The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 26, 1905, Page 8

= T TS e \ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D .. Proprietor 5 ALL C . Manager THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO UARY 26, 1905 FEDERAL HELP FOR THE RIVERS. HE plan of the engineers for the rectification of the{Sacramemo T er, ar lentally to keep its floods out of the San Joaquin, looks to a contribution by the Federal Government. As the \ highly concerns the navigability of a meandered stream which “under Federal jurisdiction, the assistance of the Federal Jent seems to be a matter of course. If the cost of the work ided between the State and the United States, the solution bg- I, however, it is all to fall upon the State, the end is For several years past we have commented upon the appropriations for our rivers in the river and harbor bill. I ot sufficed to properly discharge the Federal obligation streams in a navigable condition. Snags and sandbars have been left without attention, and these waterways, sO necessary upon transportation charges, have been permitted to de- eck n respect to navigability. “There is no doubt that the plan of the engineers for the Sac- ramento will bring it into a state of the highest efficiency as a When that plan is worked out we may expect miliar sight in other days, when ocean ships tied The levees proposed will restore the navigable stream. again what was a f: to the landing in Sacramento. 1 old channel and purge the river of accumulated silt. But all this restor: \ of navigation cannot fairly be left to California. The levees will do a continuous work for navigation, with but little fur- ther assistance, that the Federal Government could not do by the sporadic expenditure of many more millions than would be its share of ianent work. In the division of the cost it will be seen that the does that fair share which carries with it protection against floods and reclamation of land for tillage. This the State 1 do and expects to do. It will get every dollar back finally tion of a great area of land to the taxable objects of the It will get it back, too, in the increase in our producing popu- People make a State. If the State is willing to do this, its lation. fair share of the work, the Federal Government should do its duty on this meandered stream. The permanent navigability of the Sec- ramento is under the same head as the building of an isthmian canal. The two differ in degree only and not in kind. All waterways for transportation have the same function of regulation and convenience. The obligation of the United States in the case of the Sacramento is older than that to the canal. " The Mississippi is leveed and controlled exclusively at Federal cost. Tt is done on the theory that the work is for navigation and the United States must do it. Yet that work is of equal importance as a reclamation process, which makes millions of acres of land avail- able for the benefit of the States in which it lies. They get the benefit “at Federal expense. California pays her share, according to the *sum total of her Federal taxes, toward this reclamation work on that ‘stream. In this way she must have a large sum to her credit, which the States affected by the Mississippi floods owe to her. They should support the proposition to share the cost of rectifying the Sacra- mento with the Federal Government. To obtain this certain preliminaries are necessary. The Federal Government makes appropriations upon the reports of its own en- gineers. The engineers employed by the State have reported their plan, which is satisfactory to the State. But if it were the only possible plan and all others were barred in the nature of things, the United States would not accept without confirmation by its own engineers. Before the present session of Congress our members, in a meeting, agreed to solidly support Federal help in effecting this plan. They determined to make it a special issue in the next Con- gress and to use all of their power over other questions to force it to the front and to success. It was expected, therefore, that the matter would wait till the meeting of the Fifty-ninth Congress next Dc- cember. But our members are not losing any time, and Mr. Mc- Lachlan has inserted in the river and harbor bill a provision that a ¢ommission of Federal engineers shall be appointed to go over the Sacramento River problem and make report to the next session for action. It will be seen that this advances the matter one year and per- haps two. It secures more prompt attention by Congress than was hoped for, and it makes necessary more prompt action by the State than has been expected. The Legislature will not meet again until 1607, while the prospect is that the Federal Government