The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1904, Page 8

THURSDAY. BERESESE ) i1 kere 1sabella Lies. Spectal Correspondence. | | | roow is the apartment which Philip II | reserved for h T “He he, said, fc cell in he built to God.” And a | containing the hard ! the stool on which the| as wont to rest his gouty leg. | s djoining it is a tiny bedroom, with | a door in one of its walls. The creak- | ling of its v hinges ill prepares one | for the sight revealed when it is| thrown open. So close that an out- | stretchad hand might almost touch it, | the magnificent altar of the| From his bed in this little | e King could hear and see the when he was too iil to e. | morning during the years that | he the sorial was lived at | amakened here by the chanting of the | ' | monks and it was here that he died. | The Esc al was formerly rich in| , and ugh in 1837 a hun- the best were removed to | it still contains many fine rks of art, including specimens by MADRID. ay 7.—For a short time, i due to the entombment there with sol- | Coello, Garbajal, Tibaldl, Zucarro, emn pomp of ex-Queen Isabella of | Lucca Giordano, Trezzo, Zurbaran,| — 3 + e T T T T T YT | | || | X E = 2 | HE FECORIAL, A HOARY PILE OF BUILDINGS NEAR SPAIN'S CAPITAL, MADE FAMOUE AS THE BURIAL PLACE OF SPANISH RULERS FOR | CENTURIES { & % 1 Spain, t famed Escorial, called by Ribera, Tintoretto, Veronese and| the Spaniards the eighth wonder of the Titian. Of the latter the most strik-| world, has taken on something of its former grandeur. Situated nearly four thousand feet above sea level, on the bleak, wind-swept slope of the Sierra Guadarama, this vest build- church, monastery and ombined, is certainly one sive in Europe. At paralielogram, which stands a tower 200 feet high the church in the center of rises a magnificent cupola, it forms above pile summit 212 feet above the floor. g contains 1111 windows, forty- ne altars, cighty-nine fountains and feet of frescoed paintings. The nstruction of it took twenty-one ears Erected over three hundred years £ »ain, at the zenith of her dominated the civilization of e world, it constitutes an enduring ment to the nation’s fallen gran- of its builder— miganthropic he memor: ase monk and nd yrant Theophile Gautier cails him iKing Philip I, whom no historian has yet undertaken to whitewash. It was for the dual purpose of commemorat- ing his victory over the French at Quentin, on St Lawrence’'s day, August 10, 1557, and providing a burial place for himself and his descendants, that Philip started an army of laborers work on the rugged siope of the | va Guadarama. The first stone was lajd in 1563, the architect being | Todelo. After his death four years later his pupil, Herrera, carried on the work to completion. There is stili shown to tourists the lofty seat, hewn out of the granite bgwider, where the grim monarch used to sit and watch the Escorial grow. Legend states that the form of the structure, chosen by his direction, was intended to typify the gridiron on which his patron saint, St. Lawrence, was martyred. Excavated deep in the earth, under the church, is the Pantheon, where re- pose the bones of Spain's royal dead. That portion of it reserved for the Kings and Queens is an octagonal chamber with -twenty-six splendid urns, all of a size, arranged around the _walls, blazoned with the names of those whose dust they contain. Rare bronzes and marble statuary gleam ghostlike in the dim light. Despite its gilding and grandeur, the dominant impres- sion the place creates is one of ang@st simplicity, which instinctively causes the visitor to sink his voice to a whis- per. And here Spain, tHat drove Isa- bella into exile and would not permit her to return while living, gives her sepulchre among her ancestors, near to the urn that contains the remains of Charles V, like his son, Philip II, half monarch and half monk. In other chambers are buried the children and members of the royal house. Thé palace is now tenantless and de- serted, save for the attendants who guard its treasures and show visitors through its apartments. Most of the jatter have been remodeled and re- decorated from time to time by de- scendants of the monarch monk. Lacking his austere simplicity of taste, most of the changes they wrought have served only to mar the symmetry and harmeny of the original design. The gaudy tapestries designed by Goya, which might enhance the gas- tronomic attractions of a fashionable restaurant, appear little short of dese- cration in these Graeco-Roman halils. Because it remains unchanged and in its grim barrenness seems to reflect something of the stern the man to whom the huge pile owes its existence, the most character of | ing is a great canvas on which Charles V rides eternally forth to battle. The librar; once one of the richest in| Europe, though greatly diminished by | & fire in 1691, and by thefts hy the French soldiegy in 1808, still contains | over 30,000 volumes and nearly 5000 | luable manuscripts. | Situated thirty-one miles northwest | of Madrid, the Escorial is an e day’s jaunt from the capital by ra mule teams completing the jour- up the hill from the station. Often boys may be seen playing