The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1904, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1904. ; B T v so i s U A Titled Spendthrift. Epecial Correspondence of The Call. RTERS OF THE CALL, A STREET, COVENT | LONDON, July 25.—Vast- | different at present are the respec- ts of the Marquis and the Mar- heard “in camera,” but she was grant- ed the rellef she sought and was once more free with her youth and beauty to make another brilliant match if she wished. However, instead of this expected denouement, society received another surprise when a few months later it became known that the Marchioness had again applied to the courts and this time to have the an- nulment of her marriage quashed. Again English law proved compliant; the order was rescinded and the mat- rimonial noose was once more around their necks. What caused the March- joness to change her mind or what were her motives in so speedily resum- ing a bondage after she had got rid of it remain a mystery, for as before the | proceedings were secret, but it has | been maliciously suggested that it was |done to spite the Marquis, who too |openly rejoiced in his deliverance from the incumbrance of a wife. The Marquis of Anglesey’s folly and extravagance have furnished a theme for much unctious moralizing and all manner of condemmation and denun- ciation have been heaped on him. But really he is as much the victim THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor ;e < + « + « o . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Pulllluflnn Office .....coocevaesecssnnee: ..AUGUST o, 1904 THE CASE OF BISHOP POTTER. HE vast population of Greater New York offers to the student of philanthropy and the promoter of reform every problem incident to the massing to- gether of millions of men of all sorts and con- ditions. The greatest of -these, in the estimation of numbers of good people, is the drink problem. The population of New York is cosmopolitan. In it are the set habits and inherited tendencies of all races and na- tionalities. It is desirable to bring them all to a com- mon habit of self-restraint and sobriety. It is a most complex task. The principles which ap- peal to one are of no value with another. They are wary of each other. One nationality is antagonistic to another. There are race and national prejudices to be considered, and he who seeks a common ground on which all can meet in the practice of habits that foster morality and conduce to good citizenship has before him a task from which the stoutest-hearted and most en- thusiastic may well recoil in despair. 3ishop Potter seems to have concluded to make a be- ginning by promoting a modification of the type of drinking saloon. To that end he became the patron of a new kind of drinking place, a sort of tavern. It is lo- cated to command the patronage of about the hardest class in the city, the mixed laborers on the subway. We are not advised of the nature or extent of the modi- fications, intended to be carried out in this establish- ment. They seem to have appealed to the Bishop as a step forward toward a more pronounced reform, for he took part in the opening and dedication of the place. As a practical proposition he may have been wrong. The leading of the place toward better things may have been overestimated. Craft and greed of others may have de- ceived him. But in law and morals 2 man is entitled to the credit that is in the quality of his motive, his inten- tion. In this view of it no reasonable man will doubt the excellence of the Bishop’s intentions, nor the purity of his motive. But this view does not appeal to his brethren in orders, and he has been the subject of the most vigorous pulpit criticism ever heard in the churches of this country. He has been called everything from a bartender to an under- study of Judas Iscariot. One intense preacher communi- cated to his flock the news that the devil laughed and danced when the Bishop dedicated the saloon, and gave immediate orders to his engineers to stake out more ground and begin selling lots for an addition to hell to accommodate the immigration that is expected to follow the Bishop's act. The various lay people who control the temperance have returned the clerical lead, and join condemnation that beats discordantly against ‘the great churchman. Never before has there been such a stir in the teetotal ranks. If the Bishop be sensitive to that sort of attack he must get little sieep. His reply has been brief and is free from the epithet and invective that is pelting him like a broadside. In the midst of the excitement and confusion lines of thought on the subject appear clearly defined. The abuse of liquor is a conceded evil. The multiplica- tion of opportunity for that abuse is a contributing evil that should be regulated and in every way discour- 1 organizations the chorus of ch two |'aged. How to do this is the problem that has led the Bishop into