The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1907, Page 6

'SATURDAY The San Francisco Call - JOHN D. SPRECKELS.........000s0-.....Proprietor CHARLES W. HORNICK . .General Manager ERNEST S. SIMPSON .Managing Editor Address Al romm:mr.unn- to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Telephone, “Temporary S6"—Ask for The Call. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. —_— e BUSIN Msarket and Third Streets, San Francisco O'clock Every Night in the'Year. Market and Third Streets s OFFICE Oper ROOMS. . EDITORIA MAIN CITY BRAN OAKLAND OFFT Telephone Oakland 1083 AL )A OFFI Telephone Alamedl 559 BERKELEY OFF ..Telephone Berkeley 77 George Krogness, Representative . .Stephen B. Smith, Representative Ira E. Bennett NEW YORK OFFICE- NGTON CORR SUBSCRIPT.ON RA’ TES Delivered by Carrier. Cen Week. 75 Cents Per Month. Single e (Cash With Order): 4.15 Per Year Extra . . . . 1.00 Per Year Extra s Postoffice as Second Class Matter. D TO RECEIVE S8UBSCRIPTIONS. arded When Requested. ddress should be particular to order to insure a prompt A MODERATELY SCRUPULOUS LEGISLATOR Los Angeles is not permitted to| Assembly, “I am holier than thou,” | on being their brother’s keeper. | scruple about accepting public money | ber of his colleagues, their own | generous share of the swag, had no such qualms, hey took him incontinently by the shoulders and shoved him 1 Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum,” like | No queasy conscience shall rebuke | be tolerated. ropriety of drawing the line somewhere. bing the hen roost. He holds himself but appears te be helpless. His col-| He mu-t stay with the gang.| ns a band of yeggmen he must not inquire too | Any nice distinctions between the pennies nd the widow’s mite, for instance, are re-| ey are calculated to hurt the feelings of | bretl n had some i not been earned, but a num ljed with good ex ntor saw scie an determined to let nothing get away. Mr.| St the nice sensibilities of his brethren. He is| e and take the money. r. Stanton’s repentance comes too late. He joined in| grab, and the distinction that he makes in the way of is nearly as fine as the chalk mark drawn by Senator rson between the virtue of legislative attaches and his informa- tion 1 belief on the same subject. Mr. Stanton would like to be moderately honest, but the others won't let him. the patronage eting IN THE HANDS OF HIS ENEMY ting strained relations between ident Roosevelt will not be suffered rounds the campaign to subdue | man has, on occasion, been free | itted to hope that the e Harrima i th nd Pres ost trespassed on the field of lese majeste, | oosevelt has been seen to let slip the Inter- | mission on the Harriman trail. It is an in- exciting turns and twists, and is good, healthy executive, who winds his bugle horn in . Harriman takes to the woods, leaving be-; of cuss words. | a bill introduced in Congress by Senator | wl y Mr. Harriman as with the Presi- The ates $2.000,000 to confine the waters of the orado and adds, ided that such portion of the money hereby ed as the President of the United fitates may deem | e paid to reimburse private parties for money actu- ed subsequent to December 20, 1906, in repairing the| said river so as to successfully prevent overflow thereof into the Imperial Valley.” Thus is Harriman delivered into the hands of his enemy. He must be good, or Roosevelt can hold up the money that it cost| to conquer that It will not be denied that the Southern Pacific has done a2 magnificent work in confining the stream, and this after the Government engineers had said the thing was im- possible. Of course, the river may break out in a new place, but we are inclined to offer a small bet that the railroad engineers will win. : Therefore we hope that the powers will suspend hostilities and quit making their damnable faces while there is work on hand. rebellious river. THE WALL-STREET MIND ALL STREET'S miné moves mysteriously its wonders to perform, and in nothing is it more mysterious than in-its assaults on public opinion by underground channels of de- vious plan. These remarks are provoked by a stockbroker’s letter, from which we quote: Since the wave of sentiment against the authorities at ‘Washington chiefly in financial gquarters and rapidly spreading throughout the com- mercial world on drastic measures against cypital by the Federal Govern- ment azw!