his success hat sort of men and it is to be presumed he would have the fairness to be true to them after election. Every reasonable assumption in the prob- | lem therefore directly the opposite of those the Republican has put forward and they are not to be set aside by the mere dictum of a newspaper that does not speak even with the zuthority of a Bryan organ. By way of supporting its claims the Republican tgives a list of statesmen whom Bryan would find available for Cabinet timber. It is a curious combina- | tion. As probabilities we have these: For Secretary of State—Senators Bacon of Georgia, Daniel of V ginia, McCreary of Kentucky and David B. Hill of { New York; Treasury—John P. Jones of Nevada, | Coler of New York, Towne of Minnesota, Teller of | Colorade and O. H. P. Belmont of New York: War | —Harris of Kansas, George Fred Williams of Massa- | cinch.” matters rendering impossible that system is made hectic is the forerunner of at the expense of the other functions of the brain, cen weakened reasoning and overtake the vic nervous diseases, re fo and who writhe re for the considerable percenta robbed of their voung, so long as it can make places for its aut over the victims of its greed and displeasure liar notoriety would | ¢ accepted as reliable, even though | His affiliations, political | He is in fact himself a man of that type. | worse. Complexity goes on unchecked. degree of personal and unwholesome. has in effect established in the schools a kindergarten for the insane asy- is no symmetrical training of the mind and equal develop abnor- .and develops th faculty e soning, imagi ity and the other mental qualities, which must ed in nony and equality to make the well-equipped individual, are left to @ go without training at all. Now, memory is that faculty of the mind which to overstrain, to and to disease, and it becomes the torch which sets mania. Memory, abnormally bur- like a crazed giant to make it Strong. ase of insanity in the country is attributed by many professional he public schools, which prevents symmetrical de- faculties dwarfed and ruins minds that un- 15 of this system they are apt grouped under neurasthenia, victims unfit for the duties of all this in comparison with the chance render their advantage out of patronage? under the lifted lash of its design and displeasure and of voluptuaries a ns who compose for the iittle children who are subjected to and mutter in their unrefreshing and unwholesome methods of training! > of the youth of the city which it is g to the madhouse, to howl and gibber in the convulsions of insanity! rohbed of their substance, and the parents favorites and drive the pat- ) chusetts, Pattison of Pennsy souri; Navy—Amos . Cummings Thine P, Interior— I} ew York, Car- atrick Collins of Massa- i Colorado, Cannon of ter Harrison of chusetts: Utah, Dockery of Missouri and Attorne De ry of Arkansas, Judge Pu Herrick of New York; Pos 1 of Alabama, Ca d Pia braska Some men in that are known General rond of Missouri, n of Maine and Judge General—Bank- of Mississippi, Danforth f Michigan; 1aster Holcomb of or Lind of Minnesota, list are gold Democrats, state un however, that even a mugw scraping the whole some as er: but most of them .are nown. It is the best list, 1mp can get together ait. over. If by that showing 2 Bryanite Cabinet, any citizen can be induced to vote for Bryan, | then the average intelligence of the Bay State must have fallen heavily since the last election. As a matter | of fact Bryan is in the Altgelds and the silver ring now. and their hands will control him after election. He would have no conservative Cabinet. His administration would be as disastrous as his cam- paign is threatening suntr of available timber for of Massachusetts ¢ hands of President | other blow e - Jenjamin Ide Wheeler has struck an- at another cherished Western institution. He positively declines to permit the students to smash ‘umvermv property and hrnk their own heads in the | enthusiasm of class * Our local Democraiic friends seem lost to all sense of consideration of the ordinary courtesies. | Mayor Phelan just back from vaca cal bedfellows are maki nunciation of him. Here is tion and his politi- ing the air noisy with their de- § - Fusion in the State of W hington is an excitement ii nothing else. The basis of union between the Democrats and the Pep | both parties to call ane The young medical emplnve of the Board of Health | who wrongly took money from the city’s patients will | probably plead that he is governed by his environ- ment and its conditions. —— The anti-saloon people of Lodi. it fighting “tooth and toenail” | cause. Their peculiar way why they failed. another names. is said, have been for the success of their of fighting may explain The local Chinese gamblers, who have been hiding the evidences of their offenses in drain pipes, possibly heard somewhere of the efficacy of a “lead pipe nd Stone of Mis- | McMillin of Tennes- | Agriculture | ten of the rankest kind, | ulists is evidently a desire of i appearance in that firmament of which he has since hecome the brightest star. His dreadful resoiution of *“going upon the stage”” had caused his weep'ng mother great anxfety -an anxiety which had been only partiall relieved by his equipping himself with theatrical oak trunk of the largest dimensions. This trunk had once beén a plate chest in a noble family; com- bining thus in itself respectability, weight ind age, it seemed to Mrs, Pinero to lend Arthur all the dignity possible in his (to her) undignified profession of actor. This trunk furnished good cause for cu both loud and deep, every cky porter c i ist at a price