The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1904, Page 8

e THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1904 i R THE SANFRANCISCO CALL + vs mosmmne amees - PTOpTiCtOP THE DAYS GONE BY THE days gone by! O the days gone by! The apples in the orchard, and the pathway through the rye; The chirrup of the robin, and the whis- tle of the quail, As he piped across the mesdows sweet as any nightingale; ‘When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue was in the sky, And my happy heart brimmed over—in the days gone by. JOHN D. SPRECKELS...... | TENNESSEE GOVERNOR'S sony semavOmT. e ; PRETTY DAUGHTER TO f;‘r?d’:‘flo.l'(,;“ Fsg oy L THIRD AND MARKET STREDTS, SAN FRANCISCO . CHRISTEN SHIP TO_DAY EATURDAY. cu cevsvvrsssasssnsasnsssnsnns OAKLAND WATER. = brought out much discussion in the press of that city. So far it/ 1ed to disputation over the rival claims of 2 ground water | chment supply. The judicial decisions respecting ground wa- | arian ownership afford an interesting and necessary study i that is looking for 2 supply above or below ground in any | coast. i of water in agriculture and horticulture and the prior | f potable supplies have made it difficult to take water | t running the gauntlet of court decisions and prior | The unclaimed supply lies more distant, and it may be ac- i 28 true that new plants must be sought farther away. Bir-| THE renewed agitation of 2 municipal water plant in Oakland has | In the days gone by, when my naked feet were tripped By the honeysuckie tangles where the water lilies dipped, And the ripples of the river Jipped the moss along the brink, Where the placid-eved and lasy-footed cattie came to drink, And the tilting snipe stood fearless of the truant's wayward cry, And the splashing of the swimmer, in the days gone by. O the days gone by! O the days gone ningham went far away to the Welsh hills for a2 municipal plant o r takimg over the private plant to get rid of competition. Glas- | The music of the laughing 1ip, the luster . of the eve: watershed where the rainfall exceeds fifty inches to the private plant which was first acquired. ! | f the problem is important, yet the Oakland discus- e puddles of the water question icipal ownership. ! lems are economic and administrative. ien ly can be had by orthern California. The point kland is the business aspect of the cipal ownership it must, as rst of rivalry and competition. It it expect to have a proper administra- i make the plant itself i The Call can ren- n by persistently urging this. r the benefit of the ratepayers, | The childish faith in fairies, and Alad- din's magic ring— The simple. soul-reposing, glad belief in everything. For life was like a story, holding netf- ther sob nor sigh. In the golden, olden story of the days gone by. —James Whitcomb Riley. MORE PRAISE FOK THE CALL'S PLAN Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco. Mr. John McNaught, manager The San Francisco Call. l i st T Sir— e in hearty accord 1 demands that they know just ID:;'h . :le “] "" ": '[ = their water rate represent 2all that they ;55 ANNIE KEITH FRAZER, daughter of Governor and Mrs. i;:m! (ei{‘; ““' zr?:;“o n“n:.; ;le S e B s i ames B. Frazer of Tennessee, o ubs . i one can they be assured of a2 proper busi- nnessee, will christen the Tennessee, the |0 encourage the “floral adornment” of new cruiser, which will be launched at Philadeiphia to-day. our city—a subject to which this asso- 7 Miss Frazer, who is stiill a schoolgirl, is the oldest child of i i i itions s . 4 . ciation is devoting its best energies, as tiONS ' the State’s chief executive, says the Philadelphia Inquirier. She will be a b’e]ng the g.mplef{ and most inexpen- to have with us and the am a t are a mortgage upon the city, from where she will go-to the launching ceremonies. Miss Frazer, Who |cisco. Respectfuljy yours, roperty of the taxpayers, and if 1 ®i!l in her teens, is a blonde of very attractive appearance. JAMES D. PHELAN, President. ter plant may be charged off to +— - THOMAS M'CALEB, Secretary. 