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

THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL . Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKLES. . ....0000vtauueassasvnsasnsess ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT. WEDNESDAY..cocosssssssssss .OCTOBER 19, 1904 FOR A LEGAL BALLOT. HE prosecution of ballot stuffers at the primary, undertaken by Mr. Fairfax Wheelan, and supported by the Merchants’ As-| sociation, has already uncovered a mass of official connivance in, or indifference to, the vilest crimes against the franchise. The | association has gone far enough to make it imperatively necessary | that the Grand Jury and the courts, the police and all officers charged | with the enforcement of the law, shall act with promptness and vigi- | lance in pursuing the wrongdoers to punishment. The vices that have been disclosed here are common to all large | cities, where there are reckless persons who are without conscience or morality in matters of public concern, willing to lend themselves to the schemes of equally immoral politicians. The only difference be- tween San Francisco and other cities is that here we have in the Merchants’ Association a voluntary organization that has the collective courage and the resources to hunt down the offenders. It is the odium of party government that in all parties are men seeking personal success by illicit use of the franchise. They are callous to every sentiment except the desire to win personal ad- vantage, though they wreck the law and defy its injunctions. It was this spirit possessed by just such people that made the ballot- box a refuge of fraud and the city government an association of | criminals, preceding the Vigilance Committee. That body found such | a situation as made a legal purification impossible. The virus had penetrated every part of public administration, so that a resort to law was merely the putting of criminals on trial before themselves. | The committee was compelled to supersede the official administra- tion of the law, and when its work was finished it performed a work | of purgation that was long remembered, and the city was fairly clean, and in its judiciary has remained so ever since. The Merchants’ Association is doing the same work that the committee did, but not under the necessity of employing the same means. Largely owing to its efforts, Grand Juries are more mindful of their duty, and the material composing them is drawn from the law abiding community. The courts are no longer under bondage | to the corrupters of the ballot and the law is safe in the hands of our local bench. It is no longer necessary to supersede officers elected by ballot frauds, nor to hang murderers by irregular trial | after they have sought to terrorize the town by shooting down ¢ zens who protest against public crime. So, while present corruption is to be deplored, its correction is entirely possible by invoking the law The individual citizen seldom cares to incur the risk of initiating prosecutions and feels the need of such organized support as the as-| sociation is able to give. We believe, however, that Mr. Fairfax| Wheelan has the courage to have gone on single-handed in pursuit of the criminals, but we doubt if single-handed he could have succeeded in his righteous purpose. To continue the work he began required | the many-eyed and many-handed’ vigilance and the wide and disin- terested work of an organization. All this is furnished by the asso- ciation. Already both the need and the success of that work are ap- parent, in the sure prospect that at the coming election offens against the franchise will be reduced to 2 minimum. The willing-| ness of leading business men and citizens like Mr. de Young and | Mr. Phelan to serve on election boards is one of the effects of the association’s work. But it must be remembered that the people will | not be deceived into a relaxation of watchfulness by the appointment of a few such men on a few of the many election boards in the city, while men who will wink at crime are put upon enough boards to defeat the expression of the people’s will. All election officers must be above suspicion and then the result will be freed from all doubt of being a correct expression of the lawful voters of the city. PROTECTION AND PROSPERITY. THE Colusa Sun takes exception to a recent editorial in The; Call in which an effort was made to show the relation between protection and prosperity. The Sun says: “We are absolutely astounded that The Call should admit to its columns such an article. A falsehood, known to be a falsehood by every man, woman and child in the country, cer- tainly can do nobody any good.” That is rather severe talk. We were not aware that the cam- paign in Colusa had reached such a warm stage. But we are not dismayed, for, turning to another page of the same issue of the Sun, we find well-written editorial correspondence, sent en route to the | St. Louis Exposition, under the