The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1903, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1 203, _— Ilieve the periodically recurring money stringency is | ENGAGEMENT THURSDAY +s.er....SEPTEMBER 17, 1903 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. B UL AT # céress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS Delivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Cts. Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage (Cesh With Order): DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), ome year... DAILY CALL @ncluding Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month EUNDAY CALL. Ope Year. Market and Third, 8. F. 217 to 221 Stevensom St. All Postmasters are acthorized to recelve subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. perticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. 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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, | 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 o'clock | Bulldisg | BALFOUR TO THE BRITONS. 1 uminating phrase. ALFOUR’S pamphlet defining his anitude; trade policy leaves the British market open to the h Government powerless to toward the tariff question in Great Britain | contributes to the discussion a bright and il- | { After pointing out that the free foreigner, and the B obtain trade conces The only zlternative is to do to foreign countries lways do to each other, and instead of ap- theories in which they wholly ents which they thor- s in foreign markets, he says: what they g to economic ieve to use fiscal induc ¥ understand. sentence Balfour sums up the substance It is not the attitude of a true | has not fully learned tariff policy onist, for as yet Baliour & son that has been taught by experience, nor fundamental principle that under- ssue between free trade and protection. He at the issue now confronting Great Britain he standpoint of expediency. He as- that he is in principle and in doctrine a free of protective duties on imports to Great Britain solely | that he may use them as 2 means of bartering and | g in the arrangement of treaties that will pro- | cure favors for British goods in foreign markets. | The position thus taken differs materially from that Chamberlain, but not sufficiently to prevent the working together against the ultra free * traders who will oppose any alteration in the estab- lished policy of the kingdom. Of course when the fight is won by the protectionists and the time comes for determining the schedules of the new tariff there will arise a conflict between the two. Chamberlain desires a customs duty on foodstuffs and other goods of the kind produced in the colonies in order that he may grant preferential trade within the empire, and | that would imply a policy quite different from that outlined by Balfour. The arrangement of schedules and the preparation of a definite bill on the subject, however, are as yet far off. For a time at least the two leaders can act as allies, making a combined at- tack upon the free traders who are the common foe of both. The fight promises to be the biggest political campaign of the time in the domestic politics of any country. In a measure it is “world politics,” and the contest will be watched with interest both in the United States and in Continental Europe, for the trade of all nations is concerned in the outcome. In some respects the undertaking of the Ministry to bring abouc a change in the fiscal policy of the king- dom appears like a forlorn hope, for the British public is conservative, and it is not going to be easy to ccnvince men who have been brought up to believe in free trade as an article of faith that they have been wrong all the time and that protection, which they have derided as a relic of barbarism, is | after =11 the most enlightened of fiscal policies. Still the forces that are supporting the new movement are strong. The resistless logic of facts is on the side of the Ministry, and, furthermore, "a strong body of manufacturers and others who have learned the les- son taught by facts will enter actively into the con- test and prove powerful allies. The half-way position taken by Balfour in his pamphlet, while weak from the standpoint of logic, will doubtless be much more persuasive to the British public than 2 more radical amd advanced position would be. He will not ask the voters to make the whele distance from Cobdenism to protection at one journey: He appeals to them first as a free trader asking for permission to propagate free trade through reciprocity treaties. He says to them: “It cannot be right for a country with free trade ideals to