The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 16, 1901, Page 5

"BLEK FOR STATE | JEFFERSTIS SO0 IS G SERICE J. R. Freud Addresses a Large Audience on Merit System. B 14 A Declares the City Must Own and Control All Pub- lic Utilities. PSR S Ly funicipal Civil Service was the sub- ect of an address delivered before a large udience last evening at the Metropolitan Temple by J. Ricks~d The speak- T in upholding tb . merif io ytem declared to be as demo atic American in sire and sent: ent the common chool system of Jucationgyet there was & false sentment existil in some who ributed to the civil service system omething that was aristocratic. There could be no greater fallacy, and as an in- ce the speaker illustrated the intelli- e and high capacity of letter carriers, of whom showed and proved their capability to obtain and hoid their re- ponsible offices. In the merit system was nothing that was complex, or terious or intricate. usiness men practiced it every day. the speaker said, when they demanded to know the fitness of those who sought em- ployment. They did not inquire into a man’s political opinions, but they his duties efficiently of a partisan character in the merit sys- tem. Politics was formidably against civil | service, he declared, and would crush it, ple were strenuously in its rew Jackson and Van Bu- ed the spoils system and n, Presidents, one after the condemned and deplored ap- s other than by merit. b f pointmen There w people held the destinies of a city in their hands as did the citizens of San Francisco, Mr. Freud declared. It necessary for them to uphold and further the merit system, which would assure them honesty and efficiency in office. Of late years things had changed somewhat and the olitical bosses had not the power they had in the past, yet California was slow 1o se clear on the subject. was a olitics.” The lecturer cited as instances of his e administration of the harbor. s and the prisons and remind- r that a doctor who had served the ate for twenty years had been turned out of office in the twinkling ugh politics. He hoped that ld scon have a State civil s has New York, Ilinois and r illustrated the advance- and, France, Ger- where municipalities and operated public utilities and red that the people of this city had for a similar municipal control. Copies of the great Christmas edi- tion can be obtained from all agents. newsdealers, newsboys and at the Businesg Office of this paper. e - Officers of Foresters’ Court. MONTEREY, Dec. 15.—Court Del Monte No. 47, Foresters of America, has elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: R. King, chief ranger; R. C. Sargent, ranger: F. J.' Kelley, senior Davia Miller, Ison, finan: de- | manded that he must be able to discharge | There was nbthing | It | State” given over to “spoils | | ever. | | | | | | sponsibility, s no place on earth where the | 15 INSUFFIGIENT Fails to Reach Father's Standard as Rip Van Winkle. Bl Theaters Are Preparing to Present Their Holiday Attractions. Not even the name of a Jefferson in connection with “Rip Van Winkle” served to attract the multitudes to the California Theater last night, nor to be- dazzle the slim audience that did make its appearance. It was not the great man himself, but Thomas Jefferson, his son that pictured the immortal “Rip, and that was perhaps what was the mat- ter with the audience, as well as with Mr. Jefferson himself. He is the son of a great man and is trying to fill a pair of shoes with a No. 6 foot. of the play has perhaps gone a medium for cramming houses, and en the ushers had the soft pedal on 1 nignt so far as applause was con- cerned, yet in “Rip” tnere is one of the shrewdest and most picturesque charac- ter studies ever conceived, the opportuni- ty of a lifetime for a player like Joe Jefferson. It is not his son's big chance, evidently, though the part is played agreeably by Mr. Jeferson. But it 1s a negative sort of conception, pitched in too low key and lacking in body and roundness. It is not sumciently _genial, not sufficiently tragic, not sufficiently anvthing, and though it is nothing that it should not be, Mr. Jefferson's Rip is by no means all that it should be. He has a modicum of all the necessary qualities, the dry, shrewd humor, the jovial irre- persuasive lovableness, the easy weakness of the village vaga- bond, but not enough of anv one of them. His work in the later scenes is his best and as the returned Rip, a broken old man, he comes out rather strongly. The comparnfy supporting Mr. Jefferson is one of the dustiest. Gretchen is cari- catured