The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 7, 1906, Page 8

ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO McNAUGHT..... POHN THIRD AND MARKET STREETS. SAN FRANCISCO FEBRUARY 7, 1906 75 GRUNSKY ON RECLAMATION. NGINEER GRUNSKY is in the Government service in the on of the Federal irrigation law. His official position ell as his professional eminence give great weight to his s, and they will undoubtedly bring the rectification to River to the attention of the Government. Pre- t the Government owes the same attention to the Sacra- it gives to the Mississippi, though the former is not an he proposes that the United States shall devise utline a drainage project, advance the funds for its completion recover them without interest from the owners of the land to be med s the proposition with the irrigation law, under rs of arid lands return to the Government, in install- he cost of putting them under water. 1 the Government by act of Congress has a proposition to he land owners they can consider it, for acceptance or re- er is done in that line should be in the form of a the reclaimed lands, to the end that the improve- be at the cost of the Government without recovery. at these propositions may come to a head, and the way be ngress to act, it is very necessary that the land owners Mr. Grunsky’s initiative. It is suggested that they ysville during this month for that purpose. ty-six years since the swamp and overflowed lands y o 1ssed into private hands. Their efficient reclama- n talked about for more than half a century, and is not lished. Engineers have worn trails up and down the ecting material for reports on the subject. Members of of the Legislature have gone up and down the river in pect the situation. Millions have been spent by private rties i ling levees. The floods have come in time and washed away the safeguards, and crops and flocks and herds have been lost. been no co-ordination of effort to effect a remedy. All of wners are unsafe from the floods, but there are many de- afety among them. In each of these degrees there is a ling of non-affiliation with the others. The great flood of 1904 lved all in a2 common disaster and they rushed together e in a remedial policy. the shutters put up and the land dried, and 1to original groups, and matters reached their E as w ndation strea as bee as Given the watershed and the same rainfall, ali 1 be the same flood and destruction and loss. The 1 owners should be in time of drought prepare for is ark in dry weather, though his neighbors If the land owners meet at Marysville and get into they have the pledge of our members of Congress to work h have demanded that the Federal and State ear all the expense, with no recovery. It is mere They will do no such thing. The work effectively id more than its cost to the value of private lands. ost will be $26 per acre, a figure that has authority want. Some o es sells readily at $60 and $80 per acre. If , with a brief season and producing a limited mand that price, what is more fertile lanc California? With recldmation made efficient are ver: lirt cheap at $100 per acre, and the man that e $26 for S100 should be pricked for the simples. ment wilt ‘soon have on hand $35,000,000 in the irrigation. But we need not wait for that. The analogy between the Sacramento and the ete, the money may be appropriated directly stallments as needed for the work, and re- in installments when it is finished. The time Mr. Grunsky has suggested the first feasible nvolved in professional technicality, but is plain and srehension by laymen who don’t know an engineer’s 3 It bars out all disputes about the cause of 1es aside the ancient feud between the hydrau- valley people. It puts plainly a condition, and sors all theories about the cause, whether the rive ily vern s t of « 1 ranchers can get together now, stop quarreling and us by all means have the meeting at Marysville and T ners go at work. Let HOMES FOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN. (@), offered for the reception of dependent orphan children are so plentiful there are not enough available children to fiil the places that want them. Such is the statement of the presid of the Children’s Home Society of California in his ad- dress befose the State Conference of Charities and Corrections. He brings out this fact in order to show that there is an open door for improvement in the care of dependent children. Our method of rtunate ones in institutions, which produce what al Childhood, he is convinced