enter into competition with protectionist rivals, self de- prived of the only instrument whereby their policy can conceivably be modified. The most essential object of our national efforts should be to get rid of the bonds with which we have gratuitously en- tangled ourselves.” Presented, in that way the policy of protection will not be so startling to conservatism, and accordingly it is by mo means certain that when the issue comes before the people the free traders will obtain- a trivmph. » grasped th grasped tk from strictly e trader, and that he advocates the establishment tra | two from SEES———— A scientist of Chicago claims that he has discov- ered a food which will make the men of the future physical giant<. He has probably reached a resigned opinion that it is an idle quest to attempt any im- provement on the brains of the present generation. | money. | deserves punishment by the rope | this cowardly wretch’s neck to impose his support | tence. | outrage upon the people of the State | less safe. A FAILURE OF JUSTICE. HE country deplores the increase in lynching and the readiness with which communities con- done the offense. If they would not also as read- ily condone the miscarriage of justice as administered by juries.perhaps there would be less occasion for Iynching. The President and members of the Su- preme Court have called attention to the delay in ad- ministering the criminal Jaw as one cause of mob vio- lence. This is no doubt true. The many ways of procuring the law’s delay, taken advanfage of by smart lawyers, frequently result in the escape of red- handed criminals, or in unjustly diluting their punish- ment and making the law a farce. But all the blame cannot be put upon the lawyers and the Judges. Juries are as frequently culpable, and by rendering fantastic verdicts perhaps more often violate the strict principles of justice than any other part of its administration, Oakland has been rather celebrated for freaks in her judicial administration. One of her Justices once filed an information againstthimself for being drunk, arraigned himself before himself, pleaded guilty to himself. and fined himself and solemnly paid the fine to himself. Another judicial officer, being called upon to pass sertence on a very contemptible scoundrel who was convicted of bigamy, committed under circumstances of extreme turpitude, took oc- casion to compliment the wretched sneak upon his good character. Still more recently an Oakland Police Justice has sentenced a non-union lineman to fine and imprisonment for defending his life when attacked by a mob of murderous strikers. Now a jury has joined the procession. The negro Walkirez has been tried and convicted of murder in the first degree, but the jury gave him life imprisonment in- stead of the rope. The murder was peculiarly atrocious. was an old woman who had considerable money, the fruit of hard work and small savings. The mur- derer deliberately planned to kill her and steal her He debated various ways in which to effect The victim this, and finally murdered her in a very brutal fashion and buried the body in her own cellar, robbed the house and fled. It was an awful crime, deliberately committed, with a sordid motive. It was committed in order that a debauched and dissolute wretch, too lazy to work and willing to live by stealing what others earned, might possess himself of the hard- earned dollars of a helpless old woman whose in- dustry and foresight had made some provision against the weakness of old age. The murderer was enjoy- ing her hospitality when he killed her. He had, as part of his plan, wormed his way into her pity and confidence, so that he often enjoyed ghe shelter of her roof. Under these circumstances he struck her down without pity for her age or gratitude for her bounty. As long as hanging is the legal punishment for murder, unless a jury will otherwise, such a murder But a jury saved upon the taxpayers of California during a life sen- Tt is a gross miscarriage of justice and an It is more The jury that rendered the verdict put into the heart of every criminal in the it made crime safer and life and property It not only increased the burdens of the taxpayers by the amount of this murderer's support during his life sentence, but it increased the outlay of public money that is necessary to police our cities, hunt criminals in the country and run to jus- tice.the human hounds that prey upon society. Against such verdicts the people have a right to be heard, and we only voice the public judgment in holding such a jury up to reprehension and con- tenipt. than that. courage State; e e A thief, operating in this city, robbed a lawyer