The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1902, Page 6

The—adnne Call TUESDAY...ccc000mesnssss. FEBRUARY 18, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Mansger., MANAGER’S OFFICE... Telephone Press 204 e e e G s KA iy Ao PUBLICATION OFFICE.,.Market and Third, S. F\ Telephone Press 20 EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telep! e Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 16 Cents Per Week. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. nes+$6.00 SUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year.. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt end correct compliance with their request. OAXKLAND OFFICE,.. .1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Yoreign Advertising, Marguette Building, Ohicage. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Centrel 2619.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: 0. 0. CARLTON -ceee +eess.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH.¢ces++.30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Union Square; Muiray Hil Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P, O, News Co.j Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. ©.) OFFICE....1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. /OH OFFICES—327 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open 9:80 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 033 Modllister, open until 8:30 o’clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:80 o'clock. 1041 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Marker, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Va- Jencis, open until o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'dock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Filimore, open until ® p. m. AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—Vaudeville. California—*“The Sign of the Cross.” Tivoli—*The Ameer."” Central—*"An African King.” Alcazar—*The Orient Express.” Colurgdia—*"Way Down East.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and ing. Oskland Racetrack—Races to-day. POLICE AND SALOONS. AN FRANCISCO is,at this time confronted by S a very serious problem arising from the fre- quency of crime. Every week adds new in- stances to the lengthening list of assaults, hold-ups, robberies, burglaries and murders, whose per- petrators escape arrest and remain at large, free for the commission of other crimes. The police are ac- tive and vigilant, they work long hours agd patrol long beats, but they are not numerous enough to safeguard the whole city, so criminals walk abroad in it with so much impunity that they may well nigh 1 it theirs. Two factors tend to produce this evil condition. One is the large number of saloons where criminals can resort, and the other is the insufficient number of policemen. The solution of the problem, then, can be found in the adoption of a policy which will decrease the number of low class groggeries and at the same time furnish a revenue for the maintenance of an increased police force. To apply that policy nothing more is necessary than to increase the amount required for vetail liquor licenses. It will re- quire no great skill on the part of the city authorities to so fix the amoun: of a license to sell liquor that the result will be the closing up of many if not all the lower sort of saloons, while at the same time bring- ing to the city from those that remain open a much larger revenue than is now obtained. The feasibility of applying such a remedy cannot be doubted by any one who has given the subject serious consideration. San Francisco, with a popula- tion of 342,782, has 3173 licensed saloons, or very nearly a saloon for every 100 inhabitants. This ratio is so much larger than obtains in a\ny other American of note as to appear something like a monstros- In a comparison with other cities of this coun- try it gives us the appearance of being alien to Amer- ican civilization. Here is the way a recently compiled record stands of the number of saloons to every 10,000 inhabitants in the principal cities of the United States: New York, 31; Chicago, 38; Philadel- phia, 13; St. Louis, 37; Boston, 17; Baltimore, 40; San Francisco, 92. It will be seen that no other of the cities named approximates our ratio of saloons to population, or even amounts to half of it. The cause of this unAmerican proportion of saloons to population fs the cheapness of the munici- pal license. The cost of retail liquor licenses in other large American cities is far higher than the amount required here. In New York the license is $800 a year; in Chicago, $500; in Philadelphia, $1100; in St. Louis, $500; in Boston, $3500 to $2000; in Baltimore, $250; in San Francisco, $84. Thus while we have more than double the number of saloons to the popu- lation than any other of these cities, we have a mu- nicipal license that is considerably less than half that of the lowest license i any of them. In the other cities named the revenues derived from saloon liCC{,lSCS go far toward maintaining the police force. New York obtains from retail liquor