The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 12, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1904 ~ —-- The Ca OF THE CALL, STREET, LONDON, Andrew Carnegie sat, for the panying h her friends consider he has ever had taken acec | seems to be no doubt that “sundny."‘ { the romantic play produced at the Comedy Theater, is what every London | manager has Dbeen seeking—another | “Mice and Men,” with a long run here | in front of it and favor in the United | States as well. This is the piece upon | which three young members of ‘Wilson } Barrett's company collaborated under the name of “Thomas Racewood.” Its| atmosphere fs largely American, two | out of the four scemes being laid in &'} Western mining town. Fred Terry and | his wife, Julia Neilson, produced the: play, and its success or falflure meant | & lot to them. These two capable stage | folk made an uncommon success in| Paul Kester's “Sweet Nell of Old| | Drury.” but since have come croppers with two unsuccessful plays, with the | resuit that they have been rather un-| der a cloud. This, by the way, Was ex- | actly the position of Forbes Robertson snd Gertrude Elliot before they hit on “Mice and Men.” “Sunday” is exactly the simple sort of play with & happy ending and no ambition to teach anything, which the | public on both sides of the water in-| | sists upon lking best in spite of the | folk who think it ought to like some- thing else. Its heroine is a foundling, i — | E PROELEMS AT FINANCIER AND PHILANTHROPIST WHO GIVES OF HER HUSBAND'S ACTIVITIES AND tes for a all things 1, Mrs. Car- e for the allyrements of n dispensing the Skibo Castle little seen conspicuously husband's tas w in the London whirl of weaith and fashion persons apart from intimates realize how Skibo is assisted by out the details of Some of them suggested in the first instance by he Before her marriage the 1 er Miss Louisc Whitfield was, of cou onally concerned with | many rk philanthropic socie- ties and a well k n worker among <the poor of American cities. * Although an American woman, Mrs. Carn: almost as enthusiastic as her and in her admiration for Scotla d things Scottish, and finds ' an outlet for her artistic tastes in embellishing her residences here and with those decorative devices which impart to them a distinctive Scottish atmosphere Among the recreations in which she | delights al equally with Mr, Car- negie is g and the vigorous exercise she thus obtains accounts in no small | .measure for the excellent health she enjoys. The Carnegie golfing box at Chauncey, near the famous links of the St. Andrew’'s Golf Club in Scotland, esigned by her and first led to ¢ ry that she possessed rare architectural talents which she has since been at some pains to cultivate. Mrs. Carnegie is an ardent believer in her husband’s doctrine that the pos- session of wealth carries with it an _obligation to help others rise above the obstacles of poverty to careers of usefulness <showever, she would hardly subscribe to his declaration, made, by the way, before he was married, that “the man who dies rich dies disgraced,” for it is certain that their ome child, Mar- . garet, will never be left dependent on her own exertions for a living. But it is well known that Mrs. Carnegie has more than once avowed her pur- pose of doing her best to train her daughter to spend money wisely, that others may profit by it, and not de- vote it to indulgence in seifish luxur- jes. Apart from participation in her husband’s charities, Mrs. Carnegie de- | votes much ‘of her private purse to beneficent objects, both here and in America, but this is done S0 unosten- tatiously that the world hears nothing of &t London Stageland. 1 C 5 HEADQUARTERS. OF THE CALL, 5 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, L0 , May 1—There and happiness. Probably, | + j who, like Robinson Crusoe’s henchman, | { was named for the day on which she { was born. Like the imp in**When We | Were Twenty-One,” too, Sunday has | been brought up by four comrades, | rough miners, who have not failed among other things to teach the girl how to use a six-shooter. Moreover, they have advised her to use ner | knowledge In case of insult. Tn the town there comes a handsome, devil-may-care Englishman, named Brinthorp, who makes love to Sunday. But when he declares himself the girl finds that marriage is not included in! his scheme. The two are in a mountain | pass and imagine themselves alone. Sunday has her hand on her revolver and is ready to shoot down the man | who has insulted her in such deadly fashion when there is 3 report, and the | man falls, the victim of the gun of one of Sunday’s four protectors, who has overheard the interview and taken tit upon himself to avenge the girl. The body is buried and the incident closed. Then, through circumstances which need not be described in detail, this| Western girl is taken to England