The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 190B. SA\ FRA\CI CO CALL EDITORIAL ROOMS AND BUSINESS OFFICE Cormer Third and Market Streets, UPTOWN OFFICE. Vo SRR R e OAKLAND OFFICE........... St Phone Oakiand 1083 REDAY Li.v.clescssscsprpossnans J’lfl\'l‘ 7, 1906 e ] & @ ) - | g r = o ] =] We have heard in a variety of ways of the ap- propriation of two and a half millions for San Francisco sufferers made by Congress. We have also noted the varied and stormy fortunes of other | relief measures in Congress, such as paying Cali- ia her long overdue 5 per cent and war claims, ther of which will be paid, for the reason that the | emergeney appropriation of two and a half millions | looms large in the way of paying debts long due. » have not heard anythi however, about the profit made by the Government in the San Francisco fire. Yet the only profit made ont of it was Government, d it far exeeeds the eme appropriation. In beer, liquor and to- bz nps and liquor and tobaeco licenses the Government has made an enormous sum. The wor, beer and tobacco stamps sold to dealers, nused and destr ach an enormous s If propert to cover is.still its owners must \]ir‘vll an enormous sum to replace the burned stamps before they are allowed nto{market. The dealers whose licenses | t buy new permits before they 1ess and begin the repair of their unes. Then a very large sum in green- destroyed, thus relieving the (;o\‘orn-‘ ent of responsibility for their gold rmlvmp!inn. sther enormous sum in silver dollars was melted into bullion, again relieving the Government of the mption of the eoin, and leaving to the owner; v the bullion value of the metal, provided he can | t in the In these varions ways it estimated that the Government made a profit | Franeisco fire. It hz all profits in other thrifty The mail were fined for not the mai ‘ blazing streets and over impassable ruins| ruins. closels of four millions in the San ways. ors carrying throug during and immediately after the fire. | The subordinates of the Internal Revenue ('n]r} lector were kept on duty gunarding the l;u\'urmnuntl bonded warechouses, many of them working day and night without food or even sufficient water to drink. One of them, an old Grand Army man, who fought four vears for the Union, under orders was guarding a2 Government bonded warehouse which had been saved from burning mainly by his exertions, \\hvnl the soldiers came to clear the street. He lemnml his duty and exhibited his authority, and for answer | was knocked senseless with the butt of a musket by a soldier. The injury may cost him his life. Now he and his official colleagues get their reward, and the Government thriftily makes a profit by| ordering all their pay stopped from the 18th of April until the 1st of May! | The Internal Revenue Collector who ordered | their hard service and is grateful for it is powerless to get justice for them. " They could have saved much in their homes, néw burned, by putting their | personal interests above their o 1 duty and 1l{<-‘ cipline. But they stood by the Government, and it snatches from them thirteen days’ pay as a reward and acknowledgment of their service! They and the fined mail contractors and ¢he old Grand Army man who is at the expense of medical and surgical treatment of the side of his head broken by a musket-stock because he obeyved orders and stayed by his duty and his trust, all have left to them what there Government a pleasures of memo may be in remembering that the epted their hard and dan- gerous refused them pay at a time when most of their homes were in ashes and their families were fed the bread line. The private employer who would do these things wonld be execrated as the meanest of men. But the| Government is a pulseless and unfeeling entity, with no human attributes, and cannot even blush. Out of its profits it \ll” has a handsome balance over and above its emergency appropriation, and it is proper and in order for us all to rejoice that| when everybody lost it gained out of a pitiless mlfi—l fortune that wrecked the lives of thousands. ATTACKING THE CITY. service and being in The spirit of fault-finding, unjust eriticism and | personal attack to which The Call has frequoml\ directed attention of Jate seems to be increasing| rather than diminishing. It is unfortunate for the | city, it may do us considerable harm and cer- tainly .does us no good. | The Mayor, acting upon a wise suggestion, re- i cently issued an address to the world in which he| wiade a