The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 8, 1906, Page 2

SUNDAY CALL. PRE ter of debris, tion will be made up of men who know The first sign of this approaching res justment can be seen in the already be- sal plan for the remodeling of the ! front. By the time that plan been carried out other and more mbitic and some day, not too far d plans will be ripe for execu- | ant | generation to enjoy, the port| - cispo will come into its . ool ossessor not only of the & the city’s the world, but one of . ' pped ports. 5 s of $2,000,000 has been = . first step in the remod ater front. The aims of ighten out the un- e onvenient jogs and | Pt NEoye Folsom street and the » whar the con- ripple T wide, well-built. road- ng that flows sweeping without break or inter- n from Meiggs Wharf to the . the reconstruction of = d the building of four ad- . » wharves, and the i < . facilities for the P handling of frelght | Pas ater on the road around the water | front w extended to Fort Mason ks nd the whart space proportionately e increased. A railroad will belt the - water front and on nearly every wharf o will be spur track There will be | 0, other spurs from the belt line to the | warehouses so that fre can be dis- | s i dire into the cars and - wit rehandling to the | < - houses and other points of dis- | 3 away from the water front. | . g way the wharves will serve ay. The ¢pe purpose for wh they were in- et ° moTtals | yopged. Night time will see them clear ey Ehee of freight, which now sometimes lies -+ ATDOT | around for we. Their usefulness will be increased many fold and the | danger of fire reduced to & minimum. | The new water front roadway will | 1t on the extension of the sea- | for the construction of the first I section, of which contracts have been ¢ This new seawall is to feet | vide and the for a y. Some | r.a concrete e seawall may w bu for the time being great | ders, held in place by their own , must serve. San Francisco has g walk before it overtakes ports equipped like Liverpool, London a hereng g 4 it must hustle to earn th Rttt i rison with Hongko even the made-to-order Mexican of Salina Cruz, which will be bet- known in a yvear or so it is o now, can show as much to urt our in the problem of | pride. The main thing. however, is to get started in the right direction, and this is where the work now under way will lead Keeping in touch with what other ports are doing is an occupation to be the port, the men practical experience most valuable, have its management. They bee would have had no voice in have taken what was given them and made the most of it. recommended to those whose admira- That also is of the e-conflagra-{tlon for our beautiful harbor has tion period blinded them to the shortcomings of the port's equipment. When we feel an inclination to swell with pride at the thought of spending Hereafter, no matter what the caliber and complexion of the offieial managers of the water front, the shipping world is going to have a voice in the delibera- |a whole $2,000,000 for remodeling part tions of the State administration and |0f the water front let us remember by and by the whole marine administra- | that only a few days ago the Mersey | RING TOMI of GREATER TRAD by G.Lindsaay-- . - Campbell 1 | Docks and Harbor Board set aside $ 000,000 for improving the equipment of one dock at Live 1. A look beyond our own little horizon might be productive of a becoming modesty and a determination to get in line with the rest of the world as rap- idly as possible. Liverpool built. her magnificent docks in_the of engineering difficulties of “wh the San I'rahecisco dock- builder knows nothing. What has been done on the shifting sands of the swift | flowing Mer or on the ooze of the river Clyde can be done here, where | the obstacles in the way are nothing | in comparison. What has been done elsewhere will be done here if the spirit now manifested in the local ship- ping world does not waver. new thoroughfare arouna the will be a4 continuation of | which now ends at Folsom, but which, when the seawall extension has been completed, will in a gentle curve as far as Berry street. All the présent wharves between the| army transport wharf and the .new Pacific Mail docks will be torn down to-make way for the gr rock break- wate Wh the line of the seawall cuts. a be’ filled ‘in, 1c r the inclosed and in this way will be added to the State's prop- | along the water front. The fire of April 18 divided the cits into three n Fillmore of the metro is being carried on. In the devastated area the rebuilders