The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 27, 1907, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY.. FEBRUARY 27 [0 PARTNER OF SIEMSEN IN | BEHREND ROBBERY NOW IN AN CREEON PRISON Accomplice of the Gaspipe Thugs Serving Three Years’ Term KEARNEY IS CRIMINAL Third Man in Holdup of Jeweler to Be Brought Here for Trial SUCIE IENTFED NS MISS CLAVDNE MILLER Woman Who Killed Herself in Emporium Victim of Melancholia Friedla Petaluma 2T R CLIFF DRIVEWAY FOR AUTOS Park Commissioners Make Interested Persons Pay for Widening Road After utomgbile enthusiasts and the Y : nt of the Cliff House had promised undertake th ing to fifty feet of the roadway g from the %each to the Cliff House, the missioners at a meeting held at Wi J. Dingee's office voted the eway to the of use new lessee of the Cliff contribute $ toward e expense of widening the-roadwa be must station a an on the road to see th the special wat regulations a Automobile Club must | to the expen e and the ng wall, t was attended by 2, Dingee, ¢ | Kirkpatrick. The latter is ip to Paris and Clevelana ron and family. Com ssioner Dingee will leave shortly for New York City on a business trip. He resign fr Home Life at Del Monte e the city is cvercrowded take Ho el Mo the se There re and plenty to 4o for recreation For detafls inquire Information Pacific, or of C. Kel street; phone Temporary 2751 —_— INDORSE ISLAIS CREEK BILL Central Mission Improvers Favor Project to Dredge Big Basin rket S indorsing the proposal the Islais Creek basin ana now unnavigable waters nd-locked harbor were nously at a meeting of Mission Improvement As- night in the Mission improvers also decided to e erate in the big cleaning day and orized their secretary to notify the R Association to that ef- The club will hereafter pay $25 for four months to the asso- th betterment of the t d at the meeting that nts had been completed Mission street from Fifteenth Army and Sixteenth from Howard Guerrero, would be lighted by ten arcs to the block. The grand wwow"” of the improvers was post- | ned until Monday evening. March 11. 1 be held in Rouch’s Hall at Fif- and Mission streets. W i 00 Qi st BANKRUPT TAILOR—Adolphus Logen. = tailor of BEureks, filed & petition in insolvency | in the United States District Court yesterday. He owes $1050 and has Do assets. electric ! ing to the complaint of J. A. Folger, ‘to | bard Christensen, a retired master marfner, who ACCUSES POWDER TRUST OF FRAUD N GAINING IT5 MONOPOLY IN WEST James A. Folger Sues Giant Combine to Quash a $6,750,000 Deal FREEZEOUT ALLEGED Action Shows That Du Pont Concern Has Absorbed All Coast Rivals | | \ | Through a suit flled yesterday iIn Oakland by James A. Folger, the wealthy - San Francisco merchant, agalust the California Powder Works, it became known that the powder trast has absorbed all of the Independent companies in California. - The purchase of the California Powder Works was effected by the Du Pont Company, oth- erwise known as the trust, some time ago, and it was shown yesterday that of the the trust s secured control Peyton Chemical Company, the the independent concerns on this coast. The Peyton Company stubbornly resist- ed absorption, but has at last been swallowed by the great momopoly. The Peyton-Company and.the Cali- Powder Works have been large nd big The the owner making smokes efore was consid- facturers of smokeless powde: S account enjoved a Government -business. ny has been process of and the powder, prize by the trust. At the bine which ow on the Pacific Coast as Atlantic, is United States A.-La Pont of Delaware. to the two companies b 3 the t secured - con- ol recently -of the California Vigorit wder Company., of which de 1igne président and H. H. St~ secretary. FOLGER CHARGES FRAUD a kholder in the California r Works, Folger charges that the t company’s property the Du Pont de Nemours Powder Com- the na by the trust, was involved that $15,- 000,000 worth of prop s sold for 000. without bids being called i also ¢ es that the sale was th rpose of throttling in the p siness the deal h the Du Nemours Company absorbed | ornia Powder Works the lat- | company was the principal rival of the former in the powder trade in s compla sets forth an of months ago the Du de Nemours Company began a aign of buying up the stock of its antagonist until on November had become the owner of res out of