The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1907, Page 8

TUESDAY The San Francisco Call ..Proprietor . .General Manager .Managing Editor JOHN D. SPRECKELS. CHARLES W. HORNICK ERNEST S. SIMPSON Address All Communications to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Telephone, “Temperary S6"—Ask for The Call. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. Market and Third Streets, San Francisco lock Every Night in the Year. -Market and Third Streets NE BUSI 11 0 1651 Fillmore Street, Near Post ..... ...Telephone Oakland 1083 Telephone Alameda 559 OAKLAND OFFICE—1016 Broadway ALAMEDA OFFICE—1435 Park Street k Avenue LEY OFFI .Telephone Berkeley 77 George Krogness, Representative Stephen B. Smith, Representative Bldg U'—1406 G Street N. W..M. E. Crane, Correspondent SUBSCRIPTION RATES vered by Carrier, 20 Cents Per Week. 75 Cents Per Month. Single ! Copies 5 Cents. | Terms by Mail. 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Exclusion is not operate itself, but requires elaborate ma- as usion | | persuaded that Mr. Roosevelt really| The tone of his first message on this| ation that he resénted the position held | regard. He took it out in calling us hard| mind was obviously alarming—almost unfit nd altogether obnoxious to the diplomatic temper. »d that Mr. Roosevelt really desires effective mains a doubt whether he is diplomat enough pose by the process of bargaining on which hile threatening Californians with “is big tiet while he is busy. He is selling the | jobber; it takes his whole mind | this qt i American game. beats We very generally ropean and the Oriental | to a standstill One recalls the| ving course of American diplomacy in]| Is and pelagic sealing. At that time a well- 1t American statesman took up successive posi- ch he was driven in melancholy series by force of In the beginning he was certain that Bering although if he had translated that into ght have told him that it was not e failed to put a fence around Bering Sea and was ke up a new position. He then convinced himself that sealing was contra bonos mores. It was sinful and against kill 1 On land—that was different. s amused antagonists courteously inquired which of the forbade shooting seals while permitting their 1 2 club, our diplomat was compelled to confess that he Mosaic nor the later dispensation could he find 1e geography S¢ Is at sea. rity I resident Roosevelt is up to his neck in diplomacy with Japan. It is already quite clear that the Japanese negotiators have put him on the defensive by the absurd fuss they have made over the segregation of Japanese students in Sag Francisco. The violent language of Mr. Roosevelt’s message can be explained only on the theory that he had lost his head and was persuaded that Japan would surely go to war unless we made a hasty and ignominious retreat. It seems fair to suggest that such international grievances are pawns of the diplomatic game. That interesting play is in full swing at the present moment. The treaty with Japan expires by limitation on the 12th of next month. We may not blame the Japanese if they magnify their grievances and pretend that a proud and sensitive people feel injured, even angered to the point of drawing the sword, by the indisposition of the stiff-necked San Franciscans to receive them on terms of equality and the brother- hood of man. Among the important matters to be adjusted by the future treaty are the open door for Manchuria and Korea, the raids of Japanese seal pirates on the Pribilof Islands and doubtless other large concerns for which the United States seeks redress. Against these claims the Japanese appear to have nothing by way of setoff but the segregation of a few students in this city. It is good diplomacy to make a tremendous noise over that, but it should be clear that if the Japanese want to go to war over such a trifle they are simply seeking a quarrel which cannot be avoided, no matter what concessions we make. We refuse to regard the episode as anything more than a phase of diplomacy, at which, in the vulgar but expregsive word of the street, the Japanese appear to, have President Roosevelt “buffaloed.” UNITED RAILROADS AND THE STREETS HE United Railroads is busy neglecting its duty to keep the| Murray Kohn of New York is at the streets in repair between its tracks. All over"town there are flagrant instances of neglect in this regard, The disgraceful entanglement of raised tracks and dangero-]s morasses at the junction of Valencia and Market streets is, perhaps, the worst example of conditions due to, this dereliction of duty. points things are nearly as bad, and all ovef town important streets are left unfinished, so that quite half their surface is unavailable for traffic.’ It seems to be the habit of the corporation to get { though that unruly member | | tion to starve the service in the interest of dividends. At other | the ESSNT e o S ERSS + | P AG E FEBRUARY 12, 1907 + AR \\‘n“\‘;‘x SN NN = —— SO N = S —— s R S o . . AN ~—NEW YORK MAIL. cars can be run over the rails all other wheeled traffic is left to shift] for itvelf. It is the same niggard policy that impels the corpora- { Railroads is run on the principle that the company owes no obliga- | tion to the.people of San Francisco other than that to furnish some sort of service by way of excuse to collect nickels. That is not a reckless statement. It is borne out by the ex- [periencg of every man and woman who rides on the streetcars. The {company gives the poorest possible service and ignores the part of its barcain that binds it to take care of the streets it uses. In a word, the United Railroads is a public misfortune. The city treasury i: poor and unable to stand the strain of repairing the streets. The United Railroads treasury is fat and growing fatter, and yet the corporation ignores its legal obligation to give back something in the way of street repair for the franchises capitalized at $40.000,000, | a large part of which it took as a free giit from the city. The force| of rapacity can no farther go. A STRIKING POLITICAL FIGURE HE most interesting figure of contemporary politics is Charles self the task of uprooting the political machine that has divided New York State into provinces, so to speak, each province | being controlled by a boss. These bosses are usually the incum- {bents of some important State offices filled by appointment. Thus George W. Aldridge, boss of the Rochester province, is a Railroad Commissioner with a salary of $8000 a year. Francis Hendricks, the SyracuSe boss, was State Superintendent of Insurance and as such came under fire during the investigation conducted by Hughes two years ago. Hendricks has been removed from office, and Gov- ernor Hughes has recommended that the Legislature abolish the Railroad Commission. That commission is officered by the wheel- horses of the machine. None of these officials know the first thing about railroads or, indeed, know anything except how to operate a political machine. The single purpose for which the commission’s powers were used was to extort campaign contributions from the railroads. The machine grew so powerful that it was able to ap- point the Governor, and, in fact, did appoint Odell and Higgins to that place. Odell, while he was in office, realizing that the machine was more powerful than any or all the State officials, made himself chairman of the Republican State committee. Of course, the politicians did not want Hughes. He was forced on them by circumstances, because they knew they could not beat Hearst with Higgins. Hughes was an emergency candidate and some of the machine politicians knifed him to the limit of their power. It is now a question whether the Legislature will back up Hughes in his efforts at reform. ' So long as the Legislature stands by the bosses the old order is safe. The conflict is apparently quite doubtiul for the present, as the Republican machine forces in the Legislature have effected an alliance with the Tammany Democrats tb beat any measure that Hughes backs. As a means to promote their political industry the machine has already taken steps to exercise a sort of backhanded censorship of the press, which is sup-| porting Governor Hughes. Similar tactics are the fashion at Sac- rarhento. > : . ™ ey Personal Mention Charles J. Bush of Denver is at the Majestic. ¥ W. Richardson ana Mrs. Richardson of Tonopah are at the Savoy. J. L. Chiddock and Mrs. Chiddock ester. of Jos i Jeft . G. W. Simmons of St. Louis is at the | w g B:é';.in::arw:ni l(?lo:xucb St. Francis. ; . minster of Boston are at the Palace. J. D. Trenholme of Seattle is at the | ¢ pugley Dean Mrs. Dean of St. Francis. : Alaska are regi: at the Majestic. Mrs. L. C. Diliman of Seattle is at L. A. May, Mrs. May and Miss May Palage. 