are busy carting away the city that was and laying the foundations for the metropolis of tomorrow. Combined | with the work of reconstruction the | rebuilderé dre holding together their husiness in tempora headquarters in | that the business world may not e the Fillmore street habit to the exclusion of what before April 18 was the 2 center. water front the shipping com- s is taking care of the commerce pon which the city’s pros- work of reconstruction is ree parts will merge and San Francisco will find ready to do business | s before, herself not only at the old stand, but provided with all| the business she can do. A large fleet of tramp steamers load- | ed with reconstruction material is now afloat, headed for the Golden Gate. As/| the vessels of this fleet arrive their cargoes must be discharged with ex- pedition, and for this reason the work of remodeling the water front will be done in sections. The first extension will be bullt from | the new Pacific Mail wharves in a| northerly direction.. The old wharves| now occupled by the Harriman cor-| poration: will be turned over to the| | street, |age length of 650 feet. | everlasting, State in a few weeks, and no time will be lost in tearing them down. When the seawall has been built across where these wharves now stand and the reclaimed land filled in, new wharves will bée constructed, and to these the vessels now loading and dis- charging at Beale and Fremont street wharves will be assigned. Beale and | Fremont street wharves will next be {torn down and replaced by new piers running out in a direction to conform with the new comtour of the water front and built on modern lines. Whart by wharf the work will be continued until the seawall extension meets East wheré the first event on the programme of reform ends. The newi\wharves will have an aver- They will be built on reinforced concrete cylinders which are teredo-proof and practically and the _superstructure will be. as substantial as heavy tim- bers and steel braces can make it. In building the new.wharves the pur- pose for which each’'is to be used will be considered, as In the case of the new Pacific Mail wharves. The Pacific Mail Company, in consid- eration of its lease, was allowed to make its own plans. One of these new wharves is a double-decker. Theré are sunk tracks on both piers, and in every other way they are arranged for the expeditious and economical handling of the enormous cargoes that come and g0 between here and the Orient over the Harriman lines. When all the extending has been done and every wharf Is connected with the belt railroad the question of equipment will be taken up. In freight-handling equipment this port is where it was many years ago. That freight can be handled more ex- peditiously than in days gone by is due to the superior equipment wich which the modern steamship is provided. On the new water front will be eranes fo. bandling great weights that now are moved only aftér extensive and special preparations have been made. The Santa Fe has such a crane in ita Main- street yard, but only avallable for 1lift- ing material between cars and trucks. When an unusual weight has to be placed on shipboard or removed there- from now resource must be had to the riggers and their shear legs unless ar- rangements can be made to use the cranes. at some af tne iron works. While the l?l'flll world is spurring the State administration to greater ef- fort, the underwriters are m&.my getting together a Wwreeking plant for use all along this coast. A modern wrecking plant i8 as much part of the equipment of a modern porc as good wharves and proper freight-handling | | | | | commodations for all comers. Once alongside the wharf her cargo will be discharged rapidly and delivered to the ¢Bhsignee in good condition. If she I8 to take freight from here, that, too, will be placed on hoard with dispatch, and if by any mischance, either on her way in or way out of this harbor, the vessel should get into trouble, compe- tent assistante will be sent to her with- out loss of time, and if she has sus- tained damage San Franeisco ship- builders will care for her Injuries and send her away In as good condition as when she left her home port. In spite of all that is lacking, how- ever, San Francisco 1s still the great- est port on the Pacific, and her position as such is unassailable.. There are few bigger steamships in the world than the Harriman liners Manchuria and Mongolla. Great as is their draft when ioaded, they can enter and leave port at any stage of the tide. They can be taken into their