The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 23, 1907, Page 8

SATURDAY 7 The San Francisco Call JOHN D. SPRECKELS CHARLES W. HORNICK . . ERNEST S. SIMPSON Address All C .General Manager . .Managing Editor THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL i for Call. The Ope: the Departmeat You Wish. Temporary 56 Will Commeet ! You W Telephone. BUSINESS OFFICE Market and Third Streets, San Francisco pen Until 11 O'clock Every Night in the Year. EDITORIAL ROOMS. . Market and Third Streets 1651 Fillmore Street, Near Post ....Telephone Oakland 1083 BRANCH. . MAIN CITY OAKLAND OFFICE—1016 Broadway. . ALAMEDA OFFICE—1435 Park Street.. Telephone Alameda 559 OFFICE—216% Shattuck Avenue Telephone Berkeley 77 ERKEIL oY C. George Krogness, Reprasentative .Stephen B. Smith, Representative HICAGO OFFICE-—Marquette Bldg. NEW YORK OFFICE—20 Tribune Bidg WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT.. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ira E. Bennett vered by Carrier, 20 Cents Per Week. 76 Cents Per Month. Single { Copies § Cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage (Cash With Order): i DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 1 year... .$s.00 | .$4.00 Tbe ..2.50 —es . 100 .$8.60 Per Year Extra Sunday . 4.15 Per Year Extra Weekly . . 1.00 Per Year Extra e United States Postoffice as Second Class Matter. ASTERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS. mple Coples Will Be Forwarded When Reguested. s ordering change of address should be particular teo AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt iance with r request (including Sunday). 6 months le month ¥ CALL th NEW per nr TOO MUCH NOISE ON THE FRONT BENCHES ARS and rumeors of wars. Of comfort let no man speak. Richmond Pearson Hobson is talking through his gerent hat. Senator Perkins has nailed his golors to the| mast that once he sailed beiore. He hurls the loud defiance | to sign articles. Honduras has started in to whip! Cuba threatens to declare war on the| States if we don’t provide offices for every blessed horse- | { on the much vexed island. The hurly burly roars terribly. [he Jamestown exhibitionaries are preparing to show how the| thing is done when Yankee Doodle sticks a feather in his cap| d calls it macaroni. They will fight. bleed and die for the price gua between drinks ertising columns of the newspapers. The gospel of war is loud | land. Give us more big: ships or we perish. Give the due. | big policeman is having ‘an awful time. 'Tis a tough jnbj up to his Nobel peace prize. Texas is fighting mad because | ertain military persons of color shot up the town. The ingenious | politic Foraker rings the fire alarm and has the big policeman | the carpet. 'Tis a wordy war that splits the welkin wide. | The cares of empire sit heavily on the weary Titan in Wash- He is making faces at California and shaking his fist. repeals our laws and assails us with messages of 40.000 words that t. He will have peace if he has to fight for it. hue of resolution sicklied over with the pale cast of thought, which | n iornians a stiff-necked generation. and with grotesque diplomacy of | conciliation offers to make peace by recognizing Schmitz as the| hosen embassador and plenipotentiary of the State. To the plain| t might seem like rubbing it in. In truth, v father of his country is more terrible on a peace footing— first in war and worst in peace. Let us have peace, lay down our arms and sheathe the em- led tongue. The cure for all this warlike chatter and witches’ broth of belligerent brag and fuddle has been discovered by a Bos- who has started a crusade against the tin soldier—the | lier of childhood—which inspires to bloodthirsty con-| Away with the bleeding tin soldier that demoralizes the youth | the Senator Perkins was brought up-on tin soldiers, and here he is in his old age doing a war dance. There is too much| noise on the front benches; too much tin soldiering and not enough | ing. Let us cultivate the arts of peace and learn to keep our | ds in our neighbors’ pockets. DIPLOMACY REDUCED TO ABSURDITY ton woman eal tin so land k han NE learns with some solicitude that our national machine for the output of “delicate diplomacy” slipped a cog early in the Japanese game. The veriest tyro in this entertaining play should know that it is fatal to admit anything advanced the other fellow. You never could have got David Harum to admit that the Japanese had a treaty right to.go to school in San | Francisco. No, sir; David knew better than that, and he was the greatest American diplomat. box Secretary Root admitted that San Francisco had been unjustly | and illegally discriminating against “innocent little children”—as the Eastern press calls them—of the Japanese. If it was urged that | e innocents abroad wore whiskers, that did not matter. The t to go to school was a right of residence, and must be accorded Japanese innocents. The big policeman shouted, “I'll teach by That was the first page of diplomacy, but it appeared on re- flection that perhaps they had made a mistake. From being