The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1906, Page 26

SUNDAY Ti?gg; Francisco Call. D. SPRECKELS JOHN ..Proprietor ..Genera! Manager weiv....Managing Editor Business Manager ; SAN FRANCISCO CALL. iress All Commurications to 7 PHONE—Ask for The the l. The Operator Will Counect You With partment lou Wish. BUSINESS OFFICE.. ket and Third Streets, San Francisco Ope y Night In the Year. TOF Market and Third Streets .1651 Fillmore Street, Near Post NCH .Telephone Oakland 1033 Alameda 559 Telephone .Telephone Berkeley 77 C: >. George Krogness, Representative —Marquette Bidg 30 Tribune Bldg. Stephen B. Smith, Representative SURSCRIPTION RATES. 5 Cents Per Month. Single $3.00 400 Year Extra Year Extra r Year Extra uncon s announced »us apology that the contemporar) 1e greasy, well-thumbed this obiter dictum on now in course of serial t island ies of the de way of they have chosen that as lacking in originality would e purpose of the manufacturers, whose well-beaten paths into en and yet love for old patients by ve been thoughtful providing monthly a ievice may seen like re- vou please, but the t is a sort of bottled le in a hurry. Here hing Lass is es ~t\-am%h1}\ dwards with o by on. Selover, a sha v his assistant, s-bound acquaintance of the hook for a hand; negro cook. The secret ric island, abitation for the lcano old friends are all there, d the crew of the captain’s d, but we are not fooled. 1 a hook for hand” is cook come to life again with an to produce that y feeling. In Captain terror, we welcome Woli Larsen once more and 1at he is s able to whip his weight in e bargain. In the contempc novel it We don't good money to be dis- e want ar e get it. of Dumas, with a twentieth-century »sopher’s stone. x equal parts of t forget to season with a fagot of thing pirates. We not asking too much for the money. a and well beloved sez is yens. I pay do: he only we miss is STRUGGLE FOR MILLIONS. le financial world, but likewise the millions rs in the great New York life insurance com- 1 1 the keenest interest the struggle At the root of this destructive ortant groups of stock jobbers 1 and handling of the vast surplus This surplus, which is merely the . all belongs to the policy-holders and but, in accordance with the system ry B. Hyde of the Equitable, it has been ions of the stock jobbers, of whom Henry d Oil trust, J. P. Morgan and E. H. Harri- representati The plan of syndicate the big life insurance companies provided ) »ded for speculation, of which the pocketed the profits, was fully explained before Armstrong committee in New any es. money 1 the of this magnitude is not readily surrendered, lard Oil group and others interested in the esperate and unscrupulou$ battle to retain d, therefor game are ,makmg a < ntrol. Rogers and William Rockefeller have declined ta serve on the neoming board of the Mutual, but Rogers was chairman of the nomi- committee that put up the administration ticket and the list ai's on its face evidence of trickery and bad faith. All but four of fhe lidates named are men of known affilia- jobbing ps and the four exceptions were se- ed without their consent and against their wishes from the Inter- Policy-Holders’ League, which is making the fight to unseat The purpose for which the four representatives of ¢ policy-holders were included in the ticket was to create a false ression of fair dealing. Of course, four trustees out of thirty- 1d have no power to effect anything of service to the policy- and they have accordingly asked that their names be taken rinistration ticket. It happens that under the law there is-no power to remove names from the ticket after it has been filed, speculators. 'l\l////l\\\\l. | _ t 1 AU WILDER" “0O Woodman! Spare fi:—at Tree!” I i { | I | b ® ) : EDITO RIAL PAG E | AUGUST12,1905 | [ Menace of the Gold Dredger | By Franklin Hichborn. HE gold dredger kings of the T Sacramento Valley have their clutch upon the Natoma vine- vard, and propose to turn that mag- nificent property into a pile of barren cobblestones for the gold that can be got from it. The proposal has | shocked the Sacramento Valley, where opposition to gold dredging had be- gun to lag from familiarity. But that the Natoma is to be sacrificed has again called forth protest. The Sac- | ramento, Union wants to know what comes of the dredger kings' claims that only worthless land is operated, and the question is being echoed from one end of the vailey to the other. But the sacrifice of the Natoma, said to be the second largest vineyard in the world, and certainly ranking among the finest, was to be expected, for the soil of the vineyard is rich in flecks of gold. Until the invention of the dredger this gold could not be recovered at a profit, but the machine’s invention made possible the reaping of tremen- dous gain, not only from the soil of the Natoma, but from tens of thou- sands of acres of the most fertile lands of the Sacramento Valley. Un- checked, the dredger kings will even- tually exploit this vineyard, even