trouble. The two lines of thought on the | subject do not differ in their estimate of the evil. The | when the remedy is discussed. The hop and those who think with him, looking into the psychology of the problem, believe that human nature can be led when it cannot be driven. His opponents be- lieve that it should be driven and not led. The whole prohibition movement in this country has been based upon the policy of making men sober and moral by force. To this end some States have prohibi- tion in their constitutions and others in their statutes. In this way all men who can be controlled by force have 7 » t\uvauoN}:ss OF ANGLESEY, THE ENGLISH BEAUTY, WHO it been restrained. But these prove to be a minority of D i S e R e e ST b NGNS R i those whose self-control needs reinforcement. The ma- B — & jority of those who abuse liquor have proved that they chioness of Anglesey. As Americansof social conditions and environment | Canniot be driven. As far as they are concerned all L Xnow, in one part of the Continent as the youth from the slums who goes has been done is labor wasted. Their destructive habits the famous actor-peer and spend- | wrong. His upbringing was of the very have as strong a grip upon them as ever, and their re- thrift dandy is wondering how on ‘ worst sort to fit him for the responsi- form and control wait for some other way. earth a young man who has been in the habit of svwending something like a million dollars annually 1 to get any fun out of life on the beggarly $10,000 a year which his creditors have allowed him. In another part of the Continent, however, his beau- tiful wife is congratulating herself that the aforementioned -creditors cannot touch the 350,000 a year which the Marquis settled upon her soon after their marriage. But the Marchioness of Anglesey has no in- tention, I am told, of dividing with | her husband, now that her income is tenfold larger than his. Since the creditors swooped down | upon him much has been written | sbout the eccentric career of the| Marquis, but little attention has been paid to his marriage, which turn=d out as disastrous as most of his other - ventures. ' Besides being marvelously | " pretty the Marchioness of Anglesey | is famous for her abundant red hair, | “whijch is of the kind that artists and | poets rave over. She ‘s a diught:r of Sir George Chetwynd and that| dainty little woman wno In her younger years was known as ihe “pocket Venus” and who at the time of her marriage to Sir George was | < the widow of the last Marquis of | Hastings. Lillian Chetwyni inherited her mother's ) -auty and from the smart and rapid set in which she moved she acquired the notion that Cupid was played out and that the right and proper thing to do with a pretty face like hers was to marry wealth and title, independent of other considerations, and make a brilliant match. 5 The marriage was a failure almost from the start. “The Ideal Husband” was one of the plays staged later on by the Marquis at Anglesey Castle and ‘the title role he regarded as one of his greatest histrionic triumphs, but in real life he fell far short of real- izing it. Before the honeymoon had | tle theater in Anglesey Castle, swaned an open rupture occurred be- tween them. Both found the matri- monia] fetters irksome. Although the Marquis was proud of his wife's - beduty it did not render him indiffer- ent to the charms of other women. 4nd the Marchioness did not find her * "huiband sufficiently diverting to make Her forego the pleasures of more con- genial soclety. About two years after the famous “emerald wedding” society learned with astonishment that the Marchio- ness had applied to the courts to have her marriage with the Marquis an- wnulled. On what grounds was never revealed, for the evidence was all bilities of his position and teach him something of the value of money. An only child, he was indulged in every whim or fancy that money could grat- ify. Of healthy home training he had hardly any. Religious influences were equally lacking in his early life. It was his craze for jewelry which has béen chiefly responsible for his financial smash. As regards them he {1s at least entitled to the crc_it of be- stones found in him a ready purchaser. Cabled reports have already told fully what a weird and wondrous collection of them he has acquired. His object appears to have been two-fold. He had something of the magpie about him—a strange habit of hoarding these costly trinkets and gegaws, which was shown by the unexpected places in which they have been found during the recent search in Anglesey Castle made for the benefit of his creditors. The other and perhaps more powerful motive was a veritable mania for self-adornment, which led him into another strange set of excesses—the pursuit of a semi- theatrical career. He seems always to have been attracted by the theater, but at a certain point in his career he seized upon this as a means of