( later spreading to State Legislatur®s, there has” been an under-| current of fe r ing in good quarters that the President has become consider- ably alarmed at the growing feeling against the administration by the large business interests generally on acgount of affecting the credit of our largest | corporations whereby new securities are practically unsalable and heavy| retrenchment plans have been inawgurated for the future, and it is intimated that the President in the very near future will endeavor to check this retro- grade movement in the prosperity of the country which is growing marked | in localities by issuing some strong message on the subject. No one ques- tions the policy of the administration in connection with the promulgating | of laws to wipe out the greed and pernicious methods of corporations,| but the drastic way in which this has been done has unsettled confidence in our strongest institutions, and it is a grave question if the prosperity | of the country has not received such a check that it may not recover from this pessimistic atmosphere for some period. Large financial institutions are noncommittal on this subject. What developments would be forthcoming #t the placing of Messrs. Harriman, Rogers and Rockefeller on the stand by the Interstate Commerce Commission at the end of this month are not known and will be awaited with interest. We have not yet encountered this “wave of sentiment” that the ingenuous writer discourses of so glibly, nor even do we know what jt is waving about. Assuredly, it is not foaming and spuming over any “drastic measures against capital,” because none such has been undertaken. It is true that some of the predatory magnates and their underlings have been put upon the witness-stand and made to confess their sins. It is promised that others of the same band must come under the probe that searches the conscience, and | this is resented in Wall street. 1t is not very long since William ‘elson Cromwell, counsel - 7 b 4 ; % . N f ‘ | shape of a handsome acknowledgment from the Bancroft-Whitney | . . Hane IT'h¢ Smart Set+ .. * . = =3 HE officers and ladies of the Pre- | A., has recently gone for station. Miss| T |of May and will make a yisit here, en | have decided to give several of their | on Tuesday evening. (i <+ What the President Proposes to Do to the Railroads i? 2 A /] L + ~ ~——CLEVELAND PLAIN DIALEE.+ L 2 E. H. Harriman, declared that his client lived in “a higher world,” where it was not permitted that common mortals might enter. It is quite clear that Wall street is in full agreement with Cromwell. | It is profanation for a mere Government official to ask impertinent | questions of this exalted”personage concerning his speculations and use of other people’s money to build up his own fortunes. If that be “drastic,” then make the most of it. THE HONEST LAWYER E hasten to vindicate the honesty of the legal profession, which it is the habit of some graceless “knockers” to im- pugn. The inspiration of this tardy effort at rehabilitation— none but the brave would call it whitewash—comes in the | Company, which a startling tale unfolds by way of epilogue to the | lurid drama that befell a ravaged city in April of last year. At that troubled period, relates the circular letter of the firm, the legal fraternity of the United States was indebted to them for| lawbooks in more than $200,000. The firm's books of account were | all burned in the fire. It canceled at once and out of hand debts for | some $30.000 due by lawyers of San Francisco, brothers in misfor- tune. The firm had not even a list of customers outside of San Francisco and recourse was had to a lawyers’ directory. Letters of inquiry were sent to all listed members of the profession, asking them to set down the sum of their several debts to the San Fran- cisco publishers. At this date the responses have been so ready that of a total debt of say $175,000, nearly $150,000 has been re- ported to the publishers, and advices of acknowledgment are still coming in steadily. Moreover, some of the San Francisco attorneys declined to accept cancellation of their accounts and are pay- ing them. When Peter the Great was visiting England he attended a ses- sion of the courts and listened while the lawyers argued. After that experience he remarked in his royal way that he had but two lawyers in Russia and he would hang them’ as quick as he got| home. Peter was precipitate. He ought to have hanged only one| of them, and that after taking the precaution to burn St. Peters- | burg to find