The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 6, 1906, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1906. KAHN SCORES N THE HOUSE sylvanian Who Attempts to Ridicule San Francisco e B SR ON et Decided That Nickels and Pennies Be Made at the Mint Located in This City DEBATE COINAGE OST BUILDING, 5.—The House to- ng for the coin- rles at San Fra New Orleans as well Representative the bill, had a ms of Pennsylvania, »ponents leclared the legislatior ment to provide work ve Philadelphia Mint at d w to the gre: you can’t I h: providing the United Another t against yi th low fever her epi- there EEle e stegomyla mo: hould be known as ngfield Repub- ADVERTISEMENTS. PILES: Can Be Cured and We Can Prove It. Sample Package l‘r;(-l”ro\e It Your- welf. 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WALTER H._GRAVES. Engineer. __PROPOSALS. PROPOSALS for subsistence supplies. Offios Purchaeing Commiseary. San Francisco, Cal, March &, 1906.—Sealed proposals for fur- pishing and delivering such quantities of subsistence supplies, delivered at such whart or wharves ar such warehouses in San Fran- Cisco, Cal., as per circular to be seen at this office” will be received here until 11 o'clock s m., Thursdsy, March 15, 1908, end opened immediately ‘thereafter in pres- ence of bidders. Specifications, general in- structions to bidders and blank forms of pro- posals will be furnished to estsblished deai- er® oh_spplication to C. R. KRAUTHOFF, Major Commissary. 7 igorous protest against | very | AGED JOHN DUNNE AWAITS DAUGHTER'S COMING. 'DESERTED WHEN HE NEEDS HER MOST Turns the Laugh on a Penn- | — ' R // i AGED DAUG BENEF. s RTED BY HIS IN-LAW, AND HIS . ESS. TER ACTR! *1 Addie Dunne, your aged father-in-law ; ix without any means of support. | He ix sheltered from the chills of the | world only because of the sympathy of | | ®ood Mrs. Margaret Rogers, who is tak- Ing care of him until you will come to clatm your owa. You promised your husband om his deathbed two months ago that you | would faithfully gunrd the feeble father nntil he, too, should pass to his final | | rest. The old man is walting patiently | for you and wondering why you do mot | | come. | | Go to him, Addie Dunne, and save | from the streets or n pauper’s home this | lovable old mam, who alded you and | yours im days of trial. Aged John Dunne, white-haired and | feeble, sits patiently at the home of young | Mrs. Rogers and wajts for his daughter- | in-law to come for him. His son, with | whom he had lived, died at the close of | last December and on his deathbed he asked his young wife to take care of the old man. | She promised and when death called | | her husband she sent the father-in-law to | Mrs. Rogers, paying for his board for one month and promising to take him then to a littie cottage where he could end his days in happiness and quiet. The month has long passed and she has not called for him. Neither has she sent v money for his board. Mis. Rogers if he were her own, but she has a fam- and cannot much longer support the siranger. She has spent hours looking | for the daughter-in-law who promised to | return, but her search has availed_her naught. Annie Dunne seems to have for- | gotten. The old man feels keenly the helpless | position in which he finds himself. He is proud, and to be dependent is a sad blow to him. Only last Saturday Mrs. Rogers caught him trying to seéll his one extra | f underwear £o that he could pay | his board. She brought him back to the | little home at 527 Minnesota street and told him mot to worry about the pay. According to the story of aged John | Dunne and the neighbors about, Mrs Ad- | dle Dunne was left with means after her | husband’s death. She collected life in- surance and benefits. John Dunne's lips | | quaver as he tells how he loaned his son | $1000 and then gave it to him because the boy and his wife promised to take care | of him. “John would nevef have forgot- | ten me,” he sobbed yesterday, “but Ad- dle has. Maybe she will come vet.” But .’Addm Dunne has not kept her promise. Mrs. Addie Dunne has been seen in this city lately and does not appear to be | without money. She wrote a letter to | Mrs. Yorke of T17TA Tennessee street, ask- ing that she be notified i anything should | happen to the old man. John Dunne has | another son, Fred Dunne, but he is the | head of & large family and is a cripple. | He also has a daughter in the East. “Addie, are you coming?’ is the faint | ery of the venerable man whose heart is ‘r breaking. —_—— Jews in a Rural Colony. | The founding of a rural colony of Rus- | sian Jews not far from Baltimore is a | hopeful sign. These Jews hiad lived in the city, earning their bread In sweatshops, until they worked out their scheme to se- cure land. Thirty families of them or- | ganized and by contributing each §1 a | Week they finally accumulated $2500. With | this money about two vears ago they se- cured 250 acres of farm land in Howard County, worth $12,000, leaving upon the property a mortgage of $12,000. Each fam- fly was glven between elght and nine acres upon which to make a home. The | women continued to do talloring for city firms, but under the more wholesome con- dftions of rural life. The men proceeded to cultivate the land to provide food for the families, with perhaps some surplus for the market. In winter the men, too, have pursued their old city occupation of tafloring. In view of the ingrained ten- dency of the Jews to live in cities and avold agricultural life, this Maryland ex- periment is highly interesting.”’—Spring- field Republican, | Haight-street — |BRIEF CITY NEWS. FEDERAL OFFICIAL REMOVES.—United ates Shipping Commissioner Bassett is re- inZ-"’"‘ his office to the Ferry Postoffice build- FALLS FROM ROOF.—While working on the roof of a house at 1540 Green street Carmel Herbaille, a tinner, fell a distance of thirty- five fee: to the ground, breaking both legs. STRUCK BY FALLING BRICK.—While standing below an unfinished buflding near Golden Gate avenue and Larkin street A. Wil- liamson was struck on the head by a brick. fo‘ sd);ull was fractured and it is thought he w e. FRANKLIN, Pa., March 5.—General Charles Miller today filed an application for a receiver for the General Manifold Company, makers of carbons and manifold paper. The plant is capitalized at $4.000,000, employs 200 men and is £ald to owe $500,000. MAX ARMSTONE MISSING.—Max Arm- stone, @ jeweler of New York, who has been stopping with his cousin, J. Brachman, 10388 | McAllister street, fof several weeks, has been | missing since Jast Friday. When last seen he had over $000 in his poseession. BOY HIT BY A CAR.—August L. Desenfort, & 12-year-old lad residing at 45 Noe street, wae knocked down and severely bruissd by a car last evening. He was treated at the Harbor Hospital and later re- moved to St. Joseph’s Hosvital. APPROVE VIADUCT PLANS.—Plans for the construction of the Miselon-street viaduct | were approved yesterday by the Board of | Works. The Ocean Shore Railroad will spend | $22,000 of the $30,000 promised by the road in the construction of a temporary viaduct. CRUSHED UNDER TRUCK.—While driving & truck along Brannan street, near Second, yesterday Thomas Fanning, a teamster, was hurled from the seat when a wheel dropped into & chuck hole. The wheels of the truck passed over him, crushing him to death. HACK IN COLLISION.—While returning from & funeral yesterday a hack driven by W. McLaughlin collided with a vegetable wagon on Mission street. The carriage horses were going at a rapid gait at the time and the hack was almost smashed into kindling wood. RUN DOWN BY CAR.—John Patt, an in- mate of the Almshouse, was struck by a San Mateo car at Eighth avenue and H street yesterday. He was taken to the Park Emer- gency Hospital, where it was found he had sustained numerous contusions on the face and body. BLASTING PERMIT QUESTION.—The peti- tion of the Outdoor Art League that an appeal be taken from Judge Hebbard's decision that the Board of Supervisors has not the power to rescind permits for blasting was referred by the Supervisors yesterday to the City At- torney. ARRESTED FOR POOLSELLING.—Joe Jackson. the proprietor of a saloon at 1608 Devisadero street, was arrested yesterday and booked at the O'Farrell-street station on the charge of poolselling. With him was Samuel Remfrey, Who was charged with visiting the place. THEATER INCORPORATES.—Articles of incorporation of the Washington Square Theu- ter Company were filed yesterday. The capi- tal stock ie $00,000, of which $250 has been subscribed. The directors are J. J. Gottlo . A. Rea, Joseph Gottiob, Ralph Pincus an Melville Marx. BOY I8 RUN OVER.—While riding a tri- cycle near Buchanan and McAllister streets yesterday Harold Horn, a 3 25 Tun down hy a heavy wagon belonging to Independent Oil Company and driven by Willlam Lamester. The wheels passed over the baby's chegt, injuring him terribly. His recovery is regarded as improbable. CHARGED WITH NEGLECT.