The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1906. T k) COMMONWEALTH CLUB BANQUETS AT PALACE tion of Architect Burnham’s m asterpiece plans. ENT SPEAKERS DISCUSS CITY BEAUTIFUL Brilliant speeches by eminent men marked the banquet of the Commonwealth Club at the Palace Hotel last night. The subject discussed was “The Beautification of San Francisco,” and its value was enhanced by Architect Arthur Brown's criticism and illustra- Many women were present. Arthur Brown Jr. Criticises and Illus- trates Architect Burnham’s Plans. James D. Phelan D, Is a City of eclares San Francisco Great Destiny. Colonel R. H. Fletc her Pleads for Park- ing Telegraph Hill in Near Future. Commonwealth American room the he et whi we have PROVIDENCE. th bhas sush rovement re ago e a com on whic but been ask you to note y is have ¢ prices: DEWING & SON ..$135 EUGENE BELLET . 50 CHICKERING a5 ANTISELL 20 Nd such prices have ever pffered in this city on depenfable pianos. All have been thoroughly overhauled n our pwn shop and are in h a tondition that we can guarantée them in this way: Use any, one-of them for a period ol three years, and if not satisfied, bring it back and full rchase price will be allewed\on any piano you may seleck This is the “WISE HABIT.” CLARK WISE & CO.. HAVE YOU GOT rehi- | y tho fut an Francisco should be developed, wit vie s, boulevards, approach to the park, the location of new public bulldings and hings ae would naturally enter equipment of a modern city. city was partitioning its a great opportunity, had to have permanently improved of the peninsula. Mayor Coon a plan e western half he time had procured plans, but simply for a park, from the distinguished landscape gar- Frederick Law Olmsted, but these were ‘practically ignored. In 1847 Military Governor General Kearny, nine months before very of gold, had ordered Jasper 4 local surveyor, to lay out blocks | and etreets in the eastern half of the peninsula - | and his survey still stands, with the rectangu- | lar blocks upon thoroughfare, Market street, absorbing princt art of the eity's traffic It is now designed to improve the circula- the hi Isides and the great the | { FEINVSTCH erimeters of dl and also diag- the south and encircling the y by creatin EXAMPLE. example fant, to WASHINGTON'S George Washington set a = when * £ improvi, A X people housed in Gol new city par ldren I:. will jons. + It will oppose above all e world, the foliow and 's plan be substantial 4 should then of Mr ove nature, The iy a elopmen 1ook and while conguest he hands of z hold what SPEAKS OF “CITY BEAUTIFUL.” > in Robert H. Fletcher, director of | vk Hopkins Institute of Art, spoke }on subject of the *City utiful.” ‘aptain Fletcher began hig remarks by lsaying that in order to understand wha is meant bv the term “City Beautiful” it was necessary to understand what is meant bv the word art, since art was the | Mg principle of the “City Beau- | “Art,” he said. “in_its broades | sense, is the skillful adaptation of things |in the natural world to the needs of m | withgan intelligent regard for beauty | He_®eferred to Cobden ®anderson's | statement before the Arts and Crafts | Bociety of London, that “The future of |art is the setting in order the house of marnkind In exalted consciousness of its vironment” as expressing the concep- tion of the movement both abroad and in this country to make cities beautiful. But to be successful, he said, the dwell- jers In the citv themselves must have | some genuine feeling for art—not an arti- | ficlal veneer, but a living interest and | knowledge of art—however humble; that ! is @ part of their own daily lives and that | will admit of education and development. | He instanced the latter period of the mid- dle ages and the renalssance in Europe | as exemplifying this idea, When artistic | perfection was aimed at in every town by the guilds, whethéer in- the making of a cathedral or a bracket for a tavern lantern. Cleanliness and neatness he contended | were the first essentials for a 'beautiful {elty, and he drew some lessons from the ‘White City of the Chicago Exposition in these and simflar matters. | Summing up he said that San Fran- cisco was already a city beautiful in | many respects, and that by following Mr. Burnham's systematic plans there was no reason why it should not become one of the most famous of the beautiful cities be a pleasure and a privilege to live, and banks of | | far as I kn | jointed and very often ot ol il L7 ARTIR BROWN gR %9 oo CEyTHE FPHOTO MONWEALTH CLUB AT PALACE LAST NIGHT. — — one wherein the best and noblest forms of art would find 1 abiding home. EXPLAINS THE PLANS. t Arthur Brown Jr., who illus- rated Architect Burnham’s plans with stereopticon pictures, spoke, in part, as follows: shall limit myself this evening to a fon of a number of I slides ze- lected from the remark ies of drawings prepared by Mr. Burnham to illus- trate his of the fu- port on the, possit e d an Franc I think e Y. 10 the scope of the ideas treated by Mr. the limits of the problem as y clearly expressed In the open- ing paragraph of the report th: all take the liberty of quoting it literally: “It is pro- posed to make a comprehensive plan of San Francisco, based upon the present streets, parks and other public places and grounds, which shall Interfere as little as possiy ar street system of the city." Having thus defined the ‘problem, the mext step eral prin- ciples of city ing condi- tions in San The fund rational and tion in_citle ces broadly planning to the exi Francisco. rning the of circ ve not as yet, as roughly formulat- but have existed rat d, ideas. It appears that Baron Haussmann under the Second Empire and lis ssor, Alphand, in their work for the traneformation and Im- provement of Paris, which seems so extraor- dinarily successful, were led more by an en- deavor to solve the specific problem In hand rather than by a pre-occupation to develop a broad scheme. Lately, however, there has been an effort made by students to discover and formulate the laws governing the rational planning of cities, and Eugene Henard. a French architect, has written a series of articles on. the future transformations of Paris; and in the course of his studies he seeks to deduce gome of the uni- versal principles, from a comparison of sev- eraj of the greater European capitals which have such similarities of character and situa- tion as to make comparison possible. STUDY OF FOREIGN CITIES. He has selected for his study the cities of Paris, Berlin, London, Moscow and Vienna—and I find that Rome of the Caesars eresents the same charactertistics, He observes in all these cities first, a central quarter or core, surrounded by a girdling avenue, in which 1s grouped the major portion of the bullding of importance and of monumental character. This core Is very often crossed by what is termed the Grande Crosisees, the crossroads where the original_settlement grew up. (This s not universal, however.) It s moted, also, that toward the central core converges a serles of great radiating arterfes which lead to the neighboring quarters and through them to the surrounding country, and in the third place, that these radinting svenues are crossed and mutually connected at Intervals by important avefues inclosing the central quarter and con- centric with the inner girdle and which relfeve the congestion which would -otherwise arise. ese rings very often represent in the older cities the successive stages of growth. The value of this t rests of course on the assumption that it fulfills the requirements of circulation and well belng of the inhabit- ants, and the assumption is strengthened the fact that the clties com) have grown up In relative Independence of each other. The | first slide is A schematic plan of Paris, The original crossroads which have existed since Roman times is elearly marked. . The gentral ring or core formed within the grand jevard con ¢ main_elemenf Somina dife S0t city; ik ot and_commereial. l{ it is which, ih tu ) which, in turn, are connected by the ex boulevards and finally by the fomflmlo‘::w The following diagram (a map of the oity of the world—a city in which it would | of San Francisco) shows the application of the e present | mame broad ideas to plan of the Clty of San Francisco. In the preposed traper | ! formations the civic center has been found to be inevitably in the position shown on the map, at the Intersection of the greatest ar- | tery, ket street, and Van Ness avenue. | About this center are grouped, within a short distance, the C Hall, the Postoffice, the proposed Unio tion, the proposed entrance to the Golden Park and the propsed group of bulldings devoted to education and art. The next step was to join these groups by the theoretical inner girdis, which is essential to relleve the congestion at the point of inter- section, Thus the civic center was formed, about three-fourths of a mile in diameter. In order to complete the scheme it Was neces- sary to add to the existing radiating arteries, Van Ness avenue and Market street, the fol- lowing proposed avenues: First, the panhan- dle extended to the civic center and beyond to the Mall dock; secondly, the great artery lead- {ing through the Mission and .thence over the county line and forming in its continuation the land approach to the ¢ thirdly, the avenue leading from the proposed Unfon Sta- tion to the civic center and through it to the educational and intellectual group. This gen- eral scheme is completed by the outer boule- vard and the system of diagonals. The general arrangement of the civic center is explained by the detall plan (shown on the screen) and further explained by the birdseyc w taken from a point over the Union Sta- and looking to the northwest. SHOWS PROPOSED CHANGES. 1 think that we are now ready to examine the general plan of the transformed city, which shows the ul adjustment of the various features treated by Mr. Burnham. In addi- tion to the ideas of which I have just spoken, we find a great number of other points which have been suggested by local nceds. The plan embraces propostilons for a system of parks, for schemes relleving the congested districts, and for the treztment of the hills. Number- less suggestions are shown for the elaboration of these ideas and for the development and embellishment of already existing features of the city. I shell call your attention to the treatment of the ferry landing; Telegraph Hill trans- formed into a promenade; the Presidlo, Sutro Heights, where a casino and gardens are pro- | posea; (he development of the Sunset district; the formatfon of & park on the hills about which would include an Athe- cademy, a Chaieau d’Eau and a ious parks in the Mission, and, & new system of docks. Diagonal ave: e also shown for the improvement of ous quarters of th city I ghould like to call the y democratic cha tion benefits the poorer classes even the richer ones. general plan, which 1s excellently Twin Peaks, ur attention here to The of drawing, two birdseye perspectives. The first Is taken from a view point over is a masterpiece surplemented by e the bay south towsrd the west of Goat Istand and looking The clvic center, the radi- ating avenues and encircung boulevards are cleerly indlcated and the other features of the plan ars easily traced. The second per- from Twin Peaks looking c features that we have al- from a difrerent standpoint. es the consideration of the a whole, and the remaining slides {llustrate the elaboration of the va- rious elements In detail. These slides for nave made from akho- the most part phs of the masterly charcoal drawings my friend, Edward Bennett, has made under Mr. Burnham's direction. This plan shows the decorative termination of Market street on the lower siopes of Twin Peaks. a series of ramps and terraces, embellished with statues, fountains and plleys of trses. I have touched but slightly and inadequately on the more important features of the great scheme; many very important points I have i=nored entirely. For those that may be in- terested In studying this matter further I £hould recommend reading Mr. Burnham's re- port, which will be published very shortly. I thank you for your ®ery kind attention. e SAN FRANCISCAN WEDS IN OREGON Sidney J. Ackerman Marries Miss Freda S. Ran at ‘Portland, .| fense. acter of the sugges- | NOW REPUDIATES WEAPON'S FALL [BELIEVES SON Defense for Murderer Ivens Claims - That Admissions Were Not Properly Secured WOULD SET UP ALIBI Experts Declare That the Man Who Killed Woman in Chicago Is of Sound Mind CHICAGO, March 14.—The State today in the lvens murder trial placed a num- ber of prominent alienists on the stand, and all of them testified that Ivens was of sound mind and clear understanding. Attorney Foltze outlined the defense of Ivens following the closing of the case for the State. He declared that he would first establish an alibi for the defendant. The alleged confession, he asserted, | would be shown to have been elicited while the defendant was in a state of fear and terror: that questions were put | to him by the police which, under press- | ure, he answered ‘‘yes” and ‘“no,” and | that these questions and answers were formulated into the so-called confession. Edward A. Ivens, father of the defen- dant, was the first witness for the de- He testified that his son came to him in the basement of their home soon after 7 o'clock on the morning after the murder and said: “Father, there’s a dead girl on the re- fuse pile down at the shop.” 4 The witness described his examination of the body and of his reporting the affair té the police. His son, he said, accompanied him to the police station | and was detained there while the wit- ness went back to the carpenter shop. He was not allowed to see his son agam for several days, he said, and declared that the separation was a trfck on the part of the pclice. CHICAGO TRACTION STOCKS AGAIN FALL Supreme Court Decision Sends Securities Down the Scale. CHICAGO, March 14.—Local street car stocks suffered again on the Chicago Stock Exchange today. There were no sales of Union Traction, but North Chi- cago, West Chicago and Chicago City Railway all declined heavily. North Chicago opened at 50 and the next sale was at 40. From that point the stock declined anywhere from $2 to $3 at each successive sale until it touched 25, when it rose on six sales to 35, where it closed, fifty points below its price when the decision of the Supreme Court was announced. West Chicago opened at 30, where it closed last night, and held at that point during the day and rose to 35 just before the close of the exchange. The decline in this stock has been 27 points since the decision of the court. Chicago City Raflway Company closed at 170 last night and sold at 160 today, | there being but one sale of the stoek'f registered. The last figure quoted on the stock prior to the decision was 193%. NIGHT WATCHMAN : SHOOTS A WOODSMAN Conflicting Stories Told by Persons Involved in Trouble. UKIAH, March 4.—Emil Gunnell, a woodsman, was shot and seriously | wounded by the night watchman at| | Albion mill last night. As several at-| tempts have been made to burn the mills | | and many of the large belts have been | cut the night watchman was ordered to mand. Gunell, it is claimed by the watch- at the command to halt started to run. but he succeeded in getting away in the darkness. At daylight in a cabin, to which he was trailed by drops of blood. Gunnell claims (!IL\.! he had no ulterior motive in his visit to the mill and that he is a friend of the night fireman. He states that a watchman ordered him out and com- menced shooting at the same time. ——————— PINNED FOR HOUR UNDER FALLEN TREE Washington Rancher Nar- | Lieutenant | shoot any ene who did not halt on com- | man, was sneaking around the mill and | The watchman then opened fire on him, | he was found | RS Gtk Lieutenant George Payne Burnap, U. S. N., Retired, of Santa Cruz Loses Life PR S BULLET SPEEDS TRUE ‘ Revolver Knocked Off a Trunk by His Brother Is Accidentally Discharged Special Dispatch to The Call. PHILADELPHIA, March 14.—Lieuten- ant George Payne Burndp, U. S. N., re- tired, of Santa Cruz, Cai, son of Cap- tain George Jacob Burnap, U. 8. N., also retired, who died last week, was shot about midnight last night by the acci- dentai discharge of a revolver. He was hurried to the Germantown Hospital, but died fifteen minutes later. Lieuten- ant Burnap was here to attend the fu- neral of his father. The fatal accident was unwittingly caused by his brother, Arthur Burnap. Burnap retired early last night. leaving on a trunk beside his bed some documents which he had been look- ing over. As a paper weight he used a #4-caliber revolver. At about midnight Arthur, who was oc- cupying the same room at the home of their sister, Mrs. H. C. Thompson, at No. 6218 Morton street, Germantown, came to bed. Noticing the papers he decided to look over them. Leaning over the trunk he carelessly jerked the packet from un- der the revolver. The weapon was knocked oft the trunk and was dis- charged, the bullet entermng the lieuten- ant's left side near the heart. Arthur Burnap surrendered himseif to the authorities. The father’s funeral has been postponed and the body of the son now lles beside the father's in the house of bereavement. —_— e ee—— MRS. SAUER ABANDONS HER FIGHT AGAINST EXTRADITION Finally Admits Herself Beate: Starts for Texas imn Charge of a Sheriff. LOS ANGELES, March 14 —Admitting herself beaten In her fight against ex- tradition, Mrs. Margaret Sauer, alias Margaret Graham, started for Sean An- tonio, Tex., this afternoon in the cus- tody of Sheriff J. W. Tobin to answer charges of embezzlement. May Go Out of the Hop Business. SANTA ROSA; March 14.—Santa Rosa nas about decided to go out of the hop business. A resolution was introduced at last night's session of the City Coun- cil asking the sewer farm committee to report on the advisability of pulling up all the hop vines on the forty-acre sewer farm belonging to the municipal- i else that absorbs more moisture. When the present sewer farm was purchased by the city it was all set to heps and last year's crop brought the municipal- ity about $7000. The income from the property is not the principal thing to be considered, however, and it is highly probable that before long the hops will give way to alfalfa or something of a kindred nature. ——e—e——— WILL MEET THIS E ING—The Central Women's Christian Temperance Union _ will hold its regular monthly meeting this evening at Assembly Hall, Parrott building. ty and replacing them with something | | HIS CONFESSION| CAUSES TRAGEDY) WAS MURDERED Father of Young Man As- phyxiated in San Franeis- co Diseredits Suicide Story ADVANCES NEW THEORY Feels Certain That the Gas Was Turned On in the Room by Desperate Thieves Special Dispatch to The Call SAN DIEGO, March 14.—George A. Schmidt, father of George Schmidt, who Is said to have committed suicide in San Francisco last Saturday night, believes that his son was murdered by robbers, who afterward turned on the &as in his room. Schmidt will not en~ tertain the suicide theory, and says that only a few days before he re- ceived a box from his son containing a birthday gift for his mother. The body of young Schmidt arrived In San Diego on the noon train today, and was met at the depot by the bereaved relatives. Schmidt said teday: “I think that my boy was murdered and then robbed. or else robbers broke into the room, and. after taking all he had, turned on the gas and left him.” Young Schmidt is said to have gone to his room in San Francisco and turned on the gas, with the usual re- sult. Two men who came along the dark hallway lighted a match in an ef- fort to learn where the gas was es- caping. There was an explosion, and the building was considerably damaged and tho investigators burned. DECISION AFFECTS MANY LAND TITLES Residents of Willits Find Themselves Deprived of Their Property. UKIAH, March 14.—Judge White to- day handed down a decision in the case of Exley vs. Long which affects about fifty town lots In the residence portion of Willits, When the lots were lald out they were described as running to stakes set on each side of Broaddus Creek, the bed of the creek thus being reserved for the original owners of the land. After all the land along the creek had been sold the creek was di- vided into lots and sold. Long bought one of the lots adjoin- ing the Exley premises and erected a saloon thereon before Exley had time to enter complaint. The high water this winter washed the saloon out and carried it down stream and out into the Eel River. When Long again commenced esect- ing a building in the creek suit was commenced by ley in which he claimed that his lot should run to the center of the creek. Judge White sustained Exley’s con- tention and now several people who speculated in creek lots are wondering what has become of their watered real estate. —_— ee————— WILLING WORKEES' BALL.—The Willing rkers of the Bush-street Synagogue will a grand ball in Golden Gate Hall, 625 W &t Sutter street, on Sunday evening. see. rowly Escapes Meeting "Terrible Death. PORTLAND, March 14.—For nearly thirtytsix hours William Vanderpool was pinned under a huge tree that had smashed in tne roof of his cabin two miles north of White Salmon, Wash. hope and resign himself to his e he heard a childish voice and his cries brought the tle daughter of a neigh- bor to his assistance. Vanderpool al- though weak from cold and hunger when rescued was found to be un- injured. —_————————— PREPARTIONS BEING MADE TO BLAST AWAY CASTLE ROCK Columbia River Is Soon to Lose One of Its Most Conspicuoms Seenic Attractions. PORTLAND, March 14—With the view of blasting the gigantic boulder into fragments a party of surveyors is camped near Castle Rock for the pur- pose of ascertaining the dimensions of what 1s said to be the largest rock in the world with the exception of Gibraltar, which commands the trance to the Mediterranean Sea. The stone will be used for building in Port- land. Covering an area of thirteen and a quarter acres at its base and tower- to a height of 1140 feet, the huge stone stands as one of the most conspicuous | scenic attractions along the Columbia. Speeial Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, March 14-—Miss Freda S. Rau, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rau, was married this evening to Sid- ney J. Ackerman of San Francisco. The ceremony took place at the residence of her parents, 528 Irving street. Miss Virginia Ackerman, Sister of the groom, was bridesmaid, and Harry Preiss of New York best man. The ceremony was performed by Dr. 8 S. Wise. Only immedlate friends of both families were present. Ackerman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. I 8. Ackerman of San Francisco, who came here to attend the wedding. ——aat Body of Cloudburst Vietlm Recavered. SAN BERNARDINO, March 14.—Cor- oner Pittman received a message from Redlands this affernoon that the body of C. W. Bennett, who was drowned in the Plung Creek cloudburst, had been found by a searching party. The body had been washed many vards down the stream from the sll’tn-g the cabin, which was swept agay by the deluge Monda; morning. v i & s et THIEF_ENTERS GRANEY'S ROOM.—The room of Eddie Graney, prestdent of the fight trust, was entered and plundered of a diamond ring ‘valued at $250 on Monday night, Last night the stone was discovered by detectives in @ Chinatown pawnshop. A Chinese servant at the Palace Hotel is suspected of having got Get D™ Graves’ Tooth Powder. (Use it twice-a-day and you will have white teeth, hard gums, clean mouth, pure breath, good ‘digestion and good health. Just ‘ask your dentist about it. ' < . Just as he was about to give up all | en- | | | | i Next. Monday We Open Our Department. of §| Ladies’ Cloaks =« Syits The potent charm of our new spring styles will be worth coming many miles to Every day adds fresh interest as the new apparel and fabric creations, direct from the leading style sources, are received. The costumes, suits, skirts and coats that have been congregated for this exhibit are representative of the masterful efforts of the world’s greatest style setters. The wraps and gowns for afternoon receptions, the handsome tailor-made suits, | the smart jackets—all show that experts of | a high order exerted their best efforts in the selection. of style. We will make the opening week one that will be long remembered in the annals of bargain giving. There will be price concessions made with the sole purpose of establishing our palace Details of this bargain carni- val will be given in next Sunday’s paper. Donot miss reading thatannouncement. T YO s . g I At In every respect the leading establishment west of Chicago.