The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1906, Page 8

THE SA THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Pf‘H_\W D. SPRECKELS.. esssese s esayes dabersvevas che s esnPROPEICLOP ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO FOHN McNAUGHT... chscchcrmescenen,ssisesenss MANRECE - THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO FEBRUARY SLICATION OFFICE. 14, 1905 THE OVERHEAD TROLLEY. Merchants’ Association, acting through its directors, took members upon the system for standardizing the ailroads of this city. The alternative propositions sub- | re the u*'rrhcad and underground trolley. Only one-fourth | rs voted, but the vote is undoubtedly representative of the whole membership. - The vote, on all of the| ed, was mor¢ than-two to one in fayor of the‘ ley | a vote of its street T be: 1 in the recommendation they would make, to back up one | the other. After getting an instruction, backed by | to one of the voting members, the directors pro- d the overhead trolley, which had been so sig- avored in thé poll ordered by themselves! For traordinary action the directors give no.adequate rea- | not enlighten the public as to their justification for | ds of the members of the body they represent. they sought instructions and then violated | announce -the result of the vote, and then de-| ! favor of the proposition that it defeated. | lerchants’ Association has dome much excellent work:in t this was done by its directors keepinpg within e character and funetions. When they fail to do ly represent the body that commissions et entitled to no more respect than those of | | mber of citizens who are non-commissioned by any: r- | re merely expressing their opinions in their pri- that this action does not end the usefulness 1, but that it will improve its next op- cers who will follow advice after they seek or use; iews are ction of the directors are exasperating, as trolley situation, and more exasperating be- the very existence of the association itself. If itted suicide by the hand of its officers, the The street car situation is-this: Two re have a mixed system of cable, electricity | ort line is entirely horse power. Steep grade | wer. An extensive part of the system, t converge on Market street and run , is cable power only. Wherever the grades per- he interest of the public, for the city to stand- . g electrical power. of the mileage in existence, and the extensions that i.growth, can be subjected to electricity as a our leading business and residence streets ad obstruction, unsafe and unsightly, primitive , or public opinion must compel the proper authority underground, or we must go on as we are, with standardized system, and take a back seat among all ne wi § lex and non- rs adopted that method of securing instructions to | [ FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1906. [ | jerground trolley were doub be were an experiment, if its utility t, and it were still in ‘the empirical xcuse for opposing it and some justi- ported opinion and unadvised advice of the rchants’ Association. But the underground trol- t as far past the experimental stage as electric power is. ed in other cities, and accepted ,as the best method of | form of power which has come to be the only one for use in the surface transportation of cities. All to the temporary inconveniencé of its installa- | ave to be opened for the conduits. But this was|1® ton City, by the street traction company, volun- matter of course. The work was done so expertl speed that the public inconveniepce caused by open s was very brief. The paving taken up there during y all of it valuable asphalt. It was re- mish was %eft. Here but little of the street 1 is of bitumen, easily replaced, and fhe most the primitive cobble. In the new sections 1 extensions the conduits may precede pav- | le inconvenience will be caused: able that under such favorable circumstances San compelled to endure a non-standardized system oads, or to accept the overhead trolley as the only al- lirectors of the Merchants’ Association mccept the 1 al poles and lights of handsome design,” as if we ren to be tickled with a toy. A gilt coffin is a coffin, and a | vated pill is only a pill. The overhead wire, though stretched on poles that rival the grills of the Taj Mahal, are none the less in some e t} require that all electric wires shall go underground. | hem any longer overhead is as unjustifiable as wauld 1 to use of the street gutters as sewess.