The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1901, Page 6

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Alcazar—*“Tennessee’s Pardner.” Grand Opera-house—*‘Cinderells,” Saturday night. Columbla—"‘The Little Minister.” Tivoli—"“The Wedding Day.”" Olympia, corner Mason I-Il' Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening Fischer's—Vaudeville, Tanforan Park—Races. AUCTION SALES. | By £ Watkins_Thu . April 4, Horses and Buggles, at corner Tenth and Bryant streets. | By G. H. Umbsen_Thursday, April 18, at 12 o'clock, Busi- | ness Property, at 14 Montgomery street. T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Cmi! subscribers contemplating a change of residesce during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new addresrses by notifying The Call Business Office. This papser will also be on sale at all summer resorts amd is represemted by a local agent in Il tawns on the coast. THE HORRORS OF W@AR. T is customary to put great stress upon the carnage 1 of war. It is in its aspect as a destroyer of life that war presents its abhorrent feature. We have had a large army fighting in the Philip- | pines for more than two years. The deaths in that | army in the islands number 6000. It is a large list and | serves properly to give point to many an argument | sgainst war. Each of those lives has a fixed eco- romic value to the country. That value is so much Jost energy, so much capital destroyed, so much force gone out of the body politic never to return. But, going to the criminal records at home for the same two years, it appears that in the United States | there were committed 10,000 murders. Ten thousand | iives w cre‘cnded by knife, pistol and poison! Close to twice as many lives lost by crime at home as by wzr abroad. If the death penalty had followed in each case of course nearly 10,000 murderers would have Lieen hanged, bringing the total casualty list up to a still larger excess over the casualties of war. Among the victims was one Governor of a State, a State Attorney General, and a large number of minor crficers of the law. In numerous lynchings twenty men have beén burked at the stake, and several women have been shot to death. In no other country in the world is there as much murder, as much taking of human life in the commis- sion of other crimes, and for other causes, many the most trivial. Soon the question may be asked, “What the matter with the United States?” We have been unsparing critics of other countriss ana have sent missionaries among the heathen. May it 2.0t well be that others may object on good grounds against receiving a system that makes no better show- ing at home? it is the habit of a people to look to the social state from which propagandists emerge in search of proselytes. If that state is found infirm, if life is dis- regarded, bloodshed is common, the law is displaced by savage mob violence, it is but natural to reject the missionary it sends forth. . We have shown great zeal and have encountered great troubles in carrying Christianity into China. The Chinese, looking upon our domestic record, have the right to say that the missionaries must have car- | 2ny exception. THE SA PUBL!IC OWNERSHIP. HE Consuls of the United States make regular T reports of the progress abroad of the policy of municipal ownership of public service indus- tries. : . As we have alread}; said, all the quoted cases must e examined individually and judged by the logal con- ditions, physical and other, which prevail at the scene of each experiment. The last case reported relates to street railways. The city of Liege, Belgium, has bought the street railway. The system has seven miles of track, runs about forty cars and employs 230 men. The city leases it for a term of years to a com- pany, for a graduated rental on 2 sliding scale, to in- crease with the business and receipts. The city also puts down all sidings and extensions and does all new work, and furnishes the rolling stock. The lessee keeps the property in repair. The fare charged by the corporation which the city succeeds was affected by distance, being about one penny minimum and four cents maximum. The city enforces a uniform fare of | two cents. The data furnished do not enable any calculation to show whether the new rate is an aver- age increase or an average decrease in the fare. That will depend upon whether a majority of the fares are paid for the short or the long haul. If the latter the new rate is an average reduction. If the former it is an avefage increase. The new rate doubles after 11 o’clock at night, which brings all fares after that hour up to the former maximum for all hours. The re- sults of this must be- determined by the nocturnal habits of the people. In another respect the change has not as pleasant an aspect as is presented by a possible reduction in rates. Under the corporation control the maximum pay of the men employed was $1 06 for a day of nine hours. Considering the price