The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 27, 1906, Page 8

SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D. SPRECK JOHN MoNAUGHT.. EDITORIAL ROOMS AND BUSINESS OFFICE. . . . CALL BUILDING Corper Third and Market Streets, San Francisco. UPTOWN OFFICE. .. .1651 FILLMORE ST: Phone .West 956 | OAKLAND OFFICE Phone EDXNE AY POLICY-HOLDERS ORGANIZE. ers representing fire losses amount- an $100,000,000 have organized h the insurance On the one [ was no ot ay e € ance compa officered by s who know every turn of the insurance c e weighed and understand the sig- e of every clause of cunningly worded I'he companies are in position to act as » employ the best legal talent that e other side are the policy-hold- | little although of late they have| popular ideas regarding insurance | are scattered. Many of them ready fun indeed, in many in- are waiting on the insurance com- that they have leit them by the ed against the well prepared in- they have about as much llage of Australian Bushmen against lars identified with the once give it cha are the they know experts, or| ce. panies association of - and stand- ost ‘successful business Califor At the preliminary eeting the head of one of the largest retail estab- 1 America presided. Every department esale and retail trade San Fran- 1 as banking, manufacturing and ship- , were largely represented. (s} policy-holders are not experts in ce, they represent just as good businegs as that back of the insurance companies; insurance experts and know the | of doing so. They also know the im- f 1g at a business matter in a busi- > first step they have proposed he financing of their movement. It is 1 an ent of not to exceed ce value of the policies, pavable ments to be not less than five in number. be, comparatively speaking, an insignifi- T holders identified with the in the aggregate it such an S( ™ assess; e policy will furnish the enormous amount be pward of $1,000,000. Such re- ke the policy-holders as effective a settlement as the insurance com- mselves. [ if that the organization is dominated men that its affairs will in a business way. The association means be zed for the purpose of collecting insur- e due members, a definite business proposition. they collect I'he best ability obtainal deal with the insurance com- ment of just obligations cannot legal talent that can be secured to protect the rights of policy- will their money just debts from backward sting of the backward debt- i their lack of business reli- is a good work and should 3ut such publication is mere opy, a warning to other communities to void the mistake made by San Francisco in-in- in unreliable companies, and charity begins e. The blacklist is but incidental to the main purposes of the organization. The main pur- pose is to collect insurance. Insurance companies that propose to live up to their contracts without hold-back or quibble have nothing to fear from organization of men of the character of those identified with the movement. ! The gentlemen who are directing the organization are not who will countenance any “cinch” game or questionable methods. They will not lend their influence or their organization to pro- mote the collection of a dishonest claim; they will countenance nothing calculated to take unfair ad- vantage of the companies. But they will insist upon payment of 100 cents on the dollar of all just cla blac lishir vt he wor lected hor men For this reasen companies that propose to dodge their liabilities if they can have every reason in the world to be concerned about the pm:- poses of the organization. It te for the insurance companies 1 for the institution.of fire insurance itself that the business men of San Francisco have thus been i ize to protect the rights of the in- ct that they have organized indi- the business men of San Francisco have clusion that at least many of the ympanies do not intend to meet a busi- ness crisis in a business way. For the future of fire insurance, which in the modern world of busi- ess has become a commercial necessity, it is to be that the companies will from now on do all r power to allay this impression, that they mfortt nee o« disc we their dilatory tactics, meet the issue' squarely and openly. and unite with the policy- | holders in effecting an equitable settlement that | has been too long delayed. ENGLAND’S SHORT CROPS. Failure of farming ventures in England during! e past winter was due to unusually dry weather, wed by a spring that was almost without moisture. Heavy demands will be made by Great I consequence on the American supplies ioodst