The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 14, 1906, Page 8

FRANCISCO CALL ctor KX Prop: CALL BUILBING wclsca. 185! FILLEORE ST. West 956 FHICE....................i016 BROABWAY 4 1083 OFFICE Sireets, sl el T INSURANCE ABUSE o S . would sap the avoid giving vil. Some | ble | 1d honor companies murmur and r a rebuke to of the people and a small percent- eir verbal and com- timate was | | > upon ent wonld perative 1o State imsurance all the srsons who have no | Ith oth vidends for the companies such setbaeks and CIMEergeney be destroyed by a con- Suppose the | | all the insurance of York is just POS as was the destruetion of San F rsof fire, and that} and have to f New of go ont AN CISCO. v the heavy -ompanies 1ld hardly fuse to pay a rle use a holder was known to have r righter to death before he died of | . e started the the plague that swept away thou-| pop of London. Would a 'life OMPEny t the rat was respon- the terrible spread of disease and therefore ake off 20 per cent of all policies held by persons he news of San Francisco's strucgle the d of the United States levise some means of ir peo sur- t only against fire, but against ‘n whose scheme seems to be to - with business methods that savor b ame., | OREGON AND REPUBLICANISM. | The Spring Republican in a pre-election in| Dregon editorial marveled at the radical vllun;:PM political faith in the Beaver State during the| bast decade. The Republican did not forecast the Blection of Chamberlain (Demoeratic) for Governor, ut-on the contrary predicted, in an indireet way, he naming by -the Oregon people of a Republican state Executive. The cry of ‘““stand by the Presi- lent’” was taken as evidence, in the light of the Wit Hermann-Williamson land frauds e % hat the State would give to Withycombe (Republi-| -an) a majority almost as as that given to toosevelt in the latest Presidential campaign. It is. small wonder, that the political situation in dregon was so little understood in the Bast—and he West. The land frauds eases, far from being . £actor in harmonizing the Republican party, were ised by e a means of withdrawing vart of the party organization against which the harp barb of Presidential eriticism had been di- Lected. At no time during the term of Senator Fulton sas there been absolute harmony between the Inte- "ior»D(-panmcnt and the Oregen delegation, and ~he only salve that has been applied to ‘wound has been spread by a Democrat in. Gearin, however, was not in a political Manager THE SA position to stand in the breach strietly for Oregor inst the two and three cornered Republican i Fulton seemed to do all that eould ation. A 1 be » between the administration, gon delegation and the f: Matthews wing of the Republican ‘‘ma- wally worked toward party disrup- tion instead of party unity. - On the other hand, Chamberlain was a man of the pcople, a conscientious official and a capable stances, vet the feelix the Or “Jae contir jurist. His non-j sanism won him friends among the Republicans as well as the Socialists, and yet Chamberlain could never be accused of radicalism. He avoided political eontroversy and prided him- self on the fact that when once elected to office he would serve all the people and bend to no party « ique. Ie appeared to have kept his word, and through sireng h of personality and frank individ- ualism he swept away the normal Republican majority and placed the State, presumably, in the Democratie ranks. But the status of Oregon, so far as national| polities is Chamberlain. Oregon tomorrow would reat a vote for a Republican Presiden- s she did in 1904 the bickerines 1 > climinated in the suesess of roll up as : = tial ecandic of State pol factions w issue. A CITY'S WATER MAINS. Tt seems that San Francisco is not the only city of the world whose principal water mains entering tHe city from the source of supply were inadequate to meet all possible demands upon them. Cinein- nati has just passed through an experience brought about by the bursting of one of its mains. whieh, had fire broken out, might have resulted in disaster As it was, the whole city of Cincinnati passed Sat- ht without water. As a result streete dstill, elevator service was 1o a st suspended: the people, although the night was| one of the hottest in the history of the city, could | secure no water either for drinking, cooking or bathing purposes. They were not even permitted to take water from their cisterns and reservoirs, for et guards against the led possibility of an outbreak of fire. it the seare at Cincinnati was not needed to em- phasize the necessity of furnishing enouch water mains connecting the water systems of cities with sufficient in number to meet : that was sufficiently n Francisco in April. No eity will henceforth dare permit its water supply to de- pend upon main pipes so limited in number as to court the experiences of San Francisco and of Cin- upon these the authorities dr » B the source of all demonstrated in nele possible co cinnati. GOOD HEALTH AT THE CAMPS. s feared that the e st to visit Tt the fir raordinary June rains— i Francisco in