The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1906, Page 39

SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY JANUARY 7, 1906. T VE HEN D | 1 EAPLOSION ¢ i e { i lhousand Pounds of| mite Are Accidentally i in a Roek Quarry o +HERS ARE INJURED BRI S5, “everal Buildings Are Torn i by the Concussion, ansing a Loss of $25.000 B Rock Bay 0 Minutes From San Francisco . N ".‘ \ Combines _ Suburban o anl \ | Shore ! 7""‘“:. Values s VORI oo | F g Wind M Lot Sa B P i Lots §I75 and Upwards EASY PAYMENTS Take car at Fifth and Market at 9.15 a. m. Sundays for Colma X WRITE ( 1, FOR_ILLUSTRATED KLEF 0cean Shore Land Go, inc. CLINE & DUNCAN | 228 Montgomery St. General Agents. Déar Mother f Your little ones are @ constant care ia | Fall and Winter weather. T&si will Zz‘d: cold. Doyou*tmw about Shilok's o Cure, Laumg Tonic, and 1y oy o somany? It is eaid to be the only reliable remedy for ail iscases of the air passages in_childres. ltis absolutely harmless and pleasant to tske. }tisguaranteed to cure or your money is retumed. The price is 25¢. per bottle, end all dealers in medicine sell SHILO This remedy should be in every housshold. Sold THE OWL DRUG CO., 1123 Merket st. and 80 Geary st = EAK MMEN| 'S REINVIGORATOR csses and unpatural Gls- 4 hotrs. You feel am first _dose. 3 5 o H ter Five Hun- | case we can- edy cures organs, failing | ced cure any ders & MEDICAL « Jakland, Cal . & F. Send 0id Remedy. New Porm AEVER KNOWN TO FAIL, Extzact of Cubebs and CAPSULES. The tastAless, guirk and thorough cure ond contaglons yaginal and | | diseharges. EARYL01ake, Con- Fifcy years' sucoess- at hranes. | AUSTRIAN AUTHORESS |]f SCORES 516 SUCCES ST T Nritings of Baroness von Suttner, the Peace Propagandist, in Demand. - S TRIAN AUTHORESS AND PEACE r H Specin t carly married life. The daughter of _| Fiela Marshal Count Kinsky, Bertha, A, Jan, gain all Buropeis | Countess Kinsky, was not thought very about the Baroness von Sutt-|wise when, twenty-nine years ago, she s gifted Austrian authoress | left her home tc marry Baron Gundac- e propagandist first t 1 character at the time 1e convention, when it that the Czar had be wn be embered that the woman present Hague rm upon became | car of .| of privation, was very happy. { have been da ven Suttner; yet the years have proved her to bave chosen well. They ttled down in the Caucasus, where a iend had put a house at their dis- osal and their life there, though full “There not many, but some,” the Baromess writes, “when we had nothing for dinner, but never days on which we have not laughed and en- joyed ourselves together. Nor has there ever been a bitter word between us, a rep or a dispute, not even one unlovin thought.” y S AS AUTHORESS. Von § Gundac: ' and tners began. wrote “Daredjan”; | iater on, he turned his mind to present de owed a ramrod, gorged r a short interview.” It was fact, Baroness von Sutt- | r verted Nobel, manufactur- er of nit ycerine, the greatest en- | gine of into a beli n peace and led leave reat be quest. “Let it be yours t mvince me,” he said to her, I will fur- nish you with the means of action, that is to say witi: fund TELLS OF HER MARRIED LIFE. There is a story of Marion Craw- | ford’s about a man who bought an island and fitted it up with every lux- But broke and the i earth which had been given ar met the forces of the air he was palled at the possibil bad let loose. L1 riesson and De Bloch, Nobel was dfiven by of the horrors of scientific into the prediction of universal peace; he, however, looked as well to natural forces for realization. Impressed by the words of Pasteur: “It Is ignor- ance that divides men, and sclence that brings them together.”” He left part of his money as awards for re- thunderstorm en a ap- | search as well as part for pacific effort. | There is no doubt that he intended to put facilities into the hands of Baron- ess yon Suttner for carrying out her deas, and last year, after an in- ew with Nobel's nephew, Bjorn- sterne Bjornson recoghized this by his vote. Now, on the ninth anniver of the founder's death, the peace prize is hers. Baroness von Suttner's own story is best told in “Es Lowos,” a little book of hers which describes very simply the struggles, foys and sorrows of her €s 77 9”9 Dr. Humphreys’ Seventy- Seven breaks up Colds and GRIP Grip is known by Influenza, Pains and Soreness of the Head, Chest, Back and Limbs; Cough, Sore Throat, General Prostration and Fever. «geventy-seven” taken early, breaks it up promptly. Taken during its pravalence, preoccu- pies the system and prevents its invasion. Taken while suffer. ing, a speedy