The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 5, 1902, Page 6

Theioadaac Call FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Aderess All Cemmunications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. Ui S A A EN TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE, . .Market and Third, 8. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevemson St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. S:ngle Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DALY CALL (including Sunday). One year.... DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 montbs. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 8 months.. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. subscriptions. Sample coples Will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in ordering change of address should be particolar to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. ...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: ©C. C. 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In the case of the accident to the President there was no lack of preliminary precautions. The man- agers of the electric car lines had been requested to order special care taken in the operation of their cars on the route taken by the President. This re- quest had gone out in an order to the car crews. Probably the knowledge of this abridged the caution of the Presidential party and of the driver of his car- riage. O theory the driver was clearly guilty of negligence trying to handle a four-horse team across a railroad track with a car approaching under speed. gt The car crew seem to have paid no attention to the admonition to be careful. When the car approached, Mr. Craig, on the President’s carriage and clearly within the motorman’s line of vision, signaled him to stop. The motorman denies that he saw the warn- ing. But that failure is not exculpatory. He was going at a high speed down grade and must have seen the carsiages directly in front of him, and that the heir drivers and occupants were turned diag- om him. It is a marvel that the President and Secretary Cortelyou escaped alive, and that the Governor of Massachusetts, who was in the carriage alongside Craig. was not, like him, instantly killed. So it t n it was only by one accident dominating another on the same day the republic and two States did lose their executives as the result of carelessness indifference to responsibility. e of urban and suburban electric roads has new danger in action, and these conspicuous presence should admonish the mafgers es to Il greater caution into their crews by a more strict discipline. A year ago this month the nation was called to mourn the loss of a Presi- de by assassination, and now has nearly lost an- r by an entirel True, Presi ly preventable cause. s and Governors are only men, but their untimely ng off by other than natural causes jars'and jolts the aff. of many people. Hereziter when a President of the United States is abroad among the people, as he should be freely and irequently, Jet an eye be kept upon other dangers than those that lie in the machinations of anarchy. New England critics have noted that in his recent speech at Boston President Roosevelt began thirteen sentences with “now,” used the phrase “have got” for “must” eleven times and wound up by splitting an infinitive. Under the circumstances it is probable the Bostonians would have mobbed him had they not been restrained by the knowledge that he is President of the United States and a graduate of Harvard. As it is they content themselves with mildly rebuking him and ad\'i=iqg young people not to follow his ex- ample in talkirg. Registration under the new constitution has now been carried far enough in Virginia to render it cer- tain that the black vote has been effectively sup- pressed. It is said the negroes regard their rejection by the Registrars as so much a foregone conclusion they are not making an attempt to register. In one case a negro was asked what is meant by “suffrage” and replied, “It means that a man is suffered to do what he pleases on election day.” He was counted out. Hartford must be a very clean city, for in default of anything else to do the Board of Health has or- dered the banks to cleanse all paper money that passes over the bank counters, and from the em- phatic manner in which the orders have been given it is believed that every bank will have to provide itself with disinfectants. By and by perhaps they may dis- infect not only the deposits but the depositors, and then Hartford will be lovely. Duke Boris of Russia has found it advisable to deny that he drank champagne out of the shoe of a Chicago chorus girl, and there is no reason to doubt his denial. If it had been said he took a champagne bath in the shoe of the Chicago beauty it would have been more credible. E —_— Emperor William has shown to several of our gen- erals now in Berlin most distinguished courtesies, It is this sort of thing that does more perhaps than all the efforts of a dozen peace conferences. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRID'AY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1902, FRAGRANT BLOSSOMS ! THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. HE Democratic State Convention made 2 plat- T{orm. It had to. Though the proceeding was pro forma, candidates must stand on something, and those nominated were given a large number of words for a foothold. The platform “denounces” four times, “opposes” twice and “condemns” three times. It leads out with a statement of what may be called on the stump “time-honored Democratic prin- ciples,” against latitude in constitutional construction and against paternalism. We leave it for the party expounders to reconcile this statement with the hodgé-podgery which follows. . A large part of the body of the document, on domestic policy, opposition to amendment 28, preservation of forests and waters, commendation of the oil industry, and upon other great materialities of the State, is copied from the Republican platform, and consists of an expression favorable to great interests upon which all men agree, not involving politics. A Opposing paternalism, the party demands compul- sory education. Now the advantages of education, in a free society, should be so obvious that all will seek them. To make education semi-penal by making it compulsory is to minimize its advantages, or to con- demn the intelligence of the people themselves. If the people do not voluntarily seek every opportunity for the schooling of their children they betray a sod- den indifference which will only be increased when their young are dragged into school by an officer to have education administered to them as a punish- ment. The reform schools should be approximated to the public schools, and not the latter to the former. The first outbreak of denunciation in this platform is naturally directed against the protective tariff. In the statement of principles this is the most important. California has tens of millions invested in protected production. Our dried fruits and raisins, our canned goods, weol, lumber, beet sugar and citrus fruits all feel the nourishing touch of protection. The capital invested in these industries is the property of Demo- crats and Republicans alike. The wages paid are the gains of labor that supports one party or the other. None have forgotten the lean years between 1893 and 1897. The product of many of these protected indus- tries did not pay for transportation to market. The labor that had been employed in them was living in souphouses, or, as in this city, working at charity wage on Balboa boulevard. When protection was again asserted the change came.- Labor was taken off | the charity list and pat on the payrcll. Contrast the prosperous appearance of labor in the great parade of last Monday with the wan and pallid crowds that stood in line on Pauper alley waiting to get a ticket j for a souphouse or an assignment to work on a char- | ity job, and then read this platform denunciation of protectiou, and reflect. Looking to the internal state of the Democratic party, however, the most important fact about this platform is what it omits. Free silver and the na- tional platforms of 1806 and 1900 are coldly snubbed. Those gaudy and fantastic- declarations, which were then deciared to inclose and include the very life of the republic and the existence of its people, are per- mitted to pass unmentioned, and they have faded as completely as the colors in cheap calico. While Tom Johnson was heating the humid at- mosphere of Ohio in a successful effort to put mar- row into the dry bones of Bryanism the same party and passed 1896 and 1900 as if they had dropped out | of the calendar. Free silver was permitted in tife | latter States to take its place in limbo, lowly and for- gotten, beside squatter sovereignty, the Dred Scott decision, the support of slavery, nullification, and the dead and gone doctrines which in their day were put | forward by Calhoun, Douglass, Buchanan and Jef- | ferson Davis as the essentials of party faith. ‘i' This omission is the silent but majestic compliment | paid to the sound morey men of 1896 and 1900 and | to their principles, made in those years the foremost object of Republican solicitude. It was the conven- tion’s silent and heartfelt indorsement of the Repub- lican gold standard law, and was the unspoken grati- tude offered to Republican statesmanship for the de- livery of the country from the perils of unsound and uncertain and fluctnating currency. It was an acknowledgment that Republican policy has made the world our debtor, instead of our creditor, and has moved the financial center of the planet from the | Thames to the Hudson. It is an acknowledgment that there is no such thing as one money for the rich and a different money for the poor, but that the best money is the best for all, and the dole of labor in the savings bank is of the same quality, soundness | and purchasing power as the millions of the capital- ist embarked in great enterprises. So, after