The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 5, 1901, Page 6

6 gall. .JUNE s, 1901 Che > == WEDNESDAY......... -l THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1901.. ———————WM UNIONS AND THE ARMY. HE Western Federation of Miners, in session at I Denver, has resolved to take part in politics as an organization, and responded favorably to JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE .Telephone Press 204 T s s PUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Weelk. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Suncay), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months DAILY CALL—By Single Month. WEEKLY CALL, One Year.. All postmasters are nuthorized to receive subscriptions. 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BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 105 Valencia, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 c’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until $ p. m. AMUSEMENTS. szar—*For Bonnie Prince Charlie.” rand Opera-house—"La Tosca.” “A Colonial Girl." 1d Glory.” Tivoli—*“The Toy Maker.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Columbia—-"The Importance of Being Earnest.’ Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening Fischer's—Vaudeville. Sutro Baths—Swimming. Emeryville Racetrack—Races to-day. ATUCTION SALES. By John J. Doyle—Wednesday, June b5 at 11 o'clock, Horses, at 327 Sixth street. By A. M. Scott & Co. June 6, at 11 o'clock, thirty head of Horses, at I E F t 11 o'clock, Trotting By Wm. G. Layng—Friday, Horses, at 721 Howard street 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWK FOR THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating a change eof residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail te their mew sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer wesorts and is represented by a local agent im all towss en the coast. THE MODOC LYNCHERS. HEN further examined the murder of five men by a mob in Modoc County, four of them already prisoners in legal custody, be- comes re revolting. There is no pretense that a failure reasonably feared by the lynch- ¢ that will turn out and murder an »y of sixteen against whom a charge can certainly be trusted to fur- give them an orderly trial in justice w ers. A com old m an and a of larceny was nisk ynvict them on almost any testi- mob may cost the State ¢ and money. The old man his children who were killed His influence among the have been considerable, and they ers. It is already feared that they the Indian code, a life for a life, s will follow that will embroil a race war of such magnitude sct going. This may draw in ¢ authorities and end in some- thing like the lava bed war of twenty-five years ago. f the savage lynchings that disgrace this ien access of wild passion may be These passions are roused by ature of the crime which they are in- But the offenses of the five mur- Todoc, even if the charges against them were true, were not of a nature to arouse such pas- sion a court of mony. Th with him Indians resent may pu , if they g that part of the as the parties t the Federal n excuse. dered men of ) The murderers were moved upon by a wanton and criminal thirst for blood. The law provides ample punishment for the crime of larceny, and to have meted it out to the accused would have had all the admonitory and deterrent effect necessary for future protection of the property of that community. he five dead men were probably petty thieves, but they were morally better than the forty murderers who are now known to have been their fellow citizens. As between the two classes of criminals the good name of California suffered less from the deeds of the five thieves than from the wanton and savage crime of the forty murderers It is to be hoped that the Governor will set in motion every lawful energy of the State government to arrest and punish that band of murderers. True, the scene of the crime is in a remote corner of the State, but the whole commonwealth suffers from it, and should applaud every effort made to secure its adequate punishment. Ay - ——r— Since it no longer pay farms, experiments are being made in the way of in- tensive gardening, and it is said the results are such as to justify the Government to make an effort to encourage the breaking up of big farms into small allotments and to compel railways to run special trains to carry fruits and vegetables to the larger cities at cheap rates. It is said that Hanna, Foraker, McLean and Tom Johnson will all take a hand in the State election in Ohio this fall, and the expectations are that it is going to be a good year for votes. All the reform forces in New York-are said to be united against Tammany; but they haven't made their nominations yet, and there is no telling what will happen when they do. It is now stated by way of correction that Profes- sor Pickering did not say. positively thére is snow on the moon, but that there is something on the moon that looks like snow.’ to cultivate English lands as | such proposition coming