The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 15, 1905, Page 8

NCISCO CALL, THURSDAY ALL| THE SAN FRANCISCOC <esses.. . Propricior | - | . .Manager | PUBLICATIO THURSDAY..... E IRRIGATION COMMITTEE. | TH | rs of Congress who constitute the their has been changed so on districts of the San Joaquin | ok is fortunate for the memtl n Cor iittee that o de gr ir original form tour included only Southern brief visit to the Sacramento Valley. But the v f irrigation is ovelty to the Eastern members of | the o ee, and their interest in it has grown with their ob- Being unacquainted with the methods and the results view of the subject has led them to re more than in any other place on ost gratifying re have an object lesson that| ving “above the ditch under the water. n V There they see land 1 C and capacity as that which i | » ) 3 “Ua_ greater variety of valuable produc- | \\;\ the world d they cannot be mistaken, | Seean and after taking water. Before, its| | by e desert. After, it is transformed into a /f///%/,”// which was “planted castward in Eden.” At j;//'r" 2 v .the economies of frrigation es two hundred and fifty thousand acres of - of only $r0 per acre. pioneers of irrigation in that région they e-losing effort by which accomplished. Long held up and fought by to work its v over obstructive ghborhood suspicion and every form posed between a great public improve- they may study not only irrigation and of the energy and devotion which Cali- in overc difficulties laid upon the gr s are running full of the olumne River, the alialfa fields are greening cks of emerald hay look they may stud king and fort vast 1d the immense city. sees i fin uildings of a ildings ot a the committee the pride of California. That . raisin market of the United States and is busy arket of the world. . There irrigation id fruit crops, vegetables and shade shrubs that are not found in group on the 1der the e sun anywhere else in the world. The the same region get an idea of the various uses of It brings sawed lumber from the mountain forests delivering its cargo, flows into ditches to irri® ride in streetcars moved by electricity gener- treams by the same water that makes the orchards and vineyards, green fields and } profit of the valle Nowhere else find water serving so many purposes. sam st profit of irrigation. The members see all of this in and when they go to inspect the Sacra- scent the bloom in great orange orchards, that stretches from Kern to Butte County, 1 fields, alfalfa meadows, olives, oranges, s, pomegranates and all the stone frui lized by the same water and promoted by a kes irrigation more profitable than is possible any- California. This will stir the members of Con- an energetic promotion of the complete irrigation of both | sides of the Sacramento Valley, a project that seems colossal in its , but when it is accomplished the results will so fully justify t the and cost of the work will be forgotten as a sacrifice, | »e remembered as a shrewd business policy. feeting the Commonwealth Club, escorted by the manager of State Board of Trade and breaking bread with the Water and | rests Society, the members of Congress will get a lesson in the rmony of these co-workers in the building of California and will | th ur own people are fully alive to all the bewildering the State. They are able to instruct the Govern- by showing the results of individual and co-operative effort. iittee is here to learn and these organizations are here . As for hospitality, it is evident that if the committee sees t wants it will not be put to the trouble of asking for it. tside of gress t Iities o 1 | LABOR ON THE ISTHMUS. N view of Attorney General Moody’s decision respecting labor l on the Isthmus of Panama in the canal zonme, it is necessary to spread abroad the information on that subject recently fur-| nished by our Minister, Mr. Barrett. On the 25th of .