by a | woman of title and introduced in so-| ciety there. Eventually she finds her- self a guest at the baronial hall of a certain Colonel Brinthorp, who she dis- covers is the brother of the man whom her foster-parent, Towzer, had shot. | Colonel Brinthorp loves Sunday and she returns his love, but in a morbid way she considers herself the cause of | his brother’s death, and so she repulses him, and, unwilling to explain her at- titude, puts England behind her and re- turns to ber first home—Silver Creek. But Colonel Brinthorp follows, and one | night turns up in the little cabin where Sunday and her four protectors are sitting in the twilight, the girl try- ing to respond to the men's cheerful- ness. Brinthoro begs Svnday to marry him, and she responds by telling him the story of his brother's death, but {leaves the infeérence that he died by her revolver. Towzer, however, hastens to clear up the situation by confessing that it was he who shot the English- | man. The end is prettily pathetic. In the gloom of the cabin room it is im- posgible to see from Colonel Brinthorp’s | face what effect the revelations have had upaen him. But evidently Sunday | has no doubt. Sadly she picks up her | candle and going up to each of her | friends says “Good-night,” but when | she turns to the man she loves it is ‘Good-by, Colonel Brinthorp.” But the | man rises and says, “Good-night, Sun- day,” and the curtain falls. The rescuing party had landed on the cannibal island. “What has become of the editor that was wrecked here some months 7" they demanded. “Oh, he’'s been promoted,” chuckled | the savage in the tall hat. “Promoted?” “Yes; he's editor i Philadelphia Record, in chief now."— NI THE: SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOBN D. P'ublication Office . SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . . . . . . ... Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager .Third and Market Streets, S. P. THURSDAY e sies MY 12 1008 ANOTHER CAMPAIGN. FTER his second defeat Mr. Bryan said “They,” A meaning the wicked Democratic reorganizers, “‘are not going to get rid of me. I am young, ex- pect to live a long time and will always have something to do with politics.” That projected trouble far into the future, but after all limited it to the brief tenure of one life. i Mr. Hearst is the logical successor to Mr. Bryan and is seeking the Presidency by methods that are, in a cer- tain sense, an improvement on those of Mr. Bryan, who made money running for the Presidency while Mr. Hearst is spending it. Mr. Bryan said that his two can- didacies improved his earning power. Mr. Hearst's can- didacy has greatly improved his spending power. In the midst of all his activities as a candidate Mr. Hearst finds time to write editorials for his several newspapers, and recently has served notice on the public that he may have something to do with politics for an indefinitely pro- ! longed period. This editorial is on the subject of the transmigration of the soul, its repeated reincarnations in a job lot of bodies and its recurrent revisiting of the glimpses of the moon. This doctrine of metempsychosis is an old, a ven- erable, doctrine. Mr. Hearst writes about it with the zeal and enthusiasm of a recent convert. He prefers it to what he calls “the Jewish conception of Heaven.” He reminds the man who has got rich out of public utilities, such as railroads, that when he dies and loses a grip on his soul, which “going out of the back door may re- enter at the front door” in the body of some hectic and underfed person, perhaps destined to be run over and smashed up on his own railread. Rich women are also warned to look out lest they get a ticket on this everlast- ing round trip that will make them the tenant of the body of some worker in a sweat shop. : But the most interesting part of Mr. Hearst's belief in reincarnation is the statement that very wicked men are especially punished in his system of waking up some fine morning to find themselves sentenced to a long term in the body of a woman. We are surprised at this. Why does Mr. Hearst regard lovely woman as a sort of San Quentin or Sing Sing? In the name of that fairest and finest fleshly tabernacle of the soul we protest against this. In the first place no lady likes to think that she is inhabited by the coarse soul of a bad man, or a good one either. She wants her own and should have it at what- ever cost. We are sure that all right thinking men will stand picket to prevent such an unutterably unpleasant case of housebreaking as it would be to let some porch- climbing and burglarious male soul, with an appetite for whisky and tobacco, break into such fair and unmerited quancrs, No doubt Mr. Hearst, pressed for an explanation of his theory, will insist that the advocates of woman suffrage are ladies who have the misforturie to have concealed about them the souls of