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

[HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY. JUNE 8, .1906. SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS ... Proprietor | JOHN McNAUGHT ... Manager " EDITORIAL ROOMS AND BUSINESS OFFICE. . . .CALL BUIL“NG | Ceormer Third and Market Street San Franciseo. UPTOWN OFFICE........ ... 1651 FILLMGRE ST. Phone .. West 956 ....... 1616 BROADWAY | ana 1083 OAKLANB OFFICE r e FRIDAY . . o UNE 8, 1906 T R e T T Ty T Y NO TIME FOR DELAY. | | : | The oppositon of praetical men of affairs to the widening of the streets ef the downtown distriet, does not come so much from objection to the widen- | ing of the streets as from the delay in the resto- ration of the ecity, wwhich such work will cause. Business men recognize that San Francisco cannot afford to delay in getting back fo its old-time work- | ing basis. It is no time for dreaming dreams, ne | matter how pleasant the realigation of those dreams may be, but for getting the city into shape for the| day’s werk. Thke dewntown distriet for half a eentury has housed very satisfactorily the great husiness engine that has been the source of the city s life and energy. | It is a question whether wider streets, however artistically they might be arranged, would house it | better. The business men, be it observed, are not| looking for artistic effeet but for utility, and while | they are quite willing to accept the artistic effeet | they are not willing to sacrifice the practical for it.! The great fire of April wiped out that distriet in which was heused the great business engine that made San Francisce go, and the city will be helpless | te resume activity until its business engine is in werking erder again. This cannot be until there| is a place to heuse the engine. The only way to| house it is to build the house; to restere perma-| nently the business sectien of the city. If the streets of the downtown distriet are to be erbitrarily widened, with the accompanying litiga- tien that may be looked for, it will be 1c before the business engine which made San Franciseo what it was, and -which must be counted to restore the city and make it even greater, old-time place and in working order again. is asfimportant to the householder of the Addition and to the laborer of the South waiting on the starting up of business s to the landowner of Montgomery street lesal | Sanseme street. The interests | and delay upen « eity d up in this question, | a are dec v against the delay which the | ce out of the plans proposed would entail. | IKORMAL CONDITIONS BEING RESTORED. 1 tion of how promptly San Francisco is T r ground after the tremendous disaster « rnishied by the restoration of her| i i J money centers. Immediately g was t only by San I « by praet entire Pacific | ( I banks d. Chicago, for ex-| amy ot less than $10,000.000. Much of rom balances which Western banks tern not a little of it was om the money market. from Chicago, as fair indieation | what has begn done at other points, that in that | ctically the entire $10,000,000 drawn six has 1 ed. Within a surpris short time after the fire the sending back of | borrowed funds began, and has continued normal conditions between the banks of Cali fornia and the banks of Chicago have been restored It is small comfort for a city that has seen lite rally hundreds of millions wiped out by fire to be | told that few cities were beiter prepared to meei such a loss than was San Franecisco. San Franc was at the time of the fire a tremendously ricl and prosperous city, and a eity in the flush of he: development. Her savings banks held the record o the country for deposits, her enterprises were yield ing enermans returns, capital and labor were ex ployed in industry extraordinarily fruitful for both. Not even at the height of the early-day mining| booms had the city enjoyed grester presperity. If ever a eity of 400,000 inhabitants was prepared to | withstand a -$200,000,000 fire, San Francisco was that city. The promptyess with which the city has met the conditions growing out of the disaster shows this as nothing else can. The prompt restoration of Cali- fornia balances in the East shows it, the prempt payment of more than 98 per cent of the city’s taxes out of a total levy of over $8,000,000 shows it, the splendid confidence and fortitude of the people | show it, the stiffening of real estate prices shows it. | San Francisco’s development has been checked by the fire, but the check is only for the moment. centers ; weeks ago been retur ingiy these until ¢ t THE WORK AT SANTA ROSA. In proportion to its population and wealth Santa Rosa’s loss in April