ex- | hibiting his priceless jewels. The lit- with which he replaced the anclent chapel soon after succeeding to his estates, was little more than a very expensive setting for the bejeweled Marquis. As Pekoe in “Aladdin,” the pantomime which he produced in 1902 in his bijou theater, he stood forth literally ablaze with gems. In the various scenes he wore different costumes, but each of them was similarly bedecked with precious stones of the most costly de- scription. Many of the jewels which originally cost large sums are of no possible use to any ordinary wearer owing to the fantastic form in which they have been designed at the request of the Marquis for stage purposes. Of this character is a chain twenty feet long covered with 520 charms, of | various kinds, some of which are of little intrinsic value, while others would be cheap at $500. It will be broken up to be sold, as nobody would want to buy a chain of charms that length. The Marquis seems to have realized in the last year or two that this weak- ness for jewelry would be the ruin of him if he did not resist it, and was wont to go about attended by a body- guard of half a dozen men under the command of his chief valet, who were specially Instructed to keep jewelers’ But, despite all they contrived to drummers at bay. Bishop Potter, and those who think with him, con- cede the evil and want to lead and not drive men away from it. It seems to many unimpassioned observers that the philosophy of the case is with the leaders and not | the drivers. If the Bishop believed that the place he ! indorsed was shorn of 2 single objectionable feature of the ordinary saloon, his action is justified by his belief, though he prove to be mistaken in the fact. ing catholic in his tastes. Diamonds,| [t is the army canteen question over again. If the rubies, pearls, emeralds, sapphires, | . h . | turquoises—nearly all the precious Ca2nteen were an improvement upon the outside dead- fall, if it minimized the abuse of liquor and took the soldier away from the associated vices of the deadfall, it was a step forward. Army officers differ in their opinion about it, but the balance of testimony is on the side of | the canteen. | Now, if the Bishop intended that same sort of step forward out of the degrading tendencies and associated vices of the low saloon of the type resorted to by those who would be led to patronize the new institution, he has not deserved the obloquy that has been visited upon him. No man is commissioned to report the proceed- ings in heaven or hell incident to this affair. That part of the attack may as well be cut out and the question treated in the light of our every day knowledge of men. i Clerical errors committed by municipal employes have been discovered and corrected and expose the annoying fact that the aggregate value of taxable prop- erty in San Francisco is less by several millions of dol- lars than at first reported and that the income of the local government may be materially reduced. Let us look upon the bright side of an apparently dark situation. A reduced income means a curtailed employment of un- necessary employes, a lessening of the chances of ex- travagance and a clelringlof official atmosphere from | scandal. ! THE RUSSIAN PRIZE COURT. T is announced with a flourish of the megaphone that a Russian prize court at Vladivostok has condemned the merchantman Knight Commander as a lawful prize for carrying cdntraband, and the hope is expressed that this closes the incident. On the contrary, it opens the incident. Neither the ship, nor its owners, nor the owners of its cargo, were present at this ex parte adjudication. The question at issue is the right of Russia to destroy the ship and cargo by sinking her in midocean, thus destroying the evidence in the case as well as the property. To sink first and condemn afterward is like hanging an accused man first and trying him afterward. International law come temptation to buy it tha: a 2 & Fa a i 3 recognizes no such right and sanctions no sucl pro- 52 R o 'm," a mé: &M“ “:h“ ceeding. The prize court at Vladivostok is not com- missioned to make the law of the sea. The commander of a piratical Russian cruiser has no such authority. His Government has in effect condemned him by order- ing that no more merchant ships be sunk at sea. The prize court has hastened to justify what was done by fortifying it behind a so-called judicial finding. But its decision will not command the respect of other nations. It is known that the ship that was sunk had Ameri- can cargo aboard, consigned to Singapore, far away from the war zone. It is known that no attempt was made to separate the alleged contraband from the rest of the cargo, but all was destroyed together. This was a violation of the law of nations. Non-contraband cargo under a neutral flag is exempt from seizure and de- struction, though there may be contraband in the same bottom. Any other rule would place