The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 16, 1903, Page 6

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BRANCH OFFICES—S27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open | until 2:80 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open unt!! 9:30 o’clock. 633 | McAllieter, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until | #:30 c'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 | Market, corner Sixteenth, open until ® o'clock. 1096 Va- lencis, cpen until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open untll 9 | o'ciock. NE. corner Church and Duncan streets, open | until ® o'clock. NW. eorner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until © o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 o’clock. = THE TERRIBLE TURK. HE Turk has a bad name, but it is as well not to accuse him of sucking eggs on insufficient testimony. The daily reports sent through va rious news channels of wholesale slaughter and moun- 1 sides slippery with the blood of the innocent may | In the beginning of the pre rristians burned some Mahome- | Il of worshiping followers of the and no doubt there have been retaliations. | on the imagination and are at- remarkable atrocities. One s but to go back to the tales and fables told by Civil War to appreciate this. 1as become accustomed to stories about of the Turks iristia many Christian Tur! reg and their - fanatical But the fact is that there are and many of them have held the government and confidence of the ¢ s been represented here by a Minister was a Chris! . and until this country puts in h high places some of the able Chinese Buddhists znd Confucians who are our fellow citizens it is not in order to gird at the ugly man of Stamboul. y ago we were A few Armeniz s much excited over the Daily reports were made of hassacres. the number slain. Our Congress got excited, and ned attack on Presi- 1 not send our mavy “into the Golden Horn to throw hot shot through one Senator n an impassi dent Cleveland because he the grand Seraglio.” - Finally one gentleman, who | matics and statistics, collected the reports of slaughter, and, putting them together, discovered that, according to them, the whole pop- ulation of Armenia had been exterminated ten times. | The news makers had reported the murder of (en!‘ times-as many people as were in the country. So | it appeared that every Armenian had been killed ten | times, slaughtered, butchered and done away with ten times. Yet that more than cat-like population | seems to be alive and active to-day and able to burn ; mosques and roast Mahometans to turn. It | is said that Government officials so well understand | the capacity of the correspondents for murdcring' Christians in their imagination that they keep their had a turn for ma a own bureaus of information and are able to properly discount the number slaughtered by telegraph. ] It is no doubt true that a good many people are “ getting killed. That is 2 common and, let us admit, | Turk and Chris- tian go down in a common fate, and the ex-bandits | who have been transiormed into Christian revolu- tionists are no amateurs at butckery. It is probable | that dishonors are easy. No one would object to the | success of the revolution. If Bulgaria and Servia would join and make a combined attack on the Turk | he would find his hands full, and the woman slayers of Belgrade would find a congenial occupation. The whole matter is a revolution, as. much so as the French revolution of 1793, and so far much less blocdy than the Reign of Terror. American interest | in it is limited to the protection of our-nationals who | may be in the zone of disturbance. 1f we dasthis, and | otherwise keep cool and drive in the middle of the road, our full duty is discharged. We have no mis- sion to convert the world, drive tae Turk into Asia or do any of the extraordinary things demanded of our Government by the excited people who think that the criminality of an act exists only in the re- ligion professed by the actor. a mecessary feature in revolutions. . Several Montana robbers attempted recently to carry off a safe and failed. They have evidently neg- lected a very necessary apprenticeship in their pro- fession. A short residence in California will conivince them that ‘the theft of 2 hot stove is no more un- usual than the rifling of the quarters of the police in the Hall of Justice, and both are accepted as ordinary incidents of the art of pilfering. It requires in Cali- fcrnia the theft of an entire town, as was done re- cently in Alameda County, to excite even the cu- riosity of observers. ————— | own and operate their lighting plants. | and | for it can carry them. | ter on the subject says: In the approaching election in New York both Democrats and Republicans have united upon one man for re-election to his position as a member of the Court of Appeals, thus insuring the continuance of his service to the State. It is seldom that in this manner American politics subordinates itself to prin- ciple and in doing so exalts and dignifies its appeal to partisans. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1903. PUBLIC UTILITY BONDS. VERY ONE will concede that if public utilities E are to pass into public ownership and adminis- tration they should be in every way safe- guarded to secure honest, economical business man- agement. Such management is impossible when the consequences of a lack of it can be concealed by merging the business with the purely political part of government. Herbert Spencer, the English philosopher whose works have for forty years formed and directed hu- man thought in the great affairs of life, says: “Of- ficialism is habitually slow. When non-governmental agencies are dilatory the public has its remedy; it ceases to employ them and soon finds quicker ones. Under this discipline all private bodies are taught promptness. But for delays in public business there is no such easy cure. Officialism is extravagant. Public agencies are subject to no such influence as that which obliges private enterprise to be economi- cal. Traders and mercantile bodies succeed by serv- ing society cheaply. Such of them as cannot do this are continually supplanted by those who can. They canrot saddle the nation with the result of their extravagance, and so are prevented from being ex- travagant.” These philosophical principles apply everywhere to the attsmpt of government to go into business. The Gas and Electric Light Commission of Massa- chusetts reports: “Eighteen cities in Massachusetts Of these fif- teen are electric plants only, and three operate gas electricity. The expenses of these -eighteen cities in operating their plants for the year ending June 30, 1900, were $148,364 21 greater than their in- | come, and that sum was charged in the taxes to the cost of street lightlng. The balance-sheet of the | lighting plants of these eighteen cities showed a de- s » | ficit for the year of $157,641 25. Yet when the people of those cities were being urged to have them go into the business of selling light they were lured by the promise of great cheap- ness and great profit. In the case of most of them it is probably true that the taxpayers would be in ig- norance of the loss in the business charged to them as taxes were they not informed by the State com- mission. The bonds issued to acquire the lighting plants were made liens upon the taxpayers, who pay interest and principal and make up also the deficits due te wasteful public management. When the city of Worcester was urged to go into the lighting busi- ness a committee of experts examined the results in the other towns which are in that business. The finding was that under public ownership the cost of light to the citizens averaged twice as much as under private ownership. But part of it they paid as ratepayers and part as taxpayers, and the latter was concealed in their general tax receipt, and they were robbed by public ownership without being able to detect it. Turn where one will the story is the same, and it admonishes the people of this city and Oakland to go slowly and wisely in entering into a scheme of public ownership. It is useless to say that here the policy will succeed under conditions that have been present in its failure everywhere else. We can at least start right by voting down all propositions to make pub- lic atility bonds, a lien on the city and insisting that | they shall'be liens only on the plant that they create, and that all such plants shall support themseives and | no deficits shall be charged off to the taxpayers or paid out of the general fund. \ Ii the Geary-street Railroad will pay its cost and expenses its bonds need not be a lien on the city, If it cannot be so operated 4s to pay its cost and expense of operating, the defi- cit should not be charged off to the taxpayers, but should be met by an increase in fares paid by those who patronize it. That is the business way to run business, whether by public or private agencies, and so far no valid objection to it has been shggested by the advocates of public ownership. If they believe that public utilities can be run cheaper, Detter and | more profitably by the city, they should be eager to prove it by basing the funds on the plani and keep- ing the business separate, so that it can prove with- out doubt the superior virtue of public ownership. A San Diego man who was on trial recently for murder presented in his defense the fact that the man he killed had six notches in his gun and was feared as a very bad man. What a change has come over the spirit of California life. The time was when a man with only six notches in his gun had yet to learn the gentle art of murder in the wild and woolly West. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE. ESPITE reports from time to time that the D United States Commission on International Exchange has had but little success in Eu- rope, it appears there has been accomplished about as much as the Commissioners hoped for, and that the prospects of permanent good resulting from the various international conferences are decidedly bright. In fact, Commissioner Jenks in a recent let- “The mission has been en- tirely successful.” Reports of failure on the part of the commission were due to a misapprehension of its purpose. It was generally believed to have for its object the for- mation of an agreement among the powers to “do something for silver.” No such object, however, was eptertained. Commissioner Jenks says: “The pri- mary purpose of the Commission on International | Exchange has been to promote the extension of the gold standard to China and other silver-using coun- tries. It has been in this sense distinctively a gold commission rather than a silver commission.” The 'republic of