The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1902. TUESDAY MAY 13, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Lééress All Commupications to W. B. LEAKE, Mansger. T TELEPHONE. &sk for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With tiae Department You Wish, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Month of April, 1902. ; April April April Aprd April April April April April April April April . .59,760 . . . 60,650 . ..70.860 | April 25. .. 60,180 | April 29... .. 60,250 April 30. ..61,370 | ALIFORNIA, { COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. ¢ ** 12th day of May, 1902, personally appeared before T. Hess, a Notary Public in and for the city and wforesaid, W.' J. Martin, who being sworn according to law declares that he is the business manager of The San Francisco Call. a dally newspaper published in the city and of San Francisco, State of California, and that there ed and distributed during the month of April, 1902, m_elght hundred and fifty-five thousand seven hun- (1.855.710) coples of the sald newspaper, which vided by thirty (the number of days of issue) gives e daily circulation of 61,857 coples. W. J. MARTIN. and sworn to before me this 12th day of May, W. T. HESS. Total. STATE OF C CITY AND 1902, tary Public in and for the City and County of San Fran- State of California, room 1015 Claus Spreckels build- AMUSEMENTS Fischer's Theater—*Fiddle Dee Dee."” California—***Aristocracy."” voli—"The Singing Central—""The World.” Alcazar—"‘Lost 24 Hours.” « Second in Command.” —Vaudeville Grand Opera-house—"Reilly and the 400.” Chutes—Zoo and Theater. 1 AUCTION SALES. Auction this day, at 11 o'clock, Horses, Wagons, etc., at 1140 Folsom street By F. H. Chase—Thursray, May 15, at 10:30 o'clock, Horses and Mules, at American River Bridge, Sacramento. By W. H Horses, at 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOB THE SUMMER Call subscribers contemplating a chamge of residence during the summer ths can have ikeir paper forwarded by mail to thelr mew addresses by motifying The Call Business Ofilce. This paper will also be on sale at all summer sesorts and is represented »y a local agent in #11 towns on the coast. Horr 1732 Market street. —Thursday, May 22, German Government LEST WE FORGET. bc OME days ago there was submitted to the peo- ifornia an appeal for contributions in the establishment of a school to train n all forms of rural industry. The appeal was letter from Archbishop set forth the purposes of the school, by which the desired object is to be d the amount of money required to pur- land and erect and equip the necessary ple of supported by a circular hods ely upon its announcement the appeal eived with general approval. In this busy however, new things arise every day to crowd mind the things of yesterday, and it is quite probable a good many people who are willing to contribute to the fund may have had their attention turned to other things and are therefore likely to school. The projectors of the enterprise are not advertising it. They are not mak- ing a popular sensation of it. Their work is being don y. It is just as well, therefore, to recall ntion to it—lest we forget. ugh the propcsed school Archbishop Riordan and the task of has been undertaken by the Rev. r Crowley of the Youths’ Directory, it is in no a sectarian movement. When established the school will make no distinction of race, color or creed. The prime object will be that of providing boys with a good moral training, educating them in vseful work and fitting them to become good citi- zens, prosperous men and successful cultivators of the soil There of ec out of overlook the propos public Al is recommended ectly by founding it sen is an urgen: need of such a school. The oung men io the cities is one of the great- est evils of modern civilization. It is as bad from an economical as from a moral point of view, for a very large proportion of the boys who come to the city in the hope of bettering their fortunes could earn more, save more and have more chances to es- tablish themselves in independence by staying in the country and making themselves masters of some branch of rural industry. Father Crowley’s project is philanthropic in motives, but is eminently practical in its scope and methods. A tract of land suitable for the purpose 2nd of ample dimensions has been bonded at a sum much lower than a similar tract of land equally well situated can be obtained in future years. Its imme- diate purchase will therefore be a profitable invest- ment to begin with. When once in operation the industrious boys under the direction of skillful in- structors and good managers will make the