non-contraband property, under a neutral flag, absolutely in the power of a belligerent.” A Russian agent might ship some contraband to an alleged consignee in Japan on every Americap vessel that plies the Pacific, and make its presence aboard the pretext for destroying the ship or for the condemnation of the whole cargo. It is to defeat just such craft that the wise rules of international law have been established. President Roncovieri of the Board of Education, dur- ing a trip through the Eastern States, has made ob- servation of conditions which, while net altogether new, is timely. He finds that San Francisco is not by any means as liberal or as artistic in its provision for the construction of school buildings as are New York, Phila- delphia and Chicago. Let us hope that Mr. Roncovieri wiil use the great leverage of his official position to ad- vance the cause that has been more neglected and is perhaps more important than most others we might dis- cuss for civic pride. I George Meredith, last of the great Victorian novel- ists and now an old man waiting for death, emerges from the long silence of the sickroom to express him- self with characteristic vigor upon leading questions of the day in England and in the broader world theater. Together with some caustic comments upon the trend of the church, the drift of politics and the present aspect of literature and j jalism, the aged novelist has to concerning the™British army and British loyalty much which must carry a barbed sting to the self-satis- fied military caste in the United Kingdom. “All our battles are soldiers’ battles,” says Meredith, “and our army will remain a chaos as long as it is con- and MEREDITH ON THE BRITISH ARMY. N the: London Daily Chronicle of a recent issue trolled by a singularly unintellectual, ill-educated unbusinesslike class. them a lesson, or our railway companies. “The fear of death nse of the English objéction to conscription,” continues Meredith in eluci- dating the broader aspect of what seems to him the de- of the spirit. “Men to me and say their trade would suffer, or they could not Their real is the real ca cadence military come spare two years from their, apprenticeship. meaning is they are afraid of being called out ting’ shot at. So they pay others to do the killing and dying for them. As it is 80,000 Germans could I\\arch | through England from end to end.” That is right from the shoulder. Tt tells plain things in a plain way, plainer even than Kipling has put them in his poems to the glorification of Tommy Atkins. Judging from editorial comment upon these utterances the cap fits the British head so snugly that it binds somewhat and galls not a little. With the enormous debt for the years of fighting necessary to reduce the Boers looming large before them, our .friends across the pond believe that they see thus put boldly into print what they have dared only to think since Spion Kop and Colenso. “Is it true?” is not so universal a ques- tion as “How long has it been true?” Being distinctly a militagy nation, Great Britain tole- rates open discussion of the inside operations of . its army very little more gracefully than does Kaiser Wil- liam. To the masses there, as to the world outside, it is only the occasional incident given publicity that may point the wind. Very fresh in the minds of all Ed- ward’s subjects are the recent investigations into the conduct of the war in South Africa, which disclosed some very ugly revelations of incompetency in high places and even cowardice where cowardice should be least expected. There followed the drastic measures of army reorganization, and the incident was closed to pub- lic view. George Meredith has spoken fearlessly and for the good of the British. Such utterances should strike home. Even though they come from an old man and one presumed by reason of his trade to be unpractical, they ring of truth. The Mexican Government has placed a ban upon the importation of firearms at several of her most important ports, the purpose of our southern neighbor being to lessen the power of her malcontents to create dis- turbances and wage internecine war. Mexico may learn to her cost that such paternalism, however well inten- tioned, may overreach itself and bring forth an evil greater than that which threatens. It is far better to fight a dissatisfied man armed with a gun than contend with an assassin equipped with dynamite. The Democrats of Alameda County are illustrating in their interesting selves one of the amusing oddities of modern American politics. The followers of Jefferson, overwhelmingly outnumbered by Republicans in the home of Governor Pardee and a host of other officials, are xpproaching a breach of the peace in their violence to wrest their organization from one anothér. If this isn’t love’s labor lost the phrase means nothing. Fight- ing for the privilege of leading one’s fellow citizens to defeat surely is not an