The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 19, 1907, Page 8

TUESDAY DITORIAL The San Francisco Call PR B s ....General Manager .Managing Editor JOHN D. SPRECKELS. ... CHARLES W. HORNICK........... ERNEST S. SIMPSON ... Address All Communieations to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Telephone, “Temporary 86"—Ask for The Call. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. — | ..Market and Third Streets, San Francisco Until 11 O'clock Every Night in the Year. -Market and Third Streets USINESS OFFICE ...1651 Fillmore Street, Near Post «...Telephone Oakland 1083 .Telephone Alamedl 559 ..Telephone Berkeley 77 MAIN CITY BRANCH LAND OFFICE—1016 Broadwa: LEY OFFICE—2169 Shatt E—Mar .C. George Krogness, Representative juette Bldg NEW YORK OFFICE—30 Tribune Bldg...Stephen B. Smith, Representative ................. «e-...Ira E. Bennett WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT SUBSCRIPTION RATES 20 Cents Per Week. 75 Cents Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Including Postage (Cash With Order): 1 year.. . 6 months Delivered by Carrier, Terms by Mail ILY CALL (includin ...$8.00 .$4.00 Tée 2.50 . 100 $8.00 Per Year Bxtra 4.15 Per Year Extra ... 100 Per Year Extra States »stoffice as Second Class Matter. AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS Forwarded When Requested. change of address should be particular to ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt year Be A DANGEROUS PLAN system is that discretion will be placed in the lization to raise or lower the percentage tax to be paid by corporations. That programme is n for State purposes proposed by the ides for taxes as follows: 1d street; on all car companies, Pullman d power companies, 4 per cent per annum per cent. ph companies, 3% per cent. per cent on gross premiums, less return cent on the cash value of the capital stock. in features of the scheme and it is proposed tages shall be subject to revision by the Legislature period of six years. Of course, the power of laced somewhere, and the choice seems to lie re and the State Board of Equalization. It is le which of these two bodies is the less worthy on the whole the preference may be given to the because it is more responsive to popular control and y watched. The proceedings of the State Board of ion are characterized by hole-and-corner methods, and s demonstrated that this body has for twenty “years more corrupt than any Legislature. f the purposes of the proposed amendment was to get the of Equalization out of politics. The programme as out- 1ld necessarily plunge that body deeper into politics than Not only would it decide on the taxation of railroads, 1ave charge of the rates to be paid by all other corpora- over, the board would be given power to revise the per- taxation every year, instead of having that fight once in ars before the Legislature. he Southern Pacific has controlled the State Board of Equaliza- twenty years. If, however, to tax corporations be confided iy, it would be equivalent to making Mr. Herrin assessor corporate enterprise in California. Better let the Legis- e tackle the job once in six years, and then, at least, the people know what is doing and have an opportunity to be heard. THE BOGIE MAN IS HERE every be p beer One ¢ er before HE alarming and alarmed state of mind in Wall street, inspired by the supposed destructive temper and love of mischief at- tributed to President Roosevelt, is described with some humor 1 the New York World, which says: he inevitable attack of delirium tremens has followed Wall street’s T d financial debauch. Millions of Theodore Roosevelts are now around the victim. Phosphorescent spectacles gleam from every d corner of the Stock Exchange. The gnashing of Presidential ard above the roar of traffic. The sky is darkened by Big Sticks that hang in clouds. There is no refuge from the terror by day or the pestilence that walketh in the darkness. And the worst is yet to come. He is going to order a horizontal reduction of 10 per cent in railroad He 1s going to squeeze all the water out of railroad stocks. He to prevent the issue of new securities. "He is going to burn the the stake. He is going to obliterate State lines. He is going to sestigate everything and sentence everybody that owns stock in a corporation to life imprisonment. He is going to abolish the Supreme Court. Maybe he will hang Congress, especially the Senate. He is going to indict everybody that has more than $7. Everything over $11 is a swollen fortune and must be confiscated. The picture may be a trifle overdrawn, but it lies within the lines of reasonable caricature. We see Uncle Jim Hill peddling at every crossroads up and down the land his