The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 13, 1905, Page 8

THE SANFRANCISCO CAL .Proprietor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT PUBLICATION OFFICE. . Sin's = aab 0s 05 sam s blas b ANUMINEEER LS, THADE Leit . | VANITY PROMPTS Bl Manager | « THIRD AND mm STREETS, SAN mncuco} . 30 ISTOR FORTUNE WILL REACH BILLION MARK s IN FIFTEEN YEARS: By Dorothy Fenimore. gl oL THE MODERN CITY. THURSDAY....... UR war of the Revolution was fought by a population of O which only 3 per cent lived in cities. Self-government was in- stituted here by a rural population, self-dependent and self- tered. Tt valued freedom and good government, and secured both itself and for us. Now more than one-third of our population is nned up in cities. At the present rate of increase in a few years a ajority will be in cities. The tendency of our present European mmigration is to herd in the towns. The immigrants get naturalized as soon as they legally can, and many of them sooner. Their first ex- T in American institutions comes in their contact with the n and graft of municipal government, and when this ex- ce is carried over into State and national politics there will he ed a situation that threatens to destroy the republic., Fairfax Wheelan, in his address to the Y. M. C. A., stated | clearness and force the danger to all government that e misgovernment of cities. His words may well arouse the oughtful attention. The people of San Francisco cannot bet- ngs by being horrified at the corruptions of New York, nor f New York by contemplation of the worse state of Philadel This city must look at home and can benefit New York and i only by showing them an example in the cleansing can be done here. Tt is of no use that the audience in the e Y. M. C. A. listens and approves when Mr. Wheelan tells e truth. If those who hear do not gird them and go forth to do, heir applause is an empty and vain demonstration. | city is a dangerous place to rear children, it is so by assent rents of the children. No father willingly brings up his re their physical health is imperiled. If the peril is cor- by himself, he corrects it. 1f it be due to public neglect, he he public authority that should correct it. Then why should his young where the moral conditions, permitted or imposed c authority, make it sure that they are to be corrupted and ted by contacts that they cannot avoid? With one-third ur coming citizens exposed to the wide open influences, fostered i ke of graft by a corrupt municipal government, how dark is < for the future! recomes the highest patriotism to work for a higher standard government. The peril of present conditions is shown by of signs. The demoralization of the young in cities a special juvenile court to deal with offenses committed t of evil communications to which they are Men go about thoughtlessly, while complaining of gov- 1 and graft. This one is the victim of graft be- wants to build a house, and another by official blz it ness. Yet another is injured in his business because r in a position to dictate to some line of trade compels it here he orders. 1 these go but a little way into the matter when they treat affecting them alone. The same system from which lestrover of their children. It smites them and time infects the future with a pestilence of immorality finally extend to the larger concerns of government and Im the country with an epidemic of corruption. Surely San o has had an object lesson that should rouse her people to It is criminal folly to content us with saying that we are not uires no the vouth as a re ings ! rst city. Patriotism and self-preservation. require that we be content only with being the best city. That is the object of vement in p cs that is now stirring here. I'hese words of Fairfax Wheelan should be displayed in every e, school and counting-room in San Francisco: “If we are going America free, we will have to make over our cities. If you 1 keep the nation worthy, you must keep your cities worthy— e them righteous temples of self-government. The children of are the citizens of to-morrow. What will you do with them ties where there is no proper place to rear children?” If we say that is the business of the school teachers, we are at It I'he teachers are as apt to be the victims of graft, against ch’'they protest at their peril, as are the business men. If we say business of the preachers, we are at fault, for in cities they re crying aloud to ears that hear not. But if we say it is our busi- ness, we, being the business men, the teachers, the preachers, the fessional men and the mechanics and laborers, all embarked in a mon destiny and with the welfare of one household related to the re of all, we say wisely. But no matter how wisely we say, 1 is vain unless we do as well as say. If the spirit of Fairfax Wheelan become the spirit of the city, no graft nor greed. nor combined malfeasance in office, no height nor breadth nor depth of cunning and corruption can prevail against it. He has shown the courage of his convictions and has coined his convictions