4 | By order of the Board of Directors. produce candidates who seek | How much longer is the war likely to | ¥helming. She has been soundly| City, December 2. water rate, and they will get them last? The question engages Europe,|thrashed by Japan, and to-day the S —— e keep their promise by low- and !he“re'pné! show a variety of opin- | Bal'uc fleet episode covers her with Townsend's California Glace fruits in h . the diff 7 hi fon. Belief is expressed in some quar- | ridicule. Her only comfort i in |artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* i charging the cifference 1O NIM ters that if she could save her face in| Stoessel's resistance at Port Arthur, S e rever government ownership per- | any decent fashion Russia would listen | and should that fortress fall shortly | & Efeflh‘h‘"”f:fl::;n -:prna d:;uy[;o usiness houses public men by the wavs of Australia and Italy. and it | to peace proposals. But, as maur.-rui he'r situation will be all but desperate. | press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 3¢ Cali- :blic utilities have been acquired. stand, her embarrassments are over- | Washington Star. fornia street. Telepbone Main 1042 ¢ ays or of water under such circum- T e e raicset| =4 THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE b~ o carry itself, to payitsowncostand 4 its use paid by the ratepayer tells its the administration be good and economical his rate i ful and extravagant or corrupt the rate x 2 incompetence than the privilege of conceal- g part of the cost of a public plant to the ' | ratepayer and part to as a taxpayer. Whenever and | | | lege exists the people are abused. The adminis- nicipal plant should be widely separated from politics, is cannot be done if the plantrest upon the credit of the city, its cost 2 lien upon the taxpayer and its deficits chargeable to the | generzl fund. This is so obviously a business proposition that no one ventures to argue against it. No one controverts it. Then why not adopt it and proceed to put it in practice? \ e people of California voted the bonds for the new ferry build- ing in this city, because they were based upon the property they to be paid out of its revenues. They voted the new seawall bonds for the same reason. If the ferry depot and seawall bongs had been 2 lien upon the taxpayers both would have been beaten. The | | vote of San Francisco and Ozakland alone would have beaten them. The users of the ferry building and the new seawall pay for them, as| | users and not as taxpayers, and those who do not use them do not | »ee for them. Let the voters of the two cities apply the i i { , ! ‘ CHRISTENING. I . pay 2 ba 2 same principle to the acquisition of other public utilities, charge their S TDEA ' x,‘K“’C’:e:’_Th“'e" fme. . strangs Anct FRo cost to the users, to be paid in their rates, and leave the public credit | g3 10451 don't belteve you ever| Bocker—What's that? Eallyict S Wt T stid von ke free of embarrassment. This is the deep water of the water question. | draw a sober breath. Knicker—A boy is christened with | hungry. Here is a piece of steak for All else is 2 pur:'q]e. ] Tramp—Oh, yes, ma’am. There's lots | water and afterward takes booze, while | you. of hard-luck days when I can’t get the s ship is christened with booze and { price of a drink, ma'am. afterward takes to water. ing to eat, but not to work. office will always endure. If debutante of next season and this year is at school at Tarrytown, N. Y., |give, way of beautifying Sen Fran- | Tramp—Not for me, madam. I'm will- | <THE SMART SET+ BY SALLY SHARP. of the Palace Hotel on Thursday, De- cember 8, from 1 to 10 p. m., and on Friday, December 9, from 10 a m. to 10 p. m. The charity ball to be given on Mon- day evening at the Palace Hotel by