The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 8, 1905, Page 1

Forecast made at San Francisco for | s ending midnigh Francisco and vici coler; orisk west winds in | and possibly fog by A. G. McADIE, ict Forecaster. THE | coLumBIA | GRAND—* he N SAN | ALCAZAR—“Up York State” & CALIFORNIA—*Zaza." " | CENTRAL—“'Chattancoga.” ‘ CHUTES—Vaudeville. . ‘Ranson’s Folly. | ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. | TIVOLI—Comic Opera. | Matinees at all theaters. FRANCISCO THEATERS. Belte of Richmond.” 4 PRIC TAFT SPEAKS TO BIG CONCOURSE AT BERKELEY DISTINGUISHE LR [ 4 TALKS UNDER OHADY OAKS IN CANYON| FERERE Secretary Addresses Great Crowd ar | Unizversity. Discourses at Length on Philippine Question. Miss Roosevelt Also Visits College Town. i M e ammoth Here tempo- erected ve wh American flag. In trees. ite gowns and white a charming picturc age of the trees and the lawn ce Of Secretary Taft in the for prolonged cheer- ence standing until the itor had taken his seat nd. As soon as se President stepped tae Secretary of War. | Great Cheering { & z o e PHOTOGRAPH. BY STARF PHOTOG RAPHER Y0’ C ALY, { name of the national Government we Californians are sometimes believed not yet to ha icovered that we are }a part of the United States; and though Introduced we are exceeding proud of our State ahd know we have a right to be, we are ek just as loyal members of the United in Ide Wheeler in in- | States as anybody else and we have not a Taft sald: | notion whatsoever of being queer about | though When Secretary of California is a na- | anything that concerns loyalty to the as well as a State in- | nation owes its existence in tne | ‘*‘We are glad to-day to welcome a dis- a little private college | tinguished body of citizens, of public ale men who with foresight | servants who are on thefr way to cross | the Pacific on a great national errand alw place where a Yale man | wherein they sacrifice themselves to the i welcome. It is a national university | public good. They represent an adminis- at it was called into existence in | tration in which, hereabouts at any rate, ser plax the suggestion of the | people of all classes and all parties have national Government and at the instance | confidence. They represent our country of the Morrill land grant aet. It has a {and at their head is a man who is big right to welcome those who come in the | enough to represent it in all its phases; nds we are upon now and ays is a {and I introduce to you without spending | any more time the Hon. Willlam H. Taft, | Secretary of War, good citizen, good fel- low, great heart. Tremendons cheering greeted the War Secrctary as he stepped forward, and it uasd several minutes before he could pro- ceed. \'Taft Speaks of Education for the Filipinos Secretary Taft's address was as fol- lows: “President Wheeler, ladies and gentle- men of the University of California: “There is nothing, [ think, calculated to impress an American with the great- ness of his country ecual to the experi- ence of a trip from tide water to tide water of five and six days to find that he has left a country of Americans four thousand miles behind to come into a country of Americans exactly like that which he left at home; Americans with the same feelings, with the same beauty in the female sex, with the same disposi- tion on the part of the male. sex to stand by the county or the State in which he happens to live, so that if the weather be particularly hot or uncomfortable it is’ the exceptional case in five years. “It is now some five years since it was my Dpleasure to be present when the University of California, through its then and now President, Mr. Whecler, took | its farewell ‘of Professor Moses, when he was about to go to the Philippine Islands to discharge the high functions, which he .did discharge, of introducing English. education among that eight mil- lions. of people. The time was in April, and therefore I am not able to compare properly the temperature of April with July, and therefore not able to measure the degree of veracity that the male sex in this vicinity bas. “One of the thoughts that come into a man’'s mind when he rises before an audi- ence under academic shades like these is how far the influence of such a uni- versity as this is apt to be for good in the community. Professor James of Har- vard, with whom I have had some dis- agreements with respect to Philippine matters, is of the opinion that education is not necessarily an aid to morality, and ST R R I concur. but I am sure he admits that education united with moral tendencies is certain to make those moral tendencies more effective. Need Educated Men. “Now, we are in this country, at least to one up a tree, in a stage of transition. The enormous expansion in wealth and resources of the last ten years has made it possible for a great number in the com- munity