The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 6, 1905, Page 8

ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT 'STREETS. SAN FRANCISCO I = | ! | PUBLICATION OFFICE . THIRD AND MARK | URSDAY BAD GOVERNMENT HABIT. UCH space has been given in the magazines to a discussion M of bit of bad government in American cities. It is con- i 21l publicists who have written upon the subject nent may be so fastened -upon a c 1 off, and comes to be a matter of course. | ly revolts. The Van Wyck administration | I excesses in government. Graft covered Vice and crime were given immunity for a ler t the profits might be larger the gov- stering transgressions that paid a rake-off goverr tration foll ’ p the graiting and failed to reform in four tices of decades, yet it set such an example of decency city government that even Tammany found spectability, and the administration of Mayor and better than Van Wyck’s, because he habit of bad government, and the city has epths. By way of contrast it is conceded Iphia is so confirmed in the habit of bad conditions are incurable. In that city there partnership of the push, and good citizens have | to reform the government. The habit of bad ad- T 1 decent people content themselves with ible with the grafters, c onsidering them- | m by the boodlers and paying the price. { of Philadelphia discloses the danger of waiting asserts its interest in Qn.n] government. San ed by that experience. When graft and n"lruu]u(l in power and enriched by the profits is seldom broken. The habit of bad government individual, may not be (1&11\ broken. r the present municipal administration in San Franciseo | dome that would not have been tolerated even ten years | Citizens see the ev wImu- of evil and corruption in the govern- reir helplessness are content with being thankinl tence. lowed as a reaction, and though cleaner J1d ago hat it is no worse. We desire to warn them that it is a short step | from bad to worse. Unless a disposition is shown, immediately, to ; remedy the vile ways into which the government has fallen, the "“ + city has not seen its worst days. What we know is what has hap- RICHARD MANSF]ELD! ACTOR, pened in the green st what will it be in the dry? ‘ ® g ) San Franci wing in material greatness. It is yearly be-| | Who Has pl.ayed Many Parts and Is Still coming a richer spoil for the push and the grafters. The people go | | Playmg Them. on with enterprise 1 patience creating a necessity for better gov- | —New York Herald. | ernment and getting worse instead. The greater our growth the | + greater our nee r > head of the city government who Q v nister it decently and uprightly ; who will not keep in. re- ANSWERS TO UERIES' spor office creatures who have taken the first lock step toward | = £ DISTANCE—S,, City. In an#ir line | player whether he use it or not. The T d wh B ¢ wing sala S IT( 1 axpayers er rd who are drawing salaries from the taxpayers |, Alatance thant Dot ALEHELS Yo practivs T o divaseitoliaw saltiled A . the paymasters. The citizen who two years ago Liaoyan is 175 miles; from Liaoyan to | fore making use of the joker. ;\r(u icted the noisome condijion of the city government | Mukden, forty miles; -Harbin to Viadi- vostok, 2756 miles. HUNDRED—A w known to exist would have been accused of having FIVE Subsecriber, ity government can be corrected | city. In the game of “five hundred” ¢ If it is not the citizens who |a player cannot ,use the joker until and did not use it will live to be he has exhausted the cards of the suit being led. It is then optional with the tions of boodlers. When the LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS—E. S. M., Petaluma, Cal. This department has not the space to publish the lan- guage of flowers. You may procure such from any first-class bookseller at a small cos HOMESTEAD—F. A. and B. D,, City. VIENN;A NOW HAS SPEAKING POSTAL CARD Postmasters .of the Bill Nye type may soon be unable to read the postal cards passing through their hands un- less they have a phonograph equip- ment in the office, if the latest devel- opment of the post card announced; in- Vienna mmeets popular favor, says | the