from other labor bodies. Its resolutions denounce representative government and declare it to be a failure. As the Federal con- stitution distinctly formed and established this as a representative government, this action by the miners indicates that they have despaired of the republic. Perhaps what is needed to give them a different view is more active participation in government, through their own representatives. With this view of it we approve their decision insisting upon “local unions selecting men from their own ranks” to fill public offices. We believe that a better understanding would follow the consorting in State Legislatures and in Congress of actual laborers, skilled ot unskilled, with professional men and others who are chosen to membership in such bodies. The industrial operations of a great nation are of such a nature that interfer- ence at one point may check the whole machinery. Perhaps one reason why some of the cherished propo- sitions made by the unions are resisted is because they consider only one of the many interests involved. And perhaps another reason is that many of their propositions are not understood by others. One tone in the miners’ resolutions may be reggfded as hurtful to their cause and inimical to a better comprehension of their demands. One of their resolutions says: “We advise the toiler to be ever on the alert in de- fense of his rights, and educate himself to protect those rights by a peaceful use of the ballot so long as view. When not, let us be prepared to meet the enemy with the weapons of his choice, and rather spill every drop of life-giving fluid at the point of the bayonet than submit further to oppression on the part of our aggressors.” This is followed by some denunciation of the courts and the military, and expression of “the hope that the members of organized labor everywhere will re- frain from voluntary enlistment in any department of the Federal or State military service.” It would have been well if the union had made a plain statement of the aggressions of which it speaks nd given the country a frank explanation of any lawful purpose with which the courts or the military have interfered. Such’ interference with the lawful rights or laudable purpose of one man, or any body | of men, is not in accord with our system of govern- ment, and is the most serious offense against the rights of person and property that any government can commit. If it have been committed here the fact should be known and be made plain. These miners say, formally, that they will arm themselves and fight in deadly combat against the enemy in a certain contingency, of which it is appar- ent they intend to be the sole judge. In order to have fair estimate put upon their proposed action their countrymen should be informed of the personality of the enemy and of the grievance for which such an alarming remedy is proposed. The American people are not in the habit of believ- | ing that under our form of government a grievance can arise which requires a resort to arms for its cor- rection in a revolt against the law and those who ad- minister it. The miners declare that they will use the ballot when feasible to accomplish their purpose, and when that means fails will seek its accomplishment with weapons. Perhaps they do not mean what their lan- guage implies. It is in danger of being taken to mean either that some of their purposes cannot be secured by the ballot and are to be accomplished only by armed revolution, or that carrying those purposes to the ballot-box and being outvoted they will attack the majority with arms and violence, and gain by slaughter that which they failed to gain by the fran- chise. We are sincere in saying that if there exist griev- ances justifying the miners’ denunciation of represen- tative government and their pessimistic and despair- | ing outlook their fellow citizens will never put their warlike dispcsition to the test. If they will prove what they assert and carry the issue to tiac ballot-box the American sense of justice and fai~ play will cee that they are not left in a minority as an excuse for flying to arms. go through such an excellent course of manual train- ing in the use of tools that they can make more and it is one of the sights of the university to go through the workroom to see the,boxes and cabinets | and higher mathematics. With one of these girls for a bride all the young husband will have to do will of boards and she will furnish the house. LABOR IN PORTO RICO. F there has just been issued a bulletin giving an | account of labor conditions in Porto Rico by recently made by Governor Aller concerning the backward condition of the islanders, and particularly improvement even without that American immigra- tion which the Governor advocates as the only hope According to surveys and a census taken in 1899 under the direction of the War Department, Porto 3606 square miles of land and 953,243 inhabitants, of whom 203,792 live in cities or towns and 749,451 in the | to the square mile. - The number of females is but slightly in