is far inferior to ch is used in other States of sending the children out homes where they are kindly desired and having them visited and watched over by agents of the State. Theoretically there may be some good arguments made in favor of sending orphans to be brought up in institutions, as that in utions the little ones could be watched over and instructed by persons who because of special training in paidology and because of u I natural gifts in that line of effort would have great ad- vantage over the average householder, who must be more or less ig- norant of the fine points of developing the child’s intellect and char- acter. When it comes to the practical test, however, it appears that experience teaches that the home method is much the best, both as to the results achieved in making good citizens of the children and in the e of the operation. ’ Moreover t gures are held to show that the home system in omy some v largely decreases the proportion of dependent childre he address does not explain the reasons why this result is brought about, and it weuld be interesting to have the logic of it, the why and wherefore of the difference, worked out. The statistics show that there is a big'difference in places where the home method is adopted and to it is attributed the lessening of the numbers of chil- dren who appeal for charitable protection. The bonus of S100 offered by the State is supposed to act as a -pendence. In California it costs the public ten times e for its dependent children as it does in Minnesota, In Indiana the public support as muc where the homing system prevails. one dependent child for 1015 of the population as compared to one | in California to every 275 of population. In Indiana they have a State Agency for the homing of the children and their periodical visitation. Other figures are given which have equal force to show that must be some strong cause for betterment operating in other States which is not at work here. A The system of sending the orphans out to homes is surely the best from the fact that our civilization is based upon the home, and every child that gets the chance of the personal care and personal affection possible only in a kindly home circle stands a better chance of growing up to a happy and useful manhood or womanhood than one brought up as one of a crowd in a public institution. The feeling against the Standard Oil monopoly is nothing to what it would be if the country could fully realize its unscrupulous methods and its St. Louis Post-Dispatch. —— Chicago appears to be bearing up bravely under the shock of the re- port that “Elijak” Dowic may never return—Kansas City Times. ’ tremendous power.— reclamation project were ceded to the State | Then the windows of | owners should remember that irrigated land in | the erosion of cultivation or the slickens from the moun- | AK! AT THE TOP, THEY SAID T COULDN'T DO IT WELL, THEY HAVE LOST FINE, OH, [ | | | WELL. OF ALL THINGS! WHICH oW OH! HELP! R ULD WAPPEN, [ KNEW 1T TIME Just R AT Yo THAT oo wowe! | To the Editor of The Call: | No doubt lots of people after the ®vent think they could have done all | sorts of things that were not done to | save the people from the Vllpncia. I hate to be ome among them, but gnil- {not retrain fram offering my sugges- tion for what it may be worth in simi- | lar cases. | In my forty-five years at sea as man and master in all sorks of craft and In all parts of the world I have experi- enced much; never had the satisfaction of saving any one from a wreck, but have thrice been thus saved, once just {in the nick of time. Our vesssl, in a | hard on-shore gale, drove from her anchors on to a rocky beach, with our boats useless and no chance at all of assistance from the shore. We bad but | little chance of all getting on shore | alive, when suddenly on looking ahead we saw a boat with five men being | veered down to us from another vessel | at anchor some distance ahead and off shore. We got into her and were soon | hauled off to that vessel. In half an | hour after leaving our bark was match- wood strewn along the beach. I have just read all the papers rela- tive to the wreck of the Valencla and have done some thinking. Did any of RECALLS DAYS OF VIGILANTES. To the Editor of The Call: I have read with interest Mr. Wasser- | man’s statements in The Call of Sunday, and I want to call his attention, and yours, to one error. His Vigliénce Com- mittee statements are correct. They were in ‘56, but he is out of the way by two years when he