berths at the Pacific Mail whar! as easily at low water as at high tide. They bring from the Orijent and carry from here immense | eargoes, which are handled with suffi- clent celerity to allow the liners to keep in tune with a schedule which rarely allows more than a week In port. With the modern facilities afforded by the new Pacific Mall wharves, which will be used in a few weeks, all this will be done with greater ease and &t less expense. The Great Northern Steamship Com- | pany’s liners Dakota and Minnesota, facilities. The want of such a plant on thig coast has been seriously felt on ' rmany occasions. That want will soon | be filled. The owner of the: big freighter that visits Greater n Franéisco can send his s e]i.‘lun with the assurance that until docked, she will lie securely an- chored In the .safest harbor in the | world. ,He may be sure that she wmi ‘waste little time lying at anchor, for the greater water front will have ae- | types of the largest vessels afloat, were handled here as easily as the Man- churia’ and Mongolia, and San Fran- efsce harbor -and the wharves that skirt the city front are capable of car- ing for even greater ships. For Greater San Francisco, howeyer, nothing will be good enough byt a water front in keeéping w..a her mag- nificent harbor, and when she has that the native chest may with some show of reason swell with patriotic pride. is & “gesture of the ds should be capable ‘gestures. Cabinets selected for hand rent in the Presi- ly at the present | e always been too 1ght to bestow atten- g th method of expressing it grt itself of chirog- littie attention from f the higher professions, Edwin B. Hay, handwrit- race Greeley that he copy for editoriais, mes sentences that late, though written f Hos h ld self. elder Choate also enjoyed the ation of possessing the faculty of unintelligible characters in his Roosevelt himself writes plainly, but in an uncultivated udent hand, which compares more at of Andrew Johnson than al- t of any other President. ay be said without doubt that Mr, e most versatile, most most scholarly and the mercurious of Presidents, but it most is easily to be observed tnat handgvrit- ing was never intended to be one of his accomplishments. His eignature | ftself would be a disappointment to | those who would expect something eater from a man in a great position. is not to the thing said in the above it of script that this glance is di- ed, but to the script itself, as the fon “a square deal for every 111 live in the minds of Amer- fcan people long after the hand that penned it is stilled forever. The hand- individuality; that d But it shows neither strength nor beauty It is simply plain writing, and very plain et that. It has no pretension to | being anything more than the means of expressing thought. It has nothing of statesmanship abour 1t, and, without cultivation, the ho! poliol. Yet who would not like to have & real signature of Theodore Roosevelt, even in its plainest style, to & certificate of appointment to some of- ficial position? | General Grant made a Strong signa- ture, but among the Presidents James A. Garfield was the best penman that ever executed the signature of Presi- dent, and his handwriting was a wide departure from that of Mr. Roosevelt. John Hay wrote somewhat like Lincoln THE CABINET SCRAWLS, Our present Cabinet is composed of men of thought and action, and so capable are they of coping with the various trying topics of. the day per- taining to national affairs that it would be impossible for the graphologist to read the character of any one of them sonal characteristics of the individuals, it would not be to my purpose to judge |either of them by the combination of lines and spacings and joinings in the | |formation of Jletters that make up either signature or script work. None of them excels in the art of hand- writing. The strongest, smoothest work is that who, when in comparison: with his Cabinet brothers, might be called the “King of the QuilL.” Next In order of uniformity and strength of stroke s that of Mr. Root, | by his handwriting whose hand is given to the angular | Knowing each of them personally as|system, though it is not as clearly de- | I do, and being familiar With the|fined as the writing of his brothers in | pleasant features and some of the per- 'the Cabinet. ! most uniform and of Mr. Taft, | The hand that swings the cradle and guides the plow would never pe sus- pected to be very marked in its guid- ing of the pen; therefore, we would not look for perfection in the hand- writing of Mr." Wilsor, which