-\prfl last Mr. Barrett sent this to Washington: | “American white laborers find themselves, after a short stay | on the isthmus, without funds or work. If it were possible for them to do manual labor in the sun, like the Jamaicans, and at | corresponding wages, there would be plenty for them to do, but they cannot stand that class of work. Finding themselves in thesc straits, they come to the legation and the consulates, and not know- ing that there are mo funds provided by the United. States for | the care of stranded or indigent Americans, expect the Minister | and Consuls here to provide them with food and lodging until they | can get employment, or to give them passage back to the United | States. It is often difficult to persuade them that the Minister and Consuls are not responsible for their condition. When questioned, | these laborers says they gained the impression from the news- | papers that there was abundance of work here at good wages for | everybody, and in most instances they gave up fairly good em- | ployment in the United States in order to do better here. “A remarkable feature of this situation is that these men come from all parts of the United States. The last steamer brought laborers from Maine, New York, Tennessee, Illinois, Colorado and California, and they have all been obliged either to go without employment or to take work in competition with Jamaican or other colored labor, which they will not be able to endure for any length of time. In a report submitted last year I gave warning of the same nature as this one, but the effect of it now seems lost. It would, therefore, seem wise that it be given as wide publicity as possible.” The wider the publicity the less of suffering and disappoint- ment will be experienced by infatuated ElI Dorado seekers, under the vertical sun of the isthmus. The opinion of Attorney General | Moody leaves somewhat uncertai® the kind of labor that can be employed on the canal. But nature has made it certain that it cannot be white labor from the United States. If the Jamaican coolies are in sufficient number they may be able to prosecute the work. If by example Japan spreads ideas of civilization, free commerce and orderly governments, why should Germany or France or the United States protest? That has been their professed purpose aside from mere land-grab- bing schemes, and none of them has even remotely approached in its colonies the marvelous success Japan has achieved at home. One thing is certain—either the Western notion of “opening” Asia is wrong or a shallow pretense, or Japan's rise to paramount influence should be frankly wel- comed.—New York World. R LT SR It is not to be supposed that all the agitation of the life insurance busi- ness will lead any of the middlemen—the solicitors and commission caters— to give up any of their hard earned nest eggs.—Cincinnati Enquirer. e o b O As soon as she can settle her labor difficulties Chicago will probably resume modeling her affairs after Glasgow, instead of Warsaw.—Washing- ton Post. : ults. || | l | | | Norwegian Captain (To King of Sweden)—¢“Good-by, Oscar; You go your way JUN )/ i and wc’l_l‘ go Norway.” LOVE IN A PARADISE OF BLOSSOMS | X g— | | | | | i | | | of Nature. BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. CUTTING THE TOW LINE << S ReSIBECR —CHICAGO CHRONICLE. = France at This Time of Year Under Spell of a Potent Touch | N France, spring’s paradise of blos- soms, one gains a new appreciation of Leigh Hunt's expressed opinion: “An exquisite invention this— This art of writing billets doux In buds and blossoms and bright hues. To put one's affection into the poetry of nature’s living words becomes here a pleasure so natural, so spontaneous, that it has the force of an inspiration. Flowers gain a new value as a medium of expression in a land where they may be had for the plucking, or for expendi- ture infinitesimal. For they represent not money, but thought: not an extravagance of gallantry, but the simplicity of a gen- uine regard. The flowers of Paris are an important element in its gayety and in its love- making. Where mueh is artificial, and where superficiality is the rule, they give the touch of nature without which no performance can be a perfect work of art, Yet even they have sometimes about them the artificial touch of sentimen- tality; for imstgnce, when that “‘exquisite fnvéntion” to which Leigh Hunt refers:is employed, and every flower in a bouquet pears its individual message, when & pansy means “I'm thinking of you,”” when a rose tells of its sender’s love, when a bunch of flaming tulips is an ardent dec- laration. In May and June both old Paris and| new Paris are eloquent with flowers. In the famous market by the