of living, and measured by wages on the Continent, that was a. fair average compensation. But now the city controls the rate of wages as well as the rate of fare, and has put the maxi- mum pay of the employes at 72 cents for a day of nine hours. We think this reduction, measured again by Continental wages, is excessive. The city of Glasgow reduced fares and wages upon becoming owner of the street railways, but the new wage scale there was l:ardly down to the Liege level. In discussing this subject in the United States it is customary to dwell vpon the reduction in price to the user of public service industries, and in that way American expectation is somewhat unduly aroused as to contemplated berefits. But as in Europe every instance of municipal | ownership and reduction in rates has been accom- panied by a larger reduction in wages, it is entirely proper to inquire whether in this country there will b2 Before experiments on a large scale are undertaken it is well to know - whether public ownership, to realize the expectation of the econo- mists, must result in lower wages for the labor em- ployed. It is a very important phase of the question with ue. The whole wage scale will be unfavorably affected by redvction in the pay of several hundred thousand em- rloyes on street railroads, It is an economic question that is far-reaching. People are drawn to the support of public ‘ownership by the belief that it will reduce the earnings of capital. But if it reduce also the earnings of lubor, as a public economy it will be a failure. ¢ THE BILLION-DOLLAR TRUST. HEN discussing a few days ago the proposed amendment of the corporation laws of New W Jersey The Call referred to a report that the amendment was brought before the Legislature at the | dictation of the steel trust, and stated that there was at that time no evidence to sustain the charge. It now appears there must have been some truth in it, for the amendment was adopted, and now the trust, aftsr hanging in the air for weeks, has filed with the New Jersey Secretary of State articles amending its char- e and increasing its capital stock to $1,100,000,000. The object of the amendment is to give the directors greater power in handling the affairs of the enormous combination. Originally the corporation could not mortgage or pledge any of its real property or any ©f the stock of another company controlled by it ex- cept by the affirmative vote of the owners of two- thirds of the capital stock. Under the new law it will be necessary to have the affirmative vote of only two- thirds of the stock represented at any meeting of the cerporation. Thus we have the big trust fully lzunched with all its powers under easy control of its managers. e ‘When the country was first confronted by a Con-* | gress whose appropriations for governmental expendi- and controlling it as private property. The estimated cost of suth a canal, which has made the United States besitate for years upon the verge of constructing ir, is. a matter of little difficulty to the managers of the big trust. Probably they could readily add andther billion to their capital stock if they choose. New Jersey is seemingly willing to grant anything the trust ' wishes so long as it does not carry on business in New Jersey itself. - Here, then, is a billion dollar trust corfronting a billion dollar country, and we dre to see how long they can get on without friction. THE COAST ROAD BANQUET. . L% B 0D AN JOSE has celebrated the opening of the through line along the Coast road by a ban- quet, at which her citizens and their guests congratulated themselves and one another upon the change which the new route has made in the commer- cial situation of the city. Before the road was opened San Jose was in a pocket, and all the rich territory along the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles was commercially sidetracked. To-day that region is traversed by a road which will doubtless be the mzin line for transcontinental travel between San Francisco and the East, and San Jose finds herself iolding an important and advantageous position upon the route. Under such circumstances it is natural there should be much felicitation among the people, .and with her customary hospitality San Jose invited outsiders to come and share the joy of the occasion with her. ‘While all the speeches that followed the banquet were excellent, that of J. C. Stubbs, third vice presi- dent of the Southern Pacific Company, was the most interesting because he was expected to declare thz pclicy of the company with respect to the manage- ment of the new route. That he would not make definite promises of any particular policy was of course to be expected, but it is gratifying that what he did sty gives encouragement to the hopes of those who have believed the new road will be of immediate Ircvefit to San Jose and to the State. After regretting the absence of President Hays from the banquet, paying,a tribute to the memory of