a total issue of s shown by the books of “alifornia Powder Works. day, the complaint states, irectors of the California’ Pow- der Works sold all of its property§to the Du Pont de Nemours Company for $6.750,000 and *the latter compan agreed to assume all of the debts of th2 former corporation, besides paying that amount. On February 15 of this year the stockholders of the California Pow- der Works ratified the sale. . The di- rectors then began proceedings, accord- dissolve the corporation. ASKS FOR ACCOUNTING Folger owns 82 shares of stock of the California Powder Works. The par value of the shares is $100, and the | entire capltal.zation of the company is theretore $3.000,000. The directors of the California Pow- | S. Penniman, Frank der- Works are R | Turner, H. M. Barksdale, W. J. Web- ster, John Bermingham Jr, T. C. Du Pont and A. J. Moxham Th are named as defen 1ts in Folger’s suit; as are also M. A. de Laveaga and L. E. Lyons, - shareholders in the California Powder Works. T. C. Du Pont is presi- dent and A. J: Moxham vice president of the Du Pont de Nemonrs Company, which corporation is part of the so- lled powder trust. H. M. Barksdale a director in both the v)u Pont and California companies. Folger asks the court to compel the Du Pont Company to surrender to the Cdlifornia Powder Works all of the property transferred to it as a conse quence of the sale and to render an | accounting 1or the time that it has held the same. The court also is re quested to restrain the directors of the California Powder Works from pro- procesding further in their plan to dissolve the corporation. Folger fur- ther requests that a receiver be ap- pointed for the California Powder Works., The attorneys for the plain- | tiff are Stratton, Kaufmann and Far-| quar | The principal works of the Califor- | nia Powder Works are on the bay| shore north of Berkelay. R 7 Ae ey Best grocer’s slgn—Schilling’s Best. * g S LR MARINER KILLS HIMBELF Captajn Leon lived st 1380 Kansas street, ended his life with | a bullet in the grounds of the German Hospital | on Mondsy night. His body was found the next | morning. ~ Christensen was being treated at the hospital for consumption. A bank book with an ccount of $1052 was found among bis effects. | | The Western - Pacific quires more docks and the .creek is | needed for deepwater shi Extensive dredging operations will be necessary | thew K | for cruelty, faflure to provide, deser- ‘GOULD AND HARRIMAN TOJOIN FRIENDLY HANDS . OVER THE ISLAIS BAGIN | Dumbarton Cutoff Is Open to Both Under the National Law BLOCK RIVAL | Southern Pacific Unable to ‘Stop Western Pacific | on Peninsula |CANNOT Whuie Southern Pacific and western Pacific railroads are fighting for right to control the water front of Oakland they are not unfriendly on this side of the bay, according to| reports that emanate from what are considered suthoritative | The battle for terminals is| not being waged very fiercely about | the TIslais Creek basin, and as both| roads have secured possession of prop- erties adjacent to the Islais Creek it is probable that a great terminal yard will be established there for the hand- ling of freight for not only the South- ern Pacific, but the Western Pacific and part of the Sarta Fe's business. Dumbarton - Point cutoff, according to | United States law, cannot be used ex- clusively by the Southern Pacific Com- pany. The Southern racific can. hold the bridge by right of a builder, but| it must permit other trains than those of its liné to pass over the structure, providing the competing road pays tolls to the Harriman lines.. The cost of constructing the Bay Shore cutoff and the Dumbarton Point bridge will be about $7,000,000, and it is not at all unlikely that the Soutuern Pacific will try to get back some of the money invests, knowing that the. Western Pacific sure to get a foothold on the s0 usually sources. is | the peninsula, despite opposition. The Western Pacific has been work- ing the Islais, Creek terminal scheme for some time. The Santa Fe has the China Basin and ‘will not require much land in South San Francisco other than that which it is now operating upon; but the business of the transcontinen- tal lines ..as grown to such a propor-| tion lately that all of the roads inter- ested. in terminals on this side of the {bdy have had agents acquiring lands adjacent to the water