The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1906, Page 8

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I had b ess to attend to and did not consider myself 1 g it simply to serve my own pleasure.” re compelled to accept the Senator’s ingenuous description i It is his conscience that did it. Thriving wygienic effects of a good conscience it is no wonder he Nay, even his good humor and contentment are so high| 1ces his willingness to lose Walter Francis | se 1. arker bevond seas, where he might adorn the knee breeches s of the Senator responding to the | goading m on “irrigation business,” the | that the timber is not tall enough to hide the g smile, which, like a glorious sunburst, illumi- res the agil glow of nates California from Siskiyou to San Diego and will not be ob. scured. If the Senator;is not very spry the pieman, whose other will get him, for all his agility in running up and “irrigation busnes name is Spe down California on N interesting example of the working of the direct primary was furnished the other day in Illinois and as the campaign develops other instances of this novel evolution in politics will be observed in other States., In 2 word, it may be said and most important object of the plan is to get nstitutional provision which places the election of the chief the | States Senators in the hands of the State Legislatures. cc e voters at the ary express their preference for candi- | United States Senators as well as for the other offices. Senator was between Shelby M. Cullom, the | rd Yates, former Governor of the State.| a comfortable majority and the Chicago Tribune ry to superior organization. It was a cam-| nst oratory and organization won. The| tedly ratify the primary vote. e an even more elaborate form of the direct operation. There not only do the voters express Senators to be elected, but the further precaution for alternates to be appointed Senator in case of her incumbent during his term. This unusual fore- is due to the fact that the present Senators, Morgan | , are both octogenarians. Senator Morgan at 82 does relish this public and undisguised preparation to fill shoes (his own) and derisively refers to the aspirants| succession as “candidates for the pallbearers’ ticket,”| mpaign proceeds just the same. [ ly in political evolution the direct primary furnishes structive example of the manner in which people contrive to ie ‘or overcome by common consent the rigid limitations of a i other organic law that they have outgrown. It is a known fact that the overwhelming sentiment of the American people favors the election of Senators by direct vote, but the Senate has always stood in the way of amending the constitution in this regard. So the people have proceeded to find a way out for themselves THE HOLE AND CORNER METHOD. not greatly dead men'’s for Sentori 1 As a stu an .1 i or HE proceedings against the Standard Oil directors before the United States Grand Jury in Illinois are well conceived and but it be doubted whether the some- antiquated machinery of the secret inquest is likely 1 well intended, may to prove effective. The prime defect and fundamental vice of all proceedings before a Grand Jury anywhere lies in the secrecy that attends the proceedings. An inquiry conducted in that way natur- ally and, it may be said, inevitably lends itself to politics. Where things are done behind closed doors the politician feels he is in- vited and he never fails to arrive. Politicians contrive to effect a lodgment in the membership of the jury, and under cover of the| absurd and out-of-date veil of secrecy they are able to get in their work in many ways that they would not dare attempt were the in- quiry made in the full light of day. From another point of view the secrecy of the Grand Jury inves- tigations of the acts of powerful offenders makes the work futile. In the case of men of great wealth and power publicity is almost the only effective weapon in the hands of the people. There can be no doubt in the public mind that John D. Rockefeller, for instance, has been guilty of public offenses punishable by imprisonment, but there are few who expect to see him go to jail. In the New York life insurance inquiry crimes were brought home to more than one multi-millionaire, but none of them has been punished through the machinery of the law. Neverthelss they have not gone unpunished. With their offenses exposed and held up to public execration they have suffered not perhaps as much as they deserved, but the retribution has not been light. The hole and corner method inquiry is futile and antiquated.