into deeds and has invoked the law to punish criminals If his ex- against good government, at risk and peril to himself. ample inspire the people, it will become the large example set by the city itself to inspire other cities. In the coming election there is only one issue: Make the city government decent by putting it in the hands of decent men. When it is made decent all proper things will be done. The enemies of de- cency will propoese novel things and profess zeal for many things. T'hey will hinder and try to divide and balk and bar the determined inscribes the one issue on its standard. But we have decency will prevail and San Francisco will cast off the me of being ruled by officers under indictment, and by covert felons who are fattening on official opportunities. Our government is now farmed out to bloodsuckers, like the tax collecting of a Turk- whic at sh vilavet. It is Siamesed with boodlers and bums. Let us cut the ligament by doing our civic duty LADIES, AND LAND CULTURE. STUTE statesmen of France have been trying to solve that A modern problem, “back to the land”; how to preserve the right balance of a nation’s greatness by keeping some of the ablest f the population devoted to the cultivation of the soil, and how to e ambitious people tend the land for the love of the kind of life it rings to its devotees. To this end they seem to be getting a grasp n a new idea, and a most promising one. It is to educate a superior lass of women at agricultural colleges and train them to make look- after the land profitable, pleasant and dignified. T rd; but French statesmen see farther afield than just that. The attraction of superior women living on the land will naturally pull the capable and ambitious men back to the gleam of the bright steel owshare and the lure of the waving grain. solution of the great problem yet proposed. This question of the tending of the land being neglected be- cause of the excitement and larger promise of city life is one of the 10st serious studies of the modern sociologist. It is important -even here: but in France it has become grave to the degree called critical. Some of their land troubles, though, are just the opposite of ours. {ere, our economists tell us, the holdings are too large. In France ie holdings have become so small that the system is ruinous to sricultural welfaré. The juxtaposition of these two facts makes fine example of the truth that the art of industry as of life con- sists in finding the golden mean. France’s experience should warn us to avoid extremes in seeking to change our land-holding system. In France the continuous pro- cess of subdivision after the death of the holder has reduced the size of holdings till they will not support a family. M. Rueau, Min- ister of Agriculture, wishes to remedy this by a new homestead law making the land inalienable, and held by primogeniture. A feature of the proposed law is that mortgages on the farm would be forbid- den except for actual cultivation and improvement of the land. That is part of the plan to make rural industry appeal to intelligent and well trained people. Another is the before mentioned scheme of holding capable men where supesior women are content to-stay. hat’s a good idea—just to get woman talent directed land- ' Tt is the most sensible | The Astor properties now increase as never before, writes Burton J. Hen- | | drick in the April McClure's. Land values in the last five years have jumped fifty and one hundred per i cent. The forces already described | have been especially marked since | 1900. | the rate of 100,000 a year. In many sections: New York has been largely reconstructed; new headquarters of retail trade and business have devel- oped; public improvements initiated since then—tunnels, bridges, subways, rallroad terminals-—aggregate in cost not far from $300,000,000. There has been a general movement of cor- porations toward New York: prac- tically all the newlv organized com- binations, for exampvle, have located there. When John Jacob died, in 1890, his estate, inherited by William Waldorf, was estimated at $1%50.00D,- 000. If it were worth that then, it is worth $300,000,000 now. The es- tate of William Astor, who died in 1 1892, inherited by the present John Jacob, was generally placed at about | $65,000,000. If that were an accu- | rate figure, it must now aggregate | at least $100,000,000. The combined | Astor fortune thus increases with ac- i { celerated momentum. In fifteen or twenty years, at the present rate of progress, it will have reached the | billion'mark. And then it will go on . even faster, until the ordinary mind is appalled at the portentous figures. | We have seen that the $2,000,000 in- E= — -+ vested by John Jacob has multiplied = e at least two hundred times in one “l\ ATURE surrounds. roses. Withi,.,q:.5 vesrs i (It has'resched; ‘at| !»hnrns :;ud pleasures \\!.v.hr : a conservative estimate, $450,000,- . Srowd of Loubloe MammA SO 000)) 18 the galite iaterhet imain: ows the example of . nature,t OB | o .5 g50 Snather century the Aatar served Balzac humorously, watching fortune will attain the unimaginable total of eighty billions. We stand | aghast at such a possibility; but not | more so than would have John Ja- cob’s contemporaries had they fore- | seen the present reality. In 1830 John Jacob Astor was the only man in New York who was worth a mil- 3 a ray of laughing light from l."'"