caption, “Wealth-making Sugar | Beets,” and using the town of Grand Island, Nebr., as its illustra- tion as follows: “Grand Island, Nebr., is reached and the great four-story stone and brick buildings are a sight on these plains—a city, a place of business, all in the center of the sugar beet district. Great wagons filled with cleanly washed beets are seen on the wagon roads and | lining up at the reception bins of the immense factory. The beets are tender and white. The quantity is amazing. The busy highways are filled. As far as the ranging eye can reach little clumps of trees show where are situated farmhouses and, distances being decreased, they grow larger and larger as we pass by them. Herds of cattle, fat and in great numbers, are seen in all directions. Creameries here spring up and large hog farms have resulted. The beet here does not yield so high a percentage of sugar as in California, but being managed well here, made money kings of those who hold the stock. The banks are in fine buildings and their business is enormous. The streets looked like show days, and energy marked the gait of all. Fine horses were 2 feature all the way from Grand Island to Colum- bus. Train after train of beets were passing in for miles. The roads were wet from a recent rain and hauling by wagon was slower than | usual, we were told. The land is not so good as our river land, but the yield has been sufficient to make a very rich community, where only a few years ago Indian corn often was burned for fuel, or was the food of grasshoppers. Beets never fail and they have not had the grasshopper epidemic that so often followed up the young grain crops.” That is a true picture. But not a beet would have been planted nor 2 sugar mill built at Grand Island had not Republican protection fostered the industry. The Call is ready to go to a jury and will accept the Colusa Sun as a juror. Twi]l happen in the politics of that State. It concedes Roosevelt’s election, while it supports Parker. This means that the Presi- dent is as sure of New York as he is of Vermont. Signs of disaster to Parker multiply in the political sky. Ex- President Cleveland was to have presided over a Democratic meet- ing in New York! City. which was featured as a decisive expression on that side, but Mr. Hearst, after dining with Judge Parker, pro- ceeded to denounce personally both Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Olney. Then the ex-President discovered that his other engagements would not admit of his presence and the great meeting is a great default. Expelling Cleveland, Olney and Carlisle from the party councils leaves Bryan in evidence as the only influence that is active and places him in the attitude of enjoying a vicious revenge over the men who left the party on his account, and who are kept from com- ing back by a shower of mud. The people will never trust the Gov- ernment to such 2 disorganized and incoherent incongruity as the present Democracy. \ President R2oosevelt should be backed by a Republican Congress, and California will do her duty and be mindful of her own interests by sending a solid delegation to support him. g ; GIVES UP THE FIGHT. HE New York Herald has the best facilities for knowing what | not @ent. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, < BEFORE ELECTION. They allow the Judge to stand in the foreground. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1sva. AFTER ELECTION, You would find them like this. COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WITH THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. IF THE JUDGE WON, < — OMAN is the anatomical cham- eleon. She changes her measure- ments with each season. To the uninitiated male mind she be- comes long or short waisted, sloping or square shouldered, high or low busted, without any apparent inconvenience— | a demonstration that the operation, whatever it may be, is a painless one. But she is as essentially different in each phase as though she had been! born again, says the New York World. { If you study the lady carefully this! year you will find that she has lost practically three inches in length of line | from neck to waist (from eighteen to less than fifteen and a half inches), that she has gained fully two inches of shoulder, and that from neck to toe in front she has lost something of that seemingly interminable line which was a la mode last season. Why? THe reasons are not far to seek. Gowns, are no longer simply bouffant above. They are trimmed from the hem up to the knee; they have widened in scope and flare at the side, thus foreshortening the picture. To get back to first causes, the corset is the foundation for every new figure. | The severe straight front is no longer chic. The idea remains, but with mod- ifications. It has become possible to de- fine the waist in front and it is no long- er a social crime to show a suspicion of the curve immediately below. While we are still suppressed, we are more hygienic. With