| | “sure o+ EDITORIAL PAGE A UGUST 13,1906 —ausa¥ BhaAND LEADER. Clever Acts at Orpheumn Please Audiences | A LL the new acts at the Or- pheum are what the vaude- ville booking agents classify as fire.” Which means, 1 sup- pose, that they are warranted neither to explode prematurely nor to flash in the pan. There are four of them, and the one that savors least of con- ventional vaudeville is given hzadline distinction on the bills, where it is de- scriptively designated, “Direct from two years of European triumphs, Edith Helena, the marvelous Amer- ican soprano, possessing the greatest vocal range in the world.” | Gayly gowned and smiling, Edi Helena bursts into a cavatina {rom “Sonnambula” that instantly inter- ests the music connoisseurs and ap- peals to the non-elect by its pyro- technic brilliance. She makes good the promise of remarkable al range, for without apparent straining she melodiously ascends by trills and runs to E sharp and stays there long enough to prove that she could re- main longer if fealty to the score per- mitted. Her seemingly spontaneous colorature is wonderfully accurate and a facile technique pervades all she sings. : After the “Sonnambula” number last evening she was freely pro- nounced a “freak” singer and at least two experts within my hearing said she reminded them of Ellen Beach Yaw in the salad days of that artist’s professional career. “She has voice, plenty of voiceandschooling, but lacks expression,” remarked another wise- acre, and two minutes later he un- doubtedly regretted his utterance, for the big audience was sitting as if By James Crawford. spellbound by “The Last Rose of Summer,” sung with profound fecl- ing in every note. After that she hummed a most realistic imitation of a violin yielding the “Cavalleria” in- termezzo, and in response to an en- core that would not be denied she sang “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye” with a piquancy that pronounced her pos- sessed of no small allotment of dramatic talent. Next in order of hits came Frank Gardner and Lottie Vincent in one of the most original bits of stage non- sense ever produced here. It is a spectacular fantasy depicting the ad- ventures of a tramp who is projected to the moon and elopes from there with the queen, whose experiences on this sphere are both novel—to her— and exciting to all who witness them. The piece i1s brimful of bright dia- logue and ludicrous situations, and the scenic accessories are plenteous enough to dress a three-act extrava- ganza. The two principals and the few people supporting them work with a smoothness that mightily en- hances the “go,” of which the sketch is so full Reiff brothers, without special scenery or change of costume, win thunderous plaudits by. their clever medley singing and still more clever dancing and the six Proveanis do several new things in the way of trick cycling. Of the holdovers Billy Van is su- preme in_the admiration of the au- dience, with the exception of its in- fantile element, no less than five in- dignant babies having wailingly in- sisted on being removed beyond sound of his voice and sight of his face. The imitation water in- scene — ! ——dp 2 continues to make the hit of “The Act Beautiful,” the “winning widows” show no signs of succumbing to osculatory wear and tear and the Lucania children compel applause from the folk who know that the most difficult acrobatic feats are rare- ly the showiest. * * At the Central tonight two players new to that house will make their first appearance. Will Walling, the handsome leading man, comes with the stamp of San Francisco’s ap- proval already stamped on his work, for he was one of the late Alcazar’s most adored matinee idols, and Jane Kelton, who will be assigned to lead- ing roles in the company, was a big favorite in the Majestic days. Mr. Walling will this, week essay Joe Grismer’s difficult role of Captain Ford and Miss Kelton will be Georgia Gwynne in Clay Greene's “New South.” The full strength of the Central's company are assigned to important roles, including spright- ly Oza Waldrop as Bessie Fessen- den. The scenic effects, it is prom- ised, will faithfully carry out the au- thor's ideal of the Southern atmos- phere. “The Plunger” will follow and then the Central will offer Kolb and Dill for a few weeks only. “Fiddle-Dee-Dee” will begin the third and last week of its run at the Davis Theater tonight. There will be a special matinee Thursday. Next Monday night “Whisl-i-gig,” another great Weber and Field success, will be presented, with Rice and Cady, Bobby North, Rosemary Glosz and the remainder of the Harry James travesty stars. Women's Clubs Again Resume Activity * —By Mary Ashe Miller S [ HE first meeting of the fall sea- son of the California Club will Ttake place tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the building of the California Promotion Committee in Union Square, the ‘members having been called together from far and near by the president, Mrs. J. W. Orr, to consider the question®of re- constructing the club building, which ‘was destroyed by the fire. The hoard of directors has been considering the matter at its recent meetings and has consulted with the architect, Wil- liam Knowles, who planned the orig- inal building. At the last meeting on Monday last plans were submitted for a wooden building, to cost about $10,000, which was in accord with the general idea of the directors as to their wants. At this meeting it was suggested by some member of the board that it might be