The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 1, 1907, Page 8

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It puts the question squarely on its without confusion or complication of the sort heretofore nest purpose to measures professing to com- e .object I at the Wolfe amendment is a frank confession of the cowardice of legislators whose fear to practice even approximate economy with the State’s funds can only be restrained by organic biennially on useless merits, wi attac pass the s fact t law is a second onsideration. The Legislature now in session | is spending $2600 a day for attaches, less than| half of whom a anything like labor for the tribute tHeir sponsors wring overburdened taxpayers. Under the pro- a visions of the Wolfe amendment this tribute cannot exceed $1000 a day—a net saving of $1600. That the maximum allowed under this amendment is more than liberal is also beside the question. It is the best the people can hope to get. It contains no provision for in- n of legislators or extension of the constitu-| tion on the duration of legislative sessions. It provides for a maximum expenditure considered actually necessary by some conservative Senators and members. Once a part of the organic law it will not be easily tinkered or amended. It has the indorse- ment of Governor Gillett, who, disgusted with the profligacy of the Legislature, and f: g to prevent an unparalleled looting of the treasury, insisted that some fairly decent constitutional barrier be placed between the State’s money and subsequent Legislatures. It is free from dangerous loopholes and complication of propositions. Senator Wolfe, who is charged with its passage, strenuously op- posed the grab that has made the thirty-eighth session infamous. His efforts are in good faith. His amendment should be carefully distinguished from amendment 16, which provides for an increase of compensation for legislators, and it should be adopted. creased compensatio tional lin LEAVITT COMMITTEE'S STANDARD FORM OF POLICY N an editorial discussion of Leavitt’s committee bill providing for a standard form of fire insurance policy—the measure unani- mously passed by the Senate on Wednesday—a San Francisco morning paper said: “It has hardly been printed and has not been scrutinized either by the insurance men or large buyers of insurance.” It is but fair to Senator Leavitt and his committee to contro- | wert an assertion misleading and springing from palpable ignorance of the facts. It may be true that the bill brought out by the Scnatc{ committee had not been scrutinized by large buyers of insurance.{ But the insurance men had the fullest opportunity to familiarize themselves with the minutest detail of the measure. The insurance | committee began work immediately upon the organization of the| Senate. It has met regularly three times each week in conformity with the programme announced when the committee was organ- ized. The committee has never met behind closed doors, Chairman Leavitt consistently refusing to permit an executive session. The State by its Insurance Commissioner, the insurance com- panies by their accredited attorney, the press and all citizens who have cared to avail themselves of the invitation and opportunity to hear and participate in the discussions have been present at every meeting. Every provision of the bill has been threshed out. Every person who chose has been given a hearing. That the Leavitt committee’s bill is not perfect nor beyond the need of conservative amendment no member of the committee pre- tends to believe. That many features of the New York standard form of policy insisted upon by the insurance men have been rejected or modified is also freely admitted. But that there has been an at- tempt to railroad through some mysterious measure is an unjus- sifiable accusation The committee has sent out a bill, faulty though it be, that has Leen considered in a manner accorded no other proposed legisla- -tion at the hands of incumbent legislators, and that committee is en- titled to full credit for working with a zeal and faithful and ap- parently honest application to the solution of the difficult problem assigned to it, which if exhibited even in a small degree by other jegislative committees would result inevitably in fewer and bet- ter laws. > AMUSING MORALS OF HIGH FINANCE HE outraged moral sense of Mr. Harriman that led him—he says so himself—to extirpate Mr. Stuyvesant Fish amuses. His virtuous indignation over breaches of trust began and ended with Fish. That which was wrong for Fish was all right for Harriman. % * Mr. Harriman accuses Mr. Fish of using funds of the Illinois Central for personal profit. It is charged by him that Fish de- posited large sams of the railroad money in a trust company in which he was personally interested. Tt is further said by Harriman that this trust company was not a very safe concern, but this is a detail that does mot essentially vary the nature of the offense 1d save $100,000 now squandered | -~ he More I Try to Pacify Him The Louder He Yells| —CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER. charged. It is a grave dereliction of duty that corporation officials {should use the stockholders’ money for personal profit. | That