front, which can be used in conjunction with the lands of other roads or operated separately as terminal grounds. The Western Pacific has quletly ac- quired a lot of valuable land near Islais Creek. The Southern Pacific on noting what its adversary was doing became ‘a factor in the market. It is said that arrangements were finally entered into between Harriman and the Gould people in the East whereby the Western Pacific was to be allowed | to use the Dumbarton cutoff and pay tolls to -the Southern Pacific for such freight as would be routed that way. could come into the territory south of the peninsula without any great difficulty and run up -the bay on another trestle, but this would be.a useless expenditure when | a combination could be. made. The| Santa -Fe iIs said to have been brought into the conference and what is tanta- mount to a traffic agreement, so far as terminals are concerned, arrived at. 1he State has been asked to set aside an appropriation for TIslais Creek improvements. The water front re- to accomplish this object, but the pro- ject is entirely feasible. The State is protected in its right of way to its docks and the docks that 1t might construct would not be controlled by any railroad nor would the revenue therefrom revert to otuer than the State. Virgil Bogue, constructing engineer for the Western Pacific, said yester- | day that he had not heard that his company had entered into any agree- ment with the Southern Pacific or the Santa Fe regarding terminal vards. He was inclined to believe that the Western Pacific would not seek to en- ter Tslais Creek. The company was trying to get a pier out from Oakland and would handle its fright cars from | the new mole en big ferryboats. How- | ever, it is known that it would be im- | possible for the Western Pacific to do a very large freight busincss unless it secured a big trackage on this side for its freight yards. That trackage is now In its control along Kentucky and other streets, but it stands in the names of others. The Southern Pacific also owns property there by proxy. e Have vour painting and paperhanging done by reliable decorators at reasonable prices. Phone Page 7005. A. H. Anderson & Co., 801 G. G. ave.* e DIVORCES GRANTED Divorces were granted yesterday by Judge Hosmer to May Slamon from Patrick Slamon for cruelty, and Judge Hunt to Margaret Kelleher from Mat- Francis Kelleher for cruelty. SQuits for divorce were filed by Hazel Adle against Charles Chester Adle tion and on statutory grounds; Mary Hughes against Henry Hughes for cruelty and desertion, and Mamie Me- Cracken against George McCracken for cruel the ing Gh Coachmen and exposed to all kinds of weather, preparation for such work is to drink a cup of Ghir- ardelli’s Cocoa before start- that satisfies, sustains and fortifies like cabmen who are frequently out in chilling night air and find the best out. There's nothing delicious | was a photograph of a gerl irardelli’s Cocoa on Beauty of California Women 4 , Ll Help Assert State’s Greatest Pride! MERICAN beauties, particularly those that come from California, create sensations in Spain, vie with those on the boulevards of Paris, and make mock of the elegance of carriage and dress which proclaims the beauty in London. The Call is anxious to find the particular California girl who can put the world to shame in the claim for beauty. Beyond the glory of the palm The Sunday Call is going to pay $150 in gold to the woman whose face is adjudged most beautiful by an impartial jury. To the next $50 will be given, to the third $25, and $10 each to the next twenty-five in rank. ES <+ | 1 % Poets, painters and photographers have a monopoly in the artistic judgment of feminine| beauty. pictured his ideal in rhymed words; the painter made his pigments immortalize the face or fo of his favorite model. When the photographer became a factor in the business of~art, his dr was to use his camera in reproducing “things as they are.” oped in the photographer his duty became that of picturing things as they ought to be—of usi The poets and painters were the monopolists before photography was invented. The poet rm | 1ty When the artistic instinct was devel- ng| backgrounds, draperies and lights in a way to make a plain face beautiful or an ordinary figure attractive. Among San Francisco's photograph-+- 2 : . 