will be ready .. for co-operation in 1906. No time should be lost, and especially should the State avoid losing any. The present session of the Leg- . islature should take this matter up and decide now whether the State will help and how. If it be by direct appropriation, to be sup- plied by taxation, the amount to be used in each fiscal year should be decided upon. If it be by an issue of bonds, that should be set- tled, in order that it may go to the people. The attitude of the State should be known and its permanent policy decided upon. Lack- ing- this it is useless to expect that the Federal Government will take the initiative. That belongs to California. The Legislature is doubtless absorbed in many important mat- ‘ters, but it should not in their exclusive contemplation forget this. For a year the State has been actively preparing to have something done for the river. Our people were appalled by the flood disasters " “of last spring. They were the sole break in the year’s happiness and prosperity. They caused the loss of millions and suspended, for the time being, the production of some of our most important export specialties. So critical was the situation that antagonism between . rivers and cities ceased and the people of the valleys and the delta came together to do something. That effort culminated in the report of the engineers. Shall it stop there? It is for the Legislature to say. That body represents the peo- ple, and if it do nothing in the premises, then the people can do nothing and Congress will do nothing, and matters remain as they are. only we will be a little worse off and much farther away from a settlement, because we did wake up, get a plan, and then lapse into indifference. This Legislature should not adjourn without putting the State in position to co-operate with-the United States. A a rule favor its restoration. It was the service men’s club. It furnished a decent place of resort, built up a regimental li- brary, afforded a comfortable reading room, and gave enlisted men an opportunity for reasonable pleasure and amusement, away from THE ARMY CANTEEN. GAIN the fight is on over the army canteen. Army officers as vicious surroundings and temptations. But all this was denounced by | outside reformers. The use of light beers and wines in the canteen -was decided by those who use neither as creating an appetite for the fiery and rebellious liquors that cause murder and riot, and the can- teen went down before the onslaught of a theory. Then arose again the fringe of low deadfalls around every army post. The wholesome regimental club, books, reading rooms and reasonable pleasure gave way to the dirty dive, the poison liquor, the vicious associations of the wickedest form of drinking place. The enlisted men as a result have suffered in health, morals and discipline. Under these circumstances the army petitions for a restoration of the canteen, believing that if restored the fringe of deadfalls will disappear as it did before. .But restoration is actively resisted. Those who oppose it propose no means for getting rid of the deadfalls, ex- cept as part of a general programme for total prohibition. This means that whole generations of our soldiers are-to be the victims of | vice, while the army waits upon the success of an impossible policy. The spirit of reform is good, and deserving of all praise, and eten those who dream of the impossible are entitled to respect. But common sense and the philosophical estimate of human nature as it is are praiseworthy also, and their use in discussing this question will be found quite valuable. < Now that sclence has made it possible to produce light out of rubbish the circulation of the Congressional Record will increase “by leaps and bounds.”— New York Herald. 5 OR six days the thermometer had been soaring at almost midsum- mer heat, softening the ice of the Great South Bay until nearly all its cohesive power was gone. Now the ice was a thick, spongy mass, so rot- ten that even the foot of a life-saver pressing upon it firmly would break through at many places. It was im-| possible either for foot passage or for a boat to be forced through. And to ! increase the seriousness of the case! the last two days had brought a fog so gray and dense as to shut Fire Isl- and from every object a dozen yards away. Out in the channel toward the Long | Island shore, and on the ocean side, currents had kept the ice from freez- ing thickly, and had hastened the de- composition. Already the delayed shipping was seeking passage toward New York or the open sea, and in the fog and the narrow channels that| were free from ice was meeting with disaster. From time to time signals of distress came from one direction or another, and so far as they were