cocksure they began to doubt whether they had power to make good with Japan. If California insisted on her right to regulate her domestic affairs our diplomats had digged a pit which|] they themselves fell in. It was an embarrassing situation, requiring | exercise of the most delicate diplomacy to rescne the unhappyi meddler who had put his foot in the Japanese trap. In fact, they ve kept Root so busy apologizing that he has not since had time say a word about the Japanese seal pirates. The miracle of this delicate diplomacy will be appreciated when it is understood that our diplomats started the game with two assumptions, both mistaken. They assumed. first, that Japanese { and, second, that they had power to regulate the California school system. In a word, they went off half-cocked, and their extremity was so great that they had to send for Schmitz to pull them out of the hole. This is diplomacy reduced to an absurdity. FIRE INSURANCE AND THE LAW T seems as if the enthusiasm of the Legislature in the popular cause of punishing the fire insurance welchers might lead that body into ill-considered action calculated to defeat its own purpose. It is not clear, for instance, how the Legislature can validly limit the right of free contract or enact an effective law to make an ironclad standard policy compulsory on all companies. The Legislature may limit contractual relations in virtue of the police power, but that right does not apply in this instance. Of course, tte intention is to shut out the “earthquake clause” and other skulking limitations of contract that have in the past been. intro- duced by stealth, owing to the carelessness of the insured; but if a man desire to enter into a contract of that kind with his eyes|vada open, it is scarcely the province of ghe Legislature to stop him, iren were excluded from the common schools of San Francisco, | Editing the Testi i dNowiers, —NEW YORK WORLD FHI U wor "2l ] precautions against the introduction by stealth of variations from! Yet is his native | the standard. That purpose can be accomplished by such tion to the new matter. The safety fund law is another matter calling for careful de-| liberation. There is some feeling the contem- |t the discreditable action of certain companies, but there is some- ithing to be said for the law, and if companies operating under it jare to be shut out the result must be to decrease still further the {sum of fire insurance available in California. |lated to act in that way should be adopted only in case of impera- | tive necessity, because, even under present conditions, there is not insurance enough to go around. BLIND TO OUR UR form of government was never designed to do justice to outlying dependencies. Wh the Philippine Islands, Congress does not want to be bothered There people have no votes. That may sound cynical, but its truth is demonstrated by almost uniform experience. No more gross example of injustice to a whole with their affairs. people is extant today than the Philippine tariff bill. absol 2 2 ill come to any American industry. of all the islands under the American Hawaii—so as to make it evident that But the very first rattle out of the|imperative duty to itself and mankind than the duty of managing. flag—the Philippines, Port. | that the flag should fly over them. The bill is today as dead as mutton on the files of Congress. {1t is an dacknowledged measure of justice, but it has no chance of fpassage because of the imaginary fears of some protected interests. It may be pointed out that San Francisco has a very considerable | selfish interest in the passage of the measure, which would neces- {sarily increase largely our commerce with the islands, but we have not observed that any of the local commercial bodies have taken |any active part in urging the opening of this port to Philippine trade. : pacs variations to be distinguished from the standard by some was Shakespeare’s way of diagnosing cold feet. He finds the Lah‘:typographical device and by special No reasonable argument has ever been ad-| | vanced against this bill. It has been recommended for passage by |the President and by Secretary Taft and- Secretary Root. {last annual message Mr. Roosevelt said: I most earnestly hope that the bill to provide a lower tariff for or else ute free trade in Philippine products will become a law. {and it is quite doubtiul whether any such power exists. The func-| {tion of the Legislature in this regard is first to enact a standard | Helform that shall be just to both parties, and, secondly, to take requiring all indorsement directing atten- in regard to. this provision, owing Legislation calcu- | OWN INTERESTS 5 ether it be Alaska or Hawaii or refusal of Congress to pass the In his No harm This nation owes_no more affairs ico and way to their advantage * x * it is in every . Personal PR ‘W. H. Simpson of New York is at the Majestic. Captain R. 8. Paxton, U. 8. A, is at the Savoy. : F. C. Byrne and wife of Seattle are at the Savoy. Admiral Lyon of Mare Island is at the Dorchester. g C. H. Burden, a Sonora business man, | is at