The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 27, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CGAL . WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1901. WEDNESDAY.............NOVEMBER 27, 190t JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress All Commeunications to W. 8. LEAKE, Marajer. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 ISPV PUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. . EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copiex, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. $6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), ¢ months. 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month &5 SUNDAY CALL, One Year.. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Year. 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscrfbers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. 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A Columbia—""On the Quiet. nd Opera AUCTION SALES. By 1. J. Doyle—This day, at 11 o'clock, Horses and Mares, 327 Sixth street WITTMAN'S GOOD WORK. HIEF OF POLICE WITTMAN has begun his career in his new office by taking ener- steps toward the suppression of pool- ng so he has naturally aroused the an- e who profit by gambling and also of He therefore merits and should have the cordial support of all good citizens. 1g the attacks of the yellow journal little i be said. That paper began by charging the f with a neglect to ress gambling, and now is engaged in an effort to suppress it the im more \'igor0u§1y than ever. Fortu- C b he r assails t the Chief has nothing to expect from the that paper, neither has he anything to fear. understand the situation, and bad men be opposed to any officer who sought to put an end to icious practices, It is well known that a good deal of pool-selling is carried on secretly under the mask of cigar-selling. To discover these secret offenders and to prevent them from violating the law it has been found neces- to exercise a police supervision over the cigar trade genera The supervision is of course more or Jess annoying to legitimate dealers, but they can well afford to bear the slight annoyance for a time for the sake of benefits which will accrue from it. For a long legitimate trade has suffered from the com- on of men who maintain cigar stands and shops v as a mask for selling pools. As their profits re derived from pool-selling they were able to draw away much of the trade that should have gone to honest and bona-fide dealers. The suppression of the illegitimate branches of the trade will therefore tend tp promote the welfare of the honest business. While the supporters of gambling and pool-selling are in many respects contemptible, it must not be overlooked that they constitute a considerable force in the community. Many a poor dupe who wastes in pool-buying the earnings of his labor will still side with the rascals who rob him rather than with the Jaw that seeks to save him. In order that the per- ous influence of the sharpers and their dupes may unteracted the resolute strength of rightful pub- lic opinion should be exerted. Chief Wittman should not be left to make this fight alone. Every man who respects law and morality, who knows anything of he evils that flow trom pool-selling, should stand h the Chief and earnestly support him in his ef- forts to suppress the sources of the evil. There is hardly any vice that is more destructive to the morals of a community than gambling. It .cor- rupts every faculty of heart and brain. It leads to freud, to drunkenness, to crime and to suicide. .Its enticements appeal most stronglg to the young, and many of its unf Qa\'e hardly arrived i men sary time th pet i fortunate victims at the age of manhood. The profits gained from the nefarious trade by those who carry it on are enor- mous, and not infrequently they are gained from money which the victim has stolen from his employer. Over and over again San Francisco has had to make a fight in the interests of morality against this evil. Now we have at the head of the police force a Chief who has gone about the work of suppression in the right way. Let him have the public support which he deserves and he will win, despite all the pool-sellers may do or thei llow ally may publish. The Empress Dowager of China has issued an edict ordering her subjects to promptly erect a memorial to Li Hung Chang, and we shall now see whether they will manage it any sooner than the United States will manage to construct the national memorial to McKinley. Of course we are a much swifter people than the Chinese, but then sometimes an imperial order starts a movement quicker than an appeal for subscriptions. Since women themselves have not been able to bring about a dress reform in the dirgction of getting rid of the long skirts that sweep the pavement, a New Jersey statesman proposed to help them along by the enactment of a law prohibiting any woman from wearing on the street a skirt that does not clear the ground by at least two inches, | TROUBLE FOR THE COMBINE. HE Governor of Minnesota is first in the field Tagainst the Westérn railway combine. He an- nounces that if there is at present enough Min- nesota law to keep the Northern Pacific and Great Northern cut of the combine he will at once invoke it, and if there is not enough he will call the Legisla- ture in special session to make some more.