The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JU — montag,” which ran for only four ! rights. To fill in “Saturday to Mon- | day” was hastily arrounced. The part | of Lady Diana was originally written | | for Mrs. Charles Calvert, but as that | | actress was under engagement at an- other theater this role was given to a | rather inexperienced actress, who on | the first night forgot her part and in | the first act left out two whole pages | of explanation of the why and where- | fore of the play. This appalling gap | in the story not only paralyzed the un- :fnrtumne actress, but every one else and the first act was taken so slowly | that no one in the audience dreamed | that the play was supposedly farcical. | Recovering themselves somewhat in | the interval the actors started on the e 3 spirits went to the other extreme and | rollicked through the play for all they {were worth. The audience became | more and more puzzled and left the | theater in a somewhat resentful mood, Royalty Unadorned. Special Correspondence thet a chance is afforded of gazing | however, Alexander continued the upon unclothed royalty, but one is |pi which is now going strong and | 5 [ | | | ye THE HEIR AP- ITATES NOT TO APPEAR IN UN- 4 L - 5. s . " + ompanying photo- | seems to be in for a long run. Its been taken of | part author, Richard Pryce, has been known to Americans for several years as a promising writer of s of Belgium | 5 ns of his )& mother, Prin- |35 e storie b e vouns. | Princess Poppae” was, Mr. Pryce s I‘ ture Lleariy | tells me, his first success at home. | R ¥ | This was followed by ; e 1 his lofty birth permit ollowed by the rather ugly stc vea the of “Miss Weatherby,” but of late perhaps Pryce is best known as author of “Elementary Jane.” 1d stand a good | prize in a erits. Of | toilet in to no paucity ut to com- n his many of fact, much | and Flemish | fou been used | his literary work or the bank. erous long | left the bank. Now Mr. nd is Itogethe rs is 4 As his name suggests, Mr. Pryce is England when he first began to write, but recognition 1d he the time came when he has So he Pryce has when v little of him | Mr. Frohman, putting in his usual | time on this side of the water, ig as ond son of Prince Al-|active as eve London playgoers future King, . would repres which of the London Louis this summe would take over new mother is a daughter | which is being built in Shaftesbury and who, | have been anxious for some time to nt a Yrince Charles «f the oculist Duke, Charles Theodore | avenue and now it is announced that { Beigium, who trained her to help | the American Impresario will have it. im in his work and assist at opera- | Mr Frohman ran over to Paris a few s B hough A very clever | days ago and while there secured the | woman and an ardent sportswoman, | American rights in “The Third Moon,” 100, she is a fond and devoted mother, | the Chinese comedy by the authoress of “The Marriage of Kitty,” which has just been produced at the Paris Vaudeville. rmingly revealed in her pic- is her attachment to chil- dren confined to her own offspring. Once, accompanied by Prince Albert, she visited the hospital of St. Pierre, having announced her intention of charging herself with the support and education of six of the little destitute girls there. But before she had con- cluded her rounds she had adopted a dozen of the small maidens, to their. great delight. Prince Albert is a stu- dious man and a good all-round sol- dier and bids fair to make an excel- lent King, but with the Belgians his wife is far the more popular of the two. It was a lucky day for him when he married her. Though no one here has had the temerity to suggest it, probably the reason why Alfred Austin didn’t sign his name to the curtain-raiser which he recently subpmitted to Arthur Bourchier was that he was afraid it might be re- fused. Doubtless Mr. Austin thought that it would never do to allow a Lon- don manager to turn down the poet laureate. But when Bourchier's officiai “reader” came to the anonymousg man- uscript of “A Lesson in Harmony” he found it so promising that he at once commended it to the actor-manager's attention. He also asked Mr. Bourchier to note a letter which aceompanied the playlet and in which the nameless dra- mati€t wrote: “Should this little piece be accepted the author makes it a con- dition that Mr. Bourchier will himself play the part.” Upon reading the piece Bourchier 1'ked it so much that he wrote, asking the anonymous one to call, and was electrified at the appointed hour to find himself the poet laureate. It was soon arranged between them, how- ever, that Mr. Austin’s comedietta should be produced as a curtain-raiser to W. 8. Gilbert's “The Fairy's Dilem- ma,” which is now the attraction at the Garrick. Hitherto the poet laureate has not enjoyed great success as a drama- tist. His “Flodden Field” was given a lavish production by Beerbohm Tree at a special performance at His Majesty's, but it was roasted by the critics and Tree has never thought it best to put it into the regular bill, The London Stage. | Epecial Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, 5 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, June 3.