Mexico, while preparing to put her own currency on the gold basis, thought proper | to ask other silver-using countries to join her in the task. Most of such countries are in a position to act for themselves, but in the case of China it was recognized that outside influence would have to be brought to bear. Had any single power undertaken to reorganize Chinese finance the jealousy of other powers would have been aroused and serious antag- onism would havc' interfered with the progress of the work. It was, then, for the purpose of clearing the way of diplomatic obstacles that the Commission on International] Exchange decided to confer with the powers of Europe. . » The time is propitious for a movement toward put- ting China on a gold basis because of the fact that no less than three nations are now introducing the gold standard into their dependencies in the Orient, and considerable progress has been made by each. Our own Government has provided for the currency of the Philippines, Great Britain has taken preliminary steps for carrying out the reform programme in the Straits Settlements, and France has done the same for her possessions in Indo-China. With these }0( any combination of manufacturers of fruit con- 'movements going on around her it is certainly de- sirable that the coinage of China be brought into harmonious relations with the currency of other countries. In reviewing the work of the commission Mr. Jenks says: “The advantages of the plan are so ob- vious that the European powers when consulted have one and all agreed that the establishment of the gold standard in China is desirable and practicable. The mission of the Mexican and American commis- sions has been entirely successful. It is only one step, but an important one, toward dowering China with the gold standard of other civilized nations. The methods by which the gold standard is to be introduced may be subject of some differences of opinion. It is not possible in the space assigned to this note to discuss them all in detail. It is sufficient to say that the method proposed has been in suc- cessful operation for twenty years in the Netherlands and the island of Java; was introduced into British India in 1897, and has recently been sanctioned by the Congress of the United States for the Philippine Islands. * * * In the Philippines and in China it has been felt that it would not be practicable to introduce a large gold circulation, because wages range from ten to twenty cents a day in gold, and a sovereign or a five-dollar gold piece would repre- sent nearly the earnings of a month. The subdivi- sions of transactions are so minute that a large use of silver is necessary. That silver it is proposed to maintain at a gold parity by maintaining a gold re- demption fund in the manner proved best by the ex- perience of other gold standard countries.” e The people of Illinois appear to be utterly lacking in a sense of the spectacular. The authorities of the State are meeting with complete failure in their efforts to secure man hunters to capture a desperate murderer. Let California’s glorious example be made kpown. Turn out the militia, let the bands play to | the accompanying cheers of men and the lan- | guishing smiles of women. Give everybody a thrill, and if Illinois bad men are like California bad men they won't mind it in the least, but will pursue the even tenor of their murderous way. e e | crease in the price of jam, a serious question in Great Britain, do not attribute it to any ar- BRITAIN AND HER JA'M. | bitrary action on the part of Sir Thomas Lipton or ONDON papers in dealing with the recent in- serves; but to the well nigh universal shortage in the supply of fruits out of which jams are made. The shortage of the crops is due to excessive moisture which appears to have affected all parts of the British Islands and a considerable part of the Continent. The Westminster Gazette says: ‘‘All old season’s jams have gone up twopence a jar, and the new sea- son’s is half as dear again as it was this time last | year, and the prices are rising. Lucky the house- | | keeper who lays in a store at once, for there are dark hints abroad about the future supply—extraordinary prices are prophesied.” Jams and jellies are not the only delicacies of the kingdom in which there will be a shortage by reason of the heavy rains. A British rural paper, “Country Life,” says: “Of those who have suffered most from | the excessive moisture of the year the bee master has | the strongest grounds of complaint. In the south | every show of blossom an which the apiarian rests | his hopes -appeared, only to be drenched and de- stroyed with new showers of rain. Near the moors, where a second harvest is expected from the heather, things are still worse.” In the face of the losses thus inflicted by the heavy rains to which the islands are liable at every season, the present high price of fruit is encouraging many land-owners to undertake the plantation of fur- ther orchards. One authority says: “The industry is being extended, and planters are paying more atten- tiongto the claims of dwarf trees and salable kinds. | The demand for choice fruit in the wholesale markets throughout the United Kingdom is limitless, and at excellent prices. I calculate thit the financial re- ceipts from British fruit farms range from £3,000,000 to £6,000,000 a year. The smallness of the total is due