ffs, which will have a tendency to create an active demand for our commodities. The fruit of England has been greatly damaged Ly severe frosts and the canning industry will be impaired. Hay is short and there is little of the old stock on hand. In the Nottingham mar- ket prices have ranged as high as $22 per ton for kops, and potatoes are in a bel way. It is well that | . : 1 seriow | lished the fact that childrensare being given intoxi- FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2 1906. the crops of the United States are so large and ex-| cellent this year, for we will have plenty of food | to furnish our troubled friend in Europe. WITHDRAWAL. OF THE KOSMOS LINE. If the Kosmos line of steamers that ply between this port, Central and South America and Ham- burg, Gernfany, has decided to quit San Francisco and make Seattle its Pacific Coast terminus there| must be some reason for the move other than that of | the water front trouble. Several months before the | fire it was rumored that the Kosmos Company had | agreed with Hill to continue its line to Seattle. The| Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads, to-| gether with the Canadian Pacific people, had been bidding for certain freight shipnients to Central and South America and the Kosmos and North German Lloyd steamers were mentioned in connectioh with a proposed deal. But the Kosmos line does not| handle very much transcontinental freight, and| wheat, flour and lumber would be all that Hill} could offer the vessels for cargoes, with some min-| ing machinery, etc., for South and Central America. The Argentine republic is turning out all the wheat that the Kosmos requires. Lumber would have to be the principal shipment from Puget Sound. Unless the Kosmos line made San Francisco a port of call it would lose a large business. The]| steamers of the company have always left here loaded with California shipments of a character | which admits of little competition in the north. | The move on Seattle is probably just what it was | rumored it would be twelve months ago, when the Kosmos had under consideration the making of Puget Sound a port of call, San Francisco to re- main the principal shipping point for the Pacific Coast. Even were the steamers to be withdrawn rom this port local merchants would be forced to make such advances to other lines of steamers, and there are many of them, to enter into competition | with the Kosmos, for the trade is here and will stay here. San Francisco is a heavy purchaser at Hamburg, | and, with the exception of San Diego and Port San | Pedro, handles nearly all of the merchandise sold Central and South America on this coast. Cer-| tain California products are in demand and there is not much call for the products of Puget Sound other than flour.. Some transcontinental freight is sent via the Kosmos steamers to ports as far south as Panama, but Eastern shippers have always pre- ferred to send these transshipments through San Francisco, as much time is saved in handling them here. ible From a business viewpoint it is quite imposs to understand why the Kosmos line would abandon San Francisco and open up active competition for itself. And competition will follow as sure as there are Kosmos line steamers. The trade of this port with Europe and South America cannot be dis- turbed by the withdrawal of the Kosmos or any other line of vessels, which can be duplicated within thirty days by crait of equal carrying capa- city and speed. GOMPERS’ NOVEL PROJECT. Minneapolis may be the place selected for af great exposition of union-made goods, if the sug- gestion of President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor is accepted by the 2,000,000 men who compose the federation. Dele- gates are now in Chicago discussing the big scheme and it is likely that it will be carried out. Labor could demonstrate much with such an exposition and show the seli-reliance of the Amer- ican workingman. Ample funds are available for financing the project in its preliminary stages and all the money needed to bring it to a cl undoubtedly be furnished throughout the country. A great exhibition of union-made goods would not only attract world-wide attention to the thor- oughness of the work of our laborers and me- chanics, but it would help the manufacturer. An immense manufactured goods fair would attract persons from all quarters of the globe because of its novelty of conception and the extent of the| manufacturing field it would cover. max would by the labor unions John D. Rockefeller is reported considerably | gitated becat®e of the action