—Mrs. Mary Bone, 40 Morris avenue, obtained a warrant from Police Judge Mogan yesterday for the arrest of her husband, Robert Bone, on a charge of faflure to provide for his five young children. She said that Bone spent his earn- ings on liuor and she had to work to get enough money to upport herself and children. SEATTLE RAILROAD WINS.—The United States Circult Court of Appeals yesterday re- versed the judgment of the lower court in the suit of C. C. Hartless and Georgla Hartless against the Seattle Electric Company. The sult was to recover damages for the death of Willlam Hartless from injuries inflicted by a street car In Seattle belonging to the defen: ent. Damages were awarded, but now a new trial is ordered. ASSAULTED BY COLORED MAN.—John tat drinking with @ friend in Simi's wine cellar on Greenwich street a colored man struck bim on the head with a glass, cutting hls acalp. He was taken to the Harbor Emergency Hos- pital and promised to obtain a warrant for the colored man's arrest. COLORED MAN STEALS PURSE—Two colored men entered the kitchen of & restau. rant at 505 Bush street on Sunday afternoon and after they left a purse containing $5 be- longing to Mrs. H_ Y. Takahakl was missing from a drawer. The colored men returned and one of them, known as Casey, was ac- cused of etealing the purse. He admitted it and sald he would bring the purse back. falied o return. and his companion, Aba Rebe inson, was arrésted by Policeman Fennell on o At Wedding Time Meny questions arise as to the proper style of engraving. Come and ask for our booklet, “Wedding Stationery”—free. It will tell you St aeMan . T .l Co., 741 Market . DWARF SCORES A AN ACTO Edward Garrett Makes Hit in London in New Piece, “The Little Stranger” WRITTEN BY AMERICAN Play Deals With Baby Who Supposedly Has Suddenly Grown Old in Intellect Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, March 5.—If Michael Mor- ton and Michael Morton's dwarf are not highly pleased with themselves and each other at present, then they ought to be, for by their united cleverness they have just succeeded in making a really big success in a way that few persons thought would be possible, or perhaps even desirable. For, thanks to the dwarf, who appears in it, the Amerlean playright's new piece, “The | Little Stranger,” which was produced at the Criterion this week, seems likely | to be the biggest kind of a hit, and, | thanks to Mr. Morton, the midget. | whose name is Edward Garrett and who 1s only 16, has revealed himsell | as a really amazing prodigy who is lia- ble to attract no little attention if he | can go on as he has begun. |~ That he will make his bow in the United States in due course is practi- | cally certaln, for, judging by its Lon- don reception, “The Little Stranger” is sure to cross the Atlantic, and it is doubtful if another Edward Garrett could be found over there to play the queer part on which the entire plece | depends. A STORY OF THE PLAY. But now to explain why the success | of “The Little Stranger” is a triumph, | in its way, for both Michael Morton and | hi$ midget star. This dramatist is the | adapter of Tolstoy’s “Resurrection,” | and a few words will show that his new | piece is so fantastic as tQ be almost unpleasant. In fact, one doubted much | if it would “go down” with English au- diences, for it is all about a dwart | masquerading as a baby into whose | body its father's soul has supposedly entered, and by this deception bringing consternation to the infant's mother and to all its other relatives. The,same idea, it will be remembered, was used in Edward Van Zile's story, *“Clarissa’s Troublesome Baby,” and I belleve that Morton has acknowledged his partial indebtedness to that lively tale. In the play, Mrs. Dick Allenby, a young married woman, has gone “daf- | fy" on spiritualism as exploited by a humbug named Vronsky, and to cure her a friend of her husband calls in a professional illusionist who has a dwarf assistant. It seems that this midget bears a remarkable resemblance to Mrs. Allenby's baby, so after that lady has been told that her husband has been drowned in the Thames, her real infant is spirited away, the dwarf takes its place and the young wife be- comes convinced that her husband's spirit has entered the baby's body. Then we have the spectacle of a dear little pink-and-white, fluffy, prattling and beribboned infant suddenly assum- ing the airs of a full-grown man, order- ing the servéints hither and thither, re- plying “Rot!” to the customary terms of endearment, smoking cigarettes, drinking whisky, and generally fright- ening the entire household out of its wits. Of course all ends well. with Mrs. Allenby .cured and In