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Alhambra—Benefit Children’s Hospital, Saturday matinee, June 1 Sutro Baths—Swimming. Emeryville Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. May 23, at 11 o'clock, sixty y Fred H. Chase—Thursday. 1722 Market street. > 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN POR THE SUMMER. B: Bead Call subscribers contemplating s change of residence during the summer months can have sddresses by notifying The Call B is represented by a local agent Ia all towss en the coast. ~ THE CORNER AND THE CLIQUE. AVING studied out the recent corner in North- H ern Pacific and reached the conclusion that the whole flurry, from first to last, was absolutely artificial, the people of the East are now trying to dis- cover who are the men that brought it about. It ap- pears to be generally conceded that a comparatively small number persons organized the scheme, worked it up, excited the speculators of the street and then, at their own time and in their own way, precipi- tated the slump. They made some millions of money for themselves, but they ruined an untold number of persons who were credulous enough to risk their small earnings in the gamble. In commenting upon the subject the New York Sun says: “The sudden tumble in prices on Thursday was catised by efforts specially made by a few men to enrich themselves through sacrificing public interests by whipping up a storm for which nothing in the actual conditions afforded justification. It was a panic of purely artificial creation, of preconcerted and knav- ish manipulation, an example of the havoc which treachery can work in the sensitive world of finance.” The United States Investor says: “The responsibility for the appalling shake-up of the last few days can be placed at the doors of a set of eminent financiers.” It adds that their immense private and corporate re- sources and their control of the banking facilities of the country have enabled them “to embark upon the most pudacious schemes of seli-aggrandizement, in the prosecution of which they have forced upon 80,000,000 people the most terrible financial collapse on record.” There is an evident unwillingness on the part of most of the critics of the event to name the “eminent financiers” who are supposed to have been responsible for it all. The men who were struggling to get posses- sion of Northern Pacific stock so as to control the road have one and all denied having any complicity in the corner. It is stated that two banking houses, those of J. P. Morgan & Co. and of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., held between them, either in actual possession or in prom- jses to deliver, a larger number of shares than was of represented by the entire capital stock of the Northern | Pacific road, and consequently they could have formed a corner and cinched the street had they desired. Still there seems no reason to believe they did so, for, in- stead of taking advantage of the situation, they are reported to have been prompt in trying to arrange a means of relieving those who were caught. The Boston Herald attributes the crash to a set of men who it says are simply stock gamblers. They have no desire to control a railroad and when they purchase stock they do so solely for speculative purposes. “These men,” it says, “came to the conclusion that there was a fight for control on foot between tre- mendous financial interests, and that the opportunity, under such circumstances, for a ‘corner’ in the stock was uncommonly good. The speculators who then entered into the market 2s purchasers were unques- tionably the true cornerers, and they had not the least compunction in exacting from the unfortunate seller every ounce of flesh and blood that the terms of the contract gave them the right to demand. It was this outside participancy in the movement, that had not been entirely foreseen by the two rival financial in- terests, which led to the seriousness of last week’s crisis.” Whatever view be taken of the responsibility of par- ticular indivifiuals, it is certainly an evil that a few men are able artificially ir a time of prosperity to bring about a panic of such large proportions. There should be some way to fix the responsibility definitely and then provide means of restraining such an exercise of power hereaiter. In this case the injury was confined to speculators, but in a time of industrial depression or financial weakness a similar panic might affect the whole country. THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, SOME CANAL HISTORY. ! HE proposition for an isthmian canal, to connect new. It did not even originate in the nineteenth century. It had birth long before the age of railroads, and preceded the adoption of steam power on the water. The Edinburgh Review of January, 1809, spoke uf. it as “the mightiest event in favor of the peaceful inter- course, of nations which the physical circumstances of | the globe presents to the enterprise of man.” But at that date the discussion of the eanal was far advariced. | In 