The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 28, 1907, Page 8

The San Francisco Call JOHN D. SPRECKELS o 5s v Alein s nia B TDEICTOP: CHARLES W. HORNICK.. . .. - . .General Manager ERNEST S. SIMPSON ...Managing Editor Address All Communications to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL “Pemporary 56"—Ask for The Call. The Operator Wil Connect You With the Department You Wish. iephone, BUSINESS OFFICE Open Until 11 O" BDITORIAL ROOMS.. : ...Market and Third Streets, San Francisco ock Every Night in the Year. Market and Third Streets ....1651 Fillmore Stireet, Near Post Telephone Oakland 1083 Telephone Alameda 559 MAIN CITY BRANCH )AKLAND OFFICE—1018 BroadWay.........c..co.. ALAMEDA OFFICE—1435 Park Street............. RK “HICAGO OFFICE--Marquette Bldg...C. George Krogness, Reprasentative ¢ OFFICE—2169 Shattuck Avenue.......Telephone Berkeley 77 B NEW YORK OFFICE—30 Tribune Bldg...Stephen B. Smith, Representative WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT ..Ira E. Bennett SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by Carrier, 20 Cents Pen Week. 75 Cents Per Month. Single f| Coples 5 Cents. Terme by Mail, Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 1 year. (including Sunday). 6 months _By single month NDAY CALL, 1 vear . WEEKLY CALL, 1 year —. ( Daily . FOREIGA | day . 4.15 Per Year Extra POSTAGE. | wWeekly S8 ..... 1.00 Per Year Extra Entered at the United States Postoffice as Second Class Matter. POSTMASTERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS. Sample Copies Will Be Forwarded When Requested. subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to NEW AND OLD ADDRESS tn order to insure a prompt compliance with their request. ALY Mat e both and correct THE PANAMA PROCESS OF ELIMINATION \ | | digging of Panama canal assumes the shape of a pr&"C655; limination that is designed to carry us inexorably to the conclusion that there i only One who can make that ditch] Id water. Long ago the country ceased to count the pro-| i “eminent engineers” that have thrown up the job and! ted themselves from the payroll. Some were boosted off/ ignominy and some slid off as if the way had- been greased; no matter what the process, they are now all off. This pro-| n of engineers has consumed a full year passing a given The professional gen®emen who have not yet been given oportunity to nibble at the isthmus have a real grievance, but | »s there is only a few of them left. How often the commission of supervision has been organized | and reorganized is not to be said offhand. It is enough that the fficial death rate has beep abnormally high. THe big contractors| » imagined they knew a good thing when they saw it have| *en taught a lesson. They are incompetent,-irrelevant and im-| aterial. The contractors, like the engineers and the gilt-edged Commissioners, have joined the great majority and been admitted t embership in the Down and Out Club. This process of elimination, sometimes painful, sometimes | but always infallible in operation, is what theologians call| “evidence of design.” The defunct officials have learned to know their creator and appreciate his purpose to demonstrafe a long- it want for an Exalted Personage to take charge once for all and dig that canal. The aching void may be expected to hecome acute and clamorous about the time that Theodore Roosevelt retires from 1e White House. The canal?. Oh, well, the canal is mostly a state of mind that happy, among the engineering profession. The mere digging of the canal vould destroy it altogether as a source of inspiration. It is nobler in the mind to cherish the canal idea than to get in a vulgar stew | about making the dirt fly. than water ; It is easier to make words run up hill| THE ISLAIS CREEK PROJECT HE fact that the Southern Pacific Company and, probably, the Western Pacific own lands in the neighborhood of Islais Creek should not be regarded as any reason for opposition to the project in hand to make a sheltered harbor in that neighbor- hood. Doubtless the Tailroad companies will profit largely by the proposed public improvements, and we rejoice that it should be so, because, at the same time, the business and industries of the city will be materially benefited by the creation of facilities badly needed for the commerce of the port. 1 The Call will endeavor to help the railroads and every other| industrial enterprise as long as they keep within legitimate lines.! Within such lines their prosperity is identical with that of the{‘ whole public. : | Although the railroads will benefit by the improvement of | Islais Creek, this plan is not at all a railroad job in the customary | sense. The bill is offered and promoted by Senator Welch, who is most unpopular ‘with the railroad end of the’ organization. It is backed by the improvement clubs and commercial bodigs, and it commends itself by intrinsic merit. The fact that the railegads will profit incidentally by the plan is fortunate in one sénse, be-| cause it is common knowledge that the Southern