was as large, if not larger, than that of San Franeisco. The fire wiped out all city | and counfy buildings, the business section and much | of the residence_district. About all that was left| Santa Rosa after the disaster were the courage of her people and the fine resources that baek the! community. The promptness with which these were applied to the restoration of the city is shown by the | developments at Santa Rosa during the few weeks that have passed since the fire. Steps have been| taken for the rebuilding of: the city hall and of the county buildings. Owners of business property are already at work putting up better structures than occupied the sites before. The restoration of the residence portion of the city is being pushed as rapidly as money and energy can do it. There is, of eourse, more behind all this activit than the enthusiasm of the people of Santa Rosa;! there is the ability to do the work. Santa Rosa was | before the fire and is now a wealthy community. | It is situated -in one of the richest valleys dn the| world, and in the development of the country the! people have grown rich. The fire found the com- munity financially sound. The local banks were full of money, and as soon as the embers of the fire [ N | the | life | everywhere temperary structures are going up to| | meet the pressing demands of the times, i | regnlar summer season seems to have opened at| | | | for the current year will be considerably increased dur- had cooled the people were prepared to begin the work of restoration. Practically the same conditions which exist in San Franciseo on a large scale exist in Santa Rosa on a smaller one: the people are prepared to overcome a disaster which to less for- tunately placed communities would be o\verwhelm- 1 . y. OPPCRTUNITIES FOR THE REFUGEES. With the opening of the fruit season much will be done to relieve the situation at the refugee camps. Already there is work for every man able te do manual labor, but there are theusands who before the fire were employed as clerks, bookkeepers, sten- ogia ers and in similar capacities who are physi- ! cally imeapable of deing hard manual work. These are at present the mest helpless class in the city. They will, however, have no difficulty in meeting the demands of the fruit harvest. The demand for hands to handle the fruit crop will ecemntinue until late in October. Whele families will be able to secure employment at from one to two dollars a day, -and in some instances more, for each effective Smember. The work is not hard and the conditions surrounding it are calenlated to meet the necessities of those who have had their all swept away. Fruit growers, who employ large numbers of hands, usaally furnish camping grounds and water, and in sowme cases fuel. Under sach conditiens industrious families ean save money. For a dousiderable portien of the summer the same elass of people will find even better paying work in the hop flelds. By the time the harvest is over a great change will have come over San-Francisco. Tens of thou- sands of mechanics ‘and laborers will then be em- ployed at kigh wagaes, temporary business and office buildings will line the principal streets and the retail trade will to a large extent have returned to normal conditions. - There will then be demand for eclerks and ethers who now find it impossible to make a| living in the city. Those who return to the cit) in the fall with a little money saved from the sum- mer’s work to tide them over until they can get back into their old employment will not experience much difficulty in finding places for themselves. FILLMORE-STREET BOOM PASSING. Fillmore street is fast losing prestige as the center of the eity’s husiness and industrial activity. Im- mediately after the fire this street was the most available fer the purposes of professional and blblsi- ness men, and every building that could be used for store or officé purposes was pressed into service. As though by magic Fillmore street was soon the| principal street of the eity. But already, with the work of restoring| ity well under way. the activities of the city’s| are drawing away from Fillmore street. Through the burned district thousands of men are| engaged in clearing land for new buildings, ald: This ae-| tivity is-drawing the industrial life of the city back| to the old centers. Every restoration of an office building left standing by the fire and every com- | letion of a temporary business building in the urned section means a further shifting of the city’s| business and industrial life back to the downtewn district. The time is not distant when the city that the fire forced out to Fillmore