- Surface sewer- wires are the same. They are public nuisancs, |+ rery consideration of sightliness and safety. ent directors of the Merchants’ Association pass | example of Washington City ‘in their own coun- 1e most beautiful cities in the world, and proposc we have the overhead wire, on “ornamental poles, of the same | sign as those used in Cologne, Germany.” Why don’t they pro- that with the poles we import the “seven hundred stfnks” of | | ? No one cares what pattern of pole carries the overhead r in what part of the street it is planted. The wire anywhere ead is a nuisance and the pole an obstruction, though it be gar- i jeweled like the scepter of the Moguls. v expression of public preference and opinion, so far ob- v any means, is against the overhead trolley and in favor nderground system. No respectable engineer has pretended rere are any difficulties of construction. The only objection the owners of the street roads runs to its cost. But their business is very profitable. The. people do not object to that, for the public ence they supply is great. But the people pay enough for se to make the system safe and sightly, and its standardizing | nent by putting its wires underground, and they will have d onc THE PRESS OF THE NATION. President Roosevelt has become a member of the Order of Red Men, e has not zs yet expressed an intention to put aside the big stick and take up the tomahawk.—Chicago Record-Herald. e A% USSR ER ol ot There may be some little encouragement for Vice President Fairbanks the thought that France has just elected the president of the Senmate to succeed President Loubet.—Boston Globe. et ——— It is said that Bob Fitzsimmons is still grieving over his recent defeat. The old man should cheer up. Suppose he had been a woman and had visited the White House?>—Houston Post. 3 RIS Ky It may be all right for the Senators to dig the Panama canal themselves, but it will never do to make Senator Morgan a gang boss.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. { | RSSO W, 4 | The matket for American poker chips is said to be seriously threatened | Iy undervaluation of the Japanese article.—Baltimore ‘Sun. ———— | Castro will assuredly refuse to ‘believe in any punishment he has not! erienced —Washington Star. | _—— Well. the country is in great luck that happy Nick Loéngworth doesn'li write poetry.—Chicago News 1 make a week stand? That, although money talks, it mever gives itself away? That the chap most apt to get “soaked” Isn’t It Odd? 3 the one who's the driest? That when an heir grows dissolute his property becomes dissipated? That barnacles don't grow on barns, and that no tent is possessed of tentacles? That when a man is “generous to a fault” you generally find the fault is one of his own? That some folks seem to think that looking at work is the same thing as looking for it? That a man may not run after people because they have money, and yet find them running after him because he has no money? That you may refer to a friend as “a | gay dog”’ and he will secretly feel flat- | tered, while he will make any amount of trouble if you speak of him as a “pup?’— The Reader. & GOOD GUESS. “You should go away for a rest,” said and unsafe. The appearance, comfort and safety of the | the doctor. b | .ve been away, Doctor, but I didn't | get any rest,” replied the patient. “Oh, well, next time you go away don't let your creditors know where you are.” e LES. SMI WANING OF THE HONEYMOON Mrs. Noolywedd —I think you ought to tell me everything you do when you are away from me. T don’t like this being kept In the dark. Noolywedd—You didn't seem to mind it so very much when we were courting. HAD HIM !m P, Skinflint—I know round steak from porterhouse! Do you think I have been boarding all these years for nothing? Mrs.. Hashe Howse — Well, I shouldn't be surprised if you had. ——E Ly, That most upright planos are downright nuisances? That so few men are competent to en- joy a competency? That} § dakefdb, stropk ViegePpny