though they do not do it now, as they will thousands of other acres as valuable. The gold dredger does not work in the beds of streams as its name indi- cates. It is an engine that operates | practically on dry land. Its tremen- | dously powerful scoups gather up the | soil clear down to bedrock, every inch of which is carefully winnowed until the last fleck of gold is extracted. The total cost of operation runs from 6 |to 8 cents per cubic yard, varying |in the different localities. Land that | yields 10 cents in gold to the cubic | yard can be worked at large profit to the acre.. When one considers the number of cubic yards that lie in an acre of land between surface and bedrock, the truth of this is apparent. But when the dredger passes over the land, the once fertile acres are | left piles of hideous cobbles, for the soil in the dredger's operations sifts to the bottom and the boulders are Consequently the four representatives of the policy-holders remain on the ticket against their w 1f they should be elected they can resign and this is their ohly remedy, which is worse than none, 1 completed two because their resignations would s; remaining trustees to name men vacancies. In a word, Rogers has ply put it in the power of the of their own kind to fill the impudently stolen the use of four respectable names to lend weight to his ticket. Of course, there will be an opposition ticket, but the insiders are doing everything in their power to prevent the league from reaching or communicating with law of last ses policy-holders. The New York on requires the management to file full and explicit lists of all policy-holders with their addresses. In the list filed at Albany the names are given, but in a large proportion of cases the addresses are either omitted or are wrongly given. Thus we see that trickery and small politics characterize the whole campaign for control waged by the stock jobbers. - in Mefropolifan Museum, EW YORK, Aug. 1.—E. H. Harriman has. lent to the N Metropolitan. Museum of Art a model of the “Five-Story Tower,” or Pagoda of Todaiji, at Nara, the an- cient capital of Japan. This remark- | able piece of work is made of bronze, ilver and gold; it is four feet six inches in height and weighs about 150 pounds The following translation of a statement written by Masami Koyano, the artist, who finished the work be- gun by his father, Kijo Koyano, is re- | produced here because of its account of the making of the model and for its naive expression of a point of view not often found among English- speaking artists and workmen: “The metal scuipture work has been our family trade from far distant am= cestors down to my generation. “Most people of present days seem to thing nothing but antique work | can be good, appreciable work; but | to my mind such seems to be a gross prejudice against the new. There is ¢no reason why the work of the pres- ent time cannot be equally good and | appreciable art, so long as the archi- tects or artists of present days devote themselves to the course of work and cxercise all the energies and genius with which the old workmanship was one. “Unfortunately, however, the archi- tect or artist of present days, being inclined more for the carnings than | for the sake of art, do not devote themselves to the ideal spirit and true course of art, and therefore they often neglect the spirit of chastity to the | trade, thus failing to give us the ex- traordinary products that were not uncommon in older days. he failure of present artists was a good stimulus to me. At the twen- | tieth year of my age I began my am- bitious attempt to leave an immortal | work worthy of the family. “Finally, after long, frequent strug- | gles and bitter experience, 1 set my heart on the construction of the ‘Five- Story Tower,” after that of Todaiji, | and at the sixtieth year of my age I | isolated myself by removing to a soli- | tary country place in the midst of a | wild forest in the spring of the twen- | ty-second year of Meiji (1889) era. | “Not only I, but all the members of the family as well, devoted themselves | to the construction of the pagoda, de- clining all intercourses with the out- side world. | “We often had = forgotten daily | meals, neglected due rest, necessary | sleep, kept all the necessary chastity | to the ways of true architects and { finally overcame all difficulties and | hardships that confronted us from time to time. | “At last the work was finished in | the autumn of the thirty-first vear of | Meiji (1808) era, and the two images of Buddha and the strands had been ears later. times we were almost “Hundreds on the verge of being overcome by the difficulties, obstacles and hardships that seemed so mischieviously to ham- per -us, to say nothing of our frequent negligences of our bodies; but we re- membered the invaluable maxim, ‘Where there is a will there is a way,’ and fought the struggles out bravely and succeeded in witnessing the final result of our blood and wealth. I therefore was determined