farm very near seli-supporting. The enterprise is therefore one that appeals to the business sense of the com- munity and merits support on that ground as well as upon the clzims of benevolence. California is in great need of trained farm workers. The advancement of cur orchards and vineyards calls for 2 high degree of skill. Men who know how to handle fruit and vines, who understand the inten- sive cultivation required for market gardens and berry farms, are needed in every county. Large as have been the profits obtained by industry from our il, we have not yet begun to reap the full measure of the harvest it can be made to yield by the applica- tion of science to agriculture. The proposed school will fit young men ior that kind of farm work and will therefore benefit the State as well as the young men thenkelves, and add largely to the revenues we derive from our farms, orchards, vineyards, gardens and fields. The project to establish such .a school should not be forgotten in the rush of business and politics. It should be kept in mind until the last dollar required for its foundation has been provided. After that it will be able to take care of itsell its FINANCIAL SOUNDNESS. HE recent flurry over the Webb stocks in Wall street caused some apprehension of a gen- eral panic. This feeling of uneasiness sub- sided when it was demonstrated that the trouble reached only the few firms involved, and that their fall shook none but themselves. This is the second time in the last two years that Wall street has been disturbed without any injurious effect upon the gen- eral credit or confidence. The speculative misfor- tunes of that financial center are viewed with indiffer- ence by the countzy, which goes on producing and consuming, buying and selling, regardless of the ephemeral troubles of those who speculate in paper properties. : This confidence is born of knowledge of our changed financial condition. To-day less of our se- curities are held abroad in proportion to their tatal volume than at any time in-our history since we achieved commercial immportance. In 1893 such for- eign holdings exceeded two billions, and when the first sign of speculative trouble in Wall street was seen they began rushing home for liquidation. They were payable in gold, and who has forgotten that portentous drain of gold which followed? It set in motion the greenback endless chain, draining the treasury of its gold, until the Government had to re- sort to the borrowing of $260,000,000 of gold, which all went into the liquidation of our securities in for- eign hands. Our foreign debt in that form to-day has fallen far below the billion line. Every month’s trade reduces it, and if our trade status is not changed the next fifteen months will wipe it out altogether. Its present volume is so small that it would hardly be felt as an addition to any local financial difficulty. It is as true of nations as of individuals that they know no hard times when they are out of debt, in that form which can be forced to immediate liquidation. We are in that position now, thanks to the gold standard and the vigor of our foreign trade and the unsatis- fied appetite of our domestic consumption. A panic will not originate in Wall street, though that may indicate its appearance. A thermometer does not cause the change in temperature which it registers. If we are to have a loss of confidence again and a panic it will not be caused by any accident or er- ror in judgment of the handlers of paper properties. Its cause will be the ultimate gorging of our con- suming power, and the overtaking of consumption by production. Against this the country has protec- tion in the wide reach of our market for consump- tion. Gorging the home demand and making it list- less by indigestion will not of themselves cause a dangerous panic, because we have access to the consumption and demand of the world. True, these may fail also. The power to take our food surplus and our metal and fabric product may be also im- paired, and production here will then slacken so ap- preciably that loss of confidence and panic may fol- low. But it will be seea that whereas credit depended upon domestic consumption alone, standing only on one leg, as it were, our trade is now a myriapod, stoutly standing on many feet, and it will be under most extraordinary circumstances that all will fail. When the Webb stocks went tumbling and a few brokers went with them pellmell into the ditch men calmly turned to the day’s trade report to find an excess of orders for iron, steel and copper, and such an excess of demand over supply that all con- tracts are underwritten, “To be filled at conveni- ence.” In looking at