Madeleine, along the quays, on the corners of the boulevards, in dusty little side-streets, there is this marvelous warmth of floral beauty, whose like no canvas could por- tray, however great the artist's genius. And all the air around is filled with fra- grance of roses, of lilacs, of honeyed blos- soms of syringas, of snow-petaled lilies of ‘the valley sweet of breath. Walk down the Rue de la Paix, and Pa- a this season by their display of robes and laces than by their flowering window- boxes, audacious in their color combina- tions, but as satisfying to the senses as a flamboyant sunset. Drive down the Avenue du Bois de uin's windows will attract you less at Boulonge on will find that your attention is distracted | from the famous Parisian bonnets that you have come out to see by the dainty luxuriance of the flowerbeds on either ‘lide of the roadway, which display ex- actly the same French taste that the bonnets do in regard to color, but which possess as well the perfection of nature's | touch. And later, as you come back be-| neath the flowering chestnut trees, you | appreciate the inspiration of the woman poet who wrote that beautiful verse, “Lanterned with white, the chestnut branches wave.” It is not surprising that in such a land a fine afternoon and you |one's fancy should In summer hours be transformed into a little boat, white- sailed, which skims the sky; that one should become acquainted with a new de- light in living end i loving; that lover's dreams of joy and fear should express themselves in gifts of flowers. Always has there been an intimate as- sociatibn between the poetry of love and the poetry of flowers. As Campbell writes, expressing this idea in his at- tractive way: “When love first came to earth, the spring Spread rosebuds to receive him.” Paris, May 20. AN SR TS T T S X IKE ‘ocean’s BY THE SEA On shore, Calming at times to throbs And sobs, 1 Is heart of man. Restless with longings vain And pain Such as no human skill Can still; God only can. ceaseless roar —Westminster Gazette. W | e BELASCO'S NEW PLAY. On hearing that David Belasco was engaged on a new play a reporter stop- ped him on the street recently to in- quire concerning it. “Yes,” sald Mr. Belasco, “I am writ- ing a play. What do you want to know | about 162" “Anything you can tell me,” was the reply. “Well, it is to have five acts and three intermissions,” said the playwright, “and I've just finished the intermis- sions.”—New York Press. 3 3 IN THE MUSEUM. The BSkeleton—"The Legless ‘Wonder"” is in a pretty bad fix. The Fat Woman—What's hap- pened to him? The Skeleton — The manager just gave him his walking papers. Mrs. Bingo—I want to get a plain cook. & Employment Agent—I'll pick you ! out the plainest we haye—but none of them would take a medal at a beauty show. SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE. COULDN’T STAND IT. Landlady—Don't you table? Boarder—The table is first-class. I'm kicking about what you put on it. like my THE “WEAKER” SEX. Casual reference to the case of a woman in Monongahela who met her husband on his return from a hunting trip and embraced him in a manner so vigorous as to explode the cartridge in his gun has set the newspapers to searching out instances of unusual strength in the “weaker sex,” says the New York Evening Post. The “Tom Grogans” of the world would have in- cluded, according to scattered reports, a Buffalo girl who actually fractured the ribs of her young man on a roman- tic June evening, as well as a Boston lady to settle a dispute over a fare. The case of the women Socialists at Porto Maggiore, Italy, who began a strenu- jous Sunday by beating a company of priests and tearing their clothes and ended it by driving off a troop of cav- alry,”is recent enough to be distinctly remembered. One reads of women at- tacking and capturing burglars, single handed, almost daily. A Chicago mag- istrate was recently aplied to for pro- tection by a man whose wife had been in the habit of picking up her husband, swinging him about her ' head and “catapulting” him against the wall. In the same city another man complained that his daughter had got his job in the stock yards away from him; a part of the work consisting of lifting and roll- ing barrels of pork. A Providence girl, a pupil of a manual training school, won