repeaters and ward healers. He would insist that Miss Shaw is probably tenanted by Cap- tain Isaiah Rynders, and that Tweed is addressing legis- latures in behalf of suffrage as some fair young thing | who feels a mission to vote and is urged on by the dis- embodied chief of Tammany. Of course Mr. Hearst's blameless and beautiful life is the result of his determi- nation not to have to wear corsets and hold up his skirts in his next reincarnation. Continuing Mr. Hearst carries his doctrine into the probate court by declaring that the selfish plutocrat who leaves his money to his two or three children, “tying up his fortune to keep it from the mass of the people,” would do quite differently if he realized that he was like- ly to be a gutter snipe as soon as the undertaker had flourished his melancholy screw driver over his coffin for | the last time. One part of Mr. Hearst's article is to be highly com- mended, for he admits that Christianity has merits while declaring that very few work at it. After all, he thinks that it teaches “abstract unselfishness,” while he insists that: “If some able man will give a great boom to the theory of reincarnation, making every man believe that a few years will perhaps find him in the place of the most unfortunate of mortals we may get results.” We are charmed with the modesty of this. Is not Mr. Hearst already booming reincarnation and is he not an able man? Behind his article is a deep political significance that far outruns the tenacious purpose of Mr. Bryan. He is desirous of achieving the Presidency. If he can’t get it in his present body, which his campaign biography as- sures us is six feet long, forty years old and of command- ing aspect, he proposes to keep it up by dodging into the bodies that stand in line for the office. When the ticket sales open for a first night at the opera it is the custom of the offensive plutocrats, referred to by Mr. Hearst, to hire messenger boys to hold places in the line for them that they may secure seats. Mr. Hearst lives and learns. He proposes to achieve the Presidency now, if possible; if not, with a perseverance that outruns that of the saints, he proposes to have an option through | all the future as tenant in the body of some one who is | near the prize. The gentlemen who run his headquarters here will | hope for the same indefinite continuance. Mr. Tarpey has probably already staked out thé managerial form in which he will reappear to run that distant campaign. It is undoubtedly Mr. Hearst’s view that ‘when he makes that far try for the honor Barry and Leake will either be scrubbing offices as char-women or catching cold in de- collette dress as the jaded leaders of fashion. A son of Joseph Chamberlain, on inquiry bent, has come among us, scrutinized our political theory and practice, bothered his inquisitive brain and in sheer ex- haustion exclaims that he can neither understand us nor our politics. Let us offer a suggestion to the investigat- ing visitor. Remain with us a little longer, choose your company with discretion and learn that neither bluff, hluster nor buncombe counts frue in the good will of the American people even in politics. A in Maple Hall, Palace Hotel, on Monday, May 23. The convention will be composed of delegates of representative organizations from the counties of San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Solano, Sacramento, Yolo, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Glenn, Butte and Tehama. Among those chosen as delegates are the Boards of Supervisors, representatives from each recla- mation district, and prominent citizens generally who are interested in the subject of guarding against the injurious river floods that have been experienced in California’s great central valley region this year. The convention will discuss the matter of taking whatever steps under aj] | STATE RIVER CONVENTION. CALL is out for a State river convention, to meet PECEEMNIAGES Rake NS el MBS S Tl R e Mo i R st L S S MR R B S PR G e AP B e e SRR of the circumstances may seem best and will arrange for concerted action by all interests, commercial, agricultural and governmental, to provide a remedy against future damage by floods. 