1787 Jefferson, then our Minister to France, in a letter to Mr. William Carmichael at Madrid said: “I have been told that cutting through the Isthmus of Panama, which the world has so often wished and supx;osed practicable, has at times been thought of by the Government of Spain, and that they proceeded once so far as to have a survly and examination made of the ground; but that the result was either imprac- ticability or too great difficulty.” Again, in 1788, Jefferson wrote: “With respect to the Isthmus of Panama, I am assured by Burgoin that a survey was made; that a canal was practicable, and that the idea was suppressed for political reasons alto- | gether. He has seen and minutely examined the re- port. This report seems to me a vast desideratum for reasons practical and philosophical.” Humboldt, in his “Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain,” enumerated five different routes for | the canal. The first is within the limits of Mexico, from the Bay of Tehuantepec on the Pacific to the Bay of Campeachy on the Guli, following the rivers Chimalapa and Huasacualco, whose navigable waters approach to within twenty miles of each other. The the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is by no means | second was the Nicaragua route by the San Juan River and Lake Nicaragua. The third was by the Isthmus of Panama, requiring a canal only thirty miles long, and was most favored by Humboldt. The fourth was by the river Atrato, which, with its tributary, the Napipi, is navigable to within eighteen miles of the Bay of Cupica on the Pacific. The fifth was by the same river Atrato and its trib- vtary, the Quito. The waters of the latter approach | near to a stream called the San Juan; emptying into | the Pacific. Between the two is a small ravine called | De la Raspadura. Humboldt says that a monk of | great enterprise, cure of the village of Novita, em- ployed his parishioners to dig a small canal in that | ravine, through which, and by the rivers, canoes i loaded with cacao pass from sea to sea, and that this communication between the oceans was in operation in 1788, and was unknown in Europe! After their separation from Spain the Central American governments began immediately to con- sider an isthmian canal. September 18, 1824, the En- glish house of Barclay & Co., representing a company | composed of American merchants, made proposals to | Central America for the construction of a canal by the San Juan and Lake Nicaragua. This proposition seems to have aborted, but in June, 1826, Charles de | Beneski, representing American capitalists, made a contract for a canal by that route. The contract set forth that the canal should admit merchant ships of the largest class and be open to all nations on equal terms. Possessed of the contract, Mr. Palmer exe- cuted a deed of trust to D& Witt Clinton, Stephen Van Rensselaer, C. D. Colden, Philip Hone and Lynde Catlin, h)'- which they were made commissioners to superintend the organization of the ““Central American and United States Atlantic and ‘Pacific Canal Com- pany.” A financial crisis, and political disturbances on the isthmus, killed that project. Next a Dutch company was formed under the patronage of the King of Holland. General Verveer was sent by the King to Central America. This project was defeated by the Belgian revolution, After this failure President Jackson sent Mr. Bid- dle to Central America to negotiate for a canal. But Biddle was unequal to the task and his mission was a mortifying failure. Simon Bolivar, the Liberator, while ruler of Co- lombia, gave much attention to a canal. He employed Lloyd, an Englishman, and Falmarck, a Swede, both engineers, to investigate the subject, and they reported in England to the Royal Society and the Royal Geo- graphical Society. Bolivar, at Guayaquil, in 1829, de- clared to an American gentleman that, having brought the war between Colombia and Peru to a victorious conclusion, he intended, on his return to Bogota, to employ his army in building the canal. But Bolivar was compelled by failing health to resign and soon after died. It is believed that, had he lived and con- tinued in power, the employment of his tremendous energy and talents would have assured the completion of the work. The next effort was a grant to. Baron de Thierry to build a canal by aid of the rivers Chagres and Grande and the Bay of Limon. Santander, President of New Granada, made this contract. De Thierry was an usher in Cambridge University, and in that capacity met some chiefs from New Zealand, who, in a freak, con- ferred upon him letters patent as “Sovereign Chief of New Zealand.” When he solicited the canal grant from Santander h‘c insisted upon the use of that title, and when it was not employed his zeal for the canal abated. He was a mere adventurer. This brings the history of the canal up to 1835 and the organization of Biddle's company and its failure. In 1835 John M. Clayton promoted an inquiry in Congress, and the result was an exhaustive report with appendix containing the opinion of