s so uncultivated that it resembles Mr. Roosevelt's, though It is much smaller and more compact. Mr. Roosevelt pos- Sesses the habit of liberal spacing be- tween words, The handwriting of Mr. Metcalf and Mr. Hitchcock resemble very mn{c}: in style, in that it is small and ther effeminate in its execution. Mr. Met- calf is the more concise and deliberate of the two. - ’ Mr. Moody has a style peculiarly his strokes; plain, but easily reud, and in the shade of the strokes to the right indicates a pressure of movement in that direction by a stub or blunt point pen. p SHAW’S HAND CHARACTERISTIC. Mr. Shaw writes feebly and smoothly, after a style that might be easily ac- ceptad as that of a woman's hand taught in the schdol of exaggerated or large writing. His 18 the most pro- nounced characteristic work of all the surrounding space in the motion of family. Mr. Bonaparte's signature, while plainly written, is not especially char- acteristic of anything. It is the youth- ful hand, ahd evidently has never changed from the time when he first settled into that style of signature as a hoy at school. Mr. Cortelyou's is the most undefin- able of all the signatures. He is a hasty writer, a style cultivated by him, | no doubt, in his stenography, Which | has been to him of such great service. | None of the signatures shows any evidence of age or infirmity of any kind, but exhibit steadiness of nerve, strength of physique and control of hand, which should dispel any idea of | a wavering in determination. Thus_we find in this coterie of the most distinguished men in the country today & marked variety of handwrit- ing, which indicates notRing more than the fact that each of these gentlemen, when the hand was being formed, was educated in schools far apart, where different systems were taught or in which there were no systems at all, o that in the handwriting, llke Topsy, they ‘“wag not borned, but jist growed.” Could the oracle of graphology gaze upon the signature of Mr. Taft and de- fine his make-up as a man? Could he gee in it a genial naturé. a winning personal magnetism, a rotund form bubbling over with happiness? Could he hear the intectious laugh that sets gladsomeness? Could he fnd in “Leslie M. Shaw” a spirit of comely manliness that cap- tures. all who come in contact with him? Could he personify optimism in that hand and exclalm “Behold Shaw"? Could he find In “James Wilson™ a fatherly instinet to inspire the expres- ‘sion, “Bless ‘you, my boy! How's your erops?’ with the presence of the kind- ly nature and the gentle disposition that_naturally must accompany such a greeting? Does “Blihu Root” exhibit in its ex- ecutlon the power of mentality back of i, with a bit of coldness in the strokes that would indicate a waat of warmth in the writer? Daes the disjoining of strokes in th Moody writing indicate any disjoining in the make-up of the individual or show any weakness in any of his opin- ions? . Does the distorting of signature indicate any ¢ ciean-cut individual? So his glance at the official family chirography is but a passing com- meént upon the varlety of style, which, being orude in its way. Indicates net in the least any want whatsoever of strength in the mental caliber that gives to the President much of his courage in coping with the varied sub- Jects at homeé and abroad that natue- ally occupy the attention of himself and his chosen advisers. Cortelyou's stortion in the John Henry Regarding Great Men. Uncle Peter is one of the gam chunks of humanity that ever look the world in the eye, but when he heard the ediet put forth by Dr. Osler the old man went overboard with a splash. He was under water a long time. He thought the Bogey Man had him for sure. Uncle Peter felt that it would no longer be possible for him to pass a drug store without some young fellow rushing out with a handkerchief full of chioroform and yelling: “Here, you old chestnut! here's where you get it in of the night Uncle Petef used to wake up covered with cold perspiration, because he had dréamed that Osler was nnundlt\1 him on the bald spot with a basebal bat after having poured hair dye all over his breakfast food. At last Uncle Peter got -so nervous I advised him t6 write to the doctor. “Ask him If he won'. commute your sentence bécause you live in the eoun- try and are a commuter,” I suggested. The doetor replied to Uncle Peter at once, and I will try to translate his let- ter from Johns Hopkins into pure Eng- 1ish, as near as I can remember: “Johns Hopkins, Today. “Dear Uncle Peter—When I ¢ut loose with the observation that