excess of the number of males, which is been much in the way of emigration from the island. Of the total population 31 per cent is under ten years in the Union, while only 11.8 per cent is above forty- five years. Deducting all who are too young or too | an effective working population of 601,271, and it is estimated that more than half of them are wage- The crowding of so large a wage-earning popula- tion upon so small an island, where there is so little | wages to a minimum. The report says: “No more | significant proof of this superabundance of labor those somewhat remote from the shipping ports and | commercial centers, and sometimes situated at no coast, find it cheaper to transport their coffee, to- bacco and other products on the heads of peons to or even by sea.” The report goes on to point out that this “excess It is said the young women of Chicago University pretty things than can be seen in an ordinary bazaar, the learned girls have made as a side issue to Greek be to furnish her with a hammer, a saw and a bunch ROM the Department of Labor at Washington Dr. Azel Ames. The report confirms the statements | of the working classes, but holds out a promise of | for the development of the island. Rico with its adjacent islands contains approximately rural districts. The density of the population is 264 regarded by the officials as proof that there has never of age, a higher proportion than is found in any State weak through age or disease to work, there remains workers, wealth or ambition, has naturally resulted in reducing | could exist thart the fact that not a few planters, even great distance from the belt railroad or from the sea- those ports and markets than by railroad, bullcarts of labor over the industrial demands of the uhnd the feasibility of such means will justify the end in does not materially stimulate personal activity in small agricultural or other industries on the part of the unemployed. Their natural indolence and small necessities seem to lead them to accept indigence and vagrancy as no-great evil.” - Concerning the possibilities of improvement in the condition of the people the report says: “If under the rigor and rapacity of Spanish rule and the waste and demoralization of slavery, with sore burdens of taxation home and foreign amounting in recent years to over 12,000,000 pesos ($7,200,000) annually; with the added cost of emancipation (some $13,000,000); with the losses and stagnation of defensive war and periodic hurricanes, and the disadvantages of illiter- acy and a state church—if with these burdens and only its natural resources and an agriculture represented by the singlestick plow for revenues, the island of Porto Rico could, as it has done, maintain itself free from insular indebtedness and lend millions to the mother country and its Antillean neighbors, what may not rightly be expected under the stimulus of American control and with intelligent development?” That questiorf, put forward with so much of prom- ising rhetoric, is one which only the future can answer. It is,undeniably trite the opportunities for the advancement of the laboring population of the island will be better than ever before, but it may be questioned whether anything that lightens the bur- dens of taxation upon them may not lead them to work even less than now, and to take more comfort than ever in the warmth of the sun and the abun- dance of bananas. According to the London Economist, party divis- ions in the Australian Senate show 13 Protectionists, 17 Free Traders and 6 Labor party men, while the House contains 32 Protectionists, 28 Free Traders and 15 Labor party men; so it appears that in the fight for control of the new Federal Government the Labor party has something like a deadlock on the Government if it choose to apply CARNEGIE AND THE SCOTCH. CCORDING to the London Chronicle all the A splutter in Scotland and elsewhere over the terms of Carnegie’s gift of millions to the Scottish universities has been based upon a miscon- ception due to the fact that the reports that have been given out concerning the gift were not author- ized and in some important respects are inaccurate. ~ The Chronicle says: “It appears that an understand- ing was come to by those to whom Mr. Carnegie has already sketched an outline of his scheme, that no communication should be made regarding it until the matter had assumed definite shape. This under- standing has been violated, and the unfortunate result is that a very misleading, because partial, account of the scope of Mr. Carnegie’s gift has been published. Mr. Carnegie has in view a much Wider scheme of benefiting Scotch education than that of making free education to Scottish university students, and when the full facts are published it will be recognized that no harm whatever will be done to the extramural schools.” From that statement it seems those who feared Mr. Carnegie would, cause the Scotch universities to be crowded with more students than they can fake care of, and would inflict humiliation:upon the aristocracy of Scotland by providing