‘ dollars. Y the serene sou! with a smile in it S——————— | Poor bridegroom They are like .. ;.. ; P | 3 one who is : that prince in the fairy tale who had | s respansible for the prickly b plos hrodeh P hed e TAT ik otthe hurri.er of ‘convenflnns which seem to ; TEOuRH R BEUg the impatient suitor an evil spell. befor e could gain the princess pronap1y ghe as well as old D2me Na- | whom to win meant hnlxm»n:- - And (e knows what she is about. | the bride’s mother is ordinarily the The wedding is for the bride. d ++ Everybody knows it, even thosz who! hesitate about admitting the fact. It| is for the bride's sake that the short quarter of an hour which the mar-| riage ceremony actually takes is! raised above its ordinary market | value as mere time and becomes the | most expensive quarter of an hour in| parental experience. All the pomp and circumstance of | the conventional wedding is full of symbolism to the girl who feels that . the rite is the consecration of her love. | Vanity becomes a humble handmaid- ! en of sentiment. , The bride does not glory in her rich | gown, with its train and its expensive | | accessories, chiefly because it Is a con- | | spicuous waste of goods, although this | fact may gratify her pride, but be- icfluse it Is her.wedding gown, the | gown that means more to her than any other which she will ever wear | In all her lite, She does not covet orange blos-" |soms for her bridal wreath because | of the languorous sweetness of their | delicate beauty or because it is so hard to get them. She wants them be- cause they are Flowers of the bridal ‘vell, whoss palpitating | v the preparations for his sister’s wed- ding. What art a whole serio tence, a is here! Why, we have mic story in one sen- of man’s woe and won- 1ds helpless before woman’s sentimental And the same time we a4 = ENVY. | Bug—My! T wish I could juggle like Mr. Spider. He could make a fortune on the stage. crgan-voiced, through palpitating alsles In happy hours.” Not one girl in ten would wish to| two-step into marriage. The solemn strains of “Lohengrin” suit well a bride’s voung mood of mingled fear {and faith. The oceasion is not an | hour of careless joy. It is a serious | moment of coronation, which requires | a setting worthy of the crown. Rarely would a girl take away from it a par- | ticle of its traditional pomp—provided ! her father is able to foot the bills. { A mother understands all this. Whatever of romance her own life held she puts into her daughter’s wed- ding. She finds her youth again, hid- 'den away mysteriously in snowy heaps of lace and muslin, or in the long, smooth folds of sun-shot silk and ivory satin, Memories of her girlhood dreams come back to her { like snatches of an old sweet song. But over her sympatheétic ex- citement hangs always, like a cooling mist,- her motherly so- licitude, touched with the worldliness which comes of living in the midst of | worldliness. Wise through experi- ence, she multiplies with jealous care the thorns about her precious rose, . | thus to make its sweetness sweeter Bunko Jim (excited)—What? | and its beauty still more beautiful. Farmer Wise—The Bank of England. | o - 5 REUBEN CAUGHT HIM. Farmer Wise—There is a million in To the Editor of The Call: Your editorial under'the heading ot* “King Farmer” leads one to believe that you understand one phase of the subject under discussion. But there are several phases and on a better un- derstanding of the farmer’s position and an adjustment according to the merits of his case depends the weal or woe of our nation. It is true that Secretary Wilson showed the ‘“ugly duckling” farmer his relation to the’ rest of the country, and Uncle Sam's efforts in the promotion of irrigation Bhow that he realizes he must do something besides pluck the “goose that lays the golden egg:’ . How long must we wait for our State papers to say, “If you don't see what you want, ask for it?” When can we as farmers and ‘their families get the same space as the “sports” and the “smart set?”” In other places | it is said the farmer is sure of a living, Deo volente. But here we, who de- pend on some one eise for our water for irrigation, must go through the ‘whole act, though that water may be doled out 80 as to prevent any possi- bility of profit. 