the raising of the waist-line come the heightening of the girdle, the fullness of the skirt, the increase of the sleeve ahd the evolution of the cape. It is all a logical sequence. We are no longer in the realistic period. We are grown romantic. Woman has reverted from the analytical to the mysterious. The serpentine heroine is popular, hence there are no more sheath gowns that define all the contours. The woman of to-day is concealing rather than revealing. She allures by the prospect of discovery. She buries herself in flounce and frills. She keeps ypu guessing. You are as liable to miscaicuiate her weight as you are to err about her height. E The suggestions of the coming revo- lution that last season’s fashions gave were all tentative. There was a hint of the old-fashioned basque. This vear we have the basque itself, but in- stead of the garment of other days it has become a little coat with jthe basqué back. The old-fashioned basque prescribed the bustle, but our adherence to the better lines of the “straight-front” has averted that terrifying necessity. The introduction of the silk overjacket of contrasting shade for evening frocks is the revival | of a caprice of our grandmothers. It > 4 1 | + + THE “NEW LINES” OVER THE | FIGURE OF LAST SEASON. ok is worn with a gown of chiffon or jl- lusion, preferably white, the jacket being of some light color. This was a fashion formerly associated with the Grecian bend. But we have now the beauty of the mode without its extreme. Last season we touched upon the military. This yvear we have “ar- rived.” But it is the picturesque mili- tary. The directoire is the favored style, with the high girdle, the flaring revers and the so-called coat sleeve, which is large and loose with deep cuff, strapped with gold, which les- sens the length of arm. The frain has become an impossi- bility save in evening gowns. The wide skirt does not admit of it on the street, where it would be a serious incubus to the wearer, and an involun- tary street-cleaner_which must arouse every sanitary exvert in the country. The whole tendency of the year is to color—not neutral tints, but those that salute the eve with quick sur- prise. All the blues have grown brighter, Scarlet that is scarlet is in the ascendant, and the greens are PSR Comedian—In war the fighting takes place during the engagement—in mat- rimony it takes place after the engage- 2 wuu. Henpeck— Mr. CAPRICES OF DAME FASHION CHANGE - THE FIGURE MEASUREMENTS OF WOMAN {an ordinary “talking machine” | played in the usual way. — brilliant. Woman is not subtle, she is merely elusive in her present phase. Musicai Cards. The striking novelty in picture post cards is about to be placed on the market by a French syndicate. To an ordinary pictorial card is af- fixed a very thin transparent gelatine disk, on which is impressed a gramo- phone musical record. A hole is pierced through the center of the disk, and the post card can be placed on and The musical post card opens up an entirely new field for the craze. Photo- graphs of great singers and composers will be accompanied by extracts from their works, pictures of national flags by the anthems of the different coun- | tries, and so on In endless variety. Candidates for political honors, instead of sending merely their photographs to constituents, will be able to accom- | ’puny them with the phonographic rec- ords of an election address. Cat.Came Back. Miss Cynthia Roche is a connoisseur Contrary to the tea-table chatter, | the Twentieth Century Club is hold- |ing together in a cohesive and amic- able manner, and promises a delightful | afternoon on the 29th at Century Hall. » s s Society lent itself unreservedly Mon- day night to witness the performance of “The Japanese Nightingale.” The | beauty of the Majestic Theater was i greafly enhanced by the presence of | ! many handsome women and their at- | tractive gowns. The Outdoor Art | League, which has many interested supporters, was in complete possession | of the auditorium, and the boxes were | filled with our best known society folk. Among the hosts on this occasion were James D. Phelan, entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sullivan.’ The guests of {Mr. and Mrs. William Willis were: Mr. and Mrs. John Dougherty, Miss Dougherty, Colonel Jackson, Walter Scott. Others who occupied boxes were: Mrs. Lovell White, Raphael Weill and Willlam Bourne. party was made up of Mr. and Mrs. William Fries and Mrs. A. A, d'An- cona. Miss Tobin's box was occupled by Mrs. M. A. Tobin, Joseph Tobin Sr., Joseph S. Tobin, Miss Fernandez, Mrs. de Hurtel. Through the audience were also seen: Mr. and Mrs. Spieker, Mrs. | George Sperry, Miss Elsie Sperry, Mr. !and Mrs. Thomas Palache, Mr. and Mrs. E4 Newhall, Dr. and Mrs. Morf- few, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Warren, Mrs, J. Martel, James Martel, Madame | L. A. Sorbier, Mrs. Dalzel Brown, Mrs. | J. H. Jewett, Mr. Sadlier, Miss Everd- ing, Mrs. Vincent Wright, Mrs. J. J. | Brice, Miss Dean, James M. Goewey, Charles Goewey, Mrs. Lent, Mr. and Mrs. Wooster, Charles Wheeler, Dr. and Mrs. Wemple, Charles Webb How- ard, Reuben Lloyd, Miss Katherine Hittell, Mrs. John Russ, Dr. Raymond Russ, Mr. and Mrs. Will Hammer. Mr. | Dillingham, Mrs. James McDonald, Captain and Mrs. Robert H. Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mathews, Mrs. | Lovell White, John McLaren, Mrs. A. | D Sharon, Mrs. A. G. Cotton, Dr. and | Mrs. J. G. Bucknall, Allan Pollak, Miss i B. M. Wilson, John M. | Grace Lewellyn Jones, Charles Wesley Reed, Mrs. Charles Wesley Reed, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. McFarland. | & L | Ostentation was an absent factor at | the nuptials of Miss Katherine Sel- fridge and Lieutenant Frederic George ! Kellend last evening at the bride's home on California street. Intimate | friends and relatives only were invited, Dr. McClure performing the ceremony. The bride was attended by Miss Elsie | Bradford serving as best man to his| first lieutenant, both officers of the | Nineteenth Infantry. The friends of | Mr. their departure from San Franciseo, for | their new home is to be at Vancouver Barracks. . | Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foster Dutton will give a dffiner in“the red room of the Bohemian Club on the evening of October 27. The event will be in honer [of two coming brides—Miss Katherine {Senator's Death | Loss to Women From his first appearance in pub- | lic life the late United States Senator | | Hoar of Massachusetts had been an { earnest upholder of all kinds of legis- | 1ation for the benefit of women and THE SMART SET = BY SALLY SHARP. Another | Gamble, Miss | Dorr and Miss Florence Cole, Captain and Mrs. Kellond are regretting | of cats. Therefore it was not surpris- | huq peen instrumental in the passage | ing for her to sell one of her own pets | at the charity fete and have it raf- | fled off at $5 a ticket. What added to | the Kkitten's attractiveness was the gilded cage in which displayed her feline treasure. fiects on the young lady's willingness to part with it that the cat came back next day, cage and all, and it is to be put up again at a supplementary raf- fle for the same charity.—Boston Her- ald. R-R-Remarkable. R leads the Republican party. is the beginning of Roosevelt. in the middle of Fairbanks. R is the END of PARKER.—Phila- delphia North American. London’s Great Thirst. The quantity of water used in the 968.620 houses supplied by the metro- politan water companies in 1903 reache® the immense total of 77,133,- 114,770 gallons, says the London Ex- press. It is estimated that the population inhabiting these houses numbered 6,509,817 The average daily supply of water during the yvear amounted to 254 gal- lons per house and 34 gallons for each person. % July was the month when most wa- ter was used, the consumption reach- ing 39 gallons per head. In Decem- ber, however, it fell to 32 gallons, this being the month when least water was used. Miss Cynthia | It re- of many laws which have given to them better opportunities of education and wage-earning, and above all he had been a fearless champion of the political rights of women. A strong attachment existed between {him and his estimable wife. When | Mrs. Hoar died last winter, his friends predicted that he would not long sur- vive her. His long advocacy of equal rights for women was doubtiess made more earnest by his association with this noble woman. All his public addresses on this sub- ject were characterized by a high re- spect for womanhood. In a speech de- livered at Amherst, Mass., the late Senator said: “I believe that the republic will never reach the lofty ideal of the con- ception of our fathers; it will never attain the high moral quality which will be alike its strength and its safety, until that qualification shall be | given to it by the help and co-opera- | tion of woman. “The moral temperament, which de- | termines permanently the history of | any community, is given to it by its | women. No nation, no city, no house- i hold ever took a lofty place, where | the influence of woman did not inspire it with the heroic temper. But this | Influence can only be exerted by wom- {an to its fullest extent when she shares | the responsibility, and takes her prop- | er and fair part in the conduct of the | State which she is to influence. | “Whenever in the household woman | is admitted to the confidence of her ! husband, she can be depended upon ! for an household virtues of economy, | of self-sacrifice and purity. It is only | when she is excluded from that confi- | dence that she sets the example of | selfishness and frivolity.” | g iQueries’ Answers ! THE BURGOMEISTER—A. 8., City. : The opera,‘The Burgomeister,” recently put on in San Francisco, was never be- fore produced in that city. e i EXPECTORATION—An Old Sub- scriber, City. A law of San Francisco says that it is unlawful for any person to expectorate on any sidewalk in this