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

TUESDAY EDI The San Francisco Call. JOHN D. SPRECKELS..... CHARLES W. HORNICK ERNEST S. SIMPSON C. J. OWEN .....Proprietor ........ General Manager Managing Editor Business Manager Address All Communications to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. HONE—Ask for The Call. The Operator Will Commect You With the Department You Wish. Third Streets. San Franclsco ht in the Year. Market and Third Streets 1651 Fillmore Street, Near Post Telephone Oakland 1088 .Telephone Alameda 559 Market and Open Until 11 O'clock Every NI RIAL ROOMS... B MAIN BRANCH.. JAKLAND OFFICE—101¢ Broadway. i CITY ALAMEDA OFFICE—1436 Park S Telephone Berkeley 77 Marquette Bldg...C. George Krogness, Representative EW YORK OFFICE—30 Tribune Bldg...Stephen B. Smith, Representative AGO OFFIC SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 20 Cents Per Week. 75 Cents Per Month. Coples § Cents. Postage (Cash With Ord 1 year ¢ mo Delivered by Cerrier, Single by Mafl, Inecludin; (including Sumday), (Including Sunday) month LL. l,vear. ¥ CALL. 1 year. | Dafiy Sunday Weekly $5.00 Per Year Extra 4.15 Per Year Extra 1.00 Per Year Extra ed States Postoffice as Second-Class Matter. Will Be Forwarded When Requested. € change of sddress should be particular to give .D ADDRESS IN order to lnsure & prompt and ith their request. NEGLECTED SANITATION OF CAMPS. icion in the public mind that the Board ng politics” with the budget allowed These mittee for sanitation in the camps. expressed by a member of the Grand - conference ywith the relief committee he camps. At this conference it was stated d neglected the work assigned to them e wholly inefficient in others. The only Board of Health was that it did not pled with a medical certificate issued by d that the work of sanitation in San Fran- the ted by the board was the %wonder t, the board is allowed $27,000 a month by It t $27,000 2 month might be inadequate for sive of the municipal appropriation. e board, although it should be ample of the camps. As a matter of fact the Board of ng politics” with this money from the day that The first move of oses of t taken over irom the army. employed to clean the camps. It used that power to crowd of political loafers and heelers on the relief fund. 1e condition was notorious. The camp commanders complained, 1t they had no pull with the Board of Health and no power to hire for the politicians on the board’s payroll. cant that the conference of the Grand Jury with ittee and the camp officials developed acute dif- nion in the Grand Jury. While some of the jurors in condemnation of the neglected sanitation, the v, who is one of A. Ruef's most active followers, v to the support of the Health Board and freely con- . Ward’s medical certificate issued to himself and his ands of men who are apparently more intent on “doing 1an doing their official duty. ing AN IMPORTANT SERVICE. ed to permit our municipal bonds to be deposited in the United States Treasury as security for the issue of notes. Other- wise we should have found-it difficult if not impossible to bor- 3% per cent, which is the rate awthorized for the 000,000 voted some two years ago, of which a consid- at part is yet to be sold. is conclusion is based on the condition of the municipal bond 4 per cent and they were sold last month at an average price only a little greater than par. There was a time not long ago when a New York 3% per cent bond would have brought a higher price, but apparently that time has gone by. This condition of the market is fully recognized by the municipal authori who find themselves compelled to offer 4 per cent. At 3% per cent New York bonds are unsalable at par. The security is perfect but the market demands higher interest. " About the same time that New York sold these bonds the United States Government placed its 2 per cent canal securities at a price considerably above par: The apparent inconsistency of the market is due to the fact that the Panama bonds are taken as security for note issues and, consequently, command a fictitious value. For the same reason it is obvious that the Secretary of the Treasury has done San Francisco a very considerable service by making a market for our bonds. ACTIVE PURSUIT OF TIMBER THIEVES. for $12,500,000 carry HE unabated activity with which the men concerned in land frauds in Oregon and California have been pursued by Secre- tary Hitchcock and the Department of Justice is sufficient assurance that this undertaking was no mere spurt put on for political effect to earn the applause of the gallery. There were some who predicted that when the department had secured the conviction of Senator Mitchell there would come a speedy end to these activi- ties, but the work has gone on without intermission ever since with notable success. Three weeks ago Attorney H. H. Hindricks, sec- retary and treasurer of a big lumber corporation of Portland, was convicted of subornation of perjury. Two weeks ago Willard N. Jones, formerly a State Senator in Oregon and a man of social promi- nence, was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary and a fine of $2000 for conspiring to defraud the United States of its public lands. At the same time Thaddeus S. Potter, another