The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 15, 1900, Page 7

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SA URDAY, NOTICETO VOTERS Precinct Registration. Department of x Flecxl(':u, Office of Regis- EBY GIVEN THAT THE Registration for the v, the 6th 3 in their or the registration of vot- purposes as are prescribed AY. September Sth, SAT- and SATURDAY, . from 10 o'clock a. m. to trar 1o have not been reg: election tered for the general electio: r Bth, 1500 h of the Registrar of Voters w e % clock & m. %o 3 u nnr,fi ct Registration cannot make y it llowing ,m,”‘ the seasions of Gate st 1 u-rm"r SEMBLY DISTRICT. Ave 1 Ninth Aves. Point Lobos 2530 Octavia St. Webster St. 42 Union St Webster Place, Washingto Central A Greenwich St. 10 nto 8t. | , DISTRICT. 9. 1342 Sacramento St. $18 Bush St. 102 Clay St. Mammaset 441 Bush St. 642 Broadway Et. 1102 Btockton St. 1024 Clay St. 1204 Mason St. Fr-n"‘x FOURTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 1 Stockton St. | 8. 7M Filbert St. 2 {10, s02 Filbert St. 3 |31 511 MontgomeryAv. 4 12, 162’4 Mason St. 1 18 2 or St € W 17 Leavenworth | 7 t. £ ¥ 15. %00 Greenwich St. FORTY-FIFTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 1 26 Trinity St | 7. 233 East St. 2 Bush St. | & 8 Pacific St. k) Leijdesdortf 8t 9. 236 Broadway St. 4 36 and 16 Webb St. |10 Pacific St. 5 Montgnmery Av. (1L Davis St. 6. 107 Jackson St. i12 Union Bt By order of the Board of Election Commis- etoners LSH, Tiegictrar of Vote Y NEW WESTERN KOTEL, EABNT AND WASHINGTON STS_RE. e X WARD & are hereby invited to | « |FERRIS HARTMAN Sacramento | ADVERTISEMENTS. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. 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Attractive exhibit of high-class Vehicles and other industrial displa; from leading manu- | facturers of the State. The cut-door sports will embrace Polo Games between players from Southern and Central California for Championship. Pony Races. Long Distance Race of 25 miles by noted riders. Change of horses each mils in full view of Grand tand. GRAND ATHLETIC FIELD DAY CLUB HARNESS RACING HIGH-CLASS TROTTING AND PACING | In which the Great Stars of tho East aud West rld’s records. stertainment will be clean, od and instructive. GR-\M) MUSICAL CONCERTS DAILY Excellent railroad facilities by both regular al trains to Grand Stand entrance. ntertainment each day from 10:00 A. M. until | 6:00 P s 10¢, 15c, Ticket Office, cq;unm—%fim i }\’\RT NF‘F TO-DAY. | E NDAY NIGHT! L. R '—"HE NEW DOMlNlON Ciay Clement as... n von Hohenstauffen JOUBLE BILL. & o nTH nmencing Monda; MENRY 3. CROCKER, President GEGEGE ALNER NEWHALL, Secretary EDWIN ¥. 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HAYHGYA :g.s CHICHESTER'S ll.u TAXLEVY WILL BE RE-ENACTED BY SUPERVISORS City Officials Decids to Fol- low State Law as a Precaution. e There Will Be No Change in Rate and No Reapportionment of Funds Fast Becoming Exhausted. R At a conference of city officlals yester- day it was decided to reaffirm the city tax levy of $1.127, made last June, on the third Monday in Son\ember when the State rate of 498 will be officially declared by the board, thug making a total rate of §1.625. This cobrse will be taken as a measure of precaution to avoid any ques- tion of the legality of the levy. The mat- ter of reapportionment of funds fast be- coming exhausted will not be made. There were present at the conference Ma)or Phelan, his attorney, D. C. Mur- Auditor Wells, his attorneys, Lloyd & Woods; Supervisors Tobin and Jennings of the Fhmnve Committee, Supervisor Connor and City Attorney Lane. The meeting was important, as Supervisor McCarthy has raised the question of the validity of the June levy, as the panhan- dle and other bonds, which have not yet Dbeen 1ssued, were included in that levy. Mayor Phelan contended that there was no conflict between the charter and the State law, as the city had levied its tax last June, but as the State’s agent, the board will levy the State tax on the third Monday in September. He then sub- mitted a lengthy legal opinion prepared by Attorney Murphy, in which it was held that the charter nrovision on the subject of taxation supersedes the gen- el faw, and that where the eity ‘and county is concerned the fixing of the tax rate is purely a municipal a¥air. City Attorney Lane said that if the same rate levied in June should be re- enacted on the third Monday in Septem- ber it would avold any complication raised by taxpayers who might question the validity of the June levy. There was no legal necessity for it, but it would be wise to do so. Attorney Lloyd sald he desired to as- sist the city in having a safe levy, and he favored the re-enactment of the levy adopted In June. He sald that some one would attack the June levy, and the