is exactly what Harriman has been doing ever since he | got control of Union Pacific. His operations have not been as raw .or direct as those which he attributes to Fish, but in their essence |{they are the same. It seems that Mr. Harriman might be able to find a better reason for ousting Fish than the size of his' own awakened con- ‘scicnce. That organ—a sort of railroad organ—is swollen in spots |and lean in others. The spectacle of Mr. Harriman confessing the sins of Stuyvesant Fish might make Julius Kruttschnitt laugh, | which is very bad for him. We almost prefer the explanation that makes the froth on the small beer chronicles of society that the lady magnates quarreled over their teacups until Illinois Central | was nearly torn up by the roots. The flirt of a tempestuous petti- | coat is more dangerous than a conscience that runs in blinkers. Mr. { Harriman’s conscience is for external use. GOING TO CHURCH AS A STIMULANT M EORGE BERNARD SHAW finds in going to church a stimu- The practice explains the intellectual achievement to lant. which he modestly refers. churchly atmosphere beats whisky and beefsteaks. Mr. Shaw’s picturesque demonstration: It will not be disputed, T presume, that an unstimulated saint can work as hard and as long and fiercely on occasion as a stimulated sinner. A comparison of the works of our carnivorous drunkard poets with those | of Shelley or of Dr. Johnson’s dictionary with that of the vegetarian Littre |is sufficient to show that the secret of attaining the highest eminence either in poetry or in dictionary compiling in our monstrous habit of bringing animals into existence for the express purpose of barbarously slaughterifg them, roasting their corpses and eating them. 1 myself have tried the experiment of not eating meat or drinking coffee or spirits for more than twenty years past without, as far as I can discover, placing myself at more than my natural disadvantage, rela- | tively, to those colleagues of mine who patronize the slaughter house and | the distillery. But, then, I go to church. tea, This demonstration is not an fast food nor yet a call to follow the way of salvation. If it be urged that Mr. Shaw’s great exemplar, Shelley, did not go to church except ‘under compulsion, Mr. Shaw would surely plead that the stimulating church of his dreams had not been discovered in Shelley’s day. is church with a difference, and one wonders whether it is discover- Mr. Shaw will have none of your brimstone { gospel churches. He will not tolerate the “materialisms that help |us to believe the incredible and the intellectualisms that help us Having thus reduced religion to its low- able even today. to think the unthinkable.” est denomination, Mr. Shaw bids or belief or prayer or any other vanity, so that the soul, freed from all that crushing lumber, may open all its avenues of life to the holy air of the church.” It might seem from Mr. Shaw’s description of the ideal church for intellectual stimulus that there would be nothing left of it but going to sleep and taking up the collection. —_— S The Smard Set . =, The soul-stirring influence of the To quote is to be found neither in alcohol nor millions of useless and disagreeable advertisement of a favorite break- It us go to church “without thought RS. E. WALTON HEDGES will be the hostess at a dinner on the evening of March 14 in hon- or of Miss Loraine de la Mon- tanya, the charming little flancee of | | Edward Davis, to whom her engage- ment was recently announced, causing one of the pleasant surprises of the winter. . . . Mr. and“Mrs. Willlam G. Irwin, Miss Helene Irwin and Miss Julia Langhorne will leave today for Coronado, where they will spend a week or more, going down for the polo tournament. . ;T Mrs. John F. Boyd and Miss Louise Boyd went from thelr San Rafael home early In the week to Santa Barbara for = stay at the Hotel Potter. - . . Mrs. Eleanor Martin has spent much of her time at Burlingame since the beginning of Lent as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Martin and other rela- tives or friends in the attractive sub- urb. PP B Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Carolan will go down from San Mateo today to Coronado for polo week. They will be accompanied by Miss Katrina Page- Brown. _ James D. Phelan has returned from a brief stay at Santa Barbara, but ex- pects to g0 down again in about & fort- night for a longer v.llh. . Maude Younger's many friends were delighted to again welcome her in California after her brief Eastern trip, and It is probable that she will re- main here for some weeks longer, as her business Interests demand her . .. Personal C. C. Mueller of Fresno is at the Bal- timore. C. L. Dashlell of New York is at the Hamlin. Rafael Y. Mendez of Goldfield is at the Palace. - P. C. Thede, a Madera lumberman, is at the St. Francis. C. E. Condon, a mining man of Gold- field, is at the lin. E. W. Haesloop of New York 1= reg- istered at the Hamlin. < : 0. A. Hall of San Jose will be at the Palace for several days. Herbert E. Cutler and wife of Salt Lake are at the Hamlin. 