brought agains’t Standard Oil by the Federal Governmient. It too bad to give this nice old man any uneasine especially when he has so much to do to keep faith in his own goodness. | AR { Vice President Fairbanks and Senator La ]’(»1—‘ lette have met head-on in the Senate. In the con- troversy the Wisconsin Senator has all the advan- tage. He can talk four times as fast and say five times less than the Vice President. g No work, bu ess or play on Sunday-is the in- tent of drastic laws to be enacted by the Canadian Parliament. There ought to be a good chance now ! to invest in pleasure resorts along the Canadian border. The North German Fire Insurance Company | will not pay until it finds out the status of the carthquake clause. The build-your-house-of-as- | bestos clause is the one the North German pays on. | | Sixth-street property owners are going to make | their street a handsome retail section. That's the ! sort of action that will make New San Francisco. Panama is having the customary election riots. They are better than revolutions anyway, although there are usually more killed in the riots. The general debate on the pure food bill estab- cants in candy. Better cut out the candy. The Board of Health is out hunting a flat. Moy ing day for the departments comes around with| disquieting frequency these days. Portland is the latest community to adopt the | dollar insurance limit. The Oregonians want no, six-bit companies in theirs. . It is claimed that the Russian Parliament does rot represent the masses. It certainly does not represent the Czar. ; | People who are complaining of the cold should not forget that we had a mighty hot spell in April. SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY. requently hear people say of a man, “He's none too good himself.” | Ever know any one who was too g00d? A drunkard always Jooks for a sober man to play wants to play It has always been a matter of much concern as to what disposition may be made of father and mother when they have reached an age where their ef- forts ave a market value not g¢om- mensurate with the cost 6f their keep. In a large number of families, owing to the extravagance in rearing children, school taxes, bills for teeth regulating, starting them in business, etc., parents fail to provide for themselves a proper eserve fund to meet this contingency dnd many of us are put in the posi- tion of doing without an automobile or a Panama hat because our resources are taxed for the care of these useless members of the family circie.. Among priffiitive tribes the elders performed a If we lived the town people came out just because the in country and strawberries are ripe, them pick them. ve would make W oned hoy got hol until Sun has be. e of the old-fasn- who believed that if a turtle of his tce it would not let go 2 The reazon show bad ta ridiculous thin not the money to f us do not or do we have good many in If the women | st upon progressive ain service in handing dowm the % records of the people; they kept mental | Prize foolishness. why not give pre- minutes of previous meetings, so to ¥e ' dandelion - partles, giFiig & gres prize to the one who dizs up the mosi? say, and by reciting the poetry trans- mitted to them through the generations of the tribe they kept alive a supply of literature that was of value during the winter months when the hunting was poor. But today we have the newspaper and the subscription edition | (with one-half the set and even a' suburban lot given us outright for the A man who has been divorced and a woman who is married to a widower are in about the same position so far as the talk in a strange crowd is con- cerned. One reason there are S0 many un- use of our name) and we find such | happy marriages is t a sweet-faced, legends as our elders are fond of re- | gentle girl has B task in con- peating decidedly tiresome. Dr. Osler | Vincing a man she will give him his of Baltimore has spoken on this sub-|OWn way after marriage—Atchison, | ject in an advanced strain, but until;Kan. Globe. his iddas are more generally adopted = some other method of dealing with this IN THEIR OWN COIN. problem must be found. Of course | “Herq, wait a minute!” cried the pro- various institutions, fraternal, reli- priator of the restaurant. “This half- glous and promiscuous, have done much gollar is bad % to relleve the situation, but there is. . «well" replied the customer, as he always o mass of red tape to be wound. | hyrried out, “so was the dinner it pays with inquisitive questions as to family | ror. Good-by."