to accumulate a wealth which must be distributed in the next genera- tion and must enable a great many more educated men in the next generation to do that which they would wish to do withour being dependent on earning a livellhood with their hands or brains. In Continued on Page 3, Column 3. D VISITORS MEET SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY AT MARTIN RECEPTION MEMORABLE - SPECTACLE | PRESENTED | A/l Smart Folk Have | Now Met Miss | Roosevelt. | Sweetly Recerves the | Honors That Are [ Shown Her. | Zaft Party Reception | Is Surpassing in i Brilliancy. | | BY SALLY SHARP. Last night at Mrs. Eleanor Martin the t nd wealth of the Que urquoise Sea made its obeisance | the distinguished guests within 3 | gates—and to Alice, the pet of the na- | tion, was paid the homage of the gay throng. { It had been said that the reception | was to be a co-partnership affair 'tw t | fair Alice and the stalwart Secret Mr. Taft, with their respective corps and indeed the hostess so intended. But say what you will, when a charming | maid, with a personality all her own, i3 | pitted against a mere man—be ! | diplomat, soldier. statesman or Pre: dent—he find himself in the class ,tn “also rans,” with the muiden 10 iLe forefront with the honors. But Secretary Taft doesn’t care—not he! For in all hils eventful lfe he never looked happier than last night, when the daughter of the President— his well-beloved chief—was showered with the plaudits of San Francisco's | smart set. In point of faet, he liked it and joyed in it. as becomes a big man, and Mr. Taft is big. That cannot be gainsaid to those who have met him-— big mentally and physically, and, la- | dies, mighty handsome. He's the type | of man women admire—that is, in his | evening clothes, it having been denied | me to behold him in his tweeds. A great night socially was last night —a night of the first magnitude, and | wide was the interest therein attested | to by the bourgeoisie gathering about | the Martin home, on the baicony of | which the Presidio band played gay | music that floated off into the warm | summer Within splendid home, with its | treasures of ar its rare ta | exquisite furnishings, its lights, its prodiga drawing-room, es of American Beauty evelt at her | eiving party fol- receiving In the pink | graced with mas: | roses, the hostes | guests, with Miss Roo: | and the rest of the re lowing—a mighty f | party, by the way meostly in | white—all save Miss To be sure, you t know what she | wore. 1 would rather w it—if I knew how—than describe it, for it was the way she wore it that lemt it its | | fine distinction This petted but un- spoiled daughter of the nation were at the only formal affair given in “er honor a black clinging skirt, smartly ciit, with a white draped bodice, show- gazelle-like throat and ing a splendid Long white glace firm white shoulders. gloves finished her costume. Her hair? That was worn low at the neck and drawn back from the face—and she has | masses of it. | Pretty? | | Hardly that. She is more than prot- she is wholesome, vivacious, nat- ural, interested, alert, responsive, | ready of wit and full of action. There | is about her an air of adounding spir- |its. held in check by a strong mental | balance—while she shows all the signs | of good breeding and heredity. | During the two hours of tedious presen- tations, thls daughter of the house of | Roosevelt never for a moment lost her | equanimity—nor her winsome smile. Mr. Nicholas Longworth? Yes, he lingered quite close to charm- | ing Miss Alice. And Congressman Kahn | vouches for him as being “a splendid fel- low., with no pyrotechnics, but good | natured, social and with a lot of manli- ness.” That sounds good, doesn’t it? As to the ensemble, there has never | been, in the modern history of San | Francisco’s smart set, a more brilliant picture. To begin with, the setting was superb, ! with palms, American Beauty roses, | Bermuda lilles and maidenhair fern | evéerywhere. And as for the women— just ask Secretary Taft or any of the | gallant chaps- that made up his staff |last night. The air was heavy wlith | exotic compliments to the beauty of | Western women—and what do you | think >—the Eastern ladles joined in the | chorus. | Quite the jolliest part of the mansion | was the dining-room, a symphony in i red. where a buffet supper was served, with an awfully good brew of puneh. | As to the hostess there is this to be | said—she discharged her obligation as the representative society woman of San Francisco in a manner befitting the rank of her distinguished guests and the dig- nity of the Queen City of the West. And out of the whole gay night comes the echo, “Alice Roosevelt is a thorough- bred—and Secretary Taft a good fellow.™ 1 May blessings attend them, and all who accompany them, on the voyage across the sea Continued on Page 3, Columa 1.