the Albert Sidney Johmston Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy. pro!f;- s ises to be one of the most brilliant af- Co Ee fairs of the season. Mrs Alfred Hun-| m:‘; :’;:n‘;’:;:u' ’i‘:" ‘;'_ ,:’;'r",’:': - ;‘" Voarmel,h-zre::’de;t.:; (:zr;‘::lp‘::-' for the winter, having just returned as never e : - w - sponses to her invitations as for lhugf"’m S e e Ry Casz Boys. ball, which promises to supersede in Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Clifford and brilliancy that of last year. The Da- | g Clifford will give a dance in tha tronesses are: Mrs. Arthur W. FoS-| .,y 554 Crafts Hall on Presidio ave- ter, Mre. Willlam M. Gwin, Mrs. Wil- |, on December 16. In the recefving lam H. Harrison, Mrs. Wiliam B.| .;¢y will be Miss Elsa Draper. This Collier, Mrs. Beldenm& “;:‘fl“'w,:’:' event is for the Introduction of Miss Alfred Hunter Voorhies, Mra *- | Cliffora, who has appeared 2 few field Baker, Mrs. James Potter Lang- m;e- ‘:'m- .;nm b:t kas not been lbnrn; m M’ufl‘* g:::'b:“;‘ Mil- | ¢ormally presentsd to n:)cleryA on . earst, . 9 Mrs. John Garber, Mrs. Eleanor Mar- Miss Charlotte Wilson was en tin, Mrs. Ynez Shorb White, Mrs. Wil- [ 13ined last evening at dinner by Mr liam L. Duff, Mrs. William B. Pritch- | an3 Mrs. Downey Harvey at the = ard and Mrs. Malcolm Henry. Francis, the affair preceding Mrs . Wit Oy Eleanor Martin's ball Mrs. Samuel Knight gave a lunch- - - - | eon yesterday at the Marie Antoinette. | The engagement is announmced It was a large affair. Mrs. Knight en- | Miss Enzbein Hannay, daughter tertained about thirty guests. . | Colonel and Mrs. Hannay of Los Ban- ; Poinsettias were the prevailing | o5, P. I, and Lieutepant Thomas, sta- ficwer used In decoration, giving 2 | tioned also at Los Banos. The wed- brilliant appearance to the tables. | ding will probably take place in tha Among the guests were: Mrs. Wil- | gpring. Miss Hannay's brother, o lam G. Irwin, Mrs. George Newhall, | tain Robert Hannay, marri | Mrs. Mayo Newhall, Mrs. William Tay- | Young's daughter, Eligabe lor, Mrs. Augustus Taylor, Mrs. Robert “ - - - Hceoker, Mrs. George Howard, Mrs. R. Mrs. Frederick Spencer Palmer e I K. Nuttall, Mrs. Mountford Wilson, | tained at tea yesterday. A large ot Mrs. Austin Tubbs, Miss Silas Palmer, | ber attended the affair, which was Mrs. Timothy Hopkins, Mrs. Fred at the home of the hostess on Gree Moody, Mrs. Fred McNear, Mrs. Eu- | street. | gene Murphy, Mrs. Chauncey Winslow, | Mrs. Henry Scott, Mrs. Robert Woods, | The Buford Free Kindergarten wil | Mrs. Willlam Tevis. | hold its annual bazaar at the home of H - . . Mrs. Harry Durbrow to-day. Usefu Mrs. Mark Gerstle gave a dinner and fancy articles, dolls and home- |1ast evening to Miss Wells and Selby | made candies will be offered. - | Hanna. Those asked to participate | > - | with the guests of homor were: Mr.| The annual art exhibition of the So- as |and Mrs. William Gerstle, Mrs. James hemian Club will open on Monday Smith, Judge Lawlor, Miss Pearl | continue till December 21 - | Landers, William H. Smith. | o -8 | P | Miss Georgle Spieker will be “at ¥. | P e | Mrs. Lyle Fletcher entertained Miss | home™ at the Palace Hotel on Monda - ey | At the prettily decorated table were| Mrs Davenport will enfertain at tea seated the following guests: Miss Voor- | t0-day at her home on _P-c.r:c avenus !h;en, Miss Du Bose, Miss Florence Ives, |8 honmor of Miss Elizabeth Stillman, i)lrs. Charles M. Plum, Mrs. Montague, | recently arrived from Germany. ! Mrs. Barraclough, Mrs. Young, Mrs. R €N | Simpson. " 5 The luncheon to be given to-morrow | e e by Mr. and Mrs. Carter Pitkin Pome- | Trinity Church was the scene of a | roy will undoubtediy be a delightful af- quiet wedding yesterday afternoon. |fair, and thers is much pleasurable | Miss Ethel Low, daughter of Mr. and | anticipation regarding it Mrs. Charles Low, and Lieutenant | o A Charles Hamilton