The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 12, 1906, Page 8

»n THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1906. SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS JOHN McNAUGHT EBITOMAL ROBMS AND BUSINESS OFFICE. . . CALL BUILDING Manager Cormer Third amd Markct Streets, San Franeisco. BPEORE ORE. ... ...l i ity 1651 FILLMORE ST. Phene West 836 CAKEARD OFFICE Phoue .1816 BROADWAY Oakland 1083 ————————————r IND IES TEAT WILL PROFIT. San Francisco will create USTR rebuilding mai 1 unprecedented in I'his demand must inevitably bring Calife a has within her the best building n that ieposits of id of common clay. from which I'hese deposits range made, up te the finest grades The b granite »s of America; there rials from which eement ledges of are and eeds of California le: there are extensive deposits of 1 * Wast ae e will be and the for represent. practically unde- of cement materia s an import on the throneh nient to Sa conve ake interest County. 1 of San Fr ide material blished which San Francisco S8 ( now an become an ate to de- es of building mat & S ther communities j cr 1 Well. 1 helping do toward t Y rmed d ok -k and span as a p. roz a g cleaning v » De ment is badly erippled for fu of members of the depart- me ] € 1 le t the odds are g agains i > downtown distriet r r men and many teams a kler 1t ips of sweepers on F r the I they can in the trying [ 1 do better after a while » h s ( v 1n the t tr diffi- 1e Western Addition acenmulated d vegetable matter, old iseholders had all they of street kitchens and wi S no v » gas in the mains. Now t pportur to live in comfort on the in- s E s and let the streets take care of thems m es rk with the broom g a a d t. men especially— | w 1 serve ‘ | the rubbish in the imme- dia m An old box for the rubbish | fe Y r r the Street l)v'—i ¥ wagor would answer. Then jus hange would take place! A cle v 1 and dirt that the summer w and blow into the eyes and nostrils i imanity. | Y ¢ ul’’ idea is by ne means a new | on has been tried with great success in many places East. The little old household broom. | th sprinkling can, the use of yeur willing arms vd-natured smile will do the work and | do | LABOR FII‘\'DH\’G EMPLOYMENT. The Building les Council reports that prac- | tica all mechanies and Jaborers affiliated with it in th ty are employed. Few carpenters are with- out , and contractors are sending each davy to the izatien’s hegdquarters for new men. Bricklayer in demand, and, according to the| reports to the council, neweomers are given employ- ment as fast as th arrwe in this city. On S\mrla_‘.‘i local contractors’ advertised in the papers of rior for skilled mechanics. g reports come from the Labor The wvarious unions affiliated. with that eport their members nearly all at work. The Machinists’ Union reports all members employed, and similar reports come from blacksmiths, team. ster rinters and pressmen. All of which goes to the workers are getting back into profit- able employment again, and all this within less than two months of the most disastrous fire that ever swept a e same reassur show t But owing to complications attending the adjust- ment of insurance, which has delayed the removing of debris from the burned distriet, the ground has scarcely been scratched in the restoration of the eity. 1f, however, with the little that has been done laber has found employment so readily, what.can be expected when hundreds of buildings, ranging all the way from cottages to skyscrapers, 1 . { are in course of eonstruction. _Proprietor | then be | » DU turn out to be i |f:1il|u'(' to secure the aid of Congress the regular| {land) speech that there is plenty of room in the | world for an honest man. The providing for the thousands of laborers and mechanies that will employed will necessitate a large retail | trade, which will of itself furnish employment for| thousands. From the day reconstruction is fairly under way the new San Francisco will be a great hive of industry, enjoying all the prosperity which large pay rolls and industrial and commercial ac- tivity insure. HODGE’S RESIGNATION. Tt is to be regretted that C. E. Hodges, resident architect of the Leland Stanford Jr. University, feels piqued at the eriticism of his work at the great in- stitution of learning in the planning of beautiful hitectural features. The random comment of a pair of young 4'wrr<‘spnmlvn!s' gave rise to reports that tended to reflect upon both the judgment and the ability of Mr. Hodges, but he should consider | the seurce of these unfounded ramors. | In the building of certain notable structures of | the Stanford University Mr. Hodges had accom- plished that of which the State of California was yud. In reconstrueting the damaged works of hitectural art the eminent eentleman would un- doubtedly be as strong a factor as when he directed | the creating of the vast monuments to the memory of Leland Stanford Jr. Mr. Hodges is quoted as having said that ‘‘the more a man sticks to the: truth in this country the more he is eriticised.”” In this statement, undoubtedly made in a moment of nettled pride, Mr. Hodges himself strays somewhat from the facts. But in view of recent circumstances he is in a measure excusable. However, the gentle- man will 1¢ the matter fur- 1tion, alter his opin- | ind he will leave | us with the knowledge that California is truly grate- | ts in her behalf. The people of the State would want Mr. Hodges