relief is real.zed, and complets recovery assured. «77” breaks up Colds that hang on. At Drugglsts’, 25 cents, or m.uad.o. o Humphreys' Homea. Medicine Co., Cor. Wil- Hiam and John streets, New York. isoned forces of the | 1€ | {here red coats. outlet | y 27> v e ary | | ury that the power of electricity could | | supply. ies of havoc he| foresight | ravtabel WwaTfare | cqy set off and devour each other; and and in his novel “Sie he forcibly denounced of Austrian national ——*| TUnder Name of a Woman 4 | poems appeared than life, while 2 bLook, unpublished at the | time of Lis death. deals with the dan- rs arising from American trusts. The aron died, however, at fifty-three. Die Waffen Nied: Baroness von Suttner’s famous book, went through thirty editions, was translated, into al- most every Furopcan language, and, as “Lay Down Your Arms’ was pub- lished for the International Arbitration und Peace Association by Longmans; now, the English edition being ex- bhausted, it is heing reproduced by the New York firm of that name. The fol- lowing is a typical extract: This is what goes on. Attention! You wear bLlue coats. and those men As soon as we clap hands three times the red coats will be turned for you into tigers and the blue coats will become wild beasts to them. So now—one, two, three: sound the charge, beat the attack; and now you after 10,000 or—always in proportion tu the magnitude of the armies— 100,000 artificial tigers have devoured each other with mutual delight in bat- tle at Xdorf, thus you huve the battle of Xdorf, which is to becoine histori- al; and then the men who clap hands mble round a green congress table stadt, rule lines for altered fron- s on the map, haggle over the pro- portion of contributions, sign a paper which figures in the historical annals of Xstadt, clap their hands three times once more, and say to the red coats and the blue coats surviving, ‘Embrace each other, men and brethren ———— Photo Libel on Marie Corelll. LONDON, Jan. 6.—Marie Corelli until last week had successfully evaded snap- shotters, having the keenest objection to being taken at pictorial disadvan- tage. Nemesis, however, came at last in the form of a snapshot nothing short of a painful travesty of her appearance, but it was published prominently in several papers. Each editor received a letter from the irate novelist's law- yers threatening suit for libelous pub- licatfon. It is held that this misrepre- sentation of her appearance may affect unfavorably the sale of her books among a large class who believe her to be a model of fairy-like beauty. ———— Wants Proof of Lourdes Cures. PARIS, Jan, 6.—The Pope has written to Dr. Boisserie, the physician attached to the pllgrimage shrine of Lourdes, thanking him for his report on the extraordinary and corsoling cures wrought at the holy place, but suggest- ing that’'an episcopal court institute a regular process concerning the most remarkable cases, paying especial at- tention to the identification of the sick and healed, and to medical evidence re- garding their previous state. % e o e . Race of Men With Talls. LONDON, Jan. 6—Dr. C. G. Seligman, speaking this week before the Royal Geographical Society on anthropogeo- graphical investigations in British New Guinea, sald the Daniels ethnographical expedition heard of, but unfortunately had no opportunity of personally inves- tigating, a tribe the members of which before sitting down scratehed a hole in the ground with their spears to accom modate their tails 4 R | ed masculine pseudonyms, | ous authoress was Mrs. William Sharp, | this or that ‘man or woman of letters,” | courtesy both of good breeding and of | tommon sense.” William Sharp Gains Unique Position Through Writing — DECEIVES PUBLISHERS CERE Mystery Is Explained by an Intimate Friend After the Gifted Author Passes Away. BT asi s ke | . | Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Jan, 6.—There are several re- spects in which the literary deception which the late Willlam Sharp practiced on the reading public must be described as one of the most extraordinary things of its. kind on record. Before this Ameri- cans‘have been told by telegraph what this deception was. They have learned that, unknown to all but a few of his most _Intimate associates, the brilliant ‘English cpitic and essayist who died in Ceylon recently was also “Fiona Mac- leod,” the supposedly feminine Celtic writer regarding whose real identity there has been so much speculation during the last few vears. The announcement that Bharp was ‘“Fiona Magleod” was made immediately after the writer's death by Richard