0 g % ‘of Portland are at the Majestic Annex. || A L Weight of Rowsland, B C. 18| Lucius Manning an Mrs. L. R. Man- at.the Jefterson. g __|ning are at the ?naann from Ta- the |8re At the Jefferson. G. H. Hayes and Jun«g.m. The United | E. Hughes, Governor of New York. Mr. Hughes has sét him-| % || Gossip of the Doings of Railroad Men The ticket office of the Southern Pa- cific, the information bureau and the Pullman office have moved into the Flood building, and a big business was being done over the temporary counters vedterday morning. Abner Mann, who |is in charge of the office, said that he | would put men to working at night, so |as to make the place look presentable. {The Union Pacific was the first of the “foreign” lines to sell %‘ckets East in the Flood building. He | transportation to New York to A. Mc- Graw, John Butler and niece, Dr. J. i\f[u att, Levitt McHill and C. M. Hink- ey. C. 8. Fee, passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific, returned late Saturday from Chicago, where he had been attending a meeting of the Trans- continental Association. Fee saild that {only routine matters were taken up at the meeting, but the most encouraging thing was the great interest expressed | by Bastern men in California and es- pecially in San Francisco. Nevada, too, he observed was being greatly dis- cussed and her mineral wealth was ex- citing the intelligent curiosity of the moneyed men all through the Eastern States. . . John W. Brock is on his way to Tono- pah. The president of the Tonopah Railroad does not seem to be much con- of a 3-centra-mile fare. He has only a 10-cent limit on his road, with which he is entirely satisfied and does not see the necessity of any change. As Brock desirous of visiting the gold flelds, he is of the opinion that any legislation to reduce railroad fares upon his line from 10 cents to 3 cents would be ill advised. At present Brock is worrying along with a fare of §6.50 for a haul of sixty-five miles from Mina, the junction of his line with that of the Southern Pacific, to Tonopah, and he sees no valid reason why it should be less. . . . Bruce Norton of the Union Pacific, who is stationed at Fresmwo, believes that the cuitivation of the eucalyptus tree will be one of the great industries in the State.. “A company has been formed.” he said yesterday, “to plant 320 acres at Allla, near Delano, jbut work has been delayed owing to the in- ability to get tree! I am not in this land and have secured 14,000 trees, which 1 am setting out on 160 acres, eight miles southeast of Goshen. The value of the eucalyptus is hardly re- alized. When varnished {t takes a high finish and looks like oak and it is good for plow handles, hoe handles and other agricultural implements, being equally as useful as the best hickory. Eucalyp- tus trees can be grown on alkali lands and after the first few months they do not require water.” . . . R. C. Burns, general agent of the Mexican Central in Los Angeles, is in this city on a brief visit. Burns, in speaking of the business his road is doing, sald the Mexican Central and, in fact, all the lines in Mexico were handling ‘more Americans this winter than at any other time of thelr his- tory. Large parties from the Eastern States were Visiting the republic, and Mexico City was becoming a popular place for the holding of conventions. Railroad men in MexXico were on the anxious seat at present. because the date was approaching when the Na- tional Government would take over the management of the different systems, and the high officer, as well as the humble employe, was wondering what would be his fate. W e g R Joseph Mellroy, general agent of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, has recov- ered his health sufficiently to enable him to leave Byron Springs and return to his office. ° SeEeh * st W. E. Blatchley, who has vate se # | which the man of honor is known to his fellows. +! he must always perjure himself for the other sex, and he must never 'The Insider | Tells why Juliet Tompkins is well qua!ificd to /| write of matrimonial problems and discusses Delmas’ cleverness in the Thaw murder trial + N the Febfuary Cosmopolitan Juliet Wil- Tells Why Women Ib(,r Tompkins—no longer Pottle—dis- Shun Marital Yoke courses upon “Why Women Do Not Marry.” She says that two classes don’t—those who don’t know enough, and those who know too much. In the former category she places all who think that something in the way of a career will answer for them and w.hn find out later that it doesn’t. In the second class she puts those wise enough to know that they are not fitted for marriage. | The writer's friends here are wondering in which herself. Miss Tompkins chose the carcer of authorship when she “comparatively young girl, and kept at it until she reached years of i cretion, when she married Emery Pottle, who was also well known in the world of magazine story writers. The honey year was of short durav:fi'.!, and the literary partners separated, talking back