to the fact that the poor returns from the almost countless numbers of useless trees which incumber the ground tell upon the average.” g It is of course natural the British jam-eater should look tn the orchards of his own v:oun-try to furnish the fruit from which the delicacy is made, but he would be wiser to look to California. With a better transportation system and with more equitable rates for hauling across the continent California could fur- nish the British market with a sure supply of fruit, cheaper than it can be produced in England and of a much better grade. Sir Thomas Lipton is now in this country on a yachting expedition, but before he | goes home he would do well to come to California and study the probable profits that would result from establishing here a manufacturing plant for putting up every kind of fruit preserve his British public de- mands. It is the safest source of supply, and will as- sure the Briton of jam, for breakfast no matter how the rains may pour down upon his native island. Complaint has been made that several of the most important municipal departments of San Francisco have not yet submitted their reports for the fiscal year just passed. From what the public knows of the operation of several of these departments it is not unreasonable to presume that the reports, if ren- dered, would be an expose which would shock our community sense of decency. A gentleman of this city, with a temerity worthy of his cause, is asking the courts to divorce his wife because, with a precision unusual in her sex, she threw a carving knife at him and observed with sat- isfaction that it stuck and quivered in his leg. Under conditions which appear now to prevail the lady probably regrets that with her accuracy of aim she didn’t use an ax. TR Japan has filed with Russia a formal protest against the delay with which the White Czar is protecting his expulsion from Manchuria. This is distinctly a new note in the Eastern song of harmony and good will. It is not long since that Japan wanted to fight and prepared for battle. Her protest onstrates to the rest of us that the fellow who wafits to argue w‘on't fight. ! ——d A’ gentleman named Thrift, on burglary bent, was shot and captured in the pursuit of his trade by a woman in San Jose. How unfortunate it is that with a name like his he didn’t realize that the world wouldn’t permit him to take a speculative chance be- yond the routine of a slow progress to financial suc- A few days~Tago Chamberlain was hooted and a kindness of fate that Oom Paul has lived to know it. . Al | sonableness of SINGING BY SIGHT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS —_—— Dr. Perkins, whose communication on the “Sliding Do’ appears below, is director of the Chicago National College of Music. He is a well-known editor of church music, and has always taken great in- terest in teaching music in the public schools. He has been well known as a musical critic for more than a quarter of a century. He was for fifteen years president of the Illinois State Music Teachers’ Association and many years the secretary of the National Association. His communication on a topic of local in- terest is as follows: CHICAGO, Sept. 8, 1908. Editor San Francisco Call: In the August 24 issue of an evening newspaper of your city I have read a dissertation upon the “Sliding Do,” which is an exposition of the views en- tertained by Mr. Roncovieri, one of your publie School Directors, in its relation to the teaching of singing or ‘‘sol-fa-ing.” The ar- sument, text or declaration Is put in the form of an interrogation, “Shall the note ‘do’ used by singers re- main stuck hard and fast on the' first line below the staff at C, or shall it go sliding up and down the scale at the pleasure of whatever key the singer desires to pitch the tune?” If the concensus of public opinion were to settle the question the decision would be in favor 'of the ‘‘sliding do,"” especlally from singing class teachers and these who read vo- cal music at sight or without the aid of an instrument. Aithough this matter has been thrashed over many times and as many times settled in this country, there is a small minor- ity in favor of the “fixed do.” This ques- tion, however, being of public interest 1 desire to reply, and must take issue with Mr. Ron- covieri. First, the ed do" is a foreigner and the “movable do'* is an American. That settles the question, If not the controversy. It has been settled in this country for over one hun- dred years. If it were true that the rank and fila of singers in Eastern countries, including Ttaly, are as good sight readers as Americans who have studied singing from the movable do method It would not be a sufficlent rea- B substituting the foreign. changed any more than our republican form of government will be changed to monarchical. A few teachers ‘may advocate the “fixed do, and, possibly, a few cities may adopt it. San Francisco may be one of them, but it will have » short life. The history of the ““fixed do,” when coming in competition with the ‘‘mavable do,” has always been that the former takes a back seat or retires. And why? Because it Is slow, tedious and lumbering. It Is like a Mexican | cart compared with an American vehicle con- structed for a similar purpose. The Yankee, go-ahead idea Wwill not tolerate any slow, tedious process when a shorter cut can be made with equally as