Huntington and emphasizing that fact that San Jose is now “on the through route between the Occident and the Orient,” he went on to say: “Mr. Chairman, T believe ithe future for this community and for this valley looks brighter than ever before, and though nct in whole nor in greater part due to the, completion of this road, yet the enterprise which we are cele- brating is atspicious. It will measurably con- tribute to the peace and prosperity of this, the fairest of Califorstia’s fair lands. I believe that out of thz experience and tribulations of this season a remedy will be found for the discouragements and ills of the prune-growers. I believe it is the purpose of Presi- dent Hays to address himself to the inquiry as to what extent his administration of the affairs of the South- err. Pacific Company can promot= the interests and better the conditions of the fruit-growers. I am per suzded that neither you nor the railroad people will ¢ er have occasion to regret the completion of the coast line, even as we are who are your guests to- nigkt will not forget your hospitality, will never ceasa tc desire and work for your prosperity and good will.” A statement of that kind from a high official of the Southern Pacific Company ought to mean something more than an after-dinner jubilation. It ought to 1iean in all sincerity that President Hays as the new manager of the road is “to address himself to the in- quiry as to what extent his administration of the af- fairs of the Southern Pacific Company can promote tlie ‘interests and better the conditions,” not of the fruit-growers only, specified by Mr. Stubbs doubtless out of deference to the audience he was addressing, bit of the whole people of California. Should tHat hegthe case not only wil! the counties along the coast toad be benefited by the closing of the gap, but the whole commonwealth will have reason to rejoice in the new order of things. In his tribute to Huntington Mr. Stubbs overlooked the fact that the quarrel of the people against his management was not because they did not appreciate his greatness in constructing the road, but because after constructing it he used it not for California but against California. Under the new management there is a promise and a prospect that the road will le used to promote Californian industries, and it iz because of the trust the people have in those promises that they have so jubilantly celebrated the opening o7 the new route. . ‘ Between the State and the railroads that connect it with the East there is a natural mutuality of interest, but in the past the Southern Pacific has been indiffer- ent to that truth and has never sought to put in force a policy in conformity with it. Now there is an ex- pectation of a change, and, fortunately, every sign tures exceeded a billion dollars Speaker Reed com- forted the taxpayers by reminding them that this is a ion dollar country. In the face of the new aggre- gation of capital in the hands' of a comparatively smali number of enterprising men we may perhaps find con- solation in remembering Reed’s statement. The corporation which is now about to enter upon active operations that may powerfully affect the trade and commerce of the whole country, if not the entire globe, has been generally spoke‘h of as “The Steel Trust.” That title was given to it by the press ba- cause it began by combining the great steel manufac- turing plants of the country and because a short title was necessary for convenience in speaking of it. It is to be borne in mind, however, that it is really much more than a corporation formed to carry on the manu- facture of steel. The scope of its charter comes very rear being universal. It has authority to engage in almost any kind of business. The Chautauquan recently published what it termed “a condensed statement of the grants made” to the ried Christianity away from this country. In that view [ ot it we should recall the missionaries and refuse to permit further export of the stock until it has accu- muiated enough for home consumption. s s in Cities and towns wvarious along the route of the President’s tour have under- taken to plant the vacant lots within their borders with flowers to serve to grace the welcome of the horored visitor; and when they see the good result it | will be in order for them to consider whether it would | not be worth while hereafter to make some such good | vre of their vacant lots every year. Why do every- thing for infrequent visitors? Why not make the home town beautiful for the sake of home folks? Wu Ting Fang says that for 4000 years the Chinese empire has never waged a war for the propagation of religion or the enslavement of the people; and it vould seem that China is therefore even further be- hind the times than most people thought. The Russian plan of sending turbulent students to join the army may have a good effect in quieting the universities, but it would seem to put a good deal of unsafe material into the