Portland attorney, was sentenced for the same crime to six months in jail and a fine of $500. At present the Interior Department has in hand a thorough inves- tigation of -the notoriously extensive land frauds in Northern Cali- fornia and there is every reason to look for like results, not only in the way of convictions of timber thieves but in the recovery of large and valuable bodies of public lands. fortunate for San Francisco that Secretary Shaw con-| t as shown by the sale of New York City’s latest issue. These | S TORIAL PAGE Here’s a Picture ¥or “His_;Vhiskers.” o —ST. PAUL LISPATCH. -+ The Snart Set. e | ISS LOUISE BOYD, who-is IM to be one of the debutantes of the season, will be formally | presented to society at a re- lco:ptiou to be given by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Boyd, at their | beautiful home in San Rafael on Sat- | urday afternoon next. The occasion | will be in the nature of a garden fete rather than a conventional tea, as the grounds of the Boyd residence are very extensive. Many guests have been invited from San Rafael, this city and the other nearby towns. Miss Boyd is a most attractive girl, interesting, clever and possessing a charm of manner which has made her very popular. She is a member of the Gayety Club, of which she was chosen a member last year, although she was not yet out. There will be a large receiving party assisting Mrs. Boyd | and the young guest of honor, among | them being Mrs. Carter Pomeroy, Mss. George Gibbs, Mrs. A. W. Fos- ter, Mrs. Benjamin Dibblee, Miss hel Tompkins, Miss Dorothy Eells, Miss Edith Berry, Miss Helen Chese- brough, Miss Lou Foster, Miss Sara Coffin, Miss Claire Nichols, Miss Janet von Schroeder, Miss Genevieve Harvey, Miss Bessie Ashton and Miss Janet Coleman. * I Mr. and Mrs. John F. Boyd enter- tained at a_ very delightful informal dinner on Saturday evening at their home in San Rafael in honor of Miss Dorothy Eells and her fiance, the Rev. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin of New York. The table was attractively By James * HE NEW SOUTH” was pre- sented very creditably by the 144 I \ Central Theater stock com- pany last evening to an audience that almost filled the big canvas playhouse. The old members of .the organiza- tion got warm greetings and the new members made favorable impression./‘ Jane Kelton is a leading woman with good stage presence and decided dra- matic strength, and Will R. Walling, in the part created by Joe Grismer, proved himself possessed of the quali- fications essential to heroic acting. A feature of the performance was Ernest Howell's work as Paul Fitz- hugh, heavily villainous. *Orral Hum- phreys, originally cast for the part, was incapacitated by illness yester- day afternoon, and with only about two hours’ study and no full rehearsal Mr. Howell stepped into the gap and filled it so perfectly that the folk in front, who were not aware of the sub- stitution, had no reason to suspect that any change had been made. . Of the play it is refreshing to state that it differs from most dramas which are founded upon the recon- structed South. It contains not only sterling dramatic interest and realistic %+ L 2 INSURANCE—M. D., Berkeley, Cal. This department cannot publisk” such a list as to Insurance companiSs, for the reason that it is impossible to ob- tain the information asked for. Par- ties directly Interested should eommu- nicate with the agents of the company. OSTRICH FEATHERS—T.. A, Sky- land, Santa Cruz County, Cal. The original colors of the ostrich feathers are: In the male bird the long feathers of the wings and hind parts are white Aand the short feathers of the body are decorated in pink, asters of that hue being used. Those present besides the host and hostess were Miss Eells, Miss Louise Boyd, Natalie (_:oi- fin, Dr. Coffin, Jack Kittle and Eyre Pinckard. * * Miss Ethel Hager, whose marriage to Lansing O. Kellogg will take place on September 35, has chosen for her attendants on that occasion her sister, Miss Alice Hager, who will be the maid of honor, and Miss Helen de Young and !v)i‘iss Anita Harvey. * * L4 have been the guests of General and| Mrs. MacArthur at their quarters at Fort Mason since they all returned from the Orient recently, left on Fri- day for Santa Barbara, where they will spend some time with Mrs. Mac- Arthur’s parents, Admiral and Mrs. McCalla. * * * Miss Julia Langhorne left a few days ago for St. Helena, where she is making a brief visit at the Bourn country placc.‘ % Miss Elsie Sperry, who has been The Rev. Dr. Edawrd A. Dodd and “'spending several weeks in the East as’ Mrs. Dodd (formerly Miss Harriette de Witt Allen) have returned from their wedding journey to Lake Tahoe and are the guests of relatives here. They will leave in about a fortnight for Bostop, where they will make their home. * * * Mrs. J. Downey Harvey, who left in April for Europe, returned to San Francisco on Sunday evening and is being gladly welcomed back by her many friends here. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Crocker and their family returned yesterday on the Hongkong Maru from Japan, where they have been traveling for about three months ‘past. They will spend most of the remaining days of the summer at their country place at Cloverdale. * * * Licutenant Arthur MacArthur Jr., . S. N, and Mrs. MacArthur, who “The New South” Gets Creditable Treatment - * -Crawford. scenic effects and stage pictures, but a vein of pure American sentiment voiced by natural characters. Mr. Grismer utilized real dramatic con- ception instead of gushy patriotism as his strong point, and that was why his work returned him a fortune. » AR “Fiddle-Dee-Dee” entered its third and final week at the Davis Theater last evening to an audience that was limited in numerical strength by the seating capacity of the house. All the principals re as warmly re- ceived as if it hfie been their first ap- pearance after a long vacation, and the chorus, too, got abundance of commendat!firy notice. One of the reasons for “Fiddle-Dee- Dee’s” continued attractiveness, and not the least of them by any means, is the lavish expenditure reflected by the costuming and scenery. A more expensively dressed production has never been made at a stock theater in San Francisco and the artistry dis- played in the color schemes and grouping is genuine. When one is not laughing at the comedians he is en- joying an eye feast. . “Whirl-1-Gig,” another Weber-Field piece, is in rehearsal for presentation next Monday night. ". Answers to Correspondents .. jet black, while the rump and wing feathers of the female bird are white tinged with a dusky gray, the general body color being of the latter hue. THe feathers of the male are conse- quently much more valuable than those of the female and they are separately classified in commerce. . DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—J. F. Jr., Potrero, City. The government of the District of Columbia is vested by an an act of Congress, approved April 11, 1878, in three commissioners, two of whom are appointed by the President from citizens of the district having had the guest of Mrs. Frank Havens at the latter’s place at Sag Harbor, has returned to San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Cornwall, who have been traveling in the Orient, returned yesterday to the city on the Hengkong Maru. AN T A wedding of interest to many San Franciscans was that of Miss Ida L. Kirchner of this city'and William Ed-§ tually hushed up. win Bates of the United States Naval Hospital, which was celebrated a few weeks ago in Yokohama at the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. Viloudaki, the Rev. Dr. Bennett officiating. Mrs. Viloudaki was the matron of honor and P. V. Tuttle the best man. The house was prettily decorated for the occasion with marguerites and chrys- anthemums, which were used princi- pally in the drawing-room, where the ceremony took place, while in the din- ing-room the decorations were of many hued sweet peas. - i Property Owner Is Grateful for Call’s Exposure. . DITOR The Call, Sir: I want to thank you ever so much for making public the effort of the Hyman brothers to take over to themselves a gortion of Opera alley. Before the fire we were mak- ing plans for a six-story building. Under the new ordinance, of course, we cannot go so hiixl:z's but we will build as high as the limit. We have always taken into our plans the fact that we could get light for the rear of the structure from the alley. I have turned the matter over to my attorneys and will certainly pro- tect my interest in the premises. Aside from any personal interest I may have in the exposure of those that would take advantage of the city’s present unfortunate condition, as a citizen I thank you for the fore- thought and the spirit that prompted you to take up this matter and safe- guard the thousands of property-hold- ers who otherwise might some day ‘find the “joker” in their realty titles that is now so much in evidence in their insurance policies. . HENRY J. ROGERS. San Francisco, Aug. 11, 1906. i It was stated recently at a public hearing ‘In Australia that £1,000,000 worth of rabbits were shipped to Eng- land every year; that the rabbit as a commercial commodity was “only in its infancy”; and that the trade would probably grow to £5,000,000 a year. R e Townsend's Cal. glace fruits and can- dies at Emp. and 1203-1220 Val. st. * 4 s three years residence therein, imme- diately preceding that appointment, and confirmed by the Senate. The other commissioner is detailed by the Presi- dent of the United States from the corps of engineers of the United States army, and must have lineal rank senior | protest by readi to captain, or be a captain who has| which is called “The } ONDON, July 28 —The engage- ment recently announced be- tween’ Nicholas Ward, the Bir- mingham motor-car manufacturer and reputed millionaire, and Pauline Chase, the pretty American @ctress, is off. A famous woman, whose name need not be mentioned, but who was once a royal favorite and the talk of London, is said to be at the bottom of the trouble. When she puts her ciy;c on any man he has but little chance of escape, and woe betide his fiancee or even his wife once the lady has fascinated him. But she only puts her eye on men who have money. They know this, yet they fall into the trap. It seems incredible {that a woman who is getting on t& | sixty years and with such a record should still have it in her power to oust young pretty women, but there it is. Most people noticed that nearly |every photograph of the ex-royal {favorite taken at Ascot and New- market showed Nicholas Wood in at-. ;tendange. and her friends declare that |poor little Pauline Chase is incon- solable. There is one remarkable story con- nected with this womad which has never got into print, yet it is abso- tlutely true. Some years ago she got | hold of the Marquis of Queensberry, |a weak, good-natured person, and having got from him all the money possible she insisted that he must |give her the family jewels which, of | course, were in the possession of his | wife. | .