licenses $7,962,555, and expends for her Police De- partment $11,153,333. - Chicago obtains from licenses $3,197,500, and the cost of her Police Department is but $3,773423 Philadelphia gets from saloons $1,003,000, and maintains her police for $2,894,158. St. Louis receives $1,075,000 from liquor licenses, and pays for police protection $1,598,159. Boston derives $1,477,560 from licenses, and her police force costs her $1.672842. Baltimore procures an income of $510,750 from saloons, and maintains her police for $874,684. What a contrast is presented to those fig- ures by the showing of San Francisce, where, with al| our large ratio of saloons to population, we deriveI from municipal retail liquor licenses only $266,532, and pay for police protection $8R4,461. The figures need no comment. They speak for themselves and for the city. They present us in a sad contrast with our sister cities, but they show us exactly how to deal with the problem of crime. Let the municipal license for retailing liquor be raised until it closes many of the worst slum saloons. Then with the increased revenue let the police force be in- creased. There is no reason why there should be any stumbling or fumbling over a problem whose solution js so easy as this. ity If it be true that the Kaiser is to go up against Mrs. Eddy it will be easy to see his finish. THE SAN FRANCISCO OCALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1902. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. MUNICIPAL paternalism is having its innings just now in iriteresting discussions that illu- minate every branch of the subject except one. That one, however, seems to be the determin- ing factor in the mafter. No one discusses the re- form of public accounting to the end that a compari- son may be made between the cost of public utilities under musicipal and private ownership. It is no- torious that everything else done by municipal gov- ernment enormously exceeds the cost of parallel pri- vate work, and as a rule is of poorer quality. No one explains by what sorcery this rule is to be changed when municipalities embark in the adminis- tration of general business. Professor Parsons of Boston has drawn the enthu- siasm of audiences in favor of municipal ownership, but his own State furnishes examples which should deter other communities from embarking in it until there is a reform in public accounting. The store of fa¢ts bearing upon municipal waste is daily increasing. This waste is an indefinite, un- known quantity, because public accounting conceals rather than reveals public accounts. There has been exposed in Chicago an instance of waste in that city, by ‘which a half million has been lost to the taxpay- ers of the West Side, and special taxes have been collected for years as interest and sinking fund on a bond issue that was iong ago canceled. Proper ac- counting and proper publicity would render such a thing impossible. But when the Illinois Legislature passed a law to reform public accounting the Gov- ernor vetoed it. The liveliest impulse received by municipal owner- ship in this city is the speech of ex-Supervisor Reed on Sunday evening at the Academy of Sciences. But a careful reading of the full report made in The Call impresses one with its lack of information. Mr. Reed shows a shortage of water, but The Call had long preceded him in that. It is highly probable that if San Francisco had owned her water supply from the beginning her water system would now be exactly what the Spring Valley system is. It was the first, most obvious and ready source, and any en- gineer, in public or private employ, would have re- sorted to it. It is also true that the supply would be just as short under public as it is under private ownership, and the problem that confronts the Spring Valley would be a municipal problem. ‘We have given many examples of the occurrence of this and other problems in cities under municipal ownership. As a rule the trouble is municipal waste and such a failure in the system of accounting as to make impossible ascertainment of the cost of the water supply. The people are owners and ratepayers and taxpayers. They partly pay for water in the di- rect rate and partly by taxation. The direct rate is known; the indirect, by taxation, is not known. Kansas City is just now adding to the list of prob- lems which arise under municipal ownership. She has long owned her water supply. - The supply is constant and the system presents fine opportunity for study. It appears now that repairs, extensions and needed betterments have been neglected, until a point is reached where they can be put off no longer and must be made either by issuing bonds or raising the water rate. The existing rate is denounced as ex- orbitant, and the city papers bristle with statistics. From these it appears that for the last seven years the income from the water works has been $2,545,- 368, and the interest, cost and sinking fund have amounted to $2,471,413, leaving only $173,955 accumu- lated income with which to make repairs and neces- sary additions that will cost millions. ‘The