almost a quarter of a century—would*seriously affect the health of those refugees who are living in tents. But the fears avere unfonnded. The damp was disagreeable and ann but few serious cases of illness fol- ing, [lowed it, or even of severe colds. Indeed, the people in and about the city who are living for the first time in their lives in tents are enjoying quite as ed had they good health as they would have enjo, | continued housed in their own eomfortable homes. Tent life, partieularly in a crowded tent city, has many annoyauces and hardships, which the greatest | efforts on the part of the authorities eannot over- | come. But the fresh air of the open is more con- ducive to good health than are the conditions under which the ordinary population of a’ large city,| The ex-| housed within brick or wooden walls, live perience of the tent dwellers of San Fran far t6 sustain this view. SO goes 7 Trial by fire is said to still be resorted to it Egypt. n Francisco can testify that it is the hardest of all trials. Sa Senator Reed Smoot seems to be having more trouble than he ever had with all his wives put to- gether. The writing of $160.000,000 in insurance by a to be sure, so| company with £500,000 in capital shows how easy | it is to make a mountain of a molehill. It will be seen that a great fire is not the only costly experience that can be visited upon a people. A dispateh from the north says that after twenty | vears a Seattle man has recovered his voice. He dues with the insurance combine is| eouldn’t have belonged to the Seattle promotion | bureau. Politicians have been relieved of one cause of grave anxiety; it has been definitely decided that the Palace Hotel court is not to be left out of the new building. Chicago’s water bureau says that 58 per cent of | the water pumped for that city is ‘“‘unaccounted for.”” The fresh air grait will probably be the next phase of the Windy City’s municipal troubles. HEIGHT OF THE ATMOSPHERE. One hundred and thirty-one miles is the height of the atmosphere as measured by Professor T. J. J. See, who determines the thickness of the air envelope by noting the difference between the time of sunset and the complete disappearance of blue from the sky. The moment at which the blue changes into black can be observed quite easily with approximate certainty by the naked eye when the air Is clear, and by trigo- | nometry may be ascertained the distance below the hori- zon of the sun at the moment of change. By this means may be calculated the height of the smallest illuminated particles of oxygen and nitrogen which give to the sky its bluest tint by the reflection of the smallest wave lengths of the sun's light. 4 The instant of change from blue to black is possibly a little difficult of exact observaticm, but the method is not more doubtful than that based on the observation of shooting stars. The shooting star method gives a result not greatly differing from the vanishing blue metho‘d. The former gives the height of the atmosphere at 109 miles.— Chicago Tribune. A At the New York State Democratic convention a bolting the old Hearst delegation is expected from every New York City district. In the Democratic conventions this year the hair Globe-Democrat. nator pulling promises to be somecthing phenomenal.—St. Louis | A seeted oféany one man in the trying eircum- | stion known as the | : i concerned, cannot be cstimated by the at as that which overwhelmed San Franeisco. | FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY; JUNE 14 1906 NEe s N 2 SRS ‘ | READY FOR SHIPMENT. UNG-8 SALIS SHIPPING PEOPLE AND THINGS BY LOUISE VEILLER. | A woman subpenaed as a wit: in Viennese court gave her age ss in A few days later the Judge received an anonymous letter in a feminine hand affirming that the.witness was 29. A warrant was immediately issued for ihe woman and she was arraigned before the Judge to answer to a chargze of perjur The woman escaped with the warning that a second such ofiense would be severely-punished. | Thdt is a pretty how-dy-do! Tt has| always been hard to get a woman to take the witness-stand and now. e wo- man is going to be compelled to tell her real age. Well, subpena servers are going to have a hard time of it. | I don’t know why it i8, but few we- | men will confess to ‘their true age. When you find a woman over-anxious to tell you how old she is you can be sure of one of these two things: Either she is very young and anxious to be considered grown up, or else she i00ks much older than she really is. It is 11 very well and very nice to say that| a woman is no older than she looks; but, just the same, women don’t take any stock in that. Men may ot care| how old a woman Is. They may indge her years by her looks. But women don’t. A woman would rather-tell a man how | old she is than reveal the secret to a woman. If she tells a man he may for- get it. If she tells a woman she might just as well publish the fact to the | world. But she would sooner tell no one. Perhaps it is the delightfrl mys- tery that hovers round the womsn of unknown years that causes them all to ‘ wish