the other day and secured a pair of diamond cuff buttons as booty. The lawyer now says that he will defend the thief in court if the buttons are returned. It is such delightful exchanges of courtesy between kin- dred and associated professions that provoke a smiie of satisfaction and a feeling of good cheer to re- lieve the stress of modern competitive life. ‘ House Committee on Banking and Currency in the last Congress, has recently stated at Chicago a convictiom that the whole scheme of cur- rency reform, of which he is an earnest advocate, will be provided for during the coming session. He has prepared 2 bill which he will introduce at the extra session, and he is quoted as saying that if the Senate Finance Committee fails to report a good bill the House will take up the issue and make a strenuous fight for the desired reform. When the strength of the opposition to any kind of currency legislation this winter is taken into con- sideration the statement of Mr. Fowler will appear to be that of awr enthusiast rather than of a care- fully calculating parliamentarian who counts the votes in the House before he ventures to prophesy. That estimate of the Congressman will be strength- ened when the radical nature of his programme is understood. He gave an outline of\it in the very statement in which he announced an assurance that the bill would pass, and it appears that he expects not only the adoption of legislation providing for an clastic currency, but also for the retirement of greenbacks and the substitution of a currency based upcn assets. As outlined by himself the coming Fowler bill will FOWLE ENTHUSIASM ONGRESSMAN FOWLER, chairman of the 'S include three salient features. First, the re- tirement of greenbacks or their impounding in the banks by a requirement that banks be compelled to hold 40 per cent of their cash reserves in greenbacks; second, a provision that all public money be deposited in banks at 2 per cent interest, being secured by a first lien on bank assets; third, a provision that national banks be permitted to emit an asset or credit currency by depositing in the United States treasury gold coin or Government bonds equal to 5 per cent of the amount emitted. To any one who has followed the discussion of this subject during the past summer it is clear that no such measure has any chance of enactment at the coming session. A fight made for such a sweeping measure would have no other effect than that of rendering it difficult to pass even a moderate meas- ure designed with the sole object of providing for elasticity. In that way the enthusiasm of Mr. Fowler is likely to prpvent the very legislation in which he is interested and for which he is so zealous. i The exact nature of the situation has been well ex- pressed by Senator Beveridge in an address before the convention of Indiana bankers. In the course of that address he said: “The coming session of Con- gress will not enact any radical or sweeping financial islation. Some moderate legislation which will re- W desired and may be enacted. But such legislation if enacted will be simple in its nature and will not dis- turb or alarm the business interests of the country. The maintenance of credit is the only great financial question and always must be. And credit is only an- other name for confidence, Confidence is preserved by reasonably permanent adjustment of business to any given lines of financial and commercial policy more than by all other things pu. together.” The significance of the statements of the Senator is increased by the fact that he has been recently in conference with the President and with some of the leading financiers of the Senate and the House. It may be accepted, therefore, that either Mr. Fowler bas been misrepresented or that his enthusiasm for currency reform has led him too far. Moderation in currency legislation is all that may be expected this winter, and it is all the people desire. D R Whatever may be said of the criminality of officers of the Federal Government who substitute aged and decrepit Chinese for young coolies, doomed to de- portation from this country, San Francisco has at least one satisfaction. The substitution does not rob us of the fruits of the slow, tedious and uncertain process by which Uncle Sam is ridding us of undesir- able Mongolians. AUSTRIA’S TROUBLES. HILE the impatient and irresponsible zealots of the world are clamoring for the nations of Europe to enter at once upon the task of driving the Turk out of Macedonia, the Gov- ernments of the nations are pondering painfully how they can best attend to their own troubles. They have little time to think of the Balkans and no im- mediate