men were all in at 40 and rauss mittim at 60 I kept several exceptions up my sleeve. “The exceptions include you, Uncle Peter, and myself also. “It could not apply in your case, Un- cle Peter, because I have known you since we lived together in Baltimore many moons ago, and I realize that the years have only improyved you, Un- ele Peter, and that today you are a big- ger shine than you ever were. “One point about my observation which seems to have escaped the eyes of the general public, but which you suggest so delicately in your letter, Uncle Peter, will be found in the beau- tiful words of the poet who says: own. It is a backward slant and differs from the others in this regard. It is not connected and is broken in its “‘Some advertisement now and then /Is needed by the greatest men! " “Don’t mention it, Uncle Peter, for ; 1 what I tell you is confidential, but do | you know that my little bunch of re- marks, which cost me nothing anyway } because I was invited to the banquet, | have given me more widespread adver- tisement than Andy Carnegie can get for eighteen public libraries? “You know, Uncle Peter, there Is | nothing in the world so easy to make stand up on its hind légs as the gen- eral publie if you just go after it right. “But the trick is, Uncle Peter, to know what to say and when to say it. “Look at my case and then tell me if it wasn't up to me to emit a rave. ‘There 1 was, just about to leave my native land to go to Oxford and become the squeegee professor in the Knowl- edge Factory and be all swallowed up in the London fog, but nmobody seemed to miss me before I went away. “T began to feel lost, lonely and for- ottén, llke & Vice President of the nited States. - | “Then came the banquet, Uncle Pe- | ter, and llke a flash the Inspiration | came to me and I arose in my seat and sald: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, after a/ man reaches the age of 40 hé is a sel-| dom-happener, and after he gets to the age of 60 he is a dead rabbit and it's the woods for his.' “What was the result, Uncle Peter? “Every man in the world t that I was his personal insult. “Every man over 40 listened to what | I said and began to yell for the polic and every man under 40 realized that he would be over 40 some day, so he bégan to ook for a rock to throw at me. “I had them, going and coming. “Then the newspapers heard about it and where formerly in their column: was nothing but dull and harmless war | news, my picture began to blossom | forth like the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la! £ | “Pretty soon, Uncle Peter, every man, | weman and child in the world began to | know me and I couldn’t walk out in the public streets without being snap- shotted or bowed to, or barked at, ac- cording to the age of those present. “Of course, we all know, Uncle Pe- ter, that my theory has wormholes all over it, but didn't I make good? “We do not need a book of history to tell us that Julius Caesar was over 40 before he ever saw the base of Pom- pey's statue; that Brutus and Cassius were over 40 before they W & chance | to carve their initials on Caesar's wish- bone: that Cleopatra was over 40 be- fore she saw snak that Carrie Na- | tion was over 40 before she cquld hatchet a barroom and put the boots to the rum demon: that Mrs. Chadwick was over 40 before she opened a bank account: that Jonah was over 40 before he saw a whale; that Presi- dent Roosevelt was over 40 before he saw a self-folding lion; that Kuropat- kin was over 40 betdre he learned to make flve retre: &row where only one grew befor that QGeorge Wash- ington was over 40 - before he -was stfuck with the idea of making Valley JEEé a winter resort; and so forth, and so forth. world without ena. “But these suggestions only prove l:‘a rule, Uncle Peter, and the rule i this: “‘Some advertisement now an is relished by the greatest men!" = - ‘Don’t worry, Unele Pater, because ¥you are getting to be a has-was. “You may do something in your olg age which will make people think less of you than they do néw-—you never ‘ can tell. I will leaw "W(l]un ‘thou few words you, Uncle Peter; wishing you age in the future as yol‘l ,hlv:.h“-m‘]: the past. Yours with love, “WILLIAM OSLER* After getting this letter Unel began to breathe easier and t:o:‘.:;: later he was quite able to resist the desire to crawl under, the bed evary | time a bottle of soothing syrup ar. rived from the drug store. Togo hasn't replied as yet, Peter expects a postal card painted fan in every mail. (Cooyright. 1905. by G. W, Company). but Uncle or a hand- Dillingham -