Mr. Radcliff, to the effect that what is now known as the Panama route was the preferable route. . The Democratic Review for November, 1839, re- commended that canal treaties be made with the Central American governments and England, France, Holland and Russia. Clayton made the first of these, with England, now known as the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and yet the project is but little farther advanced than when the monk united the oceans in the ravine of Raspadura, one hundred and fourteen years ago. e e e A CHANGED NAVAL SERVICE. AST as is the contrast between the magnificent V ship that bears the name Ohio in our new fleets and the Ohio of the old days, it by no means represents 21l the changes that the passage of time and the improvements of life have brought about in our navy. There has been in the service'itself a better and a mightier change than that in the structure of the ships. The new Ohio is to uphold a Higher American- ism among her officers and crew than was known to those who sailed the older one. An illustration of the change is to be found in ex- tracts taken from a “jourdal of the cruise of the United States ship Ohio, in the Mediterranean in the years 1839, 1840, 1841,” and published by the Boston Transcript in connection /with the launching of the new Ohio. After giving an account of the many tri- umphs of the ship at various European ports and cit- ing evidences of the admiration she excited among naval experts of all countries, the Transcript says: “The journal gives a picture of naval discipline of sixty years ago which makes the humanitarian of to- | | | | | { day shudder. The cat was used for the punishment of lnll offenses that were worth punishing at all. Sentences of seventy-five lashes were common. Yet Commodore Hull (who commanded the Ohio during the cruise the journal describes) was reckoned an easy com- mander in those days.” In the course of his journal the writer says: The citizens of Boston can mark the difference be- tween the feelings existing toward Commodore Hull by his ship’s company (the Ohio had 1000 officers, seamen and marines) and that between Commodore Reed and the crew of the frigate Columbia; then, several hundred of the frigate's crew, after they were discharged, paraded in front cf the Tremont House in hopes to be | able to chastise him in such a manner as his cruel and arbitrary conduét so richly merited. Th_at kind of thing will never be written of an American warship again. Our ideals have moved up- ward and forward a long way since the old Ohio sailed and charmed the world by her graceful beauty, but was manned by sailors disciplined by the cat. We have improved in something more than in machinery | and in guns, and the improvement is worth noting by all who are in the habit of talking about the good old days and mourning over the materialism of our time. T s T W i IMPROVED NEWS SERVICE. Y the New York Herald there has been estab- B lished on Nantucket lightship a system of wire- less telegraphy, by which news of incoming steamers from Europe will be received fifteen hours earlier than at present. A gain of that much in time is an important factor to all interests that are affected by steamer news, and consequently the establishment of the improved service is one of the most notable things that have been accomplished thus far by the wirtless method of telegraphing. By reason of its relations with the HeraldThe Call will have the benefit of the improved service, and thus will again be a sharer in the advance made in tele- graphing without wires. It will be remembered that The Call was the first paper to apply wireless teleg- raphy to the service of newsgathering when it obtained | from a vessel off the Golden Gate the announcement of the arrival of the transport bringing home the Cal- ifornia volunteers from the Philippines. The next notable work with wireless telegraphy was done when the Herald and The Call reported the international | yacht races off Sandy Hook from a steamer that fol- lowed the yachts and dispatched reports of every fea- | ture of the race as it occurred, thus getting the news far ahead of papers that relied upon the old methods. In an important respgct the Nantucket lightship | service differs from what has been done hitherto. The | former enterprises made use of wireless telegraphy for temporary purposes; it was applied only for special occasions. The service now established by the Herald is to be permanent. It is to continue until science and invention have devised better methods. At present it represents the best in‘the world and will be of vast benefit to the public. A saving of fifteen hours in | 5 . | getting news from trans-Atlantic steamers is an event | of high importance, and the whole commercial world may be congratulated on the enterprise of our New York contemporary. SCIENTIFIC SILVICULTURE. ROM a summary given by the Eastern press of F a report just published showing the work accom- plished by the New York College of Forestry of Cornell University it appears that despite