—Fhiladelphia Ledger. support, etc, that renders the pro- _ 5 cedure cumbersome and forces the collapse of the building the bed struck average man to keep his parents at the pavement and through an unwar- home rather than endure the annoy- ance and strain of shifting the bur- ranted weakness (henceforth to be den. Nor is the Lunacy Comimission Warranted) the clutch again relaxed, any more accommodating. Things are &nd, the bed opening, the occupant was enabled to go to the home of friend: The time of the operation was forty two seconds. The new company, in ad- dition to these patents, wili equip all their beds with a patented storage ap- paratus furnishing at need a supply of air sufficient to last twelve hours, sp that in the event of the bed being used in a non-collapsible building the Searcher of Lost Persons may have time to look 'up the occupant and re- lease him when the protection of the bed is no longer desired. ooking up a'ong this line in San Fran- cisco, though. J. J. Halsch of the Des- kitchens says there are about nd old and Ingigent men and women who will have to be cared for in barrac indefinitely. “It is sur- prising,” he says, “to find so many old people who have no friends or relatives to whom to look for aid.” Why this surprise? These are stirring times when the sharpest eye will see the best openings in all departments of life. The proposed barracks to be bullt for the aged and infirm out at the speed- way in the park are bound to be well supplied with tenants by a busy and grateful public, | i c mond six tho Serious as were the laches of Sena- tor Depew, who told stories wh truth of life insurance as practiced in New York was held back, the heart of gn outraged public must be softened by the spectacle of his present sufferings. Because of a high rate of mortality {j;:“‘;;:;‘ii;";’";';;;*d,t“';g:‘b;’;gf;“fi";‘ff Fallen from his high estate into the tomary 1o Eive the purehaser of such | hands of the merciless Mu:doon, he is forced to retire at 9 p. m., almost the very hour when he was wont to rise to keep up his reputation. Doubtless Mr. Depew envies the peaceful death of Mr. McCall. a bed a guaranty in the shape of a safety. @lutch, by the operation of which the bed does not fold until de- sired to do so either by the erstwhile | occupant or any one acting for him in| the matter. This respect of the busi-| ness is likely to change, at least along | the earthquake belt, for 1 understand | that a firm has been incorporated at/ San Jose for the construction and sale t;sf ?h?',"::.fitbf,‘; rh'l:iieex::‘r;‘r‘”"n’:'t;?f']'; | refugee was interested. To the sensi- tive mind that sees in coincidences those that city. It seems that the man who | is the promoter of this new compuny‘fl‘ura“ve opportunities that make for | poetry there must appear to be ma- sccupied such a bed upon the fourth | POSPAY, TRENE WUEL AEPREE (O W0 TS floor of a San Jose building, said to| “The barkentine Jane L. @ | other day: Delong to J. D. Phelan who. boweter. | Stantora has appeared off the mouth of business. During the vibrations of xgelu" CalRalie BTa S b deveien] v linpsed, the | SapnE nhich Bin o by an inherent | . California glace fruitsand choice can- Asfect: rhich Bis NN Deec: Bafented dies. Full stock. Townsend's residence released its warranted hold and per- mitted the bed te close tightly. A relative of the Stanford estate has spoken from a refugee tent to the ef- fect that Mrs. Stanford, supposed to have been kindness itself, was found wanting in circumstances where said | Emporium, Post st. and Van Ness ave. In the Order by phone, Special 378. 1 Berkeley society will be ouc in full | writer, is to talk on “The Writing of a force Saturday evening to greet MiSs Successful Book,” his remarks to be Enid Williams, who will be the guest | followed by a general diécussion of the of honor at a large reception given by | subject. Charles Dutton in his studio. Mrs. Lillian Swale will contrib - . . the fun with one of her clever mono- logues, and the musical numbers will be given by Harry Samuels and Miss | Elizabeth Simpson. Mr. Samuels’ repu- | tation as a violinist, as well as Miss te to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Morris Foulke announce the marriage of their daugh- ter, Margaret, to Winthrop Howe Esta- brooke, in Siskivou County, June 19. LY e Y | Simpson’s well-known ability as a The members of the Palette, Lyre and | pianist, insures a treat. Pen Club of Oakiand will hold thelri % » L last meeting before the annual vaml.uonI Miss Enid Yale of Oakland is the | center of interest just now as the next prospective bride, but the date of her