help to give. Not a nation in Europe is at this time prepared to undertake the bearing ‘of any burden but its own. Britain, France, Germany and N | Russia have each a home problem to worry over, while Austria, whose relations to the Balkans are closer than those of any other power, is well nigh distracted by the seriousness of her domestic dissensions. For years past the disccrdant elements of the Aus- | trian empire have been on the verge of flying at one another with fire and sword as fiercely as the Chris- tians and Moslems are now doing in Macedonia. Fortunately the Government at Vienna is not so weak as that at Constantinople. It has strength enough to keep the peace and authority enough to command respect. That authority, however, rests largely in the personal character of the venerable Emperor. When he is gone it is quite possible there may be a period of turmoil that will render the Austrian problem as perplexing to diplomatists as that of the Ottoman. The evils of the empire are many and complicated. At one time the strife between the Germans and the Slavs appears to be the danger point, but almost immediately another conflict appears that dwarfs the | { former. At present the conflict between Hungary and Austria looms largest on the horizon, and is unques- tionably threatening. Recent dispatches announced that the aged Emperor is so much perturbed by the ! strife around him that he once threatened to abdicate ! j and turn the task of government over to younger and more vigorous hands. Almost at the same time an- other dispatch announced the appearance in Hun- gary of a movement to declare the Hungarian throne vacant and to call for the election of a sovereign sep- arate and distinct from him who reigns over Austria. With <o much turmoil at home it is not easy to see how the Austrian statesmen could act effectively in Turkey. The German provinces of the empire would not like to see a large addition made to the Slavonic elements of the population by the incorporation in the empire of any of the Balkan states. other hand, neither the Slavonic nor the Hungarian elements would like Austria to permit Russia to in- crease her power in that part of the world. Other nations recognizing the danger of the situation are careful not to venture upon any action that would precipitate the long impending outbreak among Maygars, Slavs, Czechs and Germans. Austria’s troubles, therefore, are a part and parcel of the Turk- ist» problem. The uneasiness at Vienna helps to ex- plain the seeming indifference of the Governments at Berlin, St. Petersburg, London and Paris. D —— In consequence of local agitation and a fear of the commission of desperate deeds the authorities Randsburg have denied to the inhabitants of #own all intoxicating liquor. Perhaps no more thor- oughly suggestive argument has ever been placed, as a weapon of perstasion, in the hands of advocates of temperance. of THE CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND. SUBSCRIBER corrects us in regard to the A proposed bonds of $741,000 for a children's playground. While we did not oppose the proposition we criticized the form in which we found: it on the ballot, in which no location is named. Our correspondent places-us under obligations for the in- formation that two locations are named in the reso- Itiions of the Supervisors—one south of !\I,ar‘ke(, bounded by Seventh, Harriet, Harrison and Bryant streets, and one north of Market, at Powell, Stock- ton, Filbert and Greenwich streets. These locations are admirably chosen to relieve the children in two much crowded districts, and we gladly withdraw our criticism and commend the childrej's playgrounds so located to the favor of the voters and taxpayers ‘of the city. Something is strangely wrong in Honolulu. For more than a week there has not been even the sug- gestion of a scandal in official circles, no man promi- nent in public or political life has been accused, no fiery protest has been filed against the territorial gov- ernment, and treasury funds seem to be in safe hands. The island capital appears to be settling into the dry rot of respectability. ——— Colorado is chuckling over a new sensation. She has found a man whose heart has dropped into his right side with no serious consequences to him or to his neighbors. The newspapers, in jubilant ac- claim, appear to think that they have found the only man in the State whose heart is in the right place. —_— To vary the monotony of a colorless life the son of an Eastern millionaire recently deserted the pa- rental roof and turned highwayman on the wild roads of the Northwest. The perversity with which some misdirected minds seek unnecessary