out which was the honest one. Nothing but the destruc- | tion of San Francisco by fire could have discovered the honest | lawyers at this bar. The honest lawyer is the hardest ‘work of God. Schmitz and Roosevelt appear to have concluded a treaty of peace on the basis that neither shall believe what the newspapers | say of the other. N sidio will entertain Friday | Small and Miss Seeley will roturn a lit- & | tle later In the season, but Lieutenant ; e ; ! evening next at one of their pleas-| ., sy Jygher will remain there for ant hops at the Presidio Club. e My on Miss Sophie Coleman and Miss Lucy Gwin Coleman will leave shortly for Santa Barbara, where they will spend a few weeks. . . . Miss Lalla Wenzelburger left Ilast night, quite unexpectedly, for Seattle, where she will spend some time as the guest of friends. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Thompson, the latter formerly Miss Helen Meiggs, will arrive next week from Santa Bar- bara, where they have been the guests of Mrs. Thompson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peveril Meiggs, since their arrival from Texas. Their stay here will prob- ably be but a brief one before return- ing to their future home in El Paso. . . . . Mrs. Fred Tallant returned a day or two since from a brief trip to Santa Barbara. Her daughter, Miss Audrey Tallant, did not go abroad with Mrs. John Tallant and Miss Elsie Tallant, as she had intended, but is spending some time in Santa Barbara instead. . . . Mrs. Claude Bloch (formerly Miss Augusta Kent) and her little daughter arrived yesterday afternoon from the East, having been delayed a good many hours by a freight wreck en route. Mrs. Bloch will probably make her home here for the next two years with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Kent, as Lieutenant Bloch is ordered to sea duty. He is on the Virginia, which is ordered to proceed to New York and receive directions there as to where to go, so there is as yet no certainty as to where the cruise will be. Mrs. Malcom Gra- . . Miss Estill Stephens returns today to her home in Sacramento after a pleas- ant visit here with friends. . . . Miss Kathleen Thompson is the guest of friends in Napa and will go for the week end to Mare Island, where she will visit her cousins, Admiral and Mrs. Henry W. Lyon. . B . Mrs. William Hooper, who has been quite ill at a sanitarium here, left a day or two since for her home in Moun- ham (formerly Miss Manie Kent) and|tain vi Mrs, Gilbert Allen (formerly Miss Ethel| =" """ Kent), whose husbands are both of- Captain and Mrs. ' Merriweather ficers in the Nineteenth Infantry, will Walk have leave the Philippines about the middle o7 liave réLEITCN S PN WREow after an Eastern trip, during much of which time they were guests of Mrs. Walker's parents, *Colonel and Mrs. Carey, who are so well known on this coast, at the home of the latter at| Marthas Vineyard. Captain and Mrs. Walker will probably sail in July for the Philippines, as Captain Walker's regiment will go out during the sum- mer. route to Texas, where the regiment is ordered. v 1t is indeed welcome news that the officers of the Twenty-second Infantry delightful dances after Lent, which will undoubtedly be repetitions of the suc- cessful affair at which they entertained ol 4 Dr. C. E. Riggs, U. 8. N,, of Yerba Buena Island, who is to be the guest of honor at the dinner to be given by Cap- tain and Mrs. James H. Bull on Tuesday evening next, will, to the regret of his many friends here, leave on the follow- ing Thursday for Yokohama, where he is ordered for station, sailing on the Siberia. Answers to Queries AREA—N. E, City. The area of Manchuria previous to Russian incur- sions was 652,000 square miles, but the slices of territory¥ that the Czar has taken have reduced it to 378,000 Square miles. The area of Korea Is 82,000 square miles. A SOUSA—A. 8, City. Sousa is the name' of the renowned bandmaster, I8 not an assumed one. It was that of his par- ents. His father was Antonio a native of Spain, of Portuguese parents. The bandmaster's mother was a native of Darmstadt, Germany. in Washington, D. 5. November 6, 1896, and was christened John Philip.. —_— LEGAL ADVICE—A. O. mmanumm;_ pi R0 Mrs. Robson and Miss Helene Robeon, who have recently returned to town after a stay of some months in Berke- ley, are contemplating an Eastern trip and will probably leave within the next few weeks for a stay of some months. . Mrs. Arthur G. Fisher (formerly Miss Mary Small), Miss Barbara Small and Miss Pearl Seel of Los Angeles will leave today for d, going thence after a brief stay to Boise Barracks, ‘where | the road and a whole cargo of murder- | | what we have in the San Joaquin and {done in Los Angeles with success, and EDITO Rl Al PA G E FEBRUARY 16, 1907 The Insider Tells of Californians who achieved success as writers at home but who won greater fame after they had departed from Golden State| & tioned in one of the weekly journals — E as a San Francisco newspaper man Dam Entitlea to Literary Honors who achieved the distinction of “making good” in New York.. H J W Dam ought to be placed in the ranks of local writers who attained success DWARD W. TOWNSEND is men- | and some degree of prestige abroad. Having had the privilege of propesing ‘bnth writers for membership in the Bohemian Club, I noted with pleasure the progress that Ed Townsend made in New York, and the prosperity Harry Dam attained in London. The latter was connected with the Chronicle as a local reporter during the early stages of the sand lot agitation. The ultimatum from the Chronicle office that Rev. I. S. Kalloch should come off the sand lot ticket for Mayor was taken by Mr. Dam to Kalloch's office in Metropolitan Temple. Subsequently Dam became the executive secretary of Governor George Stoneman, and later on went to New York, where wrote breezy letters from summer resorts to the New York Times extended his travels to London and made quite a hit as a writer of plays Ed Townsend was on the local staff of The Call in the early “eighties™ His work as reporter of conventions and legislative correspondent at Sacra mento was above the standard. From The Call Townsend t Examiner shortly after W. R. Hearst purchased the latter journal, and later on went to New York, where he found a place to his liking he staff of the Sun. His book “Chimmie Fadden” brought him ducats and celebrity. Noah Brooks, who was associated with M. G. Upton on the Alta Cali- fornia, went to New York from San Francisco in the “sixties” and became went one of the leading editorial writers of the New York Times. Brooks also wrote of early times in California for the Eastern magazines. Henry George did not achieve eminence in Henry George Won " 14 of letters until he went to New Gossip of the Doings of Railroad Men > | A circular issued from the office of| the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Com- pany yesterday announced the follow- ing appointments:* James Agler, general manager, with! offices in San Francisco: B. ¥. Porter, | assistant general manager, in charge of | operated lines north of Shively tunnel, | with offices at Eureka; R. X. Ryan,| general passenger and freight agent at San Francisco; H. W. Ellicot, general purchasing agent, vice H. C. Whiting, deceased, with offices at San Francisco; | 7. K. Zook, engineer in charge of main- | tenance of way, with other duties in connection with new construction. o e Lk F. B. Winship of the Illinois Cen- tral, who was receiving the congratu- lations of his brother railroad men for having succeeded in bringing a train of thirty-two cars of automobiles into | this city in eight days, is now being | quietly laughed at by his competitors. Winship hates to hear the word auto- mobile mentioned in his presence. The day after the publication of the news Winship was called on by a prominent citizen: “I believe you are the gentleman,” said the prominent ecitizen affably, “who hauled in a trainload of auto- mobiles from Chicago to San Fran- cisco in eight days?” “I am,” answered Winship, beaming over with pleasure at the fame he had acquired suddeniy. “Then, sir,” thundered the irate citi- zen, “how can you stand there and look me ‘in the face? Do you know, sir, that you have had on your blessed road 40,000 spring shirts, all of the lat- est design, ninety days, and when I ask about these shirts, you plead your inability to get them through because of the congestion of freight. Shirts, sir! 40,000 spring shirts, are’left upon | ous machines are brought in on pas- senger time. I will sue the Illinols Central. “Now, please tell me where I can find Mr. S. F. Booth. He is the man who said that the Union Pacific car- ried those automobiles on limited time. T have patience, sir; patience as slow as the Illinois Central and the Union Pacific combined. but I am aroused now and I want to see that man Booth.” . . . The Southern Pacific has put in a fare of one