the Imperial. W. B. Edmunds of Boston is regis- tered at the Baltimore. H. E. Picket, a Sacramento business man, is at the Imperial. y ‘William E. Bray of Ladysmith, B. C,, is at the Hotel Majestic. C. E. Robinson and wife of Tonopah are at the Hotel Dorchester. George T. Gosling, a liquor man of Philadelphia, is at the Palace. E. Raulier arrived yesterday from Panama and is at the Jefferson. ‘W. H. Hollenbeck of Fresno, a well- known contractor, is at the Baltimore. John W. Brock of Philadelphia, presi- dent of the Tonopah Ralilroad, his wife and his daughter, Miss Louis B. Brock, are at the Palace. Charles R. Lewers, formerly a pro- fessor of law at Stanford Unlversity and now a practicing attorney at Reno, Nev., is at the Hotel Baltimore. T. B. Rickey, president of the Ne- State Bank and Trust pany of Goldfield and of, the L. M. Sullivan Company, is, with His wifs and daugh- Mention ter, at the Palace, registered from Car- son, Nev. Willlam 0. Maxwell, & prominent commercial man of Santa Maria, is at the Hamlin. v Among the well-known Nevada min- ing men at the St. Francis are M. J. O'Meara of Tonopah, W. J. Stoneham of Tonopah, Milton M. Detch of Goldfielq, Augustus A. Busch, son of Adolphus Busch, the wealthy St. Louis brewer, is at the Hotel Jefferson. He is accoma panied by John M. Norton of St. Louis and will be in the city several days on business. R. P. Dunlop of Tonopah and G. H. Hayes of Goldfield. The latter, who has been with his wife at Pasadena, ar- rived yesterday to attend the automo- bile show. % Senor Carlos Herrera of . Guatemala and wife and r, who have been traveling for a year in Europe, are at the Majestic Annex and will remain in this clty sevy ys before leaving for their home, 8 et WOMAN AT A woman’s ¢ owers are finest about 40, - s gained everything at 40 ing; she is at the ful ctual :0:0“!;.; fence T h away fr S sympath o The Smart Set HE Burlingame Club is the center of much gayety this week, as the polo teams from the south are all staying there and there are any number of dinners and.luncheons being given by the members. Yesterday was particularly gay and preceding the polo &ames of the afternoon, played at “The &3 | Crossways,” the Carolans’ fleld, were' S¢€ several luncheons. Mrs. Francls Caro- lan entertained at one of the most elab- orate of these in honor of Miss Katrina Page-Brown, who is her guest for the winter. The twenty-four guests were seated at a large round table in the | main dining-room of the club, which | was prettily decorated in daffodils, tu- lips and jonquils. Among those present were, besides | Mr. and-Mrs. Carolan and the guest of | | honor, Miss Genevieve Harvey, Miss Mary Keeney, Miss Barbara Parrott, Miss Jennie Crocker, Miss Helene Irwin, Miss Jeannette von Schroeder, Miss Hyde-Smith, Miss Drown, Walter Ho- bart, Harry Scott, Frank Houghteling, John Parrott Jr., Stuart Lowery, Harry N. Stetson, Mr. Loughborough, Gerald L. Rathbone, Joseph Parrott and W. S. Ronaldson. Others who entertained were Mr. and | Mrs. Samuel Knight, who had a party of twelve or fourteen; Mrs. Henry T. Scott, Mrs. Mountford Wilson and J. O. Tobin. . . . A delightfully unique and enjoyable affair was the chafing-dish dinner given last night by Mrs. E. Walton Hedges at her home on Broderick street. Twelve | guests were present and the six men ‘were the cooks of the oceasion, prepar- Ing ten courses of chafing-dish covkery, which were especially toothsome. Soup, creamed sweetbreads, lobster a la New- burg and reed birds were some of the dishes, but not all of the credit may be given the men, as each one was assisted by a feminine guest in such degree as seemed in each instance necessary for the salvation of the particular dish in process of manufacture. There was much merriment as the result of this arrangement and it was indeed a suc- cess. The decorations for the occasion were most elaborate and were espe- cially commemorative of the day, hatchets and cherries being much in evidence. All the cakes and candies were either litle hatchets, bunches of cherries or tiny stumps adorned with cherries. The menu cards were adorned with hand-painted cherries, as were the cards on which were written the recipes for the different dishes. Red carnations and red-shaded candelabra were used on the table. In the living-room pink roses and daffodils were used, in the sitting-room were lilies of the valley and orchids and in the hall-were daffo- dils and violets. Those present were Mrs. Marguerite Hanford, Mrs. Ynez Shorb White, Mrs. Malcolm Henry, Mrs. Katherine Shirley, Mrs. Richard Derby, James Reld, Dr. Pressley, Lieutenant Commander Barnes, Philip Paschel, Dwight Leeper and Percy Towne. - One of the pleasintest affairs of the week was the dunce given last night by the officers of the Presidio Club in the hoproom of the post, which was attended by a large number of guests from here and from the posts around the bay. The room was prettily deco- rated with flags and greens and pre- sented a most attractive scene. The hop committee consisted of Cap- tain J. F. Brady, Captain Charles C. Pulis and