to return to his native land with good impressions | of this glorious country of ours, where the only use in the erection of a greater and a better San Francisco. ar £ hout doubt, on g ther and more serious consider: ion, and when he returns to En ful to him for his « that people have for hammers is PLACING CITY BONDS. \ Congress will obably look with some favor on the proposition of Governor Pardee, Mayor Schmitz | and W. Herrin to assist the Red ( s Societ to build homes for the homeless San Francisco suf- ferers from the fire, but whether the Serate and| House will agree to the plan of the committee tol the San Fr improvement bonds, taking over as security United States Gov- ernment bonds deposited by national banks, is very doubtful unsold neisco Some business men seem to be of the opinion that | the unsold San ¥ iseo improvement bonds might dividec the banks of the State of Cali- fornia, the proration of the amount of bonds to be bid in to be made upon the total sum of the paid up | capitab of that signify a willingness to bid, a given sum thousand of paid up capital to be to h be thus dividing the respon- bility for the bonds among many, the burden rest- ing most heavily upon the larger banks. be among f banks assessed a 1k, This may or may not be a feasible plan, and only the bank themselves after a careful investigation of the situation can decide. The fact remains, it said. that the State banks have every confidence in the future of San Francisco and only certain tech- | nical objections to the bonds have prevented invest- ments in them. Eastern capitalists when the bonds were first advertised expressed fear that the munici- pal affairs of the city might not Be judiciously | managed during this and future administrations. | Recent events have demonstrated to them that San! Francisco is not to be crushed even by the most | terrible of disasters, much less than by what n]ight: sponsible municipal management. Local opinion seems to be that in the event of marts of finance could be appealed to with a fair de ee of certainty that the call would be responded | to if the proposals be properly put. Richard Zombory, a Hungarian sportsman, re fused to fight a duel with a bank clerk and promptly received challenges from 151 of the clerk’s asso- ciates. He then decided to fight the clerk. Mr. Zombory evidently recognizes that even in the safest and most innocent of pastimes accidents are liable | to oceur. John D. Rockefeller stated in his Plymouth (Eng-, From the amount of room | that Mr. Rockefeller is taking up with Ris goods and belongings the conclusion is inevitable that he is the man. Native Sons and Daughters are gathered in Salinas to attend one of the most succes®ul meet.- | ings of the Grand Parlor ever held in the State. Eastern friends will please sit up and take notice that Salinas was supposed to have been ““destroyed’’ | by an earthquake. Chicago Theosophists favor ‘‘fewer births and better children,’”” and yet we cannot get away from the fact that better children depend altogethewr upon better parents. | Hot weather and lightning are commencing to kill off the people of Eastern and Mifidle Western | States, which ought to make us all the more thank- | ful that we live in California. Marie Corelli is angered because her picture has| been published. And the picture was just as flatter- ing as man could mislead the naturally truthful sun | into printing. It wouldn’t be a bad idea for the Harbor Com- missieners to consider the adding of two more fire- boats to their fleet when their next budget is| made up. William Jennings Bryan’s boom is said to be sweeping the country. Wish it would come to San Francisco and help out with our brickdust. AConvicts in New York State prisons are to be given ‘‘honorary stripes’’ for gaod conduct. But in a prison it is said all stripes look alike. Bands of goats are said to be driving the cattle from the ranges near Redding; this is certainly a real case of ‘‘butting in.”’ oy [} | 158 above. { my gorge rises at it. | OCCIDENTAL, ACCIDENTALS BY A. ]. WATERHOUSE l‘p\'(‘En‘ G GARDENING. The doctor said that what I needed was exercise. “You 'sit around and | write fool things under the impression | hat they are funny,” even if you had a brain, it would be- come beclouded, befogged and more useful fried in batter than any other ;5 you need exercise. Garden- light, genteel and pleasant work. he said, “until, rer try gardening? It's fun. That the dwellers. in an insane asylum and some other people might think so. 1 selected a cool, balmy morning and went out to spade a place for lettuce. When I sallied forth the thermometer, as 1 noticed, stood at (8 degreces above zero. Within fifteen mirfites from the time when I got to work it stood at I did not see the ther- mometer in the latter case, but I make the statement in accordance with my best knowledge and belief, for I am convinced that nothing less than 158 above would have caused me to float away in perspiration, as I did. In spading a bed for lettuce you need work but a day or two, for in that time, if you work as faithfully as I do, you will have spaded about ten feet square of ground. The work of sowing is easy, for you just scatter the seed jaround and hope for the best. After that, the work really is, as the doctor said, light, genteel and pleasant, for all you have to do is to g0 out to the lettuce bed about seventeen times 4 day to see if the lettuce has begun to