repossession of her husband and infant. and with the masquerading midget packed off, but it is rather a repulsive idea, and in the hands of any but a skillful dramatist would have offended every one. That, however, is where Michael Morton has scored, for he has concelved his situations so cleverly and kept the fact that it Is all a huge joke so con- stantly to the fore that with a few ex- ceptions the first night audience simply rocked with laughter and subsequent audlences have done likewise. HONORS GO TO DWARF. But the real honors undoubtedly lie with the dwarf. For if the 16-year-old Edward Garrett, who stands no more than three feet high, werg not uncom- monly clever and a born comedian. it is painful to think what would have happened to Mr. Morton’s piece. A youth whose physical development has been arrested in quite an extraor- dinary way, nothing but a kind of genius on Garrett's part could have made hls performance amusing, but as it is his laughter-making qualities are the talk of the town. Taking the whole burden of Morton's farce on his diminutive shoulders, he makes it go with a bang from start to finish. The other actors merely play up to him— the little dwarf is literally the whole show. v Meanwhile, in theatrical circles the topic of the moment is how Garrett was “discoyered” by Michael Morton. It seems that it was after a lengthy and rather hopeless gearch. The American dramatist wrote “The Little Stranger” two years or more ago and immediate- ly began. casting about for a dwarf to play the name part. Finally he found Garrett, who had appeared in a child’s part in Covent Garden, and at once realized that he had discovered what he wanted. The diminutive youth needed train- ing, however, and so, in order to make an actor of him, the playwright carried him off to his house in the country and kept him there for over three months while developing. the latent talent that he belleved was in him. Finally was organjzed a company to support the dwarf in “The Little Stranger” and the piece was sent on tour in the prov- inces, where it took so hugely that its ruccess in London was undoubted. And judging from the enthusiasm of the first night at the Criterion. the warmth of most of the “notices,” and the sen- sation that Edward Garrett has made. the career of “The Little Stranger” will be long and prsoperous. In other words, it ts pleasing most playgoers here, and probably will please most playgoers in America im- mensely. But to some people the spec- tacle which “The Little Stranger” and its dwarf comedian affords has proved extremely unpleasant, and protests have not been wanting here against such exploftation of a physical affic- tion. One of them came from the Times' critic, who, in a scathing no- tice, described the whole exhibition as “simply lamentable.” But as was re- marked at the beginning, Mr. Morton and Mr. Morton’s dwarf are in a posi- tion to laugh at the Times and all the rest of us, for they are “it” and are going to be, in all probability, for sev- eral months to come, 3 “Pinched for money,” a man will sometimes offer to sell something at an amazin; acrifice. Those who watch the classified ads. reap the benefits in such cases. ——————— . The Tadpole—Why on earth are you wiggling and squirming, around so much You make me nervous. A &% The Pollywog—I got the idea the physical culture page of the e “Madame Butterfly” at, “SUPPOSING” BRINGS A | O 10 5 Character Portrayed Excellently by Effie Bond. SRS Intent Audience Fol- lows Fortunes of Heroine. ‘ Little Princess” Is Warmly Received at Alcazar. i Little Sara Crewé had the audience acting with her last night at the Alcazar in “The Little Prin- erying with her at her father's death; “making believe” with her up in the garret; shuddering with her at,the ogre Minchin. The little play made chil- dren of us all. It was not only the gods, from whom such nalvete is expected, that clapped gloriously over the wicked schoolmistress’ defeat. The whole house was one deep gloat. . ‘We have all had our Miss Minchins, and this one is the real thing. In fact, she is a female Squeers and drawn quite in Mr. Dickens’ own healthfully exagger- ated fashion. Sara Crewe, you know, in the first act is a “parlor boarder” at tiie Minchin school. She is 12 years old, only | child of a rich officer in the Indian army and motherless. It is her birthday and Sara is giving a party. You are soon shown why she is called and calls herself “the little princess.” She has everything she wants, but “supposing,” ‘“‘supposes” herself also a princess, which to Sara