all, the people of California owe some- thing to this Democratic convention, for on one issue it came to its senses, albeit the sudden illumination of reason left it speechless. All citizens, too, are gratified that, like the Republican nominees, the Democratic candidates are men of worthy and unim- peachable personal character. When the Democratic ticket is beaten, as it will be, every Californian will be gratified that the result condemned principles only, and was not judgment rendered against bad personal character. \ . As it is reported that J.' Pierpont Morgan will neither tip waiters when in Europe nor stand still to be kodaked in America, it seems he is really getting too fresh for this planet. —— ‘ reconstructing her government through the medium of revclution, and the American peo- SIGNS IN CUBA. ple will indulge the hope that such outbreak may never occur. Nevertheless, there are ominous move- ments whirring through her political machinery. It is true they do not portend actual revolution, but they do threaten something in the nature of a parliamen- tary whirligig, and when once that gets started there is no telling what will happen to the machine. Palma’s trouble arises from the fact that he en- tered office without experience in Cuban politics. He had been a resident of New York for years, and knew very little of his countrymen at first hand. His elec- tion was brought about less by a demand of the Cu- ban people for his services than by the counsel and advice of Americans who thought they understood Cuban problems better than the Cubans themsclvgs. Perhaps they did. We shall never know just what sort of an administration old Gomez would have given his people, and therefore if the friends of Palma assert that it would have been much worse than Palma’s, no one can deny the statement. Still Palma’s administration is blundering. Starting without a knowledge of Cuban parties, Palma undertook to ignore parties. He formed his Cabinet on the principle of harmonizing all factions, UBA has as yet avoided any outbreak toward in Towa and California was unmoved in that direction’ B ‘s . It is a composite Cabinet, a fusion administration, and the consequences have been just what a practical politician would have predicted. The fusionists di- vided the offices fairly enough, but they cannot agree upon policies, and the result is confusion. Recent dispatches from Havana say the President cannot count upon a majority in support of his ad- ministration in either branch of Congress. Already a motion has been made in the House to impeach him, and ‘should it be pressed there is no telling but what the Senate would sustain it. Another op- ponent of the administration deprecates a resort to impeachment, but advises the President to resign in the interests of harmony. On the other hand, a sup- porter of the administration has suggested a recon- struction of the Cabinet. He would have the Presi- dent retain his place but dismiss his Ministers and form a Cabinet on party lines, so as to provide him- self with a party to sustain him. Among“the newspapers the discussion goes on about as briskly as in the House. One says the President assumes too much authority and charges him with having an “almost angelical independence” of Congress. Other papers say he lacks independence and has not the courage to stand up fot any party or any policy. It appears there is only one paper in Cuba that supports him. A correspondent of the New York Sun in describ- ing the situation as seen in Havana says: “The pres- ent situation was prophesied some time ago. It was known that it would be impossible for President Palma to please all parties. It seems also that he has apparently lacked tact. At the same time much of the opposition is due to personal dissatisfaction. In ad- dition to this those who had no ‘pull’ at the start fell back on Congress, urging the members not to yield one iota of their rights, as the obvious tendency of the executive was to usurp functions not properly be- longing to him. Thus the present tension was brought about.” Thus the thing goes. Opinions vary as to the cause of the dissatisfaction with the administration, but all agree that the discontent exists. The one steadying influence in the island is the desire of all parties to stand well in American public opinion. Were it not for that it is more than likely the Palma administra- tion would end like so many in South America, and a series of revolutions set in that would disturb the island for years to come. The struggle in the South Carolina primaries ‘has resulted in a triumph for Tillman, and now Mec- Laurin may as well make up his mind that politics is unhealthy and decide to stay out TOM JOHNSON’S VICTORY. \ NLY a short time ago John R. McLean O deemed it advisable to issue a decree order- ing the Democracy of Ohio to repudiate Tom Johnson in much the same way as the Examiner of this city ordered California Democracy to nomi- nate no man who did not wear an Examiner tag. The Democrats of Ohio have now held their State