statement of the true condition of afi‘alrfi' in San Franciseo. Its intention was to correct many erroneous impressions regarding the local situation | which have become current in other parts of the country, and to show eapital that it could find in San Franeisco sbundant opportunity for safe and profitable investment. Tts tone was cheerful and optimistic, and as a reassuring proelamation by the head of the mumicipal administration was a valu- eble and important document, and the right thing at the right time, A On the very heels of it, however, follows a most | vicious personal attack upon the Mayor and }us‘ public statement, slandering the former and sneer- ing at the latter. Its effect, evidently so desired, would naturally be to frighten away that eapltalt which the Mayor invites, and in which invitation San Franciseo unites; and cause distrust wherever it | is read. Indeed, it almost advises capital to keep; away from San Franciseg, where, to quote its very words, the Mayor, ‘“‘by co-operating with the | thieves, by advertising his purpose to stand in with| looters of public property, has done the city an injury whose extent is not easily caleulated.” He| has destroyed trust in himself at"home and given| outside investors an additional reason for being timid about placing their money in San Franecisco. They might mlke up M minds tQ uitate homel as |is a public incubus and such an element a public| | home and | mously valuable mineral resources of California and | | Nevada, and, as the great center of all their splendid | from the publie schools last Friday. | the oldest officer holding commissioned rank in the British | before reaching the monarch’s hands are examined by a investors and take the earthquake risk, whlch the East so prodigiously magnifies, but they will ask why the\ should also take the risk of rotten govern- ment.’ { Now, this is wrong. First, it is not true. Sec-i ond., it is working directly against the urgent ne- cessities of the city. The Mayor, on behalf of the citizens of San Francisco, is trying to induce eapital | to come in here and assist in the restoration, and | this slanderous- and marplot element is hauzmg‘ like a millstone around the eity’s neck, shackling l':sl limbs, putting ball and chain around its ankle and | impeding its progress merely to gratify its spleen and accomplish a political design. Such a course| We need co-operation, not internecine strife: eommendation, not slander: assistance, not opposition. The whole eampaign of fault-finding | and abuse is extremely harmful o San Francisco | and should be eondemned by the whole community. enemy. THE BUII!;;RS OF TWO CITIES Never before have such opportunities offered in| San Francisco for those prepared to do the work at hand. Here is practically the rebuilding of a city of 500,000 inhabitants, involving the expendi- ture of more than a quarter of a billion dollars. Ground must be cleared, buildings planned and all | the multitudinous details of their construction met. | The sitvation _demands that the work be done quickly and well. The workers in demand are those who ean meet these conditions, and the needs of | the city will draw them as a magnet draws steel. | The best that the world has to offer in brains and| muscle will be given, for rewards for the labor of | beth during the next decade will be greater here| than anywhere else on earth. This is not the first time in her history that San Franciseo has enjoyed the benefits of the labor of hand and brain of the best of the world’s manhood. The conditions that exigted in California at the time of the discovery /gold brought to the State men competent to build up a great world city in/| the brief period of a half eentury. To be sure, the | site, the opportunities, the undeveloped resources of an empire were here, but men with the courage to grasp the opportunities and the will to bend the, resources to development were required. The en-| thusiasm, the self-reliance, the tireless energy which | made the pioneers leave the round of easy rountine at | drove them over desert and mountain or| across the seas to the then little known California, made possible the reclamation of the State from the wilderness, the building of the Pacific railroads, the development of the plantations of the Pacific islands, of the mines and fisheries of Alaska, of the enor- aetivity, from which their tremendous efforts were | directed, the building of San Francisco. Such were the pioneers and such was their wol'k.