The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1903, Page 5

THREATER LIFE OREGON WANTS OF A PHYSIGIAN A GREAT FAI Washington Thugs Mail | Senator Mitchell Urges Him Anonymous Federal Aid for Ex- T Letter. ‘ position. BRSO | Vow to Assassinate Him if Alleged Murderer 1s Convicted Event Intended to Commemo- ra’e Work of Lewis and Clark. —s WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—In a bill in- | troduced in the Senate to-day by Senator | Mitchell of Oregon the Government asked to appropriate $2,125,00 to aid in the celebration of the exploration of the | Oregon country by Captains Merriweath- er, Lewis and Willlam Clark. The Lewls and Clark Exposition will be held in Port- land, Ore., commencing May 1, 1905, and ending November 1, 195, or beginning.a ch to The Call Nov. 1l.—Another er of Charles Then- County, Washing- the Lewis double last was brought f an anonymous Lewis of Wil- with L udge Lewis and his murdered at their ‘e letter was mailed [ if the date should be so designated by the legislative assembly of Oregon. bill that the exposition would receive the support of the State of Oregon through tribution | $400,000. The author of the bill gave ng- tice of his Intention to make a few re- marks in connection with by trial Commissions. d in the amount which the Gov- is asked to appropriate is $200,000 = erection of a memorial building sed for literature, arts and science for the history of the Oregon coun- The President is given power to ap- s seven commissioners to be desig- nated as the Inte tional Lewis and £ Clark Centennial and American Pacific nd Orjental Fair Commission fon to adfust all difference between the nauonal and the country. The expo- is intended to exploit the resources Northwest and will include exhi- s of national interest customary for t of this f the mer The bi as an estimate of cost t building, $100,000 for or the memorial build- as an appropriation of $13 carrying forward the expo- for an exhibition of the strial school r Be: Anothe: " P rkeley Flyer. through express train before Lorin, nnect with bof sat dally exc mak —————— UNITED STATES NOW OWNS GUANTANAMO on New Railway to Be Rushed. ctor Frank s Dir 4. Transfer Was Effected a Few Days Ago Without Any Formal Demonstration. WASHINGTON, Nov, 11.—Without any formality the United States has come into possession of the coaling station Guantanamo. Although the flag rais- not taken place, it was learned e Navy Department to-day that the ransfer was effected in a quiet manner ral days ago. Under the arrangement a will pay the owners of the prop- it was explained that the moving factor ansaction was the knowledge uba was without a navy, and as United States bas undertaken the e island against a for- desires the station as a protect its own interests was made in order that this might complete its plans some time ago. ——— YORK, 11.—The engagement is L. James, president of to Miss Edith Col- England. to mapped NEW This handy little table in weathered oak [ Stands 30 inches high and top measures 24 inches uare. Has two shelves beneath top for books. It came mly a few days ago with a line of new tables which attracting considerable attention. If you intend buy- g a small table for the living room or library—see this You will not easily duplicate the value 00 u can pay less than twenty dollars for a bureau here choose from a good variety of patterns. One in oak, ed golden color, for $14.00 that is really equal to verage $20.00 bureau. Have to see it, of course, to judge of the quality. (Formerly the California Furniture Co.) 957 to 977 Market Street, San Francisco is | month later and closing a month earlier | Senator Mitchell said in reference to the the appropriation of $500,00 and a con- | the citizens of Oregon of | the measure | it was-referred to the Committee | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1903, FIRST ANNUAL SALON SHOWS REMARKABLE WORKS OF ART 'McComas’ Display | Shows Wonder- . ful Growth. By Oscar Weil. dlGHTS A STEAM GGHOONER IN TOW Captain of the Columbia Passes Vessels Oilf Trinidad Head. Believes One of Them Is the Abandoned Coaster Charles Nalson. g LIS Special Dispatch to The Call. ASTORIA, Ore,, Nov. 1L—The steamship | 2°17 12 Columbia, due here this morning from San Francisco, did not arrive until this even- ing and reports an exceptionally rough trip up the coast. No damage was done the vessel except that her cargo between decks shifted and gave her a small list to starboard. Captain Doran reports that shortly be- fore 8 o’clock yesterday morning he sight- ed a collier bound south