Lieutenant Rollo F. Ander- son, who were assisted in receiving by Mrs. J. A. Lundeen, Mrs. John L. Clem and Mrs. Edward T. Brown. e Mrs. Charles Shiels has sent out cards for a tea at her pretty Sausalito home on Thursday afternoon, February 28, from 3 to 6 o'clock. B S e An event of today will be the bridge party to be ven by Mrs. Frank H. Kerrigan in honor of her step-mother, Mrs. James McNab. ' The air will take place at Mrs. Kerrigan's home on Clay street, and nine tables of guests rtained. # will “be ente: o ol R s and Mrs. John Taglor, the lat- formerly Mise 7an Ness, who X3 The Insider | {| Discusses testimony of insanity experts in the | Thaw trial and offers the suggestion that ! our lazy Superior Court Judges go to work | - 5 E'LL all be looking for marks of in- Marks of Insanity sanity in ourselves since ‘the alienists ! Pretty Numerous in the Thaw trial have given us the tip | for symptoms. Why, if prominent ears, low foreheads, tattoo marks and sach things are indisputable evidence of criminal tendencies it should be an easy matter to round up all the prospective jailbirds and head off trouble. George, Prince of Wales, is tattooed, so was his brother, the Duke of Clarence, who died, and at one time, I remember, all the smart women were being tattooed | with butterflies or birds, or their monograms or crests, bec?use .zhe fad was raging in New York. As to egotism as an evidence of insanity it is ilikc all the other stigmata of degeneracy, proof only after the fact. Talking | wildly and skipping from subject to subject—well, that generally goes with |a bad temper and its indulgence. The whole trial is a contest of lawyers’ }\\'its and reminds one of the chapter in Parker's “Right of Way" with Beaut: | Steele as the savior of the prisoner at bar and what he said to the man §when the latter tried to thank him. - L IR RSN SR e N SRS Dr..Hulberr, dean of the Divinity School of Late Dr. Hulbert the Chicago University, who died last Sun. Had Church Here day, was formerly pastor of the First Bap- tist Church of this city. That was a good many years ago, perhaps a quar- | ter of a century. He was a quiet preacher, not at all dramatic in his delivery, (‘hul‘ was well liked by his congregation. He was a student, and in appearance | was the real scholarly type of clergyman. One of his daughters, Louise, ;married the pastor of the Morgan Park Baptist Church, Rev. Mr. Wyant, The latter will be remembered out here as a great football player. Ha | visited us in his college days when the Chicago University football team played Stanford. “Yes, madam,” said the jeweler, showing Watches for WOmtI’I watches to a woman customer, “this is a Inferior to Men's | sixteen-point action, the best that is ever put {in a lady's watch.” “Don’t you put just as good works in a lady's watch as in a gentle- | man's?” asked the woman. “Why no, not at all, madam. Ladies do not need such a good watch. Most alwhys they wind up their watch once in a while, and then they let it lie for a week or two without using it. This is as good action as any {lady needs.” The woman explained that she was a business woman and just as dependent on trains and boats as a man, but the jeweler remained unmoved {in the conviction that sixteen point was all any woman needed. A A A it i Anent the introduction in the Legislature o | Plenty of Judges Assemblyman Barry's bill providing for six- ! if They All Work teen Superior Judges for San Francisco in- stead of twelve, there is considerable discussion going on in the, vicinity {of the Temple Sherith Israel, where the Superior Courts have their tem- porary home. The additional mass of business anticipated by the present | Judges through the influx of suits to quiet title to city property for which all records were destroyed in the fire is urged as one of the principal reasons | for an increase in the size of the judicial force, and it is pointed out that jthe calendars in several of the departments are far from clear, even at the { present time, and, that assignments are piling up much faster than they can be disposed of. i The Judges themselves are not a umit, however, in admitting that the addition of four Judges is necessary or that any advantage would accrue {from the change. = One of them, who objects to being quoted at the present | stage of proceedings, has privately put himself on record as inclining to | the belief that a way out of the maze is to be found in a mush simpler land less expensive manner. i “Make a visit to all the departments at different times of the day and for yourseli just how much time is being spent in the actual court | work,” he suggested. “Then figure out the number of trials and motions to | be argued. I have tried it, and I believe that if every Judge would give four full hours each day to courtroom work, aside from the work in chambers, the various calendars would be clean and up to date in a short time. Figure it out for yourseli.” | I Commodore I. Gutte, who is the mustering | PreParcs §OStcr .Of officer of the “old guard” of Bohemia, has | Onginal ohemians completed a roster