Chicago Tribune. An ingenious | Teuton, who has invented a speaking | postal card, plans to spread a thin layer of gramophone ‘“plaque” on an ordinary postal card. To this the sender confides his communication, and the card goes through tie post in the usual way. Arrived at its destina- tion, the card is made to deliver its message by means of a special phono- graph apparatus constructed by the inventor of the new card. LOOKED THE PART. The Hon. Amos Allen, the successor in the House of the late Thomas B. Reed. relates how the former speaker once called upon the head of one of the departments on a matter of official business. The Secretary was out, but.a new private secretary wearing his newly aequired honors somewhat haughtily was there. ‘Can you tell me when | the Seerbtary will return?” asked Reed. “Really,” answered the private sec- retary, unaware of the identity of the distinguished caller—“really, you know, I have no idea.” “Well,” drawled Reed, it!"—Harper's Weekly. OVERWORKED PHRASES. The diction of the minor writer both is affected and reacts on com- mon speech. To him every anniver- “You look sary s an ‘“auspicious occasion,” every entertainment a “brilliant func- " Every marriage ceremony is a “‘very pretty wedding,”’ at every banquet the *festive board groans,” every host is ‘‘genial,” every actress and every coffin receives “floral trib- utes.” One cannot even be drowned without finding a ‘‘watery grave.”— The Author. In California the homestead consists of the dwelling<house in which the claim- ant resides and the land upon which the same is situated. 4 homestead may be of the value of $5000 when de- clared by the head of a family, $1000 when declared by another person. —————————— Special information’ supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 30 Cali- fornla street. Telephone Main 1042, * "WEDDING GIFTS?. NO, THANK YOU, SAYS THIS BRIDE| "~ OLLOWING an original idea, I Mrs. Robert P. Lister, who was married to Edward Hugo Colell | in Hotel St. Regis, declined all wedding presents. The wedding invitations bore the unusual legend, “Presents respectfully declined,” says the New York World. <THESMPRTSET: BY SALLY SHARP To-night will be provocative of many affairs subjective to the opening of the grand-opera season. Dinners will be many, while supper hosts will be in plentiful evidence after the final classic strains have passed away. Among those who will entertain at the St. Francis are Mrs. M. Gerstle, Mrs. Selfridge, Major and Mrs. C. R. Krauthoff, Mrs. G. Moore, Willlam Mintzner, W. S. Porter, S. Liebes, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nathaniel Gray. In the Palm Garden at the Palace the foilowing hosts and hostesses will preside: Mr. and Mrs. Fremont Older, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kirkpatrick, R. W. Hill, Mr. and Mrs. William Cluff, Mor- timer Fleishacker, S. W. Heller, J. W. Dorn, Mrs. Edward Rothchild, A. P. Hotaling. Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Arthur Thayer (Mabel Gunn) of Porto Rico will leave this month for a Mediterranean trip, postponing their contemplated visit to San Francisco. - Mrs. Henry: Foster Dutton enter- tained at an informal bridge party yesterday afternoon in honor of her sister, Mrs. Harry Macfarlane of Hon- olulu. Miss Agnes Buchanan was hostess at a bridge party last evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Spencer Pal- mer. . Miss Ida Voorman was hostess yes- terday at a very attractive card party, at which the decoration was of Japan- esque character. In honor of Mrs. John Newhall and Miss Anita Meyer, the affair was most pleasurable. The guests asked to meet Mrs. Newhall and Miss Meyer were Mrs. David Erskine Allison Jr., Mrs. Charles Stovel, Mrs. Joseph Manuel Masten, Mrs. Jason Gould, Mrs. Til- den, Mrs. Willlam Henry Huie, Mrs. John Hunt, Miss Amy Gunn, Miss Reis, Miss Adele Martel. S 2 The bride divorced Robert Lister, a millionaire, and recently received a settlement for her alimony claims. Mrs. Colell's unwillingness to receive presents was prompted by her idea that these gifts are unnecessary. “It is a farce for acquaintances to give presents to a bride, always thought so,” she said. “It may be a bit unusual to express these opin- jons on invitations, but I have the courage of my convictions.” ————— Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, in ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. 