a good plan to give up the scheme of having a clubhouse con- sisting of reception rooms and audi- torium on the first floor, as was the case before, and to add to the finances of the club and assist ma- terially in paying off the debt of the new building by having the ground floor fittéd up for shops, which might rent for a high rate, the club prop- erty being excellently situated for business purposes on Clay street, near Van Ness avenue. he club- rooms might be on the second floor, or in event of renting that for offices, even on the third floor. The build- ing will be shingled in front and the interior will be in finished lumber in- I stead of plaster. Mr. Knowles is now preparing plans along these lines, which the board will consider at the meeting this morning. There are many clever women of extremely practical bent and pos- sessing a good grasp of business af- fairs who are members of the Cali- fornia Club and the discussions which will take place at the general meeting as to whether the club will rebuild at all and if so on what plan will be thorough. Mrs. John D. Sibley has accepted the chairmanship of the department of education in the club and reported for the first time at the last meeting of the board of directors. Mrs, Sib- ley succeeds Mrs. John Russ, who has left the city since the fire. Mrs. S. S, Palmer, chairman of the social science department, is still working on her plans for aiding in the preparation of the model tene- ments and workingmen's homes and will embody her ideas in a letter to the Supervisors shortly. The civics department of the club is planning some very vigorous work for the be- ginning of the new club year, There is much talk among the members of the club of calling the at- tention of the authorities to the vio- lations of certain ‘city ordinances, notably in regard to signboards. These should, according to an ordi- nance which has never been’ re- pealed, be no more than ten feet in height, but all over the city they are being put up at least twenty feet high. Livery stables also have come under the ecagle eye of the club women and are about to be called to account for their violation of city aws. 2 * N A meeting of the Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy was called for Wednesday afternoon, August 8, at the home of Mrs. Prichard, 2833 Sacramento street, for the election of delegates to the general convention of the United States, to be held in November at Gulfport, Miss., and also to the State convention, which will convene at Fresno in October, Mrs. J. de Barth Shorb, president of the chapter, was elected a delegate to the general convention and it was then voted to leave the appointing of the other delegates to both conven- tions to her. There are to be four- teen delegates to each convention. A resolution was passed indorsing the administration of Mrs. Albert M. Stephens of Los Angeles, the State president, who has been in office for nearly a year past, and instructing the delegates to the State convention to cast their votes for the re-election of Mrs. Stephens at the coming elec- tion. The next meeting of the chap- ter will be held on the first Monday in September at the home of Miss Foulkes on Sprucc‘sueet. * * Mrs. John F. Swift, who, upon the destruction of her beautiful old home on Valencia street, decided to cast her lot on the other side of the bay, has begun to take the same active in- terest in club life and affairs there that she has always done here. Mrs. Swift feels that a local council, to include all the women’s clubs in Ala- meda County, irrespective of their reason for existence, would by unity bring great strength to attain their purposes in the future. Thus far nothing has come of Mrs. Swift's 'Unemployed in Britain Seize Land tor Farm Colonies. FROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. ONDON, July 18-“Comrade John Burns, M. P.—Manches- ter's unemployed have taken your advice of twenty years ago and gone back to the land for food, for wives and bairns. Congratulate us. Jack Williams, Outlaw.” The above telegram, sent by one of the principal actors in England’s latest industrial farce-comedy to “Honest John” Buras, erstwhile Labor leader and present Cabinet Minister, is still awaiting a reply. It would perhaps be hardly fair to say that the Right Hon. John and Keir Hardie and all the other front rank Labor and Socialist party leaders are dodging the new: sect of “Grabland- ers,’ yet it is remarkable how ter- ribly busy they are just now on Par- liamentary affairs. Being wise men, apparently they do not want to be identified with the band at whom the public is at present laughing. The unemployed have at last ac- cepted the “Back to the Land” cry and in Manchester 'and London have seized two small plots of ground, encamped on them and started to raise vegetables and “collections.” The latter are already yielding a daily and fairly bountiful harvest The vegetables have not yet reported pro- gress. Other small bands of unem- ployed have at a few outlying places followed in a mild way the lead of