—Amer- jca is to see the play “Saturday to Monday,” which is now filling to over- flowing the St. James, London’s most fashionable theater, and which has had a curious history. When it first was produced the London critics with one voice condemned it. They saw nothing good in the play and nothing #ood in the acting, while the general public wondered what it was all about. There was, however, some ex- cuse. Although George Alexander had had it for some two years, “Sat- urday to Monday” had only just gone into rehearsal at the time that the manager put on the ill fated “Rosen- & | 2 | | gecona act and further regaining their | S, June 1.—It iz not often | Not to be outdone by circumstances, | a Welshman. He was in the Bank of | after his American and British | would have to give up either | two other plays ready for production. | managers | playhouse | E 17, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL SRR e e . SR I W S N D DR TR R R PR BT JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor + « « o o « « o » . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office . Tvivivi-ii:-s.1......Third and Market Streets, S. F. THE COLORADO CASE. HERE is great difference and great variety of, Topinion as to the legal phases of the situation in Colorado. There are charges and counter-charges involving the action of politicians and of the Miners’ Union. There is a justifiable aversion in this country to the existence of military rule anywhere, and nothing is easier than to excite bitter opposition thereto; but there exists also a set determination to resist and op- pose rule equally arbitrary, that has not the excuse of public authority. The mining region of Colorado that has been for more than a year the seat of these troubles was, on the face of the record, subjected to the arbitrary government of the union miners. Without hindrance by the civil au- thorities those mistaken men had dipped deeply into crimes. They had rounded up non-union workmen and deported them from the district, marching them over stony trails, murdering many, and indulging in acts of extreme inhumanity. Their policy was systematically carried out. Men were blown into pieces with dynamite. Owners of mines were assassinated. Mining property was seized and held against the rights of its lawful own- ers, and a reign of terror was established and main- | tained. The civil law was utterly powerless to protect person | and property, or to punish those who willfully and openly | and daily violated the rights of both. This failure of the law was due to the fact that the civil officers, in- cluding judges of the courts, were either members of, or controlled by, the organization that was viclating the Jaw. The Governor of the State finally extended the arm of executive power and his military authority into | the disturbed district. Order was restored. Mines were reopened and worked with a full force, and the indica- tions were that the law had been reinstated, and that the natural and constitutional rights of men were re- stored. Then the Goverpor withdrew the troops and the region again returned to the administration of its civil | officers. Immediately the reign of terror began again. | After some preliminary violations of the law, which were | | | winked at by the civil authorities, there occurred one of the most appalling crimes, in the dynamiting to death | of nearly a score of non-union miners, as they quit work on the night shift and proceeded to their homes. | Look at is as one may, it is of common knowledge | that if the perpetrators of this crime had stood in the | open while doing this wholesale murder they were safe | from punishment. proval of their act was uttered by a Democratic politi- cian, a delegate to the State convention, who, on hear- | ing the news, said: “On general principles I haven’t any sympathy to waste on the fellows who were blown up— | they were working on other men’s jobs.” | This act was the culmination of events. Either the State Colorado must assent to the abdication of the | civil law, and turn the district over to be governed by a secret organization, which marked inoffensive men for | death and property for destruction, or the State must | act, and how? There was but one way and that was | chosen by the Governor, who ordered the military there | to restore order. The members of the secret organiza- | tion