} In some respects their descendants and suceessors | are confronted with a greater task, but the way has | been blazed for them. They know precisely what is to be done: there is no groping in the dark: the\' are called upon to restore a city magnificently built, but one the building of which modern develop- mentd in the struetural arts make possible on a grander scale than before. The labor will be the world’s best financial, | executive, architectural and mechanical skill. The| new San Franecisco will be built, as was the old, by men with faith in themselves and in their enterprise, men of enthusiasm and initiative and energy. The Pacific railroads and the developed resources that | made the old San Francisco possible were not the| fruits of labor of the timid and the hesitating, nor did the timid and the hesitating share largely in the tremendous rewards which were incidental to the city’s growth. The quick to see and prompt to act made the old San Francisco, and these shared | largely in the fruits of the city’s development. Younger men, but men of the same type, will be| Jbuilders of the new San Francisco. And as the larger rewards for the building of the old eity| went to such men, so will the larger rewards for the building of she-new. Almost to a man those| who became rich and powerful in the building of the old San Francisco came to California practically penniless. In their day brains and initiative and courage, the ability and the will to do the work at hand, were better assets than mere wealth without | them. And the same will hold true, even in a larger way and with quicker and more certain re- wards, in the building of the new ecity. The nuclens oP_Snn Francisco’s future popula- tion is not far to find: 1700 pupils were graduated The ““Phoenix rising from the ashes’’ has had |to-put in overtime on the Pacific Coast during the last six weeks. President Castro has made a new record for himself; he has refmed to accept office. NOTES OF NOTABLES. Commander John Cawley, ninety-seven years old, is navy, having entered the navy eighty-four years ago. Is the last surviver of the famous battle of Navarino, He It is said that the Czar of Russia recelves from his subjects through the post no fewer that 100 petitions every day of his life. The majority of these documents confidential secretary. Major Oswald Ames, who was the tallest officer. in the British army, has retired after twenty-two rs’ service in the S8econd Life Guards. He stands 6 feet 8 inches in his stockings. Colonel C. Anstruther Thompson of the same regiment is ¢ feet 6.inches tall. James Broadbent, Mayor of Huddersfield, England, |is making the proper care of babies a leading feature of his administration, He issues instructions as to their food and says a baby should be weighed every fortnight io keep tab on its nutrition. A baby weighing machine is kept at the mayoralty office for the purpose. A rare example of discerning gratitude is given by the late Marchioness Isabella Lucini of Pavia, who has Jeft a legacy of $3000 to a local comic paper to which she has been a life-long subscriber. Deceased’s will also directed that $300 in addition should be spent on a sump- tuous banquet to which the staff of the paper’ ihonld be cntertained, “in recognition,” so the will_te: ‘reads, “of the many pleasant hours iom in nrm nlhnm ous eolnmus‘- | moned and, / [OCCIDENTAL "ACCIDENTALS BY A. J. WATERHOUSE. WAS FROM SAN FRANCISCO. A Certain Man who was traveling through a Vale of Tears and Red Paint made a slight error in his cal- culations and came in violentmcontact with an unexpected railway train, im- mediately thereafter lying forcibly down against an adjacent telegraph pole and leaving most of his clething suspended on the wjre. Thereupon were two Physicians sum- upon investigation, found the Certain Man a Mere Wreck and in a Sorry Plight, for+he was cut and bruised, mangled and bleeding; were not broken were badly warped, and besides this the Physicians an- nounced that they found symptoms of Appendicitis; so it indeed was marvel- ous that what was left of the Certain Man breatlied at all. “The Poor Wretch must die” Physician remarked. “He certainly must,” the other coin- cided. “He cannot live am hour,” prophesied. “Nor a half-hour,” the other fore- cast. & Nevertheless when a half-hour had | gone the Certain Man still breathed, | |and it was the same when an hour had | passed, and after several days he still lived and it became evident that he would recover. “It Beats