talks about the At- lantic cable. That was in 58, September, I think. I sagw the procession from the southwest corner of Jackson and.Stock- ton streets, where I was then rooming, and later in the day heard part of Col- onel Baker’'s celebrated cable oration in front of where the Orlental Hotel was at that time, and long after. I saw from the roof of the building, which is, I think, now standing at Clay or Commercial street, Cora and Casey as they were dropped from the platforms in front of the rooms of the Vigllance Committee. I had come from the interior of the State to San Francisco to live only a few days before. T. L. BARKER. Oakiand, Feb. 6. SURELY NOT. i Cholly—Your sister treats me like a dog. ;n;ry—wuu Does she kiss you, the rescue steamers do anything but |cruise back and forth at what they thought was a safe distance from dan- | ger, looking at the poor wretches in | the rigging? | Now for my humble syggestion: Find nearest safe distance you can approach, place your vessel to wind- warg of wreck, let go both anchors so that when cables are veered to the end they will be about four points on each bow. Have a boat from each quarter with three or four men.in it slacked some little distance astern to take soundings and glve timely notice of hidden dangers, When as near as you dare go slack boats down to wreck, get as near as possible, and If neces- sary haul the people off with a heaving line. If too rough for boats to live launch every life raft on board and slack them down with lines, with help of your cables and engines. You may be able to sheer them near enough for the first man from the wreck to reach them. The bottom may be rocky and hard, but with a fpll length of cable out and a little help from the engines the anchors will probably hold the ship in position. You may lose your an- chors and some life rafts, but what matter if even but one life be saved? AN OLD SALT. San Francisco, Feb. 6. SRR T e & AXSWERS T0 (UERIES. CHAUFFEUR—A. W., City. The pro- nunciation of chauffeur, the man who runs an automobile, is show-fur. e IN IOWA—W. McN., Berkeley, Cal. The principal town in Marshall County, Iowa, is Marshalltown, which is the coun- ty seat. —_— PLAGIARISM-J. H. S, City. This cor- réspondent writes: ‘“Will you kindly ad- vise me If a short story printed in a ; weekly magazine in London over five years ago were taken by a person in the United States now, the names of the char- atters changed and printed in an Ameri- can magazine, would the person repub- lishing said story be intruding on the original writer's rights and would he be taking chances of getting himself into trouble?”’ The person who would do that ‘would be guilty of plagiarism—in fact, he would be a literary thief, whom no re- spectable publisher would countenance. JAf the story was a copyrighted one he would be amenable under the laws that protect copyright. NOT FOR WILLIE. Lulu—Would dat we two could 80 through life togedder thus! “Willile—Wot! Wit me at de busi- ness end of de sled! 'COPTRIGHT, 190 BY THG NEW YORK EVENTO TELEGRAN (VCW TORK HERALD OO\ “Old Salt” on Wreck of ths Valencia exclaimed the DANIEL WEBSTER'S w American lawyer, was at the zenith of his career a gentleman for the defense in an important case at law, the amount at stake in the suit being ‘what the retaining fee would be. “A thousand dollars.” gentleman. ‘“Yes. But think for a moment what I myself at your service in the matter, per- baps for a month or more, but I debar ter how large, from the plaintiff.” The applicant, being satisfled with the amount and gave it to the great advocate, who, after he had put it in his pocket, “I will now give you a bit of advice gratis, If you can compromise this busi- you had better do so.” The client expressed his thanks and took man called upon Webster again and told him that a compromise had been effected ‘Webster duly congratulated his visitor on the result, and would have turned to oth- something further on his mind. “Of course,” he ventured, after a pause, ‘Webster.” “Certainly not, sir.” faintly asked the gentleman, who ‘Was not quite reconciled by paying such a sum dered. “Oh, ah!” responded Daniel, stand. It is very simple. That was a re- taining fee—called in law a ‘retainer.’ By tainer. What should I retain, if not my fee?"'