were arrested and deported from the district. The | | validity of the Governor's act was taken immediately to | the courts, and the Supreme Court decided that his au- | thority was ample and that he had proceeded according to the law of the State. We are endeavoring to state merely the record, with- But those who decry the Gov- | ernor's action must say, frankly, what other course was legally possible. When a district has elected, to admin- | ister the law, the members of an oath-bound organiza- | tion that violates the law, and when those officers give | the weight of their authority to support such violation, | is there no power in the State to vindicate the law? If there is not, then the mining regions of Colorado are | separated not only from the State but from the National | cut criticism of any one. | Government. A secret organization is exercising therein the powers of sovereignty. It is a sovereignty absolute and more autocratic than any other on earth. It has no trial by jury, no habeas corpus, in its system. The principles of law and equity are unknown to it, and it arbitrarily de- cides who may work or who must starve, and who may do business there and under what conditions. It exer- cises all of the functions of government and others which | no Government ever claimed. It is no amswer to say that it would secure peace to | the people on condition that every one in its novel jurisdiction submitted to it, and all who did so would be protected in their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. When all that is conceded, it is conceded also that wherever men are strong enough to do the same they have the right to expel republican government, to deny the right of a minority to live at all, and to declare that | there is no such thing as a constitutional guarantee, | The Declaration of Independence says: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with cer- tain inalienable rights; that amongst these are life, liberty | and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights | governments are instituted amongst men, deriving their | just powers from the consent of the governed.” All men have these rights, not the majority of men in any certain district, but the minority as well. When the majority claim them, but deny them to the minority, there is defiance of the fundamental principle of civil lib- erty. When this occurred in Colorado and the denial was accentuated by dynamite murder, what was the proper course for the State? Reginald Vanderbilt has been making himself as elu- sive as a needle in a haystack trying to dodge legal ser- vice that will force him to testify against a notoriously clever and crooked gambler of New York. Reginald is to be complimented on the courage of his conviction that it is better to bear in silence the loss of a few dol- lars than suffer the publicity of being proved a fool, F over the proceedings to exclude from this country one Turner, an English anarchist. Organizations have espoused his cause and have denounced the attempt to exclude him as a denial of the right of free speech. At last his case has reached the Supreme Court of the United States, where a unanimous decision upholds the immigration officers in sending him back. In answer to the argument that his deportation would be a violation of the constitutional guaranty of freedom of speech, the court says that the constitution was made for the people living in this country. Its guarantees of personal liberty are for their protection, and no foreign- er seeking to enter the country in opposition to its laws can claim any rights under the constitution at all. They ANARCHISTS EXCLUDED. OR nearly a year there has been much agitation The far-reaching sentiment of ap-" cannot assert the rights in general obtaining in a land to which they do not belong as citizens or otherwise. The right to exclude any or all classes of foreigners is in- herent in government for its own preservation. Our immigration laws deny admission to every alien “who disbelieves in or who is op?ns:d to all organized govern- ment, or who is a member of or affiliated with any organ- ization entertaining or teaching such disbelief in or such opposition to all organized government.” In Turner’s behalf it was claimed that he is a philo- sophical anarchist. : By that we suppose is meant that he would not himself use dynamite, or gun or dagger in the overthrow of government by the murder of its representatives. Yet he preaches the philosophy of murder for the incitement of others to commit crimes. A large number of people got off on the wrong foot in the Turner case. Among them was Carl Schurz, who in his old age seemed to see some analogy between his own case and Turner’s, where there was no analogy at all. Schurz came here a