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

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL .. Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKELS.....cc0000s soscsssscsscscnsas S ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT....... seetescssess.. .. Manager ND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO visi2s009...NOVEMBER 15, 1905 EDNESDAY THE PRODUCTS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY. ¢ had occasion to note the rapid commercial progress of Much of this has been attributed to an influx of population, seeking that city for its educational, cli- lvantages. While a gain in that kind of population le, it is now revealed that it does not fully ac- advance made in that city. We must now take in ac- 1 1] factor as shown by the statistics furnished, offi- I of Supervisors. t rely for their commercial position upon the products r hinterland and the products of labor in their manu- These are constant factors. The soil re- :factures, once well established, approach the Other factors in the growth of a city, such st travel and like resources, go with fashion. v ebb and flow. A slight thing may deflect the leave a dry breadth between the banks between which it the products that enter into commerce and sup- life. The demand for them is constant, and, ranent production, the supply swells with s permanently reliable as a means and cause nts | imediate hinterland of Oakland is Alameda County. It extends y into Contra Costa County, in that portion between the v, and is added to by the wagon road tunnel 1 g ntains, and is about to get further addition by electric San Francisco, because they affect Oak- , to-be depended upon defensively and of- | ing the commercial and financial center of this Statistically the two cities join it comes to a contest for position. The figures sub- he Supervisors Alameda County show twenty-one ] manufactures, running from cotton, silk and hemp fabrics nsive n_mainta Francisco Bay. 2 cordage s and clay wares. Four of these pass the mil- Ii values of the past vear. These are cotton, silk, | ouped together, and metal. wood and paints. The 1< g value for the year was $13,285,198. That is an ir several hundred per cent in the last decade. With the pr I the increase is so accelerated that by the use of fuel } oil and electric power in manufactures the present figures promise to | b bled in less than five yea The addition of the establish- | ments « Western Pac Railway to the present resources of | { 1 will add a large percentage. \We have often called attention to the capacity of the soil and climate of California to produce a vast variety of agricultural and | hort ural products. In looking for illustrations of this monopoly | alifornia we are apt to fix our vision upon distance, led | known resources of the great interior valley, and its subsidiary | But the Alameda County statistics instruct us that we need | not look so far away. They show twenty-seven different kinds of | dire s of the soil and five secondary products. By some | oversigh rhubarb industry is omitted, though it supplies enor: tities of the earliest pie plant, which is exported by car Eastern markets. This makes twenty-eight articles | 1g into the market every month in the year from Oak- | ate hinterland, and their total value last year was $8,- | will do this, located so near to a large city population, ue from each new family that comes to the town. The | de, gains in population, manufactures and property from it in the exceeding increase in the population and manufactures of Alameda and Berkeley. The economist has in that situa- on the east side of the bay, as in a microcosm, the story and | of the growth of countries and cities. | aw passed by the last Legislature providing for these pro. tistics of counties is an excellent measure. It affords the | an authoritative disclosure of the resources of California | and of the causes of the growth of the commonwealth. its contig to such soil. The two ride and tie. They rise to- gether through a wholesome action and reaction. 'Who seeks a cause for the rise in values in Oakland will find it in the soil that is tribu- | tar Who seeks a cause for the rise in values in the soil will find | " { e | | raty SgEs THE NEW YORK SITUATION. HEN—well, when political partners fall out, honest men get ome news. Mr. Hearst and Tammany have been pulling har- oniously in the same harness, champing the same kind of | g h a mutual whinny, but now they are at daggers | ch has a dozen lawyers of high degree trying to prove | nst the other. Mr. Hearst is soberly convineed that the | of nations depends upon his being Mayor of New York, and | any feels that its own fate depends upon keeping him out. On his side he has the benefit of all the high flood of pent up hatred of Tammany since the days of Tweed, Dick Genet and Mayor Hall. It has been ineffectually cherished and