Pacific has larger representation than the people in the present ILegislature. i \ ROOM FOR BOTH RYAN and Roosevelt are both talking about State rights, but they see different sides of the shield. Brofher:Bryan, after diligently keeping his ear to the ground waiting for a hurch én the Japanese muddle, has contrived to persuade himself firially | 1at the Federal Government has no power to meddle ih the ad- rinistration of the common schools. Most of us arrived at that con- clusion long ago. and there is shrewd conjecture that Mr. Roosevelt has himself made the same discovery, although he has notsas yet declared his conversion except by dropping the suit, brought in the Federal courts against the local school authorities.. Mr. Roosevelt is on safer ground when he pleads for the fullest excrcise of Federal authority in the regulation of corporations. In iress at Harvard on Saturday the President sajd: ! So it is with the great questions which group themselves around the| control of corporations in the interest of the public. There has been a| curious revivil of the doctrine of State rights in connection with these ques- tions by the people who know that the States cannot' with justice to both | sides practically control the corporations, and who therefore advocate such | control because they do not venture to express their real wish, which is that | there shall be no coptrol at all. . Honest and fair dealing railway corporations ! will gain and not lose by adequate Federal comtrol; most emphatically, it is both the duty and to the interests of our people to deal fairly with such corporations, and to see that a premium is put upon the honest management them, and that those who invest in them are amply protected. But those who invoke the doctrine of State rights to protect State corporate creations in predatory activities extended through other States are as shortsighted as those who once invoked the same doctrine to protect the special slave- bolding interest. The States have shown that they have not. the ability to curb the power of syndicated wealth, and, therefore, in the interest of the people, it must be done by national action. I'here is a certain amount of truth in the charge that the States have not done their duty in this regard. California, for instance, is one of the worst sinners. We have no law against trusts and seem powerless to get one. There is no prohibition of rebates on freight between points within the State, and the present Legislature will certainly not give us anything of the sort. Our Railroad Commis-{are 8o ell known here and who made # TS as promoted the discovery of an unsuspected talent for oratory : .‘" YgLLO, 15 THIS ROGERS 7 RAISE OI- "ANOTHER ; 1 | { | | | a\ N =\ / 7 ) | N i i | ! | | | —ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC. sion is the most useless body on the footstool.. But because Cali- [# e fornia and some other States have neglected ‘their duty, it does not| = g | follow that we have lost the power.” We have plenty offgood ex-f Goss;]p Of the DOlngS | amples. Ohio, Wisconsin, Minngsota and Texas all hold a sharp| 3 check rein on the big corpogations and other States are preparing to ‘-_}_ Of Raxlroad Men il follow .their example. T / V7 : J The problem willi not- be solved as Mr: Roosevelt appears to think by an inordinate. extension of the Federal pofvers’ under % strained construction df the constitution, but by an honest co-opera- tion of the dual forms of government, each in their propef spheres. There is plenty of work for both State and Federal machinery-of governmient. ot s e 4 A A POLITICAL WAR utions, ac- € It is this acceptance of disorder as'a form of property that lies at the root of the warlike, excursion of Nicaragua against Honduras. | Both of these republics are blessed with revolutionary organizations HE Latin-American peoples rec‘ogfiiié'péfftjc'nf‘re ol companied by a little blood-letting, as a vested. interest. in good standing, and the Honduran disturbers are-siding with Nica- Jragua, while the Nicaraguan filibusteros are backing Honduras. The '} Homduran revolutionaries, coming deross the border under safeguard of the Nicaraguan army, have established a provisional government within easy reach of the frontier, so that a speedy retreat may be available should the fortune of war bring disaster. ., These uneasy. folk are a sore trial to Uncle Sam. It is hard to keep clear of the mess. Indeed, we found ourselves giving official recognition and support to a revolution in Colombia as the easiest way of taking control of the canal zone. In Cuba Sec¥etary Taft felt himself constrained to treat with the revolutionary. party:. There was, in faet, little to choose between the two ends of the quarrel. The party in power would have made equally serviceable revolution® aries had they lost the election. Our sgldiers who went down thére to ‘resgore order were free to say tHat the revoltfionaries were nothing better than a-pack oy horsethieves, but when the adjustment jcame it was made very largelywon the basis of. recognizing the right of the rebellious bushwhackers to keépithe horses they had ‘stolen. It is'the Latin-American way to‘do politics with a machete, and there really is' very little to choose between the ‘contending factions: ; o S e 2 & g 3 ; : S S > ; b .. .". The Smart et ot S 5 RS. FREDERICK ' CHARLES {80 many friends during the time that » MORGAN will entertain at a ?en%:alfiloore ‘was guloned here, are [ _|In Washington, D. C., at present and tea today at her home in Cali have takgn\ui_' Rt ot he Mast fornia street in honor of ‘mr,bofgugh:_ 7, niece, -..ss Ruth”Morton, whose mars| = ., & .