10, Kearny st. * —_———— Townsend's Cal. Glaece Fruits and Cholce Candies.will start a branch store | at 767 Market street on April 20, 1905. * box; the public safety and the proceedings all betray the slimy touch of cor the people to wake up. It is not pleasant for sound the warning, but when great public} istered as the personal perquisite of vicious obstructed and the ballot-box is corrupted by confused by willful perjury, resistance must be | | The committee of 250 is the nucleus. hened and supported. L B eff de tive. | | LIBERALITY TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. - ] | i g i ps | S interests are chief among those in which the pub-| | liberal. In the outlay of all necessary funds to | | t part of their welfare which the common- n trust there should be no parsimony. The Board t made its estimates for the expenditures of the | | schools in the ensuing fiscal year. It will now be for the ance Committee of the Board of Supervisors to conform to what y be the public desire in the matter, namely, to practice a ned economy in almost any other line rather than make a monious cut down in the estimates for the schools. { The amount provided by the State for our school purposes is | ch less than it was last year, and this, joined with the great need { new buildings, repairs because of the unsanitary conditions of old ones, and the deficiency in the number of teachers needed to | keep classes from being too large to be effectlvely educated by rea-| le atteation to.the personality of each child, demands a :pecml y for the ensuing year. Matters of detail as to divisions cf the appropriation may be subject to differences of opinion, but in the 1ain thing, a substantial provision for the educational needs of the pils, the public will stand for no cut unless it be plainly shown that | the economizing was absolutely necessary. Among the items for minor sums recommended by the Roard of Education the one for portable school buildings has good show of reason. We are getting less for our schools than we should from | the State, and the deficiency is largely due to the fact that the average | attendance at school is far too low. Only 36 per cent of our children ! of school age attend the public schools, and in some counties the per- ! centage is double that. Lack of proper accommodations may partly | account for this small percentage. The portable schools would help remedy this, and would entitle u$'to more funds from the State. : Let there be no hesitation by the Supervisors in meeting the enhanced school needs of the coming year. We have a corps of I teachers to be proud of. They deserve encouragement. One of the most ;»mmmcm educators of our time, President Harper of the er’s boy and the grocer's boy and the ash man. Distinetively it was not | intended for men of Pasquale Venetti's ;smmp. Indeed, a sign at either end | announced this in no uncertain ters University of Chicago, has reminded us that of all the world’s work the far most important is the work we do for children. THE PRESS OF THE NATION. | “Beggars, peddlers and street mus ‘ehns keep out,” it read. But ' to Pasquale V(Jnettl warning | signs in English had no terrors, from the simple fact that written English was beyond his ken. Thnerefore, as he AT T SR ]cnme trundling the ancient hurdy-gur- “Warranted genuine Vermont maple sap syrup” is being made from req | OJ, UP’the: street, :he looked into the corncobs in Kentucky. They seem determined not to 1686 an atom of the | 2UEYs 5aW "'i Poapibilits the b orevious ergin in the State that corn and rye made famous.—Denver Post. ‘:'.‘:hh:::c:l;%:; °°“'da.b;°t°m“:&"3: 1t pavements (where, to use his The position of the nationa] administration, ¢ we uhderstand’ it correctly, | 280hal ] pnd we think we do, is that \he baby is, :\nd of rlghl ought to be, entitled to | ow& expre;ulon, De ooild - Dosgettacde The Kansas Senate calls for a man of experience and nerve to investigate | .G, JU2Yering strans of “Lindy, Lindy, the beef trust. It may be, however, that the task merely needs a bookkeeper [ Xoidec e bady dowhs ¥ posted on tricks of his trade.