famous lament that nobody will let him borrow $60,000,000 when he needs the money. E. H. Harriman is said to have arrived at that parlous state of mind where desperation has driven him to writing a book. It is understood that he is preparing to hand-out a handsome “roast” for the President. Like Uncle Jim Hill, Mr. Harriman needs a small matter of millions, and the specter of everlasting smash in the similitude of Theodore/ Roosevelt blocks the way, flourishing a big stick like a turbulent sailor in the financial glasshouse. John D. Rockefeller is filled with foreboding for the future state of the workingman and is hourly issuing solemn warnings. The hosts of Coxey’s army are dimly seen topping the horizon like a flock of grasshoppers breeding a famine at the invitation of Theodore Roosevelt. The bogie man is here. The magnates tear their hair and chat- ter in terror. That foul demon, the Money Power, is on his knees and begging for mercy. There is none so poor to do him reverence and none so rich to lend him a dime. ELABORATE PLANS FOR GOOD ROADS. PEAKER BEARDSLEE has introduced a bill to establish a uniform system of road government and administration ap- plicable to all counties in the State. The bill is necessarily voluminous, but perhaps goes into greater detail than is always advisable. For instance, the specifications for making standard roads might safely be left to the engineers of the State Department of Highways for the sake of greater flexibility. The bill seems to recognize nothing but gravel or macadam as material for finishing standard roads. Gravel is of quite doubtful utility for such pur- poses, and on some important county roads it may be decided to use a better finish than macadam. These, however, are matters of detail not concerned with the main scheme of the bill. Chiefly, the bill is designed to encourage the standardization + Nobody Should Read It every three years. the government of road districts by local Boards of Trustees, elected State aid is provided for the thaintenance of county roads brought up to standard and accepted as such by the Department of Highways. The bill carries an appropriation of $100,000 for this purpose. The main county roads, as distinguished from the district roads, will be under control and administration by the county Super- visors. Provision is made for the employment of a county road superinténdent, who “must be a civil engineer.” He will hold office at the pleasure of the Supervisors, give his whole time to the work and be paid not more than $150 a month. What is a civil engineer? There are lots of quacks in that profession, as in others, and the idea that a competent man can be got for a political job paying only $150 a month and expenses for his whole time is pre- posterous. Boys just out of college get as much as that. It may be necessary to amend these details. The bill provides that 50 per cent of the road tax shall be expended in permanent work of standardizing the main county roads. The other half is to be used for repairs and purchase of the road-making plant. The idea is, as much as possible, to prevent the practice of frittering away road funds by Supervisors to mend their political fences, and to give the taxpayers something in the way of permanent work for their money. District roads under this bill would be governed by local Boards of Trustees, which would have power to call special elec- tions to vote on the imposition of taxes for road purposes. The road poll tax would be a source of regular income for the districts. An interesting feature of the bill provides for district assemblies, something like the old-fashioned New England town meetings, at which road business may be discussed by citizens of the bailiwick and orders made by vote which will be mandatory on the Board of Trustees. The general scheme of the bill appears to accord with sound public policy and its defects of detail will doubtless receive atten- tion in committee. E= L Re Smart Sk RS. WAKEFIELD BAKER was the hostess at an . informal bridge party yesterday after- noon at her home in Pacific avenue in honor of Mrs. L. L. Baker, eight tables of guests being present. The house was attractively decorated for the occasion with fruit blossoms and American Beauty roses. The prizes were won by Mrs, Henry T. Scott, Mrs. Alexander Garceau, Mrs. Carter Pome- roy, Mrs. Horace Davis, Mrs. Winslow, Mrs. E. S. Breyfogle and Mrs. Robert Oxnard. Among the other guests were: Mrs. Robert Hooker, Mrs. J. R. K. Nuttall, Mrs. W. R. Smedberg, Mrs. Ira Pierce, Mrs. Rosenstock, Mrs. Thomas Dibblee, Mrs. Ogden Hoffman, Mrs. Willlam P. Morgan, Mrs. Cutter, Mrs. Frank Anderson, Mrs. Emma Butler, Mrs. Henry L. Dodge, Mrs. Gale, Mrs. E. B. Pond, Mrs. William