Me,” one Physiclan re- marked to the other; “it Knocks Me Clean Out of the Ring! Never before did 1 know a man so Utterly Dis-! abled and Done to a Finish who ab- solutely refused to Give Up and Die.” “It Beat Me, too, until this morning.” the other Physician responded, ‘“‘but |then I discovered something = Wwhich | Accounts for Everything.” “What did you discover?' was the Natural Inquiry. & “I found a label in the Certain Man's hat which shawed that he was from San Francisco.” “At last all is made clear!” final comment. So the Certain Mgn not only recov- ered, but he became more healthy and | | vigorous than ever he had been before. one the one was the “The earthquake seriously dislo- cated some things that one would hardly have anticipated, didn't it?” “What sort of things do you mean?” “Well, for l!\stnn(‘s, it shook the honesty of certain fire insurance.com- | panies so out of plum that it now ap- pears probable that they never will be | able to stand straight again.” JUST KEEP SINGING. It the weather is foul or the weather is fair We can still keep singing, singing, For there's ever an end to the Vale of Despair, And the midnight the dawn is bring- ing; | And haply vow've moticed;, as surely have 1, : That a smile may lurk in a tremulous sigh; There are days to be sweet in the by and by, And so we'll keep singing, singing. There is never a care we are knowing‘ today, The while we are singing. singing, But morrows shall bury and hide it away, Its cerements unto it clinging. A moment—one moment—and . haply our pains We will count as a part of the infinite gains ° ‘Which come to the mortal whn never complains, ! But ever keeps singing, singing. |1 like well the man with never a tear, The one who keeps singing, singing, ‘Who standeth erect, nor boweth in fear, ‘Whatever the days may be bringing; For this thing, 1 know, and I know it full well: There's ‘always a heaven, there's never a hell, Fer him who refuses with sorrow to dwell, T And ever keeps singing, singing, ALFALFA PHILOSOPHY. They's truth in the remark ’at hell is paved with good 'ntentions, an’ ef |some on us don’t Wlieve it all we've got ter do is to keep on in our present itinnery. - The. faith 'at some fellers has " in Providence is strikin'ly showed by the fact ’at they claim ter b'lieve it kin save even them. When 1 see a woman ‘at looks zif butter wouldn't melt In her mouth I feel zif I'd like a heart ter heart talk with her oldest boy. T've seen some fellers shoot ot a ark an' miss it, but I notice they ain't so apt te es the fellers 'at don't shoot ‘tall. NS Ef you cquld rake up es many 'scuses fer your neighbor es you Kkin fer yourself derned ef I don’t b'lieve he'd keep out o’ jail. s Trouble with §'éiety es it's consti- tuted, is that it's jest es likely ter try ter polish sandgtone es a diamond. I hev an idee 'at when we git to the Jedgment Bar some fellers ‘1l find vut | ‘at they wus Christians when they never hed s'pected sech a thing. But I reckon they won't be the on’y ones at Il be some s'prised. Ef a burden's too heavy fer my own shoulders T allers would like ter see my neighbor carry it & while. Dum him! he shouldn't hev things so easy. 'Tain’t the howlin’ of my cat ‘'at T object to on my back fence nights, but Jones hes a cat 'at I claim or to be s'pressed. I love the ltruu ol : cmat. strains of the young man “at's feebly his strains in nw'nm M T've knew fellers to say ‘at wus eternal, an’ later admit s most | |of his bones were broken and what . the, George C. Boldt, Jr., son of the owner An event of d‘ep interest to San K1-‘ranclsco and all her environs was the marriage yesterday of Miss Ruth Al- len and Lucius Allen, both of whom are especially well known and favored young people of the very exclusive set. The home of the bride's Judge and Mrs. J. M. Allen, on Wash- ington street, was prettily prepared for the ceremony, which took place at 3:30 o'clock in the presence of only the im- mediate relatives. The bride was served by her sister, Miss Elizabeth Allen, as maid of honor, With Wyatt Allen standing as best (man for his brother. Father Pius {Murphy read the impressive service after which there was an informal re ception before Mr. and Mrs. Allen de- parted on their wedding journey. Only people soon to settle in cozy apart- ments near Judge Allen’s home. o Uetine It the queen of night beams as in dulgently mpon the earth tonight as | | has been her wont this week the gar- {den fete at Mrs. C. F. MacDermott's will be something to be remembered. {Glven