The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 25, 1900, Page 26

B | Our committee was an extra-legal body. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1900. Che 01w Eall. SUNDAY (e .. sl ) BT R ..NOVEMBER 25, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. o Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ..-Market and PUBLICATION OFFICE s “Third, S. F. . ——— CLEANSING NEW YORK. ISHOP POTTER is in earnest in his determination to im- prove the morals of New York City. His suggestion that a vigilance committee of 25,000 men be organized needs some explanation, because he cites the| | Vigilance Committee of San Francisco as a model. It was not organ-| ized to aid courts and officers of the law in performance of their | statitory duty. It took the place of the legal authority, and with | | no warrant except force, the power to have its way, proceeded | to administer justice in jts own fashion. It was not a mob, nora|. = ATHER, all bountiful, in mercy bear ‘ With this, our universal voice of prayer. { The wvoice that needs must be Ubpraised in thanks to Thee, O Father, from thy children ever) i i A multitudinous voice, wherein Wouldst have Thee hear no lightest sob of pain— ‘ No murmur of distress, Nor moan of loneliness, ! Nor drip of tears, though soft as summer rain. 5 % O And, Father, give us first to comprehend | No ill can come from Thee. Lean Thou and lend K Us clearer sight to see 9 QGur boundless debt to Thee, Since all thy deeds are blessings in the end. IV And let us feel and know, that being Thine { We are inheritors of hearts divine And hands endowed with skili, ‘ And strength to work Thy will And fashion to fulfillment Thy design. 7 ‘ So, let us thank Thee, with all self aside, | e fain | | | | Nor any lingering taint of mortal pride As here to Thee we dare Uplift our faltering prayer, [ Lend it some fervor of the glorificd. i | NI, We thank Thee that our land is loved of Thee— The blessed home of thrift and industry— With ever open door Of welcome to the poor— Thy shielding hand o’er all abidingly. Y g Even thus we thank Thee for the wrong that grew Into a right that heroes battled to With brothers long estranged Once more as brothers ranged Bencath the red and white and starry biue. VIII. Aye, thanks, though tremulous the thanks expressed— Thanks for the battle at its worst and best— For all the clanging fray Whose discord dies away Into a pastoral song of peace and rest. o ~e >~ ™ mimicking Professor Bore yesterday and he v kol ) . Choice candies, Townsend's,Palace Hotel.* eaught me.” . “What did he say ?" ———— Best eyeglasses, specs, 15c to 40c; look “Told me to stop making & fool out for §1 4th, front of barber & grocery.* of myself.”—Chicago Chronicle. _— Townsend’s California glace frults, 50c a —You don't mean to say that you absolutely und, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. o Miss Pepprey : Kets, 69 Marker. Paimer s aTpus B nothing? —_—— Cholly—Aw, really, I don't even do that. My man ‘attends to ev'wything, y' know.—Philadelphia Press. \ - cams to-day crying and” said she was sure Gmi.en:o lon;e?‘cl?)':ed er with his whole heart. And they've been ly two months.” "J::::ed :::o‘u Anybody who looks at George knows that his heart's all right. It's his liver that's gone back on Jane.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Friend—1 wonder, Ethel, that you allowed that Frenchman to kiss you in the conservatory. Ethel—I u;‘uld not a:c:p l;_“ # Friend—Why couldn’t you? m—n:e.fl- 1can't speak French.—Collier's Weekly. Mistress — Bridget, I hope you don't light the fire with kerosene? Cook—Divil a bit, mum! Oi wets it down wid kerosene an’ loights it wid a match.