point could be protected by reaMrming the levy. that as a measure of precantion it should be readopted when the State rate was Vevied next Mon Auditor Weils then asked what should be done with the funds that are fast be- coming exhausted without another reap- portionment. He referred to the contracts for hospital only $15,000 this vear. however, that the not be made. steps were being taken to keep the ap- propriations within the one-twelfth clause. Phe matter of printing and sta- tionery which was ordered by the Board of Public Works to be paid out of its own funds was held to be illegal by Wells, as there is a specific aplpn)pr(a!lon of $24,- 000 for the purpose. he Mayor agreed | that such was the case, but attributed | what he was pleased to call a mistake to | the fact that the charter is not yet in working order, and was necessarily slow of operation. It was decided to pay the demands in the irregular way, the Mayor | agreeing to share the responsibility. It was the opinion, reapportionment could More New Attorneys. During the past few days the Commis- sloners of the Supreme Court have been examining applicants for admission to practice as attorneys at law in the courts of the State. Out of a class of forty-three he following were successtul and are now full-fied '\f practitioners: 5 Prendergast ilton A. Nathan, Lesti Burks, McMath, Gabrill X\a!han Benjamln RPrr) Harry L. Huston, Geurge B. Crittenden, C. M. Goethe, C. C. Ben- nett, Henry Brickley, Sterling D. Carr, Lawrence C. Manor, M. M. Getz, B. F. Fowler, Matthew 8. Platz, H. R. Osborn, Walter Rodgers, H. E. Heineman, Frank Andrado Creed Ha)mond She‘\ardmn, arry M. Johnson, . C. Van Walbeck Wilim 1. Twamley, Charles S. Chandler, 8. Church, F. V. Du Brutz, Charles A. Tuttle, L. B. Hayhurst, George H. W hip- ela Clement Tobin, John Hubert Mee, Wilfred Edgar Farrell, Richard P. Hen- He sald that the levy of June need not | be amended or changed in one lota, but upplies which already great- | |1y exceed the appropriation, also the ap- | propriation for the care of feeble-minded | children, which last year was 000 and The Mayor explained that | SEPTEMBER 15, | | | sixty pupils | detriment of other studies. 1900. SCHOOL BOARD HEEDS ADVICE OF THE MAYOR | His Honor Has a Talk With Chairman Mark on Its Classification. Its Hasty Move to Relieve Conges- tion by Appointing More Teachers Said to Be the Result. R The news that the Board of Education had decided to relleve the overcrowded condition of the city schools by opening up new classes and assigning the neces- sary teachers thereto, published in The Call yesterday, caused general rejoicing in the ranks of the pedagogues who have been consolidated out of their positions. Parents whose ‘children have hitherto been denied the privilege of receiving an education owing to the high classification inaugurated by the board were also cor- respondingly elated. Many were the con- Jectures as to what had induced (ha board to change front. Chairman Mark denied that (he board had been forced by Superintendent of Schools Webster to provide accommoda- tions ‘for all puplls, but it is nevertheless true that several of the very recommen- dations made by Webster for additional classes and teachers In certain_schools will be put into effect at next Wednes- day's meeting of the board, notably in the Bernal Heights, Buena Vista and _the Haight schools, where two classes will be opened. It is quite possible, however, that a higher power has induced the board to listen to the appeals of parents for a classification that will not exciude their children from the schools. This is no less a personage than Mayor Phelan, who said yesterday that he had had a talk with Chairman Mark regarding classifi- cation. He had no conference with the board as a whole and what was said in that talk with Mark neither will tell. The Mayor, though, has already stated that n a class was too many for one teacher to handle, and it is likely that the board has come around to his way of thinking. That the board is considering the ad- visability of appointing additional teach- ers in other schools was made evident | yesterday by its inspection of twelve | Schools in the Missfon district which have been reported by Superintendent Webster 0 be in absolute need of extra accommo- dations. These schools include the Co- lumbia, Horace Mann, Fairmount, Mar- ghall, South End, Hawthorne, Agassiz, Missfon and others. While ~ Chairman Mark would not admit that additional teachers would be appointed in each school, he intimated that the congestion in many of them was as represented by Webster, and the staff would be increased. Superintendent ~Webster blames the board for installing manual training and cooking plants in the department to the Section 1666 vs that Boards of Education may