army. “Now if any British officer can ‘capture Dewet as | reztly as Funston took Aguinaldo, it is safe to say his reward will be something worth talking about parts of California | corporation, to this effect: “This corporation may | manufacture iron, steel; mangarese, coke,.copper, | lumber and other materials, and all articles consisting | or partly consisting of iron, steel, copper, wood, or | cther materials, and all products thereof. It has tha | right to acquire and develop any lands yielding these | materials, and to extract coal, ores, stone, oil, etc., | irom any lands which it may own or acquire. It may | buy and sell these materials and.any of their products, d it may construct bridges, buildings, machinery, of the times affords rcason for believing the expecta- ticn will be fulfilled. SHALER MAKES DENIAL. ISPATCHES from the East a few weeks ago D announced- that Professor Shaler of Yale had in a lecture declared that science and inven- tion together have so improved the methods and the machinery used in gold mining that within a comparatively short time the out- put of the precious metal will be so large as to materially lower its value and consequently its purchasing power as maney. The statement coming f:-om a man of recognized authority on the subject naturally gave rise to a good deal of comment, but it row appears the report was unauthorized and inaccu- rate. 1n a letter addressed to the Engineering News Pro- feccor Shaler in denying the story says: “In a regu- lar Jecture to a class in geology, a lecture not intendz to be made public, I made certain statements con- cerning the future of gold production, particularly in- dicatéd by the working of placer gravels. From this lecture some student has taken certain statements, which, presented without the context, give a very in- adequate idea of what I said. This unauthorized and foolish statement was, I believe, sold. * * * The Iccture was not a public lecture; the publication of the miatter was not only unauthorized but contrary to the. rules which goven decent students, and, given with- s, boats, enigines, cars and other equipment; rail- roads, docks, slips, elevators, water works, gas works and electric yorks; viaducts, aqueducts, canals and cther waterways and other means of transportation. These agencies may be bought or sold, maintained or operated, but the corporation may not maintain a rail- road or canal in New Jersey. This cotporation may engage in any other manufacturing, mining, construc- tion or transportation business of any kind or char- acter whatsoever, but it may not engage in any busi- ress which shall require the exercise of the right of eminent domain within the State of New Jersey. it may conduct its business in other States and Terri- tories and,in fo'reign countries.” o, Such being the comprehensive nature of the grant, it s not surprising to learn that the directors are try- ing to effect further combinations and are even nego- | tiating for control of the Panama canal route with the intention of comstructing an isthmian waterway out the text, the statements give an essentially er- roneous idea as to my views concerning the matter.” As the report was published throughout the coun- try generally, we give the correction in justice to Pro- fecsor Shaler and to the public. It'is to be regretted, however, that in his explanation Professor Shaler did nct state exactly what he did say, so that an opinion cculd be formed as to the degree to which he was misrepresented. His statement that he believes thc siory was sold to the press by some student who had n. respect for rules which govern “decent students” implies a certain irritability of temper that is not to Fis credit, and it may be that his temper has led him t think himself much more wronged than he has been. At any rate until he chooses to inform the pub- Iic exactly what his views are on the subject we shall have to be content with his general denial and wait for further information until his lectures are published in book form. PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. P.REPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL.. p2E I What the Women’s Clubs of America Are Doing to Beautify the Environment of Homes and Home Life. By‘ Frances Copley Seavey, CHAIRMAN OF AN IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN PARK AND OUTDOOR ASSOCIATION. (COPYRIGHT, 1901.) VIL—BEAUTIFYING HOME SURROUNDINGS. Wekile public-spirited men and women are undertaking to improve the general appearance of large citles by banding themselves into civic leagues, municipal art assocfations and similar bodles, it cannot be too strongly asserted that there is equal necessity for developing latent possibilities along similar lines in city suburbs, towns, villages and country neighborhoods. The simple beauty of trees and grass claim instant attention from city people of all stations, but the more meager or squalid their home surroundings the more marked is this