revolutionary refugee who had joined other Germans in the revolution of 1848, which was not for the destruction of all organized government, but for the substitution of a more liberal for a less liberal form of government. The philosophical anarchist is against all government, of whatever form, and the prac- tical anarchist sees no difference between a republic and an autocracy, and is ready to destroy them all. By order of the bankers of New Haven all bank clerks in their service must take an annual vacation of two weeks. This decision is the prompting of strict business logic and not of sentiment. And yet Russell Sage lives, moves and must have his being in an atmosphere where everybody has a spell of rest and recreation forced upon i This is cruel to the old man. | him as a matter of duty. THE ECONOMIC STAKE IN THE EAST. K ASAWAKA, a Japanese student at Yale, con- tributes to a recent number of the Yale Re- view an article upon the economic aspects of the present war in the Far East which is well calculated to. open_the eyes of thinking people to the tremen- dous stake for which the Mikado's empire is fighting. That Japan, above all other nations whose interests turn them to the Oriental trade, is fighting for the open door in China and Manchuria with the desperation that comes of a threatened national paralysis is the word sent forth in this well-conceived article of the Yale student. “Should the markets of East Asia be closed,” says the writer, “Japan’s national life would be paralyzed, as her growing population would be deprived of its food and occupation.” This is because of several changes of strong economic significance that have come over the ‘Japancsc empire within the last twenty-five years. An enormous increase in her population is the fundamental cause of the rapid transformations that have been made industrial and trade conditions. Twenty-five years ago the population was estimated at 27,200,000; at the present time the Mikado has in his empire over 4%,000,- 000 souls. in Japan alone the increase for the last quarter century has been from 49,742,831 yen to almost 600,700,000 yen. This enormous increase in population and the extent of commerce has brought it about that from the agri- cultural nation of twenty-five years ago Japan has be- come like England, an industrial nation whose agricul- tural resources fail of keeping it in a self-supporting state. The great increase of manufacturing takes away from the rural population to add to the cities. Raw mate- rial cannot be produced fast enough to supply the de- mand of the manufacturers. Through nearby markets only can disposition of the surplus production be made with the facility demanded by economic expediency. In a word, Japan must grow through untrammeled trade with her eastern neighbors, else she will be choked with her own activity. In his recent appeal to the American people for their sympathy in behalf of Russia, Count Cassini, the Czar's representative at Washington, frankly stated that should Japan be beaten it could expect to be shut out entirely from the gates of the Asiatic trade, while other nations would enjoy the favor of the open door at the benefi- cent hand of Russia. Should Japan win it is certain that not alone the other nations but Russia through her Si- berian possessions will be the gainers. For a Japanese victory must mean redoubled activity in the Oriental trade. The pent-up forces of industrial energy, if once given free let in Korea, Manchuria and China, must establish a market of tremendous potentiality. Santa Cruz, one of the prettiest and most progressive of California’s cities, has taken inspiration for new life, renewed energy and higher progress. Her citizens art in enthusiastic unity to make their town a necessary place to go to if one must see and have the best. Great improvements have been made and more are contem- plated. This is good for Santa Cruz and healthful to the State. The success of every community in Califor- nia is of vital concern to the entire State. T e ke The Czar of Russia has given his sanction to the con- struction of twenty-six more battle-ships for the Rus- sian navy. To an ordinary observer who has followed the implacable course of the Japanese fighting sailors this looks as if Nicholas wants to have at least a few ships, even for display, after the cruel war is over and the greedy, onlooking powers have determined what each of the warring nations shall receive as the prize of its fighting abilities. —_— Professional pugilism, by decree of the most influen- tial athletic club in Oakland, appears to be doomed in the pretty town on the eastern shote of the bay, and her credit for self-respect has advanced several notches. San Francisco is too large, too negligent of its best interests and too tolerant