unmixed pleasure. g i e L A merry war of responsibility is being waged by the Coroner, the Police Courts and the Police Department to determine who is to blame for thugism in this city. While crimination and recrimination are at their height in this timely and essentially public inquiry it might be well for the contestants to put their heads together, ac- cept the viewpoint of the rest of us, and concern them- selves less with fixing blame-than with ridding San Fran- cisco of the most cowardly and desperate of offenders. —_— g Science has practically exterminated the mosquito in Honolulu, and the triumph over many desperate and highly contagious diseases is complete. If some man of wisdom, patient and crafty enough, will follow up this victory by laying violent hands upon the disturbing bug which is playing such sad havoc with the morals of Ha- waiian public officials, the happiness of our island fel- low citizens should be reasonably complete. . The Ruling Passion. “Financial operations in Arizona,” sald Judge Bradshaw last night at the Russ House, “generally runs into faro bank. Coups is frequent, but they mostly result from a bet between the ten and the four. “You know, they license gambling down there and the money goes to the school fund. Con-sequent-ly whenever a Territorial youth acquires an educa- tion he feels grateful to the dealer. ‘Why, they are even talking about se- curing the services of Jack Lacy in the University of Arizona to lecture on the sclence of dealing the double-odd, with side courses on loading dice and plugging a wheel. “But what I wanted to tell you about | was Colonel John Shaughnessy and Big | ¥ ———————————————""% | Hat Murphy. They were drivin’ in from | when they saw the reptile wriggling a mine of the colonel's on the Glla.|yp the center aisle several rushed out They had a team of broncs that sud-lof the church. The Salvation Army might teach | and get- | denly took it into their heads to paw up the sand pretty plenty. The colonel was drivin,” but he couldn't sidestep an ironwood stump forty feet off the road. The broncs went their way, while the & > | o THE COLONEL WHILE BIG THIN AND A 1S HA PONDEROUS, MURPHY IS ME. [ = | i & — colonel and Big Hat Murphy tried to tangle up with the nearest fixed star. “The colonel is ponderous and heavy, while Big Hat Murphy is thin and air- some. Somewhere in the cerulean void they met. ‘Bet you $200," says the | colonel, ‘that I hit the ground first.” | You're on,’ says Murphy, as he | tried to hook his left arm over the | moon. “The colonel lost by a fraction of a second. He went down into his linen trousers and dug up the coin. “‘Now let's go and find them broncs,” he said.” " Ten-Story Reverie. A breeze blows in at the window here, with the music of wind-swept leaves; The patter of rain on a farmhouse roof and a flash of the trickling eaves; The glimpse of a long, long lane that turns and winds among the trees; The scent of clover and mint and thyme and the buzz of humblebees; A breeze blows in at the window here, with the sickles' harvest tune, The ripple and splash of a rock-bound stream and and the light of a har- vest moon, That filters away through the leaves and boughs in a yellow filigree; A breeze blows in at the window here that is fraught with memory. Here is the tower of a granite pile and here is an endless wall Of brick and stone, with the misty light of the city over all, Up from the street comes a ceaseless din, | and the rattle of wheels on stone, But the breeze blows in at the window here, with the scent of a rose, half- blown; ‘With the tinkle far of a schoolhouse bell and.the cry of lads at play, The murmuring chant of the forest deep and the fields that stretch away To the rising hills, where the moon is hid, till the yellow flames arise As the rays of a night-lamp swung for us through the arch of star-gemmed skies. Here are the streets where the tollers are, and the din of busy wheels, But a breeze blows in at the window here like a welcome thief, and steals The glow of the city streets away, and the pulsing roar grows dim In the melody of a church bell's chime and the chant of an evening hymn. The stony streets are turfy paths and the city’s din and roar Is the far-off.note of the woodland wild or the break of waves on shore, ‘When the free-winged winds from the far hills blow, and the tears that dim the eye Are dewdrops on wood violets in the cloistered dells that lie. A breeze comes in at the window here, like a soothing message blown From the world of birds and trees and flowers to the world of brick l.nd| stone; Cries out to the heart that is caged and barred and bids it spread its wings For a little while and wander back where the sweet-voiced wild bird sings; The tinseled glow of the city pale: the light of the yellow moon That fllters down through the bows and ]lelvel. and the joy of the wild bird's une Rings out in a song of welcome home; while the city's