convention, and behold they have boomed Tom Johnson to such dimensions that he fills the whole Democratic field and John R. McLean is not visible on the horizon. In fact, Mr. McLean will doubtless be best known hereafter as a resident of Washington City and be no longer even so much as mentioned among Ohio men. The triumph of Johnson over the dictatorial non- resident may have been largely a personal one. As a rule Americans object to taking orders from a man whose pretended citizenship is not accompaniéd by actual residence in the State. McLean has newspa- pers and McLean has millions, but he dwells afar, and the Ohio Democrats naturally prefer a man who lives among them and takes pot luck with his neighbors. In addition, however, to the personal phase of the struggle there is another of wider interest. In a far from respectable but still quite clear way McLean represents’ the conservative element of Democracy, and Tom Johnson is the bright particular star of the radicals. The triumph of the latter is therefore to a great extent a triumph for Bryanism. It means that Ohio Democracy stands forth as a champion of what Mr. Cleveland spoke of at the Tilden banquet as “gaudy issues,” and shows how far the conservatives are from regaining control of the party. Johnson has long been spoken of as a probable candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1904, and so has McLean, for that matter. John- son’s victory in the State convention brings him within measurable distance of the goal. Unless the New York and New England conservatives can head him off by gaining the support of the South, he is quite likely to win and we shall then have a Presi- dential contest involving all sorts of political innova- tions, for as yet Johnson has never defined any limit to the programme of state socialism he is willing to undertake. Some time ago Henry Watterson showed strong likings for Johnson, who is a Kentuckian by birth. He spoke of Johnson in the familiar terms of Ken- tucky relationship,as “Cousin Tom” and bade the South get ready fo swing into line for him. Probably he is still willing to use his energies and his influence in the South to help the Johnson boom, for Henry has no liking for anything that savors of Cleveland, and all Democratic reorganization movements do that. At present the Kentucky sage is something of a party pessimist. He has recently advised the party to set aside Cleveland, Hill and Bryan and turn to new men and new issues. As he says in his inimitable style: “The shockheads must come to the rescue and take the lead; the Ilong-legged, big-brained youngsters, with heads on their shoulders and hearts in their bosoms, not yet corrupted by office-seeking and office-holding; faithful to organic truth because they have not learned to be either deceitful or skep- tical.” Whether that was designed as a description of Tom Johnson is more than we know. Tom certainly has a head on his shoulders and a heart in his bosom. The head is big enough to hold all sorts of big ideas, and the heart is big enough to beat gladly when the bat- tle is near. Altogether he is a pretty good heir to Bryanism, and while he would be but a bull in a china shop if elected to the Presidency, he would make a lively canvass if nominated, and Democracy might do worse than follow the Ohio lead. ———— It has been officially announced that during the South African war the British troops in the field con- sumed 34,582,762 pounds of jam, and now we know why they started out with the idea the war was going to be a picnic. g The next time Roosevelt advises young men to go up against everything .in the joy of a strenuous life he will make an exception of an electric car. Gerieral Funston has just shown a discretion equal to his valor; he has declined to have any controversy with Mark Twain. ~ - ENEATH a bower of foliage and fragrant blossoms, Miss Gertrude \E. Widman became the bride of Edward W. Simons last evening. The marriage was celebrated at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Fear at 112 Collingwood street, Miss Widman being their adopted daughter. Rev. Mil- ton. D. Buck of Trinity M. E. Church performed the ceremony. The bride was daintily gowned in white and was attend- ed by Miss Carrie Jeffers. William Si- mons, a brother of the groom, acted as best man. The bride is g native daugh- ter and has been actively connected with church work in this city. The groom lived formerly at Los Angeles, but is at pres- ent superintendent of the Simons-Fout Brick Company, in which he is a large stockholder. Mr. and Mrs. Simons are now on their wedding trip, but have not confided their destination to friends. Upon’ their return they will occupy their new home on Noe street. £ . . Miss Adele Ligon and Richard Nelson ‘Walsh were married on Wednesday even- ing at the Plymouth. Congregational Church in the presence of many friends. Rev. F. B. Cherrington officiated. The bride was attended by Miss Belle Lampe, malid of honor, and Miss Corene Fres- chette and Miss Grace Walsh bridemaids. | Eugene