free education for their sons, may now cease their hysterics and grow calm. They have not yet been so badly hurt as they thought. In fact, they may even have a chance to show their willingness to‘defray the cost of the education of their sons, for, as it is known that in his gifts to libraries in this country Mr. Carnegie has invariably required that the community benefited shall contribute largely to the library he endows or for which he constructs a building, it is quite probable that when the full terms of the gift are made known it will be found that the donor has accompanied his gift with the stip- ulation that the Scotch themselves do about as much for their universities as he proposes to do. e o . A New York expert has figured out that if the Sotuthern Pacific Railway Company should use oil in- stead of coal for fuel it would save at present prices $3,000,000 a year; but it may be that the calculator is an oil boomer. A MATTER OF SPELLING. NEWSPAPER is properly an educator, and A should be a well of English as undefiled as possible. While its columns may not always command approval of the purist in style and the critic in orthography, its failures are generally due to the circumstances and rigid requirements of the daily composition and preparation of the matter which they contain. Now here is the San Francisco Star improving the elegant leisure of a weekly paper in criticizing us, as follows: “Some Call man does not know how to spell sylvi- culture—‘the culture of forest trees for timber or other purposes'—but spells it ‘silviculture,” indicating some relation to silver.” 1 The Latin form of the word is spelled “silva,” and is so given by Webster, though by the same author- ity said to be also spelled “sylva.” The Century Dictionary gives it “silva—misspelled sylva, in imperfect imitation of the Greek word.” | The same authority gives “sylviculture—properly silviculture.” Professor Henry S. Graves, director of the Pinchot School of Forestry in Yale, always uses the form silviculture, as does “The Forester,” the official organ of the American Forestry Associa- tion. We desire to make no orthographical assault upon the State of Pennsylvania, but are of the opinion that if the scholars were now called upon to name Penn’s woods they would change the y to i. Will the Star twinkle some more upon the subject? — Since enterprises have been undertaken both in England and in Germany to construct and operate elegtric railways to carry passengers at the rate of 100 miles an hour, the New Yorkers hope to have a line that will connect them with Philadelphia at an equal rate of speed, and thus enable them to have their homes in a decent town while continuing to do business in the metropolis. ‘ A recent dispatch from St. Petersburg announces that at the French embassy at that court there has just been given a “brilliant state dinner which lasted forty minutes”; so they must have acquired some- thing of an American gait over there. —_— If the Justices of the Supreme Court intend during the holidays to read all that is written about their de- cisions in the island cases they won’t have much time to attend baseball games or to make a record as fishermen. The Ohio men who are said to have started a movement to boom Foraker for President in 1904 are probably doing it just from the habit of keeping m:Ohiamn qmdeck. and ready for.the emergency. Relation of American In a previous article the writer has made somc suggestions regarding the study of art in women's clubs. It may not be amiss to add a few words on the relation of wo- men’s clubs to the cause of municipal art and to artistic advance in general. An art club which has got anything out of its study will endeavor to be helpful in its community. It is not in the nature of things that a group of intelligent persons should read and think and write on lines esthetic for years without developing a desire to make their surroundings more beautiful. That more is not accomplished, or at least undertaken, is due to lack of intelligent guidance. The gentle students of art history do not realize that they can help the living art of to-day. Yet had they faith in themselves or in the value of their pursuit their influence might become great. In France even the smallest cities have their local art museums. These institu- tions, with their objects of beauty and of historic interest, are a part of the national tradition and potent factors in the lives of an alert, beauty loving people. What a boon would be a collection of the sort in each of our larger towns! Given a score of good paintings, as many casts, a hun- dred autotypes and a few choice etchings and engravings, free of access to rich and poor alike—why, the stimulating influence of such a place would be second only to that -of tne village library. Some, of course, find such things meaningless, but to others they would be a constant Joy. And those who need them would be léd unerringly to them. Forming an Art Museum. No art circle is too small to stand sponsor for a museum of this kind. The “art gallery’” may