= = . riage to Parker Holt will occur on| 'Mfs. Tifghmau and Mrs. Hal* Tilgh- April 25, About two hundred cards Man, who have been in Switzerland during the wintér, have sailed from | London for New. York and will reach | €alifornia early in March.. Mrs. Hal Tilghman, who “was formerly Alice Merry, has noEbeen in San Fran- have been sent out and Mts. Morgan and the attractive guest of honor will be assisted in recelving by Mrs. H. D. Morton, Mrs. Deamer, Mrs. D. Hel Miss Grace Holt, Miss Edith Holt, Miss Walters, Miss' Cornelia Dupern and Miss Kathierine Callahan. » . 5! . 8N 3 The f wedding of olsco’ since her margiage several years ago, having made heér home /in South 'A'irlcl. and Europe since then, and she 1 be gladly welcomed back by her many, friends. Mrs Tilghman Sr. was in* Cl}jflmnlg two or three years ago for a visit, but”returned to Europe ;Ilh Mrs. George Page and Miss/ Leslie age. 3 . ‘Miss Florence Schwartz and John Walter will take place today at high noon In the pres- ence of the members of the two fam ilies at the home of the bride’s uncle- in-law and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Stahl, in Jackson street. Miss Pearl Schwartz will be the maid of honor and Miss Marian- Walter and Miss. Be- atrice Stahl will . be the bridesmaids. Bdgar Walter will be the best man. Rabbi Nieto “will be the officiating clergyman. An interesting feature of the affair is the fact that on Monday next Miss Pearl Schwartz and . Edgar Walter will be married and !he,&brlfl’ and groom of today will, in their turn, act as mald of honor and best man. Im . & e AN Y Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Porter Bishop and their litle son, Thomas Porter Bishap Jr. who have been at the Bish- op ranch near Sapta Barbara for the past few wee.x-:fre expected home next wéeki They have had & very en- joyable trip and Mr. Bishop has done mmuch shooting, which was the prin- cipal object of mel‘i lm:th rn sojaurn. - - r e | Ward Barron is in emn Barb: present, -having made the trip down mediately after this lagjer wedding r?uu his country place at. Mayfield in John Walter and his: bride will leave|his automebile. « ‘.. 5 for a six months' trip through Eurgpe, | : g w % 5 where they will be joined later b,&a. . Mr. and Mrs, Hi T @ngton gar Waiter and his bride. who wil go R P e ton by way of Japp.and China. i ”k”“‘.“‘r Fr v ; R rer Ba Mis§ Christine Pomeroy and Miss Lucy Gwin Coleman are at present in Santa Barbara, where they will be th gue: of Miss Elizabeth Livermore until the end of the week. 5 ‘ . s . young matrons of the v i invariably here ._Miss Lily McCalla has returned from | een. . & visit of & week with her parents, Ad- : : miral and Mrs. Bowman B. McCalla, in S A ’ General and Mrs. Francis Moore, who Miss | Hotel on April 15. Not all of as much in de- The Southern Pacific and the Santa | | Fe have a’joint fight on their hands | {in Arizona and gvhile the local legal forces of the Southern Pacific in the Territory will handle the mat- | ter, Edward Chambers of the Santa| Fe will be in Phoenix to aid Coun- sel Norton of ‘his company th| his advice. The Legislature of Ari-| zona is ' determined to make a re-| duction of the present freight rates! and proposes to reduce the maximum freight rate from 15 cents per ton per mile to 7% dents per ton per mile. It/ Is needless to say that both roads are | determined to fight the measure. The! railroad people bring forward an argu- | ment, which seems to be a potent one, | and that is that the Legislature of| the Territory has no power over rail-| | roads, inasmuch as the amendment to | the Hepburn bill gives the right to! the Interstate Commerce Commission | to legislate for transportation com- | panies, and as this is the supreme law, the Legislature of Arizona has no jur- isdiction in the matter of regulating freight rates. . The freight getters of the different lines in the city are telling automobile | agents tall stories nowadays as to the | speed that can be attained by thejy | trains’ ‘when carrying automobiled Since Winghip of the Ilinois Central | {made his record with a traintoad of automobil®s, each freight agent promising the same kind of a runm. “It is impossible to meet the demand for automobiles,” said a ‘freight man | vestérday. ~“We are almost bothered out of our lives by the agents who are shipping cars out here. Why, I took an order from an agent this morning | for twenty