Walsh, a brother of the groom, was best man and G. P. Spotorno gave the bride into the keeping of the groom. The bride wore a handsome gown of cream net over white silk and a long tulle veil. Bhe carried a shower bouquet |of lilles of the valley. A reception at the residence of the bride’'s mother followed the ceremony. After their honeymoon in the southern part of the State, Mr. and Mrs. Walsh ‘will reside with .Mrs.. ngan. Miss Louise Redington gave a pleasant matinee party a few days ago at the Tivoll. € e e The Misses Harrington have returned from a visit to Mare Island. They were the guests of Mrs. T. Phelps. They are now at the Knlclgerbz.:cke.r. Mr. and Mrs. M. Jacobson announce the engagement of their daughter Ella to Mr. Abe Cohn of Oakland. A reception will FRESNO FIREBUG PROVES TO BE' A BABY BOY FRESNO, Sept. 4—The police have dis- covered a juvenile firebug who for some time has been wondrously adept in his special line of destruction. He is only a baby, just able to walk, and yet there are placed to his credit or discredit the origin of three fires. About two weeks ago Baby Emmons, 4 years old, deliberately built a fire along-i side the dry walls of the Home lodging- house, but it was discovered and put out in time. Yesterday afternoon the young- ster started a fire back of the Fresno Steam Laundry, and immediately after- ward in the rear of the stable on Inyo street, between A and J streets. The ap- plication of a burning match to a pile of .straw and to some shavings started both fires, for which a telephone alarm was sent in. The chemical engines quickly extinguished the flames. The child is not driven to this extraor- dinary pastime by any criminal impulse, for when Chief Ward, who caught the youngster armed with his matchbox, asked him why he set fire to these vari- ous places the child answered innocently enough that he liked to see the engines run. PERSONAL MENTION. 14. E. Sanford, a miner of Sonora, is a guest at the Lick. C. L. Russell, an attorney of Tulare, is a guest at the Grand. 8. H. Woods, a merchant of Spokane, iy a guest at the Grand. N. E. de Yoe, a merchant of Modesto, is stopping at the Lick with his wife. Frank G. Finlayson, an attorney of Los Angeles, is registered at the Grand. W. L. McCabe, a prominent business man of Seattle, is a guest at the Ocecl- dental. G. B. Walker, a prominent Salt Lake resident, and his wife are guests at the Occidental. Clarence N. Ravlin, treasurer of the California Theater, has returned from a vaecation in Mendocino County. E. H. Workman, a capitalist of Los An- geles, and his daughter, Gilleta M. Work- man, are guests at the California. E. 0. McCormick, passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, left Chicago last evening fo. this city. Mr. McCormick has been on a business trip throughout the States. —_———————— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Sept. 4—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—Mrs. Graham, at i the Victoria; F. L. Brown, L. McCready, | at the Manhattan; Mrs. N. Davis, at the New Amsterdam; A. M. Lawrence, at the Herald Square; C. J. Prendergast, at the Grand Union. From Los Angeles—I. E. Isner, at the Cadillac; I. Knight, at the Sturtevant; Mrs. Sheffield, at the Gilsey. e ‘Will Make Foodstuffs. The American Food Company was in- THE WEDDING BOWER + e * YOUNG COUPLE OF THI§ CITY WHO WERE MARRIED LAST NIGHT. L +* be given Sunday, September 14, from 2 to 5 p. m. at their residence, 1337 Laguna street. ey Miss Edythe Schmitt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Schmitt, is visiting her parents at the Palace Hotel, having returned from the islands, where she has been spending the last four months. Miss Schmitt will refurn to Néw York City in October, where she will remain because of her literary work. Miss Schmitt has attracted much interest as a clever writ- er of short stories and is now working upon more extensive ones. L 2 g Miss Virginia Nokes has returned from Burlingame. g Mr. and Mrs. Lawrance Scott are at San Mateo. corporated of $1,000,000.' The directors, each of wh ;\’asnsub\!crllbegx 3100, are W. J. Wilson, C. - Deane, Jabish Clement, M. M. Oy N. C. Wells, John Finlay and T. Deagac™ Sues for Damages for Lost Toe. Mabel Murphy, who, while a passenger on the ferry boat Pledment, was run over by an express wagon owned by the Wells-Fargo Express Co., filed a suit for .000 damages against the company yes- terday. She claims that she lost a toe the result of the accident. ~ —_———— Cheap Rates to Washington, D. C. Round trip via Barstow, returning via Ogden, or the reverse, $85.40. Soid only on September 29 and 0. Ask the Santa Fe, 641 Market street. ' WEBSTER FAVORS FREE BOOKS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS Superintendent of Schools Webster yes- terday completed the forty-ninth annuat report of his office. The report contains exhaustive data and figures regarding tha condition of the public schools, besides a number of recommendations tending to the betterment of the system. Ome of the