with a steam Trinidad Head. While he was fuily five | | | forced ashore. schooner in tow about twenty miles off | Will be sent from hers to her assistance, miles from the colller and her tow and could not identify either vessel, Captain | Doran says the latter answers the de-| scription of the Charles Nelson even having a yellow smokestack, but her deck was above water and her hull ap- peared to be intact. The vessels sighted by Captain Doran are undoubtedly those seen Monday by Captain Taylor of the Rosecrans. to| The steam schooner Acme, which sailed | from San Francisco for this port about a week ago with the schooner C. A. Klose | in tow, arrived this afternoon without her | tow. While coming up the coast Acme encountered very severe weather and her hawser parted several times. The last time was early last evening when off Tillamook Bay. The schooner made safl and hove to and the Acme stood by until this morning, when the storm had | mook Bay. increased to a gale and and was driving the schooner toward the shore. As it was impossible to work the Kiose off shore, the | HARD AND FAGT ON THE ROCKS Steamer Ruth Driven Ashore in Fisher- man’s Bay. Crew Stays by Ship. and Tugs Will Go to Her Rescue. The steam schooner Ruth was driven ashore last night just south of Fisher- At last reports the ill-fated vessel was hard and fast on the rocks and no attempt had beem made to save her. Her crew was still on board, an- ticipating the probability of her being floated when assistance should be sent them. She was partly loaded with rafl- road ties intended for this port, through some unknown cause she was Early this morning tugs and and if the weather keeps mild chances are good for her being pulled off from her pertlous position. The vessel is owned by George D. Gray & Co. and was being loaded by Bender Bros. of § Market street. Captain Reed is in command. She is a stanch boat and was built in 189 in San Francisco. Her tonnage is 237 tons. Her length is 151 feet, her breadth 33 feet and her depth 10 feet. e ee— After a rainy day how cozy a gas heater makes the home! And it is so much pleasanter than roaming the streets downtown. Buy one from San Francisco Gas and Blectric Co., 415 Post.* @ ittt el @ Captain Guiggied headed her for Tiila- Although the bar was break- ing clear across she passed in safely. The Klose was en route here to load lum- ber. HE crimson wall Messrs. Vicker: decoration of Atkins and Tor- | little gal on Post street B 0 23220 0 Tt his is “Chinatown, Monterey,” which ex- | changes of daylight to night time. Alice hibits wonderful fidelity in coloring and | B. Chittenden has offered only one pro- as been replaced by hangings of a soft neutral gray which serve as kground for the twenty | 0dd landscapes of Francis McComas that are at present to be seen there, a series of canva noteworthy as an evidence of the progress that Mr. McComas is teadily making in the technique of his art, as well toward that fuller, higher expression of himself which is (or should be) the end and aim of all striving after technique. To those who remember Mr. McComas’ last exhibition it will be patent at once that the last year has been one of hard study and—as a reward for faithful work —genuine growth. The pictures are not larger than those of other years; they are not more striking; perhaps, on the whole, they are ev shightly less so than what he has heretofore exhibited. The gain Is in depth and subtlety of expression, in purity , above all, certainty, in line, and in positive charm of color, which Mr. McComas is learning to make as sweet as music without the least suspi- cion of a sacrifice of truth or concession to.mere prettiness. And to do this means much; to desire to do it means to be an artist with a streak, at least, of the great stuff in him. It is precisely in the poetic charm of Mr. McComas' earlier work—or, let me say rather, in the general recognition of it— that I foresaw an element of danger to | the artist, and looked forward with some- | | what of | power to a great popular success, can come early. It requires firmness of character and great integrity of purpose to | the temptation to work the vein that | yields money and applause galore and | keep one’s eves well beyond mere imme- | diate success and one’s striving always pprehension to his future. The {and only for the best that is to be got out of oneself—malgre the chance of a | temporary lessening of the public favor. | To be able to do this is to hav: | it seems to me that Mr. Mc courage; mas is showing just that kind of courage, and in | this