The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1906, Page 6

. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1906. NEWS OF THE CO GRACE METHODIST CHURCH IS DEDICATED TO WORSH EDIFICE IS GIVEN OVER WITH CEREM VUSRI AR thodist ty M The seating ca- can be enlarged. containing the Sun- 1 room, a primary tchen and pastor’'s nterior is in oak morial win- nucleus of the kins is Sunday- To G. A. Hutch- board of trus- who bullt schoc nt the table tees the to-day e past reir successful efforts. e g ey BOYS FIND SEVERED HEAD. Feb While digging o8y rear the plant tch Company at shore J. Boyle of panions un- om the sand No trace of the corpse to the head be- was found boys once r ved the head d reach of the ng tide and d J. Hall, the Southern Pacific B n agent at Stege, of their ghastly Hal tified Coroner Curry and ter requested Harr of the California Cap Com- rks at Stege, to take charge ccompenied by Bart Keehane, ral store at Stege, d his companions to y declared they had as it was then dark nd it. The four i iat they had re- beyond the reach of » disappearance of the t of a human be- more mystery to the again be made for t morning. The boys to say whether the head that of & man or of a woman. <t CADET'S AUDEVILLE SHOW. L VALLEY, Feb. 25.—The vaude- and dance given of the Hospital Corps Cadets last efit of their uni- ess In every par- iose who took part were Howard de Cour- sranch, Clotide Polastri | McKay and Ralph Armitage. ——————— SUBURBANITES GIVE A DANCE. SAN RAFAEL, Feb. 25.—~The Bu- e another one of their delightful dances in Friday evening. couples from San Fran- E meda, Oakland, Sausalito, Mill Valley, Ross Valley and this eity took part in the grand march. Henry Han- sen made ar able floor manager. ———tieee Customers of a shoe dealer ingist upon their rights, and they also get thelr lefts. the First Meth- | paid a tribute | eI TRONS ON forrid 43 p A7 A w SN > CdhlanGes PROTE e GRACE METHODIST CHURCH IN OAK. TERDAY WI1H SACRED CEREMC LAND, > TO BUILD THE NEW WORSHIP PLACE. WHICH WAS DEDICATED YES- AND THE PASTOR THAT HAS LA- | MINISTERS PLAN TO WORSHIP TOGETHER Pastors to Unite in Meetings Held at Berkeley During Prayer Season. BERKELEY, Feb. 25.—The ministers of Berkeley have decided upon the pro- gramme of services for the week of prayer to commence on March 5, during which week union services in the First Presbyterian rch. Usu- aliy this annual week of prayer and joint services is observed at the begin- ning of the new year, but the arrange- ment was varied this year because of the missionary institute in San Franclsco the first week of January. Rev. E. L. Parsons, rector of 8t Mark's, is to preach on the first night of the week of prayer. Rev. C. K | Jeness of the Trinity Methodist Epis- { copal Church will speak on Tuesday night. The service on Wednésday night will be held in Bt. Mark's Church, this | being the only service not conducted in | the First Presbytertan Church during the week. At this Wednesday night service Dean Hodges of the Eplscopal | Theological Seminary at Cambridge, | Mass., will be the speaker. | Rev. W. H. Hopkins of the First Con- | gregational Church will deliver the ser- mon on Thursday night, and Rev. W. C. Spencer of the First Baptist Church will have charge of the last meeting of the week on Friday night. The ministers who are to speak have discussed the subjects to be used, &0 that unity will be observed in the ser- mons throughout the services. Arrange- ments are also to be made for services In West Borkeley, North Berkeley and South Berkeley during the week. —_————————— SUICIDE MYSTERY UNSOLVED. BERKELEY, Feb. 25.—The body of the stranger who committed suicide | last Thursday night in Berkeley, leav- | ing on his person letters and a photo- | | graph of a girl that indicated a his- tory und character of more than or- dingry interest, still lies at the local | morgue unidentified. Meany viewed the | body today, among them being people | from San Francisco, part of the throng | that journeys regularly to Berkeley on | Sunday afternoon. the dead youth were examined by the | morbidly curious, but no clew to the | sulcide’s name or address could be pro- | vided by any of those who came. An | inquest probably will be held Tuesday night, though the Coroner has not as yet announced the exact time. walting in the hope that evidence to determine the identity of the dead might be forth- coming. — e DR. HYD! RECEPTION. OAKLAND, Feb. 25.—The committee | in charge of the reception to Dr. Doug- las Hyde on March 1, when he will lec ure at the Macdonough Theater, has hosen Hugh Hogan as president of the | evening. P. N. Hanrahan and John | Forrest were selecteed as vice chairman. Sub-committees réported that all of the | boxes at the theater had been sold and that 1500 tickets had already been dis- posed of for that evening. On March 19 a banquet in honor of Dr. Hyde will | be given, the detalls of which are in the hands of committ: i i | BOY HURT IN RUNAWAY.