the fact that the college has been in operation but three years, it has demonstrated that forest cultivation in' this country can be made profitable in a pecuniary sense as well as in the way of indirect benefits through the protection of watersheds and the conservation of the streams through the summer, The New York college has contracted its wood sup- ply to a cooperage company, which is erecting near one of the lakes in the Adirondacks a stave and head- ing factory to utilize the logs and a wood alcohol plant to use the cordwood. The trees are felled and the logs cut and skidded by the employes of the college, as it is feared the contractors would not do that work with sufficient care for the preservation of young trees. So careful is the economy practiced in the work that the managers expect to be able to find a market for every product of the woods down to brush one inch in diameter. ° Concerning the age of the trees in the forest and the amount of time required to grow timber the re- port says: ‘“The 2600 cubic feet of wood per acre, to which an addition of 800 feet for the culled spruce and the remaining material would be a very ample allowance—these 3400 cubic feet have been produced by the virgin forest in an unknown period, but, as the age of the trees which furnish the bulk of the product indicates not less than 175 to 200 years—this volume would have been produced under common silvicul- tural methods in less than one-half the time, and prob- ably, if pine and spruce are made the main crop, twice the amount of material could be harvested in 100 years.” - Further interesting information concerning the rate of growth of trees in the Adirondacks is given in the following statement: “Of the sixty maples on which rings were counted a diameter of twelve inches on the sfump was reached By seven within the limits of age from 116 to 183 years. Ten trees reached a diameter of sixteen inches in from 172 to 240 years, and seven- teen trees reached a diameter of twenty inches in 175 to 233 years, while the oldest and stoutest reached twenty-eight inchies in 280 years, This was a domi- nant tree, and probably always had favorable position, making one inch in the averagd every ten years for a long time, and probably representing the best that could be expected. The few beech that were counted all indicate a rate similar to the maple, the best mak- ing one inch in ten to eleven years, but they are not growing persistently, the largest one reaching a dia- meter of twenty-four inches. It should be stated, however, that this particular plot was rather poor in beech. Birch, on the other hand, showed a better rate in all the trees counted, namely, mostly under ten years for one inch. The oldest and stoutest, 300 years old, measured thirty-seven inches on the stump with a height of about eighty-five feet to the tip, fur- nishing, however, only two sound logs of twenty-eight and twenty-nine inches diameter with nearly 800 feet B. M. Another birch of thirty-six inches diameter and ninety feet height showed 275 rings. Of course, data obtained in the Adirondacks affords no basis for estimating the productiveness of forests in California, where the climate, the soil and the trees are different, but it may be safely said that if scientific silviculture can be made profitable in New York, equal care and skill will make it even more profitable here. The New York experiment, therefore, can be made of value to us. It shows what can be done in that way and should arouse in California a resolve to emu- late the example. B, China’s offer to pay to the powers an indemnity of $337,000,000 in a series of annual installments of $10,- 000,000 each is as excellent from a diplomatic as from a financial point of view, for if it be accepted there will be a good prospect of having the arrangement broken by some sort of international contest long be- fore the last payments beqc\»m due. § ’ WEDNESDAY, 'PAPERS ON CURRENT ' TOPICS. ———e MAY 22, 1901. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE Sa What Organizations N Francisco CALL. of American Women Are Doing to Make Art a Prominent Part of Their Daily Lives. By Mrs. John K. Ottley, MEMBER OF THE INDUSTRIAL COM. MITTEE OF THE GENERAL FEDER- ATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS AND CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON WORKING WOMEN. —_—— (COPYRIGHT, 1%01.) XIV.