to rérh mvher through ,the medium of pretty little love ston_es.' whlch. were pll'b]fihed in pmmm:un | magazines and gave the public a fair idea of how things A-toqd Judg g by her own experience with matrimony the Californian writer could speak with understanding of both kinds of reasons why women do not wed SR sl B I L T ST S TSNS i s Lawyers here are perusing every word of Sympatby Is Not the 2,l'haw trial, mainly because of the con- ANWith Mrs. ThaW ,ection of Delmas with it. There is no contradicting the fact of the Californian’s cleverness in conducting the case. He places Evelyn Nesbit Thaw on the stand to relate a conversation |that she had with her husband, or rather with Thaw before he was her husband. Even though the prosecution were able to prove that every word she uttered is a fabrication, they cannot, because she is sworn only to [relate what she told Thaw. She was under no oath to tell him the tr “Just see how it is,” said one lawyer to me; “she gets all this stuff | before the jury, and perhaps not two out of the twelve will be sharp e"."{q‘\ |to see the difference between a relation of facts and the repetition of a | communication which may or may not be, true. She cannot be impeached | for her testimony, because no one but herself and Thaw know whether she ever did tell him this, and if he were to deny it there would just be an example in cancellation. “Then look at that kneeling and kissing her frock business. class she places s a dis | is | | On the one hand they make him out a high-minded, chivalrous gentleman, complying | with the ‘unwritten law,’ and to carry out the insanity plea they tell of tying | They call girls to bedposts and scaldipg them just for the pleasure of it {on the unwritten law to prove his right to defend his wife, and yet | no real evidence that she was molested after her marriage; they plead | defense on the one hand, and show nothing of any molestation beyon | what the woman told her husband. I think that they were mighty lucky to get Delmas. Jerome just made a monkey of Gleason, but he has found }his match in Delmas.” celi { Women are of course diligent readers of the ” : “Gentleman” White newspaper reports of the trial. One club- Could Do NoWrong woman who had a great deal of experience with the other sex says that she cannot understand how Stanford White could have been gnilty of what is urged against him and have been | called friend by so many fine men. 4 | “In my knowledge of men,” she said, “I have invariably been told by all that are classed with the Gentlemen that there are three great rules by He never kisses and ve been guilty of wronging an innocent girl. The last, I have been solemnly | told by man after man, is the crowning crime and could never be condoned ry Avila sold | cerned over the agitation in his State| is hardly able to carry all the people | company, but I am planting on my own | | How, then, could this White have done such acts as they say about him and been kindly treated by his club friends?” R O W T . SHe SOEOt Set. . " SRR % ! RS. ELEANOR MARTIN was the| hostess at a very beautiful din- ner last night at her home in | Broadway in honor of Miss | Jennie Crocker. The guests were seated at three tables, one long and two round, the first being decorated entirely in white and presenting an unusually beautiful effect. White violets, carnations and lilies of the valley were used in great | profusion. One of the round tables was in pale pink, dainty blossoms of a Japanese flowering shrub being used with other faint pink spring flowers. | At the other table the decorations were !in deep pink, Hannah Hobart carnations being used and also violets. Those present were: Miss Crocker, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Martin, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Mendell Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Robert Oxnard, Mrs. Fred Sharon, Miss | Virginia Jolliffe. Miss Elsie Sperry, Miss Katherine Herrin, Miss Genevieve Harvey, Miss Jeanette von Schroeder, Miss Mary Keeney. Miss Louise Boyd, | Miss Alice Herrin, Miss Charlotte Wil- son, Miss Barbara Parrott, Harry Simp- kins, Dr. Harry L. Tévis. Dr. Biddle, U. 8. N.; 8. G. Murphy, Wharton Thurston, Harry Stetson, Horace Pillsbury, John Parrott Jr., Thomas Barbour, Stewart Lowery, Frank King. Harry Secott, Thornwell Mullally, Gordon Armsby, George Cadwallader and 'Baldwin Wood. . . | Mrs. Alexander Heyneman was the hostess at a pleasant affair at her home in Fillmore street yesterday, when she entertained a dozen guests at luncheon, with bridge afterward. The table Was attractively decorated with pink bridesmaid roses, tied with bunches of pink tulle. The pink candles were shaded also with the same hue. The corsage bouquets were of freesias. The pretty prizes for the bridge players were won by Mrs. Holcombe and Mrs. Darragh. Those present were: Mrs. George Gibbs, Mrs. W. G. Holcombe, Mrs. J. C. Meyerstein, Mrs. Harry N.