that confidence was made as strong as the metals which are the first indication of prosperity and the first of hard times. The mar- ket was still clamoring for them. Its appetite was as keen as though it had not consumed a pig or ingot, and on their increasing strength all metal and fabric production impinged, and men went about their business undisturbed. In these conditions no change is visible. The horizon is void of any sign of surfeit. Profits and wages are increasing; all consumption is thereby stimulated, because all consumption is increased. Once we had only one dependence and source of confidence. Now we have many, and while wise men will always remember that rainy days will come, all rejeice in their present capacity to provide an um- brella. THE ALABAMA FARCE. HEN the telegraphic dispatches brought Win(ormation that a suit had been begun in the courts of Alabama to test the canstitu- tionality of the suffrage restrictions imposed in the new constitution of that State little or nothing was said of the exact nature of the complaint made by the -plaimifi, who asked for an order of the court compelling the Montgomery County Board of Reg- istrars to place his name upon the list of voters. Since that time the Atlanta Constitution has been received containing a detailed report of the com- plaint. It reveals the fact that the Board of Regis- trars in that county at least has been carrying out the work of suppressing the negro vote with a degree of humor that would make the fortune of a writer of the librettos of comic operas. One clause of the Alabama suffrage law requires that the applicant for registration must be able to understand the constitution and the duties of citizen- ship. The Registrars have a right to examine every applicant and to reject those who in their judgment show a lack of such understanding. The complaint states a number of questions which the Registrars «of Montgomery County put to intelligent negroes who applied for registration. One of these questions was: “What are the differences between the Jeffersonian Democracy and the Calhoun principles as compared with the Monroe doctrine?” Another was: “If the Nicaragua canal is cut, what will be the effect if the Pacific Ocean is two feet higher than the Atlantic?” Questions of that kind were not only intended to do a gross wrong, but to make a jest while doing it. The aim of the authors can have been nothing else than that of turning the whole outrage into a kind of farce and making the law itself as ridigulous as it is unjust. It adds to the humor of the situation that the plaintiff who was called upon to answer those questions as an evidence of his understanding of the duties of citizenship avers in his complaint that he answered them correctly. It is a pity he did not state what his answers were. The Monticello Club of this city is full of bright young men who would like to know what are the differences between the Jeffer- sonian Democracy and the Calhoun principles as compared with the Monroe doctrine. These things will raise a laugh, but the laugh from intelligent men will not be long. A deliberate wrong is to be perpetrated in Alabama under the form of a farce, but the wrong is so gross and abominable that no farcical conception of it will make fair-minded men pass it over as a jest. The fight against the law is to be made in ear- inest. The lawyers who are e ! taken it directly to the Supreme Court of Alabama. That unusual proceeding is explained by the state- ment that the petitioners expect the court to refuse to entertain the application on the ground that it has no original jurisdiction in such matters, and the plan is by that prompt rejeation of the case to get it be- fore the Supreme Court of the United States in short order. The excuse made in the petition for coming direct to the Supreme Court without a trial in the lower cour‘"ts, as provided in the constitution itsflf, is that the juries are all white and are quite as preju- diced and clothed with as much power as the Regis- trars. The report goes on to say: “In the shape of ex- hibits a number of speeches are taken from the offi- cial report of the convention and attached as show- ing that the openly avowed purpose of those who made the constitution was to disfranchise the negro. President Knox is quoted in this way, and also Judge Coleman, chairman of the suffrage committee. Both Heflin brothers are quoted in full on this theme. Judge Jones, now Judge of the United States District Court, is also quoted on the same lines.” It would appear from this that a strong array of facts and reasons are to be given for setting the law aside as a violation of the rights of citizens