were married at 4| Miss Jessie McNab will hold her | o’clock by the Rev. Willlam Clampett. | “coming out™ tea to-day at her beauti- No witnesses were present but the |ful home on Broadway. Several hun- parents of the bride. After a briet | dred cards have been issued for the af- | wedding trip the young couple will | fair. live at Fort Mason, where Lieutenant | Hamilton is stationed with the Thir-| Df- and Mrs. David Friediander havs eenth Infantry, U. S. A | returned from their wedding trip and ’ r! . - ‘m living in their new home on Wal- rs. Willlam B. Wilshire and Miss | DUt street. | Wilshire will receive on the second | and third Fridays of this month. ~on .. | Marie Voorhies at luncheon yesterday. | | | e . Mrs. L Lowenberg entertained a dogen dinner guests last evening at the ! 'alace tel. The annual exhibition and sale of| " g R { the California Keramic Club will bel Mrs. Ynez Shorb White will shortly | held in the marble and maple rooms | return from her Eastern trip. PSSR 9 P TR M e o o ‘ ANSWERS TO QUERIES. SOUSA—S., Napa, Cal. The perma- | ting of Sirfus with the sun has been nent address of Sousa, the band lead- | erroneously regarded as the cause of er, is Astor court building, New York excessive heat and consequent calam- City, N. Y. ties. WILLIAMS AND WALKER—Sub-' ANTI-SUFFRAGE—M.. City. The scriber, City. Williams and Walker, “New York State Association Opposed actors, were in San Francisco about to the Extension of Suffrage to Wom- | two years ago and appeared at the Cal- | en” has its office In New York City. ifornia. Mrs. George Phillips, 78A Park avenue, - | is the secretary. DOG DAYS—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. “Dog days” is applied to that MERCANTILE LIBRARY — Enq., part of the summer from about the [City. The three concerts that wers beginning of July to the middle of given in the Mechanics’ Pavillon on Avgust—originally applied to the time | Union square, during which there was during which Sirfus, or the Dog Star, a lottery legalized by the Legislature vas above the horizon with the sun. |to enable the library to raise funds to But now, and for a long time, it has | liquidate its indebtedness, were heid been assertod that the rising and set- | in the summer of 1570. THE SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE. perience and observation to write upon the present day problems in # +— 66 OUBLE HARNESS,” by Anthony Hope, runs through its [ L] D third installment in the Sunday Call Magazine to-morrow. ‘ LADY Kl Y EM P A ION BY There i riter of th t day bett: lified | I ') I | | ere is no writer of the present day better qualified by ex: ‘ ) ]ZOLA FORRESTER + social ethics than Anthony Hope and no writer who knows the Lon- don life of which he writes better than he. Time and again his won- HEY rode slowly, Lady Kitty She had seen him first when he came , she had forgotten entirely just how far derful faculty for creating scenes in which the play of mind on mind, somewhat ahead, probably be-|to meet them at the little lop-sided, | she had revealed that curious content- " 25 keen as was the sword play of the gallants of his earlier romantic shuse’ (he trall is. RErepW_ S0ci| fine” hoard afpot Af emk She gwl | BOO ) Sl treacherous below Lost Moon, | stood on the platform when the train :Q\'els.l}s g!ver;( frec’r;copc \;;-]nh a bre_aéith dof ghratspfncvel"fattal:ed in possibly so that Allison shouid | drfw 125 and. over e R ROV mg:ltison!