—Judge. sorry ng back to Germany. M‘:th,wm‘:l‘ur!ormywv Professor Von Note—Id ees nod necessary. Bhe knows mmoush museek to get married on—New York Weekly, 2 Special Information supplied g“r:’-':et':.unh&:‘ufl and pub?l% men“;l’ tl:: ureau (Al ¥ gomery st. Telephone Matn anlg, "0 o0t —_——— A man gains strength e mits his own wnk:i:s. e e &, —_—— If You're in a Hurry Take the “Over- land Limited,” Leaving San Francisco dally at 10 a. m., via Central Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern raflways, and arriving at Chicago at 9:30 . m. the third day. A solid vestibuled train of superb splendor, carrying Pullman double drawing-room sleepers, dining car and ‘buffet smoking and library car. San to Chicago without change. Only four days to New York and Boston. If you want luxury and comfort combined with speed and safety teke the “Overland Limited." Guillet's Thanksgiving mince %6 Larkin st juhone East Jaf |it. legal body, nor an adviser and abettor of the public authorities | in enforcing order. It did not resemble any organization nor movement that preceded it, nor have any since its day resembled | It was peculiar and individual, with no past example nor pre- | cedent to follow. In its presence courts were paralyzed, their ex-| ecutive officers were silent, their processes were suspended. The committee was not created to help the constituted authorities en- force the law. It enforced the law primarily, itself, by its own process and decree. \ It has not since been questioned that the conclusions reached by the committee were righteous. It took life, but it gave the accused a trial. In a way it preserved the forms of law and | was respectful of the established rules of evidence. f But it had no legal existence. Its sole reason for being ati all was the failure of the law in the hands of those charged with its execution. | Its proceedings were singularly dispassionate. Mere re\'enge; had no apparent place in its proceedings. Personal motives were | absent. Its sole animus was a desire 10 cleanse San Francisco of crime, for the public good. Its work was effective, but it had no legal sanction. | To exactly follow the methods of the old committee of San Francisco in New York City would be injurious to the whole country, for it would be misunderstood by the world. Therefore this cannot be meant by Bishop Potter. An observer, at this distance, with the perspective of a continent between us and the scene, would interpret the Bishop’s meaning to be that a cleans- ing committee of 25,000 shall use the means of publicity, turn a searchlight upon the hideous vices planted for profit in New York by its present rulers, and so influence public opinion as to compel enforcement of the law by those whose duty it is to administer it. That city has had the Parkhurst and Lexow investigations. The first, unfortunately, seemed planned and carried out for sen- tational and the second for partisan purposes. The Bishop seems clearly desirous of avoiding both. In declaring that New York is to be morally redeemed, not by emotion, nor denunciation, nor pessimism, and that, in the work, differences in nationality, relig- | ion and politics must be laid aside and forgotten, he exhibits a practical purpose that goes straight to one object, ignoring all else. He means that if Tammany itself, even though it be now the bloated,and blotched beneficiary of the sins of the city, shall offer to elect upright courts and reform the police methods and enforce the law, and its good faith is in positive evidence, those who aim at the moral result alone should accept even Tammany as the in- strument of regeneration. But if, on the other hand, Tammany, the responsible protector of all that makes the city as foul as Sodom, shall show a skin impervious to public opinion, the Bishop's idea involves the impression of the conscience of men hitherto the supporters of Tammany, to an extent that will with- draw them from its support and give their strength to any move- | ment in politics that is pledged to enforce the law and minimize | vice. . ; | A committee of 25000 led by such’ men as William E. | Dodge, Charles S. Fairchild, George Foster Peabody, Seth Low, | Bishop Potter, Minot J. Savage, Father Ducey and Father Mec- Glynn, would peacefully revolutionize that city ina year without stepping a hand’s breadth outside the law. | Impatience for results must be avoided. The cancerous evils to be extirpated have been long in taking root; they cannot be| destroyed in a day. The press of the country should hasten to assure Bishop Pét- | ter of its sympathy in the great and practical and Christian worl | he has set for himself. LEASING @ND IRRIGATION. HE control of the National Irrigation Congress has grad- ually drifted from the arid region to the East. The change is now accomplished, and is too