to | | r |8 ey e TRt T e el propounded. T UP-TO-DATE KING ALFONSO TO You lead the e -SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION. There is a young woman in Wash- ington who is a graduate of a seminary that makes a feature of its course In domestic hygiene. One day a friend was walling with this young woman, and their conversa- tign turned to the discussion of somse rather abstruse .questions ’Mch the graduate intended to present in a pa- per before a woman's club at the capi- tal. The graduate was holding forth in approved seminary style on various seholarly themes, when shé suddenly stopped and picked up & pin on the sidewalk. y “1 am surprised,” smilingly observed her companion, glancing at the rusty the graduate stuck it under the 1' of her coat. It is a little superstition I bave never been able to conquer,” sald the graduate, “but,” she hastened to ex- plain, “I shall sterilize this as soon as 1 get home.”—Harper's ‘Weekly. ARSWERS 10 QUERIES. PORT ARTHUR-A. 8, City. It was lon January 2, 1905, that Port Arthur capitulated. UNITED STATES DEBT—Subscriber, . City. The pringipal of the public debt of the United States, November 1, 1905, was $2,203,846,382 34. $ ————r { MARRIAGE LICENSE—Subscriber, I Cpy. Under the present law in Cali- fornia persons desiring to obtain a mar- | riage license must appear In person be- fore the party authorized to {ssue such {license, namely the County Clerk or his uty, and under oath er certal | HEN we two are wed In dear old Madrid, T'll stay at home, And “pull down the lid.” ——— COUNT BONI TO THE COUNTESS DE CASTELLANE. ON’'T leave our happy home, Come back to little Boni; Great is his love for you, And, he “needs the money.” 5 ATTORNEY GENERAL HADLEY TO JOHN D.ROCKEFELLER. OR you my And burns, indeed, like fury. Oh, won't you come and join Us, down ,he?‘e in Missouri? PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO CONGRESSMAN LONGWORTH, AKE good care of sweet Alice, Who soon’ll become Mrs. Nick. If you don’t, my boy, well—you've Heard of that famous “big stick?” CHAUNCEY DEPEW TO CASSIE CHADWICK. ADNESS is my lot— No more public roles. Happy should you be, Making button-holes. HETTY GREEN TO RUSSELL SAGE. ; F all the men in our land, I love you best, dear Russell; The boys in Wall street hustle. / KAISER WILHELM TO LA BELLE FRANCE. ERAUS mit dot Morocco! Meine liebe fleur-de-lis, No longer will we knock-o; Haben zwei beer mit me. gain s ——te I Occidental : Accidentals BY A. J. WATERHOUSE. — SONG OF THE D‘OLOBOIII DUMPS. WBBN the Dolorous Dumps get ‘thold of a man— Ho and oho! Worry and woel— When he feels he's a part of Beelzebub’s plan— What is the show for mortals below? When the sky that was blue turns black- er, and black, And the deuce take the load that you tote * on your back! When the thing that on yesterday glad- dened to cheered Is a thing, you opine, to be dreaded and feared, It is oho! ‘Worry and woe! Unfortunate devil, you haven't a show, As I needn’t remark, for you feel it is so. ° Oho! Here is a “go!” For the Dolorous Dumps hit a terrible blow. VALENTINES, THE PRINCESS ENA. heart does ache ~ nch in making QUEEN'S HEALTH RULES. Her Majesty the Queen of Portugal pins her faith, it is said, to the fol- lowing mottoes: Keep out of doors all you can. Breathe outdoor air—live in it—revel in it. Don’t shut yourself up. Bufld your houses so that the air supply is good. Throw away your portieres and bric-a-brac. Don't bave useless trifies around you. Have a favorite form of exercise ana make the most of it. Ride on horse- back if you can, eycle if you canmot Beét a horse; do anything to get out in the open air, Don’t overeat. Drink little and let that little be pure. ‘When the Dolorous Dumps settle-down on your soul— Oh and oh my! Life is a sigh!