good or better results. We do not progress backward. The ‘‘tonic sol-fa” system, which the article says Miss Carpenter introduced into the San Francisco schools, is the American method in so far as the toric or one of the major scale is always “do’” ana one of the minor (the related minor) is always “la.”” That is all. The no- tation (without the staff) is the objectionable feature and its life will be short and sectional in_this country. Miss Glover, ‘a school teacher in England, first_introduced it there for the purpose of having an easier, simpler and more successful means of teaching the school children than the “fixed do"" In the Government schools un- der the general superintendency of John Hul- lah. She had sufficient genius to discover that it was much easier, more logical and sys- tematic to sing the scale In every major key just the same, thus: Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la. ti, do. Rev. John Curwin, aiso a philosapher, logiclan and educational expert, formulated the scheme of Miss Glover and introduced it into the schools of England, where it has almost entirely supplanted the fixed do. When in London several years ago it was my privilege to listen to an exposition of the two methods in the public schools In company Wwith the two great leaders, Hullah and Cur- win; also to great demonstrations at the Crystal Palace. The tonic sol-fa-ists were by far the better sight singers or readers. Mr. Curwin, however, stated that he should have introduced the 'American system—the movable do, with the staff notation—had h been familiar with it. Second—Now as to the simplicity and rea- the American system. The children are first taught to sing the major scale, applying the syllables, do, re, mi, ete., as above. This practice is for the purpose of establishing the relationship of the tomes of the scale as to the intervals, including larger intervals of which chords aré composed, This is of paramount importance. G s the founda- tion work for mental trainffig, to think the tones, to know the exact pitch of any tone reckoned from the tonic or one. With this sort of practice it becomes very easy to change the key by establishing (mentally) any pitch or tone as the tonic, from which the singers proceed with ease, accuracy and success. After having learned the order of scale in- tervals, ‘starting with do (do, re, mi. etc.), .it is, indeed, very difficult to pass over the same order of intervals (whole steps and half steps) with the syllables re mi fa, mi fa sol, ete. It is tedious, illogical and inconsistent. It is like learning ancther language or another alphabet. 1If the fixed “'do” is to be the sys- tem the *do” and all of the other syllables should be eliminated, as they are an incum- brance, a burden and & stumbling biock, and the attention should be given entirely to in- vs from C to D (a whole steo or D to E, the same; C sharp to D (a half-step or minor second), etc., which is mot elementary or primary, but belongs to more advanced steps In a course of sight #inging, such as is most suitable and de- manded in the public schools. It is diffieult for those wno have learned to sing the scale by the usual syliables to dissociate the syllables from the scale tones and the more surely this is established—a fixed fact—the Detter sight readers we shall have among the singers who come from the public schools. Again, such a system should be taught that will, as a consequence, implant in the mind and musical sense meloiic ideas. For instance. do re mi fa. as u melody, does not produce the same effect, meiodically or harmonically, as sol la ti do, and yet the intervals are the same. The first suggest movement or unrest, and the second repose. | The American system establishes this to a certainty. The “fixed do” would be all right if mbsolute pitch were to be learned, but | that is impracticable. The game would not pay for the powder. School life is too short. In this counection 1 must advise those who teach music in the public schools against the too common practice of rote singing. It is a waste of time and money, for it does not teach intervals, the relationship of tones in the scale nor the melodic lGea, as aforesaid. Furthermore, it is a_ waste of time to teach the tonic-soi-fa notation because it is ephe- meral, while the staff notation is universal— ag a “written language.” School directors should be wise enough to appreciate this point. Not ome system of reading for children and another for adults. Mr. Roncovier] says: ‘No ‘one who chariplons the (movable @o) system has ever dome anything in music .that has been heard of, while many of those who stick to the old-established method have climbed to the top of the ladder in the musical world.” I understand that he means any ‘‘movable do'" system. If so his information is painfully limited, as there are thousands of them in this country, from before Lowell Mason's time to the present, and they have besn the real musical educators of the people. To them be- longs the credit of advancing the cause and a knowledge of music at a rapid pace. They have laid a good and ablding foundaticn upon which the musical structure is gradually and surely being erected, Again he says: *Tt is a complex method.” Not so. It is the simplest mettod ever de- vised or system ever formulated. The ‘‘fixed a0 is suverlatively complex—the slow coach, lumbering system of the distant past. It has no place in these times of great speed, rapid progress and quick conclusions. But to fritter away time, even in the grades of our public schools, with the ton'c-sol-fa no- tatiop is the pinnacle of folly. It is teaching two written languages, or musical notations, when ome (the staff) answers the best and every purpose for the pictorial rapresentation of music. This subject is of vital moment and should be thoroughly studied and wiscly acted upon by Boards of Education, suvervicors of e second), music and those who are entrusteq with the | teaching of sight singing In our public schools, H. 8. PERK] Special Inducement to Golfers. _ The Del Monte full 18-hole course is in excellent condition and is now considered the_finest on the coast. 