city and county. The fact that a man wears a star or badge certifying that he is a public official does not exempt him from the provision of the law, You are at liberty to prosecute such offender. i | | Dillon, who is the flancee of Lieutenang Emory Winship, and Miss G?rlrude( Dutton, who will wed Josiah Howell The affair will be elaborate, covers be- ing laid for fifty. Mr. and Mrs. Dutton also entertained similarly for Miss Dut- ton when she made her formal debut last year. . . An early morning wedding yesterday was that of Miss Emily Adams and Henry Cheever Bowman, taking pla“ at 9:30 in the First Congregational Chureh. The ceremony, performed by the bride’s father, the Rev. George C Adams, was one of simplicity, this feature characterizing the entire even: There were no attendants, the b and groom walking together to the al tar. A quiet reception followed at the house of Rev. and Mrs. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Bowman leaving in the afternoon for the south. Their home will be at 3002 Pierce street. . L A quiet wedding took place in Oak- land on Monday when Miss Wanda Brastow and Ralph Henrice of this city were married. After the cere- mony the young couple returned to | San Francisco and told a few friends of the happy event, at which brides- | maids and the usual accessories of a wedding were dispensed with. Mrs. Henrice is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Brastow of this city. Mr Henrice is connected with the North German Lloyd Steamship Company They will make their home in this city. The Ben Greet players will partici- | pate in a .Shakespearean festival at ) Mills College on October 22. “As You | Like It” will be given in the open air on Saturday afternoon, leaving the per- formance of “The Merchant of Venice” | for evening, this production taking place in Lisser Hall. ® Stia i Captain Louis H. Bash arrived yes- | terday from the Philippines. When he ~was stationed here with the Seventh Regiment, Captain Bash claimed many friends who are warmly extending con- | gratulations upon his engagement to | Miss Bertha Runkle. Dr. Genthe arrived in New York from Europe last Saturday. After making a short stay in Washington and St Louis, he will arrive in San Francisco | on October 24. 1 - | Mrs. Atherton Macondray, with her | three children, has arrived from the Philippines, where she has been for a | year. Mrs. Macondray is at the Collter | home, where she will be until the ar- | rival of Mr. Macondray. To-day's exposition party is com- posed Mrs. L. L. Baker, Philip Baker, Mrs. Robert Oxnard, Mrs. James Keeney, Mrs. Chauncey Rose ‘Winslow; Mr. and Mrs. William Hinck- ley-Taylor. of . Miss Grace Spreckels, who is to be a bridesmaid of Miss Katherine Dil- lon, will give a dinner in honor of Miss Dillon on October 29. . = — Try Your Hand at These Deasserts Grandmother’s Cookies—One cup of sugar, three-quarters cup of butter, one cup of buttermilk to which has been added one small teaspoonful of saler- atus and one-half cup of cocoanut. Mix all together with flour enough to roll without sticking to the pan. Bread Pudding With Meringue—Beat the yolks of four eggs well, add one cup of sugar, the grated rind of one lemon and them mix in two cups of bread crumbs, one quart of milk and a half teaspoon of lemon flavoring. Bake | in a buttered dish in a moderate oven until firm. Cover with a meringue made from the whites of two eggs beaten stiff with one-half cup of pow- dered sugar. Pile the meringue roughly over the top and coler in the oven. Steamed Bread and Butter Pudding— Butter a pudding mold and lay in thin slices of bread spread with butter and again with jelly or jam. Beat three eggs, add a pint of hot milk and pour | over the bread. Steam half am hour and serve with a liquid sauce. This is better when steamed in cups, as then even twenty minutes will be long enough and this makes it an emer- gency dessert.. Chocolate Pie—One cup sugar, table- spoonful butter, one egg, two-thirds cup milk, two cups flour, one-haif tea- spoonful seda, one teaspoonful cream tartar, pinch salt. Frosting for filling: One cup milk, one-half cup sugar, two squares chocolate; boil until thickens. Riding a la Mode. Don a cap, my dearest, Visored for your eyes: Wrap up in_your queerest Tourist ldoking guise; Perch yourself beside me; Off we move—"“Choo! chool® In our wake to chide me Folks are saying “Whew!™ ‘See those children scatter From our sudden track! Missed that dog? No matter; Kill him coming back. Here's Jones, sure as With his skittish gray! We'll scoot past a-screeching— Watch it run away! Now we're going faster! Did I hit him right? Guess he'll need a plaster ‘When he's due to light. There's a cop—I wonder ‘Why he looks so sour. 'Spects that we're not under Those eight miles an hour! Gasoline and sneezes. Clangor, dust and howls; How the poor cop wheezes As his steed he row'ls! Home again, my sweetness, Let us disembark. Viewed in its compl ‘Wasn't it a lark! —Brooklyn Life.