showing that thirty-seven |of the founders of the Bohemian Club are alive—that is to say, that th 1. pA G E rFEBRUARY 23, 1907, —7'——-—————1-1-: mony ey |are alive so far as the vital spark applies to eating, breathing and kickin{ | The annual reunion this year will take place at the Palace Hotel. |t — Gossip in Railway Circles The builders of the railroad into the Yosemite Valley from Merced announce | that the line will be opened for trafflc jon the first of May. All the blasting jhas been completed., the grading fin- ished, all the bridges are in place and fifty of the eighty miles of road have been built. Work is now centered on the road leading from the hotel teo the terminus of the railroad. Eleven hundred men are employed on the con- struction of the line. Merced will prob- ably hold a celebration on May 1, the day set for the opening of the line. . - . ferent sectlo of the State. It is be- lieved that the soll and the climate of California js rable to its growth. Tull i3 in charge of the experimental garden at Chico. |The matting plant is a peculiar kind of straw from which matting is made, and hopes are enter- tained tHat a new industry will be brought into existence in the State. . . . James Horsburgh Jr. spent yesterday at Paso Robles and is expected baclk on Monday. . A. G. Wells of the Sant is in the city. No date has been t as yet for the reopening of the Franklin tunnel 'In Contra Costa County. . General Mana F. agent ‘W, Thonmson, general Western the Rock Island-Frisco lines, has retdrned from a tour of the Nerth- west. The business in the northern towns, he declares, is immense. Much building is going on in Seattle and Portland. A meeting of the Transcontinental Association has been called for March 4. The meeting last month was postponed on account of the investigation that was being held here by Interstate Com- merce Commissioner Lane. The conven- tion is to be held for the purpose of re- vising the tariff and making it conform to the new law. . . . . ‘The promoters of Yucaipe Valley have made a survey for a line from the town of Redlands into the heart of the valley and beyond. They have set aside 160 acres for a townsite. It is to be laid out after the most ap- proved manner and it is sald that it will be one of the most delighttally located places in the State. . . . - - W. A. Bissell, assistant trafic man- ager of the Santa Fe, who has been at Santa Barbara consulting with Pres- ident Ripley regarding rallroad mat- ters, has returned to town. Bissell says that modesty compels him to be silent about the outcome of his golf tourna- ment with Ripley. R A A A A NPl L. G. Sinnard of the passenger de- partment of the Southern Pacific says that J. Tull, at the instance of the rafiroad company, has imported from Japan two carloads of the matting plant, which is to be planted in daif- ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Van Ness, and other relatives and friends here since early in December, left on Wednesday last for their home in Boston, to the great regret of their friends here, who were indeed loth to see them depart. Much entertaining was done In their honor during their visit and it is hoped that they will come out again shortly. . . . Miss Mary Carrigan will arrive in New York within a few days from Europe, where she has been for nearly a year past, and after a visit there will come to California. Will Carri- gan also has recently returned from abroad and is in New York, as are also Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carrigan and Jack Carrigan, who went on from here last month. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Green and Mrs. Wellington Gregg Jr. have re- turned to San Mateo after a brief trip to New York. S r R Colonel and Mrs. T. W. M. Draper and the Misses Elsa and Dorothy Draper, who have been so sadly missed from society here this winter, write most enthusiastically of the fil?l - ful times they are having in New York. They have taken a country place at rhurst and are to spend several months there. Colonel Draper will re- Mrs. Taylor's par-|turn to California shortly and it is ¥ X possible that he may be accompanied by Miss Dorothy, but Mrs. Draper and Miss Elsa have as yet no plans for coming to San Francisco again. . e e Miss Lutie Collier went up recently to Lake County to join her mother, Mrs. Willlam B. Collier, at their coun- try place there. Mrs. Collier has been there most of the winter, as their prop- erty there has been divided and their house was moved and partly rebuilt, which work Mrs. Colller has been di- recting. Miss Dorothy Collier and Miss Sara Collier are still in New York and have as yet no definite date arranged for their return to San Francisco. W gy Captain and Mrs. James H. Bull of the Naval Training Station will leave in a day or two for a brief trip to Santa Barbara, where they were for several months before coming here. Mrs. Bull ulnmnnar:h'hn in town as the guest of W. A. McEnery at the latter’s home on Broadway. r oo Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Dray of m—-u have been spending a few i