guaran- teed by the constitution of the United States. It would seem that the manner of.enforcing it is itself a proof of its invalidity. A law which can be re- duced to a farce ought not to be valid in any country. In pressing forward the Cuban reciprocity bill and delaying the isthmian canal bill and the shipping bill Republican leaders in Congress have blundered, but fortunately for the party the Democrats in making wholesale attacks upon the American army have blundered. worse. There are very few Americans who are going to vote for Aguinaldo. R day show that the results of the reballotings are even more favorable to the Ministry than those of the first. Even in Paris, where the first con- tests gave not a single seat to the Ministry, the sec- ond gave them nineteen seats, a gain of three over the previous' Chamber, and among the successful candidates is M. Millerand, the Minister of Com- merce, against whom the opposition exerted all its forces. Out of 174 reballotings reports were received on Monday from 168. Of those the Ministerialists car- ried 128 and the opposition 40. As the first ballot- ings returned a Ministerial majority, it will be seen that the Government has an assured control of the Chamber of Deputies and the Ministry will be able to go on with its work undisturbed. Notwithstanding some disorders here and there, especially in Paris and Marseilles, the elections are said to have been the quietest in the recent history of France. The prevalence of good order was in no sense due to indifference, for no less than 2600 can- didates appcared'ior the 584 seats in the Chamber, and the cpposition to the Ministry was keen and vigorous. The lack of serious disturbances may therefore be taken as a proof that the French are learning how to hold elections without undue ex- citement and have acquired sufficient confidence in their Government to realize it is not likely to be overthrown however the elections result, The fact that the Ministerialists were more success- ful in the reballotings than in the first elections is in itself encouraging, for it shows that the various elements of the opposition are not able to combine and that a majority of those who oppose the Minis- try on some particular ground make it their second choice. They will vote for their own particular can- didate on the first ballot, but if he be defeated and the choice has to be made between a Ministerialist and some other opponent of the Ministry they will vote for the existing Government. That feeling puts an end to any fears concerning the stability of the Government. So long as the Nationalists, the Im- perialists, the Royalists, the Clericals and the Social- ists will vote for the Government rather than for one another there is no danger of revolution. The repub- lic is secure. / By this victory before the people Waldeck-Rous- seau crowns with triumph the most remarkable suc- cess that has been attained in French politics since the establishment of the republic. When he entered office it was said he was but a makeshift and would be deposed within six months. He found France torn with dissension over the Dreyfus case, without allies, discredited abroad and disordered at home. By an exercise of tact, patience and diplomacy he managed to set aside the Dreyfus case, put an end to the agitation against the army, strengthen himself in the Chamber, make an avowed ally of Russia and procure for France a prestige she has not enjoyed for many a year. He accomplished all that without the display of brilliancy of any kind. It has been a triumph for plain honesty and sound common sense applied to the problems of statecraft. How completely he has succeeded in eliminating the Dreyfus case from poli- tics is shown by the fact that Drumont, the leader of the anti-Dreyfus forces, was defeated in Paris, while Reinach, the Dreyfus champion, was defeated in the Department of the Basses Alpes. Anti-Semitism was routed all along the line, and the voters have shown everywhere an intention to rid their politics of any and every kind of racial or class antagonism. The victory is essentially a victory for the repub- lic against all its foes. The Ministry is of a compo- site character and does not stand for any particular party or programme of policy except that of main- taining the existing constitution. It would appear,] therefore, that France has at last attained stable equilibrium and has nothing to fear from Caesarism, reaction or radicalism. STABILITY IN FRANCE. EPORTS of the elections in France on Sun- Ever since President Roosevelt went over to the home of Senator Hanna one morning and took breakfast with him for the purpose of sampling the Hanna