place subjects in the course of study other than those mentioned in section 1665, but must not do so to their neglect. Webster calls attention to the fact that citizens in the Sunnyside district have agreed to donate a plece of land if the board will erect a schoolhouse to cost $2500. Vista School Miss Catlin, the principal, is registering a large number of puplls for whom there are no accommodations. Auditor Y Wells has suggested that in order to adjudicate the controversy be- | tween the board and Superintendent Web- ster the latter immediately rent an out- side room and appoint a teacher. When the demands are presented Wells will re- fuse to audit them and Webster could then mandamus him to do so. Webster, however, says that he will not under any circumstances pursue the course sug- gested by Wells. He has other plans, and | one may be his appointment of a teacher Who has never been elected by the board. Notice {s hereby given to all Painters, Paper- hangers, Fresco Painters, Varnishers and Pol- | iehers and Sign Painters that on and after Oc- tober 1, 1900, the initiation fee will be fifteen ($15) doll: All craftsmen not. belonging to their respective unions should save further ex- pense by making immediate apn”ullun Pah( ers’ District Council. E. O. Brundage, Rec. . Assault on the High Seas. The steamer Peters arrived in port yes- terday with Boatswain Louls Peters in irons. Peters had a quarrel with Quarter- master William Sharahan and cut him on the shoulder with a claspknife. He claims Shanahan assaulted him. complaint was sworn to before Deputy United States shall, George H. Richardson and G. G.|District Attorney Banning and Peters was Kenriedy. | formally placed” under arrest. ADVERTISEMENTS. *““DEAR MRS. PINGHA I had bladder and liver trouble. 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PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE OOMPOUND | 1 | | WHITTIER: CRITIGAL STUDY BY PROF. GATES. Copyright, 1320, by Seymour Eatun. LITERARY TALKS AND REMINISCENCES. — i XI1V. | Maealization; It must at once be conceded that artis- ?fsf to the try is not to be found in Whittier's Of course, the poems that Whittier is poems. Even when he fs most Impres- | oriongsr rememheg:d by are ballads like sive and best worth reading—and often | “Maud Muller,” “Barbara Frietchie,” he is very impressive indeed and extreme- | “The Angeis of Buena Vista,” “Skipper 1y well worth reading—he wins his power Ireson’s Ride” and “The Pipes of Luck- over us In no degres through a curfosa [LOW.” Several of these have been droned cation. In the proem to his poems he|they vary greatly in value. ‘“Maud Mul- has noted, and justly noted, his lack of | ler” is at best little more than a maudlin “rounded art,” and has contrasted his po- | Sentiment. ‘The Angels of Buena Vista' etry with what he calls in chumerlstl-"ls Mlcverlg !h;n al ba\lm.ru!l?;rvhlnx; T _|In tone and phra and overliberal o cally conventional words “the old melod- |, ;0 4ramatic’ limelight situations. “Skip- lous lays” of such singers as Marvell and | por Jreson's Ride” is an admirably spir- Sidney and Spenser. Doubtless, Whit-|ited narrative—a fine compound of hu- tier’'s verse is now and then finely vigor-| mor and pathos, human through and ous and even musical, and doubtless hulthruush and delightfully _grotesque and phrasing, particularly in some of his im- Picturesque. “Barbara Fristchie” and e Pipes of Lucknow” portray gen- passioned moral poems, is often vital and | yinely dramatic (neldents With terseness imaginative. But he has in his work no|and vigor of pbrase, sureness of music certainty of instinct: he is never safe|and forthrightness of movement. agalnst utter commonplaceness both °'i Bu:flth: poems where th“fl"umm'? sentiment and of phrase. Triteness of | hear o creating a nameless kind o diction, then obviousness of motif and a | NOVEl beauty are the two little known ems, “Howard at Atlanta” and_the B ek e einsse are the pre- | REong’ of Siaves 1n Both {ttier's poet | deal wi th negro subjects; both are trem- Yet when these faults h“’fl*“ "’ | ulously musical in their rhythm: both are too, there is much happy close- many-hued and nicely varied poignantly pathetic. The former poem | catches and suggests even more marvel- ously than St. Gaudens' memorial to Rob- ert Shaw the atmosphere of sadness and when one looks at novels like “Mogg Megone” and the 1n'e—| deemably “plain tales” and legends like | “The Bridal of Pennacook,” and when | Sirangeness in which, » finally the tediously humdrum moralizing | e 10 certaln imaginative moods, ne has been expurgated—we still have a |fiecr, Soom Wrapt and involved—their tragic yearning toward the beautiful de- nled them. The “Slave Song” is sung by caravan of captives lashed onward by Moors through the desert: “Rubee” 1a their name for God, and the heartsick fre(raln. “Where are we going, Rubee?" 