great per- centage of cost of administration to income is _no- ticeable. In some years the expense of administra- tion exceeds income, and fiuctuatef up and down, the fluctuation apparently following the changes in poli- tical administration of the city. The net conclusion from the exhibit is that if re- pairs and extensions had been made as their need appeared, the rate must have been greatly in excess of that charged. But they were not made, and now require a bond issue of several millions. Philadelphia is issuing twelve or fifteen millions in bonds to effect long neglected sanitation of her pub- lic water supply, when an addition to the rate would have enabled the beginning and prosecution of the work. These bond issues and their interest should be added to all statements of the comparative cost of water under municipal and private ownership. But ‘the enthusiastic proporents of municipal paternalism go to the water rate alone and present that as the total cost of the supply. Of course Kansas City and Philadelphia by their rates contribute to this show- ing, when the fact in their case is that the actual cost is millions in excess of the rate. 4 In the case of municipal plants the people are the owners of the works and administer them through their agents, the city officials. Under private owper- ship the stockholders are the owners and the corpora- tion is their agent and trustee. This trustee is com- pelled by law to account for every mill of income and outgo, and every stockholder has access to the ac- counts. His stock is his property. But when did a municipal owner ever feel that sense of ownership or attempt to enforce an equally exact accounting? Never to our knowledge, and for that reason the people are deprived of any means of proper compari- sor. If ex-Supervisor Reed would invest his talents in a crusade for a proper system of public accounting he would be approaching municipal ownership from the right side. 5 Mayor Schmitz and the Supervisors have under consideration the ancient and unsolved problem of improving the City and County Hospital. It is per- haps time that San Francisco should fight itself into the domain of civilization and treat its sick with hu- manity. THE INAUGURATION DATE. ENATOR HOAR'’S persistency has at length S been rewarded by procuring the adoption by “ the Senate of his resolution providing for so amending the constitution as to fix the date for the inauguration of Presidents and the beginning of Congressional terms upon the last Thursday in®pril instead of the 4th of March. The resolutign was adopted in the Senate by more than a two-thirds ma- jority, and is therefore fairly on its way to final adop- tion as a part of the constitution, About the only thing that can oppose further progress of the movement in Congress will be the partisanship of a minority in the House who may object to extending President Roosevelt's term by nearly two months. Once it passes the House there will remain no obstacle other than the indifference of State Legislatures to a bill that is of little impor- tance to any one except members of Congress, or to the gightseers who 29, to Washington once in four years to see a President inaugurated. i All reports from Washington agree that the carly days of March are generally unpleasant in that local- ity. March, it seems, has a habit of coming in like a'lion, and as a consequence inaugural parades have been frequently spoiled by blustering storms. A postponement to April would render such occas_ions much more pleasant to visitors and would enable the national capital to grrange for grand spectacular in- augurals with_the assurance that they would not be marred by winds or storms. A more important consequence of the change would be the lengthening oi the term of Congress. At present Congress has to perform nearly all of its work in what is known as “the long term.” The clos- ing session, which is cut short by March 4, hardly affords time for the passage of routine bills. Six ad- ditional weeks of work would therefore be beneficial in many ways. That consideration will probably in- duce the country to give the amendment a cordial support. Indeed, it is quite possible that it may be acted vpon with such promptness that it will go into effect during the-present administration,jand the next President will have the pleasure of an April inaugura- tion. T ———— Efforts are now being made to adorn the city and decorate it in preparation for the thousands of dis- summer. It certainly is time for us to consider whether or not it will be well for us to give our friends something more than that generous welcome e smgeis sz e THE TARIFF NOT SAFE. THE conversion of protectionist Republicans to our solemn and moral obligation to make Cuba permanently prosperous by free admission to our markets, is demoralizing protection in the House of The plea that withot free trade with us Cuba's sugar crop this year must be harvested at a loss has shot clear through and hit the Illinois farmers, who ago their corn crop sold for nearly $20,000,000 less than the cost of its production. They