— ‘When you feel that Old Nick is demand- ing his toll— To hold them we try, but blisses will fiy. Why, then is the time when your wife and the kid Wil either move out or wish that they Py dia; And you, too, would like for the rest of the day To move from yourself quite a distance away; For it's oh my! Life is a sigh! When the devil moves in, then our house Is awry, . And the spirits of kindness and charity fiy. Oh my! You know it, you guy— Know the Dolorous Dumps as sadly as L When the Dolorous Dumps come around with their bluff— Ah and'ah whew! Worry’s our due! Why, then is the time when a man knows his “stuff”— The story is true of me and of you. He may fall with a groan, or stand with a grin; He may bar trouble out, or shut trouble in; I He may much weaker be than the least of his woes, Or may laugh at his blues till the last of them goes. It is ah whew! ‘The game's up to you, To smile through your woes or to truckle thereto, Or write a brief lyric, as I strive to do— Ah whew! The story is true— To add a slight pink to an atmosphere blue. | TALE OF A BROKEN HEART. Once upon a time there was a fair | young maiden whose gentle heart was broken. (This is to bé a very pathetic tale, and I wish that my typewriter were inked with the black tears of tribula- tion, but I tried those tears once, and | the callous compositors said they could not decipher the “derned rot”"—I regret to say that it was thus they termed it— so I shall have use ordinary ink. deep- ly regretting the necessity that com- pels me to do so.) Well, this failr young maiden’s gentle heart was broken, for she had met a young man. and, behold! he was ex- ceeding fascinating, and he called her his lollipop and his tootsy-wootsy, and fed her on caramels, and he wore trou- sers with the loveliest creases; so what could the poor girl do but love him real hard? Of course she had to love him. | Just think of the c@ramels and the trousers! But the young man lightly passed her by. and added her name to those of Mabyl, Edythe, Mae, Amandye and all the other sweet young things who had loved him because he was so fascinat- ing. You see, he was a Mere Trifler. and he ought to have been ashamed of himself! So the poor girl's gentle heart was broken, and she sat her down by the waters of Marah—I think they were the waters of Marah, but it may have béen those of the San Joaquin, or Scots Creek, or some other waters, for my geography is slightly wobbly—any way, she sat her down by the waters of something and sighed and wept bit- terly, moaning: “Alas! and ah me! I am undone, and also done by a blear- eyéd Incompetent -in hand-me-downs! ‘Woe is me! I shall never, never, never, or, any way, hardly ever, recover from this grievous shock! Alas—and alad! What a raw combination they some- times make! As thus she sat and bemoaned her- self, another fascinating young man passed that way, and the creases in his trousers also were commendable and admirable, and he sald, “What is it, lovey-dovey? Where does it hurty And when he had his arm about her and her head was on his shoulder, she was com:or:::. Oh, yes, you bet she was comforted, m; ull rethren and sisters. Y And so they were marri, Moral—If he (or she) m::.g:::;,:k; the rubbish pile, weep if you please, but do not neglect to keep an eys out for the moment. There are other trouse: other skirts, and some of thflnl::n: pretty fair article, too. Don't try to dress too much, yet drese as well as you are able. W everything you can to make yourself lovely. ) —— 5 1s required to give exact age, but must make declaration under oath that the is more than ‘21 years old by the man and more than 18 by the woman. A marrfage license issued in one county is avallable only in the county of {ssuance. It cannot be used in another county. x EASTER SUNDAY-F. D. E. City. Baster Sunday does not always fall in the same month, but it always falls in sither March or April. The way by which Easter is now determined is that of the first Sunday after the paschal full moon (fourteenth day of the calen- dar moon, or the full moon which hap- pens upon or next after the 2lst of March). If the full moon happens upon a Sunday then Easter Is the first Sunday — “I see that the Countess Castellage is talking of securing a separation from her own Bonl. but will so manage | retain the title.” g “Why 507" 3 “Why, to think that she will get rid of the only incumbrance that ever went with the dear title.” . = 'fido;':movmnhlv.m so much since the dark ages, the inquisi- and the rack.” - , certainly we have! What makes you hold such & preposterous theory ““Well, we still have the cross-examina- tion of innocent witnesses by the lawyers, do we not?” £ . L] “Blinkins’ kid got in a