The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 25, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCLSCO CALL Proprietor ey T ..APRIL 25, 1005 THE GROWTH OF OAKLAND. y of Oakland. Indeed, it has sometimes seemed that tsider we discerned more clearly than our neighbors of ons of quickening and growth. It seemed inevitable TH" CALL has been watchful of the progress made by our neigh- boring A SOCETY SCRUBWOMAN * HE little German girl was not at all sure that she was going to like 1 the work in the great South Side 1 mansion. The butler was a state- ! ly individual who glared at her as she | went about her duties. His impress- | ve voice and more impressive manner |qulte overawed her. She feared to ask him the simplest kind of a question, | even when she knew that to do her | work thoroughly she must know the | answer. k t respond to the increase in facilities furnished by | The cook—no, the chef—was a S = ¢ d suburba: lectric roads, and the | Frenchman, who understood no Eng- ¢ sive system of street and suburban e ; Lar Then, too 3 s o 1o abina a new ferry system. Those who think that things still believed that the interurban electric roads would get only ge they could lure from the steam roads already con- 1e points, and that the new ferry would carry only the it could take away from the three existing Southern The observed facts are, however, that the steam show no diminution in patronage, nor do the three old ferry tes. Ii all of the present traffic were thrown upon either the 1 the new ferry, or the old systems which they sup- ent, either would be swamped in the rush until it could far plicate its capacity. This can mean only one thing, ge and steady increase in the population. applauded the revelations of the assessment in ity, which proved that hundreds of new homes had unded there, occupied by new families, each contributing to forces of the county, and doing its share in producing ming. We venture to say that a like showing will be ther Sacramento Valley counties and throughout the San I'his increase in the rural population had its complement increase of city population. San Francisco feels this and tion of her commercial arteries manifests the force of 1 new energy. ently Oakland did not set her house in order in vain. While rs of her street transportation system suffered losses, they the result of miscalculation of the time that would separate Their enterprise was a cause, and inerease in s the effect. We don’t know what the assessment there n new homes and families, nor whether such direct sta- ics will be available. But even casual observation shows that the on which Joaquin Miller said “the city of the Caesars could be : ing rapidly occupied and improved. To observation may ¢ added the evidence of indirect statistics. The last report of the ta Water Company, recently filed, shows that during the ast year that company made 1376 new water connections in Oak- alone, which shows an increase of about 6000 in the population. recently 1se. ntra Cc | with his culinary trlumphs that he ! had no time to notice the little flaxen- haired girl who sometimes watched him. The little German girl was quite unaware that this was a pose of the | chef and that he was quite conscious of his audience. The housekeeper, who had engaged her, was a masterful woman, with whom conversation except on matters | relating to the work was quite im- | possible. The coachman and the foot- | man were quite out of the ken of the new maid and she languished for a | little human companionship. One morning, after a particularly chilly interview with the methodical housekeeper, the Httle girl came down- stairs with the determination to seek a situation in some household that would be less elegant and more con- { genial. She passed a little woman who was down on her knees polishing the hardwood floor of the hall without paying any attention to her. She | thought that it was deaf Ellen until | the woman spoke to her. “Does that look perfectly clean to {you?" she asked, as she surveyed her work critically. | "Oh, yes,” said the little girl, glad | of the opportunity to talk to the new | cleaner. “Only this corner still must be gone over.” “Yes, I haven’'t come to that yet,” was the woman’s comment, promptly | followed by a vigorous rubbing of the | offending place. | “How long have you been here?” | asked the little German girl. | “Here? About fifteen minutes, I | think.” | “I mean in this place.” | “ont” is a healthy increment, and carries with it a cheerful rise in The ‘womsn. looked sharply 3 4 d ind e S B il t 'Th S at the girl. Then she continued: “I've y values and an industrial expansion most signihcant. e been here ever since the house was population and industries and business in Oakland is also the solidity and soundness of the banks, and their inctease 1ber and in business. The old established ones show a steady d rising profits that can come only from a growing business and, while they do not appear to feel the presence of g in response to the general in- | 4. ar built.” oy you.” “Is that a very long time?” “Twelve years.” “Will you tell me what the family are like? You know I work downstalrs and 1 have never seen any of them.” “Is that so? Well, there are not many of the family here now to tell of. All the sons and daughters are married, and only Mr. and Mrs. are left.” ‘“What is she Ifke?”’ “She is a woman about my size, with gray hair—and there isn't much more to tell of her.”” The little German girl looked her disappointment. “She must be a grand lady,” she said, “a princess, to live in | MIRROR OF DAME FASHION. iness activity and industrial energy. e expects that the day will ever come when San Francisco and Oakland will try conclusions for business primacy, for the hat they form practically one business community, separate n their civic organization. Their contribution to foreign and ade is a joint contribution and what one gets is not a loss Oakland has extraordinary advantages, scenic and com- Upon the enlargement of her harbor facilities depends the on of important trade for San Francisco Bay, which growth v force the docks of San Francisco. It is no dream that we v see ocean liners docking on the east side of the bay,sas they the other. off ed wharves of New York. The prospect rouses no solicitude Francisco. Proper business policy means such an access of commerce as will need the use of all the deep water front that is found on the bay. Such expansion will not obsolete any facilities now exist, but will only be evidence that they have reached ir final capacity, and that the trade they cannot accommodate is stay in this seaport and not seek another. Those who want to get the advantage of coming and continued v well turn their attention to Oakland, Berkeley and Ala- n some localities the expansion is to be expr o) usiness, finance and industries. San Francisco appreciates the privilege of having enterprising | neighbors and stands ready to encourage and applaud, not only the | rowth of Oakland, but to appreciate the building of every new farm- house and the tillage of every newly plowed acre in the great and fertile valleys which lie beyond. It is all our hinterland and no city in the world has a richer or greater. P LABOR STUDIES. REE employment offices is one of the subjects of study in the latest number of the Massachusetts labor bulletins. That State has no free offices, but the question of instituting them has been advocated for'some years, and in 1904 a report was made to the| Legislature by the Labor Bureau in pursuance of a legislative act directing the bureau to consider the matter. In that report opera- tions of free agencies for the year 1904 are reviewed, covering twelve States in which they are in successful use. The reports show a big demand for the services of the offices, both by employers and those | seeking work, a great accomplishment in filling positions and a re- | markably low cost for the work of providing the unemployed with! places. The most notable of these showings is made by Washington. There is no State law there providing for such offices, but the bureau was made a branch of the Civil Service Department under the supervision of the Commissioner of Labor Statistics. The bureau had 21,758 applications for help, filled practically all of them, and the cost was only 6.36 cents per position filled. That must be one of the best records ever made at solving the problem of the unem- ployed. Ohio was the first State in the Union to establish free employment offices. Its law was passed in 1890, and has been amended to 1904. Last year the applications for help far exceeded the supply of applications for situations—23,047 t0 19,333. The posi- tions filled were 15,975. The cost per position filled was 81 cents. In New York there are practically few applications for skilled workers from the employers because the workmen in that State are thoroughly organized and have their own employment bureaus. There the number of applications for help was 4542, and the calls for situations were 6650. All the applications for help were sup- plied, and the cost was §1.08. In Missouri the applications by em- ployers far exceeded the applications for work—36,443 to 15042. In that State the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is very much®pleased with the free offices. He says that their suc- cess fully justifies the wisdom of their creation and that “which was at first only an experiment has become one of the most useful branches of the department.” There is a remarkable difference in the cost of filling positions in the East and the West. In the East it is usually a little over a dollar, while Kansas, Minnesota, Montana and Nebraska get the work done for, respectively, 3134 cents, 39 cents, 17 cents and 20 cents. : In summing up the study the Massachusetts Bureau says: “The offices are gaining the public confidence year by year, inasmuch as they were fulfilling the needs for which they were established.” John Oliver Hobbes, the novelist, says that women are not fair. Then was Tennyson’s “Dream of Fair Women” only that and nothing more ?