hunt the rec- ord in vain for any Government effort to make good any more consideration than they had. Cuban free trade has started inquiry all along the line, and protection has not been in greater peril for when the Democrats attacked it they recoiled from an extreme position and produced a ‘tariff that was incapable of description as anything else than power, have no responsibility, and are willing to join the discontent of the agricultural class, caused by the proposition to disown it as a beneficiary of pro- In the Ways and Means Committee the tariff had so narrow an escape last week that protectionists were thoroughly frightened. Mr. Babcock came iron as a rider on the war revenue reduction bill. A communication from a Republican member of the Towa Legislature was exhibited offerjng to pass a way of retaliation Babcock was threatened with re- moval of the lumber tzriff, because he has large per- sonal investments in lumber, and this was countéred of Massachusetts Republicans. The friends of beet sugar, if driven to the wall, declare that, if removal of protection from the farmer is a good thing, it protectionists of the agricultural States, combine with the Dc}nocrats and assault manufactures all along the line. tion not as an economic doctrine founded in the rea- son of things, but as a gaudymexpedient, to be striped and painted as a sort of theatrical property in cam- Ii the Republican party propose to so treat it, it should be warned of the result. Under the leadership of McKinley the party from everlasting unto everlasting, not to be de- stroyed by defeat nor overthrown by indifference. After the defeat that followed the McKinley bill of abated its advocacy of protection. It was treated as a principle deep seated in our system and necessary to the symmetrical development of the country and tinguished visitors who. will be among us during the which is our boast. x free trade in spots, and their expressed belief in its friends. dig up the corn statistics and show that not long that loss, and are asking why “Cuba libre” deserves since 1894. Indeed, its need is greater now than then, slightly modified protection. Now they are out of tection, and cut the whole system to the marrow. within one vote of reducing the duty on steel and tariff reduction resolution through that body. © By by a menace that hides would be made free, a demand should be passed around, and say they will take the The difficulty inheres in proposing to treat protec- paigns and then stripped and washed off at pleasure. taught protection as = principle, a creed that was 1800 ndt a State convention of the party anywhere the prosperity of the people. Himself defeated for re-election to his seat in the House by a nobody | whose name is forgotten, McKinley went among the people in each succeeding campaign to advocate pro- tection as a principle. In 1896 his reward came, and in the years following his fidelity was justified. Does any one believe that if the party kad abandoned pro- tection when the reverse of 1890 left it so few mem- bags of the House that their absence from the cham- ber left a quorum there it would have rallied for the victory of 1896 and repeated it in 1900? Again, has any one a reasonable hope that if the farmers of the country are disowned, and learn that their sole duty fs to sweat while they carry protected manufactures on their galled hacl_(s, protection can survive? If it be stigmatized as a policy of expe- diency only, and not a principle, does any one hope for prolonged power for the party which has pro- fessed it? Partial prosperity is no prosperity at all. It must be general to be real. If it be proposed to use pro- tection only as a promoter for manufacturers, the system will die and the party go out of power. Al- ready it is complained in Washington that this agita- lion, started by the advocates of Cuban free trade, is # fire that will burn.in all directions unless stopped. Already sectaries have appeared in the party, and if supplied With a motive given to the people by the professors of expedicncy, their propaganda will spread with a rapidity that will put the result of 1904 In doubt before the two partisan armies mobilize for the struggle. So much has been said in criticism upon the women who crowded round the coffins of the Biddles, who were recently shot to death in an attempt to escape prison, that it is worth noting the Pittsburg Times says there were more men in the crowd around the coffins than women. Evidently morbid curiosity in. Pennsylvania is-not a matter of sex. Great Britain may get out of the scandal in the. ‘War Office over the high price paid for horses with- out smirching any of her officers, but she can har‘gz conceal the fact that some of them were very poa hands at a horse trade. Society circles of Washington, New York, Boston and Chicago are in a turmoil to outdo one another in reception to Prince Henry. The uproar has be- l'come a riot of clashing interests, and yet the Prince lis not available from the marriage standpoint - BEAUTY IN ENGLAND SHE IS THE REIGNING ; | | | | THE GRACEFUL AND WITTY