a beautiful garden, gayly illumi- | | nated with colored lanterns and twink- |ling electric lights, a «xmer vaudeville [programme, dainty dwiches and |coffee like mother use | scores of the prettiest girls in town to | wait upon one, what could the gods |ask .more, especially if such a fairy- |like scene be lighted by Luna's soft | {rays? The rehearsals for the farce in | Which those clever amateurs, Misses | Knox, Kutz and Tisdale, Willard Bar- |ton and Rufus Smith are to appear, have been progressing marvelously. | The swing song promises to be a par- ticularly charming feature. In the | three flower-wreathed swings will be Miss Schlesinger, Miss MacDermott and | Miss Tisdale, Barton, Mr. Jeffren and Rufus Smith, | 4: The entire preparation tor the gar-' jden fete. has been on a generous and |elaborate scale and if the weather is |favorable promises to surpass any- thing of the kind ever given here. 2 . s The Misses Kinard entertained at their East Oakland home Tuesday | evening in honor of two young ladies | who are visiting here from Vancouver, | Misses Jean and Cora Froser. o Liwine Miss Alice Mason Barnett, the sing- er, who was burned out of her pretty apartments in the Casa Loma, is pleas- |antly located in Berkeley at Parker street. | Koelhe Mr. and Mrs. Walter Longbotham, |two well-known musicians of Berke-| |ley, have sold their cottage on Vir- |ginia street. Mrs. Longbotham and | |Mrs. George W. Perry of Alameda are | going to Sacramento Friday for a short visit. o et Miss Doris Heuer of this city and Beach Dean were married yesterday at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Doris Heuer, at 165 East Twelfth street, Oakland. As_with all like contemporary af- fairs only the nearest of kin were present, though the families are well known on both sides of the bay. parents, | {a brief absenca will ensue, the young | jand Miss Cett to make and |of the thousands of & | pett, a niece of Miss Stoddard. the men to be Willard | Belle Herzer, the groom being served by Philip Heugr. &7 e Miss Jane Gilehrist and John H. Ros- lsner were guietly married in Berkeley vesterday, in the Catholic Church. Onmly close |friends and relatives were bidden and after a wedding journey, which is to be |extended, Mr. and Mrs. Ressiter will | establizh a home in Alameda. eIt ar Miss May Hogan and John Cook were {married so quietly about a week after the earthquakésthat the news continues [to surprise their friends. Mrs. Cook is the charming daughter of Hugh Hogan and is occupying the Hogan home in East Oakland during the “family’s ab- sence at Sunol. * The wedding was to have been a very | elaborate affair, but the bride is looking | just as supremely happy now as if her !plans had not been turned topsy turvy. R A Mrs. Hugh Hogan. Sr, has gone to | Sunol, where a pretty bungalow con- stitutes the summer home. The T. P. |Hogans also have a country residence there and will leave Oakland soon for the summer months. . - John McVey, an Oakland attorney, M. Stoddard wkre wed- ded at”noon yesterday at 1461 Santa {Clara avenue, Alameda, the temporary residence of the bride, who was one n I"r'\n(llco per- sons to lose their ho:ce in the fire. The marriage was a simple event and was witnessed by a few relatives and close friends of the couple. The Rev. Frank S. Brush of the First Presbyterian Church officiated. There was but one bridal attendant, little Dorothy Lip- A wed- ding feast and reception followed the ceremony. . . . A. W. Best has located his studio at 457 Noe street, where in a garden he | holds classes in eutdoor sketching. Mr. Best is also doing the ruins in oil. . . . Miss Antoinette Wilkinson left for an Eastern trip on Tuesday, prior to sailing in September for Europe. Mrs. |A. M. Rosborough will accompany Miss Wilkinson abroad. . . Miss Mary Ertz and M s Susan Ertz |are expecting to pass several weeks in | Portland this summer. . Miss Amy Porter and Miss Marguer- ite Hanford, accompanied by Mrs. Por- ter, leave today for Del Monte where they will spend a few days. They are | residing at Cloyne Court, Berkeley, for the summer. Miss Roma Paxton is leaying this week for Rochester, N. Y., to visit for six months with relatives. . . . Miss Daisy Van Ness, who has been traveling with her mother through | Europe during the past year, will prob- ably arrive at home during the next few weeks. iness. He will meet his wife and daughter there upon their arrival . eie Mrs. Willlam G. Irwin and Miss Helene Irwin will remain in Europe The' bride was attended by Miss THE CORRECT WAY—S. NeETG T Galisto, N. M. It is not proper to" jaddress in communication or to intre- duce the wife of General John\Smith or the wife of Dr. William Brown as | Mrs. General John Smith or Mrs. Dr.| William Brown. A .married woman is entitled ‘to be addressed or introduced | by her husband's name, but not by his | title. - AN ARTIST—L. T. W.,, Berkeley, Cal. | There is nothing in “the mode of pro- cedure” that requires that gn artist magazine should be a resident of the !eity in which such periodical is pub- lished. An artist residing in Califor- nia could furnish- illustrations for a magazine issued in the Kast if he were given the idea of what is to be| illustrated. : EVART'S OPINION—S\ISscrIber. City. The following is probably what you who -may - furnish illustrations for a| lhrough the summer and autumn. have reference to in regard to what the late William M. Evarts once said in re- gard to what would become of the wicked and depraved. Being asked that question many years ago by Chauncey | M. Depew, he replied: “Mr. Depew, they all probably will practice law for a| little while, then eventually go into/ politics and become Congressmen and Senators.” PENSION—S,, City. If you served in the army under an assumed name, was pensioned and have been drawing your pension ever since, but now wish to resume your proper name, there is no reason why yvou should not do so. The same rule applies as does to people who assume a name to appear on the | stage, As to your pension, would have to do would be to establish | your identity by proving that you en- listed and were known in the army by the name in which your pension was allowed. SAN FRANCISCO WILL : BECOME GREATER CITY To the Editor of The Call: After the great Chicago fire ir® 1871 thousands of people moved away from the stricken city. There was an exodus to neighboring States, where refugee families settled on farms to begin life anew and never to return. But new people came to settle and live and do business in Chicago, and Chicago grew and grew and grew—to become in com- paratively few years one of the world’s greatest cities. We see a similar exodus from San Francisco. Individuass and families are moving away, some temporarily, many ne doubt never to return for permanent residence or’ business. But this will lltue affect the future of San Fran- cisco: For each one that goes many will come, and San Francisco will grow and grow and grow to be one of the world's greatest and most prosperous cities. Then in the years to come many who will have gone will sincerely re- gret that they'did not remain, while those of us who “stay right here” will deem it one of our prodest boasts to be able to say that we have lived in the old and the new San Francisco. J. R. RUCKSTELL. San Francisco, June 5. LOS ANGELES, June 6.—A special to the Herald from San Diego stateg that of the Wnldm-Astoru of New York, MILES DELIVERS ADDRESS TO A GRADUVATING CLASS BOULDER, Colo, June 6.—General Miles delivered the address to the graduating class of the University of Colorado today. His subject was “Our Country and the Responsibilities and Possibilities of Its Citizens,” and he elaborated on the suggestion that the destiny of the nation was now more than ever in the control of the citizens. “The three requisites of good citizen- ship are intelligence, character and patriotism,” he said. “Every time a citizen fails to exercise his right to the franchise he commits a treasonable and unpatriotic act. Every office-holder who devotes his time and attention to personal interests or to securing, his own selfish purpose is false to his du- ties as a representative of the people. This republic must continue on its march of progress or it must lapse into decay by the acts of its own citi- zens.” . e i BEAUTIFUL PARK PRESENTED VENTURA, June 6.—Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Foster rutcmv deeded to the county thirty acres of beautiful wildwoods at the mouth -of the \Casitas Pass, six miles from here, The tract is given as a memorial to the son’ of the ‘donors and Is to be as the Eugene C. Foster Memorial Park. It has long been the private picnic ground of the ewntm The Ventura River the ceremony taking place ' Mr. Van Ness is in New York on bus- | all you| PEOPLE- AND THINGS BY LOUISE VEILLER. | To sdve their clothes—their very fin- est and best clothes—so that they could |afterward lose them. might have been the sad fate of Mr. and Mrs. Alexan- der Shields, had not cestiny guided by Mrs. Milton Unger decided otherwise. It is a thrilling tale. A sort of a— kind a—out-of-the-frying-pan-into= the-fire story. There is no telling but that it may be dramatized. An automobile, a fair lady in distress with her hair hang- ing down her baek, and a doughty soi- dier to the rescue are a few of the salient features of the incident that am up-to-date earthquake playwright imight make use of. Mrs. Alexander Shields has the repu= tation of being one of the finest dressed women in San Franecisco. As a dresser Mr. Shields’ fame is not far behind that of his charming wife. What more natural then. that when they saw the flames approaching on that terribls April merning they should decide. to $ave their clothes? They did them up in bundles; smoothed them up carefully as lovers of clothes certainly would, tied them up in sheets and despatched them to the golf club for safe keeping. . . . Mrs. Shields’ into a relief station |U'nger was put in charge. Bundles upon bundles of clothes—mostly tied up in sheets, were seni out there and soon Mrs. Unger assisted by kind friends be- gan the distributioqp of clothing to the needy. In the course of the day's work they came upon the Shields bundle. My! Oh my! What beautiful things! Who could have sent them? Custom-made talior gowns all lined in white satin. *Long coats of the latest and most meodish cut. Hats that were dreams. Long el bow gloves. Silk stockings and lin= Zerie of the sheerest lawn and trime med with billow upen billow of lace. And the other bundle. Tuxedes. Sate in-lined evening suits. White Perfectly creased trousers. “I'm a refugee,” said Mr. Milton Un=~ ger as he gazed upon ail this mascu- line splendor. Here it was that Mrs. Unger’'s remark—able intuition came to the front. She went carefully over all the handsome clothes and attached to the button of an immaculate waist- coat she found a cleaner's tag and the name of Mr. Alexander Shields thereon. Dr. Reynolds was appealed to. An orderly was quickly despatched to the Shields home with instructions to bring back an explanation. He returned in au automobile with Mrs. Shields at his side. The lady was so anxipus to explain that she did not |stop to put on her hat. She took back her clothes. She real- ized what a narrow -escape they had. But she left behind her for those who were in want—well, I promised not te ite“. golf eiub was turned and Mrs. Milton dress waisteoats. . . A wonder as Mrs. Unger is at finde ing out things, still she has not beem able to discover who sent that great big box that was labeled “Zemobia.* It was unlike the other boxes that were forwarded to the relief stations. It was a great big wooden box all nailed up and looked as if a prac- ticed hand had attended to the pack- ing. And its contents—mest delicious home-made cookies, appetizing home- made doughnuts, dozens of glasses of | finest home-made jellies, dozens and dozens ‘of hard-boiled eggs, all the latest magazines and illustrated | papers and dozens of nursing bottles for the babies. Who could have sent it? Who was ‘lhe kind friend whose sweet thoughte | fulness inspired that splendid, won« | dertul box? Generous Zenobia! The Stanford | boys, who helped unpack the case, in their wide wisdom declare that Zen- obia is the name of .‘KIO town net | far distant. L g By Dear generous Mrs. Linda Bryan, now that she has seen to it that the | 400 children of the burnt-out firemen have all been provided with plenty of good and useful clothes, she 1is turning her attention to the wives of the noble fire fighters who are soon to become mothers. In this splendid work she has the co-opera- tion of Mrs." 1. Lowenberg, president of the burnt-out maternity home that was- situated at 1218 Harrison street. Dr. A. B. Spaulding is giving his personal attention to each case and each mother has in addition the ser- vices of a trained nurse, and each baby gets a complete layette. Any fireman's wife who needs as- sistance is requested to call upom or notify Mrs. Bryan at her home, 2422 Buchanan street. “I cannot do too much for these brave fellows and their families,” Mrs. Bryan told me. eterything any ome ean do. They are the nicest class of people one can | come in contact with. They are ap- preciative, grateful, and oh, S0 mod- est.” And every one agrees with Mra Bryan. meeting of the City Trustees the pre- City Attorney, deciding that time so that advantage taken of any changes which made in the law in regard to issues. - g “They are worthy of " -