has grown year by year, 1 anything is a good club in its hands. Mr. Hearst happens to be in a position to serye as a club, and men are using it who hope to kill Tammany and break the club at the same time. No doubt in the late election‘the Tammany tactics, familiar to all observers of- New York politics, were used against Hearst, as they have been against Seth Low and others who have before this tried conclusions with that organization. Whether they were re- sponsible for Hearst’s defeat or simply added to a natural result may never be known. The matter of present interest is the obvious attempt to overawe the courts by “demonstrations.” We have seen the State and Federal courts reversed by mass meetings in San Francisco, but the judicial judgment has always stood as against reversal by a mob. It makes but little difference who is Mayor of New York. That city has had good Mayors and bad. Its government has sometimes sent up the odor of decayed fish, and has sometimes exhaled the aroma of sweet blooms. Fernando Wood was not only Mayor, but when secession came on proposed that the city should secede from the State and nation and become a free city like the Hanse towns, sufficient unto itself, with its own government and army and navy. All these things pass. But that of permanent value is the reputation of the judicial courts, and public respect for their decisions. We will wait and see what the courts say about the election, and when it is said it will be a poor loser who demurs. After all the trouble and expense which Mr. McCurdy, head of the clan, admits has been expended by his life insurance company in the edu- cation of legislators in various States, the old gentleman’s modesty is to be commended in that he did not draw a separate salary for himself as “Super- intendent of Education.”—New York Press. SRR S Cabinet officers have been instructed by the President not to talk to reporters. And there are four Presidential aspirants in the Cabinet fairly bursting to tell the public the things they are doing. Cruelty could not go to greater lengths—Milwaukee News. SR S | ward, Joseph H. Choate tells us that we are working téo hard and too fast and doing too much. He would probably be jogging along at the same clip as the rest of us if he needed the money as badly.—Buffalo Times. _ EEITETREG. TR Speaking about the sex of angels, 2 chorus of men of the Taft girth and with wings outstretched would add to the substantiality of paradisé.— Baltimore Sun. ' f And to think that we used to scrape our feet and torture ourv hats whenever we went into a big insurance office!—Dallas News. SV A\ IR 2 7NN Y ANSWERS. LIGHTS—Subscriber, City. sco has for street lighting nearly 520 Welsbach lights and %9 arc lights, RELATIONSHIP—B. R. City. The relationship of an individual’s grand- father's second cousi 1§ that of cousin, thrice removed. HEAVYWEIGHT—-M. M Oakland, Cal. The eredit of being “‘the greates: heavyweight prize fighter . thdt ‘ever lived,” has been given to James J. Jef- fries. SQUAW WINTER—Subscriber, Son- oma, Cal. Squaw winter is a term ap- plied to very early snowfall or light rain, occurring immediately before the dvent of what is known as the “Indian summer.” —_— BASEBALL—J. 8., Benicia, Cal. If a batter makes a clean two-base hit, but fails to touch first base and is called out when the ball is thrown to that bag, he is not credited with a hit, for, technically, he never reached first. If a batter makes a clean hit and the man running ahead of bim is forced out the batter does not get credit for a hit. The play is scored as a ‘“fielder’s choice,” and in the scoring rules is simply called ‘“‘a forced ey, INDIAN SUMMER—Subscriber, Son- oma, Cal. Indian summer, in the United States, is a period in' autymn character- ized by calm and absence of rain. This condition is especially well manifested in the upper Mississippi Valley, where it is in conspicuous contrast with the climatic phenomena which preceed and follow it. West of the belt of States lying adjacent to the Mississippl,. the rainfall is so small that the chief char- acteristic of the Indian’summer is not exceptional enough to excite attention; and from the Mississippl Valley east- the autumnal periods of calm and dryness become more and more irregular in their occurance, and are, on a whole of shorter duration. Hence in the BEastern States any period of unusually quiet, dry and hazy weather may be designated the Indian summer, provided it occurs at any time between the middle of September and the early The which part of December. haze N WA FRANCE (to Russia)—‘“Aren’t you going to dance with Mr. Bull?”’ RUSSIA—«I think I should rather like to if he wouldn’t tread on my toes.” FRANCE—«Oh, but he won’t. He’s improved immensely. I find him adorable!” I/ 74 — — —PUNCH. 