recognition. Oftentimes those who are accustomed to these two fundamental elements of natural beauty, growing neglectful, allow their imme- diate environment to lapse into barren sGualor. It may be that such examples should be credited to a too great familiar- ity with nature, but it seems more prob- able that it is the result of individual de- terforation. It would appear both safer and pleasanter to encourage the most fa- miliar acquaintance with the wholesome freshness of growing greenery and bloom than to suffer increasing contempt by the too close approach of tin cans and ash heaps. There are already many {mprovement societies, clubs and associations scattered throughout the United States; there are also a still greater number of women's clubs. The latter in some instances have been inspired to forsake literature, art and the sclences to devote their efforts to the betterment of the daily surroundings in their own communities. * Taking Up This Important Work. ‘Women’s clubs can do practical work in the line of suburban, village, town or neighborhood improvement either By aid- ini as organizations in the plans of estab- lished improvement societies, by making improvement work a branch of their own plans, or h}/ boldly adopting it as the end and aim of club existence for a year or longer, as requirements may dictate. In most localities, however, the amelioration of existing conditions of daily life is so clearly the one important question that doubtless most clubs that give the matter consideration will determine it the better Yart to devote their entire energy to it. Probably after one or two years of such faithful effort subsequent work may safe- 1y_be delegated to a capablé committee. In undertaking improvement work women'’s clubs can hard.y do better than follow in a general way the lead of prom- inent and successful improvement organi- zations such as the Laurel Hill Soclety of Stockbridge, Mass., the Beverly (Mass.) Improvement Society, the Town Improve- ment Association of Montclair, N. J., and others, while fitting tne details of such effort to local necessiiies and opportuni- ties. Indeed, such organizations are the natural outgrowth of local conditions. Among those cited a typhold epidemic, due to impure milk disseminated from a dairy situated amid foul surrounding: arouged the mothers of the town to the necessity for sanitation and a greater knowledge of the sources of family sup- plies, as well as to a realization of tie fact that the four walls of a home fail to encompass the factors that make for the health and happiners of a household, and that their resporsibilities extended beyond such clearly defined limits. In an- other instance one woman's longing for something beautiful within reach of her own home, for sweeiness, neatness and order in the streets that formed her dalii environment, was the .eaven from which rose what is claimed to be the first, and is still among the foremost, among improve- ment associations in this country. ‘Watchword of These Societies. ““To make our town (or village or sub urb) a better, more wholesome and more attractive place of residence” is in one form or another the watchword of every efficient band of improvement workers, and no club of women needs a better slogan. As has been intimated, conditions in every case must govern the choice of the first” work to be done. Good roads or streets and sanitation and cleanliness and order “from the middle of the street to the middle of the alley” is the basis of satisfactory results. It were folly to spend time, labor and money on purely decor- ative features before considering and con- quering the question of the disposal of garbage. If auything must wait let it be the front yards. A back yard crusade is an essential preliminary. Properly devel- oped the back yards would transform the lives of thousands from a dreary grind of drudgery to countless summers of sweet- ness and light. If women possessed of the brajns, time and money to accomplish such an end can find better scope for ef fort, where is it? On the hygienic foundation of cleanli- ness and order suggested may be buiit a fair superstruciure consisting of number- less factors blended into a more or lcss harmonious plcture. according to the ar- tistic exceilence of the design used. It is to be composzed of pleasantly shaded streets, charmingly planted home grounds, properly located and well arranged pub- lic parks end playgrounds, correctly treat- ed spaces around public buiidings, churches, schoothouses. mille and facto- ries; neatly kept vacant propérty, a gen- eral absence ot flying papers and rubbish and sweet reliecf from screaming bill- boards. All this may he further embei- lished by fountains, memerial tabicts and carefully considered statuAry, by hand- some boulevards. correctly d¢signed cem- eteries, attractively planted station rounds, railwey rights of way redeemed rora unsightliness and made to stend as perpetual advertisements to the constant- ly