street will have moved back to its old haunts, I } Four deaths from heat and several prostra- ions was the record at Chicago Wednesday. The Chicago just as the unusual earthqnake incident -loses in San Franeis All is not gain in Dick Canfield’s gambling ae-| ivities. His lawyer has sned him for $60,000 and | sccured judgment. | EE g Oakland will endeavor to get throngh the Fourth ithout fireworks. That feature was furnished in| April at San Franciseo’s expense. e 1 Anarchy seems to have a grip on the Czar. As for| the Czar, he does not appear to hav’ a grip on any- thing. i The hest way to help the refugees is to hasten re- turn Yo conditions that will make them self-support- | ing. DUEL FRENCH BY MAIL. A pair who quarreled have just settled a duel with | the same result as usually attends a French meeting on | the fisld of henor, but it was more easily achieved, says | the correspondént of the New York Sun. The | challenger, who imagined he had been insulted, wrote to his adversary, a newspaper editor, saying: “One does not send seconds to a scoundrel like you. 1 box yeur ears by letter instead. Please, theréfore, regard them as boxed. ! ) | The recipient replied: “I regard my ears as having been boxed. Cerdially I thank you. In the same manner I blow out your brains with a revolver. Regard yourself as dead. I salute your corpse.” Paris IMPORTATION OF GEMS. With only ene month, remaining of the fiscal year end- ing with June, the value of importation of precious stones at this port is already more than $2,000,000 greater than Ahe total value of the importations of last year. In the last fiscal year $335,223,164 worth of gems were brought into New York from abroad, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, and this was the hizhest mark in the country’s history up to that time. The present total of more than $35,000,000 -+ ing the coming month. Customs authorities say that more than 75 per cent of the gems imported are diamonds. Pearls are second on the list, while rubies are next and emeralds fourth in value. MOTOR CAR A POWER PLANT. T AN The motor car of a Paris firm is designeN to light the country residence of its owner or do other work in its hours of rest from travel. The car is immovably braked on two fixed rails placed in the auto house, the detachable crank provided is removed from the two-cylinder gasoline motor, and by means of a shaft with two universal joints the motor is connected with the dynamo or other machine to be driven. While this arrangement promises to be es- pecially useful for turn\lh_lng electric light away from the usual power stations, it may prove a great convenience for driving pumps, wood saws of other domestic appa- ratus. CIDENTAL ACCDENTALS |_BY A. J. WATERHOUSE. ALFALFA PHILOSOPHY. » Once they wus“a peacock ’at got the rep'tation of bein' a gifted songster. Want te hear how he did it? Never iopened hf mouth. Then folks said: “Sech a beautiful creechur mus' hev, a | voice Iike liquid meldy. Oh, ef he'd |on'y sing jest once!” But the peacock | stil Kep' his mouth shet. T know fel- |Ters am’ felleresses 'at orto rickolleck this instance. I've heerea fellers claim they'd git | soms o' the prizes of life ‘at afterwards | did gjt em—in the neck. Some fqlks releegion reminds me of a inaman's shirt--worn entirely on the | outside, when ‘twould look a blame | sight better ef ’'twas tucked in all | round. D'yeu mnotice in the recent c'lamity | nobody ever asked w'at was the creed of | the man ’at aftered him a cup ef water tor a loaf o' bread? | same way when we git upstairs, teo. It's ben a heap of sat'sfaction to me | te find out 'at my nex’ door neighbor, that T took to be a eommon, ornery sort o' cuss, was tetin' a hero 'round under | his ’léven-dollar suit of clothes. “Furn him over an' pake him on the | other side,” says Beelzebub. | fer?” says the imp. *He wus a d'rector }‘qur‘-ce comp'nies,” says Beelzebub, | “an’ I want to make him feel 'at a lit- tle fire insurance ‘'at reely insured | would be a zood thing.” 