first prize in a competition in which boys and girls were ranked ac- cording to their ability to drive a nail home in the fewest strokes. In the ‘West, Bessie Mulhall, the young daugh- ter of an Oklahoma rancher, is known as one of the most daring riders of bucking broncos, and her feat of rop- ing and tying, single handed, three large Steers—one in seventy-one sec- onds and the other two in forty-three seconds each—has seldom been equaled by the lustiest cowboy. Hopkinson Smith’s “Tom Grogan” becomes, in the lght of these recent revelations, not only creditable, but just a bit archaie and over-feminine. This mass of data has led to the formation of theorfes, inevitably, the most convineing of which is that nature, ever watchful of the larger good, is coming to the as- sistance of the “equal rights” assocla- tions in the only effective way. ————— HER MIND MADE UP. Tpa seid Miss Strong, “I wish you 1 who dislocated a cabman's jaw | BY SALL THE SMART SET. Y SHARP. Miss Leslie Green is receiving much attention, despite the fact that so many | are gone for the summer, but the in- 1!ormal gatherings have brought her many good wishes and to-day Mrs. Philip G. Galpin will entertain in bonor of Miss Green at a luncheon. . . . Mrs. T. V. O’'Brien and Mrs. George F. Gray will be hostesses to-morrow at a | tea given at the St. Francis in honor | of Mrs. Walter Dean O'Brien, who 15 & | June bride, having recently been mar- | rfed in Goldfield. In the receiving party with Mrs. O'Brien and Mrs. Gray are Mrs. Louls Lane Dunbar, Mrs. Harwood Morgan, Mrs. James W. Edwards, Mrs. Percy H. O'Brien, Miss Elsie Dorr, Miss Gladys Deal, Miss Laura Farnsworth, Miss | Edith Muir, Miss Gertrude Palmer, Miss | Persis Coleman, Miss Van Wyck and Miss Currier. . . . Major and Mrs. G. H. G. Gale, with Miss Polly Gale and Miss Dorothy Gale, are at Governors Island, New York, where the major Is stationed with the inspector general’s department. Before his promotion from the eaptaincy Ma- jor Gale was with the Fourth Cavalry at the Presidio, remaining for nearly elght years. During that time, which is a period much longer than is usually allotted the army officer, Major and Mrs. Gale made a very wide acquaint- anceship in town. Many friends will be glad to hear of their present location. Major Gale served in the Phillppines, while there acquiring his present rank. .« . . Miss Winifred Mears, with her mother, is on the eve of her trip to Pertland. and the East. . .« . Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Keyes have . gone to Honolulu for a prolonged visit N Dr. Walter Drew McCaw. stationed at Washington, D. C., medical libra He is well remembe in San Franc having been attac at the Presidio for two or three years w! . . San Jose has quite a gathering of soclety folk, and many will spend i months of July and August at the at tractive Vendome. Of those who hav recently passed pleasant days there a Mrs. Edgar D. Peixotto and Mrs. Arthur C. Nahl, Mrs. Sands W. Forman, Mrs. James Snook, Mrs. Gallatin and Albert Gallatin. .- .8 Mr. and Mrs. James Singleton Spilman are spending a fortnight at Inverness. 5t E e Among those who will spend the month of July at the Hotel Vendome is Mrs. | Henry Lund Jr. Miss Ida Remington sails next Satur- day on the Alameda for Honolulu prior to making a trip around the world. Miss Remington was a bridesmaid at the wed- ding of Miss Mabel Dodge and Mead | Hamilton last month. .« v Mrs. George M. Perine has been spend- ing the last fortnight with Mrs. John D. | Spreckels at the Hotel ‘Vendome. o ol Mrs, James Callaghan, with bher two | daughters, Miss Ida Callaghan and Miss Eva Callaghan, will move into their house at San Mateo in July. . . . . Miss Helen Chesebrough and Miss Mary Eyre are expected home within a short time. They sailed from Cherbourg on the 6th, and will visit briefly through the East. e« g P Charles Dickman !s passing a short va- cation at Monterey. I ANSWERS TO QUERIES. e TO HARDEN LEAD—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. Antimony and tin are used for the purpose of hardening lead. PLAN—-R. H. L., City. If a man goes to an architect and asks him to draw a plan for him and pays for it, it is his property and he can do whatever he wishes with it, but if he obtains esti- mates with the plans the plan is not