and a third from Saturday to Monday for parties of three desiring tof visit any point north of Bakersfleld, south of Red Bluff and north of San Luis Obispo. This is regarded as most important, as it will induce people to secure places in the country who will still retain their homes in this city. L. G. Sennard of the passenger depart- ment of the Southern Pacific, in speak- ing of this, said: “There are 20,000 mechanids in this city who have come to the coast not| solely because they have been attracted by the prospect of high wages, but be- cause it is California. These men are desirous of settlipg the State and are anxious to buy small property which can be developed while they work. ‘It is our aim ‘to get these peo- ple to go out into the country and see Sacramento valleys. This has been there is no reason why we should not apply the same methods here to build up our territory.” . . 3 Edmund Burke has been appointed chief clerk of the purchasing depart- nent of the Southern Pacific. He will | succeeed H. W. Ellicott, who has been | made the purchasing agent of the Northwestern Pacific. . . Along railroad row it is noted as something remarkable that there have been no changes authorized on freight rates for at least a week. It is hoped that this condition presages the issu- ance of the new tariffs which have been looked for so long. There are now forty-four supplements to the west-bound and fifty to the east-bound ‘tariff for a railroad man to wade through, to say nothing of the shipper who, of necessity, cannot be familiar with them. T. J. Norton of the law department of the Santa Fe arrived in this city yesterday. o, & e Charles E. Stokes of tiie Cook's Tour- ist Agency has been touring through Ceylon and comparing the size of his feet with the alleged imprint of that of Adam, who, the natives say, visited the island and as a memento of his wanderings left an impression of one pedal extremity. He is now in India, visiting Begums, Maharanis and other noble ladies at their gold-bedecked p’lmn. - A ot W. J. Shotwell of the Denver and Rio Grande, who went to Reno on a busi- ness trip, is back in this city. i * - Y . C. . - ¢ J. Stubbs treated most of the genuine surprise by appearing at the | railroad offices yesterday. thought he had gone b and Fame in New York York. Among the reporters who were loyal to George in San Francisco when he was writing “Progress and Poverty” was P. J. Murphy, then of the Post. The book was surely written under the stress of poverty, but George was buoyed up by hopes that were realized Under 2 Democratic municipal administration in this city Henry George was appointed to the position of inspector of gas meters. The office was not a lucrative one; but the salary was sufficient to keep the wolves at bay. The career of Fred M. Somers impressed me as particularly interesting. His energy as a newspaper man was boundless. I first met him in Leave worth, Kan,, in 1873. I was then the editor of the Times of that ci and Colonel D. R. Anthony was the proprietor. One day a manly, hand- some youngster came into the office and applied for a positiom on the local staff. I asked him something of his earlier career, and he said he was a graduate of the Amherst Agricultural College and had tten occasionally for the Springfield Republican. He also remarked that he was then teaching school at Fairmont, in Leavenworth County, for $40 a month and board. I told him that forty a month with board thrown in was a better thing than journalism in Kansas offered at that time. He insisted that he would rather work for $10 a week in town than teach school in the country. After talking with Colonel Anthony T put Somers on the paper at ten per. He made good at once and Colonel Anthony doubled his salary Later on I went to the Leavenworth Commercial, a paper then owned by Colonel D. W. Houston, United States marshal for the Kansas district. I was authorized to hire Fred Somers at $25 a week, and he came. His con- nection with the Commercial was brief. He resigned because Colonel Houston insisted on publishing the racy details of a society scandal. Somers then joined the nephew of Colonel Coates of Kansas City in forming a theatrical circuit in the Missouri Valley, and the result was spectacular failure. w Lcncfl.