4 LISTENERS NEVER HEAR ANY GOOD OF THEMSELYES T Whose eyes with mis- chief glistened. Climbed up on one another's 5 back And at-a keyhole listened. HREE little crickets, sleek and black, The topmost one cried out, “Oho! I hear two people speaking! I can’t quite see them yet, and s0— 5 Tl just continue peeking.” Soon Dot and grandma he could see— Tea-party they ing; And as he listened closely, he Distinctly heard Dot saying: were play- “This pretty little table here Will do to spread the treat on; “And I will get a cricket, dear, For you to put your feet on.” The cricket tumbled duwn with tright; “Run for your life, my broth- ers! fiy!” He scudded out of sight: And so did both the others. —St, Nicholas. Fly, - fills the air at such times is simply the dust and smoke which are not blown away by the wind, but float near the earth’s surface. The same is due to the fact that the phenomena of the In- dian summer are much more distinctly marked in tane region chiiefly occupied by- the Indians at the time this term | WILLIE’S VISIT. “Pop took me down to the Aquarium to- day and I saw lots o’ them fishes,"” said the enfart terrible, dropping his buttered bread wrong side up in the ecstasy of SCoVery. Well, Willie,” said his mother, hope- tully, “tell Mr. Simpkins, your father and all of us what you thought of the fishes there,” Willie reached for the sugar bowl and, devastating it, he turned a. thoughtful, retrospective eye on Mr. SimpKins, known to him as ter's beat.” “Oh, mom,"” he said finally, “I watched them little fishes working their mouths up’and down so funny a-drinking water, and—and just now I have been watching Mr. Simpkins at the table drinking Ice water—and—and it ain’t so, is it?” Recognizing the danger signals his father and mother tried to stop the nar- ratign, but Mr. Simpkins, in a benevolent desire to encourage precocity, observed:— “Please let Willie tell of the parallel be- tween the way fishes absorb water and the way I drink it. Tell us, Willie.” “Why I heard father telling sister that you ‘drank like a fish." 'Taint so! You don't drink like any of them fishes I saw in the Aquarium. Oh, whatcher mad about now, mom?” ° EXPLAINED. “Dear me,” said the good-looking fe- male visitor to the superintendent of the lunatic asylum, “what a vicious look that woman has we just passed in the corri- dor! Is she dangerous?” “Yes, at times,” replied the superin- tendent evasively. “But why do you allow her such free- dom?” asked the lady. “Can’t help it,” answered the offjcer. “But isn't she an inmate under your control?™ “No, my wif is not under my control, she’s New York World. “BABY JIM.” “Baby Jim,” a young colossus from Beaumont, Texas, is the latest freak. The youth is 18 years old and seven feet tall. became current than they are in most | in coming up from Galveston he was too Eastern regions, to ‘which the' white | big for the ordinary railroad car, population was chiefly limited prior to and had to find accommodations in the stock the beginning of the preceding century. | car. e *LIZA~=No, e ain’t much ter look at, buty ershould’ear ’im play the mou i SKETCH. th-orgin! . - Accidentals BY A. J. WATERHOUSE — LITTLE old malden lived under the hill— And her living she made, and s mak- ing it still. g Scrubbin’ your clothing or scrubbin’ your fioor, Occidental JUST SCRUBBIN' A' Name, Gubbin— By “serubbin’. Serubbin’ a basement or scrubbin’ & sto But she uu.nx a low song, though she toiled evermore, While rubbin’. “Now tell me I cried—for I heard with amaze— “Miss Gubbin, Are your hours never dreary and weary your days, While rubbin’?" “Oh, yes,” she replied, “they are often quite drear, An’ I reckon I'd think they was lack- in’ in cheer If I hadn't oft noticed that all of us here 3 Are scrubbin’. “The rich m: she saidj “is a-scrub- for gold. And rubbin’, AN’ often he gits for his labor, I'm told, A drubbin’. He would like the full corn of his wealth in the ear. With never a worry and never a fear, But often he gits for his trouble, I hear, A nubbin’. “The man who is runnin’ for fame,” so she said, ~Or stubbin’, If ever he gits.it is gener’ly dead.” Miss Gubbin Then paused just a moment a garment to rub, And then she remarked: “This here is the nub: The hull of the world at Forehen's old tub 1s scrubbin’” I have thought quite a little of this that was said By Gubbin, And T judge she was right, ior we're earning our bread by rubbin’; Rubbin’ and scrubbin’ by day - er night; You rubbin’ for that that you think will delight, While I now am striving this lyric to write By scrubbin’. THINGS I SHOULD HOPE. If 1 had a son who was determined to “play the races” I should hope that he would lose his last nickel and have to walk home after his first attendance. ¥f I had a daughter who played the plano in the sitting room while her old mother did the work in the kitchen I should hope that I might find an oak shingle and be given the grace to use it. by I ever I were to catch myself being as mean and small as some men I know— and I may—I hope that I should hope, for the benefit of the world, that the an- gel Gabriel would toot his horn for me very soon. If ever I knowingly vote for a scoundrel because he represents my narty I hope that I may have the privilege of going to a school whgre the elements of decency are taught. 