Manchester and London. The leaders boast of having gone back to the days of Cromwell. The ublic and the newspapers stigmatize it rather as going back to the days of Robin Hood as exemplified in the “Bostonians’ ” famous comic opera. England was a little bit startled in the early part of July, when a dozen men headed by a trio named Gray, Smith and Williams, took possession of a six-acre field, unfenced, at Leven- shulme, three miles from Manchester, and announced that the unemployed of the country had turned outlaws and intended to grab all the land they wanted and till it according to the precepts of “Back to the Land” din- ned into their ears for many winters by philanthropists, sociologists and charity organizations. Arthur Smith is known as the ringleader of the Manchester unem- ployed for the last year. Jack Wil- liams is a prominent orator and leader of the Socialist-Labor party and A. Stewart Gray, M. A, is a land en- thusiast, agricultural expert and sociologist. As his degree proves he is a man of education. He also has independent means. Last winter he proposed that the large cities should solve the unem- ployed problem by spending a quar- ter of a million dollars each on a farm colony. This he declared would not alone support all the unemployed and their families, but would net a profit annually of axfiything up to $150,000 to each city. is scheme was backed up by Joseph Fels, the millionaire American philanthropist and business man, formerly of Philadelphia, now of England. Mr. Fels even offered to help finance the schemes. But the cities would have none of them. “Too colossal,” they said. Shortly after the unprofitable marches to London of the provincial unemployed last winter, Gray, Smith and Williams got together and plan- ned their present land-grabbing busi- ness. They consulted lawyers and made their pldns in secret for months. So the present state of affairs is not a movement of the moment. Gray reported on several plots of land—all “Glebe” "or church land. And then the “Grablanders” squatted on their present location as being the most favorable from an agricul- tural viewpoint. They stuck little flags at the boundaries of the field, a big red one in the center; put up a tent and a stone fireplace and built a grass-sod hut after the fashion of Ireland. Then they set to work to issue proclamations, make speeches, take up collections and finally dig up the field and plant cabbages. One dozen men formed the initial campers, but the number has been increased to a score. Gray was ap- pointed “minister of agriculture” and is directing all the real work; Wil- liams is allowed to give full swing to his oratory, write telegrams and proclamations, and is therefore happy, and Smith as commander in chief looks after the very important depart- ment of taking round the hat. Crowds of curious Manchester people daily visit the camp and the collections to ate have been pretty good. The men are orderly and strict discipline is maintained. They have.only made one mistake and that was to boil and eat a sackful of prime potatoes sent them for seed by a sympathizer. The deeds of the Lancashire “Grab- landers” in a week’s time were emu- lated by the unemployed of West Ham, a borough on the outskirts of London, where for several winters there has been more distress monf the poor than in any other pafrt of England. The West Hammers, under the leadership of Ben Cunningham, seized a three-acre plot of waste ground belonging to the corporation and encamped on it twenty strong. Cunningham is one of the Socialist members of the City ‘Council. Two ministers of the gospel donated canvas and tarpaulins for temts, while local tradesmen are contributing daily small quantities of foodstuffs. The campers now number nearly forty and under the direction of a Joo-pound “minister of agriculture” named Wil- son, they have succeeded in planting half of the plot with cabbages. The camp is near three suburban railway stations and crowds of excursionists have visited it. Consequently, the passing-round-the-hat part of the la- bor has been highly profitable. The men give a “concert” nightly and this also yields a revenue. These “Camps of Rest” are either situated on church or corporation land and all other seizures are to be the same. The particular land in Manchester was donated by a Coun- tess a generation ago to the Church of England “for the benefit of the church and the poor.” Its title goes back 400 years and ejectment proceed- ings on the present squatters would be ordinarily a lengthy and costly af- fair. In none of the cases are the authorities interfering. The police are on duty merely to regulate the crowds. The movement cross between Coxey's army and Pingree's potato patch propositions. It will be remembered that when the late Governor Hazen S. Pingree was Mayor of Detroit years ago he solved, more or less successfully, the unem- ployed problem by making the men cultivate potatoes in the vacant lots of the city. It was this that gave him the nickname of “Potato Pingree.” The scheme was afterward