{h Kansans in Califomia}ttracted Advcrsi(y Visits the attention of both Somers and myself, Somers in West and we planned to get here. Somers came in April, 1875, and T two months later. He met me at the ferry slip at the fogt of Broadway with the information that his books were pawned and his trunk was held by his landlady. I happened to have means sufficient to overcome' the adversity, to say nothing of the prospects which renewed acquaintance with Major W. O. Gould, Colonel A. G. Hawes and General George W. Dietzler might unfold. In August, 1875, Somers was engaged on the Chronicle as a reporter. He went to Sacramento as legislative correspondent, and was there terribly assaulted by Senator Wilcox, who was commonly known as the Mariposa Blacksmith. After recovering from wounds in the head inflicted by a heavy cane Somers resumed newspaper work and devised the scheme for estab- lishing the Argonaut. It was understood that I should be his partner in the enterprise, but having in the meantime secured a permanent position om the Evening Bulletin I declined to join Somers in what was then considered 2 venture. He had abounding faith in the success of the enterprise, and subsequent events verified his judgment. Frank M. Pixley at that time was a contributor to the editosial pages of the daily press, and he was persuaded to join Somers. The Argonaut, under the sway of Somers, Pixley and A. G. Bierce, quickly won a place high in the favor of the reading public. Somers, however, aspired to higher flights in literature. His fancy was for a magazine after the fashion of the old Overland Monthly, which introduced Bret Harte to the world of letters. The result of Somers’ dream was the publication of the Californian. This incident vexed Pixley, who once remarked to me: “I will lend you half the money to buy Fred Somers’ interest in the Argonaut. He is constantly dreaming of new ventures. Here is the Argo- naut making money beyond expectations, but Somers is not satisfied. He proposes to start a magazine which cannot be anything else than a rival of the Argonaut.” Somers had visions of a brilliant epigrammatic daily newspaper. Fol- lowing his bent of mind in this direction he published the Epigram for one week. Dan O’Connell, Ed Townsend, Tom Flynn, Dave Nesfield and others made the paper sparkle. Mrs. Orren Beckwith took rather a unique Robert Lincolns way to celebrate her grandpapa's birthday. Said to Be Snobs On the day when all the public schools were holding exercises commemorative of the birth of Abraham Lincoln the Orren Beckwiths were being divorced. Mrs. Beckwith is the daughter of Robert T. Lincoln, and when she ran away to marry her heart's choice, a professional ballplayer, her people were very much troabled. The Lincolns considered Beckwith entirely out of their class, and I remember that some of the papers commented on this as being rather an evidence of snobbish- ness in the descendants of a man whose own origin was so humble. ’ In the Joke World | Personal Mention It was instead | 1° at . el - 8. N. Grifith of Fresno is at the Ma- Jestic. C. E. Lilly is at the Majestic from Santa Cruz. J. Taylor of Seattle is registered at the Jefferson. Dr. C. W. Weaver of Healdsburg is at the St. Francis. \ Captain E/E. the St. Francis. Alfred W. Pye of Sacramento is at the Majestic Annex. A. Bass and Mrs. Bass of Tonopah are at the Jefferson. B. F. Shepherd of Goldfleld is resis- tered at the Majestic. . Alfred Merritt th and rs. Smith of Reno are af the Dorche:.er. J. M. Heney, a prominent contractor of Seattle, is at the St. Francis. Albert Allen and Mrs. Allen are at the St. Francis from Spokane. John Gibson and Mrs. Gibson are Manila. Caine of Seattle is at He was born|People In the Flood building to a at the Palace en route to J. C. Stubbs and Mrs. Stubds are at from Southern California. the millionaire horse- ‘L. I, ors. Carman R. F. “Jack, have you spoken to papa yet?” “Yep. Spoke to him at his office ended your suspense.” . Mayme. He made It worse. He said: ‘Great Scott! Is that what you have been hanging around my house for? "—Chicago Tribune. YR “Mamma, what would you do if that big vase in the parior should get broken?” said Tommy. “I should thrash whoever did it.” said Mrs. Banks, gasing serenely at her lit- tle son. “Well, then, you'd better begin to get up your muscle,” said Tommy, glee~ fully, “’cos father's broken it."—Cardiff Times. . P . “It costs a lot to send an expedition to the north pole,” said the scientiat. “Oh, I don't know,” answered Mr. Cumrox, “not so much ‘more than te ,____'al to_some of ‘the other summer —anncm.uu.. 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