of evil influences to follow an excellent example well made. We can, however, plead ignorance of conditions to support our refusal to im- prove. The strenuous life, par excellence, seems to be Colo- rado’s portion these days with strikes, rebellion, riots and train robberies. If the State is not to bring herself into lasting disrepute with her sisters in the Union it is high time that she expend her excess energy in the arfs of peace. Why not bid for a World’s Fair and then fight over its affairs? Such a plan would at least keep, some people out of serious mischief. New York has discovered a man who is the unfortu- nate host of a tumorous growth where his heart on'ght to be, and there is much ado among the learned doctors and a wagging of wise tongues at the discovery. The affair is not worth the hubbub of discussion. There are many men in the United States that have an unnatural excrescence in the place where their hearts ought to be. i 4 As a consequence in the foreign trade of | Bricf, but to the Point. Hale was one of the stars on a local morning paper. That is not his real name, but it will do. He was a hard worker and a brilliant worker, but a fondness for the cup that cheers oc- casionally led him astray. He never “fell down,” however, without giving his chief notification of the impending disaster. This forethought brilliant work between relapses insured forgiveness for his sometimes incon- venient slips from virtue's paths. Like most of those of his erratic class, Hale had passed out of local journalism, but the story of one of his “storm warnings” is a still-alive tra- dition in newspaper row. tant end of a big story. It was grow- ing late and nothing had been heard from the star. The night editor was growling and the city editor was be- g— H i | | THEN A ME RIVED WITI | BAIL? HAL | %= i ginning to worry and to deepen the tinge of his profanity. Then a messenger boy arrived with a note which read as follows: “Jai “Bail? “Hale.” Wake Me a Song. ! Out of the silences wake me a song, | ~ Beautiful, sad, and soft and low: Let the loveliest music sound along. And wing each note with a walil of woe Dim anad drear, And hope's Out of the silences 3 Whose sounds are like shadows, and dim. Out of the stillness in your heart— A thousand songs are sleeping there— Wake me a song, thou child of art! The song of a hope in a last despair, Dark and low, A chant of woe, Out of, the stillness, tone by tone, Cold as a snowflake, low as a moan. Out of the darkness flash me a song, Brightly dark and darkly brigh Let it sweep as a lone star sweeps along The mythical shadows of the night. Sing it sweet, My soul to greet Where nothing is drear, or_dark. or dim, And_ earth-song soars into heavenly hymn. —Father Ryan in Pittsburg Dispatch. Pen Sketch of Bonaparte. There is a picturesque glimpse of Bonaparte to be found in the diary of a visit to Paris made by a Scotchman, Robert Sym, in 1802. This diary, which is worth reading in full, appears in the June “Longmans.” The writer and his traveling companions saw the Cor- sican at a review: “All his suite were dressed and pow- dered in the most showy manner, but Bonaparte himself wore a plain green coat with a narrow white cloth edging at the seams, such as servants in this country sometimes wear, and a cocked hat without any lace. His hair is very black, and is cropped quite close to his head and neck, so that his ears are all bare. It falls down over his brow. His camplexion ig swarthy, his face long, a fine nose, his eyes are very dark and his eyebrows fall, or are drawn down, much over his eyes. His cheek bones are high, and his cheeks sink between the bones of the face and those of the chin, which gives him a wasted, con- sumptive look. His upper lip projects, in the middle of his mouth, considera- bly over the under one, and his chin is sharp and prominent. He does not seem to be above 5 foot 6, and is very thin. He is 33 years of age. To me he appeared to have the look of anxiety, or rather of terror. He was mounted on a beautiful Arabian gray horse, one of the most perfect animals I ever Saw. a Unknown Patagonians. Concerning the reputed giant race of Tierra del Fuego, a writer in the Deseret News says: “It should be remembered that there are several distinct nations of Patago- nians, not including the Araucanians on the north nor the Fuegoans on the south, and that each nation has distin- guishing characteristics. The Indians that we see slouching about Punta Arenas and the country between there and Santa Cruz are the Southern Te- hueleches. The ‘giants,’ if there ever were any Patagonians deserving the name, were found among this tribe, ‘who are much taller and more slender and his | He had been assigned to an impor- | [ f——— | than any of their neighbors and have a