football in the courtyards. At the early masses beggars and old women constitute the major portion of the scant congrega- tion. It is a place of departed glories, | pomps and ceremonies, a monument that reminds the modern world of | what Spain once was. A Snake Lover. who has a peculiar penchant for every | kind of snake that crawls. At an age | when most boys are interested in tops | |and marbles only, Raymond L. Dit- mars, now curator of reptiles in the | New York Zoological Park, was inter- | ested in snakes, not from mere idle | | curiosity, but with a renuine interest | |in serpents which prompted him to | ek them out and observe and study hem. i‘ As a boy he spent his spare hours lout of school, and even his vacation | | times, in hunting snakes in the neigh- | borhood of New York, not to destroy | them, but to see them in their native | | haunts and to collect them. Then | when his family had moved from the | city to the country, and it had been | discovered that a purpose from which |it had been endeavored to dissuwade | | him was one seriously formed, a room was fitted up for him in the new | house, with suitable glass cases in| | which snakes could be comfortably |and safely installed. These cases he had filled with snakes in two weeks. Interested always in natural history in general, Mr. Ditmars was employed between 16 and 22 as an assistant in' the insect department of the American Museum of Natural History, being there engaged in mounting butterflies | and bleties; but his pet specialty was snakes, and he still continued constant- ly his studies of this form of reptile life and his journeyings into the coun- try in search of snakes. He came to know all those in the city who have to do with snakes; snake dealers, snake charmers and fruit importers who, im- porting fruit from tropical countries, sometimes rc-eive snakes. From one and another of these sources he was occasionally able to acquire a desirable | snake to 2dd to those he had himself | collected, until finally he came to have a private collection of 300 living snakes, occupying, with the enl: d facilities required for the safe and comfortable keeping of so many, the whole top floor of his house. And his home had now come to be a rendezvous of artists seeking living snakes to draw from, of snake enthusiasts, and of all those hav- ing a technical knowledge of and mak- ing a study of snakes. The number of these last was comparatively few, this branch of herpetology having as vet but & limited following. | | The New York Sun tells of a man | ~1 hope the young minister is ortho- dox.” 'Why, is there any reason to doubt it “No; only that he has just been grad- uvated from a theological seminary.”— Puck. 1 | panions in misfortune went down, never to rise. | reference to the sound money issue. | on the tariff is distinctly abandoned. The income tax is 'THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Publication Office . JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . + - + - . - . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager THURSDAY : THE SANTA CRUZ RESULT. N the Democratic State Convention McNab and Lane first won their fight and then lost it. The reasons were given in the current talk of the convention, in which the lavish use of money was assigned as the mo- tive which changed a Hearst minority of twenty-two into a Hearst majority of nineteen. We assume that all rea- sonable men will admit that if Mr. Hearst deserved the indorsement of his party in California it should have been given ungrudgingly and unanimously. If he did not deserve it it should not have been given at all. The charges of treachery to the late Senator White, and to numerous candidates of his party here, went un- | answered, and the party has indorsed those treacheries and put upon them the seal of its approval. This can only mean that the Democracy of California decides that White was unfit for Senator, Lane for Governor, Farns- worth for Justice of the Supreme Court, and all the others whose political rights and personal ambitions Hearst smote unto death deserved what they got. That matter being decided once for all, the party in this State selects Mr. Hearst as its ideal, and his personal record and political conduct as models to be flattered by imita- tion. That being its deliberate choice the organization knows where it stands, and so do the people. The opponents of Hearst gave out certain reasons why they did not follow up the advantage gained in the ;primari:s in San Francisco. They were implored by the | Democratic office-holders here not to excite Mr. Hearst to make reprisals through his newspaper. They feared that their political future would share the evil effects of the treachery of Hearst under which Lane and his com- That was accepted as a valid reason for the work of the San Francisco delegates, whose votes made the indorsement possible. As the party indorsed this view by indorsing Mr. Hearst, others have no fault to find. The Democ- racy of the State seems to have known its man, and he seems to have known the party. This mutual recogni- tion is in the presence of the whole State, and whether the spectacle is edifying depends upon the