COUNTESS OF WARWICK, WHO HAS BEEN DECLARED TO BE MORE CHARMING THAN ANY OTHER OF THE MANY NOTED ENGLISH BEAUTIES. | d— HO among modern society women will go down to future generations as having been the loveliest, most interesting feminine personality of her day? is a question which was discussed recently in a company of well- known people, cables the London correspondent of ‘ne New York ‘World. It was finally agreed by all that the Countess of Warwick undoubtedly is, one expressed it, “the only great lady who may be said to strike both the popular imagination and that of the smaller, more select cirele of #iiarists and letter-writ- ters who, after all, make history in these matters.” One of that company, afterward recalling the discussion, summed it up thus: “Of course, the secret of the Countess’ personal popularity is not far to seek. The fairies who presided over ‘Daisy’ Maynard's christening endowed her not only with beauty, but with extraordinary charm of manner, kindness of heart and the quick wit so often denied to the otherwise forfunate possessor of exceptional loveliness. 3 . PERSONAL MENTION. J. M. Witmans, a mining man of New- man, is a guest at the Lick. ‘William F. Botsford, a bank president of Los Angeles, is registered at the Pal- ace. ‘William Snow, a well-known bookmaker of New York, is at the Palace with his ‘wife. V. R. Syle, who is connected with the United States coast survey, is at the Oc- cidental. 0. McHenry, a well-known resident of Modesto, is among the arrivals at the Oc- cidental. Edward Chambers, freight manager of the Santa Fe at Los Angeles, is a guest at the Palace. G. W. F. Johnson, an attorney of Napa, who recently returned from Nome, is among the arrivals at the Lick. 0. B. Jenkins, an official of the United States Treasury Department at Washing- ton, is at the Occidental with his wife. ‘Willlam Sproule, freight traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Company, has re- turned from the East. E. 0. McCormick, passenger traffic manager, is expected next week. oy R Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—The following Californians arrived in New York to-day: From San Francisco—J. T. J. Archibald, at the Grand Hotel; E. D. Baker, at the Astor House; W. W. Brown, at the Gil- sey House; Mrs. S. Cooper, at the Ven- dome; O. P. N. Downing, at the Amster- dam; G. A. Fransacur, at the Earling- ton; H. A. French, at the Sturtevant; C. H. Grant, at the Astor House; A. M. Leh- mert, at the Normandie; H. Lichtenstein, at the Herald Square; G. Martin and wife, at the Astor House; J. G. Patterson and wife, at the Sturtevant; G. J. Pike and wife, at the St. Denis; G. W. Quinn, at the Gilsey House; P. M. Raymond, at the St. Denis; B. Schlessin- ger and wife, at the Manhattan; J. F. Valentine, at the Broadway Central; J. Zentner, at the Grand Union. s R, Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The follow- ing Californians registered at the hotels to-day: At the Raleigh—W. B. Cope of San Francisco’ and J. H. Carruthers of Rialto; at the Willard—James McCarthy; at the Ebbitt—W. E. Pettes and wife, Miss E. M. Young and H. Lichtenstein; at the St. James—R. T. Tyng, Dr. E. J. Creely and wife, all of San Francisco. ——————— A CHANCE 11U =MiLz. *“I suppose you get as far as possible from material things,” said the admiring Young woman. : ; “Yes,” sald Mr. Stormington Barnes, “T may %ay that myself and my company - devote. much of our time waiting for.an angel to appear and for the.ghost to walk."'—Washington Star. “I went to sée old Bullion yesterday, with my heart in my mouth,” said Chol- 1y, “to ask him for his daughter.” “Well?? 375 Wiz B “Well, I came away about two seccnds later, with my heart in my boots.”—Chi- cago Journal. “They say that Maine women are wear- ing men's clothes.” ““Well, I shouldn't wonder. Did you ever see a Maine snow drift?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's,* Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* Townsend’s California glace fruits, A S T Market st., Palace Hatel building. * al information ¢ »u “In these days people forget quickly, ‘Warwick’s wonderful girlish beauty in the days when she wa: and at a time when it wes more than whispered that she was on the 5?‘3‘:‘2’; coming the bride of our most studious and serious-minded royal Prince. The fact that this same gentle and kindly royal personage lived to o the wedding of Miss Maynard and the then Lord Brooke those days the most charming woman of our time knew how what so many women fail to do—that is, turning a lover into Chief among the rivals of the Countess of Warwick for th the reigning beauty of her time were the Marchioness of Henry of Pless, Mrc. George Keppel, Miss Muriel Wilson but I fancy many can remember Lady act as best man at showed that even in to succeed in doing a friend.” e distinction of being Londonderry, Princess and Lily Langtry, ! ° ANSWERS TO QUERIES. | HIS ADDRESS—C, | of Bignor Sonzogge. why: hesaddress 0, who has offered large sum for the best on =l Rome, Italy. st s BLACK SAND-B. L. A., City. i It you will call at the State Mining B