means all that is fine and kind and beau- tiful. She is always ‘‘supposing.” One of the prettiest things in the first act is Sara’s “make-up” fairy tale, told to the children about the fireside. But with the wonderful faith of children in the good and lovely thing, Sara carries her “‘sup- posing” heroically to the garret, to which Miss Minchin has condemned her on hear- ing of the father's death. He leaves Sara penniless. “Cold potatoes are good when you pre- tend they are something different—and put salt on them,” says Sara. She “sup- poses” a “banquet” made from a red shawl for a tablecloth and a toothbrush holder for a crystal flagon to put the flowers in—torn off a hat. One of the girls has had a “home hamper’’—those home hampers!—sent to her, and steals up to share it with Sara. Of course, Miss Minchin discovers them. That was the only place where the audience went wrong. It laughed. After that the wonderful thing happens. Over the roof of Sara’s attic came a small pet monkey one day and dropped into Sara’s room. It belonged to ‘next door,” who happens to be a rich old gen-’ tleman from India, Sara’s papa’s friend. Sara takes back the monkey and makes a friend of Ram Dass, a Hindoo servant. He in turn interests the old gentleman in her, and they plan a wonderful “dream- come-true” for Sara. Sara goes to sieep. “gupposing” the attic were warm and beautiful and the rest, and when she awakes it is a lovely Hindoo room. We could have told Sara what was going on, we saw the Lascars at it, but we beld our breath for fear she should wake! In the next act it turns out that the old gentleman has been looking for Sara. He has her papa’s lost fortune, and every- thing is altogether lovely. Effie Bond is the Sara Crewe, and the little Alcazar ingenue found her part. It is an extraordinarily good performance, child-like in remarkable degree and en- tirely convincing and appealing. Ollie Cooper as the stupid Ermyngarde is clever, as Ollie always is, and Blanche Sweet is another bright youngster. Anita Murray is rather stagy when she sings, but is otherwise pleasing. Miss Nera Rosa plays Miss Minchin in a delightfully hateful fashion, and George Osbourne is a fine old gentleman. The Lascar is all one’s most Oriental visions paint as done by Lee Baker, and the monkey, by “him- self,” is the Mansfleld of monkeys. “The Little Princess” should be seen by any one who has not forgotten how to be a child. BLANCHE PA'RTINGTON. Alaambra. A The cannon booms no more at the Al- hambra. The fiery steeds impatlent for the fray stamp not. The villain's poi- soned dagger Is in its sheath. But “Hamlet,” the greatest of all the world’s great plays, has been essayed by an ambitious management. How did this daring venture suc- ceed? Ask some of the thousand who were there last night. Many of San Francisco’'s best-known Shakespearean scholars were in the audience. Some went there to laugh and came away amazed. Others went out of idle cu- riosity and held their seats intent until the midnight hour. They found a mar- velous and an unsuspected talent. To be sure, Herschel Mayall's face and acting Is famillar to the city’s thea- ter-goers. He won friends by hundreds in the old Grand Opera-house stock company. He made other friendships with his bloody deeds at the Central. The first revelation of his ability, how- ever, came last night. His hearers were enthralled. As Hamlet, Herschel Mayall is born again. Without the exaggeration of the Belasco press agent there are few if any on the American stage today, so far as San Franciscans know. who could in- terpret the melancholy Dane so well He is absolutely and unqualifiedly con- vincing. The hearts and minds of his hearers are torn and troubled with him. His acting In the scene wherein the King witnesses hls own crime res- urrected is beyond all question of doubt as wonderful a thing in Shakespeare as this city has seen in many a long year. The soliloquy Is excellent. but not to be ranked with the work mentioned above. The rest of the cast may be forgiven for appearing in “Hamlet,” because they are paid to obey orders and the m: ement ordered them to play. More intelligent San Francisco will miss a rare treat !f It fails to see Her- schel Mayall this week. —n ' e I Landers Stevens as Sydney Carton and the remainder of the company at the Central Theater opened “The Tale of Two Citles” last evening. Benedict McQuarrie was the Charles Darnay and Georgie Cooper was Lucy Nanette. Marie Howe had the role of the Venge- ce. Edwin Bfi:y was the Marquis. ith this combination, reinforced