8 . The injury ordinarily done by overflowing rivers in this State is exceedingly small in comparison with what is suf- fered in many other States, both in point of pecuniary loss and the extent of territory submerged, and occurs only in occasional years when the rainfall is excessive and at- mospheric conditions are peculiarly favorable to floods, yet it is well to be prepared against all occurrences that tend to reduce the steady earning power of the soil While the inhabitants of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys are the ones immediately interested, the question concerns all residents of the State. Leaving out of the discussion any general financial depression caused by floods in a given locality, the partial or entire destruc- tion of those products that are raised only in that locality brings to a certain extent a hardship upon all, not only because of a decreased supply, but because of the in- creased price therefor, consequent upon the disturbed condition of the market supply. The matter is important and it is to be hoped the con- vention will successfully solve the problem, as that part of the State tributary to our great rivers is rich and fertile and every safeguard should be taken to make its annual output a fixed asset —_—_— Another important document, upon which in the law’s devious course the distribution of more than a million dollars may depend, is missing from the County Clerk’s office and everybody in authority is in blissful, careless ignorance of where the paper may be. When the law assumes to govern the affairs of the living and of the dead it should also assume the responsibility of absolute protection. Criminal proceedings against the careless might prove a corrective. I THE NEW BUDGET. HE Board of Supervisors are now busy preparing the budget of municipal expenses for the ensuing year. This budget is based upon an estimate made by the Auditor of the expenditures of the city and county government for the next ensuing year. The Auditor, in making this statement, specifies the amount required to meet the interest and sinking funds for all outstanding | funded debts and the wants of all the departments of the municipal government, and he also estimates the amount of income to be derived by the city from fines, licenses | and other sources of revenue, exclusive of taxes upon property and the probable amount required to be levied and raised by taxation. After the Supervisors have determined the amount re- quired to pay the expenses of conducting the public busi- ness of the city and county for the next ensuing year and thus determined the amount required to be raised by taxation they must then proceed to levy the taxes f{or the ensuing year. Owing to the rapid growth of the city the necessity for larger Police and Fire departments and the increased ex- penditures that are necessarily required in all the depart- ments of the city government the taxes for the next year will be as high as the law will permit. Notwithstanding this an effort is being made to have the Supervisors include in this budget a sum large enough to construct'and equip a thodern electric road on Geary street.. This cannot be done without taking the money from the estimated expenses of running the various depart- ments of the city government. It cannot be done except at the expense of the schools, streets and sewers, the Police and Fire departments. The charter provides that a public utility cannot be paid for by the city and county out of its annual rev- enues unless these annual revenues are sufficient to pay for this public utility in addition to the other necessary expenditures of the city and county. The Board of Su- | pervisors have twice declared by ordinance that the cost of this particular public utility is too great to be paid out of the ordinary annual income and revenue of the city and county, and therefore have twice submitted to the people the question of determining whether they would authorize the issuance of bonds in order thereby to raise the money for this purpose. At both elections the electors voted against the proposal. I1f the people had indorsed these bonds payment would have been extended over a period of forty years; but even this mode of payment for this public utility was twice rejected at the polls. To attempt now to impose this entire burden upon the tax payers of the city at one time, and take this entire amount, which was then esti- mated at $750,000, out of the pockets of the tax payers in one year, and only then by curtailing the usefulness of probably every other department of the city govern- ment, would be an outrage upon the entire community. The tax payers of San Francisco at this time, when the city is developing rapidly and splendidly and is more and more attracting the attention of the world, are willing and anxious that all proper demands from the various de- partments for increased income for the ensuing year should be granted by the Board of Supervisors. They want to see their city well managed, well policed and amply protected from fire. They are not willing that the usefulness of a single department of the city government be impaired for want of income in order to try an experi- ment in municipal ownership which has in one year been twice rejected by them at the polls. The Board of Supervisors is still talking of the ne- cessity of remodeling our theaters to reduce the danger of fire and panic which lurks in most of them as a menace to thousands of lives. It is many months since the Chicaga horror forced this matter into public notice and still nothing has been done. The Supervisors should stop talking. Every word they utter now on the subject is an indictment of their neglect and apparent contempt of the welfare of the public. Sl N Premier Balfour has given public utterance to his con- fidence that the future holds much of promise to Britain and her dependencies. Progress and prosperity are what he saw in the mystic signs of the days and years to e, And yet in his prophecy he said nothing to indicate that he would not be the guiding genius of state; leading her on to the good things hoped for and to be realized only by stubborn intelligence. £ Dr. Thomas Herran, formerly in charge of the Colopi- bian legation at Washington, is suffering from nervous prostration. Can anybody blame him? After his strenu- ous endeavor to make his mercurial and mercenary gov- ernment appear reasonably decent in the Panama Canal affair, it was to be expected that the privilege of be- coming ill would be his by simple justice, Japanese Patriotism. Out in the Mission is a little cobbler shop presided over by a very small, very old and very garrulous Japanese. He is also very patriotic, though of | course this trait in his character did not become manifest until the open- ! ing of hostilities between his country and Russia. He has a peculiar way |of showing his patriotism. Every morning shortly after sunrise he ap- pears at his shop door. He makes no effort to open the place for business, | but calmly takes his seat on the steps | leading into the shop and waits until the morning papers are delivered. Just as soon as he spots a carrier he rushes up to him, buys a paper and then hastens to a nearby saloon. The bartender is a great friend of his and to him he hands the paper. “Japs win?" he asks, his little eyes snapping and his hands trembling with suppressed emotion. “Yep,” replies the bartender, glanc- ing hastily at the paper. “Kill lots Russians.” “Good; much good,” the cobbler shouts, laughing heartily and caper- ing about in front of the bar. Then he places a 10-cent piece on the bar, | | { - - HE BURST INTO WHAT WAS EVI | DENTLY FROFANITY IN THE JAP LANGUAGE. | +* . takes a good sized drink of whisky and walks out and over to his shop. There he writes a notice in his own language conveying to the world the fact that the little brown men have been once more successful in battle. This no- tice he pastes in his window- and to each and every customer who comes in during the day he explains its meaning. The other morning he waited on the steps of his little shop as usual, made his usual purchase of a morning pa- per and his usual rush to his fiiend the “barkeep.” “Japs win?"” he asked before he was fairly within the saloon, and without glving his friend a chance to look at the paper. “No, lose 'em,” replied the saloon man, thinking to tease the little fel- low. The cobbler almost fell to the floor the shock was so great. He looked at the barkeeper, burst into what was evidently profanity in the language of the Japs and ran out of the place. He took the first car that came along bound downtown. That' night the bartender went to the Hall of Justice in answer to a summons from a friend of his and put up $5 to get the disap- pointed and very much intoxicated It- tle brown man out of jail. Love in Springtime. When Spring sweeps blithely down the world. In covert whistling, in leaf-bud curled, The sky hath laughter, the brown pool thrills, And cl;:ilfil»shndnws purple the wakening s O sing, ye winds in the vibrant pine; o s\ni‘. ‘ye birds, and your song be mine! j For love wells up in my sleeping heart, And lentde{ness blooms, and sweet tears start, ‘With the joy of my love. The Spring beats strong In my_ blood, till it throbs with a Thythmic song. O sing, my heart, as th sings, Thou race-harp, tuned by a thousand Springs! —Edna Kingsley Wallace, in The Critie. Fighting the Shark. Native pearl fishers in the Gulf of Panama and the Gulf of Mexico al- ways carry a long, keen-edged knife in a leather belt when they go down into the water, and they are ready at any moment to make a desperate fight for life. Unless taken unawares, the chances are that they will come off victorious. “Many a fight have I had with the shark, senor,” said Juan Encisco, one of the oldest and best of the Mexican divers, “and only once have I been bitten. That was when I was a young man, unused to the business and ner- vous. If a man is quick at dodging in the water and keeps his knife handy he need not be afraid of a shark. Usually sharks are too timid to attack a diver—but not always, especially if the diver happens to come down on them when they are chasing a school of fish. “Some divers wait for the shark to turn on his- back and then rip open his belly as he comes up through the water to seize them. I never do that; it is too risky. I always swim under an enemy and cut him open before he has time to attack