flapjacks there has been talk in the East of “harmony breakfasts” among all sorts of politicians and statesmen. It seems like rather an early meal for that sort of thing, but perhaps that is the best time to catch the worm of peace. . The debate on the Philippine bill seems to be nothing more than a general raking up of all the harsh and cruel things that have been done in any war of recent years, and if it were sawed off short the courtry would be satisfied. Now that the delegates of the women’s clubs have finished their convention at Los Angeles it is in or- der for the secretary to prepare a diagram showing what they did and the curves they made in ac- complishing it. It begins to look as if Mark Hanna would not s lanities e care ‘who is President' or who makes laws for the save BRITISH NAVAL VETERANS SCOFF AT BERESFORD The older school of officers in the Brit- ish navy is almost unanimously of the contrary opinion to Lord Beresford in his criticism of the navy, Veterans in the service, such as Sir Vesey Hamilton, Ad- miral Penrose Fitzgerald and Admiral Fremantle, have come to the conclusion that nothing is wrong except Lord Beres- ford. The latter asserted in his speech of March 14 before the London Chamber of Commerce that: Great Britain had no efficient naval ad- ministration. Second, that the coal supply was most unsatisfactory. Third, that the best admirals did not know how to handle a fleet. Fourth, that the shooting of the navy as a whole was lamentably defective. Fifth, that the unbusinesslike adminis- tration of the army applied In part to the Admiralty. Sixth, that the training of the fleet was defective. Sir Vesey Hamilton has been First Sea Lord of the Admiralty and commander in chief ‘of more than onme important naval station, and his views, while they may be somewhat conservative, are sure to re- ceive respectful attention. The two other admirals are likewise considered able men, but on the other hand Beresford has the support of all the younger officers, the bluejackets and the marines, The Ad- miralty is evidently disturbed at Lord Beresford's arraignment, and when it was suggested that he be disciplined for his utterances as being in violation of the navy regulations, the answer was made that the Admiralty would pay no atten- tion to what a half-pay officer said. As a member of Parlfament Lord Beresford is sure to give his views on the navy question, and the people will be able to come to some conclusion as to whether he fs right or merely a sensational alarm- ist. Some years ago there were two offi- cers of high rank in our navy of the Beresford type, namely Admiral D. D. Porter and Rear Admiral R. W. Meade, but they were both effectively disciplined, the latter being forced to go on the re- tired list. Nearly 30,000 men employed in the dock- yards were discharged on March 3L This is the usual annual practice in the British navy at the close of the financial year. The men are hired again the following day, but are given new numbers in the issue of tickets at the muster stations and are also distributed into new gangs. The disastrous gun accident on board the British battleship Mars resulted in the deaths of two lieutenants and nine bluejackets and injury to seven others. Of.eighteen men who were in the barbette not one escaped either death or injury. Two men were blown through a small opening and only small portions of their bodies found. Several of the wounded are in a precarious condition. and two are hopelessly blind. The accident is belleved to be due to a misfire, the explosion blow- ing the breech block of the 12-inch gun to the rear, shattering the turret and seri- ously damaging the upper deck and fit- tings. 2 el Two important decrees dealing’ with the organization of the French navy went into effect April 1. The first decree relates to the mobile defenses of the ports which are reorganized, and the list of lleutenants and sub-lieutenants being insufficient, warrant .officers will perform the duties of commissioned officers in certain cases. Torpedo boats are henceforth to go in pairs, each boat being a support to the other, one to be commanded by a lieuten- ant and the other in charge of a warrant officer. The second decree affects the dis- tribution of the forces on foreign sta- tions. . e » ‘What little there is left of the Spanish navy is evidently not very satisfactory. Owing to errors in the construction of the three armored cruisers Cardenal Cisneros, Princessa de Ashurias and the Cataluna their bows have to be rebuilt. They were begun eleven years ago, and it is serious- ly doubted that they will ever be com- pleted. . s ‘The Frauenlob, a cruiser of the Gazelle type, was