point of view. Mr. Hearst represents what the Democratic Con- vention wanted; the future must prove or disprove that it was what the party wanted. The platform conforms to the personal ideal to which the convention bowed in submission. Tt indorses social- ism in its broadest feature. It demands government ownership and operation of railroads, and, as the greater includes the less, this indorsement runs to public owner- ship of all means of production. The platform makes no The old position thrown overboard. A protective tariff is distinctly in- dorsed with a slight modification in which reduction of rate is demanded on ail American manufactures that are sold abroad for less than at The Republican party is denounced for not passing a river and harbor bill at the first session of the present Congress, when the convention should have known that only one river and harbor bill is passed by each Congress, and not one at each session. This bit of hypocrisy was indulged in for the purpose of accusing the Republican party of de- siring to impair water transportation in the interest of railroads. So, we suppose that when Mr. Cleveland ve- toed the river and harbor bill it was in the interest of railroads! One exceedingly significant feature of the convention will occur to the Democrats who were not there. Cleve- land was not mentioned, nor was Bryan, nor any of the party worthies who were identified with the party re- vival which began with the election in 1874 of the first Democratic House of Representatives after the Civil War. Tilden, Seymour, Thurman, Cleveland, Bryan and all were coldly snubbed, and the convention jumped clear from Jefferson to Hearst. Between 1800 and 1904 it had no leader whose personality deserved mention or honorable ascription. Jefferson and Hearst were put upon the same pedestal, and the party had no history between the two. In the presence of these two pieces of party statuary “immediate restitution of the Democ- racy to powerk was demanded, with Hearst for Presi- dent! Paraphrasing Lincoln, we admit that men who like that kind of a man for President will like that kind of a man. Still, as a believer that in a republic there must be parties, and that the better their leaders the more de- serving they are of public confidence, we feel that the Democracy of California could have chosen more wisely and presented a higher ideal. But water runs no higher, than its fountain, and ideals are no higher nor purer than their source, and if the Democracy of this State wishes to be judged by the ideal man, garlanded and garnished by its convention, that is its affair entirely. The high-minded Republicans of the State will con- tinue to cherish the great memory of Senator White as an honor to the State which he served. They will re- member gratefully his vindication of the Republican Supreme Court against the vicious aspersions of Mr. Hearst, and they will not accept the judgment of the Democratic Convention upon Mr. Lane that he was un- fit to have received, his party’s nomination for Gover- nor, for Republicans felt his steel in combat as the weapon of an able and high-minded foeman. The Dem- ocratic party, as far as the convention represented it, re- pudiated everything in its history and everybody in its leadership in order to occupy a position from which it could laud Mr. Hearst. The State thought better of it than it seems to have deserved. home. Our Supreme Court has again accomplished the im- possible in logic. It has reached a conclusion without major or minor premise to drive it to reason’s inevitable It has decided that an ex-County Clerk has uo5 haven. right to the office he held, but the learned Justices do not tell us anything of the living issue involved in the controversy over tenure. The County Clerk may be elected for two years or for four years. Some day some- thing may inspire the appellate court to determine this question. T all the attention of our people from the compliment paid to California by selecting it as the place for holding two important religious conferences. The great Methodist church is with us in its general, or inter- national, conference at Los Angeles, and it is welcomed with unfeigned pleasure. At the same time the Pacific Coast Conference of the Unitarian Church is in session in this city. The religious ideas of the two bodies are wide apart, but it is with pleasure that a philosopher sees practical unity in their religious purpose. California owes much to the Unitarians, and memory of that debt will survive as long as the name of Thomas THE CONFERENCES. HE political ferment of the time does not distract Starr King is set highest among the forces that wrought for the Union, in the clouded days of the Civil War. The ascription to him may well include other great names in that church of men who have stood for civil liberty and freedom of person and conscience, to whom our institutions are indebted for a support that enters into their strength and integrity. | Creeds and rituals are good, and to many are essen- ; tials in the. right guidance of life, The devoted spirits | which is as endless as the weakness and willfulness of human nature. But the men-at-arms in that