fight ana home with a swelled face as a :-,m: of 1t." ““What happened whenthe “‘He told his mother he and she treated then concluded it home?" ‘the mumps, comfort that may heave in sight at any | The Smart Set BY SALLY SHARP. ———ie The closing danee of the Gayety Club for this season took place last evening in Century Hall, the date being changed for convenlence from the 1§th. The rooms, so adapted for ' comfortable dancing. were unusually resplendent in a mass of green and spring blossoms. Forming a back- ground were Woodwardia ferns and buck- leberry, throwing the graceful arrange- ment of flowers into bold relief. The usu cotillon, with pretty figures and fayors, was enjoyed. Miss Anita Harvey was hostess and the following malds were present: < Miss Helen Chesebrough, Miss Dorothy Eells, Miss Chrisfine de Guigme, Miss Elizabeth Livermore, Miss Sara Cunniag- bam, Miss Natalie Coffin, Miss Lucy Gwin Coleman, Miss Edith Berry, Miss Marte Brewer, Miss Maud Bourn, Miss Olga Atherton, Miss Newell Drown, Miss Elste Tallant, Miss Emily Wilsen, Miss Abby Parrott, Miss Christine . omeroy, Miss Margaret Newhall, Miss Maisie Lang- horne, Miss/Gertrude Josselyn, Miss Gene- vieve King and Miss Frances Howard. e This evening at 9 o'clock Miss Jane Saendman will become the bride of Bar- clay Hehley Jr., the ceremony to take place at the home of the bride’s aunt, Mrs. Franetta. . Mrs. Douglas Sloane Watson - will preside at a very large bridge party in honor of Mrs. Arthur Barry Wat- son. and a tea will be given by Mrs. Joseph Vincent de Laveaga from 3 to 3 to-day at her home on Scott strget. . . . The cafe chantant will take several bundred lookers-on to the Union League Club to-night, where mirth and brilliant wit will prevafl, and for this afternoon there is noted a tea hostessed by Mrs. Marshall Wotkyns (Edith Redding) and a luncheon for twelve guests given by Mrs. Charles Stewart. - - . Artistic originality asserted itself from every nook and cormer of the spacious Woods home last evening. when Miss Maud and Miss Lottie Woods entertained nearly seventy-five guests at an informal dance. The young hostesses, whoareamong our mest ardent entertainers, left noth- ing incomplete for last evening's pleas- ure. The new card section of the Sequoia Club held its initial meeting last even- ing in the clubroems, with twenty- five present. This Is an enthusiastic auxiliary and purposes many con- genial affairs from now oa. Sequoin is filled with energy in all its branches. One hundred new members have been acquired since November 15. Mrs. Frederick Funston, Mrs. James M. Kennedy, Mrs. Edward T. Brown, Mrs. Charles Morris and Mrs. Edwin M. Supplee were a receiving party last evening at the Presidio hop, which was given by the officers and ladies. A A Miss Beatrice Fife entertained at s tea yesterday afternoon in her home. on Calitornia street, having for the guest of honor Miss Frances Stewart. A great many eallers arrived between the hours of 4 and 6 to greet the hostess and her guest. who are two of the mest popular maids in society. The reception rooms, hall and dining- room held quantities of violets, with a generous setting of roses, making a most attractive decoration. Receiving with Miss Fife were Miss Stewart, Miss Blsa Draper, Miss Evelyn Clif- ford, Miss Elzabeth Downing. Miss Edith Treanor. Miss Jeannette Deal, Miss Edna Middleton, Mrs. Lawrence Foster, Mrs. John Breuner and Mrs. William Penn Humphreys. The Mills Club held a very charming reception yesterday from 3 to § at their rooms on California street. Mrs. Mills of the college being present. L Mrs. Philip Aronson and Miss Aron- son Wil Pe at home to-day at their residence on California street and will receive again next Wednesday. Sl . Several friends were at the sailing dock yesterday morning to bid “bon voyage” to Miss Laura McKinstry and Miss Marjorfe Ide. who are bound for Manila, and of those waving adieu was Mrs. Frank Carolan. —— Special Information supplied daily business houses and public men by t:: e Press Cl1) Bureau X fornia n?o:{‘ Tnhphon(a%'x)d{ Townsend's California glace fruits and choicest candies In artistic fire- etched boxes. New store, 787 Market. * Orfcle Biff's - Observations - ee INDY SMITH was up at Sliv-