justly low the expense to the purchaser of cz for its removal. Mr. nero’s fortune at his theatrical birth consisted of a six we engage- ment to play “general utility” at the The- ater Royal, Edinboro, for $5 a week. Yet thy weeks, he tells us, were among the happiest of his life. Youth, health, en- thusiasm (and $5 a week) carried him safely through real dangers and hardships; his observation, was work and he was beginning to make sty of Scotch character which wi so humorously portrayed in many of his Here is an incident which 1 think s never used on the but which full of comic possibilities: *I shared at this (temperance) hotel with one guest, an old gentleman, whose general llowness made me wonder at his the day, rded shelter of however, talk with ing One such ungenial In the course of a me he let in a the few real | | interesting figure in Mr. | | those | see | | other | he ¢ faint | f ht upon my doubts informing me | t if vou went to bed early in a tem perance hotel and then rang the bell vio- and sickness the rd s obliged, under [ i e e e e e e e ) . 1he FPersonality oj Myr. FPnero. By L Du Pont Syle. S e e e e e o o e e o + - Arthur Pinero. verse Criticism that words of presence s eritic heavy penalty, to produce a bottie of riticisms whisky and to leave it on a chair by your | t¢m is perfect - bedside. Such, he assured me, is the law of Scotland.” It was during these “busy. cheerful, healthful time in Edinboro, when he W happier than a king in histor richer than any South African billionai of to-day"'—it was quring these times that Mr, Pinero met the who afterward became his wife—a “pretty little lady, an actress, with an unusuval but soft-sound- ing Christian nsme.” It was during the: days also that he met that other lady whose name he does not give but whose name we should like to know, that w (00, might honcr her memory as does he— mere girl, indeed, now de and gone; a sweet, simple creatu . who nothing but @ very pooriy paid drudge of a ing lady,' but whose history, one of ¢ fulness, patie tue pre against temy and stress of cons useful lesson slightingly of her c! How true, how » inclined to speak g! How full of instruction for those whose virtue fs due only to the accidental absence of temptation! - 5 = Mr. It is now vwll known that as as an acto such must hav s playwright. v may be woven into early farces. we have vears that followed the wro engagement until we come to 95, when he tells us of walks with ‘ Ar(her by shore and cliff and of his salu well preserved resolve never to read vorable criticism of his pla Con- stant practice has so sharpened his In- | stinct for Detecting the Presence of Ad- @ * ¢ *b e eQ PERSONAL MENTION. Pinero him o e e Dr. W. M. Stoover of Soledad is a guest of the Grand. Judge W. A. Anderson of Sacramento is registered at the Lick. W. M. Buckhaiter. a leading citizen of Truckee, is at the Lick. J. R. Garrett, a prominent citizen of Marysville, is at the Lick. Adolph P. Scheld, a prominent brewer | of Sacramento, is at the Occidental. D. R. Shafer of the Four Oaks mine in @ Tuolumne County is at the Occidental. B. V. Sargent, a well known lawyer of | Salinas, is registered at the Occidental. 1 R. W. Burgess, a merchant and land holder of Concord, is a guest of the Occi- dental. H. L. Huston of the Keystone mine of Amador County is registered at the Ocei- dental. W. H. Cook of Los Angeles returned from the northern mines yesterday and is registered at the Grand. Alden Anderson, Speaker of the Assem- oly and a prominent resident of Suisun | the Occidental. trip. He is here on a pleasure —_—————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOEK NEW YORK, Sept. L—H. M. Holbrook | of San Francisco is at the Holland. Lewis Swift is at the Majestic. Ehe R P remarkable number of Geaths by drownink | so far this seasom not less than 80 per cent of the victims were ignorant of lhl: art of swimming. e Icecream and soda at Townsend's. * —_—— Pure fruit juices used at Townsend's. e — | Icecream by the gallon at Townsend" pit A sy s el Peanut crisps, Townsend's, 639, Palace.* ———— i Splendid Cal. glace cherries. Townsend's.* —_— Glace pineapple at Townsend's. . Cream kisses. Townsend's 639, Palace.* Butterscotch, butter lcgs, caramels, mo- lasses buttercups. Townsend's 639, Palace.* —_— Townsend’s California glace fruits, 50c » und in fire-etched boxes or Jap bukm ket street, Palace Hotel. Special information supplied daily to Sl At is registered at the Grand. | J. N. Amschuitz, a member of the | Board of Education of Philadelphia, is at An investigator has learned that of the | This letter of known and is put ble fo that I to it and can t notice to Mr. article. Few, T thi his generalizatic favor and in criti ere lish dran Pinero of * To and humorous” readers of “You Never Can Tell' may well demur, nor can I, for one, perceive that lution of the problem—suicide—in nd Mrs. LADIE LADII price the first but e devot s easily will ¢ that al es stands foremost among living ialogue unprecedentedly witty Our stock is large. new and stylish. found lower than any other house in this city for fine goods. 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Prices will be $2.90 Hoods, in $4.00 value for $6.50, sale satin, value for $8.00, $5.00 3300 S4T3 ~ §4.30 §3.00 value ED SILK WAISTS, vah LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS WILL BE CLOSED OUT AT HALF PRICE Our Entire Stock of LADIES® SUNMER SKIRTS will be Closed Qut at HALF PRICE. New stock LADIES' TAILOR $10.00, $15.00, $20.00, $25.00, up MARE SUITS at $73.00 the: - BENE EWO weeks toF X 1146 Market Street, masterpiece into t there was su t reason one c: whi - uch the the an ch