warfare are by no means all the devotees of creed and forms. Yet they are valiant in the strife. The Unitarians feel | their part in deciding the great issues of life, and they do | they duty in clearness and cleanness of spirit. Their conference here is on ground where they have ecarned the right to be, and San Francisco greets them gladly and hails their coming as a gratifying event in a year in which public bodies concerned in the good of man | have chosen California as the meeting place of thousands | who will come as strangers and go away as friends. | { Elaborate preparations are being made for the recep- the nation at the St. Louis Exposition, and San Francisco | | contriving minds of the little men from the South Seas. To those that may be doubtful of our ability let us hasten | to give assurance that our hospitality has almost become professional with us and only an expert can detect in our methods or manners of entertainment when we like our guests and when we don't. & an emphatic commentary upon the spirit of co-opera- tion that prevails among the commercial bodies of Cali- fornia. This action was the result of the broad scope for State development that has formed the basis of the committee’s work, culminating with the April excur- sion of the committee through the south. The merchants of Los Angeles have become impressed with the sincerity of the committee in its broad and far-reaching endeavors. A committee of the Los An- geles Chamber of Commerce, after an investigation, re- ported: “Your committee is satisfied that the work of the California Promotion Committee is most commend- able and productive of great good toward the develop- ment of the resources and the upbuilding of the whole State, and certainly merits the encouragement of the Los Angeles Chamber\of Commerce.” The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce is the rep- resentative body of California south of the, Tehachapi. Its work has been directed not alone to Los Angeles, but to the entire southern part of the State. It is pleas- ing, indeed, that this progressive organization should enter so readily into the great movement for united effort in the development of the State. It should be a matter of congratulation to the merchants of San Fran- cisco and Los Angeles that not only these two cities but all parts of the State will work shoulder to shoulder in forwarding their mutual interests. There is now more enthusiasm in development work in California than in any other State. If the energy exerted in promoting various localities be applied to a common end California will not only advertise her resources in a manner commensurate with her richness, but she will devote herself in a remarkable degree to State improve- ment. The greatest incentive to patriotic work of this kind, which the people of some of California’s fertile but UNITED EFFORT. HE recent appointment of a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce upon the advisory ance that they will receive the support and co-operation of the larger cities. The greatest discouragement they part of the more powerful communities. The movement for co-operation is, therefore, thojoughly beneficent and undeniably practical. Under its influence every commu- nity in California will be stimulated to make known its advantages and its needs, and good results may be counted on as foregone conclusions. At the great Methodist conference, which has been in distinguished session at Los Angeles, five Bishops were retired on the score of age. They have finished their splendid work for their church and for humanity. They pass from the storm and stress of active life to the calm and peace of respected retirement. Surely no man can ask a better reward for a life well spent than the sincere acknowledgment that his great and good work has been accomplished. S daily papers. During something like five years the people of Seattle have believed that they actually saw, so says the Seattle Times, the beginning of a canal to be used by ships in passing from Elliott Bay to Lake Wash- ington. Now the City Engineer of Seattle has reported that a private company that has been supposedly engaged in this beneficial project has really done nothing except to sluice away several city blocks of Beacon Hill, facing the bay, for the purpose of filling tide lands for profit. While this has been going on, according to the same authority, seven of the Seattle city streets have been washed out to a depth of from 50 to 100 feet. Property holders are confronted at one point with a fifty-foot hole extending two and one-half blocks north and south and four and one-half blocks east and west. Those who purchased their lands on the city's accepted plats are shut off from the city proper as if a stone wall with only one opening had been constructed about them. When the work of filling in tide lands shall have been completed the city will be confronted with a great hole. “Damage suits,” saye the Times, “are being piled up so high that the corporation counsel is unable to see over them.” This disappointment has no relation to the canal for ships that the Government is to construct, although it has delayed the Government