—Elmira Gazette. It is a hard, cold world. Pasquale > iground away patiently, and whenever After all the pleasant things that have been said about the President | M\nce"':pel;:d :vtell:y::‘;e:qw:;d::;l by Democrats he can hardly be blamed for politically recognizi smiled expans| , X4 - them.—Washington Star. ERIZINE & 1eW Of | iored hat and bowed profoundly, and | even essaved a joyful shuffilng of his feet while he turned the crank. But, | despite all these blandishments, to say nothing of the appeal made by a choice ——— i assortment of selections, ranging from Paris, it is announced, is g¢ing to reintroduce the wasp waist, which is the classic to rag-time, no coins another way of saying that old paterfamilias will be stung again.—New Yori | ¥ in white paper came Jw‘ Herzald. to; his feet. To be sure, one fat cook came out to the back gate and, after !he had played half through the hurdy- surdy’ ent, gave him @ penny )€ lic /, w m wl sur. MUSEUM MUSES. The Bearded Lady—His existence is very narrow. The Fat Woman—Whose? The Bearded Lady—The skeleton’s.” “living K T was a narrow alley, running be- tween the back yards. It was intend- ed for the convenience of the butch- Ship owners and scientists are greatly pussled over the fact that the | levels of the Great Lakes have been rising during the past few years. Per. | haps the water squeezed out of United States steel, whipbuilding. and other | trusts during the great liquidation of 1903 found its way to the lakes.—Har- | risburg Star-Independent. ——— The Cabinet at Washington has been converted into a wardrobe, which already contains three outfits measured to fit Presidential upiuuons.—&m- more Sun, ——— about time to name some good race horse after Kuropatkin.— Post It is Washington LITTLE:COMICS FOR LITTLE SMILES = = and I have | g} | cast, | children of San Francisco, is an inter- | Miss Adele Martel will be one of fo- day's hostesses at cards, the affair to be held at the home of Mrs. Joseph M. Masten on Washington street. o | A epecial programme of music by the classic composers will be g fea< | ture to-night at the Palace after ths opera. Among those who will entgr- tain at supper in the grill are Senator Lynch, Baron von Meyerinek, J. K. Hecht and several others. P S e I Robert Menzies have bought a home in San Rafael. They have been occupying the home of Mrs. F. M. Angellotti during her ab- sence in Europe. . Mr. and Mrs. . “The House That Jack Built,” the | pretty operetta, met with such success | upon its pres2ntation last week that by request it will be repeated Satur- | day afternoen at Steinway Hall. The in which are many prominent esting and capable one which will at- tract many. . The rummage fair for the San Fran- | eistco Nursery for Homeless Children + # THE GOD | will take place on Saturday. Every- | thing will be utilized, so don’t hesitate | as to the quality or worn appearamee | of your corntribution. The sale is in | the ‘hands of these women: Mrs Jacob | Bertz, Mrs. Frank V. Wright, Mrs. | Herbert E. Law, Mrs. Wiliam L. | Gerstle, Mrs. J. J. Theobald, Mrs. Guy : E. Manning, Mrs. James L. Gould, Mrs. { Frederick W. Bradley, Mrs. O. B. | Burns, Mrs. T. M. Cluff, Mrs. Albert | Dernham, Mrs. Henrv Dernham, Mrs. | James Elder, ¥-s. Louis Gould, Mrs. { A. P. Hotaling Jr., Mrs. Willam Kauf- man, Mrs. S. L. Kline, Mrs. A, H. Mar- tin, Mrs. Homer E. Osborne, Mrs. Ed- gar F. Preston, Miss Adelaide Pollock, Mrs. Edward Rix, Mrs. George Sperry, Mrs. Henry W. Stirewalt. To any of them may be sent articles of all demlpuon. \ { t VERY NEW. Manager—My “Uncle Tom's, Cabin” production is going to be thoroughly up-to-date. Star—In what way? Manager—The cabin will be lit with electric lights and Eliza escapeés over the ice In a real automobile. % . BOBBY'S IDEA. i Bobby—Say, pop, what does blood l relations mean ? | Papa—It means near relations. - The marriage of Miss Maryellen Short, daughter