to concedl their ages. | Her age is the only thing ahous her- | self that a woman does no* t=ll another | | woman. She wiil confess, aven explain the mysteries of her toilet. She will tell the kind of rouge she uses. She| will compare notes on hatr hle She | will show another woman how to pencil | her brows and carmine har lips. She might even go into detail as to how to keep wrinkles away, but to tell the number of years that brought these same wrinkles—never! Anyhow, what | would be the use of a womun telling | her true age to another woman? e would never believe her, 1f that Viennese law is going to be| adopted into our courts there had bet- | | ter be established a rule refusing ad- mittance to women spectators in courtroom. Otherwise there is going| to be trouble. | | * * . | | The wife of a wealthy brewer of| Sioux Falls, 8. D., has been arrested on | the charge of manslaughter in connec- | n with the death of a ‘young girl| who was employed.as a domestic in the | brewer’s home. | It is alleged that the girl died as.a | | result of beatings administered by the | brewer's wife and that these beatings were due to her mistress’ inabllity to control her temper. Inability to control her temper! What | unmitigated nonsense! There is no | such thing as a person being unable to control his or her temper; unless, of course. the person is half-witted, an imbecile, or insane. Temper is altogether a matter of cultivation. Given a person of a Hve,l wide-awake nature and he will be able | to develop “a temper” at short notice. All he will have to do is to fling self- control to the winds and steep his soul in selfishness. Utter disregard for the | feelings, tastes, comforts and rights o |others are necessary adjuncts to the | development of “a temper.”” You can- | not be Kind or thoughtful or consider- |ate and have “a temper.” Once “a tem- | per” is started it keeps right on Srow- ing and soon becomes the stronger part of the nature in whose soul its spurious séed is sown. No care is needed to keep it flourishing. It will grow like a weed, and, like a weed, it is the hardest thing to get rid of. But it can be got rid of. &2 To eradicate “a temper” requires vig- ilance and care. You cannot forget it for a moment. A temper is a danger- ous thing. If for p moment you relax your vigilance it is apt to break out. There is peril in a temper that has sud- denly slipped its leash. There is al- ways the danger of its lashing itself inte a fury. - o ey There is no greater confession of weakress than temper, “A temper"” is usually the expression of a weak means te an end. People fly ifto a temper to gain privileges that other- wWise would never be theirs. They are [ THE SMART | —CHICAGO INTER OCEAN. I OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS BY A. J. WATERHOUSE. “I should think that she must welgh all of 200 pounds.” “But she herself told me that she weighed on 133 pounds.” “Well, I have hezrd her husband !‘!.11 that she alwavs has her own wel WHEN ONE OF US WALKS ALONE. Ve have walked together, my love, m¥y love, Through many a weary day, With only the ghost of a sun above To light us upon the way, Yet we have been happy, my dear, my dear, More happy than we have known: Through a good, old world we have journeyed here— But what when one walks alone? I would miss your faith, my love, my own, In the day that may some time be, Or haply you'd miss the comfort you've known In bringing your werries to me. Oh, I am not styong, and I am not brave, As all of my life has shown: So I sometimes sigh o'er an unmade grave, When one of us walks alone. The day must come, my dear, my dear, ‘When one shall the shadows seek, While the other shall wander lonely here In grief that he cannot speak. Then give me your hand, sweetheart, sweetheart, In fealty we have known, And give me your love till at last we part— And one of us walks alone. THERE'S MANY A MAN— Outside of a penitentiary who dise likes to hear references to the law; Who would be the very best of citi- zens, if it were not so much easier to be the other kind; Who would be a good instructor im | right living if you would make it a point to overlook his example; Who wants money, but not badly enough to put up some kinds of canned meat to get it; Who may go to for jail stealing | bread, but would fulfill his contract if | he were a director in a fire insurance company. I've known some men I liked to hear in conversation b ‘ght, Ana almost every word they said would fill me with delight; But here’s a thing I note in them— perhaps it's not your way: They hardly ever talk at all when they have naught te say. “She is a girl of much culture. She Miss Louise R. Brooks and Lieuten-)best known steamboat men on the Sac- can Jead French.” ant Franklin E. Murphy, U. S, married on June 6, the ceremo ing place at the home of the bride, on London street. Miss Margaret Knox served as maid of honor, the groom being attended by Van E. Allen, Rev. W. E. Dugan of the Stewart Memorial United Presby- | terian Chureh officlating. Lieutenant Murphy is expecting soon to gain his captaincy, which will