not to give it for any amount of money, and wanted to leave it to my offsprings as the family treasure and model doc- trines to them. S “Meanwhile my work 'became known to one of the best known artists in the country, who introduced Mr. to me, and the latter ex- pressed his unbounded admifation of the work and earnestly desired to purchase it, but I was firm in my orig- inal determination to keep it to myself and carried it tenaciously until long after since. And I declined all his considerations and offers, but his sound reasoning to the effect that by selling this it would have chances of being appreciated by art lovers and that my labors would be richly re- warded by its introduction to the pub- lic, whereas such attainment would be out of the question by confining it to my own family, convinced me and finally T surrendered. it to Mr. — for his good reasoning, not for the money he paid for it. “Mr. , who is one of the fore- most experts on art, approved my work as the best metal work ever produced by any Japancse, and this recommendation gives me the high- est honor and pleasuwre any architect or artist could reasonably wish. “I hercby swear that this work was done by my father and myself, who were the direct descendants of .the family of Koyano, sculptors and archi- tects.” - \ Strange Cargo From the Amazon. One of the strangest cargoes a vessel eould possibly have was unloaded at the London docks toward the Cclose, of March. It consisted of several sacks filled with dried flies, consigned to a large firm of grain merchants. These flies, originating in Brazil, have been purchased for use in the manufac- ture of food for chickens, cage birds and the like. They were caught on the river Amazon by Brazilians, who travel up the river in flat-bottomed boats and who are provided with gauze nets with which they capture these insects in mil- lions, as flies hover in dense clouds over many of the swampy reaches of the Amazon. % The flies thus caught are killed, dried In the sun, and then placed in sacks. Upon arrival in London they are mixed with millet and other grain and are sold as chicken food, etc. Some time ago the Brazillan Government, fearing that the fish in the Amazon would be starved, forbade the exportation of flies; hence the price of this strange com- modity, which used to be 6d per pound, has now risen to ss 6d per pound, and often a little more.—Scientific Ameri- can. reece the New Haven of World’s Embezziers 1S N left on top. At Fair Oaks, at Folsom, at Oroville, wherever the dredgers have operated, acre after acre of these bagren gray stones are to be seen— acres once covered with orange grov vineyards, pastures and | farms. One of the dredgers covers about an acre a month. Ten acres of this land will support a family of five. Thus each month for every ten dredg~ ers in operation land that would for all time support a family is lost ta the State. California's best wealth is not the gold that can be“extracted from her soil, but lies in the power of the soil to permanently support the race. For the immediate mckel, then, the gold dredgers are sacrific- ing the lasting prosperity of the State. The report on gold dredging issued by the State Mineralogist m 1993 states that the agricultural la_nd, about Folsom available for dredging purposes is not more than 2500 acres, the value of which for agriculture is placed at $100 an acre, or $250.000. But from this,land, and 2300, other acres of the district, set down as worthless for agriculture—although that has been disputed—the report; states that at least $40,000,000 in goldf will be extracted. But suppose the! whole 3000 acres of the district were} worth $1000 an acre for agricultura l purposes, which is the maximum price paid for the finest land in the State, the value of the whole tract for agri- culture would be only $5000000. As e against the $40,000,000 in gold to be gotten from it, how long would the dredger kings hesitate to offer the farmer $2000 an acre? How long would the farmer hesitate about sells ing? Even at that price, the gains to the dredger king would be $30,000,~ 000. It is not surprising, then, that the Natoma vineyard, rich in flecks of gold to the exploiter, richer to _thc State and the people in its lasting value as agricultural land, should be demanded. But, turned over to the dredger, the vineyard will be lost for all time to the State and the race that gains its living from the soil. Held for agricultural purposes, for all time to come it will cantinue to add to the wealth, the prosperity and the happi- ness of the State and its people. And what is true of the Natoma vineyard is true of tens of thousands of acres of the most fertile land of California, which, saved from the lust of the mad hunter for gold, will one day support an empire. Given over to the dredg- er, the land will be turned into heaps of gray, barren cobbles, unproduwegs tive, hideous, 2 monument for all tim to the shortsightedness and stupidit; of the generation that permitted it. At the last session of the Legisla- ture an act intending to st the course of the gold dredger was intro- duced. The proposed law was a good, one, but it never reached third read- ing. Why not? Ask the dredger kings. TF )ARIS, "Aug. 6=—The k" game” is still a popu months ago Pa young Fr into “Grecce, and found him protected from extradition by the authorities, whom be paid well;~ so they quietly sat down and waited for the criminal to spead all his stolen money. Then when he had to move away and crossed into Italy, the detectives ar- rested him and brought him here. 