\ It is an interesting evidence of the uncertainty as to the law felt by the engineers of the combimation that their stocks fell off largely as scon as this news came from St. Paul. If the Governor proceed we may expect a period of expensive litigation over the legal issue, for what Minnesota may do other States may, and the granger agitation of thirty years ago may have an acute revival. .The growth of American railways has been on- ward, not on the-ine of least resistance, but always on that of the greatest. Beginning in 1828, when the pioneer road, the Baltimore and Ohio, was started, the first difficulty encountered was incident to secur- ing right of way. The present method of condemna- tion by use of the right of eminent domain was then unthought of. The projectors of a railway could not run their random lines across country, selecting grade and way and terminal points, and condemning all right of way for which they could not ba"gaim If they came to the line of a stubborn land-owner who would not sell their project must be abandoned or changed. Had there been no alternative to the plan of priwate purchase for right of way it is safe to say that the system of American roads would never have been created. One needs to go back to the political and legal literature of the country from 1828 to 1851 to learn that the “octopus” is not a new monster in American politics and law. When it was proposed to use the right of eminent domain and condemn right of way the excitement was general and many good people were convinced that liberty was at an end. In New Hampshire and other States parties were - dis- rupted by it, but everywhere a few enterprising citi- zens firmly stood by progress, and the condemnation laws were passed by State after State and were firmly embedded in American law by the decisions of the courts. From the beginning of construction in 1828 by 1835 there were in operatibn 1098 miles. Two years later New York harbor and Philadelphia were connected by rail. communication, and the next year Albany and Buf- ralo were connected, and Philadelphia reached the coal fields by construction of the Reading line. The panic of 1837 and lack of money for such investments were seriously felt, and by 18435 there was a slacking off. In 1848 to 1851 the settlement of the right of way problem removed one great difficulty, and in 1848 Boston and New York were connected. In 1851 the Hudson River line was built between New York and Albany, and that year our total rail mileage was go2r1. In 1860 it was 36,625; in 1870, 52,922; in 1830, 93,262; in 1890, 166,653; and by 1809 it had reached the grand total of 191,310 miles, or nearly equal to the combined rail mileage of all the rest of the world. As the mileage increased rates of transportation fell. During the seventeen years ending 1898 the re- ductions in freight rates saved to the shippers on the tonnage hauled the vast sum of $3,802,000,000, or one- third the value of all the stocks and bonds of = the roads. The rate reductions in one year, 1897-08, amounted to a saving to the public of $44,267,874. In the same period passenger rates fell 21 - per cent. From 1882 to 1808, inclusive, railway mileage increased 92 per cent and passenger travel only 83 per cent. In that period the reduction in rates to the number of passengers hauled amounted to $645,624,- 777- So in the seventeen-year period the savings to the people on passengers and freight by reductions in rates aggregated $4,447,624,777. During that periad the highest interest paid on the railway bonded debt of the country was 7.77 per cent, and the highest divi- dend on railway stocks was 2.91 per cent. We have not at hand the mileage of the roads in the Western combine, nor their gross and net earnings per mile, but they have been participants in the re- ductions of the seventeen-year period to the extent of their operation during that time. Now they are to pass through a period of violent antagonism before they will be permitted to show that by virtue of the economy of combination they can increase dividends without raising rates. The people will never know the virtue or the vice of the combination until oppor- tunity is furnished for this demonstration. e ——— POLITICAL PROVIDENCE. HAT worthy guild the Women’s Christian I Temperance Union has just been holding its an- nual conventicle at Fort Worth, Texas. Repre- sentatives were present from many countries, and. the memory of the devoted founder