Ferry building you ‘hero be ahown] will there be shown | samples of the black sand f; i Nome beach. preoe o NEVADA STATE—J. R. A., Berkeley, Cal. The next State election in Nevada ' will be held on the 6th of November, 1902. | The next session of the Legislature will | open on the 19th of January, 1903. | OAKLAND MOLBE-R. F., | distance between the ferry und?rlxt;y ‘at the foot of Market street and the Oakland ;:;;seinxcr n;ole on the other side of the | s near] thre = 1 e y e and three quaner: ABANDONED CLAIMS-A. . i Gold Gulch, Fresno County, Cal. Fpiend takes up a mining clalm, puts up build- ings and machinery, but neglects to do | the necessary amount of assessment ‘work he forfelts his right to the claim, but the | buildings and machinery revert to him. STUMPAGE—F. W. S., Point Arena, Cal. If a man is arrested for cutting tim- ber on Government land he may be re- lieved from criminal prosecution upon payment of $2 50 per acre stumpage, but | ::m does not relieve him _from civil lHabil- | i ! MINING SCHOOL—J. W. K., Calaveras County, Cal. There is no free mining school or assay office in California. | The University of California and the State | Mining Bureau will, without cost, desig- | nate the kind of ore that may be submit- | ted, but will not give its assay value. LOVE STORY—A. B. C. Cal. The love story that you allude to in your letter of inquiry is a serial t is being published in different lew!p‘p:r.; throughout the United States, but this department has no information that itis to be issued in book form. IN MOURNING=A, C. R., City. While there is no society prohibition as to a widow attending a reception or a tea In mourning garb, even though her husband has been dead for a long time one who is so deeply affected ought not to attend such functions if she wears such garb be- cause her grief for the departed is sincere. In a place where all is gayety and all go to be amused, deep mourning garments look out of place, “ACKNOWLEDGE THE CORN"—. C., City. The following s mm 3& “I acknowledge tie corn,” which is used In the sense of admitting failure of ag- mitting having béen outwitted: In 1828 Andrew Stewart was in Congress discuss- ing the principles of protection and satq in the course of his remarks that Ohio, Kentucky_ and Indlana sent their hay. stacks, cornfields and fodder to New York | and Philadelphia markets to sell, Charles A. Wyckliffe jumped up and said: “Why that is absurd, Mr. Speaker. . I call the gentleman to order. He is surdity. enE au Sh We never send haystacks cornfields to New York or Phlhdalyhl:": “Well, what do you send?” asked Stew- ard. “We send,” replled Wyckiifre, “horses, cattle, hogs and mules.” “well," continued ‘Stewart, “what makes your horses, cattle, hogs and mules? You feed 3100 worth of hay to a horse; you get on Murphys, D., Oakland, |3 and 7. | lage and the celebration was a hap; | filled with flowers or candy. Many t | most refreshing. . | Mrs. | local theaters. TIN WEDDING - 7 ANNIVERSARY IS WELL ATTENDED The artistic home of Mr. and M; George G. Gauld at 3009 Sacramento str was the scene of a delightful receptic yesterday afternoon, between the hours o The occasion was the tentl niversary of Mr. and Mrs. Gauld’s m one in every sense of the word. Over hundred and fifty guests were most h pitably entertained. Mrs. Gauld was . sisted in recelving by her sister, Mis lish. A good prchestra was in attend and dainty refreshments were served. house was elaborately decorated ferns and cut flowers for the event. tin was probably the most prominent f ture, it being a tin wedding celebratior The unigue and strikingly original de. | signs in tin, which ornamented the room were the work of the host, who was r peatedly congratulated upon the succe of the scheme. Many tin hearts wer used in the arrangement and score yards of fine tin chainwork’ were fes- | tooned about the rooms. The array of presents was -especially. { handsome and costly. Only a small num ber were of tin, and these were lavi grams from outside the city were re- ceived in addition to the congratulation extended the happy couple by the guests in person. . . Lent is not interfering with the regular reception days. In fact, more calls tha usual were paid yesterday to the hos | esses who keep Monday, and they found the sunshine of their friends’ presence Mrs. Bowman H. McCalla and Miss Me- Calla are again at the Hotel Richelieu, having just returned from Central Amer- ica. A large dinner was given by Mr. and Mrs. 8. W. Heller and Mr. and Mrs. J. Stern at 621 Leavenworth street on Fri- { day evening. Orchids and ferns were the decoration. An interesting programme was provided for the guests, and a palm- ist added pleasure. 