—Cleva- land Leader. PRSP AL e When Colonel Watterson returns and finds that the President did not take mint ip his while in Louisville there’ll be trouble.—Philadelphia Inquirer. o BB Sl It may get so that a millfonaire will have to send his money to the laun before he can give it to & good cause.—Denver Republican. > Jersey City and Hoboken, to get facilities denied by the| ssed by the | rowth of residence communities; in others by both residence and | i | | i SMART BOLERO BLOUSE.' such a grand house, and do nothing all day.” “Oh, but she does a great many et e %3 3 WHAT WAS FOUND IN THE LEMON * PIES. Three lemon pies bought from the shelves of downtown restaurants were analyzed in the office of the State Food Inspector, and this is the composition of the fllling of one of them, as an- nounced by the chemist, says the Chi- cago Record-Herald. ~ “Starch, in thick, firm paste, fla- vored slightly and very little acid; 21 per cent sugar. Aniline coloring (methyl-orange group). The color is made synthetically from aniline, and aniline from coal. Method—di-methyl- aniline on dlazo-benzine-sulphonic acid. Methyl orange is poisonous in large doses. Found to contain very little flavoring and acid from lemon. Filling of starch paste, sugar and col- ored deep yellow.” In plain English, it was explained by the chemist that aniline is used in- stead of eggs. The butter was ne- glected altogether and the lemon juice was slighted. Another lemon pie was beginning to decompose when it was delivered to the laboratory. There was dough at the bottom. The third lemon pie ex- amined was sald to be tolerably good. WANT $12,000 FOR ENGINE HOUSE. .| To the Editor of The Call: A large and enthusiastic crowd at- tended the meeting of the Southern Heights Improvement Club last Fri- day evening. It was resolved to peti- tion the Board of Public Works to recommend an appropriation of $12,- 000 in the budget for the next fiscal year to build an engine-house on Twentleth and Connecticut streets. In the last budget we were granted $4000 for this house and $500 for a company for one year, but the Board of Pub- llo Works says that nothing can be done with $4000, hence our petition for $12,000. If the $12,000 is granted there will be no further excuse, as the Real Estate and Development Com- pany has given a lot 50x100 feet free of charge for twenty years as a site for the engine-house we are so much in need of. JAMES GLACKIN, Secretary, Southern Heights Improvement Club. things,” protested the woman who was cleaning the ffoor. But the little German girl laughed. “Why should she do anything?” she demanded. “Well, I must be going down to the laundry now. Will you not come down and see some time?” “Yes,” said the woman. “I shall come down to see you soon.” That afternoon the second girl from upstairs came down into the laundry. “The old lady is coming on her rounds,” she said, “and you'd better have everything as clean as you can. She is a perfect crank on having everything spotless. She will go and do it herself if it doesn’t suit her.” The little German girl looked around her anxiously. That the grand lady of the mansion should come down to ‘the laundry did not quite coincide with her ideas of greatness. Still, did not the German Empress go into her own kitchens? At any rate, the lady of the mansion should find that every- thing was glistening with cleanliness. She kept her iron moving mechanically over the same spot as she watched the stately figure of the housekeeper coming down the stairs. Behind her was the woman who had been cleaning the floor. “We have a new girl down here, Mrs. ,” the housekeeper was saying. Mrs. ! It was the lady of the mansion! “Yes, I was talking to her this morn- ing,” sald the woman. “You see,” she said to the still amazed little girl, “I have come down to see you as I promised.” And the little German girl has not yet recovered from the eccentricities of a society leader who will clean flotrs. M. K. 8. GOLD FROM TREE. Jacob Stilbauer, in burning out an old sugar stump on his farm near Keene, Ohio, found a pot of gold and silver coins in the hollow tree. His first