able the life-saving stations of Fire Island responded. Perhaps at no other place in the world could assistance have been ren- dered across that barrier of slush Ice, in which spaces of open water were beginning to appear; but then at no other place in the world perhaps were there amphibious scooters. Several of these unique distinctions | of Fire Island were lying on the edge | of the ice, with plke and scooter- ing iron and oars across the thwarts ready for instant use, while thelr | owners leaned forward, listening, peering, and. for the most part, shak- ing their heads. The wind was rising, blowing straight from the sea. In another hour it was likely to freshen into a gale. Before it the gray fog was being swirled and tossed and ed- died, but still encompassing and dense—a huge wet blanket that seemed writhing in the agonies of pain. On all sides were the sounds of fog and danger, bell buoys, boat whistles, occasfonal fog horns, the pounding | and crushing of ice where some ves- | sel was forcing its way through, and now \and then the ominous signal of | distress and call for help. toward the sea and evidently at con siderable distance. The men who | were in looked at each other, their | | faces paling. | “A big ship,” one of them sald, “and on the bar. Lord help ‘em!” | “Yes," assented the man nearest | him, “nothing can get to "em that fa out, not even scooters.” | There was a peculiar grinding sound | near them. A scooter slid up the beach and a man sprang out. ! “The other fellows in yet?” he| asked. “Only Carey. He brought a man ashore and sent him up to the station | Mo L BY FRANK H. SWEET. and then hurried back. He said it was a coal barge, with two men and a boy and dog, and the other scooters will bring them In. The keeper ordered us to watch here for other work. | ‘What was yours?” “Just a sall boat, with two young men. They called for help because | they didn’t know their surroundings. When I exolained they decided to re- main on board until the ice let them out. They have plenty of provisions and a snug lttle cabin. I heard the ship’s call from outside, and hurried | back. I couldn’t quite make out the location in the fog. Anybody gone?” “Gone?” derisively. ‘“Why, man alive! that's on the bar three miles away. No scooter could ever get there, across the open channel. Be. sides the ice has been piled up by the o - | i +| “I shall be waiting, t00, Jack,” | | she said. o waves. She'll have to wait until the sea opens so we can use a lifeboat, or the fog lifts so we can scooter out. No one— Where are you going?” For the man had swung the bow of his craft back into the fog and was again heisting the 1s. sel, of course!™ “Out to the Vi uietly. “But it's sure death, Jack,” remon- | strated the life-saver sharply. “Don’t be a fool. You couldn’t pick your way through the fog with that scooter and get back alive.” “Maybe not. But that signal sounds | good many folks out there waiting for help. I'm only one.” | call was Jack Bowman paused, with one foot in the scooter, his “Oh, Mr. Bowman!” The clear and peremptory. face growing set. The owner of the voice was the keeper's daughter, and only the day before she had closed the door into a future which he had begun to believe would be his. The sentence, “I shall never marry a man whose fu- ture is bounded by his clam hoe and fish trawl; the world has use for brave deeds,” still rang in his ears. “What is it, Miss Blanche?” he asked, trying to keep his voice calm. “I am {in a hurry.” “Father says for no one to answer that call just yet. He thinks this wind will soon break up the ice so the life boat can go out. He says it will be sui- cide to attempt scooting through this fog. Mr. Bowman!” her voice rising in sudden displeasure, for the scooter- ist had stepped into his craft and thrown out his pike to shove her into the wind. “I'm sorry, Miss Blanche,” over his shoulder, “but the keeper’'s orders are for his own men and not for a poor outside fisherman like me. Besides, the boat may be in sore need, and though a little scooter cannot do much, it may at least carry intelligence and perhaps save one or two—provided I can reach them.” The girl's face underwent a sudden | change, and she took an impetuous step forward, but already the scooter had slipped away into the fog. As they waited there, listening, peer- ing, while the hours dragged by, the faces of the men showed something of what they knew to be taking place within the fearsome, shifting pall of mist. The scooter was rushing on, dropping into open spaces of water, slipping up again upon patches of rot- ten ice, swiftly, with scarcely any checking of speed, its owner knowing time was of more importance than cau- tion. Any moment its nose was liable to strike some obstruction and throw