—Oakland, 25.—8Steve Curry, an cxercise boy, was tnm from & runaway horse st the Emeryville race track this afternoon and his collar bone broken. The fracture was treated at the oeiving Hospital. 1l be heid | The clothing and personal effects of | PINERD'S PLAY PLEASES LONDON {“His House in Order” Makes a Sensational Hit and Is Said to Be a Masterpiece LONDON, Feb, 2%.—Arthur Wing Pinero ought to be in a cheerful frame of mind, for “His House in Order,” flayed for the | first time on any stage at the St. James, has won a success that was sensational. | And the best of it is that the triumph | was not due to any one situation—as for lll’istflnce in “The Gay Lord Quex"—but to the uniform excellence of what is al- most certainly a masterplece. It has been maintained that *““The Second Mrs, Tan- | queray’ cut the top notch in the record of modern stagecraft; but at first sight the new drama seems even better—not so strong, but finer and more wholesome. This new Pinero play is a companion plece to “Mrs. Tanqueray'—another | study of a second wife, unhappy undei comparison with the first wife. Filmer Jesson, member of Parliament, and also a prig, had married, firstly, a Miss Ridgeley, | daughter of a stuffy, sclf-satisfled, self- | made, middle-class knight, S8ir Danlel | Ridgeley. After her death, Jesson, in a | fleoting moment of human feeling, had | married the governess of the small son | of the house, and the play begins on the eve of the third anniversary of the death of the first Mrs. Jesson. In the first few moments wc arc deftly advised that the departed had been apparently an orderly, tidy, conventional woman after lier hus- band’s own heart; and that the second Mrs. Jesson, being the spolled child and chum of a Bohemlan parson, is as differ- | ent as possible. Bhe knows naught of tidiness, and has, alas! a temperament. A sister of the first wife has been called in to keep the house in order, and the parents and brother of the first Mrs. Jes- son are also on hand to observe the an- niversary, which is to be celebrated by opening a park in memory of the depart- ed. Enter the eider brother of Filmer Jesson, M. P., in the person of George Alexander, who becomes the friend and adviser of the sccond Mrs. Jesson, as Cayley Drummle becamé the supporter of the second Mrs. Tanqueray. The tortures of the second Mrs. Jes- son are Increased to the limit of hu- man endurance. All of her efforts to do her best are turned to gall and bit- terness. As she reaches the breaking point she discovers letters proving (hatithe first Mrs. Jesson was not what she liad seemed, and that the heir of tlie house cf Jesson is the child of any other man. Revenge at last! The op- pressing Ridgeleys shall be crushad. Then comes the great scene. Hilary Jesson, the kindly brother-in-law, per- suades the second Mrs. Jesson to give up the letters and sacrifice her revenge. But in the final act the situation be- comes so tense that Hilary Jesson him- self shows the letters to the decelved husbend, and the second Mrs. Jesson comes into her own. Nov account of the play can even in- di~ate the blow on blow by which thas second Mrs. Jesson is made to suffer or the poignancy of her sagrifice. Suffice it to sav that at the end of the third act the brilllant and blase first-night 1 Eop | of water in case of a big fire. UNTIES ABOUT THE BAY MANUFACTURERS (RECENES CALL |WHAT A MOTHER EAGLES FORN —+ | Business Men Organize for Advancement of Oakland Water Front District MANY PERMITS ISSUED Building Operations Are Not Affected by the Rains and Cold Weather of Last Week PSSR OAKLAND, Feb. 25.—An organization of the owners of factories, lumber yards and mills in the district between the water front and Fourth street and Oak and Myrtle streets, which has for its object the general advancement of the manufac- turing district of Oakland, has just been perfected by the elcction of officers and the appointment of committees to take charge of the 'various branches of the work in which the club is interested. The first efforts of the new organization, which is known as the Oakland Water Front Improvement Club, will be directed toward securing better fire protection for the manufacturing district, and in this direction its work has already been partly successful. After a conference with the officials of the Contra Costa Water Company, a promise was recelved from the latter that the old four-inch water main on Second street, which for many vears has sup- plied the entire manufacturing district with water for fire fighting purposes, will be at once replaced by a ten-inch main, which will remove all danger of a scarcity The work of installing the new main will be com- menced as soon as the wet