recent to enable definite judgment of the effect upon the interests involved. The statement is current that Eastern manufacturers see in the development of the arid region, and its subjection to settle- ment, a desirable enlargement of their home market. Against this is the objection of the Eastern land owner to Goverriment appropriations to bring land into competition with his own~toE the reduction of its value. B He seems to have much reason on his side when he declares that he is not the beneficiary of public appropriations. The Gov- | ernment has done nothing to make or keep his land fertile; there- fore why should he be made an involuntary contributor to the fer- tility of land the products of which will compete with his in the final market? This opposition has been more than once effective against appropriations for Government irrigation works in the West, and there is reason to apprehend that its effectiveness will be felt in the future. It would seem, then, that the Western irrigators should seek the means for an object lesson otherwise than by direct appropriation. Such means may be readily found in the leasing to stockmen of the public domain in the arid region wher- ever the highest value of the land is for grazing, and the devction of the proceeds to installing Government reservoirs to hold the rm water and distribute it to land that may be cul Sith molsture, This will make one. hand wash the um.’fiu't“"‘..u’,,m the pros Fed ¥ ¥ I?:r%t :tqevl‘l’lu%fl“ the and the recel: e cl v, ess T range men who pay the annual e ¢ the. lease and the B aies jtuill beneflt. the tlers who will receive the benefit of its {nvestment in It is such a p: cal p on t! one is delay in legislating it into le; , and that t. The three subjects, leasing the mofwmr!nrlr:‘nu',mne!oul order for any one of them t MM supply the p&mng%w. % tion Congress to the c 4L URING the ten weeks that Mr. Henry Miller was in San Francisco last in his trunk the manuscripts of two plays that he V\'Olllll. have presen Person’s Delight, “Heart * attracted such crowds of tear-bedewed not afford to withdraw it. These two plays were “The Importance of Be terpiece in its class, and Pinero’s comedietta of theatrical life “Trelawny of T Miller returns to us it will not be under the management of Mr. Frohman can right to these two pla it is not probable, therefore, that we shall ever eprivation we are indebted, be it ever remembered, to the success of that “Heartsease.” But if we may not see n sumptuou The perio ; recognition; when 2 playwri and ladies wore crinolines and when the vast majority oi English-speaking people wicked to go to the theater. * The scene of the first act is the sitti Telfer, tragedian and tragedienne of the Bagnigge Wells Theater. Prepa a breakia fareweli brea st to Miss Rose Trelawny. leading juvenile lady about to gn from the company in order to marry Mr. Arthur Gower, non-f s ber of a highly respectable Presbyterian family that detests the theater. “Rose is 19 relawny” we may at lepst read it. Mr R. H. Ru 4 1 for being able to give some ac muslin and looks divine. She has much of the extravagance of gesture, over and freedom of manner engendered by the theater. but is and charmin Bidden to the breakfast are Miss Imogen Parrott. ding. lady at the pi Gadd, the leading juvenile man; Colpoys, the Low litv. (The last mentioned is underst imen oi the inimitable theatrical Rose’s fellow actors at The Wells Avonia Bunn, the Soubrette, and Tom Wrench, U character sketch of Tom Robertson.) Here is a s cedes the breakiast: GADD—(Coming to Imogen in an elegant, languishing way). Imogen, my da her). Kiss Ferdy. IMOGEN. Gadd, how goes it—I mean how are you? 3 i GADD—( ing them hard this season, my darling. To-night, Sir Thomas Clif- ford. IMOG GADD. daren” v Clifford { IMOGENE—You'll miss GADD—(With a shrug of Fitzhugh joins on Monc but they're waiting for my fellow who is unable to ng for my Clifford. h our Julia? S ON for it—a venerable stop-gap. om them y lomger. Trelawny in business vretty badly, I expect, Gadd? ¢ shoulders). She was to have done Rosalind for my benefit. Miss I must pull HER through it somehow. I would reconsider my bill, Orlando, waiting for it. (Colpoys enters—an _insignificant, wize rget that he is a low