most important is his recommenda- tion that a system be devised by which text books and sehool material should 1o furnished to a!l children who attend tho ic schools, be ] %‘V‘:éster refers to a report of the Ll’tun States Commissioner of Education, W. T. Harris, which specifies ten States which provide free beoks for all pupils. Ten States have .Jocal option on the question, while eight States, including California, must provide free books for indigent pupils only. The report continues: To supply the poor families with books, and not to aupply the well-to-do, creates an in- sufferable class distinction in our schools. Furnishing to pupils without cost the text- books required by the course of study is rec- essary to a perfect execution of the free-school theory that the Government is required to pro- vide an efficient system of free schools, where- by the children of n:’ Séle may reeeive a mon school education. S me. system of promoting pupils that pre- vails In this department should be stremgth- ened. Under its operation it is possible for a pupil to obtain few or no credits in one or even two important subjects of study and medlocrity in the others, and still secure pro- motion. The result is the placement of pu= pils in grades for the work for which they ars unprepared. COMPULSORY EDUCATION. The compulsory education law should be amended and strengthened so as to regulate the employement of minors and to fine those unlawfully employing them: to provide for the appointment of truant officers and to arrest and punish truants, and for the establish- ment.of truant or parental schools. The experfence of the deputy Superintend- ents of this city and of myself emphatically demcnstrates the necessity for truant or parental schools. Deputy Superintendents re- port that in visiting schools they find seores ot children playing and loitering om the streets, frequently in the vicinity of a public school. The influence of these idlers on chile dren attending school 1s necessarily vicious. I respectfully recommend that the Board of Education endeavor to secure again from the Board of Supervisors a special appropriation for the construction of new buildings for the following schools: Burnett Grammar, Sheri- dan, Richmond, Sutro, Jacksom, Marshall and Redding (this year new buildings will be pro- vided, probably, for the Bergerot. Laguna Honda, Sunnyside, Monroe, Noe Valley and Washington schools and additions be built to the Sherman, Hamiiton and Crocker schools): that a parental or truant school be established, especially if the compulsory educational law be amended: that the course of study be re- vised in accordance with amendments to State law and the experience of the past year; tkat such a classification of pupils be made that first and eighth grade classes shall noe have an enrollment in excess of forty pupils, and other classes shall contain not more than fifty pupils enrolled. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. The financial statement relating to the School Department follows: Population of city (estimated) for flscal year terminating June 30—1901, 353,500; 1902, 363,- 000. Number of youths in city under 17 years of agze—1901, 105,512; 1902, 105,91l Number of youths in city between 5 and 17 years of age who are entitled to draw public money—1901, $2,173; 1902, §2,391. ‘Assessment roll of taxable property of eity— 1001, $410,155,304; 1902, $413,009,998: Receipts of School Department: Total, 1901, $1,202,065 41. Balance on hand at beginning of school year, 1902, $87,57589; State appor- tionments, $784,143 36; city taxes, $536,132 79; rents, etc., 607 50. ‘Total, 1902, $1,475.- 759 54. 5 City and county tax per $100—1901, 10.87c; 1002, 13.16e. 1901. 1902. Estimated value of school A + S veqads e seobadnis $3,203,200 $4,501,360 Estimated value of school DUIIAINES . eeoeneeraennn 1,700,000 1,528,000 Estimated value of school furniture . 146,800 Estimated value of school RGO 5o g v diensaie 20,900 18,300 Estimgted value of.school apparatus . 33,000 TORAMS wooessanaasedaded $5,207,600 $6,227,400 There are now 1052 teachers in the de- parenent, fifty-seven new ones having Yesterday with a capital stock ¢ been elected. Ten teachers resigned, two were dismissed, one lost position by abolishing class, four retired and five died. Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_—— Venice has a cafe which has been o day and night for 150 vears. - —_——— Tewnsend's California Glace frult and candles, 50c a pound, in artistie fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building.* —_————— Special information supplied daily 1o business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali~ fornia street. Telephone Main 1043 - SEPTEMRER 7. Ii you havz nol read this thrilling novel get the back copies of The Sunday Call of Avgust 24th and August 31st Qur Next Book, ~ THE MYSTERY BOX By Mrs. C. N. Williamson, The Greal Delective Story o! the Day, Begins Seplember Twenty-One. s The Passing of California’s Most Famcus Political Headquarters. om-mre~oon