intimation of the treasure was a molten stream of gold among the debris. Stilbauer has a washpan filled with the half melted mass. The value of it is estimated at $3000. It is supposed to have been hidden 4 THE SMART SET > BY SALLY SHARF. Pl R TR SR e} The opening event of Easter week was the chrysanthemum card party given yesterday in Sorosis Hall. This auxiliary has done and is doing such noble work in behalf of the Chil- dren’s Hospital that it is deserving of the highest praise. Yesterday a veri- table bower of beauty presented itself immediately at the crossing of the threshold, maids and matrons in their bright gowns of Eastertide making a beautiful picture as they sgrouped about the several tables. Bridge and five hundred occupied the day, at the close of which exquisite prizes fell to the highest scorers. And a word here 1s due the public spirit of leading merchants for their choice donation of valuable articles as prizes. Miss Rachel Hovey, president of the Chrys- anthemum Auxiliary, is an energetic worker in the cause of the Children’s Hospital and speaks cordially of the acquiescence to requests from every quarter. Aside from the charitable object of yesterday’s gathering, real enjoyment manifested itself in so- clety’s reunion after the weeks of quietude, and the affalr has accrued to the auxiliary at least $300. « s e The Marguerite Auxillary tea and fair to be held at the home of Miss Edna Davis is deferred from next Sat- urday, the 29th, to the following Sat- urday, May 6. A preponderance of events for the former date has made the postponement advisable. The Marguerites are also assiduous work- ers in behalf of the Children's Hos- pital and will derive much ald from the public, that is always responsive to call from this charity. 775 T Mrs. Thomas Morffew will be a luncheon hostess to-morrow at the Country Club, in Oakland. . e e The Van Ness Seminary Alumnae will give a luncheon in the Red Room of the St. Francis to-day. e e Mrs. William Willis was hostess last evening at a theater party in honor of Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann and Mrs. Alexander Bergevin of Chicago. Four boxes were occupied at the Mar- garet Anglin performance, after which a supper was served at the St. Francis. o e Mrs. Robert E. Reid of Boston, who has been the guest of Mrs. Gaillard where she will visit Mrs. Weatherby. Mrs. Reid is the wife of the well- known Boston publisher and a cousin of Mrs. Horace Davis. Before re- turning home Mrs. Reid will make a trip to Japan. CH N Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook Blinn will arrive in town June 1, to be the guests of Mr. Blinn's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Blinn. GRSk Miss Kathleen Sherman, who has been the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Charles H. Blinn, for several weeks, is contemplating a tour of the north- ern coast. Miss Sherman is a recent graduate of Smith’s College, her home being at Castleton, Vt. P Robert I. Aitkin leaves to-day for Paris. Siie 4 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Dohr- mann left on Sunday for Hurope. ‘Nauheim, a celebrated watering place near Frankfort, Germany, will first be visited, after which a complete tour of the Continent will be made, re- turning home by way of the Orient. « o+ = Charles H. Lombard gave the “open sesame” to a hundred or more friends Sunday afternoon at the new Sequola clubrooms on Sutter street. The ini- tlation was charming in every par- ticular, the first peep being thoroughly enjoyable, while the greeting and fare- well to Miss Annie Frances Briggs was the chief motif. Her near dsparturs for European art flelds brought Miss Briggs expressions of both congratu- lation and regret. Mr. Lombard was assisted In receiving by Miss Ednah Robinson and Mrs. Otto Bendix, the latter gracefully presiding over the teacups. Music Interpolated , itself soothingly during the pleasant hum of conversation. There was singing by the sweet voice of Mrs. C. P. Neilson and a plano duet by Miss Vanderhoof and Signor Lucchesi. A few members of the Margaret Anglin Company wers also guests of special attention, and the entire afternoon was a source of delight to all fortunates of the guest list. e SR General and Mrs. Funston have taken a house at the Presidlo in the vicinity of Fort Point and, doubtless, the new quarters will be the scene of much hospitality for town and mili- Many possibilities are shown in this smart blouse, where lace, erepe de chine and satin are all used. There is a fitted lining, over which the bolero of lace is disposed, this edged all around with a bouillonne band having deeply corded edges, this in the crepe. The collar and chemi- sette are likewise of the lace, and a very