of Mr..and Mrs Ed- hort, Archer B. St g A e R ward Short, to Archer Cochrane will L, | take place on Tuesday evening, April be the bloodiest relations I've got. '\ 18, at 8:30 at the home of the bride's —— ' parents, 211 Clipper street. IN THE HURDY-GURDY «# = - THINKING OF POKER. Tommy (aged seven)-—Say, what is antimony? Pop (absently)—Usually two white chips. pop, 3 o« BY CASPAR JOHNSON - 2 —— el | dime, and an old gentleman had raised an: upper window, and, with a thundered “‘Get out of this,”” had flung him a But eleven cents from such a promising alley! Pasdwale called on the saints to witness his ill treatment, and moved farther up the alley. No better success attended him here. | He whistled; he danced; he sang. He smiled his best and bowed his lowest. He tried the intermezzo and “Ma Fili- pino Man” with an equal lack of suc~ cess. He had his labor for his pains. He moved to the far end of the alley, with view to quitting it. He made one final stand, however, before the back of an imposing house. With & sinking hsu‘thl;e sent up the jerky bars of a march from a popular light The house, like all the efihm,m Sponsive. Then he shifted to # He decided to play toire, anyway. If it 1 80 back to the asphalt pave try his luck somewhere do fore a restaurant or loon. Now it happened that in.| back parlor of the imposing. two young mph. and a. showed that the; The man sat in_his chair was seated "n s far too much to * she was saying. given and —and now I am tired.” 'fl‘hfi.‘mm m“ -Wummgua Yellow Coin. l —_— ‘?orhmyu are right,” he said in a strained voice. “And the sooner it's over the better, now,” said the girl, choking. The man started up. Whatever re- monstrance he was about to make he stifled. “Very well,” he said, curtly. The girl pulleft a ring from her finger and laid it on the table beside the man. He took it without a word and put it in | his pocket. “I might say—" he began slowly. “All you could say would make no difference,” she said, wearily. i The man rose and strode to the win- dow. Pasquale was grinding away as- siduously. At the sight of the man in | the window he smirked and bowed and shuffled his. feet. The man smiled bit- terly., ‘Lucky, happy devil,” he muttered. Then he turned to the girl and drew himself up stiffly. “I may as well say good-by,” said he. 8he made no reply. “Good-by,” he said again. . “Good-by,” she returned evenly. _ The man hesitated a moment, then he strode to the door. In the afley Pas- quale had come to the last piece in his repertoire. It was a poor imitation of portions of Schubert’s “Serenade.” Just as the man reached the door the jing- ling notes floated in from the alley. The man paused. A look of pain came into his face. Those jerky notes brought memories with them—memories of a big, dark music room with two little spots of red in the gloom where the candles burned on the piano; of a girl beneath the can- ing shoulders, playing the “Serenade™ very softly; of a few breathless words whispered over her shoulder; of a pair of luminous eyes whith flashed an ané swer that set his heart pounding mad- Iy. * % * Apd now: a hurdy-gurdy playing that sacred “Serenade” in the lalley—cnd this. It was”heinous sacrie lege. “Lord, I can’t stand that,” he mut- tered. and turned to the girl a face drawn and white. “Good-by,” he said, as if the words choked him. But the girl's face had whitened | also. She took a step forward. “Robe; she sald with white frightened eyes. . . . . - . In the alley Pasquale ground away hopelesely. Suddenly a_ window was raiged and a coin dropped at his feet. It was a shining. yellow eoin. Pas- quale Venetti gasped, turnmed it over in his palm, and then Wwhooped. In a burst of gratitude he began the re- pertoire all over again, and such was his elation that he essayed.to heighten voice. The orgy was soon over, however, for a patrolman came down the alley and seized the exuberan} musician. 'n.mouh(o!th‘nubv coin in his “Alla right, alla right!"" he protested mildly, ‘warning signs and dumped unceremo- on the asphalt pavement. niously (Copyright, 1905, by K. A. 'w as he was hustled past the | the effect by -lnmm a high, squeaky{