'Fcn nand Bolle, aged 24, was a cierk in the Societe' Generale Bamk. He was married andalso had a sepa- rate cs_xgl)lishmcng over which a young lady friend presided. He received notice of discharge just-.at the time that cveryone was talking of Jean Gailay, the bank clerk “baron” "and . Merelli. Bolle said to himself should I not imitate this Gallay?” So he began to fill in checks and forge signatures. In a few days he cashed in $25,000. Then he left Paris with his mistress. The couple fled to Corfu and took a charm- ing and luxurious villa. They began to have a gay time. Bolle 't'oo!ishly wrote to some friends in Paris detailing the lively life he was leading. The police were waiting for just such letters and two dctecuv.cs armed with the necessary papers immediately went to Corfu. When they called on Bolle he intro- a embezzler duced them to his fair companion and feted them. But he refused to return to France. The detectives, when they tried to extradite him, found that the authori- ties were proecting Bolle. They ap- pealed to the Greek Minister of the Interior and to the Chief of Police of Corfu, but received ‘only promises. Then the French Embassador took a hand. This resulted in Bolle and his companion being expelled from that particular village, the authorities of which were dismissed. But the fugi- tives merely moved on to the next village and took another villa. The French detectives thereupon tele- graphed that until Bolle had spent all his money an arrest was impos- sible. They were then ordered to wait like Patience on a monument until the bank clerk had run through hijs last dollar. Bolle was spendi money like a billionaire and for five weeks the two detectives wentfishing} smoked and slept and enjoyed them- selves. Whea Bolle finally came to the end of his stolen spoils he and his com- anion took a little coast vessel to rindisi. The detectives awaited them on arrival, arrested Bolle and quickly got extradition. On arrival in Paris Bolle and the detectives told their stories to Ex- amining Magistrate Berr, who also questioned Bolle's. mistress. She de- nied knowing where the man’s money came from and was discharged. Bolle made a full confession. He declared that the Greek authorities knew he was a thief and made him pay a heavy sum each day for protection from ar- rest. o LR T Sl Gave the Direction. Jean Gerardy, the wei-known ‘cel- list, at a dinner in Philadelphia praised American wit. “You are all witty,” he saild. “From your millionaire down to your gamin, you are quick, nimble and $Barkling in retort. “Your gamins’ wit is somewhat cruel. It caused a friend of mine to flush and mutter an evil oath one day last week in New York. My friend, in a hurryto catch a train, ran out of his hotel toward a cab, and a ragged little boy opened the cab door for him and handed in his valise. He gave the boy nothing. In his hurry, you see, he forgot. “The disappointed urchin smiled sourly and called this order to the driver, ‘Nearest poorhouse, cabby.'”"— American Spectator. au } Hall Caine Risks His Life in | Searching for Realism. ONDON, July 28.—Hall Caine would do anything for the sake L of “realism”—especially when the realism concerned is that of one of his own plays or novels—even risk his valuable life. In fact, it seems that Mr. Caine did endanger his exist- ence a while ago, although at that time nothing about this heedless act | of his was allowed to reach the pub- | lic. Possibly, it was then too far in advance of the production of his new play and the thrilling tale might have lost some of its effect, but now the production of “The Bondsman” at Drury Lane is drawing nigh and so we are told the story of how the au- thor flouted death, without any reser- vation or sparing of painful details. It was in Italy that the thing hap- pened, whence Hall Caime’ went last spring in search of local color for “The Bondsman.” That drama, by the way, is located partly in Italy and partly in Sardinia (although the novel places the scene elsewhere) and it seefis that among its other attrac- tions are to be a “real” Sicilian cart and a “real” Sardinian donkey, also a veracious Italian farm scene with genuine cows and actual haystacks— all guaranteed by Hall Calr!