piquant touch is afforded in the use of a mandarin blue satin to simulate waistcoat revers inside of the bolero below the neck, and also to furnish the deep swathed girdle that rounds downward in the front. The sleeve is entirely of the one- seam crepe de chine and is simply a series of three puffs, separated by narrow bouillonnes, each having corded edges. A lace frill makes a pretty finish below the elbow. As a design for remodeling this has many points of excellence. \ FAIRY TALES. Mrs. Knowsitt—I Jove to read; I'm so fond of fairy stories. Do you care for them? Mrs. Wise—No; but my hus- band is very fond of them. by some pioneer in the early Indian days. —_————— Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits. in ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. 10 Kearny st and new store now open, 767 Market st. * l Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 30 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ After the foun Trade School in 1821 there followed in quick succession a number of tech- nical or polytechnio schools all over Germany. of the Berlin % CAST YOUR OPTICS OVER THESE AND MAKE UP YOUR MIND TO BE CHEERFUL Stoney, left yesterday for Sacramento, | tary folk. THE STOKES-PASTOR LOVE MATCH | It Contains the Elements of That State of Purity Toward Which the World Is Turning. BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. HE romance of Phelps Stokes and Miss Rose Pastor offers a valuable comment upon the question of spiritual affinities, which has so strong a hold upon the popular imagination. Here we have apparently a case of pure spiritual affinity. The wealthy New York settlement worker and the attractive Jewish girl, wifo had spent her young womanhood rolling cigars in a cigar factory and in writing moral- istic articles for the Jewish Daily News, worked together and loved each other on a plane so highly idealistic that their relation was one of mutual worship, resembling in no way the conventional courtship. Both lovers declare that from the first the union of their souls was so in- evitable and so complete that the idea of proposal, engagement, marriage, occurred, to neither, until such a natural course of conduct was suggested to them by the questions of friends. “It is like Kipling’s Brushwood Boy,” declared Mr. Stokes, “and that is not quite right either, for we are more than affinities. We are, in fact, one; or, rather, two heads with a single spirit.” I do not believe that it is an uncommon circumstance for a man and woman to be so sympathetic spiritually and intellectually that their rela- tionship Is unaffected by worldly considerations, and untouched by any con- sciousness of sex. Platonic friendships exist to-day which are quite as beau-~ tiful as were any of those famous cnes which flourished In the Renaissance. There is, however, one condition necessary to their growth; thers must be no interference from outsiders, who may suggest to the lovers that, after all, they are not really little children, but, instead, are man and woman. Literature which deals with the life of New England during the last cen- tury makes frequent reference to long, long courtships, In which it does not seem to occur to the man in the case that he should ask the woman whom he has wooed for years to wed him until he is spurred on to do so by a sud- den fear of losing her. Although recognized as sweethearts by the community in which they lived, such couples were satisfled to remain just sweethearts for the better part of their lifetime. How simple-minded such affection appears from that familiar story of the New England swaln who was so much agitated by a friend’s hint that he ought to marry the lady whom he had courted for twenty years—for, as he sald, he did not know where he would go to spend his evenings if he did so. . The Stokes-Pastor love story is more human and more practical than such cold-blooded romance as this can be. It shows us lovers who -:i together, transmuting their mutual love into enthusiasm for their chosen life work for humanity. It is a love story which contains the elements of th Edenic of purity toward which the hopes and dreams of the ‘v‘o;;'m ever :;::.. Ing. For its love is bullt upon an enduring foundation; it is a love which is unlikely to be endangered by any fear of change. It is a love that looks upward, not downward, and enters its earthl 2oy 'y heaven with a simple, child- Hundreds of Russian deserters have found refuge in London lately. Most ?rt‘;!um have taken to the hawker's . After a woman reaches 42 shou’ !'lg:gvtof:-utha imr-.:on v.hldt of a novel. S - % | Mrs. Henpex—Yes, I know it, mmmmtomwn-,’ JUST THE WAY. :‘hfln——h he an optimist? reen — Yes; other people’s troubles don’t discourage him.