come, and your heart throbs with rapture when you first begin to see “he | dainty green sprouts shooting through | the brown soil. Ah, what a moment of bliss that is! You have labored hard and faithfully, and at last, in these ten- der, succulent shoots, you have your reward. In order to insure sclentific accuracy in this brief treatise, it is appropriate | Emporium, Post st. and Van Ness ave. * |..ot a week has gone by since the fire!firm of O. McHenry Company, . . =, .PEOPLE AND THINGS. | Once again is the public allowed to peep inte Anma Gould de Castellane's skeleton filled cupboard. the overworked cable flashing news about Count Boni and his luckless Once again is | | Countess, and retailing tales of a com- plete and kappy reconciliation in the supposedly unhappy househeld. I do |not know any one who is particularly | interested whether this gossipy morsel is true or not. Judge Graham. I except, of. cours Persenally, 1 don’t | care, one way er the other, only, if it is true, I am sorry that Madame la' Comtesse had so much to say previ- ously. There is nothing so uncertain as a disagreement between husband and wife. 3 In 99 cases out of a hundred, unless the misunderstanding is based on causes that honorable.men and women cannot condene, it is kiss and make up. That is why it is so unfortunate when these domestic disturwances become public property. And that is why there is nothing so risky as taking sides in 3 A P marital quarrels, I \ 1SMELL R LIBEL SuiY N WHICH ) SNALL WIN LARGE Hamlet—Alas! poor Yorick!—I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest; 1to remark at this time that these ten- der, bezutiful, tiny, succulent shoots are, in every Instance, weeds. The lettuce at this time is taking a nap; it keeps right on taking it, and here | is where the real trouble begins, for the war with the weeds is on and it is a bitter strife. After a long time, however, |lettuce does come€ up, and | mediately cut off the most of it under | the impression that it is weeds, an impression which yvou retain until your | wife disabuses you of it in words that | rankle. I might tell about other things than raising lettuce, and I would if I knew |anything about them, but it fills my | soul with a great peace to say that [ ;do not. At the present time I have | carefully calculated that I have devoted labor to the value of $337.28 to my lettuce bed, and I would take thirteen cents for the crop and feel that I had got the better of the buyer. Still, T have had the exercise, and if jever I recover from the rheumatism that T accumulated in gardening, prob- |ably the fact will be a great comfort | to me. Understand that I like garden- ing. but my liking for it reaches the stage of enthusiasm only when another fellow is doing it. the you im- | | | | } BETTER TIMES AHEAD. ‘When the rain had poured the whole | day long At even I saw the sun; | It pierced the clouds in hurrying lhrong' | And the final victory won. Oh, I'd wearied a bit through the weary day, And had sighed, fled;” - But the sun shone bright through the clouds of gray, A prophet of peace ahead. ; “eall,” | | “My pleasure has | !I'am not a preacher; I have no Nor would you listen to me: But when the sterm is over us | And only its gloom you see, It is just as well—is it net, my friend ?>— To feel that no hope is dead; - That the dreariest day at last will end And a better time's ahead. —— all, | | | | | California glace fruits and choice can- | dles. Full stock. Townsend’s residence and factory, 1220 Valencia st., and the this the better. | Many is the insignificant and trifling | misunderstanding that has been 0| | magnified by the better half of the | menage retailing it to her sympathiz- |ing friends that it has grown into a| breach that cannot be bridged. It is a sorry thing to have to confess. It is nearly always the woman that talks. . Men rarely tell. There is noth- ing that angers a man more than the thought that his wife is retailing in- | timate domestic affairs to a circle of interested friends. It is the surest and quickest way I know of to make a man dislike his wife’s friends. And thn.t,'ni every one knows, is always an infalli- ble cause for a great and bitter guarrel. ol hie Ui e “Taking sides” is not a very profit- able job. If you are really and truly a friend you are apt to pay dearly for it. Nine times out of ten, “taking the part” costs you the friendship of the one you sympathize with. .- In all family quarrels; irrespective of the seriousness of it and the members it invelves, only the one who “tell should have anything to say. Friend- |in company with Mrs. Adams’ mother, | may abuse a child, no matter how un- and now, Where be your gibes now? your gambols?’ your songs? your flashes of merriment (Qal were wont to set the table om a roar? of most excellent fancy; how abhorred in my imagination it is! PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. - THE SMART SET. Mrs. Linda H. Bryan was hostess at an informal dinneg Sunday evening at her home on Buchanan street. Among the guests were Miss Lalla Wenzel- | burger, Lieutenant Cowan, Francis J. Heney and J. Masson Smith. . . * The fame of the cafe chantant at Mrs. MacDermot's in Oakland last week has spread, and so many are regretting their inability to be present that it is to be repeated next Friday night with almost the same programme. A kin- dergarten#is to be_the beneficiary this time, and Mrs. R. A. Bray, Mrs. H. A. Butters and a score of others in the fashionable set will undertake to make it a financial success. The gardens sur- rounding the MacDermot home are among the loveliest places in Oakland and formed an ideal setting for the en- tertainment that was provided last| Thursday and will be again given next Friday night. 