5 By We read of the experts on irrigation A A Kidder—There goes a man who once carried the United States in his hand. Katherine—Politician, eh? i Kidder—No; map agent. | LEFT UNSKID The city’s population grows at | —_— MINY THINGS BEST A “Yes,? woman. k3 = " OME persohs are the happy pos- sessors of what is called tact. There are not many of them, and those that have it are more likely to be women than men. The ages have given womankind social faculty. Consequent- ly, when a woman lacks it, it is much more noticeable than a corresponding deficiency on the part of a mere man. A well-known and highly esteemed | residemt of ancther city, himself an ex- emplar of delightful manners and cour- tesy, has for wife a woman whose ten- dency to say just the wrong thing can hardly be overcome. A woman of the kindliest feeling, it is continually bringing her into situations which would be intenselv embarrassing if she were at all aware of them. For instance, a modest young man approached Mrs. Fairbrother at an afternoon reception not long ago, and the following conversation took place: ‘I am Mr. Castor, Mrs. Fairbrothe: said the young man, not quite at ease; “den’t you remember me?” “No,” said Mrs. Fairbrother, with en- tire candor, after studying him through her lorgnette for a long moment. “But—but—I was introduced to you, Mrs. Fairbrother,” he stammered. BY SALL Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Manuel Masten /, ' entertained at a dinner last evening, at | which there were several unusual and entertaining features. In place of the ‘ conventional name cards, positions at /| table were designated by original de- vices affording much amusement. Among the guests were Miss Dough- erty, Miss Adele Martel, Mrs. William ‘Willis, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann, Mr. and Mrs. Charies Storet, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Bergevin of Chicago and Vgilllu.m A.lvord. l Mrs. David Erskine Allison will en- | tertain at a dinner this evening in | honor of her sister, Miss McMillan, | who will sail on the Manchuria for the Orient. | H. H. Bancroft entertained at a din- i ner in honor fo Henry James Tuesday evening at St. Dunstan's. s s » Announcement is made of the en- gagement of Miss Frances B. Allen and J. Bryant Grimwood. | The bride-to-be is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Allen of Ross Val- ley and a cousin of Miss Isabel Kittle, at whose wedding Miss Allen will be a bridesmaid. Mr. Grimwood, a son .. (of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Grimwood of 'San Mateo, has been educated abroad and has spent many years there. The | wedding date l.:u l:o! b.een fixed. | A house party at the summer home of George Dennison and Harry Wight, near Alma, Santa Cruz Mountains, was given a few days ago, in which were included some Eastern visitors, besides San Francisco folk. “Highcourt Lodge” is comfortably nestled among the crannies of this pretty mountain WEALTHY QIRL IS Miss Margaret D. Dreier of Brooklyn, N. Y., is probably the first young woman of wealth and soclal position to ally herself with a trades union. For nearly a year she has been a member of the Board of the National Woman's Trades Union League, of which she is now treasurer, and at the annual meet- ing of the New York branch of this association held recently she was elected president. Miss Drefer is the eldest daughter of the late Theodor and Dorothea A. Wreier of Brooklyn. Miss Dreier and her sisters and brother innerited great wealth. The four sisters, Miss Mar- garet, Miss Dorothea, Miss Mary and | Miss Katherine, and their brother, H. Edward Dreier, are well known in All the sisters A THE SMART ST P L — “{ITHE FARMER'S WIFE | FREES HER MIND Brooklyn social circles. are interested in philanthropy, and Miss Dorothea and Miss Katherine are ar- tists of ability. Miss Margaret Dreier has long been actively identified with many soclologi- cal enterprises, and, as president of the New York Association for Household Research, has come before the public in obtaining legislation on the employ- ment agency question. She is also sec- retary of the Heights Branch of the - MIRROR OF D *‘Oh, yes, I remember that!” said the lady. She did not mean that at all, but it left those who heard it gasping. “I am going to give a public reading next week,” a young lady cof much literary talent said to Mrs. Fairbrother a week or two ago. “From your own works?” inquired Mrs. Fairbrother, interestedly. “Yes,” said the young woman of let- ters, pleasantly. “It is Lent, isn't it?" commented Mrs. Fairbrother, sweetly. It is difficult to jest with talent like that. Two young men were going to dine the other evening, and they ask- ed an older man who was standing beside Mrs. Fairbrother if he would go with them. “1 have company coming to dinner at home,” explained the man invited. The man inviting him, seeing a chance for a little jest, said, “But we'll be company, too.” “You would not be the company he has at home,” explained Mrs, Fair-| brother. \ Her husband had a slight attack of illness, just enough to keep him in the house, without any suffering. Mrs. ' Fairbrother herself did not mention it, and it was not known outside of the household. | “Won't you and Mr. Fairbrother come to dinner next Tuesday?" asked an acquaintance during the progress | of this indisposition, seeing the wife in the afternoon. } “Not this next week,” said Mrs. Fair- brother, with the best intentions in the world. “I have to he very particular where