seem very visionary and far removed in the perspective of time, but there is no reason why a tenta- tive collection should not be inaugurated at once. It may not overflow a single portfolio in several seasons, but even there, between the pasteboard covers, it is a nucleus and an incentive. If the club is poor its little museum may begin as a mere pictorial adjunct to its library, con- sisting of ‘‘half-tones”, clipped from magazines _and pasted upon cardboard or linen. Then will come photographs, followed soon by the *“Copley prints,” il- lustrating the best of American art, and the famous Braun autotypes of European masterpieces. The Art Institute of Chi- cago has 18,000 of these, presented by gen- erous Dr. Pearsons; Kansas City has an admirable selection and every art museum | in the country purchases them as its | means may permit. They are far more satisfactory than the usual painted copies of great pictures. (Copies should, as a rule, be sedulously avoided unless they have the approval of an artist of stand- ing.) Autotypes are expensive, costing in this country $4 each (large size, $15). A small club will not buy many in a year, but to select and purchase them, even one at a time, is well worth while—indeed, it h;‘ the way to get the most good out of them. In the study of modern French paint- ing and sculpture aids are abundant and inexpensive. Girandon and many others sell good photographs .of, the treasures of ;he Louvlre and‘ the A.Luxgmb‘(:‘:lgg {(ol{le-t’ ranc or less api per or Raffaelli, on ul B;bois or Rodin, may be made doubly interesting through the ald of a few P otographs taken di- rectly from the original works. Art in Public Libraries. Certain _clubs in the West have been farsighted enough to make friends with their local lbrary boards, and in the building of new libraries have profited greatly. All over our country these hand- some buildings are springing up, and every one of them should be crowned with a skylighted exhibition hall. This is easily incorporated while the plans are matur- ing, but may be unattainable at any other time. Before the roof is on the building the proffers of donatiors will begin to come in. It is well to have an art committee se- lected early in the day, from among those best informed, which shall sit in judgment upon all works offered. If one or more of its members come as experts from another city the effect is all the better. Let it be understood that their judgment is final and impersonal, and a great deal of fric- tion may be avoided. It will be a work of years to fill the hail with choice paintings and sculptures and it is a great advaniage to move with de- liberation, but exhibits may be inaugurat- ed from the first. There is no need of waiting for a collection of Claude Monets or of Dagnan-Bouverets! Have a loan ex- hibition of family treasures, good and bad. Really, it will be all the more in- structive if some are bad. Later invite the local genijuses and the teachers of oil painting to show their wares here side by side. This will be instructive, too, and there will be helpful study and compar- ison. The school children may be counted upon to furnish one interesting show. They will provide the interest, also. Then “picked-up” collections of old engravings, etchings, “‘types of beauty,” reproductions of favorite masterpicces, amateur photog- raphy, etc., may be devised with a little ingenuity and a great deal of work. Exhibits of Contemporaneous Art. All of these diversions lead up to the thing most desired—exhibits of contempo- raneous paintings and sculptures. To ob- tain these in the smaller places is a prob- lem of importance, since all this fervid study of art is of little avail unless ac- companied by ‘‘laboratory practice” with the real thing. We came pretty near solv- ing the problem successfully in the exper- iment of the Central Art Association which undertook some years ago to send out circulating exhibits among the smaller citles of the West. The artists were sur- “prisingly accommodating and the people -were enthuslastic, but just when a sea- son’s experience had demonstrated that a caretaker to accompany the show was in- dispensable the hard times struck the country and the clubs, while still most eager to have the pictures, declined one and all to pay for the attendant. Some day the art departments of the Federation of Women’s Clubs will carry, their work still further and accomplish what was then merely sketched. Backed by the or- ganized strength of the clubs they can Feadily set in motlon a system of inter- change of collections of good art. Offer- ing the hospitality of fireproof, well-light- ed galleries and the bait of an occasional sale, they will find the response of the artists cheerful and abundant. The suc- cess of such an experiment will depend largely upon the intelligence of the per- son In charge, whose care it should be to superintend_every detail of packing, un- packing and hanging, and who should be possessed of sufficient taste to arrange and light the collection properly. If the same individual