paths to finan- cial syccess baffles understanding. A New York woman, rich, cultured and admitting the weight and discretionary experience of 46 years, found her affinity in a youth of 19, jailed for reasons obviously just. The lady married him. In these days of governmental neglect a man is left helpless and unprotected even in jail On the | the | PLEASES THE SOCIETY FOLK The announcement of the engagement of Miss Bernie Drown to Samuel Boardmas was the choicest bit of news enjoyed by society for many weeks. There is no social news so delectable as an engage- ment and none so wholly delightful as a betrothal that has long been anticipated and approved of. Surely the prospective groom is deserving of the warmest con- gratulation at having won the love of such a charming girl and the men who know him say the bride is equally for- tunate in giving into Mr. Boardman's keeping her future happiness. Since her debut Miss Drown has contributed gen- erously to the social pleasures of her set, but she has nevertheless found much time to alleviate the sorrows and suffer- ings of the unfortunate little ones who are seeking relief in the Children's Hos- pital, where her voice and her smile were awaited eagerly by those who were her special care. With this self-appointed duty, her na- tively beautiful character has grown and broadened and its. influence is reflected in her fine personality. With a ready smile and a fine appreciation of humor, she is the type of woman—the womanly woman—who is essentially fitted to be man’s companion. Miss Drown is the daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. A. W. Drown, and has entertained | charmingly at her home on Jackson! tstreet. It was at an informal tea Wed- nesday that the betrothal was announced. | The wedding day has not vet been deter- | mined upon, but it will probably occur | before the Christmas holidays, a favorite time for weddings. . The Forum Club entertained its mem- bers and guests yesterday at their club- | rooms by a reading from ‘“The Simple | Life" by the Swiss clergyman, Charles Watson. Mrs. S. E. Knowles gave the | chosen chapters bearing upon false stand. | | ards of living with a fine understanding | of the motives underlying that remark- | able book. Certainly from these rendi- | tions the deduction is easily made that | | “he who chases after pleasure will never catch up with her.” Miss Kate Whittaker followed Mrs. | Knowles' reading with an interesting lit- | tle talk upon the industrial work being carried on in our public schools, espe- cially dwelling upon the cookery depart- ment, of which she is supervisor. She made clear to the ladies that the muf- fins made by her girls could really be eaten—and without evil results. | Miss Langworthy rendered a piano solo | with fine technique, and Mrs. Bickell | { closed the programme with a clever pa- | per upon tue negro in his political and | | social relation. | The informal tea that follows these in- tellectual afternoons affords much pleas- ant visitinz. . | At a tea given by the Lambda Theta Phi sorority in Berkeley yesterday the | engagement of William Theodore Watson | Jr. of San Francisco to Miss Florence ' ve of Berkeley was announced. Miss e is the daughter of Mrs. F. Reeve. | Watson was a member of the class of 1904 at the University of California and |2 member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He is the son of William The- odore Watson, president of the Pacific Refining and Roofing Company of this city. He is now engaged in business in this city. The young couple will be mar- ried within a year. . o ¥ SN The Daughters of California Pioneers ' will entertain their friends on Monday afternoon, September 21, at the Pioneer Hall, when Fairfax Wheelan will give a talk upon “The City Beautiful.” This ad- | dress is at this time especially apropos, as the bond issue election is approaching and interest centers In what should be | done for the beautification and advance- ment of the city. | R The Protet sails on Saturday. That| there will be sighs on board and sighs | ashore no one who has met the charming | | forelgners will doubt. They have been | royally entertained and manifested a deep appreciation of every courtesy shown them. OVERRULES PROTEST AGAINST STREET WORKS Board of Public Works Puts Into Ef- | fect Charter Amendment Re- cently Adopted. | The Board of Public Works yesterday | put into effect for the first time the char- | ter amendment adopted recently giving | it power to overrule protests against im- proving a street on which some improve- ment has already been made. The board decided to override the writ- | ten objections to the resolution of