out its occupant, the wind at that speed might overturn the scooter or a sudden jJibing wreck it without an in- stant’s warning, either of which on the waste of rotten ice held but one possi- ble fate for the owner. Two hours and there came another signal of distress close in shore. The waiting life-savers dropped into their scooters and slid out into the fog. The girl was still there, watching, her face white. Ten minutes more and a SCOO- ter's nose suddenly slipped from the darkness, almost at ber feet, and Jack Bowman sprang out. Bending over, he lifted a recumbent figure from the scooter to the sand. “Will you call some one from the sta- tion to carry this man up, Miss Blanche,” he said hurriedly, as he swung his craft back into the wind. “I haven’'t time. There are others waiting for me.” The girl moved forward swiftly, plac- ing a hand upon his shoulder. “I shall be waiting, too, Jack,” she said in a low voice. “You must come back to me.” A tremor went through the man's frame, but he did not pause an instant in his work. As the craft disappeared in the fog his voice rose strong and res- | olute above the wind. “Yes, Blanche, I will tome back to | like a blg boat, and if so there are a |you.” And he did. (Copyright, 1905, by Frank H. Sweet.) 2 VALUE OF OSENTIMENT IN MARRIED LIFE >=l SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. ) HAVE received a letter which I am particularly glad to answer, . for its subject—the value of senti- ment in married life—is cne which in- terests me deeply. “Who makes the better wife,” asks the’ correspondent, “the woman of brains or the woman of sentiment? Should sentiment predominate in a woman's nature if she is amiable?” Of course, there is no cut and dried rule for congeniality. Some authori- ties would have us believe that invari- ably blondes should wed brunettes, that persons of phlegmatic tempera- ment should marry those who are mercurial or sanguine, etc., ad in- finitum. For every one of these rules there is a small army of exceptions which might either prove or refute their validity, according to one’s preju- dices. All you can sensibly say in regard to the matter is that a girl who would make an ideal wife for this man would find marriage a complete failure if wedded to that one. And amiability, which always is numbered rightly among the blessed, humbler virtues, is through her threatens the family hap- piness—is a tendency to become over- | emotional as she gets on In years and | her horizon narrows with lessening vigor and power to charm. quite as liable to ruin a home as ill- temper is, if it is the expression of weakness and not of strength. The woman who has brains and no sentiment, and the woman who has sentiment and no brains, are both matrimonial misfits. For either one of them to go into a life work where the heart must speak a high language is a mistake which society is certain to find out if they themselves fail to do so. _ The woman of brains need not be a woman without sentiment. A genuine education develops the sensibilities as well as the intellect. It simply pro- duces a fine inner balance. The dan- ger which threatens the woman who has no Intellectual interests—and It does not take any mental strain to Imagine what Dickens’ Dora would have been like if she had lived to be a silly old woman. We havg seen her kind trotting around In soclety. And we have seen many others who had more brains than she who made as foolish a figure. * Sentiment Is nothing but insight of the finer kind. Behind it is the eye which sees, the heart which under- stands, the hopefulness which inspires, the brain which acts. Sentimentality is quite another thing. It is a dressed- up jackdaw. If is not the real thing; and, what is more, it does not look so. Sometimes you find in a woman'’s life a curious mixture of sentiment and sentimentality. You gain the impres- sion that an honest affection is making the soclal error of wearing in the sun- light clothes which are too dressy for the daytime. There is one little woman I know who is as good as onegcould expect to find, and her daily acts show the sweetest devotion to her family. But she is too superlatively sweet. In her presence her husband is certainly not a happy | man. There is something so helplessly protesting about his attitude toward her elaborate endearments that he al- ways makes me think of a fly caught in syrup. Octave Thanet publishes in one of the December magazines a story, “The Angel of His Youth,” which gives an effective contrast between a strong wo- man with sentiment and a weak wo- man of sentiment. The former she de- scribes as a thoroughbred, who would run until she dropped, and run with spirit. So I feel justified In defining the second type she portrays as a truck horse