out of all recoggnition by Mar- garet Hayward, and the rest of the char- acters fare equally hard at the hands of the rest of the company. Eugene Brown as Meenie i{s a bright spot, how- the o R At the Columbia Theater Jefferson de Angelis will continue for a week more in the operatic success “A Royal Rogue.” De Angelis is a very amusing comic opera star and as he is surrounded by a lot of pable people the performance is one of strong interests. It will be given for the last time on Sunday night. Interest already being shown in the engagement of Mary Mannering in “Janice Meredith™ at the Columbia The- ater. The opening performance will take place next Monday night, and from pres- ent appearances the audience will be large and fashionable one. Miss Man- nering is one of our most beautiful and | talented stars and her play has proven brought here. eminently _successful. shown during t Wallacl Theater, The run of the piece New York, will at s . To-night the Tivoli Comic Opera,Com- | pany will return to the popular opera house and will present Ferri new Christmas extravaganza, “Little Red Riding Hood.” The fantasy is in Hart- man’s best style, breezy, up-to-date and full of good things. He has a part as King Fire that showld fit all his peculiarities without a wrinkle, and has provided the st of the company with roles that show them at their best. Miss Florence Chapman, who has the title role. is a newcomer, and said to be of tha very promising kind. Annie Myers will be Boy Blue, with all her customar: et | production | be | Hartman's | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1901. OME NOTABLE SOCIAL AFFAIRS OCCUR DURING PRESENT WEEK NEVER met another debutante who s— has such a thoroughly good time as Miss Kathryn Robinson. She is at the very top notch of happiness every time you see her. It is a standing joke among her girl friends that she has invariably just had “the time of her life.” She is asked everywhere. Never was a debutante more sought after, and it is not to be wondered at, for she is quite unconscious of her beauty, but ever bubbling over with de- light, and her frank, childlike enthusiasm is truly refreshing. Miss Robinson will give what she chooses to call “a little informal after- noon” next Sunday for the debutantes, and it is needles to say she has no idea of leaving out the men. . s e It will be a long time before San Fran- cisco will have such another tea as the one given by Mrs. Towne and Mrs, Wor- den last Saturday afternoon. Everything was perfectly appointed and showed every thoughtful consideration of the guests, who in return paid their hostesses th: compliment of looking their very best. When has there been such a display of jewels and laces at a tea before? he gowns, too, were superb. Mrs. Towne, with her usual modesty, wore an all-black gown of spangled tuile, a sim- ple mauve velvet flower in her hair being the only touch of color. Several hand- some diamond ornaments completed the toilet. Mrs. Worden’s gown was well chosen. It was of soft cream wool with exquisite Valenciennes lace and insertion. Her col- lar was solely of jewels—one row of large diamonds, two sirings of pearls and a small gold chain studded with d.amonds. One of the most ethereal gowns was the pale blue chiffon creation worn by Mrs. Fletcher F. Ryer, who assisted in receiv- ing. There were clouds of fllmy gauze that would almost have blown away but for the wealth of duchesse lace. 'There was a wide lace flounce at the ‘feet, and the bodice was also elaborately trimmed. Mrs. Henry J. Crocker wore a scylish gown of white brocaded satin and that | wonderful necklace of hers. It is a wide | collar—a trellis work of diamonds with a tiny diamond rosette at the corner of each square, and a pearl in the center of each, giving the effect of three strings of pearls and a number of rows of dia- monds. A new boa she wore was very much, admired. It was a_full, fluffy af- fair made of scores of white silk poppy petals, all fastened loosely together. 