G. Irwin, Mrs. J. W. Keeney, Mrs. Joseph Crockett, Mrs. George Lent. ®.7 &N Mr. and Mrs. Harry Babcock will leave town on Thursday for Del Monte to remain during the we.ek end. . . Mrs. Willam P. Morgan will visit in Santa Barbara next week. Miss Ella Morgan 1s still at Del Monte with her friend, Miss Flora Low.. . B Mrs. James Cunningham, who came from New York on a brief business trip recently, has postponed her departure until Tuesday of next week. Mrs. Cun- ningham will be accompanied to New York by Miss Helen Thomas, who is leaving for the East permanently. Miss Thomas has made her home for a num- ber of years with her aunt, Mrs. Wake- fleld Baker, but now goes to jein her father in New York. Since her debut last season )ho has been a favorite in soclety. o7 el Miss Lily McCalla will leave Thurs- day for Santa Barbara, where she will spend several days with her parents, Admiral Bowman H. McCalla and Mrs. McCalla, at !h:lr b?.uuf.u.l home there. Mrs. A. 8. Lilley has returned from a visit of three weeks in Santa Bar- bara to her home il: m.luml of main county roads under State supervision and to provide for |pa » — here for some weeks past, will leave on Thursday for Santa Cruz, where she will spend two or three weeks as the guest of Miss Josephine Deming. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alken will close their town house within a few weeks and go to their ranch for a stay. They will travel later in the summer. S s There will be a large gathering of soclety folk at Del Monte for the Wash- ington birthday holidays, many going down in their automoblles. Among these will be Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield Baker, who will be accompanied by Miss Helen Baker and Miss Marion Baker. DRty S Mrs. Gilbert Brooke Perkins will ar- rive today from her home in Pasadena for a visit of a week or two with her mother, Mrs. M. P. Huntington, in this city, and her sister, Mrs. J. Brockway Metcalf, in Berkeley. Ot e s 3 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Warren Clark will go on Thursday to Del Monte to spend the holidays. 1 Dol aos Sk Mr. and Mrs. Erskine Richardson will leave Thursday for Santa Barbara, where they will spend about a week as the guest of Mrs. H. M. A. Postley, Mrs. Richardson’s mother. During her visit Mrs. Richardson will entertain & number of friends at an informal tea. # i e e Mrs. G. P. Rixford has left for a visit to her daughter, Mrs. W. W. Sargeant, in Los Angeles. e S0 e Dr. J. A. Hughes, U. S. A, and Mrs. ‘Hughes, who was the beautiful Greek violinist whose romantic marriage took place early in the winter in the East, arrived a day or two since from Dr. Hughes’ plantation in Kentucky, where they have spent some weeks. They will e stationed at Fort McDowell, Angel Island. e Mrs. John H. Speck will be at home at 3398 Clay street on the first Tuesday of each month, beginning in March, instead' of each Tuesday as heretofore. e s Josh Billings was evolving his sys- tem of simplified spelling. , “I'm going to make a thorough fob of it, too,” ‘l:g mdio“ “I'1L Bra Matthews’ Gossip of the Doings of Railroad Men W. R. Alberger, trafic manager of the Tonopah and Tidewater Rallroad, | left last night for an inspection of the | line and will be absent till the end of | the month. Regarding the new road, | Alberger said: “It will be one of the | most notable railroads in the country | because it will run through an exceed- | ingly rich mineral belt that is daily growing in importance. Our road com- mences at Ludlow on the line of the Santa Fe and twenty-six miles north at Crucere it crosses the Salt Lake road. Fifty miles north of Ludlow lies Silver Lake, which is the point of departure for the. famous Crackajack mining district owned principally by Salt Lake and Los Angeles people. There is an automobile line to the mines that makes daily runs. The dis- tance is 26 miles. “Sperry, which is seventy-eight miles from Ludlow, {s the present terminus of the railroad and trains are running to that point daily. Sperry is in the Amargosa Canyon. About eight miles remain to be completed in the canyon. Then the road will be out on the des- ert, and track can be lald at the rate of a mile or a mile and a half daily. From Sperry automobiles connecting with our trains are run out to the famous copper mining region of Green- water and there are twenty-five eight- mule freight teams hauling freight to Greenwater from Sperry. “At a point about 120 miles from Ludlow a branch line will be bullt to the Lila C borax mine, where there is probably enough borax to last the world for one hundred years. This same branch will be extended to Green- water. “The terminus of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad will be Bullfrog and Beatty, which will make the line 168 miles long. The road has been surveyed from Beatty to Goldfield and Tonopah, but it is problematical as yet when it will be built to either of the towns. “On the line of the road and at the northern end of the Amargosa Canyon is the Tecopa lead mine and just across the Nevada line is the new copper dis- trict named Lee which Is attracting a good deal of attention. There is a big mineral development on both sides of the line from Ludlow to Beatty and mew locations are being made con- stantly.” b iy b . J. ¥. Watts, who represents the Great Northern in Hillsboro, N. D. arrived here last Sunday with his small son on a pleasure trip. escorted them out to the park and the boy was lost in wonder. He wanted to know if it was summer in California while it was winter in North Dakota. ‘Watts says that no one can realize what the people of Hillshoro have suffered. For a time there was no fuel in the city and the wretched inhabitants had to work hard in order to save them- selves from being frozen to death. Ev- erything in the shape of fuel was burned. Fortunately a few cars of coal ar- rived on Saturday and all that night and all Sunday it was doled out im- partially. The railroad people did all that they could to clear the track of snow. A great snowplow would be driven through and all the trains that could be assembled would follow in its wake; yet within an hour the track ‘would be impassable again. Two weeks ago there were from thirteen to four- teen feet of snow on the surface, and in some instances cars on the side- track were completely buried. Condi- tions are by this time much improved, however. ‘Watts concluded his narrative with the comment: “I think that you are living in a paradise. What does it mat. ter if you have a little mud and dust Our people would gladly give our snow in exchange fo‘r your mud and dust.” = o e R. H. Countiss of the freight trans- continental bureau announces that ow- ing to representations made by the St. Louis and San Francisco road the present rate on soda ash and caustic soda in same groupings makes it un- profitable to haul it and cancellation has been ordered from eastern defined territories served by the Southern Pa- cific. . . - George W. Colby | Cadenasso Portrays Shows Beauty of Eucalyptus i | the California Tf €es By Hanna Astrup Larsen LL the changes are rung on the eucalyptus tree in the exhibition of paintings by Giuseppe Cade- nasso now to be seen in the City of Paris art gallery. We see them in the cold light of the early morning, in the silvery mists of a gray autumn day. touched with the gold of the setting sun, swept by the wind or standing calm and mas- sive in the full glow of the noonday. The artist himself says that he has made a special study of the eucalyptus tree and finds it more interesting than any other. “When I first began to paint it, peo- ple laughed at me,” he said, “but I knew I was right and kept on. Now they all see it, because I have opened their eyes. I am the first one who has ever seen the possibilities of the eucalyptus and tried to interpret it. It has been the study of years. There are 150 kinds of the tree.” As Cadenasso says, now everybody sees it and appreciates the fact of hav- ing the tree, which is so characteristic of California, interpreted by a master hand. Some of us may lay claim to having discovered it for ourselves and loved it for its very own sake. We have seen the wild and moody beauty of the tall, straight trunk swaying lightly in the wind, the drooping branches and the fringelike leaves. The picture in the exhibition which strikes any one most forcibly when en- tering is “The End of the Day,” a large panel picture, with a group of the artist’s favorite irees standing very tall and straight and slender in the foreground. The setting sun touches their heads with an orange-colored flame, which Is also reflected in the tiny pool of water at their feet. The remainder of the picture Hes in shadows, and it is wonderful how the artist has succeeded in making the trees, which in themselves are rather cold in color, glow in the warmth which belongs to the shadows at sun- set time. One of the most finished and mature pieces of work in the exhibition is another of the artist's eucalyptus studies, which has something the feel- ing of an old Italian garden. The trees are treated with great simplieity, standing out in dark masses against a sky of an Italian warmth. The can- vas seems fairly to glow in the sultry shadows, and the clouds are tipped with red flame. Yet another, called “Purple Morning,” shows the same tree in the cold, pink light of early morning. The branches in this have a delicate, fringe-like