1 fall rates to Del Monte, ninety-day ticket till Oct. 15, $4 7; Friday till Tuesday, $4 50; Sunday excursion, 3 00. ¢ . —————— Mechanics’ Institute Holds Meeting. ‘The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Mechanics’ Institute was held last night in the assembly room of the asso- clation. It was devoted to discussing regular routine work. * T AT A o Articles that will make = | Money for you. ‘Why Americans Are more suceessful than Britons. _ By Johm Foster Frazer. First of a series of the Test Contemporaneous Thought by world-famous INTERESTING POLYTECHNIC . WEDDING HELD | SCHOOLINSOUTH AT HACIENDA At high noon yesterday Mrs. Phoebe Hearst gave into the keeping of Dr. Jo- seph Marshall Flint her favorite niece, Miss Anne Apperson. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. N. 8. Gallwey in the presence of seventy-five guests, many of whom journeyed from the East to witness the happy event. The maid of honor, Miss Ella Woolworth, was a schoolmate of the bride in New York. F. R. S. Balfour officiated as best man. Haclenda del Pozo de Verona is well adapted for impressive ceremonies and in its spacious dining hall an elaborate breakfast was served. In the fi.fler;oon couple left for Wyntoon, Mrs. ;;‘:l!:l?: ‘charmlnp g home on the McCloud | River. Here in this ideal spot the honey- | moon will be passed. | e The California Club met yesterday aft- ernoon at its room in the Y. M. C. A. building to Msten to an entertaining ad- | dress upon “The Need of Pictures in Our Public Schools,” by Mrs. W. A. Maddern. | The necessity of developing the artistic | sense in children was effectively discussed | and the best method to obtain desirable | results was decided to be through the medium of wholesome, artistic pictures. | The members gathered in the full pano- | ply of new fall gowns, and a delightful | aftermath in the tearcom followed. Mrs. } George Law Smith presided with her us- | ual grace and led in the reception of | members and gygsts when the gavel was | Jaid aside for the teacup. For earnestness of purpose and unity of spirit the club as it now stands is an exemplar of per- pect organization. Next Tuesday the day will be given over | to the president. It will be in the nature | of an informal reception, and it is a safe | prediction that no able-bodied member | will fail to greet Mrs. Smith in the man-| ner befitting her exceptional work of con- cillation and otlun!uuor:. . . ‘A wedding of much interest will take place to-day in the picturesque town of Woodland, when Miss Louise Stevens will wed Dr. M. W. Plummer of San Fran-| cisco. ©The Rev. O. P. Shrout of Woodland will perform the ceremony, which will be wit- nessed only by the immediate relatives. | The familles of both bride and groom are among the oldest and most esteemed in their respective communities, the fath- er of the groom, the late Dr. R. W. Plum- mer, being affectionately remembered by hosts' of old families in San Francisco as physician and friend. The family of the bride has been identified with the prog- ress of the Sacramento Valley for many years, and the loss to domestic social eir- Gies of so charming a member will be keenly felt. The prospective bride is statuesque in figure, of intellectual bent and possessed of the ‘culu;re and poise developed by travel. lh’il‘::el’noom resides at the Hotel Pleas- anton, but the future residence of the couple is as yet un:ie(e:mlned_ . The Women's Press Association held its first meeting on Monday afternoon at| Century Hall and the excellent attendance bespoke the value of a period of summer inactivity. The elub has outlined many interesting afternoons for the entertain- ment of its members and friends, the first of which takes place on September 2. The absence of the president, Mrs. Flor- ence Perey Matheson, is much regrette but her efficient corps of officers is doing excellent work in the matter of stimulat- | ing interest in the club’s doings. It has been facetiously said by the cynics that in prder to become a member of the Wo- men’s Press Club one shall not be a, wri- ter, but a perusal of the roster eliminates any such accusation from the domain of truth. Mrs. Matheson will return from New York next month, when her visit to her mother, Mrs. Akers (the author of the | poem “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother”) will have terminated. The Laurel Hall Club will entertain its members and friends to-day at 3 p. m. by a timely lecture by Charles Keeler of Berkeley upon ‘Opportunities of Beauti- fying San Francisco.” Coming, as it does, almost upon the eve of the bond issue election, wide interest attaches