| Gray, Mrs. Darragh, Mrs. Mllcolm‘ Henry, Mrs. Maurice Casey, Mrs. Henry L. Dodge, Mrs. A. H. Veorhies, Mrs.| William Ellicott and Mrs. George Neor- | ris. .3 e Miss Margaret Postlethwaite was the | hostess at a pleasant informal tea on| Sunday afternoon at her home in Pa. cific avenue, at which she entertained in honor of Mrs. Bradford Darrach. who | has recently come to California to make | her home, but is an old friend of Miss Postlethwaite. A number of guests called during the afternoon and were received by the attractive young host- ess and her charming guest of honor.| Mrs. Darrach, who is a Virginian, m:; recently made her home in Boston, but Mr. Darrach’s business affairs culln;i him West, they have decided to live| here. They are now in Oakland, but| will come to San Francisco in the near future. ‘ i Many guests will go down tonight to the Mardi Gras ball to given by the| Burlingame Club at its pretty club-| house and there are to be a number of | . - . of the Pennsylvania system, is in t city on a vacation. Mr. Blatchley has| resigned from his present position and will, after March 1, be the north side passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines, vqm I.:dqntrun: in Pittsburg. J. C. Stubbs passed through this city yesterday en route for Chicage. B I _The rate for a side trip to the Yel- e June 1 house parties. The affair is to be largely under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Martin, who 'are particularly clever at planning and making such af- fairs particularly successful. One of the large affairs of the win- ter will be the ball to be given this evening at Alcatraz by the bachelor officers of the Twenty-second Infantry, the regiment stationed at that post and at Angel Island. The government tugs will carry many guests from thesf posts around the bay and from this city and it promises to be ene of the brilliant functions of the season. Miss Edna Davis and Miss Sidney Davis, who are spending the winter in Santa Barbara, were the hostesses re- cently at a very enjoyable card party at which they entertained a number of their friends. . Mrs. William town from S. Tevis Was been her country place at n Ba- | kersfield for a few days’ stay. B . . Miss Florence Selby and Miss Edith Selb¥, who have Been traveling in Eu- rope for some months past, recently ar- rived in New York from France. . . . Mrs. Eleanor Martin will go down today to Burlingame. where she will be the guest of Mrs. Easton and will at- tend the Mardi Gras dance of the Bur- lingame Club. Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Dwight Chip- man and their guest for the winter, Miss Hazel Hyde of Waterbury, Conn., went last week to Santa Barbara and will spend a brief time there. . . D Mrs. William T. Baggett and Miss Nell Rose Baggett, who have recently returned from a trip of several weeks’' duration to their former home in | Memphis, have taken a house at 2173 Pacific avenue and will months in the city. . spend some Miss Helen Pierce of Sacramento has been spending a week as the guest of Miss Edith Miller in Sausalito. . . . Mr. and Mrs. William B. Hamilton, who have been with Major and Mrs. Samuel Dunning at Burlingame for the past six weeks, have gone to San Ma- €0, where they will spend some time before coming to town. - . . Miss Estelle Stephens of Sacramento has returned to her home after a visit to Miss Barbara Small here. . - . Mr. and Mrs. A. B. C. Dohrmann have returned to town after spending a few . days in Sacramento as the guests of _ Mr. and Mrs. Louls F. Breuner. . . . Mrs. Aurora Robinson, widow of the late Dr. Frank Robinson, has returned to San Francisco after a stay in the country to recuperate after the shock of her’husband’'s sudden death. Dr. Robinson was the son of the late Dr. Luke Robinson. At the time of her son's death, Mrs. Luke Robinson was in Italy with her daughters. to September 19, and the first date that Dassengers can leave the Oregen Short Line terminus will be on June 10, and the last stage will leave September 15. —— e Pompous—I would have you under- stand that I am a self-made man! m:mb-w'fl. an’ I'm glad o' t - Do you appreciate w I . Pompous—] that statement means? ‘Weel, noo, I dinna ken. But Florida Times-Union. : i