3 . Mrs. A. L. Adams of Oakland will be hostess today at a thimble bee, the pur- pose of the little gathering being to enjoy in an informal way an afternoon Mrs. R. B. Gemmill of Topeka, Kan., and her sister; Mrs. Herbert Moal, of Mebile, Alabama. . Mrs. W. W. Felton is expected to ar-| rive soon from her home in Mexico. She will be the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Linda H. Bryan. The wedding of Miss Maude Smith and Charles Hoag will take plece shortly after her ’"'"“-f Alrthe details of the ceremony have not been decided, but the affair. as with others, will be celebrated witheut os-| tentation. | Miss Smith will wear a very elaborate | wedding gown with a garniture of old lace used upen her mother's weddlngj gown. S " Mrs. Peter Martin will spend the| summer in town as the guest of Mrs. | Eleanor Martin, and there will be many | pleasant affairs at the Broadway house. | that there has not been some informal diversion under Mrs. Martin's hospita- ble roof. . . . The Misses Sophie and Allee Borel are with their mother at their Swis$ home, Chateau de Gorgier, Neuchatel. Mr. Borel is en route to this city from the East. Their plans for the future are neces- sarily muech unsettled, but all are very anxious to return to San Francisco and are awaiting the return of Mr. Borel to Switzerland to escort them to this city. The town house of the Borels is leased to the Pacific Union Club, but the San Mateo home is ready to receive its householders at any time. . . . - Mrs. Adolphus W. Greely has recently joined her husband, Major General Greely, U. S. A. commanding the Pacific Division, and they have taken apartments at El Granada. corner of Bancroft way and Telegraph avenue, Berkeley. Mrs. J. W. Orr left St. Paul on Sun- day for Chicago, where she will visit relatives of Mr. Orr before returning to San Francisco about thee 20th. Mrs. Orr is the newly elected president of the California Club. . - . Miss Jennie Blalr, who has been a | guest in the MacDermot home in Oak- lapd for several weeks, is looking for apartments on this side of the bay be= fore her departure for Europe. Miss Blair expects to travel on the Continent for an indefinite period. e . Mrs. Francis Rawls Shoemaker left last week for Seattle to join her hus- band, Lieutenant Shoemaker. who is stationed with his ship at that port. - . . Sherrie Shell left yesterday for New York to sail within a fortnight for Europe, where he will tour for a year. . . . The engagement is announced of W. A. Conneau of Alameda and Miss Mar- garet Noen of 1131 Laguna street, San Francisco. The wedding planned to take place next month at the home of the bride-to-be. Miss Noon is a teacher |in the school department of Oakland and is a talented young woman. Mr. Conneau is a Stanford University man, prominent in society in San Francisco and with business interests in Alameda. At present he is associated with the Modesto. The sooner men and women realize|ship is put to no more delicate test infuriated bull. than this listening to the details of a quarrel. These are cases when good listeners come out strong. unless, of course, the friend wants to restore family harmony. Then all that is nec- essary Is to join in the abuse of the abused party. That is the quickest way known of “patching up” a quarrel. But it always costs you your friend. No matter how bitter the wife's de- nunciation of her husband may be, no matter how severely mother or father kindly brother or sister may speak of one another—they don’t want you to join in the berating. You are simply to listen and express sympathy—by loks. One word of abuse and it is all off with you. Splendid, undreamed of qualities are suddenly discovered and attributed to the poor, abused member of the family and you are put down as an unfeeling wretch, a gossip, a mon- ster, or a brute. s ey d e There is no more effective way to fan the flame of a family feud than by speaking well of the abused one and pointing out his or her goed points. It is like waving a red flag before an T Every excuse you put forth will give rise to new accusations. And before you know it you will in- volve yourself and the one you would protect In a hopeless, intricate mesh. As 1 said before, the only part for an outsider to play in a tamily quarrel is that of a silent listemer. A better way is to refuse to listen at all. Let it be once understoed that she or he who quarrels and tells is a bere and there will be less |-mlln..' 1 am thinking. Let it be known that you consider a quarrel as undignified and the quarreling bore won't put you in the precarious position of listening to the tale of wpe. Do anything to discourage quarrel- ing. It is not only the superstitieus that believe that good fortune keeps away from the home where there is no peace. The members of a family that quarrel can’t respect each other and certainly - don’t respect themselves. Quarreling parents don’t enjoy the re- spect of their children. Now and then, 1 will admit, a quarrel is inevitable. Let it also be final If there is one thing, I think, more undig- nified than it is * quarreling up” omly 50 as to quarrel again. 4