effect, which is very char- | acteristic and which is still more ap- parent in several studies of the euca- lyptus bathed in fog. Or shall we say drowned? It cannot be denied that some of these are a bit disappointing. They are so palely cold, so mistily vague. Still the artist has succeeded in doing what he wanted to do and has obtained the effect he sought. The very leaves of the trees seem dripping with mist-drops and dreariness. Strikingly different are three views of Mount Tamalpais. One is merely the portrait of the mountain, showing the undulations of the slope, the light red- dish purple of the heights deepening to blue in the shadows; the gray rocks, the green trees and the grass slightly touched with yellow. It is a true like- ness of the mountain in the full glare of the midday sun. Even the railroad is distinctly marked. The artist calls this picture “The Scales.” The tones are all there, but there is no melody, no spirit. It needs the creative hand to make it live and speak. This he has done in two other views of the same scene, which for weirdness of expression and for daring color effects are unique. One is called “Legend of the Tamal,” referring to the supersti- tlous dread which the Indians had of the purple color seen in cloudless evenings after sunset. This is the color which Cadenasso has seized upon. There is a sincerity and simplicity about this plcture, a directness In the handling of the masses of color, which make this one of the strongest in the exhi- bition. Entirely different and of a more moody fantastic quality is the third view of the mountain, swathed in mists that seem blown actoss it by a strong wind. This is one of the best exam- ples of Caderasso’'s gift for painting wind. Very characteristic of California is the large picture of the foothills. . It is a picture that actually makes one feel the heat. There is such a pitiless g-are in the blue sky, such a parched,- concluded a successful thirsty look in the red-brown hills with their sun-scorched grass. There is some hardness of treatment in the distant hills, not quite the misty heat-shimmer one sees in nature. The foreground, which is a stretch of marsh, the reeds touched with red and among them a pool of an opaque blue, is better man- aged and is what makes the picture interesting. One feels that this is a field where the artist is especially at home. Only one of the sunset scenes over a ——— Personal Mention C. H. Ellison of Los Angeles is at the St. Francis. H. C. Clinton of New York is a guest at the Palace. A. H. Collbron of Denver Is registered at the Palace. A. D. McMullin of New York is stop- ping at the Palace. H. M. Hoyt of Nome, Alaska, is regis- tered at the St. Francis. J. E. Warren, a business man of Eureka, is at the Savoy. Henry Dollman of Indianapolis staying at the St. Francis. G. H. Christy, a well-known businass man of Philadelphia, is at the St. Fran- cis. . G. T. Waterman, the well-known mining man of Goldfleld, is at the Savoy. H. F. Knight, & business man of Los Angeles, registered at the Majestic yes- terday. Mrs. J. N. Gillett, wife of Governor Gillett, registered yesterday at the St. Francis. < ‘W. C. Ish and family are at the St. Francls. They have been spending the inter at Santa Barbara. S. Edwards, a wealthy merchant of Chicago, is staying at the Jefferson and will make a tour of the State. J. G. Lusk of Santa Cruz, who is in- terested in various enterprises in that town, is a guest at the Jefferson. Willlam G. Fox of Milwaukee is at the Jefferson. He is identifica with many, large Interests in that city. is C. H. Lawrent, one of the largest dry- 5 Masestie. ?-u-m"b E e e i S T. Ewing, Brownell, Tegis- | years chiet clerk of the PAFtY | severed his conmection with that 'ho are [ mont. been Fork. ‘are chief ol i Brewnerrn DAL marshy land, which arq among the art- ist's favorite subjects, is seen in the exhibition. Lovers of Cadenasso's tures are famillar with the paste of a delicate poetic feeling, t usually a bit of marsh in the afterglow of the sunset, the skyline very low and often a tiny pool catching the rays of the sun. It is this effect whic the artist has now sought to prod in the more permanent medium of oil without sacrificing any of the delicate elusive charm of his pastels. - Altogether, the exhibition is a worthy and dignified one. It is the most ¢ plete and srepresentative collection of pictures that Cadenasso has ever shown. The quarters of the Guild of A Crafts of California are gay collection of European posters &ive a delightful atmosphere of foreign travel. For some reason or other it is a fact that pictures and advertisements of hotels, railroads and steamship lines can produce more of the exhilaration