and has caused the Seattle Chamber of Commerce to expend some money and suf- fer much anxiety. The Government canal is,a different proposition, but the ingenious private excavators who have caused so much havoc in city streets have contrib- uted to retarding the Government. The curious phase of the matter is, according to the Times, that there has been a hidden hand in the City Council that has prevented injunction proceedings and is still potent. At some future day it will be necessary for the city to provide bridges to cross the chasms that have already been excavated and ‘court judgments are | liable to represent other large outlays of coin, SEATTLE ASTONISHED. EATTLE is astonished,"very disagreeably, judging ~....Third and Market Streets, S. F. | who sustain them are the soldiers in a moral warfare | tion of the fifty Filipinos who are to be the guests of | | is expected to extend a hospitality that will leave indeli- | | ble inlpressions of good will upon the untutored but | board of the California Promotion Committee is | little known interior communities can have, is the assur- could have would be a spirit of ungenerous rivalry on the | by the tone of articles recently appearing in Seattle | Brannan Plus Lead. It was in 1871, when money was plenty, a 25-cent piece being the smallest coin in circulation, that the campaign in which Governor Haight |and Newton Booth were running for | the gubernatorial seat resulted in an amusing incident arising from the election. Sam Hall, who kept a sa- |loon, was a strong Haight man, while Sam Brannan was equally as strong {for the Republican nominee, Booth. ;Whlle discussing the merits of their ! men in Hall's saloon one night a wa- | ger was made between Hall and Bran- !nan with a $500 forfeit that the loser | of the bet should trundle the winner {in a wheelbarrow from Washington to | California street and back. | When the final day came, Booth be- ing the winner in the election, it was | announced that the trundling act would come off on a Saturday after- noon. It is needléss to add that the sidewalks on the line of the streets I 1 i | | | 04 | BRANNAN AND THE LEAD | } PROVED TO BE TOO MUCH FOR HALL. | — R were crowded. At the appointed hour | Alexander Badlam, who was a rela- tive of Sam Brannan, appeared on the scene with ®he wheelbarrow and, set- ting it down on the planked street, waited for the men who were to fig- ure in the event. They came, Hall in shirt sleeves, hatless, with a girdle about his waist and his sleeves rolled up to his armpits. Brannan, wearing his usual street costume, seated him- | self in the barrow. | Hall started with his load and be- !fore he had proceeded a block the perspiration was rolling down his face. He wobbled about as if laboring hard under a heavy strain; he pushed away, however, until he arrived at Sacra- mento street, when, in deep disgust, he dropped the barrow and threw up his | hands in token of dele:\(. at the same | time volunteering to pay the forfeit. Hall's discomfiture was due to one of Badlam's practical jokes, for he had secretly concealed 100 pounds of lead underneath the bottom of the barrow, knowing that this additional weight would tire out the brawny Hall before he had trundled Brannan half way. It may be added that Hall got all of $500 and more back from the sporting crowd that in those days made Mont- gomery street their rendezvous. Their sympathies manifested themselves in the form of a plenteous shower of gold pieces. [ The Great God Chance. Betting on horse races has, as a rule, a demoralizing effect and has ruined many men and women. In one in- stance, however, it has brought to- gether “two souls with but a single | thought; two hearts that beat as one” and the announcement of the happy event is being eagerly anticipated. A young couple is employed in one of the newspaper 6ffices in the city and Cupid's arrow has pierced the heart of each. Neither is blessed with much of this world's wealth and at the begin- ning of the racing season they decided to make a bet of “two bits” each on a combination. If they won they would each retain the “two bits” afid go on betting with the winnings till the end of the season. Then if the result was at all favorable they would look upon it as a happy omen of their future. Both were keenly anxious on the closing day of the racing season. All their hopes centcred on the horse J. V. Kirby, an outsider in the last race. If that horse won they would be each $150 to the good on the season’s betting and if it lost they would be left just as they had started. The horse won and now buying furniture. they are Vassili Verestchagin. Vassili Verestchagin, the best known of Russian artists, won his fame throughout Eurove and this country less on account of the techniqgue of his pictures than of the subjects Qe paint- ed. Russian by birth, by education, by habit of thought and by keenness of sympathy with the sufferings of hu- manity, he is Russian also in the ter- rible fidelity with which he expresses the tragedy of things. There is a great- ness and a simplicity in his paintings which appeal to every one. We may shudder at tliem, but they speak, they arrest us; if we try to turn from