comedian. He stands L, squinting hideo Absurd, of course: but we at Imogen and indr g i cxtravagant gestures of endearment, while she continues her conver- sation wi COLPOY her attention). My love, my life! IMOGEN ifferent. Good afternoon, Augustus. COLPOYS . She speak: he hears me! ABLETT—(The waiter)—holding his glove before his mouth, convulsed with laughter—Ho, ho! Mr. Colpoys! Oh, reeliy, sir! Ho dear! (To Imogen. darkly). Colpoys is not nearly as funny as he was last year. Everybody’s We w a low comedian badly. akfast Mr. Telier makes a magnificent speech in Rose’s honor, in which he tells he has fore the Queen. Mrs. Telfer tells how many times she has played parts they are not worth a tinker's oath.” Arthur makes a ter- t of Rose’s health. Rose. after mounting a chair excitedly to de- s down crying at the prospect of leaving her old friends. So ends the shows us Rose living “on approval” with Arthur's highly respectable family Wili sower. Arthur’s grandfather, is a testy old gentleman, who will allow house while he is taking his after-dinner nap, who grows furious if any one disturbs I ame of whist, and who cannot endure the sound of a piano, although he has one in his draw- ing-rcom. Poor Rosc likes te sing, to talk and to laugh; she rebels against the numerous “r of the house.” and Ar werless to help her. One evening, after all the household but hersel had rctired. Rose rec a message to say that Colpoys, Wrench, Gadd and Avonia are waiting in the street to see her: just then it comes on to rain violently. Rose of course brings them in out of the storm. She is delighted to see them. enjoins them to be very quiat, but Gadd and Colpoys get into a quarrel that rouses the h ehold: the irate Sir William appears and berates Rose’s friends as ' " This she in ntly re: : releases Arthur, telling him that she is sure she has made a <e. and then leaves the house with her old comrades, exclaiming “Back to The Wells again, back to The Wells,” So Rose returns to The Wells (Act TII), but alas! she is soon discharged, for she has lost the trick of handling the trash which in the old plays she once thought gold. “We are only dolls,” she says to Avonia, “partly human, with mechanical limbs that WILL fall into stagey postures, and heads stuffed with i of rubbishy plays. It isn't THE world we live in, merely A world—such a queer little one han a month in Cavendish Square, and very few people came there: but they were REAL people—REAL! For a month I lost the smzll of gas and oranges, and the hurry and noise, and the dirt and the slang. and the clownish joking at The Wells. I didn’t realize at the time the change was going on in me. I didn't realize it till I came back. And then, by degrees, I discovered what had happened.” Avonia condoles with her, but she has her own troubles. 1sset forth in rhe following scene. (now married to Avania) e with a wild look: TOM—Anything wrong. Gadd? GADD—Wrong! wrong! what d'ye think? AVONIA—Tell us! ¢ been asked to appear in the pantomime! AVONIA—(Shocked). Oh, Ferdy! You! GADD—I, a serious actor ii ever there was one, a poetic actor—! AVONIA—What part. F ? GADD—The insult. the bitter insult! AVONIA—What part, Ferdy? GADD-I have not been seen in pantomime.for years, not since I shook the dust of the T. R. Stock- ton from my feet. AVONIA—Ferdy. what part? GADD—I simply looked at Burroughs, when he preferred his request and AVONIA—What part, Ferdy? G:_\DD}»:\ part, too, which s seen for a moment at the opening of the pantomime and not again till its close. Tic e in_the Gadd The gross indignity! swept from the theater. h? A—What part? A character called the Demon of Discontent. (Rose turns away to the fireplace; Tom curls himself up on the sofa and is seen to shake with laughter.) AVONIA—(Walking about indignantly). Oh! (Returning to Gadd). dear, I assure you, as artist to artist, that part is absolutely rotten. _Oh, i¥'s a rotten part! Rose, (To Gadd)—You won’t play it, darling? GADD—(Rising). Play it! I would see The Wells in ashes first! AVC —We shall ‘lose our engagements, Ferdy. I know Burroughs; we shall be out, both GADD—Of course we shall. D'ye think I have not counted the cost? AVONIA—(Putting her hand in his). I don’t mind, dear—for the sake of your position—(strucl by a