of the order, Miss Willard, was abundantly honored in the number, in- telligence and zeal of her followers who gathered there. On the Sunday that came during the sessions the thirty-four pulpits of the city were filled by preach- ing ladies, whose sermons were heard with atten- tion by crowded congregations. Members‘of all sects were in evidence. The Methodist Episcopal church South was filled to listen toa Unitarian, and a Meth- odist filled a Presbyterian pulpit. Southern sentiment was represented by Mrs. Hoge of Virginia and Miss Belle Kearny of Mississippi, and the voice of England was raised for righteousness, temperance and the judgment to come by Miss Christine Tenling of Lon- don. The star sermon of this great day seems to have been preached by Miss Greenwood of New York in the Christian tabernacle. Her subject was, “Preach- ing the Gospel,” and she seems to have taken an_ armed excursion into politics, a sort of punitive ex- pedition. To this there is no objection. Interest in public affairs is one of the strong and strengthening peculiarities of American women. They vote in four States, and in one of these, Colorado, have taken up office holding with an energy which makes the tyrant man stand still with surprise, while they pass him in the race. They carry into Colorado politics an in- fluence which will command respect, though at pres- ent their status is somewhat misunderstood. In the last city convention in Denver they were present as delegates, and manipulated things as skillfully and as cleanly as they would dough on the kneading board. In the same convention man was present in all his variety, and among them was a ward boss, who indulged in a freedom of off color expression that was so offensive that one of the ladies said: “You forget that we are ladies.” The captain of hundreds looked at her in surprise and replied: “—— are yees ladies? I tought ye was diligates.” But to return to Fort Worth and Miss Greenwood. She gave the American male politician a pickling that he will not soon forget, and in the course of the operation said: “Politicians strove to make Theodore Roosevelt Vice President that they might remove him as Governor of New York, in the hope that they would no_longer be hindered 4n their-wicked work, | talk of a reduction Ir 1841 Bostcn and Albany were put in rail | presented to it will carry n‘pmo'p i ‘to something lik 000,000, s0 it and behold, a’ most signal and disastrotis revéysal of their plans. Rodsevelt, a man of destiny, becomes President, while his successor, Governor Odell, de- velops ability to rise above aims and standards of | machine politicians. History emphasizes the exact- ness of God’s justice.” Now, we suppose that this ought to be referred to Senator Platt as a committee of the whole, but comment may be made in advance of that parlia- mentary disposition of it. It has not heretofore been thought that Providence takes such an interest in ew York politics as to secure the murder of Presi- dent McKinley in order to rebuke Senator Platt by the elevation of the Vice President. We aregin doubt that' President Roosevelt takes that view of it. His ming perhaps is more finite than that of the inspired Miss Greenwood, and being so, if impressed with the wickedness of Serator Platt he would doubtless drop a hint to Providence to get in and convert that Senator from his wicked ways instead of killing Mec- Kinley. Why it should be considered a more con- genial job for Providence to kill McKinley than to soften the Reart of Platt and the politicians is what no man can explain. Nor is it explained why Providence takes a hand in New York politics and not in Pennsylvania. Why should Senator Quay flourish like the bay tree and Platt wither like the fig tree when attention was called to its barrenness? Why also should the Rev. Mr. Swallow, the head of Quay’s foes and temperance leader of his State, be just turned out of the Meths odist pulpit for falsehood? Perhaps ‘it shows the danger of having Providential politics in only one State and leaving the other forty-four to shift for themselves. Miss Greenwood is of the opinion that this “Hi tory emphasizes the exactness of God's justice.” B; still it is left greatly dark to the carnal mind why McKinley was by that justice condemned to a cruel death, in order to admonish Platt to the better selec- tion of fourth-class postmasters! If that infinite jus- tice works so indirectly, to the carnal mind again it appears to be an inferior article to our ordinary brand of domestic justice. The latter aims at the punishment of the guilty and the protection of the innocent. It would let McKinley, the good man, live out his days in honor and peace, and would indict the wicked poli- ticians by the Grand Jury of the district and send them to Sing Sing. By the carnal analysis of this matter, both Presi- dent Roosevelt and Governor Odell need to sleep with one eye open, for are they not good