'The guests were: Levi Strauss, Mrs, S. Frank, Mr. and Mrs. I W. Hellman Jr., Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Hel- ler, Mr. and Mrs. A, Stern, Mr. and Mrs. A. Roos, Mr. and Mrs. A. Meertief, Mr. and Mrs M. Koshland, Mr. and Mrs. J. Newman, Mrs. and Mrs. S_ Michels, Mr. and Mrs. S. Sachs Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Greenebaum, Mr. apd Mrs. Moses Heller, Mr. and Mrs. Georms Kohn, and Mrs. I. Fleischmann, Mr. and Mrs. I Strassburger, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Ehrman, Mr, and Mrs. Jules Levy, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ehrman, Mr. and Mrs, W. Mitau, Mrs. Fanny Morris and daughter, Miss Blanche Morris, are at their home, 1110 Ellis street, after a long absence from the city. e . Mr. and Mrs. Leo Schwabacher are to leave this week for their new home in the north. They are enjoying their wedding trip. Many callers were received at their apartments yesterday in the Palace Hotel. ®Te 9 Mrs. H. E. Huntington and daughter, Miss Clara Huntington, are en route to | New York, where several weeks will be spent in selecting the trousseau for the approaching wedding of the hdppy flancee. Fiost W Dr. and Mrs. E. O. Cochran have re- turgped from their wedding trip to Del Monte and are stopping at the Palace Ho- tel. They were accompanied in the jour- ney by the bride’s sister, Mrs. E. P. Dole, of Honolulu. Mrs. Dole at present is at the home of her family, 1133 Ellis street. * . . Mr. and Mrs. John W. Stetson gave a very pleasant card party last Fridoy even. ing at their home, 13 Scott street. The prize winners were Miss Hart and Mr. Bass. A dainty supper was served after the games were over. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Stetson, Mr. and Mrs. N. Rosekrans, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Stetson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stetson Wheeler, Dr. and Mrs. Edgat Bryant, Mr. | and Mrs. Thayer, Mr. and Mrs. Brandt, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Morse, Mr. and Mrs. H. Mayers, Captain and Mrs. George Gibbs, Mr. and Mrs. James Margo, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Beadle, Captain and Mrs. Frazier, Mr. and Mrs. John Hart, Mr. and D. H. Everett, Mr. and Mrs, Mar- wedel, Mrs. Margo, Miss McNab, Miss Saunders, Miss Rosenkrans, Miss Hart, Miss Priber, Miss Margo, Miss Beadle, Miss Stetson, Miss Bessie Stetson, Miss Tharp, Miss Volkman, Miss Bda Volk- man, James McNab, Dr. Saunders, Georsge Beadle, Harry Stetson, John J. Meyers, Mr. Volkman and Mr. Lund. e ~a The Argonaut Club gave a very success- ful stag party last week at ome of the Among those present were Messrs. Herbert Walters, Louis Horner, Robert McGilt Jr., Joseph B. Duggan, Robert Marshall. F. E. Buckley, A. W. Dimond, Dr. Calvin W. Knowles, D’Arcy Stewart, David B. Torres, M. de Lyons, ‘Walter J. Foley and Edward Stark. ———— Testing President’s Courage. President Roosevelt's courage was put to a sharp test a few winters ago while he was spending some time on his stock ranch in NortA Dakota, says the Phili- delphia Saturday Evening Post. He was riding over the range ome raw day in December when he was overtaken by a severe snow storm. Within an hour it had developed into a blizzard. At the first indication of the severity of the storm Mr. Roosevelt had wheeled his horse and began to make every effort to get back to headquarters. The fury of e | the wind and sleet, however, soon mal | progress impossible. All tralls were obliterated, but fortunately in drifting before the storm he came to a railroad track, and, guided by the telegraph poles, he kept on until ne arrived at a prairie saloon. Having provided for his horse at a sta- ble adjoining the saloon, he made his way to ‘he barroom, where he was con- fident he would find a roaring fire. When he opened the door he discovered the greatest confusion going on. A “bad man” had been drinking too much and was working off his unconifortable exu- berance by shooting holes through mir- rors and making his companions dance while he shot under their feet. velt calm Half-frozen, Mr. Roose seated himseif before the redhot s Amid the din the outlaw had not ticed his arrival, but when he discovered him he salaamed him with mock cour- tesy and said: * q‘l Mr. Four-Eyes, when did you U *just now came in replied Mr. Roosevelt. “I was caught in the storm and I've dropped in here to thaw out.” “You're the stuff,” commended the half-drunken master of ceremonies; “‘we like people out here who know enough to come in out of the wet. And now lels see you trot up to the bar and have a drink. ““No, thank you,” replied Mr. Roose- velt, “T'm to_feel quite warm and comfortable, and I don’t care to drini 3 “Oh, but you've got to!” exclaimed the cowboy. *“No,” insisted Mr. Roosevelt, with quiet but unmistakable deeision; “T'll not have anything.” The fellow, whose sway up to this mo- ment had been undisputed, could hardly credit his senses. He leered for a mo- ment at t.h: man in the chair who had to oppose authority, d marching up to him, cxclal“mdn: ey “Well, then, get up and dance”; and by way of emj he shot several times into the floor around Mr. Roose- velt's feet. “Oh, well, if 1 must” Roosevelt. hut as he rose his right arm b ed out with an upward movement and the fellow dropped like a slaughtered ox. The crowd rushed in to have re ey c] fallen despot back to consclousness him out into the snow. M: Roosevelt, ., finally persuaded Them 1o Bring B to et retorted Mr. =