1f my wife should prove to be irascible at times—but 1 don’t admit {t—I should hope that I would remember the sort of luck the poor girl played in when she married me. ~THE ROBIN AND THE MAN. A wee littie robin hopped .o and fro, Singing cheerily, cheerily; And a man from his window watched him 89, Watching wearily, wearily; And he said to the robin: “Why do you sing? . Is the life that we live such a beautiful thing? > 1 have dallled with pleasure and feft its sting, Oh, drearily, drearily!” Then the wee little robin nodded his head : Very eerily, eerily, And this to the man at the window he said— Watching wearily, wearily: “You have missed in your life all the sweetest and best, ¢ The love that is host and the love that is guest, For with It by your side e'er the highway ° 1s_pressed Right cheerily, cheerily.” “Is Edith’s fiance a wealthy man?” “Well, not exactly, but his second cousin is related to- the president of a life insurance .company.” TO JUDGE A MAN. If you have a dollar and he has two, Does it naturally follow That he is a better man than you And must knock your standing “hollow”? If he has a million and you have none, A million may prove a fetter To bind its owner when it is won— Is he surely, then, your better? The world has a very simple way Of making its gold its master, But wealth may prove, as I've heard men say, . On its owner's back a plaster. 1 have seen a vagrant who brought men cheer, As storing of treasure unneeded; And I merely wish to suggest right here That the man, not his gold, be heeded. A man is a man though he walk in rags, ‘And a knave is a knave though he swag- ger, And nature has marked us with legible t ags As still on the journey we stagger. Then it is your part, and it is my part, To judge of a man by his doing, By the soul that he bears and the warmth of his heart, And not by the He made a dollar as he went whene'er he had 4 show, And he hung unto that dollar as he feared that it might go; But the angel said who met him at the gate of Edenland, “What is this useless metal he ing in kis hand?” Matrimonial Primer. The Call recently published on this page an interesting collection of bright bits of humor and sage advice to hus- bands and wives, taken from a volume entitled “Matrimonial Primer.” At the time of publication proper credit was not given. The Call therefore is now pleased to let its readers know that the clever work is from the press of Paul Elder & Co. of this city, who have published the “Matrimonial Prim- eér” in a most attractive form. It is splendidly illustrated by Gordon Ross, and already it has received a flatter- ing advance sale. ———— e 81 Fourth st. (front barber), best eyeglasses: spees., 20-30c; other stores, $2 30 $3-30. - D e fownsend's Calftornia glace fruits cholcest candies fn_artistic fire- mm boxes. .I store. 787 Market * Special wupplied datly ta = S e ld of his woolng. is clutch- The Smart Set BY SALLY SHARP |, Miss Sophie Borel will be entertainel in Paklind to-day at a tes given by Mfs. Irving C. Lewis. A large number of the smart ret from beoth sides of the bay will ke present: Mrs. Lewis is the sister-in-law of John Lewis, whose engagement to Miss Borel hus been announced. . The weddinz yesterday of Miss Stella Fortmann and Dr. T. Tdward Bailly was extremely quiet, taking place at the home of the bride’s parents, M and Mrs, Henry F. Fortmann, at i o'clock in the presence of the family Mrs. N. k& Stevens, the bride's sister stood as matron of honer, being t enly bridal attendant. The bride was simply gowned white chiffon cloth, with a large p ture hat covered with white plumes, Mrs. Stevens wearing pink crepe do chine. Immediately after the reading of tha service by Kev. Father Wood Dr. and Mrs. Ballly departed for their wedding trip. Fast, where they will travei fo an indefinite perfod. . . ™ in | The engagement is announced of )iss Mabelle R. Patton of San Diego George W. Haley of this city. The wed will take place in this city during Chr mas week and will be a noon affair. Mis Patton is a prominent society maid of t h South and Mr. Haley, who I3 of the Chronicle staff, is the son of the late Judge Haley, a ploneer resident of this city. AW A Miss Grace Wilson, a bud of the sea son, was delightfully entertained at ar informal tea Monday afterncon by Miss Edith Treanor. | In the receiving party were Miss Wil- son, Miss MKdith Treanor, Miss Alice Treanor and Mrs. W. H. Jordan. Those who spent the afternoon chatting with the young guest of henor included Miss | Janet Coleman, Miss Ruth Casey, Miss Emily Marvin, Miss Maud Payne, Miss Helen Thomas, Miss Alice Peters, Miss Gladys Clarke, Miss Roma Paxton, Miss