men, and do not the wicked still go up and down the earth seeking whom they may devour? Is there not danger that the further admonition of the bad may require the killing of both President and Governor, in order to emphasize the divine plan as divulged at Fort Worth? THE SUPPRESSION OF NEWS. N Associated Press dispatch from Chicago, A published in The Call of yesterday, gave a re- port of statements made in that city by three members of the Yukon Department of Public Works concerning the conspiracy to capture Dawson, of which the first information was given to the world by The Call. Mr. Maynard, who acted as principal spokesman for the Yukon party, stated: “We expect to proceed to Ottawa at once and will have a consul- tation with the high Government authorities about conditions in the territory. This trouble may assume an international phase, because so many members of the secret military order are Americans and we can- not try them for treason.” The dispatch stated that the Yukon officials had stopped at Chicago for the purpose of consulting with certain capitalists of that city who have large in- terests in Yukon Territory. The White Pass and Yukon Railway is largely owned by American capital and its main office is in Chicago. The owners of the road, along with many other American capitalists, are of course greatly interested in the conditions of the country, and the reported conspiracy is a matter of almost as much concern to them as to the Cana- dians themselves. That important item of current news, affect- ing large financial as well as political interests, was sent out by the Associated Press, the greatest news- gathering agency in the world, to all papers entitled to its service. ‘It was therefore réceived by our morn- ing contemporaries as well as by The Call, and yet neithed of them published it. Despite the fact that the report was furnished by the Associated Press, that it gave ample authority for its statements, and that it carried upon its face evidence of its value as a part of the news of the day, it was deliberately suppressed. Just what reasons induced our contemporarie§ to ignore such statements made by Canadian officials concerning the conspiracy must be left to conjecture. It is not likely they will attempt to explain. The fact that The Call had been first to publish the story may, however, have had something to do with their desire to suppress anything which confirmed'it. It would seem that in their judgment it is better to suppress the news than to admit that anothef has been first to obtain it. It will be remembered that a similar practice of suppression of news was practiced by the Examiner with respect to wireless telegraphy after the great feat of The Call in making use of it to report the arrival of the transport bringing home the California Vol- unteers from Manila, and the success with which The Call and the New York Herald used it in réporting the international yacht race. For a time the Exam- iner ridiculed the idea that witeless telegraphy is a possibility. When experiment after experiment at last confirmed the neW system of telegraphy beyond any question, then the Examiner ignored the whole thing. For a long time it would not publish Associ- ated Press dispatches giving reports of the results of governmental experiments with it. At last, however, the yellow journal had to admit wireless telegraphy and publish information concerning progress in its use. Something of the same kind will happen in this case. When The Call first published the great story of the conspiracy one of our contemporaries ignored it, while the other ridiculed it. Now they find them- selves compelled to enter upon a policy of suppressing the news in order to avoid confirming the story. Perhaps the alternative is not disagreeable to a fake . journal, but to a legitimate newspaper editor the adoption of a policy which entails the suppression of important news must be very annoying. _ i e Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland, the great re- former who hopes to become President some day, has made a new reform movement in Cleveland by pro- hibiting turkey raffles, {hich are so popular during the holidays, and perhaps if he were President he would try to prohibit Thanksgiving. Sy i i) * Congress has not et assembled, but it is already estimated that the river and harbor bill which will be ODD FELLOWS’ ORPHANS’ HOME TO BE RECIPIENT 'GRAND minstrel entertainment ‘will be given Friday night in As- sembly Hall, Odd Fellows’ build- ing, for the benefit of the Odd Fellows’ Orphans’ Home, in Gil- roy. The affair is under the auspices of the, following lodges of the Rebekahs of district No. 5, of whick Mrs. Floy C. Urquhart is the deputy; California No. 1, Templar No. 17, Oriental No. %, Amity No. 161, Loyal No. 225 and Jubilee No. 239 The home was built about three years 3 4— ago on a tract of land in Gilroy that was donated to the Ndd Fellows