Mr. Fairbrother goes this next | week.” | A youthful poet spent part of an eve- | ning explaining to Mrs. ~Fairbrother that his verses always came by in-! spiration and not by design. A few | days afterward she overheard a young lady importuning the poet to write some verses for her. | “But he never writes poetry inten- tionally,” explained Mrs. Fairbrother, in his defense. | In much the same way she succeeded | in misrepresenting a well-known painter, who is notoriously particular ' about the preparation of his pigments, by telling a crowd who were admiring one of his pictures, “Mr. Vandyck al- ‘ways mixes his colors, doesn’t he?’ i the industry, should be the judges ui to the time and manner of the water's use? We wonder how recent these gentlemen’s discovery was? We be- lieve there is a sentiment in favor of Justice and right, The newspapers are 1o be the means to bring it about. ‘While we must know the history of the past to work out the solution of | our future, the daily press must be the | medium of p 3 | e farmer’s status has not only a financial and commercial aspect, but must be considered, patriotically, from his moral reeponsibility to his race. As a farmer’'s wife these truths have been emphasized to me, when not one . of my six babies, before. it could walk : or talk, crept after me with any paper or journal they could reach, when they wanted to be taken up. The signs of the times tell us that we who feed and clothe the world must teach Uncle Sam that we don’t care to keep our overind . brethren in Juxuries, with no be empl t than dis- sipation and fighting. The Examiner sheds crocodile tears over the woman ‘who never had a child. We, with our | 1tian les, must see our little girls doing men’s work, without | time to use our public school library! ‘We will have justice. Organized farm- ers will be a “third power.” as organ- | ized labor and organized capital have | been the first and second great powers. The farmer's life should be the ideal one. But when he allows his indi- \fl&fll. class, wealth and power to be systematically taken from him he N et . BS. Oakdale, Cal, April 11." a deeper tone, is here shown. The back cuffs. i Y SHARF. | spot and affords every opportunity for restful recreation. Under the chaper- { onage of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wal- ton Tully, the young hosts entertained Miss Florence Haines Loughead. Miss Gertrude Gates, Kyrle Sheppard and William H. Todde of Chicago. CasE Rl Mrs. Henry Lund Jr. will be a bridge hostess to-day in houor of her sister, Miss Charlotte Lally. . .y Miss Evelyn Griffiths is one of the many Sacramento visitors who attend- | ed the “Parsifal” production Tuesday. eSS Cap and Bells will discuss “Henry V" at their club meeting to-day. [ g Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann will be one of to-day’s dinner hostesses. &« . ‘Willts Polk will lecture before the Sketch Club on Friday at 3:30 o’clock, his subject to be “Freak Originality in Architecture.” ¥ Dr. and Mrs. Hiller are at home again after a few days’ trip in the country. [R5 R Dr. and Mrs. Elmer Drew, who, with Masters Russell and Reginald Drew, have been living in Berlin for two years, will spend the early summer in France and Italy, returning to this continent in July. e Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Shelton of So- noma County announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Gertrude Shel- | ton, to Carl E. Bundschu of this city. SRR Mrs. Simon Selig announces the en- gagement of her daughter, Belle, to { John Sufrin I ———— A LABOR LEARDER | Women’s Municipal League. Miss | Dreler is keenly interested in her new | work as president of the New York | Woman’s Trades Union League and | spends much of her time at the head- quarters. In an interview she told something | of the object of the league, saying that {1t had been formed in order that the quarter of a million working women in | New York might be placed on an equal economic footing with men. ‘“Women are now,” she sald, “underbidders in | laber contracts and are not successful | as individual workers.. They need a labor organization for their protection.” | Social afterncons have been planned | by the league fof Saturdays from 3 {until 7 for all working girls, whether | members of the union or not. —_———— Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, in ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. 19 Kearny st * Bromiee { g A el 10 to 3 p. m., eyeglasses, specs, gold plated and filled. 15¢ up. S1 Fourth st., front of Rest.* Townsend's Cal. Glace Fruits and Choice Candies will start a branch store at 767 Market street on April 20, 1905. * ———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by ths Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 30 Cali- AME FASHION NS THE NEW PRINCESS SKIRT. Silkc warp Henrietta in the new violet shade, combined with velvet of skirt is In portion reaching to six inches above the waist-line. The skirt is cut in curves off sharply in front, and has elbow sleeves, with flaring turn- — e