passing public of the character of the place and by lovely approaches over good, hard roads that wind among shade trees and flowery hanks all planted with the native trees, shrubs and vines that thrive in each vicinity. This does not exhaust the opportunities offered by the ordinary village or suburb, but serves to suggest that there is no lack of good things to be done by the clubs that choose to try this ;fi'" of thing—and may their name be le- on. Women’s Clubs Fitted for the Task. No women's club néed falter or fear to take such work in hand. Such clubs are splendidly equipped for ‘t. They have the ability to direct, the encrgy to accom- plish, the tact, discretion and determina- tion to succeed. They can secure land for parks and playgrounds_or see that street tree planting is done in accordance with the best modern knowledge of the sub- ject; they can raise money and pass or- dinances, or see that they are passed; they can disarm objections and make squalid dooryards unfashionable; they can banish all "unsightliness and make the waste places charming; they may, if they will, even go the length of securing artis- tic landscape gardening plans for the beautifying of a block, a street or an en- tire town, so that when such plans are correctly developed their own several home grounds shall each be a picture of comfort as well as a factor in a large gen- eral scheme that shall make their town famous. All this and much more can be accomplished by any club the members of which look about them and see that it is a good thing to make the world more beautiful for themselves ‘and for others who are perhaps less fortunate. In short, the scope and possible results of such work should satisfy the most ambi- tious elub. od 3 As a preliminary means of arousing public interest, perhaps nothing is more effectual than -terw?uam views showing the present state of rs at home— Vi of their own overflowing ‘f"' boxes and filthy alleys, of the dumpli: ground on the vacant 1t next door. or oF he magnificent array of billboards across the street; and then, by way of example, gflleml similar scenes in other places, fecnat . Sompsalon picunes shew tganized effort. i clegrly explained by some one who un- derstands the subject, rarely fail to open derstar Hoet thoughiiess naugehoiger o °f the How to Hold Individual Interest. Cme of the best means of holding indi- X vidual interest, which must ds be done it success is to be attained, Is offering a series_of prizes for certain features of im- Erovsmem work. . Special thought should e given to the matter of interesting chil- dren, and prize-giving has proved success~ ful in this direction. To cite specific in- stances: In October, 1900, prizes to the value of §100 were distributed at the close of a “flower and vegetable contest,” to which all the pupils of the public schools of Carthage, Mo., were eligible, except the children of professional florists or garden- ers. Prizes were offered for boys’ vegetable gardens, for general vine planting, for the greatest “improvement in the ap) of homes by artistic use o for aster growing and for aster bougquet Also during the last summer the Sout Park Improvement Club of Dayton, Ohio, offered a series of prizes for front and side yards, back yards, vine planting, windgow and porch- boxes, boys’ vegetable gardens, vacant lots. best planted prem- ises along steam railroads, best floral di- vislon between yards and best general ap- pearance from middle of street to middie of alley. . Good Taste Is a Requisite. The ghief objection brought to bear by the ordinary householder when his wife and daughter want to plant something is the increased difficulty of manipulating the lawn mower—the favorite suburban household god, which prefers a straight to a devious path. To spangle his grounds with bushes to be dodged, after the pres- ent accepted manner of distributing trees shrubbery, would furnish him with a timate grievance. There are enough 'aful examples ready made to last for a neration. ~To construct another would "be a bitter irony that any self-respecting club may well wish to escape. Once change the regulation polka-dotted dooryard to an open lawn outlined and framed by massed shrubbery and the de- lighted man of the house will never allow the speckled effect to be repeated on his premises. If it is so great an advantage from the purely utilitarian viewpoint of the manipulator of the lawn mower, how much greater from ine higher point of view of esthetic beautv, from the actual pleasure of something charming to look at every day in the year from one’s own windows? Is not a sm=ll expanse of fresh green turf across which the shadows come and go better than the hit-and-miss style? Try it. Shrubs and plants gathered to- gether in a border of irregular width are not only more beautiful in themselves and well out of the way of the lawn mower, but they are far more easily cared for than when scattered about. They should all be hardy plants and