by Mrs. Caro- line. A. Hoxett. The various lodges of the State have by voluntary contributions maintained the home, but there has been such a demand upon jts capacity that it has been found necessary to make addi- tions, which involved a considerable out- lay of money. To help in the good cause all the Rebekah lodges of the jurisdiction conferred to devise ways to ralse the needed means. The lodges of San Fran- cisco have contributed their share, being greatly interested in the home de- cided to give a district entertainment and call upon their friends in and out of tane order to help. T:aose who have been most active In the work are Mrs. Floy C. Ur- quhart, district deputy; Mrs. Alma I. Jen- sen, marshal of California Assembly; Mrs. Allie Parker, commanding the San Francisco Rebekah Drill Corps; Thiza Crossman, Sarah Crawford, Hattie Fenn, Minnie Homeyer, Adiie Clevenger, Flor- ence Giovanessi, Abble Ewing, Ada Burn- heimer, Lizzie Braley. Minnie Dobbins, Lizzie B. Holcomb, Hzlen Larrimer, Liz- zie C. Watson and Cnristine Anderson, who compose the gencral committee of arrangements. The following members of the Rebé¢kah but’ OF BENEFIT ment, twenty of them forming part of the chorus: Mesdames J. Haas, Minnie Homeyer, Maud Timbrell, Stych, Osthoff, Minnie Robinson, Lulu Perry, and Misses Mattie Webb, Mabel Williams, Olivia Pollock, Grace Bray, Birdie Field, Emma Arison, Edith Heptrum, Ada Laurence, Alvena Schuessel, Kate Detenhoft, Annie Baker, E. M. Archer, Abble Ewing, Gertie Wimmer, Jennie Wright, Bertha Baker, Agnes Urquhart. The, programme for the evening iIs as g I A | ) . *& REBEKAHS WHO ARE ACTIVE IN THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE GRAND MINSTREL SHOW TO BE GIVEN FRIDAY NIGHT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ODD FELLOWS ORPHANS' HOME. g s follows: Opening; entire company and ladies’ chorus; “Coon’s Paradise,” “Baby Mine,” “Lucy My Lucy Lu,” “Miss Clementina™; bones, W. W. Brackett, < Arthur Fletcher; tambos, C. M Freed, R. M. Barkdr; interlocutor, George K. Cheney; “One Hundred Fathoms Deep,” Carl- ton; “There's No Use of Asking Cause You Know the Reason Why,” Clarence M. Freed: “For You,” F. A. Griffing; “The English Coon Rose,” Joseph Fisher; chorus, “Fly, Fly, Fly'"; Lloyd Spencer, bones; Elton Lambert, tambo; refined song and dance, Arthur Fletcher: My Sunbeam Lu,” Master Melville Calish: “They Gave Me a Medal for That,” Liloyd Spencer; “‘The Trumpeter’s Song™ (from the “Firebrand’), F. Figonl: “Run, Chicken, Run,” Elton Lambert; finale, “Why Don’t the Band Play?’ participated in by Messrs. Spencer, Lambert, Freed, Fletcher and Cheney. lodges will take part in the entertali- Song,’ *Billy” Brackett; “‘American Beauty Dancing will follaw the entertainment. L e e e S 2 e S e ] ANSWERS TO QUERIES. |CLUB WOMEN PERSONAL MENTION. ONE OF 1843—Reader, City. No pre- mium is offered for five dollag pleces of 1843. b CENTRAL AMERICA-D. 8. S, City. The Central America was wrecked off Cape Hatteras September 11, 1857. FRANK MAYO—O. T. G., City. Frank Mayo, actor, died suddenly on a train ‘between Denver, Culg., and Omaha, Nebr., June 8, 18%. QUAIL SEASON—Subscriber, City. In Alameda County the close season for quail is from February 1 to October 1; in San Mateo the quail season opens No- vember 1 and closes December 1. DIEFENDORF—J. 8. G. City. The name of Diefendorf as a victim of stran- gulation in the latter part of the year 1900 or the ‘early part of 1901 does not ap- pear in the index of The Call. CEMETERIES—Sub and L. E. 8., City. Burials in Calvary and the Masonic cem- eteries were discontinued September 14, 1901, the cemetery authorities not making any contest of the ordinance. The Laurel Hill Cemetery obtained an injunction un- til the Odd Fellows' Cemetery case was determined. HALF DOLLARS-I. 8. Sacramento, Cal. The only half dollars that command a premium are those coined in 1794, 1796, 1797, 1801, 1802, 1815, 1836 (without E Pluribus Unum over eagle and letters on edge), 1838 (with O over date), 1852 and 1853 (with- out arrow heads at date or rays around the eagle.) OKLAHOMA TERRITORY—J. H. L., City. The Territory of Oklahoma was carved out of < Indian Territory, to which was ad “No Man's Land,” a strip 170 miles g and thirty-five miles wide, lylng between Texas on the south and Kansas and Colorado on the north, so called because not included in any State or organized Territory. This strip, with 5,439,815 acres in Indlan Territory purchased in 1889 for $4,193,799, was thrown open to settlement by proclamation of the President, April 22, 1889. More than 50,000 people entered the first day and the land was soon occupied. For about a year the people were without organized govern- ment, but early in 1890 the Territory of Oklahoma was created. section of territory known as the Cherokee strip was to be added as soon as the title of the Indians thereto should be extin- guished. In 1801 about 300,000 acres