inten- | tion providing that Lake street, between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-sixth avenues, ! be graded to official line and grade signed by the owners of the majority of the frontage of the property on the proposed work, which will be done at once. | The offer of B. 8. Harris to keep the| City Hall roof in repair for $40 per month | was accepted. The board approved the plans and speci- fications for the repaving of Spear street, i from Market to Mission, at a cost of $13,- | | 000. i ————— Godchaux Files Annual Report. Recorder Godchaux stated yesterday { that he filed his annual report for the | fiscal vear 1901-1902 with Mayor Schmitz on July 30, 1902, together with a letter trans- mitted on the subject. Godchaux takes ' exception to the statement that he had neglected to file the report, as he makes it a point at all times to comply with charter requirements. He thinks the copy | of the report was mislald and will file a duplicate of the same at once. —_—— Fine Correspondence Papers In boxes, from 25¢ to 60c each, in a hun- dred new shaves and tints. We carry all the principal staple ream goods, as well as writing tablets in all sizes and quali- | ties. Sanborn, Vgil & Co., 741 Market. * —_—— e D Camera Club Lecture. | The California Camera Club, at the sug- | gestion of the General Telegraph Hill Committec, has arranged an illustrated Jecture on “The Beauty of Cities,” to be given at the Alhambra Theater to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. Robert H. Flotcher, | director of the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, will be the speaker of the evening and will dwell especially on the improve. ment. in other cities of hills similar to ! Telegraph Hill. Inasmuch as there is in- carporated in the bond issues to be sub- mitted to the voters in the near future a proposition to issue bonds for the im- provement of Telegraph Hill, it is antici- pated that there will be a large gathering of citizens at the lecture. . NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. DANDRUFF CAUSED BY A GERM. | A New Discovery That Kills the| Germ and Prevents Baldness. Pretty nearly all the hair preparations for dandruff have some merit In allaying | itching of the scalp, and in being a fi\lt what baid fairly good dressing for tI thers 15 only one. that recosntoir causes dandruff, falling hair and ness, and that dests the cause, a little erm—and that | ewbro's He , his germ eats i “f lnt:h theemc} it digs up the scalp into little white scal e‘{.’?‘:. lllnl- : s no cure of dandru m‘a %“ 2 Newbro's Herpicide kills the . “Dest the e effect™ l‘:{d by iauuv you remove ANNUAL SALMON PACK DECREASES SAY SCIENTISTS ——— STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 16— Dr. Barton W. Evermann, chief ichthy- ologist of the United States Fish Com- mission, and Professor Charles H. Gil- bert of the Stanford zoological department have returned from a three months’ so- journ in the Alaskan waters, where they have been investigating the salmon ques- tion on behalf of the Government. Pres- ident Jordan was in charge of the expe- dition until July 25, when he returned to | California from Skagway and left the work to the supervision of Dr. Ever- mann. The party went north on the Al- batross, the Fish Commission steamer. Among the other members of the party were Captain Swift of the Albatross, J. N. Wisner, superintendent of the Gov- ernment fish hatcheries in Washington and Oregon; A. B. Alexander, in charge of statistics and methods; Cloudsby Rut- ter, a Stanford graduate, permanent Gov- | ernment naturalist on the Albatross; Dr.| Harold Heath of the Stanford zoology de- partment; F. M. Chamberlain of the Fish Commission, and Harold B. Jordan, 04, son of President Jordan and Deputy Fish Commissioner. Dr. Evermann will leave for Washing- | ton, D. C., at once to prepare a report on the work dome and observations made by the Party. When scen this morning he said: The three-months’ trip was most pleasant and profitable, the weather being delightful during the entire time. We visited every | salmon cannery and saltery in Easte Kadiak Island—Kadiak Island being the he: of the expedition. Shuyak Island Bay were also visited, and we Ins: oughly the'large salmon hatcheries on Afoguak Island and the codfish hatchery on Shumagin | Island. The salmon industry is dition, but not so flow year or in previous years. ually decreasing in size year by ycar. o 1 no question in my mind as to the fact that there Is a steady falling off in the abundance 5 # [ " in fairly good con- of, salmon. There is still, however, an enor- | mous annual catch, last year's being worth | $8,000,000. | ‘The