different complexion, being red like t | North American Indians, rather than muddy brown, like the South Ameri- cans. They are excessively dirty, lazy and . treacherous, fond of persor adornment made out of bones, shells, beads and silver (gold, strangely enough, they do not like), and they are ready at any time to barter all their earthly possessions—wives, horses, even the few garments that cover their nakedness—for a little ‘firewater.” “The ‘Pampas Patagones,’ so called because they inhabit the vast pampas or plains to the north, are subdivided into four tribes, known, respectively, as | Puelches, or ‘Eastern People’—the word | puel meaning east and" che people; the | ‘Plcunches,” picun meaning north; the ‘ ‘Pechtenches,’ or ‘people of the pine: | pechten meaning pine tree, and the ‘Ranqueles,’ or those who dwell among the thistle beds, from ranquel, a this- tle. Though not quite so degraded as | their southern brothers, perhaps be- cause farther removed from -civiliza- tion, they are treacherous, cowardly and quarrelsome to a degree. But they are not beggars; they live by the chase and by plunder, bartering all to un- scrupulous white traders for rum and trinkets. “Then there are the Chenna Pata- | gones, who inhabit the higher altitudes and who differ both in language and physical aspect from the other tribes, are less lazy and erratic. They are sometimes called Manzeneros, because their headquarters are at a place called Las Manzanas (the apples), where the Jesuits formerly had a mission and planted a great many apple trees. The Indians own sheep, cattle and horses in the sheltered valleys of the Cordilleras and make very good cider from the fruit of the trees that the old friars planted. They also brew an intoxicat- ing drink from the beans of the alga- roba, which is in demand all over the country.” What's in a Word? Senator Stone of Missour! tells a story illustrating the differences of pronunciation in different parts of the country. “It is related,” says the Sen- ator, “that when the first tide of New England settlers began to drift to Kan- Missourians tled a cow at each | crossing of the Missouri River. If the “em!grant said ‘cow’ he was permitted | to cross, but if he pronounced it ‘keow” | he was told to return to the East, be- | cause the natives were satisfled that | he was an evil-minded abolitionist. | The Kansas people evened up by tying | a bear on their side of the river and if | the emigrant said ‘bear’ he was given the right hand of fellowship, but if he pronounced it ‘bar’ he was given an hour to get back to Missouri. because he was an advocate of slavery."—New York Tribune. | sas, Answers to Queries. CONCLAVE—X. Q. Z, City. The year in which the Knights Templar had their Triennial Conclave in San | Francisco, prior to the present year, was in 1883. The conclave opened Au- gust 20. GRAVITATION—F. A, City. Th department does not solve problems. If you will go to the Free Public Library and consult the Encyclopedia Britan- nica on the subject.of gravitation you will there find the information you de- sire. PHARMACY—F. O. B., Petaluma, Cal. The College of Pharmacy of the University of California is in the Af- filiated Colleges, south of Golden Gate Park. The department of pharmacy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons is on Fourteenth street, between Mis- sion and Valencia. CITY DEEDS—R. E, City. What are known as city deeds are obtained from the Board of San Francisco Su- pervisors under the provisions of two ordinances relating pueblo lands. These are given to make title perfect to lands that were ceded as a pueblo at the time that San PFrancisco was Yerba Buena, and known then four square leagues above high water mark. The deeds are for land within Islais Creek to Twenty-sixth street, to San Jose avenue, along the easterly line of the o014 San Miguel Rancho to W street and the ocean. For additional imfor- mation apply at the clerk's office, Board of Supervisors. DRAPING THE FLAG—-H. J. M, City. If the American flag is to be displayed in a lodgeroom on the altar thereof the blue field should be toward ‘!he head of the hall or station of the presiding officer, and the fleld to be on | the right of the altar as a person ap- proaches it. If there is a single flag used in a hall for decorative pur- poses, thes/blue fleld should be in the center of the wall on which it is to be displayed and may be hung so that the stripes may be either to the right or left of the center, but if two flags are used for decorative purposes, the blue flelds should be side by side, with the stripes to the right and the left of the center. —— e — Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* ———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 239 Cal~ ifornia street. Telephome Main 1042, ¢ ¢