wedding has not yet been set. Mr. Gracey, her flance, does not arrive from China until' the Mongolia, on which he is a passenger, brinzs nim into port, and as it will not be known until his arrival whether orders from ‘Washington will demand his immediate presence there or not, the all-impor- tant date cannot be set. at the residence of Mrs. Florence Har- diman Miller, 490 Plymouth street, in that city, on Friday evening next. The cozy clubrooms on Thirteenth street were so much damaged by the earth- quake that the members decided to give them up until the new season in Sep- tember. An formal but promising programme ha$ been arranged by Mrs. Miller, and the evening will no doubt be recorded in the club history as one of its enjoyable affairs. Herman Whitaker, the well- = h\‘o_w'n ‘ and factory, 1220 Valencia st. and the ~Mr. Gracev is in the consular ser-. vice. The Mongolia is due to arrive [some of the glories of early fall uma.;mnwlcn. is residing in Ber! Miss Mabel Ayer, the warm-hearted and efficient president of the local Sun- shine Society, is a mighty happy girl these days. She has three new books to start her library with, and each one of the volumes bears the autograph of the author-donor, Elizabeth Jordan, ed- itor of Harper's Bazaar. The titles of he books are “Tales of the Cloiste Tales of Destiny” and “May Iverson, Her Book.” For a long time there has existed between Miss Aver and Miss Jordun a warm and close friendship The two women correspond regularly in spite of the fact that they have never met: They became known to each other through mutual Sunshine friends and are as interested in each other as were lifelong acqualint- Ayer had B. Q. a library 00 volumes. The fire swept h many others of her val- ons. In writing to Miss Ayer deplored her baoks more tha countless other treas- ures, and her corresponding friend at once got to work to start a'new library for the well known charity worker. like most book Miss Ayer was not selfish with her books. She lent them ouf to others who were not as fortunate as she. She estal sort of circulatidg library a her membership list a large number of working girls, whose taste in reading he directed as well as providing them with material to read. Since the fire Miss Ayer has kept a ‘“lookout” for these girls of hers. Much of the cloths ing and provisions sent out by the Sun- it posse: rdan Mi shine Association has gone to relieve their necessities and these of their families. N . . According to reports from fashion- able London, next season will find girls dancing with girls in all swell London ballrooms. Lady Leith of Fyvie, who | is to stand sponsor for this social inno- vation, declares that this winter will see her dancing in a man’s position on | the ballroom floor. “We must be in- | dependent of mankind,” Lady Leith has declzred. Talk of emancipation of women. That | is going it some. And the men, as usual, only have themselves to blame. It is the failure of $o many men to turn up at balls, thereby forcing scores of pretty girls to sit round_as wall- flowers that has started all the row. T see man's downfall a-coming fast! For many and many a year man has done just as he likes in the world of fash- ion. He accepted an invitation to din- ner just as though it was due him and rarely paid a dinner call. A man who had enough of the innate semse of the fitness of things to call after eating his hostess’ dinner was cited as a rar- avis. As for getting men to go to dances, that has always been regarded as the height of all social achievements. When a girl asked him to go he expected her to literally grovel at his feet, and when he accepted he considered that her undying gratitude was his. But, oh, Joy! all that is to be of the ast. If fashionable London starts the | all a-rolling the custom of girls danc- |ing with girls will soon be adopted | here. i It is the first move In the right ai-| | rection. Let the men feel that girls |can have and do have just as good a| time all by themselves as when men are present, and every mother's son of them | will be begging round for Invitations. | The greatest mistake a girl can make is to “run after” the men. | . . . Man's natural instinct is to be the pursuer, not the pursued. Man is like the baby. He is always crying for| ‘what he can’t have. He Is always; T | P b | | reaching out for what he can't get. ! suppose it is the primal instinet of the | about the 1st of July, so the suspense of the voung bride-to-be will soon be |at an end. | SRS The Nile Club—the Bohemian Club [of Oaxland—wlil give a “low jinks" | | next Saturday