1 SN | Gor TO GIT A HUSTLE oNt | Got to git a hustle on! Got to git a | move! | Things ain't "zactly runnin’ now in an | olly greove. | Pushin’ of the civ! i smap, | For the track is middlin’ rough, ap§ to { jar a chap. | Half a million things at least needin’ tq be done; no time for mopin’ round; do 'em en the run! Anybody ought to see, if our worth we | prove, Got to git a hustle on! Got to git a move! ic car isn't quite a Fellow yonder, who was worth several hundred thou'— | Something landed, something dropped | ~—worth a nickel now; | But he isn't whinin’ round; takes it | with a grin; | Had to git a hustle on 'nother pile to win; And he's like a multitude whe take up their cross, Never pausin’ once to weep, snivel o'e their loss. Oh, I tell you that their deed doth their valor prove, As they git a hustle on, as they git a move! | Got to git a hustle on! Nature stirred | & bit, 3 | And the people in her way noticed they were hit. Then arose the men of might, men of blood and brawn; Said, “While life and strength remain, hepe is mever gone.” Half a million things to do, doing now-— Time to git a hustle on, guess that vou'll allow. Be up and at the work that may you behoove— Got te git a hustle on! move! needing Hey Got to git a HOPE FOR LILLIAN. I heard you remark, Lillian, that you never, never, never! would marry a horrid man, by which, as you explainad, you mearnt any man. I was sorry to hear the remark, dear Lillian, for I have observed the young ladies who say that they never, never, never! will marry a horrid msn\; and I. have no- ticed that after a time they begin to dook bemeath the bed nightly to dis- | cover a man—any man—and, eh, they | are so disappointed when they do not find him! I really feel that you are laying .up trouple unto vourself, fog you and Dame Nature are at odds—she really insists that a man i3 about as good a creature as you can-find to marry. E But although your outlook may ap- pear thus hard, sweet Lillian, do.not feel entirely discouraged on that ac- count, f8r, even in my brief experience, | I haveé known several instances in which you might find rare encourage- ment. For example, T knew a beauti- ful young lady once on a time who, like vou, insisted that she never, never, never! would marry a horrid man. ‘What of it, do you ask? Oh, noth- y:g; that is, nothing in particular, ex- cept that the beautiful youx_:g.lady now is married and is the fond ma of. seven children whom she considers just too sweet for anything, while all of the neighbors consider them mere scrubs; and the/re 18 still hope, Y If T were In your place, my charming Liilian, I sheuld read of this case with deep interest. Of course, you never, never, never! will marry a horrid man; but, then, neither would the beautiful young lady to whom I refer, and—well, can you not see thagehope need not be utterly dead? S “It is the brest conducted restaurant in the city.” “What makes you think so?” “The proprietor never permits can- ned meat of any kind to be served without, at the same time, serving a bottle of antidote for poison.” “How does Senator Bloward stand on the railroad rate legislation?” “He-is not entirely certain as yet.” “Why not?” A . “He has not heard definitely from the conipany he represents.” - WHAT DEFEATED SOLOMON. “I admit,” said King Solomon to the Queen of Sheba, “that once my wisdom was completely set at naught and I was absolutely defeated in one of my enterprises.” P ' ;! ; 'How @id it chance?” the Queen in- quired. = 2 6 “Well, it didn't. exactly chance. The Prraps it'll be the | “What in one o’ these here pettifoggin’ fire in- | misfortune came to me because for a few minutes I forgot to be a sage and acted the fool. You see, in a mo- ment of rashness I remarked tb’t\f could make something good out of any man, no wmatter what he might be, if I were given the opportunity. One of my courtiers took me up and brought me a man to experiment upon. T made an absolute failure of the attempt, but no man could have done etherwise. It ' ndakes me sick to think that L was such a wall-eyed chump.” “What was the cause of the failure?” | the Queen of Sheba sympathetically | inquired. 4 “Why, he brought me one of these | fellows who talk and talk and talk, and never cease talking, and yet mever [y any accident say anything. I was a goner from the word ‘go, and it | was mighty tough, but L have one | conselation.” “What is that?’ the Queen inquired: “The teo cute coeurtier met with an accident and lost his head shortly af- ter that.” | “Well, that is some consolation,” the | Queen pityingly observ: “it indicates |that we ancient history potentates manage to keep even.” “More er less,” said King Solemon, “but it hurts just the same.” IN ANSWER TO QUERIES | SAVINGS BANKS—T. D. City. The number of savings banks in the United States January 1 of the current year, was 1237, | A PUGILIST Subscriber, City. tin Canole, the Mar- lightweight pugllist, | tober 13, 1882, | AN ADDRBSS Subscriber, Berkeley, ical. |the address of any private business. |the parties were burned out and ha | gohe into businessgagain, they will ad | vertise. i | MILITARY DUTY-YC., Oakland, Cal | For such information as yeu desire |relative to the liability of a man who |left Swaden before performing military |duty and now wishes to returs, com- | municate with the Consul for Sweden in | this city. | AN ESTATE—Jim, Alameda, Cal | Your questien relative to a family al- |lowance out of an estate, the estate, is one that calls for a judieial department answers. | FOURS IN PO!