3 presence in San Francisco. Miss Young- er's clever and interesting articles in McClure's magazine on her experiences as an amateur waitress in New York restaurants are causing a sensgtion, both because of their merit and on ac- count of their value as actual expe- riences of this clever girl in her sot- tlement work. IR e Mrs. Gilbert Brooke Perkins, who was the guest of her mother, Mrs. M. P. Huntington, here for a -brief stay, has returned to her home in Pasadena. ; A - Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Cornwall, who came up last week from Coronado, where they were married on February 14, left last night for Bellingham, Wash., where they will remain about three weeks, returning here then to remain permanently. Wi Mrs. Marguerite Hanford will be one of the many who are turning their faces toward Santa Barbara this spring, and will go down during the present month for a stay of some weeks. e o General and Mrs. S. S. Sumner, who are s0 popular here, are at present ut the Kirkwood, Camden, 8. C., where they are lpond'lnt several months. P Mrs. Philip Banctoft left yesterday for a visit at Coronado, where she will spend some time with her aunt prior to the latter's departure for an Eastern trip. Mrs. Bancroft’'s home was for- merly in the southy and she will be entertained much in an informal way during her Iojguru there. . . Lieutenant Commander N. A. McCully, | U. S. N, went down last week to Santa Barbara for a brief stay at the Potter. Mention .". .". A. J. Martin, a wholesale druggist of Petaluma, is at the Savoy. Former Senator Thomas Kearns of Salt Lake is at the St. Francis. George Hendry, a merchant of Da- troit, Mich., is registered at Jfim - more. A W. J. Doran and wife Mrs. A.‘& Cheney of Los Angeles are at the St. E. A. Neil, a merchant of 1t is in thgwm;fiv«flm‘:‘g the Savay. 155 Rl Gossip of the Doings of Railroad Men g The actual promoter of the Monterey, Fresno and Eastern is now supposed to be the Santa Fe, though the officials of that company will not admit that they have anything to do with the pro- Jected road. The Monterey-Fresno, which was at one time regarded with something akin to skepticism, is now being looked upon as an actuality and the fact that it has secured the promise of a right of way down H street to Merced street in Fresno looks like business. This means that the new line will parallel the Southern Pacific in_Fresno. The promoters of the road told the Fresno people that the line would eventually connect with an Eastern road and that it would be the means of making Fresno a terminal point, which has been long the ardent de- sire of its merchants. merchants opposed the granting of the franchise and warned them how they had been treated by the Pollasky road, which after all turned out to be a Southern Pacific property. It is known that Mayor Lyon is in favor of giving the franchise to the new line and there yet promises to be an interesting fight before the fran- chise is given. The Monterey-Fresno line intends to cross the Southern Pa- cific at Merced and then run to Fresno, between the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe, which In some places are not more than two miles apart. The line is now endeavoring to get a franchise out of the town of Hollister and will cross the mountains by the Pacimes Pass. It will follow the San Benito River to Salinas and from that point will have an easy road to Monterey. The Ocean Shore people are also seeking to get a2 franchise from the city of Fresno and want to enter the town by G street. Their officials say they will not ask any favor if it ham- pers the Monterey-Fresno line, which is really charming manners when compared with the manners of other lines when seeking franchises. . Ll “There will” be over 1000 miles of electric lines built in Northern Cali- fornia this year,” sald a rallroad man yesterday. “I am informed that poles for that number of miles have been ordered and also other material, and in consequence the price of poles and railroad ties are all in the air. The lines that have already been bulilt are being extended and there are several new lines talked about. The Hotaling road will be one of the most fmportant. It will start at Tiburon and go right into Lake County, and work on active construction is to begin at once.” . .. One of the principal subjects to be discussed at the meeting of the Trans- continental Freight Bureau which will hold a session in Chicago nest week will be the tendency on the part of the contractors of San Francisco to force | lower freight rates, say rallroad men. For instance, a m: who brings out costly granite thinks he should have. the same rate as the contractor im- porting rough stone, and the man im- porting enamel bricks wants the same rate as is given to the handler of com- mon brick, and the dealer in moldings and fancy woods is inclined to feel ag- grieved if his stuff is given an excess rate above that charged for commeon lumber, and so on down the line. * “It really requires a great knowledge of human nature,” observed a railroad man, “as well as of individual indus- tries, in order to know when a change in freight rates would be beneficlal.” . €N Some of the new locomotives which have been bullt for the Harriman sys- tem are not adapted for corpulent en- gineers and this discovery was made lately by a train being delayed for over half an hour by a stout engineer trylng to