evening. Charles Doyle, one of the originators of the club, is to | |be the sire. TN Miss Reed Hutchins, daughter of the late Dr. Hutchins of this city, has | in New York and is now soprano in Dr. | | Parkhurst’s church. ! . . - } Mrs. Eleanor Jarboe expects to come to town mext month and will be the | | guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dimond | | until September. | . . N | John Gamble has been in town con- | tinually since the fire, but later in the | summer will go intd the country for | hunting and fishing, besides capturing | A | been making a marked musical success * AND THINGS conqueror, and all men in their heart of hearts think they are conquerors. There is a large slice of vanity in every man. side man’s vanity wom- an’s vanity pales into insignificance. Hardly a man, provided you could com- pel him to tell the unvarnished truth, believes that there is scarcely a, he could not h: for the asking. since it worrying? 158 and is so easy, what is the Any time will do, time is when he is ready But let the man not feel sure. Shake his vain confidence in himself. Let him doubt his power, and that all conquer- ing fngtinct s to the fore. His lackadatsical, v't-worry indifference is changed to burning, energetic prow- e “Any time” is now. And “now” means this very instant. It is an old story. It has beem told in fewer worl “Distance lends en- chantment.” amiliarity breeds con- tempt.” These two trite sayings mean the same thing. Marrfageable girls and all mothers of marriageable daugh- ters should have them framed and hunsg in conspicuous places in their boudoirs. It will be worth while to study them. If the new Londen fashion reaches here by this winter what a busy time soclety editors will have. There . will be engagements upon engagements to announce. And each blushing. happy fiancee will have a romantic tale to tell of her lover's unusual persistence and how he had declared that he would not “take no for an answer.” On the whole, I am inclined to think the unpleasantness of dancing with an- other girl will be more than counter- balanced. Leith of Fyvie must be a fairy godmother in disguise. —_———— ANSWERS TO QUERIES. THE PARK—Stranger, City. The ex- treme length of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco is from the entrance at the Panhandle on Baker street, 20,000 feet; length of the Panhandle, 2800 feet by 400 wide. GOAT ISLAND—Glrtle, City. The area of Goat Island in the bay of San Fran- cisco is 140.9 acres. The height of the island, that is the highest elevation, 1s 344 feet above sea level. The light- house on the island is 79 feet above the level of the sea. . City. vou received an invitation to attend an afternoon tea and you do not care to attend, it Is proper to send a polite note setting forth that it will be im- possible for you to acceépt the invita- tion, but there is no rule of etiquette that demands that you shall give a rea- | son for declination. s A WILL—A statement of the ¢ bscriber, City. The se submitted. as to what the mother In the case had a right to do in the matter of willing property, is such that it Is impossible to answer it in this department. As presented it is very much involved and only a lawyer could answer it In a proper manner, after hearing 21l the | particulars. THE BIG FIRE—A. O. §, Clity. The recent fire in San Francisco destroyed 526 blocks. (This refers to blocks be- tween main streets, for instance, such blocks as are bounded by Market, Third, Mission and Fourth streets; not a block such as Market, Third, Stevenson and Fourth stre'ts) The fire de- stroved the houses on the east side of Franklin street from the block com- mencing with 1400 and ending at the highest number on the 1800 block. The fire involved both sides o. Sacramento street from the water front to the block numbered 1800 inclusive. NEWS OF Miss Blanche Laymance. who arrived on the Siberia from the Oriemt-on & day. will spend the rest of the summer at McCray's. Mrs. A. J. Ralston is entertaining at her home in RBerkeley Mrs. Th Seloy and Miss Annie Seiby. - . . Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Farve!l spending the summer at Santa Bar - . are bara. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Marriott and Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Boyer amnn;; those who left last week for a sojourn at Byron Springs. . Mr. and Mrs. Albert Warden Corne- lius of Alameda, with {heir children, are spendiazg the summer at Wood- worth's, Howe!l Mountain. .t . bt Ar. and Mrs. J. W. Clawsen in Los Angeles, where Mr. Claw: s opened a studio. Their son, ‘h.::;