3 ers Arnold Genthe has reached the|on the boulevard are American women.|sons who have traveled over all the plane of ‘the artist: the right to vie|They. are not dressed in the absolute| world, not only in clvilized but un-| with the poets and painters in the por-| harmony of lines and color—even the | civilized parts, declare that they have| trayal of beauty—the beauty of form,| Paris working girl knows how to man- | been greatly {mpressed here with the| of character and of individuality. It|age that. The American is more prac- | remarkable beauty of the women and | was upon this idea of Genthe's accom- plishment that The Sunday Call, in pur- suit of its determination to find a Cali- fornia beauty who could take the crown from hicago girl who was the most beautiful of 6000 charming women, sought yesterday an interview with the artist, who has trained his camera upon tical than artistic. She is a thoroughly healthy girl, and her attractions, are not based upon fictitious things. She does not haye to. resort to artificial means to make her beauty apparent. “The London woman is one of abso- lute -elegance in carriage and taste of dress. ,The English make a mediocre generation. Is the end of Genthe's view. The Sunday Call feels has been given a liberal education the question of beauty, and its idea that California can pr or a score of women more numberless San Francisco girls and|face appear beautiful. It is due to according to beauty's standard, women, hundreds of whom are more | artificial means. that of the little lady who red beautiful than Miss Carson of Chicago.| “In Californla you find the really| 6000 aspirants to the honor in Chi-| % % beautiful woman not only among the' cago. | BERNARD SHAW PAID TRIBUTE | o, ..1leq upper class—the class that| Pictures are coming in rapidly. The Genthe has traveled. He has seen|gets into.the society columns—but the| beauty of some of them is distracting the cities of Spain, he has seen Paris, |real, and in many cases the higher,|the mind of the Beauty editor. He de- he has seen London. His pictures, made | type of beauty is found in other strata | clares, however, that he wants no more by camera, excited comment in the|-—the good middle class, and some-|stamp plctures, or other photographs English metropolis three years ago at|times in the class where circumstances | too small for reproduction, and In re- an exhibition of photographic art. Even | make it difficult to live. But Califor- | sponse to inquiry from those surren-| nia climate seems ‘to be an antidote | for that. ‘Among the poor there are| many really. beautiful women. | by the necessary stamps. “The Sunday Call's contest may not| —_— produce the most beautiful woman in California, but it will have one good result—it will make ‘the public ,ac- quainted with some beautiful faces that perhaps have not been noticed here- | tofore. Bernard Shaw, who has set the world dering a precious portrait, he pr. by the ears through the production of his dramas, paused over one of Gen- the’s pictures and wrote about it.- It| in San| Francisco's lower strata. Shaw said| that it was not photography—it was | | art. The portrait was not of a beatuy of the accepted type, but it was an art- ist’s ideal of a character, every line of | San Francisco Artist Joseph Greenbaum has an exce! which meant beauty, artistic and femi- i ¢ - | exhibition of paintings at Rabjohn nine. fres . SSAROMD A SHNSATION < Morcom's. 536 Van Ness avenue. He With Genthe thus equipped, The Sun-| “Three years ago the most beautiful |is one of the San Francisco artists who | day Call, in the furtherance of .its|Woman I saw'in Spain was a California lost everything A W He quest for. a California beauty, receives |&ifl.~ She created a tremendous sensa- | been painting very industriously in the Interview granted b¢ Genthe with | tion there. But beauty is an elusive | Angeles. where he has a studio the pleasure that a novice accords to|thing. I knew Professor Eberlin, one|paintings in the present exhibition of the greatest of European sculptors. the expression of an expert. Genthe | 3 clude a number of very beautiful vie sald, ameng other things: | He had a model which he pronounced |from Catalina Island and s “Beauty has an indefinite quamy!lhe most- perfect ‘example of feminine | portraits, among them one of C and charm of its own, which is not. a | Peauty and he declared that