1= woven in and out of the poem with | plaintive fteration. The flerce lights, the dead shadows and the blazing colors of the desert pervade from first to last a poem which is strange and mystical be | yond anything else Whittier wrote: and as we foilow the lamenting train of slaves through the pathless wind- Comegt traets of |~mrd toward the ever vanishing gray | horizon line their sorrowful pro; s | grows for us almost terribly symbolic of | humanity’s wayfaring throush the wastes of time. These are perhaps the onmly mems of Whittler that carry the reader yond the bound f perfectly sane and | authentic moral emotion. Whittier’s “Songs of Labor” are rather fictitious a . sentimentally decorative in style and treatment. His drover, shoe- sherman and other heroes come near resembling the chenplv pretty lithographs with_which folk adorn their parlors. These p | hardly hold their own with goodly residuum of Whittier’s poetry that | possesses enduring charm and power. Perhaps most noteworthy of all. the | poems are those zhaz express moral in- | dlgnaxlon that protes ainst oppression and that plead for K om. In treating | these themes Whittler's volce grows clearer and more resonant, his verse is tenser, more vibrant, more subtly alive to the changes of his moods, and his words are picturesque, original, search- ingly sincere and impassioned. A stanza | from “The Rendition”” well represents the mruled in which many of these poems were written: And as I thought of Liberty Marched handcuffed down the sworded strest, The molld earth beneath my feqt Reeled fluld as the sea. It is not easy as we recall Whittier's | portrait—particularly the portraits of later years—to fancy behind the some- what pale, unexpressive and withered face a spirit flerce enough to flame out in | the words and stanzas of many of the volces of freedom. But the pathet! burning eyves tell the story. Underneath the quakerish plainness of aspect there was an_unquenchable ardor of love for mankind and hatred for wrong and op- | flercely faithful prose and pression. When Whittier heard or read lel and tollers. On the other hand, thera of some deed of cruelty or tyranny the ains one group of poems in which ‘whole spirit of the man_became a flame ttier is almost at his best—poems In fanned by the wind, and the true inter. ich he utters with impassioned sincer- pretation of his worn face in later years his personal falth in and In the | would explain it as a face burned out and | ultimate triumph of every just cause. In calcined by the heat of moral indigna- | i ng ‘“Invocation,” “Mjy tion. Triumph.” Every one Yet an equally essential ingredient in der. buoyant. almost Whittler's nature was a sweet and almos; | boyish cour My Psalm.” the sweet homely delight in the common things or | youthfuln its unstained and w life. Nowhere more surely than in his | dimmed ideals. “Invoe verse can those of us who have been ¢! tion™ 1is specially worthy becau tanzas, describing G through chaos, have dren In country towns and villages fina revived the old-time childish delights in summer and winter, in the flelds, in the Wwoods, in birds and insects and all living creatures whose ways were so delectably droll and enticing. The indoor home life, with its placid, simple pleasures—W hit- tier has captured that, too, and preserved | several of lts a an Imaginative scope visionarine: and an intensit 1 aud that are with “ hittier w Through t r spaces Formices and vold Deaf to thy h ity of dlction unusual. Lord, of e dead earin roil n’'s sweet music, blind it with exquisite fidelity and charm. in| I0 the great lights which o'er it shined: 1 No sound, no ray, no w \'V'l'h no breath— | themes like these he is a New | A dumb dt:-'.m".‘r a wa ring death. England Cewper, and yet he Is closer to fact that Cowper and Las a racier. less | T, that dark, weitering horror came literary idiom. “Snow-Bound” transports | Thy spirit, like a subtle us in a moment into the magical winter | A breath of Iife electrical, regions of boyhood; the poem makes one’s | Awakening and transforming all, breath congeal in the air as one reads;| Til beat and thrilled i part |all the old” winter feelings exhale from | The puises of & living hea !hl‘ pages. “Amy Wentworth” and | ‘“‘among the Hills” Whittier calls up with delicate vividness the softer aspects of | \r““m New England life; the stanzas carry with them a delicious russet fra. | grance. In these poems and many others | Whittler excels in spiriting up before us the very counterfeit presentment of New Then knew their bounds the land and sea; Then smiled the bloom of mead and tres! From flower to moth, from beast to man, eyesight good. Finally, in “My Triumph,” a poem much later than “My