weather is ended. Several members of the City Council have already expressed themselves as in favor of the proposal to afford added fire protection to the manufacturing district. The members of the new club have by a careful canvass learned that nearly 200 persons are employed in the mills and factories in this district, all of whom would be more or less affected in case of an extensive conflagration. The officers of the new organization are G. W, Fisher of the Fisher Lumber Com- pany, president: George Boyle of the Burnham-Standeford Company, vice pres- ident, and A. C. Taft of the Oakland Box Factory, secretary. The unpleasant weather of the last week has Interfered to some extent with the operations of the local real estate mar- ket, but in gpite of the rain there has been almost the normal amount of small bus- iness, consisting mainly of the sale of residence property. Real estate men de- clare that the present year will be one of the best in the history of the city. Fifty-four permits for the erection of new buildings and for alterations within the city limits were issued last week by the Bullding Inspector, the total value of these improvements being $50,349. One of the largest of the proposed new buildings will be a three story pressed brick and terra cotta structure on the west side of Franklin street, near Elev- enth. The lower floor will be de- voted to stores, and the two upper ones to apartments. The cost of the new structure will be $40,000. s John P, Gardner of Berkeley and A. L. Frick of Los Angeles, the latter a cousin of Attormey A. L. Frick of this city, have organized a new real estate firm under the name of the Gardner-Frick Company. They have just opened new offices at 468 Tenth street, and will con- duct a general real estate and insurance business. Another new real estate firm which has invaded the local field is the Suburban Real Estate Company, of which E. O. Farley Is the president and manager. The new firm has opened offices at 468 Eleventh street. —————— SALOON SITUATION PEACEFUL. ALAMEDA, Feb. 25.—A meeting of eitizens to discuss the saloon question with saloon men and professional men held tonight at the First Unitarian Church resulted in a unanimous ex- pression of opinion that conditions as they exist should not be disturbed un- der the nmew charter. The present liquor license is $500 a year, and there {s an unwritten law limiting the num- ber of saloons to nineteen. Nicholas Reinecker, Harry Ackesson and R. W. Postal, liquor dealers, sald conditions were satisfactory. The Rev. Christo- pher Reuss, minister of the First Unl- tarian Church, believed the license should remain at its present figure and a limit placed on the number of sa- loons. Dr. H. K. Van Orden. F. M. Has- lett, W. M. Bowers and George Ren- ner were satisfled with existing con- ditions. Dr. W. O. Smith presided. — andience was in an uproar of applause and cleers, and that at the end of the play *le author was forced to break his rule and bow his acknowledgments. A marked feature of the play was the terrific lashing given to the middle class respectable, conventional British public as personified by the snug, self- satisfled Ridgeleys. The laughter and applause with which this lashing was recelved on the part of the audlence ‘was noteworthy indeed. Pinero’s erstwhile chief rival, Henry Arthur Jones, preceded him by a week, and had the advantage, too, of reopening a famous theater under new mandge- ment. Terry’s Theater, in the Strand, is a cozy place, and has been decorated and beautified to bscome the home of James ‘Welch, a comedian of the highest rank, a little man with a big brain, for whom London has an abiding affection. If it had not been for Weich and for the part pro- vided for him in “The Herolc Stubbs" the play would have to be set down on the list of the oversophisticated Jones' half- succeesses. Stubbs is an explosive, lovable shoemaker, who has risen from the hum- ble estate of half-starved office boy to proprietor of a rich and fashionable es- tablishment, all through devotion to an ideal. The Lady Hermione had captured his heart by a chance kind word to him when he was a ragged urchin. When he and she grew up and got into the first act of Jones' play he still adored her—from respectful distance, of course—and insist- ed on giving her boots his personal atten- tlon, despite his prosperity. Stubbs’ affec- tion being Idyllic and spiritual, it d¥dn’t matter to him that the Lady Hermione had a husband, but it did matter very much to him when he discovered that she putposed to disobey that husband and have dinner on a yacht with a roue. The lady thought she was going to have some dafigerous but comparatively harmiess fun. Stubbs knew that the villaln would make off with her if possible, so he takes 4 epeclal train and arrives first at the seaside. It all