from the livery stable. Certainly we love the heart woman better than we love the brain woman— “white roses please less than red.” But in picking out a wife I would, if I were a man, seek for a woman with brains, who had yet tenderness in her heart for little children and sentiment enough to appreciate the full meaning of the | words “love” and “home.” MAETTLE OF EVERYTHING LITTLE girl in Brooklyn was discovered by her mother en- gaged in a spirited personal en- counter with another little girl of her own age. Both combatants showed signs of the encounter. The mother took her daughter into | the house and talked to her regarding the awfulness of her conduct. “Don’t you know such conduct is | wrong?” asked the mother. “It was | Satan that urged you to fight.” | “Well,” said the little girl, “maybe {he told me to pull her hair, but I thought of kicking her shins all by my- self.”—January Woman’s Home Com- panion. Medals are cheap in England. The nurse who attended the Duke of Con- naught when he had some skin scraped off in an auf le accident recently has received the Victorian medal from King Edward. - i In the January-March Forum A. Maurice Low gives most prominence among “Forelgn Affalrs” of the last quarter to the movement for self-gov- ernment in Russia, which he thinks likely to be regarded by the historian of the future as the most momentous event of the first decade of the twen- tieth century. In a recent homily to his Bible class John D. Rockefeller Jr., the celebrated Biblical scholar and lay divine, is re- ported to have sald: “We are not here to get all we can, but to give all we can to make others happy.” Mr. Rockefeller has got all he can. If Mr. Rockefeller Jr. will give all he can ?;‘Iubnum will be re-established.— th the Procession,” BEverybody's Magazine for January. An English-Irish dictionary has been brought out by a Dublin clergyman. An imperial decree has been issued any Russian club to use a The petal forsakes the rose, And the rose forsakes the tree, And the tree rots in the ground, Year by year. The moment forsakes the hour, The hour forsakes the day, And a year and a life go by, Soon, ah, soon! Richard Kirk, in January Lippincott's. Snakes may almost be sald to haxe glass eyes, inasmuch as their eyes nev- er close. They are without lids and each is covered with a transparent scale, much resembling glass. When the reptile casts its outer skin the eye scales come off with the rest of the transparent envelope out of which the snake slips. ‘The man who said a person can get used to anything probably never tried living with his relatives.—Puck. ‘There would be an enormous increase in production if we were all paid what we think we are worth—and earned the money.—Puck. To-day “The Liars” will lure the smart set—not that the smart set is especially Interested in liars, but day marks an occasion when it And the Columbia promises to be full of admirers—even rooters—for the clev- er “Liars” who this afternoon will tread the boards and don the buskin in the sweet name of philanthropy. Of course, you're going’ ARRTAR And then there’s that other splendid | affair of the heart in the evening—the benefit concert to dear old Fabbri Muel- ler, she who forty years ago was the reigning queen of the opera and who is now left alone in this big city of strangers. Mme. Fannie Francisca, a one-time pupil of the aged songstress, will sing the famous mad scene from “Hamlet.” A fine German comedy—I | wouldn't attempt to tamper with Ifs ! name—will be produced, and a bright, snappy little skit. The tickets are sell- ing for $1, and all lovers of art and of its exponents should attend the benefit. The patronesses of the affair have high | hopes of reaping a rich reward for the| charming singer of ye olden day. e e Mrs. John D. Spreckels Jr. was hostess at a smart luncheon yesterday in honor of her sister-in-law, Miss Lily Spreckels. Orchids and Ameri- can Beauty roses graced the table, | about which a merry group of maids | and matrons were gathered to do honor to the fair fiancee. P W Miss Hazel Noonan, a fair maid of the southland, having laid successful slege to the heart of Dr. Walter Gib- BY SALLY SHARP. this | does. | Hearst’'s hacienda Mfss Louise Heron, who has been traveling with Mrs. Hearst over th Old World, has returned and if at Mrs near Pleasantc ‘While in London Miss Heron was wide- ly entertained, spending part of her time as the g\l“:l nr. uz:\ Waterlow. A very pleasant gathering was that Edward held at the home of Mr Tompkins Houghton yesterday after- noon, when she entertained at seven- virs. Elmer handed euchre in honcr of Clarke, wife of Captain Clarke of Eighteenth Infantry. The approach of spring 'was made manifest in the acacia and eucalyptus that filled the nooks and