—Chicago Journal. Automobilist—I suppose this bill for try- ing the machine is all right, but what time mean? Repairman—That was the time I was in_ HEN Daniel Webster, the famous waited upon him one day to engage him $80,000. The gentleman asked Webster “A thousand dollars!” am engaged to do, sir. I do not only hold myself from accepting any offer, no mat- explanation, wrote out a check for the said: ness upon fair terms with the plaintiff his leave. A few days aftér the gentle- and the matter satisfactorily settled. er business, but the Visitor seemed to have “I shall not require your services, Mr. “And how about the $1000 I paid you?" for services which were never to be ren- bland smile. “You don't seem to under- virtue of the contract I also become a re- TESTING THE NEW AUTO. does this item of forty-eight hours over- Jail.—Woman's Hoqc Companion. Townsend’s Californla glace fruits and choicest candies in artistic fire- etched boxes. New store, 767 Market. * "»8 DON'T BE GRAVE, BE GAY AND DRIVE DULL CARE AWAY. — & THE SMART SET = — By Sally Sharp. e Mrs. Augustus Taylor, Mrs. -wmmml H. Taylor Jr. and Mrs. Frederick Me- Near were hostessgs at one of the largest bridge parties of the §eason | yesterday, the affair being held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hopkins, | on California street. Half a hundred players enjoyed the fascinating sgame for several hours, among those con- testing being Mrs. Carter Pitkin Pom- eroy, Mrs. Francis J. Carolan, Mrs. Athearn Folger, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mrs. } Robert Oxnard, Mrs. Latham McMullin, | Mrs. Joseph Anderson Chanslor, Mrs. { Norman McLaren, Mrs. Alfred Tubbs, Mrs. Timothy Hopkins, Mrs. Ira Plerce, Mrs, James Follis, Mrs. Frederic Wil- son Kimole, Mrs. George Martin, Mrs. P. E. Bowles, Mrs Wil- liam Sherwood, Mrs. Alfred Tubbs, Mrs. Samuel Boardman, Mrs. James Carolan, Mrs. | Chauncey Winslow, Mrs. Sherwood Hopkins, Mrs. Frank B. Anderson, Mrs. William Hinckley Taylor, Mrs. Harry Mendell, Mrs. Jo- seph Keeney, Mrs. Willis Polk, Mrs. Henry Kierstedt, Mrs. Thomas Breeze, Mrs. Edwin Pringle, Mrs. Frederick Tallant, Mrs. Robert Woods, Mrs. Ed- win Dimond, Mrs. Willlam Newhall, Mrs. Robert Creswell, Mrs. Alexander Garceau, Mrs. Charles Josselyn, Mrs. George C. Boardman, Mrs. Joseph D. Grant, Mrs. George Almer Newhall, Mrs. Willlam Prentice Morgan, Mrs. E. B. Cutter, Mrs. Willlam Hopkins, Mrs. Tobin, Mrs. McNear, Mrs. Harry Wil- liam Poett, Miss Alice Hager, Miss Emily Carolan, Miss Eleanor Morgan, Miss Jennie Blalr, Miss Laura McKin- stry and Miss McNear. . & The home of Mr. and Mrs. C. Fred- erick Kohl, on Van Ness avenue, held a gay throng of guests last evening, bidden in honor of Miss Genevieve Harvey. The affair, a dinner-dance, included nearly a hundred, of which eighteen were bidden to dine. | The halls and drawing-rooms were effectively dressed In huckleberry, palms and ferns, among which were mingled clusters of pink roses. The round table in the dining-room was made brilliant by strings of tiny incandescent lights stretched from a| luxurious centerplece of American Beauty roses. The affair, beautifully appointed in each detail, was the most elaborate of the private dances given this season. « . . Christ's Church, in Sausalito, was most attractively though simply adorned yesterday for the marriage of | Miss Cornella Sarah Campbell and| Harry Akin Yeazell, which took place | at noon in the presence of relatives and | several guests. The bride, in w""el messaline satin, was attended by her| sister, Mrs. Emmet Rixford, as matron of honor, with Miss Emma Grimwood and Miss Frances Reed as bridesmaids. | Rev. Donald Brookman served as best man, with Dr. Shadwell Beaslay and’ Covington Pringle as ushers. ! The home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Henry C. Canipbell, was filled with re- | ception guests after the ceremony, ex- tending greetings to the young couple. Mr. and Mrs. Yeazell are away in the central part of the State. AR G * The forecast for.next week says that bridge will predominate over other af- tairs of pleasure and two hostesses who have announced their intention of pre- siding at the game are Mrs. George A, Moore and Miss Sara Drum. ¢ x e A dozen guests enjoyed an afternoon at bridge on Monday at the home of Mrs. Charles J. Deering. . W Mrs. Ella K. Hotaling will be one of to-day’s bridge hostesses, entertaining scveral guests at her home on Franklin street. Mrs. Erwin G. Rodolph and Mrs. H. M. A. Miller have also issued bridge invitations for to-day. R iy Mrs. Harry Nathaniel Gray will en- tertain several guests to-day at a luncheon in honor of Mrs. Haldimand Putnam Young, the affair to take place at St. Dunstan’s. . Mrs. Louis H. Long will be hostess at the