Psalm,”” there sounds the | England country landscapes—their | same note of fresh and joyous confidence ld road vinding as old roa will, | as in the earlier poem. Its closing lines Here to a ferry and lhtrv to a mill; dre good lines to leave ringing In one's their Homesteads old, with wide-flung barns Swept through and through by swallows; their Orchards and planting land: and in the distance The blink of the sea in breeze and sun. In_all these descriptions Whittler's words and images have a first hand, bright intensity; the landscape shines be- fore us in authentic Yankee sunlight; there Is no mystification, no European RETAIL CLERKS AFTER memory as one parts from Whittler; they are essentially characteristic of his sim- | ple, cheerful, tender-hearted manliness: | Parcel and part of all, I keep the festival, Fore-reach the good to be, And share the victory. I feel the earth move sunward, I join the great march om: And take, by faith, while living, My freehold of thanksgiving. LEWIS E. GATES. Harvard University. Fine Stationery. Visiting cards and invitations printed | SHORTER WORKING HOQURS | and engraved. All the latest tints and ‘ shapes in writing papers and envelo; pisese a 3 “:Hl ngl ax;nm rm; “Waterman” Ideal Ear "ountain Pens and sole agents for the Will Organize a Union to Aid Y | ‘SMarshall® Fountain® Pen. which 15 the Closing Movement—Petition | best In the world, for $1 each. nborn, Being Circulated. Vall & Co., 741 Market street. . The movement inaugurated by the retall clerks of this city to secure shorter hours of labor is being vigorously prosecuted. Many of the proprietors of stores have announded their willingness to join in the At sess b oot B Liability of the May Flint. The California Shipping Company, as the owner of the American ship May Flint that was sunk in the bay on the evening of the Native Sons’ fireworks ex- ovement, among them be- | hinition, filed early_ closing m a sult yesterday in the ing Raphaef Bros. and other well known | United States District Court to limit their firms. The following petition whieh is | jjability to $4000, the alleged value of the being circulated by the clerks IS being | wreck, and to enjoin creditors from insti- freely signed: | tuting suits in the State courts. Petition of the retail clerks of the city and | S —— county of San Francisco, petitioning for shorter hours of employment: It is the object of the undersigned to petition the affiliated trades for a union to be known as the Associated ¥ of the city and county of San Fran- its objects being for the soclal and moral cement of better citizenship and the par- ticipation in all affairs tending toward the ad- | vancement of the commercial interests of (hu city and county of San Francisco. The cardinal object of the signers of :m- petition is for tha clesing of all retail cloth- | ing Jouses, dry goods - houses, der = | stores* and kindred Tetail stores at § o'clock every evening, saving the night preceding a | holhhy. Saturday night and during the month of Deces mber. This ¢ o'clock movement to begin on the | first day of October and | firms, clerks and | employes signing this penuon pledge the | thorough observance of the same. This move- ment being general, there will be no loss of trade suffered through the generality of the same. THREE ADDITIONAL < INSPECTORS NAMED i Custom-House !ome Augmented Be-; cause 6f Increase of Business | at This Port. | Owing to the largely Increased customs business at this port Surveyor Spear on the Sth of last June forwarded, through Port Collector Jackson, a request to the | Secretary of the Treasury for ten addi- tional dischargirg inspectors. In response | hat request the Secretary of the }I‘or!'llury nonned the Collector that he | { | orized to appoint three ad- | dMom.l dln:hnr ns inspectors Instead of | ten, as asked The Collector there- n romoted G\urdinf lmpectors C. E. | &o r Charles A. 1y James W. | Campbell to be discl nrxinx inspectors, which means an increase of salary to the | persons named to $4 per day instead of $3. | P Fhe Collector will fill their places with three persons taken from the eligible list. Minnie Munson Discharged. Minnie Munson, allas Mary Edwards, who was arrested along with Leonora Stewart, the rotorious pickpocket and shoplifter, a week ago, by Special Officer Allen of the Emporium, w: dllchlrged\ Judge Conlan _yesterday. cmmed that she had been trying to re- | Leonora, and tha( was why nhe wu in her com| nnie has for t am. years g:en connected with the !u va< | lon | Thonalnhrflocmmnounufl the N. 8. G. W. to be the best. On expibition in our spacious store. Best goods, lowest prices. Be sure and pay us a visit while in the city. KOHLER & CHASE, The Big Masic House, 26, 28, 30 O'FARRELL ST. EAHE ROYAL == Cm.r Fourth l F. Slea- lld 'llh- “ if!si frea.