corners. the sweet e e The luncheon given in the cafe ot the Hotel St. Francis yesterday by Mrs. Edson F. Adams of Oakland was one of the prettiest afiairs of the sea- son and quite n keeping with the per- sonality of the clever iittle woman who gave it. The table was decorated in American Beauty roses, violets and ferns. Many smart gowns were worn and two very happy hours were spent at the table. Those entertained by Mrs. Adams were: Mrs. Prather, Mrs. H. AL Goodall, Mrs. C. Stone, Mrs. Folger., Mrs. Thomas Magee Jr., Mrs. C. S. Wheaton, Mrs. C. F. Long, Mrs. 8. M. Palmer, Mrs. W. C. Miller, Mrs. H. M. A. Miller, Mrs. A. Sherwood, Mrs. P. E. Bowles, Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. McNear, Mrs. Ed Pond, Mrs. G. H. Wheaton and Miss Whitney. . bons—a likely bachelor—is harkening a | merry round of congratulation. Miss | Louise Redington and,the Misses Hunt- | ington have entertained Miss Noonan | extensively during her visit in town.| While the “sweetest story ever told” | was adrift several weeks ago, the| capitulation has just been given out.| Dr. Gibbons is the son of Dr. Henry Gibbons and & brother of Miss Ida, | Miss Florence and Miss Margery Gib- bons. . o e Mrs. Richard Bayne received a large number of callers' yesterday upon her second “at home.” Receiving with Mrs. Bayne were Mrs. Worthington Ames, Mrs. Horace Hill, Mrs. Alfred S. Tubbs, Mrs. Charles Tuttle, Mrs. Frederick ‘Wilson Kimball, Miss Ida Brown and Miss Katherine Herrin. s O A luncheon to which twenty guests were asked was given by Mrs. L. Low- enberg in the Palace Garden yesterday. Daffodils, sweet harbingers of spring, were chosen for decoration. e m e Mrs. Willlam Cluff will entertain at | dinner this evening for a dozen guests in the Palm Garden. | o Lo pad Mrs. Charles F. Anderson of Fort Mason left on Tuesday for Red Bluff to attend the wedding of Miss Julla Root and Franklin Brewer, which occurred iast evening. | Mrs. M. V. Tingley Lawrence and Mrs. Pobert Armstrong Dean will be at home Fridays in February, 1450 Leavenworth street. . e The engagement of Miss Edith Mack to Charles J. Brandenstein, brother of Supervisor Henry Brandenstein, who recently wedded Miss May Colman, is keeping thelr “line busy” with con- gratulations. Miss Mack is a sister ot Mrs. James Ge‘r-ue_y ot‘IAndom Mrs. Frederick Fenwick entertained a few friends informally at bridge yes~ terday at her home on P'&clflc avenue. . = Miss Edith Mau gathered about her seven dainty malds at luncheon yester- dey, & few of the buds and one or two of those prospective of next year's in- ftiation. The room and table were warmly colored with red, carnations and name cards—these were designed after the same flower. Streamers of red tulle and red-shaded candelabra ‘were used wlth.stunmng effect. Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Breeden will en- tertaln at cards at their home on Broadway, on February 4. & Miss Katherine Powers leaves to-day for the East, Dr. and Mrs. George H. Powers and Miss Ruth Powers go on February 1, all to attend the wedding of George H. Powers Jr., which will shortly take place in Boston. s L ‘WHY NO OOLLECTION. ‘Mr. Thompson—Did you collect that bill from old man Long? Collector (a joker)—No; he was in, but he was out. Mr. Thompson—Ah! I see. Long was short. A MEAN THING TO SAY. Mrs. Will Gossipe—It's hard to keep a secret. Mr. Gossipe—I never knew you tried to keep one. EARTHQUAKE—E. L. C, City. ‘What is known in the history of San Francisco as ‘“‘the great earthquake of 1888" occurred on October 21 of that year. BONDS—S,, City. The President of | the United States s not required to give bonds. neither are the members of the Cabinet required to give such. PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY—A. O. C., City. By direction of the President of the United States, the name of the cantonment on the military reserva- tlon at Monterey was changed from ANOTHER THING LACKING. Boarder—This turkey ollo tastes very peculiar. Landlady—It's strange; I told the cook myself how to make it, but pere haps she didn’t catch the idea. Boarder—Maybe she didn't catch the turkey. HAD HER HYPNOTIZED. Mrs. E. Zee—My husband never tald me a lie. Mrs. Wise—Then hypnotist. s you married a ANSWERS TO QUERIES. Ord Barracks to Presidio of Monterey in perpetuation of the name of the first military station in California. MONKS AND SISTERS—A. 8, City. The monks and sisters were sent out of France a few years since in obed- ience to the acts of the Rousseau- ‘Waldeck Ministry on the subject of education. ———— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.® business houses :fl hlhn.:uun’ £ and pul by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen' Cali~ fornia street. 'l‘-\ophnn“ Ihl- ')u'&. 4 i 1 » i