them they strike us full in the face and com- pel our attention. Verestchagin painted war because he had been himself a warrior. He was a soldier artist—a man who became a soldier for the sake of ——— SE— his art, and who used his art in order to teach the world the truth about sol- dlering. There is seldom any actual fighting in the canvases of Verestchagin. This is in accordance with a theory to which he held all his life. He did not believe in depicting only the dramatic moments of the war. If we reckon up the time spent In any war, he was fond of say- | ing, we will find that by far the great- est part of the campaign {s spent in suffering, great hardships, heavy labor and miseries. “Weeks are spent in marching in blazing suns. in clouds of dust or in tolling through mud while the rains drench you to the skin. War means hunger, thirst, sickness, the pain of wounds, privations of all kinds —a reversion to the conditions of sav- age existence. All these things last for days, for weeks, for months, while the time that is passed in actual fighting is but a few hours. Why, then, should we in painting war devote our atten- tion exclusively to these moments of excitement and ignore the dull, grim realities that make up the life of a sol- dier on campaign?’—American Month- 1y Review of Reviews for May. A Peanut Famine. Lovers of goobers are face to face with a peanut famine. A writer in the Chiéago Chromicle says that the South has furnished the peanut supply, but adds: “The spirit of latter-day commercialism has seized wupon the South and threatens to sever the bond through which that section has con- tributed so greatly to the gustatory delight of the nation. It appears that cotton and goobers thrive best in the same kind of soil, and the high price of cotton has caused Southern planters to devote almost their entire acreage to that staple. As the demand for cotton is Increasing more rapidly even than the demand for peanuts, it is most probable that they will continue to dis- criminate in favor of the former staple despite its fluctuating value, and against the latter, notwithstanding the fact that the price always remains the same, flve cents a bag, the country over. The effect that failure to cul- tivate the peanut will have upon the social relations of the masses, espe- cially the juvenile element, can only be surmised, and any surmise will be fraught with dark forebodings. Neces- sarily the decline of the peanut will have a tendency to restrict the pleas- ures of recreation, foreshadowing as it does the doom of the gallery god and the degeneration of the circus into a hollow mockery.” Another Plague. =~ ' Egypt is threatened with a plague of locusts, and the Government has called out the armyv of forced laborers to combat the pest.- Owing to the young locusts’ habit of never turning back or aside when once started in a cer- tain direction, it is possible, by dig- ging trenches, sometimes miles in length, to entrap the invading hosts and destroy them. That's of course, must be done before the locusts take to the wing. At that stage nothing can stop their ravages and they sweep everything before them. ; Answers to Queries. » ART MUSEUM—F. B. M., Lompee, Cal. Properly there are public mu- seums in San Francisco as follows: The Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, at Mason and California streets; the mu- seum in Golden Gate Park and that of the Academy of Sciences, on Market street. This department has not the space to give a detailed history of each of these. In the first two named there are many specimens of refined art: in the latter there are many curios that are classed as works of art. In the museum of the California Mining Bu- reau, in the ferry building, there are in addition to the mining exhibits many specimens of art work by different na- tions, and in that of the Pioneers are many early day curios. BRUNHILDE—A. S., City. What is meant by “one of the Brunhilde type™ is one of the character of Brunhilde, a sketeh of which appeared in this de- partment a few days since. None of the bistories of that woman degeribe her complexion, color of hair, eté. There is a character known as Brunhild in the Niebelung lied. This is the Queen of Issland, who made a vow that none should win her who could not surpass her in three trials of skill and strength —first, hurling a spear; second, throw- ing a stone, and, third, jumping. Gun- ther, King of Burgundy, undertook the three contests, and-by the aid of Seig- fried succeeded in winning the martial Queen. First, hurling a spear that three men could not lift; the Queen hurled it toward Gunther, but Seigfried., in his invisible cloak, reversed the direc- tion, causing it to strike the Queen. Next throwing a stone so large that twelve brawny men were employed to carry it; Brunhild lifted it om high, flung it twelve fathoms and jumped be- vond it. Seigfried hciped his friend to throw it farther and leap beyond it. After marriage Brunhild became so ob- streperous that the King again applied to Seigfried, who succeeded in depriv- ing the Queen of her ring and girdle, and she became a very submissive wife. 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