carloads of autos and think nothing of it. There w. a time, though, when an order liké that.would be the talk of the streef. Now some of jus feel kind of scared when we see an automobile man, for fear that he may give us an order for two train- loads, of cars.” . is | . e That the appointment of F. W. M. | Cutcheon as general #ounsel of the Western Pacific does not mean that W. J. Bartnett will sever his connection with the Gould'lines is the common talk among the Western Pacific peo- ple. It has been known for some time that Bartnett has been anxious -for more time to attend to his own busi- ness and as the hard work is almost all over from a legal point of view and now on the matters to be attended to. will be all more or less routine, Bartnett desires to be relieved of the pressure of office work. He wili con- tinue with the company as a consult- ing lawyer. It is not thought likely that Cutcheon will come®to the coast to live. ¢ . Emery Olliver, district engineér of the Wegterd Pacific, with head at Orof¥ille, was in the city y day, consulting with Chief Engineer Nirgil G. Bogue as to the work that being done In that section of the tSate. ' . . . i The many friends of George Strong, who is in the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul office, will be glad to learn that he is on the road to recovery. Strong had to undergo a delicate op- eration and it was at one time feared that he would not survive his sickness, . . . ‘H. E. Needham, who has been the generat agent of the Tonopah and Tide- water Railroad at Ludlow, has jeen transferréed to Los Angeles and C. J, ‘Ennis wil succeed him at Ludlow. spending- some time jn Southern Cali- fornia as the guest of Mrs. Howard untington. . . Plans are being made by three great charities of the city, the San Fran- Francisco cisco Polyclinic, the San Nursery for Homeless Children and the Doctor's Daught: to give a nade concert and ball at thelFaigmont ar- complete as Yet, But a mgqlis m‘.’fé held - this grew out of a chance remark. | observed to Gunter, 1 bet you you couldn’'t put me into a book and make | me interesting.” ters | The Insider Tells how “Archie” Gunter was problem of - his family in salad days a_nd won fame because he would not take a dare from H “Mr. Barnes” | T one timte the prime worry of the Civil Engineering A ily of Archibald Clavering Gunter Didn’t Suit Gunter concerning what would become « boy. He had attended the University of Califomia.. wvhere he had studie the engineering college, but he didn't make a go of his profession. He too restless. What to make of Archie was the Gunter family problem wrote a novel and the question was answered. Before long he was dr four-in-hands at Newport. The people liked the “Mr. Barnes of New style of book. The chemist, the engineer, the problem of his relatives at last found a trade at which he could succeed. When he died in Chicago Sunday Gunter closed one of the ™ | remunerative careers ever lived by a man who lived by his typewrite Archibald Clavering Gunter's works will never be' considered lite and He lived a generation too soon; he never became one of the “s i sellers” because his books always sold in greater numbers than the “Sj Best” ever ‘dared to. If there had mot been a fire it would be a2 shame that Gunter marie was not “literature,” for then we would have had a “literary landmark the old Gunter house on Washington street, above Taylor. It was one of the bldest houses on the hill, and while the entrance wx on Washington street the front of the place overlooked Taylor street, and all of the bay and Marin and Alameda counties for that matter front porch was one of the finest vistas in San Francisco. It 1 From was m inspiring site. One of the features of the dwelling was an unusually large living r uilt expressly for the purpose of giving Archie a theater in which to uce his youthful dramas. The mother of Gunter died several years ago and the property passe out of the family. The mother’s second husband, Gunter's stepfather Judge Provines, who lives at Healdsburg, Sonoma County. n pros b d 3 Gunter was best known to his club friends sut this way as “Archie,” and as a good storyteller about the round table than as a successful novelist. His best-known novel, by the way, Barnes of New York,” was written just twenty years ago. The character One Banks, a celebrated rifle shot, once He Has to Publish First Book Himself rat ot Gunter took the dare, though the first draft of the st was in dramatic form, as it seemed to the author that the hero was } adapted for stage purposes. In this first draft, which was written in York, the hero was called Thomas Jefferson. Gunter had to take a ¥ trip to San Francisco and left the manuscript behind. Finding | detained out here longer than he had expected, he began to write a new sion of Banks' life, but the name he had christened his hero escaped him Just then he chanced to be introduced to a Mr. Barnes of New he filled in the hiatus with that name, which was permitted to stand in t final draft. The book was