launched March 22 at Bremen. The vessel is 2600 tons displacement, with engines of 8000 horsepower and 20 knots speed. She is named after one of the first vessels in the Prussian navy of 1849, and ‘was presented by the Women's Society to the Government. The original Frauenlob was a schooner, built at a cost of about §12,000, and was lost with 46 officers and men in September, 1862. The battleship Kaiser Karl der Grosse, which was placed in commission January 9 last, occupied forty months in its con- struction. The Kaiser Friedrich III, built at Wilhelmshafen, was the first of that type of ships, and was forty-three months under construction; the Kaiser Barba- rossa and the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, built by contract, required thirty-three and thirty-nine months, respectively, and the Kaiser Wilhelm II, from the Wil- helmshafen yard, took forty-one months to.complete. . . The Russian Admiralty is endeavoring to check the extravagarce and corruption practiced by naval officers afloat and ashore. An order has been issued for- bidding commanding officers to buy at for- eign ports any articles which are kept in stock at Vladivostok and Port Arthur, and purchases of articles not in store will only be permitted on approval of the ad- miral of the fleet. Instances showing the necessity for such an order are given. A commander last year paid 18 rubles a pood for oil at Nagasaki at a time when the volunteer fleet was only paying 4 ru- bles 80 kopeks for the same quality, and when it could -be had at Russian depots for 1 ruble 65 kopeks to 2 rubles 35 kopeks per pood. The commanders, likewise, are in the habit of buying stores in foreign ports, notably in the Mediterranean, be- fore leaving for the Far East at greatly advanced prices over the stores to be had at Kronstadt, and their purchases are frequently many times greater than their requirements. This practice is to be stopped, and the ships leaving for the Aslatic station are henceforth to take in a full supply of stores at Kronstadt suffi- clent for the whole voyage. i e A tobacco chewing and smoking con- test recently took place at the Brooklyn navy yard in which five officers and half a dozen sailors participated. It took sev- eral days to test the merits of thirty-one brands of tobacco submitted. A large number of volunteers offered their ser- vices and the remarks made by the judges selected were carefully chronicled for fu- ture reference. Twenty-two thousand pounds of tobacco were to be contracted for, and has, of course, to be of superior quality to be acceptable to Jack. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. COLUMBIAN HALVES—S. W. B, City. A premium of 10 cents is offered for a Columbian half of 1892, but none for one of 1893. NAVAL ORDNANCE—M. M. Z., Sis- son, Cal. In the United States navy the largest guns outside of those on monitors are thirteen-inch; on the monitors the largest are fifteen-inch. LIBRARY FUND-—Californians, City. Those who apply to Andrew Carnegle for a library fund for a city or town should ‘make the same in the usual form of ap- plying for anything, by petition, which must set forth all the facts and the rea- son for the request. Carnegle's address City. This department CLUB HONORS ITS RETIRING PRESIDENT The rooms of the Sorosis Club were thronged yesterday with brilliant club women, including members and guests from both sides of the bay and a number of Eastern women who are on their way home from the Los Angeles convention. The occasion was the annual breakfast, given this time in honor of the retiring president, Mrs. W. B. Harrington. Yel- low was seen everywhere in decorations, it being the club color. Covers were laid for 120 and many clever toasts were given. They were: “‘Snapshots of the Federation,” Mrs. Luis Lane Dunbar; “The Decadence of Courtesy,” Mrs. George James Bucknall; “The Ship of Stars,” Mrs. Charles Stetson Wheeler; “The ‘Woman Who Does,” Mrs. Harry Nathaniel Gray; “The Fraternal Spirit in Clubs,” Mrs. Willlam Roberts BEckart; ‘‘Man—Once Our Superfor, Now Our Equal,” Mrs. John Anthony Lewandowski. Mrs. F. G. Sanborn presided and proved a delightful toastmistress. Everything was arranged with the perfection which characterizes all functions of this club and the afternoon was pleasantly spent. The guests were: Mrs. Robert Walt, Mrs. Henry Payot, Mrs. Kate Bulkeley, Miss Mabel Gray, Mrs. Georse H. Binney, Mrs. E. H. Kittridge, Mrs. Herbert Walthman, Mrs. Carlton C. Crane, Mrs. Henry K. Field, Mrs. John Bakewell, Mrs. John Spruance, Mrs. James D. Bailey, Mrs, Charles W. Slack, Miss Van Winkle, Mrs. Jobn F. Merrill, Mrs. Jasper McDonald, Mrs. George