they should all be planted in a carefullv prepared bed, straight on its outer boundary next to street or division fence and irregular on its inner boundary aganst the lawn. In such a big bed, so unlike the ordinary flower bed, may be gathered many flower- ing shrubs that should be chosen to give bloom at different seasons, some small trees at the back of the border, where there is room without toc greatly crowd- ing or shading plants of smaller size, and enough herbaceous peiennials, such us irises, oriental poppies, peonies, delphin- fums, phloxes, Japanesec anemones and dozens of others just as lovely but less well known, to give a succession of flow- ers from June till frost cuts the last lin- gering anemone from ite stem. The sea- Son may be lengthened at the other end, S0 to speak, by using early flowering bulbs, such as scillas, snowdrops, crocuses and narcissus. Nor should summer flow- ering bulbs be omitted. Some of the best lilies are also the hardiest and they thrive better and look better in such a border than anywhere else. Following Nature’s Plan. Just you try this plan. Big or Httle, any garden so arranged !s far and away ahead of the crammed and disorderly array of indfvidual shrubs usually found scattered about what should be an open lawn. Now, when the border is made and the shrubs set out, do give the poor things a chance for their lives. That is do not try to im- prove on nature’s plan of making each species and often each variety unlike all other species; do not iry to carve them all into the same form. Let them alone till they have an opportunity to show their characteristics—show what they were in- tended to be like. By the time they hava accomplished this their own stvle will be found so much better than anything that can be imparted with pruning shears that their future will be secure. Eve: two or three years the oldest wood can be cu: out entirely and the uew allowed to take its place; such pruning as that is legiti- mate and so is the removal of dead wo»d or of branches that make the bush too close and dense. But cutting off the end of every twig or branch 1p a vain attempt to create a growing baseball or some other equally interesting curiosity—bah! That is not pruning. Don’t think it for a minute. Na such shrubs are to be found in th» paintings by Corot, of Tyron, of any land- scape painter worthy the name. hat is beautiful on canvas is also beautiful in itself. The painters get their inspiration from things that grow in the wilds. In the Interests of Privacy. The massing of shrubs in bordering beds or plantations may also serve the useful purpose of shield and buckler against the 0o inquiring windows of one’s next door neighbor, especially if, as is the pleasant fashion of the day, they immediately over- look one’s bit of lawn. A screen of this sort is grateful to both parties to the suit, shielding those inside the windows and those on the adjoining lawn, as well as making an agreeable outlook from either situation. It is not a disagreeable expe- rience to open a window to the delicious fragrance of blossoming honeysuckles or the exquisite color of sheets of clematis blooms; and it is, on the other hand, pure delight to sit on one’s own veranda and watch the swaying wands of a gracefully drooping, snowy white syringa (not “‘trim- med up) in full flower. In short, there are undreamed of possibilities in our door- yards, both front and back, and neither club nor individual can find a more legiti- mate field of action than in their artistic development. Such work will cheer more hearts, brighten more lives and improve more mora's than any other line of club work. Its basis Is improved sanitary con- ditions, yet, like kindergarten work, the participants in the labor and in the re- sults are under the impression that they are merely seeking and finding pleasant recreation. That women's clubs have already taken up this sort of work is one of the encour- aging signs that they are wisely endeav- oring to benefit humanity. This work reaches the foundation of the matter, for it begins in the homes of the people and results in a betterment of the daily sur- roundings of the masses. In the suburbs of cities, in towns, in villages and in the country such work is important. Every- where a pleasant, wholesome daily life is desirable, and nowhere are the common decencles, the simple, gleuurel. the quiet beauty easily attainable and the birth- right of all more neglected, overlooked and too frequently deliberately spotled for an entire community than in small places. The Beauty of Running Water. That this is true may be noted in one class of neglect, or worse than negleet, in e o enlo places that the resder i readily call to mind—the abuse of nat streams. In the country, far from the they are invariably beau- tiful, pure and in every way desirable; they approach the town, village or habi- to lose all that made their presence charming. No one thinks of pro- tecting their beauty or their purity; on the contrary, every one feels at liberty to mar the one and pollute the other. Any- may be thrown into the stream is Gumj upon {ts erstwhile W] nks. t might and should as the chief of the town or speedil; and a detriment. {'IIG vretg :hmu Q‘by:’.