his, {according to certain rules that govern ; such matters. CIVIL SERVICE—R. C, City. If a | branch mint requires applicants for po- sitions in the take a course in some scheol, it must be a private school, and this depart- ment cannot advertise such. better communidate with the mint in which such rule exists and be informed. HALF-MASTED FLAGS — S, City. The customy of the National Guard of | California the flag on Memorial days is that “The national flag will be displayed at half- mast on all armories throughout the State on Memorial day until 12 o'clock noon and will then be hoisfed to the top of the staff, to remain there until sunset.” —_— VALUABLE QUARTER—A. O. C. S, City. There is a mistaken ldea that a fabulous price is offered for any quarters coined in the fiftles in the United States. There is only one year in the fifties in which quarters are worth more than face value. It is for those of 1853, without arrow points at the date or rays about the eagle. The ssaying department to | You had | in regard to half-masting | | MIRROR OF DAME FASHION. | A SUMMER COAT ALONG NEW LINES ‘Women still continue to favor the all-envelopin, ‘wear, and with the summer upon us the questfon 'o!'lt‘?‘—'tbfihl' "-b-g .matter of moment. Cloth, of course, is an impossibility from a comfort standpoint in extreme hot weather, and even some of the heavier silks j’mt" a bltdlrm in nldnhummen just had made a garment that combi practical quality that will mo; ;lt"to“t;"m. e Ry N “fabulous” price that is is from 3$1 25 to $3 25, according to state of preser- vation. | DEBT—W., City. A husband is respon- | sible for the debts of his wife. In case a judgment Is rendered his property is lia- ble to be attached except chairs, tables, desks and books to the vaiue of $200; | necessary household, table and kitchen | furniture, including one sewing machine, | stoves and pipes, and furniture and wear- | ing apparel, beds, bedding and bedsteads, | hanging pictures and family portraits, | whick are exempt. As your question re- | ters only to household furniture, it is not necessary to name the other exemptions. ALL INVITED. A ludicrous instance of absent mind- edness was afforded by the pastor of a | chureh in a small town of Virginia. Not long ago, one Sunday morning, this minister forgot to give the usual an- nouncement of social events for the | week. He had uttered some words of | his final blessing, when a deacon, in a whisper, invited his attention to the omission. Whereupon the clergyman ceased praying and said: | “Brethren, I omitted to inform you that an oyster supper will be served at Brother Mullin’s house next Friday evening, the 20th instant. All are in- vited to come, bringing their own bowls and spoons.” Then, continuing his in- voeation, quite unconscious of the hu- mor of the situation, the worthy man added: “And may the Lord have mercy on your fouls! Amen."—Harper's Weekly. | | v &7 ) [ 14 IS B0 J 23 r e S 7% T IS e A New York fashion leader has e less fortumate of purse would stay in this evening. Mr, Tardey will want to speak to you." - "B'o he has really proposed at last, eh?" “No,” replied the daughter, with an air of determination, “but he will to- night.”—Catholic Standard. MADE HIM HAPPY. Blinker—Tt's no wonder that Hamfat, the tragedian, is so fond er—Why so? Blinker—Because occasionally he . ean get a full house. Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, in ar. tistlc fire-etched boxes. New store now open, 767 Market street. . ————— w information supplied daily to and public ‘elep! who must consider the practical side of th & erm‘h;:fll?lu'lu:: e -plea! ging loosely but not ers, and about the bottom finished with n:fl:;"rzg:rfl:l"’t.h:h::: caught-under puft is called. The sleevas are full umbrella shape. also aceordion-pleated and set over still fuller sl lace at the wrist. A band of lace is inset in th:. ;: M;. ...t:;t“l:: t:.. away and the undersleeve of lace showing prettily through thuk‘ Bands of lace set over white chiffon are disposed in stole-like affect down the front. and at the bust and below the walst line are frogs of ings as well as their beauty. the color black. The entire coat green velvet. While somewhat elaborate & ; l’t - .: b:t “‘ 'r“ -nonpe‘rh:,:lllc in nm;:-e- the wa and woul — I it orm, Derllnl. sufficient protection for