—ARTS AND CRAFTS WORK OF SOUTHERN The work of women's clubs falls under two heads—what they do and what they suggest. Every discussion must take into consid- eration these two distinct lines of influ- ence and there can be little question that the abstract field of suggestion is quite as important as the concrete one of actual endeavor. Soclety is only just reaching that ituxe in evolution when it perceives its “ten- dencies” and consciously strives to foster them. Social telesis, as a great social philos- opher has aptly named this effort of so- clety, as a whole, to assist socfal evolu- tion, is manifesting itself more and e strongly in all the movements of the d and_such a group as is constituted by the club women of the United States should be a potent factor in observing and fostering soclal tendencies. A rotable instance in thig direction is to be found in the great and growing inter- est of American club women in the new movement toward democratic art and its expression, which is manifesting itself so strongly in the TUnited States to-day. Neéver before has there been such a ten- dency to make art a part of the daily life of all the people and to draw from the simplest individuals some product of the hand inspired by the individual mind. The club women of America have done ond are doing much to foster this ten- dency for individual hand production, which is raising its head feebly enough amid the endless profusion of machine- made products. Work by the General Federation. The General Federation of Women's Clubs has a strong central committee, which has done much to stimulate inter- est in and desire for hand products. Its chairman, Mrs. Herman J. Hall of Chi- cago, with an able corps of assistants, ar- ranged at the last biennial convention of women’'s clubs in Milwaukee an exhibit of arts and crafts which was of unex- celled value and significance of interést. The handwork of all nations appeared in wonderful and dazzling array, metal, Jewels, wood, lace, leather and all the wonderful weaves of the Orient testifying to the art of the old world craftsman. Few and pale in comparison seemed the rugs and pots, the draperies and the carv- ings which stood for ‘“home products,” but of unspeakable interest to the loyal Amerjcan, who saw In them the promise of unfolding beauty and development both of the art and the artist. True it is that the Occldental nations have ever lacked that subtle necromancy of touch which makes of the products of the Orient wonders of the world. It is equally true that our own new world has found nefther place nor time for the beau- tles of European hand work, but for this latter deficlency there have been reasons which do not, perhaps, argue a lack of artistic possibilities, Though the hand products of the western world may never equal those of tha Orient they may cer- tainly attaln an admirable degree of beauty and .excellence and be found ex- pressive of our life and civiltzation, 8o they speak the genius and deyelop- ment of our own Fenula we shall be con- tent, knpwing well that that genius and that development will be constantly aug- mented and magnified by such expression. "Fostering Hand Work in America. Following the lead of this central coms= miftee, of which Mrs, A, H, Brockway of Brooklyn {8 now, chairman, clubs all over the country have added arts and crafts departments and devoted time, attention and influence to the promotion of the hand-craft {dea. “But how?' asks some one, ‘‘Are the club women who are interested in hand crafts themselves craftsmen?” Not necessarily so, Here comes in the suggestive value of an organized body ssessed of Intelligence and influence. he share which women's clubs may have in the arts and crafts movement in Amer- fon, consists more in what they may en- able others to do than in what they shall do_themselves. To suggest the possibility and the prac- ticability of hand work to those capable of doing it and to ald in finding a market for such work when done have been found needful fields of influence in which clubs glud club women have proved most effec- ve. The whole business of hand work has fallen so thoroughly into desuetude in the United States that the dying embers of it must be carefully fanned and cherished, and after the work is done a.market must be created, almost artificlally at first, for- since hand work must always cost more than the products of the machine, the public must be interested In the subject of crafts and acquainted with the excel- lencies and advantages of hand work be- fore it will see a reason for paying a larger sum for what seems, superficially, the same article. Even the Willlam Morris products, with thefr jlluminating trade-mark of ‘Not How Cheu.sv but How Good,” required to e be expounded and elucldated before the ?hrltl- public knew how much it desired em. Hand Work of the Mountaineers. It is a far cry from Willlam Morris and the Kelmscott shop to the Georgia moun- taineer at Fouches Gap, and yet an arts and crafts movement has been initiated in the latter place, which, however hum- bly, recapitulates the thought of the great Enillsh master. The mountaineers of North Georgia, in common with those of North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, the other Stats of the Apruachlnn highlands, are a primi- tive people, among whom life has moved in the same channels for many hundreds of years. Their lfnomce explains their prejudice, and their bravery, honesty and occasional frultless industry speak greater capabilities within them. The genuine highlands are remote from civilization, but there are boundary dis- tricts in which the ‘“‘mountain white,” in his unterrified illiteracy and shiftlessnes: aphically near to the great world