roar grows dim In the rhyme amd chime of the old church bell and the note of an even- ing_hymn! —J. W. Foley, in New York Times. - A Vivid Instance. A black snake about two feet long caused a panic In a church out in Queens during a Sunday morning ser- vice this summer. The congregation was composed largely of women, and That didn't feaze the snake, though. He had his eye on the preacher and he crawled straight toward the pulpit. The preacher was almost hynotized into silence as he saw Satan's proto- type coming down the alsle. When his snakeship had reached the front seat, a deacon with white whiskers spotted him. The deacon poked his gold-headed cane under the reptile, which instantly coiled about it, and so was borne out of the church, much to the relief of all present. When the deacon returned to his seat the preacher said: “Let us cast the old serpent of sin out of our hearts, as Deacon Hawkins has cast this serpent from the Lord's house.”"—New York Sun. Rajah Brooke. Bir Charles Brooke, the only English- man who can boast of being an Aslatie. monarch and whose sovereignty over the sultanate of Sarawak, in the island of Borneo, with its population of near a million, is recognized by King Edward as subject to British suzerainty, has just issued a proclamation appointing | his eldest son and heir, Vyner Brooke, to act as stadtholder and viceroy of Sarawak. Sir Charles, who expressly declares that he does not abdicate his throne, explains that age and growing infirmities have led him to transfer the task of administering the government of his sultanate to his eldest son, who bears the title of Rajah Muda, who will henceforth be “entitled to use the swallow-tail flag of the sovereign on sea and on land, and likewise the yel- low umbrella,” which is in Sarawak the emblem of rulership. Robbery Mede Easy. Even in common robbery the Orient | has picturesque ways peculiar to it- self. A Burmese woman traveling in a third-class compartment by the day train recently was reclining in the car- riage with one of her arms out of the window somewhere near Sitkwin, on the Burma State Railway, when some one came along the footboard and cut her arm clean off, apparently with a sharp sword. On the lost hand were rings with the usual accompani+ ment of bangler, Bred in the Leaf. “That’'s Wiltse of Boston,” sald the man of extensive acqualntance, jerking | his thumb toward a slim_emaciate of { the Down East type. “He belonged to the group of tobacco capitalists who some years ago set out to revolutionize the cigar industry and wipe Cuba off the map. They loaded a ship with Con- necticut and Virginia crops of the weed and salled around the pearl of the An- tilles for two or three months to cure the leaf in Cuban air so’s to get the genuine Havana flavor. Great scheme! They had a hundred men at work hanging out the tobacco daily for an airing, just as a farmer turns his hay to cure, and the old ship would run up and down the coast in all sorts of weather. But it didn't work. Connec- ticut remained Connecticut; Virginia, Virginia. They didn’'t happen to strike the microbe.”—New York Press. | | Answers to Queries. PASSENGER CAPACITY—J. K, Vallejo, Cal. There is no official rec- ord of the seating capacity of the ferry steamers plying on the bay of San Francisco. The managers say that they “Do not care to give out the exact or even approximate number.” POLICE—Subscriber, City. The fol- lowing is the proportion of police to the population of the cities named: New York, 1 to 315; Chicago, 1 to 384; Philadelphia, 1 to 309; St. Louis, 1 to 587; Boston, 1 to 400; Baltimore, 1 to 524; Cincinnati, 1 to 559, and San Francisco, 1 to 650. MRS. TINGLEY—M. B, City. Mrs. Katherine A. Tingley, the high priest- ess of the Theosophists, was in charge of the home at Point Loma, near San Diego, an institution in the interest of the Theosophists. An account of this home was published iIn The Call on Sunday, August 5, 1900, page 20. TRAINING STATION—A. O. S. Monterey, Cal. For information rela- tive to enlisting a minor at the train- ing station at Yerba Buena Island, ad- dress a communication to “The United States Training Station, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, Cal,” and there will be sent you a circular of informa- tion. The minimum of age at admis- sion is 15 and the maximum is 17. CATALINA ISLAND — Subscriber, City. The Governmeant does not lay any claim to Catalina Isldnd. The island a number of years ago became the property of the International Syn- dicate Company, then the ownership passed to a party named Shateau, who sold it to an English syndicate, but it reverted to Shateau and in time he disposed of it to the present owners, the Banning family. e t— P G t— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —— et Special information supplied daily to business houses and public the Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cal- ifornia street. Tel g