by the entire company and by excellent scenes, the play of the French revolu- tion was made sufficiently moving to bring forth loud and continued ap- plause. Stevens won and held the favor of the audience and he made a strong impression. Georgle Cooper was no less successful. The staging was good. Lopez and Lopez, instrumentalists, who have' a prettily staged and cos- at the Chutes yesterday and scored a ARA CREWE hit at both performances. They play popular and classical music on a va- riety of instruments. Ethel White- sides, a charming soubrette, and her two pickaninnies brought down the nouse with their original and pleasing specialty, and Bothwell Browne's Gal- ety Girls, ten-in number, repeated their musical comeédy success, “The Merry Strikers.” Mrs. General Tom Thumb, the famous midget, assisted by Count and Baron Magri, Nellie Montgomery, the sweet singer of illustrated songs, and the. animatoscope, showing many interesting and amusing moving pic- tures, completed a capital programme. The amateurs have all sorts of novel- ties up their sleeves for Thursday night, and there will be a cakewalk at the Chutes on Saturday evening. California. “The High School Girls” burlesquers in a two-act, side-splitting musical com- edy entitled “Whirli-Giggle” com- menced a week’'s engagement at the California Theater last night, and played to a large and well pleased au- dience. Sol and Nat Fields, brothers of the famous Lew Fields, have proved themselves to be very clever German comedians. The special feature, “The Six Flying Banvards,” present without a doubt one of the greatest comedy casting acts that has been seen in this city. Majestie. Justin McCarthy's “The Proud Prince” entered upon its second week at the Majestic last night. There was a fine attendance and the good points of the play were warmly applauded. Grand. “The 'Sleeping Beauty and the Beast” drew a good house at the Grand Opera- house last night. Many of Barney Bernard's friends made that popular comedian feel glad that he was back. Columbla. The second week of Florence Roberts in “The Strength of the Weak” began last night at the Columbia before a delighted audlence. Orpheum. The new comers at the Orpheum got a rousing welcome last night. The show is certainly up to the Orpheum standard. Kubelik Plays Before 5000. Hugo Gorlitz, manager of Jan Kube- 1k, the famous young Bohemian vio- linist, recelved a telegsram from his New York representative yesterday stating that the virtuoso had played to an audience of over 5000 musical en- thusiasts on Sunday evening at the Hippodrome. Kubelik will be heard in San Francisco at the Tivoli Opera- house Wednes: Friday and Sunday afternoons, March 21, 23 and 25. The sale of seats will begin at Sherman, Clay & Co's Wednesday morning, March 14. e Memory for Poetry. Possesing a remarkable memory that has been trained only in one way, Simon O'Hare, who at 83 years of age is one of the oldest residents of Water- town, is proud of his ability to quote from memory more poetry than any other man of his age, and also claims to have a wider acquaintance with the poets, both ancient and modern, than any man in the United States. He was born in 1822 in County Clare, Ireland, and when 28 years of age he emigrated to this country, and soon afterward be- came the superintendent of the ‘gas works at Augusta, Me. He can quote from the works of the two glants of Greek and Roman literature. “Robert Burns,” he smilingly re- marks, “had nice ideas. Tom Moore was a songster, blit he stirs one to ecstasy. But my favorite poet is an Irish poet, John Green. He is little known, but whenever I read his poems they sink deep into my soul, so that I think they must be written there. I have spent my lifetime with the poets and songsters, but I have never written anything myself, for a poet is born and not made.”—Boston Post. — e Stung to Death by Bees. A man, a woman and two horses have been stung to death by bees at Pareng, a village close to Budapest. A farmer named Makranski, returning home from a neighboring town, left his two-horse cart in the courtyard of his farm house. The horses, annoyed by the sun, shifted to a shadier corner. In doing so they kicked over eight beehives. The bees swarmed out and began a fur- jous attack on the horses. Makranski and his wife rushed to the assistance of the | animals, but were themselves attacked by the insects. Their cries brought the farm hands to the spot, but it was found impossible to drive away the bees, and at last the fire brigade was called out and the hose turned on. ‘When the bees were driven away it was found that both the horses were dead. The farmer and his wife, terribly stung. were carried away to the infirmary, where they died the same evening from blood- polsoning.