he knows so little. Mrs, Lindsay Johnson’s Efforts. Such is the case near Rome, Ga., and thither in excursions from her neighbor- ing plantations went Mrs. Lindsay John- son, president of the Georgla Ilederation of Women's Clubs. She found the great- est destitution and need of some sort of profitable employment - for the women, whose lives are dreary beyond describ- tion. In most of the homes were found the old-fashioned hand loom, and, In many, the spinning wheel still in use. The weaving was, however, done only in suf- ficlent quantity to supply the wants of A Toni asping the possibilities rs. Johnson, grasi poss| e of the situation and alded by her hus- band, himself deeply interes in the de- velopment of his section of the country, succeeded in bringing one mountain wo- man and a hand loom, with manv pro- ducts, to the Cotton States and Interna- tional Exposition held in Atlanta, in 1895-6. To induce a weaver to come was a most difficult task. Some of the women who were glad to work at home and thankful to earn the money could only be persuaded to say, in explanation of their refusal, that ‘“‘he” did not like it. The same excuse, in other terms, is some- tlx&e: given by women further up in the 80 scale. One was, however, finally iInduced to make the journey to Atlanta and the ox- tion. ‘rom every section saw the work and be- came interested in it and many of tbtem gave orders. Fabrics From Mountain Looms. of So many orders were secured, indeed, as | to keep a number of nelghborhocd womcn busy in Texas Valle z for several years, until another fair, in Atlanta, in 1899, afforded another oppor- tunity for displaying the hand weaving. At t time the ‘ederation of ‘Women's Clubs h,d ‘exhibit-of women's worl There thousands of persons ey, near Fouches Gap, CLUBS. was true of the fair in the autumn of 1000. On both decasions Mrs. Johnson's hand weavers created great laterest by weaving on the loom at certain hours and by a beautiful exhibit of coverlids of va- rious designs and colors, towels, draperies and similar products. All =old well and many orders were taken each yvear which the weavers filled during the long summer and winter months that elapsed between exhibils. The blue and white cotton is partic larly popular for draperies and portier in seaside com‘ie:’ where it defles the sea air, refusing to become ‘“‘slimpsy,” as may be said of few other fabrics. One purchaser ordered a hundred yards of this product for cottage draperles, while many buyers have been celighted with their quaint blue and white fringed counterpanes. Linens and Silk Scrap Draperies. Some beautiful hand-woven linens have been produced for sheets and towels, but the cost of the flax necessitates so consid- erable an investment that this feature of the industry must needs wait on orders or further capital. Good success has attended the weaving of the silk scrap draperies which are so effective for portleres, divan covers and similar uses. The same product which can be woven in New York for 31 a can be woven in the mountains of North Georgia for about 10 cents a vard. In each case the silk scraps are, of course, furnished by the customer. Mrs. Nellie Peters Black of Atlanta, whose farming interests also border on the mountain district, has found similar interests to foster. From Pine Log come, besides the weav- ing, old-fashioned silk quilts, hand-made hats, and some interesting specimens of basketry In which cornstalks, pine needles and broomstraw are used with really ex- cellent effect. Exhibits of all these products are made not only at the State fairs, which are the best markets, but at the various women's clubs of the State, and thus a steady and increasing demand for the hand wares has been produced, which has proved mutually advantageous to producer and consumer. One must n know the homes and the home life of the women who do the handweaving to realize what :Ee coming of ready cash must mean to em. Hope for Rag-Carpet Weavers. Of course the rag carpets are among the Eroducts of the mountain craftswomen, ut as yet the results have not been par- ticularly satisfactory. Some instruction in color combination, however, can bring this product up to the level of the other wares and can produce strips equal to those sold through the Roycrofters, at East Aurora, as the work of “Royeroftie girls 70 years young.” Although the mountain women are those for whom * southern club women have done most, the movement has by no means ended there. FHand craftsm haye been developed and encouraged both antong club women and elsewhere. Some very excellent exhibits have been made at the clubs of hand ving, both In pleces of furniture and In smaller speci- mens of burnt wood, carved and burnt leathor, hammered brass, plaiting and An Jort has been made to diyert the talent of wome young artists from the painting of large pictures which nobody wants to the execution of beautiful and artistic dinner cards, menu cards and Christmas and Easter fllnn—thlnl-. in short, which people really want and in the preparation of which artistic