of travel than any classic book of travels. And the European people know advertise their countries artistically. These form only a part of the exhibi tion, which includes also a number of posters announcing exhibitions cf in- dustrial art, some of them very beaut ful as well as interesting. One that has In a superlative degree the poste quality of hitting one straight between the eyes is Alexander Koch's anno ment of the publication of the zine “Kind und Kunst” It is colors and represents a c! blockhouses. For simp strength it bears the palm. A tistic poster is the one announ exhibition of industrial art Dresden in 1906. maiden conventionalized and markable for its fantastic eff for the harmony of its color sck The collection is the work of Oscor Maurer and F. H. Meyer. They have been very successful in getting many interesting examples of the poster art in Europe, particularly in Germany. In connection with this the guild has a flne exhibition of metal work. - . . A permanent gallery of the works of California artists will soon be a y in Del Monte. The Pacific Impr nt Company has taken the Initiative and has invited the artistic to co-operate The response was prompt and cordial A number of the leading artists h promised to send pictures. The room of the hotel will be utili gallery, and the owners of th will manage the sa . It is that a gallery in the hotel will do mu. to make California art known to the East through the tourists that flock to the place. The pictures will be on sale, thoge sold to be replaced by others so that thers will always be a goodly gallery. The work Is to be kept up to a high standard and for this purpose a strict jury has been appajnted, consisting of Charles Aiken. Isabel Hunter, Chapel Judson, Porter Grant, Dr. Genthe, Charles Rollo Peters, Maynard Dixon and Eugene Neuhaus. The artists who Hve In Monterey and vicinity will act as a committee to make the necessary arrangements. . . . The jurors of the Sketch Club exhi- bition have met and have passed on the work that is to be admitted to the exhibition which is to open on the 21st of this month. It is expected that the rooms will be well fllled, though not overcrowded. . . . Frank McComas and his wife are at present in Athens. They have had the honor of being presented at court and are enjoying their stay In the Greek capital to the full. They have rooms overlooking the Parthenon, and Mec- Comas finds the conditions and atmos- phere ideal for painting. . . . It is the figure of a 1s Mrs. Bertha Stringer Lee has been of the Sequota Club. The club expect. PAG 5 FEBRUARY 19, 1907 appointed chairman of the art secunrq to hold an exhibition of the work of its artist members some time In April. . . . One of the most interesting plctures by local artists now to be seen at the @ealer’s is Mrs. Mary Curtis Richard- son's portrait of Mrs. Captain Hahn, who Is now in Cuba. It is lovely portrait and full of a strongly marked individuality. - . . The Institute of Chicago has fust exhibition of Peixotto’s black and white work illus- trating his book, “By Italian Seas.” An exhibition of Peixotto’'s paintings ‘was opened in New York on the 15th of February. Hahn, wife of Mrs. Marfon Holden ‘Pope has re- cently held an exhibition of her etch- ings In San Jose, which has attracted a great deal of attention. Her work has been praised very highly by Atherton Curtis, who is a recognized authority on the subject. In the Joke World — 3 Hicks—Has Hardup any creadit? Wicks—Credit! Why, Hardup couldn’ get a syphon bottle charged.—Boston Transcript. R WY Mabel—During the excitement Sap- leigh completely lost his head. Stella—Oh, well, the poor fellow will probably never miss it.—Illustrated Bits. , taget SR “Before we were married you used te tell me you would die for me.” “Yes: well? - “Well, now you are refusing to eal the biscuits I make."—Houston Post. - . “Thackeray probably thought himselt original when he produced a novel without & hero.” “Well, can you beat him?" “Easy; a novel without & conserva. tory!"—Washington Herald. PREy e “Tommy,” sald mamma (who had no- ticed severe bruises on his face), “you've been fighting again.” “Yes, mamma.”™ “And dldn’t you promise me thai when you wanted to hit any ome you would always stand still and count a hundred?” “So 1 did, mamma; and this is what Jacky Jones did while I was counting.” —Cardiff Times. e e PP at the Majestic. They intend to make a tour of the State before returning home. 2 Thomas Gray, a member of the Port. land City Couneil, arrived from the north yesterday morning and took the evening train for Los Angeles. making & business trip to the ern ecity. J. M who was many for Palace, and will be the chief clerk of the Fair. J. M. Smith has 4