sudden thought). Oh—! GADD—What—? AVONIA—There now—we haven't put by! (There is a knock at the door.) ROSE—Who is that? COLPOYS—(Outside). ROSE—Yes. COLPOYS—I want to see him. blen o P i GADD—Wrench, I'li trouble you. Ask Mr. Colpoys whether he approaches me as a friend, an ™ ance. or In his capacity of stage manager at The Wells—the tcol of Burroughs. M oguatu (Tom opens the door slightly. Gadd and Avonia join Rase at the fireplace.) ;OM—-(M the door, solemnly). Colpoys, are you here as Gadd's bosom friend, or as a mere tool of urroughs? (An audible colloquy follows between Tom and Colpoys. Tonits head Is outside the door; his legs are seen to move convulsively, and the sound of suppressed laughter is heard.) GADD—(Turning). _Well, well? TOM—(Closing the dcor sharply and facing Gadd with great serfousness). He is here as the tool of Burroughs. GADDAT will recetve him. 2 (Tom admits Colpoys, who carries a meaning looking COLPOYS—(After formally bowing to the ladies). Oh, Gadd, Mr. Burroughs instructs me to offer you this part in the pantomime—(handing the part to Gadd)—Demon of Discontent. (Gadd takes the part and flings It to the ground; Avonia picks it up and reads it.) COLPOYS—You refuse it? GADD—I do. (With dignity.) Acquaint Mr. Burroughs with my decision, and agd that T hope his pan- tomime will prove an utterly worthless one. May Boxing nirfht. to those unfortunate enough to find themselves in the theater, long remain a dismal memory, and may suecceeding audiences, scanty and dissatisfied—! (Colpoys presents Gadd with the letter. "Gad? opens it and reads.) (Sitting.) The Romeo, the Orlando. the Clifford—leaves! AVONIA—(Coming to Gadd, indicating some lines in the part) Ferdy, this ain't so bad. (Reading.) “I'm Discontent! From Orkney’s Isle to Dover ’ To make men’s bile bile-over I endover— % GADD—'Vonla! (Taking the part from Avonia with mingled surprise and pleasure.) Ho, ho! No, that's not bad. (Reading.) “Tempers, though sweet, T whip up to a lather, Make wives hate husbands, sons wish fathers farther.” 'Vonia, there's something to lay hold of ne;;:. qf(lsmg,l Gus, I have thought this over. I PLAY IT! They all gather round znd congratulate him. Tha‘t lsythe |‘h.a est stroke of nfl;—e ever directed against the stage. I wonder that Mr. Pinero found an actor willing to play this part. * * * But to our story. Rose is dlscharged, but she finds an m%x. ted friend in Sir Willlam, who comes to ask her help in his search for Arthur. who has disappeared. This p Rose cannot give, for she does not know that for love of her Arthur has left his home to become an actor. Her forlorn condition touches the old man's heart, and when he hears that Tom Wrench and Imo- ot eight hundred pounds to bring out Tom's play, wherein Rose is to Ry the leadin illiam ng;em to mm;l;‘;i thleflmo(;-lgy,f i e .ct'clnisel (somewhat weakly) with Tom reading his ‘Wiiliam an s new-made friends of the profession. ;! & L The fourth and last act shows the first rehearsal of Tom Wrench's play, “Life.” Tt itains a most amusing sketch of an old-fashioned nctor and stage manager. O'Dwyer, who Is plaged in s eontrast with Wrench and Imogen, representing the new school of management and acting. Sir William, still testy but evidently softening. comes to the rehearsal; he is grieved at the loss of his grandson, and ‘when that lost grandson a]wem (somewhat too opportunely) as an actor in “Life.” the old man can hold out no longer. Anl.:ur '.lol‘figen. l‘l'ld To‘m—wgu, pogr To:n mn.ku b:lleve_lhlt Ee is l_mpw.boem_ue ll" is h.pp. ¥ . far less common than they were forty years ago. there is not one of the theatrical here '“‘"z.a: You, good reader; but has its original on the st: . I have known them, every one: had acuig! 1T 2m sure thet you sond mot fall to be to thelr faults a little biind, and fo thetr many virtues very ;e v New Overland Tourist Car Line. - Is Gadd here, Miss Trelawny? rt" and a letter.) I leave! & part, Sir play to Sir -~ ™ R v White—I understand young Green lost all the money his father left him on the races, and he's now looking for a job. He won't have so soft a thing as he has had. Brown—Oh, I don’t know; he'll have a soft thing as long as he doesn’t lose his head.—Chicago News. they leave the hw&—ll_?. why do they