“No,” he said, “I canuot possibly | give you Lady Queensberry’s jewels.” Oh,” but { never take 'No’' from |any one,” she said, “You have got |to get them, and what is more, you | must bring them at once.” | The Marquis did not dare refuse— {he was then under her sway abso- {lutely—and in good time the jewels |arrived. Lady Queensberry missed ‘thet'n and accused her husband of having given them to the woman who |was then the sensation of London. He did not deny it. Instead of flying into a rage she took it quite calmly and said very little. “Try to find out where she has deposited them,” she |remarked. Grateful for his wife's {calm in the matter the Marquis de- |cided that he would find out, and moreover so wunutterably disgusted did he grow with himself and with |the other woman that he determined | he was finished with her. When Lady Queensberry discov- jered the bank in which they were placed, which, by the way, was one |in_Sloane street, she made up her |mind that she was going to have her jewels back. Alwavs rather clever at imitating signatures she practised for hours together copying that of her rival, which was really a remark- able easy one to imitate. She also managed to procure some notepaper | bearing the actress’ address and then and there Lady Queensberrry wrote an order to the manager of the bank purporting to have come from the actress, requesting that the jewels which he was taking charge of for her be given to bearer. he man- ager apparently suspected nothing and handed the case to the messenger, who conveyed it back to the Mar- chioness. Everyone remembers the sequel; the excitement in Scotland Yard, the amusement of London, the rage of thé actress and the abrunt manner in which the matter was even- The Marchioness is the one and only woman who has been a match for the notorious Mrs. At the time Lady Queens- berry was made a heroine by her friends, and the late Queen thought the ruse so smart that she sent for her to congratulate her on her clever- ness. After this Queensberry turned over a new leaf and he and his wife have lived more or less happily ever since. Mrs. Arthur Burdon is making quite a sensation here by her beauty and her wit, not to speak at all of her beautiful frocks. Although half Irish in parentage she is wholly American in training, in education and in style. She and her husband made a flying visit to Cork, whither she took him to meet among others her uncle, Lord Fermoy, whose family name, like the bride’s, is Roach. Mr. and Mrs. Bur- don are making a trip on the Con- tinent before returning to America in the autumn. For some reason not easily defined Miss Reed, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, has created more interest and consequently more gossip than perhaps any American irl who has ever come over here. or all this Miss Reid never does any- thing in the slightest degree eccentric; never flirts, not t the extent of even ‘Term “Bar ONDON, July 18.—There is no such thing, and, in fact, never has been any such thing, as a “bar sinister.” That is the discon- certing statement that has just been made by a prominent British authority on heraldic matters, and no wonder his dictum has caused surprise, for if there is one phrase that has been beloved of scribblers ever since the business of writing began, it is this grim and supposedly authoritative one that almost invariably has been employed to signify illegitimacy. It must have n used some hun- dredls of thousands of times, but al- ways without the slightest justifica- tion, according to Someryille Gibney, who has just n speaking his mind Gibney knows whereof he speaks, for he is the editor of “Lodge’s Peerage,” as well as a recognized expert on all subjects connected with armorial bearinfi crests and such. He has been moved to make his a_recent novel, Bar Sinister,” served at least fifteen years in the|title which he says “sets the teeth of corps of engineers in the army. Con- gress makes all laws for the but has intrusted to the authority to make police, plumbing regulations and municipal nature. Wash! has no Mayor. = loners ing ers of a and | sinister.” every herald on edge, seeing that district, | (here can be no such thing as a bar tion is a little involved to cross- D. C.