could introduce the work to the public by means of bright little talks on the paintings and their authors the value these exhibits would be greatly enhanced. A man or woman able: to do all these things well would be worth a good salary. but if enough clubs unite they can afford to employ the best talent and to command the finest works of art. A Sample of What Can Be Done. The annual exhibition held in Lincoln, Nebr., demonstrates what may be done when the work is in the right hands. The holiday show of the Nebraska Art Asso- ciation, held in a beautiful gallery of the library building of the State Unlveragy, is & se to every visitor. It included this_year not only important works by our Eastern painters, like Chase, Curran, Harrison, Childe Hassam, Ochtman, etc., but also characteristic canvases bysflxeh up-to-date celebrities of Paris as on, Pinto. These f B e va oiliies (s o Mlini petntiogs are always o lef r painting ome. to the Pitab Phey. will urg exhibit; let them travel farther under proper guaranties. - It becomes, then, oniy a question of combining. A well organi circuit cuts the individual expense down to a fraction. The permanent collection will then itions. i i PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPIGS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. . Women’s Clubs to the Great Cause of Municipal Art and General Artistic Progress. By Lorado Taft. OF THE CHICAGO ART INSTITUTE AND THE MUNICIPAU ART LEAGUE. COPYRIGHT, 1901. XVI.-WOMEN’S C LUBS AND ART. afford choice of many works and in this very choice—in the process of trying to seléct a good picture—lies an invaluable aid toward artistic education. The men- tal exercise alone is worth the price of the picture. Every sale helps, too, the next exhibition; the assured purchase of one or more paintings each year is the best inducement in the world to artists. They wills favor that kind of an exhibit with their choicest canvases. As things are at present our painters expect paironage from only the largest cities. While smaller places in this coun- try often show a higher average of both wealth and culture, they are not picture markets. Their art-loving citizens seem to have little confidence in their own judgment and buy only foreign paintings, through picture, dealers. Our Chicago artists sell at home and in other large cities. I do not recall a purchaser in years from ‘“down in the country,’ though Illinois and Wisconsin, Indiana ard lowa are rich in beautiful and lux- urious homes. The opening up of new centers of art trade in the towns would give a great impulse to production in the studios. A widespread effort like that made by the Chicago Art Association in recent years would do a world of good ond result in a veritable boom in Ameri- can art. Collections of Sculpture. That these galleries which my fancy is building should ever purchase original works of sculpture is too great a fight for a wary imagination, but with piaster casts as cheap as they are there-is no rea- son why our halls should not be adorned by some of the best things ever shaped by the sculptor’s chisel. The matchless frieze of the Parthenon can be bought for 31 a foot. Venus de Milo and Hermes will lend you their serene beauty at a nominal price. This is not the place for a hist of suitable casts, but the writer would like to repeat here a suggestion offered in an | article of some months since: “Why du- plicate all of the old casts in all of the new collections? Would it not be better to work on the plan of the great libraries of Chicago and other cities, where, aside from the books in universal demand, each has its specialty and is rich in its partic- | ular field? Why, then, should not our art clubs of nearly contiguous cities develop special flelds of research? While not neg- lecting the universities and while actively promoting native art, they could bring to- gether historic collections worth traveling miles to see, Art and Public Monuments. From indoor sculpture the step to monu- mental art is a short one. If the art ciubs would use their influence to have all pub- lic decorations censored by experts they would by this act alone justify their ex- | istence. The military monuments and other works of alleged sculpture in most of our smaller cities are inexpressibily bad. To stem the tide of stock statuary which is spreading over our enthusiastic if mis- guided land were in itself a great con- tribution to artistic well-being. But the clubs with their resourses of knowledge and influence can not only eliminate the meretricious, but will be impelled to ef- ferts for positive improvements. Here in Chicago, with our polluted at- mosphere and dirty streets, the cluhsJ have had to go back of the beginning even and preach cleanliness before adorn- | spoken for clean streets and a clear sky | up of | ment. The Municipal e as a necessity before the setti statuary and the exhibition of mural paintings. In many smaller towns these particular handicaps of ours are not known, but everywhere in the West at least there is room for “landscape