offered to most of the publishers in this countr one would consider it, so the author finally decided to publ i It came out in 1886, and was not a best seller at once. Indeed, it fell a flat as the proverbial pancake, but one copy.being sold on the first day of publication. = Within séven months, however, it was selling at the nearly 3500 a day. ° In England copyright was neglected, and there’ were half a sc pirated editions. Ten English dramatic companies had it on the boa the same time. Gunter himself dramatized the American Mr. Barnes, after eighteen years is still alive. ~Including newspaper editions, probably several million copies of the novel have circulated in the United States it may certainly be called, if not the great American novel, at least the best seller to date. 4 York, 2 Gunter Proves His ét T\'as‘Gx{Antcr who _really“rAn?'de Colonel Dick T i Savage's “My Official Wife” a success, not Ability as Editor by pooming it, but by blue-penciling it lib- erdlly before the reading world got it. Savage showed the manuscript to his friend Gunter and asked the latter to tell him what he thought of it. Gun returned the story with free cuts of the choicest passages. Savage. didj: like the mutilation, I have heard, and made forcible protest, whereat er shrugged his shoulders and told him that he could do as he pleased, but if it were his book he would not run the parts he had marked out. Finally Savage let it go to press with the emendations, and the result | was what Gunter had predicted—the public accepted the novel with ac< clamation. But some time later Savage wrote “The Little Lady of La< gunitas,” and did not ask Gunter to edit it. The Little Lady found but » small circle of readers, which seems to illustrate the fact that Gunter knew how to edit. Jatk London is facing yet another charge of Lond?n Tells Why plagiarism. This time it is his most '.idgly He's No Plagiarist praised work, “The Call of the Wild,” which he took from “My Dogs of the Northland.” I am told that London acknowl- edges the source of “The Wild,” but says that he wrote to the author con- cerning it before he worked out his tale, and he defies any one to accuse him of deception. ' As Jack reasons, if he takes his material from narratives of fact and weaves it into the form of fiction, he is committing no erime. He could use an incident that happened to himself, or which he witnessed, or which was narrated to him either by word or by letter, so he argues that he may adapt facts no matter who furnishes them. There is’one certainty, which is that London's manner of telling a story is what makes it, fully as much as the material in it. He draws a parallel between himself and the writers of historical novels, all of whom do the same thing without let or hindrance. Perhaps the chief difference between London and the other writers is that he doesnt let his material get cold before he handles it. His career as an author, by the way, is panning out singularly like that of his own creation, St. Vincent, in “A Daughter of the Snows.” B . .". Personal Mention .. .. M. J. Gordon, a mining man of Spo- kane, is at the Savoy. ’ H. K. Buck, a merchant of Philadel- He spent two days in Washington and called upon President Roosevelt. Arthur Gamwell, a lumber merchant phia, is at the Palace. J: B. Hunter and wife of Monterey are at the St. Francis. J. W. Preston, a prominent lawyer of Ukiah, is at the Hamlin. Joseph McDonnell. an oil producer of Santa Maria, is at the Hamlin. W. T. Virgin, a banker from Gold- field, is registered at the Savoy. George D. Evans, a furniture man of Grand Rapids, is at the Hamlin. Andrew D. Pierce, a capitalist of Bos- ton, and his wife are at the St. Francis. A. C. Turner, a manufacturer of chairs in the East, i at the Hamlin. Frank Turnbull, a manufacturer of machinery at Boston, is at the Hamlin. James Whitaker and wife of Galt are sojourning for a few days at the Balti- more. 8 William Edwards of Shanghal is at the Palace. He is returning to the Orfent. ’ J. Parker Whi visiting the at the United ‘3 two weeks' leave of absence. tney of Rocklin is gybrn:.'phynmln States Naval Ofiesr John P.’ of Seattle, is making an extended visit at the St. Francis. A. J. Grower, a merchant of Mil- waukee, will be domiciled at the Balti- more for several days. Luther H. n, & prominent mem~ ber of the California Club at Los Aa= geles, is at the Palace. Johp S. Worthington and wife of Denver here on a visit to friends and are at the Hamlin. Dr. A. C. Panton, nc of the most prominent surgeon: physicians in Portland, Or, Is at the Savoy. ‘Willlam L. Van Blanken, a prominent merchant of Auburm, N. Y., and his wife are registered at the Hamlin. A. M. Webster and wife, accompanied by Miss Linnell, of Bosten, who been touring the coast, are at the lin. Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan and wi Chicago, ‘who have been u coast, left for Portland, Or, last and after a short stay there will re- turn to this city. Mrs. Bevan is th* only ¢hild and heir to the great Bar- ln,-:rmhnm