makes for the liveliest in- terest through two acts. Then through the other two acts it is gradually divulged to us that the lady managed to get her dinner after all and to get away without further damage than an aceidental duck- ing, which had nothing to do with the story. All the heroic Stubbs could do was to help her keep the adventure quiet in spite of the questions of her husband and a newspaper reporter, and then to per- sucde her to make a clean ureast of it for a certain effect. | | | i rian Church of this city, has received a M NEW CLUB) FROM NEW YORK OUG T T0 KNOW Rev. Ernest E. Baker May |Minister Says That Little Give Up Pastorate of Oak- land Presbyterian Church HAS NOT YET DECIDED Will Have Conference With Trustees Before Making Up His Mind as to Offer OAKLAND, Feb. 25.—The Rev. Ernest E. Baker, pastor of the First Presbyte- call to a New York church, but he has not yet announced whether he will accept the proffered pastorate. He will not make known his decision until after a confer- ence with the trustees of the First Pres- byterian Church. Dr. Baker returned this morning from a trip to New York, and during his stay in the East he preached on two occasions at the church to which he has been called. £ Dr. Baker received the Invitation six weeks ago, and after some consideration asked, the trustees of his present charge for two weeks' leave of absence to visit the East. On his arrival he visited the church and preached two sermons, but deferred final action on the invitation un- til he had conferred with his family and the trustees of the local church. Dr. Baker sald he would not make pub- lic the name of the church unless he should decide to accept the call. SINLE TAIERS ARE JUBILANT England’s New Premier Com- mits His Government to Taxation of Land Values —_— Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Feb, 25.—Upholders of Henry George's principles have cause to rejoice in the great Liberal landslide in England. Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, the new Premier, has definitely committed his Government to one of the principles advo- | cated by ail Henry Georglans from time immemorial—the taxation of land values. Besldes the-Prime Minister the most im- | portant members of the Cabinet are well- | known advocates of taxation of the value of land. Among these are Mr. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir Edward | Grey, John Morley, Mr. Haldane, the Earl | of Carrington, Mr. Bryce, the Earl of | Aberdeen, Herbert Gladstone and others. | There naturally is great rejoicing at the offices of the English League for the Tax- ation of Land Values. Frederick Verinder, | its secretary, who has been connected | with this movement in England for a| quarter of a century, expressed himself as elated at the results obtained by the | agitation which practically began on the | street corners in 1881 “By the way,” he said, “people through- out England have been surprised at the arguments advanced in this election by | workingmen and the supposedly ‘ignorant | classes' on the mooted points of protection | versus free trade. So it may interest you to hear that Henry George's book, ‘Pro- tection and Free Trade,' to the extent of 30,000 copies, was placed by our lrague Where it would do the most good, and we | also sent out dally long before the elec- | tion practically hundreds of thousands of leaflets setting forth plainly just what we meant by land value taxation.” “But is the Prime Minister sincere in his utterances on that head, or were they only made to catch the popular vote?” was asked. “I have every reason to belleve that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman means exactly what he says answered the single taxer, “and will carry out all his promises. He Is committed definitely and irrevocably to the principle of tax- ation of land values, and, even if he were not, there are many other mem- bers of the Cablinet who are in favor of' the principle.” “I suppose, in England—with the great landlords, and all the property in thoe hands of a few. it was not easy to get these principles before the coun- try?” “Well, I admit there were enormoys difficulties, and now that we have won,” replied Verinder, “I feel that we have a right to be in high spirits over | and bright colored waists go to the daughter. | tootball. | literature, the real triumph of Henry George's principles.” “Have any of the great landlords be- gun to see things your way: are they willing that their individual property should be taxed on a land value scheme?” was asked. » “The Marquis of Northampton,” re- plied Verinder, “one of the greatest property owners in England, who has large tracts in London itself. was originally one of the prime movers In the land value direction: one of our vice presidents was Lord Hobhouse, and so was BEarl Compton. “It does not seem to be at all well kxnown,” he aded, “that a bill for the taxation of land values has long been before Parliament. In 1904 and 1805 it was carried by majorities of 67 and 90 votes, respectively, though in the two previous years it was defeated once by a majority of only 13 votes.” “Who were principally Instrumental in getting these bills before the House?”’ “Dr. Macnamara, supported by John Burns, Dillon, Lloyd-George, Mr. Tre- velyan, J. H. Whitley and others— many of these are now members of the Cabinet. This was the bill of 1908, which was, however, defeated. When tho bill was carried in 1905, then came the dissolution of the Government: but now, with all the new Ministry com- mitted to the measure. it is sure to go through.” “In a few words—what is the princi- ple of the taxation of land values—how would it work: and what would it ae- complish?” was asked. “That is a big question, but. briefly: As taxes are to-day. a class of men who own the ground reap all the bene- fit from improvements made by their neighbors. . The man who spends cap- ital on his property, puts up buildings and improvements, is taxed for those very improvements: while the man next to him. who holds his property ‘for a rige/ gets the benefit of all surrounding Improvements and does nothing toward them. Every munlei- pal improvement, street cars, sewers, building of roads, every mortal gain te the community, helps these land- owners. “In England no tax is pald on unoccu- Children Are Coddled and Petted Like Poodle Pups OPPOSES LAVISH LOVE Condemns Soothing Syrup as Means of Causing Babies to Close Eyes in Slumber RS SE ALAMEDA, Feb. 25.—'What a Mother Ought to Know” was the subject of the last scrmon in his “Ought to Know' se- ries delivered tonight by the Rev. P. C. Macfarlane of the Christian Church. He took his text from Eazeklel, xvi:di: “Be- hold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, ‘As 1s the mother, so s her daughter.’” In the course of his remarks Mr. Macfarlane sald in part: It has been sald that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Certainly the place of motherhood, meaning thereby not mere child: bearing, but child rearing and character bufld- ing, is ‘cne of importance In the social order, for the mothers of this generation make the mothers of the mext. It is in motherhood that woman comes to herself. The mother instinct | appears early. Before our girls can walk they learn to hold a doll. The most interesting thing to a girl, large or small, is @ baby. The first duty of a mother i3 to know how to love. Paul argued that knowledge without love is vain. It is just s true that love without knowledge 1s vain. This is the children’s age. Love !s lavished upon them. But do we not love them o much that we do not love them cnough? Is it a love according to knowledge? We coddle our children too much. We treat them like poodle pupples; give them enough and a coliar and cut their locks to the fashion. Then we box thelr ears when we are in bad humor and pet them when we are in humor. 1Is that love? Love wisely, mother. Read little Johnnie a story instead of making him a tart the next time he is restless and he will have a better mind a&nd tetth and stomach. Instead of tak- ing time to teach bables to go to sleep natural- ly we administer soothing syrup regardiess of Its effect upon their constitution. Some moth- ers maintain the same attitude toward their children all through thelr lives. teach the child right doing until n‘l;hmlben have acquired tne habit of doing right. In = Home where parents give each other hot answers you will find children” who snap each other. Where parents respect each other you will usually find that children epect each other and thelr parents. Tr mother love will set ltself not to make lap do or paper dolls of children, but good men and women. The mother should know better than to make a drudge of herself. ““Why,” says the mother, ‘“‘what am I for?" Well, a mother not for that. While the children are small in the ideal home—which is without servants— mother's hands will be full. But as soon as children can toddle and understand they should have their littlc dutles to perform. Remember also that all work and no piay makes a dull and unappreclated mother. Do not do all the staying at home while sons and daughters do all the piaying. Do not let all the stylish hats Do not do all the washing while daughter plays the ptano, nor all the gardening while son plays Koep up your practice at the plano and with the golf stick while daughter keeps up hers at the ironing board and son plays a tune on the lawn mower. Read the headlines at least in the newspaper and the best of the magazines. Have in your hands frequently the books of | tke day. The mother who falls is the mother | Wwho makes herself a mindless drudge. Sho iIs | the mother of whom children are ashamed when company comes. Keep yourself younsg: keep yourself up to date. Make a good appear- ance and a good impression. Then when you €0 out ron and daughter will be proud of yo A mother should be a Christian for the sal of her children. Today in our busy cittes thousand pitfalls yawn before the child. a Bad bad pictures and bad companions threaten the virtue of our little ones almost from the day they venture outside the front door. The Christian mother “Will be arming her children against thes: temptations. She will be securing for her chiliren the advan- tages of the Sunday school, which, with good pictures, good literature and good associstions, seeks to counteract the evil and make of each scholar a bearer of truth. PR e e e selling price goes up by leaps and bounds. The community make the value for them, and vet they ‘hold up' the people when the latter want to buy. There are most valuable sites all over England—there are monopolles in land that are worse than any American trusts—and yet they are not paying a penny of taxes. With the taxing of the value of the land, or what it would sell at in open market, we would force these men either to build and im- prove thelir property or to sell it reason- ably. The worst feature,of the non-pay- ment of taxes is seen in the suburbs of places llke London, where bullding lots are commanding hLigh figures simply be- cause the London street cars and London improvements paid for out of the people’s pockets are making this property valu- able and bringing it into demand, and | tion of the 130th anniversary of the compos: yet the landlords e not paying any- thing but ridiculously low ground rents— $15 to $20 per year on pleces of ground worth thousands of dollars.” “What will the land value tax do for the people?”’ was asked. “‘Lots of things,” he replied, “but prin- cipally it will remedy evils of overcrowd- ing by bringing a lot of cheéap land into the market. If owners were going to be taxed for bare ground just the same as if it had buildings on it—that is, taxed at its selling value—they could not afford to hold it without improving it. “‘Bullding operations would receive an immense impetus, and thousands of men out of employment—bricklayers, carpen- ters, etc.—would have plenty of work, and thus it would directly help solve the un- employed problem. It would enable the Government to take off the tax on bread, sugar, tea and other necessitlies. The taxes on houses would be reduced and houses would be cheaper and better. It would enable thousands to buy small pleces of land which they cannot touch now. It would absolutely wipe out the land monopoly, which every one in the world knows {8 one of the great crying evils in England, and all land would be forced into use. If it was not used the community that had made it valuable would tax it and get value from it. “In a word,” ‘concluded Verinder, *“it would remove the causes which make | poverty in the midst of plenty, rich idlers | } NEW AERE Lodge of Popular Fraternal Order Is Orzanized in the Town of Mill Valley SEVENTY-ONE MEMBERS “Buck-You,” a Goat, a Great Faetor in the Work of the San Rafael Degree Team —_— Special Dispatch to The Call MILL VALLEY, Feb. 25.—FEagles iIn great numbers from ‘San Francisco, San Rafael and Sausalito came over here la | night to construct an aerie in Mill Val- ley for seventy-one healthy eaglets. San Rafael Eagles brought the paraphernalla, which was greatly augmented by “Buck- you,” the wonderful billygoat of Sausa- lito Aerfe. A past master, in Charley Bright, Sausalito's poundman, the custodian of Buck-you. Otto Hinz, conductor of the local aerle and an experienced mountain climber, was one of the two candidates to receive the full work. He “enjoyed” an excit- ing ride on Buck-you. The antics of the goat and his blindfolded rider afforded much amusement. Past Grand Treasurer Ed L. Head In- stituted the aerte. The floor work was performed by the San Rafael degrée team. The following officers were Installed by Fire Commissioner Parry, president of Aerie No. 5 of San Franeisco: President, Hiram L, Sherman; vice presi- dent, John' B. Forbes: chaplain, Arthur J. Budar: secretary, Harrie W. Carothers; treas- urer, August Muntz: conductor, Otto Hinz; in- side guard, Antonio Costa; outside guard, John 8. Young; trustees—Llonel Spring, Edwardo J. Price and Jobn E. Brady. A banquet in Rez’s Hall followed the initiations. Past Grand Treasurer E4 Head was the toastmaster of the even- ing. Among the speakers were Judge ‘Thomas J. Lennon, Judge A. Van Hoven- berg, .Fire Commissioner Parry, Sheriff Willlam P. Taylor, O. F. Meldon, Hiram L. Sherman, Harry Ashe, Otto Hinz and Franz Frey. UNIVERSITY PREPARES TO HONOR MOZART BERKELEY, Feb. 25.