Sequoia Club to-morrow evening at a reception’ willeh will be made most entertaining. Mrs. Long will contribute an original monologue and General Charles A. Woodruff will speak of in- teresting army features in the Philip- pines. Receiving with Mrs. Long will be Mrs. Albert Gerberding, Mrs. W. C Morrow, Mrs, Fernando Pfingst, Mrs. James Coker Sims, Mrs. Thomas Morf- few, Mrs. A. E. Graupner, Mrs. Charle2 J. Deering, Mrs. L. Eugene Lee and Mrs. G. Norris. Among the bridge events of yester- day was that hostessed by Mrs. J. H ‘Wallace at her home in Gough street. A score of players were bidden, among whom were Mrs. Harry Nathaniel Gray, Mrs. Haldimand Putnam Young, Mrs Malcolm Henry, Mrs. Frederick 8. Spen- cer, Mrs. Eugene Freeman, Mrs. Angelo- Duperu, Mrs, P. G. Galpin, Miss Con- stance Borrome, Miss Georgie Spieker, Miss Helene Robson and Miss Mary small. . Mrs. Bertody Wilder Stone, a bridge hostess of yesterday, entertained twen- ty guests at her home on Washington street. &F TPt 8. L. Abbot and family have moved into their beautiful new home, 3113 Vallejo street, near Buchanan. - . the arrivals at - The following are Byron Hot Springs: Judge A. F. St Sure, Mr. and Mrs. V. Carus Driffleld; Mr. and Mrs, C. E. Hodges, Palo Alto; Mr. and Mrs. H. 8. Bates, Miss Ruth Merrill, Captain William Crosby; Georg C. Walker, Java; Frank Maskey, J. W, Coftroth, Dr. and Mrs. S. I Harrison, Senator Edward I Wolfe, Superior Judge J. C. B. Hebbard, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Howell, Miss Dutton; Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Dunaway, Reno, Nev.; Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Ross, Mr. and Mrs. James A Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. A. A Moore Jr, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Starr, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Landers; Mrs. N. Goodman, New York; William Herbert Landers, 8 OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTA By A. ]. Waterhouse. —— FABLE OF THE PROUD YOUTH. NCE, upon a time there was a Proud Youth who had attained that memorable time of life when he nourished a Lovely Mustache that promised to be even more Lovely after a few discouraging years had passed, and this Proud Youth knew so much that he realized that it would be im- possible for him, or anybody, ever to know more. «“fhe time has mow come,” sald the Proud Youth, as he looked about him, | “when I am scheduled to Do Things. I have a Very Superior Education and a Perfectly Irresistible Diploma; I feel the Flood of Genfus throbbing in my veins, and it Is eyident that the world is mine oyster. Methinks I will step out and pick It up.” (It might be mentioned right here that the neighbers had not noticed the Flood of Genius: but neighbors are so blind!) So the Proud Youth stepped out to pick up the oyster, but unfortunately it would not pick: It acted almost as if it objected to being unhitched from its moorings by any one man. Then was the Proud Youth sore dis- gusted, and he said, “You won't, won't you!” and he ‘vrcnehofl_ at the oyster eagerly; and he wrenched again and yet again; and he pulled and yanked and hauled until his hands were sorely cut and bleeding; yet dld the oyster not pick. “Dern such an oyster!” the Proud Youth muttered, “it is not what it has been alleged to be. Evidently I must kick it loose. So the Proud Youth drew back his foot and kicked with might and main —and he still is nursing his toe and wondering when it will get well; but the oyster still is unpicked, and wheth- er the Proud Youth (not quite so proud now) ever will pick it remalns to be seen, but I am among those who sit in the seats of the scornful and offer to | | l r e ] bet that he will mot. the Prouda Youth, ones? Still, agreeable—— Moral: The world is a shockingly tough oyster! It is sad about is it not. my litle we should heed the dis- “She fell over head and ears in love with him.” “Then why did they net marry?” “Oh, he had nothing but his salary, and she discovered that she was able to swim.” —_— “Bjinks made a million dollars in stocks the other day, but he was un~ able to pecket it." “How so?" “Why, his daughter about that time married a European title™ “I understand that an actress was stoned at Grub Gulch the other night” “Yes. It seemed a pity, toe; but she sang ‘Rock Me to Sieep, Mother.' and. ul-r-oth.r'a:a(mg--. unne.m.zmmmm to act In her behalf™ —_— The consoling one—Thers stlver micwu-wm“ The daisconsclate one—I suppose m“mm-mmnm: is on the other side of 17