archi- tecture,” for the planting of trees and shrubs, for the reclaiming of vacant lots and for the introduction of flower beds | and fountains. The women’'s clubs are| bound to be leaders in all of these good works and above all should keep in touch with professional authorities upon such subjects. When the time is ripe for ac- tion they must not only know héw to do, | but how to guide others. In the civic house-cleaning now in prog- ress in Chicago the women's clubs have | formed a league for promoting public sen women h: vices as street inspectors; they have en- | listed and even organized the school chil- dren in certain districts to clean up and | keep clean the streets and alleys; above all, they are preaching everywhere the doctrine of personal responsibility, the greatest thing in life. They are planting trees in neglected streets and filling yards and window boxes with bloom where erst- | while was only dirt and squalor. Later they will make our new small parks de- lightful little oases in the arid desert of a city. They will bank them with shrub- bery and sprinkle them with flowers, while here and there will be scatte: fountains and beautiful statues; subjects that will do the tired eyes good, figures of grace, and other sturdier forms sug- gesting the glorification of labor, cheer- ful, hopeful workers in various industries, Memorials of Our History. Here as_well as in the smaller cities there need be no hurry about erecting stulues to Dante and Shakespeare. They are resting comfortably. make it our first business to set up me- morials to those whose lives are associ- ated with the neighborhood and who have ‘deserved well of their fellow men. ‘What_ our country lacks is associations, a background of memories. Let, then, a periion at least of our art have signifi- cance. Mark the footsteps of the explor- ers. Raise a memorial where the in- ventor has brooded into realization his bereficent thought; where the author has nned his_helpful lines. On the court- ouses of Illinois let there be tablets to tell us “Here spoke Lincoln.” - There should be 'a record of the spot where Grant took command of his regiment, where our other great men were born, have lived and died. In these ways art becomes woven into the very life and his- tory of our ‘)leople; the statue or bust is beloved as the man, and we W culti- vated in the finer things of life as one takes possession of an inheritance. In all of this the women’'s clubs are destined to plaf a leading part. Men may dos the actual labor, but it is the women Who will demand it, who will say when and how it is to be done and who will see to it that it is done. All this study of art Let us rather | PERSONAL MENTION. W. E. Woolsey of Santa Rosa is at the Occidental. ©O. O. Webber, District Atorney of So- noma County, s stopping at the Lick. C. S. Griswold of Boston, Mass, is stop- ing at the Occidental. E. W. Allen, a wealthy frult-grower of San Jose, is at the Lick. Mrs. E. L. Barber and daughter, of Ohio are guests at the Occidental. W. G. Muster, a banker and capitalist of Indlanapolls, is registered at the Grand. Dr. W. J. Northrup, a prominent physt- clan of Portland, Or., is a guest at the Occidental. 0. J. Lowery, a prominent mining man of Redding, is making his headquarters at the Grand. C. W. Alnsworth of Des Moines, Towa, accompanied by his wife, is registered at the Grand Hotel. J. P. Churchill, a prominent business man of Yreka, accompanied by his wife, is a guest at the California. Rev. T. P. Heverin, formerly of Oakland but now an instructor in the University of Washington, is visiting in this city. G B W i R R CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 4.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: San Francisco—J4 A. Dowling, at Mur- ray Hill; L. Dusenberg and wife, at Savoy; C. P. Heininger, at Broadway Central; L. B. McMurphy, at Herald Square; L. A. Phillips, C. S. Young, at Imperial; Mrs. Farnham, at St. Denis; Mrs. P. Joslyn, at Imperial; F. W. Wake- field, at Park Avenue; Mrs. H. Wether- Dbee, at St. Denis; C. W. Frankel, at Ven- lome. Los Angeles—J. H. Brady and wife, at Hoffman; A. C. Kennedy, at Herald Square. San Jose—D. Palmer, at Gilsey. —_—e———————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, June 4—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: Raleigh—W. J. Currier, California. Shoreham—Mrs. S. K. Hunt, San Fran- cisco. 'Riggs—S. H. Herman, San Fran- cisco. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. CHURCH PROFPERTY—Sub, Burlin- | game, Cal. Church property is not taxed | in Brooklyn, N. Y. GALLOWS HILL—A. O. 8, City. Gal- { lows Hill, upon which eight persons were ! hanged for witcheraft in 1692, is in Salem, Mass., according to “Notable Towns of } New England.” WIDOW'S PENSION— . City. There is no law to prevent “a soldler ai: - charged from the United States army from marrying at any time.” In case of { his death his widow would be entitled to {a pension if her husband in his lifeime was entitled to one. 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