little exhibition we are seeing the | fine fruits of it. The breadth and dignity | of his golden-toned Monerey Bay, as well { as the noble and simple | composition as Doud's C n, attest | high endeavor and, already, high achieve- ment, while the charm and poetry of some of the lesser poems is as exquisite as you will find it in the songs without words of Mendelssohn or the preludes of | | Chopin. Mr. McComas is reaching out for other | qualities as well, and shows some cy- | presses of rugged sirength and a weil- | nigh dramatic tendency, not to my mind | as entirely successful as some of his oth- er work, but still full of a fine perception | of at least one phase of his subject. !is in his purely lyrical episodes that Mr. | McComas is still at his best; the bigger side of things he is reaching for, slowly, | steadily, but with just the right kind of | persistence. And it is bound to come to him. i T e e ] ] | NEW ARRIVAL ROBBED BY ALLEGED FRIENDS Novel Experience With Fellow Mexicans. Henry Villegas, a recent arrival from Stockton, visited a drinking resort Hinkley alley last evening and there met charm, the almost certainty of | too | resist | lines of such a | It | | Henry Villegas of Stockton Has in * Triumph for CENES far afield from the nofse and bustle of Market street were | offered to the visitors to the first apnual salon of San Francisco | painters and sculptors, which opened in the Maple room of the Palace Hotel yesterday afternoon. The opening | day was a private view for patrons only. For the next three succeeding days it will | be open to the public generally and will | close Saturday night. Any one who loves | 800d pictures and does not see the ex- hibition will mis€ an opportunity which | | may never come again. | Diversity may be said to be the key- note of the exhibition. Landscapes rang- | ing from the heart of the desert to the abundant vegetatiop of mountain and | marsh; life from oo heavy beamed cot- tages of a Flemish kitchen to the reed woven wickiup of an Indian village; moon- light scenes in all their softness and chas- tity; sunlight scenes in their warmth of profligacy; Venice and Norway: golden- rod and snowdrifts—all these greeted the viewers, dripping wet frem the dirty street. The hanging of the many pictures was | excellently accompliished, despite the diffi- culties offered in coloring and theme. | Barring perhaps a few smaller pleces | which are eclipsed by the riotous color- | l ing of a stretch of golden poppies, ex- cellently done by John M. Gamble, every canvas obtains its full value in its posi- tion. TWO MASTERS EXHIBIT. The honors of the exhibition are car- ried off by Charles Rollo Peters and Am- adee Joullin, although this is sald with the full consciousness that there are many canvases displayed which nearly approach in merit the exhibited produc- tions of these masters. These two excel undoubtedly in power and continuity of effort. Peters has four offerings and Joul- lin three. Fach of them is almost per- fect. The former clings to his moon- light effects exclusively and the latter in two of his pictures lives again the life | the faint light of dawn. o+ 5 PATRONS AND THEIR FRIENDS VIEWING EXHIBIT OF ARTISTS AND SCULPTORS AT OPENING OF FIRST ANNUAL SALON IN MAPLE ROOM OF THE PALACE HOTEL. .- —_— % Painters’ and Sculptors’ Display Is a Local Men. marks “The Death Watch,” lacks. the power of suggestiveness conveyed in the latter canvas. G. Cadenasso has six of his character- istic canvases on exhibition. Perhaps the best of these is “Berkeley,” showing.a long vista of open space between over- hanging and massive trees. It has a wealth of green coloring that is almost odorous in its freshness and the com- position is careful. The same may be aid of all his canvases at the exhibition. They are all of the same general char- acter and flow with the life of vegetation. In “The Pool” some cattle are introduced at the end of the vista with pleas- ing effect. Others are: ‘“After the Shower,” “Strangers,” “Springtime” and ““Meadow.” 