squeeze himself into the cab of a new locomotive, the space be- tween the cab and the boiler being so small that the engineer, who was of generous proportions, could not get either at the reverse lever or at the throttle. He finally had to give up the job of trying to run the new en- gine and a sparer man had to take his place. It is understood that the gen- tlemen of Mr. Kruttschnitt's literary bureau in Chicago are preparing a set of rules for stout engineers for the re- duction of superfluous flesh. SRR S F. W. Prince of the passenger de- partment of the Santa Fe will delives his well-known lecture on the Grand Canyon of the Colorado at the Young Men's Christian Association Hall in Berkeley next Monday evening. and will also lecture in San Jose on the same subject on March 12 at the Nor- mal School. * ®. [ of _The passenger department the Southern Pacific has put in effect a one- | way rate from Sacramento to all points in the Sacramento Valley for the | benefit of homeseekers. This is in ac- cordance with the principle to give an opportunity to the colonists who will visit - the State during the next two | months to see the valley. s S s F. W. Thompson of the Rock Island. Frisco lines, P. K. Gordon of the Wash- ington Sunset, W. H. Davenport of.the Colorade Midland and J. W. McCly- monds of the Armour car lines, with eighteen of their friends, left for Goldfield in a private car last night. ~ “Why Line, | ated?” asked the young man Some of the| 5 ell,” answered 5 this way with a piece of poetry: | read it, and if you can MARCH 1, 1907 ‘The Insider Gives a dissertation on female loveliness _apropos of Chicago beauty contest, and tells story of a practical joke on poetess I — Some Talk About Female Loveliness HAVE noted carefully the features of the Chicago girl who is advertised as e most beautiful wonfan in the world, ‘land 1. should wish to see the original of the photograph before passing critical opinion on her claims to venushood. The face is certainl;_r charming, !but I.have seen charming photographs of women who in real life were by | no means pulchritudinous; again, T have noticed that_thc camera has tvhe \'Power to ‘transform a really beautiful face into one quite the reverse. Not all women know how to pose for photographs. A great m‘av_\— so-called | “beauties” are only so because they have the qualities of chic, grace or | charm in their expression. A woman with a sensitive mouth never photo- graphs well. Some of the handsomest women I have ever seen were servant girls just over from the “old country,” yet I do not !hm_k if photo- | graphed they would convince a connoisseur that they were beautif L be‘cause; to be beautiful a face must be full of intelligence or at least ml‘hcauver( lits possession. Arnold Genthe and Oscar Maurer, who catch the elusive expression in their sitters’ faces, have made many 2 “beauty” out of a society girl who might otherwise for years have fancied that she was a | dull-eyed. pie-faced impossibility. But ideas on beauty vary in different countries and in different grades of social life. A clubman’s ideal might differ from an artist’s; a Jeffries® from a Corey’s. 'Tis all in the point of view. A woman who has been 34 jilted for another sees no beadty in her successful rival A chorus girl often wonders at the blindness of a public that sees more beauty in the prima donna’s face than in her own. A stout woman usually stares in surprise when any one admires a slender figure, and a reed-like beauty sneers when a rival's plumpness is favorably mentioned. Probably Milo’s { Venus would not have attracted so many admirers as a modern footlight | favorite considers her due. Sarah Bernhardt’s beauty doctor called Miss Edith Preston—now Mrs. | | Willard Drown—the most beautiful woman in San Francisco. She .did not win the prize an evening paper.once offered to the most beautiful | woman in this State. Mrs. Francis Carolan is regarded by many as the | most absolutely perfect beauty in society, but she could not be entered iin a State contest, as she is merely an adopted daughter of California. Miss Elsie Sperry is, to my mind, typical of the best our State can boast in feminine beauty. Then, for those who prefer blondes, there is Mrs. Augustus Taylor, in her fair slimness, and little Mrs. Henshaw, in her | Lillian Russell cosiness of figure; Mrs. J. J. Moore, who was admired by Prince Boris, who in spite of that said that Mrs. Stirling Postley was the [ most beautiful woman he had ever seen in all his travels. Has Boris even | been shown the Chicago beauty, by the way? He seems to have been an Iauthurity on female loveliness. ] Outside of society the most stunning beauties are usually found—just fancy—in the candy stores. Candy merchants invariably”insist on good looks as a part of their salesgirls’ equipment. They recognize beauty as | an asset in popularity. Candy girls, then, are as a rule striking of face and |as superb in figure as cloak models. I recommend the searchers after the | typical Californian beauty not to neglect the candy stores. I warrant they will find more than one rival to the society girls thereabouts. s . Beauty, by the way, while it may be an pDPUIar'ty Doesn’t asset :’n poypularity. is by no means an essen- Depend on