_e: His last piece, “The Prodigal Son,” it may be remembered, contained a sure enough flock of sheep—at least it did as produced at Drury Lane. Whether there were sheep in the American pro- duction one is not certain, and if there were not perhaps that is one reason why the piece failed to duplicate in America the tremendous success which its author has figures to prove it scored in London. In “The Bondsman” there is to be a sulphur mine, too, and so we come to the actual details of how the in- trepid Hall Caine and Arthur Collins, who runs Drury Lane Theater, placed their lives in deadly peril, all for the sake of realism. For to see the real thing in this line the fearless pair visited one of the Italian sulfataras, situated some thirty miles from Naples, and there it appears their hazard was truly great. - “The inferno was at its very worst, says the graphic account which has reached me on the authority of Hall Caine himself, “yet both awthor and manager trod fearlessly on this boil- ing surface, though it is no exaggera- tion to say very often at the peril of their lives. For the sulfataras in question stands on the crater of a volcanic mountain which had over- whelmed mountains, villages and killed hundreds of inhabitants in the fifteenth century!” (The exclamation is Mr. Caine’s.) 3 So it is easy to see that no risk is too great for this author to run when it is a question of “local color,” and it must be admitted, too, that Hall Caine eclipses himself from year to year, for ior to producing “The Prodigal m,” if one remembers rightly, -he contented himself with an on the spot study of Monte Carlo. However, “The Bondsman™ promises to be a truly great ‘rroduchon, and for the star rt the management “Pat” Campbell, who had been meditating an Amer- This promises to be near- ly as big a draw as was the engage- ment of George Alexander last year for the leading part in “The Prodigal Son” at the Lane, and another promis- ing engagement is that of young Henry Ainley, who was seen in Amer- ica with Maude Adams and who is now appearing at the Court in_Ber- nard Shaw’s “You Never Can Tell.” Just as the London season closes > Arthur Bourchier has brought out a new play at the Garrick, doubtless with the idea of keeping it on through the autumm if it goes well with end of the season audiences. The actor- manager has in this case become actor - manager - playwright, having made his own adaptation from the play which Anatole France—one of the most brilliant of living French- men—built out of a grim short story he wrote lately, called “Crainque~ bille.” Bourchier has transferred the scene from a Paris slum district to a London slum district and has entirel Englished the characters. The "“ of the play will be significant, for til plot is of the sligftest, there is no love story and in fact no woman in the play except as regards minor char- acters, put in for the sake of incident and local color. Practically the whele, interest centers round a half-witted old costermonger, who has barely managed to keep body and soul to- gether by selling vegetables in the street from a cart. Through sheer amiable stupidity he innocently of- fends a policeman and is arrested. In the second act we find him in a police, court before an irascible petty Jus- tice, who takes no trouble to plumb the depths of the old man’'s stypidity and sentences him to a short ime prisonment for creating a street dis- turbance. In the third act the helpless victim of miscarried law is back again in his “mean street.” His stock: in trade has been stolen, his barrow is lost, his feeble self-respect is gone and his old friends have turned against him because he is a jailbird. He is as pathetic a figure as one could well find. He tries mn vain to insult a policeman in order that he may be taken back to jail and at last, starving and utterly broken, he totters off to the river to put an end to his misery. In the English version his barrow is restored to him at the last moment through the efforts’ of a kindly news- boy and the play en.s with a ray of hope for the old man. A finer per- formance than that of Bourchier as the decrepit and dirty costermonger could scarcely be found. It is a really wonderful blending of humor, pathos and bitter satire of careless justice. But there is none of the strong play of emotion, and conflict of will, and thrill and excitement required by the average audience. EXCAVATING—T. City. - In emea- vating for a foundation the party whe makes the excavation must protect im- proved property on adjacent land. A WIFE—J. A. L, Santa Rosa, Cal. This department does not advertise “matrimonial desires of a man who wants to get a widow without echil- dren.” Apply to the advertising m‘. ment. BONANZA—P. S, City. Bonanza in Spanish means calm, fair weather, prosperity; in mining, a sudden and extraordinary widening of a velm of silver: hence any successful venture, particularly in gold or silver mining. OIL FOR STONES—A. O. S, Ciy. The majority of olls used,on used for sharpening purposes gummy and in time the stone be faced. Kerosene oil is said the best, as it dces not gum, stone in better condition and in the operation of sharpening. > e ‘Townsend’s Cal. fruits “.tmlflllmnfi':.a