of land formerly belonging to the Sac and Fox, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians were thrown open to settlement and in 1893 the Cherokee strip ‘was ‘also opened. About 90,000 people en- tered this strip on the named by the President as the time for the opening of the lands. B Rogsn b CORONADO, cholcest Winter g g e DISCUSS SOME LIVE TOPICS SR There was an interesting meeting of the members of the San Franecisco district of the California Federation of Women's Clubs in the rooms of the Forum Club yesterday afternoon. Dolegates from tae varlous organizations in this city and vi- cirity were in attendance. Papers of vital interest werec read and commented upon. A programme of music was ren- dered and tea was served at the close pf the session. Mrs. Louise Weinman, chairman of the district, presided, and Mrs. Irving Moul- ton acted as temporary secretary. At the opening of the meeting Mme. Car- rington rendered an aria by Massenet, and for an encore sang “‘Swallows.” Em- yin Lewys was accomganist. A paper on civil service was read by Mrs. John Fritsch' of Petaluma. She gave the practical side of the questicn. In a short sketch she told how it now stands, how it has be«n reformed, and also dwelt on the consular system. Mrs. E. O. Smith of San Jose followed with a strong paper on the race question. She was of the opinicn that sentiment and prejudice shouldgpe left aside, and &ub policy alone shovid influence dele- gates In their ttand upon this vital sub- ject. Mrs. George Haight followed with a paper on the same subject. Her argu- ments were forceful. £he spoke strongiy in favor ofat: colored race, and urged the setting aside of personality in clubs as with individuais. She quoted Dr. Ni- hener, who sald: “The colored man is fully as capable of receiving a higher education as is the white man.” R Native Sons’ Hall wiil be the scene of a brilllant gathering oa Friday evenirg. The La Jeunesse Cotilion Club will give its first party of the season, and judging by the preparaticns being made it will be the event of the month. Lieutenant Con- rad Babcock and (Ersign E. R. Milier, representing thc army and the navy, will lead the german. The hall will open at 9 o’clock and supper will be served at mid- night. The patronesses are: Mrs. Willlam H. Mills, Mrs. A. H. Voorhies, Mrs. Willlam MeKittrick, Mrs. John D, Spreck- els, Mrs. Eleanor Martin, Mrs. A. W. Foster of San Rafael, Mrs. McClung, Mrs. H. E. Hunt- ington and Mrs. Timothy Hopkins. R Thanksgiving day will a let one so far as society is mearn‘.od. q‘fll-:rvum in the ‘morning, the football game in the afternoon and home dinners will occupy the smart set. Colonel and Mrs. Willlam R. Smedberg, Mrs. George Wilcox Mclvor and Miss 1 iwhil. be siven next Saturday ‘W. H. Haiton, an attorney of Modesto, is at the Lick. C. Setdman, a merchant of Paso Robles, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Otis A. Pool, a well-known tea taster of Yokohama, is a guest at the Palace. @. W. Crystal, an extensive vineyardist of Vacaville, is a guest at the Grand. Dr. A. H. Sweeney, a prominent physi- cian of Fresno, registered at the Grand Yesterday. George S. Fuller, a prominent resident of San Diego, was among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday. Ben U. Steinman of Sacramento Iis spending a few days at the Palace, ac- companied by his wife and family. B. F. Dillingham, the owner of extensive rallroad interests at Honolulu, returned yesterday from the East, en route to the islands. —_———— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—The followirg Californians have arrived at the hotels: San Francisco—F. T. Stroh at the Impe- rial, K. C. Whitford at the Grand, K. Black at the Savoy, U. Martin and wife at the Astor, C. A. Westerbeck at the St. Denis. Los Angeles—R. L. Oak at the Broad- way Central. @ irinieinbeinieinle il it @ street, in honor of Captain and Mrs. W ' liam Renwick Smedberg Jr., U. 8. A., who were recently married in the East. o e e Mrs. General Warfleld will give a tea at the California Hotel next Saturday aft- ernoon. A number of debutantes will as- sist Mrs. Warfleld. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Charles will be delighted to learn that they have returned from a prolonged Eastern trip. RN L The members of the Entre Nous Cotillon Club have arranged their second german ,of the season. It wili be given in the new baliroom of the Palace Hotel. A number of original figures have been planned. Sanford G. Lewald will act as leader. Mrs. J. Bertz gave a tea yesterday aft- ernoon in honor of her daughter Grace's ent to Harry Mortensen. Thoe residence at 1326 Hayes street was pret- tily decorated with greens and cut flowers and red was effectively used in the dec- orations. = ‘Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. * Cholce candies. Townsend's, Palace Hotel* Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per b at T [ # f