‘,‘.clml plants and loved the are b greensward that ::aun. ‘was refreshed by it and meant to p it continual company are cut away or uried th accumulati abundance and the is justly shunned being the chief attraction of the piace. n‘mt m!‘m;elnnnd of what is in such cases is clearly shown in a few instances where such streams have been redeemed by some energetic and tasteful improve- ment society or women's club, which has realized the peossibilities, recognized the wasted opportunities and worked a trans- formation. ‘Who says that such work is unsuited in character or in results to those who claim to love their fellow men? St PERSONAL MENTION. R. D. Burns of Mexico is at the Lick. C. M. Ward of Grub Gulch is at the Lick. J. 'W. M. Gregory of Suisun is at the Lick. H. H. Forney of Sacramento is at the Palace. Percy S. King of Napa Is a guest at the California. W. F. Barnes of Los' Angeles is a guest at the Grand. | Dr. 3. B. Hamilton of Los Angeles is at the Occidental. Dr. M. M. Shearer of Santa Rosa is a est at the Lick. y George H. Ayers of Honolulu is a guest at the Occidental. Lew Aubrey, a mining man of Los An- geles, 1s at the Grand. A. C. Dowdell of St. Helena is spending a few days at the Grand. W. F. Forsey of Fresno will be a guest at the Occldental for a few days. N. Ellery, a merchant of Sacramento, registered at the Palace yesterday. H. Vincent Wallace, an assayer of Bakersfleld, {s registered at the Lick. ‘Willlam Banning. a land owner of Los Angeles, Is a guest at the Occidental. Judge W. P. Veuve of Los Angeles, ac- companied by %his wife, is spending a few days at the California. 2 Herman Lesser and family have gone south’ for a teur of that portion of the State. They will be absent several weeks. —————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 2—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—L. Brown is at the Metro- politan; A. Chaix is at the Broadway Cen- tral; G. F. Eberhard is at the Imperial: T. L. Hardne is at the Herald Square; F. C. Imonel is at the Ashland; J. Mets is at the Metropolitan; M. Seinbrich is at the Savoy; V. F. Webster is at the Na- varre; D. Koppitz is at_the Broadway Central; Mrs. E. H. N. Palmer s at the Amsterdam. e —— Coronado Beach Tent City. Coronado Beach, Caltfcrnia, will ogen the 1901 summer season June 1. Write for a descriptive pamphlet. E. S. Babecck, Coronado, Cal. e e e ANSWERS TO QUERIES TOWN TALK SUMMIT-S., Clty.TThe nce from San Francisco to Town "i“:lt: Summit, Nevada County, Cal., is 164 miles. GRASSES—H., Rector, Cal. For in- formation about new or old grasses ad- dress a communication to the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of California, Berkeley, Cal. PARDONING POWER—Scottle, Ba- kersfleld, Cal. To pardon a prisoner the King of England does not have to ask the consent of his Ministers. The pardoning power is one of the prerogatives of the crown. SANCHO PEDRO—J. D, City. In a game of sancho pedro, 61 points, if A has 59 and B bids 5, making 64, A does not have to make a point to go out—that is, Jf Dotnts at the outset of the game are al- owed. TO LAKEPORT—Subscriber, Elko, Nev. The line has been surveyed for a raflroad to Lakeport, Lake County, and the work of construction, it ts said, will soon be in full operation. It will enter that place frcm the south. HORSE AND CORRAL—A. M. 8, City. If a horse is in a corral and walks around the inner edge of its fence and keeps his head on a line with a man who is walking outside of the corral, the man does not walk arcund the horse. In order to walk around the horse the man would have to start, say, at the head and pass pletely around the animal to the point of starting. The man walking outside of the corral is only keeping pace with the horse. AN ALIEN—S. F. S., Rocklin, Cal. An allen who desires to become a citizen of the United States must make a declara- tion before a competent court, and after he has resided continuously five yeats in the United States, one year of that time in the State or Territory in which he ap- plies for citizenship, and proves that two years before ‘making the application for final papers he flled a declaration of in- tention, he can have his papers. NOT MARRIED—X. Y. Z. Oakland, Cal. This department has not been able to find any law “to compel a man to mai a woman with whom he has been living for the past nine vears, who has borne him three children and whom he has acknowledged to strangers and friends as his wife but has never told her nor her relatives that she was his wife.”” As this relation was entered into before the contract marriage law was re- pealed the woman undoubtedly has a good claim to call herself his wife. 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