&ER‘Plflyer, City. |the game of poker “fours” is a rare {hand to hold and means that in five | cards, four cards are of the same value. Chus four duces are a “four” as are four aces. The highest fours win. There can be no similar hands in “fours.” WORDS IN COMMON USE—A. S, |City. Dr. Bromlaugh in his “Gleanings |for the Curious,” says on the subject of | words of the English langnage used by writers and speakers: ~“We would be surprised to find, if we counted them, with how small a number of words we |manage to express all that we have to |say, either with our lips or with the pen. Our common literary English probably amounts to hardly ten thou- sand words; our common spoken Eng- |lish hardly to five thousand. % Lot SRR TR T CITIZEN GIVES HIS VIEWS OF NEEDS OF THE CITY { To the Editer of The Call: There is no doubt that the conduit system for electric transmission for cars is the best vet known. I know that a steel conduit can be so con- structed that it would be impossible to clese the slot by fire or earthquake, and I see no reason why, the United | Railroads should not adopt that system as soon as conditions are favorable for it to install it. It also appears to me it was an over- sight for the business men to scatter and locate storgs in the Mission and the unburned district instead of wait- ing a short time and coneentrating in the burned district downtown. The present result of such a course could | be easily forecasted. Now nearly all the burned district is plastered with | “To lease” signs. This hasty move and taking five-year leases of up- town property and erecting flimsy fire- traps is goinz to retard the building downtown where the mest valuable property is located. Of course, the burned district must be cleared before permanent structures can be erected. I believe it a crime to build with brick after the experience we have had. Steel frame strictures, covered with sheet steel and reinforced with brick upon the inside, if clamped to the frame, might be used if nothing bet- ter can be found. The crying need now is cheap homes for the men and their families that are going te stay here and help to build up and restore the city. There is lots jof land between the city and San Ma- teo along the line of the Southern Pa- | cific Raliroad that ought to be bought for $26 per acre. An acte cam be cut up into fourteen lots, 25x125, and these lots could be leased at so much a month to aetual occupants te avoid speculation. Two dollars per month for the ground and a commutation i(from railroad at $3 per month, making’ the monthly expense only $5. The occupant could build a three-room house for $100. This suggestion de- serves immediate consideration, as there is no timé to lose. There is a good deal of talk about a salt water supply. Why not go at it at once and pump the watér with wind motors? - After the plant is installed its maintainance would be nominal. In these critical times we require men of action that can do things be- sides talk to bring the city out of lt‘ trouble. ¢ Cheap land for workingmen to build nomes on where they will be inde- pendent and not be eaten up with rent is what is needed now. The residence rents asked now are from 50 to 200 per cent in advance of what they were before the fire, and working people cannot afford to pay such eddrbitant demands. DAVID B. JAMES. against which exceed the value of the| opinion and is not of the class that (Ms‘ In| | | | % | At the close of Miss Winifred June Morgan’s concert Wednesday night in of a reception. Miss Morgan came into | the audience and her friends crowded |around to bid her farewell and bon | veyage, as she leaves today for Europe. She will travel,with Miss Spencer and the two will go first to the home of Mme. Gadski, where another California girl, Mabel Riegelmann, is preparing for an operatic career. Miss Morgan has made the violin her life devotion, and the next two years will be spent |in study and travel The cencert: Wednesday night was 2 musical success, which was to be ex- pected with such names on the pro- gramme as Fred Maurer, Lowell Red- fleld apd Harry Samuels. Mrs. Olive Reed Cushman was aiso to have as- sisted Miss Morgan, but was ‘confined to her bed with ptomaine poisoning. There is no occasion fer her friends to be alarmed, as she is mueh better today. |Mrs. A. L. Adams of Oakland will give |at her home Tuesday, complimentary te her mether and sister, who are here from the Egst. P s . Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann | have taken a cottage in San Rafael for the sumrther, pending the compietien of their very handsome bungalow at Ross. £ TR . Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ford, who have [ was born in County Clare, Ireland, Oc- |Peen’ the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Louis | Pierce at Suisun, are lecated at Fl Drisco, on Pacific avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Ford, whe have long eccupied apart- This department does net publish ;..nis at the Palace, are gnxiously If |awaiting the rebuilding of that hostelgy. . . . Miss Linda Cadwallader has remained constantly in tewn since the fire, keep- is still at Menle Park, to which place the excitement. * - . Dr. and Mrs. A. P. Stapler are cen- | templating a trip abreae, providing that Dr. Stapler may obtain a leave of ab- Sinee the fire Dr. and Mrs. Stapler | have resided in Frultvile, and if their plans mature they will remain in Eu- ! rope three months. Rt ass i Mrs. Howard Elliot Robbins of Pied- | mont leaves tomorrow for The Oaks, Applegate, where she will spend three |PEOPLE once dgain has Michael Ward, who rejoices in the appropriate sebriquet of the “Widow Charmer,” been arrested, and ohce again has the weakness of foolish women been held up to the mocking public eye. Ward is neither young, handsome nor cultured. Still, he has managed to win many hearts, and incidentally many | purses, all because he has what is |usually alluded to as “a taking way with women.” According to the Ward tactics, the winning of a wife is as easy as getting off a car. It simply means stepping In the right direction. And with the fool- | tion is flattery. The fact that a man cares or pretends to care for her above all the rest of womankind js enough. To do that, to admire her above all others, makes him In her eyes a man of rare good taste, fine discernment and solid judgment. And when a woman imagines these things about a man it is not very hard for her to imagine her- self in love with him. Of all the much-abused words in the English language, “love,” to my way of thinking, cemes in for a mest generous share. It is given an elasticity that permits it to cover mere sins than charity. It is made adaptable for i dividual uses and to imdividual cases. It is endowed with more pecullarities and eccentricities than the veriest freak in a side show. It is alienated from its next of kin, esteem and respect. It is used as a cloak to cover up desire and fancy. i o Se e : There is not one of the women Ward married, there is not ond of the widows Ward “charmed,” nor is there one of the women whose promise to wed him he won, that did not delude herself with the thought that she loved him. And vet when they discovered his perfidy this “love” vanished. Tt dis- appeared as quickly and mysterfously as it had been called into being. Not a vestige of it was left. Not even that soft soreness, “to have won and lost,” remained, for nearly each and every one of these women has wanted to have the “charmer” arrested. True love may come “all of a sudden.” But I would hesitate, to believe that it would disappear all of a sudden. Leve may turn to scorn, but there will al- ways remain a vague tender feeling for the object of the once belovel. No woman who had truly loved a man would swear out a warrant for his ar- rest. 03 ‘Ward always posed as a wealthy man of good family when ‘on a “cha uang” expedition. His knowledge of “love” and women must have taught him that position and money are necessary in- gredients to the hasty matrimonial pudding. We are a great people to prate about equality. We are supposed to be born equal, and not to think more of one man because he is more blessed with this world's goods than another. But we don’t. That is, the great ma- jority of us don't. Not only that, but that great majority Is apt to confyse the possession of wealth with the idea of good fa: ¢ the glamour of “wealth and family” is mistaken by foolish women for “leve"? sail of 5 3 akland the affair took on the aspect One of the largest affairs planned | for the next week is the reception that | ing house for her brother George and | refusing to'go away. Mrs. Cadwallader | her sen immediately escerted her If!eri sence from the German Hespital, where | billg | e is a medical director. AND THINGS BY LOUISE VEILLER. ish majority of womer the right direc- | 2 nlzn&ma.tm;:m' and Mrs. Robbins have' on_ Hillside ! months. Mr. rented their pretty home “ avenue to Boston folk. .0 O - Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bancroft are re- siding at the Gainsborough, on Pacifie avenue, where they have ofic{nn‘ very attractive apartments. - - - Royden ‘Willlamson s living in Berkeley, where he expects to spend the | summer. 