1 wonder if Mrs. E. R. Diamond knew how stunning she looked in that,elegant black satin cloak which she Has just brought from New York? It was long, with white revers all the way down the front. The broad collar and revers were | of rich Irish point lace over white satin. The bell sleeves turned back and showed the same white facings, The cloak fas- tened with four black velvet rosettes with rhinestone buttons in the centers. For this week we have the Preston- ter, Miss wena Burns' Mrs. Herrin's congenial role as Prince True Blue, Ed- | ward Webb is cast as one of the wicked barons he does so well, Harry Cashman will not be found wanting as Red Riding Hood's grandmother, and Harry Kava- nagh is the indispensable wolf of the cast. There are ballets, topical songs, bur- lesques and specialties of all kinds and a gorgeous transformation scene to cap the climax. sented. week. “The G: | The Grand Opera-house revives this week what has been one of the most popular revivals of the Empire Theater Company last season Sardou’s “Diplo- macy,” with Minnie Seligman as the Countess Zicka. Miss Seligman will be supported by the full strength of the Grand Opera-house stock company, in cluding Herschel Mayall as Henri Beau- clerc, William Bernard as_Count_Orloff and Laura Nelson Hall as Dora. This is | the third week of Miss Seligman’s season Convere, take play. day bill. Ames wedding, Miss Maude Cluff's lunch- eon for Miss Gertrude Jack, Mrs. James Otis’ tea for Mrs. Page and her daugh- Nokes’ XKane, the Campbell tea in honor of Mrs. Robert Campbell, Miss Mabel Hogg's de- but at a tea given by her mother at their Sacramento street home, Miss Ro- luncheon for Miss Jack, daunghter, Miss Kate, and the Christmas cotillon of the Fortnightly. | @ S T i e e 2 e 2 221 ) sprightliness. Arthur Cunningham has a and the most popular bill so far . “The Gay Mr. Lightfoot,” a new far- cical play by Louis de Lange and Lee Arthur, will serve to show the versatile Alcazar Company on its comedy side this ay Mr. Lightfoot” with the record of a long and_ successful run at the Bijou Theater, New York, and is said to be full of original wholesome humor, comical situations and fun of all kinds. Margaret Bacon, Marie Howe, Howard Scott and M. L. Alsop will be in the cast and will mple care of all there is in the ‘Charley’s Aunt” Melodrama gives way to farce at the Central this week. when the evergreen “Muldoon’s Picnic” will go on. ing to a custom becoming popular with the Central Theater, tea for Miss Mabel tea to introduce her . . DEBUTANTES OF THE SE comes SON. and | * Juliet Crosby, Marion t give the usual satisfaction Wycherley, Frank patrons. Georgie Cooper, Annette Marshall Margaret Marshall arc among the people that the cast calls for, an each furnish his or fun in_which the piece to will be the holi- abounds. . . tion. . 2 e Among_the entertainers Concert House this week are Mme. ity Martin, prima donna sopran Accord- up-to-date special- ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR Qe s B LR N T ties will be introduced and the bill should Central Harry Conlon, James Corrigan, her quota of Silver King” will be the holiday attrac- at Fischer's GARS BATTERED IN A GOLLISION Passengers Fortunately Escape Any Serious Injuries. : Accident Occurs on Corner of Sutter and Devisa- dero Streets. Either through a faulty brake or greasy track or neglect on the part of a motor- man to observe the rule of right-of-way, a collision occurred yesterday morning about 10:30 at the corner of Devisadero and Sutter streets between a Devisadero- street car bound north and a Sutter-street car going east. Iach car carried a good number of pas- sengers and when tne crash came and the dummy was thrown from the tracks it was feared that some had been injured. That they escaped with nothing more than a severe shaking and shock was fortunate, for the front of each car shows the force of the collision. Among the passengers was M. Cohen of 151§ Devisadero street, who testifies to the narrow escape of the occupants of the cars from serious injuries. An elderly lady, seeing a collision was inevitable, attempted to leap from the northbound car, but was forcibly held back by Cohen. The officials of the Sutter-street line claim right-of-way and cannot under- stand how it was that the cars came into collision. Defective Flue Causes Fire. ALAMEDA, Dec. 15.—A fire caused by a defective flue broke out in the McAnney residence, 2848 Central avenue, this after- noon. The building was damaged to the l extent of several hundred dollars. @ civiieiellmiieieie il @ Sig. G. S. Wanrell, basso cancante, who wil be heard in solos and duets; the Paloma Ladies’ Quartet of singers; Ivan Trepoka, a Russian specialty dancer; Deming and Carroll, sketch artists; the Mullaly sisters, singers and novelty dancers, and Charles Stanley and Anuta ‘Walton in_their amusing skit, O'Grady’'s Washday.” Hinrichs' orchi tra will render an entire new programme. o e new _bill which to-day includes The Chutes opens at Bicknell, the the the Orpheum a short time ago: Brown and Lancaster, comedians and dancers; Alma Woutrich, juvenile comedienne; Al Hazzard, ventriloquist; Montgomery and Evans, song illustrators, and the Lockos bag punchers. A series of new moving pictures will alsg bs; Sh?w"' J. Sherrie Matthews and Norma Whal- ley continue as the main attraction this week at the Orpheum. All of the addi- tions to the bill are extraordinarily good, and the Dumond Parisian Minstrels, play- ing their final week, still keep the audi- ences convulsed. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Crane appear In a dainty comedietta entitled A" Happy Pair.”” The dialogue is especially clever, and their acting thoroughly finished. “A Happy Pair” was cordially received, and is one of the best skits of its sort seen T e hd Jeanette, two very talented juvenile dancers, do an act replete with grace and daintiness. Flo Irwin and Walter Hawley remain for the week, and their humorous conceit, “Caught With the Goods,” is very popular. Norwood brothers open the programme with a good speclalty on triple horizontal ba;!sr-. and Mrs. Walter E. Deaves con- clude it with an act of attractive fea- tures. A- and thirty a4 will the “The Char- “‘Mrs. | famous clay modeler who appeared at | SEES N PHONE KD 15 THLKING Former American In- vents Remarkable Spectograph. Sedeaisl Person Conversing Over Wire Gets a View of His In- ter'locutor. —_———— Special cable to T he Call and New York Her- ald. Copyrigh't, 190i, by the Herald Pub- nshing Comps ny. BRUSSELS, Dec. 15.—The Independence Belge says that Dr. Sylvestre, born an American but naturalized as a Franch- man, has invented a spectrograph whicih enables a per son using a telephone to see his interlocul.or and the latter’s surround- ings. A French Minister, according to the paper, has witnessed conclusive tests of the inventi¢n and King Leopold has ar- ranged a sp ecial audience for Dr. Sylves- tre for the purpose of inspecting”it. 1t is said that the instrument can be adapted for use on an ordinary telegraph wire. CLAIMS HIS ARREST IS THE RESULT OF A JOKE H. M. Thomtom _Says He Took Mrs. Denton’s Purse With the In- tention of Returning It. A man who gave his name as H. M. Thomtom at the North End Police Sta- tion was arvested last night by Officer Dugan and charged with grand larceny. He is accusea of having extracted 320 from a purse belonging to Mrs. H. S. Denton, wno resides at 1084 Bush street. Thomtom vigorously denied the charge and protested that his arrest was the re- sult of a practical joke which he was try- ing to perpetrate on a friend. According to the story told to the polica by Mrs. H. 8. Denton, the man under ar- rest came to her house yesterday and requested to see J. Miller, one of her ten- | ants. Thomtom informed Mrs. Lenton | that Miller was a friend of his. As Miller was not in at the time/ that Thomtom called, the landlady invited him in to await Miller's arrival. While he was in the house and. before Miller’s return, Mrs. Denton says that she missed a purse con- | taining $80 that was in_the room where Thomtom was waiting. She accused him of having taken the purse. He at first de- nied the accysation, but afterward pre- duced the missing article. But Mrs Den- ton claims that when the purse was re- turned to her 320 of the money was miss- ing. At the Police Station Thomtom denied that he had extracted the money and {said that he had taken the purse only as a joke. He claimed that he intended to return it as soon as it was missed. ———— \ Roanoke Rye, Foney and Horehoun Its quality tells the story. . ———— LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVED. Sunday, December 15. Stmr Brunswick, Andresen, 54 hours from | Coos Bay. | Stmr Marshfleld (new), Christensen, 54 hours from Coos Bay. Stmr Leelenaw, Monroe, 15 days 18 hours | from Panama. | _ Sehr Mary C. Campbell, 9 hours from Bo- | dega. ———— Roger, King of Italy, is said to have in- troduced the silk culture into that coun- try about 1146. - - - o December 1st, 1901, San Francisco had ONE TElI EPHONE to every 12 people. January Ist, 1901, St. Petersburg, (Russia), had 6’ne telephone to every 283 people. Vienna, (Austria), London. (England), Philadelphia, (Pa ), Paris, (France), Chicago, (l11.), New York City, Stockholm, (Sweden), had one telephone to every had one telephone to every had one telephone to every had one telephone to every had one telephone to every had one telephone to every had one telephone to every 120 people. 111 people. 96 people. 82 people. 64 people. 49 people. 13 people. DURING 1002 WE HOPE TO PLACE A TELEPHONE IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD IN SAN FRANCISCO. acific States Telephone and Telegraph Company, 216 BUSH STREET, San Francisco. | g s |