|mind, it amounts to this, that a is a band of color, metal or fur s ~ Fascinates Jtill, Though Age Is . Nearly Three Jcore. - Found to Be Misnomer on the subject. Presumably, too, Mr. a ~char; - AUGUST 14,1906 sitting out a dance with a partner. She is certainly pretty, but not un= usually so, and she has quiet, dignified manners. Yet nearly every week a new fiancee is assigned to her. Re- cently it was Lord Acheson who was supposed to be the favored one; now it is Lord Dalmeny, the elder son of Lord Roseberry. - From most points of view Dalmeny would be much more welcome to the parents of Miss Reid than young Lord Acheson, who is a pleasant young man enough, but something of a nonetity as far as personality is concerned. Dalmeny is, however, a coming man, though he is never likel~ to attain the glorious success or the magnificent failure of his father. He: is a young man with “views,” with plenty of ambition and plenty of promise. He is an optimist, too. Uther advantages he possesses are that he is_the grandson of the late! Duchess of Cleveland on his father's ' . side, while his late mother's people are the Rothschilds, which means that one day he will be fabulously rich. | On the day that Lord Dalmeny mar- ries he will come into possession of Mentmore, one of the numerous mag- nificent seats of his father. A great deal of color is given to the rumor of Lord Dalmeny's possible engage- ment to Jean Reid in the fact that the Whitelaw Reids and their daughter have spent week-ends this season as Lord Roseberry’s guests. That Lord Acheson proposed to Miss Reid and was rejected is mow pretty well known among the imme- diate friends of both, and the very last story going round was that “he meant to have another try.” Miss Reid was asked to be one of the bridesmaids at the wedding of Lady Mary Acheson and the Hon. Robert Ward, but the Reids got out of it, as they thought by accepting such an office little Jean would be giving en- couragement to the future Earl of Gosford, and this they considered would not be right. Every one says how very much in love he is with her, and-it was remarked at his sister’s wedding how very unhappy he was looking. He is furiously jealous of Dalmeny, and if the days of dueling were not over there is no doubt we might look forward to some excite- ment of that kind in Hyde Park. If the engagement to Lord Del- meny is not announced it won't be because Miss Reid has not been “asked.” If she refuses it means she will have rejected three future Earls, No. 1 being Lord Brook, the eldest son of Lord and Lady Warwick, per- haps when all is said and done, the most individualistic and clever young man of the lot. There is certainly no doubt little Jean is a most fastid: ous young lady. Maybe she would be less so if she knew the scores and scores of girls who would literally jump at any one of the three men n_question. To those in the know there was something pathetic in the marriage of Austen Chamberlain. For his popular and charming American stepmother he has, since the day his father stole her from him, treasured a_most de- vout and spiritual platonic affection— an affection which was very near sending him to his grave as a con- firmeg bachelor. There is no doubt Mrs.®Joseph Chamberlain returned the affection in entirely the same spirit. Of late years there have been moments in the elder Chamberlain’s life when he felt angry with himself for having appropriated his favorite son’s “best girl,” and his conscience hit him hard, seeing as he did lhe\ emptiness of Austen's life and the imminent danger there was in his never marrying. He flune girls right, left and center at Austen’s head. So- ciety naturally did likewise—Chancel- lors of the Exchequer are not to be picked ur;very day—and Mrs. Joe Chamberlain aiso did her little best in the years she had been in London to find a wife for the boy who had been her slave until his father came on the scene and told him he was “o’er young to marry yet.” ” > Austen Chamberlain was within measurable distance of 44 on his wedding day, and it was only six weeks before that he bethought him- self that after all his father and step- mother must be right and that he had better marry some one! On the wed- ding day Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain looked younger than the bride, from whom she took meore than half the homors. She was never a pretty woman, but she possesses what has so much more power than good Jooks —an infinit¢ charm; a characteristic sweetness that even played havoe with one of the shrewdest statesmen in the world and actually induced him to steal his own son’s sweetheart! Sinister” » ing a shield horizontally, and there- fore cannot be either “sinister” or “dexter,” these heraldic terms having reference to bands that start from cither one of the top corners of a shield, which™are themselves known as either “dexter” or “sinister.” Gibney says that it is ol fhrm-gh the confusion of th‘: m ‘bend” and “bar” that the error has sfm.g into being, the “bend” being also a band of color, metal or fur crossing the shield, but in a diagonal direction from dexter to sinister, or vice versa. But he adds that the bend sinister is “an absolutely honorable charge,” and it seems that it is only when its width is reduced to a quar- ter and its extremities do not reach the confines of the shield that it is reTuded as a mark of illegiti: . n that case, moreover, it is a “baton,” so it pression that !hv:m::ued sinister,” and.. tte fact, Gibney says the ';:ok“h:" cmw‘h‘; of an armorial shi quartered ged with a baton sinister, r, though bflfl?fl_tiefi:le."?klas-‘fiur" It is likely, = general reader, will continue stick (othg“h, l'ui:t'n,"nona:l.' &wymmw%q