Whiteing, author of “No. 5 John Street,” and Sharp's intimate friend. It made something of a sensation in this country. Before this, of course, male writers | have used feminine pen names, though their number is small when compared with that of the women who have adopt- Keats, it will be remembered, published several poems as “Lucy Vaughan Lloyd”; Shelley and Thomas Hogg wrote a small volume called “Posthumous Fragments of Mar- garet Nicholson,” and, needless to recall, Swinburne’s recently republished novel, “Love's Cross Currents,” was originally credited to ‘‘Mrs. Horace Manners.” But ‘William Sharp’s is the only instance on record of a male author's writing at the same time under his own name and a feminize pseudonym and making a great- er reputation under the assmued appella- tion than with that which really belonged to him. That this was Sharp’s case there is no question. For instance, on turning 1o Chamber’s “Cyclopedia of English Lit- erature” we find only six lines of biogra- phy under the name of “Willlam Sharp,” but no less than twenty-four attached to that of “Fiona Macleod.” (It might be explained that biographical details re- garding the ‘“‘authoress’” were obtainable from her whenever they were desired.) TAKES NAME OF WOMAN. Sharp began writing as ‘Fiona Mac- leod” about ten years ago. At that time he had won only what might be de- scribed as a “tolerable” reputation under his_own name. He had written a schol- arly life of Browning; published critical works on Heine and Shelley, and done other work of good quality. But hardly had the first of ‘‘Piona Macleod’s” prose their odd beauty and mystical glamour made their supposed authoress recognized as a new figure in the literature of her time. She was, In fact, regarded by many literary students as the greatest Celtic writer since Ossian’ Macpherson: From the first, however, it was believed that “‘Fiona Macleod” was a pseudonym, &nd all sorts of wild guesses were made “8t thé true identity of the author. “Fiona Macleod” was said to be a daughter ‘of Dr. Norman Macleod. W. B.' Yeats was credited with her work. “She” was in reality Arthur Symons, Maud Gonne and Norah Hopper. The guessers got ‘“‘warmer,” however, when some of them asserted that the mysteri- or a relative of William Sharp. At this point a letter appeared in the Athenaeum which Fiona Macleod's pub- lishers, who were, quite distinct from Sharp’s publishers;«declared they had re- ceived from the *‘authoress” herself. In this Fiona Macieod declared herself much annoyed at her ‘“identification with and continued, “I give you authority to say definitely that Fiona Macleod is not any of those ‘with whom she had been ‘identified,’ that ghe writes only under the name of Fiona Macleod, that the name is her own, and that all she asks is the DECEIVES PUBLISHERS. Of course, in writing this letter Sharp simply lied. He believed, however, that he was justified in his course, and it must be admitted that he sinned in good com- pany. Sir Walter Scott denied categoric- ally that he was the author of “Waver- ley,” Charlotte Bronte denied point blank to Thackeray that she had written “‘Jane Eyre” and more recently Laurence Hous- mann made no bones of contradicting flat- ly the rumor that correctly connected his pame with “An Englishwoman’s Love Letters.” But, unlike these authors, Sharp kept his pseudonymity up to the time of his death. It has already been stated that Sharp's publishers were not those of Fiona Ma- cleod, and Chapman & Hall, who issued the supposed authoress’ works, knew ab- solutely nothing about their client's iden- tity. “She” wrote to them, generally from an Edinburgh address, and received checks to her order, which were returned indorsed with the fictitious name. An odd example of the wiles Sharp was forced to weave is found in the autobiographical notes which he authorized the editor of ‘Who's Who to publish under his double pen names. The “‘recreations” of Willlam Sharp are described as “frequent change of scene and environment in summer, roaming, sailing and swimming.” The recreations of Fiona Macleod are given as “salling, hill walks, listening."” Sharp suffered from almost continuous ill health, and, like Stevenson, visited many parts of the world in the effort to improve his physical condition. One of his first editorships, by the way, was that of the boys’ paper in which Stevenson's “Treasure Island” first appeared. Sharp had the true poetic temperament, and was aischarged from the billet he once held in a London bank for taking an aft- ernoon off without permission in order to go to Richmond and hear the cuckoos sing! —_—————— A Business Change for 1906, Mr. Louis Kragen, for 18 years treas- urer and manager of the old and favor- ably known Kragen Furniture Com- pany, and later connected with the cor- poration of Kragen's, has severed his connection with the latter firm and as- sociated himself with the Eastern Out- fitting. Company, 1320-28 Stockton street, one of the oldest and most popu- lar installment ‘houses on the Pezeific Coast, Mr. Louis Kragen is.a popular frater- nal man and has the esteem and respect of all those with whom "he has had business dealings and his many friends and acquaintances wish him every suc- cess in his new undertaking. PARIS, Jan. 6.