—Washington Star. “RCAN SILE - BLOCKS S Riot Call Summons a Squad of Police and Detachment From the Fire Department BLUECOATS SMOTHERED Restraining Rope Is Placed Along Post Street, From Kearny to Grant Avenue BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS. Yesterday morning at 3:30—a time when things usually sag round police head- quarters—a riot call was rung In from Post and Kearny streets. Forthwith Sesgeant Williams and his entire squad dashed into the blue wagon and were off. The cars were blocked on Post: street below Kearny. A surging mob of 5000— women by the way—swaying to and fro— mostly fro. Screams were issuing from a building a few doors above the corner—feminine screams, of courge, because men aren’ equipped with a screaming apparatus. As the bluecoats drew up they fell inte a wedge formation, gallant Sergeant Wil- lams leading his men, like Roosevelt at San Juan Hill. Behind him rushed Officer Barney Riehl, hero of many a brave stand, Having gained the entrance to the dry goods store of Kohlberg, Strauss & Froh- man—a fighting, fainting, screaming mob of women was found struggling againsi itself like a mass of angle worms after a rain. And without were 5000 grim visaged wo- men, equally determined to get in—to buy a “taflor suit at $3.65. a rhinestone hatpin at 16 cents, or a cube of black pins at 4 cents.” And then the cause of riot was plain—it was a “selling-out sale’”; and as the po- lHcemen were mostly benedicts they grasped the situation. “Clear that space to the right, Riehl” commanded Sergeant Willlams, and Of- ficer Riehl, knight of many a mad mid- night scrimmage, proceeded to obey. But the sergeant hadn't figured on the women—the women “dippy” with the sale bug. And the next command issued was, “Here, Riehl, get me out of this; I'm smotherin’.” The sergeant was gallantly rescued from the chattering mob. By this time, twenty women had faint- ed; feather boas and veils had been torn, belts lost, hats dislocated and faces scratched. Then order began to emerge from chaos. The Fire Department had arrived and stretched a guard rope from the corner of Kearny to the corner of Grant avenue; the mob, entreated and threatened, moved back from the doorway and the women began to pour out. And thus the day was saved. By 10 o'clock the cars were moving and alsles for passersby had been dug along the south side of the street. But solid as the phalanx of Von Widks, kelried’s Swiss stood the women on the right and left of the entrance, waiting for their blessed—thrice-blessed—turn to rush | in to get something for nothing; to bear homeward treasures dreamed of—and not needed. And thus these women with babes in arms, through the long morning hours, through noon, into the gray shadows of evening—If not the same women, others obsessed with the same delusion. And herein lay the pathetic side —for most of these were daughters of the poor, who thus parted with their sednt dollars for things they didn’t need. And while the comedy furnished haif the town with luncheon laughter, there ran through it a thread of tragedy—of human weakness, not wholly feminine. And through the maze of it lies the adage oft forgot, “You cannot get some< thing for nothing.” stood, many —_————— Few American Flags Afloat. Clyde shipbuilders booked orders in September for more than 100000 tons of shipping and launched 40,000 tons of new ships, mainly, if not entirely. for foreign service. More than four years have pass- ed since any American shipyard received an order for even a single ton of shipping for foreign trade. Look at the record of the port of New York for the week be- | fore last. Thirty-five steamers arrived from the British Isles and Europe, only one of which carried the stars and stripes at its masthead. Norway, Holland, Por- ! tugal and Austro-Hungary did as well Denmark twice as well, France three times, Italy four times, Germany six times and Great Britain fifteep times as well. The largest cargo of lumber, 2,170,000 feet, ever taken from the Columbia River has just clearcd from Portland, Ore. Was it carried on an American ship? The Brit- ish bark Thistle dipped into our freight money cashbox for that transaction.— New York Sun. ‘The ANGELUS PraNno-PLAYER Is the first instrument of its kind ever placed before the public. replace it. 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