—With weather that will permit of the Greek Theater being used next Thursday afternoon, the University au- thorities are confident that the spiendid record of attendance made at the first symphony co: cert on February 10, when more than 4000 pe sons heard Dr. Wolle's musiclans render a programme of symphony rumbers, will be The first concert was heard by 79 persons, or nearly three times as w mary as_ever before heard s symphony con- cert in California. The mu r the second concert next Thurs. in recogni- * day is Mozart's the most part, irth, The addition of twelve players of stringed instruments Is @ matter of the greatest grati= fication not onlv to Director J. Fred Wolle, rial increase in the size of the or the spiendid support of the lovers of music tn this community has made possible, wl greatly heighten the efficiency of this most noble instrument on which Conductor J. Fred Wolle knows so well how to piay. It is said that only one concert before in the history of California has had a symphony orchestra num- Sixty-seven, ever, Is merely the s rd number for the five remaining concerts of this first series of the University of California, and it is probable that the orchestra will be made even larger for one or two of the remaining programmes. On every hand is heard expression of the greatest pride that the music loving Califor nians have responded so magnificently to the university’s faith in the power and charm of noble music greatly rendered. It is surely a most extraordinary combination of circum- stances that an American State _university should honor this one hundred and fiftieth an- niversary of the birth of Mozart by producing in & Greek Theater on its own campus, through the instrumentality of an immense symphony orchestra of the very best professional mu- sicians in all thy region round shout, with its own professor of music as conductor, a pro- gramme of Mozart's most beautiful and most melodious compositions, and all this under the open sky. though at midwinter, with the soft stirring of the great woods round about the Greek Theater as under-harmony for the sym- phony in G minor, and the liit of a bird 1o the Ires tops mingling in with the orchestra in the overture to the “Magic Flute." —_—————— NEW LODGE OF ELKS. ALAMEDA, Feb. 25.—Alameda Lod No. 1015, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is to be officially insti- tuted and its officers installed on the evening of St. Patrick’s day in Wood- men’'s Hall. Large delegations of Elks trom Oakland. San Franciseo, Berke- ley, San Jose and Vallejo are expected to attend the exercises. After the fra- ternal ceremonies in Woodmen's Hall are concluded the Elks and 230 appli- cants for membership in the new lodg: will march to Harmonie Hall behind a band and there participate in a banquet John 8. Partridge, recently candidate for Mayor of San Francisco, is to de- liver an address in Harmonie Hall Those who have been elected to of- clal positions in Alameda L are: Joseph L. Daniells, exalted ruler: Ea- ward K. Taylor, leading knight: Fred T. Moore, lecturing knight; Willlam Hammond Jr., esteemed knight: Bert Fisher, treasurer; A. G. Bell, secretary. ——e g Gt YOUNG LADIES IN DRAMA.—Alameds, Feb. 25.—“Mary of Magdala,” a Seriptural drama, i to be presented fu Lafayette Hall to-morrow evening by young ladles of Notre Dame Academy. e oD A N INJURIES PROVE FATAL.—Oakland, Feb. 25.—Galmer rsten, & young mill hand, Who was crushed betwéen two electric cars on Broadway last evening. died early this morn- ing at the Receiving Hospital. The Coromer took charge. ———————— All parts of Africa, except Abyssinla, Morocco and Liberia, are controlled di- rectly or indirectly by some European power. French Afrlca is about equad and Industrious paupers; slums and alms- | in_area to half the United States. houses would not be Seen side by side with churches and palaces.” “‘But is it now In use anywhere?"” “Yes, New Zealand has had this system for years. New South Wales has also adopted it with the utmost success. In ; Germany the Prussian Minister of Fin- ance has recommended it, and to-day no less than seventy-one German towns and fifty-three rural communities are operat. ing it with every success. It has wiped out the unemployed evils in all these places.” —— Elevator Man Tnkes Polson. Thomas Page, an élevator man em- ployed at Goldberg, Bowen and Co.'s store on Pine street, committed sulcide at the Abbottsford saloon, 122 Eddy street, last night by swallowing two ounces of carbolic acid. He died in the ambulance while on the way to th Central Emergency Hospital. Korea has a population of about 6,000,000. Seoul, the capital, has 22,000 and is constantly increasing. Already 50,000 Japanese live in the kingdom. No less than $8,000,000 has been spent pled land, and the property is enhanced [ on rallways. The foreign trade was with every improvement. Every day the worth 326,616,487 last year.