—Jean de Bonnefon, Roman correspondent of the Paris Journal, says he has discovered that one of the chief offenders against the Pacca law forbidding the exportation from Italy of ancient works of art is' the Kaiger, who is filling his private gallery at Potsdam ‘with contraban masterpleces. Ask the ‘who knows. The American Cigar, made by Regensburg, i8 the best.*. \ al GREAT CLEARANCE WEEK AT SAMUELS THREE BIG SALE EVENTS (To commence to-morrow) in addition to January Clearance Re- ductions in every line of Fancy Novelty Goods. HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT Our annual Linen Clearance Sale commences Monday. All odd cloths, last dozens of napkins, broken sets, stock numbers we no longer carry (whether bedspreads or towels or table linen); in fact, every line of household linens is comprised—ALL AT SPLENDID REDUCTIONS. Damask Table Cloths hemmed ‘hemmed hemmed hemmed hemmed hemmed at At 25c Each 54 in. 60 in. 68 in. 72 in. 9o in, 108 in. 54 in. 54 in. 68 in. 72 in. 72 in. x x x % X 72 in. x 200 dozen excellent hemstitched huck towels, 22 X 44 in. The individual odd cloths to be disposed of at very low figures comprise round, square and oblong of the finest Belfast and Austrian manufactures, and will be in every size from 3 yards to 3 yards, af- fording a rare opportunity. Napkins i-om broken sets of similar fineness and correspondingly cheap. At 25c Each 2000 excellent heavy bleached Turkish towels. Value $4.00 dozen. - in. SHEETS AND PILLOW CASES 250 dozen standard quality sheets, extra heavy, 81xgo, at 50c ea. each. - Also 25 per cent Splendid pillow cases, firm quality, at 12%¢ discount on a great variety of hand- seme odd pieces in embroidered and lace trimmed linens. ' , Colored Dress Goods Department, Many of the season’s most desirable dress materials can be purchased next week at reductions varying from one-quarter to .one-half of former particular mention. $1.00 Yard 650 yards plain, mixed and fancy plaids, tan panne cheviots, mixed and striped chev- Former prices, $1.50 iots and illuminated tweeds. and $1.75 yard. ?5¢ Yard 500 yards fancy tweed mixtures in selling prices. We quote several very excellent bargains that will bear 35¢ Yard 750 yards mixed worsted suitings, in checks, invisi- ble plaids and fancy mixtures. All the most fash- ionable mixtures of theseason. Former prices, 50¢ and 6oc yard. Remnants suitings, novelty the invisible plaid and novelty striped effects, popular mixtures of gray, brown, blue and green. and $2.00 yard. Former prices, $1.25 Black and colored dress goods prices. at greatly « reduced We announce a Special Bargain Clearance Sale at our LACE DEPARTMENT of extraordinary importance to young ladies, consisting of Genuine Brussels Point Lierre Robe Pattern Gowns at $5.00, $10.00, $15.00 and $20.00 each Being from one-half to one-third of original price. All Leather /Bags, Belts, Buckles, Hair Orna- ments, Etc., cut. to almost %. See Win~ A Limited Quantity Only. MUSLIN UNDERWEAR SALE NOW ON HALF MILLION L0SS AT FIRE Insurance on the Buildings Destroyed at Kansas City Covers Most of the Damage KANSAS CITY, Jan. 6.—A revised estimate of the losses in last night's fire places the total damage at slightly more than a half million dollars and the insurance &t two-thirds of that amount. The property damaged and destroyed occuvied two-tbirds of the block on the west side of Walnut street between Ninth and Tenth streets. The fire was practically under control at £:30 this morning. The losses are dis- tributed as follows: National Bank of Commerce, office building and bank fixtures, Tenth and Walnut streets, loss $100,000, fully in- |1 sured; Woods building, ¢18-920-923 Walnut street, owned by Dr. W. §. Woods, president of the Natlonal Bank of Commerce, loss $150,000, insurance $100,000; Columbus Buggy Company, stock, loss $190,000, insurance $75,000; W. W. Kimball Piano Company, stock, loss $35,000, insurance $30,000; Het- tinger RBrothers Manufacturing Com- pany, surgical instruments and physi- cians' supplies, stock, loss §30,000, In- surance $50.000. H Ridge otlice building, loss $15,000. Gecupants of offices in the Bank of Commerce building and adjeining prop- erty, loss. $25.000. The damage to the Bank of Com- merce building, a six-story structure, was caused principally by water. The rooms of the National Bank of Commerce were partly damaged and rendered temporarily uninhabitable. The vaults, containing $3,000,000 and the bank’s records. were not damaged. The bank, which is the largest financial in- stitution in the city, opened for busi- ness to-day in temporary quarters. ——— Soubrettes Flee from Russia. BERLIN, Jan. 6.—One of the recent | fugitives from Russia is Mlle. Valetta, | the St. Petersburg operetta singer, not- ed for beauty, diamonds and her.rela- tions with Grand Dukes, especially with Grand Duke Alexis, the Czar's uncle, until recently generalissimo of the Russian marine. Mlle. Valetta . left Russia with diamonds to the value of $400,000 and $3560,000 in cash. She has a fortune also of nearly half a million dollars in European securities. The Russian rebels, believing the fortunes acquired by Valetta and .other sou- brettes came divect from the public exchequer, were lined to make it unpleasant for them, and she is to be followed by other women who have enjoyed the protection of Grand Dukes. —————————— May Be Lord Harmswortk. LONDON, Jan. 6.—Sir Alfred Harms- worth desired to go to the House of Lords as Lord Kingsgate, after a vil- lage on his property, Kent, but he found this was a d« t and the Westminster Gazette, expected to get @ e from. Cam Ban- nermar for the political se: of the last-named paper, whose tor, I. A. Spender, end political cartoonist, F. Carruthers Gould, are mentioned for Shave Men at Own Homes. lic, and will shave and cut the hafr of MADRID, Jan. 6.—The barbers’ strike | men at their own homes for the same here has entered upon a new phase. |Price as is paid in the shops. They The employers have not only rejected | 2¥® taking up certain stations in the the men's demands, but fa many cases | LEOrOUSHIATes. vo that customers know- have decided to replace the strikers by | send tor them = r v o Belgian, French and German barbers. | —————— The strikers have met this threat in a Death of a lLeading Odd Fellow. manner which will not suit théir em- LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Jan. 6.—Rob~ ployers. While they will not work for | ert McGregor, & past grand master of their employers they have declared |the Odd Fellows and a pioneer Kan- themselves ready to work for the pub- san, died here to-day. aged 73 years. he Brophy Trac HALFMOON BAY Lots 50x150, fronting on broad avenues, $100 upon terms . . . Offers investors an opportunity that is most safe and profitable. Over 1000 lots have been sold at Halfmoon Bay during the last four months. The advent of spring will find hundreds of these investors erecting subur- ban homes and villas in this, the most beautiful beach country along the California coast. Halfmoon Bay is already a town of 1250 inhabitants. Connected with San Francisco by the Ocean Shore Railroad, the Brophy Tract at Halfmoon Bay will be a forty- minute ride from Third ‘and Market streets on the finest scenic railroad system in the country. Possess- ing a beautiful beach, backed by fine wooded hills, an excellent climate, fine spring water, unsurpassed railroad facilities, with a community of suburban homes of San Francisco buginess men, Halimoon Bay , near Ramsgate, | realty values will increase by leaps and bounds. The immense pleasure enterprises projected by the Ocean Shore Railroad at this point will make this the most attractive resort in the entire State.. Remember that the tract I put on the market a few weeks ago is the choicest' subdivision that has yet been offered, comprising forty acres, having over 1200 feet frontage on the main street of the town " (Kelly Ave.), and over one-half mile on the beautiful Bay, which affords an unobstructed Marine View from every lot. The railroad depot is located on this tract. _ People who have seen other beach resorts grow, with the advent of electric roads, are getting into Halfmoon Bay now. Get a lot, at first prices, and double your money when the spring rush starts. . The title is insured by the Title Insurance and . Guarantee Co., and I ¢an give you a deed at once. Excursion every Sunday, rain or shine. Come in and make arrangements to go down with me, for [ " can give you value for your money. Frank P. Bro 22 SUTTER STREET I ¥