‘;e vr?)ldc: ‘fi,-d:es::;r hpllll =2 1S riler works. e problem consigert a 4 - o €Ol d - e her. e _his earlier wor p nsidered, that of a wife, who; es not see her face. ored sombrero she had caught &i,,;; yijened slightly and took a sud- glimpse of a sil rect figure on a black pony, his haé pullea Gown over | den header into the guich his eyes, his chin up, as he leisurel “We can’t get by here” he said. surveyed thei L Sh ehad “kz ““There has been a washout. We'll have 1 | vey r party. e el - v . -and fgr that reason takes hold of readgr§ of all classes. The ultimate | member any other reason for the| the clear, cool gl’;ncg of his gray eyes. . solution of the problem as he handles it is sane and wholesome. | proximity, but the flush on her cheeks | There was something so sereneiy well “The Adoption of Little Bell,” by Len Low, a Sacramento writer | and the slightest possible tilt to her | balanced and _selt-sufficlent in their new to fiction fields, wins the prize of $50 for the third week of the | poin belied her powers of forgetful- | JEUPRUCR WY T Dlcamoanis fiction contest. Mr. Low has created a touching littie picture of un-| "",0 ¢ siison, he was shamelessly tlhng!e of expectancy, as though the schooled lives and simple hearts, fatally ensnared by narrow Offi- | seif-possessed and at ease. She had | & shalienge — o /¥ had received ciousness. | even caught him whistling as they | There was no doubt but that she In “The Riverman” Ste Edward White, n ;o | turned into Red Mountain Gulch, and [ had met it. It had not seemed seri- wart d , noted for his when she had deliberately ridden |OUS, merely a part of the trip. He had straightforward and dramatic chronicles of the lives and interests OF | civiad s Yndt: mob 1108 26 join her. | MOt appeared worth considering like the rugged, hardy woodsmen of the great lumber camps, contributes | raay Kitty felt irritated by the im- :‘-‘:‘:u‘;lh;;tm‘zn, h:gox;n;wu m:d ml;le?; the story of a log jam, a rescue and a “birling” match, wherein two | penitence expressed in his confident | plessings when Lady Kitty had smiled "of. the huskiest of his characters figure. Charles Dryden continues | 2ititude and also by the knowledge |on them. She had felt that in a day g that he was looking at her. It is not|or so she could nod good-by, and _thve adv:nturcs. of h‘ls wandel"mg’)outh in “On and Off the Byead Dleasant to feel a person’s steady gaze | }€ave him with the same comfortabie Wagon,” carrying him along in his eventful career from Memphis t0 | behina one. 1If it had been any one |[e87et as Red Mountain itself, with \f | its’ gorgeous, sunset tinted, sandstone New Orleans. | else she would certainly have reported | poale She had not taken the man him- - Lesson No. 3 in the simple method of attaining proficiency on | their “lgp"d"bmbly rude conduct 0| gelf into consideration at all, and now, the piano is published. These lessons, the invention of a2 New York | ;‘,?i':;n_ h;'—‘,'., ::.;::e :3:;‘3"’,; .r:x:m :: 32”&":'3’ l;:hf:;n:dwlomrd ok mnddl:: music teacher of a life-long experience, will appear in twelve install- | her. More than that, and Lady Kit- | and had kissed her. inents. They have been universally recommended as a practical and | ty’s flush deepened, the major would "?;‘:l i Lo Coubel S Ol simple method for the piano. The series by Opie Read, “Jottings of | 52y the young cub had more grit than | ganced mnm"n e it TpASean Ry, Old Lim Jucklin,” continues with a dissertation on h‘firs. Madge | lie save him credit for, and when 857 | There had been a long silence after Moore contributes 2 page for women, “Wrinkles and eir Cause,” one as cl and deliciousiy lov- | she had told him they were going had flirte: 2nd Robert W. Ritchie has his regular department of books. ot s ata ol it tranged from her husband’s love, looks for comfort and understand- Half a mile back they had ridden ing in another man, is one that is ever present in every grade of life, :L‘l;b";:‘?yj lg;:‘;‘;;‘;‘ :::’ :::e“ :;“:2‘_’ and encouraged such a man as Bob Allison she must expect the worst— best di to her Jack Chinn's bowle knife has been elected to the Kentucky Legislature, | orpn” mr major sould b ool _-and it may be difficult, unless the other members can be provided with metal gravating. breastplates, to secure a quorum down there.