purpose of the expedition was to look Into the facts, determine what was causing the annual decrease and embody t s in a revert to Congress. The commiss| wil recommend to Congress that extensive Goverf- | ment hatcheries be established throughout ; Alaska. The present method of attempting to preserve the industry by regulations is not | adequate. The commission has concluded that it the hatcheries are established the supply will meet the demand, and the only regula tions necessary will be those governing the | hatcheries. In addition to the study of salmon, the mem- | bers of the party spent considerable time in | collecting aquatic animals—particular attention | being paid to deep-sea dredging. The results were very satisfactory. President Jordan and Dr. Evermann will | make the preliminary report to the Unit- ed States Fish Commission within a few | weeks, but it will take nearly a year to | prepare the final report. ‘ prebS Ivy Chaptei’s Anniversary. | Ivy Chapter No. 27, Order of the Eastern | Star, celebrated the twenty-seventh anni- versary of its institution by a grand bail in Golden Gate Hall Tuesday night. The dance hall, which was beautifully deco- rated and flluminated with shaded lights, which produced a charming effect, was filled with happy couples, the majority of the ladies being in full evening dress. When the grand march was started at 9:30 o'clock nearly 200 couples took part. During intermission a collation was served to the dancers in the banquet hall. | This function, one of the most delightful | given by this very sociable chapter during | the current Eastern Star year, was ad- mirably carried out under the supervision | of Mrs. James E. Gordon, Mrs. Mary L. | Reddick, Mrs. Maie W. Hendry, Frank | McGown, Mrs. Frances L. Bonifleld, | Mrs. Susle F. Lockwood and Dr. Robert | Tisdale. | — e Issues License for New Bank. The Board of Bank Commissioners is- | sults | | sued a license yesterday for the estab- | lishment of the Plumas County Bank at | Quincy. The institution is capitalized at $25,000, which is fully subscribed and half of which is already pald in. C. J. Lee has been chosen president and H. C. Flanoy secretary, treasurer and cashier. | —_————————— Long engagements are rather expensive affairs in Russia. The bridegroom-elect is | expected to send his flancee a present every day. | and have the Supreme Court decide | of the Palace Hotel, left for the East SUPREME COURT WILL PASS ON CITY TAX RATE * City Attorney Lane was in consultation yesterday with W. H. Cobb, Auditor Baehr’s legal adviser, for the purpose of taking some steps to have the Supreme Court pass upon the point whether the raise in the assessment valuation of San Francisco made by the State Board of Equalization applles to the city and county tax rate. Lane and Cobb agreed that the practical solution of the proposi- tion would be for the Board of Superv ors to adopt next Mogday a tax rate which will raise only the amount required by the budget on the increased valuation as returned by the Board of Equ tion. This rate would be S.72 cents stead of $1.076, as fixed by the Supervisors last June. After the Supervisors have adopted the reduced rate in conjunction with the State rate it is planned that some taxpayer will mandamus the Auditor to carry out the tax rate of $1.076 on the assessment books the disputed point. Lane and Cobb will hav another conference to arrange the detalls of the legal proceedings proposed to b instituted. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. L. E. Benson of Nome is at the Palace Dr. W. R. Hedgpeth of San Lucas is at the Grand. Dr. A. C. Winn of Tomales is registered at the California H. A. Bradley, a mining man of Denver, is at the California. T. E. Gibbon, an attorney of Los An- at the Palace. B. Fitts of the United at the Occidental J. Ross Trayner, a merchant of Marys- ville_ is registered at the Palace. A. J. Johnston, former State Printer, and family are staying at the Lick. J. E. Defebaugh of Chicage, editor the American Lumberman, is registered at the Palace. W. O. Manson of Denver, who is min- ing engineer for the Clarks of Montana, is at the Palace. J. B. Robin mond Mateh Com: is at the Pa States ger of the Dia- interests at Chi- m an: T. W. Heintzelman, who is connected with the Southern Pacific Company at Sacramento, is at the Grand. Colonel John C. Kirkpatrick, manager terday in company with his son, Who is about to re-enter college. A. A. Blow, formerly of Denver and at present chief engineer of the largest smelting and refining works in Australla, accompanied by the members of his fa ily, arrived from New York last night and is registered at the Palace. He has been to London, where the offices of the smelt- ing works are located, and is now en route O CGenjiro Yamazaki, chief civil engi- neer of the Kawasak! Dockyard Company of Kobe, Japan, arrived from the East last evening and is at the Occidental. He completed the construction of the Kobe doek one year ago and since then he has been in this country inspecting the v rious big docks. To-day he will go to Mare Island and expects to visit the Un- fon Iron Works to-morrow. —_——————— To Help Church Finances. The Calendar Club of St. Jobn's Epis- copal Church on Fifteenth street. near Valencia, will give an entertainment com- prising a dramatic sketch entitled “A Happy Pair,” at the church guild hall on Friday evening. The proceeds are to help the finances of the church. An ad- mission fee of 25 cents will be charged., ————————— Benjamin Hobbs of Sprnigfleld, Mass., is the oldest active armorer in America He has been in Government employ for more than fifty years —_——————— nsend’s California glace fruits and c-?d;s. e a pound. in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eal(en: friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg. Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by .lh Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 C fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 4 be by tures it fills two whole pages. Husband and the Boy, ment in every lin perfectly ine: really loves. arrington’s M: Trouble With Dan, ‘A Study In Piracy, e ican Is More Successful Than the Briton,” by John Foster Frazer Parents on the Training of Children,” “Letters From a Self-made Merchant to His Son.” And here's substance in humor. Have you seen those cats? Just watch for “The Meows of a Kitty"" next Sunday and you'll see why everybody is talk- ing about them. truckioad'—as a scales—'with ten thousand tons of it al- most on my hands. could raise $5000 more! “There was a ring at without walting for the maid, Mr. Bunton answered ing qualities are the talk of the whole English-speaking world. Next Sund. begins the first of a series of his best work. c Pat Francis Saved the Yellowstone Speclal From the Tea Train.” Then there are two full pages of “Half-Hour Storiettes,” “The Hero, the a little bit from real life that woul best one-act plays ever written. There is mystery, humor, pathos and senti- of it. “A Romance of the Great North Trail, licable and. fascinating things a woman will do for the man Mermaid,” Uncle James' Great Victory, " by Josephine Dodge Daskam. There is genuine substance in fiction for you. Now here you have the very best that is written in wit and wisdom. Next Sunday vou will get the finest “Lees and Leaven” SAAC BUNTON watched the clerk £0 to his desk and enter a charge against a customer for a tom of coal. “Then he turned again to a tangle of figures he had made and mut- tered, ‘A ton of coal! ten, a hundred thousand! Bah! A thousand, That ought to the size of my business. Pigiron? A truck stopped on the In my hands, if I The bank is run a lot of grannies, who are in a panic because I've mortgaged everything—even my home. life; three, four, five—almost a certainty!™ The first big chance of my an advance of two dollars a ton— . . . the door, and, it. A telegram. He did not open it until he had returned to the sit- ting-room. Then he read it, and let it drop from his hand with a cry of rage. “Married! To a sneaking good for naught!’ “Mrs. Bunton picked up the dispatch, but hers was a cry of joy: ‘Oh, thank God! Daisy is safe!” “She had never before seen the man who now turned on her, the man to whom she had been nearly twenty years mar- ried.” . That is literature, the temse, vigorous, concentrated, passionate literature of to- day, the sort of powerful word pictures that carried E. W. Townsend of “Chim- mie Fadden” fame to the top of the lad- der at a bound, the sort of clean, human literature that has placed The Sunday Call in an exalted position in up-to-date Jjournalism, never before attained by any other paper in the entire West. And those are omly two little excerpts from Mr. Townsend's latest success, “Lees and Leaven,” which begins in the next Sun- day Call, and which strikes an altogether new and novel note in American ltera- ture—the right of a young girl to make a free choice of a husband. However, you'll read the story for yourself. And then, who has not heard of Frank H. Spearman, the writer of American raflroad storfes, whose thrilling, fascinat- It is “How Conductor Pat With the ple- make ome of the showing the ‘Elizabeth’'s First - Proposal “Fables for the er-tongued Orator”; “Why Amer- “Talks to by Willam J. Shearer, A M., Ph.D.; by Old John “Gorgon™