me, The shark is a very slow fish in the water and a good .diver can swim and dodge all around him. “Last year a man who went down from my canoe was seized by a shark e wind-harp ¥ i AR just as he came up to the surface of the water. The shark pulled him down and we never saw a trace of him again. I have seen many such deaths, senor, during the forty years I have been a pearl diver, but more of us dic through remaining too long under water.” In Defense of the Automobile. Editor San Francisco Call—Dear Sir: In response to your editorial under the head of “Automobiling” in this morn- ing’s issue of your esteemed paper, I would llke to have you publish the following, viz.: The sport of automobiling is at present undergoing the same troubles in introduction into our parks as the bicycles had in their early days. We all can remember the great prejudice created against the “scorcher” by his own reckless riding. Of course, the same is now true of the reckless auto- mobilist. There is no reason, how- ever, why the many innocent ones should suffer because of the faults of a few bad ones. The accident which recently occurred in Golden Gate Park was caused by reckless handling of a good machine in the hands of a man who had already had one accident and had not profited by that experience. He tried to make a difficult turn in the road while going at a too high rate of speed, and it is a well known fact |in professional automobile circles that | he was racing at the time of the ac- cident. A day or two after this acci- |dent a youthful (and therefore irre- | sponsible) chauffeur ran his machine over the bank of the Ocean boulevard. Both of these accidents were caused {by improper handling of the ma- |chines. No one was to blame for | these accidents save the men who were operating the machines at the | time. If the park were properly illuminat- ed, as was the original intention of the Park Commissioners, the license number on the different machines could be detected as well by night as they could by day and a mounted po- liceman would not have to give chase to automobiles, but simply note the number and could, the next day, swear out a warrant for the arrest of the holder of such license. The automobile has come to stay and let us not be such silurians as to try to hold back this infant but rap- idly growing industry. The writer | knows that your paper stands for progress and the advancement of this city and State. San Francisco to-day is the only large city which prohibits automobiles from its best roads in the parks. Knowing, as we do, your in- térest in everything that will tend to make San Francisco an up-to-date city, we feel that you will join with us in looking toward the opening up of all the drives in the park to the au- tomobile. With you, we would like to see a reckless driver punished, but not the entire automobile public prohibit- ed. Very truly, SCOTT & BLAKESLEE. San Francisco, May 11, 1904. | Answers to Queries. WASHINGTON LIFE—Subscriber, Creston, Cal. Any first-class book- seller will furnish you with books de- scriptive of social life and incidents in the city of Washington, D. C., during the incumbency of President Lincoin. FARMERS' ALLIANCE — Student, City. The “Farmers’ Alllance which was organized in the seventies”” was an anti-secret national organization of agriculturists, founded in New York in 1873, for mutual improvement and furtherance of political ends. PLAID—A. O. S, City. Plaid, pro- nounced plade, not plad, has no ref- erence in the strict sense to the check- ered pattern of a fabric, though the word is commonly used to express such. In Popular Ballads the editor says in the glossary to his work: “This word in the Gaelic or in any other language of which I have any knowl- edge means anything broad and flat, and when applied to a plaid or blanket signifies simply a broad, plain, uni- formed piece of cloth.” Tennent, an- other English writer, says: “The brechan or plaid consists of twelve or thirteen yards of narrow stuff wrapped round the middle and reaches to the knees.” WIFE'S SISTER—P. N, City. The English law that prohibits a man from marrying his deceased wife's sister is: Elizabeth Cap I, which rec- ognizes the Levitical degree as gov- erning marriages. These degrees are set forth in various chapters of Levit- icus. The verse bearing on marriage with a wife's sister is Leyiticus xviii. 18. These rules were followed by church and Court and accepted by them. The chief argument in favor of repealing the Elizabethan act is that the interpretation of the verse referred to is wrong, for the verse for- bids a man to take his wife’s sister to wife during the first wife's lifetime. The limitation expressed in the verse is ignored in the law. —_———————— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —_———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cuy- ifornia street. Telephone Main 1043, *