her beauty | Boris de Londonier, a Russian soc mere regulation of proportions. The | Should be,recorded. Heé made complete | man of Los. Angeles California girl is liabie to lack certain | Measurements of her filgure and a ——— aristocratic finesse that cannot exist|Plaster. cast. ~He. used them in the Mello-Creme Chocolates in a new country; It is the result of|Production of his greatest works. After| g5 named for the mellow cream two_years she came back and he found that . her beauty.and her proportions had changed. So beauty of face and figure is a transitory thing. “There are more beautiful women seen here than anywhere else, though | the most beautiful woman may be out- side of California and belong to an- can never be.perfect beauty. gthex Ang older rmge. | 5 . “But taken all In all, we ought to| SURPASS EVEN IN PARIS bia eryh. proud ot ts Bawttics that we | “In Paris the most beautiful women | have. of their centers. Only at Haas' ( Stores, Fillmore at Eilis and Van at Sutter. 2 S N AR A STREBT CARS BLOCKADED For forty minutes yesterday aft noon car traffic was blocked at Fou and Market streets through the bl ing out of a fuse in car 73§ of McAllister-street line. It was the th time in a week that the same car I Some- artists and literary per-!blocked traffic from generations of culture. The beauty of | a California. girl is wonderful in its association with absolute physical and moral health. I think that one of the| greatest blessings that California has given to its women is that they have been brought up under those condi- tions, because’ beauty, without health, ! This CLEAN SWEEP SALE includes every article of Furniture on our floor excepting kitchen furnishings and mattresses. Think what it means. A saving of one dollar in every four. We make this radical reduction on account of the immense overstock. We must have the room for the new spring goods which are in transit. To gain this room we give you the benefit of these prics. CALL EARLY AND GET FIRST SELECTION. T ol Cobbler Seat Rocker— M of selected 3 . Saddle Seat Rocker — hed: b Saddle Seat Rocker—Curly| Mission Rocker — Solid Weathered oak. Stat rigidly braced; birch. Turned spindle back. oak, weathered. Slat back. Excellent cabinet splendid value. A chair that is worth easily back. Dull finished. work. A splendid value. §6. Breuner’s price ..... orth $3.50. ner's price Breuner's price..... Breu- 2.75 |1451-1401 | I'VanNess NearPine the children—the beauties of the next | inter- that it on ks to| to return all photographs accompanied EXHIBIT BY GREENBAUM Paintings From the South Shown by | & er- rt W the | fra has { ! Resolvent is the best biood medic Dr. Arnold Genthe Gives His Opinion BLACK, [TCHING \ SPOTS ON FACE! Physicians Called It Eczema in* Worst Form — Treated Disease F for a Year but Could Not Cure It — Patient Became Despondent— | Suffering Promptly Allayed and | DREADFUL DISEASE ‘ CURED BY CUTICURA l 1 | « About four years ago I was afflicted with black splotches all over my face and a few covering my body, which produced a severe itching irritation, a 1 Wwhich caused me a great deal of annc ance and suffering, to such an ext that I was forced to{ml in two of leadin; hysicians of ————. Altex 2 zhor%ughy;am;mtion of the dreaded complaint they announced it to be skin eczema in its worst form. They treated me for the same for the length of one year, but the treatment did ¥ no " Finally 1 became despo and decided to discontinue their @er- vices. Shbrtly afterwards, my husban in reading a copy of a weskly New Yori paper saw an advertisement of the Cu cura Remedies. He purchased the e | tire outfit, and after using the conter of the first bottle of Cuticura Resalvers in copnection with the Cuticura Soap and Olntment, the breaking out entire!v stopped. I continued the use of tha Cuticura Remedies for six months, a: after that splotch was entire gone and the affected parts were left as clear as ever. I have not felt a sym tom of the eczema since, which was three years ago. The Cuticura Reme- dies nct only cured me of that dreadf disease, eczema, but of other complicated | troubles as well, and I have been the means of others being cured of the same disease by the Cuticura Remedies, and | I don't hesitate in saying that Cuticura that the world has ever known. _\r;’f Lizzie E. 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