3 oy . . wu-"t‘ Sexton, whe had contem- | plated a trip to Tahiti this summer, will | probably remain in town at the family | home on Washington street. Mr. and | Mrs. Perey V. Long (Emma Sexton) have announced the arrival of a little | daughter in May. N Miss Frances Jolliffe will arrive In |town this week from Paris, whers she | went a few months ago with Mr. and | Mrs. Emile Brugulere. Mise Jolliffe has written the libretto and music for & | comic opera, which she axpects to pre= duce in this country. PO Dr. and Mrs. Lee Presser have buflt & tiny bungalew in a picturesque spot |near Piedment avenue and are located | there. | iy e, | | Mrs. Jane Martel, who, with her | daugnter, Miss Adels Martel, has lved S0 long at the Pleasanton, moved into | her own home on Webster street early [1n April, censequently escaping the lesses undergome by so many. . - - - Mrs. Harry Wells Thomas of Hillside avenue, Piedmont, who is spending & menth in Bakersfield, will go te Carmel~ by-the-Sea for several weeks before re= turning home. | Mrs. Squire Varrick Moeney, with her ‘flny son, has returned to her homs on | Broadway after several weaks of severs | illness at the Presidio hespital. ‘ . . . Miss Alta Countryman will eatertain infoermally this afterneon at her heme | in Oakland. & iie The members of the Outdeor Art | League department ef the Califernia Club are requested te send their ad- dregses fo Mrs. Levell White at Mill Valley. | P T 2 Mrs. Adolphus Graupmer has beem | spending a few days in town, the guest | of Mrs. Wenzelburger. RS . Miss Wilkinson and Miss Newman of- | Oakland left last Sunday for Eurepe, whers Mrs. A. M. Rosboreygh expects {to jein them in September. Mss. Wil kinson is the daughter of the late War- den Wilkinson. . | equality. There has been a whole lot | said and much more written about the |attraction of opposftes. Attraction, | though, is not leve. And equal culture, |similar tastes and ideals is much the | better soil for lasting love to take reot in. To have the same taste is largely to . !h-vc the same interest, and people who |are interested in the same things have !more to hold them together—that is, | they are not so apt to drift apart. |\ There is a whole lot more truth than fiction in the trite saying of love's flight | when poverty comes along. This is, of | course, in cases where love culminates, | as it naturally does, in marriage. Nearly every woman, unless she is |very young and dreadfully Inexperi- | enced, easily understands this. A woman who truly loves a man hesi- tates to marry him If he is very poer. A wife is an extra burden to a strug- gling man, and no woman wants to see the man she loves burdened. No man whe truly loves a woman wants her to endure the many privations of real poverty. Lack of money, fortunately, is an evil that can be remedied. The man who is worthy of love can with time place himself in a pesitien to somfortably support a wife. Love made comforta- ble”sheds its wings. It is content te stay right at home. Extreme poverty and great wealth belong to the same class. A romantie [glow is apt to shed its effulgent rays over both of them. ‘When a girl marries a very wealthy man her friends and the newspapers go into acstacies and raptures. It is a ro- mance, a love match. When a girl marries a very poor man her friends and the press are not so enraptired. though quite as excited. And again if is a love match, a romance.. Thinking matters over, however, it is not so strange that therd is se much “nearly love.” ‘While I am positive not one of the women Ward charmed even fer a mo- ment loved him, I am willing to admit each one thought she did. ————— SUGGESTS NEW NAME FOR MARKET STREET To the Editor of The Call: ‘Why cannot San Francisco show her gratitude to the whole country by re- naming Market street United States averiue? It could be dome on July 4 with ap- propriate ceremony anAd is the very least the city can do fo show the ap- preciation for the generosity showered upen her in her calamity. Other towns .might follow suit and it would be a very graceful thing toa see united ac- tion on the same great day of rejoige ing, July 4. A CONSTANT READER. San Francisco, June 7. ————— . e Maniia Police Foree to Be Reduced. _MANILA, June 7.—The police force of Manila is to be reduced to 500 men, ‘ol whom 200 shall be Americans and the remainder Filipinos. As a result 100 American policeinen are slated for | aismissal. The change Is to be made | within three monthis. Economy is given as the cause. ; | [ e e 4