ability ard may find a genuine expression that the l.,m,.wundc-lrc oll painting would never Arranging for a Market. A number of sales have been made of all the articles above mentioned and for the ensuing autumn a eat sale is planned at the Women's Club in Atlanta, at which every varlety of hand work, ranging from earved wood to embroid- eries, will be offered to those in search of holiday gifts. There seems little doubt that purchasers, as well as craftsmen, will be pleased at this opportunity to e~ cure %ns of a novel and unique character, each bearing the ‘‘hand-made” mark. One embyro bookbinder has been found who, with legal calf and some simple in- struments, has produced good results. Among humbler craftsmen like efforts have been made toward encouragement and directlon. Manufacturers of root and branch settees and chairs, so fearfully and wonderfully made as to be objects of curfosity, but not of utility, have been induced to substitute for these wares neat, strong, well-made chairs, as tables and lawn seats of white hickory, perfect in every part and standing squarely on all four legs alike. Work of Negro Craftsmen. The work of some negro craftsmen has been encouraged. They have done par- ticularly well in basketry, mainly in large gleces, such as clothes ham; and waste askets made of willow withes. These ure pretty in white and when stained with analine dyes, in bright reds and greens, hey give a picti ue Indian effect. That so little of that effect appears in our art products to-day marks the crowning loss of American crafts. That the wonders of Indian pottery and basketry, at once so unique and so char- acteristic, should have been permitted to lapse and disappear from the art of our nation was an_error as inexplicable as it ‘was _{rreparable. e remains of this aboriginal art may be stimulated some- what in the West and Northwest, but in outh, where the red man in some- what isolated instances ap within the writer’s recollection, no trace is left of his crafts, the secrets of which should a revelation to cereal those who have tried purity and delightful CEREAL. % get the genuine article, | hi been engrafted upon our people and fostered as the most truly American art. This effort to stimulate and foster a expression has proved dertully inter- esting, and if sometimes our ‘“swans have turned out geese we have not been too much cast down. 3 How an Enthusiast Was Disappointed I remember one rather amusing incident of dashed expectancy in the case of a club woman who was an ardent promulgator of the arts and crafts movement and was constantly on the watch for hopeful ma- terial from which to develop a craftsman. One day a servant brought to her bed- room a tabouret made of bamboo and matting, but executed by the hand of a skilled workman. He reported that a man at the door wished to sell it. The club woman was all Interest at once. A Geor« gia countryman who could make a tabou- ret like that was a treasure. Buying the littic specimen, she sent word to the maker to come back with other work when she could see him. The wife of the American Minister to Japan was present and said mildly that it looked very like Japanese workmanship. The club woman, however, protested that there was no rea- son why every good plece of joiner's work done in bamboo should be necessarily Japanese, v t was a blow when the craftsman ap- peared a few days later and Rroved to be a full-blooded Japanese to whom English was still an unknown quantity. The club. woman took her disappoint- ment generously, ordering fascinating tea tables and porch chairs for a summer cottage. Sundry young American crafts- men, seeing the work, were induced to emulate it. Demand for Hand Work. There can be little doubt that this move- ment for hand work, with its excellence of execution and its individual expression, is to be more than a passing fad in Amer- jca. That a market is to be afforded among us is evident from such facts as the well known one that the atellers of numerous artists of to-d have been turned into workshops, with orders for annd-made furniture pressing for execu- cn. The same demand seems easy to create in every department of the hand crafts, and in creating this demand and stimu- lating the production which shall, with increasing excellence, fill it, lles a great field for Interesting and valuable effort on the part of the can club woman. PERSONAL MENTION. A. W. Maltby, a vineyardist of Concord, is at the Grand. 8. A. D. Prieler, a prominent resident of Eureka, s at the Palace. Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is a guest at the Palace. ‘Walter F. Parker, secretary of the State Board of Equalization, is at the Grand. A. C. Kuhn, a furniture dealer of San Jose, registered at the Palace yesterday. ‘W. P. Thomas, a prominent attorney of Ukiah, is spending a few days at the Grand. United States Senator J. McMillan of Michigan left for/the East yesterday after several weeks’ sojourn on the coast. He is accompanied by his wife and family. 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