—Chicago Record-Herald. And she had not flirted with Alli- 4 son, not at all. If they chose to call - Russia declines to attend the peace conference untfl the war with Japan | common social civilities flirting in this is over: but judging from its progress there may not be enough left of Russia bsrbs:%:llsndottt‘!:,e':arm:nfim 5, ., isturb world’s peace.—Chattanooga Times. pony ‘was no lame. told herself positively. She . -5 » been lonesome at Lost Moon, or rather, ::“' ad only permitted him to kiss her, but Mr. Carnegie says universal peace will come In the year 2000. Not it notu‘l'l-ng“:n‘l;m Bh-m'u General Stoessel can make his supply of grub, bullets and three-em dashes mething to him. hold outlmmwwm’. curious sense of delicious peril pos-} Allison came up the path among ths sessed her. It was the first time in her pines, life that she had not felt sure of her- “It's all right,” he called. “We'll self so far as a man was concerned | make the ranch before dark. Good- f::( now she had a wild, joyous be:e! by, Dimple.” t if this Westerner were to ask her “"By. Bob.” Her glan 10 e Bt Wale' dhe wosh e “yen~ Sa] M wiifully:: “Be us ek wondered if he would. “Maybe.” Allison did not tarn If they were only not going to-mor-| around. When the cabin was out of row—if only there was not home and li‘h_. it he spoke. her father and Rodney. Of course, You are going up the canyon to- Rodney. She almost laughed out loud | MOTTOW, aren’t you " to think all at once how completely he “As far as the springs. Then we had gone out of her life the last week. | 80 over into Arizona.” And they were to be married in Easter| “I'm going, t00.” Allison’s tone was week next spring. Poor old Rodney! | Quiet and decisive. She looked at the figure ahead on the| Lady Kitty smiled and reached for black pony and sighed happily. If only |2 leaf off the bough that brushed her he would talk to her. hu‘in suiat They turned a bend in the path and| . you. indeed? As e faced a small mountain cabin. Some|_ A duil finish crept up unden the chickens and pigeons wandered haught. | Sunburn. Lady Kitty foliowed up her ily about and a girl was shooing them | *dvantage. away from a st.aggling fringe of red T am glad the major secured you! geraniums that grew around the stoop. ‘We are really such a lot of iInnocents She came toward them smilingly. Lady | 2502y In these parts that you will be Kitty thought she had never seen such | "eICOMme. honest, trusting eyes before except in|, 'L &m not acting as guide to stray- deer. She looked up at Allison. innocents. 1 am going after you.™ “Hello, Bob. Them chickens are just dy Kitty's eyebrows lifted. She terrible. No, dad’'s gome over to the did not meet his gaze, however. She ranch. There's a washout down in the | *PS) her limitations. gulch. He wants some of the boys to |y b =, L7 Kind of you, I'm sure, help him fix up the trail. Want to rest | Jo; | 9o’ believe I would If I wers up a bit and wai you. We sail for home in November, ‘Allison sald “no,” he would ride on & and I am to be married next little and see if the path was safe| L cn If—" her voice was suspiciousiy down Booty’s side of the mountain, gay and clear—"even if one does for- “This is Miss Boot, Lady Kitty,” he | S5t Sometimes in this wonderland. added as he rode away. After all, one’s ain countree is best, Dimple Booty watched until the pines | 70U Know hid him. He stared at her in dawning knowl- “T'm always afraid of washouts,” she | foge #nd his face was pititully boyish said confidentially. “What if you and “f h:ned purt. Bob had ridden plumb into the guleh?| ¢ o ™ ..B:" say I'm sorry,” he said You would, too, only it wasn't dark | fauie- i t I'm not. It was your yet. But Bob knows the way; he comes You ought to carry dan- ” ger signals if you don't want wrecks u"Km off tho‘” track,”™ she laughed. “There are no wree e : ace softened. When they founs LX) 2gain and started the giit he Lost Moon at a faster “Thanks. said one word: