The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1906, Page 7

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D W, CARMICHAEL CO, Ine, Gen Agents, 1008 Fitimers St —.——-.-mnl—oul i ARDS’'BREV-| | Unusual Greeting | This_'l'ime. Plays “The Sorceress” | . to Serious Throng | in Oa_k_land. Her Powers Undimmed in Drama Which Is New to West. | BY GEORQE EBEY. OAXKLAND, May 1l4—If Sareh Bernhardt, to whom homage is due, both as actress and as one who comes from very far, from 2cross seas and a vontinent to bring her own and Sar- dou’s art to a Western people, finds that the grand opera-house is not gar- nished and swept and lighted for her coming; that the long line of carriages | is pitifully meager in front of the thea- ter; that the foyer is not crowded with dandies of the town #nd critics of the country; that the boxes and orchestra seats do pot gleam for her with the traditional jewe's and satiny-snow shoulders of & Bernbardt night; that the house cannot be said to overflow with enthusiasts givirg welcome to & stranger and & Very great actress, per- baps she will not give judgment Quickly against Oskiand and San Francisco, nor swiftly smite this peo- ple for & lack of appreciation. The wires may have brought to Berphardt, &s to all others, in these last few days, stories of a city’s fall and ruin. The people of fashion and wealth, that host which. would have greeted Bernhardt with such ceremony &s San Francisco knows becomes the welcoming of a great star of the stege, is scattered. B rdt is informed that desola- tion has come to the place where for months preparations have been mak- | | | ing for the Bernhardt engagement. Be pleased to be told then, .Mme, Bern- you of that band fr played w dignity e drama w 1o the West, with Sarah Bernhardt your premier, that there is no Grand Opera-house. There are no Jewels and silks and fluff to parade in an actress’ honor. There are no carriages. The lights of glad: burned very lo the wine ass that ith feasting is untouched. The is when great actor lled is time with this people here for such seri- hought as weans the minds from | ness have of Bernhardt. lef, we are a s a city from icken folk, able | a foundation of perhaps, but not so versatile as an earthquaks, a great onderfully gifted actress ell in the most approved manner, and all within the short space of a fort-| night. Will Bernhardt pardon? ‘The stiffness of “company manners’ was upon the audience of San Fran-| cisco and Oakland people who came | 10 Ye Liberty Theater tonight to see| Bernhardt in a new play, “The Bor- ceress,” by Victorien Sardou. There weas no such stiffness upon the band| of French actors with Bernhardt. The | facllity and sureness and perfect aplomb that goes with world polish end mastery of one’s work and con-| fidence in canons long since approved and measured up to show in Bern- bardt's people on the stage, It those who listened and watched from orchestra tonight were not elways sure that the proper meed of applause or the right measure of tense silence came from them at such timi as the situations of ““Dhe Sorceress may have called for the manifesta- tions legitimately due from a wise, knowing audience (and let it De thoughtfully admitted that there were s many as several points overlooked by the Anglo-Saxon folk who sat down to a dramatic bill all in French), jno symptoms of disdain or amuse- ment were in evidence among the stage folk. For those whose intelli- gence, temperament and instincts per- mitted them to enjoy a pantomime on a stage, although ignorant of the French tongue, thers was & spéctacle provided by smart actors showing forth a series of pictures that came from Sardou's box of colors. Lacking so skiliful & hand as Sar- dou’s to cunningly put together and | deftly color with flesh tints a series {of blg, human interest events, the | pantomime might easily have been, |for the folk igmorant of Bernhardt's | tongue, ninety minutes of Intense | boredom. Credit then so much of the assets | of last night, the gold or gilt of pleas- |ure that was colned by the players | for the people, to M, Bardou. | For those happy persons whose perents and teachers advised them | early to soquire the French tongue | and who sccordingly drank in to the full all the rich spell of tone and thought and feeling that came with the words from Sarah Bernhardt’s Mps, so that no part of the Bernhardt draught was wasted or spilled on the sand, there was joy plus the pantomimic! ecstacy. Credit that to the divine Serah There may be more opportunity for the casual play-goer if that genus has survived the temblor and the fire, to enjoyment from Bernhardt's e more familiar plays, “La Tosca,” “Camille,” “Sap- pho,” which all are to be played in the few days of that the French mum- mers linger in Oekland. The crutches, the librettos, the whispered interpreta- tions of passages and phrases from friend to friend in the audience that were in such evidence 80 eoranBIY! tonight may perhaps be away when those tolerably hackneyed ! beroines with thelr familiar storles, | the stories of “La Tosca,” and “Ca- | pounced that gave public here last night the latest work of M. Sardou, and such bossip and com- ment and dissection as goes with a. premiere, and that zest traditionally| . when the new sauce 1s served | dtseases folowt PASSES AWAY Spectacular Career of fheWorks Board Is Arranging Former Cabinet Mem- ber Closes. Prominent ifiaflnnal Poli- tics Since Ante-Bellum Days. NEW YORK, May 14.—Carl Schurz, y known as a publicist and former Cabinet member, died at his home in this city at 4:85 o’clock this morning. Death was due to a complication of an attack of stom- ch became acute on ach trouble, | Thursday last, In spite of brief pe- riods of sesming improvement Schurs slowly railed and yi ay afternoon sank Into a state of coma, which con- tinued untll the end. At the bedside were a son, Carl L., and two daughters, Marianne and Agatha; Bdward L. Pre- |tortus, Schurs’s business partner, and R Drs. Jacod! and Straves Schurs was 7¢ years old, ha been born in Cologne on March 8 1829. His residence here was at 34 Hast Ninety- first street. Forced to flee from the !and of his birth before he had attained his ma- Jority, Carl Schurz soon became, and for more than half a century remained, one of the striking figures in the public life of the land of his adoption. Born in the village of Libelar, near Cologne, in 1829, Schurz became interested In the revolutionary movement in Ger- many while attending the University of Bonn, and when the rising came in 1840 he served as a private in the ranks of the insurgents. He was with General Tideman when the latter sur- rendered the fortress of Rastadt in July of that year and made an almost miraculous escape through the sewer connecting with the Rhine and fled to Switzerland. A year later he returned to Ger- many, under an assumed namse, for the purpose, of liberating his friend, Pro- g fessor kel, who had been taken a | prisoner at the surrender of the fort- ress, and sentenced to life imprison- | ment. This daring and romantic pro- ject was carried to a successful con- clusion and created & sensation throughout Europe, His marriage to Margaret Mayer, the daughter of a prominent merchant, in 1852, was an indirect outgrowth of the sensational rescue of his friend from prison. That exploit has been made one of the features of “Die von Hohen- stein,” by Friederich Spielhagen, ular novellst of that time. In the £ Schurz figures as Wolfgang von Hohenstein and Kinkel as Dr. Munzer. rz's acqualintance with the woman became his wife was traceable the fame of his exploit, as described by Splelhagen. Soon after his marriage Schurs came country, locating first at Phila- delphia. Three years later he removed to Wisconsin, allled himself with the mont forces in the campaign, and ok part in the campajgn of the fol- lowing year. During the succeeding twenty years he was one of the prom- fnent figures In the political history of the country. He went to Spaln as ant theater levee, even & levee | United States Minister in 1861, later| | resigning to return and serve In the Civil War, during which he earned the title of major general In 186Y he was elected to the United States Senate from Missouri, being the first German-born citizen to become a mem- ber of the upper house of Congress. In the meantime he had engaged in newspaper work both in Washington and in the West and had transferred is residence from Wisconsin to Mis- souri, where he became joint proprietor of the Westliche Post in St. Louis, be- ing associated with Emil Pretoriue. His career in the Senate was a bril- liant one. By his unswerving ocourse in support of independent principles, however, he became estranged from the Repubfican party, with which he was then identified, and retired from the Senate In 1875. . is public service 414 not come to an end by any means. Many political movements have since felt the weight of his influence and gained the bene- fit of his active co-operation. He was one of the organizers of the Liberal party in 1872 and presided over the convention at Cincinnat!i which nom- inated Horace Greely for President. He supported the National Republican ticket in 1876, and in the g‘.r!!o&;w- It became Secre! of the Interior l:‘t.ho Cabinet omum Hayes. During his tenure of office he effected wide reforms in the administration of the department. These reforms were particularly notabale in that arm of the department which deals with Indian affalrs. At the olose of his term of office he came to New York and devoted nearly all the remainder of his long life to editorisl and literary work. He had & beautiful summer home at Lake George and there a large part of his declining years were spent with his books, his muslc, of which he was passionately fond, and his memolrs, - be experienced tomorrow night, Wed- nesdey afterncon and evening, when Sardou’s more famous herolnes have their inning and theater-goers find themselves on surer, safer ground in passing judgment. Bernhardt is “The Sorceress” for our purpose. £he Is a Moorish malden. She is beauty, and charm, and passion- firing femininity. She is a Cleopatra to entice fro mhis soldlerly duty and his husband’s vows a gallant figure of e Christian warrior and gentleman. She died, as does the warrior and hus- band, after a brief but torrential pas- sage down the flery stream of love al- ways provided by Sardou for his ladies. The gamut of bdarbaric emotion, which also is perfectly human emo- tion, is ewiftly and with marvelous charm and sincerity traversed by “The Sorceress,” when Bernhardt is “The Sorceress.” That golden voice. perfect in spite of the pitiless years that have come to Bernhardt. still is potent with its golden, velvety smoothness to make the memory of all other speaking women become distressing. And the tigerish power that flames when Sar- dou brings his climaxes to and spells tragedy with his lines' stifl is Bernhardt's, and still grips people who know that Sardou is so essentially the- tthrown | gtric and constantly banal that one! really should not yleld to his patent call for an extra pulse beat, and, fol- lowing that, the thrill and hand eclap ' stirred. of auditors profoundly —_— Take the Paso Robles Cure, ‘Wonderful bath tenic treatment for shattered nerves. CARL SCHURZ ~ WILL LOP OFF FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1906 1,900,000 Extensive Reductions in the Estimates. All Employes Are Expected to Shade Their Salaries Voluntarily. The Board of Works will meke a tremendous cut in its estimates to be submitted for the municipal budget in some particulars and will |largely in others. The total amount jasked for will be less than half the | sum desired previous to the fire. There | will be practically no appropriation |asked for “general® and “permanent* | improvements. It is expected also that there will be ¢ big cut in the salary The sum of $300,000 granted by the Supervisors for work on the Geary- street road will be diverted for some other purpose. The $100,000 given for the construction of the Twin Peaks ervoir will follow the same course. The sum of $18,000 already placed In the treasury to pay for a new engine- house on Clay street will also be made :‘mpm of the Board of Warks reliet | There 1s on deposit to the account of the board the sum of $4000 given as recurity by people who were con- structing side sewers and doing other similar work. All records pertaining to this fund have been lost and the Commissioners do not see how they can refund it merely on the word of any man who says he made a deposit. There are at present three building inspectors, but it is thought nine at least will be needed for the recon- struction period. It is hoped that these |officials may be paid by imposing in- | spection fees, | CUT IN BUDGET ESTIMATE. | The Commissioners originally planned to ask for about $2,500,000. They will now seek less than $1,000,000. In connection with the budget esti- mate President Maestretti said yester- ay1 | "I do mot see how we can get along |on any less money than we have had heretofore. We can make cuts in some | airections, but much more work must | be done on other lines. I do not want | to vote to cut the salaries of any of jthe board’s employes, but I belleve |they will shade their pay voluntarily |under these terrible conditions. Some | of the men may be cut out altogether and all of them will have to wome = |great deal harder than ever before. | We lacked sufficlent men to transact 2 |our business properly before the fire, |and we shall not be able to get along with many less. “If they expect us to restore the streets we shall have to.spend an im- mense sum of money. We have under the bond issue a fund for putting a new surface on Market street, but that { will be inadequate now, for we depend- ed a great deal on using some of the old surface and material. We shall also have to use all new curbing, which will add to the expense. WILL TAX PRIVILEGES. ‘“The streets downtown are in a ter- rible condition. I hate to think of the amount that it will cest to put them in the shape they were before the dis- aster. There will be Infinitely more cleaning than ever before. In certain sections it will cost a great deal to clear the streets. It will be all right where the steam railroad tracks run and where the street car companies have been at work, but in other places we shall do the whole thing ourselves. “I am endeavoring to devise ways and means of creating a revenue where none existed before. There are certain things taxed in other citles which are allowed to go free here. We must change all that BEvery street and building privilege should be made to contribute something toward the re- building of Sen Francisco. The side- | walk venders operating on the public | streets ought to be compelled to pay the city a little rent. “We are all working hard to do what we can to assist the city in getting on her feet again. The public may rest ‘assured that we shall not ask for any- thing we do not need, nor shall we spend a ‘single nickel without knowing Just where It is golng. The sewers have been temporarily repaired, but a big ‘sum is needed immediately to put them Into condition where they will stand the regular strain.” PREPARING AN ESTIMATE. ‘The Commissioners are not in & po- sition to state in exact figures what sum they will absolutely need. Thelr estimate is based on what they think they will ind necessary to do the work ordinarily assigned to the board. No estimate is made of new work pendl |a decision by the Supervisors on whaf | 1 { |be a general .conference at which it 1wul be decided how much must be raised and how much of that can go to each department of the municipal government, The clerical force of the board has been working for several days on the estimate and it is announced that the axn.ctnnruwfllhmd.vln;flnn me, FIREMEN TO RETIRE. Members Who Have Trades Will Tem- porarily Leave the Department, ‘The pay roll of the Fire Department awill be cut several thousand dollars this month by the voluntary action of & number of its members. At a re- cent meeting of the Commiseioners the battalion chiefs were Instructed to grant leaves of absence to firemen who ! had trades and who could find outside work. Many of the men have taken advantage of this and the necessity of laying off men was avolded for the present at léeast. No vacations will be granted to either officers or men during this year. According to a report made to the shop equipment was about mo%t $73,808. It will require $80,000 to re- pair fire hydrants and $2950 to repair engines. Three engines, a hook and ladder, & water battery and four au- tomobiles were feet of hose, as was 41,600 24, increase | BURNHAM READY 10 LEND AID Noted Architect W Assist Committee | Today. Grade at Montgomery and California Streets to B. Raised. Lowering of Rincon Hill o= Another Project Be- ing Considered, D. H. Burnham, the noted architect, is to appear today before the members of the committees that have been d voting much time and consideration to plans for the beautification of the city. The committees In question are those on the Burnham plans, parks and res- ervoirs and the widening, extending and grading of the streets. They have been meeting daily and have made much progress with the Iimportant work before them. Burnham was invited to come to the city and give such advice and sug- gestions as he considered advisable un- der the extraordinary conditions. The famous architect gladly wired that he would hurry to the city, and his com- ing has been eagerly awaited. At yesterday's meeting of the com- mittee on widening, extending and grading the streets, Willls Polk sald that Burnham was coming to devote himself to committee work, and would place himself entirely at the disposal of the city. The Burnham plans com- mittes was Invited to meet jointly to- day with the committee on the widen- ing of the streets, and at this meeting it 1s expected to have Burnham pres- ent. Marsden Manson suggested to the committee the importance of raising the grade at the junction of Jackson and Kearny streets. City Engineer Woodward thought the grade on Mont- gomery, beginning at Bush and extend- ing to Jackson, should be raised about eight feet. After some discussion it was decided as the sense of the comr- mittee that the grade at the corner of California and Montgomery streets should be raised eight feet. This, If done, will benefit all the streets from Montgomery easterly to the bay. It will give the streets proper drainage, which they now lack, and also im- measurably benefit the sewer system. Chairman Law introduced the mat- ter ‘of improving the Chinatown dis- trict, and asked City Engineer Wood- ward to prepare a map on sanitary lines, accessibility, ete. “The Chinese are going back to Chi- tum Coffee. “Energy plus.” Can You ach and bowel troubles, heart weak and hardly handicaps nowadays, wher the world only yields the crown for the best efforts of keen people. ——————————————— [RLS PERIH IN A BAKERY Buried Under the Ruins of a Big Sixth-Street Store. Three young saleswomen, Annfe Baumeister, 14 years or age; Pauline Bock, 16 years of age, and Vefonica Finley, 18 years of age. were asleep in the buflding to collapsa. The remains of the first two girls were recovered by relatives yesterdav. and it Is be- lieved that the bedy of Miss Finley is still in the ruins, though a statement was made that she was carried out dead before the fire consumed the wreckage. It was the duty of the girls to open the bakery at an early hour, and the shock came just hefors their time to | arise. When anxious relatives reach- ed the bakery the fire was very close | sisters. Regarding Miss Finley, young Bai says that bystanders told him on morning of the earthquake that the body of a girl had been carried from the wrecked bullding be- fore it was totally destroyed by fire. yesterday afternoon tified that a man and a girl had met death in a building at §pis place, but the search for thelr bodies was un- su REPORT MORE VICTIMS. Undertakers Furnish Coroner With Names of People Killed. Undertakers reported at the Morgue yesterday the following deaths due to the earthquake: Clarence P. Neilson, & civil engineer, who died of shock; | Ottille Kettner, a domestic, 15 years of age, who died of shock at 3034 Plerce street; M. D. Hermann a liquor me: chant of 1422 Mason street, whose head, chest and leg were crushed by falling debris; S) , who was crushed in the Valencia Ho- { tel; John F. Pearson whose skull was | fractured by a fall'ng wall at 687 Waller street, and an unknown man, with a fractured skull who was | brought to the German Hospital on the morning of the shock. ————— natown,” sald Law, “and it should be mede as desirable as any other section of the city.” Woodward and J. B. Reinsteln will take the matter In hand with a view of recommending the elimination or tension of the blind alleys in China- town. They will also consider the ex- tension of the alleys south of Market street. Committeeman Bogue suggested that Ithe lowering of the grade of Rincon | Hill should be given some considera- | tion. If the hill were cut down the property would be enhanced In value, | not for residence. but for business pur- | poses. because of its proximity to fid | water front. Other members af the | committee expressed the same view. Chairman Law stated that the Mayor was contemplating the appointment of a speclal committee to consider and report on this matter, and that. he would see the executive and request him to add Bogue to the committee. It is only the genuine reformer who says but little and saws a lot of wood. POSTUM CEREAL. The Morgue officials spent some time | KYSGRAPER LIMIT NOT DISTURBED Two hundred and twenty feet will be |the limit of the height of bulldings in this city in the future, according to recommendation of the committes has in band the matter of the of the bullding laws, and which Is with a committee from the | Supervisors. The skyscrapers that wil | tower 220 feet in the air will be known las_class A buildings, absolutely root. When the subject of the it of buildings for the new E iclass A bulldings and gosed to add two feet uildings, thus architects and (cussion and that it was important that the height should be decided upom Defore anything else. At this point thers was some reference ““battleship” bull and use on buildings would be advisable | Market street, Van Ness | Roight 'should. be | e Shkughienss | Fir Iger of high buildings on |and called attention to the the eent could convey water to a height of 220 feet if it have the © appliances. Ruef said that the draughts created by lofty bulldings should be considered. | Montgomery street, for example, it would be injudicious to allow very build- {ings on both sides. They wi - be nel- | ther a beauty nor = nor would they be of safety to the city. A system should be adopted for limiting the helight jOf the budldi: according to the wi of the streets. “We should have no 220- (foot buildings on 40-foot streets,” he i uef thersupon moved that 230-foot |bufld\n be allowed only on streets 100 |feet wide and over. s was put to a vote and carrfed. Ruef followed this | with another motion to the effect that other streets be as 1 : 40 to 60 fect, 60 to 80 feet and S0 to 100 feet {in width, and that a committes be ap- | pointed to recommend a maximum t ‘X’nr the buildings on those streets. motion was also carried and a committee | consisting of Dineen, Curlett and Berke- |ley was named. At the suggestion of one | of the committeemen Assistant Fire Chief Shaughnessy was added to the | committes, which will make a report to- | day. A He who has no faith in himseif is destined to become a successful fail- ure. Cut Qut Then to “do things” is easy, Commissioners the loss to the depart- cmeo, a Reason’ Have a try at ~ the “Yellow” Streak? All got one, you know. Some small, some large. The more “yellow” in your maks-up, the fess yellow gold in your characte: and pocketbook. > v v Is your yellow streak the coffee habit? Does it reduce your working force, kill your cnergy, push you into the big crowd of mongrels, deaden what thoroughbred blood you may bave, and neutralize all your efforts to make money and fame? L - It does that very thing for thousands who don't suspect . Languld, half sick with stom- f alive, you cannot succeed under such fearful Try leaving off coffee for 10 days. Build back to a clearcut mind and healthy body by Fos- That's the true route to health, and with bounding exuberant health you scquire Postum Nom—ruermhmmeam!mv\--m Then it is prime and toothsome NO PLACE. The Lazy Ones Must Stand Aside. The dull heavy feeling from coffee not amount to much in itself, but it's a great obstacle in the way of fame and fortune, for it kills ambition and makes one lazy and finally sick. successful men or women must .-.: dull, stupid feeling