G. Carr, Mrs. BE. R. Bryant, Mrs. Rafferty, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. James W. Edwards, Mrs. Harry Mann, Mrs. Watson D. Tennimore, Mrs. Charles Burnham, Miss Peck, Mrs. W. R. Campbell, Mrs, T. G. Stone, Mrs. W. R. Eck- art, Mrs. W. R. Eckart Jr., Miss Danforth, Mrs. Curran Clark, Mrs. Charles K. Wilson, Mrs. John P. Young, Mrs. Stafford, Mrs. Louls Weinmann, Mrs. Lewandowski, Mrs. George A. Knight, Mrs. T. S. Belcher, Mrs. William T. Belcher, Mrs. Charles S. Wheeler, Mrs. Fitzhugh, Mrs. Llewellyn, Mme. de Seminario, Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Wenban, Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. Lyman A. Kelly, Mrs. Rollin W. Kelly, Mrs. Harry Nathaniel Gray, Mrs. John Babcock, Mrs. George J. Bucknall, Mrs. Charles Fox Fay, Mrs. T. K. Zook, Mrs. Hugo D. Keil, Mrs. T. G. Walkington, Mrs. de Greayer, Mrs. Charles H. Wood, Mrs. S. C. Denson, Mrs. George E. Ames, Mrs. John J. Brice, Miss Goewey, Mrs. Marion R. Higgins, Mrs. John R. Looseley, Mrs. F. P. McLennan, Mrs. W. S. Davis, Mrs. George H. Volkmann, Mrs. A. Buckingham, Mrs. H. T. Summerhayes, Mrs. John E. Alex- ander, Mrs. H. Huffman, Miss Caroline Huff- man, Mrs. Albert Sutton, Mrs. Hopson, Mrs, Charles J. Deering, Mrs. H. A. Bryant, Mrs. Akin H. Vail, Mrs. Frank A. Vail, Mrs. George D. Foy, Mrs. Walter E. Deane, Mrs. James Alva Watt, Mrs. John Flournoy, Mrs. George H. Palmer, Mrs. Rainey, Mrs. Frank D. Bates, Mrs, Eugene Bresse, Mrs. George Tyson, Mrs. C. Elwood Brown, Mrs. F. G. Sanborn, Mrs. Georgina S. Chase, Mrs. C. T. Deane, Mrs. F. W. Sumner, Mrs. William Manning, Mrs. L. J. Hanehett, Mrs. Luis Lane Dunbar, Mrs. J. Stow Ballard, Miss Sarah E. Bender, Mrs. O. M. Burns, Mrs, Elliott D. Goodrich, Mrs. Henry Bush, Mrs. William M. Plerson, Mrs. George Taurston, Mrs. Lester Herrick, Mrs. L. Ingliss, Mrs. I Lowenburg. The Eastern guests were: Mrs. Theodore Alonzo Walters, Mrs. Daniel Shepherd, Mrs. Ellas Hatfleld McKnight, Mrs. James D. Whitmore, Mrs. Mary Alden Ward, Mrs. Edward Kidder, Mrs. Robert Hall Miles, Mrs. W. A. Johnson, Mrs. Philip N. Moore, Miss Sophia Curpiss, Mrs. Elmer B. Jones, Miss Jane Addams, Mrs. Charles Eldredge. s The engagement of F. Ellis Miller and Miss Nettle May Adamson is formally announced. The wedding will take place the latter part of the present month. The groom-elect Is the financial secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of this city and has many strong friends. They are very popular young people in religious circles and wide- ly known. Bl oo A charming reception was given last evening at the Century Club in honor of Mrs. John F. Merrill, who is its retiring president. The decorations were beautiful, consisting of pink hawthorn in the hall, and white and yellow roses in the tea room, arranged with artistic effect. The | reception committee included Mrs. Mer- rill, Mrs. Hearst, Mrs. Wheeler and Mrs. Jordan. Miss Elizabeth Huntington gave an in- formal luncheon on Saturday at the Uni- versity Club, complimentary to Miss Anna Perkins of New York and Cincinnati. o Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Huntington are pre- paring to make a tour of Southern Cali- fornia in their private car, accompanied by Judge and Mrs. G. B. Perkins. P Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson and family are at their summer home at Gilroy. v e The silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Norton was celebrated at the Hotel Nordhoff Friday of last week. The decorations comprised a wealth of orange blossoms, Bride roses, American Beauties and carnations. Other table dec- orations were white and silver candles and pale green and silver fancies in bon bons and ribbons. Covers were laid for fourteen, and the fortunate couple were congratulated on the happy quarter of a century passed in each other’s society. Later in the evening many friends called to add their felicitations. Those who formed the dinner party were Mr. and Mrs, H. C. Norton, Mr. and Mrs. V. Mooney, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Rogers, Hutchison, Miss Brim, Captain O. Hamlet, Mr. F. S. Oliver, Mr. ‘Wheelock, Mr. F. O. Bushnell E. A. Hassan. PERSONAL MENTION. President David S. Jordan of Stanford is at the Occldental. J. M. Jones, a capitalist of Colusa, is a guest at the Grand. J. B. Dougherty, a hotel man of Duns- muir, s at the Grand. Frank H. Buck, a fruit grower of Vaca- ville, is at the Palace. Dr. D. A. Foote of Omaha is among the arrivals at the Occidental. John Sparks, a well-known mining man of Reno, is a guest at the Palace, E. B. Rich, a marshal of Pacific Grove, is among the arrivals at the Grand. = L. A. Whithurst, a prominent resident of