prob- ably be given him on his return to Manila. Before sailing for the Philippines Lieutenant and Mrs. Murphy are mak- ing an extended tour of the United States, land and the Northwest. DRen e ke The concert that Mrs. Olive Reed Cushman and Harry Samuels gave at the FKirst Methodist Church, in Oak- land, Tuesday night, was among the memorable events of the moment. It was the first time that Mr. Samuels had been heard in Oakland for years, | and his numbers were enthusiastically received, especially the Bruch con- certo and the Spanish dance by Sara- sate. Although the effects of her recent severe fillness showed in Mrs. Cush- man’s first few notes, her singing, as a whole, was up to her usual standard and was much enjoyed by her many admirers. The organ numbers by Miss Eliabeth Simpson proved that tal- ented young woman a thorough musi- cian. Mr. Samuels was delightfully accompanied by Miss Teresa Ehrmann of San Francisco. The audience was quite large, among the well-known musical people pres- ent being Mrs. Grace Davis Northrup, Miss Christine Rose, Mrs. Florence B. Langworthy, Charles Dutton and Harry L. Perry. . Many lovers of music will wend their | way to the Alameda residence of Mrs. G. W. Emmons today, the occagion be- and Mrs. Charles Hughes are assisting Mrs. Em- mons, and the advance sale of tickets has already, assured a pleasing suc- cess. e . . Only now is the news creeping out of a quiet little wedding on June 5, when Miss Alice Gillam Ward became Mrs. Bugene H. Grandjean. The wed- ding took place at the First Presby terian Church, Oakland, Dr. Baker offi- ciating, and the immediate family only | was present. The groom was attended by Walter Amstulz, and his pretty sis- ter. Miss Estelle Grandjean, accom- panied the bride. Mrs. Grandjean ™ the daughter of Mrs. W. W. Ward, whose husband has long been connected with the trans- port service in San Francisco. The groom's people are well known on both sides of the bay, his mother and sister being prominent members of the Oakland Club. He is associated in business with his father, Henri Grand- jean, and they are now located in Oak- land, the recent disaster necessitating their removal to the other side. . o e e The murrll/ge of Miss Ethel A. Clark and Norris R. Crocker took place at San Rafael on June 4, Rev. William H. Atkinson of the Congregational Church officiating. Mrs. Crocker is the daughter Charles H. Clark, Mr. Crocker being an attorney and the son Henry Crocker. . of of John Another wedding of wide interest took place at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Eugene E. Trefethan, in Oakland last Thursday, when John Dwyer of Sacramento and Miss Edna Carroll of San Francisco were mar- ried by Rev. Robert Sesnon. Both bride and groom are children of old Sacramento pioneers, Mrs. Dwyer be- ing a daughter of the late J. C. Carroll, while “Jack” Dwyer is the son of the late Captain Thomas Dwyer, one of the temper. There are many people who boast of their bad tempers, who are proud of them. In their fatuous ignor- ance they confound temper and charac- ter. Two more different things do not exist. Character stands for all that is strong. Temper is the equivalent of all that is weakest. To be firm, to stand allowed to do things and te have thin, that they have absolutely no right t.:. merely to quell their i¥ is S0’ undignified uo " foreing oding 5o Rumlarine 4 yine s Nothing | cenvictions upon yeur rights, to have the courage of yeur well reasoned out opinions and is honorable. But to force having gone by way of Port- | ramento River. The newly married ones are spend- ing a brief honeymoon in Santa Cruz and will make their home in Oakland. . . | Augustus J. Bowie Jr. and J. . Bowie have taken a house with their aunts, the Misses Friedlander, in Bel- vedere for the summer. J. F. Bowie has just returned from purchasing a law library for Charles Stetson Wheeler, with whom he is associated. | Miss Bessie Bowie is at home from a | visit to Paris. . . . | Mrs. Augustus Boyer, Mrs. (‘harles‘ | Krauthoff and Mrs. Richie Dunn are | |a trio of San Francisco’s handsome | young matrons who are most comfort- |ably domiciled at Blithedale for the summer. | | . . . Mrs. Reginald Knight Smith, with her two sons, is at Los Gatos for the | | summer. \’ % oo e e | | Miss Edith Whitefleld left some | weeks ago for the Northwest to visit &t Séattle and Astoria, and will remain |away indefinitely. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. F. Deal will spend | | the summer in Berkeley, having taken the James home on Walnut street. Tty T Mr. and Mrs. James Coker Sims and Miss' Blythe McDonald are spending | the summer in Qakland. | o teni g Mrs. Remi Chabot is entertaining sev- | eral guests at her country place, Villa- | remi, near St. Helena. R T R | JAPANESE VISITORS MEET | | DISGRACEFUL TREATMENT To the Editor of The Call: Your attention is respectfully di- rected to a condition of affairs which, I feel certain, will call forth net only | | your earnest protest, but that of every | fair-minded citizen who loves the good | name of his city. I refer to the repeat- | ed insults which have been heaped upon the party of Japanese scientists, at present visiting this city, by boyai and hoodlum gangs in the streets. Dr. F. Omori of the Imperial Univer- | | sity of Tokio, and one of the greatest | |living authorities in seismography, was especially sent here by the Japan- ese. Government to make a study of the | recent disaster. He is accompanied by | Dr. T. Nakamura, professor of archi- | tecture in"the same institution, and the |two are assisted by Mr. R. Sano and | | Mr. M. Noguchi. These gentlemen, in | |the pursuit of their investigations, | | have had occasion to visit all quarters of the city to make numerous notes | and photographs. It has been while so engaged that the annoyances to which your atten- tion is drawn have taken place. On Saturday forenoon last Dr. Omori, | while taking certain photographs on Mission street, near the Postoffice, was | attacked by a gang of boys and young | men, some of them wearing the livery | of the postal service, and his hat was crushed in by a stone as large as an | ez On Tuesday last Dr. Nakamura was |assaulted in a similar manner while | making an examination in the ruined district, and sand and dust were | thrown over him and his assistants. Insults of a similar kind, but vary- | /ing in degree, have been Suffered by | these gentiemen not tess than a dozen times since they began their work in this city. They ‘re/nnllnlly. surprised that | such treatment should be extended to friendly strangers, more especially in view of the extreme courtesies and kindness with which they have been received by the officials, scientists and representative men of this community. ‘While I recognize the fact that acts of this kind are not_countenanced by the better element of the people, and that it is extremely difficult to control the acts of irresponsible hoodlums, I believe that something may and should be done to create a public sen- i | posed of forty-five States. “Yes, but can she talk English?* e e COMPLAINS OF SKATING ON SIDEWALKS OF CITY To the Editor of The Call: I wish to call the attentien of the proper authorities of the city to the pre- vailing evil of roiler skating on the sidewalks of the city This ever-in- creasing nuisance is especially indulged in by the big boys and even girls, Wherever they find a streax of smooth sidewalk they will assemble by the dozen and menopolize it by turning it into a veritable skating rink, to the danger of limbs and lives of children and other pedestrians. They are racing the sidewalks up and down everlasting- 1y, with the speed of a fast-moving rafl- road train. When remonstrated with they will give answers unfit for print. It is true, the parents of some of the boys are more to blame than the beys themselves. They buy the skates and send the children in rags roaming about the streets. Some of the parents draw rations from the relief stations, but have money to buy skates for their children. If they must skate, let them do it om e streets and not on the sidewalks. Is there no remedy for this evil? €. THIESSEN. San Francisco, June 11. o g ANSWERS TO QUERIES. SQUARE FOOT—J. F. D, Stocktem. There is no difference between a foot square and a square foet, surface meas- ure. th WANDESFORD—J. H. B, City. The published biographies of prominent men do not mention Wandesford, the water color artist. FIVE HUNDRED—E.' L. W.. Lompec, Cal. In the game of five hundred the joker cannot take a trick on a no trump hand unless led and a suit card is called for. ASTOR BATTERY—A. C. B, City. The Astor Battery, under command of Captain Peyton March, went to the Philippine Islands during the Spanish- American war. LOST DISCHARGE—Soldier, City. To obtain a duplicate of honorable dis- charge from the United States army, the original having been destroyed in | the big fire, write for information to the military secretary, Washington, D. C. STATES IN THE UNION—E. B, Oak- land, Cal. The American Union is com- thirteen eriginal and 32 admitted. Idaho was admitted July 3, 1890; Wyoming, July 111, of the same year, and Utah, January 4, 1896 HANK MONK Subscriber, City. Hank Monk, the noted stage driver. he who became famous in 1859 by telling Horace Greeley who was one of his passengers and fearful that he would not reach a certain point at a stated hour, “Keep your seat, Horace; I'll get you there on time.,” died February 28, 1883, at the age of 50. His remains are at rest in the cemetery near Carson, - Nev. “MAD AS A HBATTER"—A. O. &, City. The old-time expression “mad as a hat- ter” has probably no reference to hat- makers. In the Anglo-Saxon “mad” was used as a synonym tor violemt, furious, angry or venemous. In some parts of England and in the United States it is used as such. “Atter” was the Anglo- Saxon for adder or viper. It is prob- able that the phrase was originally “mad as an atter,” and that by frequent and hurried speech it became what is now “mad as a hatter.” TWO BUILDINGS—R. E. C. §, Los Angeles, Cal. The old American The- ater building at the northeast to make way for a modern - timent whick will frown down the | d€St