Ursula Stone, Miss Sara Cunningham, | Miss Rheda Mills, Miss Marjorie Mills, the Misses Brewer and Mrs. Ernest Stent. . . Mr. and Mrs. athan Montgomery Moran (Elsic Marsh) have sent out cards announcing that they will be at home in their new flat at 2305 Clay street after December 15. - . . Miss Gladys Clark of New York, who is spending the winter in San Franecisco, was, yesterday afternoon, the motive for a five hundred and bridge party at the home of Mrs. Ernest Albert Stent, in whose home Miss Clark is a guest. Yel- low ehrysanthemums filled the rooms which were untilized for the games, the gold hue being prettily emphasized by a background of wutumn leaves and vines. Receiving with Mrs. Stent was her aunt, Mrs. Christian Reis, and among the play- 4 ors were Miss Clarke, Miss Marlettd Havens, Miss Alyce Sullivan, Miss Ger- trude Van Wyck, Miss Ardella Mills, Miss Marguerite Barron, Miss Viva Nich- olson, Miss Elizabeth Cole, Mrs Fy Smith, Mrs. George Marye of Washing- [ ton, D. €., Mrs. Jessie Bowie-Dietrick, Mrs. Paul Baneroft, Mrs. Henry Foster Dutton, Mrs. Harry Willlams, Mrs. Far- quharson and Mrs. Alexander Garseau. Mrs. Stent will entertain at a similar af- fair next Tuesday, .. The San Francisco Art Institute wiil present its annual water color exhibit to- morrow eveningy this to be a private view and reception §o the members and fnvited guests. Sir Henry Heyman will supervise a good musical programme to intersperse with the other attractions of the evening. CRE Sequoians will gather to-morrow even- ing to hear a fine musical programme un- der the direction of Miss Valesca Sehorcht, whose violln playing is ex- quisite and who will present other talent of attractive quality. » The San Franecisco Nursery for Home- less Children will be the beneficiary of a gift sale to be held on Friday and Sat- urday ef this week at the St. Francis. Afternoon and evening of both days will be devoted to the sale of pretty articles for the holiday buyer and all the proceeds will pass to the good of the little ones at the nursery on Lake and Fourteenth streets. ANTISEPTIC LOVE. According to & French physician, the hand contains over S0.000 microbes to the square tneh, and in shaking bands these microbes are conveyed from ome person to another. He ad- vocates the substitytion of one of the more dignified and distant Oriental methods of salu- tation.—Daily Paper. Her mother had significantly left them together In the conservatory. The moment had come to make her under- stand how much he loved her. He had been in similar situation once or twice before, under the ancient regime, but then it Was comparatively easy. Now, under a code of etiquette founded chiefly-on the latest fashion in bacterfa, he felt his position embarrassing. A kiss had long been considered a crimi- nal proceeding, on purely hygienic grounds. Impassioned speech was but the setting free of millions of micro- scoplc prisoners, desirous of a change of lung. He must not even press her little hand, well knowing what malig- nant hosts sclence had placed within its few rounded square inehes—not to mention those that lurked in his own extensive palm. Standing at a safe hygienic distance, therefore, he stretched out his arms to- ward her, longingly. like an amorous tenor at the opera. He did not sing, of course. That had long since been for- bidden, as putting more microbes in circulation than even impassioned speech. He @id not speak, feeling that the level, mere or less sterilized con- ' versation, which alone science still permitted to be sparingly used, wo be out of place on this oceasion. But he gazed upon her so ardently that the few thousand bacilli temporarily resi- dent among her evelashes were se- riously inconvenienced by the rising temperature. She smiled ard shook her head gen- tly. Everything was done gently now, by persons with the fslightest pretense of civilization, in order to aveid dis- turbing the cireumambient legions of the enemy. But while he admired her digcretion he doubted her meaning. Was it “No?* Or that she did not understand? Or that he was going the wrong way to work? Or that she deemed lerself ? He carefully sat down at his end of the eonservatory and thought it out. Then she frowned—frowned so un- mistakably that he shuddered to think how many hundred thousand germs, happy tenants of the arches of her brows, would be dislodged by so alarm- ing a dislocation of their dwelling. As, however, he still remained mationless, her behavior became even more fool- hatdy and unscientific. With a prim- itive impulsiveness calculated to dis- every microbe In the conserva- upon a newly predatory errand, @ wateting can from its coel disinfec- tant. The last thing to be civilized, he reflected; will be woman, but he had barely time to figish the quotation. For with the nose of the watering cun she was tracing in pinkish spray the tiled floor ‘the three “Y E 8"=Punch.