Beauty tial. Take, for instance, the two most sought after young matrons in San Francisco society, Mrs. Lansing Kellogz and Mrs. Vincent Whitney. Neither has the slightest claim to enter a beauty contest, yet both could carry off more admirers than any other women in their set. No girl in the swim had so many bona-fide proposals as did Miss Pearl Tlanders. Never in all the annals of Del Monte was there recorded such a genuinely well-liked woman as big-hearted, jolly Miss Ethyl Hager. Does not this prove that a kind heart, personal mag- netism, charm, grace, sympathetic presence, count for more than mere looks when it comes down to the solid consideration of the matter? How- ever, this need not discourage expectant prize.winners from sending in their photographs to help to the glory of California, and San Francisco in particular, by exhibiting a more extraordinary beauty than the pretty Chicago girl. If they cannot become the most popular women in local swelldom they may capture the fancy of some far-off millionaire who may see their picture in the paper and fall in love with it. Such things are not uncommon. One of the prettiest soclety girls in Oakland met her fate in that way. She was photographed as a bridesmaid at a friend's wedding and the picture appeared in the society columns. A clubman far away in New York saw- the picture, took a fancy to it and said he would not marry until he had taken a trip out West and looked up the owner of the sweet face. He came to Oakland in the course of the year and at a dance saw the very face that had attracted him. He sought an introduction and the end was the fairy tale one of “They were married and happy ever after.” - S . It was one of those jokes that men like ta Poctess “Joshed’ play - upon . credulous women sometimes. by a Cruel Man The victim is a well-known clubwoman, and I have no doubt she has forgiven the perpetrator—if she has discovered him—long ere this. She is a poetess and recently had one of her finest works published. in a little volume, appropriately illustrated. She sent copies to various editors and received several flattering press notices for her scrap-book. The other day one of her men friends happened upon a copy of the book in his office. It occurred to him that he might have a little fun. In his mail had arrived a Chinese paper. He cut out a part of an article from the paper and indited a note to the lady saying that the inclosed clipping was a complimentary notice of her volume, which had attained quite a little popularity among the Chinese, or something in that strain. The note purported to come—typewritten—from the editor of the Chinese paper. The poetess reccived the letter, was properly delighted, and at thae next meesting of her club she carried the note and- the clipping and was | congratulated by the other members when they were given a peep at the hieroglyphics. But among the members was one who always liked to linvestigate everything. She suggested that the notice be translated. Al Chinese scholar was called in to attend to the unraveling, and, alas! he did it too well. The “complimentary notice” turned out to be but the | prosaic account of a highbinders’ war. It was a sad awakening from a pleasant dream. If the practical joker reads this paragraph I hope his conscience will .work hard and bring him to a realization of his sin. | In the Joke World ‘ Answers to Queries | “To what did the critics attribute the LEAP YEAR—J. D., City. As 1904 failure of his last opera?” was a leap year, so will 1903 be one. “The music. wasn't reminiscent and R all the jokes were new.’—Milwaukes n::rznglmmlgfi.fd—fic.fix; CI:VA' 1;:: en Santingl, twentieth century, SOLDIERS' HOME—J. G., City. For such information as you desire about the Soldiers’ Home at Santa Monica, address 2 letter to the commandant at that place. TRAINING SCHOOL — Su ber, Santa Rosa. Cal. The United es Naval Training School néarest to Santa Rosa is the one on Yerba g::na (Goat Island), San Francisco Patience—What do they charge for a seat at the skating rink? Patrice—Why, I pald for the skates and then I sat down for nothing.— Yonkers Statesman. Ay ut up a hundred thousand to uke, and now he’s married “You shouid have bought him out- right. Serves you right for trading ona margin."—Life. - . “Newton discovered why the apple fell down, dld he not?” “He ald" Y “Well, then, it remains for some equally brilllant mind to discover why it is t plums fall to those higher up.”’—] s Weekly. + BT e . meant o CRIBBAGE—S., Oakland, Cal. a game of cribbage, the play ultb;l: 4-2-3 there is run of four for the L":n player. e rule is uence or run consists of three or more cards following In successive numbers, Wwhether of the same suit or otherwise, He who holds them scores one point for every card in the combination, Wwhether it takes place In play, or in :;!nnh: ‘:;.‘.h.ld or in erib. But ere can: a sequence or - “it's | der three cards. 'l'o!orm_.l:‘“‘:o. ry: If you |or run in piay, it matters not which ¢I:yon-h-tu:i!;:amoumhmnd first or last, : whrlmd" provided the sequence, or run, can ba you haven't any respect for it."—Wash- | produced by a transposition of tha m?‘, . 3 order in which they fell.” | are poets so little appreci- with long T, o Mr. Cumrox, .