Giiroy, is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife. E. B. Ryan, tax attorney for the South- ern Pacific, registered at the Occidental yesterday. Felipe Galicia, Consul for Guatemal is in the Mount Zion Hospital in tm:n:x:; serfously 1ll. A. C. Kuhn, a merchant of San Jose, is here on a short business trip and has made his headquarters at the Palace. € G. W and Mr. wheels is patented in A motor sleigh propelled by spiked Germany. JUDGE ORDERS ROSENFELD TO PAY ALIMONY Max L. Rosenfeld, whose efforts to evade the payment of alimony to Agnes TRosenfeld during the pendency of a suit fur divorce brought by him have brought him a lot of unenviable notoriety, was ordered by Judge Hunt yesterday to pay his wife $100 a wmonth until the suit is de- cided. Rosenfeld and his attorneys plead- ed inability to pay such a sum, but Judge Hunt was inexorable and directed Rosen- feld to pay the sum ordered from May 1. Yesterday’s inquiry into Rosenfeld’s finan- cial condition was the third since the fil- ing of the divorce suit. Young Rosenfeld was the only one examined and Judge Hunt made the order after hearing tha: he had lest $2300 in the last two months dealing in cil and stocks. “Any one who can lose that amount in such a ghort time can afford to pay $100 a month for the support of his wife and twe children,” said Judge Hunt. Rosenfeld acknowledged having drawn from the Nevada Bank a deposit of 3230 during the last two menths. “What did you do with the money?” he was asked. “I lost it on marginal transactions.” WIFE CHIDED HIM. “Did you not tell your wife that you had invested it with Harry Goodall in a venture that would yleld you $40 a month?’ asked Attorney Hanlon. who represents Mrs. Rosenfeld. “Yes, sir. I did.” “Why did you do so?” " “Well,” said the witness shamefacedly. “she had chided me about other losses and I did not want her to know of these.” “Did you not,” continued Hanlon, “pre- vail upon your wife to affix the signature A. W. Jones to a note for $1000, which you indorsed and raised $1200 on?" “There was such a note,” said Rosen- feld. “What did you do with the money?” “I blew it in paying debts.” Continuing Rosenfeld said he paid sev- eral people, but mentioned neither names nor amounts. “T'll cut this short,” said Judge Hunt. “You can pay your wife $100 a month, Mr. Rosenfeld.” “But, your Honor,” said Morris Sam- vels, Rosenfeld’s legal adviser, “we have shown ., that my cllent only gets that amount as a salary.” P “I'l admit,” said the court, “that that is his salary, but he gets presents, and I do not think that the ‘presents’ will cease.” MARLATT SEEKS DIVORCE Albert A. Marlatt, a telegraph operator, is suing Virginia A. Marlatt for divorce on the ground of cruelty. Mariatt alleges that his wife spends her time with other men during the hours from 5:30 p. m. to 2 a. m., when he is at work. According to his complaint Mrs. Marlatt spends her time in French restaurants, concert halls and theaters. They were married in Sep- tember, 1599. Ella Savich, who was married to Louls Savich in Austria in 1883, is suing for di- vorce, because, she alleges, her husband has threatened to kill her. She charges him with taking a purse containing 3335 from her and leaving her destitute. Katharina Wenzel is suing Henry Wen- zel for divorce on the ground of intem- perance. They were married in 1568. A suit for divorce was also filed by Vir- ginia Tnibault against Louis Henri Tni- bault for failure to provide. They were married eleven years ago. Judge Graham granted Max Weiner a divorce from Celia Welner for desertion and cruelty yesterday. Mrs. Weiner left her husband and went to New York with Tim Leonard, a prizefighter. The marriage of Lillian Ellinghouse to Alfred Ellinghouse, which was solemnized at Portland, Or., January 39, was an- nulled by Judge Graham yesterday and permission granted Mrs. Ellinghouse to resume her former name. A CHANCE TQ SMILE. Opinions—When a man says he has his opinion of another man, says the Mana- yunk philosopher, you can put it down as 2 mighty poor opinion.—Philadelphia Rec- ord. Ostentatious Display of Wealth.—Tim— Dat Muggsy kid makes me tired. Sal—Why? Tim—Aw, he got a nickel sumhow, and ever’ feller he meets he asts him ef he kin change it.—Boston Post. Last Fate Worse That His First.— Smith—Poor Wederly is having a hard time of it. His first wife got a divorce from him, you know. Jones—Yes, and he has a hard time paying her alimony, I suppose. Smith—Worse than that. She is his present wife's dressmaker.—Chicago News. —_———— [ Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's® —_—— Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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