2 C. Chapel Judson has a canvas, riotous in color, called *“Golden Evening."” The sky tints of fire are carried to the trees and stubble of the fleld below, where a woman is gleaning. The effect is vivid, perhaps too vivid. Bis pastel, “Morning,"” is more restful and more perfect in com- position and is the best water-color in the exhibition. It represents a meadow, with a pool of water In the foreground, shaded partly by a massive oak tree. On the horizon the first hint of the rising sun is seen, eneompassing the landscape with It is an exquisite piece of work. A clever thing in oil of drawing. Other exhibits of his are On | duction, a bunch of roses, which makes the visitor wish that she had submitted more of her exquisite flower painting | Everything is there, color and form and Point Pinos,” *“Near the Ocean” and “Foggy Weather."” TWO DESERT SCENES. L. Maynard Dixon has two desert | scenes in ofl that are strikingly realistic in conception and execution. For the in- terest in- the theme, “Without Water”” will probably attract more general atten- | tion, although “The Mohave” is the abler of the two. The first depicts a desert traveler plodding along, leading his horse, in the shadows of an approaching sand- storm. The coloring is entirely in duil grays and blacks and excellently handled. The desert scéne in the other picture, in similar colers, conveys to the full the idea of utter dreariness and desolation. Other exhibits of his in bil are: *“April Showers,” “Bay Tree” and “Vallecito.” In water colors he has an exquisite bit, called ‘“Red Canyon.” It represents an Indian gazing up at the walls of one of those canyons whose coloring can be found only on the desert and it is so true and impressive as to attract at once the | gaze of the looker. His other water colors are: “Road in Monterey,” “Round Oaks,"” “Pueblo Indian” and ‘“Mounted Navajo.” John M. Gamble's most striking oil Is “Golden Poppies.” It represents a stretch of poppies widening up toward the top of a hill and is fairly overflowing with the rich coloring of the beautiful flower. The composition is carefully worked out and the canvas is one of the most striking of the exhibition. His *“Evening on the Marsh” is another composition that at- tracts much attention. He has some de- lightful water colors in the flower line, the best being ‘“Near Lake Merced,” de- picting a fleld of daisies running far out to the water's edge. Among his offerings in ofl are “Twilight,” “A Summer Night,” “Washington'’s Monument,” ‘“Morning Fog,” “The Rising Moon,” and in water colors “Spring Flowers,” “In Violet, Green and Gold,” “A Rocky Knoll"” “Morning on the Lagoon, Venice,” “Alta- dena Poppy Flelds,” and “The ‘Wharf,” the Jatter especially deserving of mention. LINES IN SHADOW. H. W, Seawell has a masterplece in “A Lonely Fireside.”” It represents a peasant woman sitting beside a wide, Flemish hearth, with the interfor furnishings and architecture worked out delightfully in the shadow. Only the light from the hearth and the window apparently give the lines. Another beautiful thing of his is “In the Old Chateau Grounds.” Among his other meritorious offerings are “Vil- lage Street,” "Old Stone Bridge, Nor- mandy,” “Venetian Landmark,” “In Ven- ice,” “Venice by Night,” and “A Bit of Chinatown.” C. J. Dickman has three impressive canvases entitled “Dawn,” “Twilight and Moonrise,” in which a subtle blending of color conveys the meaning bétter than any word can describe the varying Hay | | | | } beauty, even to the falling petals. Her roses will mock the snow drifts and never fade away. Henry Raschen has a striking canvas, '‘Apache Scouts,” depicting two Indians on ponies passing a broken lot of desert bluffs. It has life and strength and col= oring and is one of the remark oils of the exhibit. In addition he six has heads that are typically true and attract much attention. OTHER EXHIBITORS. Among the many other exhibitors whose work shows merit and warrants mention are Lucia K. Mathews, who has pre- sented “Waiting, Montere)\” “Gera- niums,” “Child at Play,” and “Summer at Monterey.” C. D. Robinson offers “Morning in Jack Hays Canyon,” In Monterey Bay,” “Sunset from the Oak- {land Shore,” “Autumn Afternoon,” “The “On the Rio Grande,” and M. Fancher Pettis exhibits (oil), and “Soquel Creek™ (water color). Elmer Watchel offers “Mountain Tops,” “Winter Evening,™ “Midwinter in Southern California, “Pines at Gualala,” “Santa Barbara Coast” and “Lagoon at Gualala.” G. A, P. Plazzoni offers “La Vista,” “Winter, California™; “Tramonto™; “Twilight, Go~ ing to Pasture”; “The Pool, Pasadena’ “Blossom; “Afternoon, Catalina I and”; “Morning, Catalina Island’ terior, Forest of Fontainebleau™; tumn, Carmel Valley.” Harry Stuart Fonda exhibits “The Na- ‘The Pool,” * e Decline of “The Rising Moon™ (marine), “A Gray Day,” “A Woodland Nook,” and “Fishing Boats, Chioggia.” His “Ris- ing Moon™ is the best marine of the exhibit, but while splendid in compo- sition. seems to lack lateral breadth and coloring. J. W. Clawson has loaned two excellent portraits for the exhibition. C. P. Neilson has on ex- hibition ‘“Mission