followed by the late “Golden Rule” Jones when Mayor of Toledo, and by Tom L. Johnson, Mayor of Cleveland. The leaders of the seli-styled “out- laws” claim the support of the Labor arty, the Socialist-Labor party, the ocial-Democrats and the Independ- ent Labor party, but the members of these parties are busy dodging ques- tions and keeping other engagements. When some of them have been cor- nered, however, they have either laughed at or denounced the “Grab- landers.” The “outlaws’” movement, it is freely prophesied, will die a natural death as soon as the harvest of col* lections begins to wither. And if that does not act quickly enough, ridicule, England’'s greatest weapon in such movements, will do the work. The “outlaws” are merely looked upon as buffoons and their doings as fairly amusing comedy. And yet it is real- ized that their intentions are good, that many thinking men of moment are with them and that they are very earnest in their plans. But the phlegmatic common-sense, on which the Britisher prides himself, shows him that the movement belongs to the great “scrap pile” of visionary im- possibilities. And sooner or later it will find its place there. appears to be a - - her characteristic brilliance and con- vincing manner, save an endless amount of discussion and talk among the club women of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley. R B The California State Nurses’ Asso- ciation held its third annual meeting at the Guild Hall of St. Paul's Pro- Cathedral, South Olive street, Los Angeles, August 6-8, and a number of nurses irom this city were present, Miss S. Gotea Dozier, a San Fran- cisco nurse, being the president of the organization, and making the opening remarks. She also read a paper on Wednesday afternoon on “Registration.” The election of officers took place on Tuesday evening and the follow- ing were elected to serve during the coming year: President, Mrs. H. W. Pahl of Los Angeles; vice presidents, Miss Mary Hall of Alameda and Miss Kate Greedon; secretary, Mrs. W. E. Downing of Suisun (re-elected); executive council—Dr. Helen P. Cris- well, Miss Katharine Fitch, Miss M. E. Courrier, Miss Sarah Paulson, Miss Charlotte Condict, Miss Hellen Barnard, Miss Genevieve Cooke, Miss Kate Brown and Miss Margaret Pepoon. The convention closed on Wednesday evening with a banquet at Playa-dcl-l}ey-b'ydhe.-Sem There is a feeling of satisfaction among the woman suffragists at the recognition by the Queen of Den- mark of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt of New York, the president of the International League of Woman Suf- fragists, to whom her Majesty + granted an audience of one hour. Mrs. Catt is in Copenhagen, attend- ing the third conference of the in- ternational league, at which she, the Rev. Anna Shaw and other delegates represent the United States. The Queen was deeply interested in the movement, it is said, and expressed her regret that, being in mourning for the late King, she was unable to entertain the delegates. She ex- pressed also her admiration for American women and thought that the women of other countries might well take them as models in the mat- ter of activity and progress. National woman suffrage societies of the following countries are af- filiated with this international lea e Australia, Denmark, England, Hun- gary, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Germany and the United States. If the country does not become educated on the question of woman suffrage it will not be the fault of the women. Those opposed, like those in favor, are constantly spread- ing information concerning the movement. The Massachusetts Anti- Woman Suffrage, Association points out in a long report just issued that within a year it has distributed 3040 copies of its organ, the Remon- strance, besides 4337 other pieces of literature bearing on their side of the question. The suffragists in reply to this announce that many of their own State associatious have sent out much more than this within the same period and that the national associa- tion sent out 106,753 pieces of miscel- laneous literature and 54,000 copies of its puBlication, Progress. In Answer 10 Queries. | L = SHAKES—J. M. T., Portola, Cal. The shake of 1885 was on October §, and that of 1868 was on October 21. POET LAUREATE—J. L. City. The poet laureate of England is Alfred Austin. VENDETTA—A. A, City. The word “vendetta,” which means vengeance, 1t is said, originated in Corsica, where the practice was formerly general. The custom flourished among the Be- idea, which she has set forth with|douins, and traces are found some- times among the Albanians, Drueses and Circassians, and indeed it may be said that!it prevailed at one time or another in every tribe and nation. ‘Whenever a person was murdered the practice among those holding to this custom was to avenge the death. That duty was imposed upon the son, brother or nearest kinsman, who forth- :;m: -ough:a pr;v.:‘. vengeance upon e one wl s bl the blood of the e —— Townsend's Cal. frut nle,- dies at Emp. and m un"vu. at