to the subject. Surely few are better fitted by education or temperament to discuss the subject than Mr. Keeler, who not only sees things in his travels, but who can tell what he sees. Mrs. Thomas W. Col- lins, who since the club’s organization has contributed liberally to the entertain- ment of the members, is to talk upen “An Alaskan Outing.” A wedding that means much to Califor- nia took place the first week of this month at the country place of James J. Phelan in New Jersey. The bride was Miss Georgia Sullivan, the winsome sister of Mrs. Rudolph B. Spence, Mrs. Reginald ‘White, Miss Adah Suilivan and Miss Fan- nie Sullivan and Mrs. Turner. The young lady went East three years ago to pursue vocal studles, and while a guest at the home of Mrs. Turner Sr., in Washirgton, met Lewis White, a Ken- tuckian barrister, and forthwith the daughter of the West and the son of the South were mutually attracted. Those who know the young people assert that | social IS COMPLETED Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Sept. 15.—Dr. Le- roy Anderson, the director of the State Polytechnic School here, announces that owing to some delays in the completion of the buildings the school will not be able to open for students upon the date fixed for the opening, September 15, but that the date for the opening has been pos poned until September 30. The contrac ors are finishing their work as rapidly as possiblé and it is confidently expected that the school will be ready to recelve pupils September 3. However, it is not expected that the recitation bullding will be fully completed at that date, but a number of the rooms will be ready for occupancy at the time set and the dor mitory will be ready for students. Applications for admission are being dally received and the school will stast under the meost favorable auspices. It is understood that the curriculum as ar- ranged is quite comprehensive. Besides instruction in the academic branches, training will be given in the arts and sci- ences whieh deal peculiarly with the life of the home, the farm, the orchard, the dairy and the shob. The school is not designed to occupy a place in the regular school system of the State as that system is generally un- derstood. Its course of study is arrang- ed solely in view of the needs of the boy or girl who is going to earn a livelihood after completing its course and prepare them for industrial life. —_—————— Heavy Day in Custom-House. Yesterday was the busiest of the year in the Custom-house, the receipts being $68,000, whereas the usual day's receipts ldom exceed $15,000. The getting out of “general orders” for the Chung Wo and the Hongkong Maru, and the settling of duties on the cargoes of the same caused considerable additional labor. Acting Col- lector Hamilton abdicated his thro. > on the third floor and took his Special Dep- uty desk on the second floor and lent a hand in the work. Cashier Perkins kept | his office open until 3:45 p. m. to accom- modate the brokers, and every clerk in the Custom-house was impressed into ser- vice. Federal Grand Jury Report. A partial report was made yesterday by the Federal Grand Jury, in which the announcement was made that they had ignored the charges against Willam E. Vaughn and Samuel R. Patterson, the former acéused of having mailed an ob- scene letter to a person in Los Angeles and the latter of having stolen seven yards of cloth from P. R. Bruce on the high seas. The jury will reassemble on Friday. @il @ the marriage was a very happy denoue- ment of a very happy courtship. Mr. White, while a Southerner, practices his profession in Washington, and thus will his charming wife participate in the gayeties of the national capital. Mrs. Frank J. Sullivan and Miss Phelan Wwent East a month ago in order to at the wedding. . - Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dewey Bristol New York have made a rather extende visit to San Francisco, having been tertained at the home of the Misses Br tol, at 724 Turk street. Mr. Bristol has been for many years the representative in New York of the Banerort publications. The visitors will terminate their stay the last of the week. . During Mr. Bristol's visit, a renewed in- terest has beem taken in the wonderful Bancroft library on Valencia and Twen- ty-sixth streets, where behind formidabie iron shutters is buried the civic and so- | cial birth development of California from its infancy. This mine of virfle matter | has been closed to the public for many years, and it is sincerely to be hoped that some day it may become public property. p S Mrs. La Montagne has taken apart- ments at the Hotel Granada for the fall, after having passed a delightful summer in Napa County, at the country home of her mother, Mrs. Darling. P ALy . ® Mr. and Mrs. A. Comte and family have closed their country home at Woodside, San Mateo County, and are located at the town residence. T Mr. and Mrs. Jerome A. Hart have re- turned to their country place in San Jose. “Weywolde” must be a pleasant dwelling- place after the distant wanderings of its owners. T N Mr. and Mrs. Max Lewis announce the engagement of their daughter Flossie to Benjamin Milford Eiser. They will be at home Sunday afternoon, September 2, at 1363 Ellis street. e Townsend's California glace fruits and candles, 50c a pound, In artistic fire- etched boxes. 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