Dolores, San Francisco ‘Au~ (1853)”"; “In Corridor, San Juan Mission™; “Kitchen, San Juan Mission™; “In China- town, San Francisco” “Tin How Mue, Chinese Temple, San Francisco”; “Alley in Chinatown, San Francisco”; “General Castro’s House, San Juan, Cal “Chap- el, San Juan Mission, Cal.”; “Landscape, Monterey Coast™; Custom House, Mon- terey”’; “On the Bay, San Francisco™; “On the Coast, San Francisco.” Only one exhibitor in statuary was rep- resented. He is A. Putnam and he has of- fered six remarkable productions, five in plaster and one in bronze. They are: “Tiger,” “Puma and Deer,” “Bloo hound,” “Puma,” “Man and Snake,” “Puma Reclining.” One of the features of the exhibt are the beautiful rugs used for decoration, which were loaned by Benguiat, the Ori- ental importer. e —————— e ——— e ——— ADVERTISEMENTS. P R A R A A A A A A A A e e e e e e it Theodore Marino. In the course of the evening Villegas informed Marino that he of the Pueblo Indian. The third canvas had money on his person, and the new- found friend invited the new arrival to | pass the night at his home, 13 Hinkley | alley. While partly asleep Villegas felt some one going through his pockets. He searched himself and found he was minus a silver watch and $15. He made a com- piaint, and Marino and Anton Florris, who were in the room, rushed from the house. Villegas gave chase and the three men rushed down Broadway to the sea- wall. Officers O'Keefe and Bean joined the chase and took the three men in cus. tody. On complaint of Villegas the host was charged with grand larceny. Mrs. Blossi Marino, wife of the prisomer, was also taken into custody, and she and Florris were detained. As Villegas was without a lodging place he was allowed to sleep in the Hall of Justice. —————pe—id Police Commission. heard by the Police Commissioners last night and action postponed until next | Wednesday evening. The proprietors of the Maison Riche, a restaurant at the corner of Geary street and Grant avenue, were cited to appear to show cause why their licenses should not be revoked. Last Saturday evening Sergeant Christianson captured a roulette game in the place. —_——— Lecture on Indian Customss. An illustrated lecture on the unique customs of the natives of India will be delivered by Professor C. F. Saldanha of The case of Patrolman Hammil was by Joullin, however, exhibits an unex- pected variety in depicting a field of gold- enrod, stretching away toward low, pine- topped mountains. It is forcible and beautiful and displays a wider range of vision than would usually be credited to one who can depict interior Indian life and seenes with marRed fidelity and strength. ) S Peters’ four moonlight scenes are utter- 1y beyond description. They represent old adobe houses in the foothills around Monterey. The surroundings, as well as the houses, are steeped in the soft white light of the moon Wwith such skill that the looker can almost feel the moonlight at his back. Undoubtedly the best is “By Monterey Bay.” The entire canvas, shadow and light, seems permeated with the clinging moonbeams. In viewing it one almost listens for the tinkle of a sheep bell to disturb the solemn stillness of the moonlight night, with the yellow- red beams streaming from the lighted windows of the adobe cottages grouped about the hills. Almost the same effect {is found In the canvas “Colton Hall,” but in “Casa Estrada” the light effects on the house are slightly too bright, re- vealing in a measure the secret of the art. DEPICTS LIFE AND DEATH. Joullin’s *“The Death Watch” isa striking- 1y original conception, filled with mournful detail and correctness of composition. It represents an Indlan watching by the side of a dead comrade in the interior of a house. The coloring of the quick and the dead is the most startling feature, true as life and death itself and impres- the University of Bombay to-morrow |sive beyond words. Every detail ‘s evening at the Academy of Sciences hall. | worked out with nicety and precision and Professor Saldanha is a renowned lec- [an extended study only reveals new veri- turer in his native land and has made a | ties in the canvas. The companion life study of the customs and meulhgu- “The Medicine Man, le exhibiting lof the Indian people. mmmwfi:’ Y e SR T S T KOHLER & CHASE beg to an=- nounce that their new building, cor. Post and Kearny Sts., is now complete in every detail. The pub- lic is cordially invited to visit our six floors and inspect the largest and finest stock of Pianos, Pianolas and musical goods ever shown on the Pacific Coast=e——=s Open Saturday Evening.